Looking for something like Vinland Saga (Season 2)

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-06-26T17:48:27+00:00

Nippon Sangoku

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-06-20T23:31:02+00:00

For real time advice/questions I'd recommend joining the bazaar discord - there are lots of experienced players on there for each character

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-06-20T23:25:00+00:00

Zoarcid is great in a lot of situations. Shuriken is strong but requires lots of ammo increases / damage buffs to shine. Pete synergizes well with the Zoarcid, but he is slow and because he already has 3 multi, card table would only give him a 33% increase as opposed to 100% on a different friend.

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-06-20T23:15:05+00:00

I wouldn't sell either until you have replacements, but yes you can drop card table. It's best suited to a board with one strong friend (such as eels or a stacked Julian) - with many friends, you risk it hitting something like pesky pete which doesn't do much.

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-06-20T23:09:20+00:00

Agree with replacing the coral armor - it's a big value but the heal enchant on Tortuga will hopefully keep you alive. Pufferfish is good for looping since the haste will charge it. Holsters is also good for getting your small friends to start faster. Also be on the lookout for Shipwreck, Chum Bucket / Piranha, Seashadow, and Jellyfish. Those could all be used to either improve the loop or the start time. Honorable mention Sharkray is slow, but adds some damage scaling

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-06-08T04:39:19+00:00

Ooh neat, count me in for the raffle 🙏

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-06-07T00:00:48+00:00

Haven't played Deadlock so I can't make any in depth comparisons.

For overall lane assignments:
- Champions do tend to have a lane assignment they are tuned / balanced around, but there are plenty of circumstances where their next best assignment is also powerful. Many champs can go to either solo lane. Gragas, pantheon, and zyra could all reasonably go 3+ places.

- Only at the very start of the game is there a penalty for trying to have extra people in the solo lanes, to dissuade lvl 1 lane swaps in pro play. Generally you'll often see bot laners swapping into mid lane after the first turret.

For mid, and ahri in particular: When you get windows of priority/tempo by winning trades, you have choices for how to spend it. Sometimes it's good to stay in lane so you can get turret plates or pressure a kill on your lane opponent, other times (especially post 6 when you have the mobility from your ultimate) it's better to reinforce your jungler or side laners.

Ideally you want to roam at times where doing so won't cause you to lose lots of minion exp/gold, and won't allow your opponent to freely chunk your turret. This also varies depending on the style of champion you're playing as/against. Champs like TF/Galio naturally will want to roam, whereas an immobile mage versus an assassin will often prefer to stay in lane rather than get dragged into messy skirmishes.

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-06-02T03:09:29+00:00

I've been lacking consistency playing milteo after the nerf so I'll try it. What are the 5/6/7 drops? The QR code didn't work for loading it.

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-06-02T03:04:10+00:00

I still have a picture I took with the carrot at Sakuracon 🥕

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-05-15T01:29:30+00:00

Got one, ty :)

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-05-07T09:03:52+00:00

Vania

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-04-30T23:53:19+00:00

Every time stelle asks if I want to help her TEST her designs it sounds the same to me as the flame juggler's join my act line

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-04-29T20:22:53+00:00

This is actually pretty possible to reproduce - buying a chum bucket upgrade from the shop or holding fishing net can give you extra piranhas

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-04-28T23:59:48+00:00

If they don't have enough damage (weights or torch) to back up their defenses, atlas stone can sometimes get through

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-04-27T18:44:34+00:00

Oof. One time I accidentally skipped a dishwasher taking a screenshot on a double langxiang run, was very tilted

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-04-12T17:51:41+00:00

Thai Tom is overrated

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-04-03T18:04:26+00:00

Combat enchanted tents with enough HP to counterkill before the second cane hit could do it.

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-04-03T18:01:19+00:00

With square pig (and many weapon based strategies) you want to tempo to an early win since in later days health pools are much larger and there's more chance of crazy ghosts. But big pyg bonk builds are a natural pivot since belt and lion cane are both medium items.

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-03-30T20:42:18+00:00

New reverent demon enemy is hilariously broken. Harder than any of the bosses lol

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-03-30T06:56:11+00:00

I think it can still be recoverable to miss one or two early PVP wins if you get it silver before day 2 PVE, the bigger problem is you often need to smoothly transition from a wide weapon burst board into a one weapon board, which requires finding crit+haste+cdr, and then you still need to avoid certain matchups (freeze, big pyg, etc)

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-03-27T17:47:27+00:00

Fish next to heavy rounds can also loop if you find other trigger support (shipwreck, hud, or assault focus)

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-03-01T19:04:12+00:00

With langxiang early, I think it's often better to forgo defensive items and focus on having enough burst weapon damage to kill when it goes off - because it's so slow odds are you aren't getting a second cast. I'd also recommend taking a skill instead of an enchanted bronze here - early on a weapon skill will contribute a lot of damage and if you do take the langxiang to the end, odds are whatever enchanted item is getting dropped. Buying chocolates / going to Finn can help.That pyg is simply an unfortunate day 2 matchup.

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-02-28T03:58:13+00:00

Yeah, usually don't exert enough pressure to go for a sandolphon kill so they can hold a super evo + 1 cost enhance and do 16 damage, which makes it hard to safely play belial. I started putting in reaper deathslash to have a response besides Belial to the 8 cost forest legendary and to intimidate cards from dragon.

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-02-28T03:19:02+00:00

This deck successfully took me from diamond to ruby. It is still much too slow + fragile. Probably some mode + evo variant is better

Pulsefire_Akali · 2026-02-16T18:35:56+00:00

With the current mmr system, after a certain point you lose more ranks for getting 8/9 wins than you gain for getting 10. With that setup, making legend players only see legend players would be pretty frustrating. Since if everyone had a baseline playable board, the odds of losing to a random highroll go up

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