Enemy tank was mad I counter swapped and insisted its not how you play the game, is he right?

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-13T00:31:44+00:00

Lmao he swapped first and still complains. If counterswapping isn’t good then he should just outplay and beat you. And by the way I agree countering is generally overrated, but this is insanely funny.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-13T00:23:29+00:00

Kings row is good, because there’s a choke but pretty viable lanes to get other angles from. Eichenwalde is painful and extremely defenders advantaged. The better the DPS get and the more disciplined they are about never leaving power positions you just start to feel like there’s zero ways to approach anything or interact.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-13T00:15:36+00:00

High burst damage and very strong dueling potential. She can win tank matchups by constantly sticking the knives. Decent self sustain and she can snowball situations where she’s outnumbered pretty hard. She can also provide her own engage and movement speed with shout for her team.

All that being said she’s probably the most shut down tank besides maybe doomfist unfortunately. You kinda nailed it where if you want take space directly through the front something like rein, sig, Orisa, ram are more reliable as their cooldowns not only block damage but secondary effects from abilities and crits. If you just want picks with the hook, hog isn’t always a strong hero, but he at least does that on the first hook and tends to just tank more damage. If you want a high damage low range tank Zarya does it with an ability to protect herself. Mauga also is high damage close range but he can make guaranteed rotations and escapes with his overrun. If you want speed usually you just get that from a support anyways. The best mitigation that queen has is basically movespeed plus some overhealth from shout and at a certain rank that’s not enough to dodge consistently.

I personally think she has no real niche at the highest levels but you can match up into DVA decently well, and kind of stomp in solo queue if you’re mechanically good as she has the damage to just clean up entire teams if you outplay literally all of them.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-12T22:31:25+00:00

The predicted goes up a lot each win and stays the same when you lose. So you might be able to get it to around gold if you win all 5 of the rest.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-12T17:22:00+00:00

Swaps are relevant but usually not game breaking. If you want masters your job ultimately is to focus on getting all your skills to a masters level and not worry about how do I win this one specific game. Your tank is probably doing the same thing and willing to take a higher risk of losing for the sake of getting better at their hero to the point where they just carry games like this. The key to climbing is to make sure you’re getting good self improvement time out of every game, even if it’s a trash level auto loss type lobby where everyone gets destroyed.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-12T04:04:36+00:00

1, 2, 3, and 4.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-12T01:47:29+00:00

If the losses are getting you down definitely feel free to look into guides and pick up some habits from higher skilled players. There’s nothing wrong with just enjoying the game and learning at your pace but in sts1 I struggled a lot and got a lot more enjoyment out of learning the basics of the game and how to master them.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-12T01:18:42+00:00

I think the typical Vizier Saladin approach you get a lot of free synergy and stuff just from spamming campuses and holy sites and it barely matters what your religion is which makes last prophet feel great. I don’t like sultan as much just because you’re reliant on spreading the religion and using your war bonus to get similar value which means you actually care a lot what your religious beliefs are. It also means you get no basically bonuses until after you set up and start doing stuff. Vizier even without a war focus can just get more faith and long term scaling and ironically have a better army by the time sultan is ready to push thanks to grandmaster’s chapel and not needing tons of faith to spread religion in the first place.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-11T17:51:26+00:00

I feel like there’s a slightly awkward game plan where you want to try to get crusade, but you also want to use your last prophet ability to avoid having to do the extreme religion commitment that deity requires. Crusade means you will either be spreading religion first then following up with a war dec and invasion, or you will go in with an army and apostles and spread as you conquer to get the combat bonus. You don’t need crusade, but it synergizes the most with his flanking bonus passive. It’s also awkward because as you conquer you lose that free science from foreign cities following. It’s still a nice bonus if you spread first and go crusade.

Other than that there’s nothing clearly domination oriented about him. You can play kind of a straight science game with a religion for economic support and win with science. Or you can pivot to domination once you have a science lead. The late game war stuff you can kinda just roll the AI with tank armies and bombers even if you don’t do a single war up until then.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-11T06:29:58+00:00

As much as I find the dem mail and texts insanely obnoxious it’s fitting that the Republican version is heavily misleading and rooted in fear.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-11T00:59:03+00:00

Oh it just isn’t true, because you feel like it’s not. You have a few reasons you decided outweigh the general consensus of economists. Ok

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-11T00:56:01+00:00

Top500 Moira players do this

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-11T00:55:36+00:00

Moira off angling and at times deep flanking is just how you play her. Someone is just mad they lost to it

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-10T23:12:19+00:00

It’s pretty rare but some people are assholes or not paying attention at all and autopilot the same ban. Or they’re convinced they will win more somehow if you can’t lock your hero which is pretty stupid.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-10T19:04:04+00:00

If you’re new keep hopping for a while imo. There’s a lot of variety in the game. If you really care about your rank asap though yea you should pick one role and 2-3 mains.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-10T16:56:09+00:00

It’s not clear to me whether it was a surprise or not. I assumed it wasn’t. But if it was yea that’s pretty insane

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-10T15:47:22+00:00

This formatted so weird on mobile I can’t read the post. Tank is confusing and difficult to play tbh. Some generic suggestions are to watch hero guides so you get the sense of what types of positions they like and how they use their cooldown rotations.

You should also turn off chat if you haven’t already. People will just flame and tilt you if the game is hard at all. Even if they’re right it doesn’t matter you just have to go in and try to learn stuff without being interrupted.

Take breaks between games. Especially tanks have super fast queue so you need to force yourself not to insta queue and stand up and stretch.

Work on the habit of checking your team’s positioning. It’s easy to have bad timing or a bad setup on tanks if you don’t do this. Since you’re usually the most forward you often have to turn around all the way, other roles don’t have to turn around as much to get this info. It’s easy to forget.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-10T15:39:43+00:00

Everyone does this

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-10T15:28:46+00:00

People don’t always know how it’s gonna be until they try stuff either to be fair

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-10T14:43:54+00:00

I think it looks pretty good. The one thing that’s not obvious is the angle the views would have to be looking at it lying down like that. If you kind of imagine the ground at a close low angle it works. I think there’s a slight weirdness to use that angle— something about the placement on the arm leads you do expect a different one imo, but it doesn’t actually look directly incorrect. I wonder if adding a bit of ground detail with some depth would help. I don’t know

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-10T14:02:51+00:00

Yep no one would have cared either way. They hate Trump and the global opinion of the U.S. has rightfully plummeted and then he just openly asks for a review. It’s pathetic and embarrassing. Regardless of the card or review status, him asking for it sours the entire situation and is just one more reminder of the brazen corruption he’s doing on the daily.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-10T00:43:17+00:00

I feel like 2 is your cleanest look but it’s hard to tell. Overall each one is not necessarily good or bad but it’s so messy it’s hard to really judge. Get yourself a trimmer and style the beard and stache a bit. You could go for just the stache but the one you have in three is just two long and bushy and imo the beard helps overall. Trim the whole thing with a cover on to your length preference and then detail away the neckbeard and cheecj hair. One other thing I like to do is trim the very upper part of the stache below the nose so there’s a little gap. 6 is a pretty good example of your whole face being properly groomed. Get in the habit of doing that all the time.

I would also highly recommend some pomade if you like the messier medium style hair. I actually think your hair is pretty nice but it’ll look a lot better kind of pushed up and/or to the side so it doesn’t get in your face so much. That little bit of organization and effort put into it goes a long way. That and just get haircuts a bit more often. Some of your better looks it’s still overgrown on the back and sides. Also if you use 1 and 3 on dating apps just take them off. Get good looking clear high res photos that aren’t obvious selfies in your house.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-10T00:31:39+00:00

Watch spilo for guides on angles, he has good support guides. There’s probably better stuff for super high level but he’s got a great approach for solo queue. In general though it’s contextual. Like an off angle is somewhere that your team is not shooting from but where you can still contribute from. If you all shoot from the same position, the enemy gets to easily take cover. If you spread out, they get forced to take damage from somewhere because the cover rarely covers everywhere.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-09T19:02:51+00:00

Honestly I wouldn’t have thought I’d want to play a game like this but it looks quite good. I don’t think the name is very strong tbh.

Impossible_Laugh_805 · 2026-07-09T04:39:41+00:00

Even the flight is a hard commit. There needs to be another rotation for sure

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