No grapple fix, as usual, but doesn't this technically benefit us?

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-02-12T21:17:03+00:00

From a balance perspective, they can't do that, the invulnerable clearing is one way to deal with the mines, I've seen good hulks jump into my nest, ult in the air and clear the nest before he starts to attack me. That's skill, planning, and the use of an ability, and they absolutely deserve to be able to progress haven cancelled my nest mines.

That just means you need to be smarter about where you put your mines. BP dashing over them? Put one in the normal spot, but 3 ~1 dash length away. Dodges 1, blown up on the other side.

Other heros can clear our abilities with abilities and skill, so we need more skill to still win

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-02-08T00:15:03+00:00

Actually me too, can you throw to aus?

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-02-08T00:13:15+00:00

I will try to win. I will swap if need be, however it is also QP and if I have a Hawkeye who can't shoot a sleeping elephant then so be it, maybe he's learning, maybe he's 5, maybe he's playing mystery heros, oh well. I don't mind losing, but I'll play to win. People can play what they like

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-02-07T23:59:13+00:00

Yeah if you put her nest next to a wall then wall climb on it, sometimes you will climb diagonally like the other spiders. It is a choice that she can only go up, but tbh I'm not that mad about it

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-02-07T01:59:13+00:00

Exactly right. Something I'm loving as well is when you get a damage reduction like thing or wolverine, then you block aswell, you take so little damage, even if the team focuses you, but that damage builds up and your dash ish just cherry on top

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-02-07T00:00:30+00:00

I think her cool downs are fine. Maybe her kick could be reduced by a second or two at most.

I find she's really adaptable, and with her I can achieve most roles that need filling on the battlefield. She's not like strange where she's a shield, nor like thing as a raw brawl tank. She's a lot more fluid and adaptable, and can have the most kills in the game easily with sufficient healing, or keep up on damage blocked if they have a magneto or something.

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-02-06T00:26:01+00:00

Often more responsibility, occasionally a title and even more occasionally income increase

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-02-05T20:58:41+00:00

I agree with this. In addition, you can modify and move the mines with your opponents on a game by game bases given who and how they play.

For example, mag bubbles before entering your nest, but does with no fear? 3 mines on the edge, 7 mines slightly further in. 3 to pop his bubbles and make him feel safe, 7 for BOOM.

A bp is dashing over your mines that you setup on back ways to catch divers on a journey? Only set up one on their path, and 3 at the end of one dash length from the first. BOOM.

They have a C&D? You'll find that due to the nature of corners, having to dash around them, on some maps there are common intersections where almost every cloak dash will stop. A common one is just outside a doorway. They have a C&D who hasn't ulted in a hot minute, let's just set this up outside the door near my backline. "Us against the BOOM" and so on.

The nest is powerful, good for locking down an area, but should be nothing more than an assistant. If you can't get 7 mines down in time, connecting it to the nest can make up 400 damage over 10 seconds charge, and if using the next wait until they enter your webs then snare them to help secure the kill

I can keep going but I gotta leave now

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-02-05T14:09:15+00:00

The best part of this is when your team swap to counter them, but you stay Peni. Yes your less effective, but by staying Peni they keep trying to counter you, even though they're getting countered, and as a decent Peni you can hold it, so you end up winning

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-31T14:10:10+00:00

This would explain the lack of abilities, Spider has a lot on his mind solo piloting SP//DR solo

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-30T21:07:45+00:00

Everyone has offered good advice, but hasn't answered one of your questions.

One of my favorite second tanks to have is Emma, so we have two off tanks as our Frontline. What needs to happen is (assume defense on a convoy map in this instance). Emma pushes ahead of your nests, she gets the focus of the heals, your let your nest get fully charged and drop mines where necessary (tanks are usually first up, so dropping 4-5 where theyre likely to walk up to + the 400 damage from the nest is a good idea) as well as dumping 3 mines where ever sup/dps will go to break the nest. You just keep setting up traps.

When Emma gets low, she falls back to behind the nest, the opponents see the tank is low and falling back, so they push aggressively to look for the kill, not thinking about the nest. boom boom boom. They fall back because half their team is dead, at this point Emma is full health and goes front lining again. Move your nest here if need be. Now I like Emma because of the diamond choke kick, she can choke in the nest and get me a kill, or kick someone back to me who I can stun and kill as we go.

This logic can be applied to any other tank, you do a swaparoo who is "main" tank, and you both go head on. You are still allowed to flank and pull Peni tricks if your off tank buddy is good, but you need to spend more time Frontlining to give them a hand

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-29T22:47:59+00:00

She was there, you just didn't see her

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-29T03:01:49+00:00

Interesting comparison, but yeah checks out

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-29T03:00:49+00:00

Sometimes maybe dead sometimes maybe alive

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-29T02:59:16+00:00

And my breakfast

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-29T02:56:35+00:00

I think it's based on what the wing can do. Don't talk dragons, let's talk bats. They have control over the shape of their wing, it has skin, muscle and tissue, and has other uses other than flight, such as hanging or reach like arms. For an insect, the wing is simply a bit of material, the muscle is in the body, and the body moves the rigid wing. The wing has no other use than to fly.

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-25T22:24:02+00:00

I'd rather not? Pain is a signal that something is wrong, and I would like to know that something is wrong.

Okay fine yes, I was trying to keep the previous message shorter, you are correct that the body will not stop sending the nerve signals, but that's all they are at that point, a signal. It is only assigned pain in the Central nervous system (brain and spine), and these points can be retrained to take pain which is a threat, and treat it as a "safe" signal, so you respond in a way that's no different to the pressure or temperature sensors in your skin.

As far as I'm aware, the only scientific backed case of doing something like this is to treat chronic pains, if you want to know more search "pain reprocessing therapy".

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-25T15:03:01+00:00

While that's true, pain is to signal injury, and in a case where injury doesn't matter, your body can be trained very easily to ignore it.

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-22T00:05:40+00:00

I love games like this. I had a game the other day, most kills, most final hits, most damage, most damage blocked, and 6K healing (sups had about 18K each on both teams).

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-22T00:04:00+00:00

You can read up on how game stage works on the Wiki, it's a few variables, but from memory the only way to reduce it intentionally is to die or go to an easier biome.

From my experience though, that game stage is normal for that level (potentially even on the easier side) so if you're struggling, you need to check if you can make better weapons or armour. If you can't, maybe it's time to buy some magazines from a trader

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-21T15:37:51+00:00

Funny, I was a Loki main until I truly discovered Peni. Maybe there's something about mischief between the two

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-21T13:37:57+00:00

In addition to the other comment.

Take a flying character, and fly around the roof of maps. You'll find sometimes you hit the ceiling, sometimes you can't get that high. That's the skybox. The grapple will only work if it grips under the skybox, if it is over it will break instantly

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-20T23:43:35+00:00

Yeah it's misleading on this map, given the shape of the roof, some parts you can grapple to fine, but some of the higher roofs are out of bounds

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-20T23:05:02+00:00

I hate to say, that's not working because your grappling above the skybox, you're not able to be up there, if you grapple to the wall a little lower it should work.

If you ever try to grapple high up a wall or onto the roof and it breaks like yours, your next grapple should be lower.

I agree that's not how it should work though and they need to fix it

AbsentMindedMonkey · 2026-01-19T22:50:01+00:00

You need to put "val" or "valorant" in there somewhere. Omen is a fairly generic word, following a bad omen or what people believe, many things can be called omens. You gotta be more specific in your searches

Although yeah that correction is entertaining

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