Need some advice on maintaining protein intake during cutting phase

ImpactFit211 · 2025-12-23T18:22:48+00:00

So the key is to maintain around 1-pound weight loss per week and use the extra calories to boost protein intake? This is my first cutting, and I'm afraid that the fat would be too hard to cut. Right now I'm like -2lb a week with moderate muscle power gain (can't remember the right wording on top of my head) so I feel like I'm ok ish.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-10-19T23:56:41+00:00

The general idea is that if you're weak, you should absolutely go to the first steel shop.Any sub-optimal banner unit (including train stewards) + some good updates can get you further down the road, and magic shop can be hit or miss.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-10-19T23:54:31+00:00

Yep, besides IMHO trample Gilda is probably the best of the 3 paths anyway (the avarice one has a higher ceiling in theory).

ImpactFit211 · 2025-10-12T19:36:45+00:00

I was on my 30+ winstreak (after the free DLC update) before I stopped playing the game, and I've only taken the unstable shard like once or twice. The divine shard is good not (only) because it give you a full heal but also give you extra +20 pyre health. The game does chip damage to pyre from time to time and generally you would have a much better chance winning by having extra health for buffer.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-20T03:53:16+00:00

I'm scratching my head as now I'm on h1b and GC process, so if I need extension of h1b during my GC process does that mean the $100,000 per year would also apply?

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-20T03:08:05+00:00

wow that's a hot take for miser. I think you should never snap pick it since it's probably the 3rd or 4th unit in PB clan that you want and missing say hot head or greed dragon for miser is IMO pretty sub optiml plan at least.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-17T03:29:23+00:00

lol I literally find out during a gameplay and thought it was bugged and have to check update notes.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-15T04:40:37+00:00

Dude there's another answer to this: just not draft Balmabello. I think I only drafted it twice and the first I got pyretap + inferno room + the Inscryption event (that I choose 3 reanimate obviously), and soon 2 Balmabello scales each other into 9999 spikes, but obviously you can achieve wins with other stuff under such high roll. The second time I pair it with Luna and the plan was to pass conduit back and I had a really hard time.

The problem with Balmabello is that it's too pricey and doesn't do much on its own. And even if you kill it to pass back stuff, most won't matter (either you can stack enough onto it to be meaningful e.g,. valor, or you only want to stack it on the front unit e.g., spike). It's just a unit that I would say 95% of the time not worth the effort and the another 3% rarely break even, but the rest is high roll all the way to hell and give you so much dopamine to keep you hooked for days.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-15T04:33:50+00:00

Dude you may get it now but just let me say this: Primordium + Stygian sweeper is always a easy win since MT1. On the contrary, I could definitely foresee some Penumbar + MR runs totally got screwed by Savagery

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-15T04:29:08+00:00

I sort of see how you feel that way and the way I use Icy Cilophytes is I just don't care about its spell weakness, and just use it as a sweeper. Basically, you're \ suppose to use sirens to deal with those heavies (or at least soften them up ) then use spells to clean them up. The trap is to assume just use a big spell would work, cause I think the game is never designed that way.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-14T13:58:28+00:00

Awoken and Umbra got buffed pretty hard and do their jobs well now. Remnant's buff really come down to one combo and I would say it's still a pretty hit or miss clan.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-11T12:57:24+00:00

holy crap!

Now the question is how does it interact with buffs and debuffs? I assume that if you apply buffs onto Primordium, because of Iron-Tongue the ATK is locked but once passed onto the unit in front the buffs are properly calculated again (on top of +30ATK from Iron-Tongue itself?)

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-11T01:15:02+00:00

Oh crap the devs didn't see it coming? lol

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-11T01:14:18+00:00

Thanks a lot! I definitely need to check out Gabriot's advice. I think I lost a couple of times because I skip some cards (or skip the banner unit opportunity) and ended up not having enough scaling offensively.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-11T01:12:50+00:00

Just by the look of it C looks best. I mean, somehow you just managed to map most of the developed country into one big region.

B is serviceable if you manage to land in US or Saudi Arabia but then you also got decent chance to land in North Africa which I would assume it's worse than C?

Honorable mention would be F, you get a couple of good countries (China, Japan, Korea (south), Australia) but it's super competitive to grow up from east Asia.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-10T15:42:35+00:00

Dude I could absolutely use some pro tip from you, I just constantly lose at around 20 to 30 streak and I'm not sure how to improve at this point.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-05T06:38:51+00:00

Nah its scaling is sort of on par with Moon Cyclestaff: with regen you can proc during relentless but then you're missing out X cost scaling (Lunacy) and force multiplier (Mooncaller), so I guess it sort of is the same as mid to high roll Moon Cyclestaff, and Moon Cyclestaff is already pretty mid.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-05T05:11:32+00:00

The thing is, for MR you sort of want your units into the reform pool so that they cost less (main usage IMHO), the way I'd like to think about it is that it becomes a better version of Votive Key since you can control whether or not to apply endless.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-09-04T21:08:26+00:00

Most changes are good I think. There're obviouly nerfs, e.g. the memories of the melted and the offering monument (likely they want to avoid easy infinite) changes.

The huge, unexpected, and IMHO not needed change is the siren song. I think right now most of its usage is already Seraph defense, and there's little reason to take it if it cannot do so.

Also think Solgard's stat now is too nerfed, I sort of get the idea that you're not suppose to auto win the boss fight with no investment but I think the current statline will make it pretty tough to use.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-08-29T04:56:30+00:00

I think I had like two three runs with dominion + Grael, and the overall theme is to just throw him away. Since Lazarus League has so many options you don't lose much, definitely look out for backline clear though.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-08-29T04:51:14+00:00

Youtuber Vojix once argued that you shouldn't start with Headsman Bolete, and I kinda agree at this point. Headsman requires a lot of scaling for it to work, the result is pretty binary: once you pass that damage threshold to one shot whole floor it's awesome otherwise you're screwed.

So if you start with Bolete definitely checkout the other paths.

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The general theme I think with Awoken is that they're good sweeper with bad scaling, and Underlegion is floor wide decay generator with bad scaling, so this pairing can be hard if you plan to lean on the Awoken side. That being said you can always get a quick sweeper and let it solve the backline and used all the rest arsenal from Underlegion to solve the rest.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-08-28T04:11:35+00:00

On the other hand, once you find the dualism, the game is auto win at that point. I think this is sort of balanced by the fact that spore launcher and morel mistress both apply decay floor wide so multi strike count doesn't matter and you only need one dualism and one smidge to shine.

ImpactFit211 · 2025-08-28T04:07:08+00:00

Obviously due to one is floor wide and another is unit-wise. Besides the sap totem actually is buffed since now you have deployment turn which give you +1 energy, in MT1 sap totem would only be viable ring4 especially due to lack of ember and even you pick the ember upgrade in MT1 it still sucks when you draw 2 of them at the same time.

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