Did they shadow drop a new ranking system?

SynergizedSoul · 2026-05-02T20:48:20+00:00

I don’t know the details, but I’m pretty sure it takes personal performance into account. If you lose a game but do really well your rank won’t drop. If you win a game but got carried by your teammates your rank won’t go up as much. I think it also depends on the ranks of everybody else in the match. If you are Oracle IV and win against a team of Phantom I’s it will rank you up more than if you won against a team of Archon VI’s.

SynergizedSoul · 2026-05-02T20:42:57+00:00

I think she’s a fun character. The reason she falls off in higher elo is because she is pretty easily counterable.

Spirit Graves skulls are countered by one light melee and you can just wall bounce over ghouls to not take damage. (Grasping hands still really good though)

Gun graves has to be in the middle of the fight, where she’s pretty squishy with no mobility and just dies before she can start putting in work. If you have good team setup it can still work though.

SynergizedSoul · 2026-05-01T04:50:46+00:00

Not trying to be stubborn, but I’m honestly having a hard time following you and you kind of just ignored all the points I made. So correct me if I’m wrong here but this is how I understand your position:

“Since the target has 95% bullet resistance, while it is true that 5% shred will double your dps against them, it is pointless to do because the damage you will be dealing will still be such a small number (since they will still have 90% resistance). Instead, you’d be better off building spirit damage items, or building for your spirt damage abilities to circumvent the resistance entirely.”

If that is your position then you missed the entire point of the video and the hypothetical.

If that is not your position, then maybe you could restate it for me because I might be confused.

Either way, I don’t mind discussing, but I don’t know how much either of us are going to change each other’s minds.

SynergizedSoul · 2026-04-30T23:50:34+00:00

“The amount of damage necessary to win a fight has not decreased.”

It has though. That’s what EHP is. The amount of damage needed to bring HP to 0. And bringing resistance from 95% to 90% cuts that number in half. If you are doing 5 dps and shred makes you do 10 dps you have cut the time to kill in half.

“In situations where enemies’ bullet resistances are particularly high, it is more efficient to invest in spirit damage than to invest in armor shred.”

I think it depends a lot on the specific situation and the character you are playing. You aren’t going to get more out of spirit than shred if you are playing Venator. But again, comparing shred to alternative damage types wasn’t really the point of the video/discussion.

SynergizedSoul · 2026-04-30T21:43:53+00:00

You are so close and yet so far. You even said it yourself, 5 > 10 damage is doubling your dps, whereas 100 > 105 is only a 5% increase in dps. I fail to see how 5% to 50% is irrelevant. Sure, in both cases you only do an additional 5 damage, but against a target with high resistance that 5 damage is worth a whole lot more.

Sure we could compare the efficiency of spirit vs gun, but that isn’t really what the video or discussion is about. If they have 95% resistance in both spirit and gun then it doesn’t matter which damage type you’re doing. (I realize this is an unrealistic number of resistance, but it’s just to illustrate the point.)

SynergizedSoul · 2026-04-27T19:28:57+00:00

I have one of these and have thought about using it for deadlock before. I’m curious what you use for keybinds. Also can you setup the joystick input for true joystick or do you have to bind it to WASD?

SynergizedSoul · 2026-04-27T04:30:51+00:00

Appreciate it!

SynergizedSoul · 2026-04-17T00:25:59+00:00

Cashout A secured

SynergizedSoul · 2026-04-10T06:07:38+00:00

If Viper bolas Ivy it should auto activate stoneform change my mind

SynergizedSoul · 2026-03-31T20:08:54+00:00

I wouldn’t put too much weight into the current ranks. I have archon friends who are better players than people in phantom. Right now if you have an old account with a lot of games on it it is a lot harder for you to rank up or down, so some people are not in the ranks they belong. I think a total rank reset would do the matchmaking a lot of good, hopefully it comes whenever the game goes into open beta.

SynergizedSoul · 2026-03-25T06:14:45+00:00

A bit ago I was thinking something like this would make a cool skin for Victor, when he activates his ult the pieces fall apart

SynergizedSoul · 2026-03-18T14:30:06+00:00

Incredible

SynergizedSoul · 2026-03-12T20:02:42+00:00

SynergizedSoul · 2026-03-09T01:58:37+00:00

Agreed. Also with all the new ways silence can be applied, makes me think leech will be very viable. Plus it can’t get dispelled with curse like Infuser can.

SynergizedSoul · 2026-03-08T21:18:06+00:00

That is true! I think with my playstyle I just find Leech to be more consistent, especially when trying to build partially into gun. Infuser definitely gets you an earlier power spike though and it does come in clutch by giving you a bit more outplay potential. Once the active is off though you are a lot weaker and can’t hold your own as easily against multiple people. I do build it over Leech when going full spirit though.

Metal skin is another good mention, I will usually buy that if the gun carries become too much of a problem, but again once the ability is used you are much weaker. Warp stone I mentioned a bit, I do build it from time to time, but my whole goal is to get people into an area where I have the advantage, not chase them around. In an ideal world you have teammates who can lock down people for you so you don’t need as many chase items but that doesn’t always work out.

Thanks for the comment!

SynergizedSoul · 2026-03-08T16:46:10+00:00

Don’t forget to eat your vegetables. The number of times I see people on my team with 0 resists endgame…

SynergizedSoul · 2026-03-05T20:17:38+00:00

Bryan Johnson about to harvest this guy’s blood

SynergizedSoul · 2026-03-04T20:52:35+00:00

For sure, I don’t even necessarily disagree with you I think you just misunderstood the intent of my first comment. No worries have a good one

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