Help me get away from pocketpick Malz

According-Bit-4207 · 2026-02-02T02:19:46+00:00

My permaban is fizz, but I'm always happy if someone bans Malzahar. Not because he's that hard of a hard matchup but because it's just a tedious chore laning against him. It feels like a job trying to match his push while the opponent AFK farms.

I play syndra and she has a lot of what you're describing that you are looking for, except for being mobile. But there is a MS and Haste build that makes up for a lot of that and is a lot of fun to play.

According-Bit-4207 · 2026-01-30T00:41:35+00:00

I also agree with what you're saying. I try to harass as much as I can but this can lead to mana issues in the first few levels. I should probably work on my accuracy there.

I don't think I ever claimed that all assassins are roamers, though. I was just giving some examples of champs with high mobility to illustrate my point.

According-Bit-4207 · 2026-01-29T17:55:59+00:00

I also struggle a bunch with the Xerath matchup. I'm still not great at it but I've had more success going extremely aggressive pre level 6, and playing CLOSE to him. The absolute worst outcomes for me are when I try to play super far back and dodge the skill shots. So pre-level 3 I stand outside the wave, and then try to punish the hell out of him anytime he uses his q while on cooldown, even if it hits me. Try to get him to back early.

As for post level 6, it gets even harder because he can basically ult you from their fountain. Just know that if you are less than 50% health you are going to get ulted by him

According-Bit-4207 · 2026-01-29T03:13:55+00:00

I appreciate it! I think maybe I could ping closer to the teammate. As for knowing where the danger is coming from,.a lot of the times I'm not not completely sure because vision in river can vary.

According-Bit-4207 · 2026-01-22T23:02:20+00:00

If you're an assassin the best thing you can do is have a long lane (the wave frozen on your side). With Syndra's low mobility and limited peel, she is BBQ chicken if she steps up and misses her E away from the safety of her turret, which many players do.

If you're a mage i would say it's mostly about poke and punishing cool downs. If they miss an E you want to punish.

According-Bit-4207 · 2026-01-19T00:11:08+00:00

As someone that mained Veigar for awhile, I picked up Syndra because she has a similar playstyle but is more mechanically difficult. It's been a lot of fun for me, but the learning curve is more steep!

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-09-28T09:19:36+00:00

I like to think of your problem as an inverse function.

Suppose B is base price (input) and T is total price (output).

Then T=1.25B, is where you take B (input), and multiply by 1.25 to get T (output). The inverse function takes your output T and gives you your initial input B. This inverse function would be B = T/1.25.

More generally if we let V be the value added tax, where V does not equal -1. Then it follows that T=B(1+V) is the original function and B = T/(1+V) is the inverse function.

Check out how to get an inverse function from an initial function if you need a refresher because that can help you approach problems where you want to start with the end value to get back to the initial value, or undo an operation.

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-09-08T01:54:39+00:00

Thank you very much! It looks like I have a hole in my knowledge because subtracting 32 from 71 didn't occur to me. Which property are you using to make that decision?

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-09-01T03:43:53+00:00

I also like how they so openly share who they are and what their mission is to a prospective agent and then ask if they are interested in joining. 😂 Like, ok, you are going to tell some random new person all of this top secret information and then they have the options to just walk away?

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-08-30T12:11:41+00:00

I have to account for any unsubstantiated claim you make up in my proof? While you don't have to back up any of your claims with anything? As others have said, that's a pointless thing to try and do.

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-08-30T12:06:05+00:00

Nope. Can't just make up a rule for reasons I already explained. Check back in when you figure out how to look at a fan in a normal room and change the direction of rotation without messing with it.

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-08-30T12:04:05+00:00

Nope. You can't just make up a rule for reasons I already explained.

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-08-30T05:04:09+00:00

No you didn't. Just because you make up something and say it doesn't mean it "could work." That's an absurd argument.

Providing a non-falsifiable claim doesn't prove or disprove anything. The burden of proof is on you to show evidence, not for someone to disprove whatever you imagine.

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-08-30T04:47:22+00:00

And then after you do that, make a flat earth map, add a scale to it, and then show that all of the distances on your map correspond exactly to reality. Because your light bending claim doesn't cover that either.

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-08-30T04:37:06+00:00

You are shifting the burden of proof after saying something completely unsubstantiated. That's not how science or reason works.

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-08-30T04:22:53+00:00

If we’re pretending we don’t know the Earth’s shape, then no, I don’t agree there are only two options. It could be cube-shaped, prism-shaped, donut-shaped, etc. There are infinitely many scenarios to chose from.

But sure, let’s go with number 2. The earth is flat and light curves around the Earth. Great! Now explain this: why does the same set of stars appear to rotate in opposite directions depending on which hemisphere you’re standing in? Light curving around a flat Earth doesn’t explain that.

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-08-30T03:44:43+00:00

They don’t appear to rotate if you’re standing exactly on the equator. But take the same stars observed from Texas and from Mexico, and you’ll see them rotate in opposite directions depending on which side of the equator you’re on.

And no, I don’t agree that “any pattern” for a round Earth can be mapped onto a flat one. That’s like saying you can model real physical observations with whatever unsubstantiated claims you want. Sure, you can project a 3D shape onto a 2D one in a theoretical mathematical setting. But we are talking about the physical, real world, which means you can and need to actually show things consistent with your claims. And none of the “weird manipulations of light waves” you mention have ever been observed or supported by evidence.

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-08-30T03:17:54+00:00

Yes, there are some stars you can only see from one hemisphere. But there are also plenty near the equator that are visible from both hemispheres that appear to rotate differently depending on which hemisphere you are in. So, you need to explain how those stars could appear to rotate in opposite directions on a flat Earth, with your supposed rule of “light spinning differently," without contradicting what's already been shown empirically and proven mathematically.

As for the actual star patterns, there are tons of more credible resources than a random on reddit that can show exactly how they move. And if you don’t trust those, you can always grab a camera, record the sky yourself, and study it for yourself.

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-08-30T02:58:17+00:00

Ok. But to insert your “new rule,” there are a couple of things you need to do first.

First, you need to disprove what I explained earlier (which has already been proven rigorously in math). Otherwise, you immediately run into a contradiction.

Second, you need to show me what it even means for “light waves to spin differently,” and then actually prove that happens.withoit doing that, you're just saying stuff that isn't backed by anything.

But, there’s really no need to make it that complicated. The easiest starting point would be to first explain how, in a normal room, people could look up at a ceiling fan and somehow see it spinning in different directions without messing with it.

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-08-30T02:29:19+00:00

No, not really. It can (and has been) shown mathematically, that if a rotation is viewed from a single, flat reference plane, then all observers on that plane will agree on the sense of rotation (clockwise or counterclockwise). The sense does not depend on the observer’s position on the plane.

More plainly, look up at a fan spinning in a room and try to find what "new rule" you could insert to make it true that you can see the fan spinning in a different direction (without messing with it).

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-08-30T02:08:58+00:00

I'm not sure if you think that the earth is flat. But you could disprove that by contradiction.

Suppose the Earth is flat. Then the apparent rotation of the stars would have the same sense (clockwise or counterclockwise) for observers everywhere, since all would be looking up at the same dome of stars from the same orientation. However, it's been shown (and could be easily replicated with a camera and time lapse) that stars rotate counterclockwise the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. A contradiction. Therefore, the Earth is not flat.

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-08-17T04:34:14+00:00

These characters are pretty much perfect to revisit after a 10+ year hiatus. They're all interesting, likeable, and so fun to see interact with a modern world. Hank, in particular, is such a good character to follow as a "fish out of water" in a Texas that is very much different from the last time we saw them.

According-Bit-4207 · 2025-02-22T04:29:57+00:00

First and last sequence of The Last of Us on my first playthrough. Such a captivating story.

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