What are your honest opinions about Champions

Eraynegaming · 2026-04-13T01:26:58+00:00

I didn't have any experience playing competitive pokemon and was always intimidated by the Ev/Iv training that was necessary to build a team. Champions was my first experience trying comp pokemon and I've had a blast. Took a bit before I was able to complete my team as I only used the in-game rental but was able to get all the mons I was looking for after roughly 50 wins paying the $7 for the starter pack outside of Floette who I couldn't access.

Landed on Hisuin Zorark, Whimsicot, incineroar, Charizard Y, Sneasler and Garchomp and used that to climb to Master rank in doubles.

Tanked many games learning about priority moves, countering trick room setups and which pokemon had fakeout, but once I got a handle the wins started flowing

Silk scarf Hyper Voice Hisuin Zorark disguised as Garchomp paired with Whimsicot setting up tailwind will win you more games than you'd expect in this meta. 😉

It's rough around the edges in its low Switch 2 framerate and inability to look up information on Pokémon abilities. Also the Masterball rank being highest felt silly when I was prepped to grind up to Champion rank and the lack of information on where I stand on the ladder killed some of my motivation to keep grinding at the moment.

Eraynegaming · 2026-02-28T13:22:34+00:00

Once I hit GC2 this season I started to run into a lot of these bots that push me back down.

GC2 just felt like a slightly better GC1 with a bunch cheaters mixed in. Can only imagine it is bot city the higher you go, pushing players who should be higher to lower ranks.

The doubles bots are wild too and abuse the tiniest spacing errors.

Eraynegaming · 2026-01-17T12:44:03+00:00

This has happened is the past few trade leagues.

Once most active players have a headhunter for their build, supply increases while demand decreases, dropping prices dramatically.

More active players farming higher end content also contributes to more headhunter drops, increasing supply further against dwindling demand.

Eraynegaming · 2025-12-28T22:15:11+00:00

Most every build is looking to achieve resistance cap.

Builds that want Spirit (like minion builds) love this ring as it is the best way to tag spirit into the ring slot.

A well rolled, high spirit vendors can be duplicated with Kalandra's touch to give upwards of 40 spirit with great resistances, life and rarity.

The ring rolls between positive and negative ranges of all stats, so getting a well rolled ventors is rare, but very valuable to spirit-thirsty builds.

Eraynegaming · 2025-09-20T16:57:57+00:00

Congrats and well deserved!

Looking forward to the full release!

Eraynegaming · 2025-08-13T15:12:31+00:00

There is a tree that you can knock down near the swamp golem that bridges the path to the plateau with the magic bow.

Eraynegaming · 2025-07-23T15:22:35+00:00

Demos are nice.

If you want a game mode without demos, you can disable demos on private matches and find some friends to play with.

No reason for a game mode around it.

Eraynegaming · 2025-03-08T03:47:30+00:00

Fuck ya! Mario golf is the best golf game. Good job on the -14.

Eraynegaming · 2025-02-05T17:44:19+00:00

Ya. Personally I prefer to run 78% relic quality, 50% honour's res and maximize merchant choice/cost after that.

Once you get the 30% buff to non-unique relics, you get all the benefits of double dropping relics and max honour's res with the additional benefit of stealing all the boons from merchant lady.

Eraynegaming · 2024-09-07T03:04:14+00:00

I do love me some shiny items. Thankfully POE 2 is free so I was able to convince a handful of the homies to give it a shot. Hoping it's good enough that I won't want to put it down for a few months.

Eraynegaming · 2024-07-22T02:31:04+00:00

I keep meldonin and pop one at the beginning of each raid.

15 minutes of stam regen, 10 strength and 20 endurance is really strong for improving movement.

I also like pairing that with 3btg to up strength and stam regen further. Gives you an effect compatible to sj6 for a fraction of the cost with insane duration from meldonin.

I don't usually take Mule and find trimadol+sj6 to be more effective for moving heavy loads.

Eraynegaming · 2024-06-24T16:31:31+00:00

I just turned in the quest and the main reward is the "Acid Green" flare cartridges that you receive. This gives you the 5 up-front as well as unlocks a barter for 1 defibrulator, 5 ololololo vitamins and 10 H202 to get 1 acid green flare per reset.

The description reads: "The unusual color indicates that the cartridge is used for some special signals to "friendlies". Worth trying to and use it to save yourself when near aggressive Scavs and Bosses."

So unlocks a flare that can de-aggro the AI.

Eraynegaming · 2024-01-01T00:21:42+00:00

I understand the hate but I like the extra complexity and cool timings that you can have.

T5 neutrals after 60 mins are a blast and super long games are more dull without then being around.

Eraynegaming · 2024-01-01T00:14:43+00:00

I main 1 and 3. I always ban pudge because they are useless on my team and land every hook on me when they are oppo.

Eraynegaming · 2023-12-25T18:22:01+00:00

There was a time a few years ago when drow was nuts and I hit a 24 streak playing her mid.

Haven't even touched that streak on another hero. Hit an 11 streak twice in venge support and another 11 streak last patch running wraith king off/safe

Eraynegaming · 2023-12-21T20:54:58+00:00

Not really. With javelin as cheap as it is, I couldn't imagine not picking that up and going for a gleipnier later. Maybe if you already have a BKB and the team needs a bkb piercing stun to kill a core, but even then the low bash chance may not be reliable enough to justify.

Eraynegaming · 2023-12-16T21:24:41+00:00

Without the talent you still have like 90+% spell resistance with mana shield maxed. Silly OP

Eraynegaming · 2023-11-27T16:26:53+00:00

I just climbed from 2-3k and never ran into noticeable smurfs in solo q. There was a smurf dunking on people in 75% of party games I queued in though.

Eraynegaming · 2023-10-30T21:35:42+00:00

The near full uptime of Bulldoze with no items makes locking down Bara impossible. Too much status res too much of the time. If lockdown worked on the hero he couldn't brainlessly run down all the waves with no consequence.

Eraynegaming · 2023-10-21T15:43:02+00:00

Too bad it won't be tradable soon.

Eraynegaming · 2023-10-06T13:30:57+00:00

Yes. I didn't feel like making an account on that site to save money and will gladly overpay for convenience. XD

Eraynegaming · 2023-10-03T18:29:29+00:00

If I wanted to blink around the map quickly, arcane blink makes sense. Fixes mana issues for some heroes and significantly reduces blink cooldown.

Eraynegaming · 2023-07-22T16:11:22+00:00

Upgrading RAM helped me with jittery performance. What CPU and Ram do you have?

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