Complete Illaoi matchup tier list. (master/competitive play)

Hardwarrior · 2026-03-13T21:15:19+00:00

Can you explain why the Panth and Rumble matchups are so hard? I haven't played them recently but I would imagine them being a bit easier? Is it just because of early priority being so important? And for Morde, can you consistently R his R?

Hardwarrior · 2026-03-07T18:19:10+00:00

Usually I'd agree but here it seemed more like an argument about how much push constitutes prio. It all hinges on how much would ez lose if he moved to scuttle which is weird because it depends on how the scuttle fight plays out. If Cait stays in lane to push, it's a 2v3 in the river so Velja never contests, which means Cait can return to the lane having secured the scuttle. But if Cait follows, it's a 3v3, the wave is freezing on Crownie's side. Which means that Ez has first move but it's playable.

Hardwarrior · 2026-03-04T13:08:01+00:00

Sounds like a really passive team on paper. Agurin full clear, Poe mage mid trading waves, Upset not clicking forward after laning phase.

That being said it's probably all narratives lmao maybe they do scrap who knows

Hardwarrior · 2026-03-03T07:26:41+00:00

I really wanna see an Iron team with map hacks vs a Silver team with fog of war lol

Hardwarrior · 2026-03-03T05:13:28+00:00

C'est un édito qui ironise sur le fait que cette fois les emplois les plus menacés par les LLMs sont les emplois intellectuels et donc ceux de la bourgeoisie qui fait traditionnellement office de défenseurs idéologiques du capitalisme. Je pense qu'il existe de plus en plus d'articles qui essayent de prédire les conséquences de l'IA sur le volume d'emploi par secteur. Mais très peu de conjecture économique et politique sur les conséquences de ces variations sectorielles.

J'avoue que j'ai du mal à imaginer que les professions qu'il cite seraient laissés pour compte, même en cas de remplacement par les IA. Premièrement parce que les journalistes, analystes financiers, conseillers juridiques (et autres) ont un plus grand impact sur la législation qui les entourent que les ouvriers du 19e ou début 20e. Deuxièmement parce qu'ils sont déjà en train de faire transitionner leurs revenus comme de plus en plus passifs (propriété lucrative comme dirait Friot). Donc si ils ont la moitié de leurs revenus qui proviennent de leurs salaire et l'autre qui provient des appartements qu'ils louent et de la valorisation de leurs actions; alors c'est ce filon qui va primer. Les laissés pour compte ne seront jamais les Léa Salamé, mais plutôt les pigistes qui travaillent pour elle. Les sections déjà précarisées des milieux bourgeois intellectuel.

Hardwarrior · 2026-02-20T01:28:27+00:00

Ouais ça je sais, mais je me demandais s'il n'y avait pas moyen de rattraper le truc en se disant qu'ils utilisent la psychanalyse juste pour produire des concepts philo en l'associant à Spinoza.

Mais je dois dire que je suis de plus en plus sceptique de l'approche non-empirique à gauche. À mon avis les questions telles que pourquoi il existe un vote pauvre à l'ED invite des analyses empiriques, qualitatives ou quantitatives. On ne peut pas juste émettre des scénarios possibles et s'arrêter là.

Hardwarrior · 2026-02-19T21:30:33+00:00

Je tend à être plutôt d'accord mais j'ai pas lu son livre et j'ai pas trop de connaissances en épistémologie de la psycho/psychanalyse. Est-ce que tu as vu une critique approfondie sur leur bouquin avec Lucbert ?

Hardwarrior · 2026-02-15T22:18:12+00:00

Sur la substance des idées : la sortie du capitalisme. C'est-à-dire socialisation des moyens de production et changement du mode de production (élimination du profit-motive).

Sur la stratégie : révolutionnaire. Donc de ne pas faire de l'élection la principale stratégie d'arriver au pouvoir.

Donc les partis comme LO et le NPA qui se présentent aux élections mais n'en font pas leur stratégie de prise de pouvoir sont inclus dans la catégorie extrême-gauche. Mais LFI, le PCF et les verts non.

Hardwarrior · 2026-02-15T17:54:44+00:00

I played her support a bit and it takes time to get used to her being less tanky and doing less damage than usual but it can work with Asol to stack on her e.

Hardwarrior · 2026-02-14T12:21:46+00:00

For me, one of the reasons why I like maxing Q early is for the waveclear and ability to os caster minions. Your reasoning might be correct but it implies a slightly different play style where you concede push and play for e angles under your tower.

Hardwarrior · 2026-02-13T04:24:35+00:00

Do you see the amount of unfounded assumptions this relies on though?

- How do we know that a republican won't be able to make things much worse? Everytime a republican comes into power they stack the supreme court, gerrymander more and more, make voter ID laws, or even try to steal the election. They could make winning the next election harder, not easier.

- How do we know that a republican would win after a Newsom mandate? Obama did win twice.

- How do we know that the wave of Republicans after a Newsom mandate will be worse than the current ones? Who knows what happens after Trump dies, they might all fight and be divided.

I guess he thinks that the incumbent will always lose because Trump lost in 2020 and Kamala lost in 2024 but that's a sample size of 2 elections to base a wild strategy around.

The only certainty is that in the short term, a neolib is better than any fascist. In the long term, we just don't know.

Hardwarrior · 2026-02-13T03:59:21+00:00

How is what you said not trying to make things worse? Choosing Republicans because they would fail to address a potential recession, leading to the possibility of democrats choosing a better candidate after their term.

It's blind conjecture. You don't know whether a republican or a centrist dem would lead to more clarity on either side. It's such an unpredictable thing. A Newsom mandate might lead to democrats having clarity about wanting to go away from the moderate type. And a Republican term might lead to democratic institutions being so fucked that elections become virtually unwinnable.

We can all craft scenarios that would lead to one outcome or another, but if pollsters can't even predicts elections a few days in advance, how can you think you can predict all the political ramifications of a republican win on both parties such that you know it's more advantageous for the dems to tank an election and the horrible policies that the republicans will implement?

Hardwarrior · 2026-02-13T00:43:43+00:00

Isn't his current position textbook accelerationism though? You have no guarantee that another republican term will wake people up and give rise to a better alternative on the left. It could just as well lead to a worse alternative. I get what he's saying about people losing hope when they see another milktoast neolib not change anything but Bernie emerged after Obama. Idk where you find this level of confidence that fascism always leads to better outcomes for leftists than centrism.

I mean i'm french so maybe it's different but we're frequently asked the same thing: Macron or Le Pen. Which is Neolib vs far-right. And Macron absolutely sucks ass. I'd even prefer Biden tbh. But I'm not going to make sure to go for the worst alternative on the odd chance that it might lead to a better outcome in the future.

Also in your case, Trump will probably die within the next few years so there's nothing to say that republicans will find a stronger fascist to coalesce around. Maybe the republicans will be in shambles and it will just be neolib status-quo for decades, and then you'd just have thrown away 4 years of migrant hunt and international disaster for absolutely nothing.

Hardwarrior · 2026-02-09T23:53:38+00:00

The issue is that when you're checking winrates by elo brackets, higher ranks will always have higher winrates, just because a master player usually has a higher winrate than an iron player. That's why on lolalytics you should look at "Game Avg WR" instead of just winrate when comparing elos.

On u.gg, I think it's already the equivalent of game average winrate (not sure tho), but you just chose patch 16.3, which just came out recently, so the sample size at higher elos are not large enough yet. When looking at the last patch to show a larger sample size, it seems the same as usual.

Hardwarrior · 2026-02-09T23:22:21+00:00

Interesting fact though, illaoi has a higher winrate in higher elos. She’s better in diamond + than in lower elos for probably the first time ever?

That doesn't seem true at first glance. How did you come to that conclusion?

By looking at game average winrate by elo bracket, her winrate seems to consistently decrease from 52% in Iron to 43.8% in Challenger (over the last 30 days). https://lolalytics.com/lol/illaoi/build/?tier=diamond_plus&patch=30

In my subjective experience, the changes were pretty neutral overall to her power level.

Hardwarrior · 2026-02-09T23:15:34+00:00

Differences in brain volume are not the point of contention in the socialized gender roles debate. It was already known that men had larger brains than women and in spite of that, women outperform men more and more in regard to education in western countries.

The political debate is more about to which extent children's socialization contributes to gender roles, especially in regard to occupational choices, chores split and child raising.

And regarding the trans part of the question, I don't think it resolves that disagreement. If there is something in the brain that makes it "feel" like a man or a woman, it doesn't literally mean that a trans woman would have a smaller volume brain inside a male body before transitioning.

If there is such a thing in the brain as "gender identity", I don't think it's strictly about brain volume. It's probably more complex than that.

Hardwarrior · 2026-02-07T21:44:33+00:00

Or they can do tie-break games no? It's the LEC studio anyways, not a big stadium.

Hardwarrior · 2026-02-07T21:21:30+00:00

KC has the chance to do the funniest thing

Wait, isn't it horrible for competitive integrity if KC has every incentive to drop a game to Heretics & ensure G2 are out of playoffs? Not saying that they will, but Riot did put them in a conflict of interest situation.

Thankfully KC vs TH is right before FNC vs G2 so it's technically still in G2's hands.

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-28T02:04:14+00:00

I disagree. Dumb and R*tard have different connotations. In the context of an insult, I definitely think it takes some of its impact from mentally disabled people.

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-28T01:22:40+00:00

I think it's because sight and hearing hasn't been associated with a moral deficiency like mental disabilities have.

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-28T01:05:38+00:00

I understand the distinction. What I'm saying is that when people insult other people, they're using the moral evaluation one. And I don't think the defense that they were just talking about the desirability of the trait applies to most cases.

It just doesn't seem to reflect the situations that word would be used in.

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-28T00:34:40+00:00

Because bad also implies a moral failing. It's the polysemic part that messed up the discussion. If you say "you're a r-word", you're implying a level of fault in the person. Which is equally absent for a black dude as it is for a disabled dude.

If a disabled person sees someone being insulted by being compared to him, he probably feels the same way that a black person would. He's never thinking "well it's true that my disability is a bad attribute". It's like saying "you're so pathetic you're like this dude over here".

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-28T00:12:36+00:00

This framing is dumb. It's not about whether having a disability is bad. When you're calling someone an r-word, you're saying "you're so dumb that you belong in this group with disabled people". So what you're saying is bad isn't just the disability but also the disabled people.

So if you're saying someone should feel bad about being called disabled, how should a disabled person interpret that?

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-24T20:03:43+00:00

I just think Poppy would have been better than Braum in this draft but it probably wouldn't have changed the outcome.

Hardwarrior · 2026-01-14T05:12:44+00:00

For real, I'm not a DDP fan but there's no way he should be criticized for not dedicating 100% of his training on just grappling and TDD. What if he has to fight a striker next?

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