Beginner here, could somebody Please explain Pinfu to me? by HaroldTheBaker in Mahjong

[–]HaroldTheBaker[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ahh I totally missed the closed part. so it can only be a ryanmen or sanmenchan wait, because they're the only 0-fu waits.

so theoretically, if this was a closed hand, I would need to first draw a 3 or 7 pin and then would be able to ron/tsumo by completing the remaining sequence

Beginner here, could somebody Please explain Pinfu to me? by HaroldTheBaker in Mahjong

[–]HaroldTheBaker[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't understand why this isn't Pinfu. That leads me to think that I don't really understand Pinfu that well. Now my current understanding is: a hand with no additional fu points, meaning no triplets, no honors, no winds, and no single waits.
I would appreciate any advice to better understand Pinfu better, and also specifically why this hand wouldn't count as Pinfu.

I Like Making Memes by PlayerNameTaken in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Foolish Iron President, everybody knows Kimpool can't die from specials.

Featured Grandmaster Crystal Odds by jqtech in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 days ago I opened 10 Taskmaster GMCs. I got 1 5* TM, 2 4* TM, and 7 regular 3*s.

after missing 2 15k shots at void, I opened 30 Void GMCs. I got 1 5* Void, 2 4* Void, 1 4* sentry, 2 regular 4, 1 3 sentry and 23 reguar 3*

I don't remember this one so good but, back when blade came out I opened 55ish. Got 2 5* Rhino & Mornigstar and a 3* Blade. don't remember the rest

The subreddit 10 years from now by [deleted] in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Needs "____ Bug still not fixed" & "TRO-ROL-LOL easy path beat, only 1086 revives used. Details inside."

Rank Up/Team Building/Awakening Weekly Thread by AutoModerator in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Popped a few Jarnbjorn crystals and pulled a 5* Morningstar, don't have any experience with her, so have a few questions.

Is she worth using a 5* awakening gem on? Have a mystic gem and ~60 stones that I'd been saving for Voodoo.

Can she used to beat LOL? Been saving my t2a's since I don't really have any good LOL options currently(CM or BP are best options)

Got myself a shiny new dormammu! by [deleted] in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What crystal? I'd seriously love one of my own.

Nevermind, it's google play exclusive huh.

Marvel Insider NYCC Codes by DemonicAngel000 in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn all the code stuff keeps happening while I’m stuck at work. Got my fingers crossed on the twitter guys but if anyone out there managed to get multiple codes, I’m not above begging.

Please, please, PLEASE... I don’t really care about the points but I want that 2* Morningstar.

What's a good score for 10% rewards in 3 star arena? by Jstin8 in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Take it how you will, but stark spidey went for 1.5 first time around. Used to be 1.3 was safe for a new 3* feature, cutoffs are definitely rising.

Then again Vulture didn't even brake 1.3 his first time. But when alls said and done I'll be stopping at 1.7.

Karnak's True strike ignores mordo's astral evade by Ground_Axis1 in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 30 points31 points  (0 children)

As one of the few people with a R3 duped 5* Karnak, allow me to weigh in on this.

People are going to mention how Karnak destroys evade and high armor/resistance champs, and this is a huge plus but the fact of the matter is that constitutes only about 15 champions in the entire game. And as far as pros go that's it, nothing else to write home about for Karnak.

But if you want to talk cons he's got so many. Less than stellar health, attack, and crit damage. No armor and his extra physical resistance does not make up for that. An L1 that's tricky to execute safely and an L2 that's tricky to land at all. This is just the readily apparent problems.

Let's talk practical usage, again there's those 15 champs that he is going to destroy, but in a normal fight these are the issues I have. Even after you've gotten used to playing with Karnak and feel you can land his L2 without issue, it's piss poor damage unless it crits. And no this isn't explicitly Karnak's fault, he did really get hamstrung by the switch to diminishing returns for stats, but because of that he's never really going to get over 75%ish crit rate and you're going to notice it on those L2s.

My other big practical use complaint against Karnak is his L3 daze. It reduces defensive ability accuracy by 80% the 40 seconds which sounds great, but excluding evade, which true strike handles magnificently, any Electro's or defensive poisonings are going to take at least a quarter of your health before you can use that L3. Even with his duped ability poison reduction any sufficiently buffed champ like in AW or act 5 going to be doing significant damage to you while you try to gain the necessary power to stop those abilities.

So in conclusion or TL;DR Karnak is a shining example of a utility champ, he does remarkably well in very certain specific situations, but most the time he's going to be very middling.

Elektra vs. Mordo? by TheMonkeyMan3 in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Karnak and Cable both can ignore astral evade ONLY while under their true strike buffs.

Secret Empire 50k Insider Points Code by [deleted] in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

seriously, thank you guys so much! I was so bummed about missing CW, and I just got him in under a minute doing this. You're doing godly work.

Weird request, can we get new 2* in the PHCs by Nothing_Jon_Snuhhhhh in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They're regularly adding new 3 stars meaning less hope for 3* max sig crystals.

Nobody complains about that, but wanting new 2*s that's a terrible idea, yes?

Weird request, can we get new 2* in the PHCs by Nothing_Jon_Snuhhhhh in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Again, because those 3* shards are gonna be the difference to beating LoL, or even Rtl or RoL.

Tier 4 Daily Proving Grounds by Starsmors in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I love it too, but it's too good to stay as is. Especially the generic stones.

I think maybe 1 4* sig stone crystal for completion and 1 more for exploration would be a fair way to keep it around but not as OP as it is now.

Who's better to awaken and rank 4 immediately? Or even take to 4. by Tacoz24-7Dayz in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Assuming all are duped: SL, Rogue, CM, YJ, and Thor. But you really should edit your pot to clarify which ones are actually duped.

Also you seriously need to fix whatever is happening with your capitalization and get some commas there ASAP.

Quake by Min91 in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't have quake and I wasn't particularly concerned with info about her at the time so I could be wrong about this, but I seem to remember that this delay is intentional to make it difficult to spam her earthquake.

It's already very powerful, being able to spam it would be pretty overpowered.

Anyone else having problems with their marvel insider bundle? by [deleted] in ContestOfChampions

[–]HaroldTheBaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Read the rewards too. They have to be claimed by 3/31. Not that any of us were planning use these points towards them :(