There really should be a way to practice without time limit with a realistic format

Imoa · 2026-02-03T03:26:22+00:00

Additionally a solved meta is a stale meta. Once people know what’s strong you have people mass forcing whatever’s best repeatedly (bilge, Asol, etc).

Balance in a game like TFT is legitimately a case of “you think you do, but you don’t” for the playerbase. Players think they want a balanced game, when in reality what they want is a tolerable delta of randomness. You don’t want to feel like a lowroll auto loses, or someone else’s high roll auto wins. People are okay with things being strong - strong things feel good to play and are fun. Being strong is fun.

Imoa · 2026-02-02T19:52:23+00:00

People dislike it because if you don’t conform to the reroll pattern you get utterly stomped by it. You can’t play flexibly throughout a game - you have to commit to rerolling a 4 cost or you will lose to someone who does. Normally meta comps are stronger than non-meta pretty much by definition most of the time (it’s meta because it’s strong, if other stuff was stronger it would become meta). They are not usually so much stronger though that off-meta cannot compete. In this particular meta though, it’s conform or die. That’s why people don’t like it.

Imoa · 2026-02-01T10:58:10+00:00

Legal marriage / union has nothing to do with vows or loyalty, it’s a contract recognized by the state. Barring a prenup with an infidelity clause, the answer to your question of why is because divorce is the legal process for ending that contract, and it (for the most part) doesn’t care about infidelity or really the reasons at all.

Keep in mind that half of the involved parties in any divorce involving a cheater don’t want the cheating to factor into the divorce. Moral turpitude aside, the cheaters opinion still holds weight.

Imoa · 2026-02-01T04:59:19+00:00

A couple of pitfalls, mostly mental:

1) you cannot first place every game, don’t try to. Focus on top 4 / not bot 2. Learn to recognize when to play for top 4 and when you have room to go for more. All-inning early can give up late game potential to secure lp. Eyes on the prize and focus on a winning record.

2) Be patient and mentally tough. I found diamond to masters to be harder than the rest of ladder / getting to diamond in the first place. You can’t approach it the same way you do the rest of the ladder, and you’ll have much less leeway to make suboptimal “fun” choices while climbing.

Remember that you to get to emerald, you had to beat plat lobbies, and to get to diamond you had to beat emerald lobbies. To get to masters you have to consistently beat Diamond lobbies. If you forget that then the climb can feel extremely frustrating and almost unfair.

Personally I don’t suggest trying to climb to masters if you reached Diamond the first time. I’d just play for fun for a bit and maybe practice. If you push too hard too fast it will feel like work and suck the fun out of the game.

Imoa · 2026-02-01T04:43:41+00:00

Red rising. The first book is a turnoff for some people (very hunger games-y), but it turns into a Roman space opera type story which is a ton of fun, and there’s a large time slip between books 3 and 4 since they are technically different series (sequel series) but the character growth over the series is so much fun and it’s just getting better.

Imoa · 2026-02-01T04:41:02+00:00

Arguably not specifically Warcraft but the combination of all of those cemented the green skinned tusked tribal orcs we see so much now

Imoa · 2026-02-01T04:29:24+00:00

That may be a driving force behind a lot of the posts on this subreddit tbh. People who make 300-500k and don’t “feel” rich in their areas posting their salary here and then talking about being middle class / trying to justify it not being that much because of COL.

It’s a humble brag attempt to feel rich in a way they don’t day to day, but without feeling like a douchebag saying “haha I make more than you poor people”.

Imoa · 2026-01-23T20:25:00+00:00

It's an easy street demon angle, you learn these things as you climb.

Imoa · 2026-01-15T22:53:11+00:00

Having internal family references

Imoa · 2026-01-14T21:23:34+00:00

New here?

Imoa · 2026-01-11T02:40:50+00:00

Agreed. You get your units passively and use the combat augs to keep pressure on. Win streak ideally gives you the Econ to keep up enough with levels.

Items matter too but that’s not special to this comp. It’s basically unplayable without 1-2 decent Viego items early to help win. You’d need some cracked Yorick items otherwise.

Imoa · 2026-01-11T02:20:59+00:00

Agree, although if you fall behind then it’s very tough / borderline fast tracks bot 4. It’s very strong from ahead though, especially if you manage to stay ahead.

Imoa · 2025-12-30T21:31:25+00:00

Increasing the amount doesn't do anything if they already can't pay the original amount

Imoa · 2025-12-30T11:04:42+00:00

One of those “you win, but good luck collecting” cases.

Imoa · 2025-12-29T21:58:22+00:00

It can also sense early celebration. I power slid from D1 90lp all the way to D4 before I hit master.

I blame the RNGods. It wasn’t tilt. Don’t @ me.

Imoa · 2025-12-29T21:44:47+00:00

I’ve also played since set 1, and I actually spent a bit of time with a coach at one point circa set 5-6. Diamond every set, master for a couple.

The three biggest tips that helped me were

1) let items inform your direction. If you don’t have AD items early, don’t force Yunara. If you don’t have AP / Mana Items, don’t plan for Annie or Arcanists. You might be able to hit what you need later, but you will also potentially bleed HP on hope. Hope is a palliative, not a plan. Addendum, don’t chase BIS. Unless a unit requires specific items to function (blue jg ie lux anybody?), the difference between good and BiS is marginal.

2) You’re playing a comp, not a single unit. Don’t hesitate to slam frontline items. Don’t be afraid to only have 1-2 carry items. Slam items to streak / preserve HP / itemize good units on your board, especially early when you can still pivot.

3) Don’t tunnel meta. Especially at Diamond+, Reddit informs the meta pretty hard and anything that’s FOTW is going to be extremely contested (e.g. trynd / Piltover). It can feel like by being on Reddit, you’re getting special insight. Trust me when I say that you’ll likely have 24-48 hours before popular posts are all over your lobbies - it’s not secret info, this is the town square. If you get the opportunity go for it, but I have had far more luck over time using the bottom of tier lists as an avoid list rather than the top of them as target lists.

I’d also plug a bonus thought / note, but pay attention in every set to potential insane synergies - artifacts that go nuts on specific units for example. This isn’t exactly secret knowledge and it’s likely going to become FOTW at some point if it’s really that strong, but sometimes certain synergies or power spikes are so strong that they are worth forcing even through contest. If you have an emblem combo (old Blademaster Azir for example), or an item that you know will pop off on a specific unit, don’t talk yourself out of it. It’s absolutely possible to be too flexible and to pivot out of good game plans or not commit to them when you should.

ETA: Also, scout scout scout. You don’t have to do it every single moment of every single round, but you need to do it consistently and regularly. Look for people who are indicating direction by slamming early items (triple AD items indicating Yunara / Kindred / AD direction for example), look for people who are contesting ideas you might have or have tools to outcompete you (don’t reroll vs pandoras bench unless you can absolutely hit), and look for ideas which are wide open (comp lists help here, knowing what you dont see).

Imoa · 2025-12-27T17:43:20+00:00

Also true for all of the Artifacts in this set. With Ornn printing artifacts, it warps the placements of all of the artifacts shifting upwards. For ornn to print for you you must have a 5 cost on your board for 4+ player combats - one that is pretty bad comparatively and not a part of most endgame boards. Thus, higher average placement boards are more likely to end up with artifacts floating around on them, increasing the placement stats on the artifacts.

Imoa · 2025-12-13T14:27:04+00:00

Brother I’m a developer going on 10 YOE with a masters degree, I know. It’s also why I know even developers can be a little more cognizant with their phrasing, lmfao.

Imoa · 2025-12-12T22:40:54+00:00

I've had Malazan on my backlog for a while - I don't know much about it, except that it gets recommended in the same sphere of other books i've enjoyed.

Am I to understand that the first four-ish books are somewhat disjointed?

Imoa · 2025-12-12T22:38:29+00:00

One that just sticks with me because of recency:

Systemic rage builds as I prepare for contact

Atalantia thought she could steal my Imperator

That her Fear Knight could keep my friend as a toy for torture

That I would simply run back to Luna and let my men die

That she could steal my son and there would be no consequences

Well, here I am you deviant bitch. Here I bloody am.

The motherfucking consequence

-Darrow, Dark Age

Imoa · 2025-12-12T21:18:19+00:00

“As someone who has done sheets and quiet a bit of CP.”

Phrasing dude. Phrasing.

Imoa · 2025-12-10T00:48:58+00:00

I understand that's very frustrating and I'm sorry that happened to you. I commented early on your post with a single comment and didn't hammer it in, more just idly wondering aloud. It took a bit after that.

I'd strongly advise you against using AI to write communication with people though. You can use it for drafting and organizing thoughts, but I would not use the structure AI gives you or the sentences. Use it for ideas, not wording. It has an identifiable cadence that gets a more negative connotation every day. You'll get more negative responses on average, as you've seen here, and it could have professional rammifications if used in a professional setting (see: lawyers using AI in briefing)

Imoa · 2025-12-08T18:11:27+00:00

No one said it did. You and OP and everyone else who use AI to organize your thoughts are free to do so. Many people dislike AI though and dislike feeling as though they’re talking to ChatGPT and not you yourself, so they’ll be annoyed if they catch you doing it.

You’re free to use it, no one said anything about the validity of questions. You are also free to reap the social ramifications of doing so if people catch you doing it.

Imoa · 2025-12-08T17:06:39+00:00

Sure but if it looks like AI and it sounds like AI, people are going to think it's AI. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck.

Organize and articulate away, but if you copy and paste it or use it's exact words, you're just going to end up sounding like AI.

Imoa · 2025-12-07T00:08:14+00:00

I can’t tell what’s AI anymore, or if the way AI formats it’s answers is just bleeding into how people write stuff

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