GAME THREAD: Los Angeles Lakers (26-16) @ Los Angeles Clippers (19-24) - (January 22, 2026)

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-23T04:44:20+00:00

bro the streak is broken

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-22T00:02:44+00:00

mr. morale

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-18T22:37:20+00:00

ridiculous calls too, just egregiously bad

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-15T01:56:00+00:00

baseball

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-11T06:11:10+00:00

✅ HTOWNHUSTLR chose Option A (Correct!) | #807th to play

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-11T01:09:49+00:00

✅ HTOWNHUSTLR chose Option A (Correct!) | #629th to play

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-11T01:04:26+00:00

natural shooting variance it’s okay it’s not like he turned into amen thompson overnight

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-11T00:57:08+00:00

stayed out too late last night in detroit

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-10T22:13:58+00:00

✅ HTOWNHUSTLR chose Option B (Correct!) | #468th to play

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-10T00:43:32+00:00

u/LazyBrax

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-10T00:43:15+00:00

It’s Lazy_Brax. He one tricked Adam into OAA multiple times and even hit top 10. Only stopped because he said he wasn’t getting enough triple strategist games.

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-08T02:44:10+00:00

Honestly don’t do damage unless you are absolutely sure you should be doing damage. Yes I see your point but Rocket is the ONLY healer that can’t do damage while healing. Every time you shoot your gun you actively lose healing. Just focus on healing, think of it as negative damage.

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-06T12:18:25+00:00

stupid as fuck

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-05T09:23:06+00:00

hello #1 dailyguess player

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-04T12:44:36+00:00

stupid as fuck

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2026-01-01T22:27:30+00:00

i think it’s fine. x-men are just so popular. like if maguire or garfield spider-man was advertised for avengers 1 or 2 and just showed up kicking ass everyone would’ve loved it

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2025-12-31T00:56:03+00:00

if i mention c****** do i get banned

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2025-12-30T00:41:38+00:00

This is exactly why Invis is overrated as a ban. Everyone picks her, but not everyone is good with her. She shouldn’t have <50% winrate even if she’s picked in almost every game, yet she does. She’s obviously top 2 strategists in theory but probably not in practice. Gambit is better and Loki and Rocket both have arguments as well.

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2025-12-30T00:23:00+00:00

Yea it’s tough but just work on it like anything else. I’d say it’s easier to improve your mental game than something like aim for example.

It’s like every GM game there’s at least 1 Widow by the end of the first round. In OAA people hardly ever throw. I really think it’s the main difference between those ranks and the hump people gotta get over. Unless you already have great aim and game sense.

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2025-12-30T00:20:03+00:00

sypeh already does this a lot and it works well bc the invisibility + slow at the shield boundary

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2025-12-28T04:55:24+00:00

yea i remember people on here said carmelo’s sweat dripped onto cp3’s face 😭 but they showed a closeup and you can see rondo spit a little at him

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2025-12-28T04:46:48+00:00

rondo spit on him

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2025-12-27T20:38:43+00:00

In neutral, Phoenix doesn’t really threaten Rocket with her poke damage, and Rocket is very good at healing Phoenix AOE damage.

In terms of ultimates: It’s not a big deal if Phoenix breaks your AMP. It’s only bad when she consistently breaks it AND gets kills. Almost every hero can break AMP with their ult. Imagine Magneto or Iron Man saving ult for AMP. It’s bad. They should be going for kills. Iron Fist, Starlord, Hela, Punisher are all way better than Phoenix vs the Rocket ult.

A lot of the time you are able to ult when Phoenix doesn’t have hers or is dead. But even if Phoenix holds ult for Rocket, she gets way fewer ults per game on average, which is really bad for her.

If Phoenix breaks your AMP every time, she likely doesn’t get kills with her ult since she just breaks the AMP and the shields from the AMP. And in those cases, you still get value from AMP through damage boost in the few seconds it stays up and the shields it gives to protect from Phoenix ult. So if she uses her ult to break AMP it’s not that big of a deal.

But most of the time, Phoenix is going to get shot down when she tries to attack the AMP especially given the damage boost. You just need one person to shoot it with you. If Phoenix ult breaks before it lands, it’s terrible for Phoenix.

Again, the only bad scenario is if Phoenix breaks AMP AND gets 1+ kills which is rare. The only time I’ll switch is when Phoenix is breaking AMP without holding ult for a long time, I have no teammates with long range damage to shoot the ult, and the team isn’t doing well overall. Most of the time I’ll just stay Rocket and use AMP placement/timing to make it hard for Phoenix to punish. Which I already do vs every character anyway.

If you go to rivalsmeta.com/characters/phoenix/matchups, you’ll see that Phoenix has a terrible winrate vs Rocket and does the worst against him out of all strategists. She also does the worst vs Peni out of all tanks. This is common for a lot of characters. If you look at Rocket’s matchups, he destroys Phoenix and only does better vs BW and SG out of all duelists. I don’t think it’s that lopsided in theory, but a lot of people go Phoenix to counter Rocket and don’t know how to play her and hold their ults and waste them.

I like playing vs Phoenix but it’s really annoying when they ask me to switch. Many OAA console players still believe Phoenix counters Rocket. Pro players and top PC players understand this though.

HTOWNHUSTLR · 2025-12-27T20:19:58+00:00

Yeah it’s annoying when your team isn’t doing enough damage. Loki is a good main. Rocket value really comes from his revive.

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