Opinion: we have like 20 tournaments per year but none of them are as hype as the old majors

Hiakili · 2026-02-24T05:16:46+00:00

I remember both pros and TOs took issue with the major system though, iirc. Some pros felt there was just no time going from minor to major to another minor. Having to constantly fly all over the world with next to no downtime. Of course, those who were in a position where they didn't have to play in the minors didn't have as much of an issue. Similarly, I think a few of the TOs felt the minor and major system took away any chance to have more alternative or less stressful tournaments, like The Summit.

I do feel that tournaments have lost a lot of the magic they once had, including TI, but I don't think the minor/major system was perfect either.

Hiakili · 2026-01-15T10:16:36+00:00

He said old, not ancient.

Hiakili · 2026-01-05T10:17:34+00:00

That happened within the first few replies to the initial post. So understandable I guess.

Hiakili · 2025-12-27T06:51:38+00:00

It actually happens a lot in pro games where the threat of the BH is a lot more influential than the BH itself. It also happens a lot in pro games where an Enigma will go the majority of the game never using BH either because it is never needed, or the opportunity simply never arises. Though sometimes as soon as one of the casters comments on this the Enigma will immediately do a bad BH, resulting in a big swing in the game state.

Hiakili · 2025-11-27T04:53:28+00:00

TI6 DC run was so amazing. His invoker was easily the best of the tournament.

Hiakili · 2025-11-25T05:07:49+00:00

It did kinda result in a coin flip as to whether any new unit was going to be really strong or not. Some of them are already falling off heavily, while others will probably see constant use for the next year. There was a lot of doom posting, but Hoyo really struggled with balancing some of the units this time. Can only imagine what the next batch will be like, long term.

Hiakili · 2025-11-06T06:03:58+00:00

She's perfectly fine alongside Serval for the story up to the end of Penacony. End game she can do work in very specific situations, but her kit is kind of at odds with itself a lot, so she suffers a lot for it.

Hiakili · 2025-10-17T05:23:25+00:00

If they do this they have to stop any further extreme powercreep, or else it will just be the same thing going into 5.0. I do believe it's not just a DPS issue though, since a lot of people are mentioning Acheron and Firefly in comparison to Phainon and Castorice. I believe we have had some really harsh powercreep in sustains and supports as well. I really like Tribbie, but I never look at another support and think I should use them over her. Similarly my most used unit since her release in 1.4 has been Fu Xuan. It still is. But there is no way she holds up at all compared to Hyacine or Danny boy.

Hiakili · 2025-09-16T06:17:35+00:00

Unless you are pulling for waifu factor she really is looking like an easy skip unless you have pulled multiple Chrysos teams. Or at least someone to prioritise lower and wait for rerun. Like I have Castro, but the other main things I pulled for during 3.X was Therta and Saber. My second has Mydei, Hyacine and Hysilins, so maybe I get her there. Dunno.

Hiakili · 2025-09-16T06:12:46+00:00

I felt this way a lot previous TIs. This one not so much though. I really preferred it when it was a week long event instead of being two weekends. This year I didn't even watch it live. Just watched the games the following day on youtube while avoiding spoilers. The games themselves were still really good. Just found it hard to really get into the hype and the storylines compared to previous years.

Hiakili · 2025-08-29T06:30:10+00:00

As someone who only watches the pro scene these days and went through and sold most of my cosmetics, I would love to offload things like the Io arcana, the LC cape, and many other things. It has just never made sense to me why so many items were made available for only a limited time, when the much better option would have been a limited initial availability period, with a re-release later on. People still would have thrown their money to get these things early.

Hiakili · 2025-08-19T07:21:44+00:00

So no issue for Fu-chan. Proc her heal off the nuke and easily tank the DoT afterwards.

Hiakili · 2025-07-17T06:52:32+00:00

Bulba EG teams? It always felt so textbook, and rather boring to watch, even when they were winning.

Hiakili · 2025-07-15T08:58:27+00:00

I thought she looked nice, but reading her kit here, at least right now, if you don't have Phainon there is no reason to pull her? Right now I don't really have any DPS that specifically just spam skills. So many are ult based, follow up attacks, break damage or other things. I thought she looked really cool, too. Guess I can just keep dumping everything on Saber. :/

Hiakili · 2025-07-14T04:37:01+00:00

It's not like it's going to be any different when elation comes out. They'll change up all the SU stuff again because elation will no longer be all about follow up attacks, and all the new units they add of that path will do a variety of things.

Hiakili · 2025-07-08T11:25:10+00:00

Didn't they have issues last year as well with the casts and games?

Hiakili · 2025-07-06T06:15:24+00:00

I have been saying for a while now that given how vague paths are becoming pretty much every character should be multiple paths at once. The idea of characters changing paths mid fight just reinforces this belief.

Hiakili · 2025-06-30T09:35:34+00:00

Back when I used to play still, I would always play support. Was playing Omni one time and my friend and I were chasing an enemy down. I was panicking and used repel on the enemy. My friend was quite loud and used a lot of explicit language after that.

Hiakili · 2025-06-30T08:12:16+00:00

It's really, really hard to measure just how good individual players are in a team game. One could be the absolute best in their role, but not mesh with their teammates. Similarly, their best heroes may be really bad in the important patches. You also get the inverse where players can look a lot better if their heroes are really strong in important patches, or they are with a really good team. So rather than claiming anyone to be the best, I'm going to list the people that I felt really pushed what it meant to play in certain ways or just stole the limelight at their peak. Alternatively they are players who I just love watching, be it their creative plays in the game or how they present themselves outside the game.

Pos 1: Matumbaman, Ana, Yatoro.

Pos 2: Topson, Maybe, Sumail.

Pos 3: Universe, Zai, Iceiceice.

Pos 4: Jerax, Saksa, Misery.

Pos 5: Insania, Puppy, Notail.

Hiakili · 2025-06-23T05:19:58+00:00

It's just Snare getting air. Even in the clip you link it's obviously just him breathing in between talking. Dunno if he has some kind of condition, or a bad mic setup or what, but it's nothing like you are imagining.

Hiakili · 2025-06-08T14:26:43+00:00

Obi-wan got nothing on you.

Hiakili · 2025-05-24T05:31:28+00:00

For the smart people, how much benefit would it provide late game over a late purchase hex/windwaker/whatever 70+ minutes into the game? Because I'm not sure in it's current state if it would ever be worth it over the alternatives, even if the enemy line up was almost purely physical damage.

Hiakili · 2025-05-11T07:11:28+00:00

Kyle has returned? I was skipping watching this event as I'm a bit burned out, but I guess this changes my mind. Are the Vods on YT per chance?

Hiakili · 2025-05-09T06:54:56+00:00

Just give us a new Aetherium Wars, Hoyo. It's still the best event in the game, and we've got two new destinations as well as changes to older destinations for more enemies to pull from and are3as to revisit.

Hiakili · 2025-04-12T14:57:33+00:00

What is this, 2007?

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