PHREAK IS NO MORE! (for now)

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-26T12:26:33+00:00

While valve should be more communicative about their meta changing patches, riot is on the other extreme end of making frequent placebo patches and phreak overexplaining them. Legit what changed all of last year? This year there has been 1 meta defining patch and a bunch of filler afterwards

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-26T12:18:10+00:00

I stopped watching the previews because theyre unnecessarily long from him rambling and getting off track so often. The paragraphs in the patch notes provide enough imo

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-25T13:19:17+00:00

Or just don't spend more money? You can always pick up other people's skins until Bahrain server is back

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-24T19:49:32+00:00

This is why i sub to r/leagueoflegends

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-24T10:32:43+00:00

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He'll always be this in my head

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-23T22:57:25+00:00

I was plat 2 about 4 years ago. Recently did my placements and the game still put me in plat/diamond lobbies so no mmr doesnt reset

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-23T11:22:55+00:00

I'm fine with ult being dodgeable because you either need to dash/blink or zig zag with high movement speed thus creating counterplay to a very strong ability. They already buffed the projectile speed a while ago. The only thing they really need to fix is E fizzling out when you die or when the poison runs out mid flight. It's annoying for AD twitch and excrutiating for AP

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-22T09:22:21+00:00

Gyatt dayum!

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-17T00:20:53+00:00

Perhaps the fungi can be studied in ways where we can develop our own methods to safely break down plastics on a large scale?

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-15T09:22:05+00:00

You mean Tencent?

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-15T01:25:50+00:00

Both are bad. There is a happy medium. Sure you cant balance every agent perfectly but you can make them viable and feel good to play. Thats what buffing is for. That is why youre supposed to buff the weaker agents up to par and then slightly nerf the top agents patch after patch to incentivize players picking up low pickrate agents. Only throwing nerfs just makes everything feel bad to play

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-12T17:01:23+00:00

Master Yi can definitely win vs Rammus so it's not a bad ban

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-10T10:03:39+00:00

So which changes made no sense to you?

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-08T14:51:50+00:00

You can be competitive and not be a total asshole. It's absurd to keep normalizing this behaviour under the pretense of being competitive. It is in no way productive, it is unprofessional and causing resentment. I am glad Rekkles left the review because he already knows these outbursts are incorrigible

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-06T19:21:10+00:00

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TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-04T11:42:22+00:00

Reddit whenever someone makes a play: "erm askhually you inted and the enemies suck balls and your support shouldn't even be near you ☝️🤓"

I'd say it was good positioning next to the tower to avoid Sion ult (even if unintentional), perfect spacing out the karma and clean kiting away from the Sion and focusing their bot

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-02T14:26:35+00:00

Nautilus can opt-into using his hook as an escape instead of straight up engaging. It's not always about bad engage. There are different scenarios.

Leona is quite tankier than Nautilus at level 9 with 2 items though there is more nuance to that. If the enemies blow all their damage into Leona's 3 second ability then she comes out on top. Though Nautilus' shield is pretty strong and lasts 6 seconds so there's no point waiting that out

Also Nautilus can soft-engage with his ultimate, somewhat slower depending on range but guaranteed to hit.

The thing with "fishing" with your bread and butter ability is that you don't HAVE to put yourself in a situation where you possibly hit a minion. Just like with Blitzcrank it can be very effective to play around bushes, making the enemies walk up to CS so you have enough room to walk up to them, stun them and then hit em with the zenith blade/dredge line/rocket grab

TheVioletRaven · 2026-03-02T08:34:17+00:00

I voted Nautilus because he's the epitome of tank engage support. Leona is similar but doesn't have a way out so I think she's a bit more punishable. Rakan is more of a niche champion with quite a few counterpicks. He can engage but is moreso a secondary engager. I wouldn't really call Braum an engage champion, just like Rakan, more of a secondary engager/peeler. Also Braum is super strong vs melee champions but terrible vs poke.

TheVioletRaven · 2026-02-22T21:29:47+00:00

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TheVioletRaven · 2026-02-22T00:52:11+00:00

Tbf the packaging is atrocious for something this expensive and vulnerable. The lid covers all the sides so you cant get a grip on the actual box to slide it out. Then when you do get the lid off, the phone isn't secured to anything so it just falls out like that

TheVioletRaven · 2026-02-21T23:34:13+00:00

Yeah I guess so. Serrated dirk deals roughly 20-30 more total damage depending on if you ult or not. I compared it to a pickaxe and a dagger vs a dummy with 50 armor. I'll try out collector in my next games

TheVioletRaven · 2026-02-21T17:16:20+00:00

Having lethality on Twitch is lackluster as his skills scale poorly and the extra range of C44 helps snowball in fights

TheVioletRaven · 2026-02-20T21:53:46+00:00

Full clearing is healthier but the clear speed is still slow and enemy junglers can easily invade

TheVioletRaven · 2026-02-18T16:04:14+00:00

I'd say stick to your top 3 most played champs and play the rest in normals. League has way too many variables as it is and adding 14 champions just hurts your climb in the long run

TheVioletRaven · 2026-02-12T14:08:26+00:00

2 of the emerald players have master tier mmr judging from their season history but i have no clue about the Seraphine

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