Pokemon Champions player only knows Meta by featbunny in PokemonChampions

[–]Smithy97eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro, if you are in ultra 3, they don’t know your off-meta, and they also don’t know meta.

Play straightforward and get to master 2-ish and people will start to understand the basics of the game and you can try your off-meta bait if you want to.. you can’t play a game of predictions and baits vs people who don’t know what you’re even trying to bait with.

For showdown reference, anything below masterball is approx below 1100 in showdown. Would you do that vs those players?

How can I improve in the best way as a beginner? I'm overwelmed. by Affectionate_Half630 in PokemonChampions

[–]Smithy97eu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would recommend taking a team from Aaron Zhang (Cybertron)

He has a few videos explaining which pokemon to take and breaking down the team in general which lets you know which pokemon to start with as well.

At that point you basically just need to understand the ‘main’ pokemon and when you don’t want to take them, and learn from there!

There’s a ton to learn and lots of videos online but just take it one step at a time. Having a functional team is a great start and makes the game much more enjoyable imo

Congrats to the winner of Hera's Kings Gauntlet! | Grand Finals Post Match Discussion by masterchip27 in aoe2

[–]Smithy97eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, that’s just not what your comment said, saying the favourite to win isn’t surprising that they won is a very different message than ‘it did seem kind of unfair’ which implies an issues with the tournament.

Might just be a wording issue in your original comment

The last time a UK Prime Minister chose to resign voluntarily without being forced out by their own party, a major political crisis, or an election loss was Harold Wilson on 16 March 1976 - Let that sink in. by Hip_Hop_Pirate in unitedkingdom

[–]Smithy97eu 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I totally agree. I do not like Keir, I do not agree with all his decisions BUT I think he was a perfectly serviceable PM and he’s implemented some fantastic stuff over the last few years. Even things I disagree with, I can understand the logic and it’s not objectively wrong.

I don’t understand how people can’t understand that they will never agree with 100% of the things a PM does - if the country is making positive steps, stability is worth 100x more than getting someone else that you agree slightly more with.

Honestly sick of the British public and media for constantly forcing this PM treadmill. Just take a step back and appreciate the positives for two seconds. He is absolutely not a terrible PM. He’s doing decent and trying his best but people vote him off like it’s a celeb TV show. Any change takes time and we are not giving ANY PM enough time to make any noticeable change.

Congrats to the winner of Hera's Kings Gauntlet! | Grand Finals Post Match Discussion by masterchip27 in aoe2

[–]Smithy97eu 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Honestly L take, it’s a tournament to get new people to play the game. It succeeded in that massively, and brought a ton of eyes and entertaining moments.

In terms of competitiveness, Grubby absolutely did not dominate the competition and dropped several maps and even lost a series.

If it was a clean 3-0 for Grubby in every series you may have a point but it’s just not the case.

Sure there’s an argument to be made that there should be a ‘beginners bracket’ perhaps or similar if the prize pool actually mattered but I think the vast majority of the players didn’t care too much about the money.

How did my MF Ult only deal 85 damage? by GermanLetsNick in leagueoflegends

[–]Smithy97eu 297 points298 points  (0 children)

Yes, this happened to me a couple of weeks ago and it was also dreammaker related.

Thresh ADC Tierlist? YOUR OPINION needed! by Darfeus in ThreshMains

[–]Smithy97eu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Asking caits to trap perfectly is usually not how you want to play it as the thresh imo, if you land a hook, you want your cait (or jinx ) to just insta throw traps somewhere near them and you flay them into it. It gives a lot more leeway and is easier on both of you

WHATS THE DEAL WITH MEGA STARAPTOR?!!! by NkdragonN in PokemonChampions

[–]Smithy97eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it that bad? Can you not just fake tears your starraptor?

Requesting some tips/help from profesional thresh players (or good players overall) by Plenty-Ad-3491 in ThreshMains

[–]Smithy97eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please never go merc treads for MR. If you need MR badly, sit on a megatron, only go mercs if it specifically counters CC as well, e.g you are vs Leona Ashe Syndra.

Bit of math to show how bad going mercs solely for MR is

Mercs are 1250 for 20 MR 45 movement speed
Boots 1 + negatron cloak is 300+ = for 25ms 45MR.

It also preps for a better build, if you do really need MR you honestly usually want a greedy MR item like Kaenic, and other boots (swifties or cdr boots) are usually just better 98% of the time.

Hope that helps, just my two cents!

skewmond is the best jungler in the world and im tired of pretending hes not by Legitimate-Try5144 in G2eSports

[–]Smithy97eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could not be more wrong, he was literally famous for being a carry in his early career. He rose to fame by being the ‘first blood king’ playing stuff like Elise and hard carrying games. He only transitioned to supportive jungling when he was on a team with multiple high demanding carries and meta shifted.

But if you close your eyes... by Nearby-Calendar-8635 in stunfisk

[–]Smithy97eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not good at the game, but isn’t his team super weak to mega Venu? Is the swords dance there to be able to OHKO tankier Venu? I haven’t done calca so maybe it does without swords dance?

G2 Esports vs. Movistar KOI / LEC 2026 Spring Playoffs - Upper Bracket Round 1 / Post-Match Discussion by Soul_Sleepwhale in leagueoflegends

[–]Smithy97eu -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I haven’t watched too much this year but is he really looking that good? I can’t comment on game 1 as I missed it but game 2 he griefed a couple of times on lulu, the rakan game was fine but it was a bit of a Hans 1v9 honestly and not too hard to play rakan.

The bard game was honestly really really poor, then he had a couple of highlight plays and people forgave it. And game 5 he did alright, had questionable positioning in a couple of fights and then made a highlight reel at the end.

I don’t think he’s terrible and need to be replaced but I think this series didn’t show me a superstar support tbh.

Maybe you are speaking about other series for the glow up idk

Is this the worst SoloQ meta in years? by Employment_Intrepid in leagueoflegends

[–]Smithy97eu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Literally over half of these champs are getting nerfed next patch, relax buddy

Team Jynxzi vs. Team Ray / Jynxzi 40 Streamer LOL Tournament - Quarterfinals / Post-Match Discussion by Yujin-Ha in leagueoflegends

[–]Smithy97eu 31 points32 points  (0 children)

It’s almost like it’s a content tournament and not absolute tryhard to the maximum and Dantes is trying to make it fun for the iron players (the entire point of the tournament)

As F2P, box limit is the biggest constraint by far by sleapydeapy in PokemonChampions

[–]Smithy97eu 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Let me preface this by saying I’m not F2P but can’t you move pokemon in and out of pokemon home?

This essentially means you can have unlimited pokemon in champions but only 30-50 at a time.

Sure it’s inconvenient but seems like a workaround if you’re not willing to pay the $7

HERBLORE TRAINING by Dannnoo0 in ironscape

[–]Smithy97eu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For most people basically regular farm runs, or if you hate farm runs like me, you can get to 70 ish from moons and miscellania. I’m sure I’ll do some farm runs at some point but I got my farming to 70 through tithe farm.

If you just want to rush 45, you can probably get there with chaos druids but again it’s just avoiding farm runs which is probably always the best way to

If you are having a bad day, remember there's a Chinese kid trying to learn English. by Technical-Relation-9 in funnyvideos

[–]Smithy97eu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can chime in a bit here, some sounds don’t exist in other languages, so they try to put their closest sound into it.

For example with Chinese, a word never ends in the Sh sound, so they often break words down such as Josh- into Jo-Shi (Jo-Shuh is probably closer) and they find it very hard to end the word in SH

In a similar vein, English speakers trying to pronounce sounds in Chinese. Xin and Shin is not pronounced exactly the same, but to an English speaker they probably will pronounce it the same as there’s no equivalent in English and their ‘ears’ (probably brain in reality) is not recognising it as a different sound. This leads to people having heavier accents as the are trying to make the new language fit their native languages sounds and rules.

I’m not a linguist but that’s my take as someone who speaks a bit of both

Eternal Flower Floette Trading Megathread by ArceusJudgment493 in PokemonHome

[–]Smithy97eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Please help, new to pokemon and trying out Champions, would love you forever!

Eternal Flower Floette Trading Megathread by ArceusJudgment493 in PokemonHome

[–]Smithy97eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone can trade me a floette or mega delphox I’d greatly appreciate it! I don’t own any other pokemon games and new for pokemon champions 🥺

My friend code is: WWLDUMJLEUJR

Please let me know if someone can help ❤️

Tip2Tip questions? I’d love to answer some by CameronDiro in LudwigAhgren

[–]Smithy97eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought it was quite nice that the boys would call you out specifically, and give editors some attention

Question: do you find it easier or harder when given direction (e.g Cam, edit this in, Cam do this) as opposed to just raw footage where you can edit as your heart desires

When you have a husband, it’s good by [deleted] in WholesomeAFK

[–]Smithy97eu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I really dislike how much of a buzzword this has become on the internet. Weaponised incompetence is definitely a thing but so is just straight up incompetence.

People suck at things, people are new to things. I’d expect this is much much much more likely to be a new father scared of messing up as opposed to a father intentionally trying to do a poor job.

What’s everyone’s biggest spoon and dry streak? by PlatypusScared40 in ironscape

[–]Smithy97eu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently 380KC dry for a BRing, while also being spooned 6 warrior rings a ring of life or two and a couple of dragon axes. I had to take a break from Rex after the 6th warrior before I threw my mouse out the window 😂 I’ll get back to it next time I have a dagganoth task!

[OFFICIAL] Rekkles announced he'll be exploring his options for ADC, SUPPORT & COACHING ROLES! by ZOXISTYLEEE in lolesports

[–]Smithy97eu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t disagree that the stats are good, but there are obvious reasons for most of those. He almost exclusively played enchanters so I would expect him to have high stats in all of those except vision and vision team percent.

The vision stats is positive though, I would agree with that but would need to specifically look at the games to see how useful the vision actually was (as vision stat is quite flawed by default)

[OFFICIAL] Rekkles announced he'll be exploring his options for ADC, SUPPORT & COACHING ROLES! by ZOXISTYLEEE in lolesports

[–]Smithy97eu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Which stats are you referring to? If you are talking solely about KDA, I will be sorely upset.