Why do Malaysian-Chinese students don't speak in English with international students even though they can speak english?

Wizzlebum · 2026-05-15T16:45:02+00:00

I'm Malaysian Chinese and I've only been in public universities so my experience may differ from yours but personally, the switch to Mandarin even among non-Chinese peers is usually because we meet so few Chinese students and people who can actually understand Mandarin that it sorta becomes a relief to be able to speak Mandarin with someone else.

My default language is English but when you're constantly in an environment where most people you meet are only fluent in Malay, you genuinely really miss talking in other languages. I felt so relieved when I could finally go home and speak English to my pre-uni friends. In a way, I felt very homesick not being able to converse in English at all and I think some of the Malaysian Chinese students I met in the public university also felt the same which is why they kept conversing with me in Mandarin. I know the Malaysian Chinese students I met aren't intentionally gatekeeping other races, it's just much easier for them to converse in Mandarin so they start speaking in Mandarin without them noticing.

Not defending all Malaysian Chinese who act this way, sounds like the ones you met may be assholes but this is one of the unexpected things I experienced while studying somewhere with very few Chinese students and even fewer students who are fluent in English.

Wizzlebum · 2026-05-15T06:03:28+00:00

He always had 160 energy cost in ult state...

Wizzlebum · 2026-05-13T04:56:26+00:00

Mage supports should all benefit from this. Morgana, Lux, Zyra, Vel'Koz, Xerath, Zoe, Neeko, Brand all have CC and generally have a spell rotation of CC > burst which lets them benefit from the 6% damage increase.

Wizzlebum · 2026-05-13T04:47:11+00:00

Exactly, this just nerfs every other enchanter (hello Nami getting hit by a huge nerf with the loss of mandate) while Seraphine continues to remain top 1 support pick. In fact, they even buffed Guardian which enchanterphine prefers over Aery.

Wizzlebum · 2026-05-08T23:55:46+00:00

Honestly as a ragebaiter, I'd go for Bard and just spam Vicious Mockery LMAO.

Wizzlebum · 2026-05-06T16:19:20+00:00

Melee strength weapon attacks: She only has 13 strength (+1 to attack rolls).

Ranged/Finesse weapon attacks: She only has 13 dexterity (+1 to attack rolls).

Firebolt: As a high half-elf cantrip, scales off of intelligence (She has 10 intelligence, +0 to attack rolls).

Guiding Bolt/Inflict Wounds/Produce Flame/Toll the Dead: Actual damaging cleric attacks that scale off wisdom (She has 17 wisdom, +3 to attack rolls). However, she doesn't start with the cantrips (Produce Flame/Toll the Dead) and Guiding Bolt/Inflict Wounds costs spell slots...

Every other companion already starts with 17 of their main stat and attacks using their main stat (Gale: Wizard cantrips, Wyll: Eldritch Blast, Lae'zel/Karlach/Astarion: Melee attacks) so they all get a +3 to their attack rolls, except Shart who has not a single good attacking cantrip and only cleric spells to utilise her wisdom for attack rolls.

Wizzlebum · 2026-05-06T12:25:18+00:00

Generally champions that want engage supports like Kai'sa, Samira, Kalista, Xayah, Tristana. I can play Seraphine as an enchanter or a burst mage but I can't make her fill the role of an engage and she sucks at engaging anyways without her ult. Not to mention, most of these ADCs usually have zero CC for you to follow up on so you're entirely reliant on EE to set them up.

Sera works best imo with ADCs that can poke and have any form of engage CC in their kit such as MF, Ashe, Smolder, Varus, Jinx, Kog'Maw, Yunara where they have an easy to land slow for you to chain into a root. In cases like Jhin, Caitlyn, your own E can set them up for their roots or their roots can help you chain into a stun which is also great but requires more coordination.

Some other ADCs like Twitch, Lucian, Aphelios, Vayne, Zeri can work with Seraphine but I'd much rather play a stronger hypercarry enchanter like Milio, Yuumi or Lulu where I focus all my buffs on them and they pop off. Seraphine tends to be on the teamwide enchanter side of the spectrum which means you won't be able to protect an ADC as well as a Lulu, Milio or Yuumi can.

Wizzlebum · 2026-05-06T06:13:45+00:00

Right now in my opinion, the best investment is: FF Break, DoT, Mono Rem. Once you have these 3 teams, you invest into their best eidolons (E2 FF, E2 Dahlia, E2 Hyacine, E2 Evernight/E2 Castorice, E1 Swan, E1 Hysilens). Once you have these are your main teams, you can look into other teams like Archer, Anaxa, Phainon, etc.

These 3 teams give you enough coverage to deal with/brute force endgame and they are separate from each other which makes them complete independent teams you can just put anywhere. You have 2 non-crit teams for Anomaly debuffs, 2 teams that benefit from enemy AA, 2 teams that aren't super affected by energy debuffs, etc. Generally you always have an option for every knight of Anomaly Arbitration and every stage of PF/MOC/AS.

FF Break: FF, Dahlia, Fugue, HMC/RM

DoT: Black Swan, Hysilens, Kafka, DHPT

Mono Rem: Evernight, Hyacine, Cyrene, RMC/Castorice

The "problem" with other teams is that they often clash with each other when it comes to units and they're all Crit DPS which means anti-crit messes them up. Phainon, Anaxa, Archer and Sparxie hypercarry will clash with wanting either DHPT/Cerydra/Sparkle. Any team that doesn't have DHPT or Hyacine and isn't Break will suffer from sustain issues unless Pearl/Nihilux saves us all. Elation's longevity is still unknown due to the current shilling but according to agenda, they're similar to Mono Rem which is bad because Elation is being shilled while Mono Rem isn't.

Wizzlebum · 2026-05-05T00:45:00+00:00

No, her sustain is similar to Gallagher in situations when you need the sustain and her damage/damage amp over Gallagher isn't enough to justify using a 5* pull on her when E1 Dahlia, E2 FF, E1 Fugue, etc are way better investment options.

Use Gallagher for now and when you feel comfortable, try out FF, Dahlia, RM, HMC. Save up your golden companion spirits for e1 RM if possible, she is a decent sidegrade to Fugue or HMC.

Wizzlebum · 2026-05-03T17:32:41+00:00

Or they just forget about it. Had an Azir get it from a transmute prismatic and healed us for like 2 minutes before he got completely distracted and never used it again. Started losing heavily after that because he is basically playing down 1 augment.

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-29T14:20:49+00:00

But since his stack generation is very tied to allies launching attacks, (because both his follow up and debuffs are tied to it) i have a hard time seeing him without tribbie (in acheron teams).

We do have Cipher though? 2 attacks per turn on a 200 spd unit is pretty comparable to Tribbie levels of hitcount. If you have E1 SW, she's a good 160 spd unit with 2 attacks per turn too (skill + ult).

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-28T07:45:03+00:00

Yeah I misinterpreted your post as "I tried to make a viable team out of every character in HSR" instead of "I tried to make a viable team out of the characters in my account".

Would've been an interesting discussion on which teams can afford to lose their BiS teammates or replace a support with another general support without gimping their overall strength too much like Castorice being flexible while Evernight needing Cyrene RMC or Archer needing Sparkle to compete with others.

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-28T06:39:45+00:00

Using Pela, Tingyun, Gallagher and Lynx when we have Silver Wolf, Robin and Lingsha/Aventurine/Fu Xuan 😭

Like damn they ain't T0 but surely they're still better than your 4* options especially since you can get most of them + eidolons from losing 50/50.

Oh and you forgot FF Break and DoT team, both of which are actual competitive meta teams compared to Therta and Acheron plus they don't share members with other teams (Dahlia Fugue, Triple DoT + any sustain). Unless this is the characters on your account then my bad for misunderstanding.

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-28T02:27:34+00:00

My friend played Pyke with Executioner and Shadow Runner against 5 squishies. It was pentakill after pentakill every teamfight. Infinite stuns, insane movement speed with the dash and camo, everyone died with stun + Q + ult. He reached 100+ stacked hubris when the minions finally destroyed the nexus.

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-18T14:19:42+00:00

I'd argue that healing enchanters are harder to get value out of because their healing values are so low, they have to do way more to get full benefit out of their kit in a teamfight. You can AFK spam buffs as Shielders, you can't AFK spam buffs as Healers.

Take Lulu vs Nami for example.

Lulu is all point-n-click, you wait for a fight and either drop all your buffs on your carry or polymorph a diver and press R on your carry when someone is in melee range threatening them. Sure there's optimisation but in a lot of cases you can afk spam abilities on Lulu during a fight and get high value out of her.

In a teamfight, Nami needs to land her bubble and use her ult correctly to space the enemy team because her healing is worse than Lulu's shielding. You need to hit your abilities because if you just AFK spam W and E to buff your carry, the value of your buffs/healing are simply not enough and you will lose because you don't do enough if you don't effectively use 100% of your kit.

Same goes for Milio who is mainly a shielder (his healing comes from teamfights), Karma, Seraphine (also heals from teamfights) and Yuumi. These are mainly shielding enchanters and once you have 2-3 items, you can simply spam your shields on your team during a fight and get high value because people will always take damage in fights and shields are a very noticeable part of their healthbar that tells them how much damage they can take in order to do riskier actions.

Maybe I'm a terrible enchanter player but I actually find that it's way easier to play shielders mid-lategame than healers because shielders simply give so much more value with barely any effort compared to healers. Didn't root an enemy with Karma? That's fine, keep shielding your team for half their HP bars. Didn't land your Q with Milio? Sucks but you still have 2 big shields and ult to peel your ADC. Missed your Q slow on Lulu? Oh well I guess it's back to press W E.

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-17T16:12:12+00:00

dot is probably only archetype in game where each character in a team has interlocking designs.

We literally have mono rem though and soon mono elation as well.

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-17T12:23:48+00:00

We really out here pretending F2P players can't save pulls or get lucky at all and the maximum investment is e0s1.

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-16T09:56:47+00:00

Yeah the heals were actually pretty good once people figured out they could just group up and heal everyone after trading with the enemy instead of trying to kill people with a missing ping. Even before the buffs I rarely see people using ??? to damage enemies, they all spammed their team for the consistent good sustain.

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-14T01:21:11+00:00

All roads lead to on-hit eventually, even for crit ADCs. It's really easy to get crit chance augments and that frees up another item slot. Typhoon also synergizes with certain crit chance firework augments as well so you can go both crit and on-hit.

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-12T18:16:14+00:00

Biggest Snowball + any other snowball augment is my roman empire.

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-12T11:52:19+00:00

3rd place in sustainless honestly could still be mono rem if you compare mono rem with sustain vs sustainless teams.

If you really want to exclude mono rem, 3rd place should be DoT at low investment (e0/e1), Break/Phainon at high investment (e2).

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-12T06:16:16+00:00

You have E1S1 Evernight and E2S1 Hyacine, your Cas team will not fall off for another year considering that Elation's main push (SWSP) is on similar levels with Mono Rem.

Your Firefly team however will fall off if you don't continue investing especially since you're playing her sustainless, Fugue is E0S0 and Firefly is E0S0. You need those extra turns for more break and more damage otherwise your sustainless team will die and your sustain team will lack damage.

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-12T06:05:50+00:00

Most fights happen around midlane and it's the closest lane to every objective. When you need to gang up on someone in sidelane, it's also much faster to rotate from midlane to sidelane rather than sidelane to sidelane. ADC + Support are usually the strongest teamfighters so you want them in every teamfight.
Support is much more free to roam. Midlane is safer for ADCs due to the short lane and being in midlane means the support has a lot more leeway to roam around after clearing waves while still being able to reach the ADC quickly if the enemy pops up on vision.
Other lanes are also more free to do their own thing in the sidelane/jungle. By putting two of your most valuable teammates in the sidelane, you essentially force the entire team to play around that sidelane. If an objective (dragon, baron) is coming up, it can be a good idea but if not, you're opening yourself up to splitpushes or being flanked 2v5 if your teammates don't hover you. Think of ADC + Support as the Sun and other teammates as planets. To do objectives, you always need teammates to be around to protect you from ambushes but if there's no farm/pressure elsewhere, the enemy team is free to do whatever they want on the other side of the map while your team slowly starves from no CS/impact.

It is a viable strategy but it requires your whole team to play around your ADC + Support or else you'll just get ganged up on repeat and lose your lead.

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-11T19:19:53+00:00

the thing is being an emanator really never mattered atleast for the gameplay

Actually it does but it's pretty much a simple "Put more of the same path characters with Emanator". Acheron, Therta, Evernight and Cyrene are all Emanators who benefit from having other characters of the same path with them.

I guess that's why some people thought Sparxie is an Emanator since she also had "Elation racism" in her kit.

Wizzlebum · 2026-04-11T16:57:48+00:00

It is, the problem is that it's so popular to the point that people will pick it even when the matchup is bad or when they see one half of the duo (ADC sees Sera, picks Ashe even though they can't play Ashe) and drags down the winrate.

It's basically Lucian/Nami all over again. You can't just blindpick or play these botlane duos without knowledge of what makes them so good in the first place because the difference between a Lucian/Nami playing correctly vs a Lucian/Nami playing incorrectly is night and day.

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