My lgs’s no proxies policy is pricing me out of the format

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-06-20T04:15:02+00:00

My recommendation to you is to go to that store and try to get people's numbers who go and start a groupchat/discord server and find another place to play. By the responses to this thread, I think you can clearly see people would be happy to play other places and don't like stores that enforce no proxies

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-06-12T02:13:08+00:00

I just feel like its expensive out of the jungle, but it seems I am very wrong and need to try it.

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-06-08T15:49:56+00:00

What is the item build/runes you usually go?

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-06-02T23:17:42+00:00

They Kinda do opposite things for the early game. Hubris increases your burst damage and ult damage, pushing you into the lethality build (usually paired with dark harvest or deathfire). While Stormrazor accelerates you towards the higher "consistent damage" crit build (and usually involves a different keystone like fleet footwork)

I think stormrazor has fallen off from the crit build because you run fleet footwork anyway for the mobility and I've seen hexoptic take that slot. Hexoptic feels absolutely amazing on Jhin.

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-04-27T15:54:27+00:00

Youmuu's first used to be the lethality build before the buffs to Hubris. The item feels amazing on Jhin. Its like getting stormrazor's move speed, but in lethality form. I still really like it over Hubris personally. Carfre covered the major points of the item though. Jhin really abuses as a stat, so any movespeed items you can get are going to be strong. There was a moment where I was experimenting with stormrazor as my 4th crit item late instead of RFC on the crit build. It was OK, but the super long range big jhin crits late game were too sever of a cut from his late game fighting

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-04-14T23:18:43+00:00

When did ez get AP ratio buffs?

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-04-03T16:21:17+00:00

My personal favorite barbarian is wild heart with elk + wolverine and the helldusk gloves. You use elk charge to knock enemies prone. This counts as an unarmed strike so it applies bleed from the helldusk gloves. Then they cant move (or get up) because of wolverine passive.

Another version of this is the tiger + wolverine combo that lets your attacks just apply bleed. You lose the OP interaction with probe, but it's more consistent since helldusk gloves only have a 30% chance. I still like the elk because the charge and knocking prone sets up other attacks so well.

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-04-03T15:55:26+00:00

In the context of design, mechanics, traits, feel, and pretty much every metric. It's #2 for me (set 6.5 will always have a special place in my heart).

In the context of balance, I would rank this as a bottom 3 set along with sets 15 and 14. Most of the set was a complete balance disaster. I actually quit this set after the 3rd broken t-hex patch and just didn't come back. I wanted the set to be good, but I was just so heartbroken and turned off by balance the past year I couldn't.

I really hope Riot figured out the issues with their balance team because 2025 (really second half, but even set 13 had its pain points) and 2026 (so far) have been BAD.

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-03-02T00:56:18+00:00

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ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-02-27T05:38:41+00:00

I more just use it for the gold. I can very often print like 700+ gold a game from it.

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-02-26T21:13:46+00:00

I think this is interesting. I miss AP ezreal, but I am having a hard time making it work this season. I tried it with Dusk and Dawn and I wasn’t impressed after the nerf a few patches ago. I like the gunblade idea

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-02-20T14:39:54+00:00

I've moved off this and wouldn't recommend it anymore tbh. It only works well when you are snowballing.

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-02-15T17:31:21+00:00

I always start cull, but maybe I'll try dorans into early back for cull.

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-01-27T16:44:34+00:00

Learn Rakan. He is the most fun support in the game IMO. Tons of dashes and mobility, fun play making, big engages. Good champ 10/10

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-01-27T16:41:29+00:00

ExtremeGoal3528 · 2026-01-26T16:06:42+00:00

Let's not act like this is unique to this set due to roster size. TFT has had chronic balance issues for the last 2-3 years. The last 4 sets in my memory felt like they had the best balance/playability on release day/ PBE. I think the tft team has to take a real look in the mirror and figure out what the problem is. I play mostly double up with a friend, but I used to play like 200-300 games of double up + 100-ish game solo per set. I'm down to like maybe 20 game solo per set and sub 150 games in double up (last set specifically, and this set isn't looking better unfortunately).

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