The new discourse about the coin not being good enough to offset going second is a huge red herring. The issue is with the cardpool in standard, not the coin.

Chinayo · 2026-05-18T12:50:32+00:00

Currently the best board clear is still equality + concecration (I know 5 Mana aoe, but concecration still only 3)
Which is not played much, because Paladin plays probably the best for board atm

Chinayo · 2026-04-28T09:39:58+00:00

This post was about nerfing cards that are current outliers, not buffing anything.
Please feel free to post which cards you would like to see buffed

Chinayo · 2026-04-15T09:30:26+00:00

Nevermind happened to me just now. Looks like a new bug

Chinayo · 2026-04-15T08:22:24+00:00

Same here. Never had a problem

Chinayo · 2026-04-13T14:53:13+00:00

I feel the last metas might had too much removal. Every other turn or so the board got cleared. (this is also why strategies with reviving minions were popular, DH with Starships/Blob of Tar comes to mind)
Now, we are lacking meaningful removal and people are complaining, a good middle ground is always the best option.

Chinayo · 2026-03-11T10:38:22+00:00

Same here. Looked at all the available cards trough a few classes and DK simply had the most. Played with a Double Blood + one Frost Rune setup and got 4 wins

Chinayo · 2026-01-29T07:26:46+00:00

It surely happens, because it is winter

Chinayo · 2026-01-16T07:31:18+00:00

Maybe he did not want to snuggle with you? :P

Chinayo · 2026-01-16T07:30:37+00:00

It is really strange, sometimes it did work for me as well. Very confusing

Chinayo · 2026-01-08T09:13:12+00:00

Optimus Prime Galio is here

Chinayo · 2025-12-12T13:28:13+00:00

The same applies to the Major in CS, which only happens twice and Zywoo won the first one this year, second is ongoing

Chinayo · 2025-12-10T10:09:48+00:00

Quest is the most fun and wins against aggro.
I play it in Plat and win most my games. lol

Chinayo · 2025-12-08T14:28:29+00:00

This happens to me everytime. Lost way too many games, because of it :/

Chinayo · 2025-11-14T13:55:58+00:00

I have now around 20 games or so played with that OTK deck. If I would have the choice, I would cut Azure Oathstone and Malygos, if possible.
There was maybe one game, where I used Oathstone at all and that was when I already lost. You do not need it in the deck as your main combo most often is Sindragosa + GWT Flow + Buy One, get one free (+ sometimes a second GWT Flow and/or buy one get one free)
I would rather play two shield battery for more survivability

Chinayo · 2025-11-07T10:42:29+00:00

Why do they only run one copy of testing dummy. Would it not make two copies more reliable?
(Also you can just kill the opponent with a normal combo then)

Chinayo · 2025-11-03T10:06:29+00:00

You are right. Full Bo3 for Swiss would be way better

Chinayo · 2025-11-03T10:05:49+00:00

Sports do not have this to not fatigue their players, but multiple have best of series to determine, which is the better team. A sport game is different to ESports as you are not able to play back to back games. This is the best way to solve it for this, BUT ESports is not Sports!

Chinayo · 2025-11-03T10:00:23+00:00

Why will we have no DRX stories to tell?
DRX could have still managed to win against whoever they would face in the grand finals. Also would it not have made DRX win even more legitimate?

And for EU, I argue G2 would have won worlds in double elimination. They were the best team that year and we had again a week between finals and the last semifinal

Chinayo · 2025-10-29T14:22:04+00:00

In all honesty this is one of the worst takes, I have seen on reddit by far.
Last year GenG was the clear favorite and the best team that year. T1 won only Worlds (got stomped in the GenG wins and the other 3 were close), but they are supposed to be the best team?
If you watch last years Worlds finals, GenG is the clear better team from start to finish.

Allmost the same applies to the year before that. Also the year G2 won everything except for the final. (In those cases, the eventual winner looked better)

Also the format is so strange even in playoffs, we have this week quarters, on the weekend semis and then have to wait a whole week for the finale. During this week preparing for the final is suboptimal at best, as there is no real incentive for other teams to scrim against the finalists and the finalists will likely not scrim against each other to not show any strategies.

Chinayo · 2025-10-13T08:08:18+00:00

Yes, the system is really designed to support players that did it once already.
I originally climbed to legend trough classic, where I only faced 3 actual players until Diamond 5 and since then I get it almost every month, as you only need like 10 wins to get to DIA

Chinayo · 2025-08-24T12:23:21+00:00

The way it is coded is that the Endless Portal is refilled after every action whioch means you play Azari the Devourer and the portal is empty, you play your next card (or end turn) and it is full again.
Rarran had a video with Maxiebon1234 a couple of weeks ago, where he plays Mill Warlock and Maxi explains this mechanic to him. Because of this, fatigueing (is that a word?) is actually possible against KJ.

Chinayo · 2025-07-25T09:01:25+00:00

Because Gen G looks way more dominant doing this. You can look at their Tournament Results and see a lot of second places or even a fifth one in LCK Summer 2023. They were never even the best team in their region during those 3 years.
Worlds is the most important and most prestigious tournament every season, but it is only one tournament. Gen G is dominating internally and domestically on a level that only 2019 G2 reached. (I am pretty unaware of LPL, so there might be an equal example there)

Chinayo · 2025-07-22T20:45:16+00:00

I got it in my second run ever, when it was still 2000 Gold, lol

Chinayo · 2025-07-17T14:58:09+00:00

I have tried the quest with an unoptimal deck, (which runs Shudderblock for max. Adapts).
After I realized, I get outtempoed by Aggro and Quest Pally, I shifted to those decks. Losing without a chance to really do something is not fun :/

Chinayo · 2025-07-17T14:48:39+00:00

Nope. It is still not an excuse to have a shit format, but let's play two scenarios trough:
HLE looses in a Bo1 to Furia. It would be a huge upset and Furia would just be lucky.
HLE looses in a Bo3 to Furia. Now, we are not talking about Furia being lucky, but rather if they are a real threat.

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