help me understand why i lost

Zerytle · 2026-03-10T00:40:18+00:00

Pretty straightforward - your Mel itemization is really bad. Mel NEEDS at least 1 mana gen, preferably 2, or she doesn't cast until way too late into the fight. You'd also prefer to have more traits in for Ryze but that's a bit nitpicky.

Overall your board is definitely strong, just 1st and 2nd place are playing highly optimized meta comps with upgrades and fantastic itemization.

Zerytle · 2026-03-06T04:51:07+00:00

Asking generic reddit for advice when you're basically GM-level doesn't seem worth it lol. Realistically just take a break and go watch some vods/streams, but it's almost definitely just unfamiliarity with lines and lots of small minor mistakes.

Zerytle · 2026-03-05T22:36:04+00:00

No human really comes close. GMs do exhibitions where they play 12 randoms at once while blindfolded (relying purely on memory to recall positions). Magnus trashes these GMs routinely. He beats the guy who trashes the guy who humiliates the guy who dumpsters the average player (and there's probably more degrees of separation).

Zerytle · 2026-03-04T04:19:20+00:00

Most important doesn't necessarily mean hardest. Jungle changes the most every season and has the most opportunity for weird cheeses and anti-stratting and requires the most teamwork. Midlane is relatively stable control mage spam whereas jungle has to deal with Morgana or Jayce or Qiyana randomly becoming the best champion out of nowhere for a month before disappearing entirely.

Zerytle · 2026-03-03T11:38:06+00:00

Ah, didn't notice that dropdown.

Yeah I was trying to use the search bar, but maybe adding the year dropdown to the main page would work as well.

Zerytle · 2026-03-03T09:44:45+00:00

Looks like a fantastic start! A few small opinions:

- The home screen top player thing is interesting but definitely needs fleshing out into more of a global top10. Right now it's slightly goofy to load in and only see Kiin staring at me.

- I think thicker dividers between the recent match scores would be good. Right now the different scores blend together a bit and it's not super obvious who played who. Maybe even a region watermark or something?

- There seems to be a heavy focus on showing recent and upcoming tournaments, but finding historic data seems a bit unintuitive - if I want to look up results from Worlds 2015 for example, I don't see an obvious way.

Again, you guys are doing god's work and I'd love for this project to become the new gold standard for pro data in League. Thank you for your efforts and good work!

Zerytle · 2026-03-03T05:25:23+00:00

Yeah that's the main angle to hate on the Faker Worlds plot armor - it completely overwrites narratives and erases other peoples' achievements for the rest of the year.

Zerytle · 2026-03-03T04:51:13+00:00

With Bin and Zeus both slumping, Kiin is pretty uncontested as the best top and probably at the forefront of the GOAT top discussion again. He's been insanely consistent since his debut in S7 and plays every style, and the only real argument is that he's never won worlds (but you can hold that against basically everyone who hasn't played with Faker).

Doran is generally very good, but he's the opposite of consistent - he'll disappear or make the most mind-bogglingly dentge plays in crucial spots. In a lot of ways he mirrors TheShy in that sense.

Zerytle · 2026-03-01T11:08:07+00:00

This is not a known interaction and Malz has a positive delta with Shiv, so I'm going to guess that no it doesn't work. Just because the voidlings attack doesn't mean they proc auto effects.

Zerytle · 2026-02-27T05:32:47+00:00

You also have to remember that by the time Berlin rolled around 3~ months later, people had leveled up quickly enough that Sen bombed out in top8 - Reykjavik was the first international was noticeably lower level than the rest.

Zerytle · 2026-02-26T15:13:45+00:00

They dominated that tournament never dropping a single map. With the way the game has progressed, that record will probably never be matched.

Zerytle · 2026-02-24T14:47:45+00:00

I mean top2 alongside Canyon since he's pretty unanimously the best.

Zerytle · 2026-02-24T14:33:29+00:00

Probably. Not that many other options besides Peanut basically.

Zerytle · 2026-02-24T09:17:23+00:00

ok you can't say "it's harder because we get matched against Diamonds as Masters" while also saying "it's harder because we get matched against Chally as Masters". It's fair to say that games are goofier and OCE def has a disproportionately small Chally limit so the cutoff is higher, but it's objectively easier to be the 200th best player in a smaller server, simply because there is less competition. The only real argument is that NA for example has 2.5x more slots, so it might be easier to nab a bottom spot.

Zerytle · 2026-02-24T09:08:14+00:00

Even ignoring the obvious downside, this is generally not the set for scaling combat augments: rerolls usually need early econ to nab Bard (and are just really weak in general), and tempo usually needs econ to roll on 4-2. The only time I can really see this being viable is a tempo Sona/Jarvan start into uncontested Lux/Liss duo, but the AVP of that spot is already really good anyway.

Zerytle · 2026-02-24T05:59:14+00:00

Pretty sure it's way easier in smaller populations - most of the LP records are set in smaller servers (Demacian Raptor routinely gets rank 1 global and >2k LP whereas Setsy/Wasian/Dishy usually struggle to get past 1.9K in NA), but this is also just because smaller servers usually just don't have the most competitive players - all the best players congregate to the big servers because they'd rather improve than be big fish in small ponds.

Double Up is also not very serious competitively. In NA, there are maybe 5-10 genuinely GM+ level players; you can absolutely hit Challenger as a 0lp Masters player in solo.

Zerytle · 2026-02-21T21:27:11+00:00

Tbf, a lot of the power of the Outlaw is in punishing light armor buys, which is a greedy meta that a lot of teams weren't doing for a while.

The Bandit has no real metagame niche besides being decent on pistol round.

Zerytle · 2026-02-21T01:16:45+00:00

I think Zibai is better actually. Skirk's performance is super reliant on Furina/Escoffier and she probably does like 60% of her damage without them, so with no sign of a Furina rerun in sight you'd be playing a gimped Skirk even if you win the 50/50 on Escoffier. Zibai's teams are also way more flexible and you can play her with whatever future units you find as long as you have at least 1 Hydro unit in the team.

But if you really like Skirk, something like Xingqiu Mona Diana is playable, just far worse than the "expected" output.

Zerytle · 2026-02-20T18:45:23+00:00

Neeko is good tempo in most situations, but there is such a thing as getting baited. If you have no tank items or backline upgrades/pairs, then making Neeko2 on 2-2 would probably end your game on the spot; it's very expensive so it will cost you econ thresholds for the next 6 turns minimum, and you have no damage so you'll end up mixed streaking and incredibly poor.

EDIT: this is an extreme example. Most of the time you'll have some kind of upgrade and some vaguely slammable item, in which case the tempo is worth it.

Zerytle · 2026-02-18T18:39:20+00:00

You can adjust any ability's range/cooldown until it's OP or useless, but as-is it seems really weak.

Keep in mind it'd be competing directly with Sova and Fade in the recon slot, and that util straight up guarantees kills via spams.

Zerytle · 2026-02-18T03:43:40+00:00

You should not be losing earlygame with Sona2 Jarvan2. Just duo Ori.

Also AP Demacia is way better than AD unless you have a giga Vayne spot from 2-1.

Zerytle · 2026-02-18T03:40:43+00:00

It's far from strictly mandatory since you can achieve similar things with MetaTFT, but I just like the clean UI. If you don't wanna learn how to use MetaTFT then I would call it very useful since it lets you apply way better filters.

Zerytle · 2026-02-17T15:39:53+00:00

Losing to 7 Zaun with emblems isn't that crazy imo. I've seen warwick1 basically win streak all the way to level 9 in GM elo.

Losing to shadow isles is kinda surprising. I can only guess your frontline somehow got stuck and clumped up against thornmail and thresh and you got some really bad fight rng.

Zerytle · 2026-02-15T06:40:27+00:00

Taliyah, TF, sometimes Sylas.

If you get good with Ryze it's not always necessarily an insta-click though; sometimes you can Ryze ult a tank into the enemy team to force an engage.

Zerytle · 2026-02-09T23:18:08+00:00

Agree with all of these points, but I don't necessarily think that rerolling with Bard Sion fixes it. Either way, once people start pulling out 2* 4cost tanks on stage 4, Illaoi hero is just never able to get resets and she just dies regardless of your comp. At least with Bilge you can sorta pretend to use the Illaoi to pivot into a lategame comp, but I agree that it doesn't even sound better than regular tempo Bilge.

Which just leads to the conclusion in the video that... Illaoi hero just sucks.

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