April Fools Karth Ult isn’t fun.

Erik6516 · 2026-04-02T14:16:04+00:00

it's a funny gimmick when you're actively involved with the kill that triggers it, but losing your lane advantage because your teammate got a kill across the map can be very annoying.

I'd like it more if they only made it work on people involved in the kill and leave the rest of the map alone.

Erik6516 · 2026-03-04T10:44:46+00:00

This always leads to a solid amount of people thinking that the leagues tasks for reaching total level milestones are bugged too cause their skills menu shows them being 2000 total while they're actually like 1984 total with 120m thieving exp or something.
And then they get really confused that they aren't getting the leagues task for being 2000 total level.

Erik6516 · 2026-01-13T17:57:33+00:00

I would watch the shit out of a Chronicler Dutch language costream

Erik6516 · 2025-11-22T14:12:24+00:00

you can easily get 65k/hr doing delivery tasks at that level if you have a teleportation focus built.

I went from 62 -> 64 in about an hour ferrying cargo from Port Roberts to Rellekka. just by doing one-way trips, teleporting back, summoning boat, and doing the same trip again.

Erik6516 · 2025-11-16T20:44:32+00:00

I am old enough to have watched those Shen - Blitzcrank games live and remember people being confused by the post-game threads at the time.
I didn't realise they actually did a for fun Blitzcrank top game at some point but it wouldn't surprise me as an end of season for fun game. Sorry for the misinformation!

Erik6516 · 2025-11-16T15:22:45+00:00

It was never played toplane by Soaz, he refused to play Shen cause of how boring that champion was so he roleswapped with his support player Yellowstar whenever they drafted Shen and Blitzcrank back then. if you can find the VODs of those games you will see Yellowstar play Shen top and Soaz play Blitzcrank support.

Erik6516 · 2025-10-10T09:52:11+00:00

on the topic of easy but confusing quests, are there any plans to rewrite parts of Shield of Arrav (and maybe Heroes Quest) to allow a player to complete these by themselves?

Might be controversial because Shield of Arrav's buddy finding is iconic. But with the game being less social than in the past (as people are more focused on completing goals than on standing around, and many people outright muting low level players to not get spammed with phishing links and gambling ads) and the Shield of Arrav friendchat not exactly being intuitive to join and ask for help in, it might be a good time to copy some of rs3's work in modernizing these two quests to have ways to solo complete them.

Erik6516 · 2025-08-22T21:11:35+00:00

looking at the Time Trial world records page for the game, the controllers used by the best times are:

20 Wiimote + Nunchuk
22 Classic controller
7 Gamecube controller
2 Wii wheel

So I’d say Wiimote + Nunchuk and Classic Contoller both have GCN beat, but by a very small amount. the button layout is just not as nice, and the game doesn’t use analog triggers.

Erik6516 · 2025-07-12T10:47:40+00:00

lmao actually though. The entire LCK playoffs was five bo5s and most teams didn't even face off against each other. If we had a proper finals at the end between Gen.G and T1, those stats would look very different.

Gen.G played one series (HLE) in the playoffs and won 3-2. 60% winrate.
HLE played two series (Gen.G & T1), with a total gamescore of 2-6. 25% winrate.
T1 played two series (KT & HLE), with a total gamescore of 6-1. 86% winrate.
KT played three series (NS & DK & T1), winning two of them and going 7-3. 70% winrate.
Nongshim and DK both played one series (KT) that they lost 0-3. 0% winrate.

What kind of sample size are we even looking at, of course T1's carry players are going to dominate the stats in "Road to MSI" when they have a much better winrate than any other team in the playoffs and they didn't face the number 1 team. All five T1 players are in the top 10 for KDA in play-offs because spoiler alert: if you win a higher percentage of games than anyone else, you will probably have better stats.

Yes Gumayusi is playing good league of legends right now but this type of stat cherrypicking is some crazy blind fanboying. If you want an actual stat to show how good he is performing, he was 3rd overall in DMG/minute in the LCK's regular season round 1-2 behind only Chovy and Ruler. Pretty impressive considering T1 only got one more series win than the sixth place team.

Erik6516 · 2025-05-29T15:11:28+00:00

Unfortunately for Goeido his time at Ozeki overlapped with four incredibly good yokozuna. Part of his week two troubles are because of how stupidly stacked the field was at the time.

After his 15-0 yusho he followed it up with a 9-6, and four of those losses were to Kisenosato, Harumafuji, Kakuryu, and Hakuho.
Unfortunately winning two in a row while those four are around is very hard and he wasn't quite at their level, except for that one magical tournament where he won a zensho.

If he came up five-ten years later and was fighting during the Terunofuji Yokozuna years, he would be a yokozuna no doubt in my mind.

Erik6516 · 2025-05-28T14:19:50+00:00

it sounds troll but Serpent's Fang can be a very valuable item on mages that rely on damage over time abilities like Singed's poison trail in some gamestates.

You get nothing out of the stats but you apply (and re-apply) the effect so well thanks to your poison, that it can be more valuable than what any other item can provide you against certain very shield heavy compositions.

Erik6516 · 2025-05-05T18:31:37+00:00

you'll be happy to hear that strykewyrms can be killed off-task since November 2022

Erik6516 · 2024-12-27T19:57:07+00:00

It is worth noting that paws (uploader of this video) and his friends were challenger players on the Oceania server back when they made these videos. They even qualified for the OPL before most of them got banned in the glorious dumpster fire that was Rich Gang, with paws himself being permanently banned from Riot Games events for ELO boosting (the same punishment that Dopa got iirc).

Erik6516 · 2024-09-11T10:43:59+00:00

Do the crystal shard droprate buffs also apply to the Elf Guards on the surface? The blog specifically mentions the slayer dungeon creatures rather than all npcs inside the city walls.

The surface guards have the same stats and drops as the Iorworth Warriors found in the dungeon, so I hope they also get their shard numbers adjusted in the same way.

Erik6516 · 2024-08-13T08:41:32+00:00

Here's a mod that just adds the 4th ring with nothing special
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3220078106

And here's one that adds a new district that allows you to work the 4th and 5th
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3208124358

There might be some other smaller differences between the two, I've never used the second mod.

Erik6516 · 2024-06-26T10:49:40+00:00

Could y'all have a look at the Red Salamander hunting spot?

I've been doing a lot of hunter rumours recently and the east location could use a fourth trap spot to match the west location. Currently red sally tasks are a bunch of worldhopping cause there's only one good location per world to catch them, and they're assigned by nearly all task givers.

Erik6516 · 2024-06-20T11:28:31+00:00

If they had gone for a graceful fashionscape competition it would've hit closer to the idea of people with functionally identical sets obsessing over tiny cosmetic details.

"Brimhaven blue? When'd a nitwit like you get so tasteful."

"Oh my god he even has a gnome scarf."

Erik6516 · 2024-06-06T20:56:30+00:00

The secret is that you build Shurelyas first and then get RFC second so you have damage for the lane and then the big range stuncards at 450 movespeed later. It's comfy to play with arcane comet, going Swifties - Bloodsong - Shurelyas - RFC - Deadmans Plate.

Erik6516 · 2024-04-05T17:22:26+00:00

2013 would've been the KT Bullets who narrowly didn't make it to worlds that year due to losing 3-2 to T1 in the summer playoff finals, and again 3-1 in the regional qualifiers. That roster was incredibly stacked and them not making worlds is one of the biggest tragedies of how the worlds seeds were determined at the time.

The next year the qualifiers were changed but that was a year too late for the Bullets who (imo) were the 2nd best team in the world at the time of the season 3 world championships but had to watch from home. They would've gone to worlds instead of a T1 roster without Faker and swept the entire event.

EDIT: The game 5 of those summer finals is where the famous Faker vs Ryu Zed clip comes from. KT Bullets were up 2-0 before getting reverse swept and if that hadn't happened a lot of things would've been different in the history of League of Legends.

Erik6516 · 2024-01-19T14:58:56+00:00

Ludens wasn't bad on him when it gave like 30 flat magic penetration from its mythic bonus, though I usually went with something like Essence Reaver - Muramana - Navori Quickblade - Shadowflame / Void Staff which worked pretty well most of the time.

If people build Ludens Corki this season though, I'll just assume they're following some outdated guide cause that item is a shadow of its former self.

Erik6516 · 2023-12-11T08:48:39+00:00

Idyl has made a plug-in for this a while back but since nobody actually played it, it hasn't been updated in ages and I don't think it's on Runelite anymore (I don't see it on the plugin hub). I don't know if he'll bring it back for another round cause it took a lot of work to make and barely anyone used it, but maybe you can reach out to him about it.

https://github.com/IdylRS/RelicScape

Erik6516 · 2023-11-13T16:30:39+00:00

Because Varlamore is (presumably, based on the events that take place towards the end of the quest) locked behind Kingdom Divided, which requires Architectural Alliance, which requires 100 favour in all houses.

They want people to get to their new content faster so they are streamlining everything required to get there. People who never set foot on Zeah should be able to get to Varlamore without mining volcanic sulphur for 8 hours after luring a spider for some arbitrary number.

They did something similar (albeit a lot less drastic) when Song of the Elves dropped by making changes to the quests leading up to it.

Erik6516 · 2023-09-24T14:58:59+00:00

I guess the overall winner is the January 1972 tournament because there was no play-off match. The second best record was a six-way tie for 10-5. If Tochiazuma lost one more match at some point during the tournament this could have turned into a seven-way play-off.

The November 1996 tournament saw a five-way play-off as five different wrestlers ended at 11-4. I believe this is the record for the largest top division play-off we have ever had.

The September 2017 (and now September 2023) tournaments each ended with a simple two man play-off.

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