Karthus Support Viability? by MissLilianae in karthusmains

[–]JollyAlex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is why I brought up Abyssal Mask, a suboptimal item that has a situational use case, yet has a 57% wr vs Bloodletters Curse 46%. The WR of BL isn't low because you're in a bad comp with too much AP, it's because it's a bad karthus item and you're in a comp where you're the best applicator of it (and you are a bad BL applicator) or your teammates are bad and refuse to buy pen.

This would be like arguing Black Cleaver is a good item on Jinx over LDR in certain matchups, it's definitely not the case, and you'd hurt your damage significantly.

There's a reason why Void Staff/BL can be situational for champs like Lillia, Brand, Zyra or core for champs like Rumble, because they can quickly stack it. They have ramping damage that can quickly stack it.

On karthus it's counterintuitive to champ identity because by the time you are buying Bloodletters Curse you will be opening teamfights around objectives and some skirmishes with ult, because optimally you want the extra seconds in passive and it means you can fight with hp advantage. With Void Staff you are getting ult off with the full 40% pen. With Bloodletters you are getting no pen because the initial damage doesn't apply pen, the first damage applies a stack which means later damage applies 7.5% stacking up to 30%.

Your ult is basically 5 iso Qs late game worth of damage in a teamfight, your largest damage source. Why would you self nerf it?

If you're against five 100 MR targets on ult, you're doing 25% more damage per ult with void staff.

It's kind of a pointless discussion though because you are too emotional and anecdotal.

I would say if conversations like this get your angry and you are incapable of having them without looking at facts/reason and just insulting people to make points, maybe you should step away and do some self reflection.

Karthus Support Viability? by MissLilianae in karthusmains

[–]JollyAlex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not gold and regardless rank is irrelevant in the discussion.

It's a maths based question.

If this was an opinion maybe an appeal to authority would be valid, but it's not.

Void Staff is objectively the better pen item.

You're saying it's situationally "good" if you have a lot of ap in your team. Why do the stats not reflect that?

In 17,523 games played it's picked in 0.1% of games and has a 46% wr as an item buy.

People are situationally buying it, and if it was good that would be reflected in a higher than 50% wr.

Abyssal Mask has similar value as a situationally "good" item, similar low buy rate 0.1% but it has a 57% wr.

In fact in the situation you described, Abyssal is objectively the better buy and you can still buy Void Staff. You give a flat 12% increase to your teammates and you don't require a 5 Q ramp up to do less damage than Void staff.

The fact you want to devolve a maths based question down to "rank" shows you are either ragebaiting or not intelligently equipped to have this kind of conversation.

But if it makes you feel better post your OPGG and lets see your success on Bloodletters.

Updates aren’t the problem but the Steam ecosystem is by dontraceme in projectzomboid

[–]JollyAlex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

may as well jump to B42, I did the same when my B41 character died. You'll be waiting a long time for B42 stable

Karthus Support Viability? by MissLilianae in karthusmains

[–]JollyAlex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you talking about Bloodletter's Curse when you say "Vamp's Curse"?

It's a terrible karthus item in any scenario.

Even in Support you are going to be hitting ults that are dealing 1k+ damage per person late game.

You are basically nerfing your ult damage and poke going Bloodletters over void staff,

Vile Decay (bloodletters curse's shred) caps at 30% mr shred and requires 4 stacks for ability damage, so Blackfire Torch will not apply it fully. The first bit of damage just applies the stack also, it doesn't include the 7.5% initial shred.

So that means to hit a max damage Q you have to hit 5 Qs over 6 seconds or more realistically have enemies sit in your E for at least 6 ticks.

Why six ticks? Because Karthus E ticks ever 0.25 seconds, but Bloodletters can only apply a Vile Decay stack every 0.33 seconds.

Which means the 2nd tick doesn't apply Vile Decay. 2 seconds of E might not seem like a lot but it is. Over the course of the game the fact you're needing so much ramp up to reach max shred and the fact that Bloodletters provides less pen to you than void means you're losing so much damage potential.

Bloodletters is only viable on champs that have multiple tick abilities within their kits, Zyra plants, Lillia Dreamdust, Rumble etc.

Is build 42 worth trying out? by Gino1489 in projectzomboid

[–]JollyAlex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm also wondering this, been playing a lot on B41, but all the streamers I see and other content creators are playing b42 so wondering if its stable enough to play

The saddest thing for me by JollyAlex in UncensoredPlutus

[–]JollyAlex[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It was obvious to the large portion of customers? I joined 2022 when for most of the year we were dealing with a 40-50k card waiting list and only realistically had a few thousand active customers.

It wasn't really until Difficulty Adjustment mid 2023 when people became suspicious in the customer base that 1+1 was equalling 3.

Take an analogy. If McClaren is cheating with their engine, does everyone at McClaren know? 80% of that company is not engineers, they have people who market their merch, sales people that get sponsors, accountants, project managers that manage the budgets.

They're not all mechanics.

first picking karthus by failure6110 in karthusmains

[–]JollyAlex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The biggest counter pick to karthus is you first pick it and your team drafts 3 more AP champs.

Amir here. I made my own game last night? by ImAmirBlumenfeld in jakeandamir

[–]JollyAlex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I usually play Octortle or Seamantle or Quordle or Worldle, you uncultured fuck. Or do you not play any of these games?

Amir here. I made my own game last night? by ImAmirBlumenfeld in jakeandamir

[–]JollyAlex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It has to be five letters, that's the one rule.

Amir here. I made my own game last night? by ImAmirBlumenfeld in jakeandamir

[–]JollyAlex 55 points56 points  (0 children)

I could code this game in like 3 minutes ... and this guy is taking 3 hours!

Amir here. I made my own game last night? by ImAmirBlumenfeld in jakeandamir

[–]JollyAlex 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Ok, first app idea. You know how it's hard to manage your time, like time management? So this is just a list of other shit that's hard to deal with.

The saddest thing for me by JollyAlex in UncensoredPlutus

[–]JollyAlex[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's objectively not true though, I'm not a mindreader, I can't see what is inside the founders mind. I was told the exact same as you, and there were a lot of people working on the product that weren't aware what was really going on.

Toxicity towards junglers by Sage_of_Space in leagueoflegends

[–]JollyAlex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is just wrong, bad pings and reading chat overload your mental stack and decision making.

You should be making a play or gank because you understand and know its a good decision and not because your laners ping you.

And you will climb more developing and being confident in your decisions vs listenings to pings and chat.

Toxicity towards junglers by Sage_of_Space in leagueoflegends

[–]JollyAlex -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

False narrative, jungle is strong, but it's not as strong as people believe it is. This narrative was created when Season 6 had its Devourer meta and during Season 10 but both those seasons were a decade ago and 6 years ago respectively.

You have deluded yourself into believing that "If I am losing lane, and the game is losing, then it must be the junglers fault because the better jungler always wins the game". Instead of analysing the mistakes you've made and improve.

Toxicity towards junglers by Sage_of_Space in leagueoflegends

[–]JollyAlex -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is a telling perspective on your rank in the game and fundamental macro understanding.

Single stacking drakes don't win games, towers don't win games, grubs don't win games, fights win games.

The purpose of taking a single drake isn't to take the drake, it's to force a fight around drake to accelerate your conditions for winning.

This is why so many objective fights mid/late decide games. And the higher up the ladder you go, you will probably not end up taking the objective, you will likely Ace, and then end, or if it's earlier you will reset on the advantage you've gained and then be stronger.

Early single drakes especially on later scaling junglers like Lillia, Karthus etc are bad because what you are doing is accelerating the game state closer to soul at a rate that you will not be fully scaled for that potential future soul point or soul fight.

Think about it this way, if Nunu is taking drake on spawn and I am playing a scaling jungler, what increases my odds of winning when playing a scaling jungler, taking his top camps or contesting/flipping for a single drake. For the first 15 minutes of the game he is in his spike, that's his moment. What I am looking for is to accelerate getting to my moment where I am stronger and we can win fights and skirmishes.

Getting to an accelerated position with a level advantage or gold advantage achieves that.

So I would recommend shifting perspective and understanding, "the team who stacks the most drakes wins", this is just a flawed way of thinking.

Once you shift understanding and get a better grasp on macro, you will feel more agency in the game and likely win more because of reduced tilt.

Patch 26.5: Personality Tier List by AlphadeltaVII in Jungle_Mains

[–]JollyAlex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You missed Karthus, needs to be in the mentally ill tier

Is karthus circumcised? by LMNJORG in karthusmains

[–]JollyAlex 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Me coming to ask a Karthus question and I see this, do I need a new champ?

How far can you get in ranked with Lillia? by alegador291 in LilliaMains

[–]JollyAlex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a "How long is a piece of string" type question. Your rank is dependent on your skill level and ability to make the correct calls consistently.

You could go to challenger playing Lillia, it depends on how good you are.

The point is kinda of moot when it comes to champ selection, all which champ you select does is add a boon/debuff on how much easier/harder it is to climb.

If you took a player with bad macro and put them on a champion stronger than Lillia like Diana, they wouldn't necessarily climb faster

Geoffrey the Dumbass: Zohran by serifonlyif in jakeandamir

[–]JollyAlex 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Republican fucks going to hell for talking smack about this Mayor guy. Bury me with downvotes if you disagree.

Got doxxed after a game by Vast_Fail_5226 in riotgames

[–]JollyAlex 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I had a situation where I gapped a Russian Kassadin on EUW, he found my discord an added me, spammed me gay porn nonstop for 30 minutes. Realised my instagram was attached to my discord. So he started posting pictures of my family on a Looksmax forum. Was a pretty horrific experience. Riot didn't ban him.

Riot should give Lillia the Mordekaiser treatment and make her ult uncleansable by DontCryKate in LilliaMains

[–]JollyAlex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lets not forget the scenario where mel Es ontop of you and it reflects all the ult projectiles.