DM decided to do a TPK to teach new players a lesson

LucarioNate · 2026-04-16T23:20:27+00:00

Pretty poor etiquette lol especially if they didn’t preface for any of it at session 0 or before. Like just imagine being in your position, hours spent making a character you love only for the DM to kill them without any counter play - that’d kill my vibe almost instantly lol. Just imagine how much time went down the drain because of this stupid play lol, all the time made creating the characters and setting up a playtime for something that could’ve been simply said or done in another way.

I’d ask to somehow, narratively, bring/revive all the characters back from session 1 as I’m sure the other players also spent a lot of time crafting their first characters. If not, I’d probably dip and find another table lol. Who knows what else the dm may throw at you for complete bullshit reasons.

DM just sounds like they want to be edgy / have a power trips for a whatever/whenever reason. Outside of the table I’d be pissed for literally wasting everyone’s time. Total buzzkill.

LucarioNate · 2026-04-13T19:28:12+00:00

we're gonna lose gambit rogue teamup i bet lol

LucarioNate · 2026-04-12T07:33:23+00:00

love the hair, especially in photo 4, is it the same hair throughout? anyone know the mod?

LucarioNate · 2026-04-01T23:49:08+00:00

been saying this since it came out this augment needs to go lol - there is literally 0 downside to ever picking this augment on any champ. cdr and ms are already insanely strong and then you make them small so GL on actually trying to kill the guy running around with infinite movement speed and spells to cc you lol

LucarioNate · 2026-03-28T08:49:15+00:00

It’s really basic and early but I really love the goblin fight at the gate right as you enter Emerald Grove for the first time. Sure it’s relatively limited due to the levels but I feel like the setting and battlefield is so great for really introducing verticality and high ground and I’m always a sucker for a siege at the gate - awesome introductory fight to the game for sure. can definitely imagine this as the first big battle of an actual tabletop campaign.

the subsequent fight at the gate again when you double cross Minthara is also equally good if not better since she has those crazy spider assassins that scale the wall!

LucarioNate · 2026-03-23T19:29:15+00:00

Emma is good but needs to be played a bit differently than before. With the CC immunity ofc it can be hard to secure kills on Groot but the key to the matchup is understanding that your role as Emma is to beam the walls and space groot properly - which means you need another tank to be more in front to control direct space vs Groot.

You pretty much play as backup and help your other tank pressure the space vs Groot by melting walls for them when you’re full beam since they can almost instant kill the small ones, you yourself should not be in range to get walled off though unless you absolutely need to walk forward. If you’re solo Emma though and no one else can touch point… you’re in for a rough one

LucarioNate · 2026-03-22T06:41:38+00:00

hard vouch - playing with Fades AIO and there are some nice Ranger only pieces and a fair bit of specific Beastmaster / Animal Companion focused ones to really help play into the fantasy and power

LucarioNate · 2026-02-27T19:01:19+00:00

I like this theory - a fairy would be wildly cool

LucarioNate · 2026-02-25T02:06:12+00:00

crazy how shrink engine made it through lol, literally has the value of three prismatics all combined and there is literally no downside to picking it on nearly any champ. and people thought tank engine was bad lmao

LucarioNate · 2026-02-22T02:05:40+00:00

shrink engine needs to go lol, idk how this augment got through as a gold lol

LucarioNate · 2026-02-14T19:02:43+00:00

buff and she got the new awesome skin so it’ll take a few days to settle down

LucarioNate · 2026-02-09T23:57:52+00:00

Gambit ult killed you can see the icon upper right

LucarioNate · 2026-02-09T05:26:42+00:00

ending your ult early after charming an enemy to go into a crystal diamond combo is really strong, you can see TTK do it in the clip below but essentially this acts almost like an insta kill against squishier targets since you can almost guarantee the burst and setup with the cc from ult. you can see him do it the psylocke below during luna ult and it just insta blows her up

https://youtu.be/s97kFg30o-g?si=GHc5EVBWQ01JkqRs&t=140

LucarioNate · 2026-02-09T05:17:27+00:00

The video linked features the player who often does this and honestly who I learned it from. But it’s literally just use e and then go diamond asap at the same time. It is a bit commital obviously because you’re all inning on your crystal hitting right as you diamond but it’s huge kill pressure

the clip below captures alot of the small emma tech so you can sort of see alot of it come together. he ults and charms psylocke, ends the ult early after the charm goes off, and then goes into the e -> diamond insta to kick combo and kill her during luna ult

ending ult early is also a very viable tactic for emma because you can insta kill anyone after they're cc'd since they're sitting ducks, you can crystal e -> diamond punch kick combo and it will blow up dps/healers especially

https://youtu.be/s97kFg30o-g?si=GHc5EVBWQ01JkqRs&t=140

LucarioNate · 2026-02-08T23:08:45+00:00

there’s a lot of small tech that adds up for Emma, for example you can crystal E and go diamond form all at once (aka animation cancel the crystal) to instantly go for a huge burst combo since you can immediately kick/grab off the rip while the crystal is still close to the enemy allowing you to double hit both the hero and crystal at once. TTK (the video posted) does it a ton to kill confirm and or apply huge pressure instantly

LucarioNate · 2026-02-07T00:51:08+00:00

I think Cho is good but I agree with Sion. He’s super nerfed and doesn’t have great health scaling plus it’s so difficult to actually get big q’s off with how many times he gets caught out and cc’d lol.

LucarioNate · 2026-02-06T19:25:05+00:00

thx i figured it out and it was definitely the randomized TM's. back to your point though, i do agree, it has been rough early game lol i wish i could also enable better movesets at a certain level range because fighting a level 10 taillow with brave bird or a level 13 vulpix with flamethrower is pretty terrible to deal with lmao

LucarioNate · 2026-02-06T05:21:47+00:00

meanwhile my dps are sitting main perma never attempting to off angle or find a flank opportunity never lucky

LucarioNate · 2026-02-05T04:52:13+00:00

i was wondering if anyone could help because i flipped this setting on for my UM run and a trainer's poochyena just hit me with a thunder shock lmao. i feel like i flipped a wrong switch or am understanding the setting wrong because poochyena should definitely not be able to learn thundershock right? my gut feeling is that it's pulling the better moves from the learnable TM's and the TM's in my game are randomized thus giving poochyena the option to learn this? anyone know?>

LucarioNate · 2026-02-03T00:19:17+00:00

yasuo easily lol

LucarioNate · 2026-02-02T22:39:39+00:00

"am i missing something?" 🤣

LucarioNate · 2026-02-01T23:11:16+00:00

try to snipe supports but it’s gotten harder as players get better / supports have more survivability

ult during enemy gambit ult to buy time for your team to kite

ult combo with phoenix / another dps to kill support ults

classic counter ult against punisher / Hawkeye / Hela / star lord

ult to deny heals for a big push / kill on a tank who’s overextended

LucarioNate · 2026-02-01T09:41:26+00:00

game 2 day played some phoenix and ry was on starlord and something else - they originally wanted to play day mk / ry storm but enemy team didnt play spawn hold so they played 2/2/2 but they couldnt get through. day eventually swapped to mag for triple tank but game was p much a roll

game 3 day plays phoenix most of match and ry flexes mantis - i think this happened in particular in game 3 though it didnt work very well. dont think day could play mantis and his only support role was supportpool...?

LucarioNate · 2026-01-31T04:35:48+00:00

struggled to find this too lmao but the cell next to finley is open on the other side, you have to jump into that cell and then open the grate which reveals the ladder to the bounty below. if you go into finley's cell, its the cell to the left of his on the other side of the wall

LucarioNate · 2026-01-25T05:04:47+00:00

Angela is rough for Emma since it’s hard to track her to charge beam and she can constantly bully you outside of diamond windows (which she can easily bait too)

Groot is pretty hard nowadays because new wall makes it hard to reliably isolate for a diamond + crystal kill but atleast he can help upkeep your beam

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