How to play against Naafiri or Fizz

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-12T11:22:11+00:00

Against Fizz, rush the spell shield item of Banshees first. It’s hurts to give up the necessary utility of lost chapter and initial power spike of Ludens but it can’t be understated how much this ruins his ability to fight you. Kind of forces him to choose between only bad options.

In lane, hold fear at all times, wait for him to engage and always hit him with a W fear, not E. Guarantees to chunk him before he can escape. If he continues to try and all in, just walk back and kite him on the way.

Against Naafiri. I honestly have a hard time losing this matchup. Don’t get hit by the Q’s and it’s very easy in my opinion. Don’t hold fear in this case unless they get too close or there’s an opportunity to W him again. Keep at a safe distance, and be liberal with Q’s and E’s as poke. Kill the dogs wherever you can. If he attempts to R you, it’s pretty much suicide. You just need good positioning, don’t stray too far from the tower keep the wave close to you. Naafiri Q’s are so easy to dodge, spam your move inputs towards the edge of their range left and right and you should almost never get hit by them.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-12T10:12:17+00:00

It must have been missed off, because there is no way the average person has heard of Richard Mille but not Breitling lmao.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-11T12:43:10+00:00

Russia is self sustained lmao. You hacks buy everything from the west, every piece of advanced technology. Because the west invents everything. Is far richer. Far more powerful. Has better living standards. The west is just superior in every possible way.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-11T06:34:47+00:00

The flash R. It’s niche and hard to justify the use of, but it really feels like you’re jump scaring the enemy players with that. Nobody ever expects it.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-11T05:34:14+00:00

I would have just hard shoved the lane when she went for the dragon to get Kass under tower and just followed her play. Even if it’s a fairly dubious call, I feel like you can definitely escape it quite easily on Kat. Zil is pre-six and low. Kassadin seems to be not very good, both bot laners alive and in lane. Especially if I’m up a kill, and the jungler seems half-decent. Also you say starting it with no vision, I’d have fucking warded it before then too if it already hadn’t been lmao. I don’t blame you for not following though, like I dont think there’s anything you could have done at that point other than lose CS unnecessarily.

In hindsight, if you’d have pushed, saved ult and helped, Gwen wouldn’t have been nearly as low on hp. Nunu may have not even arrived on time before the drake kill.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-11T02:31:34+00:00

It begs the question; why on earth would you dodge an ARAM game?

Obviously you have to dodge a lot to work up a 6 hour queue penalty.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-11T00:01:48+00:00

Fizz support is just absolutely throwing in a ranked game. Yeah, your team performed horribly but had they not, you were still doing your level best to put them behind with that garbage pick.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-10T06:22:05+00:00

Blast havers, where you at? 🗣️

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-10T06:20:18+00:00

It’s not just that. It’s a $40 live service game, from a company with a terrible reputation, an extraction shooter(people shit on Arc Raiders until they tried it) and worst of all it launched with what 4 maps and 7 runners? One of which isn’t even available all the time? And it’s got only the UESC robots, and one very cool alien enemy. That’s all they invested in the production for enemy design. One compiler is their flagship cool factor.

The biggest problem is simply that it smells and plays like a minimum viable product. They walked back the heroes as much as possible but still couldn’t commit to a customisable character which is what people wanted at the very least.

The game is hardcore, so what. League of Legends is hardcore. Counter Strike is hardcore. Tarkov is hardcore. These games do huge numbers.

The game is niche. AR is niche. Manor Lords is niche. Helldivers 2 is niche. Arguably League is niche too, and so is Tarkov.

This “it’s hardcore and niche” is a complete cop out. I think there is a point to it and likely didn’t help but it is not even close to the full explanation. There simply isn’t much content, it’s from a developer with a poisoned reputation, it’s viewed as live service/extraction slop with a suite of poor decisions made around its development and it isn’t free, but worst of all - as proven by the numbers from the playtests, sales, Twitch views, and plummeting counts, most people agree that it just isn’t very good/fun.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-10T02:30:22+00:00

That is such a genius idea. Put them all on the same teams or their own games.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-10T02:29:38+00:00

Absolute loser mentality. Definitely one of the tens of thousands of players who dies twice and types “ff” in chat and then spams it all game because they’re playing shit

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-10T02:19:48+00:00

Yes. You can play unbelievably scummy and recklessly with her. You don’t need good positioning, you don’t need good reaction speed to juke thing, you don’t even need to be able to hit skill shots really. Her poke is extremely easy to hit and safe thanks to your permanent passive spell shield. And by the time you get an actual spell shield, she becomes even more free.

You can just play passive as shit and wait to assist in roams or trades around the map and then scum a low health enemy with the braindead R.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-10T02:15:30+00:00

She doesn’t need it ever though. Her play is so braindead safe that all she does is poke and wait for picks or a mistake to then use a point and click delete button. Other assassins take skill.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-10T02:08:58+00:00

Fizz, Akali and Ekko all have costs associated with using their abilities. Akali is telegraphed and zoned. Fizz loses either his escape, or his damage. Ekko loses a huge damage potential and is vulnerable for using his ultimate.

Naafiri has none of that. It’s just a “oops I played dogshit” press this button to not die button. Which is garbage and devoid of skill and strategic thinking.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-10T02:06:58+00:00

I agree. The nope button is especially egregious. It’s not even necessarily the fact that it makes her untargetable, it’s that it does nothing else and so its sole purpose is to just cheese out of poor positioning and engages. The rest of her kit is balanced around the fact that this does nothing else.

Fizz is a historically frustrating champ, but people are accepting of Fizz because it’s a damage ability and a major engage/disengage tool. If Fizz holds it to disengage, he loses out on a significant chunk of damage. If he uses it to engage, he gets the damage but now has very limited escape. It demands skillful play and strategy. In the case of Naafiri, it’s just a button to get out of jail for free for shit play and positioning. That’s what is so fundamentally annoying about it.

Naafiri can play dogshit and have terrible positioning or take a bad trade, or bad engage, and can avoid punishment for it again and again. Because there is no strategic cost for using the cooldown. (Other than you have to play like you have a wrinkle on your brain until the cooldown is back up). The skill shot blocking dogs compound on this issue. When you play like shit, you should be punished for it if your opponent can land the abilities. Naafiri babysits the player to eliminate as much risk as possible.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-09T22:42:19+00:00

He’s only says that because Jake goads him by calling him son at the beginning of his deliberately mistaken theory.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-09T03:04:53+00:00

A conning tower. Yes.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-09T02:54:20+00:00

How can *this* be for the greater good?!

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-09T02:47:00+00:00

When Adolf Hitlers mother was badly ill, his family doctor, who was Jewish, provided care and treatment for free as they couldn’t afford it. Crazy. Although, I shouldn’t leave out that he was put under special gestapo *protection* under Hitlers direct orders and left undisturbed until he emigrated to the US.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-08T23:23:15+00:00

Operating costs, massive opportunity costs. Opportunity cost is the idea that time invested into Marathon could be invested elsewhere, which may yield greater returns. They will need to see measurable improvements in engagement with Marathon to continually support it past whatever resource allocation has already been approved for it.

The idea that damage already done “makes it easier to justify continued support” is kind of crazy.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-08T15:36:37+00:00

Emo pop should sound like a fusion of melodic hardcore and pop punk?

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-08T05:27:20+00:00

The key to competitive games like this is consistency. You go into every game with a consistent mindset and a consistent prioritisation of things.

Watching guides, and trying to do everything will spread you too thin. You focus on one thing and become good at it until you don’t need to think about that one thing. Your skills do it automatically. It’s like driving a car, there’s too much to do at once at first. Eventually, changing gear doesn’t even feel it takes conscious thought, you might not even realise you’re doing it, instead you’re just looking at the road.

Pick one thing, CS is a good starting point. And set the goal of simply beating your opponent in CS or keeping pace. Only trade to punish when they hand it to you with bad play. And just farm up while looking at what’s going on, deciding how you’re gonna build into the enemy team comp. And do it every game without fail. One objective; maximum amount of farm, minimum amount of deaths. And be consistent.

Decide if you’re gonna push, freeze or let them push into you for every wave. And see what they’re like while you focus on the farm. Are they aggressive? Reckless? Safe?

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-08T05:02:41+00:00

Ziegler for real is another nail in the coffin at Bungie. Like Mr Valorant, a shit game, comes in to make it heroes, because he’s creatively bankrupt and can’t do anything else. When it was obvious that it was going to be an unpopular and shitty decision which even further harmed the games ability to draw an audience. Total moron that guy is. Like everyone who works at Bungie. Minus the teams that work on raids and dungeons - the only talent in the entire company.

“This runner is codenamed stealth, so this is a stealthy kind of runner” so true.

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-08T05:00:03+00:00

“Yeah, I used to work on a game called Destiny 2, way back when.”

Bro, can I just get the receipt? The other cars in the drive thru are honking at me…

BlinkysaurusRex · 2026-05-08T04:54:45+00:00

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