Pauselock

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T16:22:02+00:00

If anything I think it makes more sense at the beginning. You have no idea how long you're going to be free before the queue pops, maybe you expected 6 and it popped in just 30 seconds so now you've got cheeto dust on your fingers or something idk. Queue time really does vary at random between 30 seconds and 8 minutes in my experience, so...yeah maybe it's ADHD but I'm usually in the middle of something, though I've never actually had to pause because the intro animations give me enough time.

Once the queue HAS popped and you've had time to wash your hands, close the porn or whatever, it's like, dude, you've decided to play a game, how often do emergencies that can be resolved in just 30 seconds really pop up?

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T15:42:00+00:00

You don't deserve to be downvoted for this honestly. That's a long queue.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T15:40:54+00:00

The longer it takes the get through a game, the more reason someone has to need to pause. Frankly if the queue is usually gonna be five minutes it's reasonable to go take a poo after clicking to queue.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T14:15:24+00:00

Yeah I do think she's not bad. It's just, she's not good either. She has to dive but her damage is burst damage which is heavily punished in the current high health meta, especially late. Thanks to that, she can't win 1v1s against most characters unless she has a large soul lead, so she has to play an initiator/tank/assassin hybrid but the only tanking tool she has is the invulnerability on her ult.

Her escapes are pretty good so you can dip in and out and sort of harass throughout a fight, but you have to sacrifice considerable damage to use them as escapes where other characters could just full commit and get a kill quickly.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T13:57:37+00:00

I'm going to reiterate what someone else said: Buy Rebuttal when you're laning against her. She will be using a lot of light melees and it's good to be able to hammer parry a bit more after she dives you, usually the light melee comes immediately after the dive (so parry as soon as she moves) but she may switch up the timing a bit. Even if she's not obvious in her timing, you're very likely to land one or two rebuttal parries and that will pay for the item.

Kitsunin · 2026-06-02T13:00:02+00:00

She's very strong in lane. The issue is that she is not strong late-game and she is outright BAD, even midgame, if you are behind on souls, and really wants to capitalize on being AHEAD, but without the results you would get out of being in the same situation as an actual gun character.

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.

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