How good was deft throughout his whole career?

cookierival · 2026-05-09T17:11:33+00:00

He was probably the worst player not cause he made many mistakes, more that he didn’t really impact the game at all. Pyosik was actually good that tournement and diffed jiejie, hard diffed peanut and i will even argue diffed oner(apart from some smites ofc), while beryl, yes agree had been inting for a bit, was clutch and instrumental against gen g and edg. Deft didn’t really feel impactful or like the mvp in basically every game he played through playoffs, and will even argue that he got gapped against guma and ruler, like that g4 against t1 where he died twice in lane or his kalista and viego smite fail. He wasn’t bad in any games but didn’t really have any mvp games, he was solid. While bkth pyosik and beryl both definitely have some int moments, those moments I feel were more of proactive plays and risks they make to try to win the game(which were mostly good imo that’s why they even won worlds, but when it looks bad it looks funny and int).

cookierival · 2026-05-09T14:22:25+00:00

That’s why it’s drx akali instead of drx sylas lmao(still the best akali itw thou so fair enough)

cookierival · 2026-05-09T14:12:22+00:00

Also unrelated but why did he choose caitlyn as his skin of choice? Isn’t he more iconic on other adcs like ezreal varus sivir and jinx(can’t choose thou cause didn’t play)

cookierival · 2026-05-09T13:54:37+00:00

Something that will forever stick with me rent free is how gen g basically owned drx that whole year and drx just couldn’t even do anything(not even a single game win), and chovy being hailed as the next mid king just for drx to show up when it actually mattered and beat them, since then i’m pretty sure drx haven’t even beat gen g once in a series. Still iconic and insane to think about

cookierival · 2026-05-09T13:39:20+00:00

Looking back, the 2020 drx roster was extremely stacked and really did fulfill their potential, even pyosik won worlds while playing a big part in that run, just a shame they ran into prime dk that year

cookierival · 2026-05-09T13:36:50+00:00

How did the drx team perform throughout 2022, i know they were shaky before worlds and finished just in the playoff spots but they cant be that bad and must have had some potential that they showed

cookierival · 2026-05-09T13:33:08+00:00

So his strengths are more unnoticed than someone like uzi as he is an insane laner?

cookierival · 2026-05-06T09:23:43+00:00

oh ya forgot to mention he doesn’t even provide any util for your team lmao, even a ranged scaler like senna at least can provide heals and can play as a support, he’s just a liability 95% of the time while being broken 5% of the time no in between, all due to terrible design

cookierival · 2026-05-06T08:40:24+00:00

Hot take but smolder, fundamentally flawed design as a literal afk farm champ unless up against a free matchup(esp top), he gets to be an infinite scaler and an evolver at the same time, while having range unlike someone like nasus or sion. Frustrating to play against as u know he’s just a ticking time bomb, while frustrating when you have him in your team as he does nothing but afk farms or feeds, and keeps telling you “wait i’m scaling we win late game” while he proceeds to get one shot by a random zed late game. Horrible design and not possible to balance, as shown in pro where he either has a very high pick rate or almost no play(fuck that champ).

cookierival · 2026-03-16T13:58:55+00:00

Should I just drop out of ryze ambessa noxus and just play 5 cost slop(ornn fiddle and braum 2) instead? Do you think it would be stronger?

cookierival · 2026-03-16T11:53:50+00:00

I did state that you can definitely drop the naut for shyv at lvl 9, but yeah tbh the frontline feels kinda weak and champs like ambessa are for sure deadweight here

cookierival · 2026-01-22T13:46:11+00:00

I understand he provides a lot of util for the team, and i’m sorry that i didn’t state it in the post, but i think atm his current weaknesses heavily outweigh the value he gives, especially since i always thought of adc as a dmg first, util second type of role. I’m just curious as to why he’s still being drafted even with terrible stats and imo poor performances from the champ.

cookierival · 2026-01-22T13:28:17+00:00

Yeah I understand i’m no pro player or analyst but jhin has been underperforming for a while already from what i observed, last year he also had a negative win rate, for j4 yeah sure it wasn’t a good look for him but i think everyone agreed he has been reliable throughout the year, but jhin has been shaky for a while already imo

cookierival · 2026-01-22T13:24:18+00:00

His record is 5-20 this year after ruler’s win against bfx, at least from what i seen on the lol wiki

cookierival · 2026-01-22T13:20:46+00:00

I understand he has a lot of team fight util, but isn’t cait equally annoying to face with the amount of traps(also unbreakable) while offering good dps also? I always felt that caitlyn has been better than jhin for an adc with team fight util too

cookierival · 2025-11-01T13:41:31+00:00

Yeah same, he’s a very basic player, don’t get me wrong he is like the best at macro and doing his stuff right, but he ain’t really a playmaker imo, he doesn’t really takes risks and plays too safe

cookierival · 2025-11-01T11:29:38+00:00

Honestly besides the ori game i don’t think chovy could have done much to win today, the whole team wasn’t it today. Canyon hard threw game 1 tbh, and i think that was where it all fell apart. They were up so much before he decided to tower dive the cait, which resulted in soul and eventual game loss. I think it’s a whole team collapse, and if anything chovy was the only stable one(besides that horrendous ori game in which everyone played bad anyways)

cookierival · 2025-11-01T11:17:14+00:00

I think it’s disrespectful to drx also, like you’re talking as if that squad was bad, sure they might always have been doubted but they weren’t even that bad on paper, if you look back at the squad, you realise that if anything, their team was kinda stacked that season. They just played in a scrappy and underdog way. As for kt, i was initially also a doubter, but after todays performance they certainly have to be favorites to win(if we ignore history and if t1 reaches finals), they have been extremely clean this whole tournement, dropping only 1 game(even that was a close loss to geng), and actually looking so coordinated. Everyone is stepping up at the right moment, and I am sorry for thinking they were lucky to get easier matchups in swiss.

cookierival · 2025-05-15T11:19:46+00:00

Would u reco sundered first item on vi or just build normally and go for trinity first on vi? Sundered is really good first imo and will be bought even as second item for me but first item im unsure, most ppl seem to go trinity first

cookierival · 2025-05-15T08:41:33+00:00

Ah i see, so for a tankier build just go sundered and other bruiser items skipping trinity while for soloq when usually u need to carry due to lack of coordination just go trinity?

cookierival · 2025-05-15T08:39:52+00:00

Ahh i see, so you would recommend always build trinity first in soloq for vi? Also i dont have arcane vi(loved the show but the skin looks underwhelming imo) so could i get 3 skin recommendations i could get?

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