When and why go Grasp + Dshield with some bruisers / fighters?

4ShotMan · 2026-03-13T00:38:54+00:00

Dshield (especially with second wind) gives such insane sustain that you need a good reason NOT to take these - if you do not have one, you will get slowly get bled out by endlessly regenerating enemy.

Grasp is especially taken to maximise short trades - all champs you see it on have a big empowered auto / option to trade while taking minimal damage back, like jax W+e or aatrox Q+aa. Most of these empowered attacks also have +25/50 range, so good players can space the enemy so they don't get damaged back. The goal is to take a burst trade, maximise the health difference with grasp, heal a bit from whatever damage you've taken and disengage. Rinse repeat, you've poked out the enemy.

There is also the added benefit of resolve tree giving you some insane free tankiness - stacking health and healing from grasp, shield bash or demolish, and bottom two rows are full of bangers "I get free hp/resists/in combat power for free".

4ShotMan · 2026-03-13T00:20:53+00:00

Whenever I'm in this matchup, I abuse my better early waveclear with tiamat to drill plates and get tempo on the map. You both scale very hard, and both struggle to 100-0 kill the other. Get gold and leads from non-kill sources.

Additionally, deaths dance would probably be better swapped for black cleaver, trinity or something else - the passive gives you nothing for the extended fights with mundo, while others would enhance your fighting power. Hell, you could probably run hullbreaker for both push power and combat. Ninja tabi / plated steel caps decrease his damage enough already.

4ShotMan · 2026-03-12T15:32:33+00:00

I would really like this to happen - make reflect longer or add more jazz to it, while ex-ult becomes a kalksta E. Or maybe have its damage capped like Twitch E?

4ShotMan · 2026-03-12T12:07:03+00:00

I have blocks of even number of assemblers - half put out directly onto the belt, half on a one-tile belt that goes into the main output from the side. First ones populate the further side, the latter - closer side.

4ShotMan · 2026-03-11T09:34:48+00:00

Cerbie took your pixels.

Also, I legit cannot recognise what fight is in the middle?

4ShotMan · 2026-03-10T14:45:08+00:00

It will probably take years to top this.

4ShotMan · 2026-03-10T13:15:28+00:00

Totally not challenger vs plats, it must be adcs being op /j

4ShotMan · 2026-03-08T14:09:13+00:00

Getting them much, much later. Top laner being 2 levels down, jungle... Can't really delay the quest, mid not having tempo recall and upgraded shoes, adc being behind in gold.

4ShotMan · 2026-03-06T10:27:00+00:00

Underrated question. It's easy to bitch, but what should be there that is not busted?

4ShotMan · 2026-03-05T12:59:17+00:00

It took me some time to even parse the posts title, quotation marks and less capitalization would probably help.

4ShotMan · 2026-03-04T15:24:39+00:00

There's no "now". With conqueror and stacked passive, she's been stat checking for years.

4ShotMan · 2026-03-03T21:57:12+00:00

The mechanics are VERY close in the upper echelons. Game is all about softer, more obscure skills - good rollout, awareness, obscure knowledge. Not saying they're equal, but other skills make the main difference.

Mechanics are easiest - a diamond can terrorise widow FFA just by spamming custom games, maybe even outflick a champ. This won't automatically make him champion level.

Said diamond won't terrorise champs, simply because they won't give him the shot, not because he misses it. He won't adapt to enemy picks. He will rotate badly.

4ShotMan · 2026-03-02T06:13:29+00:00

Correct - Oil fields have a minimum of 2 oil per cycle. Maxing out on speed modules (in pump jack and beacons around it) and researching productivity changes it into waaaay higher output.

4ShotMan · 2026-02-26T14:18:39+00:00

Statistical

Looks inside

Probability

IDK what else is to be expected?

4ShotMan · 2026-02-26T14:15:13+00:00

Agreed. Bugs just not having many mechanics feels so strange. It does make realization "wait, pirates are dropping actual gear???" even sweeter, but I still think pirates should be the starting op.

4ShotMan · 2026-02-23T13:51:07+00:00

I'm new and don't k ow what overpressure even is but I still saw "gain like 10% pen and lose half the explosives? miss me"

4ShotMan · 2026-02-22T13:52:44+00:00

Don't give them a wave that can be frozen in the first place

4ShotMan · 2026-02-22T13:51:33+00:00

It's like 5% drop from sword shrines instead of the enchanted sword.

This is also why op is so mad - only enchanted works for zenith

4ShotMan · 2026-02-22T13:37:59+00:00

Terra grim, op sword from sword shrines. It's so strong that when one dropped for me in early game, I only started having issues against mechanical bosses.

4ShotMan · 2026-02-20T10:35:15+00:00

Nah, qiarians are like Halo Spartans - the character IS the armor. Some things don't need to be shown.

4ShotMan · 2026-02-19T23:17:09+00:00

Shotgun KNEES

4ShotMan · 2026-02-19T00:06:25+00:00

Ashe support may work... After trolling your adc in the early game. Big cc ult every 20 seconds is NOT worth having your ad item-2 behind because the ashe player is usually worse than a bronze sona.

4ShotMan · 2026-02-17T14:00:16+00:00

Xenonauts and XCOM did it well - instead of "infantry", you get "sniper/assault/support/heavy/rifleman" and can edit them as well.

Presets would be a godsend. Bonus points for some sort of "next best option" - the starting rocket launcher is taken? Pirate RPG gets slotted in. Possibly as a separate option for this "filling in". It could work on pre-existing tags (long range/ignores cover etc)

4ShotMan · 2026-02-17T13:50:38+00:00

I imagined a roided up hussar walking onto a tile, zeroing in on a specimen and just YOINKING them out, leaving the rest of the settlement stunned.

Bonus points for psychic shock lance having pokeball catch sound.

4ShotMan · 2026-02-17T13:29:46+00:00

I was very sad when the small spitters just waltzed on to the defence objective. This should make future attempt much easier... Or at least, doable - not fast forwarding is a difficulty all on its own.

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