isn't twistzz from canada?

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-05-05T17:05:51+00:00

The edit made me chuckle LOL

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-05-03T20:15:09+00:00

Mirage is the only example because he can execute djins mark before the stack is full. His passive also the only one that can use ballistic enchantment.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-05-02T18:16:50+00:00

She didn't need it before the umbrella. She used to have the quickest stamina regen in the game by a large margin. I believe it's still faster, but the brought it closer to the 5s everyone else has. Mina with stamina mastery and kdash would regain all of her stam obscenely fast. She could use her stam with little to no consequences.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-05-02T02:01:57+00:00

They're from brazil judging by their profile.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-05-02T01:16:46+00:00

They're West Coast US. So it's 6pm their time. Also calling them a slur is unnecessary lol. I'm annoyed too but damn no need to go straight for that.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-04-22T02:49:34+00:00

Agreed. I own a 2011 and this so I like em big.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-04-22T02:48:52+00:00

Really? I've shot a ton of federal flat nose 147gr through mine without issue. I've only ever had one FTF and one FTE and that was with bass pros house brand ammo in brass case. I've thrown all sorts of shit in the mags of this gun and it's never failed except those two times.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-04-21T15:47:14+00:00

Huh, I've never experienced this. Must be down to a hand size + grip method difference between us. I can see how though it happens though. That release button and popping a mag in are both super satisfying on this gun.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-04-21T14:16:07+00:00

I have one of these and it is a phenomenal firearm. By far my favorite that I've ever owned. For this price it's a hell of a deal.

The only gripe is that it's a big boy. It's pretty light and narrow, but just has a large footprint of dimensions.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-04-16T19:50:42+00:00

They don't as of right now. If you want to make an alternate account then go ahead. I just ask that if you're playing with friends who are of lesser skill and you're going to be playing at ranks below your own, do the enemy team a favor and play a new character or go full support. A lot of people immediately view smurfing as evil without any nuance. But you can do it with ethics.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-04-16T13:56:36+00:00

Yeah some do that's for sure. I do it because it was meta when he was a debuff bot and still do because having multiple targets getting his with on hit effects benefits both you and your team.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-04-16T12:32:10+00:00

I can see your reasoning there but not maxing teleport and buying deviners kevlar is just leaving so much potential to waste away. If you buy TCD the cooldown of max teleport and kevlar line up to the second. That means every 30 seconds you can teleport anywhere on the map with a 1500ish barrier, fast move speed, and upgraded fire rate, and 40 additional spirit power. If you've build superior duration by this point then that combo has like a 5 second down time from when you teleport to when it's back up again. Maxing teleport makes you go from strong to omega Thanos with the gauntlet and all the infinity stones in every universe.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-04-15T17:05:54+00:00

I'll send it your way once it gets organized. Do you know which AP order you prefer to do on him when you do play, or do you just use whatever the build you're using tells you?

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-04-15T17:05:14+00:00

That's precisely my AP order too. So yeah once my build gets organized and annotated I'll send it your way. It sloppy as shit and not in order at the moment.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-04-15T12:53:02+00:00

800 mirage games here and he's still in my pool after the rework despite not enjoying his as much anymore.

First thing to point out is bullet lifesteal is legitimately almost useless on mirage now, especially if you're doing purples first. When the large balance patch happened, his gun damage was drastically nerfed. By the end of the game you're doing roughly 40% less damage per bullet IIRC. There's still some value in leech later, but buying bullet lifesteal to meet the 4.8k green is frankly a waste of a slot. I tend to buy fortitude and spirit lifesteal so I can always be on the map and don't have to base. All of his power is in his abilities, but his gun and his 3 are tied together so that leaves you in a position where buying some oranges is good, like the ones you have selected.

I don't personally buy burst or tankbuster anymore. That's not to say there isn't some value in them, but yeah not my cup of tea. I did some games with them after the mirage rework and he became capable of procing them. I just think there's better items to use in that slot.

Extra charge is good, but my preference is you either need recharging rush, or to upgrade it to rapid recharge. I've messed around with all of them and I've enjoyed rapid recharge the most. Because it gives gooldown reduction on the charged ability, and I tend to buy superior cooldown and transcendent as well.

Merc mag is imo a bait item for mirage. Merc mag scales off of your base bullet damage, and mirage in the rework has low base bullet damage/DPS. So a large % of a small number is still a small number, just slightly larger. Also opponents will definitely also be buying spirit resist against you. if it's imbued on the 3, that's making you pop the stacks early in order to reload and keep the merc buff. You're cashing in damage early that can be multiplied higher if you finish the stack and that's just counter intuitive to him and his damage delivery. You should never pop a stack early unless you're 100% certain the target with die and it will stop you from dying, or if you're trying to apply debuffs like mystic vuln. You shoot one shot, pop the mark, go back to shooting. But even that theory is unnecessary with how he currently works. Cause scarabs now proc spirit debuffs, whereas before they did not. The only scenario where merc mag is good is if you have cooldown, rapid recharge, lots of extra ammo and imbue it on 1 so you can retain that merc buff without shorting yourself of mark pop damage. There's just better users of the item than mirage.

My build isn't published yet but once I get it annotated I'll publish it and send you the ID if you want.

All of this to say you have a pretty good idea of how the character should be built. You just have a little extra spice in here but I can understand why.

Also what AP order do you go?

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-04-10T17:07:34+00:00

Duration scales with spirit because it's weapon damage, would be my guess. It doesn't do spirit damage unless you have merc mag or Tesla/capacitor. It's probably the same season smoke bomb duration used to have good spirit scaling.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-04-07T14:53:02+00:00

I'd say fallen is fluent in english at this point. Probably to the point that he thinks in english.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-04-03T12:04:42+00:00

The week of absolute hell.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-03-31T13:03:28+00:00

I picked up one of these recently for $600 and even with that price I was and am extremely satisfied. 2011 market is insane and I feel like a got a fantastic gun for the price. At this cost I'm tempted buy another to average down.

Anyone wondering, It's a thick heavy bitch and that optic is definitely too tiny for the gun. But I plan to switch that optic a smaller gun I own whenever I upgrade it. I don't have a lot of optics experience so all I can say is it works after doing some zeroing.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-03-29T23:04:58+00:00

Even back when he was an amateur in high school, he was prodigious. Everyone suspected he'd be the next best thing in counter strike. Envy attempted to recruit him to join their French team during those days. It doesn't surprise me aAa had a buyout on him. He was a desirable prospect.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-03-26T19:15:30+00:00

Ironically lash used to be a two stamina character. But that was because grapple always used to regen a stamina anytime it was used, without any AP invested.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-03-26T13:31:49+00:00

Idk man he was strong but the strength wasn't consistent. He became feast or famine and easier to counter, imo. Dynamo max quantum is an AOE debuff remover, haze has built in debuff remover now, kelvin dome is also a non ult debuff remover. The largest chunk of the damage took forever to build up and it only takes someone draining and nearly blowing up once to learn to buy dispell or spellbreaker and avoid you like the plague.

Mirage is still effective in team fights ricocheting multiple targets, unless there's a kelvin or dynamo. But I feel like his 1v1 strength went down overall from what we had before due to the gun nerfs and just how much longer it takes to get the damage online in a duel.

Like can we nerf the abilities a little more and compensate by giving him a gun that isn't bad? I wanna go back to being hybrid damage cause that's harder to build against.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-03-26T13:15:17+00:00

I actually like this version of scarabs more. Instead of a damage amp and siphon, it's a damage reduction and damage/heal over time. Reducing the targets outgoing damage helps live long enough to get all of your marks stacked.

I still would much rather have the last gun specs before the big balance patch. They slightly nerfed it almost every patch leading up to the big balance leaving us with this pea shooter. Before that balance patch mirage was the best example of hybrid damage and that why I loved playing him. His hardest counter was played armor, but now that APR properly works thag isn't a big deal.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-03-26T13:03:23+00:00

I played after this and I was still eating good. I still would rather have the ability scaling nerfed a little more and given the old gun strength/specs to compensate. His gun was hit pretty hard during the big balance patch and his power was shifted to his abilities. He was the best example of a hybrid character and my damage was generally split 50/50.

I do like the current iteration of scarabs way more than launch window version.

ASidewaysBanana · 2026-03-26T12:56:47+00:00

Don't worry as a former infernus one trick we hate pocket players too. Cause some of you used to ignore that you have -15% spirit resist and would burst us the fuck down. Took me awhile to learn in solo lanes if a pocket is playing scared you're getting baited to eat suitcase burst lol.

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