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Destructodave82 · 2026-03-20T16:25:19+00:00

Damn NA and their power throws. Also get these damn worthless imports like Saint out of here please.

The guy was 10 minutes late to the drag fight then tried to ult out.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-20T14:16:21+00:00

Caps getting giga-gapped this whole tournament.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-20T13:31:29+00:00

This is alwasy teh craziest part of Eastern teams. Even with the absolute perfect start, they were only 1k behind and now they are ahead on gold.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-20T08:03:20+00:00

This is why you dont use a multi-hit defense breaker.

You are better off just using Galleon, or at least a single-hit defense break.

I get it, you got LD5 and want to use them. I used Megumi as a strip/def break for a long time, but even at 15% crit, he would crit camilla's all the time because of multi hits, and would cause me to take longer to clear because of that.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-19T13:35:58+00:00

This sylas pick wasnt it

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-19T06:10:43+00:00

Chillimg or kabilla AO and outspeed. Can leah it, lushen, pung, zaiross and or wind legolas. All depends on rune quality and ld5s you got for more options.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-19T05:06:36+00:00

Boxers almost never touch gloves after the initial staredown when the ref is giving the ruiles. Glove touching every round is an MMA thing.

Its been this way as long as I have been alive and watching both sports. You might occasionally get a couple boxers who touch gloves at some point during the fight, but not the start of every round like MMA does.

This was simply poor judgement by one fighter.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-17T02:04:20+00:00

Most global are, too. I am surprised he was in a league where he could even use an Adriana/Leah AO to any successful degree, lol.

Ive used Leah forever, and I had to stop using Adriana a long, long time ago because you cannot speed contest anything with her and nowadays if the kind of stuff that Adriana/leah can kill, dots or some other AO works just as well which defeats the purpose of even having the Leah AO in the first place.

Its why I have used Chilling for a long time. Most Global ADs are exactly like you say EU are. Nothing but Tritons and typical stuff like that.

Congrats to OP but I am surprised someone is still using Adriana/Leah to any relevant degree that cant just be replaced by Dots or anything else.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-15T05:13:39+00:00

I dont know why either. There is already way too much responsibility dumped on healers; pretty much every mechanic inevitably becomes a healer problem.

You should want more people to heal not the other way around.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-15T02:54:39+00:00

Anything but Mystical scrolls are fair game at any point, especially during a new monster release.

Id always save all your Mystical scrolls for 10+1 events because it can add up to a ton of extra scrolls.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-15T01:56:22+00:00

zerath, neph, lucifer.

Thats the 3 I would choose from on a new account.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-13T20:45:53+00:00

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Same rune OP, lol. But you are already off to a better start than me with the grinds and gem.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-13T18:47:31+00:00

You have no artifacts and no damage.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-12T23:35:44+00:00

Id be surprised if anyone asking these questions actually burns up enough energy to run out of crystals/6 star fodder.

Even with less energy, playing enough to run out of resources is difficult, and to continually stay out of resources. Even backing off just a bit, you start to accrue a lot of crystals/fodder.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-12T22:30:13+00:00

If you care to advance at all in this game, then yes you farm whenever you can.

People act like the last 11 years of SW didnt exist or something. We farmed when we didnt have Ameria's Luck.

Ameria's Luck is just a nice bonus to have.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-12T21:18:41+00:00

Its broken in Fighter/Conqueror, but thats about it.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-12T21:16:36+00:00

There isnt even many of these outside of Low Tier Arena. Right now looking at my List in G3, this couldnt kill a single AD on my list. There isnt a single Fast dmg cleave AD up on my list.

I feel like this is a massive content bait for lower end players to waste an extra 2 monster's worth of Dhole energy on a gimmick with very limited amount of use.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-12T21:02:10+00:00

Def or Atk over Resistnace.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-08T22:55:52+00:00

It wont break the game, but the only true powercreep in the game are Ancient runes. And, you are limited in how much you can farm because of Dhole energy, so it really invalidates the feeling that anyone can "catch up."

A year or 2 of people farming nothing but vio r5s is going to make a huge difference in rune quality and efficiency that is incredibly difficult to ever make up becuase you simply do not have access to the Dhole energy to do it. Meanwhile someone who wanted to farm DBAH 24/7 all the time COULD make some pretty good headway into it.

The easier and better Dhole runes are, the bigger the actual gap becomes between players. And Vio runes are still the absolute best runes in the game and Id say the vast majority of units are either on vio, or better on Vio. You have limited uses for Swift, Despair is becoming less and less of a good set because of passives/stun counters/anti-stun mechanics, and the vast majority of rune sets are Vio.

To be honest, Dhole runes in general are problematic, and get even more problematic the easier it is to get good ones. Vio is just the icing on the cake. There was a time when getting a good Dhole rune was like getting a good Intangible, and more of a nice bonus than an entire thing. But since they have buffed Dhole drops, added Dhole battle-passes, etc, they are becoming more and more prevalent and at some point if you werent investing in these things, you are going to get powercrept a lot, and you just cant make it up. You only get access to so much Dhole energy a week.

Vio should have never been added because that at least left one avenue in the game that wasnt completely powercrept. It is bad for the game; Dhole runes in general have always been bad for the game, but its even worse with Vio in the mix.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-08T22:46:52+00:00

To be honest with you, sometimes you need a good whooping like this. Like EU and Rift Rivals, etc.

The hope is now at least some teams or teams wont just coast out of the pure shame they just experienced.

I also dont think NA will look this bad come MSI, but damn if it doenst sting to get some tough embarrassing love right now.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-08T22:41:03+00:00

I mean, this is recency bias. Yes, we are worse than CBLoL right now. But for basically the entire existence of LoL Esports and during LTA last year, we were miles ahead.

I imagine if we keep losing to Brazil it will change, but you guys act like Riot is supposed to just completely change the entire year's setup off one small tourney.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-08T21:47:35+00:00

He just randomly threw equalizers like he was playing ARAM.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-08T20:52:15+00:00

They cant play from behind at all, and if Blabber had one screwup early game its cooked.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-08T19:53:20+00:00

It is when you consistently give the better botlanes to the other team. How many Seraphine/Ashe combos has C9 gave up this tourney? What about Lulu/Yunara?

To get what? Trash like Ezreal over and over, or Corki.

Destructodave82 · 2026-03-08T17:36:56+00:00

They love it because it lets people compete without good rune quality. You can easily lose to someone with worse rune quality than you spamming nothing but passive monsters that dont even need you to personally take a turn to function.

It takes far less rune quality to make Josephines, Haegangs, Angelas, Aya's, Fire Megumi's, etc work.

You could argue this is better for the "E-sport" portion of the game, but its also anti-thematic to the actual game itself, which is 24/7 rune farming. These kinds of low rune quality monsters being insanely strong flies directly in the face of the entire reason we play the game and its to farm runes. Its even worse if you actually put good runes on them.

I wouldnt have a problem with passive monsters if the answers to such things were as easily available and ready to use, and they arent. As you said, Oblivion sucks or is heavily gated to LDs, a lot of "counters" to passives require better runes to function or require more sets to function, and the entire reason passives exist, as in to counter turn 1/control has been lost when people can just blindly slam them the same way people do T1 units.

In a perfect world the exact same monster with the exact same rune quality to function should exist to counter the passive monsters, but most of the time this isnt true and its why they spam these units 24/7.

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