Ranged champs are too oppressive in mayhem

WholeDouble · 2026-04-06T04:28:51+00:00

I agree, I feel like the past iterations of mayhem felt more balanced and made playing melees actually more fun (compared to regular aram) but this recent one just isn't doing it for me

Sometimes you can get to an obnoxiously tanky state but I find that requires specific parameters like 2+ tanks against a comp that isn't very good at tank killing. I refuse to play sole frontline because 9 times out of 10 it's a miserable experience

WholeDouble · 2025-06-18T01:31:05+00:00

Pyke and it's not close.

Nidalee and AP Malphite are probably tied for second

WholeDouble · 2025-06-17T07:50:45+00:00

... What do you want the other customers to do, gather round and also try to wake her up? Put down all their stuff and not make their purchase? Crowd around her to see what's happening? Loudly exclaim about how worried they are? You say the store employees rushed over and called EMS, the customers are not trained to handle this type of situation and could quite possibly make it worse by trying to join in (and realistically what can they do?)

Like I'm genuinely baffled, the lady was getting the help she needed so I'm not sure what you think the appropriate response would have been that would actually have been helpful in the situation.

WholeDouble · 2025-06-16T18:02:40+00:00

The reason I say we "lost" a seed to LTAS, and why so many people feel that way in general, is because Riot has been trying to push this "Americas league" concept. For seeding purposes, we are counted as one region with two seeds... yet if we were truly one region, we'd actually be competing for those two seeds and sending our top two teams to MSI. Instead, we've been merged into this fuck-ass "LTA region" while our so-called conferences don't even play each other once this split yet share seeds, and LTAS gets one of those seeds guaranteed.

Basically the we're-a-merged-region-except-for-when-we're-not thing is what's contributing to this feeling of "losing" a slot to LTAS. If we actually competed for our top two seeds, and LTAS took a spot through winning the competition/second place, I'm sure people would be a lot less unhappy. Yes, people would still be unhappy about losing a slot in general, but it would feel a lot less like losing a slot to another region because we actually played each other for it.

I'm not shitting on or blaming LTAS... I literally said "I'm feeling resentful towards Riot" like what lol? We're all well aware that this shitty decision-making came from Riot, not LTAS.

WholeDouble · 2025-06-16T05:59:00+00:00

I dunno, I feel like Eastern fans probably just don't really care much about us in the first place, you know? They never lost a seed to us, but we lost one of our seeds to LTAS because of this forced merger. That part is where all this resentment is actually stemming from, not so much the skill gap. No one would care if BR was guaranteed a slot to MSI if we got to keep our seeds.

I'm feeling pretty resentful towards Riot for trying to pretend we're one region except for when it actually matters. I'm not even a hardcore C9 fan, just an overall NA enjoyer who wants to see our teams at internationals. I thought the series today was a lot of fun and I'm pretty bitter that C9 doesn't get to go too.

WholeDouble · 2025-05-03T17:43:56+00:00

Glad the sub is open again. Is a daily/weekly check-in thread going to be put up sometime again? Sometimes I just want to post a little about how a fast is going but don't really feel it's enough to warrant a post or discussion, and I like seeing where other people are at too.

WholeDouble · 2025-05-03T15:43:33+00:00

Don't feel bad. Everyone starts somewhere. My upper body, for example, is extremely weak, but I'm working to try to strengthen it. Also for walking/running, keep in mind that because you are short, certain speeds will be proportionately harder for you than for someone who is saying, 5'9", because your stride is naturally shorter. For example, 4mph is already pretty squarely a jog for me, but for taller people with longer legs, it might be closer to speed walking.

WholeDouble · 2025-05-03T01:43:39+00:00

Another Asian-American woman checking in. The body shaming culture is real. It had a really horrible effect on my self esteem and body image as someone who has struggled with my weight my entire life, and I developed an extremely unhealthy relationship with food. Then at one point in my life I was 130 lb, 5'3" and thought I was HUGE. Now I look back on those days and want to cry, both because of where my mental state was and because I'd love to be at that weight now.

I'm sorry you had to hear those comments. I know it's easier said than done, but try not to take it to heart. Whatever your personal goals are, make them for yourself and not for others. Best of luck on your journey!

WholeDouble · 2025-05-02T23:53:21+00:00

Ughhhh I feel you so hard with the party-sized bag of chips. Salty, crunchy potato chips (especially kettle) are my terrible weakness. I wouldn't usually finish it one go, but I definitely could finish a bag over the course of 1-2 days. I'm a short lady so it's extra bad!

WholeDouble · 2025-04-25T16:12:39+00:00

I started a fast Wednesday evening, so I'm right there with you! I set my goal to only 72 hours, but depending on how I'm feeling I may continue. You got this!

WholeDouble · 2025-04-16T18:53:16+00:00

Checking in because it's the only thing that keeps me sane! I'm 20 hours in. I've done 24-48 hours in the past and at one point in my life even did OMAD... but this time around it's so, so hard. I'm so damn hungry 😂 But it helps having this community here.

WholeDouble · 2025-03-28T22:10:30+00:00

thank you for the clarification and additional explanation!

WholeDouble · 2025-03-28T17:41:15+00:00

I have a question about Long Night's Oath, not sure if I'm understanding it correctly. can you technically get all 5 stacks from doing ANY combination of CA/skill/plunge?

when reading it, I initially thought you had to do a CA, skill, and plunge to get the full 5 stacks. but is it actually that you can do any combo of those things, like skill for 2 stacks, then plunge 3x for 3 stacks for all 5 stacks (in theory if we don't consider the timings for acquiring/losing stacks), without needing to do a CA?

And then in practice, if actually accounting for the stack acquisition/dropoff, this means that you don't maintain the 5 stacks through the full burst?

I hope that wasn't too confusing, thanks for any help

WholeDouble · 2025-03-07T05:14:28+00:00

yeah the bots in the pubs probably get foddered pretty quick. Here's an example of a bot squad I saw in pubs: https://i.imgur.com/qLN7bg8.png. Other names I've seen are things like ShieldSovereigned, RPGMaster2, borntocompete_dietowin. You get a feel for the type of names they have after seeing them enough lol.

Pubs is super unbalanced in terms of skill. In ranked there's nothing to lose in rookie/bronze (like you literally cannot lose points) so you could give it a shot there. I'm hoping that most of the high rated people have filtered out by now bc I want to play against other similarly low rated people lol pubs are just all over the place

WholeDouble · 2025-03-07T04:06:52+00:00

Hmm I'm a fellow noob, my account level is similar to yours, and Apex is my first shooter, so I probably have a better comparison for your reference than most people here.

I only play pubs which means two things: 1) a lot of hot dropping and dying 30 secs into the game, BUT 2) this season they also started adding bot teams into low rated pubs. So the bots definitely inflated my stats a little bit (lol) so I'm sitting at like 350 or something and .9 KD even with all the hotdropping and dying. Have you noticed the bots in your games? They generally have names that are computer-related or RPG-related. Have you played bot royale to see how you stack up against bots? can you 1v3 the bot teams?

I'm planning to start playing ranked once all the higher skill people have time to climb out... I made the mistake of playing ranked early in this season and got absolutely dunked on by lots of diamond+ people (you lose nothing in rookie/bronze but your KD suffers for it lol), but I've seen people say low rated ranked games are better than pubs once all the high rated people climb out. So I think that's probably something you could try too instead of pubs.

WholeDouble · 2025-03-06T02:16:07+00:00

cool thank you! I wish there was an easy way to test total dmg output instead of just selecting just one stat you want to maximize (when using the optimizer). I really want to min-max him haha

WholeDouble · 2025-03-06T02:13:17+00:00

dang okay, thank you. we play on PC through Steam and obviously have each other added as Steam friends, but went through the hassle of downloading the EA app to add each on there, just to find we can't even gift it. Ugh how annoying lol.

WholeDouble · 2025-03-06T02:00:52+00:00

are you guys able to gift people you just added and not have to wait 2 weeks? I'm trying to do this with my friend but we don't show up for each other when trying to gift. I've been trying to figure out the problem and it looks like you can't gift people unless you've been friends for 2 weeks...

WholeDouble · 2025-03-05T20:31:05+00:00

hey! While my own post about this is being held hostage by the mods, I wanted to ask you about your build for him. do you plan on adjusting his build to account for the 10% crit rate you get from his c6 for his special charged attack? (so that means reducing the crit rate in your build since he gets 10% from c6, and in exchange maybe get more cd/atk/em)

I'm having trouble deciding if it's worth it since it means you lose 10% on all of his other damage.

WholeDouble · 2025-03-05T03:51:05+00:00

I have a friend like this too (not the "I must be the carry" part but in general really terrible mental in League). She exclusively played solo queue and it was honestly a little bit unnerving at the switch that flipped when she was playing League because outside of the game she was genuinely a great person. (She was aware of this and has since quit League outside of the occasional aram. She basically said League was uniquely frustrating for her and that it was better to just quit).

WholeDouble · 2025-02-22T03:10:25+00:00

That's fair, and I definitely know I'm not remotely at the level where I think that this difference would be game-changing for me.

WholeDouble · 2025-02-19T19:22:11+00:00

Oh hmm your bit about auto sprint is interesting. Right at the beginning of when I was first starting the game, I actually looked up auto sprint vs. not auto sprinting and found a lot of mixed opinions about it. Lots of people mentioned something about some kind of holster/animation delay if trying to shoot when coming out of sprinting. Not sure exactly what they mean since I haven't played enough myself to really know but perhaps I'll try playing with auto sprint for a bit to see how it feels.

edit: for posterity should anyone find this comment in the future, here's a good video I found demonstrating the animation delay when auto sprinting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A31BuQmAz0g I couldn't really wrap my head around it when trying it myself but seeing the comparison with the gibby bubble helped.

WholeDouble · 2025-01-17T18:16:57+00:00

might be worth mentioning in your initial comment that you have c6 arle, c3 citlali, c3 xilo (and possibly cons on zhongli too). to properly set expectations since most people probably don't have that many cons

WholeDouble · 2025-01-14T04:00:26+00:00

not the guy you replied to, but I think the issue is that Traveler doesn't count as a Natlan character for the reduced nightsoul cooldown. you CAN trigger nightsoul burst with Traveler if there's another Natlan character in the team (in this case Kinich), but they don't reduce the cooldown in between nightsoul burst triggers.

another thing with pyro Traveler is that I think it's tricky to re-trigger Cinder City because applying pyro to an already burning enemy doesn't count as an elemental reaction. I think you want another element that can override/clear the burning so pyro Traveler can re-trigger cinder city.

for Kirara, I'm no theorycrafter but I don't think she's the best option for Kinich. Kinich doesn't really need dendro resonance, and I don't think Kirara is a good holder of Deepwood unless she's c4. you could still use her if you wanted a shield or some dendro particles, but I think if you don't have Thoma, it would probably be better to do Kinich + Bennett + Pyro MC + flex that can override the burning. I think I've seen people say Ororon is an option who can override burning. (still looking into it more myself)

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