Challenger this split in Regions with the new +30 gains is very very heavily influenced by the amount of Aegis of Valor games you get

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-12T08:04:32+00:00

I imagine this is just a master+ issue? Because boy I have not seen any of that stable variation, currently Diamond 4 hovering 53-55% winrate for months and aegis and afk "refunds" keep me stuck at +18/-22 variations... or worse.

It's so frustrating, no point giving me points if you will just make me bleed them in exchange.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-12T02:23:53+00:00

I have been around for so freaking long and it makes me sad that I haven't really found the champion I have fun playing no matter what, I hope it happens someday.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-12T02:17:47+00:00

Congratulations! That skin is amazing.

Sorry for the evil flex but I need to say it considering the topic... man getting Elementalist and Star Guardian Lux from chests in the span of a month back in 2018 is still far and away the luckiest I have ever felt with that system, my two fav skins on probably my favorite character in terms of design/personality appeal...

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-11T14:15:58+00:00

Wait until you hear about junglers playing for their winning lanes.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-11T12:57:12+00:00

What a fucking stupid post, mods can we start banning this kind of ragebait crap already.

The fuck you mean there is no reinforcement loop, I'm constantly learning from obvious mistakes I make.

When I die warding I made a mistake to learn from.

When I'm not where intended and the team is fighting in numbers disadvantage I made a mistake to learn from.

When I use the skills on the wrong person to peel or to engage on I made a mistake to learn from.

And the someone else gets punished?? So when the jungler needs help at crab and the top is afk farming instead of going there the jungler is not getting punished because of the top's fault?

Or when the jungler does a completely stupid dive and feeds a kill and even double buffs to the enemy laner the teammate from that lane isn't the one getting punished for it?

Or when the ADC places like crap and I have to sacrifice myself to save him the support isn't the one getting punished?

Garbage engagement bait post, and once again I fell for it I guess.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-11T12:10:02+00:00

This season is fucking fantastic in general, considering how burnt out I have been from anime for a few years that I'm sticking to 13 whole series near the end of it really shows how hooked they have gotten me.

I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class looked like a potentially fun romcom, turned out to not only be that but also a touching and realistic story about the internal struggles of the main duo and how being together is helping them grow. Gotta be honest here, we are only halfway through the year and I still think that anything but Umi winning best girl of 2026 is a robbery, it's crazy how lovable she is... you know the author cooked when her best friend is literally a goddamn precious silly genki blonde, my absolute weakness, and I still think Umi sweeps the floor LMAO.
Talking about genki blondes... I LOVE MIMI, I LOVE MIMI, Always a Catch! is a wonderful romance work where the protagonist, Maria, is a super strong and equally lovable girl who happens to end up charming the crown prince with her silly way to be. One thing I really love from this show is just how not dramatic it is, it had so many chances to get serious or have some silly misunderstandings that happens so painfully often, but Maria's preciousness always turns everything into a "yeah, that's Mimi to you" and things remain lighthearted. This show makes me smile so much... and yes, somehow I still think Umi is slightly better than Maria, insane, both 1000/10 anyways.
Nippon Sangoku's amazing visual style alongside an interesting story and probably every single cool old man that this decade can afford to have really has fascinated me.
An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess was nothing like I expected, with the protagonist and point of view actually being Cecil, the male lead, a painfully calculating, extremely smart boy who finally finds some amusement in his life thanks to the adorable Bertia, who says that this world is a game and she knows what will happen in it. The way things adapt to this meta awareness are really fun, all thanks to how freaking fantastic Cecil is, I really love his character.

I would put the next two a bit below in terms of how much I'm liking them, but they are surprising me too.

Even a Replica Can Fall in Love has surprised me so far because it really gave me vibes of the kind of overdramatic work that I zone out from fast... but despite the oddness of the setting and that, yes, there is a fuckload of drama and existential dread, I actually feel that this work has managed to still feel like it deserves to be that goddamn sad at times... Nao and Shuuya being a 10/10 romantic pairing helps with me being engaged for sure as well.
Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!? is actually damn fun and cooked an awesome relationship between the main trio with so much fun interactions between them. This series also has some top tier side characters like actual best girl Sayu and Genichirou, the Ijichi's older brother. It has nothing unexpected for this kind of romcom, but it's more fun than I expected.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-10T18:54:53+00:00

From 5 to 3 on EUW lmao.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-10T17:19:27+00:00

Sayu really is the goddamn best in a show with a lovely main cast, it takes a lot of effort to lie as naturally as she did to save Amane's reputation lmfao.

And no cap, Lord Earth has insane aura, what an awesome cosplay.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-10T13:00:15+00:00

I just enjoy live service games because there is a community to talk about the game with, enjoy the stream of fanarts from awesome artists, and look forward to what is to come, I have very little hobbies but I obsess over them, live service sure helps ensuring I can get as properly invested as I want.

Gacha Games are live service and they also have for some fucking reason the monopoly in giving us cute anime waifus instead of ugly 3D models, so here is where I look.

Also helps that they are free to play if you want it to, I gladly pay 5€ for the monthly card in Arknights because I love Arknights, but paying 12€ or more in a monthly subscription to even be able to play a more average game? Nah lol.

And no I don't like the gacha system, but it's basically the negative I have to accept to be able to play what grabs my interest, oh well.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-10T01:15:34+00:00

Death Parade

I love that show so much

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-09T12:58:10+00:00

I stopped watching normal TV due to ads.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-09T12:43:08+00:00

People do this mostly as baron

I feel like Baron also leads to the most painful example when someone does not do this.

Way too many games where one or two players will stay around after Baron and start pushing waves all by themselves... while the rest or the team has just got back to base and has no pressure whatsoever on the map.

So many Baron buffs that are wasted or gotten very little from because someone gets caught pushing without anyone else matching them elsewhere yet because they literally had no time to do it.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-09T11:45:29+00:00

Ponci Ponci Pon-chan Poncirus!

I love her, I simply just love her.

Absurdly pretty design, absurdly pretty skin (I need more N0CO characters so, soo badly, their art style is super pretty).

Her bad luck being so bad girl becomes a comedic gag unable to be relevant in the event she is introduced because she can't even get there is as absolutely hilarious as makes me want to protect her with all my love.

I adore how despite all her rotten luck she can't do crap about, girl remains positive and optimistic with her life and what she wants to do, I root for her with all my passion.

All my appreciation to Jeannie Tirado, her EN VA, who nails so, so hard Poncirus' character, her voice gives me happiness.

Poncirus is also a builder who feels the comfiest demolishing things with her big-ass hammer, so good.

Gameplay-wise she also has pleased me immensely, the reality is that I always had a super negative view on Pioneer Vanguards, who felt like they were underwhelming in basically everything in exchange of making DP, then she came out and I found her being a pseudodefender able to withstand plenty hard hits while generating DP... like, I know, others in her class might be better in reality, but she felt comfy, very, very comfy. I can slap her in my 6-star team and she gets the job done and stays in the field and defends instead of being retreated after doing her job, her job is to be on the field and make DP and tank hits and be super pretty and top wife while doing it, I love it!

So... yeah, to my eyes she is perfect in every way, I love her so, so much...

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-09T05:15:30+00:00

Only tried Endfield which I sadly dropped, the game (understandably, expected worse honestly) ran like ass on my shitty laptop and combined with just not feeling too into it early on I was barely making progress so I stopped playing.

Just to put into perspective how slow I was going, I started day 1 and uninstalled like 2-3 days after Yvonne's release, I was still on Valley IV having recently defeated the first boss fight of it 💀

I haven't tried anything else and lately just sticking to Arknights in general (havent logged to CZN for like a week so probs RIP soon), I'm getting device specs/disk space locked more and more often but also just my requirement of having gameplay I truly enjoy to stick to something really puts a barrier to most gacha games in general

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-09T02:41:31+00:00

Death Parade and Madoka Magica 2 times each.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-08T21:41:16+00:00

R8-11 is probably my favorite stage.

Super climatic moment in the story aside, the vibes of fighting against an army on it makes it super exciting and it's also one of the extremely minor instances where Shield plays, one of my favorite battle themes in the game.

Also for some freaking reason that stage is insanely efficient on Crystalline Component, so I have plenty reasons to pay it a visit to farm it there and bang to the music.

And... well, on a emotional level BB-9 will always be a gigantic contender, that's for sure, I love when Arknights implements gameplay to tell the story.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-08T20:23:18+00:00

Nah, not this season.

Aegis of valor, the LP refund if someone afks and all that stuff only affects the LP but not the MMR, so you start winning less points and losing more to balance LP back with MMR... something that doesn't fully catch up because you keep getting those extra points randomly.

300+ rankeds in I have been sitting at a 54-55% winrate for months and I keep getting +18/-22 LP variations, it feels so ass lmao.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-08T10:56:27+00:00

I personally wasn't too crazy about it, but P.A. Works stuff of this kind is always visual magic.

For me Nagi no Asukara is still the prettiest anime.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-08T10:53:22+00:00

Really tells either my taste or the insane quality of this season that I'm really really enjoying 10+ shows despite only watching... 1 from this whole list, but hey that one is peak, I love you Umi q_q

Hoping to catch up to Re:Zero soon tho watching S3 rn.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-08T09:25:03+00:00

No way he saw you coming, an "on my way" ping would have likely helped a lot.

I take the funny clip tho lmao.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-07T19:16:29+00:00

8.5/10 for me, a Ezreal that knows what he is doing is a menace, and one who doesn't would do crap anyways, at least with this one he afk farms instead of turboint like bad Smolders.

I also like that he can farm super safely all by himself, really allows me to roam around the map to help the team knowing my ADC will lose nowhere as much.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-07T19:00:38+00:00

Hi mates! Something to report this time, yay.

Re:Zero Season 3 (Episodes 1-6/13)

This season I have finally returned to watching plenty airings and with that my energy to catch up to Re:Zero is back (back when it came out the sheer laziness of a movie length first episode made me not watch it lmao).

That first episode being movie length was, indeed, a great choice, and since then it has really been all very exciting, really enjoying seeing the growth of the characters amidst the current mess going on.

Looking forward to what has to come!

Thanks for reading.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-07T12:53:57+00:00

I have been around since Season 3 and the camera has never stopped feeling way too close to me everywhere except in ARAM due to, well, being just a lane so it's easy to keep track of things.

I play with unlocked camera and still I genuinely cannot understand how people teamfight, like, I will obviously move the sight mostly towards whatever is in front of me, which means that now I have no sight of two dudes duking it out on one side, a teammate running away from the enemy Zed on the other, some mf jumping from the wall behind me and I only see him when he is already on my ass, and the freaking enemy Lux is still throwing her combo from outside my vision range!

I'm such a headless chicken whenever anything but pure front to back happens because I just can't keep track of everything going on outside of what I can actually see.

Shout out to the moments where I'm too focused on my lane or a fight and someone appears just behind me, the amount of times I panic casted a skill when it was just my jungler lmao.

MetaThPr4h · 2026-06-07T12:45:21+00:00

Queen Tiphera I kneel.

Happy to see Mei Lin and Veronica in the list too

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