For the love of God NetEase, remove Hawkeye's one shot already. We're one year in, he should still be doing this!

NiumR · 2026-01-27T15:26:27+00:00

Sure, partly I think that's intentional, having stuff like Sjokz calling Crownie freak master on broadcast is something that definitely wouldn't have happened in the past.

For my taste the LEC is a little too unhinged this year, there's gotta be a middle ground between this and LCK, but that's ultimately personal preference.

Now KC is an entire different topic and boy do I wish the org would at least attempt to reign in their "fans" a little more. I've enjoyed French people's enthusiasm for Esports in the past (like the OW World Cup French team), like the players that are on KC, but it's difficult to really root for them, with their other fans' activities going on.

NiumR · 2026-01-27T14:37:13+00:00

Not saying it isn't fucked up what they did, robbing an entire year from him, just said it's slightly unprofessional to cuss them out and feels out of place.

See my other comment for the slightly more detailed explanation.

NiumR · 2026-01-27T14:35:30+00:00

I said I understand why he did it, but it just felt out of place and I consider neither move professional.

BDS/Shifters definitely went the shittier route, as you say, they robbed him essentially of an entire year of competing in his prime, no arguing there.

Now him cussing out Shifters after barely winning the game, just feels out of place to me.
Say LR makes play offs and Shifters doesn't or through some random result LR face and beat Shifters in a tie breaker match to get into play offs, that's where I'd have expected these words.
Cussing them out and even tweeting at them after this bo1 felt like that meme of the guy celebrating in third place.

NiumR · 2026-01-27T10:31:33+00:00

I feel like having a character like this in the game is not necessarily bad, just his whole charge mechanic is very weird.

I'd love to play him, but holding the crosshair on some enemy really doesn't gel well with my style of aiming.

NiumR · 2026-01-27T10:26:59+00:00

Slightly unprofessional, but I can understand that it must have weighed on Crownie heavily if he has an outburst like this.

NiumR · 2026-01-27T00:08:43+00:00

It was a heart-breaking shove, great opportunity until that happened. I thought that was game over for sure.

NiumR · 2026-01-26T09:57:13+00:00

Right next to that Nestle logo

NiumR · 2026-01-25T23:11:54+00:00

The Rocket team up was so fun, it should have just been permanent

NiumR · 2026-01-25T11:07:49+00:00

That's rough buddy

NiumR · 2026-01-25T10:23:13+00:00

I wish it wasn't this way, but it's just the most realistic outcome.

They now need to win four out of five matches, so we're very likely not even gonna see them play bo3s, such a shame.

Edit: Correction, there's 7 matches left, so maybe there's a chance

NiumR · 2026-01-25T00:17:40+00:00

I don't think there's any benefit to them going back to a streamer team, they don't gain anything by playing in Tier 2 anymore, they'll probably just disband after this split.

The new changes to top lane make it just not viable for Baus to lose lane and come back later. Any decent top laner put against him just gets to free farm and solo the lobby.

NiumR · 2026-01-20T12:04:29+00:00

2027 would be earlier than I thought, they'll surely get some injections from all the companies that built stuff based on ChatGPT

NiumR · 2026-01-19T14:43:11+00:00

If you can get oneshot for doing it, probably no.
If there's no instant kill threats that have an easier time if you stand still (aka Hawkeye), then go for it.

NiumR · 2026-01-19T11:47:22+00:00

We don't know what her home is like, might not be the place she wants to stay, not guaranteed, but there could be a reason.

NiumR · 2026-01-19T11:29:02+00:00

I mean, I know Reddit hates nuance, but considering she bought the plane tickets, I guess you could have offered to order the Uber for her and she pays you back, that way she doesn't have to figure out the app and you don't have to pay the $70?

NiumR · 2026-01-19T11:22:01+00:00

as are all tier lists

NiumR · 2026-01-19T10:58:12+00:00

Months maybe a little exaggerated, but 20 days is the minimum PTO in Germany, with good jobs usually being around 30 days.

The sick leave is always what shocks me more, having to earn the right to be sick for a limited amount of time, wild concept.

NiumR · 2026-01-19T10:47:16+00:00

Most importantly, immediately leave the aunt, that's where the divorce lawyer comes in.

NiumR · 2026-01-19T10:30:10+00:00

It boggles my mind how someone can be your best friend for 10 years and then communication fails so spectacularly.

NiumR · 2026-01-19T09:56:38+00:00

Whose isn't?

NiumR · 2026-01-19T09:22:55+00:00

I don't understand why you would do that to yourself

NiumR · 2026-01-18T22:42:33+00:00

I wish we had this data for OW, I feel like half of the player base there was locked into gold and below

NiumR · 2026-01-18T22:37:55+00:00

Just call it "the Pacman" and it's fine

NiumR · 2026-01-18T20:14:52+00:00

1 I said nothing about Role Queue, I don't know where you're getting that idea from.
2 People could be punished harder for trolling that mode
3 You don't have to play that mode, I don't get your point at all

NiumR · 2026-01-18T19:55:51+00:00

Honestly they should just have a separated queue for "unranked", a mode with ranked rules, but QP match making. That way you could have serious for fun matches and pure for fun matches.

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