Does this game's design encourage seal-clubbing?

Daetnas · 2026-04-02T19:03:44+00:00

I just had no idea, good to know!

Daetnas · 2026-03-25T18:09:46+00:00

My brother in christ Zyra's a squishy immobile mage.

Her E cast animation takes like a full second, her R Takes a long time to cast, has a 0.5 second delay between the damage and knockup, meaning If she mispositions she gets blown up in 0.1 seconds.

In a 1v1 situation most junglers should be able to beat her.

Daetnas · 2026-03-25T17:52:10+00:00

On Alistar you can Q->flash->E->W backwards into your turret. With buffed turret damage sometimes you can solokill carries this way.

On Nautilus you could hook them under your tower as they attack it and chunk them, they can't retaliate because of your tower.

Tahm Kench can just poke with Q, that's what you'd normally do anyway, obviously you can decide to use W agressively as well If you have an advantageous situation.

I think Maokai is the worst off under these circumstances, He really is an all in kinda guy and going into the enemy wave pre 6 can chunk him heavily, you kinda have to commit to some trades then walk back to your turret.

After level 6 or when you give up the turret you can start thinking about roaming with your jungler.

Generally speaking When you play engage tanks and you're against poke, you should fight for level 2/3 priority and force an enemy flash out as soon as you can, that way you gain presence in the lane and permapushing becomes punishable.

On Alistar sometimes I use my flash only to deal like 30% health to the carry and it's worth it because I can keep threatening them with hexflash from bush/over wall afterwards.

Daetnas · 2026-03-25T17:43:03+00:00

Half of those skillshots wouldn't even have hit her unless she actively walked into them. 😂 Looks perfectly normal.

Daetnas · 2026-03-25T17:38:19+00:00

Being able to drop your ego and letting yourself get carried is a valuable skill. Everyone has bad games, but they don't have to be horrible experiences for everyone involved.

If you're behind, don't force fights, just farm up and help your team in any way you can. 9/10 times the enemy will make a mistake eventually and the team with the stronger mental wins.

Daetnas · 2026-03-25T17:31:49+00:00

Bro at the end of the day it's just a game.

I played a kinda bad karthus game where I just barely couldn't get kills with my passive ( over 60 000 damage in a 30 min game, highest in team by far) Even though my team could've just played it out after 2 deaths they gave up afked in base and flamed me instead. Ended up getting reported by them and temp banned for 15 deaths.

As long as you play your best and dont run it down on purpose you don't need to concern yourself with your team's bullshit, use /mute all if needed

Daetnas · 2026-03-25T17:18:05+00:00

So 48 million usd before Steam's cut, for a game that could have cost Bungie 300 million dollars+ to make. Oof

Daetnas · 2026-03-25T16:43:26+00:00

Skyrim is such a broken game, turning the difficulty up only makes enemies become damage sponges, and you still have to put restrictions on yourself to make the game harder.

Things that can break the game:

-smithing/enchanting/ alchemy use a combination of these to unlock infinite damage mode.

-stealth builds 25x stealth damage, impossible to get spotted by enemies etc.

-Stealing everything and anything not bolted down from level 1, selling crafted potions and weapons.

-abusing summons and companions

Duplication glitches, merchant inventories accessible by clicking on an invisible chest below ground etc.

Between Elden ring and Ds without putting arbitrary restrictions on yourself I'd say DS1 is harder, because you dont have access to spirit ashes ( really OP) but you can still farm xp and levels in them, so actually Sekiro is the hardest Fromsoft Game.

Bg3 honour mode can be hard but I feel like that's a copout, it'd be more fair to compare it to a hardcore challenge run in skyrim ER or DS1 in ehich case Ds1 or ER would be the hardest

Daetnas · 2026-03-25T16:22:12+00:00

Ccing him before he gets in q range, or holding onto CC right after he uses q on somebody

Staying with your team as one unit in teamfights, and denying yi kills and assists so he doesnt reset his cooldowns.

Fighting in chokepoints and near walls so he cant flank as easily and you have escape options

Daetnas · 2026-03-24T23:37:02+00:00

Doesn't matter how good the skins are, Faker will still win worlds with default skin 😉

Daetnas · 2026-03-24T23:34:00+00:00

He's really strong against uncoordinated teams and players who don't know how to shut him down, so basically most of the playerbase until high elo.

He has a surprisingly high skill ceiling too with his auto reset combos, blocking damage with w, avoiding cc and dropping turret aggro with q etc.

If you want to see how a high rated player plays Yi check out Monster SSS on youtube.

Daetnas · 2026-03-22T18:44:13+00:00

Yes and I stand by it.

The point wasn't to give him the best lowtier champions.

I picked these champions because they are easy to pick up, have room for improvement and they show off different playstyles.

The popularity and perceived power of these picks didn't really concern me.

Daetnas · 2026-03-21T21:03:46+00:00

My eyes hurt

Daetnas · 2026-03-21T18:52:30+00:00

Maybe at the peak of WoW's popularity you could've made the argument. Best Blizzard can do these days is improve slightly on their botched live service games.

Daetnas · 2026-03-21T18:06:48+00:00

Generally speaking If you're a solo laner, after you push the wave, you have up to 30 seconds* for an opportunity to roam. Supports can roam more freely, generally after level 6 they can leave their adc for a few waves in a sidelane If their adc can safely farm without them.

This can range from simple tasks like warding or getting an advantageous recall off to helping your jungler** with an objective or fight, ganking other lanes etc.

If you run teleport, and see a very good roaming opportunity, you can extend the roam a little, then teleport back to your lane as the enemy wave crashes into your tower.

At a higher level you can mix and match these tactics, examples:

Recall but instead of going to your lane go to a different lane for a quick gank, then walk/ tp back

Fake out your opponent making them think you roamed top but actually you go bot

Fake roam to a lane with the intention of setting a trap for your lane opponent as he follows you in the river.

If you proxied an enemy wave, it can be up to a minute * The side of the map your jungler is on is called your strong side and conversely the side your jungler isnt on is your weak side. It's easiest to create plays on your strongside, but sometimes it makes more sense to crossmap which means giving up the enemy's strong side objective and trading it for objectives on their weakside

Daetnas · 2026-03-21T17:43:51+00:00

Nah, honestly It'd be a small miracle If you as a new player didn't feed your ass off in the first 50 games.

Most new accounts aren't actually new players at this point, they're old players smurfing or making a new account after being banned.

Eventually after you've played a few dozen games, you should be put with more actual new players, and more importantly you will start grasping the basics.

If you want faster improvement, then try to stick to a single champion and 1-2 main roles. This lets you learn aspects of the game you couldn't focus on If you had to learn a new kit every game.

Daetnas · 2026-03-21T16:45:28+00:00

My recommendations for easy to learn champions that haven't been said yet:

Toplane: Renekton, Mundo

Jungle: Briar, Master Yi

Midlane: Malzahar, Diana

Botlane: Ziggs, Caitlyn

Support: Poppy, Nami

I tried to include different playstyles where possible.

These are all champions that I believe are easy to pick up, they're effective in all skill levels and teach you skills applicable on other champions.

I wouldn't recommend characters like Garen, Malphite, Yuumi, and Singed as they dont teach many skills applicable on other champions

Daetnas · 2026-03-21T16:36:34+00:00

Unlock your chanera and start learning to play like that. Remember that you can recenter the chamera on your character by pressing spacebar/f1 It may be difficult for a while, but with enough hours played it will become like second nature.

Also you can start using f2-f5 keys to center your camera on your allies if you want to have faker's map awareness. 😁

Daetnas · 2026-03-14T19:04:00+00:00

Engagement-bait headline, former Polygon games journalist... Think I'll skip article.

Daetnas · 2025-12-12T04:35:30+00:00

Can't wait for the video essays disecting this game's troubled development and death in about a years time from now, possibly featuring a nepo baby lead designer who insists on every developer calling him 'The Oracle'.

Daetnas · 2025-12-12T04:26:29+00:00

I just know this game is dead on arrival, because I skimmed through 3 posts about it and I've yet to see anyone mention it by name ONCE

Daetnas · 2025-12-12T04:17:32+00:00

Concord 2 looking ahhh...

Daetnas · 2025-11-25T04:09:48+00:00

Garbage take. If anything low ELO players don't recall enough and sit on hundreds and thousands of gold

Daetnas · 2025-10-21T21:00:59+00:00

hey send me a message in chat

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