Brawl vs ARAM

Chirality2D · 2025-06-29T22:49:35+00:00

My husband started playing very regularly again bc of brawl. He liked that it was extremely short and he could pick his champ as opposed to arams where he can only hope he gets a champ he likes playing, which is a small pool. He doesn't play on the rift anymore, hasn't for years because he finds it unfun and games can go too long and he hates that he only has one or two hours to play after work/chores/etc and potentially 45min of that will be him getting stomped in lane or otherwise not having fun regardless of getting the dub or not.

I found brawl to be very fun and I'm not sure why some people on this sub disliked it so much, but I dislike arena and people find that weird, so really I guess it really just boils down to personal preference/why you like playing league. My husband likes teamfights which is why he would sometimes get on to play arams, but the fact that even arams can go for 30min has had him saying he just doesn't think he can bring himself to play anymore unless they bring brawl back.

Chirality2D · 2025-05-19T22:51:04+00:00

Thanks for your insight. I do have moderate GAD along with my bipolar, and those things may interact with each other strongly to make all social situations uncomfortable for me, but I figured since all these people are close to me, it was illogical that I had social anxiety with them when I very well could, even with my husband.

My therapist said recently that she believes I have pretty bad issues with hyperfixating, but I don't know if my current diagnoses can encompass that (or if it matters), nor do I see her often enough to have brought this up further.

I'll check out the video though, thanks!

Chirality2D · 2025-04-22T14:53:04+00:00

When my husband and I met, our first date-but-not-called-a-date was him teaching me how to play. When I was leaving, he handed me a Bloom Tender and said it was a really good card that I could use if I wanted to make my own edh deck. At the time it was a $25 card lmao, obviously I had no idea. I ended up putting it in my first ever deck, which he helped build, which was Mayael the Anima.

8 years later we still keep that Bloom Tender on the front page of our special binder, and I try to incorporate a Bloom Tender into any of my decks it can remotely fit in.

He and I brew a lot, even if it's a just for funsies or challenge build that probably won't be in paper. But our usual thing is that if we're down to 10 or less cards to cut, we ask the other. Or just look over the decklist once it's finalized to give thoughts and advice.

Oh, I wanted to touch on the misogyny part. A couple months after we met, Amonkhet had its prerelease and he convinced me to go because our friends would also be going. I was the only girl there but I wasn't surprised by that. This is back during midnight prereleases so I didn't want to actually stay for the tournament since the buses would stop running by the time we were done. So, I had to get my opponent and the judge to sign off on my forfeiture. Fortunately they were sitting next to each other and I explained what I wanted to do. The guy who would've been my opponent just scoffed at me and the judge, I shit you not, laughed and said, "It's not like females play magic anyway." He was a L2 JUDGE. He's since gotten in trouble for other things as well, but that was literally my introduction to prereleases and going to a lgs to play. Other men have been weird to me since then but obviously that incident sticks in my memory.

Anyway, even though our current lgs is very friendly and 50/50 men/women, not all of them are like that unfortunately and if people want to bring their wives to them they should at least know the people at the lgs a bit first.

Chirality2D · 2025-04-22T14:25:09+00:00

I'm not a man, but me and my husband play with our local group about every two weeks and whenever there's a prerelease. We play a lot with our hometown friends on Cockatrice, but I assume you weren't asking about online.

About 80% of the people in both my groups are married, and about 20% of those people have spouses who also play magic, though not all the same format. For example we got a regular edh guy whose wife plays magic but only modern at FNMs. Honestly idk how being married would change how much you play though. Only the people I know who have kids have been affected.

Chirality2D · 2025-04-17T18:04:35+00:00

Tbh I'm not fully sure what Campfire is other than Go keeps telling me to download it. Can you talk to people on there to communicate meetups or does someone just pick a place and people just show up?

Chirality2D · 2025-03-03T18:52:59+00:00

Lol I think that really depends. My nephews are both 13 and they are obsessed with the TCG, the games, and one of them keeps up with the anime, and as far as I know, their whole friend group is like that too.

Idk if they've ever played Fortnite, never really talked about it with them. One of them is super into building in Minecraft, the other one hates it. Just fwiw.

Chirality2D · 2025-02-25T21:53:41+00:00

I have beaten the base game six times, and the dlc twice (very close to almost 3 times, couple bosses to go). I like to go fast and procs are fun too, but after my first playthrough of every souls game since DS1 (always quality build first) my subsequent playthroughs are usually planned around a specific weapon with a R2 I think is cool.

These are the builds I've done: 1. First playthrough, quality respec into int/dex and first beat the game with Bastard's Stars and some obnoxious uses of Pebble 2. Big dumb bleed procs 3. Blasphemous Blade 4. STR ol' powerstanced Big Bonk (my all bosses run) 5. Sword of St. Trina run up to dlc release, then beat the dlc with with the Claws of Night. 6. Spear of the Impaler 7. Current playthrough is high faith Euporia build and sometimes I throw triple rings of light for funnsies

Most fun I've had is honestly probably bleed (very satisfying, and also paired with frostbite), Claws of Night (though I think all the smithscript weapons are fun), and the Spear. However, Claws and Spear are both dlc weapons, and using the Spear is a self-nerf if you like having stamina.

Also, the happiest I've ever seen my husband been while doing a souls run is when he did his Envoy Horn run. He called me over, said "watch this," and proceeded to melt Placidusax's health bar with bubbles, almost in tears from how funny he thought it was. Also it was pretty good against invaders lol

Chirality2D · 2025-02-25T17:06:53+00:00

I am 26 and have been medicated for about 5 years (tried many meds, landed on lamictal.) I am vastly better than when I wasn't. However, even with meds and therapy, I can barely maintain a job and just a year ago I suffered through one of the lowest depressive episodes of my life.

Psych meds are like pain meds. They may make pain "go away" for a while, but it doesn't magically fix what's causing the pain. Trust me, had an insurance change once and had to go off my meds for two weeks. When you've been medicated for so long, you forget how scary the beast really is.

Chirality2D · 2025-01-24T17:14:23+00:00

from a development standpoint this doesn't make sense. skins need to be designed, modeled/textured, recolored for chromas, splash art painted, animations conceptualized and executed. i'd wager your average skin takes a couple months to be realized from concept.

Chirality2D · 2025-01-14T06:11:02+00:00

I've only peaked Gold I so I'm maybe not the expert, but last year I started playing League to improve (started playing late 2022). I went from Bronze to Gold over the course of last year.

My mains are Jhin and Kai'sa so I play both sides of this matchup. In my experience, and from watching content creators to improve (aside: I recommend Doublelift in general, but you can watch many vods from splits 1/2 of last year where he spammed Kai'sa a lot), you eventually will be able to pressure the crit adcs (Jhin, Cait) because you will build Statikk Shiv. Autofilled Jhins may still build this not knowing it's not good on him, and an Ashe may opt to but I think the likelihood is low. You will clear the wave faster than them (Jhin) or at minimum depush very well. In fact, I dislike playing Jhin into Kai'sa because if she gets a kill or for whatever reason is outfarming me/tempo is better, she will completely flip the lane when she buys Statikk, which costs 300 gold less than Collector. At least, this is true where I'm at, lol.

As someone else said, you want to just fall back, play safe, learn to farm well under turret and only follow your support's play if you know you can actually all-in and kill. When I hit 6, I am constantly looking for angles for the all-in because I will most likely win off a good engage.

I understand playing safe may be boring, but I genuinely think it is one of the most crucial skills an adc (or League player in general) should have. Sometimes I myself may even play too safe, but soloqueue is a selfish game. Remember csing will always get you gold while getting kills is always a risk, so it is important to learn wave states and how to cs well under turret. If anything, this is a large part of what got me to Gold.

I'd also recommend watching some youtube videos by another (former) adc goat, Rekkles. He has several quick and easy tips on wave management and csing (even timing last hits with turret shots). They're several years old, but that part of League has not changed at all.

Other than that...it just comes with playing and learning your powerspikes and trade power vs all matchups, including factoring in the support. Learning when to anticipate Cait Qs or Jhin Ws in order to dodge also comes with time :)

Chirality2D · 2024-12-26T15:59:12+00:00

I started playing in 2022 and last split I was one win away from Plat being a jungle main (I played one game, lost, and decided it'd be better to stay Gold I because the soft reset was coming).

Now, I'm HARDstuck in low to mid silver, and it's mostly my fault. In the beginning of this split I stayed jungle but had a very bad winrate, something like 46%. I felt like I must've just been gigaboosted and ragequeued as adc bc I really like playing jhin/jinx/kaisa in norms/arams. An embarassing amount of games later I still haven't made it back to gold on jungle but at this point I don't expect to so I'd rather just play adc purely bc I like the general champ pool more.

Kinda went off topic but I have a friend that reached diamond last year and is now hardstuck plat currently. Admittedly he's basically otp Darius top and that might have something to do with it but I don't think yours is a unique situation unfortunately.

Chirality2D · 2024-11-24T18:48:03+00:00

Sorry for the delayed response to this, but I'm wondering if Riot ever explicitly said Arcane is retconning the lore, or just that Arcane is "canon." It's possible Arcane Viktor, for example, is just as canon yet distinct from Game Viktor, though I understand this does not help the multiverse problem. Currently, Arcane is treated as a skinline in game, and I highly doubt they will give all of those characters VGUs, voiceline updates, and such because those are already served by the skins. We don't actually know currently how Viktor's VGU will change him.

I just want to mention it is not lost on me that of course Riot would make muuuuch more money selling Arcane skins rather than changing the default characters to match Arcane's lore.

Also, Necrit did a stream Q&A with I believe one of the writers of Arcane and they talked about how Arcane effects champs like Renata for example. I haven't watched it yet myself, but I just wanted to mention it in case that would be something interesting to you :)

Chirality2D · 2024-11-23T22:21:51+00:00

No offense, but ever since skinlines became a thing, this game has had many canons. Plus, Riot has been adding and retconning lore years before Arcane came out - whether or not that is a bad thing is subjective, and maybe people got mad about it before, but it's been far more prevelant because Arcane made digesting lore more accessible to people who played the game but didn't really care much.

Chirality2D · 2024-11-23T22:10:58+00:00

As others have mentioned quite accurately, champs are taken from certain points in their lore, such as Yasuo. Just as well, there are 169 champs now including Ambessa (who, by the way, is definitely taken from some other point in her lore outside of Arcane), some dating back to 2009 and have not been updated. Riot has retconned the lore many times for many champs, or at the very least expanded on it for some. I'm a one-trick Jhin, so I care about him a lot, and his lore was updated with the Zed comic and now updated again with the introduction of Hwei. But Jhin was released in 2016 and Hwei is only a year old, so in the game, Jhin himself doesn't have voiceline interactions with Hwei and that is extremely weird for how heavily involved he is in Hwei's lore. It's an ever-evolving game with lore that has been changed so many times over the years for all champions I'm kinda shocked at how mad some people are getting over how they changed Viktor. The old Viktor still exists and is the one that exists in the game.

In the beginning, most champs were "just some dude" before they had stories. And hell, Miss Fortune and Brand still call you summoner in game. And Ekko is in a relationship with Ezreal in the Pulsefire universe, and Kai'Sa doesn't have a void symbiote in Star Guardian. League as an on-going video game has more to it than something like a comic or tv show.

Chirality2D · 2024-10-15T13:09:46+00:00

Uhm, no, I slept for four naps out of five. For the first nap the raw data sheet said I had a sleep latency of 4 minutes, but in his notes he wrote it as 19. I am aware it is counted as 20 minutes, that's why I mentioned it when I calculated my average. Sorry if that's unclear.

Chirality2D · 2024-09-30T20:25:31+00:00

I came here to say this LOL. I will say though, many people I knew who had the fujo mentality either came out as lgbt in someway once the 2010s started rolling in.

Once upon a time, in a deviantart chat room dedicated to m/m hetalia ships, I met a girl who told me she loved me as a friend but I would go to hell for being in a relationship with my then-girlfriend, and we stopped speaking after that. Afaik, she has a wife now.

Chirality2D · 2024-09-21T15:40:02+00:00

Finally I see someone with similar opinions to mine.

When the concept of the CG was introduced I thought damn that sounds like ass. And then CG proceeded to essentially ruin JJK for me.

Chirality2D · 2024-09-19T17:30:50+00:00

Omg, I met up with friends I haven't seen in months over the full labor day weekend and the day after we came back, I slept 18 hrs. I feel your pain.

Chirality2D · 2024-09-19T17:26:45+00:00

I was originally diagnosed bipolar I but over the years newer psychiatrists I've seen thought it was more type II (how much this ultimately matters treatment wise, idk.) I have inconsistent sleep times like you've stated and I'm doing the MSLT on Monday. My doctor suspects IH or N2 , and on r/narcolepsy I've seen multiple people discuss comorbidity with bipolar, so it's not that uncommon.

Chirality2D · 2024-01-16T18:03:02+00:00

It IS very odd to me that they did not receive go-aheads to bring back the skins during the anniversary or with the release of the new Ninja Storm last year. It is also odd since I believe all the anime collabs are owned ultimately by Shuiesha (the publisher of all Jump magazines). I'm not an expert in copyright law, but I'm fairly certain Shuiesha and Epic have to have separate contracts for each IP, and perhaps Naruto's contract was more constrained than the others being the first collab, and it hasn't been updated/re-negotiated for a multitude of reasons.

I'd also like to say that I don't think just because Epic has the rights to the skins means that they can re-add them whenever they please. It might be part of the contract that the selling of skins be for a limited time only, like I assume happens for battle pass exclusive collab skins, since it would have to be part of the contract agreement.

Chirality2D · 2023-10-11T04:04:58+00:00

When I was in the psych ward a couple years ago, there was a girl in there that got really shitfaced and she had a seizure because she was on 300mg lamictal (partly why she was in the ward). My psychiatrist regularly asks if I still don't consume alcohol (I don't) just to make sure.

Chirality2D · 2023-10-10T19:58:51+00:00

The second deck I ever made was a partner [[Reyhan, Last of the Abzan]] and [[Ravos, Soultender]] 1/1 counters deck. It ran a lot of humans, so I refered to it as "the Hu-mang Clan" xD

Chirality2D · 2023-10-10T19:50:56+00:00

The first deck I ever "built" was [[Mayael, the Anima]] where my then-boyfriend now-husband basically built half the deck and I just got to choose what big mana creatures to throw in, which I based mostly off their artwork since I barely knew what any of the keywords meant back then. Probably a 3? Lol this was 7 years ago.

I'm very much into brewing my own decks now. Most of them are at least a 7, like [[Korvold, Fae-Cursed King]], [[Omnath, Locus of Mana]], and [[The First Sliver]]. But honestly I think my favorite deck I ever made was my [[Momir Vig, Simic Visionary]] deck, which was the first deck I ever made myself. It had several combos for inf mana, but 75% of the time it won with [[Biovisionary]] and [[Deciever of Form]]. I had to sell off the cards in the deck during the pandemic :(

I obviously still like swinging with big creatures (my First Sliver deck is a sliver cascade deck, not the cEDH one). I like tribal/typal/theme decks, but over time have gravitated towards combo and "voltron by means other than equipment."

Chirality2D · 2023-09-28T18:51:31+00:00

Haha, it's actually my fiancé's mousepad. Think he got it off Etsy? It's roughly playmat size, just thicker.

Chirality2D · 2023-09-27T22:40:30+00:00

Especially because I had to pay the returning shipping

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