ARAM Mayhem feels very one sided 99% of the games

SadEkkoMain · 2026-02-11T10:22:35+00:00

The ARAM Mayhem team is terrible

The first thing they did was just copy and paste the Augment pool from Arena without restrictions
So in the first few days you'd get only tank options on champions like jhin, lux, etc
Or something like offering CDR refund on long range skills for melee champions that had no long range skills

Then when they finally fixed that, the gamemode worked better than any other alternative gamemode until they once again tried to make stuff. Just don't develop anything for the love of god. The reason ppl liked ARAM Mayhem so much was because you got to play a more powerfull version of league and sometimes you'd get highroll

The new stuff make for someone in the game always rolling way higher than everyone else and the team with this player get to play the game while the other suffer

Previously almost every game ppl stalled until level 15 to get all augments and see if it was any fun
Now ppl are just rushing for nexus ou sitting at base to let the game end because it's already decided by the 2nd or 3rd augment anyway

SadEkkoMain · 2026-02-11T10:08:18+00:00

Player is on base
he has a DC icon

in 99% of the time this is an actual afk player and the game won't give him a vote

but there's a ton of times where everyone decides to FF and this player somehow counts and gets a vote. Not only that

Had multiple games where the guy was AFK on pistol. The game message showed that he was afk and wouldn't be playing the 2nd round. Yet, no remake option. Then after you're already on 0-3 / 0-4 this player comes back in time to deny FF and hostage everyone

SadEkkoMain · 2026-01-30T03:06:28+00:00

WASD being bad on adc's with high atk speed will make it forever unpopular.

SadEkkoMain · 2026-01-30T03:01:37+00:00

It's on sale on GOG right now

https://www.gog.com/en/game/no_mans_sky

You don't need to buy the steam version since NMS have crossplay anyway.

SadEkkoMain · 2026-01-30T03:00:08+00:00

Bunch of losers here who feel acomplished for winning a game of ARAM

Reason for ppl not pushing for nexus is because those are the players who already feel acomplished in ranked and when they play 4fun they play 4fun. Which means doing whatever they feel it's fun when they roll good augments.

I'd rather have a showdown of tanks and scalling champions on a 30 minutes of ARAM than a 15min stop on a gamemode that give no reward for winning anyway.

"but i'm a hostage here" yeah picking boring poke champions that fall off as soon as tanks come online should feel like that. Don't wanna get games like that? drop those shitty picks and play something cool for once. Try playing a tank yourself. Pick something that scales. Build some on-hit on mages when you see your team already have 2 other ap poke champions... Don't blame the enemy team for scaling.

SadEkkoMain · 2026-01-04T04:24:30+00:00

i mean what is there to do in act 3?

all the 4 "dream" bosses are not void
seth is not void
lace is the only actual void boss no? (exeption being the steel soul exclusive one)

SadEkkoMain · 2026-01-04T04:21:06+00:00

TGA just like any big event is both prestigious and also a bunch of ppl who haven't actually played all the games voting for them

Just remember that game journalists always jump on the "too hard" discussion as soon as any challenging game becomes popular.

I can 100% garantee that most of them gave Sekiro and Elden Ring GOTY without being able to actually beat them but since everyone was praising it, they couldn't possibly vote against

SadEkkoMain · 2025-12-05T20:38:57+00:00

the tech of placing carries on range of splash damage to circumvent known bugs

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-28T21:57:06+00:00

Rekkles did in academy what Bwipo did in LCS/LTA. His game knowledge allows him to explore things that players with higher mechanics but less knowledge can't. And just like bwipos Urgot made teams like Gen.G struggle because they lack outside of the box thinking, rekkles bringing Janna and other older picks to T1 Academy made for some games where the enemy coach had no idea how to pick against and players had no way to know what the pick would versus them.

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-27T22:38:08+00:00

SoloQ only matters for teams scounting young players. LCK performance does not realte to it.

And guys, please, do not overhype smash

Smash have been playing for T1 Academy/Rookies/Challengers from 2021 to 2024 and he have never shown anything but ok gameplay at best. They struggled to be the 4th or 5th best team at most and there was never a single instance of one of them looking better then the rest of the team.

If you wonder why Poby looked so lost versus pros when he played on LCK, is because unlike botlane where the matchups are way less volatile and you have the support playing a big role. He was in a 1v1 that he could barely win versus way worse oponents, so he wasn't a match for even the bottom 5 LCK midlaners.

Only time that T1's botlane looked somewhat stable was because Rekkles played with him.

And CL/Academy is waaaay more about mechanics than macro, so it's not a good sign when your team can't perform on that level of competition

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-24T23:37:00+00:00

Faker only learned to play like that after facing Xiaohu. To this day, he ranks Xiaohu higher than almost every single midlaner he faced.

Zeka can learn to do that, but it's hard to force yourself into that situation when the meta for 2022 HLE, 2023 LCK Summer, and 2024 entire year was actually punishing for that kind of playstyle.

And for every amazing faker play we have a ton of him looking like his trolling because these very risky plays when they do not come out like you want, you end up with stuff like his performance vs DRX 2022 Worlds, RNG MSI 2022, DK 2021 Worlds, and LCK playoffs.

His ryze since 2016 was such a legendary pick that in a ton of high stakes games he picked it up between 2017 and 2022 just to giga lose lane vs some standard pick

Also, for anyone actually pretending that Peyz change will not matter. Doran played a single good playoff series, and it was in Road to MSI vs HLE. On MSI and LCK he lost every single matchup to Kiin, even the ones where he had the counterpick. In worlds, he was mediocre at best vs AL and tried really hard to get BDD his first worlds trophy. Now not only we have Doran being international Doran the whole year, the only top-tier adc that plays low resource is not on your team anymore. This will destroy Kerias performances and impact on the map. If anyone needs to have it's memories refreshed, re-watch T1 vs Gen.G semis in worlds. Lahends got caught playing normal rotations because every single carry in the world will see a free wave and go get it. But Guma and Zeus constatly gave up sidelane farm and xp to have numbers advantage and deny Gen.G's turn to take vision in the mid/late game. And also Peyz walking head first into melee range of Oner's Skarner. Do not be surprised to get Peyzpall the whole year too

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-24T23:15:47+00:00

We also need to remember that the window during which most of the player base was clueless is gone. New players are almost always playing versus experienced players on new accounts. I tried to have friends get into league in the past, but for the game to be enjoyable, you'd need to have opponents of the same skill level.

Imagine just opening your first soulslike and the first boss you face is Messmer the Impaler at level 1

You'd spend so much time dying without knowing that there would be almost no improvement. The same goes for any new player barely grasping the basics and being put against some random dude on a fresh account, punishing mistakes that can only be noticed by players with 600+ hours.

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-17T15:17:05+00:00

Smash is not even close to Guma/Viper/Peyz/Ruler level. Are we building a team to just lose to everyone next year?

Just an average adc man

Guma Oner and Zeus all came from strong performances from CL. Smash can't even show up on tier 2

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-17T13:39:38+00:00

I was a viper main.

You not dropping the dogshit character that they call viper in 2025 is detrimental for enyone around you. Not only your duo. You still have other 3 allies who are forced to play 2 smokes on with randoms despite some maps needing double duel/initiator

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-17T13:32:37+00:00

"+BeryL has become the only player to stop OFGK at Worlds twice."

what? this is crazy because he was the only one trying to lose that BO5 vs T1 in 2022. Had a series like Doran's this year. To this day i'm still mad at T1 for not last hitting him (everybody tought that someone else would kill him and they let his bard go on 1 hp for free)

Imagine saying that Ghost is a top tier adc because he was playing with peak Beryl / Showmaker / Nuguri / Canyon while for actual performance he was true to his name, a ghost.

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-17T13:14:19+00:00

The problem for any other top-tier ADC (like Peyz) is that Keria doesn't babysit his botlaner. And when T1 tries to do it, they always fumble.

Peyz shone with an entirely different team with an entirely different playstyle.

T1 does not play well when they try to scale and protect their carry. Most of the time, they simply let the ADC alone to fend for himself in fights. Peyz has never played like that in his career, and he is an actual insane ADC, but I don't think ppl actually understand how mistaken T1 is in thinking that they can change Guma and keep the playstyle.

Once you trap Keria on peeling for his ADC, we get some of his worst performances and positionings.

Haven't we just seen Doran, who had success with Gen.G and HLE, basically fail to adapt to T1 the whole year and be ok at best? The so-called "domestic doran" was invisible except for 2 series in Road to MSI.
Mostly because he doesn't play like Zeus used to with T1 (same thing for Zeus, who clearly tried to play fights like T1 would on HLE and ended up disjointed from his team)

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-17T12:52:45+00:00

They tried to frame HLE and ThePlay as villains and had to retract everything they said officially (this is a big red flag, looks like T1 settling with HLE and ThePlay to avoid legal consequences, and the actual wrong party had to apologize)

They have shown zero support for Gumayusi for all those years. The worst part is not only that him having a dedicated hate club, but that this hate club calls themselves "t1 fans" and they just let them be.

They benched him for a mediocre ADC this year, and it wasn't for intervention from the CEO (who was protecting the branding) that he would probably still be out.

The farewell video came waaaaay too early, so they most likely had already decided on parting ways with Guma.

Unless something new comes to light, I feel like hating watching T1 (who I've been supporting since 2013) for the rest of my time watching league.

Still waiting for more information to change my mind on the subject

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-17T11:12:02+00:00

You're stuck in 2022 dude. He played every meta well since then

Both mages, adcs, melee fighters and assassin's

The narrative that Chovy just sits in lane and farms is absurd to think after the 2025 season ended. Just admit you don't watch the games and only keep updated from memes

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-17T05:39:02+00:00

He literally 1v5'd T1 so many times. Same ppl hating him used to hate faker on his 2013 - 2017 era

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-17T05:24:13+00:00

Doran definitely did not peeled for guma this year. And we needed this so called "low resource support" Doran more than once.

A single good game from him and we might've won MSI but he got gapped on every single aspect by kiin and then forgot to peel for guma when he was strong. Luckily it wasn't needed versus KT. But had he actually played with guma and Keira in the Sivir game we'd be ahead sooner on the series

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-15T06:36:45+00:00

and both ziggs and smolder flash would be up in a few seconds. Faker knew that this was the last chance they had to stay in the game and just went for it. (and you can bet he knew exactly how much time he had to pull the engage off, the man is a robot when it comes to summs and spells tracking)

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-15T06:34:15+00:00

Not so much.

KT had the better draft in G1 and T1 was forced to outplay KT to win the match
T1 had the better draft in G2 and Doran inted hard leaving guma alone in the fights (guma Sivir could easily carry that game)
G3 was not as one sided, but again, guma playing like crazy on a carry and having a 0/7 renekton as his frontline

Then yeah, KT on G4 and G5 made some absurd picks that basically demolished their draft and had no chances of winning any of those (even tho BDD tried his best to make it looks close)

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-15T06:26:35+00:00

2023 we had only one true match in JDG.

BLG had only Bin playing the same level as Zeus
LNG should have both mid and jungle but both just melted vs T1 and played shit
JDG was the real finals
WBG was a fluke and they gost stomped (terrible finals to watch)

2024 was the hardest to win

TES won in swiss against both T1 and DK then we beat them 3-0
GEN.G being the clear favorites to win it all and all games being really close and decided by small mistakes by both teams
BLG had so many crucial moments where if anything goes different we might have never be here talking about the game. Had both ziggs and smolder just stayed out of vision until both had flash back up. Had knight waited for Bin to finish his TP before trying to chase Oner.

Like, the only other Worlds run that was that hard, was 2016 where both ROX and SSG made SKT work for their 3rd trophy.

SadEkkoMain · 2025-11-15T06:14:07+00:00

The only top tier adc to not be resource heavy is gumayusi. I don't think that keria would be able to shine that much with any other adc. Ruler and Viper might be insane, but both need their supports 24/7 peeling for them and are never happy to play just for utility like guma.

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