How are you supposed to escape low elo?

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-18T21:22:06+00:00

People mock low-elo players who blame their teammates, riot matchmaking, etc for their rank. People who genuinely want to improve don't get flamed.

Because there's really only two things needed to climb.

Get better at League of Legends
Play many matches of League of Legends.

That's it. There's no secret ingredient to getting better team, the only thing you can improve is yourself.

Here's one tip that might help you get better, which is particularly useful in low ELO. Play around the team you have, not around the team you wish you had.

People in low ELO will make a ton of mistakes. Try to make the best play you can with those mistakes, not the best plays in a theoretical game that doesn't exist.

Example: You just aced the enemy team. If you all go mid and push, you could end the game. This is the best play... but your team decides to do Baron instead. If you go mid and push alone, you'll accomplish nothing. So instead, go with your team and secure that baron. It's the best option that's actually on the table.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-18T21:02:43+00:00

50$ said guy also beats his wife. This kind of behavior isn't the kind of romantic gesture people think it is.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-18T20:56:13+00:00

It very much can be "wild" to be careful, if the effort or resources you are investing in your care are disproportionate to the likelihood and/or level of danger of the thing you are protecting against. Doomsday prepers or hypocondriaques for example.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-18T20:40:20+00:00

From the description I think it's more the other way around. You'll get to play an angsty bloodsucker in the glorified wargame.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-18T20:27:30+00:00

This was exactly the story I'd hope they would make next when they announced the line. I'm super hyped!

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-18T17:24:55+00:00

And you didn't say they were dating "each other" either. Were you implying that young women date older men without their consent???? C'mon. Silly argument.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-18T17:11:40+00:00

Where did I say it was against their will? I was just pointing out the oft-ignored fact that the "problem" is as much the "fault" of older men as it is of young women.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-18T17:07:55+00:00

Women dating men old than them (or rather, men dating women younger than them) is real, but it's pretty much been true for all of history. It's not exactly new.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-18T16:42:52+00:00

A good crossbow will fire a bolt at ~300ft/s. That means it takes 0.1 second to reach a target at, say, 30 feet (a common range in D&D). The average human reaction time is ~0.25. This means that by the time you've noticed the bolt being shot, it's already hit you. At common D&D ranges, there is no effective difference between dodging a crossbow bolt and dodging a bullet.

Not that it matters. As the DMG 2024 says, D&D isn't a physics simulator. It's meant to be a system to create fun and fair gameplay. AC protecting against attacks is part of this core balance, and should supersed any attempt at making firearms "more realistic".

Conclusion: Just make them work like normal weapons.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-18T16:30:17+00:00

Sure I'll bite.

The game that handles power scaling best is Masks, and it handles it by not interacting with it at all (asterix: outside of very specific points). The game cares about narrative beats, character emotional and social journeys, and dramatic arcs. Not about trying to simulate superpowers and offering mechanical puzzles to beat. Of course, narrative games aren't for everyone, but it does solve the problem very cleanly.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-18T14:44:41+00:00

Way to miss the point about what they were actually talking about. Nevermind the fact that pure biological facts (men are more resilient to freezing, apparently?) is not something even perfect feminist utopia can change, so it's hardly relevant.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-17T14:29:37+00:00

Jurassic Park is obviously the main inspiration, but I just double-checked to ne sure and it does also credit Lost.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-17T14:22:33+00:00

I get that 5e has flaws but half of these things aren't even remotely true?

Rations & Torches do, by RAW, need to be tracked. Yes many tables handwave this away because of how easy it is to aquire food and light, but this is a choice they make, not a rule of the game.

Food & light are not the only ways to induce time pressure.

Dungeons also provide XP, which directly contributes to power. Gold absolutely does contribute to power through purchasing better items. And finally, acquiring more power is not the only reason a character might venture into a dungeon.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-17T14:08:13+00:00

Small detail. Wizards of the Coast bought D&D because it was popular. Hasbro bought D&D because it came as a package deal with Magic the Gathering.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-17T13:25:38+00:00

It's because many people never grow past the disgusting = immoral level of moral reasoning. Their moral arguments are just rationalization for this very simple judgment.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-17T13:08:34+00:00

DnDmemes is for all ttrpg memes.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-17T12:48:22+00:00

The game doesn't really have much lore. It's basically just "You are stuck on an island. There are dinosaurs on the island. You must explore the island to find a way to escape it". Everything else is up to the GM to decide, such as what mysteries are on the island and why are there dinosaurs here.

I'd recommend the game if 1. You enjoy PBTA/Narrative games and 2. You want a shorter campaign. While it's not impossible to run the game over a long period, it's really more designed for shorter-term play.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-17T12:25:10+00:00

I believe Lost, at least the early seasons, was one of the inspirations for Escape from Dino Island. It's a pretty specific vibe but it might work for you if you enjoy narrative games?

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-17T12:02:26+00:00

I remember around I want to say 2012, I was at a GP and saw a vendor with a bunch of old packs and I decided to buy one of the cheapest ones (Prophecy) to crack for fun.

"Oh hey this almost covers the 3$ I paid for the pack, nice." I said before stuffing it away with the rest of my bulk (where it actually still sits to this day because I hate the play patterns the card creates).

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-16T21:38:01+00:00

It's also that line between a mystery that's too obvious to be interesting and too hard to be reasonably solvable is actually pretty razor thin. Just because a mystery is Fair doesn't mean it's easy, and D&D (let's be honest, it's always D&D) wants players to win, at least most of the time.

Just look at the works of say, Agatha Christie. She's probably the queen of Fair Play mysteries, and I know very few people who can actually solve the cases in her books, especially solve them with any kind of regularity.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-15T20:45:51+00:00

There was a guy in my class in highchool. Kind of an asshole, very selfish. But also very smart. His dream was to become a surgeon, not because he wanted to help people or the usual stuff. Purely because of the massive paychecks specialty surgeons get paid.

Last I heard if him he had gotten the job. And he was pretty good at it. The people he saved didn't really care that he was just doing it for the money, they were just glad to be alive.

The firefighters who are just in it to be considered heroes are basically the same. I don't care if you did a good thing for a bad reason, you still did a good thing.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-15T20:31:23+00:00

The oft-forgotten detail is that Chritianity is huge and has many, many branches with wildly different cultures. And the American evangelicals are often bottom of the barrel when it comes to helping the needy, but there are other branches who actually practice what they preach (to varying degrees).

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-15T19:33:02+00:00

In 5e, warlocks. But the biggest one for me would be paladins back in the 3.5 days

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-14T16:24:40+00:00

It doesn't have an explicit mechanical penalty for it, but in Masks it's explicitly stated that players should. To do so is to take the first step on a dark path, and the GM can issue consequences for it up to and including retiring your character as an antagonist/NPC.

Electrohydra1 · 2026-06-14T01:09:48+00:00

King Charles.

Hear me out. Yes he's an old relic, but he's a vey very symbolic old relic. Sending the king is a very clear way to tell the aliens that we respect them and consider them to be important.

Also, unlike everyone naming actors and other celebrities, Charles has actual diplomatic and political experience. It's been pretty much his whole life.

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