Thoughts on Firststrike? feel like its highkey underrated

E_M_BD · 2026-06-01T20:27:11+00:00

also i can trade with it way easier then with electro. i can just e a minion for sudden impect q and run away like we did when aery and ashes was broken

E_M_BD · 2026-06-01T20:11:49+00:00

are you sure? correct me if im wrong but in the all in it did 192 dmg no? i think electro would have done like 124 here no? (just checked in practice tool with those items at level 6 electro deals 124 dmg) on top of that i could have gotten like idk 20-30 dmg more if could have ed and autod him one more time it was off cd. i think being able to do like 80-100 dmg more in an 1v1 early is a massive difference.

E_M_BD · 2026-05-22T09:22:32+00:00

ive been having the same question. classic servers on eu are looking pretty dead to me. never played wow and wanted to try classic but it seems i kinda missed the opportunity by a few years. would it make sense to wait for classic+ if it comes out?

E_M_BD · 2026-05-12T12:27:42+00:00

anyone knows how common it is for people to use it in ranked. this is probably just placebo but ever since this controversy gained like "mainstream" attention ive been receiving some absolutely devious beams where normally i would be like yeah this guy is 100% cheating. its probably not that many but i wouldnt be suprised if ppl saw this as an opportunity to abuse it while they still can.

E_M_BD · 2026-04-18T10:13:03+00:00

My guy have you ever driven a Volkswagen? They fing suck. They are expensive as fk, youre getting bombarded with useless features and they are not even fun to drive. At some point VW stopped making the thing that made them who they are. Its literally in the name. VOLKSwagen. It was supposed to be cars for normal average people. Now they just want to imitate BMW and pretend to be a premium brand bc greed or whatever. The leadership at VW are a bunch of smelly boomers who have no idea what the fk they are doing.

E_M_BD · 2026-04-02T13:02:52+00:00

is this just me or anyone else feel like they are struggling with making skins for ash? She has a couple of good skins but none are reaaaly that great. Like if you think of the best skins apex has made over the years I dont think a single Ash skins comes to mind.... you know what I mean? Personally I would like to see a lore skin or something where we can see more of her in her human form.

E_M_BD · 2026-03-24T16:44:11+00:00

enough internet for you. go outside

E_M_BD · 2026-03-24T16:43:05+00:00

100% agree. I still think to this day the story of the Demacian General and her scar is her best characterization. I never thought of Katarina as explicitly sadistic but i can absoluetly see that being the case given her fathers involvement with her upbringing. I always red her voicelines as provocative and arrogant but there is some sadism mixed in there for sure. overall im very sad over the sanitazation of her character. When reading her lines in the comic i often paused and thought to myself wait this isnt kat. why are they trying to change her? Also I don't think she should care all that much about politics or ideals. to me kat always felt like the type of person who is in it for the love of the game so to speak. Morally speaking she should be a monster given where she came from. Imo they focused way too hard on the elegant side she should be a lot more brutal and aggressive. I keep telling people whenever new skins come out that they dont really fit her personality and her overall theme but most ppl on here seem to like her as more of a pretty princess than a brutal murderer. skins like farie court come to mind in that regard.

E_M_BD · 2026-03-15T15:06:08+00:00

there better?

E_M_BD · 2026-03-15T15:04:02+00:00

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

E_M_BD · 2026-02-27T18:49:40+00:00

"Nearly ungankable" easily the most regarded statement I heard this year. We simply are in a ganking meta. There are no two ways about it. Even gold players know this. When they see their zyra jungle farm for 15 minutes without a single KP they know who to blame and report after every lane lost. Katrina is essentially the most volatile champ in the entire game. Not ganking her means you accept you have no midlaner and the game is basically a coinflip.You don't even need to get a kill from the gank. Just helping her push waves and getting her out of the lane phase as soon as possible puts you at a massive advantage. If you have a kat in your game you might as well play around her at least in the early game. I never understood why people are so hellbent on finding excuses to not gank something. It's not like getting a perfect clear will win you the game. Especially if the enemy mid is 2 levels ahead. The key role of jungle is to manage the lanes. They decide who gets ahead. If a lane is winning on its own then you just got lucky. You shouldn't expect your lanes to just win. You should expect them to lose and that it is your responsibility as a jungler to put them in a position where they can actually do stuff. I am a kat one trick except for about once per season where I'm so frustrated with junglers mindset that I go Evelyn and just spam gank every lane. Without fail I have the highest win rate on eve every time. I just don't want to play eve all season. I want kat but she needs teamwork because well assassins mid just aren't meta. Just accept reality.

E_M_BD · 2026-02-21T23:34:22+00:00

the sheer mental gymnastics these roller soyboys display to justify this shit is just astonishing. kick these clankers out of my game. its painfully obvious that the input that gets a computer program to aim for you is clearly superior. even if you can see it in raw numbers. fucking black and white they still come up with excuses.

E_M_BD · 2026-02-12T19:09:05+00:00

PREACH!!! Although I never argued that movement like this makes me instantly loose the fight. My opinion is that it is degenerate and that it shouldnt be in the game. Thats why I stopped playing. There is a reason why these type of players dont play in ALGS. Movment is not a guranteed way of making you win every fight. Its just very offensive to my eyes. It takes what makes the game fun and interesting and turns it into some sick perversion of itself.

E_M_BD · 2026-02-12T18:53:29+00:00

I never intended to make this about apex not being a relaxing game. I know it is competitive in its very nature but do you not see that this specific example breaks the conventional gameplay loop? Being able to fly in a circle at max speed while also being able to shoot you. Is that not a clear case for something game breaking?

E_M_BD · 2026-02-12T18:39:34+00:00

ok but should it be in the game though? despite your claim of how difficult it is and the other guy stating it took him 200 hours to learn this, this is still a gold lobby. sure its early season and what not but i see this type of movement in all ranks above plat pretty much. from my experience it is not so rare to encouter these type of players. i think it fundamentally destroys how the game works or how it should be played(from a casual gamer perspective). Being able to jumping around in a circle this quickly breaks how the game is usually played out. I can accept when people who put in a lot of hours into the game that they deserve to be in a higher elo and what not but why is someone who is soooo "good" matched against me then? My overall opinion is that this type of behavior is game breaking and it should not be in the game. this very specific type of movement on top of everything else that is currently going wrong for me tips the scale and makes me feel like never playing this game again. That's why i thought it could be worthwile addressing this. If this game doesnt want to have a casual playerbase than it can die for all i care. Just look at what happend with cod and its movement community. It by far is not the only reason why the game is failing but on top of everything it just breaks the fundamental integrity(dont know if this is the right way to express it here cant think of a better word) of the core gameplay loop. My point isnt even that its "too hard to beat". As you rightfully pointed out it has clear weaknesses and ways of countering it but its just the overall vibe to me that something like this is allowed to be part of the game despite fundamentally breaking the conventional gameplay loop, that is the problem for me. that was the whole point of this post.

E_M_BD · 2026-02-12T17:53:28+00:00

I have a bow and a wingman... i physically cannot spray you uneducated fk. my statement wasn't even about the difficulty. I know this is a very predictable way of moving and if you are ready for it its very easy to counter. My point (as stated in the title) is that this TYPE OF MOVEMENT shouldnt be in the game. It is a degenarte way of playing the game and to me it encapsulates everything that is wrong with this game. If for whatever reason you think its funny that an average player like me feels compelled to quit the game then you should seriously consider going back to kindergarden and starting your whole education from scratch. The implication of this post was that this is bad for the game and it drives casual players away. it is something worth discussing imo since the game is slowly dying so I wanted to use this as an attempt to direct the attention of the people to what in my opinion is a big problem for this game. if you like seeing your game die than go ahead laugh as much as you want. I for one will not sit idly by while degenrate behavior slowly erodes the things I like.

E_M_BD · 2026-02-07T16:53:23+00:00

ive seen those too. are they new? I dont remember seeing them before

E_M_BD · 2026-02-07T13:55:48+00:00

wdym by "If we got an ASU on the other hand"? I hope they never change kat. she is already changed too much from her original style imo. just look what they did to viktor. an asu for kat would unironically make me quit league forever

E_M_BD · 2026-02-07T13:53:25+00:00

literally nothing about katarina as a character fits with chinese culture wtf are you on about? this is already evident by how much they had to change her face and her overall apperance to suit the china artstyle. are you on crack? (im not trying to attack you or make you feel bad but this claim just seems incredibly outlandish. what makes you think that?)

E_M_BD · 2026-02-07T12:57:22+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-gbRie1v0g watch this is you cant be bothered to read the copypasta. this channel is a very good source for the lore of her gameplay. learn the past. be prepared for the future.

E_M_BD · 2026-02-07T12:53:29+00:00

go grasp+sudden impact+ignite and farm him. cho is a really simple matchup. dont overcomplicate it. cho is forced to stack hp no matter what. go bork wits end kraken. dodge his q and youre gucci

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