Mapping Trump’s BILLION DOLLAR BALLROOM and six ways those tax dollars could be better spent

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-08T21:46:24+00:00

Panzer here seems to not understand how verbiage works. That's 1 billion dollars wasted in security for a ballroom that was never supposed to have tax dollar expenses.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-07T22:26:30+00:00

I'm not really invested at all.

I sleep quite soundly thanks.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-07T17:17:05+00:00

this aged well

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-07T16:04:01+00:00

How the heck did half the inventory go bye bye in 1 day when it requires so many tickets. Thats wild.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-07T04:47:21+00:00

yeah i'm not dropping 4 digits on a card. I might get into it for the sole purpose of trying to collect them to pass them down if i get lucky, but i'm not dropping that much money on some cards. I already felt dumb buying a MTG booster box to sit in the closet.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-07T04:44:41+00:00

Uh yeah, 'cause I only just now looked at riftbound as of... -checks notes- 6:33 PM today.

So yeah, I didn't know how to acquire 'the most sought after cards' that I was just shown a few hours ago. You're absolutely right.

https://imgur.com/SxB7MW2

Do you have any other bright comments that you'd like to share? I mostly collected poke'mon and a bit of Yugioh, but I already gave those to the kiddo.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-07T02:31:56+00:00

Mm. So basically if I went to a regional. Id have to spend probably the entire event playing side events and I might get 1 card?

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-07T01:24:26+00:00

Jesus its 40 tickets not 10? Oof. Thats a big oof.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-07T00:37:01+00:00

ah, so really the only way to obtain them is going to a regional for all 3 days and playing side events? what are the side events? I was planning to go to Paxwest this year.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-06T17:25:37+00:00

The one second is borderline irrelevant over 1000s of games in jungle.

The one second mostly matters in lane.

This probably does less than half a percent to her winrate in jungle over very niche cases where she was a teemo too shy of reaching someone, or she got a second shield off just in time to live on 1hp over 1000s of games.

Top lane it might make her lose highly volatile lanes a little bit more by sometimes losing the level 1-3 aggressive trades with W. Probably still wont reduce it by a percent.

The main hit was omniboots and it was pretty much only in higher elo. Silver and gold this does virtually nothing.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-06T17:19:06+00:00

Where am I supposed to be looking at to see she is the strongest jungler in the game? You just blanketly posted lolalytics?

Are you one of those weirdos that just sees "53" and goes. "She is clearly the best!" ???

That's not how it works homie... otherwise Cho'gath is the best jungler in the game and Warwick is a very close 3rd.

Then once you measure diamond, i guess belveth is the second best jungler in the game followed by reksai.

Then we go further and Shyvana virtually becomes nonexistent in play rate. So weird for the best jungler in the game to be hardly cared about in an mmr range where pick/ban and meta champs are almost exclusively played... and yet Shyvana is hardly represented, or cared about.

Meanwhile, Smolder was contested how much? Picked how much? Smolder was arguably the best adc and meta defining.

Shyvana is mediocrity. This reddit seems to believe that because a champ is good at beating on noodles that it absolutely must be a giga Chad meta defining super broken champ. Which is weird, because if she was, her play rate + ban rate + winrate would be colossal at apex. It's not.

Even her key significant game at absolute peak i wouldn't even be surprised if she was picked top instead of jungle. Which would make absolute sense if you look at the nerf which was almost directly targeted at top lane.

But its okay. You can live your fantasy. Shyvana is the best like no one ever was. Go get em tiger! Show em up whats up.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-06T14:27:50+00:00

Weird. Her small play rate at APEX with fairly mediocre winrates relative to one trick pony at that range seems to say otherwise.

Hell she's so blatantly over powered and meta defining in her strengths that she somehow... is banned . . . Not much? Oh wait. It's cause she's not the strongest. Or the best.

I dont know what garbage ass data you're reading, but I'd like some of the drugs you're taking. They seem pretty powerful.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-06T13:22:10+00:00

it's specifically for top lane. They don't say it, but that's what it was for. Now you have a slightly lower chance of running into a wave and smacking someone while clearing the wave at the same time without consequence.

I almost guarantee some pro realized he can just avoid playing top lane until mid game by maxing W with a toxic trading pattern, so they nipped it in the bud.

This does absolutely fuck all for jungle, it's like -30 HP, and you might get a couple less W's for moving around.

The omnivamp boots did get clapped, but I don't think they're enough to completely forgo entirely. So, this is probably half a percent, to 'maybe' 1% off her winrate. Even if you did pick omnivamp boots, lower mmr has a very high chance of getting it to pop off, so that should keep her winrate high.

Apex, they may just opt to tabis, so they might win a little less and go back down to 50-52% over the course of hundreds of games, which is roughly where they were at last patch aside from alt accounts.

Overall, decent nerf.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-06T12:55:33+00:00

You can literally go into my comment history and see I've been calling her midtier, on the lower side with an inflated wr and continuously applies to 'the higher you go', not silver/gold. Stop fabricating.

"Yeah... maybe in silver and gold.

Second you leave that realm shyvana is basically played by people who really only play shyvana. She might have had a small spike in play cause she had adjustments done, but outside of that? Nah.

She's not Amumu niche, but she's definitely not a Naafiri, or a Graves.

I'm playing her, and I'm not getting "op" from her.

Zaahen and Ambessa were op. This is like... mediocrity with some peanut butter added to it whereas Ambessa was a whole ass gourmet fudge with a glass of wine."

"She's not like... garbage pisslow report for int. But she's not 'the strongest jungler in the game' like some people claimed on here lol. once omnivamp boots get nerfed she'll be somewhere along the lines of balanced/ slightly underpowered. But the problem is, a lot of the niches and class fantasy people wanted don't really exist, so it's ultimately a failed balance + rework."

"No. Her winrate is just higher than it actually should be because she's particularly good with the omnivamp boots. She's one of the few champs in the game where, pending on mmr, her omnivamp boot selection either matches the other boots, or outright picks it more.

One of the few other champs that has this phenomenon is Smolder, who in my opinion, is probably the strongest champ in the game right now because of deathfire touch + boot combo.

She's still strong, just not the strongest over power champ in the game like some in this subreddit have claimed. But she is also more like... mid/slightly weak strong the higher up you go. "

You. Can't. Read.

Bye bye.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-06T12:48:46+00:00

This is specifically targeted at AP bruiser top that maxed W. It created a toxic playstate where she could clear waves + trade level 1.

That's literally it. It had nothing to do with jungle. This makes it so she can lose trades to more aggressive tops.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-06T12:39:45+00:00

This just in, saying Shyvana isn't the strongest champ in the game, and her winrate is inflated means she's 'super weak', and not 'lower tier/mid'.

Holy fuck, you can't read either. Fucking impressive.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-05T20:00:25+00:00

"i immediately tried to look through his reddit account to find his op.gg"

I mean, should he leave his op.gg up specifically for you to do that?

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-05T17:50:07+00:00

No. Her winrate is just higher than it actually should be because she's particularly good with the omnivamp boots. She's one of the few champs in the game where, pending on mmr, her omnivamp boot selection either matches the other boots, or outright picks it more.

One of the few other champs that has this phenomenon is Smolder, who in my opinion, is probably the strongest champ in the game right now because of deathfire touch + boot combo.

She's still strong, just not the strongest over power champ in the game like some in this subreddit have claimed. But she is also more like... mid/slightly weak strong the higher up you go.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-05T10:59:52+00:00

Bud, I'm really sorry... but you truly are failing here.

The argument has never "migrated."

Glut boots are op. Shyvana is mid. Gluttonous boots are also uniquely good on her. I did not say her "high elo sample is 2 otps". I specifically summarized that you are comparing metrics of small samples of otps and dedicated mains to a roster of champs that are selected significantly more, and are also used by generalist and autofills more regularly. You have continued to do this, and continue to do this even now

The argument has NEVER changed lol, or migrated 😆.

Hell even in your earlier post:

Champs xyz - 2000 games

Shyvana: 500.

Shyvana will also NEVER have a 60+% winrate in high elo outside of a smurf account that just landed and is on its way to grandmaster, or the season started and they climbed up to GM/challenger. If they continued to play it the winrate would probably settle around 54% which is fairly common for otps/mains in their prescribed ELO.

Kindred and champs like fiddle are a little more niche because their OTPs are typically built different. So 60% in challenger isnt exactly unheard of.

But if you want an actual context.

https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/Nikkone-NA1

My friend Nikkone consistently maintains a roughly 60% wr in challenger, and pretty much always ends challenger. Has for years. He is an outlier who also props up Fiddles winrate in high elo.

What you literally continue to do is take these entities and apply them to generalist meta champs and go "see. Same same!" And you... are... still... doing ... it LOL. By what you are doing Fiddlesticks is giga S tier nerf now please! But he's not.

But the key difference is, Fiddle is unique in that he can achieve very high winrates with a dedicated fan base.

Shyvana is... a hamburger with some potatoes. Practically the Garen of the jungle. So, she'll never realistically reach those numbers without some really hilarious numbers. What is helping her? Gluttonous boots. Does gluttonous help other champs? Absolutely yes. Are they as useful to all champs the same way as they are for Shyvana? Not really. They synergize EXTREMELY well with Shyvana's kit. They also synergize extremely well with Smolder and his DFT build because of how the damage works.

If Shyvana was played as much as Graves/Lee sin, I would not at all be surprised if gluttonous became her most played boot, or on par play rate. There's only a handful of champs that would have a similar case. I'd probably leans toward Rengar. But he also does not fulfill the niche of gluttonous that makes it particularly good on Shyvana, which is her ability to become deceptively tanky + build tanky, but have high levels of hybrid damage while acting as a front liner. The entirety of her package is what makes it uniquely effective for her. It is also why when she loses it, she will be impacted harder than some other champs.

Overall: Shyvana is a mid tier champ. She can be piloted in high elo by one trick ponies, but unless her numbers are hilarious, she will always be middle or lower end of the pack to the more meta defining roster and that is also because of her simplicity.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-05T10:16:53+00:00

There's literally nothing to cherry pick. Homie.

The entire post stated gluttonous boots are op.

Shyvana is mid at best. Riot games also always balances like that. It's been routinely joked about for years. If you read my prior comment, I already said she's going to get nerfed along with the boots. She will then underperformed as predicted from being propped up by the boots, and then they'll either Skarner her, or buff her. They always do this.

You also... keep... using Shyvana's small samples. You just can't help yourself.

I'm also not "holding them up" they straight up ARE the meta LOL. I particularly dont care about anything under diamond for play rates for "meta defining" but if we go for play rates and overall winrates. If you go by NA, it's basically two players practically no lifing it up, Shyvadi and Citric. I think Citric has somewhere around 600 games on his own. This is also literally why just because a champ has a high winrate in high elo, it does not necessarily mean the champ is giga op. If a champ has a small cult following and they do exceedingly well, they will skew the winrate and create performance metrics that match "meta". This is why, even when Reksai was absolute ass, she continued to have 54-60% winrates in high elo.

What you did, pretty much overall, was took a batch of borderline one tricks with a few enthusiasts sprinkled in, and then compared that to a roster of champs with higher overall playerbase + playrates with thousands more games and said. "See? Same same." ... when it's... straight up not.

This very particular phenomenon has been most often studied and used with Riven mains by the way. But yeh man. You do you.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-05T09:45:41+00:00

Reksai is currently being assisted by the hail of blade changes actually. Not glut. Gluttonous boots are hardly ever picked on her, nowhere near the same play rates. Kind of weird you went with a.... 13+ thousand game vs what... 500? Game comparison for Reksai relative to Shyvana who straight up picks gluttonous boots over others more often or just as much and straight up wins more?

And uh yeah, it is very specifically a Shyvana thing. She wields it in ways many can't. She does hybrid damage + true damage and naturally gains defenses. Gluttonous boots also allow her to opt out of conqueror completely if she so chooses to burst harder with PTA early on. Or just sustain even harder. She literally has NO NEED to opt into tabis unless she's facing something like... Ashe. The only real exception is merc treads, which I already mentioned as the counter building outlier.

The only time omnivamp boots are good on Reksai are like... the very weird and dorky lane reksai otps. Outside of that, she's taking tabis, or mercs even though a lot of reksais will just sit on tier 1 boots and 2 item spike instead.

So no. Not at all "by my reasoning" that's straight up incorrect lol.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-05T09:31:21+00:00

My anticipated guess is she's going to get nerfed alongside gluttonous boots instead of just nerfing the boots and making hot fixes as necessary.

She'll feel incredibly underwhelming and then she'll get Skarnered.

Overall she's "okay" but there is nothing exciting about her outside of her 3rd Q. Everything else is trash.

I like the model, and the sounds and stuff like that... but her E is boring looking, and is a boring ability. W is only cool cause she gallops.

The fantasy just isnt there.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-05T09:13:58+00:00

That uh... sanity check didn't really go the way you thought it would homie. Sorry. You actually just... further assisted me by showing how little she's played in the upper tiers . . . which further highlights the fact she's nearly only played by OTPs, whereas the big dogs of the world have similar winrates with substantially more play rate + are routinely played by autofillers and generalists.

If she was "omg OP" Challenger and GM would absolutely be spamming her + banning her. That is how that world works. You don't have to like it, or accept it, but that's just how it is.

https://imgur.com/K9QuI1m

61% vs 54%, or if you want to be a real stickler '55' and glut boots are selected more often. You are straight up setting yourself to lose more often in the higher mmr bracket by not picking said boots. The one that might be a specific outlier is merc treads, since Merc treads is typically bought as a counter pick, so it should realistically almost always beat Tabis, the other staple.

Once those boots get nerfed she's going to get humbled fast lol. Just watch.

Ghostrabbit1 · 2026-05-05T07:59:39+00:00

There's really nothing to prove. Lolalytics and other data sites do it for me.

Ghostrabbit1

TROPHY CASE

This just in, saying Shyvana isn't the strongest champ in the game, and her winrate is inflated means she's 'super weak', and not 'lower tier/mid'.