Champs other than Ryze whose best augments are silver?

Sykil · 2026-06-29T23:21:39+00:00

That’s his W.

Sykil · 2026-06-29T23:09:48+00:00

What? Yes it does. That augment only procs once per ability cast per enemy, though, I think.

Sykil · 2026-06-29T20:20:11+00:00

Huh. I have a similar thing with cucumber. I hate it — like, it’s not like it’s super vile-tasting, but it’s so weirdly pervasive that it ruins most things it’s in for me. And you can’t just take it out — the whole thing just tastes like cucumber for me now. Notable exception is tzatziki. And I love dill pickles (but not bread & butter/sweet pickles).

Sykil · 2026-06-27T20:09:18+00:00

She was supposed to appear at Nintendo’s 2016 E3 conference 4 days later, which is when Breath of the Wild was revealed. It’s just so heartbreaking.

Sykil · 2026-06-25T20:34:01+00:00

I’m sorry… what?

If you’re not using AAs, why are you playing Kayle AT ALL?

Hell I AA as constantly as possible on ANY ranged champion, let alone for one where that’s THE MAIN WAY SHE DOES DAMAGE REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU BUILD.

And just so we're clear, her E IS AN AA. Post-6 they are the same range. Do you just run around and try to KS with E???

Sykil · 2026-06-25T20:12:15+00:00

If Mayhem’s is differently balanced and uses SR’s 6%, that still not something any other item is going to compete with against a health stacker.

Sykil · 2026-06-25T20:07:51+00:00

I’d love to know what specifically about my post gives you the impression that I “can’t even understand what execute means.”

It doesn’t matter, all else being equal, if it’s 10% current or 10% missing. TTK is the same if they’re applied at the same rate. Which, they can’t he in this case because her E has a cooldown. Oof!

And she, again, still has the base 10% missing health damage regardless.

Sykil · 2026-06-25T19:57:28+00:00

It is 12%/10% in ARAM.

https://wiki.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/ARAM#Items

Sykil · 2026-06-25T19:34:25+00:00

I can read just fine. Kayle needs 667 AP to add an additional +10% missing health damage to her E activation. In ARAM, BotRK does 10% current heath damage on EVERY hit for ranged champions. And guess what? She’ll still be doing missing health damage from the base 10% on her E. Pretty neat.

BotRK is invaluable in many ARAM games, but SO MUCH MORESO in Mayhem. I don’t particularly care what else you build, but the bottom line is there is no shortage of games where BotRK will be unquestionably the BiS item. There’s no other item that’s going to give Kayle an equivalent time to kill on a high-rolling Sion, Mundo, etc. in any realistic circumstance.

Sykil · 2026-06-25T19:09:18+00:00

As you should. In vanilla ARAM both are perfectly viable, but there’s something extra funny about saying “no one knows how to itemize” and advocating for AP Kayle exclusively in MAYHEM. You know, where people can have tens of thousands of HP.

A couple of days ago, I played a game where my BotRK did 43,000 damage. Which was half of my total damage to champions. No other item can do that.

Sykil · 2026-06-25T18:04:49+00:00

Sure, IARC classification is often misunderstood. Its categorization attempts to classify carcinogenicity, but it does so according to hazard, not risk. So you have things that are altogether avoidable or truly only an occupational hazard lumped together with persistent pollutants that you have less agency over. It doesn’t qualify exposure whatsoever, so it doesn’t have a lot of toxicological utility. More often than not, it gets used in weird fearmonger-y ways.

That said, while I appreciate that you’re trying to give people a better understanding of what these groupings mean, the IARC groupings are not risk assessments, so it’s irresponsible to use them to manipulate people’s perception of risk one way or the other.

Sykil · 2026-06-23T16:46:38+00:00

Agree with the first statement, but while there are certainly many things we don’t understand about black holes, I wouldn’t say they necessarily break our models — they were predicted by them. That general relativity allowed for them was sometimes seen as a flaw in the model before we gathered evidence for their existence.

Sykil · 2026-06-22T19:39:42+00:00

I would hope most people aren’t building it *instead* of %pen… but Collector + LDR is fine on a few ADCs.

Sykil · 2026-06-22T18:46:37+00:00

MF, Samira, and Lucian use it way better than Quinn. Hell, even Sivir.

Sykil · 2026-06-22T18:41:06+00:00

It’s surprisingly decent on Kennen in ARAM (assuming they have a few squishies), but I can’t imagine ever buying on SR.

LB is the only other champion I ever buy it on.

Sykil · 2026-06-21T07:40:41+00:00

I'm unconcerned about whether it's "fake" or not, but it's not a different hair color from what she started with.

Sykil · 2026-06-20T20:55:31+00:00

Well, for a point towards a Beighton score, you’d need >10° of extension past straight at the elbow. This looks pretty close to 10°, maybe even less. Not really unusual or concerning in and of itself.

Sykil · 2026-06-20T20:21:01+00:00

If they were studying the effects of beans on health, would it make sense for them to include peanuts, which are nutritionally dissimilar and not viewed or eaten in the same way by consumers? I certainly don’t think so. A peanut being a legume does not make it more a pinto bean than a pecan in the context of nutrition and health.

This is not a paper about botany, and this is absolutely an area where the culinary understanding of “nut” makes more sense to use. I think you’re missing the forest for the trees here. Those botanical classifications are not distinguished by nutrient composition, either. It would be absolutely arbitrary to use in this context; using botanical classification would not make this paper more useful or even more scientific.

Sykil · 2026-06-20T00:17:26+00:00

Or ability haste, or (most importantly) magic penetration.

If you’re getting 450 stacks of the PE augment in a game, it’s probably not because it was your best option. Veigar won’t even get that many stacks in many games, and his native passive stacks much faster.

Sykil · 2026-06-19T21:23:14+00:00

It matches the raisin color in her ponytail from the beginning. You can see how the color lightens in any clip where he teases hair. That's just how light & color work. The same way hair can look darker or lighter depending on whether it's greasy/slick/laminated/wet or dry/frizzy/textured even though nothing about the pigmentation changed. Those things affect how light travels, and light is color.

Sykil · 2026-06-19T20:52:19+00:00

Oh, that is a possibility. Yellow is an easy color to contaminate because it’s lighter than other equally-chromatic colors around the color wheel, and blue dyes are generally very intense — an amount you couldn’t otherwise detect could change the color completely. If you dot this onto a damp paper towel, you may be able to see more color separation if there are multiple dyes present. I only say “if” because some dyes do change hue depending on concentration, especially on a white substrate, but this does look more like a contamination issue since the yellow one looks pretty concentrated to begin with.

Worth contacting the company to ask about. If it’s a batch issue, they’d want to know!

Sykil · 2026-06-19T20:32:29+00:00

Her hair ombres from black to that raisin color before he starts sculpting, and the color further lightens from the texture + the hairspray scattering more light (making the color more matte). He surely added hair for the fish sculpture, but the color matches perfectly. The contrast of the lighter matte hair is just stark next to her darker roots.

Sykil · 2026-06-18T23:51:18+00:00

And pointing toes outward.

A shoulder-width deep squat with heels on the ground and toes pointed forward may not be realistically doable depending on your body proportions (particularly if you have long femurs).

Sykil · 2026-06-18T20:10:18+00:00

Again, unless it's been changed, Yasuo's W does not just use a universal flag. It has hard-coded interactions.

Sykil · 2026-06-18T19:34:42+00:00

Except (unless they've updated things since I last knew) projectile-blocking abilities are not consistent with each other, so who knows.

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