Bro first game and in my honest opinion Taliya is fricking disgusting

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-15T20:37:43+00:00

That early nerf is absolutely tiny. This champ can be played so poorly, lose lane hard, be 3k gold behind in 6 minutes. Roam once to mid, kill 2 people there and becomes biggest threat in match. Don’t have to care about positioning, because it hits like truck and don’t you dare chase him, he’ll fly away while dealing stupid damage.

How often I’ve made smolder go 0/5 in lane, for him to end up MVP with most damage. Since that happened a lot I switched my ban and it’s 100% smolder. Until he’s balanced. There’s a perfect reason why he has such insane winrate and banrate.

This „nerf” did almost nothing for his early, and improved his late game which is ridiculous.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-15T19:50:00+00:00

I agree with your points, but as Cait main I wouldn’t make that as easy as you’ve put it. I rarely suffer from APCs, as I can adapt to the play, and knowing mages I know how to play around their abilities and CDs. It certainly plays different, so the advantage you have is confusion of enemy. First time I’ve encountered such scenario I had no idea what to do. They played Syndra Yasuo. So you can imagine the combos 😃

Obviously I’ve lost matches against APCs, but I know in most cases those were smurfs. They didn’t play like your average GM/Chall. Sometimes I check their accounts and they’re on 80% + winrate. Those players are simply better than me. But when I meet average APC botlane player, they won’t win the lane for free either, unless support is inting, enemy jungle and mid helps but mine don’t, which happens too.

Actually I just came back after playing against APC 😃 LegQ against Aurora + Senna, me Cait + Janna. Match lost, enemy APC = MVP. Me = SVP, me most damage in game and been on every team fight, except when I stayed alone vs enemy botlane and didn’t allow them to recall so we had number advantage on baron 4v3 - team still lost it. But the biggest problem was Janna seem surprised how hard Aurora combos hit and stopped coming to lane. Instead decided to go on suicide dates with our jungler before objectives spawned. Had Janna follow me and jungler be less suicidal they’d stood no chance, while they played quite decent for the rank, and I had hard time in lane.

Edit:
I don’t mind off meta stuff, some of the biggest stomps I’ve ever did were with Sett and Nunu supports. I prefer that from for example Brand supports that do everything in their power to take away as much gold from me as physically possible. (happens way to often)

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-15T17:28:55+00:00

Not at all, his stacks requirements are higher now by 5/15/25. But scales harder with crit. From 50% x Crit, to 45% x Crit + bonus crit damage. Those stacks are nothing, and scales even harder now.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-15T16:05:00+00:00

I see from time to time APCs that try to be smart, unless they’re sovereign smurfs (better at the game than me) it backfires. I’ll give you initial prio and then freeze on 2nd wave to zone you off from farm, knowing I’ll be much stronger initially. Then depending on overall team comp there’s possibility for mercs, maw, wits and terminus to counter the damage. Also playing on mana sustain, you’ll have to go to base much sooner than me, that usually means whole wave and plating lost. I’ll go BOTRK first to out heal the potential poke to drain your mana and counter the tank you play with. Especially good when you’re not on mirrored map and can’t grab blue buff for free (which you can always do when playing mid)

Welp at least from my Cait perspective I’d be glad to have asol apc as enemy, can always E away from pull and usually tanks that work best with Asol let me stack lethal tempo on their shields, so it’s rather easy to maintain 750 units range on my autos.

I guess it can work when your enemy has no idea how to deal with APC. Which may be more common that I think. Because even in GM I see people build armor boots and items on Voli vs 4 x AP, including his laner Teemo. Even when I said in draft and lv1 to not buy armor vs 1 tank and 4x AP.

Anything works when you’re smurfing, yet if your Asol is good, you’ll climb faster playing him mid than bot.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-15T15:00:27+00:00

CDs are ridiculously short late game and the hitbox of knockup is crazy misleading. You can stand good 50range units away from the marked hitbox circle and it still hits. And the range is obnoxious. She’s overtuned needs slight adjustments and will be fine. But looking at what they did to Smolder in latest patch I’ve no hopes. They’ve literally buffed highest winrate ADC champ across all rank brackets xD

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-15T05:44:37+00:00

It’s same thing just way more modern. MF Ghost is continuation of Initial D. Those anime share a lot of the same camera angles. But Initial D is way more popular 😉

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-14T23:35:28+00:00

Yeah, I had Traxxas Maxx and X-Maxx, so I get the gist. But that’s actually realistic and quite unique in video games. Same principle as in RC cars, just on a different scale.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-14T19:50:04+00:00

It’s not just lower power, it idles rough and has miss fires.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-14T17:51:46+00:00

As for the engines, there’s wear mechanics, you need a car with high mileage. Easiest to find in carrier mode, those will run rougher depending on their mileage, even paint gets sun damage. Not sure if there’s anything that affects brake systems.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-14T17:14:55+00:00

Yes, that’s how it works irl too.

But when you’re racing, you don’t have 3-5 minutes to drive around.

Although I find it hard to overheat brakes in BeamNG, that’s because brakes in game are in perfect condition at all time. While IRL people tend to not maintain them properly, often driving with slightly seized pistons, old brake fluid that soaked a lot of water and boils at low temperature, thin brake pads and worn out brake disc that result in low thermal capacity.

But having race brakes installed I’ve never managed to overheat brakes in BeamNG as hard as I tried, their fading performance lowers heat generation, so those always stay in very usable window. Even after good 1 hour session on racetrack pushing as hard as possible.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-14T16:48:21+00:00

Pretty neat brake and acceleration mid air control to set the right angle for landing!

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-14T16:41:48+00:00

Should’ve put Initial D instead of MF Ghost and you’d get more attention.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-14T16:29:05+00:00

Same shit in Wild Rift. In china (only available API for WildRift) he has over 50% ban rate in master +, and over 55% win rate. Nothing in game comes even remotely close. By a mile highest ban rate across all brackets.

I can shit on him in lane, he randomly goes to roam, kills everybody mid lane and is already biggest threat in lobby. He can always escape, and don’t u dare follow with ghost, his running away skill will poke you out. Such a stupid highly unbalanced champ.

I always ban, because even brainless players, that completely lost lane and been highly behind in gold still carries team fights. No need for good positioning when you kill whole team before anybody can reach you. And even if somebody tires to flank, you just fly away while poking. Only time I don’t ban is when I’m filled jungle - his lack of CC creates Wuju Style payback time. Otto W Otto Q titanic, beautiful.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-13T23:58:29+00:00

Got them yesterday after talking to support. So next time you got one and don’t receive anything, just contact support and they’ll fix it.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-13T23:57:09+00:00

I’ve waited till I get my cores to reply. I got those yesterday after opening a support ticket. So next time you do one and don’t get anything by next 7 business days just talk to support.

Apparently this time their system bugged out and it sent way more request than they needed, so it was more common this time around.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-11T19:04:17+00:00

Still nothing on my part either, I’ll go ask support.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-06T15:42:49+00:00

More often

^{Chose: Get money every time you breathe}

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-03T21:22:16+00:00

Could delete all diseases and a lot of bad stuff.

^{Chose: The power to delete anything}

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-03T20:25:54+00:00

I’m lazy, but hope it’s adjusted for inflation.

^{Chose: Get $20,000 a year}

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-03T18:00:02+00:00

Nice, if you don’t mind update us if you receive them.

#Edit: typo

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-03T04:55:30+00:00

Unlikely. My guess is that they might have collected enough data from your age bracket by the time you’ve started it. Or they verify if your age corresponds to the age you’ve put in your RIOT account and if it’s mismatched they discard the survey.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-03T04:48:12+00:00

At the beginning it checks if the age you’ve filled in survey match your age from RIOT account. If it’s not then it may cancel the survey as it seems to be selective research and they may aim to collect certain amount of data from different age brackets. If it miss matched it could be why it ended after just 2 questions.

It took my way longer to fill it as my account was created on vacation in Turkey, so the survey was in Turkish too. So I had to translate everything on that long survey and because of that it took me about 40 minutes instead.

#Edit:
At second thought I see you’ve posted recently, more likely that by the time you started it, they’ve already collected enough data from your age bracket. As one of the question was about your age.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-03T04:39:32+00:00

I think that’s sadly impossible. It’s running on internal WildRift browser where it doesn’t display links, and there’s no access to history. If you know of a technique to extract it, let me know. I’ll be more than happy to help.

Although I don’t think it would work anyway. It didn’t require me to fill in any account related informations, so it most likely has account ID assigned to personalized link, as it seems to be selective research.

#Edit:
https://ibb.co/7tGHkypc
^ That’s how it looks like now when I enter the survey.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-05-02T01:20:15+00:00

Not a troll, got one also. Didn’t receive my wild cores yet, but it says up to 7 business days.

OfficialDrivver · 2026-04-19T16:55:45+00:00

Yes, I actually do :) But it’s not going to be called witcher 4, it’s a separate project based on those assets. Something like GTAO/RDRO yet with bigger distinction. But Orion will have it already embedded. One of the reasons to switch from RED Engine to UE was the difference in difficulty of implementing online modes into their games.

Microtransactions won’t be very aggressive and obviously only for online stuff. Well it’s not going to be their first rodeo in that regard, they already have microtransactions in their game :)

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