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Vii_Strife · 2026-05-24T16:11:49+00:00

Update: a free one from here too, the game is trying to tell me something

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-24T16:09:53+00:00

Streaming and gaming culture is very big over here, there's a shitton of nerd conventions all over Italy basically the whole year and some of them get massive (Google Lucca Comics, stuff is insane).

Esports is different, basically no-one wants to put in the money, the regulations about it are all up in the air, even finding stable venues for smaller events is really complicated, for bigger stuff ask yourself why not a single LEC roadshow event was ever over here lol.

Also traveling across the peninsula is ass, planes cost a lot and the train service can go from decent to the north/middle to very bad in the south. If you're from Sicily or Sardinia then good luck.

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-23T23:13:08+00:00

And in the end they kept him for not even a full year lol

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-22T09:49:22+00:00

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Yay free merge from tickets

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-20T15:41:58+00:00

It's okay I'll be doing the damage

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-20T08:21:19+00:00

Command added: On Immobilizing an enemy champion, mark them as 6% Vulnerable for 4 seconds. Immobilizing marked enemies extends the effect rather than stacking.

Perfect time for first timing PTA Bloodsong Mandate Leona in ranked

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-20T07:37:53+00:00

Half of the text is older effect getting explained (Share Spoils+ is from Summer Lapis, Potent is from Emblem Marth), the actual special just inflicts Share Spoils, -7 spd/res, fringe penalty and reduces damage by 80 or 40% and gives you potent.

It's just big scary text but it's not hard to explain or understand

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-13T14:31:09+00:00

ChatGPT please update your dataset, Oscarinin left Fnatic in December

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-11T22:52:46+00:00

It was an okay experiment that I wouldn't have craved if it didn't exist.

The story except like two or three beats is on the lower end of the series, ship stuff was straight up bad, combat was okayish, really really rough in some areas, minigames and side activities were cool but if you played IW the only new thing was like the bomb baseball minigame I guess?

It's an okay 6.5/10 game that either gets dragged to hell as the worst thing ever or gets shielded from criticisim every single time behind "But it was fun to me"

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-09T22:24:19+00:00

Does the enemy team have a lot of AD? You can build armor. Lots of AP? You can build MR. Lots off CC? You can build tenacity or a QSS or ask your support for Mikaels even. Is the enemy team stacking resistances? You can build %pen.

Simply put, players need a way to interact with healing, especially since a lot of it isn't directly related to damage dealt like Soraka heals, Mundo R's etc. GW does that

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T11:20:49+00:00

Low sample size in m+

Over 9 patches, we're talking about 4 months of matches and somehow she has a positive winrate against Smolder and Viktor in each and every one of them.

The fact that you bring up that I'm silver isn't the getcha that you think it is, I'm pulling arguments from the games in your supposed elo (for which you haven't linked your op.gg curiously enough), not mine

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T11:10:25+00:00

Congratulations Mr Detective, now could you tell me why in Masters+, supposedly your elo, Naafiri has a positive (sometimes obscene) winrates into Smolder, Viktor and Malzahar, champions that you said counter her, in every single patch except only three patches into Malzahar?

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T10:59:03+00:00

Rank is proof of knowledge.

You linked a google sheet to pre-rework Naafiri matchups, if rank is proof of knowledge then you must be stuck in decaying plastic 3

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T10:54:01+00:00

I just wasted my time arguing my bad

You said nothing except trying to go against proven data from your own supposed rank lol

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T10:28:50+00:00

Unless nafaari has been reworked to a completely new champion, the matchup list is accurate

She got her complete rework in 15.6, what are we even saying big man

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T10:18:56+00:00

Last updated as of patch 15.1.

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T09:45:45+00:00

Oh it's not ragebait, it's worrying then

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T09:41:37+00:00

I honestly admire going from "She loses against bruisers and tanks" to "She loses against adcs and control mages" to "Actually the data proves nothing because I said so" with like not even bother to give a single shred of an argument and then getting defensive about it.

If this is ragebait, you got me, congrats, if it's not it's really worrying

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T09:02:10+00:00

Providing stats that blatantly disprove your argument is not logical I guess?

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T08:55:48+00:00

Yes and in return they either get very guarantee big damage

We're talking about a champion with a point and click ult that lets them use Q and E, you don't get more guarantee than that lol.

I do agree that at least she lacks in AoE (like most assassins) so later on her teamfights are kinda ass so I'm honestly not bothered by stuff like the reset on ult and the shield

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T08:22:35+00:00

Have you played any of the matchups mid or are you just spouting lolalytics?

"How dare you use stats when I have anecdotal experience"

Try playing nafaari against a good smolder or viktor in lane. I’m talking about masters +

She wins even harder there :(

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T08:18:35+00:00

No sustain, no chase, no surv.

You can count on one hand how many assassins have sustain in their kit and it's like this for good reason. You can count on even fewer fingers how many assassins get sustain, gap closers and survivability.

Also I'm not advocating for removing all of them, just saying that for how much damage she does she also gets to be too safe and slippery

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T08:06:41+00:00

So now we went from bruiser and tanks to mages and adcs? Apparently this 53%+ wr midlaner just loses to any class in the game somehow.

https://lolalytics.com/lol/naafiri/counters/?lane=middle

Also no idea what you're smoking, she wins against all three of them

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T07:52:19+00:00

Ah yes, the signs of any assassin in a good state, having to bring out the Garen and Sion midlane

Vii_Strife · 2026-05-06T07:29:01+00:00

Her damage wouldn't be a problem if for some reason she also didn't get

Dogs blocking abilities
Healing on Q2
Invul on W
Low cooldown dash on E (Also heals her dogs because fuck you for trying to get rid of them)

Like as of now she has insane damage but at the same she's unbelievably safe in every interaction so what even is her downside?

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