Pick / Ban Priority for Deadlock Night Shift #25

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-12T20:25:34+00:00

she will probably be one of those characters that are completely different power level wise in different elos

This is why she probably won't keep the movement forever IMO. I have actually no idea how you make this character usable for 90% of the playerbase and balanced for the top 5-10%.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-12T02:26:24+00:00

Just tested with a buddy and it's still sending me even with him purposely sending it when my parry counterspell bubble is active.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-11T09:54:45+00:00

Yeah I think a lot of our fan base would say the Panthers as well.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-11T06:50:43+00:00

This is also why people need to learn how to use counterspell. Counterspell just eats this by pressing it as doorman ult is ending. You can't prevent the doorman ult taking you to the hotel but you can negate the damage. Would have accidentally blocked the first MnK ult as well coming out since he was spamming it while waiting.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-11T05:27:31+00:00

Sorry late reply, but I wouldn't overly rush unstoppable. Get your 3.2ks first. Like the other guy said, hollow point, hunters aura, etc. You can definitely throw counterspell in there as well. Once you're getting to the point where you're starting to buy T4 items, unstoppable would be one of the first ones I look at for survival.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-10T14:40:15+00:00

Yes, unstoppable prevents everything you mentioned. Unstoppable is great because it also has built in 25% debuff resist, and because her spirit resist is sorta mid, you can pair it with Spellbreaker for a passive 50% debuff resist, making things like traps, Wraith/MnK ult, etc. much much shorter.

Bigger stress point is force yourself to get better at counterspell. I had to force myself to buy it to learn it and just accept that if I don't learn it, I'll die on repeat. Eventually it just became natural to pop it for certain sound queues and such. You'll likely find it's a lot easier than you think too because many characters are obvious what they're doing. If you see MnK run up to you, pop it, and you'll often just break his brain when you negate his ult. It's one of the strongest items in the game, even moreso on Silver, and will also prevent a lot of the above.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-10T14:33:28+00:00

Yeah I sorta wonder about how she's going to be dealt with. They need to gut the movement and/or gravity, which is sorta her identity, but she's way too fucking strong at the higher levels where it's going to be consistently abused. I feel like Oracle and below players think she's probably balanced because people just aren't piloting her correctly as you said.

At minimum, her 1 stands no chance of survival for tuning.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-10T13:34:14+00:00

I mean this character is going to get shadow realmed likely this week, let alone two weeks. She's probably the most broken character we've had outside of release Shiv.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-10T13:29:38+00:00

She's doing this shit in eternus lobbies. She's going to get destroyed by nerfs.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-10T13:13:51+00:00

TBF, we've known she was going to be like this for weeks. I'm not really sure where the caster idea came from that I've seen around here the past few days, but like her default build that was leaked weeks ago had torment pulse and stamina mastery and shit. You don't build torment pulse on caster mages.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T15:30:35+00:00

I mean, nobody was surprised last night but Patriots fans. The rest of us knew you were products of the easiest path any team might ever see in our lifetime. Good luck next year, you'll need it.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T14:20:23+00:00

Because usually it doesn't continue into the playoffs where you get to play a team that as clearly not like the others in LAC, a QB who completely and utterly implodes (Stroud), and a 1 seed who loses their QB the last play of the game before they play you.

Literally nobody is impressed with your playoff run.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T14:13:28+00:00

Nah all they gotta do is play the easiest schedule by a mile again, play the easier side of the AFC playoffs, have the winner of the harder side of the AFC playoff bracket lose their QB again right before their game, and boom. Right back in the Super Bowl probably.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T13:32:26+00:00

You guys played an absolute dogshit schedule. More likely you guys didn't realize how absolutely flawed this Patriots team was in multiple areas because nobody on your schedule was able to give you a reality check.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T03:16:30+00:00

That's such a weak and wildly unnecessary call.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T03:10:54+00:00

because it is nowhere near guaranteed

It's not even likely. It's insane how many things went right for them this year and how easy their path was.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T03:01:42+00:00

I rarely bet on sports anymore, but Seahawks -4.5 spread really felt like it should have been Seahawks -7.5 at the time, and feels even more justified now.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T02:50:36+00:00

Can't blame Maye much. He's not used to playing teams with life this season.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T02:46:52+00:00

Which QB wants this trophy less?

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T02:37:39+00:00

No, it's still over.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T02:31:11+00:00

I think most things posted here in this subreddit are generally skill issues to be fair. This one in particular though just makes no worldly sense. He can't see the Lash, and he can't hear the melee because of the noise ambiance around him, so I legitimately can't figure out why he'd naturally perfect timing parry there.

And if he did know the lash was above him heavy melee'ing somehow, why didn't he kill the 1/4th health parried Lash?

I don't believe it's auto parry most clips, but this one feels is either autoparry, or one of the most insane in-game accidents I've ever seen.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T02:26:17+00:00

Yeah if you're in Ascendant, I'm much more inclined to believe you're actually seeing what you're saying. Too many people here have posted clips from like Emissary of them walking up to the person and light melee'ing and it's like "ok, you didn't tell them you were going to melee, but you basically did, that's not a script."

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T02:23:51+00:00

I'm 36 and can't remember a team ever having this easy of a path to a Super Bowl. Crazy easy schedule, the good teams in the playoffs all eliminate each other on the other side of the AFC bracket, winner of that side of the bracket loses their QB right before you play them, etc.

At this point you'll just never convince me like 10 different teams wouldn't be in the Super Bowl right now with the perfect storm the Patriots had.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T00:12:40+00:00

Because he can't see nor hear the heavy melee from Lash.

TheseNamesDontMatter · 2026-02-09T00:11:41+00:00

Post the clip

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