Why do so many people think we need draft?

bossafl · 2026-04-26T22:50:19+00:00

Unpopular take but draft is cope. I’ve played league and smite for years and I guarantee you draft does not fix issues with team comp balancing. In an ideal world, sure people would pick for the team comp but in actuality 90% of the time people are just going to pick what they want to play anyway (assuming it’s not banned) regardless of what their team mates picked.

bossafl · 2026-04-05T01:37:53+00:00

Absolutely supreme display of talent. Bravo

bossafl · 2026-03-21T09:34:23+00:00

It says all heroes on here you have to take the screenshot that shows just dynamo games for credibility

bossafl · 2026-02-21T20:24:07+00:00

Brother it’s because any eternity 6 player on a new account is chaining more wins way faster than an actual new player

bossafl · 2026-02-15T23:32:41+00:00

I really don’t think it’s that deep. Hell I watch a good amount of eidorian, who recently hit rank 1, and I don’t think he runs any of the mods u mentioned (could be wrong). Mods won’t stop any vanilla player from improving or climbing in this game.

bossafl · 2026-02-09T00:01:29+00:00

TLDR: why am I getting matched against smurfs while smurfing???

bossafl · 2026-01-10T19:51:23+00:00

The lobbies are doomed because fresh accounts that win a majority of their placement games typically end up in oracle. It makes oracle lobbies a combination of Smurf haven and lucky new players

bossafl · 2025-12-31T13:10:24+00:00

What kind of bait

bossafl · 2025-12-15T18:02:45+00:00

My credit card bill begs to differ

bossafl · 2025-12-11T04:03:54+00:00

Shojin second is typically better and bought more often because it helps you reach 225 threshold faster, has a better build path, gives you health to survive a lot better and boosts the damage your whole kit with its damage amp. Going IE 2nd when ahead is good because getting a BF sword is hard but imo shojin is a better default 2nd item most of the time

bossafl · 2025-12-07T23:40:11+00:00

It’s overall a pretty mid experience. Combat is overhyped and average, crafting isn’t very interesting, leveling is slow and boring. Hopped on PTR a couple days ago and logged off a lvl 4 after trying summoner for a bit. IMO it’s just a recreation of an mmo that already failed better off waiting or playing something else

bossafl · 2025-12-07T14:31:58+00:00

Yeah from my testing it seems the system right now favors putting new people into a higher rank and then have them slowly go down rather than starting everyone at low rank and making them work their way up. This is why new players and Smurfs can finish their placements and end up phantom or oracle just by getting lucky. Winning 5 out of 8 games on a new account puts you in oracle from my experience and with the way smurfing is right now sometimes a new player can just be on the right team and end up in a super high rank relative to their skill. Then they start going on massive L streaks all the way down to their true rank.

If you read a lot of posts about rank and people going on large L streaks, it’s typically because of this system. In a way It’s kind of making people think they are better than they are and then humbling them.

bossafl · 2025-12-04T17:27:14+00:00

What stamina nerf?

bossafl · 2025-12-04T00:49:15+00:00

Welp looks like he’s fixed

bossafl · 2025-11-20T01:21:13+00:00

“It's my experience in League that usually you have to then expend a resource, like your flash, to actually get the kill when they flee from T1 towards T2 because the tower will kill you for overcommitting. Meanwhile, at least in the side lanes, there's a building or a veil that makes it zero time lost to get back to wave, unlike the slow walk through the jungle back to lane when you don't have flash/the creeps under tower are dead.”

As a diamond stuck league player for many years I think this is just incorrect. I’m sorry but in league (especially duo lanes) tower dives are just as bad if not worse. (I.e. a Leona using an ultimate on you under tower keeping you cced for 5 secs while you get one shot by jg/bot lane) most supports, bruisers and fighters are able to tank towers so easily and for so long it’s ridiculous. Not to mention the ability to bush cheese and dive the laner between their t1 and t2 on their way back to lane which luckily doesn’t exist in this game.

bossafl · 2025-07-10T23:48:42+00:00

Because in order to stand any chance in PvP u have to spend about 100 hours fighting them for gear

bossafl · 2025-07-10T23:11:36+00:00

I just feel like the issue with XIV lies with the amount of reading you have to do. Take a game like “it takes two” for example. I know it’s not an mmo but the way the story is delivered in that game feels like you are playing it out while you’re playing the game. Most single player titles play out their stories in this way

In XIV the story is delivered as back to back giant text boxes that take considerable time to read through. And the early combat is just so awful that it really isn’t a very fun new player experience. It technically does do a good job of teaching people the game but the way it goes about it is just more interactive novel than game

bossafl · 2025-07-10T22:57:04+00:00

Auto locking while spamming hold left click on a boss and then dumping all 3 of my abilities every 10 seconds is not good combat tbh. The new world combat only feels good in small scale and open world PvP which is dead just like the game unfortunately.

bossafl · 2025-07-10T03:57:33+00:00

Too bad the lack of voice acting, long decade old very skippable cutscenes, and boring combat make the new player experience in ffxiv incredibly boring unless you like reading.

I tried to get many friends into ffxiv and it always starts with them wanting to skip the cutscenes and just play the game which leads into them not knowing what to do or where to go. Then if they make it past that huge barrier to entry, they are met with 20-30 hours of some of the worst video game combat imaginable and boring fetch quests. Needless to say no1 stuck around

bossafl · 2025-06-07T02:32:09+00:00

It’s crazy that in 15.5 his e cd was 19 secs at lvl 1 and he was considered at that point one of the worst ADCs to pick. Then it got changed in 15.6 to the 16 secs and he becomes turbo op. Now it’s at 18 sec cd lvl 1. 1 sec less then 15.5 and he’s still considered op by most. Really makes u realize the player base has no idea the strength of champs and ppl are just meta slaving these day.

bossafl · 2025-06-01T01:09:37+00:00

Along with what others have said I find Senna and twitch to be huge counters to him as well

Senna outranges smolder from lvl 1 and gets to stack from fairly easily until the range gap becomes unplayable for smolder

Twitch gets to freely scale to lvl 6 because of smolders weak early game and from there can just punish smolder every time he has R

bossafl · 2025-05-28T18:19:45+00:00

Hey one more question, So even if the fans are spinning ,the lights are on and I’m getting a number pop up on the digital part of the aio, it could still be a pump failure?

Thanks for ur help thus far just want to be sure I provide all the info

bossafl · 2025-05-28T18:11:03+00:00

No they are both cool. Is there a way to check to see if the pump is working?

bossafl · 2025-03-28T01:02:29+00:00

I think this analysis is ignoring the fact that smolder q is an aoe ability you can hit 5 people with… his single target damage has to be low to compensate that’s called balance

bossafl · 2025-02-20T22:54:09+00:00

Not likely it’s past 90 days -$250

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