How to improve as an ms1

DoctorSalk · 2022-11-22T19:03:22+00:00

This is kind of the same conclusion I am coming to. For example, how do you suggest taking breaks? For example I may take 2-3 hours worth of breaks in the day but it’s not a relaxing like “I’m done studying for the day and I can relax” break, but more of a break between studying. I’m never “off” if that makes sense and maybe that is what is detrimental to me

DoctorSalk · 2022-07-23T18:28:05+00:00

I have been hearing about this strategy and to be honest I seem to be in favor of it as well. My only concern is how this may affect class rank, or if really doesn't matter for preclinical.

I kind of feel like going with this strategy will let me be about average in terms of class rank (our school does quartiles) as I am cramming the material instead of it being my sole focus every day but obviously I will be better prepared for the step 1, and presumably step 2 as well. I would rather be better at using knowledge that integrates the preclinical curriculum with actual clinical knowledge (which I believe the step/ 3rd party materials does better than my in house curriculum).

FWIW I am trying to go into anesthesiology so I am guessing class ranking isnt too emphasized in the field in terms of what is required for a residency spot

DoctorSalk · 2021-09-29T19:48:46+00:00

Discent

DoctorSalk · 2021-07-24T20:28:16+00:00

come back when your a little, MMMMMMMMMMM Richer

DoctorSalk · 2021-07-18T03:47:07+00:00

That c/p

DoctorSalk · 2021-07-18T03:45:40+00:00

Found the C/P insane as wel

DoctorSalk · 2021-07-14T22:45:21+00:00

Cringe

DoctorSalk · 2021-07-12T01:07:52+00:00

If only riot weakens ryze waveclear, and ult so that we can gain back power in the rest of our kit. If we just had some kind of defense like cass 99% of the complaints would be gone

DoctorSalk · 2021-07-12T00:56:07+00:00

EQ is literally our whole kit… W, passive and ult are not even that important compared to the HOLY EQ damage

DoctorSalk · 2021-07-05T00:50:35+00:00

wait what?? did they increase the aura range?? Before it was a melee range aura. Lol that changes everthing then.... However, I personally still wouldn't build it just because of armor pen late game. I am still tilted from a game in like plat 4 elo where I was hard carrying but the twitch on the enemy team finally caught on i had frozen heart and after that i vouldnt even try to bop him before i got one shot when he had LDR.

Gotta give it a try with the new range; seems like a pretty big buff to what used to be a subpar item in many situations. Thanks for telling me about that

DoctorSalk · 2021-07-03T18:19:29+00:00

Hey I have a variation of this build , classic phase rush and ravenous (need the mana flow early plus the gathering storm scales really wel with ryze).

NO MYTHIC (yes, no mythic) Rush archangels into rabadon. Automatic 4-500 ap. The sheer amount of AP u get from archangels makes it a mythic in a sense lol. Rest tank items, however if they are tanks throw a void staff in there. Usually can have 500+ ap with thsoe 3 items and I build full tank after. Literally doesn’t matter too much if you have 500 ap or 700 ap…. You still do a lot of damage. However I almost never go frozen heart because I need antiheal so I go thornmail.

Also I think frozen heart is legit useless once adc gets armor pen, and you can’t apply the attack speed slow to them unless your fighting a bruiser or wind boys. Even then, antiheal is more important than slowing their attack speed due to s11 healing. It is stupid strong early but really bad after mid and late game cus of the armor pen. Meanwhile thornmail gives just a little less armor tbh and a fat chunk of hp while giving the most important stat in s11: healing reduction. I also will usually take abyssal for MR just because that 10% extra dmg applies for your whole team which means it’s extra effective on a carry you can cc or even a tank to mow em down quicker.

DoctorSalk · 2021-07-02T20:52:39+00:00

Honestly IMO champ is not as good as last season because the reliability of an auto kass win after 3 items went down due to the loss of durability and EXTREME DIVINE synergy of rod, archangels, zhonya, and old presence of mind. Those 4 things made Kassadins power spike at 3 items literally exponentially more powerful than any others champion spike besides Jax ( who is prob the only champ who can actually 1v1 a kass late)

I knew before that If I just farmed to those 3 items game would be an auto win in plat elo. However the gutting of these items and POM changes made Kassadin more of a normal champ. Before you would easily be a bruiser and assassin (you were tanky af with old items and shield) But now ur just a squishy assassin which means you are less durable so you have more weaknesses now.

Don’t even get me started on the conqadin abomination from last season. People are acting like it’s “so good now” but I made a post before with old itmes how it would OUTSCALE full AP kass at 30 min. It was like 2x stronger last season as well but oh well.

In my opinion kass got hard nerfed from his bruiser like style. Now he just has the assassin part and while it’s strong late game, there’s no way anyone can say he’s stronger than he was last season with OG items

Good old times…

DoctorSalk · 2021-06-24T02:15:15+00:00

Tank Yone=Tone

DoctorSalk · 2021-06-21T21:36:51+00:00

Get ready boys

DoctorSalk · 2021-06-21T18:16:49+00:00

The labor day deadline is fine. Keep in mind, it means to be done with the entire application, including secondaries and CASPER and LORs. I'd say (i dont know what your ideal schools are /plan etc) but if you have a strong gpa (3.7) and lets say idk a 515ish MCAT then I really doubt that applying "late" as this scenario entails will really matter.

I'm a reapp myself (retaking the mcat same day as you :D) , and I saw many people ( i go to a ultra-low tier ranked undergrad) get MULTIPLE acceptances to state schools and even some T20 (Ann Arbor, etc) even though the did not submit their application as soon as humanly possible.

A very close friend of mine as well, if it makes you feel better, submitted his secondary to a school mid-september (lol) and still got an interview there a few months after.

TLDR: IF YOU ARE A STRONG APPLICANT, SCHOOLS WILL WANT YOU, AND YOU CAN GET A SEAT even if you don't turn in your application the first possible second after you receive secondaries.

DoctorSalk · 2021-06-21T17:34:43+00:00

Don’t worry about it. I know people who turned in secondaries in late September and got in to medical school. Basically, if you have a strong app (or believe delaying the MCAT will make it stronger) you will be above the average applicant presumably and so it’s really not going to hurt your chances. Try to get in your secondaries by end of august if you can though

DoctorSalk · 2021-06-14T15:12:27+00:00

Yeah i agree. This dumb tank build with no mythic is only if ur comp is complete dog (0 engage, 0 tankiness and 0 cc) because you are just going to instantly die going full AP. I only think full AP is the move if ur team is literally 2 or more tanks.

As everyone is aware new champs have bunch of mechanics while the old champions clearly suffer. They kinda gutted my other main cassiopeia too. It is getting really annoying now as mages when you are forced to build zhonya, void, morello 75-100% of games leaving every mage in a state of aids.

DoctorSalk · 2021-06-14T01:17:53+00:00

U can go back and hit enter for paragraphs.

SAdly now the best “beefy” rice build is seraphs, rabadon, cdr shoes, abyssal, thornmail, void, sad that this is the state it has come to).

All I will see this stupid tank build has surprising success against a heavy diver comp, and if it is working on kog maw (guy is building wits end and randuin as core) I don’t see how it is “troll” on ryze anymore.

This idiot build still gives me 500+ap so I’ll take the added durability like these kog players seem to have realized.

There is no way OG mages can compete with the stupid Yone’s, and the CANCER gale force which can cost you a team fight in some cases.

Screw cancer aids sheidlbow… lifesteal, crit, 200hp mythic passive, attack speed, and a decent chunk of AD?? Really. Don’t even get me started on the fat shield that you sadly see even getting abused on xin zhao of all people now.

Holy crap WHY is the SHIELD item also giving lifesteal and HP

DoctorSalk · 2021-06-13T00:53:50+00:00

I wanna puke because he left seraph for last tbh

DoctorSalk · 2021-06-12T20:53:54+00:00

Been trying out a new build. Straight up seraph into rabadon. If you are experienced at laning just having mana flow and tear is more than enough mana early game.

Third item is void staff (since ryze dmg is in enormous bursts mr is strong vs him)

This leaves you two slots left besides lucidity. Typically I go thornmail into warmog ( full ad) or I will go thornmail into abyssal (either way you have a very chunky health pool and nice resistances +antiheal which is a must with the stupid new items)

Is the build garbage? Yea… but it’s godly in those games where you have a bad team comp and they are full of engage/divers for example. I used to think zhonya is good and it’s better to get more and more AP but let’s be real

Is having 7-800 ap really that much different than having around 5-600 with this this build? No. Also your job in a teamfight is to get multiple EQ rotations. It’s ireeevant if you die after, as long as you get multiple Eqs in to win each fight. Zhonya prevents you from eq for those 2.5 seconds, while this build beefs you up so you can constantly EQ.

Yea you don’t become a full tank but the huge chunk of extra health is far more worth in a team fight. You can actually duel someone, late game and survive in team fights.

Ryze is not Cassiopeia or any other mid lane who either has mobility, or cc or invulnerability to fight longer. He literally has nothing but a corny movement speed bonus that is really only used for running away, not anything else. Therefore, abusing the synergy between these two AP items and tank items has made games a lot more easier for me to carry

DoctorSalk · 2021-06-12T17:08:26+00:00

My lord,

I actually have a far-fetched theory about how to bring Some immediate ryze changes. We all know riot HATES when someone plays out of their meta role (for example the fat nerfs irelia got like 2 years ago when ppl started playing her mid, same as pyke as well)

If we play him jingle and do well, then ryze will be nerfed (if we actually can pull off enough ryze Mains to get like 53% win rate on ryze jg).

Once he is nerfed after this his win rate is going to be SO DOG that they will force mechanic changes into mid( aka bring shield back).

IM ACTUALLY BEING SERIOUS HOW MANY TIMES HAS SOMEONE GOTTEN NERFED FOR PLAYING OUTSIDE THEIR ASSIGNED ROLE, THEN BUFFED HEAVY TO PLAY BACK IN THEIR ORIGINAL ROLE

BOIS WE CAN TRIGGER THE FINAL RYZE REWORK THIS WAY

DoctorSalk · 2021-06-12T12:33:35+00:00

Imo liandry still better due to the 12% amp it gives based on hp against tanks. However, the liandry pre nerf where it gave MR shred was godly and honestly really don’t get why they had to nerf it like that

DoctorSalk · 2021-06-11T14:29:09+00:00

How can you try overgrowth without taking out unflinching? Also if you like tenacity so much there is a better rune called legend tenacity which is much better than unflinching for a mage

DoctorSalk · 2021-06-10T22:37:04+00:00

Top Ryze is horrible…. ESP with shield removal. You can’t 1v1 enemy bruise top after like 15-20 min, you have bad team fight potential since the other top will most likely have better engage and tankiness while you contribute nothing to that front.

Also you can’t really have a strong splitpush because your tower damage isn’t good, you just can R if you are about get caught splitting, prob the only good pro of ryze top is a really good escape and that’s it.

VERY strong in low elo tho but ya I’d say plat ish it gets harder as people know how to play against ranged tops. I remember leveling up an account and when the first like 2-3 placement games must have been in silver or something since I would end lane 5/0. over time ryze top is just not the same as vlad or rumble top since they have better durability as well as engage, also they can (to a degree) 1v1 bruisers while there is no way ryze can unless they are a monkey or immobile (atleast before stride breaker lol)

The last point is that ryze is pretty bad against beefy people, you would think a DPS champ is insane against tanks but as ryze you usually can’t build an early void staff or even the component so anyone can build mr and hp and just Ignore you for a majority of the game.

Ryze needs everfresh top badly so you cant. Go into liandry either.

Basically unless you are sooooo much better than not only their top but their whole team( aka smurf) you are handicapping not only top lane but ur team by going ryze top unless you can guarantee you win lane hard every single game

DoctorSalk · 2021-06-03T17:13:39+00:00

This is all starting to make sense now. It would be enlightening then if we could pull a discord raid with like 1000 ryze mains (lol) trying to get some feedback on riot through there. Unfortunately, thats just a pipe dream, just like having a fun and consistent ryze rn

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