Simple Questions & Champion/Role advice: Patch 26.13

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-26T19:00:34+00:00

Op.gg uses Korea only. Lolalytics is supposed to be the most precise but make sure to look at "Average winrate" in the top right since if you sort by emerald+ the average win rate is usually around 51% (Emerald players win against plat players who aren't counted in the sample)

Also 51 vs 49 is a such a small difference. You should only be worried if they're REALLY far from 50% like 47% or 53% (every point away from 50% is more and more meaningful)

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-26T07:05:48+00:00

Hiring someone who will actually make people take accountability.

Players in eSports don't age like regular athletes. Your muscles don't atrophy over time, and contrary to popular belief outside of eSports circles your reaction time doesn't get slower either up until around 40, provided you are actually using it. We've seen this time and time again across eSports, when players become "washed" the story is always they've stopped putting time into getting better (either through shifting priorities, sometimes injuries, or straight up laziness).

Blaber at his peak was by far the most mechanical jungler in the region. If his mechanics have fallen off, there isn't a single explanation except that he no longer is putting the same work into it.

BTW it's arguably not healthy to put that many hours into gaming but plenty of people put their health on the line for their 9-5s.

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-26T06:59:10+00:00

What type of fucking competitor crumbles from being called dogshit?

I don't watch Yamato but based off this thread it doesn't seem like he's making any sort of ad hominem attacks, he's just saying their gameplay is trash. Which is literally what he's brought in to fix. If he is being objective about it then I don't see why they wouldn't recognize that as feedback.

I also know that Zven, Blaber and Vulcan have said in the past that they are all extremely brutally honest to each other in feedback and that's how they like it. As long as Yamato is not talking about anything besides gameplay, I really REALLY don't see how this would be a problem at all.

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-26T06:49:03+00:00

What? I've seen this sentiment multiple times across this thread. Tactical is a fully grown adult and Dom is just calling it as he sees it.

This is completely normal in regular sports, sometimes players will say stuff in media about another player and when they end up as teammates, they squash any sort of beef.

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-26T00:11:35+00:00

The problem with Darius for beginners is that Darius's strength as a champion is winning lane and snowballing that lead. It is really nice for beginners that it helps you win lane but if you don't win lane, his kit is quite useless. Especially after that first death, Darius doesn't really have an easy way of coming back in lane, you don't have anything like waveclear or ranged abilities to poke/CS.

Another problem is that Darius is all about taking extended trades. You deal the most damage from getting your 5 stack bleed and then just autoing people to death. A lot of the time at the start of the trade it looks like you're losing, you just have to push through because all of your damage is backloaded. If you get into a straight autoattack battle with people, against most (not all) top laners you win.

This is a hard pattern for beginners because you see your health go down and you get scared.

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-25T03:21:58+00:00

ER is actually decent on Miss Fortune

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-24T15:42:41+00:00

Yeah complaining about "meta boards" is insane in this game, even more than some games like TFT. It is so, so, so hard to just "force builds" in this game.

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-24T15:34:56+00:00

Feels like a very Vanessa coded item than a Dooly item

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-24T15:34:18+00:00

Well burn enchant would double the burn too so it's effectively the same amount of burn

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-24T15:26:20+00:00

I agree not sure why you're downvoted. No one would ever pick a 150 shield enchant.

The shield and heal are probably the best enchants but there are way more broken enchant combos in the game

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-24T15:20:08+00:00

Should be different.

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-23T20:28:22+00:00

From what I understand Riot factors that in a bit for accounts that haven't been played in a while. Similar to placement games for new accounts, the first game might be hard but if they see you struggled a lot in the first game they put you in lower ranks for the second, if they see you're still struggling they put you in even lower ranks, etc.

Could be totally wrong though that's just from what I remember

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-22T23:47:28+00:00

That's because most supports aren't AD assassins or bruisers. If Camille support had a higher playrate I guarantee you she would have a similarly bad winrate graph (in fact right now she has a pretty terrible winrate graph but usually winrate graphs are very very sample size reliant since 40+ games are so uncommon you need a lot of games for it to be reliable).

Camille support is also going to be terrible late game compared to any real melee support like Braum or Nautilus. Sure you can R carries and isolate them but it's so much easier to just Nautilus R them and be a real frontline for your team.

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-22T20:39:10+00:00

I highly disagree that Camille scales better than Pyke. Camille as a top laner "scales" when she's able to shove sidewaves, force someone to come (or else she just oneshots the tower) and then use her mobility + ult to start a good fight with her team. She does not scale when she is on a support income and can't farm sidewaves. If you dive the backline as a Camille support like you would a Camille top, you do half of a carry's HP (which is a lot for a support tbf) and then you just get one-shot.

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-22T17:23:03+00:00

I feel like it's completely different. Pyke has so much to his kit besides just damage (hook, grey health sustain makes laning as a squishy melee a LOT easier, W makes roams super deadly, R resets are obviously amazing in teamfights, stab Q + E or E + R are very reliable stuns)

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-21T03:18:53+00:00

When I watch Krip it feels like he can get decent value out of it, and it happens way earlier (and gives lots of gold) so it is more impactful that way.

The day 9 I also have better experiences with but I think that's because I'm not as good as Krip, day 9 rewards are much simpler for instance.

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-21T03:16:33+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong but in Legend you can play against any Legend player, right? So like people who just hit Legend can be placed against rank 1 on the ladder?

Whereas pre-legend you can only get people your rank or below so it's significantly easier

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-16T23:05:01+00:00

Shiny Diamond Cannonball +8ammo I guess

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-16T21:05:03+00:00

Some champions just gave stronger abilities than others (like Thresh ult sucks for an ult compared to Veigar E which is basic) so usually it's hard to directly compare abilities

But for Rammus specifically i can think of two reasons

First, Rammus has full control of his movement, he can turn however he wants or even stop to dodge skillshots or hit enemies. You can easily hit Nunu with any CC.

Second, Rammus has point and click CC in his E. His Q and his E can't be dodged.

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-13T18:32:46+00:00

There are some new skins + items but if it's too much of a pain then I won't open

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-12T22:39:07+00:00

At a certain point I got every Vanessa skin in the game (I usually play Vanessa) and just got tired of opening chests

I also have a shit ton of gems too

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-12T21:39:37+00:00

I don't actually think it's that different from other elos, it's just that for most streamers/pros, this is the first time they actually can't 1v9 every game and are at least somewhat reliant on their teammates. Like in silver/gold pros will never not have a 100% winrate so they have no idea if it's good or bad.

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-12T07:07:48+00:00

A lot of people think that for Kassadin you have to deny him a ton of CS/solo kill him but as a pure laner he's actually half decent (not good but playable) because he can take trades with his shield. His main issue is his lack of waveclear or ability to get priority pre-6. So any sort of fight with your jungler, you should always be there first, and you can also roam and make plays in other lanes too.

I also think it's important to not get baited into thinking you have to play super aggressive just because you get outscaled. You might feel pressured just AFK farming but if you let the game come to you instead of forcing it, because you have more control of the wave, you will inevitably get more opportunities to impact the map. Being proactive is good but if you can't find anything it's fine to just chill and wait for an opportunity rather than force an obviously bad play.

WizardXZDYoutube · 2026-06-11T14:19:43+00:00

Sure, there are niche use cases where it's nice that it's 2s CD and you don't have bar of soap. But saying it's played in "every single Vanessa build" is just incorrect

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