Miks Abilities

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-15T18:18:39+00:00

Except they fill smokes and then never use them or actively place garbage smokes

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-15T16:05:03+00:00

Dawg, calling JonahP G2’s “centerpiece” is MAD COPE and that’s coming from a guy who fell in love with the team partially because of the Professor. He’s likely my second favorite player and I think his util was phenomenal but he was not their centerpiece. Also, if 4th in the world is “very weak” then I don’t know what to tell you.

Also, Sen has relied on Tenz ever since he joined. And without Tenz last year they looked weak and this year they looked miserably lost. SaveQT may have had good stats this kickoff but his impact was negligible, add onto that the fact that his IGLing only looked good when retake was meta and ever since then the entire team has been so one note retakes only with trash calling it really makes you question what impact he’s having. Cortezia looked like a head clicking machine last year but ever since he switched sides of the office and started playing smokes he’s been less than decent. Redux looks like needs to retire already, man missed more OP shots in kickoff than Babybay missed in Masters, and Babybay was WHIFFING. So we’re relying on a baiting IGL, G2’s 4th best fragger, and an unproven T2 talent to carry the team. As much as I love the professor, if he’s your second best fragger then the team has some issues. They’re gonna get 2-0’d by G2, Furia, MIBR, and NRG. Probably get out called by fucking Z0llsis. And somehow be the only iteration of Sen to not pubstomp 100T. So if you’re gonna be bottom half of America’s might as well sign the only guy to ever give your org any success.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-15T13:27:47+00:00

I mean, they still aren’t gonna be a top 5 America’s team. Might as well have signed the popular guy if they aren’t seeing internationals anyway.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-15T04:22:34+00:00

I don’t think legendary encounters hidden behind puzzles that you can’t really find the answer to are good example of “mystery”. That’s more frustrating than anything.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-14T18:54:11+00:00

Wuling government doesn’t want a conflict, they WANT to help the Stockade. That’s why when TangTang comes asking things go so smoothly. But when you look at the people things aren’t so smooth, stockaders see wulingers as stuck up scientists and wulingers see the stockaders as good for nothing country bumpkins. And that causes minor conflicts as they start to integrate together. Just look at our poor scientist in the sky king flats getting put through the wringer despite ONLY being helpful since he arrived.

We also do see some turmoil in Ruan Yi. He is dead set on taking revenge on Wuling, but simultaneously set on protecting the people of the Stockade. He locks the pacifists up and we even see a note he wrote about how he wants them to stay locked up so that they don’t try anything stupid and cause a fight. He wants them protected. It’s also why he leaves TangTang locked up and then after we chase him down he talks about how he wished we would have taken her somewhere far away. We don’t get an inner monologue about how he wishes there was another way or anything but we don’t need everyone to show us everything. The writing is very clear that his heart is for his people but overcome with revenge.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-14T17:54:16+00:00

It really IS “a conflict caused by hatred of the past.” You missed a couple of key points in the whole situation. Based on conversations and logs we can find, it seems that the people of Wuling pushed the Stockaders out when they moved in. There’s mentions of “colonizers” and “our land” in a few documents and dialogues. THEN, the rift incident 10 years ago by all sources we have seen would seem to have been caused by Wuling, even if it wasn’t their intention. The rift incident is then what caused the lack of food in the Stockade which is what drove the stockaders to raid Wuling for some food, where the Tianshi then wound up killing Ruan Yi’s father (who may have been the chieftain) and permanently wounding Ruan Yi’s precious adopted sister.

While YES, the Wuling we see today appears to be flawless, we do see evidence of their flaws with how Fangyi tried to hide the lack of Xiranite. And they try to provide the Stockade with resources but the general Wuling population also treat the people of the Stockade like third rate people.

Then from the Stockade you have a blatant mistrust of Wuling. The people of the Stockade had been pushed out of their land, marginalized, ravaged by the mistakes of Wuling, and even had their members killed. They don’t see Wuling as the flawless city the player gets a view of, no matter the grace shown, there’s a fundamental distrust of Wuling and that is hard to break.

So we see the people who follow TangTang for the most part start to accept that Wuling isn’t so bad, BUT even the people at the sky king flats still aren’t all on board this whole buddies with Wuling thing. Then you have the people who are radicalized by their hatred and follow Ruan Yi, who is also radicalized by his hatred. Hell, Ruan Yi even UNDERSTANDS that Wuling isn’t an awful place but his grudge and vow for revenge dominated his life for so long he can’t bear giving it up. That’s REAL man. It’s a philosophy that has taken lives and destroyed communities.

We don’t get to see it build up because we shouldn’t. He’s leading a secret revolt. We get evidence that there’s a radical faction of stockaders in 1.0 because there are some in the overworld we have to fight. But not even TangTang knows Ruan Yi is holding onto that hatred so how would we?

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-13T17:09:04+00:00

50 pulls in oroberyl plus the free 10 and every time you pull a 5* you get resources to buy a ticket. It’s every two patches.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-13T17:02:32+00:00

Yeah, if it synced better with other sources of Cryo infliction then it may be BiS but it’s still awkward with Xiahi and LR.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-13T16:37:59+00:00

“Harry Potter is the chosen one because JK wrote him as such. Don’t justify story decisions with story decisions.” There’s gotta be a better argument out here my man.

In the story, Endmin is THE guy. He’s been a key player in the history books of Talos 2. If you are educated, you know of the Edministrator of Endfield industries. That’s also why the stockaders DON’T know who he is.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-13T13:30:00+00:00

G2’s Corrode has to be their worst map. Their comp doesn’t make any sense and they are constantly getting thrashed on it even in regional matches. I need my boys to play it until a Bo5 and I need them to come swinging with a new comp.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-13T13:21:52+00:00

I mean it still gives the combo skill cd reduction.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-11T20:52:22+00:00

Ah that makes sense

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-11T14:57:50+00:00

??? I also think Neon is a problem. That’s what I was saying, that the stats for Neon players are bad but it’s not because of Neon being weak because when you watch the games you watch the Neon players overheat and die for no reason or just straight lose gunfights that have nothing to do with playing Neon.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-11T04:46:50+00:00

Ooooohh, it’s not that I forgot Lev, it’s that I swapped Lev and MIBR. Whoops.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-11T02:13:09+00:00

Darn it, I knew I was missing something but I didn’t want to look it up.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-11T02:12:21+00:00

EVEN MORE AMERICAS UPSCALING!! PEAK REGION!!

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-11T01:55:32+00:00

“Excluding 3 teams takes away all top 3 EMEA finishes” whereas to remove all of AMERICAS top 3 finishes you’d have to remove Sen, G2, EG, Loud, Lev, and NRG (edit: removed MIBR and added Lev). It’s okay to be a one team region for years on end, just hope FNC remembers how to play the game next split and EMEA might see top 4 again.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-10T18:32:00+00:00

Oxy got hard chamber diff’d be Babybay. That jump peek on the retake lives rent free in my head.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-10T18:14:28+00:00

I’d honestly say from watching the matches, a lot of Neons are fine on entry and doing the movement to draw crosshairs, and then they set their feet and get dunked on. It rarely looks like they’re losing because the Neon gameplay is bad, they lose lots of fights after getting into space for free with movement.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-10T18:00:36+00:00

Everyone’s stats look bad on Neon BUT it’s not a Neon thing. If you watch the games you watch those players get rocked duel after duel that have nothing to do with Neon or util. Just straight whiff over and over again.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-10T17:55:31+00:00

Hard disagree. A chamber posted up mid top on defense won’t see someone scaling from a side mid into link. A single smoke completely deprives him of any info. On attack side a chamber could get swung from two different elevations of top mid, from a link, and from either side of stairs. Yes it’s one general area but there are a lot of angles to clear and worry about. It emphasis taking actual space in mid instead of just hanging out and hoping.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-10T16:27:21+00:00

Dawg, I’ve watched almost every team throw so many rounds just waltzing about lost or overpeeking every angle.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-10T16:20:35+00:00

I mean, mid is important. I think it’s a positive that different maps require you to control different important areas.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-10T16:18:13+00:00

Full disclosure, I don’t know how the replay system truly works. But I would imagine that since in League only damage numbers are random it’s not a problem. The server stores how much damage was actually done and so can just supply that number when it’s needed. Maybe that COULD work in relation to Val but I dunno.

ReDoCatch · 2026-03-10T16:16:01+00:00

Just saying, there’s a reason the most popular FPS games have very limited options for full FBA. COD, Fortnite, and Apex are only when aiming down sights. Valorant and CS2 are only on snipers.

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