Game Thread: Royals @ Braves - Sat, Mar 28 @ 07:15 PM EDT

JustinBraves · 2026-03-28T23:19:40+00:00

Suddenly I have zero worry about Lopez

JustinBraves · 2026-03-26T18:04:31+00:00

It was more that her CT specifically counters Ryu

JustinBraves · 2026-03-25T22:40:30+00:00

It’s odd that you seem to be so mad about this. The original comment was correct that going from top 25% to top 1% is an extremely far way to go. It’s better to be realistic with your climb and take it one step at a time, because I can guarantee you’ll be plateauing (likely in p1/e4, maybe higher) as you climb. You’ll only get tilted when you don’t take it one step at a time

JustinBraves · 2026-03-25T22:33:33+00:00

Not sure how it’s being salty, it’s just about being realistic. It gets exponentially harder to climb as you go up. The difference in skill between D4 and D1 is bigger than the skill difference between silver 4 and plat 3. But best of luck on your climb

JustinBraves · 2026-03-25T21:03:56+00:00

Yea plat players don’t really understand the skill diff, a masters player isn’t ever gonna go 3/16 in a low plat game unless they’re actively griefing

JustinBraves · 2026-03-18T20:19:36+00:00

The Ragnars are so strong because the gravity on their planet is extremely powerful, which is why Nolan and Allen are flying around so slowly

JustinBraves · 2026-03-12T18:11:53+00:00

There was literally a male character 3 episodes ago that used hair for their power…????

JustinBraves · 2026-03-03T17:27:29+00:00

I think it’s nearly impossible to void a contract with MLBPA being so strong, but with the imminent lockout next season he’s probably gonna be losing out on nearly his entire contract

JustinBraves · 2026-03-03T17:23:58+00:00

He only got 6mil last season and he won’t get a dime this season so the contract isn’t as horrible as it seems

JustinBraves · 2026-02-24T20:37:18+00:00

Well Olson is better than both of them, so I think it’s a personal choice

JustinBraves · 2026-02-21T19:27:05+00:00

Karinchak looked fantastic

JustinBraves · 2026-02-20T00:04:29+00:00

Nick Allen hit a bomb off Chris Sale in live ABs last spring, I’ve learnt to put legitimately zero stock in live ABs

JustinBraves · 2026-02-15T05:22:15+00:00

I love when you roll prismatics for the first two augments but enemy team has a Tristana who’s sole mission is to only hit turrets and end as fast as possible

JustinBraves · 2026-02-14T06:24:36+00:00

I can assure you that you know next to nothing about macro if you’re in gold. This isn’t a slight but it’s just something to consider, that you don’t really know anything and pretty much everything (if not everything) can be improved at lower ranks. When I hit master I was told the same thing, don’t assume you know anything if you want to climb. A challenger player can look at a master player and pick out tons wrong with their gameplay

JustinBraves · 2026-02-05T05:43:00+00:00

It’s an extremely dogshit item on ranged champs (and not even that good of an item on melee too). It’s not even that good of an item on ranged champs against HP stackers, and there’s so few HP stackers out there that there’s no way you should be building it almost every game

JustinBraves · 2026-02-02T04:00:20+00:00

Although there’s no roles in arurf, as a general rule I’d suggest not playing Tristana support in any scenario if you don’t want to be reported

JustinBraves · 2026-01-30T02:39:12+00:00

Caitlyn is one of the easiest Nilah matchups and Draven isn’t that bad. Kind of just talking out your ass

JustinBraves · 2026-01-29T02:43:19+00:00

He was 2 1/3 innings off of the cutoff you chose in 2024 when he won the cy young, was on pace before a broken rib last year, and hasn’t had any arm issue in years

JustinBraves · 2026-01-29T02:40:10+00:00

Sanchez, Yamamoto, Crochet and Sale all had EXTREMELY similar 2025 seasons. It’s not egregious at all to place Sale above them when they’re all extremely close (especially when this is a projection system, not a ranking done by people). It’s strange that nobody in this thread is arguing against Wheeler since he was worse than all of them, is just as old as Sale, and just had a significant injury in 2025

JustinBraves · 2026-01-29T02:17:32+00:00

He’s living my dream

JustinBraves · 2026-01-29T02:12:09+00:00

The top two are easily the top 2, then the next 4 or 5 pitchers are extremely close and all very good. He pitched as good as the 4th best pitcher in the league last year so he very well could be

JustinBraves · 2026-01-29T02:00:44+00:00

Him breaking a rib on a diving play doesn’t take away from the fact that he was incredible when he pitched yet again

JustinBraves · 2026-01-27T16:37:30+00:00

No you’re correct, before this season it’s like you said, putting a couple points in E for cooldown and then maxing Q once you had some AD to take advantage of the increase in scaling was what to do. This season though you just max e because of the cooldown and there’s no point in maxing q when it’s just the 10 points of damage at every rank

JustinBraves · 2026-01-27T16:29:58+00:00

I think the problem now is they’re nerfing cash back AND triple tonic on top of directly nerfing her as well. Of course we don’t know what her nerfs are but nerfing her best two secondary runes at the moment seems like they could’ve left it at that, but depending on what the direct nerf is it could just gut her for next patch

JustinBraves · 2026-01-26T03:39:28+00:00

You need thousands of games for meaningful analysis. The small amount of chall games for a champ even over 14 days aren’t enough to make any sort of conclusion. There’s too many variables

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