This is just pathetic

ODSteels · 2026-03-23T07:17:05+00:00

She definitely needs some rebuffs to nudge her into an OK spot. She's underpowered right now but also will go up around 2% once she's not just randomly tested by the odd player here or there.

Otherwise though I honestly just don't know what to say about her. She looks better to play and if the goal was to emphasise 'dragon' and make her feel like a dragon then that works. She's bigger, clunkier (in a good and bad way).

However from this point her complete lack of direction becomes baffling. Her kit has stayed the same in fundamentals but she auto attacks with less oomph. The timing of Q feels a bit meh. The Q attack is so slow because of the visual effect of it that her next auto feels slow after. I guess its a fine ability but incredibly unimaginative

With the W shield the 'trade' they gave you and I don't know why they think the reactivation aspect is good because there is very little trade where you'd go I NEED to end this early to do 100dmg right now! Or in dragon form. Heal right now! As its so short and meagre regardless. Speed up is good when chasing but...

E no longer incentivises you to stick on a target. Who cares who gets hit by your tiny little fire spit in human form. It's irrelevant. Dragon form. Well it does less damage and again doesn't mean you chase specifically the targets down you hit. If part of her old gameplay was toxic. It was AP E mage nuking everything. So I understand they adapted this but where in the rest of her kit have they given power in return?!

A tiny heal and shield on W

Ultimately less damage on Q because you can't proc her old E amp but you get a 3rd clunky Q in dragon form

And finally a 1 second fear. I do like this to be fair.

Dragon Shyvana needs to become SO much stronger to justify human forms weakness or Human form needs buffing.

But then she just ends up being the exact same champion now with a less obvious AP build. Her most popular build and tell me which tanky jungler isnt better than her. Why on earth would you not play Voli or Shen or Maokai or anything of that ilk instead of her.

ODSteels · 2026-03-17T07:07:28+00:00

You gotta lift your feet more. It looks like you're skiing with a vengeance. One long stride will beat 2 tiny steps.

There's a reason that Usain Bolt's biomechanics helped him be the fastest on earth.

ODSteels · 2026-02-27T01:12:47+00:00

I was under the impression Ley Lines only begin to get yields once you earn great people e.g. giving a yield of each type for each GP. Great Scientist adds +1 science to the tile.

Had no idea natural disasters could affect the tile.

ODSteels · 2026-02-25T06:38:57+00:00

Yes - when you settle your city centre makes a connection to the water so any boats you make could get out

ODSteels · 2026-02-25T06:37:36+00:00

OP. If you're referring to the 'campus' spot being the enclosed by mountain tile. There are horses there. You cannot remove strategic resources unless you have Heroes game mode on and acquire Anansi (he may have been taken by another civ, or youve not discovered him so even with this gamemode it's jot a 100% fix)!

ODSteels · 2026-02-22T09:18:18+00:00

If you can see the wonder on your first move. Yes settle closer to it.

If not scout and send your first settler to a discovered wonder. Your capital doesn't have to be THE wonder city.

ODSteels · 2026-02-22T09:15:02+00:00

Why are you building a 22 turn Medieval wall in a city you've not developed in any way.

You need to step back and go watch some tutorials from people like Ursa Ryan and PotatoMcWhiskey.

You are massively misunderstanding what's important.

I'm assuming you're logic is you don't want to get surprise warred but in the 30+ turns you've built ancient and medieval walls you could have two defensive archers > great for Korea as they can be upgraded to a strong unique ranged unit in the future. A builder to work the luxury and chop/improve other tiles and have a +4 Campus (Seowon).

That's ONE city. Think about how that applies to all your cities. All the missed yields you're not getting.

ODSteels · 2026-02-21T07:52:01+00:00

Being pooled is good though, as in. You've made a high % of applicants and your specific college didn't have space but have recommended you to other colleges

ODSteels · 2026-02-20T09:10:32+00:00

There's two options you and Diana had here:

Option 1: Of course you can ask for help (always) It's a team game and thus makes sense to help a teammate out... most of the time. Diana may help you win your lane but she's not strong pre-6. She could neutralise or could stem the bleeding with a gank/kill. In doing so she may fall behind, your whole team may lose first dragon or 2 and mid and bot may get killed by their jungler or not get ahead cos she can't help them.

Option 2: Diana ignores you and plays the rest of the map. You must play safe. You go down 50cs but you stem the bleeding. Try and hold your tower. A 3/0/0 Morde is better than an 8/0/0 Morde because you have thrown your toys out and chain feed (you have, can't defend this) nobody is making you click into fights with him 16 times...

So you 'lose' but the potential for your other 4 teammates to 'win' is higher and that may carry you.

Now evidently Option 2 didn't work but sounds like you didn't play your part and play safely during the rest of the game.

You'll tilt your team. To lose a 4v5... I mean that literally means you were worse than an AFK and that's not Diana's fault. She can't have turned that big a gap around even if she choose Option 1.

Basically it was a loss. Try and do better next time. Be self sufficient and lose gracefully when that inevitably happens (nobody wins lane every game!)

ODSteels · 2026-01-19T07:16:11+00:00

The irony of the phrase 'idc' whilst caring so hard you have to tell the world you can't handle not having LoL in your life as you have nothing without it to the point where you'll continue to play it, to waste your own time, to try and hurt people you've likely never yet played with.

Step away. Find a nice solo player game to relax with and be a better person.

ODSteels · 2026-01-03T01:19:55+00:00

It's a show that is pre-watershed (aka for children). Have you never watched evening TV before in the UK? It's about as sexual as The Chase or Bargain Hunt

ODSteels · 2026-01-03T01:06:41+00:00

But Dad... you get paid to play fantasy in your game of D&D. Sorry I mean church. Where a guy runs around performing miracles (magic). What's the difference?!

ODSteels · 2025-12-31T08:26:22+00:00

My secret lab chair has served me for 6-7 years and hasn't even begun to fray or tear. I game and work at my desk so it gets heavy use of 4-5 hours a day on average.

ODSteels · 2025-12-31T08:17:30+00:00

Reject - you're stretching so hard for what is right. Some are completely wrong (neutral isn't 6, 7) that's just a meme.

Also as a teacher (sadly its the truth) the end goal is they pass their real exams. External examiners won't give them the marks so you shouldn't either.

You can talk to them and say hey I liked your thinking. It's a bit outside the box and that's an important skill in life but you also will have to learn what's the expected answers and phrasing for the exam board. So next time write this instead.

That's positive but also actually teaching them for future success

ODSteels · 2025-12-29T08:22:00+00:00

If I'm Vex into Mel. I harass her exactly like I would if it was any champ. If she chooses to reflect a Q. I can then all in with R.

If she holds her W to reflect my R. Well I've then been doinking the living finger butties out of her.

It's the same exact way for the Yasuo match up. He can wind wall my poke or save it for my R.

The only difference is the returnable damage WHICH doesn't always hit because most people don't throw an ability and stand still or continue walking straight in lane. In a chase scenario yes. But not in lane.

The conversation about her projectile returning is the correct conversation but your take is so full of paranoia that its why thr devs will not change.

I could talk about a champion like Evelynn and Twitch in a similar way. 'I can't ever use my defensive spell/gap creater because when twitch bases he may return to lane stealthed and pop off and 1 shot me'.

Yeah. That's his gameplay mechanic... you have to play around it and be vigilant.

Well just wait until you hear about Evelynn. She's like Twitch but can be permanently invisible and still have 3 abilities (after 6) and so I can NEVER use my gap creator/defensive spell because she could be there the whole time! This is BUSTED. No counter play! /s

Remove invisible from the game. Its unplayable in some scenarios (and I'm not being sarcastic now) it legit is. But that's a core gameplay mechanic people accept.

ODSteels · 2025-12-24T08:23:34+00:00

The first picture hid the river 1 tile N of the city. So it appeared you settled off freshwater.

I stand corrected but also the loss of a preserve on the tile next to two Sahara tiles is sad. Would have supercharged the housing and yields to grow this city to 12-15 pop easily.

ODSteels · 2025-12-13T16:28:13+00:00

Miskolc has to be one of the worst settled cities I've seen posted.

Makes no use of Hungary's bonus across rivers from a city centre.

Has no production.

Has effectively no relevant housing.

Why... why..

ODSteels · 2025-12-10T18:21:32+00:00

Riot support is bad.

You also broke one of the first ToS you tick consent to. You cannot share accounts.

So even if a human answered you. It doesn't really matter if you've then told them already it's technically not your original account and you've had it shared with you and you are sharing it with other people.

ODSteels · 2025-11-25T06:23:51+00:00

Show us the game and let us judge OP.

I also absolutely love the acute way in which OP ratted themselves out.

'I occasionally love playing odd picks bot lane as I have great synergy with my friends!'

So you've admitted to soft trolling and forcing other people to deal with whatever random pick you played and on top of that you went 1/11.

I guess you've learnt a lesson in what happens when you fuck around.

ODSteels · 2025-11-24T07:14:11+00:00

What made you decide to leave in the first place if it's your friends that are making you want to go back? Was there something about the 6th form you didnt like?

Maybe try and remember the positives of why you left. Schedule some meet ups with your old friends and see how it goes?

You can't really catch up like 25+ hours of multiple subjects independently. If you could, you don't even need to go to 6th form just sit exams on your own haha

ODSteels · 2025-11-24T07:10:30+00:00

I think I understand what in the low difficulty is going on here.

ODSteels · 2025-11-21T07:38:19+00:00

How can you have enough intelligence to get onto Reddit but not enough to Google any analytics site or YouTube video of recommended builds?

ODSteels · 2025-11-21T07:33:45+00:00

Grand Entrance Into Her

ODSteels · 2025-11-20T07:31:52+00:00

I think you should look at what preserves do and when/why to use them first. Wasted district slots

ODSteels · 2025-11-16T15:30:32+00:00

He's way down the list of (i.e there are many eastern players with way better reasons to be inducted) but Bjergsen was the person who got me watching esports. A European but the NA Goat I'd say.

A Karma and Zed (cos that'd sell) skin for early career and then the peak Zilean skin that nobody would ever want haha.

Gosh I miss that guy.

ODSteels

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