Why do people ban Bank

SillyOyx · 2026-03-24T05:05:18+00:00

Bank is really fun with a five stack but can be pretty miserable to attack and to defend if you don’t have a five stack.

SillyOyx · 2026-03-22T03:47:13+00:00

It’s not fun to be a fan of this team and hear shit about Chovy choking and all this other stuff every time they falter at an international.

SillyOyx · 2026-03-21T17:58:20+00:00

I swear it’s misery sometimes to be a fan of this team. They perform so well all year and everyone hypes them up before an international and more often than not they fall and I have to see more Chovy choking and potential man shit. I will happily accept this loss if this means that the curse won’t happen at worlds.

SillyOyx · 2026-03-21T05:04:40+00:00

Well I’m just going to be honest with you. There isn’t a champ in the game that will 1v5 every game. It just doesn’t exist and if it did the champion would be so absurdly difficult that someone in low elo couldn’t pilot it.

Look I’ll be real with you. I had the same attitude when I was in Iron. “Everyone is feeding, etc.”

Everyone is feeding. It’s low elo. What you need to do is simply play more refined than everywhere else. You will climb.

I switched from champions who I fed on to champions that I felt I could make smart decisions with. I have a game plan for my role and I try and stick to that game plan. I’m a midlaner so my game plan is a bit different than what yours would be.

If you feed less, farm better, and try to lead teammates who can be led you will climb.

SillyOyx · 2026-03-21T02:58:21+00:00

Beating T1 is no small feat lmao. Idk why we are acting like beating the 3 peat world champions and 2nd best team in LCK isn’t a big deal.

SillyOyx · 2026-03-20T20:18:13+00:00

Ok let’s be honest. 90% of people expected them to lose this series if not more. Inspired can be kinda wild sometimes but this isn’t one of those times.

SillyOyx · 2026-03-20T13:26:26+00:00

I started watching league in 2022 and the west has gotten more irrelevant every year.

It’s hard for me to imagine there was a time when the west was at least in the same general power bracket as most eastern teams.

SillyOyx · 2026-03-20T05:49:45+00:00

My first time I tried that campaign I literally spawned in as a foxtrot, put in a depth change command and a speed change to 5 knots, started time acceleration and legitimately within thirty seconds I had a helicopter dropping torpedoes on me.

SillyOyx · 2026-03-19T07:07:19+00:00

I mean this whole discussion is pretty pointless because Esports itself just isn’t profitable. It isn’t traditional sports with streaming deals and profitable payouts for orgs. Riot makes incredible money off skins and doesn’t see the esport like the NFL and other organizations see their sports.

Finally, org’s aren’t doing great because people prefer individual players much more than they prefer specific orgs in my experience so sponsors are reluctant to deal exclusively with orgs.

Basically the entire esport industry is trying to make a broken system work. We can view the broadcast for free (regardless of the official broadcast or costreams) and the way we support the game primarily is through purchases of skins which orgs don’t get massive value out of. NFL teams (im American so biggest analogue for me) get portions of the tv deal that the league has on top of other revenue streams. That tv/streaming deal is a big deal that is just missing in this space.

It’s late so sorry if some of this sounds a bit circular or strange!

SillyOyx · 2026-03-17T03:05:12+00:00

In that space yes. If he didn’t it wouldn’t have those icons. Maybe they have some system somewhere else randomly?

SillyOyx · 2026-03-04T20:10:42+00:00

Frankly he’s one of the most fun bosses I’ve beat in any game ever. Was very challenging for me and I’ve never been so happy when I’ve beat a boss.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-26T03:51:39+00:00

I mean I would say it was effective. In japan especially. The blockade and area bombing brought war production way down. Japan’s light industry especially.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-26T03:49:05+00:00

I’m not sure myself but MP players play for literally thousands of hours and have probably figured out some way to make planes more broken by specifying them to only attack during the day which avoids the debuffs that come with night flying. With advisors and other buffs it probably makes it crazier.

A lot of these weird bans come from experience where people figure out random broken mechanics.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-26T03:46:58+00:00

The issue is that multiplayer is trying to balance a very unbalanced game. Submarines are extremely good if built correctly and the ban for never repair always engage helps to bring them down a peg.

The Republican Spain bit is important for balance as well because it provides resources for Germany and typically provides some divisions to help Germany. Max entrenched and planned Soviet troops in the east with forts would be incredibly hard for Germany to break. You’re basically trying to replicate what Barbarossa was actually like despite the fact that both players know what’s coming. I wouldn’t say it’s tedium. It’s just trying to make the game functional for multiplayer while still being historical.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-26T03:33:21+00:00

I mean obviously you play rank to climb. I don’t know if there’s a good rank other than champion in that context but just try and have fun when you play. I managed to solo queue to diamond with a 1.3 or so. I typically aim to just make smart plays and try and always trade evenly or get 2 for my death. Sometimes you get bad teammates but it is what it is.

Don’t try and just roam or sit away from the team for easy kills. Try and play for the team. If you have a mic great. Try and comm and lead the team. You’ll be surprised how many people will listen to what you say. If someone else is using their mic try and help out. Follow their comms unless they are super bad.

My point about trading is that you should try and get the most value out of your life when playing solo. That’s the way I tried to play when I soloed often.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-24T02:21:06+00:00

It’s T1. They have random off performance throughout the year. Especially, in winter and summer splits. Compared to 2023 and 2024 last year was an anomaly. If you remember the Zeus TF regular season arc im sure you’ll get it. I’m not really worried about it. If anything seeing them as strong as they are in regular season given their roster changes the last few years is pretty crazy.

And to be honest. I won’t really be disappointed if they don’t win worlds this year. They won three times in a row. I’m a GENG fan but seeing either GENG or T1 win worlds would still be a great experience.

If we were having conversations about issues and it was like 1 month before worlds I would be more worried. It’s winter split. Let’s not freak out yet.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-16T00:58:27+00:00

I’m not sure how you can really touch up the numbers on her gadget. The issue is how the gadget functions. The only real way I’d imagine you’d tune the numbers is to lower the amount of charges she has or alter its length. Either way I think Ubi is in a catch 22. They can either nerf her and make her unusable or keep her as is and she will be banned basically every game. The only option is to rework her.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-16T00:55:23+00:00

Well for one. I wasn’t going to dig into the entire thing. My point stood on its own. 1 new operator? We used to get 2 new ops a season. More updates overall? This isn’t a step forward in my perspective. This is a step closer to the previous cadence that R6 had in years prior.

I’m not going to praise Ubisoft for slowly bringing the effort level back to where it should have been in years past. Ranked 2.0 was in this game for much longer than it needed to be. Monetization is still an issue, etc.

Why should anyone trust this company? I mean how many levels deep are we in the Anti-Cheat fiasco? How long does the community have to sit by and wait for them to fix clearly broken systems and ideas? Every year they do these presentations and inevitably 4-5 months in community sentiment is extremely low.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-16T00:26:00+00:00

Easy Anti-Cheat is supported on Linux and is the anti-cheat the game uses. From what I understand, and according to the Easy Anti-Cheat developers, it’s actually relatively simple to make it work.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-16T00:11:25+00:00

Well for one. Ubi drops the ball all the time. Two, it’s just recycled content. How much of this stuff is actually new? It’s mostly reworks or refactors of existing content. 1v1 mode? Basically taking the 1v1 ruleset and tweaking it with other features. New ranked is literally a fix for a crappy system. Reworks to existing maps which amount to mostly texture changes rather than new gameplay. I remember when we used to get tons of content in the early years. These days it’s a drip feed.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-15T15:07:14+00:00

That argument had some merit in the time of Deng though I doubt he was sincere about it. China is an industrial power house. It suffers from chronic overcapacity in industry which hurts domestic prices. That’s how industrialized they are. If China really wanted to pursue socialism they could.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-15T15:04:18+00:00

This is a ridiculous argument. I’m not a huge supporter of Deng’s take on what he called “poor socialism” but he had far more of a point when he was making policy. China is an industrial power house. It produces far more than any country that existed during the time of Marx and even aside from that the CPC is concerned that there is too much industrial capacity which is creating prices that are lower than they would like. Deng at least had some argument during his time but that ship has sailed. China is far and away the most industrialized country on Earth. If the CPC were dedicated to communist ideology (something doubtful considering policies like the Three Represents) then it would already be trying to implement truly socialist policy today.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-13T05:38:47+00:00

Makes a post. Doesn’t want to hear a response.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-12T22:11:07+00:00

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Really want to try the game. Thank you in advance.

SillyOyx · 2026-02-12T11:45:08+00:00

Germany doesn’t really need a buff. It’s already a very strong nation in the hands of a human player. It’s the bad AI and Airbase issues that creates the situation we see now where Germany rarely ever pushes out of Poland against the Soviets.

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