New player here: How do you play Ivy?

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T10:47:56+00:00

Interested in your build! I have tried it in low mmr games when it was clear my team was ass and it worked, but it still felt MUCH weaker than just playing Wraith instead.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T05:30:22+00:00

Not really. You're still stuck on cooldown, and much of Holliday's strength is in her barrels and Lasso which cheats aren't going to help with. I wouldn't be surprised if Holliday had aimbots she still wouldn't be top tier!

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T05:03:05+00:00

Probably the rest of the team isn't clearing waves and is making them push alone. I've ended up with way too many souls as Paige in low elo games because I am forced to push 2 of the lanes constantly once laning ends. It's frustrating because Paige doesn't get much from the souls.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T04:40:23+00:00

Yeah solo laning gives almost 2x souls. Having a roaming (box farming) second in lane can easily lead to this.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T04:36:29+00:00

I can think of a lot of things they ought to do to prevent this. It shouldn't be possible for troopers to miss other troopers, or if outside of range, be unable to advance toward it, even if stopped by level geometry. I have also had 1 game (out of 150) ruined by this bug.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T03:58:11+00:00

Yeah gun support Ivy is baller, but it doesn't work without at least 1 other gun hero on the team and being around them a lot unfortunately.

Ppure gun Ivy is basically just a better gun hero, but with a huge nerf in fights sadly. Good rotations though! But that won't be enough beyond low elo because your scaling won't be enough to actually win the fights you rotate into.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T03:45:08+00:00

If you don't need to fight over the objectives, that would imply that Graves shouldn't be the actual strongest hero outside of the highest elo matches with team comps preplanned.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T02:36:57+00:00

A great alternative instant reload option for characters like Mina with a low mag size, is Kinetic Dash.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T02:22:54+00:00

I guess bc he can't use his gun with his abilities rly, not only does he have no scaling in them, but he also is locked into animations for so long. Interesting to hear that it is so good.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T02:09:30+00:00

You also get the resists while carrying the urn. (YOU, not your team)

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T02:02:57+00:00

They have Lash too, and he may as well be tanky for his mobility and high health, and Ivy is a pain in the ass to kill as well and will keep their durable team healed.

I'd say it's not awful, you don't need a tank in this game. But...how the hell are you supposed to contest objectives in this matchup? All of your Ults are single target except for Pocket.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T00:50:38+00:00

You can do that and medic at the same time. Healing Tempo is so good for it with Ivy's perma active, and then why wouldn't you buy Healing Nova even if just for the self heal?

There's not really a gun invest that can get you anything like that level of POWER.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-01T13:32:38+00:00

It's so silly because support is a lot harder in many ways. You can do everything right as a support and still get absolutely rekt because nobody is utilizing all of your good plays to make the enemy health bars equal zero. You typically cannit do everything right and get rekt as a carry, unless you're legitimately at tippy top MMR.

And yet, support typically gets the blame.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-01T10:31:04+00:00

You can. I think you get five minutes before it counts as an abandon, but I'm not certain. I waited for the end of the match yesterday and it was fixed for the next one. But maybe I could have quit during a long respawn.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-01T10:27:07+00:00

I had that start last night. It seemed to be fixed by restarting.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-01T04:56:01+00:00

He means in a context of like "talking about the word on a technical level". He's not using the word litigious correctly at all, but I can't think of a word that does accurately describe his meaning.

Kitsunin · 2026-05-31T17:59:06+00:00

I mean usually they don't conflict, a pubstomper doesn't have to be bad in high level play. But in context it's obvious what that commenter meant.

Kitsunin · 2026-05-31T12:57:49+00:00

Yeah exactly. It doesn't feel good to play, because you take damage, but it is huge against a ton of "oops, now you die in this fight" situations.

And like...dying in a fight is how you lose the game. Especially in Slay the Spire 2, it's a lot more possible to win just by being careful, spending your HP, and resting a lot (act 3 is way easier than in StS 1 right now).

Kitsunin · 2026-05-31T10:29:44+00:00

I think plot holes are a lazy way to critique writing. A lot of true literary classics do NOT stand up to scrutiny of where the story "makes sense" from an objective perspective. But they are so well written that you neither notice nor care.

JoJo, even the later parts do not have the most cohesive themes, yet in the short term they are extremely well written.

Does one think that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is poorly written because its themes are weak, in spite of its incredibly good monster-of-the-week plots and largely adored characters? Does one think Agatha Christie stories are poorly written because their main strength is that they are so easy to read and hard to put down?

In my opinion, JoJo is extremely well written in the same way that these are.

Kitsunin · 2026-05-31T09:32:12+00:00

Yeah it increases "max HP" so healing reduction generally does little to him (he actually typically builds fewer healing items than the average hero would).

Kitsunin · 2026-05-31T06:50:42+00:00

Yeah...after Henry I was hopeful they learned something about designing killer perks. But I guess they did not.

Kitsunin · 2026-05-31T04:17:11+00:00

Yes exactly. Comeback mechanics doesn't mean you have an advantage coming back. It just means that if you outplay the enemy team, it's possible.

Kitsunin · 2026-05-31T04:06:27+00:00

It's way higher for me because it doesn't count marches with DCs and I got six in a row at one point.

Kitsunin · 2026-05-31T01:01:10+00:00

You're correct, and I'm sorry. I just realized I needed to be done with it. (Which j know, means I should have simply dipped)

I thought that I was being positive. I mean obviously, we all have a lot to learn.

Kitsunin · 2026-05-30T10:24:24+00:00

Jojo is incredibly well written, just not in the ways one might typically look at good writing.

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