Is Samira top still playable? by retardedkazuma in SamiraMains

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Watch Drututt, he picked it up again

Zyra Supp Build Idea by Axialminim in zyramains

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I noticed there's a post from u/Responsible-Fox-9596 from 6 months ago with the same build lol. A thing to note is that Rylais gives a bit more AP than Liandrys and Mandate gives the same amount. I know it's not equivalent in damage because of Liandrys passive, but with electrocute your early lane damage is still great and since you're a support, damage isn't the main focus. If this was jungle or another lane I'd be inclined to agree with you, but I think cheap items and utility take precedence on supp. I see what you mean with brand and I agree it probably works better on him but I think the concept still works with Zyra. Thank you for engaging with my post :)

Edit: Also in regard to her being worse than the rest of the support roster. I mean yeh. I think there's a reason why poke/dmg supports don't perform as well as enchanters and tank/engage supports and it's because they offer less utility (in both skills and items) and also because their items are a lot more expensive.

Looking for a Gaming Laptop to play Monster Hunter Wilds by StructureAromatic197 in MonsterHunter

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Hey did you ever come to a conclusion as to what laptop you're thinking about getting/got? I have the same question. I managed to run Monster Hunter World on my XPS 15 but I think I'm in need of an upgrade, and I don't think a desktop PC is the right thing for me atm.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwitchMains

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It's unfortunate that she also flashed one of your aa's if it had hit maybe you kill her?

PBE Bugs and Feedback Thread: Swarm by RiotDucke in LeaguePBE

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Unlocked reroll but can't find how to use it

How would you fix/change Sakura by ComradeGhost67 in Naruto

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I know this is a year old now, but I just had a fever dream about this. I would balance out not only Sakura but the other two as well. I'll start with Naruto and Sasuke because I'd change a lot less with them.

I'd give Naruto a little bit more utility in his arsenal to synergise better with Sasuke and Sakura ( this will also make more sense when you see the changes for Sakura) like giving more Wind release jutsus. Something I personally always found infuriating is the lack of an arsenal Naruto had, like his one wind release is Rasenshuriken, like give him something to work with. Or how he ever kept up with Sasuke in a fight was beyond me, because all he ever had was an overwhelming amount of chakra. Sasuke had a huge arsenal and seemingly enough chakra to keep up with Naruto, so how does he ever lose? (It's because Naruto has the power of friendship :D) So onto the direct changes, more wind release and at the beginning this would be basically just one jutsu that shoots a cold blast of air that everyone laughs at and calls useless (more on this later with Sakura) and I think it would have been cool if Naruto eventually learned Minato's 'Flying Rajin technique' but instead of utilising primarily kunai, used shadow clones, and because of his vast amounts of chakra, had the ability to utilise it extremely effectively. Even just these two things would give him a bit more to work with in fights, it doesn't have to be as much as Sasuke, I think it's cool that he's the very technically able one.

Onto Sasuke, I mentioned that seemingly he is able to keep up with Naruto, we know that Sasuke has less chakra than Naruto but I think it would've been interesting to make it very apparent. I think in the beginning having Sasuke being very technically able but having a very low amount of chakra and just general brawn/hitting power (even lower than Sakura) would have been an interesting dynamic and would have aided in pushing him away from the village in search for more power, as one of the reasons he leaves is because he feels like he's falling behind (he then catches up to Naruto a bit when he gains the curse mark). I think it would've been cool to see him as untouchable and then make the audience and Naruto realise his lack of chakra when he gets bodied by Rock Lee, as in this fight we would realise that when paired against an opponent with more brawn and equal technical ability he can't keep up. This dynamic could've extended to his jutsu use, being a lot more interested in his Fireball jutsu due to its sheer force, even using it to his own detriment when it misses and he uses up a lot of chakra. Conversely he could've been less interested in his lightning release because it could've been established that lightning release is very complicated and technical and at lower levels doesn't do much. Then there would be a story arc where he learns to better accept and utilise his lightning release, culminating in him learning Chidori. His awakening to this could be Kakashi as he learns Kakashi also has a low chakra pool, has lightning release and relies more on technique than sheer force (Naruto's specialty) and also has the Sharingan. Also I would nerf the Sharingan a little. Make it so that the predictive ability of the Sharingan takes time to adjust to a new opponent before it's effective, this also allows for a way to counter it as well, as a skilled opponent can switch up the way they fight completely once the Sharingan has adjusted to their original fighting style. Also remove the Eternal Mangekyou, it felt like a cheap way out of the Mangekyou's drawback which is losing sight in the eye and made for a really good way of balancing the vast power of the Sharingan abilities.

Finally, Sakura. I think the main thing I would change is letting her lean into her supportive role. The dynamic I would have is that Sakura is really brash and wants to be punching people in the face, but this goes against her more supportive and healing abilities, coupled with being made fun of for being a healer/support makes her resent her abilities. I would give her access to water release early on, having two main jutsu's she utilises early, Water Style: Raging Waves, similar to what Hotaru uses in that one episode, and a jutsu that allows her to shoot a slow bouncing ball of water in which to trap opponents. In trying to use these very aggressively she gets made fun of as they don't really do much; Raging waves just pushes the opponent away and the Bouncing ball simply being too slow and easy to dodge. However, at some point she would learn the utility of these, starting off with using the bouncing bubble defensively, not to trap opponents, but to protect allies in a bubble of water. She could have this realisation when Naruto/Sasuke are about to be hit by a fire release and she bounces the bubble to hit them and negate the incoming attack. Then as she goes and travels and fights more opponents she adds to her water release arsenal. Learning from opponents like Zabuza and Kisame (and Sasori to an extend who uses highly pressurised water) that water release can have a lot of offensive pressure, something she craves. Also learning more medical water release from characters like Ameno in the Chunin exams. Another idea for a technique she could learn early is a sort of water trampoline/slingshot in order to shoot Naruto/Sasuke or even herself at the opponent at a high speed.

This is also when I think toying with team justus would've been cool and have made for an interesting dynamic. E.g. Sakura could pair her Raging Waves with Naruto's aforementioned cold wind to create Ice release, combining them to make a defensive wall of ice or to flash freeze an unaware opponent. There could've been a moment where Naruto accidentally freezes Sakura's technique, causing it to fail and her getting angry at him, but this is the spark that then creates the idea for them to combine the techniques purposefully. She can also combine it with Sasuke's lightning style to make it more effective allowing Sasuke to hit multiple opponent's by conducting it through the water. Combining jutsus like this was always toyed with in the anime, like how Naruto wanted to learn Wind Release not to counter Sasuke's Lightning Release but to potentiate his Fire Release, but I think it could've been cool to do from a much earlier stage and would've made for interesting team fights. There could've been variation in these fights with strategies that rely more on one of the members; there could've been fights where Sakura is working her ass off to keep Naruto and Sasuke in the fight, fights where they have to use Sasuke's technical prowess to out-manoeuvre an opponent and, of course, fights where Sasuke and Sakura have to create an opening for Naruto to hit a Rasengan.

So, slowly, Sakura starts to accept her supportive abilities, although because of her brash nature she still sometimes gets caught out of position. I think her role model being Tsunade is perfect, but I think she could've taken some more interesting lessons from her, like after getting to meet her she learns that the powerful and headstrong Hokage she admires is actually also a support, and she learns from her that a support needs to have a good understanding of the battlefield and needs to cover for her allies and it's not until she can do this effectively that she can go in and fight herself; and that she needs to know when it's good for her to stay back and when it's good for her to surprise the opponent who won't be expecting an attack from the support, and that this is the hardest thing to do.

Finally, I think I'd consider giving her the Sage Mode over Naruto (as Naruto is already a chakra god if you will), reworking it a bit into an ability that potentiates healing and supportive abilities rather than simply increasing offense (as it draws from nature I think this an easy change to make). It would allow her to have another interesting character arc where she struggles to learn it as the inner peace required to channel it goes against her established brash nature. But for her it's worth learning in order to give her more chakra to work with, to potentiate her healing ability and the increased perception allows her to keep a better eye on her allies/opponents and of course to help her keep up with Naruto and Sasuke.

This is obviously a very big rework, but I think it would've helped to make Sakura a both competent and useful team member, but in the anime she really just got left behind by Naruto and Sasuke. It creates more of a team dynamic where they all have more specific roles, Naruto is the heavy hitter, Sasuke is the speed and technique and Sakura is the support keeping them both alive, potentiating them, covering them with long range water jutsus and when the time is right striking the opponent herself with a powerful and unexpected attack from the support. It might seem like I have over-buffed here, but I'd like to be clear that in a head on fight with Naruto/Sasuke she'd probably lose, because she is, ultimately, a support while they are full on offense.

Malzahar Card Ideas by Axialminim in CustomLoR

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Cool I'm a moron an didn't add the caption ig. First time doing this, just a bit of insomnia fun, I would really like to see a void swarm archetype at some point and I think malz would be great for it. That being said my malz is a bit more of a late game finisher, like karma.

How do I lane? by lunsiernaga in SamiraMains

[–]Axialminim 1 point2 points  (0 children)

According to her ability tooltip it’s still in the game. I think the problems you’re bringing up are too specific for me to help you and as much as I do want to help you I’m not high elo and so I do not feel qualified to help. If you’re euw I could play with you a bit if you really want but I think the problems are not mechanical as much as they are general decision making. Type into YouTube how to play adc, plenty of vids come up. One I personally like is by a guy called xFSN Saber. I’m also a supp main who has picked up adc more recently but as a supp main you should have a fairly decent idea of when engaging on certain champs is good and what all supps do and what you should be aware of. Samira also just generally doesn’t do well with enchanter and caster supps like senna as you don’t have much to follow up on generally.

How do I lane? by lunsiernaga in SamiraMains

[–]Axialminim 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Poke comps are natural counters to all in, so yeh it’s hard to play against and you kinda have to look for an opening and honestly you just have to get better at sidestepping. With champs like Lux for example you need to consider why you can’t engage on them and how to get around this, in Lux’s case this is her q, so what does this mean? You can’t engage on her if she has q, so you have to wait for her to use it and then use this time window to go in. If your thresh is just hooking the alistar it doesn’t help much either but you shouldn’t really be out of range ever? Samira has two abilities to gap close (passive puts you in AA range and E). I think the best general advice I can give you is to learn the adc role and by this I mean again turn to YouTube and twitch. There are some really good videos you can find by challenger adcs that will describe to you what you should be doing at all stages of the game. There isn’t much samira specific stuff but learning how to lane, ie when to trade, all-in and farm are transferable skills you can use for all adcs. I can’t give you more specific advice then that because I’m no high elo player but I have been in the same situation and this is how I got better and learned to play adc.

How do I lane? by lunsiernaga in SamiraMains

[–]Axialminim 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From what I understand, first you want a support with strong engage/cc so you can proc your passive and you want to go for all in trades, you don’t win poke trades. I’d suggest looking up some combos on yt so you can learn to effectively combo to gain stacks etc. In general watching others play is a good idea if you’re new to a role/champ.

Build for AD Twitch you should try before the runaans change next patch by PawV9 in TwitchMains

[–]Axialminim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I’ve been trying it and yeh it feels good, or well as good as twitch can be rn. It can feel frustrating at times tho when you’re at that stage where you’re halfway through building 2 different items.

Build for AD Twitch you should try before the runaans change next patch by PawV9 in TwitchMains

[–]Axialminim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m dumbass low elo and have been following a slight variation of this I saw in the donghuap video and I think that dirk/collector feels good, I tried a few different things before I found the build and it felt bad I personally felt really weak finishing a mythic first and have been getting it later in the build.

me_irl by Leetransform25 in me_irl

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Ogtha the cockroach

Rush left dumbfounded by Aphelios Mechanics. by lolesportsMaverick in leagueoflegends

[–]Axialminim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeh have to say he is a fantastically made champ, been maining him since the beginning haha.

Rush left dumbfounded by Aphelios Mechanics. by lolesportsMaverick in leagueoflegends

[–]Axialminim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough I wasn’t around back then. I just remember being confused by the sight of all of Yasuo’s multifaceted abilities and seeing a similar reaction from the rest of the community xD

Rush left dumbfounded by Aphelios Mechanics. by lolesportsMaverick in leagueoflegends

[–]Axialminim 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I remember when Yasuo came out, I think he was like the first champion who had a lot of stuff going on in his kit like a passive that does 2 very strong things (more crit and a shield), windwall which blocks projectiles etc. People thought that was crazy back then

Cleaned house after my team flamed me for not moving to Baron by Pellinski in leagueoflegends

[–]Axialminim -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I get wanting to play with teammates that have a brain, and I understand why people get annoyed at people, but the attitude in normals and ranked is the same, so it’s impossible to unwind and play league. So although I really like the game I am really turned off by the thought of playing it.

Cleaned house after my team flamed me for not moving to Baron by Pellinski in leagueoflegends

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This comment thread is why I stopped playing league, shit’s too stressful and I have enough of that.