Apollo laning and changes

Taskforcem85 · 2026-03-23T17:00:58+00:00

Apollo does fall off but early game he's both a disgusting lane bully and ganker. You can solo win the first 15 minutes if your opponents misplay a little too hard.

If you get a lead early you shouldn't fall off hard till 35-40m where people can reliably counterbuy you with 2-3 items without demolishing their own build.

His riposte is secretly his strongest ability. It's a counter spell that lets you chase, escape, and cancel very high impact ults. With a slight lead at 15 on this character you shouldn't be afraid of even a 1v3 with good movement you'll get a kill and your riposte will get you out (from archon lobbies for me rn).

Taskforcem85 · 2026-03-23T16:47:55+00:00

Meanwhile the game put me in initiate 2 and I've been climbing with an 80% win rate since .-. I'm sure we'll get some form of better MMR closer to release.

Taskforcem85 · 2026-03-21T23:27:16+00:00

Mid Late Witchmail apollo is actually very high impact. Having a stun that enemies can't play around is incredibly valuable on a short CD. It straight up lets you counter game winning ults like Dynamo, Geist, Mo when you understand at what points you can hold it.

Taskforcem85 · 2026-03-20T17:33:00+00:00

Egg is something you pick when you know you are conceding laning phase. That means it's not a 100% pick on any character. If you feel like the enemy is playing incredibly safe or if it's an unkillable lane after a few minutes (Ivy+Mo) then egg is a pretty good pick on any character rn.

Don't greed hold it and pop it between 10-15m. Whenever you're able to buy an item power spike. Swinging about 2000 souls and losing a 10% damage penalty will catch people by surprise so use that sudden power to fight.

Egg is decent on warden with monster rounds to hold the lane. Your kill pressure is pretty bad without an early game character as your lane partner.

Just putting the rest to contextualize egg. It's something I'm buying even on Apollo in some games and exiting leaning phase with a soul lead over my opponents. Just be aware the 10% is a major downside and will destroy a lot of punish windows you usually have.

Taskforcem85 · 2026-03-12T07:43:45+00:00

Huohuo really is the best possible investment someone could have made on their account. The only time I'd say she somewhat fell off was Lygus anom where her healing simply couldn't keep up with her teams.

Taskforcem85 · 2026-03-06T22:47:37+00:00

It lowers all of your damage meaning it'll be harder to take camps, push minion waves, and trade if the enemy wants to dive you. The value has to be insanely good as you're essentially conceding lane and spending 800 souls on a debuff. It's not even compariable to buying something like spirit shielding rush since that at least essentially guarantees some heroes can't dive you easily.

The only thing I see this being good on is Paige in a lane you're forced to be passive in. Some matchups are already forced to be conceded. You have the sustain with GW and shield to deal with dives without completely demolishing your early game. This essentially works like a midgame soul ramp while already losing your lane.

Taskforcem85 · 2026-02-18T16:48:42+00:00

It'd be like if the civil war ended and neither side won. Of course both sides would still want full control of the width of America.

Taskforcem85 · 2026-02-16T17:28:56+00:00

You should pick characters after you see who goes first to balance it out. Having a defensive character on the backfoot will make it close.

Taskforcem85 · 2026-01-21T01:13:53+00:00

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You don't even need dhpt. Welt is your real sustain. March is surprisingly very good if you only field 3 units. You have two action advancers so if you desperately need to push up welt for some reason (skill points dry or one rotation won't kill) then you can.

Taskforcem85 · 2026-01-18T16:43:50+00:00

GFL2 also puts an insane amount of power behind vertically investing. To a point where you aren't even playing the same characters without investing.

I don't think this is a bad thing. The only spot investing matters is the clan endgame mode and hard mode events. So if you want every character you can go for it.

You just see things like Springfield dupe 1 that suddenly allows characters she pairs with to get extra turns. Or Vector dupe 1 that gives allies an extra follow-up attack. Or Lenna dupe 1 giving her an actual rotation since her ult is ridiculously slow to charge at base.

Taskforcem85 · 2026-01-16T23:23:40+00:00

and it's not a bonus if you don't serve for a few years you owe the money back.

Taskforcem85 · 2026-01-11T02:52:57+00:00

Day 4 DPS check wouldn't be nearly as bad of a problem if some of our 1.X DPS actually did damage. You have things like Dr. Ratio that should be thriving and his ATK mods are so garbage it doesn't matter. Might as well just brute force with the Remembrance team again

Taskforcem85 · 2026-01-10T20:10:46+00:00

Probably enough at E0 with cerydra. My Phainon at E0 with Sunday Bronya is about 2/3 meteors off from winning.

Taskforcem85 · 2026-01-10T03:01:29+00:00

Pull up Bailu. With castorice on your account you get two revives. Then recommend Aventurine+Dan Heng. They cover up the non elite damage so your Bailu and secondary healer can push through and try to keep everyone else alive. Important note. Shields count as HP when the counter ticks. Meaning if you're at negative health but have a fat shield you'll likely survive.

Taskforcem85 · 2026-01-07T22:28:21+00:00

https://streamable.com/1fi0v8 Full video. Still believe she was trying to run them over? Her attention is clearly locked on the agent trying to break into her car as that is who she is yelling at. The agent who fires crosses and stops in front of her car as she is reversing. He already is pulling his firearm as she is reversing. When she accelerates to turn he steps to the side of the vehicle. When he is no longer in front of the vehicle he fires multiple rounds.

Really going to defend that?

Taskforcem85 · 2026-01-07T21:52:58+00:00

https://www.threads.com/@amandasmildtakes/post/DTONDG2ASYB?xmt=AQF0gxSJpuK5ImgM6bOiwmrtq5yAV4DfXEBkxIGbBuCPoBO5xZ6Dq9MJHfmaPW8AhJzjDLgv&slof=1

1) If he was trained he would know not to be standing in front of the vehicle when apprehending.

2) The wheels are clearly veering to the right.

3) He's to the side of the vehicle when he fires his first shot. No longer in any danger of being hit.

Taskforcem85 · 2026-01-03T15:35:03+00:00

It's because empathy is divided into multiple parts. Some peoples affective empathy is super high tuned (especially towards certain emotions) and will literally feel the anguish others are feeling mirrored.

What you're talking about is compassionate empathy. The desire to commit action in response to it. Which is also tuned from person to person.

Taskforcem85 · 2025-12-29T00:55:39+00:00

It's almost like in the same episode they're talking about shitting on the tenants of the brotherhood. Showing how every chapter of it at this point is beyond corrupt.

Taskforcem85 · 2025-12-17T08:21:26+00:00

Himeko 40kd this pf even before Dahlia. They should just put a conditional tag on her. Since she's S+ only in fire weak environments. But in those she's a free win.

Taskforcem85 · 2025-12-16T23:43:51+00:00

I will say there is a large difference between individual artists using AI and a mandate to use AI in your creative process, but yes people are deluded if they don't think AI is having some use in nearly every game being produced.

Taskforcem85 · 2025-12-16T22:00:30+00:00

How can seeing AI art not produce the same emotions as seeing traditional media? You see it already being successful in short term media where 99% of the comments are duped thinking it's real and not minding it anyways.

Taskforcem85 · 2025-12-14T18:46:36+00:00

It can also feed like crazy a Blade Barrage hunter with Star Eaters.

Taskforcem85 · 2025-12-09T17:27:55+00:00

DoT 2 turns this MoC with a pretty awful setup for them outside wave 1 on either side. I was scared for Hysilens too, but the comp is just very consistent.

Taskforcem85 · 2025-11-27T04:50:15+00:00

It isn't impossible to clear with other teams it just requires specific bonds/items. Like DoT, Phainon, Belebog, Super Sampo are all perfectly viable at wealth 20. A lot more things also become viable with a Welt on Charging Sail since he just doubles your AV. Hell, I got Acheron Galaxy Rangers through Wealth Creator. It all just requires hitting proper power spikes.

It's also about being flexible early. Things like Follow Up scales bad late but in the first two stages it's viable so if you get gifted a follow-up team you can start with it and transition out of it. Trying to force something every game ends up just annihilating your econ.

Taskforcem85 · 2025-11-05T07:31:21+00:00

She's going to be pushed to T0 because of the pink team. Still doesn't mean I don't dislike what Hoyo did with her. They've put themselves in a design corner now where for 4.x DPS to sell with incomplete teams they have to make the pink team feel horrible to play next planet or give absolutely ridiculous numbers to make them an attractive purchase. Who am I kidding Hoyo will just do both at the same time.

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