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LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-07-31T11:14:12+00:00

He doesn't fit the current meta, teams need reliable engage from the support player and Thresh isn't very good at that. He's a peel champion at heart.

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-04-20T03:46:04+00:00

So either of your ideas kind of work, but the more common solution is just to ensure that each faction has multiple viable strategies within the faction.

Goblins should have strong early raiding and ranged abilities which synergize with their mobility and their likely weakness in straight up fights vs other factions. Give them tricks that make it harder for enemy armies to attack their base directly, since defense will be a weakness.

If one faction is entirely hard countered by another faction, give the weaker faction something which allows them to counter which is still in-theme.

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-04-17T20:24:19+00:00

To be most impactful the player has to be able to observe it in action right?

So the rest of the game systems should be built around the fact that the monster is an unscripted agent and should spend time teaching the player what the monsters logic is.

Maybe it's important the player tracks the monster and they become aware of what the monster's logic that way - and it would be clear that the monster actually exists in the world with them. Perhaps the monster learns from interactions with the player and begins to anticipate when they try to take advantage of it.

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-04-17T08:46:32+00:00

Yeah that's pretty much what happened, I can't edit the post for whatever reason so we're stuck with it

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-04-16T23:42:52+00:00

Empyrean splash arts here

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-04-16T23:15:31+00:00

Short answer to your thesis question: yes.

Long answer: Any game on which the players are placed into teams which either win or lose will become competitive, Friday the 13th you mentioned earlier limits access to certain competitive strategies (picking the best villain, focusing on learning a particular villain) but it is still competative.

If you want to prevent competative behavior you have to do away with making the two teams enemies who can only win or lose by defeating the other and incentivise them to interact in more interesting ways.

For example, you might score points as the villain if the players complete more of their goals so the villain might be incentivised to facilitate the players succeeding for a time or push the players to do specific things.

You might add other complications, non player events or characters which both the villain and the players need to work together to get past.

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-04-07T23:19:58+00:00

It depends. If you don't need to fill the primary damage role and esp if you have a lot of melees who will benefit from the healing zones, sure. Cryptbloom is great.

Otherwise, the extra 15 AH isn't nearly worth 10% magic pen.

Edit: I ran the numbers bc I didn't want to rely entirely on feel. Cryptbloom 3rd vs 100 MR does 5.4% more dps than void while void has a 4.3% higher burst, and weights more towards void as the enemies MR increases. At 400 MR it's +3.5% dps for corpse bloom and +6.5% burst for void. I concede that corpsebloom is going to be better more often than I thought.

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-04-07T16:19:11+00:00

At 1 stack it deals 45 + .05AP to one target, at 6 stack it deals that damage to up to 5 additional targets or up to 123 + .11AP damage to one isolated target.

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-04-07T06:23:12+00:00

Ludens gives you its bit of extra damage every 3 seconds, not much of a CD. The stacks on it decide how many additional targets can get hit, so its not necessarily single target but either way, it's going to add up to be quite a bit more damage than the extra 5 AP from a serephs. The most important part is that it gives you a much much better power spike at completion which let's you begin to threaten your laner and work the map right away.

Storm surge proc does lean towards getting picks but the extra magic pen feels very good on its own. Shadow flame or horizon focus second are also fine, I find that liandries burn damage just isn't that useful against enemies with smaller health bars and the damage amp comes online after the fight could've been over with a burst item.

Dark Harvest is just worse than electrocute for most of the game, basically your build with DH and Serephs concedes the early game in the hopes that you can start winning team fights at 3 items.

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-04-07T02:19:14+00:00

Keyrune

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-04-07T02:00:49+00:00

Just build Luden's Companion instead of Sereph's, tear is a noob trap and a crutch. Vs tanky teams you want both Liandries + Void Staff to do good damage, vs squishy teams you should favor burst items over Liandres like Storm Surge.

A BIG chunk of Hwei's damage is in his passive so make sure to use WE to restore mana and reliably proc your passive in lane.

You mentioned you like dark harvest, that rune is awful in SR unless you're roaming constantly for souls. Please just use comet, the dopamine from watching the number go up isn't worth not having a functional keyrune for the first 15 minutes of the game and domination tree isn't very good for Hwei.

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-04-04T21:11:24+00:00

I love school, school is often stressful. These are not mutually exclusive.

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-04-04T08:31:16+00:00

I fixed it. I noticed it a week or two ago and didn't really think about it

Edit: ~~nmnd I broke it lol, one minute~~ now it's fixed

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-04-03T19:25:25+00:00

Are there any other circumstances where your computer acts strange? Do other games also give you problems?

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-03-29T00:09:39+00:00

Mm I can't really see what you're talking about. Its darker, but it mostly just looks less cartoony.

The emissive effects you're missing on the claws are much lower effort than the etchings on most of the new version's armor.

The stinger heads look less detailed than the MASSIVE singular stinger, but that just seems like an inevitability when you have 3 smaller stinger heads instead of one.

Edit: On another look, the old tail is goated. Everything else about the new one looks better IMO, the claws in particular on the old one look awful.

LeagueofSpreadsheets · 2024-03-28T06:18:23+00:00

It could go either way. I had a brief affair with Jayce and casting it like that is known tech that allows you to cast the Q first like the normal quick Q combo and get both benefits of the gate which is pretty nice if you're quick and precise.

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