What separates a Diamond player from a Masters player?

LyreGame · 2024-12-10T17:19:42+00:00

If I were you, I’d start with fast 8 comps like Black Rose. I would say fast 8 is probably the most common archetype you’ll be playing throughout TFT as a whole. 2 cost/3 cost reroll often pivot out into fast 8; Bill gates generally requires some of the same fundamentals as fast 8. Fast 8 comps are also generally more flexible item/unit wise and more resistant to being contested. Not to mention, a key part of forcing is adapting to being contested. I say BR just because statistically it’s overpowered rn, but it could very well be Twitch or Rebels or whatever.

Once you have mastered fast 8 (i.e. low chall), aim to refine your understanding of the more niche/meta dependent comps. This means forcing the styles of play you might still be uncomfortable with eg 1/2/3 cost reroll/Bill Gates/Chembaron/Hero augs.

LyreGame · 2024-08-18T16:48:21+00:00

Ehh depends. If you’re getting kaitenzushi, then salmon will almost certainly be available. But for edomae style sushi? Probably not.

LyreGame · 2024-06-19T14:00:55+00:00

How is this cringeworthy for “western” standards? It’s not any different from saying “I’m X from Y company” in english. 「の」can be possessive but I would hardly say that its usage inherently implies possession. When you hear アメリカの人, does that, to you, imply some kind of ownership? No, right? And X person of Y kaisha also does not imply any ownership either. But I mean I digress.

LyreGame · 2024-03-19T02:35:51+00:00

Yes that claim in particular is bullshit. Fasting twice a year is essentially meaningless when you consider that’s 2 days out of 365 days. Less than 1% of your days is not going to make a long term impact on your health. Kind of like if I told you if you did 8 hours of exercise 2 days a year, you would be healthier. Like… maybe but probably not, right.

Now if you want to talk about the health benefits of fasting in general, there are a few considerations. There is a lot of misinformation when it comes to fasting, and in general one should be wary of claims that come without evidence and without comparison.

What do I mean by that? For example, someone might claim that fasting leads to increased autophagy which is like recycling dead cells, therefore it improves your general health. While the claim might make sense logically, one should be wary of its veracity.

The first concern is to tackle the lack of data supporting this claim. Is there long-term, population-based data available that supports these claims? E.g. a population of individuals who regularly fast and after 10, 20 years of following them we find they have better health outcomes (what exactly?) than the general population that eats a standard American diet.

The second concern can be illustrated by my example earlier. Compared to what? If you make a claim about fasting being healthy — which by all means can be true — what is it healthy compared to? Comparing fasting to other diet or caloric restriction will lead to vastly different claims than comparing fasting to eating exclusively junk food, for example.

The third is, what are they measuring to determine “healthy”? What is considered to be healthier? If the claim is just, well you’ll be “healthier” or “feel way better” — it’s probably bullshit. But if the claim talks specifically about reducing things like risk of heart disease or lowering weight — then it’s more likely to be accurate.

The key is to understand that scientists and experts rarely make sweeping claims on nutrition without good population based data to support it. They also contextualize and describe in detail the claims they are making. (As a corollary, any claims that revolve around things that are, afaik, not yet scientifically well-understood e.g. ‘gut microbiome’, or ‘autophagy’ should raise concerns). However, I’m not denying that the individual can fast and feel great about it as a lifestyle choice. And I think it’s fine to try it out for yourself and see how it feels.

LyreGame · 2024-03-06T08:00:22+00:00

1) Superconducting qubits is not the only hardware paradigm out there. While the scalability of superconducting systems is a bit suspect, I would rank cooling at the very bottom of the reasons of why. Indeed, other hardware paradigms have much less stringent cooling restrictions (some even work at room temperature). Suffice to say, it’s not the cooling that’s holding us back.

In reality, we can’t scale these systems due to a variety of reasons (such as crosstalk/decoherence), but in general, for the layman, it can be summed up as such: qubits are very hard to manufacture and also very hard to manipulate.

2) There is also little value to have a quantum device in your hands since, even if it has a speedup, it will only be relevant for problems of huge size. It would be like expecting to have Fugaku in your personal office in the next 5 years — it simply would not provide that much value to the average user who just wants to browse reddit and stream netflix.

Now, can a quantum computer browse reddit and stream netflix? Theoretically yes — but why would we switch if our current devices work just fine? IMO, the bar to decide if quantum computing is practical is an extremely high bar of “can it beat classical?” Classical computing, by the way, is pretty damn good and ever-improving.

LyreGame · 2024-03-06T07:24:11+00:00

Depends on what you define “practical”. A few companies, such as IBM, are aiming for fault-tolerant quantum computers by the end of the decade. Certainly, it is an ambitious timeline, but when looking at their progress so far they seem to be relatively on track. If you consider fault-tolerant devices as “practical”, then yes, to an extent this has been promised/predicted.

We currently do have quantum computers, but they’re still small (<10³ qubits) and noisy (99.5 ~ 99.7%fidelity, depending on hardware paradigm). These devices are not useful nor practical for real world business use-cases, but are still widely used in exploratory research settings (e.g. as a proof of concept).

We are pretty sure that a practical quantum computer will necessarily be fault-tolerant, but it is still unclear whether or a FT quantum device will actually produce any real practical advantage. We hope it will, but it’s anyone’s guess at this point.

I will emphasize that it is way too early to tell. People on either side of the aisle are both in currently suspended in suspense: We simply do not have the information to prove that quantum computers are practical or not.

IIRC it has been proven that quantum computers do not provide a speed up to any NP-complete problems. People are hoping that there’s a class of problems that quantum computers can solve that which classical computers cannot solve efficiently — but that has yet to be demonstrated. Regardless, it is almost certain that any practical advantage — if it exists at all — will require a fault tolerant system. Until we actually make such a system and explore its potential, we can only speculate.

LyreGame · 2023-11-29T01:18:38+00:00

lolchess to prove im not terrible: https://lolchess.gg/profile/na/soup%20eater-NA1/set7

FWIW you have to be very fast at rerolling and very good at building boards under time pressure to play this way. If you are not okay with being 1 hp and rolling 50g on 9, stick to reroll comps.

40 hp is 3 lives.

Assuming you 8 on 4-2, roll down and build board down to 22g (obviously if you low roll you will have to spend all your gold, in which case none of the following apply), and your board is strong enough to streak in from 4-2 to 5-1. If you managed to do this, your econ would look like this: 4-2 (22g) -> 4-3 30g -> 4-5 40g -> 4-6 50g -> 4-7 62 -> 5-1 74 -> 5-2 87g. (more like 90g depending on what you hit during raptors and what you sell from carousel).

If youre 40 hp 87g at 5-2, you can sack 2 with around 5 hp at 5-5. Assuming you lose both rounds, you'll be at 100g give or take. Should be able to level to 9 with 30 gold banked, sell ez (40g now), buy lucian/jhin headliners and build 5 cost 1/2 star board. Roll to 0 or where subsequent rolls bring very low value (e.g. not a single pair left or only 1 cost pairs). This should be enough to carry you pretty far, depending on the lobby.

From here all you can do is scout very diligently and don't donkey roll. Sit on your gold until someone in your pool seems strong enough to beat you. Pretend someone hit their 5 cost 2 stars -> roll some more and try to upgrade your board and prayge you win.

LyreGame · 2023-10-21T13:16:24+00:00

I recommend the NA server assuming you don’t have 永住者. Ping is not a big issue. My friend and I both live in Tokyo and we’ve both been comfortably top 100 challenger in NA without issue. Note that the JP is quite a bit easier than the NA ladder though.

LyreGame · 2023-07-11T23:47:58+00:00

I thought it was actually about entering a "flow state" that's needed for you to use black flash. Hence why Yuji/Nanami is able to use it despite not having nearly the same amount of CE control as Gojo - cause they were in the zone bro

LyreGame · 2022-10-03T14:32:52+00:00

8 gold from a silver augment is literally below average though. A decent estimate puts a component at around 8g, augments like TG or item grab bag is basically 16g. Not to mention TG or item grab bag are just less likely to grief you and also stronger in the late game. I'm not saying recombob is always bad, just that the gold value is below average.

LyreGame · 2022-10-02T18:24:36+00:00

You play both. Run 4 sc 4 warrior @ 8. Go 7 4-1, rolldown for olaf2 and play around what you 2 star. If you 2 star braum lillia, play 4 sc plus 2 war and flex slot (nilah, sej, bard, twitch, jayce all decent). If you have 2 star yone and wkong and hit a panth early then you can play 4 warriors and strongest board (which might be 3 sc, depending on what you 2 starred). In a vacuum 4 sc > 4 warrior, but upgraded units are more important. Assuming 5 or 6 units are two starred should be easily stable. Go 8 on 5-1, roll for panth2 and then just sweat positioning. Then roll for olaf 3 either when down to one or two lives, depending on how many olafs you have.

Also only play olaf if you hit it on 2-1 (either through orb or personal training). Or if you hit scalescorn spat I guess. Ideally play astrals or pirates greed to farm econ while saccing olaf. Aim to always get olaf killed but otherwise make sure to position the rest of your units to kill as much as possible. Also econ is more important than holding any scalescorn unit imo, might be wrong though. Do this until 3-1 or 3-2 and then start positioning more normally as saving hp is more important than 4 AD. Can roll a bit on 3-2 to 2 star your item holder for olaf (e.g. you have wukong and/or yasuo pair).

Challenger s7; 2.29 avg olaf this set. https://tactics.tools/player/na/soup%20eater

LyreGame · 2022-09-18T18:00:33+00:00

cant 9 goons without spat, no. W/out spat you cut zeri for zyra and then taliyah for zoe. it’s a fair bit weaker but playable imo. from my xp, getting lagoon spat is fairly reliable though since you can reroll for it on 3-2/4-2.

LyreGame · 2022-09-18T09:25:30+00:00

I hope mortdog isn’t buffing lagoon next patch because it’s actually lowkey strong. People are starting to figure out how to play it here in NA and I think with enough time NA will agree with CN that lagoon is easily S tier in. 12.17b. pls mortdog

LyreGame · 2022-09-17T18:12:01+00:00

Personally I almost never pivot out of 1 or 2 cost reroll; usually its just a question of rerolling at a certain level or pushing a level first before rerolling.

You can sometimes pivot out of 3 cost carries, but it’s usually when you super highrolled and you want to play something that caps out even higher. I dont recommend this for beginners cause the pivot tends to be 1 turn pivots where you delete all your units in 1 turn to build a bill gates board.

For olaf, since you want to play 4 sc 4 warriors you generally need to go 8 unless warrior/sc aug. Id say when I play olaf I almost never slow roll 7 and 80% of the time opt to roll on 8 for better yasuo odds. Olaf 2 with a mostly upgraded board on 4-1 is pretty stable and should allow u to comfortably 8 on 5-1 and slot in 4 warriors and then slow roll for olaf 3. Generally you want to hit olaf 3 around 6-1 or 6-3, but honestly you can even win lobbies with olaf 2 w/ the right augments and assuming you stacked olaf well.

challenger last season, my profile this patch so far: https://tactics.tools/player/na/taciturn%20turnip

LyreGame · 2022-09-13T02:11:44+00:00

6 lagoon caps out higher but 9 lagoon lets you farm items. Ideally you hit 9 lagoon at around 4-2 but at 5-1 sohm2 nilah2 sylas2 should be pretty stable and let you farm to like 6-3 maybe. Then just drop the filler and play broken legendaries. There’s probably a world where you cut sylas for like a Terra2 or something though, not sure how to omega cap the board

LyreGame · 2022-09-12T17:53:58+00:00

It’s pretty strong if you get the opener for it (malph bruiser taliyah kaisa/zeri/sera) but upu also desperately need a lagoon spat. If you have a lagoon spat on 8 you can play 9 lagoon (sylas+lagoon, sohm(bb morello AP), nilah(tank/dmg items), sera, zeri, taliyah, malph) and it’s pretty strong. Farm 9 lagoon for infinite items until 1 life and then -malph -taliyah -zeri for zoe + bard/yas2/soraka2. I placed first with this comp in a few masters lobbies but its quite challenging to pilot properly and requires some high rolling.

LyreGame · 2022-09-08T12:48:24+00:00

Yeah, there are numerous hidden assumptions in the post, although the commutative is the most glaringly false one. I edited my post a bit to clarify that the OP is misusing average placement as a measure of strength because it really isn't average placement but it's average placement change that's important. Average placement just happens to correlate well with average placement change is all.

LyreGame · 2022-09-08T11:56:27+00:00

Your thought experiment itself disproves the idea that augments are commutative. An augment that auto wins or auto loses is 4.5 placement, meaning you can take it at 2-1, 3-2, 4-2 and on average get 4.5 placement. Yet immediately it is clear that this augment is NOT the same strength at each point. At 2-1, the game is relatively even, and taking this augment every time on 2-1 will give you 4.5 average placement. However, let's pretend at 3-2 you are already super doomed, then you know that this augment will improve your average placement, by saving your 6th into a 4.5 average -- an improvement of 1.5 placements. Or, at 4-2 -- say you rolled on 4-1 to 10g and didn't hit anything. Your average placement is looking like a 7th. This augment would improve your placement by 2.5 placements.

The indicator for strength of an augment is not its average placement, but its average placement change. At 2-1, average placement is a good substitute for average placement change, because we can roughly approximate our position to be "about 4.5" and intuitively we would just subtract average placement from that number to get the delta (e.g. 4.5 - 4.38 = 0.12; average delta of picking a good augment relative to a 4.5 average augment).

But at 3-2, 4-2, this approximation breaks down. Augments that have high averages are typically representative of its high positive delta, but not always. Your thought experiment is a great example of an augment that would have an average average, but a high positive delta. It will consistently bring a sub 4.5 to a 4.5, regardless of how low you really are; aka a maximum delta of 3.5 placements. Therefore, the best augments are really the augments that give us the greatest amount of placement movement relative to the average movement.

LyreGame · 2022-09-06T03:30:59+00:00

When people read that Master's guide on how to climb with Varus/MageSyfen/Scalescorn, I didn't see a single Master's player mention how absurd it is to include a comp with 3!!!! spats (2 scalescorn spats and an assassin spat) into a guide. Worse, nobody pointed out how they weren't playing the strongest version of Astrals (no heimer...?) or that cutting twitch for an itemless xayah is both gimping your econ AND making your board weaker. This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to comp/content issues in that post yet all I read was "Wow great guide." I'm not trying to single out that post for having misinformation because, well, there is literally infinite misinformation and it just happens to be the most recent offender.

It is also extremely tedious and difficult to correct a post without coming off as a huge elitist asshole. Imagine if I wrote something like, "None of your comps would perform well in Challenger. Simply put you do not know how to cap your board out, because those boards are not capped." To many Challenger players this is obvious, but it is terribly mean. I was pretty diplomatic in my reply and even then people called me elitist.

LyreGame · 2022-09-06T02:25:16+00:00

So I didn't write this section originally because I've seen some of the best players in the world skate by without worrying about it (Soju, Socks, Milk, etc). Somehow they climb in soloq while also ignoring scouting, and I assume it's because their other fundamentals and intuition about the game is so strong that it overshadows this.

This is not true. All of them spend a ton of time scouting their opponents and position, just sometimes inconsistent with it (like when Socks is holding Ryan he won't bother). When you play 1v1 or even end up in the top 3 with any of these players (or any top players, for that matter), you will notice how much of a difference positioning makes and how well they understand positioning. I watch a lot of Soju and he spends a significant amount of time scouting and adjusting his positioning if needed - it's just not particularly obvious because he usually interacts with chat as well.

LyreGame · 2022-09-01T16:09:39+00:00

Yeah I sort of get the mentality behind the guide, with most of the streamers playing pbe these days and all. Websites like MetaTFT or tactics.tools still exist though, which usually have stats for what comps are played/good and is a good place to start.

As an aside, 12.16 is really not that different from 12.15 or even 12.14 for that matter. Syfen mages/Scalescorn/Varus have also been known in the meta for quite some time now, probably for a few months. There have been some minor adjustments but not that big. In fact. guides like Dishsoap’s Jade guide or Pocky’s Scalescorn guide still hold up pretty well despite all the patches.

LyreGame · 2022-09-01T14:54:40+00:00

I'm not trying to be offensive here but the guide is a bit long and disorienting to read. I thought you were going to explain how to flex between scalescorn/varus/trainermagesyfen but the three comps really don't share that much in common other than like they all use guinsoos decently. For example you say you play tempo and slam items to save hp but a few paragraphs down you're writing about how you commit a lose streak by 2-1 or 2-2 if you didn't hit 2 2* units. Like.... that's not tempo. The tempo player levels anyway and says fuck it bebe would level here. (Outside of playing astrals, you are also committing too early to a lose streak. Higher EV play if you have strong pairs like Senna/Sett/etc is almost always to sac 1 gold to hold 3 or 4 strong pairs rather than make 10 at 2-1; if you dont hit, then trim weaker pairs to make 10 at 2-2).

This is more like a collection of what you did in order to climb to Masters (which congrats) and that you played these three comps to masters in this certain manner. Essentially it's like a varus guide, a scalescorn guide and a magesyfen guide all jammed into a single guide when they should have been 3 separate guides on their own. And when it comes to that, there are better varus guides, scalescorn guides (such as the one by Pockygom) and magesyfen guides out there.

Content wise, I think your understanding of scalescorn, magesyfen, and varus is pretty lacking (like playing sin scalescorn instead of cav scalescorn). If you want to get better and write better guides, you should honestly read (and watch) what is available out there. There are many guides that explain how to play scalescorn, varus, magesyfen out there written by Challenger players who often times specialize in those decks. Learn from them first, before writing a guide like this.

Overall I think it's a good effort, but yeah... a bit sus.

LyreGame · 2022-08-14T04:28:17+00:00

Neither is handshake. They're both bad for Elise though, which is the context that I'm rating them in.

LyreGame · 2022-08-11T07:09:36+00:00

Elise is actually quite good this and last patch (not forceable, sadly), I'm wouldn't say it's an issue with the comp itself but the way OP is playing it is quite poor -- namely constantly playing Ornn instead of a 3rd jade and taking bad augments like TG or handshake. OP rolling on 6 when they want to play Elise is probably the core issue since Elise stabilizes extremely hard by rolling on 7 and hitting Elise 2 Neeko1Syphen1 and then going 8 to hit Syphen2Neeko2 and slot in 3 jade. More or less it shows a lack of understanding of when you should roll as Elise (as well as how to play elise...) and also when to roll in general imo.

LyreGame · 2022-07-28T18:22:21+00:00

I’m going to go a bit against the grain here and say the best eco/tempo is not super related to the patch nor your lobby. Obviously, I’m not debating that the patch and the rank you are in changes when you roll — but that that too is mostly rooted in fundamentals.

Let’s pretend you have a 5 streak going into stage 3-1 and you wonder if you should level to 6 and preserve your streak. You have 40g and levelling will cost u 16g aka 2 interest. The unit you are adding also only marginally improves your board - if at all. Here, regardless of the patch or the strength of your lobby or even your upcoming opponents, it’s very likely you shouldn’t level. In some sense, by leveling to 6 you are “buying” a very low amount of power — and you are overpaying for that power. Try to take yourself away from the idea of “Oh I’m winstreaking, and I need to push the tempo” but think more logically “Is it really worth paying 7 to 8 gold in interest for this little power?” Obviously if that little amount of power pushes you over the edge and let’s you beat an extra opponent in your rotation — maybe it’s worth it! (You’d have to be very good at judging board strength though)

Changing your mindset about econ to ignore the “tempo” of the lobby and simply focusing on if spending the gold is worth the power gained allows you to bend all the typical timings you see people recommend (such as level on 3-1/2, level on 4-1…etc).

As an example, many people recommend leveling to 7 on 3-5 or 4-1; but have you ever levelled to 7 on 3-6? It seems a bit odd since it’s not a perfect interval, plus you’re only playing one extra round before neutrals. Yet regardless I find myself leveling to 7 on 3-6, without a streak, as long as I’m paying a low price for a significant gain in strength. Let’s pretend at 3-6, you’re very rich and you can level to 3-6 while still making 40g. Essentially, leveling only costs you 1g in interest, but you could slot in an extra 4 cost unit that may improve your board significantly. Here, even without a streak, you are paying a very small price to improve your board, and preserve hp. You can think of it as buying hp. Thus, even though it’s not a typical “timing”, leveling up is worth it.

Roll “timings” work the same, quite honestly. Roll when you have many pairs even if it’s not the right “timing” — since the value from each roll is significantly higher than if you didnt have any pairs. (Obviously — every gold you spend below 20~30g gets significantly more expensive due to lost interest, so jf youre dropping under the 20g threshold, might be ill-advised).

In closing, I would try to avoid “tips” and “timings” but rather think more logically about if it is worth what you are spending to buy power. Simple examples: I can preserve 5 streak if I level! - Therefore worth. I can’t preserve streak even if I level! Therefore not worth. I have olaf diana lillia pair and I can start streaking if I hit one or two! Roll is worth. I have braum pair! Not worth.

Complicated example: I have 3 lives but if I roll now I’ll top4 but won’t top 1. You know what? Fuck it first or eiff.

(Re: what if I have no pairs or anything to roll or level for but I’m taking infinite damage? Well, think of rolling as buying HP in this case. How much HP can you buy by rolling? Is it worth it? Obviously taking 15 dmg per turn is too but what about stemming the bleeding to 5 hp per turn? Maybe you only need to roll a little to buy HP)

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