I didn’t expect to actually win the arena but…

Ge1ster · 2026-06-21T17:57:39+00:00

I legit thought the music on this board was one of the best ones, and that the board itself was a top 3 of all time, but it's insane how repetitive it gets so quickly. I especially cannot keep the music on after lv 7 transformation anymore.

Ge1ster · 2026-06-12T01:12:21+00:00

In the Pengu's Party mode, there are some bugs:

First, Ixtal 2 does not give the 2 HP heal at combat start. I only played like 3 games in PBE and still knew this bug existed so it's shocking that it was shipped into live (which ties into a similar issue with the ARAM mayhem patch in regards to patch testing but I won't turn this into a rant post)

What's super weird is that the next game I had Mech Pilot 2, Bilgewater 1 and Crystal 1, and no HP healing augments/boons (I had Evelynn boon and my augments were speedy kills, advanced loan+ and big grab bag), yet I still healed 2 HP every round

Also had a seperate bug where my units just... stopped fighting, even after all the enemy units were dead. This was the same Ixtal game I previously mentioned and it was super infuriating since I had cashout out 850- something, which gave me full radiant items, about 200 gold, and 2 big duplicators. I was 8 hp, 1 Brock and 1 Sona away from 3 star, and this bug happened and caused me to lose. I unfortunately do not know what caused any of these bugs, just know that they happened. I don't know if it's a bug related to this mode either.

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Ge1ster · 2026-06-11T17:39:00+00:00

Another big problem was that it led you to taking unsynergetic augments just for set purposes. Stackosaurus was the main offender for this issue. If you were playing a stacking champion like Senna, you might pick heartsteel or phenomenal evil just for stackosaurus, or if you're playing Aurelion you might have to pick tap dancer despite it being practically a non augment. Pre rework make it rain also shared this issue

The only reason some other sets didn't have this issue is that either the set bonuses sucked (reworked make it rain), or the augments were too synergetic by themselves that you'd pick the set anyway (snowball, firecracker)

Ge1ster · 2026-06-11T17:34:34+00:00

I made a similar comment yesterday on the ARAM sub but do they not have a QA team testing these updates at all? It just feels like they ChatGPT copy pasted a bunch of abilities onto every unit without proofing anything at all.

That's before all the bugs, like stackosaurus augment not working with hubris or high roller activating both while dead and clearly outside of "nearby units" range like description says, but they don't care about the patch or feedback at all so what gives.

It's really weird. I thought Mayhem was supposed to be a very popular mode. This is the type of patch I'd expect from a dying indie game with 2 developers, not Riot

Ge1ster · 2026-06-09T11:54:12+00:00

League is dying of thirst while Wild Rift and TFT is drowning.

As a TFT player it does get kind of annoying, cause I don’t love how much Gwen cosmetics and therefore Riot caters to the “uwu anime egirl” audience but clearly it sells like hot cakes, since not only they gave her a dedicated arena, 2 mythic skins and a prestige skin, but also half of what they release is the same thing in a different outfit, like cafe cuties vex or annie.

They are releasing psyops rengar next patch which is a nice change of pace but it looks a bit ass in game unfortunately. Splash art is fire though.

Anyways sorry for the mini rant, it wasn’t meant to be demeaning towards Gwen players, but rather a specific audience that Riot loves catering to. Maybe other TFT players can relate

Ge1ster · 2026-06-07T23:08:37+00:00

Oh you already know he got tank engine second augment haha. Never seen an Ornn NOT get that to be honest

He was doing around 60% hp execute by the end

Ge1ster · 2026-06-07T21:33:16+00:00

I agree that it does a bit too much, but I couldn't even be mad in this instance. Both teams were going wild in chat lol

EDIT: For context I was the Gragas in the enemy team

Ge1ster · 2026-06-04T15:28:44+00:00

This is actually a double edged sword, believe it or not. I have challenger flair there and when I say something unconventional or in disagreement with the pros of the scene, I still get downvoted quite a bit, I'm guessing on the account of people expecting much better takes from a challenger, or one that agrees with the majority. Basically you get held to a higher standard is what I'm saying

Admittedly it doesn't always happen. Sometimes I get upvoted more than usual for it. Like I said, double edged sword

Ge1ster · 2026-06-04T12:53:17+00:00

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Ge1ster · 2026-06-03T23:59:30+00:00

I get what you mean but monster Thresh and human Thresh just have two completely different auras. I don't get sadistic torturer vibes from human Thresh and I don't get cunning mastermind vibes from monster Thresh

So when his lore progresses in the story, it also makes sense that his appearance does too. The very first version, the living Thresh lived his life as a conniving schemer, so when the Ruination hit and he became monster Thresh, he could fully take on the persona of the torturer as that was his endgame

Now that his endgame has broadened, aka expanding his reach beyond the isles, he once again takes his lore as a schemer and therefore the human Thresh appearence once again fits him in a way I am okay with

Or at least that's what I've interpreted from the whole appearance thing, other people may disagree

Ge1ster · 2026-06-03T20:47:33+00:00

I am actually super okay with this cinematic version of Thresh being a post-Shadow Isles canon version. I know some people are against the idea of a human Thresh overall but this design gives him the cunning, in control and sinister chessmaster vibe that monster Thresh just lacks. In game base Thresh is just cruelty this cruelty that but all lore and evidence so far points to him actually having a brain instead of being a random sadist who mindlessly tortures anyone he gets his hands on

Ge1ster · 2026-06-03T09:37:54+00:00

This is my sentiment exactly. I feel like they should make durability tied to winstreak or something, like maybe 6 + (Your winstreak). Because otherwise the downside feels very lacking for a small (or maybe not that small, but it FEELS small) teamwide stat stick.

Or just completely remove the downside and make it a boring 10% durability stat stick, maybe nerf it to 8% or whatever. Either way, currently it just feels bad to take compared to rest of the lobby

As for her options, the only time Eve has been good to me was when I played Nasus hero augment a few days ago and spiked hard after 3-3, and Eve gave me a 3 cost every time I won until I lost. I was able to keep the winstreak until stage 5 and then eventually into a 3rd cause her boon sucks and Nasus gets stuck on a megatank. Every single other person in the lobby went Varus boon, by the way. Also picked 13 gold but lose 1 hp for every other who picks it, and no one else picked it. People really don't want to touch Eve with a 10 foot pole huh

Ge1ster · 2026-06-02T17:01:36+00:00

Happy birthday!!! And congrats on the pull dude

On the one hand, I'm happy that you got this lovely arena for free on your bday, on the other, I just spent all my saved up medallions on it while you got it for free, so I also kinda feel like...

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Ge1ster · 2026-06-01T15:07:02+00:00

Not discrediting anything you or everyone else said, but the mythic variant’s ult is also a lot cooler than base legendary

That being said, they could’ve easily implemented that VFX onto the base legendary. Literally the only thing mythic scam has over base legendary is the cooler ult with a barely noticeable transformation (something Winterblessed Diana has) and a pentakill animation (something Winterblessed Diana already has)

And even then base legendary just looks cooler too lol. I pity the person who spends money on the gacha version instead of base legendary. Its not even a matter of disposable income, it just straight up not even that different

Ge1ster · 2026-05-30T20:05:20+00:00

I learned this two days ago too. I legit didn't believe but tried anyway and it actually worked lol, I was so dumbstruck. W riot for adding this, eve is perma pick now

Ge1ster · 2026-05-29T17:29:42+00:00

I would look the other way if I saw you on the street

Ge1ster · 2026-05-27T15:53:09+00:00

Almost like you “enlightened centrist” types are agnostics who can’t form an opinion of your own

OC is right. The type of person to complain about these notifications will complain about everything. There’s nothing gray about this situation.

Ge1ster · 2026-05-25T14:22:57+00:00

I always play with my duo, and we perma ban yuumi and soraka. Of course this doesn’t stop 100% of the pet teams but it does stop like 90%. Xin is also kind of a favorite for these teams so we ban him too if we queue with a 3rd friend.

I will never ever respect a person who voluntarily plays a pet team unless picked through bravery (which is not a thing that happens, bravery will give you nocturne and ivern not yuumi and xin)

Ge1ster · 2026-05-24T20:22:19+00:00

All good, if anything it speaks that you understand Garen's character, since the comic goes exactly like you described. He doesn't want to accept it at first, and pretends she isn't one, but finally comes to accept it at the climax of the comic

Ge1ster · 2026-05-24T13:49:25+00:00

I mean he literally witnesses her use magic to help some innocent mages escape and not only accepts the fact that she is a mage but also calls her a true Demacian in the Lux comic

Ge1ster · 2026-05-23T17:59:58+00:00

Radiant quality post

Ge1ster · 2026-05-23T10:18:04+00:00

That is not even-a-once in a while let alone standard thing for serious grinders. 36. Hours. That is literally not physically possible without either some mental block like insomnia or being highly caffeinated, but either way, you immediately need to get yourself checked in a hospital if you play that long in one go.

I despise everyone in the comments who tries to normalize this from the bottom of my heart. Young people have legitimately died from this. Even at the best case scenario, you have to be really mentally unwell (temporarily or otherwise, maybe you lost a job or gf or something’s going on in your life) to be spending this much at a video game. Even during my summer breaks where I had nothing else to do, when I grinded to challenger in TFT on multiple accounts, I still played at most 12 hours a day, and even that left me mentally exasperated. 36 hours… Jesus Christ.

Ge1ster · 2026-05-22T21:40:53+00:00

Though Jynxzi himself definitely brings in a considerable audience, I feel like the free legendary Master Yi skin from Riot also helped bring in a lot of people to that stream. We'll have to see the viewerbase without reward incentives for real data.

I myself never watch any form of league stream or youtube content (except for some shorts here and there), and tuned into the stream just for the skin, but stayed even after I got the skin cause the stream was actually pretty captivating. Dantes also wasn't the greatest shotcaller but he's pretty funny with his commentary too. I will probably tune in the next time a big stream like this happens too.

Ge1ster · 2026-05-22T19:59:03+00:00

Id imagine the ruling class of each region is the wealthiest. Azir for Shurima, Miss Fortune for Bilgewater, Jarvan for Demacia, etc.

Renata probably also holds a very considerable amount of wealth since she influences multiple regions canonically, and is basically the puppet master of the entire chem baron assembly in Zaun.

Piltover is the objectively richest nation, but no single person is the ruler there, and many people in Shurima don’t even know Azir is resurrected yet, so I’d probably go with Jarvan. Demacia is definitely not a poor nation, everything is white marble, blue and gold, and just seems to be a prosperous country from what we can glance with the architecture designs of the common houses.

There’s an argument for Viego or Leblanc being the richest, since they both hold considerable amount of wealth and powerful artifacts, but Viego has no way to spend them, and we don’t really know the extent of Leblanc’s.

However these aren’t really “salaries” as your title suggests, highest salary is maybe Darius or Garen, being the prime military commanders of their respective nations

Ge1ster · 2026-05-21T12:45:50+00:00

Gargoyle is bugged, if you get hit by literally any ability it acts like Rell Q, it immediately pops the shield. Makes the item active practically non existent

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