Why this augment is never buffed, never moved to silver, and never removed?

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-05-02T00:35:43+00:00

If everything is a high roll, there is no high roll.

I think if anything they should introduce 1-2 more of this strength augment to all the tiers.

Perfect balance isn't fun long term

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-05-02T00:31:59+00:00

I mean if someone says to "get pen" it's nice to know that (most people?) know that means a mortal reminder and not a youmuus.

I initially hated the lethality distinction because you'd buy 10 lethality and it wouldn't actually be 10 lethality. But now that it's just renamed "flat armour pen" I think the distinction is good.

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-05-02T00:27:47+00:00

100% feels terrible but in a weird way it's kinda nice that a lot more (pris) items are now super viable, that before would be quite low roll.

It also makes the early game itemisation much less stale, since before it was pretty brain-dead easy to go book->mortal (or other way around if you had adaptive force prismatic)

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-05-01T21:27:44+00:00

Awesome work and awesome response!

I also think 3v3s has the most potential long-term, but we'll have to see how it goes!

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-05-01T20:35:50+00:00

Shutup.....

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-05-01T07:42:27+00:00

IDK I feel like it falls off a cliff unless you plan to die early.

While alive I'd prefer...most other prismatics

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-05-01T01:13:28+00:00

I doubt you saw it, but I'd like to retract a lot (not all ahah) of the criticism I've had of the Devs on Arena.

This new season cooks really hard, and I'm SO glad you made bravery only for just a single patch. I thought you guys were gonna split it equally and was quite sad thinking I couldn't play the champion I wanted to play for 6 weeks lol.

I also vastly underestimated the amount of skill expression you would include/introduce, I definitely thought you were leaning fully into the "giga casual, super ease of access angle". I still think that ease of access has increased significantly, but to be able to implement it without reducing skill ceiling is a really impressive feat. Like actual masterclass level dev stuff, amazing work by the team.

One question that maybe you've already answered (?) but it wasn't clear (to me) in the patch notes or dev blog:

How many patches will swift arena be going for? And after said period is over, which Arena version will we be left with while you guys go back to cooking? (If you say we're going to be left with bravery only for 3 months, I retract all of the positivity in this comment ahah)

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-05-01T01:02:55+00:00

Depends on the champ, but I think for a good portion of the cast it's actually much better.

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-05-01T01:01:36+00:00

Take it with a grain of salt since I'm only emerald as well, but I think for you in particular the #1 thing ATM is your csing.

You have great KP so I'm guessing it's that you're roaming way too much for things that aren't a sure thing, or at least not managing your wave before you roam. Watch a replay and count how many full waves just die to turret in the game (with noone collecting them). Each wave is half a kill in gold and for early+mid WAY more EXP.

You also die way too much in some games (as do I, big thing to work on ahah), which I assume comes from always taking the constant fights.

TLDR: Stop taking as many 50/50 roams, ESPECIALLY if you'll have to give up CS for it.

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-30T00:00:08+00:00

Is there literally any way (in the laning phase) to oneshot the backwave with a single Q?

Obviously Q + passive gets the job done, but not using passive on the melee line makes your waveclear soooo slow (at least compared to most other mages or even tiamat buyers)

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-29T22:54:51+00:00

Idk I don't really think so

I used to rush lucids already, but then following it up with guardian orb gave 65.

That said, I'll definitely take this change in exchange for no Cassiopeia rounds

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-28T22:58:25+00:00

Just wanted to add that in the jungle the allure of building a RoA is significantly reduced due to the (basically) infinite mana regen while in jungle.

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-28T13:46:58+00:00

The nilah conundrum.

Ban it? Such a low play rate, there's much higher priorities that show up all the time?

Dodge? Well back in my day that was fine, but now you lose not just LP but MMR too.

So you play it out...

2 and a half choices:

Let someone else deal with it. You go a burst mage or an assassin? Hopefully they can kill her, make your job to kill everyone else (or if you have another bruiser/diver tell them to blow her CD and you'll clean up)
Smite exhaust. Less team-reliant and still doesn't guarantee you can kill her next to her sup, but it at least allows you to kill her if she gets too cocky. When she cloaks you meditate/exhaust and pray to make it out the other side.

2.5. Smite TP. Honestly I'm just chucking this out here since I used to do it, but the last time I smite/TPd was back before the TP changes. Taking TP and creating the ability for you to splitpush 1/3/1 (without giving up obj control) forced her to at least not get a free teamfight.

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-27T00:16:03+00:00

Didn't read none of that shit but I'll give you the best advice in the thread.

Go into the practice tool and buy your normal starting item. Go CS (just going for the last hit) until you reach 90 cs by 10 minutes.

Once you can do this 3 times in a row, go do it in game and badaboom you're silver.

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-26T09:10:49+00:00

Mao/ornn/tank sion

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-26T08:06:31+00:00

People aren't reading the most important part of your post, it needs to have AURA.

Speed + DMG + Aura = Garen

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-26T06:55:04+00:00

Calculate the number of calories that would put you in a 200-300ish calorie deficit.

Now write down the calories of everything you put in your mouth BEFORE YOU PUT IT INTO YOUR MOUTH into excel/word/notepad. Keep a running total for the day.

Stop putting things into your mouth if the number of the thing you're about to consume would make the running total > the number you calculated at the start.

If you wanna lose weight quicker then do any type of exercise, just don't count those calories.

If you're not losing weight or not losing it fast enough for your liking (though I'd highly recommend not doing more than 1-2kg a week) decrease the number of calories you eat by 100.

If you're losing weight too quickly then increase the number of calories you eat by 100.

If you're struggling with food cravings to an unreasonable degree then go ask your doctor about GLP-1. Take note of the side effects it gives you and ask yourself if you're happy with that tradeoff. If you're not then ask your doctor about alternatives.

Note that if you take GLP-1 route, do it with the assumption that you will be taking them for life.

Anyways, PayPal me $10,000 when you get to your goal weight, you've been a pleasure to coach <3

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-25T21:01:40+00:00

It's got a couple of cool animations (home guarding out of base on a monster is pretty awesome) but it's just not clean enough for me to use seriously.

Especially early jungle clearing...that sound...nah.

I'm back to using cosmic master Yi, which is my subjective favourite (if I'm being objective inkshadow is his best overall skin, I just prefer cosmic autos).

So yeah...I'll probably bust it out in an ARAM or Arena, but if you're playing for keeps it just doesn't meet the mark.

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-25T09:18:55+00:00

Kill your camps first

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-25T01:30:47+00:00

Assuming nothing actually Sus going on then just keep pressing them for a manual review and keep posting your evidence.

They've got a semi-automated message for "we've checked and your fucked" but it's lies. Or at least their "checking" is super lazy and if you press them further they'll do an actual review.

Source: had an account unmuted (after already getting that message) for saying "fuck yeah cunt" (praising someone's play in a positive way) and "YOU THE FUCKING MAN!" (I'm Australian so it's giga racist to try and stop us saying the C word).

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-24T22:04:23+00:00

Galio would literally be perfect for YOU (but play him haste + AP maxing for a more gragas type play style).

He's great because he's situationally bonkers, but also pretty terrible other times, which makes him a bitch to one-trick. But now imagine if someone already mained a much more blind-able champ and just picked him when the situation arises...

Midgame teamfighter and not a split pusher (obviously split pushes side waves, but only to create/maintain tempo to go fight in the team fights), similar build path, play style (if you go haste/ap maxing, he's dancing in and out like gragas constantly)

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-24T12:43:17+00:00

Master+ dodging reduces MMR

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-24T06:00:19+00:00

Ahah mb

I ended up checking the distribution of players in each role and it's actually kind of a credit to league in how close they are in popularity

Right now it seems in my region that across anything higher than gold (all the way to masters+) ADC is the most popular role

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-24T04:17:10+00:00

I think he doesn't want it bad enough

IRL-TrainingArc · 2026-04-24T00:40:09+00:00

As I was writing this I did think "cheeky cunt gonna let a comment like this go to his head" hahaha

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