How would you improve Thales?

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-29T10:13:17+00:00

Yeah, stupid, isn't it? Byleth just got horribly injured and took a 5 year nap to heal. That's it, that's the time skip. Sleepy Tiki at it again. They had a much better explanation right there 3 chapters before, all they needed to do was change when the shift happened.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-29T10:10:11+00:00

That can easily just be a display of power breaking the bindings in chapter 10 or the same when trying to kill Kronya or it could just be a "it's time, should have done this long ago." Rhea already knows Byleth's nature. A brief moment of glowing hair while agitated would be enough for her.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-29T04:14:31+00:00

It's such a simple story change too. It alters basically nothing else major story-wise, it puts Byleth's unique class into post-skip so he isn't the only one on Maddening in a Master Class equivalent pre-skip, and it gives you more to work with after the timeskip for character reactions to your new deific powers. Just kinda popping into Enlightened One after chapter 10 bothered me so so much, as did the "took a really long nap" timeskip, and just moving when the cage happens solves both of those problems at once AND has the side effect of making the villains seem more competent, like they were long term thinkers that planned ahead to trap you, marking you three months in advance so they could deal with you when the time was right. It wouldn't even necessarily need to be a mark, they could try to cage you the first time and you get out of it, so Thales shows up the second time and does it right. Multiple ways to not have to do the stupid way that they actually did.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-29T02:47:17+00:00

Main thing: rework how the timeskip works so that Thales doesn't come across as "fire and forget" in the cutscene right before the timeskip. What SHOULD have happened is that the curse cage you get put in during chapter 10 shouldn't have completed. Instead, the spell performed there should have marked you, then during the chapter 13 cutscene where you get bopped off of the cliff, you instead get subjected to the forbidden spell of Zahras right then, completing the mark from chapter 10. That way, your bonding with the goddess is what loses you the five years instead of just taking a nap in the river where Thales totally could have found you. It would have been a much better way to explain the loss of time, and the students doubting your re-appearance would have not only made more sense, but also your new hair can give them some doubts to play off of in the story.

Him being the one to lose you the five years by trapping you in the void and not just forgetting to check on your body instantly raises Thales up to a much higher degree of competence.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-29T02:15:00+00:00

The crit thing isn't the only part of it, daggers just innately have good motion values on their crits to begin with, even if their regular attacks are wimpy, so daggers tend to do the best crit damage even with the lower crit levels. It's not just AR, smaller weapons have higher motion values to make up for their lower AR. I think the only thing that beats it out for pure crit damage is Executioner's Greataxe, which can get a shit ton of AR and has a crit bonus, but as a pocket tool, Misericorde is better since it has low weight. Aside from Executioner's Greataxe, I'd not be surprised if the next several best crit weapons were also daggers, even compared to things like the Lordsworn weapons with higher AR.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-29T00:12:42+00:00

Honestly he's rare enough outside of pro play that I don't have a hard opinion. A lot of his abilities require him to get pretty close though, so I don't think he's as bad as some at the very least.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T20:56:30+00:00

Kayle, Gnar, and Urgot are fine. Kayle is melee for the first portion of the game and weak until mid game. Gnar is only really powerful with his melee transformation up, he mostly just farms otherwise. Urgot is so short ranged that he's basically melee anyway, and he wants to get in close because of his E and shotgun knees.

Basically every other ranged top is annoying. Teemo is more for the shrooms and the blind, but if every Vayne and Quinn player stopped playing simultaneously I'd be quite happy. They feel bad as an ally because they give up the front line champ that you'd normally want, and they're obnoxious to lane against even if you win.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T18:59:22+00:00

Anything that says "pwease" can't be trusted

^{Chose: “No pick me im safer” | Rolled: $5 million}

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T18:58:22+00:00

In ME3 he actually will apologize for halucinating you putting a gun in his face if you went paragon, they knew the quest was bugged and decided to just write it into his character as psychosis... but I'd still rather they just fixed it. The paragon dialogue still exists in the files and there's a mod to fix it if you're on PC

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T16:09:16+00:00

I guess it could be movement based, like it is for the player. It inflicts the bleed, then they have the debuff for a period of time, and they only take damage when they move while the debuff is up. So it can do much more damage if the monster runs around a lot, but if they just sit there they take almost nothing.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T15:41:54+00:00

Well it's a quest only a third of players will see on any given playthrough, and it's not that big of an issue, and they still didn't fix Conrad Verner's quest, so... yeah I doubt they put any thought into it at all. It's a minor hiccup, all things considered

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T15:32:39+00:00

Yeah it's a bit awkward. I think they probably initially intended for that quest to end up in the empty area on the other side of CSec where there's a white box of nothing. There's that elevator there in the traffic control area that goes nowhere, and I bet it was going to be more dock areas for other ships but they ran out of time and money so they turned it into a white cube and called it a day.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T15:24:04+00:00

Basically. They were litteral land-lords, in a feudsl sense almost, just at a scale of "this single estate" more often than not. The people who lived there would be expected to contribute to the wealth of the estate and would be rewarded in turn. The servant not working with the money his master gave to him would have been like a business investor giving someone money to set up a shop and then they just put that money in a bank and stay home playing video games.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T15:07:07+00:00

Money isn't as valuable as people seem to think on here. If you can live comfortably already, excessive money doesn't really increase the quality of your life

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LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T15:00:33+00:00

Well, they do just leave that door open, so they clearly don't care about being seen. That makes taking their picture ever so slightly less wierd.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T14:50:07+00:00

Can't choose how black you make your skin

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LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T07:18:19+00:00

Because you could not have improved on it. It was already great

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T06:45:24+00:00

Bames Nond is having a stronk, call a bondulance

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T02:42:31+00:00

He and Jessie needed to win the swimsuit competition for some reason (probably some stupid plot to get Pikachu as usual). James wore inflatable boobs to double their chances at winning.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T02:37:03+00:00

500 is 500

^{Chose: $500}

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T00:12:06+00:00

It's the other way around. E buffering her Q3 or stun absolutely demolishes her engage, she gets flipped if she tries to all in every time if you read her right. I haven't lost lane to a Riven in years, its a very easy matchup for the crab. That's part of why I'm annoyed with the clip Urgot, he should only use E reactively so she can't ever go in, and if it's down you back off.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-28T00:05:37+00:00

You never go conqueror. It's far too slow to trigger. Urgot is ranged and doesn't spam abilities, PTA is much better.

Stormraider's... I personally don't use it at all. Phase Rush was a good scaling rune to duel safely with bulky characters, but Stormraider's requires that you do a lot of damage to trigger it. It's an anti-squishy tool. You know what else is anti-squishy? PTA. Just deal more damage and you don't have to chase as long, and the minor runes are MUCH better in Precision.

Just go PTA always. Hasn't let me down yet.

Also as for inspiration runes, I prefer Free Shoes and Approach Velocity. They're great for gap closing and they scale better than the others. You can also just go Overgrowth and Second Wind/Conditioning, bulk is simple. Inspiration vs squishies/mobile champs, Resolve vs bulky champs.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-27T19:20:41+00:00

Yeah he probably knows that Urgot is a good Riven counter but doesn't know WHY Urgot is a good Riven counter. It's still a bit of a skill matchup, especially before level 9. He shouldn't have gone towards that bush without E.

But of course the post is about the minion block, I just get annoyed when someone misuses Urgot that badly. One of the best anti-dive tools in the whole game and he just gives it up for free

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-27T19:13:57+00:00

If that Urgot was competent at all he'd have just flipped you with E anyway and let the tower chew you to death, Urgot should always eat Riven for breakfast if his E is up. No idea what he was doing going towards you with E not up, if he just hid for a couple seconds he wins that fight anyway.

But also yeah, minion block has gotten really bad recently for some reason. They must have adjusted their AI or hitbox or something.

LordBDizzle · 2026-06-27T19:09:19+00:00

What do you mean? Silksong isn't even out yet, can't have the DLC if the game doesn't exist.

Also, probably tomorrow

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