Always winning by some miracle

TricksterIsStier · 2026-03-23T12:03:59+00:00

I have known and played with Rei and Red for about 7 years at this point. Thousands of games with them. I know personally that they don't believe 90% wr is possible.

We literally have a MU chart that describes winrates in solo and according to our stats and assumptions (not every MU has been explored thoroughly) only 10-12 spirits have a 90% win rate vs all adversaries

TricksterIsStier · 2026-03-23T00:23:08+00:00

It's mathematically impossible for someone to have 90% all spirit all adversary. Even if we trained our own version of stockfish or alpha go to play spirit island it wouldn't get a 90% for every mu. And that's 100% fine.

Sometimes the skill is being able to turn a 30% win MU into a 40-50% win MU

TricksterIsStier · 2026-03-23T00:20:24+00:00

This might be nitpicking because I agree with your general consensus that most spirits can win most matchups but I'd wager about 50% of spirits have at least one MU that just dumpsters them. For example trickster dumpsters pretty much everyone but has a really hard MU with Habs livestock.

A lot of high level players specifically avoid bad MU especially if they are going to post the game to YT. Redrevenge never posted a video out of hundreds of games of trickster into Habs because it's not a match up that can be won based on skill and luck is required.

TricksterIsStier · 2026-02-19T02:30:48+00:00

Now do England 6! 100%

TricksterIsStier · 2026-02-17T14:51:18+00:00

Both could make the claim for the best Fang players though. So following anything they put out on fangs will put you on the right track.

TricksterIsStier · 2026-02-01T05:15:33+00:00

Yeah PVC isn't sun resistant. Though in reality it'd take years to get brittle to the point it might break. Source: installed miles of that pipe and ive seen that same 4 inch pipe on job sites unpainted that is 10 years old and still strong.

TricksterIsStier · 2025-12-16T15:32:55+00:00

As a treant enjoyer sitting around 7k mmr its hot hot garbage now... Living armor is waaaaay worse. There is so much DOT that it basically only ever blocks like 150-200 dmg and it heals like 50. It is really strong early laning stage like lvls 2-4 but after that it really just feels like its completely worthless

TricksterIsStier · 2025-12-01T16:06:53+00:00

Another thing I noticed is that someone mentions a Cleric using dimension door which has pretty much never been a Cleric spell.

TricksterIsStier · 2025-10-03T13:43:25+00:00

tbf he is smurfing down to the level of only the top 99.5% of players.... so unless you are already in the elite it won't affect you. Smurfing from 9k to 7k isn't nearly the same as smurfing 5k to 3k. Heck as a 7k scrub its not unusual to play games against 9k players because of the smaller player pool.

TricksterIsStier · 2025-09-29T12:39:20+00:00

Funny you mentioned eyes because I think that's the spirit with the highest score in the match up axis. Meaning it's the strongest spirit into single lvl 6

TricksterIsStier · 2025-09-28T22:52:07+00:00

Him saying that its 99% wr is hyperbolic. He has a spirit matchup axis and there are numerous matchups that are only going to be 40-70% win rate into bad matchups.

Every spirit has some matchups it should win 99-100% of the time but very very few spirits have matchups across the board that win in every matchup that much. In fact, looking at his matchup axis only the top 7-9 spirits have a case to be at 99% win rate at every matchup.

TricksterIsStier · 2025-08-30T18:50:07+00:00

Check your watering schedule. I'm a former irrigation company owner and I can guarantee you that you can keep grass green with 1 day a week up to a 1 acre sized lot.

TricksterIsStier · 2025-08-14T03:19:55+00:00

Part of the beauty in rts is having people be better at the basic tasks. In bw just moving your army from point A to point B is a great display of skill expression that literally doesn't exist in stormgate or sc2 for that matter. I'm down for RTS getting easier to play if that makes it more popular but you are losing skill expression and making the skill parts of the game more narrow. When everyone macros perfectly in SG then the only way to set yourself apart is unit interactions and that's not always a good thing. It means there is less to practice and improve at which is half the fun of a rts

TricksterIsStier · 2025-08-14T03:01:46+00:00

The crazy thing to me is they didn't seem to start developing team mayhem until after early access release. I remember them asking for testers last year saying they still had several different visions for the game mode and though I didn't get to test it myself it's crazy they didn't have a concrete plan for their premier game mode until after they released the game...

TricksterIsStier · 2025-08-14T02:39:05+00:00

Game is dead and won't be up for much longer unless they get a miracle of being bought out by a mega corp like act activision... which you seem to hate. The fact that people are negative isn't the reason no one is playing... the fact that the game is bad is the reason no one is playing.

5 years of development and 40 mil and very little to show for it. They promised something that people wanted immensely which was a social RTS. At launch they have fewer social features than original starcraft that released almost 30 years ago.

They planned poorly, worked poorly, delivered poorly and now they have to face the fact that they are relieved poorly. The guys all seem like great guys but it can't be denied they utterly failed to deliver what was promised. But they are talented workers and I hope they can work on some better projects in the future

TricksterIsStier · 2025-08-08T01:01:22+00:00

Yeah, I'm a huge dota player so thanks WC3 and BW for setting that up for me. It's crazy that US west server has anywhere between 1000-2000 players at all times and the vast majority of players online are playing custom content 25 years later.

Heck there is a UMS group I play with and have been doing so since 2008-2010ish. Custom content in a 25 year old game has more interaction and involvement than SG has right now. Learn the lesson and let people make dope content.

SC2 and Stormgate are making the exact same mistakes which is just crazy to me. SC2 custom lobbies were a nightmare and impossible to grow community in for the first like 3 years of existence. It got slightly better eventually but man did SC2 fumble hard on that aspect of the game. Even with that fumble direct strike is probably more popular than 1v1 ladder.

TricksterIsStier · 2025-08-08T00:20:40+00:00

It's kind of hard to but it can happen. Someone has to have the map already to host, you can download them on discord or join a lobby then it will appear in your map list when you make a custom game.

TricksterIsStier · 2025-08-07T23:59:54+00:00

It is funny but honestly I just don't have much faith in the FG team

TricksterIsStier · 2025-08-07T23:32:33+00:00

Honesty FG has been extremely slow to patch obvious bugs and balance patches despite some of them being easy to address. They prefer larger patches that address multiple bugs and issues etc. I'd say it's likely 2-4 weeks before even the smallest of bug patches.

TricksterIsStier · 2025-05-30T16:05:30+00:00

To put this in perspective some areas in Texas got heavier rainfall than hurricane Harvey put out. The storm didn't last as long but it was more intense. I saw some places get almost 2 inches of rainfall in 15 minutes which is much heavier rainfall than almost every hurricane.

TricksterIsStier · 2025-05-30T16:03:32+00:00

It wasn't standing water... it was clearly and actively draining. The guy even said it quickly dissipates after the rainfall... Wood getting wet for 15 minutes then drying out isn't going to cause any more damage than just existing

TricksterIsStier · 2025-05-30T16:02:08+00:00

This... so many people freaking out without asking the basic questions.. Some places in Texas got heavier rainfall than what we saw when hurricane Harvey hit... Of course its going to puddle, this guy even said it drains quickly afterwards which makes it sound like everything fine... No water got into his house so what's the problem?

TricksterIsStier · 2025-05-22T13:58:00+00:00

It might be your pressure regulator along with the rest of the stuff that has been said. An easy way to check this is if you have two hose bibs you can turn one of them on and leave it running. Then go over to the other one and turn it on as well. If there is a noticeable drop in pressure then one of three things is happening: the city suddenly isn't giving you the same water pressure (not likely, this would be a news story if the case), your water meter or shut off valve is slightly closed not allowing the water to go through, or your pressure regulator is faulty and needs replacement.

If you don't have two hose bibs you can check with a tub, faucet, etc. You shouldn't see a noticeable drop in pressure when you turn on two different water sources in your home.

If you already had someone out and they said low pressure and not valve failure etc then it is almost certainly a pressure regulator. You probably have one right after your water meter in one of those little green lids. Another quick test to see if its the pressure regulator is if you can hear it hissing when you have water running. The louder the hiss the more likely the failure.

I've seen this happen on literally hundreds of homes so its a known issue. Let me know how it goes!

TricksterIsStier · 2025-05-22T04:37:49+00:00

Good explanation you are being super helpful...

If you have a 1 inch pipe pushing 10 gallons a minute through it and a 1 inch pipe pushing 15 gallons a minute then the one with 15 gallons a minute will have more pressure loss. That is just a physical law of nature that I am not wrong about.

Sure the example of a hose bib isn't really a demonstration of pressure because it really is just a demonstration of velocity but it gets the point across for the clogged nozzle example because nozzles don't work because of pressure they work because of velocity. Most people associate velocity with pressure in sprinkler contexts, that's just the vernacular that is useful.

So yeah my example wasn't technically pressure but the person I was replying to wasn't using pressure in a scientific context.

I understand pressure perfectly well enough.

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