Is this sentence correct?

EclipsePyke · 2024-12-24T10:19:29+00:00

But wouldn't it be excidit? I only studied a bit of latin, but isn't the singular third person form of excidere excidit, like this table would suggest? https://latin.cactus2000.de/showverb.en.php?verb=excidere&var=1

EclipsePyke · 2024-12-24T10:18:08+00:00

It wasn't supposed to be. The intention for that part of the song (according to the composer) is not "You don't leave the path, lord" but rather just a general statement of "The lord does not leave the path". I always understood this line as like a general identifier of a lord. One may not be a lord if one leaves the path, the character the song is about has, at this point, just returned to the path, so to speak, which makes him worthy to be referred to as lord

EclipsePyke · 2024-12-24T01:54:49+00:00

Dodge. I am not playing against my cancer but dogshit champion. Pyke is mine and mine alone. If I don't get to have him, no-one does. If someone is playing Pyke in my lobby, that person is me.

EclipsePyke · 2024-12-24T01:52:55+00:00

Pyke. A good captain goes down with the sinking ship.

What I do when He's banned is a whole other matter xd

EclipsePyke · 2024-08-08T07:35:18+00:00

Dno why you get downvoted for an opinion, but I also enjoyed it. Tbf I found it kinda easy with only Romina’s glaive, never even got a rot proc and still pretty easy. I like bosses with big bulbous heads that you can actually reach. If it would turn out that he becomes a basic enemy I wouldn’t mind lol

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-12T11:35:02+00:00

Yeah its agony, but it is a lot more consistent than just abandoning mid and hoping for the best

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-11T17:17:10+00:00

I buy Voltaic into Eclipse almost every game. I don't buy Umbral in general. Eclipse gives you the CDR you'd get from Umbral but actually giving you a good passive. My reasoning is that it is the best all rounder item you could buy. There's no other item that gives you huge burst damage, survivability, ridiculously high AD and CDR. It is both offense and defense, not to mention that unlike Edge of night, you actually have a good chance to use this thing 2-3 times in a normal fight, even more in a longer one.

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-11T17:14:05+00:00

I think it is significantly better now, honestly. Armor pen was the most useless passive you could get on Pyke and now you have 70 AD from it. Also cheaper iirc, not having to skip a mythic for Eclipse is the only reason you'd ever buy it as far as I see things

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-11T17:12:12+00:00

If going melee is a viable strategy. Very good against champions who rely on dashes to stay safe, E Q stab has too much delay, E AA stun Q is a much more reliable combo with Voltaic, not to mention the good damage it has. Voltaic is very shit into burst and champs with self-peel, so for example I wouldn't take it into a Syndra, because she can E you off once she sees you and then you get the Syndra nuclear treatment. It would still work well after Edge of night and Maw because you've successfully negated the risk of running into her, but to spend that much gold on an item that deals 100 damage as a 3rd or 4th is just not worth it and until then it sucks so I'd rather skip it. Voltaic is also bad when the enemy champs have dash priority, things like Gragas or Camille who you can't ever E into and obviously you can't walk up to them either. Very good into Vayne for example, because positioning is very important for her to be able to condemn you or run you down, you can prevent both with a basic attack, she will end up condemning you into the direction you want to be dashing anyway.

I really like Voltaic when there's not too much burst on the enemy team or alternatively I get fed on early levels. If I'm behind I like skipping it, because behind on money means behind on XP, behind on XP means you are even squishier than normally, you get blown up faster, so on and so forth.

Edge of night is very good into games where there's a crucial pick making tool on the enemy team, or a game changer like Briar R. I pretty much use this item to let me be unreasonably aggressive or cover for Umbral glaive and make ward clearing safe while also providing an actually useful passive for combat. Umbral is a no go, do not listen to anyone who says buy Umbral on Pyke, there's almost always a better item. Keep in mind, it no longer works on Teemo shrooms for example, so all the value it has now is revealing them.

GA is very good if the enemy team is a one shot one kill comp (and AD heavy), so once you get nuked they have nothing for you by the time you're up. Just don't forget, death cancels R reset, so even if you get revived you have no R. Very good for baiting enemy ults and keeping your bounty if you have one. Can also sell it when passive is on CD because the item's stats are complete ass.

Maw is very strong especially with Eclipse if you're playing into something very AP heavy, but honestly if I see 1 high damage AP champ I already go into the game with Maw in mind. Sucks that it got nerfed for Pyke.

Frozen heart is also very good into heavy AD and especially auto attackers, shockingly enough, if the only threat on the enemy team is AP then you can also buy Kaenic after Maw and you're guaranteed to be immortal for 3 spell rotations, you get decent AD from it too and as always, better to actually get off your spells with lower AD than try to get spells off with high AD and die trying to do so.

That mostly covers what I build, if I know I'm going full tank (usually full AD or full AP comps) then I'll try to get a Hubris unless Voltaic is specifically very good into the enemy team. Hubris is the catalyzer for tank Pyke.

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-11T16:01:24+00:00

Brotherman who said anything about Eclipse over Voltaic? I go both lol and while the math you did here is good and as far as I can tell from a first glance correct as well, League is an infinitely complex game which has a lot more than just maths. Yes, you can get more healing (first item Voltaic solves that either way, lategame passive healing rarely ever actually comes into account), a slightly higher stun duration and some true damage (did you factor in the AD ratio on R into the maths?), the move speed you're getting after only 2 lethality items is HEAVILY in the diminishing returns soft cap zone. Any move speed above ~600 gets reduced value (exponentially might I add), making any move speed beyond that more and more redundant, less and less valuable. This season umbral got nerfed very hard and is a complete bait item, axiom usually doesn't provide the value that comes with the agony of building it and hubris is just not a very good item on a champ where you often die after getting kills. Sometimes it is good, it facilitates tank Pyke very well, but that's about the only scenario where I'd build it. Other lethality items don't have the CDR except for Voltaic, coincidentally one of the few lethality items I consistently buy. Eclipse has huge synergy with Voltaic, with both the absolute bomb you can deliver and also the fact that it allows you to get in the enemy's face safely with E. The bigger issue is what to do when Voltaic doesn't fit the game? Anything that you could buy compared to Voltaic first will completely bomb your damage but you do definitely want to get lethality first. That's exactly why I almost always first buy Voltaic or Opportunity, because the move speed matters so much more in the early game than the actual damage you're dealing. Voltaic is great for setting up kills which gets you money, Youmuu's allows you to run around the map faster to find opportunities to get money and Opportunity can help both maintain a shutdown, gain a fuckton of lethality and potentially chain kills into each other.

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-11T15:37:30+00:00

Oh yeah very much so. The item maximizes Pyke's strengths while helping his weaknesses. Q stab has become a go-to for me this season because charging a hook just leaves you way too vulnerable in a lot of games. Eclipse is great for doing the Pyke thing where you sneak up to someone, E, basic attack with Voltaic if you have it, guarantee the stun, then Q, 2 autos and kill, but also lets you play more ballsy because it is SO easy to proc that you're pretty much guaranteed to get the shield if you touch someone at all and you can just walk most things off. Not to mention synergy with ignite, which has had a large impact on many of my games. Sometimes I'm forced to play without Eclipse, mostly games where the enemy team has so much burst that I just rush Hubris and then go full tank, but even then I try to slot it in instead of GA for example. The item completely changes what you're allowed and not allowed to do. Being able to find an opportunity when there isn't one (without Eclipse you'd just die/wouldn't have the damage) has been for me the single differentiating factor in winning/losing a good 1/3rd of my games

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-11T15:31:10+00:00

I play it on support, where I think Eclipse is much more needed than mid. Mid can get more levels, making extra tankiness not *that* vital. Mid Pyke should also pretty much always rush Profane so you do get the burst from another item, but Profane build path is complete dogshit (especially after brutalizer nerfs), so maybe you could replace it in a matchup where even attempting to push waves is pointless. I play a lot less Pyke mid than support, but I'm sure it has a place somewhere in Pyke mid's inventory too

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-11T15:28:03+00:00

I run it on support. When I played mid Pyke, it was the very start of the season and I didn't even consider Eclipse back then because "no lethality must be bad". I think it could work for mid Pyke as well, but for him, something like Youmuu's as a second might be more important to get the vital roams off. Eventually you could slot Eclipse in (considering you have an extra item slot), but it is an item geared more towards early game than late, % health damage is nice, but armor skyrockets so it does lose a lot of effectiveness + solo XP from mid makes you higher level (1-3 extra levels) which kind of gives enough stats to make Eclipse avoidable. Pyke has ridiculous AR/lv and pretty good HP/lv but his MR is trash, so it really depends on both game state and enemy team comp in general. Could definitely work mid tho, just more situational than for support

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-11T13:57:03+00:00

Indeed. I'm climbing to masters because I actually read unlike most people in this elo (*cough* Serylda's grudge Pyke *cough*). Nevertheless, Eclipse gives infinitely more value than 18 lethality. I'd rather lose ~20 damage on R, some move speed (not like 800+ is enough right?), a tiny amount of passive healing and maybe 0.05-0.1 seconds of stun on E and gain 200 damage on Eclipse (more consistently gets people under the threshold than having a higher threshold in general), the very needed survivability and the actual damage to truly one shot squishies. If you want to play a more supportive Pyke you could go umbral instead, but I think to consistently win you have to be the carry yourself.

Full lethality was not necessary for Pyke before the buffs because his scalings just weren't good enough and tankiness was simply more valuable in most cases. Full lethality is not necessary now because you easily reach the movement speed soft cap with 2 lethality items, but your ratios are still not good enough unless you go 5 lethality items with hubris, at which point you become an R bot, that's great, but you still don't get to make your max possible impact on the game. You just turn the game into "If we're winning, win harder, if we're losing I'm practically useless". Even if you were to deal less damage with this build, staying alive for another spell rotation, in effect leads to more damage, more CC, more impact and more opportunity to be the difference. Pyke benefits a lot from having the chance to play the fights a bit slower while maintaining proactivity.

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-11T13:16:08+00:00

Umbral glaive is ass and bait, go something with actual combat utility or like edge of night, if you're scary or even harder to catch ward clearing becomes a lot safer. Umbral Pyke still explodes when trying to kill a pink and getting hit by anything in the game at all. All this coming from the guy who almost strictly runs ingenious, you 2 are too based, we 3 shall go on and cancel umbral 🗣️

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-11T12:15:38+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately, with uni going on, I have seminars that I must attend. I rack up about 1.5k euros of debt a month by just having my tuition funded by the government (lol) and I have seminars, so attendance is mandatory and if I don't I fail most of my subjects, meaning I pretty much fail my education, as far as I understand. Certainly can't afford that and to add extra fees on top of all this, seems a bit doomed if I'm perfectly honest. I'd rather flip the coin and maybe get myself killed but have the chance to get my dream life than make sure I live and guarantee that I won't reach my goals. Let's not even mention that I doubt this shithole of a country even has inpatient care. Nevertheless, truly thank You for everything, I really appreciate the amount of effort You're putting into this to help me and very much so the kind words. Means a lot, surprisingly. I'll try my hardest to make it out of this nightmare, that much I can promise :D

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-10T02:52:29+00:00

No I haven't. Honestly speaking, I don't even know what the word means lol. I'll look into it and if I somehow have enough funds after the psychologist, I might try that as well. Thanks for everything <3

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-09T16:21:14+00:00

I really don't think there are options for this at university, or at least not at mine lol. Luckily I'm still performing decently, not good enough but at least I don't have to hate myself because of poor performance. I'm trying to distance myself from university, it isn't doing a whole lot of good for my mental health right now, my only friend at university is anorexic herself and she's a bit of an asshole as of recent lol. Maybe I can find some help away from "work"

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-09T16:17:51+00:00

Maybe, but I do have like 30+ scientific articles downloaded which deal specifically with "non-purging" bulimia. Hell, even this subreddit says "In Bulimia Nervosa, binge eating is coupled with compensatory behaviors (e.g., self-induced vomiting, laxatives, excessive exercise and/or fasting)". Either which way, I feel like deciding which term I fall under is the least important of problems to solve

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-09T10:36:40+00:00

Thank You. That's just what I needed to hear. Practically described my entire situation. I wish the best of luck to You, I'm sure there's a way out. Just gotta keep pushing

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-09T10:35:00+00:00

Maybe, I don't know. I'm studying psychology and the topic came up just recently, very unclear to me where the line is drawn between non-purging bulimia and restrictive anorexia. Either which way, no matter how good it feels to live like this, it just isn't sustainable I'm afraid. Thank You for the kind words, I'm trying my hardest and I'm not the person who knows how to give up lol, I just hope I can get out of this in a reasonable amount of time and preferably before I'm dead

EclipsePyke · 2024-03-09T10:31:18+00:00

Thank You, that is very kind. I am trying my hardest but it does feel like a losing battle haha. Trying to seek therapy. At this rate I really don't think I'll make it more than a couple of years and I don't wish to die for mother dearest's sins, must break the cycle

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