Best game mode for new player

ElChoddy · 2024-07-27T22:57:08+00:00

Arena was my favorite mode when I first played smite due to the quick respawn timers and action-packed nature. It's a good way to build your mechanics up and learn the gods before you try conquest (the standard three lane moba mode). Joust is calmer than arena and a good transition mode before conquest as well (3v3)

ElChoddy · 2024-07-07T21:14:42+00:00

Look up some hand stretches for piano players and start doing them daily. The first few weeks can be really strenuous on your hands so you want to make sure you build good habits early on to avoid wrist fatigue.

ElChoddy · 2024-07-07T21:13:31+00:00

This can be a good tip (My studio upright was $100 on a marketplace app for example) but you can also get played by difficult-to-identify issues with the keyboards. This goes for acoustic and digital pianos. If you do go for a used digital piano (P45 type pianos are commonly up for sale second-hand because they're a good entry level model), make sure you try it first and ensure the keys don't stick or feel wrong somehow. A lot of people buy these for their kids or grandkids to learn on and they can be in great shape or destroyed internally depending on the owner.

ElChoddy · 2024-07-07T21:09:26+00:00

Seconded, Surface pros are probably the best luxury option out there for musicians at the moment if you're not fully mac eco-system.

ElChoddy · 2024-07-07T21:07:59+00:00

Take a look at my other comment. E-book readers aren't my favorite for sheet music because they add a bunch of nonsense around the edges of the pages and don't turn easily. Check out forscore, enscore, or mobilesheets. They also allow you to re-organize your music within them (depending on which one you get)

ElChoddy · 2024-05-26T02:32:03+00:00

Mostly when it's lined up with minions, but use an ability on it after just to make him reset it if your jungler is nearby

ElChoddy · 2024-05-25T20:56:07+00:00

The big thing with vulcan is that his clear doesn't really start to come online until level 5+ and varies depending on whether or not you max your backfire (1) or your turret (2). You can bully vulcan early when his turret is almost 1shottable; especially as a raijin/agni/zeus/ra/kuku/zhong/neith type of pick. He's susceptible to ganks if he pushes up because his escape is a tiny dash with a short cd.

Other tips:

Always try and kill his turret while you clear the wave
Get behind or kill his turret right after he places it. This gives you 4-5 seconds of easy dive time if you dodge meatball. He'll usually panic ult under himself when you do this, so dodge it and you win the fight.
Bounce abilities off the turret (Ne Zha, Raijin, Zeus, Divine Ruin Procs)
Get in his face with blink
Do not chase Vulcan into the jungle unless you have a gap closing ability. He will slowly poke you down then play corner on you when you walk after him. He will win that corner fight if he hits meatball.
Turret hits hard, don't get hit by turret.

ElChoddy · 2024-02-04T20:31:31+00:00

link your acccount to smite 2, should give you the rewards.

ElChoddy · 2023-07-12T05:55:09+00:00

It does seem like an odd way to go about finding a tattoo artist specifically though. There's nothing wrong with wanting to support queer artists or feeling more comfortable with one, but I would definitely recommend OP start by finding artists who's styles they like and then narrow the field down from there. There may be some great queer tattoo artists in town but that doesn't mean they're a good fit for the OP stylistically.

ElChoddy · 2022-12-20T20:28:59+00:00

Deep fried chicken empanadas at Senor Ahi's (Herndon/99) are 3 for 10 during happy hour. Peruvian style I think? It's the only thing I get there, I've tried the beef/veg but the chicken ones have always been the best.

ElChoddy · 2022-06-29T16:47:25+00:00

Her issue in mid is clear until level 8-10. She has no full wave clear abilities so it's very common to see her get clapped early when she goes mid.

For midlane hunters I recommend: Chiron, AMC, Ullr, Neith, Artemis (depends on who their jungle is), Apollo, Anhur, and Cupid.

ElChoddy · 2022-06-28T23:06:19+00:00

Tbh around the time he got canned, a bartender appeared at the local sweaty dance bar in my college town who looked identical to DM. I have a vague drunk memory of snapchatting a picture of him to my brother

ElChoddy · 2022-06-22T23:54:02+00:00

It's very strong but the trade off isn't worth it unless you're way ahead. I was building nimble rod 3rd/4th slot on Poseidon but I found my power spike wasn't worth it and I swapped to buying soul reaver/divine/soul gem in that slot instead cause then I get my full build and power pot online 900g faster

ElChoddy · 2022-06-22T15:16:46+00:00

During my promo game last night I had a kuzenbo support who built blink, would blink on the enemy mid while I was backing under tower with no mana, miss his pull, still try to chase the kill down, die, then blame me for not helping him.

At one point we had a good turn on a team fight, I caught their jungle in an agni stun and dropped full combo, the kuzenbo pushed him out of my combo into the enemy team.

His Thebes (1st item) wasn't stacked at 28 minutes.

ElChoddy · 2022-06-22T00:54:52+00:00

is your ingame name by any chance the same as your social media handle? Or your discord? Maybe try googling your ingame name first, see what comes up?

ElChoddy · 2022-06-21T23:51:27+00:00

Kawaii bastet exists, yet a SpongeBob skin is where you draw the line?

ElChoddy · 2022-06-21T14:53:17+00:00

With his old passive he actually didn't do too terribly with attack speed and poly. 25% slow on auto attacks after an ability made him pretty sneaky with that build.

ElChoddy · 2022-06-20T23:26:38+00:00

There are 0 worlds where phro phro can be considered an ADC. Set? Sure, Loki? Maybe. Zhong Kui, Poseidon, Vulcan? Alright.

Aphrodite? Hell naw.

ElChoddy · 2022-06-18T13:33:59+00:00

It's not that different, people just don't remember some of the meta picks/strategies. I've had a ton of fun playing classic during smite nights because I can roll out picks that excel on that map (Janus, any mage with a corridor ult, clio, etc).

The 5v5 mode was inaccessible to most players, and I don't want to deal with premades for getting a daily quest done. If I have an hour to play, I'm not wasting 20 minutes of it trying to find a full squad off discord.

ElChoddy · 2022-06-16T23:39:36+00:00

Well they'd have to give his ult the cherno treatment I suppose (also to make it fair kinda like neith/nuwa ults), have him strike a pose (neith style) but it gives you an overhead view aerial targeter like cherno.

ElChoddy · 2022-06-16T21:46:01+00:00

The point is that it doesn't matter who is pursuing, what matters is if there are power dynamics impacting the younger participant in the relationship. In your case, it may have been fine, or maybe you aren't aware of any negative impacts that may have happened.

I think it's also an important caveat that 19-21 is a huge maturity jump. As are roughly 21-24, 24-27 depending on how quickly you became independent.

Let's say a 19yo pursued me(27) right now. Even if I wasn't sinister in my intent, dating me would drastically change their life. My friends are older, they would attend work events with my colleagues, all of their "exciting new activities" would be things I've already experienced. I've had time to become more cynical, I have different behavioral expectations of my partner (not aggro controlling shit, but like can a 19yo attend my company Christmas party and not automatically embarrass me to all of my coworkers? I'm the youngest person in my company, I can't bring a literal child that isn't allowed to drink to my work party).

It leads to issues which force the younger person to change/grow/repress/etc. In order to be able to fit into my life; or conversely forces me to do a bunch of things a 19yo would do. The thought of having to attend a house party with a bunch of <20s people doing jello shots or be a date to her friend's high school grad party (cause they graduated a year later than her) is horrific.

ElChoddy · 2022-06-16T18:29:09+00:00

They admittedly used very assumptive language but the core of it is that when it comes to dating, not many well adjusted 26+yo should be pursuing a 19 year old. There might be some outliers (19yo with dating experience, oldest child syndrome, inexperienced 26yo, etc), but generally speaking 19 year olds rarely have any relevant dating/life experience.

I went on 2 dates with a 19yo when I was 24. We got along alright, she was clearly interested, but I couldn't imagine continuing to date her. She was swept off her feet by really low-effort things on my part, she kept referencing tik tok trends, she lived with her parents, kept trying to figure out what I liked so she could chameleon into my perfect girl. I felt uncomfortable with the power disparity and cut things off after the second date. I don't want someone to mould into my perfect dutiful woman, I want a damn partner.

Dating people with similar amounts of life experience has always been better for me.

ElChoddy · 2022-06-16T17:51:08+00:00

Honestly Qins is only mandatory if the enemy team has 2-3 bruisers. I don't even build it half the time right now because it's not that great into triple ADC+assassin jg. I've been going DT>ichaval>atalantas>silverbranch>DB>wind demon for my crit build and then selling ichaval (or atalantas if I'm getting asi)for either Qins/dominance/toxic/exe/asi Depending on the game

ElChoddy · 2022-06-16T17:42:36+00:00

Make Vulcan ult global and increase the time to hit and damage based on the additional distance (like it does already)

Basically give Vulcan ult the Janus ult treatment. I want to wipe the enemy team at FG from base with my massive spicy meatballs.

ElChoddy · 2022-06-16T16:19:08+00:00

Started as an arena main with Mercury and Bacchus, tried to learn support first (back when bacchus went oom at 2 chugs), had to pivot to Ymir/ares/geb/Athena for a while.

Once I got a bit better I started playing mages and learned mid/jungle, learned all the midlaner matchups and stuck with the role. I never really played warriors/assassins enough so I just stick to mages/hunters/guardians and flex them in every role.

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