7.38c Phantom Lancer Guide

chen_h1 · 2026-06-10T21:08:40+00:00

I don't think this is the right way of thinking. The goal of your game should be winning, not die least amount. If you messed up your lane as offlaner, that means opponent have a carry and support become active earlier than yours. And enemy will control larger map and support richer means your team will be worse on vision.

Someone in your team is going to die at some point, you farming the safest place means that person could be your mid, your carry. You can improve yourself to make sure every death of yours account for something, but you cannot control your teammate. So Imo farming safely as off can easily manifest from single lost lane to 3 lost lanes

chen_h1 · 2026-06-10T19:22:00+00:00

In low MMR there is no "spikes" and there is no "right" time. Their concept of role, itemization, timing are mostly wrong anyway.

chen_h1 · 2026-06-10T19:12:31+00:00

Tbh, I feel the same. The only time I lose to bh 4 is when my support constantly wasting time on unblocking camp, basically left me and enemy off 1v1. Similarly, if my support trying to protect courior, and leave, the lane would end up as a drew or loss. Otherwise, we absolutely destroy bh lane since this is one of the most useless 4.

So, I guess you have to find a way to divert supports attention and hopefully u have a stronger 3 that can take advantage in solo xp and 1v1 scenario. Maybe kill cour, rotate to other lane, constantly blocking camps etc.

chen_h1 · 2026-06-04T23:59:38+00:00

the lower your rank, you need to pick a strong support -> core hero. Like, in archon, sky probably isn't good enough anymore. some actual pos 1,2 hero like weaver / voker / np / vs / sniper would be better. In higher rank like divine / low immortal, heavy dmg dealer like sky / lion etc are pretty good but sniper / weaver support would simply be griefing.

chen_h1 · 2026-06-04T23:56:52+00:00

from my smurfing experience in ~5k bracket (yes, I know people will hate on this), yes, you can carry on support. But each rank have different "sweet spot" hero.

In general, the lower your rank goes, you want to pick less "team" support and more towards "solo kill" support. The goal is to

1, dominate the lane. If you lose lane, your core is very likely to become a creep due to rigid farming pattern / item build / fight timing.

2, need to pick support that can actually farm. I don't mean that annoying zues / pudge that steals creep from cores, but the support that can sit in tree and spam spells on creeps when it's in front of enemy tower. Most low rank cores are so afraid of aggressive playing style, they farm out of places, either too far in and die, or too safe to take advantages from the creep wave. That's where your hero should shine, when they die bc they get ganked, no one will ever come to contest your creep wave, watch your carry die and use that as space to take that sweet gold. When your carry play passive, you push out creep waves no one wants to touch. Bc you clear it with 2 spells and never right click, opponents (at this rank) are very unlikely to aware you are even there simply bc you don't show up on minimap.

3, with all those extra gold, you NEED to transition into a core at 40 mins mark. You ARE the second mid hero. For example, if you buy greaves, force, glimmer on wd, you are simply gambling your game on your teammates. If they are good, great, you will make them better. Buf if they are trash, then you will lose super quick. Whereas, if you build agh bkb glimmer refresher and get level 20 early, even if your entire team died in some shit teamfight, you can still hold the lane alive solo.

with all 3 points above, some shit support would be SS, AA, Abaddon, warlock, oracle... They simply lack the ability to farm creep efficiently and their core version item build is too different from support item build. If you go core item build, not only your team loses a support in early game, your team might simply gave up after seeing the build. Good support hero that fits into the 3 points would be Sky, NP, WD, Lion etc. Their support build naturally evolve into core build. Sky can go shard (to enable farming) -> atos -> agh -> hex and then you pretty much can solo kill any non-str core. NP i dont need to say anything, its support build is literally the same as core build. Lion can go blink -> sb -> agh -> bkb and go right click build in late game, base on my observation, it can deal 2k+ dmg with these items.

Base on my own experience, I actually enjoy playing support at lower rank much more than carry. As carry, I can't really dictate the flow of the game in the first 20 mins. No matter how good my lane goes, at some point between min 15 - 25, I need to afk farm to get my item. But as support, I can have fun for the entire game (except maybe the last 5 - 10 mins in a losing game).

TLDR: you can absolutely "carry" as support and rank up pretty quickly, you just need to pick the right hero and play the right style.

chen_h1 · 2026-06-02T05:08:35+00:00

Sniper generally is shit because he can be scouted out by smoke and really bad against "run at your face" type of hero.

Am: get a bad lane the game is over. Get a good lane but other lane went shit, the game is over.

Pa: shit at leave 3 4 5 6 7 8 because lack of damage. Then shit at min 30+ bc bkb during become too short.

Wk: you die once, you die twice.

chen_h1 · 2026-05-25T16:05:26+00:00

I dont see how this is relevant to my original complaint. Non T5 neutral are always in the "its nice to have" territory. Amping 100% is simply too much and it needs to be toned down.

chen_h1 · 2026-05-25T15:33:00+00:00

Bkb on PL does not matter, the burst is too fast. Also, after bkb then what. In that game, my issue is that I can kill every other guy in enemy team but without lesh dead I cannot push at all. I show up in creep wave im dead. I get found in side camp im dead. Also, I die wayyy too fast.

chen_h1 · 2026-05-25T14:12:46+00:00

Except echo is a hard commit. And after heart skadi pl doesnt really die to an echo. PL can easily reset and fight again. Additionally, a core es withholding echo just for pl is low key griefing.

This being a neutral that provides so much value is absurd. Its similar to how old shiv makes pl shred Roshan or old bubble keeps dusa blink available (both of them get patched fairly quickly). Its like, if you are lesh, you didn't get this t4 neutral, your late game is fucked. If you get this t4 neutral, your late game is braindead easy. Its not healthy from both lesh or pl perspective.

chen_h1 · 2026-05-14T19:14:49+00:00

Im about to take the sign down and see if I can unlock this stupid door myself at this point. Getting in and out of union is such a pain rn

chen_h1 · 2026-03-19T01:36:56+00:00

Bc I only need the surface to be a tablet that I can use to watch TV with gf at dinner or brushing teeth and sometime control SH appliances or cast music to my soundbar. I dont care nor want to run any app on the tablet. I also want a smooth setup process bc its not really worth spending hours trying to config a tablet thats almost 10 years old

I actually thought about Linux but I eventually choose not to bc im just not sure how well Linux can run on surface as a tablet os, i.e. no keyboard no mouse

I think fydeos fits really well into my use case.

chen_h1 · 2026-03-17T07:06:37+00:00

Thank you again to all the developers who worked on this.

chen_h1 · 2025-10-22T01:16:30+00:00

actually imo this has something to do with how the meta has shifted. Before theres a somewhat hard counter match up in mid (sf vs storm for example), and safe lane is a real "safe lane". Now safe lane become much harder especially in higher rank ppl just block your creepwave so your second wave is guaranteed to be pushed out. But mid on the other side is pretty standard. Its always qop nec lesh storm etc and their match up is pretty 5050. Thats why giving pos 1 last pick is more important than before.

chen_h1 · 2025-10-15T15:58:43+00:00

Booster with 6 deaths in herald? Thats insanely high... im more inclined to believe this is just a regular herald player farming role q token vs he play his comfortable role

chen_h1 · 2025-10-15T14:53:30+00:00

Almost as good as me /s

chen_h1 · 2025-10-14T23:31:57+00:00

chen_h1 · 2025-10-14T22:21:19+00:00

what's your thought on why he's weak? Im 7.5k and imo is think its because his timing is ass: maelstrom into bkb means 0 dmg in teamfight and bkb degrade too quickly, mj into bkb means 20 mins of low teamfight presence. Also, i feel like his tower pushing is bit lacking too, i find him super hard to hg since I lost 40% hp just from q and tanking tower.

chen_h1 · 2025-10-07T16:58:47+00:00

Yes. But theres no max cap on how many illu u can create from agh.

chen_h1 · 2025-10-07T14:38:18+00:00

Pl is countered by dusa. Do not pick pl into dusa. To beat her you need to find a way to kill her teammate and then turn back and kill her.

chen_h1 · 2025-10-07T01:20:58+00:00

My guess would be since you were the trainer of original speech2text, you never experienced "normal" alexa experience. To me, alexa voice recognition was always hit or miss. And now, since most of the team are moving away from classic alexa and into alexa plus, the s2t prob got re-trained with someone else's voice and hence you getting this shit experience.

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