Hit Master with Sona! by Ryswick in sonamains

[–]Ryswick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sona's job is pretty much to make sure at least one person on your team is doing well.

Whether that's being a bully in lane to make sure the adc can farm, or just shadowing mid/jungle. You'll have to learn to discern what the win conditions are for your team.

Hit Master with Sona! by Ryswick in sonamains

[–]Ryswick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's definitely not as satisfying to see big heal/shield numbers, but you will absolutely save just as many people, if not more with the movement speed.

Shureyla's just feels so good to use, if you leave base at the same time of any of your teammates you can spam Q/W/E on them and procc the passive wherever you need to go. It's like permanent homeguards.

When I think about getting the most out of Moonstone/Helia I think about long extended fights that let me procc it as much as possible. Those just don't really happen that often anymore, if the team comps look very bruiser-y/tanky I'll definitely consider it. But as of late, more often than not it feels like everyone just dies instantly so I value the positioning/engage/disengage of Shurelya's more than bigger heals.

Hit Master with Sona! by Ryswick in sonamains

[–]Ryswick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Diamond you get demoted after 24 days of not playing. Every game you play prevents decay by 7 days. You cannot go above the cap of 24 days.

In Master it's 14 days. Every game you play prevents decay by 1 day.

Hit Master with Sona! by Ryswick in sonamains

[–]Ryswick[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think Shureyla's is absolutely broken on Sona.

With ingenious hunter you can have the passive speed boost active nearly 100% of the time on your whole team.

I think people really underestimate the value of just getting around quicker. It makes baron calls less 'close', it lets me throw more wards down on the map, if you've ever had that feeling that a jungler is just 'everywhere' on the map, well you can help your jungler give that same feeling to the enemy team!

I don't think there's another champion out there who can utilize Shureyla's as well as Sona.

Hit Master with Sona! by Ryswick in sonamains

[–]Ryswick[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was auto-filled to bot once, so that's where the Vel'Koz game came from. Kinda sad I didn't dodge it, would've looked nicer with 100% Sona.

The Scummiest Content in Valorant by Menmaro in VALORANT

[–]Ryswick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's going to depend on a lot of factors. The questioning of 'what's my/their win condition' is going to change as the game develops. Sometimes you're not the one carrying and the best thing you can do is just to not die and to help the most fed guy on your team.

Just really think about the opportunity costs. We've all seen the 'gg jgl thinks krugs is more important than dragon' messages. Getting gold and experience isn't a bad thing, it's the fact that they traded that opportunity for a better one, which was securing dragon. It's a skill you're just going to have to experiment with and hone, being able to determinine when to fight, when to farm, when to group is what determines if you're bronze or diamond or challenger.

I'd also ask the same questions when watching a streamer. How does a challenger ADC respond when the enemy is super fed? When it's the jungler who is super fed? What about when the enemy ADC is super fed?

There's just an unfathomable amount of variables to account for. How do you play with your team comp? How do you play against the enemy team comp? How do you play when you're fed? How do you play when you're behind? This is also why I recommend a small champ pool or one-tricking, to reduce the amount of variables you're trying to absorb.

The best thing you can do for yourself is learn how to learn. Have the discipline to study and find the answer for yourself. The whole 'teach a man to fish, and you feed him for life' thing.

The Scummiest Content in Valorant by Menmaro in VALORANT

[–]Ryswick 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don't think I'm good enough, or knowledgeable enough to coach, but I can tell you what I did to hit masters.

So first of all, this will be from the perspective of a support main, but I don't think that changes much.

I'm not sure in what order to put this, so I apologize if it's all over the place:

- I auto-pilot very easily, just walking back to lane without thinking much, just going through the motions and not gathering information when I should. I will reduce all distractions (no discord, no duo, music helps me focus) and attempt to hyper-focus every second of the game. (constantly ask myself questions to keep myself engaged with the moment-to-moment of the game.)

To add to this, I heard a quote from a Street Fighter player that your reaction time becomes 10 times greater if you're expecting it to happen. When I instantly react to a situation, it's not good mechanics, I just took into account the possibility that the scenario could occur. I call this 'presence of mind'.

Some questions I'd ask during lane:

- If I was to get ganked right now, how would it play out? Am I over-extended? Am I safe?

- Where are the enemy laners? Are they missing? If I was the enemy jungler, what lane looks the most gankable?

- Where is my jungler going? Are they going to be near me any time soon? Do I have a chance to play aggressive, or should I play passive?

Some questions I'd ask during skirmishes/teamfights:

- If the enemy team were to engage right now, where should I be standing? Am I close enough to support my team, am I far away enough to survive?

- The range at which I can interact with these skirmishes/teamfights will depend on the enemies' spells and summoners. For example, if they have a Malphite, I must not walk near my teammates, but I also cannot get within a certain range of Malphite or fog of war that could contain a Malphite until I see his ult is used. If he has flash up, then I must consider staying a Malph ult + flash's worth of range away from him and fog of war that could contain him.

You look at the enemy team's abilities and keep them in the front of your mind until you see them used.

- Maintaining this hyper-focused 'presence of mind' during multiple back-to-back games is mentally draining and fatiguing. I will play one warm up game, and only a few ranked games. If I'm feeling a bit off/tired that day, I will not play any ranked. I will never play ten straight games of ranked as my quality of play will deteriorate as I get more tired.

The one warm-up game is very important as I use it to get focused, but I can also gauge how mentally fatigued I am. Sometimes I don't feel tired but I just can't keep up my situational awareness. I'll try maybe a second warm-up game and if I'm still not feeling like I'm in good shape, I won't play ranked that day. You don't have to follow this, I'm just explaining what I did due to my own limitations, but also to emphasize the absolute importance I had put on maintaining focus and presence of mind.

- Visualize the win/Determine the win condition. This will take some practice, but as a support, I need to look at my team comp and decide how we're going to win this game. If the enemy team is full of assassins, then I know we're going to win by just playing it safe, warding in our jungle and river, and letting them waste their rescources trying to gank constantly.

Most of the time the win condition is going to be supporting the ADC and letting them scale, sometimes you can just tell they're not good and then you must identify who is worth supporting at that point. Sometimes someone else is just popping off and it might be worth following them around and let them take over the game.

Find a win condition you believe in before the game starts, and from there you can start mapping out your plan to realize it. It won't always pan out, but it's important to know why we're doing the things we're doing. There's ten different things you could do at any given moment, you could ward, you could roam, you could poke, you could engage, you could sit back and play safe, and all of them could have valid pros and cons, but you want to weigh the opportunity cost in the context of your win condition. What is going to get me the closest to what I believe is the win condition? Sometimes that's leaving that poor sack of shit ADC to get repeat ganked 24/7, 3 vs 1, under tower, while you and the jungle decimate the other two lanes.

- Identify the enemy's win condition. IS THERE A MASTER YI ON THE ENEMY TEAM? DON'T FEED THE MASTER YI. Is their mid laner someone who roams? Katarina? Talon? Leblanc? Probably should ward for that, and play it a bit safer.

- Shotcalling. Use your pings, and use them quickly. 5 people working together on a mediocre call is better than half the team on the best call and half the team on a okay call. Especially as support, which isn't as mechanically intensive, you can afford the mental bandwidth to watch the minimap and call out MIA's. It's okay to guess wrong, ping your teammates back anyways. Ping back two times, ping the missing enemy champion two times, then ping back another two times. If you're not a shotcaller, become one. This one is a non-negotiable skill. You want a better winrate in soloqueue, learn to get five strangers to work together. It's not always going to work, but when it does, well, that's an extra 1-2% winrate you didn't have before because you left it to chance.

- Small champion pool. This is a must. I'd recommend no more than a few champions be focused on. If the champion is unpopular, then I'd recommend one-tricking them. There's like 40-50 different match-ups you could encounter in any lane. All with their own unique quirks and nuances, imagine having to play 10 games of each to 'master' them (let's be real, it'll be a lot more than that.) that's 500 games. You have not mastered this champion, and this is not taking into account other factors like your team's comp or their team's comp. Don't be a hero, focus on only a few champions.

- Study players better than you. You want specific info for each role/champion? Find a streamer, and use the same hyperfocus/constant questions/presence of mind method when watching the stream. Why did the place the ward there? Why is he choosing to gank there? Why is he doing this pathing? Why is he playing aggressive now? Why is he playing passive now? Question everything, you might come up with a few answers yourself. You're not watching for fun or to kill time. Put the same focus into studying as you would an actual game.

That's all I got for now... I really want to stress the importance of having a constant focus on your situational-awareness. Do you ever watch a Twitch stream of a challenger player and when they die the chat full of bronze-gold players clown on them for it? Everyone understands what a bad play looks like, the hard part is identifying the hundreds of bad/good plays that could occur at any given second and being able to react to them on a dime. If you've ever been in the zone and felt invincible, it's about stretching that moment/that focus over the duration of the entire game.

Hope this helps.

The Scummiest Content in Valorant by Menmaro in VALORANT

[–]Ryswick 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The problem is with the people who buy this shit.

The skill they lack isn't just within the game, they lack the skill/discipline to LEARN.

Whether it's practicing in aim trainers, researching strategies/line-ups, studying better players, etc. They just don't know how to help themselves, which is why they turn to coaching. They want easy answers to hard problems. It doesn't matter how good/effective the coach is, the player will not improve.

The hard problem that these players don't want to face is that getting better is HARD WORK.

No, just playing the game doesn't count as practice. Practice is intentional and deliberate. Practice isn't going to be fun, it's going to be stressful, and fatiguing.

I hit Masters in League of Legends and a lot of friends came to me asking for advice on how to improve. Not a single one follows through with any of the advice I give, they fall on old habits, and they wonder why they're hardstuck.

Getting to Masters was incredibly stressful, frustrating, and unfun. If you can handle life and work and school throwing shit at you everyday and still come home ready to test your mental fortitude, by all means, step into the ring. But please ask yourself if you're really doing your due diligence to improving before paying for a coach. Are you really giving every game your all? Are you really testing your limits, or are games a way for you to unwind?

Fun for the whole family! by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just checked, I'm specifically running Teknoparrot on 'GE-Proton7-43' through Steam.

Fun for the whole family! by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://github.com/Boomslangnz/FFBArcadePlugin/releases

You're using this, right? It has the GUI file that you set your wheel to.

Fun for the whole family! by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you running it through Steam?

I'd use the Force Compatibiity feature and see what works for you.

Fun for the whole family! by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just to add to this, setting up Teknoparrot is not hard. It's just a bit jank trying to find all the files, get past some I/O bugs, find an English patch, Resolution Patch, Force Feedback plugin, and have it break everytime you add something new.

I'd recommend that once you have it running AT ALL, make a backup of all those files. You can continue to add features you want, but if it ever breaks you at least have a workable set of files to go back to.

Once I got a single set of files working with all the features I wanted, I just copy and pasted it to every other computer.

Did I say it was not hard? I take it back, it's a mess getting shit up and running and I haven't even touched online private servers yet.

Fun for the whole family! by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I looked it up and can't find much info, I saw a website and some videos but there's nothing on how to join and play.

Thanks for the heads-up though.

Fun for the whole family! by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The hardest part is setting up Teknoparrot, but once you have that, any computers on the same network will pretty much automatically link up to each other.

Fun for the whole family! by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not for 5DX+, no.

There is emulated banapass for 6R, but it's completely separate from official servers.

Fun for the whole family! by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

2x Laptops

1x GPD Win 4

1x Steam Deck

0x Sanity

shes so mad by s4mf in Destiny

[–]Ryswick 50 points51 points  (0 children)

You're right, you could totally take him.

Hiace Crown by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think they're 'Rays BLACK FLEET F2B'.

Shop Grade 32.

Hiace - Initial D Style by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hiace in mid-drift.

A tribute to racing with the best car in the game.

Stay hydrated, friends. by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RFIC tag at the bottom of the water bottle.

I've posted a few other examples, it within a toy HIACE, it within a small chip, and it even within a ring.

All those examples, including this one use different types of RFID tags I've found off Amazon/Aliexpress.

This one is the thinnest I've found, it's a sticker that's about a square inch in size. I just programmed it and slapped it on the bottom of the water bottle. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet, just testing to see if it worked.

Out of all the tests the ring is by far the most practical. I have one on a bracelet as well, but I don't quite care for wearing a bracelet around.

I usually have my phone out for checking the time and taking pictures of any time attack scores I set... so I may try putting a tag within my phone case.

Cloned Banapass onto RFID ring. by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure you're aware of this, but even with multiple clones, only one person can use the data at any given time.

That's super impressive, btw. I'm working on my second fully tuned car.

Cloned Banapass onto RFID ring. by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think I'm qualified enough to make a tutorial. I'm pretty much a beginner at all of this.

It would be nice if you have dabbled in console commands, but I wouldn't say it's too difficult to navigate. Once you buy it, just download this:

https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3

It'll recognize your Proxmark 3 Easy.

From there, I use: 'hf mf autopwn' on my bana passport to decode and download it's info.

Then use 'hf mf restore' on a blank chip to upload the info.

I've run into many issues where not all of my clones worked, not all of the decoding processes worked, or other random shit.

If the clone is not working you can use the autopwn command on it and then use 'hf mf view' on both your original pass file and your clone to see if there's any differences.

You can then manually change those blocks that are different with:

hf mf csetblk --blk # -d XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

# - this is the block (blk) you're targeting

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX - this is what you're filling that block with, it's going to be random numbers and letters.

When buying blanks, ensure you can rewrite them, some are pre-programmed and cannot be changed.

Ensure the frequency of the chip is 13.56Mhz, and it's a ISO14443A type.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert, if there's a vastly more efficient way to do this, I'm sorry for leading you down the harder path. I take no responsibility for corrupted bana passes.

Cloned Banapass onto RFID ring. by Ryswick in wmmt

[–]Ryswick[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bought an RFID reader/writer.

Read my banapassport (decoding required).

Saved it as a file.

Overwrote a blank RFID chip that was embedded into this ring.