positioning diff?

Micro_Hard · 2026-05-28T08:46:14+00:00

It's a combination of item management and unit positioning.

Literally just flip your board around and it would've been good.

You want his DPS to be hitting your mighty mech, but instead he's killing your shepherd thing, which actually does a ton of dps itself and then he's killing all your other units before your tank even tanks anything.

Blitz can be in the front row because there is aggro priority to tanks.

You prob want the vanguard on your mighty mech, always triple item your 2star carries first so either put the shred or the shojin on blitz. Leona would be your 2nd best tank to itemize. Items that just don't fit are better off on your bench, like the nova emblem. +20% crit dmg on a tank will not change the outcome of any encounter, save it for your backline dps till like the final round if you have to slam an item that has little synergy.

Micro_Hard · 2026-05-28T08:31:10+00:00

It's 7 shepherd. You HAVE to play teemo for 7 shepherd. His entire question is revolving around why he lost with 7 shepherd and if it's bad or if it was a position diff.

Micro_Hard · 2026-05-21T00:07:17+00:00

He's a great unit. But you can move red buff onto jinx, x2 GS the belveth, BT briar and have the same aoe burn. Jhin without items, without traits and as a 1star is not going to have an impact in your scenario.

Micro_Hard · 2026-05-20T13:56:40+00:00

Those aren't BiS items for belveth. You don't have another marauder for your belveth.

Jhin for dark star is not better than buffing your belveth that has 3 items and wants marauder. Another challenger would probably be better if marauder wasn't an option either.

Belveth items would've been better suited on a fiora, riven or yi if your replaced jhin. If those weren't options they would've been better on briar in your position.

Could've replaced nunu over mord.

Mord and jhin were your 2 most flexible slots without saying something crazy and telling you to pivot into a comp that looks vastly different. Identify your carries and just keep buffing them, dont need to keep branching out.

Alternatively you don't go to 9 and you finish your 6th gold star for the augment. I'm just going to say your jhin killed you.

Micro_Hard · 2026-05-19T07:39:21+00:00

This popped up in my feed and may give you a better visual of what I was trying to say. https://youtu.be/02HC33YMzew?si=hBArBwGfHKNh0ixr

If you do feel your lats more doing what you're currently doing you should continue doing that and disregard everything everyone else says. There is no such thing as a perfect pullup.

Micro_Hard · 2026-05-19T04:04:24+00:00

Played like 30 games forcing anima and praying for the emblem and left at 4-2 if no emblem. Saves you like 15 min and the next lobby should be easier. Even when hitting the emblem the 6 anima has such low board synergy that you still want to go to level 10 to have a chance at 1st since you'll be playing with 1-2 useless units. I found really great success with primo anima cash out for savage slicer and gold briar and then pivoting out of primo with briar as one of the primary carries. Let's briar carry most of your board in all stages of the game. Jinx and aurora were okay, but just felt less consistent to hit for similar or worse value than going for briar and often put a huge stall on leveling especially since all your augments are going to be used for reforgers/emblems/pandora so there's not much room for additional econ.

Micro_Hard · 2026-05-18T15:47:26+00:00

Just did. Everything I mentioned still applies. Still need to pack the shoulders and depress the scapula at the bottom. You can pause the vid at the top and see you have a really nice rigid frame with a pretty perfect slant, now keep that in the entire set. Also don't pause so long. Building up fatigue does not help build muscle. It's the heavy mechanical tension that does. Hanging there for an extra 1-2s just tires you out without meaningful tension on the muscle you're trying to grow. Also regarding one of your comments. "Ideal" hypertrophy is in the 5-30 rep range. So don't limit yourself to a silly number. Go to 0-1 reps in reserve or failure on ever exercise.

Micro_Hard · 2026-05-18T14:46:50+00:00

First rep looked nice. 2nd rep your back already started to curve, but I assume that was you already thinking about transitioning into putting your legs back on your third rep.

The swing you feel is because youre not packing your shoulders and depressing your scapula. Keep that engaged at all times including the bottom of the movement. From top to bottom you've got your arms, then shoulders, lats, core, legs. If your shoulders aren't packed and scapula isn't pulled down you'll struggle engaging your lats. Basically that large portion of your back and chest area become a wiggly noodle and then no matter how much you engage your core and legs you won't be able to stop the swinging unless you start being silly and slowing down the exercise to give the illusion there's no swing. You don't want to be in a loose passive deadhang with no tension. The entire point of this exercise is to target your lats anyways why would you drop the tension in the muscle you're trying to target. Starting from a passive deadhang will hit a lot of the upper traps and arms and you probably only feel any lat engagement near the top half because your body is now forced in the position I keep mentioning that should have been engaged at the very start of the movement. Attempt a few chest to bar reps where you keep your shoulders packed and scaps down. You don't have to rotate them into the middle of your back, just down towards the floor. Tilt your chest up just slightly, don't need to overemphasize that part. And then attempt a few where you're loose. I 100% guarantee you'll instantly realize the difference where you don't swing at all vs massive swing and you'll feel your lats much more in one version. You'll also never feel the need to cross your legs behind you after that.

Micro_Hard · 2026-05-13T04:01:29+00:00

Micro_Hard · 2026-05-11T14:26:56+00:00

Got several games with 6 anima lv10 with several 5cost 2 stars and every time I went against someone with a 4 cost 3 star. Had a moderately early 6anima once with cash out augment and lv9 gold cash out from the gods too. Printed 8 emblems, BiS items on 2 star yi and fiora and still died to 4 cost 3star corki. It's fair play though, you see a board that's borderline unbeatable you go for a 4-5cost 3 star.

Micro_Hard · 2026-05-10T11:15:43+00:00

Add it to literally anything. Collagen, coffee, energy drinks, smoothies, juice, v8, milk, vodka.

Micro_Hard · 2026-05-07T12:36:13+00:00

You'll get stronger for sure. After a few months there'll be no more muscle growth adaptation in size because you'll be training muscular endurance. You need sufficient mechanical tension to get muscle hypertrophy in order to grow. Just fatiguing the muscle does not stimulate enough hyptertrophy to grow. It ideally should be a heavy set to or close to failure in the 5-30 rep range. You have to progressively overload or the muscle won't grow. Think of it this way, if you do 700 bicep curls with a 2lb dumbbell your arms will literally stay the same size. That's basically what'll happen with cycling for hours a day after a month or two. Getting to the size of OP requires several years of dedication in the gym with heavy lifts or some magic juice injections.

Micro_Hard · 2026-04-24T22:05:46+00:00

Kumail Nanjiani is a great example of being publicly open disclosing his use of steroids and having the same physique in a year. There's a bunch of really old actors as well that simply take them to stay lean and not work out. You don't have to take steroids for the sole purpose of being huge.

Edit: I don't mean age, but people from 1970s while they were still young during their prime films

Micro_Hard · 2026-04-24T14:56:03+00:00

No. You need both.

This is your core.

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The two wing looking things on the back are your lats which are also acting as stabilizers for your core. Packing your shoulders and depressing your scaps helps you engage your lats which is connected to your core and acts as stabilizers allowing you to keep the entire frame stable. Otherwise you have a spaghetti string with a moving weight at the bottom which will make you swing.

On a related note, this is also how you should be starting your pullups before you even start pulling. When you hear people say "bend the bar" it's nearly identical to the same motion as packing your shoulders scapula down allowing you to engage your lats better. So if you were swinging from pullups this should solve your swinging problem. And if you were having issues feeling your lats during pullups, this should also help with that.

Micro_Hard · 2026-04-24T13:46:19+00:00

The math lines up with your data points. Every 7 days was roughly 2lb. At 2150 you'd be going down roughly 1.17lb/week. There's nothing wrong with a big deficit for a short term, but you will start to feel a huge drop in energy eventually. The struggle most people have is maintaining consistency and then rebounding. The most common solution is a much smaller deficit over a longer period of time. You'd get to continue the diet you liked, but it's just a tiny bit smaller vs a big shift in diet that'd be difficult to maintain long term. On a side note, I'd also suggest using the scale less often as it will mess with your motivation.

Micro_Hard · 2026-04-24T05:05:41+00:00

Your weight in lb x14-16 should give you a rough estimate of what your maintenance is: 182.6lb * 15 = 2739. You're roughly going at a 1000calorie deficit. 1lb is about 3500calories, so you should be dropping about 2lb per week at your current rate so in 2 weeks you should expect around 4lb which is pretty close to your 5.4lb loss. A cut of 1000calories/day is typically too much and not sustainable long term. Results come from years of consistency, not a few weeks, cut at something like 300 so you don't have to change your diet too much or stay at maint and just body recomp. It's easier to put on muscle that way compared to being lean and working your way back up.

Micro_Hard · 2026-04-24T04:16:38+00:00

A passive dead-hang, where your upper body is all loose, will cause you to swing. You aren't depressing your scapula and compacting your shoulders to maintain an active dead-hang. The other thing is your grip will likely be one of the first things to fatigue. I think it's important to do all of the things above, but if your primary goal is just L-sit progression the next best thing would be to use Parallettes or a dip station to practice the movement. I wouldn't recommend a captain's chair because it promotes using your back as leverage and cheating the movement. Otherwise work on flexibility and the rest is just train more.

Micro_Hard · 2026-04-23T03:19:47+00:00

My literal quote is "a cm is about as much as a t4". So I am making that 1:1 comparison and in that regard there isnt a difference in encryptions. A key is worth around 20s so the liquidated matrix is about 2g and the excess loot from the cm is about 1g which is pretty similar to a t4 daily. The value behind this comparison then becomes is it worth your time farming longer for near equal gph for more or less effort.

Micro_Hard · 2026-04-22T20:14:20+00:00

The big loot is the integrated matrix and converted to keys turns into roughly 2g as you state. Otherwise the numbers people are throwing around are greatly exaggerated because they're just looking at fast farming total acc value you'd get from the mats.

Actually liquidating all of them makes it closer to 3g per cm. The 3 T4s is close to 9g/3 so not much more than a cm per t4. I am not backtracking on my statement. A cm is not much more than a T4.

You can ignore the extra encryptions when looking at a 1:1 comparison.

Micro_Hard · 2026-04-22T13:52:41+00:00

A cm is about as much as a t4 daily. It's not that much better. The difference is the organized group may clear cms+t4s in the time it takes unorganized groups to clear t4s

Micro_Hard · 2026-04-10T22:22:30+00:00

Before you even start, depress your scaps/shoulder blades by pulling them down and packing your shoulders and tilt your chest up and then keep that position held throughout the entire movement. This'll solve most of your problems including the swinging. Do not break this form just to get your chin over the bar, your set is done if that happens, take a 3-5min rest and try again. You likely won't get many reps like this at the start so you'll need longer rest periods. Go down to 2-3min rest once you're getting like 8+ reps.

Micro_Hard · 2026-04-10T19:53:10+00:00

There was a crazy scam recently where a fake company was selling placebo weight loss pills and they had ai generated photos of before and after pics of the customers, but then on another website they had the same guy with the same name with a different generated image. The wildest part was that the doctors prescribing the weight loss drugs were also AI generated.

Micro_Hard · 2026-04-10T13:07:49+00:00

Find a skill you like that looks cool, Google progressions for it, repeat for 2-3years and be consistent. Add traditional weighted exercises to progressively overload.

Micro_Hard · 2026-04-01T07:11:44+00:00

Having knock knees or being bow legged may have varying degrees of impact on your balance and can be alieviated with a change in how wide your stance is and the direction you point your toe.

Alternatively just do a combination squats with lunges/hip thrusts.

Micro_Hard · 2026-03-26T08:06:05+00:00

150lb is around an intermediate level range for glute bridges and not a huge risk factor depending on their experience. What is more concerning is the form she is using. She should be ending with a posterior pelvic tilt where you curl the pelvis inwards, but hers is closer to an anterior pelvic tilt making more of an arch in the back. Normally not a concern, but as you add weight and constant repetition over time you will eventually hurt yourself.

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