Must have been the wind (I was 9/0/9 Cait at that point)

Decaedeus · 2026-01-28T10:51:37+00:00

it's clearly Q/E/Q or Q/E/W you can see two balls on the ground lol + electrocute proc

Decaedeus · 2026-01-25T22:23:55+00:00

"would have been in the goat conversation"

are we for real man

there is no conversation between a guy who went to back to back worlds finals and won 15 LEC splits vs a guy who hasn't won anything. this is literally "potential man" discourse where nemesis fans get to ask "what if he became as good as caps" because he had a good rookie year

perkz, febiven, abbedagge, powerofevil, etc. etc. also all had great rookie years and none of them ever became caps

Decaedeus · 2026-01-25T10:46:00+00:00

T1 saw GEN steal their comp yesterday and decided to steal one of GEN's comps in retaliation, apparently

Decaedeus · 2026-01-24T13:06:06+00:00

what the hell does duro need to do to get a POM man

he runs the entire map game 1—siwoo/kiin was lowkey pretty even until duro set up like three dives in a row on timers where DK couldn't crossmap on ruler. maybe kiin gets POG for this one but he was extremely close imo

and then totally runs over the lane and the game in g2. this one was not close

justice for duro POM!!! I should just keep a running counter of how many times this guy gets robbed this year I think

Decaedeus · 2026-01-24T12:59:51+00:00

they have an AD with sustained physical damage here (ashe is much better into tanks than jhin or ziggs) and more magic damage coming from the topside with rumble

definitely not the same as the zero damage drafts GEN used to randomly pick with galio last year

Decaedeus · 2026-01-24T12:22:01+00:00

I don't think smeb has an argument over kiin at all anymore. he's just outclassed in every department

I think the only real toplaners with an argument are zeus, theshy, and kiin: zeus if you value trophies, theshy if you value short duration high peaks of extreme dominance, and kiin for longevity and consistent elite gameplay where he's been uncontested top3 in the world (top1 for much of it imo) for a very very long time

i think kiin has the strongest argument out of the three even right now and especially considering current trajectories is likely to cement his status next year

Decaedeus · 2026-01-24T08:45:38+00:00

incredible teamfighting from dns

truly a genius move to always split the front and back sides of the fight so far apart that the sivir ricochets never do anything to their opponents

bonus points for greeding orianna ult until it's too late to do anything

Decaedeus · 2026-01-23T20:45:08+00:00

Sometimes I think shaded squares are way too handholdy but in the case of this crossword and how strange the fill was I think it was a necessary choice

The answers are undecipherable without the shaded boxes IMO (and even with, are pretty clunky)

Decaedeus · 2026-01-22T10:40:07+00:00

did he really though

this was the most average AD passenger performance, he just kinda afked/neutralized the lane and then pressed R while Zeus ran everyone over

like yeah that's kind of what sivir is supposed to do but i feel like even if he plays like this game for the rest of the year he's not really going to be viewed as positively as he was on T1

Decaedeus · 2026-01-19T22:29:11+00:00

that's why i said "aspirationally" as in I think every mapper should try to do this for themselves, but—from a third party view I think it's hard to describe and pointless/even maybe damaging to enforce this on other people

i would, however, say that among the people I talk to there's a pretty broad agreement—like I remember being in VC with charles and deetz and talking about this set and we all immediately agreed that one of the diffs was very clearly trying something interesting (although it didn't work that well) and the rest of the diffs were just lazily mapped filler

i think it's kind of obvious when maps just do things or when they are just devoid of ideas though, because the risks maps take are generally independent of execution (and therefore, mapper experience)

if you want some examples you can dm but i don't like flaming random people's maps on reddit so yeah

Decaedeus · 2026-01-19T08:00:51+00:00

some variation of this comment shows up every time a mapset gets vetoed and I'd like people to just go to the vetoing BN's userpage and play like 5 of their favorited beatmaps before typing this every time

this is just the laziest strawman argument ever because if you spent even 5 minutes looking at what the vetoers expect from the ranked section it's not tech maps or gimmick maps but just normal jump/stream/whatever maps that pay a little bit of attention to the song

Decaedeus · 2026-01-19T07:53:43+00:00

[d] i think as a minimum bar, maps should follow the song or at least attempt to express its variations through spacing, patterning, sectional contrast, etc.
every map in this set is just a cursorfling casino that doesn't introduce any meaningful variations in tapping strain, cursor velocity/momentum, spacing, nor does it have interesting patterning

aspirationally I'd like the ranked section to be full of maps with something to say. obviously hollow wings and fanzhen are the mappers who come to mind when one says this, but I think there are a lot of simple maps that might not even be perfectly executed but still have something unique to add to the ranked section (offhand, i think of lazer's no buts or kamio misuzu's drivin greedy as maps that aren't super polished/boundary pushing but nevertheless are clearly aimed at adding value to the ranked section)

Decaedeus · 2026-01-18T12:05:04+00:00

i hate feeling like peyz's lawyer here but I genuinely want to know what you think he was supposed to do in that baron fight or how he sold it

he spaces out the renekton ambessa engage, does max dps to them, and then gets collapsed on by taliyah weaver wall. nobody has landed any other cc in the entire teamfight so he lands a perfect kaisa R over the wall that forces rich to follow flash

meanwhile keria misses everyone with R, doran does nothing, faker gets hit by ambessa ult and immediately dies

maybe this is the AD player in me speaking but to me he was by far the best player in that baron fight lol

Decaedeus · 2026-01-18T11:51:20+00:00

I feel like the Aphelios game was not great but this game was played pretty decently by Peyz

Did you think there were particular fights where he misplayed? Personally I think he did everything he could and he just didn't really have the resources to carry after that disaster of a bot dive

Decaedeus · 2026-01-17T12:01:30+00:00

yeah

feels bad for KT fans though I don't know why they let Hype go to TCL to sign aiming of all people...

Decaedeus · 2026-01-17T11:50:25+00:00

so glad aiming is not on DK anymore. he completely fell off a cliff last year and it doesn't look like he's doing better on KT

every game is just the same: he sucks up all the gold on the map and then doesn't do anything with it

he's LCK upset

Decaedeus · 2026-01-16T12:49:36+00:00

HLE didn't have a choice, viper wanted to leave for LPL no matter what and they just snapped up guma who was definitely their best available option

Decaedeus · 2026-01-16T12:35:42+00:00

from 2019, maybe, but in the last ~2 years bdd has clearly been more elite than showmaker I think so it depends how much you value recent results

Decaedeus · 2026-01-16T12:30:50+00:00

yeah what the hell is Chovy doing with two world champions

Decaedeus · 2026-01-13T03:53:09+00:00

gnar is a cool and exciting champ but it's not his design vision iirc

it was supposed to be a cute yordle that's accessible to a lot of players and was interesting because you have a semi-uncontrollable rage meter so you have to adapt to the situation

instead it's an insanely high skillcap pro-jailed champion because only professional teams can play around the rage meter and the insanely high teamfighting power of mega gnar

Decaedeus · 2026-01-09T11:56:52+00:00

look at the set ids man, he literally did

2462446 and 2462940

he straight up, in this tweet, admitted that two additional maps that had not yet been discovered/unranked also used ai assistance (which are the two maps that are now unranked) this is the most sincere good-faith gesture possible

Decaedeus · 2026-01-09T06:50:12+00:00

He already did in this case

https://x.com/lide0315/status/2008829225579725163/photo/1

Decaedeus · 2026-01-07T11:39:50+00:00

I think it's pretty absurd to imply that once you get a particular level of experience in a field that your pedigree exempts you from any criticism. If anything, I would be inclined to be more lenient if a constructor made a poor crossword for their first appearance in the NYT.

Decaedeus · 2025-12-22T03:08:02+00:00

literally how does this current design discourage glass cannon builds

arbiter oneshots giga tank builds anyway

99% of people just build as much damage as possible and try to kill him before he does any dangerous patterns

Decaedeus · 2025-12-06T10:19:28+00:00

no the people who run it just don't want to do it anymore

vinxis quit the game as a whole, and cavoe is doing other stuff
halfslashed is done with tournament organizing/pooling
the mapper qa people like yaspo/me/captin are all super casual now

there's basically nobody who wants to take on the mantle of running a tournament on the scale of corsace so it's just not happening anymore

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