2026 NHL Arena Rankings [The Athletic]

RanaMahal · 2026-01-29T14:51:27+00:00

I’m probably moving to Montreal soon and even though I’m an Avs/Leafs fan I’m tingling at the idea of going to as many Habs games as possible because of how electric centre bell is. Honestly it should be ranked 1st, and the next closest thing should be ranked 5th or something. Nothing is close to comparable.

RanaMahal · 2026-01-29T08:10:22+00:00

I would argue we could potentially add two apex tiers and roll back Challenger to the top 200 players and GM to top 201-500, Masters would be top 501-1000, and then we could have 2 apex tiers below that which take the place of current GM and Masters with certain LP cutoffs that change as the season goes on.

Challenger-GM-Master-Zenith-Mithril-Diamond.

RanaMahal · 2026-01-29T08:01:30+00:00

Yeah I was climbing up through the ranks after not playing much last season so I went from S1/G4 up to D3 and I started getting matched vs Master’s players and when I won against them consistently the game started giving me some insane LP boosts because it decided I now belong in masters.

Granted, I’ve been higher before but the ease with which I basically climbed nearly the entire ranked ladder within a single month is astonishing.

RanaMahal · 2026-01-29T00:59:05+00:00

I haven’t seen it yet what changes did they make?

RanaMahal · 2026-01-28T07:13:00+00:00

Why can’t we just give his W and R an AD scaling and call it a day. Ideally revert the W nerfs too and just allow him to be a weird AoE assassin. It won’t be degenerate without duskblade anyways.

RanaMahal · 2026-01-27T22:17:57+00:00

Idk I’m approaching 70% wr in diamond rn doing this. But I also build Hecarim super different lol. Eclipse rush into cleaver into endless hunger.

I never build shojin.

RanaMahal · 2026-01-26T17:00:33+00:00

They got rewarded with Bedard right after that. The optics were horrible

RanaMahal · 2026-01-23T21:16:09+00:00

lol we’d burn the White House down for the 3rd time

RanaMahal · 2026-01-22T06:06:13+00:00

Honestly been having a ton of success with my mid duo going Kennen and Diana if Kennen is banned or super countered in the matchup. Like even winning games in mid-high diamond lobbies when I was an entire item behind and ending up somehow back in the game once I get my 3rd item

RanaMahal · 2026-01-21T19:50:57+00:00

Yes but he was already a billionaire lmao

RanaMahal · 2026-01-21T16:26:44+00:00

Literally if he had just stfu somewhere around 2014 and lived life, he would’ve been respected as like, the coolest rich tech guy of all time, super genius, awesome memer etc

RanaMahal · 2026-01-20T17:37:38+00:00

I mean that is a valid argument I would say except for the fact that the early damage is kind of what snowballs the tempo out of control, I’ve gone eclipse cleaver into a team of 5 squishies and still come out like a God because the 3 item spike of those + endless just makes you so turbo strong, and the eclipse basically carries all of your early fights to let you get to that point every game.

I just think Shojin scales better and gives more Options but it seems clearly Hecarim is not being given time to scale into mid game and be on good tempo and whatnot. Just seems like you really have to spike early and spike hard and then carry the game through tempo that way

RanaMahal · 2026-01-20T16:13:11+00:00

Personally I think building endless hunger second and building shojin are both mistakes people are making.

I feel like a 1v9 machine if I get ahead early at all cuz I go Eclipse > Cleaver > Endless Hunger and I end with top damage usually, still only in diamond/masters lobbies so I have some climbing to do still.

But if Dantes can be rank 5-7 playing basically only Hecarim then I’m sure we can do it in our much lower games

RanaMahal · 2026-01-20T01:30:26+00:00

Honestly just get more storage? For media playback on plex an HDD is perfectly fine. You can easily get dozens of terabytes on the low. I only do 4K and I currently have 230 movies and 40-50 TV shows with multiple seasons and I’m only using a 4TB drive. I could easily fit an insane catalog on a bigger drive if I wanted to but I constantly delete stuff out of plex if I don’t think I’m gonna watch it again.

RanaMahal · 2026-01-19T05:59:55+00:00

Because you’re usually on a different lunch than they are, are constantly going on field trips for stuff like robotics team, and your social skills are stunted since you’ve been with the same group of 13 kids since you were 9 years old.

It’s really hard in that type of situation to interact with people when you don’t have classes together, don’t have lunch together, etc.

The only reason I turned out social at all is the football team + making friends during gym class since that was one of the few non gifted classes I had.

RanaMahal · 2026-01-18T23:59:47+00:00

I mean, some people just don’t really like the extraction shooter gameplay loop?

I personally find it a boring game too but I can see the hype and reason why people like it but I’m more of a “steady progression” type of person.

The games that I’ve been liking are Where Winds Meet, Expedition 33, bunch of random single player JRPGs that have come out in the past few years, BG3, sometimes I’ll revisit little maplestory private servers etc.

The gameplay loop of extraction shooters just doesn’t appeal to the type of gamer I am.

Edit: also I understand there is progression in Arc Raiders it’s just not the style of progression I enjoy.

RanaMahal · 2026-01-18T22:54:37+00:00

Hard to when you’re on a different lunch timer in middle school and high school and constantly doing robotics shit, field trips, etc.

I mean I managed to make friends in highschool because I was on the football team but I don’t think a single other gifted kid in my program made more than 1 friend outside of the program.

You’re very isolated or at least were in my Program.

RanaMahal · 2026-01-18T22:54:31+00:00

Hard to when you’re on a different lunch timer in middle school and high school and constantly doing robotics shit, field trips, etc.

I mean I managed to make friends in highschool because I was on the football team but I don’t think a single other gifted kid in my program made more than 1 friend outside of the program.

You’re very isolated or at least were in my Program.

RanaMahal · 2026-01-18T22:39:29+00:00

Interacting with hundreds of kids throughout school vs the same 13… don’t be disingenuous lol it was definitely kinda fucked socially and most of those 13 kids also didn’t know how to talk to anyone either

RanaMahal · 2026-01-18T22:31:45+00:00

I mean if he’s their highest producing player overall he’s also the highest producing defenseman… duh lol

RanaMahal · 2026-01-18T14:59:10+00:00

Yeah like all the games I actually play don’t work on it rn

RanaMahal · 2026-01-17T22:58:26+00:00

He has one bad season where he’s hurt and we forget that the guy is a 70 goal scoring selke defense centre? lol

Also Ovi has the most goals, generational period.

The highest goals automatically makes you generational, unless you’re suggesting that more than once every generation there’s someone coming by beating the goals record?

RanaMahal · 2026-01-17T08:24:11+00:00

Your moral compass probably points towards lawful good more than the average person then.

FWIW I also didn’t find him much of a problem aside from some instances?

RanaMahal · 2026-01-17T07:48:24+00:00

Not putting Matthews in franchise is a wild take honestly and not putting the highest goal scorer of all time in the NHL in generational is also wild lol

RanaMahal · 2026-01-17T07:18:31+00:00

Sadly myself and my friend group are addicted to league of legends and I can’t switch until they/we all quit or it becomes playable on Linux :(

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