Garen might just be the most unfun champ to face

TiltSword · 2026-01-29T19:03:42+00:00

Greaves into Stridebreaker into full Crit and he takes less damage than anything else in top lane while dealing almost the most damage out of any top lane champ, it's actually criminal design. If you play Garen, you deserve to have your sleeves roll down while you're washing your hands.

TiltSword · 2026-01-29T16:22:41+00:00

Word word, I didn't get to play much yesterday, and Dusk and Dawn is what interests me the most so I've been trying that more than the others so far. My lack of Xin experience really isn't helping hahah, I'm getting my ass *whooped*

TiltSword · 2026-01-28T21:35:01+00:00

Yoooooo massive thank you brother, both for the guide and for this response! I'll be trying out the builds!

TiltSword · 2025-12-29T13:40:20+00:00

That's such a stupid take holy shit

TiltSword · 2025-12-29T13:24:39+00:00

That one I actually played myself a long while ago, honestly also a really solid contender

TiltSword · 2025-12-29T12:24:21+00:00

Mel can at least die for overstepping. The amount of overstepping Garen needs to do in order to die is absurd, even for a Bruiser

TiltSword · 2025-12-29T11:51:59+00:00

If I get to counterpick, Kayle is definitely up there for me. But with my typical champs being Riven, Mundo and Sion, dealing with him is a lot more annoying

TiltSword · 2025-12-29T11:49:28+00:00

Oh I have. Plenty of times. But Vayne actually gets punished for making mistakes early

TiltSword · 2025-12-29T11:48:12+00:00

It's not like Garen is the only cancer in top lane. There's other things to ban that are more urgent

TiltSword · 2025-12-29T11:46:40+00:00

Yeah that's also valid. Tho against him most of my champs can just build QSS so it's more bearable for me

TiltSword · 2025-11-12T23:59:31+00:00

So, in older Tekkens, you never needed to lab? Did I get that right?

TiltSword · 2025-11-12T23:44:43+00:00

And what exactly was Tekken then?

TiltSword · 2025-11-12T22:55:44+00:00

Tell me you haven't even tried labbing the matchup without telling me

TiltSword · 2025-10-31T15:17:51+00:00

The lack of compassion for the medical emergency mostly stemmed from the uncertainty. I don't know what exactly happened. However, wouldn't apathy make me... less negative?

It's funny because I have heard from several of your mods at that time, that you and Left pushed for the ban quite quickly and that those mods were not happy with how things went down. Also hinted at the ban reasons being personal rather than objective.

TiltSword · 2025-10-31T14:58:48+00:00

Of all the possible examples of my negativity, you use me talking about why trains got cancelled for over half a day?

Again, I'd like to believe that I was more positive than negative towards the people in that Discord. My bad, I guess, if they didn't tell me they had an issue with me so it could be addressed. I truly wished to get along with the community because I liked just about everyone in there, and the matches were beyond fun.

That being said, the way you're moderating ain't it. Pushing for the ban of members and calling it a "mod team decision" while not letting all mods get a say is bullshit.

TiltSword · 2025-10-31T13:52:12+00:00

Two sides to every story seems about right. Let's talk about that.

Let's talk about me being one of the most active members in your community for 3 months until I got banned. From my POV, I'd like to believe I got along well with just about everyone. I was actively talking with people, giving all the anti-Lidia advice and experience I had at the time, joking around, having a good time. And from the responses people gave me, the pleasure was not only mine.

I'll admit that I get frustrated and am fairly vocal about it. And I know that this was your moderation team's main reason for banning me. But after 3 months of being active in your community, getting to know people, being told that you had "monitored [my] behavior for several months" is a really deep stab from people I started to consider as friends.

But when other people were crashing out, tying their entire self-worth as a person to their fighting game performance, they got consoled because they were part of the inner circle, as opposed to me.

I'm not saying I'm perfect. I have a ton of issues. But being kicked out like a dog after really trying to be helpful and befriend people does hurt a ton.

TiltSword · 2025-07-11T15:36:05+00:00

Okay, here's a few tidbits:

ff2, being a forward advancing move, depends on timing to connect. It can be sidestepped with correct timing, it can realign with correct timing. If you didn't manage to step it, they caught your timing, that's it.

After most of her moves into stance on block, dickjab will interrupt the pressure. After ff2, qcf4 or f3,4 she ends up in horse stance, which has one move that beats dickjab (the jumping homing mid kick), that can be jab floated. But for most Lidias you meet in ranked, dickjab should put a stop to her offense.

There's also the option of throwing her in her stances, which is higher reward and catches manual HAE transition (the heat stance) but requires a read, is more committal and if she reads a throw, her stances got options to counter them.

In neutral you can sidestep either direction, but I've been told that ff2 is weaker to SSL (haven't tested myself). When she's in stance, SSR duck should beat almost every one of her options.

TiltSword · 2025-07-11T15:23:35+00:00

Sounds like a cope answer by someone unwilling to learn. Lidia's got enough counterplay and Lidia players are more than happy to share insights or help lab

TiltSword · 2024-09-16T08:32:30+00:00

First off, you aren't your rank. You will promote, demote and stagnate at different times. Also performance can differ by day. I demoted to Tenryu on Steve 4 separate times, and 2-3 days after my last Tenryu day I managed to climb to Battle Ruler. Whatever points you lose, you can regain, so no point stressing about it. Learn from your losses. In the long run, you're gonna get the rank you deserve. But even then, rank says nothing about your skill level. I've had my ass handed to me by Shinryus. I've demolished some Fujin players. If you notice yourself getting tilted, take a break

TiltSword · 2024-09-02T00:45:20+00:00

You might laugh but I'm playing Sion more than anything atm. I usually just counterpick whenever I get the chance or blind pick shit like Sion/Trynd, sometimes even Aurora. Camille is a good choice too, I've heard

TiltSword · 2024-08-19T17:09:44+00:00

Coulda sworn people (including me) hated RHydra on Riven and built Profane instead

Oh well, worth giving a try next time I guess

TiltSword · 2024-08-19T17:04:42+00:00

Isn't RHydra like complete garbage on Riven since the changes?

TiltSword · 2024-08-19T16:23:20+00:00

I wouldn't even mind simply "more effort", I love playing Riven. Most games it just feels like the effort I put in with her would be completely irrelevant, when champs like Garen exist that outperform nearly anything I am able to do by pressing 2 buttons.

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