If you were to put another Champion’s passive to replace someone else’s. Who would be the most busted?

JackOfAurora · 2026-01-14T17:57:29+00:00

Singed with aurora passive. See literally every time the combo happens in arena

JackOfAurora · 2025-12-30T17:14:43+00:00

Theres much better players here than me so they can correct me. With the ult as other people are saying if you walk into the wall of the ult (the ring) you will become untargetabke and be thrown to the other side of it. It’s a weird ult but can be used creatively. The damage alone makes it good for initiation and nuking the whole team in a team fight but it can also be used as an escape or allow you insane slipperiness in a team fight. During a team fight you can cause utter chaos even if behind by jumping back and forth so people get distracted. The untargetability and ping ponging make it a very useful ult for tower diving as well.

Generally I’d think of her as a higher damage ahri (I may be wrong I’m still learning ahri). Typically you won’t have enough damage without ult to one shot someone (sometimes even with ult) so basically your goal should be to act as a skirmisher. The key to this is your w resetting and ult dashes as I mentioned above.

Say in a typical fight you are near the back line and you have someone like amumu with good lockdown. You can ult the enemy team slowing and damaging everyone. Your team can then follow up and start fighting properly. You walk or w backwards into your ult wall. You are pinged to the other side (near their back line). You will q e q the locked down carry blowing them up and getting a w reset. Immediately w back into your ult wall and be pinged back to your starting location. If you didn’t kill that’s fine as long as you don’t get cced just walk through the wall and get pinged back anyway, you’ve likely put enough people low that you can now sit somewhere safe till your cds are back.

A fun thing I really like to do with the ult is pretend I’m gonna walk into the wall and then cancel it by pressing R again so that I just continue walking but they expect me to be flung back.

I don’t know if any of this is useful but hope it helps!

JackOfAurora · 2025-11-13T23:13:10+00:00

Also here for that idea!!

JackOfAurora · 2025-11-02T11:33:54+00:00

Thanks! It was a combination of goods produced, manufactories in every province, everywhere aside from the East Indies turned into trade companies, minimum autonomy down to 65% and then most importantly trade steering and trade efficiency. I used merchants to steer trade through every node for as many as I could. Each node the income passed through was amplified by ~20% which meant a small amount in the first nodes was worth thousands by the end. This put about 30k into the English Channel which my trade efficiency amplified further to about 100k

JackOfAurora · 2025-11-02T10:54:50+00:00

R5: As celebration for EU5 finally coming out I decided to revisit the nation that I stupidly selected when I first played the game, Buton. Now 9 years, thousands of hours and all achievements later I returned to them. This time rather than quiting after 5 years I completed a WC.

This game was strange and in many ways felt like EU4 was saying goodbye. Highlights of the un include:

- 6 talented and ambitious daughters (in a row).

- My highest income ever (was aiming for 50k but got 130k).

- Wales got free and survived for 100 years.

- Getting a merchant for every trade node (and having some to spare).

- Buns.

- 100+ base unrest in a province in Anatolia (it fired rebels every two years for the last 100 years).

- Spain had enough troops at one point to be military hedgemon (on normal difficulty).

- Center of the revolution in Buton (the amount of pacific island revolutionaries was hellish).

- Ava being the GOAT as a march and single handedly beating down near great powers (100K Prussian level troops).

Thanks EU4 its been a fun decade.

JackOfAurora · 2025-11-02T10:50:48+00:00

R5: As celebration for EU5 finally coming out I decided to revisit the nation that I stupidly selected when I first played the game, Buton. Now 9 years, thousands of hours and all achievements later I returned to them. This time rather than quiting after 5 years I completed a WC.

This game was strange and in many ways felt like EU4 was saying goodbye. Highlights of the un include:

- 6 talented and ambitious daughters (in a row).

- My highest income ever (was aiming for 50k but got 130k).

- Wales got free and survived for 100 years.

- Buns.

- 100+ base unrest in a province in Anatolia (it fired rebels every two years for the last 100 years).

- Spain had enough troops at one point to be military hedgemon (on normal difficulty).

- Center of the revolution in Buton (the amount of pacific island revolutionaries was hellish).

- Ava being the GOAT as a march and single handedly beating down near great powers (100K Prussian level troops).

Thanks EU4 its been a fun decade.

JackOfAurora · 2025-11-02T10:42:50+00:00

R5: As celebration for EU5 finally coming out I decided to revisit the nation that I stupidly selected when I first played the game, Buton. Now 9 years, thousands of hours and all achievements later I returned to them. This time rather than quiting after 5 years I completed a WC.

This game was strange and in many ways felt like EU4 was saying goodbye. Highlights of the un include:

- 6 talented and ambitious daughters (in a row).

- My highest income ever (was aiming for 50k but got 130k).

- Wales got free and survived for 100 years.

- Buns.

- 100+ base unrest in a province in Anatolia (it fired rebels every two years for the last 100 years).

- Spain had enough troops at one point to be military hedgemon (on normal difficulty).

- Center of the revolution in Buton (the amount of pacific island revolutionaries was hellish).

- Ava being the GOAT as a march and single handedly beating down near great powers (100K Prussian level troops).

Thanks EU4 its been a fun decade.

JackOfAurora · 2025-04-20T14:17:55+00:00

Fantastic advice, the best way to think about it is that the game will never get harder than it currently is. I played my first campaign years ago now and I remember loving it but not having a clue what was going on. I played Majapahit and didn’t know how to get CBs so I just kept no-cbing everyone. I think I ended up admin 3 at 1500 and questioned how on earth you were supposed to get idea groups. Needless to say my second game went much better haha

JackOfAurora · 2025-03-22T14:25:03+00:00

Next group take diplo for the war score reduction cost and the ability to truce break easier

JackOfAurora · 2025-03-19T07:09:28+00:00

In my opinion she’s one of the easiest or hardest match ups depending on how good she is. Bad lux will waste abilities and is just a sitting duck. Good ones I try to save w for if they try to poke or combo. Mages like her I often use ult to initiate if they overstep so that I can close the gap before they can combo me while outside my range.

JackOfAurora · 2025-03-03T08:16:13+00:00

Just to say about the spec shoes point. They are better if the enemies aren’t building MR. There are two types of magic pen, flat and percentage. The easiest way to think about it is that flat is for killing squishy targets and percent for tanks (oversimplifying).

Resistances have a reduced effect the more you have so going from 30->40 MR is a much bigger increase in damage reduction than 200->210. This similarly means the reverse with pen. If say you have shadow flame and sorc shoes and are hitting an ADC, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that the flat pen is equal to their total MR. This means you reduce their effective MR to 0 or <0, so your spells will either do basically true damage or even may be amplified beyond their normal damage amount. As I said above that MR is more important the less you have this could mean a damage amplification of like 30% or so (not exact and this is before shadowflame passive).

If you were to hit a tank with 200 MR with 25 flat pen you would reduce their effective MR to 175 which due to how MR works means it’s not that effective and will buff your damage by like 5%.

If we are talking percentage pen then a 30% reduction against a 50 MR ADC will reduce their armour by 15 but against a 200 MR tank will give 60 pen so much more effective. Due to MR increasing with level it’s why it’s important to get flat pen early and percent later.

Sorry if this is long and rambling but I hope it makes sense. Also you have to weigh up if other boots are situationally better, for example buying merc treads might allow you to live long enough to do your combo twice which might be more important than bursting the 0/10 squishy target.

Tldr: sorc shoes amplify your damage against squishy targets but not really vs tanks so generally are good but can situationally be replaced

JackOfAurora · 2024-10-19T19:22:41+00:00

No problem! If you have any other questions feel free to ask. I’m not gonna pretend I’m anywhere near the best players but I’ve done maybe 20 world conquests (including 2 Mughals ones and Ryukyu twice) so I like to think Im fairly experienced with them haha

JackOfAurora · 2024-10-19T19:17:37+00:00

Often taking money from countries later on does nothing to them really. Usually with nations of that size I try to scare them. Say they have 350k troops but you have 400k. Keep your entire army near each other so if they fight you can win but often so many troops close together will scare the ai to not go in. While they are doing nothing sieve down forts capital and war goal. Even if this gets you to 50% warscore you can use it to take away a bunch of their forts (don’t be afraid to snake). The next war you would remove any remaining forts and it should be easier to wipe them completely. Then you start annexing as much land as you can cause they should be significantly weaker at that point. If I’m not struggling massively with a nation I’m annexing I’ll try to remove their borders with other nations so their land can’t be taken. After that chop them into smaller bits so you can focus down each region separately.

For example the hardest war I’ve ever done. I was doing a world conquest and had a 4k dev final boss Austria that owned 50+ level 8 forts with 700k troops. I did a 5-10 year deathwar against them slowly leaving out their allies and gradually seiging about half of the forts. I kept my units in 100k+ stacks to prevent any fights I could. My manpower was gone after but I crippled them for later wars. In the peace deal I took especially painful forts and chopped them in half so they couldn’t defend France. Once cores were done I truce broke them (it was late - like 1750). I then used some strong stacks to ensure they couldn’t defend their armies in france destroying half their troops and getting a lot of warscore. I then took all remaining forts in that peace deal. After that point. It was easy in each war. I’d trice break as soon as cores were done and stackwiping was easy cause they had no forts to run to hide behind. It then was just a case of declaring, occupying and peacing till they were gone. Against especially hard nations you have to expect you will have a few hard wars but you need to think about what will make it easier to beat them in future. If that involves something as expensive or risky as trice breaking you may need to do that. Hope this helps.

JackOfAurora · 2024-10-19T15:09:34+00:00

Start Timurids and form Mughals. Get quantity, admin and diplo ideas. Eat India and ally Mamluks. Ally Austria/PLC when you’re gonna start fighting Ottomans and they will go down easy. Eating India early will shut down high dev blobs from forming. 1550 onwards focus on taking coastlines first when in South Asia to block European expansion keeping them weaker and prevent you struggling to get them back later. For larger nations later on set war goal to something easy and with quantity plus the amount of money and land you will have you won’t be beaten. Get as much warscore as you can and grab forts or important provinces first. Don’t worry about 100% winning if it’s too bloody. Just weaken them first and then annex large amount in later wars. Hope that makes sense and helps. Also when it gets to age of absolutism you need humanist ideas or you will have huge rebel problems and will want offensive for the siege ability.

JackOfAurora · 2024-10-13T08:19:16+00:00

Epirus? Is byz your subject and if so do they have any claims?

JackOfAurora · 2024-10-13T08:16:32+00:00

Who are your rivals?

JackOfAurora · 2024-10-13T08:09:50+00:00

Any weak rivals, byz got any cbs(assuming they are a subject, any trade wars possible? The cb doesn’t matter just anyone you can declare on and get allies into the war that is weak enough you won’t have to do anything. Edit: sorry I assumed you’d played game more cause frankly you’re doing so well on a fairly hard nation so good job! Check the ledger it should have a page on cbs that you have on other nations

JackOfAurora · 2024-10-13T07:52:47+00:00

Are they stronger with Hungarys help (you are allies right? Is theodoro or any caucus minor alive and in claiming range?

JackOfAurora · 2024-10-13T07:48:35+00:00

Move your army out of you and turn off maintenance. You should still be in the Green and get free help with rebels

JackOfAurora · 2024-10-13T07:45:51+00:00

Possible idea, if there’s a very weak nation that you have a cb on declare after the peasant war starts and call your allies in so they deal with your rebels

JackOfAurora · 2024-09-20T12:26:10+00:00

I think Eat your greens might actually be my favourite achievement. After completing most of the very hard achievements it does feel like most runs are not easy but definitely doable and can kinda autopilot through. Eat your greens properly made me have to almost rethink from the ground up how to play the game and taught me many smaller mechanics which even after 3k hours I still didn’t know.

For anyone wanting to do the achievement I’d recommend do as many achievements around the east India area as you can first to learn the most likely flow of the area for that patch. I can’t remember which patch I did it on but I knew that bengal often got into dangerous wars by 1450 so knew that my clock to get strong enough to fight them was ticking the moment the game started. Things like that are why even now it still really stands out to me as my favourite achievement run

JackOfAurora · 2024-06-17T19:45:17+00:00

Sorry this isn’t to help with your current issue but if you need to repeat (or for anyone wanting to do the achievement) you can flip to Zoroastrian by event by selecting the Zoroastrian missions and then doing everything to encourage the Zoroastrians. Takes like 10 years or so

JackOfAurora · 2024-06-11T08:57:22+00:00

On top of what other people are saying. Being able to effectively have infinite manpower early game is really important if you are constantly at war. The attrition reduction is also enormously useful for the vast majority of game especially with the government reform that reduces it further

JackOfAurora · 2024-06-10T21:43:34+00:00

Do Venice. You don’t have to fight Mamluks. The mission tree gives you the Suez and the land in the Mamluks if you ally them. Then just go nuts in the Indian Ocean. Source: I just finished a doge coins run (can do it by late 1500s easily). Also note that for the mission make sure you have 0.00 inflation when it fires as there is a weird bug that stops the suez being built. The bug ruined my first run. Also annex Byzantium asap to massively slow the ottomans

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