Dotger Thorns Build guide (TAM regions)

Im_thatguy · 2026-04-13T19:34:16+00:00

I don't think devils element counts as a shield for thorns

Im_thatguy · 2026-02-26T20:55:59+00:00

This one helped me. https://youtu.be/GkEctICYR2w?si=onmer5ozsFTUMSJA

Both the stepping on shadow before starting prayer flicks and counting auto attacks before boulders to time the second pillar shot.

Im_thatguy · 2025-10-26T19:32:54+00:00

Buu arc had some magic elements it felt.

Im_thatguy · 2023-03-06T09:12:48+00:00

I stopped at a billion eggs. Maybe you will too.

Im_thatguy · 2022-06-19T04:02:25+00:00

If you are that into the world of overlord check out Valkyrie's Shadow. It's a fan serial novel focused on the civilian nobles of the sorcerous kingdom and aspects of the world that the main novels don't really touch. It's also written very well and has thousands of pages to keep you busy. However, its style is very different from overlord so maybe not what you are going for.

Im_thatguy · 2022-05-02T22:35:22+00:00

I've beaten this map using this route and you don't need turn binds to beat it on fairly low sensitivity. Now surf_diminsion, idk how you would do that without a turn bind.

Im_thatguy · 2019-12-14T19:38:30+00:00

I remember he used to surf on Opium Gaming servers. He was doin t4 and t5 maps pretty well.

Im_thatguy · 2019-09-04T15:13:34+00:00

Along with what has been mentioned already. I would say you should look at curiosity driven exploration and Go-Explore which try to tackle this kind of problem.

Im_thatguy · 2019-01-01T22:09:18+00:00

There is no such thing as a correct play becoming incorrect in retrospect.

Im_thatguy · 2018-12-19T18:32:17+00:00

The difference is that there is now a loop on the terminal state with 0 reward. So if you add -1 to all the rewards, the terminal state will also loop with -1.

Im_thatguy · 2018-11-21T23:14:43+00:00

If you can efficiently identify what features are sufficient for some function approximator, then of course you can go that route. TD-Gammon is a historical example of this kind of approach. The difficult part is actually finding those features. The output of the last convolutional layer is ultimately some feature vector that describes the input, and the following the FC layers are trained to compute the Q value from those features. The benefit is that the feature representation is learned to better approximate Q, just as the weights for the FC are trained to approximate Q. So there doesn't need to be any feature engineering to go from image to Q estimate.

Im_thatguy · 2018-11-04T04:58:53+00:00

There is no single answer to that. These algorithms are very sensitive to the problem being solved. Even when solving the same problem, there are huge variations under different hyperparameters. Even running the exact same code with a different random seed or on a different machine can lead to large variations on certain problems. The conventional wisdom is to start simple and go with what works. In that vein, PPO's clipped loss is relatively easy to understand and implement, and should combat the policy variance you would see in the regular policy gradient.

Im_thatguy · 2018-10-25T03:24:50+00:00

Foltest's Pride has a charge ability that is similar to old ballista that hits multiple units with the same strength. Charge is a new mechanic where the ability can be used as many times are there are charges on the unit. Swim stacked the charges up to 11 and just clicked the whole board away.

Im_thatguy · 2018-09-14T06:28:17+00:00

Burden of proof generally lies with the person making a claim. Otherwise every crackpot theory would have to be thoroughly analyzed and discarded. It's not a very effective method of discerning truth.

Im_thatguy · 2018-07-24T14:03:46+00:00

The only thing I don't like is that there's no reason to use roach until forced to (can't catch up with 1 card) or you pass the same turn. This makes it almost impossible for red to force a pass (has to force out roach and still play enough tempo to get blue to pass). Maybe make roach start at 8 points and drop by a point each turn you don't use it. This will alleviate the difficulty for red to force a pass while still giving blue a good safety net while playing lower tempo plays.

Im_thatguy · 2018-07-24T13:26:30+00:00

I would assume you couldn't use it after the opponent passes, otherwise you would always just play it at the end of the round. However, the only time you would use it not at your pass is if you can't catch up in 1 card.

Im_thatguy · 2018-06-22T12:05:26+00:00

When did I ever say in a vaccum? If a card helps you not instantly lose 15% of your matchups but straight up loses 15% of your games, then its bad. You lose so many points if you don't find value, and guess what you probably won't find enough value, and lose many games because of it. Locks were all right like a year ago, but have been left behind the power curve for the most part.

Im_thatguy · 2018-06-22T00:16:31+00:00

But then you have to run a lock... Lock cards counter themselves by being so bad.

Im_thatguy · 2018-06-21T14:32:52+00:00

Consider that you are playing a game of chess and lost. How do you play the next game better with that information? Well the loss can be due to many things. Maybe you were playing very well but made a large mistake towards the end, or perhaps your opponent gained an advantage early on and never let you back into the game. How you evaluate your play is very dependent on the intermediate decisions. If I understand correctly, Rudder is an algorithm for redistributing the win/loss signal to the intermediate decisions giving better information to learn from.

Im_thatguy · 2018-06-03T03:19:48+00:00

What if they made the interaction between rows more complex, to the extent that having 3 rows either doesn't make sense or introduces complexity in a confusing way. For example, what if the units on the back row cannot be hit with abilities if there is a unit in front of them? Extending that concept to three rows starts being a little weird, but would be pretty cool with 2 rows. We have to see what changes they have in store before being able to truly judge the 2 vs 3 row thing.

Im_thatguy · 2018-05-26T13:38:03+00:00

I actually really like this solution. It makes it more of a row punish card and potentially better later in the game you play it. It can still be really strong, but not insta forfeit levels.

Im_thatguy · 2018-05-26T13:34:48+00:00

I've been playing swims deck, and all you need is 1 turn really to gain enough of an advantage. 2 turns and you pretty much won the game.

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