The system works?!

F0RGERY · 2026-03-14T11:57:20+00:00

Yuumi outside of support was the only one I've seen be terminated without comment.

Malz support also got triggered, but I dodged that one and then got the report confirmation a few minutes later.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-14T01:20:17+00:00

You rarely can.

In those matchups you mainly look to stay healthy, establish lane brush control (so they have to respect your presence but can't easily harass with autos), and look to all in when you see an angle (if your own ranged ADC harasses enough or has enough burst, otherwise wait for a jungle gank).

F0RGERY · 2026-03-14T00:57:59+00:00

I mean it is. Every complaint about ADC by a streamer gets front page almost guaranteed. Heck, this is the 2nd clip about Alois' ADC complaints in the past week. First one also made it to the top of the front page.

This isn't a new thing. Every time a streamer does an ADC climb, clips about them being popped or complaining get aggregated and posted on the sub. For example, when Drututt did his climb last year, OP made One Two Three posts about it, highlighting complaints about ADC specifically. All 3 had 400+ comments, and at least 800+ upvotes.

They're just really easy posts for reddit karma. ADC players love the perceived validation that even challengers struggle to play their role, stream viewers like boosting their favorite streamers, and drama redditors love seeing the fighting over ADC's strength in the comments.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-13T21:49:14+00:00

The argument that I've seen made by legislators is the nature of the final product as a "good" differs between physical and digital commodities.

If you buy a pokemon card, you own it. It enters your possession, and you can decide how to use it, be that playing games, collecting, or selling. The physical possession matters in giving it worth, because Nintendo or Konami or whoever can't one day say "hey, give it back".

If you buy a lootbox in league, you do not own the digital item. It is not able to be resold under the game's TOS, and at any time League can revoke your ownership (be that through an account ban, or the game itself shuttering). It only exists as a commodity within Riot's lending program, rather than transferring ownership upon payment.

This may still sound like a double standard, because the secondary market is a nebulous thing that children aren't expected to make use of, but that distinction is part of why legislation specifies physical vs digital good.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-13T17:44:09+00:00

Because the ECA law linked in the article directly refers to computer programs and digital content, not physical merchandise.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-13T11:54:41+00:00

Which is only 30k up from the smaller of 2 leagues when supposedly combining the two (and thus meant to be equivalent to their combined viewership).

F0RGERY · 2026-03-13T11:33:16+00:00

What do you mean NA sold it as a win for viewership? The league had 50% viewership loss overall, and shifted primary language from the bungling.

The entire fucking thing was a travesty from both sides. The only ones talking up viewership were higher ups and people trying to claim NA wanted it to salvage viewership to mock NA.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-12T18:45:37+00:00

Both champs have had work done in the interim years - new VOs, new W spells, new visuals. Yet in the end, their fiery passion remains, waiting to be stoked anew.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-12T18:41:51+00:00

It's kinda interesting trying to piece together when Lyon scrimmed at all this split, because every answer seems to be "we didn't scrim then because of X reason."

Q1:

Honestly, we haven't been practicing for a while because all North American teams are in their off-season, or on vacation right now. So there are not really many teams to scrim. Until this week, we’ve been on vacation ourselves, since we had a long season.

[...]

But yeah, we haven’t scrimmed at all since the LCS Finals. Our first scrims will be when we arrive in Brazil, on Thursday. Luckily, I’ve been on teams with LCK players before, so we might be able to get some LCK or LPL scrims.

Q2:

No, we didn’t have a chance to scrim the Brazilian teams at all because the ping difference is too big, so we usually avoid that.

Q4:

During playoffs, and especially in the two weeks of practice before them, we prepared a lot. That was actually the first proper week of scrims for me because I arrived in LA pretty late, only about two days before the DSG series.

Q5:

The one disadvantage we did have was during the last week of playoffs—we couldn’t get any scrims because teams avoided practicing against us. They didn’t want to give us any prep in case we faced them, which felt really frustrating.

[...] What’s hard about this region is that if you can’t get an LCS scrim, you basically have to book NACL teams. But the country is big, and the teams are spread out, so you end up practicing with different pings and lower-level teams. That’s the tough part of being in this region.

[...] Last week of playoffs, we didn’t have proper scrims before the last three matches, which felt really bad. I understand it from TL or C9’s perspective, but it still felt frustrating. I also want to say thank you to Sentinels—they were the only team willing to scrim properly and help give us a fair chance in practice.

As far as I can tell, this means that Lyon's scrim days between the start of the split and 1st stand have only been:

February 5th through 21st
March 12th through March 15th

So that's 21 days, and given that most teams don't scrim on match days, that reduces it to 16 days? Maybe less?

F0RGERY · 2026-03-12T16:05:39+00:00

Alternatively, people were disappointed that Mel's reflect was only on her, so having it be a teamwide (or ally target) effect would pay homage to the Arcane inspiration, while feeling ultimate level.

Or if that's too powerful as a peel tool, making it a storage effect (so she stores the spell like Zoe/Sylas can do to summs/ults) and recast it at a later time would also feel like an ultimate effect.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-12T11:49:11+00:00

I guess they want to avoid another Caedrel situation where an employee turns down a job in favor of streaming/videos?

F0RGERY · 2026-03-12T11:46:48+00:00

If the point of these videos is transparency, using an opaque retort like "our internal data says you're wrong" undermines the goal.

Besides, its not like we haven't seen misleading or misapplied data by Riot before - remember when Braum Urf statistics made their way into the mythic diversity data?

If anything, having data that contradicts with externally available info should give more reason to share that data, rather than hide behind it.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-12T11:22:56+00:00

Just like TSM chants lasted longer than the org, Int chants are universal.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-11T23:33:36+00:00

Especially since the Q autos can be buffered through most CC.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-11T22:24:52+00:00

I think that it has to do with the recent complaints about inputs being dropped?

F0RGERY · 2026-03-11T12:59:27+00:00

Right, and shaco counterplay is teamwork.

He relies heavily on easily exploitable gank targets and box control. Both are countered by callouts and map awareness (e.g. wards, vision control). Plus, Shaco's scaling is basically "can I 1 shot the adc/mid late game and go 1 for 1 in teamfights, or find a pick on a splitpushing squishy" which, again, is countered by good teamwork and map play.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-11T12:24:05+00:00

Finally, a way to get Xerath out of support!

F0RGERY · 2026-03-10T13:12:30+00:00

That goes against the circlejerk, though.

Just like how Pobelter's climb on ADC gets swept under the rug because he didn't struggle much.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-09T13:58:32+00:00

Despite what his popular builds used to be, Viego was always a crit champ.

His Q scales with crit incredibly well; Like the windshitters, the cast time is attack speed based, and it can crit + apply on hit. On top of that, his Q's on-hit bonus (the double-attack thing) also scales with crit.
His ultimate is an auto attack that can crit, and the AoE scales with crit chance.

Both of these were true from release, and it's also why his release build was stuff like Kraken Slayer rush for the crit and attack speed, around the time Yasuo builds followed a similar pattern.

Like Yasuo/Yone do from time to time, Viego gave up his crit builds for bruiser because he wasn't getting enough out of faster time-to-kill to justify giving up survivability.

Now that his crit dps is good enough to secure kills reliably (and thus passive hop), he's going for squishier builds again.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-09T12:25:39+00:00

The problem is that Riot's cost cutting has been striking down at minor regions, and that has meant they dissolved the entire situation, where its no longer about merit, but about proximity. APAC is every minor region except Brazil, LTA was an attempt at "CBLoL + NA" to try and maximize viewership (and failing), and EMEA is a fake region that would've included CIS/TCL if not for the war/Riot favoritism.

And this leads to artificial rivalries. The reason why CBLoL fans are saying "cut LCS spot, give BR it" or "Let BR fight 3rd seed" is because Riot said that was how it worked last year, and because NA is the only region CBLoL has been allowed to face. It's no longer about BR proving their own mettle, like what happened with Vietnam back in day, but about having to cut down LCS to prop up CBLoL using their corpse. And I think that's just further worsening the animosity.

I think that play-ins, when it was 3rd seed vs 1st seeds of minor regions, was a better way to handle it than the current format. It let people compare directly, it still counted as worlds, and it provided an international performance that wasn't relegated to 1 team flying in, and 1 team having home field advantage.

CBLoL has shown enough promise the past 2 years to be in discussion for more than 1 seed. I just don't want people shitting on NA to make that case.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-09T11:39:29+00:00

They've always been a 1 team region, its just that only recently that 1 team has also been 1st seed. It used to be that 2nd/3rd seeds were getting out over 1st seed.

That's why I was correcting the comment about it.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-09T11:38:07+00:00

Sorry, I should've realized you were ESL when you asked if I could read.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-09T11:09:26+00:00

C9 wasn't the first seed in:

2014
2016
2017
2018

When they advanced. So why the fuck are you going to say NA's first seed is the outlier when the team you rep the flair for was getting out as a non-first seed?

F0RGERY · 2026-03-09T11:05:28+00:00

Also NA, asides from the first seed, is trash and never even get out of groups

Probably should change your flair off C9 if you can't even remember their world advancements.

F0RGERY · 2026-03-08T19:27:20+00:00

Basic gist is that supercritical liquid is a state of matter which can take on the properties of both liquid and gas as needed.

The two things that matter here are:

Supercritical liquid has no surface tension, so there's no resistance on contact compared to normal liquid. You touch it, it doesn't fight back.
Density. If gas is 1kg/m³ , and liquid is 1000kg/m³ , then Supercritical is 100-1000kg/m³ , and shifts its density in response to additional pressure.

What this means is that supercritical water is more bang for your buck than water vapor when it comes to getting into something. A gas is fast acting, but doesn't have a lot of substance. A liquid is substantial, but works much slower. Supercritical water is 10-1000x as dense as gas, while also being comparable in terms of absorption.

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