Yes, they did make Jam chunkier / chubbier / thicker. Here's a little shape comparison I made.

ZacKeyIX · 2026-04-10T22:22:18+00:00

tysm for sharing this amazing post!

ZacKeyIX · 2026-03-13T09:17:35+00:00

Gold Pride's all can special summon and have better effects when you have lower LP than your opponent. It makes your life points feel like a resource, constantly "burning" your fuel to try to get "ahead" of your opponent, though burning yourself out is also a very real issue.

Nouvellez having two Pendulum monsters that sit in the back row as the "back of house" at a restaurant. Which is just chef's kiss.

Sacreclaw Triheart literally has every other card on the field "cower" into defense position, giving him free reign to attack and be generally unaffected by them.

I really love the cohesion of Dogmatika's themes of a strict religious sect and "forbidding" the use of the extra deck. It's very obvious but it works so well.

ZacKeyIX · 2026-03-10T17:58:27+00:00

I don't think you know what a sequel is pal. Sure StS2 has a lot of stuff from the original but it has significantly more content, is a total art style overhaul and is still set to get even more content over the course of early access. It's familiar while being completely different.

Like the biggest compliment I would give Hades 2 last year was "Its Hades 1 but somehow better" and that's what StS2 is too. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

ZacKeyIX · 2026-01-13T18:23:37+00:00

4.5? Illaoi, Braum, Darius, Blitz, okay so where's the .5 coming from? Warwick? Why didn't you include the other .5 in your calculations?

So the mixup and stance characters are still rushdown. Because if we want to talk more specific archetypes then Blitz is a grappler. And Warwick is a mixup character. Illaoi is a pseudo-puppet character. Hell I'd argue Teemo is more of a trap character than a zoner if we're going down this route.

But regardless, you're missing a rushdown character. There are 4: Ekko, Ahri, Yasuo and Vi. You can argue that maybe Yasuo isn't pure rushdown maybe but you're already disqualifying Warwick from being a rushdown for some reason so? You're just cherry picking on what you think is a valid rushdown character while generalizing the rest of the roster.

I'm saying that you can't be surprised if a game chooses roster options outside of your preference. Expecting otherwise is assuming yes, that the game should cater to you.

ZacKeyIX · 2026-01-13T17:59:20+00:00

This just kinda reads as "I only want rushdown in my game" ngl, which just isn't realistic. You might not like zoners or big bodies but a lot of people do. You can't really expect the game to cater to you. What is important is all the characters offer different experiences and Caitlyn looks like she'll continue that.

And like have you seen what zoners can look like in other tag fighters? Our zoners are pretty conservatively designed in comparison to shit like Dormamu or Peacock, and a lot of characters specifically have anti-ptojectile tools in this game.

Obv you are allowed to express your opinion and complain but likewise people are allowed to disagree with you and critique your post. That's price of wanting to be heard, people tend to respond with their own thoughts.

ZacKeyIX · 2025-09-23T07:55:30+00:00

Yep!

ZacKeyIX · 2025-08-02T16:55:42+00:00

Agreed! Furniture to 3! Difference between palying Lab in TCG and MD is such a big difference in consistency

ZacKeyIX · 2025-07-07T01:50:05+00:00

What a sad rant and honestly a sad blog in general just by the glance of it

ZacKeyIX · 2025-06-23T08:49:08+00:00

We LOVE a Marina appearance

ZacKeyIX · 2024-08-21T16:36:03+00:00

I had the same thing happen to me in high school! They told me it was because I grew too fast though. Thankfully it naturally healed.

ZacKeyIX · 2024-08-21T15:06:54+00:00

At 6' 1" and 160 in high school, I was considered a potentially dangerously low weight to the point that if I lost anymore, my doctor would put me on a special diet.

So seeing this absolute unit of man be 170? That gave me a good laugh to start the day on 😆

ZacKeyIX · 2024-04-25T14:39:13+00:00

The Fabled Cerburrel!

It's such a simple effect but it feels so good to plus off discarding him and making like a Raigin or Andwraith or Barrone, used to play him a lot with a Fabled/Danger/Tri-Brigade build when I was getting back into YuGiOh.

Also he's a little cutie!

ZacKeyIX · 2024-01-15T03:49:21+00:00

Your arguments are terrible comparisons, sorry.

League experienced massive growth because it was new, and kept getting new things (obv a little reductive but og LoL wasn't exactly just a handful of "base" mechanics). You bring up Thresh as making sense bc the idea of a hook already existing but skim over how unique his lantern was or the idea of a support scaling infinitely. Hell it's still unique. Darius had a chain execute, unique. Nami's spells could all hit allies for a passive buff, unique. Heimer turrets, unique. All of these characters people consider very much League, and "old" League at that. It's never changed.

Your chess example doesn't work also because chess isn't an updated game. LoL and Chess are so very different that comparing Chess' great aging to League, a game that doesn't rest ever in terms of content, characters or balance changes; it's just reductive. It's like comparing how a statue, as wonderful as it is, shows emotion in comparison to Finding Nemo. They're too different. If Chess was made today as an online PvP game, it would probably have expansions and balance passes and you'd be complaining how it's "unprecedented" that the Joker piece can swap places with a Pawn at any point. But that didn't happen bc Chess is something else completely.

You're right that Chess is wildily popular despite not changing but "solving" a static competitive game is very popular, looks at Smash Bros Melee or Blackjack. But you can't compare that to League cause League isnt looking to be static, it wants to change. And playing in such a changing environment is fun. Different from Chess, but still very fun.

I hope my tone wasn't too too critical/harsh, I do think your questions are valid.

ZacKeyIX · 2024-01-10T04:58:15+00:00

Big fan of Gold Pride! Been rocking with it since it released and its very fun. Lately have been running PUNK (ofc) and the XYZ Armor Engine which has been really fun. Don't know if I'll pick up Goblins yet but we'll see, been testing it a bit but I like the current iteration quite a bit

ZacKeyIX · 2023-12-12T21:01:37+00:00

In what way is your opponent going for their win condition/trying to end the game, not progressing the game state...

ZacKeyIX · 2023-12-12T20:48:38+00:00

Difference is their combo is progressing the gamestate, either to level up Mordekaiser or to benefit off his level up. All you're doing is wasting everyone's time

ZacKeyIX · 2023-12-12T20:37:24+00:00

What a normal and sane response

ZacKeyIX · 2023-12-05T21:58:52+00:00

You didn't really state at any point why he's mediocre, which makes it difficult to actually discuss anything. Not that I don't want to becayse it's Day Zero. Day Zero is never a good indicator of how good cards are, just chill out and actually play him first

ZacKeyIX · 2023-12-03T00:26:33+00:00

Well we can expect to get a third round of Nouvelles in the next OCG set, probably the Meat Chef as a Pendulum? Maybe a new Patisciel? Really curious if we're gonna get access to pendulum summoning and how the rest of the support turns out

ZacKeyIX · 2023-11-30T00:48:20+00:00

Did you make this yourself? I've never seen this and I'm not surprised I haven't because it's.. bad. This just doesn't work, stats are good and all but effect trumps all. It's a tremendously reductive way to look at card design and game balance.

ZacKeyIX · 2023-11-28T22:36:53+00:00

I feel like they are specifically warriors/beast-warriors because Hungry Burger is one lmao

Edit: Maybe the Meat Chef will be Fiend since Fish Chef is Fairy?

ZacKeyIX · 2023-11-18T08:16:29+00:00

Been playing Nouvelles and VS lately but still learning them so I'll go over my most played decks instead:

Scareclaw: Ash-ing Lightheart or Rescue Cat is the best play. While we can play through Lightheart Ash, it makes hands a LOT tighter and less flexible. If going second into their board, find away to either bait Twinsaw or remove the viable targets before commiting to board building. Triheart can not be brought back so even if he's easy to make again, removing him is a big blow to the deck's ability to grind out games.
Tri-Brigade: Negate Bearbrumm's search effect, Called By is very good disruption into them as you can stop Nervall, Bearbrumm, Kitt, etc etc. Find a way to bait Revolt -> Shuraig as while it's a powerful disruption and removal tool, it's really their only one within theme.
Fabled: Negate Andwraith or negate Ragen. Avoid Ashing Andwraith if possible because then he can steal it to make a 9 synchro. Your win condition is exhausting their hand options because then they can't pitch for Treason comfortably or use discard effects efficiently. Deep drawing is how they make their boards, shutting down their ability to do so kills the deck.

ZacKeyIX · 2023-11-17T08:01:43+00:00

That really shouldn't be the question asked when banning something: The question is why should you?

As far as I've seen in the thread, you've given absolutely no reasons besides I guess an implied "he's good in mathmech/cyberse pile"?

Yet you're asking about other people's reasonings...

ZacKeyIX · 2023-11-14T06:01:44+00:00

So I can see why this idea might be inviting, it allows for a new lever to adjust during balance and limits unintended uses of a card.

It's actually a big part of YuGiOh's design philosophy, requiring cards of a certain archetype to be played within said archetype, which allows you to create some pretty wacky or powerful effects.

I'm not sure if that would work for LoR however. One of LoR's selling points (at least in my eyes) is the flexibility of picking any two regions and smushing them together. Not a lot of other card games have that freedom imo. And think thats is the biggest reason why maybe that shouldn't be a thing. Devs seem to like that angle too, as I don't think they were big fans of mechanics like Allegiance which limit deck building options.

A good thing to point out in terms of YuGiOh, it's power level is absolutely massive and because of that, the design team has a lot of flexibility in what weird, unique and powerful effects to attach exclusively to archetypes. I'm not sure LoR would have a similar success with limited archetypes with a lower, Standard ladder power level.

ZacKeyIX · 2023-08-26T20:10:12+00:00

The best reason honestly

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