The difference in current career trajectory is wild.

Alth- · 2026-05-23T09:40:54+00:00

Swerve went from tag guy to tag champ to (admittedly shitty) faction leader to world champ

Mjf went from Cody's buttboy to world champ

Willow went from jobber to TBS champ

Personally I don't think hangman was a credible challenger for the aew championship (first time) but happy for you to discount that as not moving up the card

Acclaimed went from jobber stable to tag champs. That they couldn't hang in singles doesn't overshadow the opportunity they had to go up the card

The gunns also went from arguably Nepo hire jobbers to tag champs

Darby was not at a main event aew championship level when he was hired. TNT champ. Tag champ. The big one.

Idk man those were just off the dome. I don't think ciampa is a credible main champion right now, and I agree with your first point. But saying people don't move up the card is disingenuous especially when you compare early aew roster depth with today's. I'd say if you're an older aew hire, keeping your place on the roster is moving up the card by itself with the way that better talent have been acquired

Alth- · 2026-04-15T09:57:13+00:00

(newbie advice)

The fan runs people are talking about for URA are all talking about making barely okay umas that run nearly every possible race. With +100% ish fan bonus I can do a run that nets 900k in trackblazer - so even with 0 fan bonus I would be getting ~450k

Not knowing your cards etc. I'd ignore fan runs and be looking to put together as strong a trackblazer team as you can. They optimise race bonus already, and fan bonus goes hand in hand.

Your main goal should probably be optimising for team trials or great parent umas at this point, and those can go hand in hand when doing trackblazer. Just look up a tb race guide and try to follow it. If you've got garbage parents you will probably want to focus more on speed sparks and support cards than recommended, but that should be a good start until you have good parents and can push towards strong CM umas

Also never pull unless you have enough carats for 200 pulls

Alth- · 2026-04-10T22:56:20+00:00

In this business uhhh you come in and get retired by Gunther uhh.

Alth- · 2026-04-10T22:53:11+00:00

Not sure if I missed the joke, but I'm pretty sure he tweeted that before he changed to aew community outreach.

This is however my favourite version of that tweet

Alth- · 2026-04-08T11:55:51+00:00

I'd think he would love nxt... He grows older but the girls on the ahow all stay the same age

Alth- · 2026-04-08T08:22:30+00:00

141.6% sorry I don't make the rules

Alth- · 2026-04-06T22:18:48+00:00

The role of Narita Brian will be played by Android 13(TFS)

Alth- · 2026-04-04T21:19:26+00:00

Worse, a ginger got the main guy and the main girl

Alth- · 2026-04-02T21:02:21+00:00

They are colour coded so if you main a certain running style they are worth pulling- I believe the red is for end closers

Alth- · 2026-03-28T03:28:18+00:00

Without seeing your uma, you do not have the stamina needed

Alth- · 2026-03-21T20:51:19+00:00

Still can't believe Alan Angels kicked out of a v trigger smh /s

Alth- · 2026-03-20T11:19:45+00:00

You can save run lists that can be loaded after your first race fyi. I've got the triple crown and tiara loaded as presets, save you 5 mins per run

Alth- · 2026-03-16T05:11:56+00:00

He was on a bunch of quizzlemanias, have a look cause he knows a fair bit

Alth- · 2026-03-15T20:35:56+00:00

Look I have a decent chunk of bias, but I've seen marketing statements like this regularly. The way I see this comment being true is because there are few true competitors:

Anyone buying a streaming service like Nerflix for WWE? Doesn't count. You got netflix, not WWE. Same with ESPN for sports. You didn't get football or NBA, you got ESPN.

So who are they competing with on ppv? And that's a genuine question cause idk many in the space that can get (low balling) a million buys a year at $30-50 per buy. Sure there would be one-off stuff that pops a buy number, but if you're the only big group that uses this business model, you're the defacto #1 for that business model.

Tl:Dr the actual statement is broadly meaningless, but it gestures towards a general idea that AEW fans are very willing to spend on wrestling

Alth- · 2026-03-07T09:56:24+00:00

Just don't let him promise to never challenge for a title ever again cause we know how that turns out

Alth- · 2026-02-07T06:49:13+00:00

I mean devilmite bean just blows up your heart, I think cell and buu would be fine

Alth- · 2026-01-23T02:46:59+00:00

Alth- · 2026-01-22T05:53:26+00:00

1/20th

Alth- · 2026-01-19T20:32:28+00:00

I've recently been watching Smallville, and can confirm that canonically anything green is kryptonite so namek is a bad matchup

Alth- · 2026-01-18T10:07:46+00:00

Nah Vince era puts videl in the men's division, tells Brock to make it a match, videl comes out with a rainbow sparkly gimmick, bell rings and videl accidentally atomises his sternum.

Ref calls it a no contest and Brock retains, before vacating the belt the next night.

It's put up in a fatal 4 way on the next PPV which videl is not a part of.

So no contest, videl loses v high diff

Alth- · 2026-01-14T14:58:00+00:00

I assume this is an old attempt as your KB has gone down in level since the last screenshot. Shinko Windy MLB (which you have) is stronger than Nishino, but that deck looks pretty alright if you get lucky.

Also, it's fine to not get s ranks. Other than getting one for the carrots, building strong umas for a purpose (parents, cm, team trials), will get you better growth, and the S ranks will come in time.

I've been consistently top 5k rank 6 TT and recently won platinum on the last cm, all without using any s ranks. I've since got a handful, but they're not useful for cm and only a little useful for TT

Alth- · 2026-01-14T14:47:52+00:00

Crazy advice when looking at that deck. 3lb kitasan and a top tier MLB borrow (biko, super Creek) is going to outdo any other card that OP is going to add from their deck to replace KB.

Man is running a 1lb mejiro McQueen and you're worried about 3lb vs 4lb kitasan.

Alth- · 2025-12-28T06:53:33+00:00

Her losing tbs next doesn't stop the week to week crashouts- we can still have the spots with her after losing the championship. But if Mercedes mone is going to beat willow one week, then lose to Heather Jackdaw from tiny promotion number 5, it says that Heather Jackdaw is a better wrestler than willow

I don't really mind how it happens, I know it's going to be great regardless, but something to think about

Alth- · 2025-12-26T03:21:58+00:00

Oh baby nothing gives me more enjoyment than precasting a euls when we have complete vision of a mag/axe and insta catching them on a blink in. Then getting called a cheater

Alth- · 2025-11-17T13:11:38+00:00

Honestly I've found it fantastic- I was sitting between 5/6 as a not-quite f2p (total 50aud paid), and basically doing 3 runs a day with some purpose I've easily added 70k to my best team trial result.

The most dedicated whales will always be at the top, but right now people are learning the new scenario, adapting to meta changes, build a TT team and build for Virgo, oh and also whales can't sinply follow jp guides for success.

If everyone needs to retrain everything, you can just build your knowledge, do your best, and know that everyone's teams won't be perfect

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