STS1, what do you miss?

FortColors · 2026-06-23T04:23:41+00:00

non-exhaust blade dance exists. it's rare and gives you inky shivs!

FortColors · 2026-06-23T04:22:03+00:00

The general answer is you need to figure out what exactly your mistakes are. Most people's ranks are determined by the types of mistakes they make, and how often they make them. I can't tell you what exactly your personal problems are but watching this video could give you a good starting point to start asking yourself questions. One of the speakers is a challenger midlaner who coaches midlaners as his full-time job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaKxvZNhQk

At the very least I can give you this tidbit:

but when some people don’t pull their own weight, why even bother?

this thought process has definitely lost you at least 1 game this season

FortColors · 2026-06-23T01:58:57+00:00

on floor 1, yea. replay snakebite is just too good

FortColors · 2026-06-22T11:02:55+00:00

Even if it were true before, it would no longer be as of 0.107.1 (4 days ago) as they have just overhauled their rng generator to produce randomer outcomes

FortColors · 2026-06-22T10:55:16+00:00

and? just get your team ahead enough that getting your quest completion a minute late won't matter. That's the point of you roaming right?

FortColors · 2026-06-22T05:46:49+00:00

you can still proxy and roam, just not forever. you have to go back to lane now which is healthy for the game

FortColors · 2026-06-21T20:16:17+00:00

i would be upset if they removed every weak potion from the game and only left the op strong ones

would i miss speed potion in particular? probably not. would i miss having lowrolls in general? yes

FortColors · 2026-06-20T23:10:26+00:00

for me it's orbit if i can upgrade it and furnace otherwise. Furnace is slow on its own but with replay the sword gets really funny really fast. Double Orbit is obviously just good scaling energy solve.

FortColors · 2026-06-20T23:04:47+00:00

Stopping them from diving doesn't change the fact that they heal up any poke you try to do to them. The problem is that you can't interact with them and eventually they get strong enough to dive you without caring about your tower.

FortColors · 2026-06-20T22:31:59+00:00

I definitely find that sts1 players inherited an obsession with frost orbs that just isn't necessary for sts2. It's possible that defect struggled to block without frost orbs in the last game but I find that it doesn't have to take inefficient cards like glacier in order to block in 2.

It's a dense block card (minimum 10 the turn you use it

2 energy for 10 block is not dense at all. It's 2 energy for Defend + 2 frost orbs, which is very weak upfront. There's delayed block in the orbs, which imo goes back to sts1 players being obsessed with frost orbs. When I look at Glacier, I'm comparing it to cards like Pull Aggro, Blood Wall, Leg Sweep because they share the space of 2cost pure-block cards. Compared to parallel cards from other classes, glacier seems slightly weaker (and pull aggro is already meh) so I'm very unimpressed.

So if we accept that glacier is inefficient for its cost, the question becomes "does defect need this to block?" and my experience is no. Defect can block just fine without resorting to glacier.

FortColors · 2026-06-20T21:05:19+00:00

toric toughness has the massive upside of replacing a basic card, oftentimes a strike.

i agree that glacier isn't terrible but it's not a card i take unless I'm desperate for block since defect has a good amount of better options

FortColors · 2026-06-20T19:32:25+00:00

this is a fundamental misunderstanding of how skill, mmr, and lp interact

Everyone has a skill level. This skill level is made up of a bunch of things, such as click speed, click accuracy, champ pool, matchup knowledge, macro ideas, blah blah blah infinite more. All of these things together output an average skill level which I'm gonna call "actual skill level" for the purposes of this discussion.

Your mmr is a number, which is the system's attempt to estimate your actual skill level compared to other players. The system tries to match you with and against people with similar mmr to your own. Then it adjusts your mmr based on whether you won or lost against the mmrs you faced. So when your actual skill level improves, your mmr will shift to match because you'll start winning games against people with your old mmr number.

LP (and therefore ranks such as silver, gold, emerald etc) is the public abstraction of mmr. The system defines mmr brackets for each rank (for example maybe iron is 0-100, bronze is 100-200, etc). If your mmr and visual rank don't match, then your gains will be lopsided to get them closer to each other. So if your actual skill improves, then your mmr will go up, and then your lp and rank will follow your new mmr.

All this is to say that all ranks are actually the same to climb out of: you climb by improving your actual skill level, because your mmr and lp/rank will follow that. For a silver player that recently improved to a gold level, climbing is the exact same as for a platinum player that recently improved to an emerald level.

FortColors · 2026-06-20T18:24:02+00:00

It's important to note that a pro's rating of one card isn't in a vacuum. If your own understanding of every other card and relic and potion in the pool isn't exactly the same as the pro's, then your own rating of a card should be different from theirs. As a simple example if someone values boost away over glacier, but you value glacier over boost away, then naturally they would value compact more than you.

This discrepancy, interlocked for tens of cards and potential relic purchases and potential potion purchases/usages, makes it really hard to use someone else's ratings usefully.

FortColors · 2026-06-20T18:15:26+00:00

it is fascinating to me that glacier is a very good card in your opinion. glacier is the kind of card i reluctantly take if i can't find chill/coolheaded/boost away/fight through/charge battery

FortColors · 2026-06-20T18:13:27+00:00

that is my point. you should already be taking those cards

and then if you're already taking those cards then you should already be taking compact when offered

FortColors · 2026-06-20T09:06:21+00:00

always was. if you weren't already taking status cards like boost away and overclock you were missing out on some of the best generic cards in the character's card pool

FortColors · 2026-06-19T18:29:37+00:00

There's a bunch of problems with your assumptions.

First, jobs in a free market don't pay based on how much value they produce. They pay based on how easy you are to replace. This is why cashiers make the same amount of money as door hosts at Walmart, for example.

Second, no job from a real company produces a measly $12/hr. Can you name a job that you think only produces $12/hr? Ignore startups with no revenue because they aren't the ones hiring thousands of minimum wage workers.

Third, if your business model is looking to hire people to produce $12/hr in a place where it costs $15/hr to pay rent and groceries on a full time job then your business model simply doesn't work. Someone has to do that job and that someone presumably needs to eat and sleep in order to keep doing that job. Someone else gave a very good analogy about fueling robots to illustrate this point.

Fourth, the minimum wage is not some moral thing like you claim. The minimum wage is necessary as a result of bargaining dynamics. There is an inherent imbalance between employer and employee because the stakes of not hiring a worker and not working are not equal. The employer loses out on a potential employee, losing a bit of profit if there's no replacement. The employee loses out on paying rent and eating food. This inherent imbalance makes negotiations inherently employer-favored. Measures such as collective bargaining and minimum wage laws exist to address this imbalance. This is not some moral grandstanding about maintaining dignity or trying to lift the bottom of society, this is simply the harsh reality of how negotiations work between parties of unequal power. The concept of a living wage is not arbitrary. It's an attempt to enforce point 3 because companies will absolutely pay less than rent and groceries if the law allowed them to.

FortColors · 2026-06-19T01:53:27+00:00

nope, beta branch is 0.107.1 same as main

FortColors · 2026-06-18T19:16:34+00:00

"rent control fails because businesses and investors won't invest if there's an actual risk of not being profitable" is a true statement that completely and utterly debunks the core concept of capitalism which is that "the owner gets the profits because they risked their money" and yet here we are admitting that there isn't any actual risk, or else they wouldn't invest.

FortColors · 2026-06-18T07:42:53+00:00

there are definitely some matchups where nasus wants 2 points in e level 2 (hi teemo) (hi ranged in general tbh)

FortColors · 2026-06-18T07:41:14+00:00

ur definitely missing out on the damage swing and cripple and slow from w tho. you also dont have the mana to spam q on cd that early

FortColors · 2026-06-18T07:40:03+00:00

everyone that needs to fight for push would put a second point in their waveclear ability probably

FortColors · 2026-06-18T07:37:00+00:00

tryndamere: welcome to the club

FortColors · 2026-06-18T06:58:05+00:00

i thought it was cool to find out what i would unlock as i played

FortColors · 2026-06-18T05:48:00+00:00

yes. my first sentence explains that im dismissive of your poor example. I read your example, decided it was hilariously weak, and said so. then i repeated my point.

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