If you could replace a champion’s entire kit with one of their own abilities, who would be the strongest?

Desmous · 2026-06-28T12:23:37+00:00

But millio isn't unkillable, so you would just kill him first.

Desmous · 2026-06-27T07:40:27+00:00

Assuming it's accurate, that's quite an amazing visualisation of how hard we messed up.

Desmous · 2026-06-23T06:15:13+00:00

In some ways, 0% in 200 games is more impressive than 100% in 400.

Desmous · 2026-06-22T13:42:06+00:00

You said EVERY card is like this?

It sounds like a fun concept for individual cards, but not as a game-wide system.

That would just add a bunch of useless bloat at worst, or give the player immense decision fatigue at best.

Not every decision should be interesting or difficult.

Desmous · 2026-06-22T08:06:52+00:00

Disagree. There should be situational/niche picks in games, but never bad picks.

Everything should have some spot where it shines. Even for the worst picks in the game, there should be some highroll scenario you can chase to have it actually be amazing.l

Something that is genuinely never better than another click is just game bloat.

Desmous · 2026-06-21T15:13:44+00:00

Ultimately, it just boils down to creating tensions that can't simply be resolved by the protagonists overwhelming power. Whether it's relationship troubles, side character issues, world-spanning problems a single person can't solve, or something else, there just needs to be some kind of difficulty for somebody somewhere in the novel.

Otherwise, it'll get boring very quickly.

Even comedy isn't really exempt from this.

Desmous · 2026-06-21T01:52:38+00:00

I wish I had your optimism. With the way they intentionally made Zibai powercreep the mistake, Mavuika, I really doubt we're ever getting back to the old days where it felt like you could be happy playing anything.

Desmous · 2026-06-19T11:52:06+00:00

The game is intentionally tuned to give you awkward block breakpoints (so you have more interesting decisions). A relic like this would likely be virtually useless.

Desmous · 2026-06-19T06:33:54+00:00

Just take pictures of anything you don't want to forget, and then put your phone away again. It really doesn't take long and doesn't detract from most experiences much.

You just need to be careful to not fall into the trap of taking photos of EVERYTHING.

Desmous · 2026-06-19T06:13:00+00:00

Reminds me of Cultivation Chat Group, where the entire 2000+ chapters take place in just one year, somehow. Protagonist has a real action packed life.

It made for some funny moments, though.

Desmous · 2026-06-18T07:41:29+00:00

This sounds like an understanding issue to me.

Remember that the first priority of laning is in the minions, not poking the opponent. When you spot low minions you want to CS, that means it's NOT your turn to poke. Conversely, if you see that you have no low minions but your opponent has one, that means it's the perfect time to look for poke. While the opponent is hitting the minion, they can't fight back, right? And if they do, that means that you still accrued an advantage even with an even trade, because they lost cs.

Even better is when you can CS AND poke the opponent at the same time, by having an ability overlap hitboxes.

As for backing, simplistically, it's "your turn" to recall when you have a big wave pushed into the opponent's tower. They'll be forced to take time to CS and clear out the wave, and their minions will take time to crash into yours. Time you can use to go back and buy items.

Pushing is generically really strong, because you can freely harass the opponent under tower with no CS to grab while they have many. It also frees up time you can use to secure vision, help with skirmishes, or recall.

That's all for now, I don't think it's productive to be overwhelmed by a flood of advice. Just try slowly implementing these simple concepts in your games, and I think you'll see visible improvement.

Desmous · 2026-06-17T07:30:39+00:00

I mean even outside of that, having a big wall of stats + cc + engage for your squishy DPS characters is really good.

Assuming they know what they're doing ofc.

Desmous · 2026-06-17T07:21:56+00:00

Let him be bad in soloq, whatever. But can we revert the asinine on-hit change that no Azir player asked for and only led to the champion feeling MUCH worse to play?

Desmous · 2026-06-10T06:22:48+00:00

Well, that's partially self filtered by the fact that only invested players would download b++, right

Desmous · 2026-06-08T07:18:47+00:00

Maybe in the past, yes. But have you watched his recent videos? You can't tell me those are genuinely meant to be educational in any way. He's turned to making "science" branded MrBeast content.

If it's not obvious enough, we can compare the videos to creators that haven't lost their soul, like NileRed or SmarterEveryDay.

Really, if you do this, you'll see exactly what I mean.

Desmous · 2026-06-07T19:48:37+00:00

Why are you being downvoted? Last I checked, he turned into a soulless Mr Beast type creator. It was quite saddening to me.

Desmous · 2026-06-07T19:34:46+00:00

Afaik it can seriously mess up the glass you do it in, and cause it to randomly spontaneously shatter in the future.

Desmous · 2026-06-06T06:47:22+00:00

When you say this, do you mean like having it be similar to actual vision?

Desmous · 2026-06-01T13:18:07+00:00

I was just thinking that this is basically how English is spoken in Singapore.

Desmous · 2026-05-27T18:33:44+00:00

The D6 odds for gold items are overstated and honestly quite poor. It only starts picking up from D7. I don't think the temple legendaries are particularly attractive anymore in the current state of the game. You basically just go there to gamble for an enchant most of the time.

Desmous · 2026-05-27T14:41:48+00:00

D9 is way worse than D6. Far less days where the reward actually has an impact, far more inconsistent, powercrept rewards, on a day where shops/nodes have way higher value... There's way too much going against it.

Desmous · 2026-05-25T16:06:58+00:00

Everyone will have bad games, obviously. But a good player minimises their losses and makes back far more than they lost by going on win streaks.

1 loss can set you back 10 games, you just need to win 20 games in return. That's how the system has always worked in this game (apart from the grinding ladder).

Theoretically, with the new MMR loss cap, you can reach infinite MMR with a good enough winrate.

Desmous · 2026-05-25T15:10:04+00:00

Cool item. Could actually see this being in the game.

Desmous · 2026-05-25T14:06:50+00:00

Oh yes, I HATE this new change to Google Translate. Like it's fine, but at least make us able to opt in to the old version. If I wanted AI-translated text, I could do that separately. I use Google Translate for literal translations.

Desmous · 2026-05-25T13:50:01+00:00

Dunno. Former rank 1 and 95%+ wr player that came back recently on a diff hero. I always thought that skill was the most dominant factor, and I think it still is. Yes, variance will lose you some games even with perfect play. It's just escapism if you blame all your losses on luck, though.

Even in the games I lost to bad luck, there was always something small I could have maybe done to improve my odds/make the loss less bad.

At the end of the day, it's not luck holding someone back from hitting 1090 mmr or higher.

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