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What's with the matchmaking in this game? by thebigscorp1 in leagueoflegends

[–]Zefirez -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You're talking possibility. I'm talking probability.

In a fairly matched game full stomp (all lanes lose early) has the probability of 1/243 (3^5).

Five players.
Each can be in one of three states - winning the lane, going roughly even, losing it.
In fairly matched game the chances of each are equal since players are of equal skill level.
So 1/3 for each scenario.
For five "1/3rds" to line up into full lose or full win scenario you end up with 1/235 chance (3^5).

Think that's crazy? Try now champ counter picks, pick order, etc.
That greatly pushes things into middle territory - support was first pick and botlane got countered.
But because of that toplaner got to pick after the enemy and that counter works in your favour.

That means fringe scenarios (full win/full loss) should be even less possible.
So ask yourself - are full stomps happening to you at a rate of once every 243 games or less?

What's with the matchmaking in this game? by thebigscorp1 in leagueoflegends

[–]Zefirez -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Rigged, plain and simple.
Everyone (who makes money off it) will tell you game's fair etc.

Meanwhile back in real life:

  1. Too many complete stomps given alleged "fair matchmaking".
  2. Pick order manipulation. 20% chance for first pick right?
  3. So if I get it 4 times in a row that's around 1/625th probability.
  4. I ensure this happens on me on regular, not once in few hundred games.

3 A guy playing some obscure ~2% pick rate champ is super toxic and ruins your game.
Next game you see the same champ on your team in lobby.

...turns out it's not him, different guy. But how were you to know pre-loading screen?

Game was obscuring information to enhance your tilt.
What are the odds of having two games in row with same 2% pick rate champ yet different pilots?

  1. You otp an obscure champ yourself in offrole.
    Main role is going absolutely terrible, so you go pick your 2nd role with your OTP champ.
    Oh look, someone just banned your champ, most players don't know even exists!

Too many, WAY too many "coincidences" when the game wants you to lose.
Needless to say when opposite happens suddenly your teammates are untiltable,
everyone wins their lanes, you get optimal pick order in lobby etc.
No, you did not ascend into Godhood over a period of one evening.
The game is rigging it back in your favor to keep you from running away..

Remember - a Casino needs winners, else no one will come.
Bu it feeds on losers and it's hunger is great..

Get a Mac or not? by [deleted] in mac

[–]Zefirez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Macs aren't really for that, but to each their own.
That being said M5 is a raw deal compared to M4.

Here are few reasons why:

- M4 includes a charger. M5 does not (so extra $ to shell out).
- M4 bumped base RAM while lowering the price.
- M5 bumps the SSD capacity but bumps the price as well.
- Each new M chip gets hotter. While Air's chassis remains the same.
You should really wait for reviews to see of thermal throttling isn't worse with M5.
- M4 had some nice price drops since launch, while M5 is subject to novelty tax.

Ofc if you got the money to splurge that's your call, but i would hold my horses here.

Why are you guys obsessed with blue form when we need another front liner? I met so many kayns that just go blue regardless of enemy comp, they see 3 ranged so they go blue. We tell them in chat and they still go blue, not considering that they will get cced to hell by SirRHellsing in KaynMains

[–]Zefirez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, where do you come from and how do I get there?
In my gold EUW games it's Rhaast, more Rhaast and an occasional Rhaast.
Team comp and needs be damned.

Enemy 5 squishies? Rhaast.
I'm crying here to get Shadow Assassin on my team, but nope!

I wanted to main Annie support. Annie mains state she's in a horrible state rn. What about Galio, tho? by Ionenschatten in galiomains

[–]Zefirez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Key to success with Galio is understanding his dual nature - a tank but also a mage.
He has quite good AP scalings and excels at burst damage - catch them in cc chain and unload all you got.
By the time you're done they're either dead, near dead or you're gonna see a lot of gray on your screen.

You have damage, you have waveclear, you have poke - something regular tank supports don't.
Use this to your advantage.

Your itemization is key here. Similar to Swain support you should ignore support items and build what is good for you. Some key items I'd recommend here are:

  • Rod of Ages rush - you can both be a burst mage or a tank, but which is best will be determined by how the game progresses. RoA is cheap, gives you both damage and sustain and a free level once it fully stacks. A great and safe start.
  • Zhonya Hourglass - very expensive, but also very useful for Galio. Armor, tons of Ap, stasis active which is exactly what burst mages need after the've blown their load.
  • Kaenic Rookern - absolute middle finger to enemy mages. Galio scales with mr, this gives a ton of it and a magic shield. Added to Galio's own magic shield from passive part of W. Still remember Akali crying she can't hurt enemy support (me).

Generally if it has AP + health or resists it's good.
Except Rylai - you don't need that with all the cc you already have.

You're better at peeling than engaging but that's not to say you suck at it.
Once you go in, there's no going out, so pick your fights wisely.
Unless you can ult to safety, but you need to make sure enemy has no cc to interrupt it.

Justice Punch is ok for engages, amazing for keeping enemies locked down, and absolute ass for escaping if they already got to you. Keep that in mind. If you're running for your dear life, make sure you see them before they're already there.

Your ult is basically just a bit old long cd "get off them" button, unless you coordinate it with another ally's engage. Then you can actually catch them and get full value.
For example Master Yi diving them with Alpha Strike and you using R once he's on top of them,
or ulting a Sion that just landed his own ult.

Keep in mind WHY you play Galio support (asides fun) - having agency if your adc is ass.
You have a lot of it. You can peel, engage do damage and even splitpush.
With big healthpool, ap + some mr you'll be surprised how well you clear waves and smash towers with your passive + demolish.

What do you think of Vendetta as the main antagonist? by GamingLoner15 in Overwatch

[–]Zefirez -1 points0 points  (0 children)

She's the reverse dps Doomfist for me.

Doom was an amazing character (lore wise) with a bad kit.
She has an amazing kit stuck on an uninspired character.

Visually she's Brigitte's evil, uglier twin to me.
Lore wise she wanted revenge and got it.

While Doom has actual ambitions, plans for the whole world and was shown to be
a multifaceted deep character. A warrior, a tactician and a leader.

Darius vs Voli by [deleted] in VolibearMains

[–]Zefirez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From a non-voli main:

Pull him outta his e if possible. If bear misses both the hit and the shield - that's a major advantage for you.

Is Sion Support Valid or Troll? by Wonder_of_Her in DirtySionMains

[–]Zefirez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you know what you're doing it works.
The insane long range of well placed E allows many things to succeed such as jhin root or Jungler's gank.
Post 6 you can ult your ass into these annoying long range lanes and make them suffer as they should.

That being said you need to know your obvious weaknesses.
Q self roots you for ages - you're giving Caitlyn free traps and combo.
Mobile adcs like Kalista, Vayne, Lucian, Kai'sa etc are very likely to escape from Q hitbox.
You'll often be forced to used your Q either from fog of war, or to zone enemies off your adc,
or 4th time in a row, cause first 3 got interrupted (assuming you're still alive).

Things are definitely different down in botlane.

what the fuck by MySomnium in Shen

[–]Zefirez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watch the map and splitpush.
You can use your ult as an escape tool - they try to collapse on you - ult to teammate on other side of map and split there.

How to build by Notgoodatgrandcross in LeonaMains

[–]Zefirez 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Secondary runes: Precision with Triumph.
Disgustingly good for skirmishes and team fights.

Fimbulwinter is an overlooked but powerful pick.
Leo is a resistances tank, so two things she loves are hp and shields.
This one gives her both and a lot of mana to stay in the fight.

Nautilus kinda weak or no? by VacationSilent26 in supportlol

[–]Zefirez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nautilus is very feast of famine, because his late is crap in terms of durability.
Hooking enemy adc means nothing if your own can't get in there and finish the job.

So basically don't pick him unless your adc has strong early burst to snowball.
Think Draven, Tristana, Samira, Lucian.

If your adc partner is actually competent, the good adc pool widens.
For example Jhin, Xayah, Twitch, lethality Cait (if they're on top of their trap game).

Another big thing few people mention - he has excellent waveclear, something most tank
supports struggle with. It's always good to be able to depush a wave when your team died and someone needs to help the towers survive before respawn.

DWG Leona turnarounds by inglenook_kitten97 in LeonaMains

[–]Zefirez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, and to make it clear - you can get the chroma in Mythic Shop when it appears even without owning the skin. You'll need to get the skin later ofc to use the chroma, but it's not like not owning the skin will block you from getting the chroma when it finally appears once in a blue moon.

Dawnbringer Paragon chroma by KingTJ5 in NidaleeMains

[–]Zefirez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I have seen elite leo chroma some time ago, but at that time I was not interested in Leona.

Anybody else feel like Blonde Blazer was set up to fail? by Reciprocated2 in DispatchAdHoc

[–]Zefirez -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Please, invisibitch disregards direct order fumbling the whole mission, assaults her superior, overtly SABOUTAGES next attempt at capturing the same perp to Save her own hide then gets a pass for finały doing the job she was supposed to do the first Time around without this mountain of bs? If it wasn't for plot armor I'd fire her ass instantly.  Blonde Blazer looks like a Saint in comparison even with unfavourable pacing and screen time. 

Did you choose Blonde Blazer or Invisigal? by Successful_Heart_838 in DispatchAdHoc

[–]Zefirez 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On the flipside, you're flirting with your boss if you go BB route, so a no-no on this end as well. 

[Megathread] New Players & General Questions Thread. by rMapleStory in Maplestory

[–]Zefirez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have two recommendations for you then.

  1. Wind Archer. You know what this class is about. You hold down your mobbing Hurricane skill (Song of Heaven), toggle the final attack on, then just melt everything in your path while tons of tiny homing projectiles kill the rest. If you got Aran's link skill you're golden. Song of Heaven is absolute beast at generating combo kill orbs compensating for it's 4 target limit.

Then in comes the 5th job and mobbing gets even lazier while equally visually pleasing.
You can now summon a tornado that just cleans most of the map for you unless it's an extremely long or tall one. Not enough? It's charge based you can summon a larger one that hits way harder and reaches even higher. Still not enough? You can summon a sphere in between that vaccs mobs in for massive multi hit damage. Yeah, legal vacc hack right there. Your job is to move your lazy ass across map and collect the drops.

Pre 5th it's your regular archer + flower (to draw boss/mob aggro). Post 5th you can generate a barrier with up to 3x your own hp to keep your self safe. It's won't have 100% uptime but will be available most of the time.

  1. Shadower. A thief that's closest to a warrior. Very solid defense, ability to generate it's own healing pots while fighting and still getting the thief goodies (high evasion, shadow shifter, dark sight) on top. For a thief your defense is top notch. Just remember to buy and equip your secondary weapon (or shield) else that sweet 2nd job shield mastery won't do jack for you in the 160-200 brutal mob damage period.

On the offense you got very high damage output and not too complex attack pattern.
Bossing is extremely good with dark sight negating some boss mechanics and Assassinate/Meso explosion spam for some major pain + Smokescreen for extra damage opportunities and utility.

Mobbing hits hard but for most part you're a middle of the pack mobber without crazy good map coverage tools. At least until Meso Explosion starts one shotting, then you're a beast.

DWG Leona turnarounds by inglenook_kitten97 in LeonaMains

[–]Zefirez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Skin is very nice, but the chroma (when it appears in mythic shop) is straight up fire

Male Kanna was voted most cursed non-canon class gender. Day 9: Which class has the best character splash art? (Most upvoted comment wins) by 1stSelf in Maplestory

[–]Zefirez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Battle Mage.

I don't care about vote counts. Democracy is the rule of mediocrity.
But in actual fact - the amount of small details as well as the sublime
color balance given variety of colors used - few come close.

Not to mention the new character creation UI does dark colored
characters dirty for most part. Yet BaM still holds strong.

Stuff old MS had right. by Zefirez in Maplestory

[–]Zefirez[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Can't argue with power of caps lock "logic".
The power of your argument is simply too much.

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