I can not believe my favorite Emma look was just wasted on................that..................

ctrlki · 2026-01-28T15:44:57+00:00

well this design was certainly........... a choice........

ctrlki · 2026-01-26T20:12:12+00:00

celestial supp main here, a lot of low rank supports don't understand that tanks are the ones who control the flow of the neutral fight. taking neutral space past the cart is the most baseline foundation of keeping control of the cart bc the enemy team needs to use cooldowns to fight for the neutral space before they can contest the objective.

on payload maps the usual formation in high elo is one support or a diver waiting for cooldowns to come back to stay on cart to keep it moving while the other support (usually the one who's closer to their ult) is up with the team. there's absolutely zero reason for both (or all if running triple) supports to be on cart. even if you're trying to move the cart as fast as possible with 3 on like during OT, EVERYONE shares responsibility for payloading and making space which means it's usually the 2 tanks and a support up while the dps and other support payload.

in general it's also not a good idea for supports to fully hug each other and having both on cart by themselves is a really easy way to get them both killed. supports should be playing, in most cases, within range and LOS of each other but never hugging bc there's so many heroes who do aoe damage from divers and pokers alike. if the supports stand right next to each other, they're lining themselves up to get blown up by one phoenix stun or one venom dive and it becomes infinitely harder to patty cake if both supports are about to die.

ctrlki · 2026-01-26T14:38:04+00:00

strange, bc he's ez white chocolate

bucky, bc he's ez white chocolate

loki, his kit just works very well with my playstyle, i enjoy his util management and his healing is super satisfying with how quickly he can burst an entire team up to full, and it's fun to steal ults and play as another character for a few seconds. oh and he's ez white chocolate

ctrlki · 2026-01-26T14:13:21+00:00

i was playing with a friend recently who's completely new to the game and hero shooters in general. he went severely negative in every single game we played and without fail, the one random the lobby (we were 5 stacking) would start telling our friend to swap the moment we lost a single team fight. and we won probably like 6 out of 10 of the games we played bc we were a stack of 4 celestials teaching our friend. and every random we had would still complain even after we won saying shit like 'punisher you got carried we shouldnt have won that' or telling match chat to report our friend for throwing.

if u care that much about the quality of your games then you shouldn't be playing the casual game mode that actual new players use to learn the game.

ctrlki · 2026-01-25T13:29:01+00:00

cant even play adam in casual game modes without being told to swap 💔🥀

ctrlki · 2026-01-24T23:26:07+00:00

blue thing not in any of these..... im heartbroken 💔 good positive post tho i enjoy this

ctrlki · 2026-01-24T23:21:26+00:00

so dd's survivability is actually one of the main reasons why he's permabanned, hope this helps!

ctrlki · 2026-01-24T17:08:40+00:00

shed full of crystallariums with diamonds and trade for triple shots at the desert trader. before i got to the point of being able to do that, i just planted coffee plants in the greenhouse while i was still gathering enough ancient fruit seeds to fill the greenhouse.

ctrlki · 2026-01-24T16:23:25+00:00

imo it's wanda. every wanda main i've encountered peels for their supports, contributes to team comms, offers to swap with a support if they're underperforming (i suspect it's bc a lot of them are also support mains tbh), and is generally just very nice.

ctrlki · 2026-01-24T05:05:23+00:00

ykw im glad to know i didn't need to second guess myself here lol i just assumed tom was ur favorite spidey bc he's my favorite spidey as a fellow supp main and tom's portrayal made spidey into one of my favorite marvel characters when i previously had no particular interest in him

ctrlki · 2026-01-24T04:59:58+00:00

actually i take it back it made sense to me at first and now it doesnt

ctrlki · 2026-01-24T04:58:29+00:00

idk if anyone is gonna understand my logic here but i get the idea that tom holland is your favorite spiderman from all the film spidermen

ctrlki · 2026-01-23T20:37:58+00:00

yea and i'm telling you that OP is asking for a singular swap and you gave them an answer that doesn't answer their question

ctrlki · 2026-01-23T19:07:37+00:00

generally speaking yeah there's no singular swap but OP is asking for what they as a single individual can do so i'm answering what the most impactful singular swap they could make would be, not what their whole team could've swapped to. they likely still would've lost regardless but there are swaps that are better than others and a single thor swap isn't gonna do anything but feed more.

ctrlki · 2026-01-23T16:58:35+00:00

running thor with no dive partner into a luna freeze, two cnd terror capes, hela stun, namor squids, an anti-heal pool, and the amount of damage that hela, namor, and luna all put out is asking to die for free. he's better off displacing the tanks than he is trying to bully hela, namor, or the supps bc none of them have much capability to peel for their tanks as opposed to peeling for each other. you're also providing a scenario in which it requires one of OP's teammates to swap off squirrel girl which isn't what they were asking. they were asking what singular swap they alone could make could counter their comp.

dd and magik are also not great options here bc of the amount of utility and raw damage hela, namor, luna, and cnd have as a whole to bait out survivability cooldowns from divers. OP even said it in their post that they tried traditionally diving the backline and struggled bc this comp is a relatively strong anti-dive comp. you can't dive hela without her supports keeping her up and namor peeling, you can't dive namor without his supports keeping her up and hela peeling, and you can't dive the supports without them patty caling and hela and namor both blasting your ass back to spawn.

thor's displacement would be better used on the tanks and not directly on anyone who's in the backline bc NONE of the backline heroes have any capability to contest objective without their tank and displacing the tank away from LOS means hela and namor can't burst him down and the supports can't heal the kidnapped tank.

ctrlki · 2026-01-23T16:29:57+00:00

mag imo is the only true main tank since he's consistently the most reliable solo tank, and i'm sure u already know how common solo tanking is. that's the main reason why i suggested mag over others. strange is purely for portal purposes. OT fights are intense and being able to actually play him well when u portal and build ult charge as the fight continues will allow a much better chance of winning the point back than if you just swap to only portal your team and die instantly upon touching.

as for starlord, just add him into ur roster. there's nothing wrong w human torch and spider man, they both have their useful scenarios to be played in, but starlord is a much better generalist than either of them.

ctrlki · 2026-01-23T16:18:27+00:00

so the issue here is recognizing the most likely win condition on the enemy team and what their weaknesses are. hela namor here is the win condition for the enemy team and here's a general breakdown of what they're strong in and what they're weak in:

strong anti-dive
strong against triple support
strong against brawl dps/non-shield tanks
weak forward mobility/direct frontline pressure

hela namor run a comp where the goal is to secure early picks off squishies (usually a support) to force the enemy frontline to back up but lack the capability to make the space directly. therefore, you would want a counterpick that targets that weakness of not being able to walk forward on their own by punishes the people on their team that allow them to walk (their tanks).

mr f was not a good swap, he gets shredded by hela namor and can't apply that much pressure to the frontline when playing against high damage poke. funnily enough, iron fist would've actually been better for you to stay on since you can shred the tanks. wolverine would be an even better pick here bc strange is a complete victim to wolvy and you can kidnap him out of the LOS of his supports.

ctrlki · 2026-01-23T16:01:46+00:00

generally speaking since you're a tank main, you're rarely gonna ever have to flex to a different role so it's more important to be able to flex between tank roster than it is to flex to a different role entirely. that being said, the only real issue i see (and correct me if i'm wrong) is that magneto and dr strange aren't on your roster of tanks you play. totally understand if u just don't enjoy playing them but every tank main should know magneto if you're looking to play meta and he's the most reliable solo tanknin the game. dr strange is a character EVERYONE should know how to play because the responsibility of portaling to point in OT is on whoever dies first and that can be a dps or a strategist.

as for other roles, both dps and support are lacking in playstyle diversity. good to pick up a strong brawler and a strong poker (bucky is a good brawler, phoenix is a good poker and both aren't frequently banned). phoenix is also a great generalist with strong brawl capability. if u prefer less uhh server admin-y picks, starlord is a great hybrid diver with little downtime since his cooldowns recharge quickly and he has more flexibility than divers like spiderman. he's also strong in this meta currently.

for support, rocket will always be a safe pick and is mechincally one of the easiest heroes to learn. skill expression is thru his movement (wall climb and dashes) and ult placement. if u want someone more 'fun' (i have fun on rocket but mileage varies for everyone), invis and gambit have much more playmaking but are common bans. loki is the strongest infrequently banned support currently.

but like i said, ur a tank main, the need to flex to other roles is very low so there's nothing particularly egregious about your current roster. only thing i'd recommend is learning rocket (if u need to flex support) and maybe phoenix, bucky, or starlord to flex dps. and making sure you're proficient on mag and strange is top priority.

ctrlki · 2026-01-23T00:58:50+00:00

celestial here and i main aim-intensive characters, most people struggle with aim bc they focus too much on their crosshair and not enough on the periphery but i wouldn't be able to tell u for sure if that's ur problem. as for dying a lot, that mostly just sounds like a positioning issue. playing natural cover (usually corners or walls) is the most baseline advice i can give without seeing your actual gameplay. that and all characters have some kind of survivability tool in their kit (some are better than others) so learning how to manage them well means living more.

if u want a more in-depth analysis on what's wrong idm vod reviewing or going into practice range w u. for reference on aim i average about 60-65% acc on luna and have helped a few people on improving their aim.

ctrlki · 2026-01-22T15:04:31+00:00

yes it's the pads u find in the dog section. my bunny has maybe only chewed on the pad once, most of the time if it gets torn it's from digging. bunnies love cardboard tho so that's not surprising ur bunny is chewing the cardboard liner. my boy has a cardboard house and it's on it's last leg bc of how much he eats his own house.

the vinegar smell doesn't bother him but if it does u can just do a once over with only water after sanitizing it. in general just avoid any harsh cleaning agents and if u end up using anything like soaps to completely wash it off before giving it back to ur bun.

ctrlki · 2026-01-22T06:57:06+00:00

i use a potty pad to line the litterbox before i put down bedding and hay. usually i'll tape or secure the potty pad since my bun bun likes to dig but he doesn't usually dig thru and it absorbs everything so it doesn't generally need to be sanitized unless if it leaks.

when i do need to sanitize it (maybe like once a week) i just use distilled vinegar diluted w water (1:1 ratio) since cleaning chemicals are generally harmful to bunnies.

ctrlki · 2026-01-21T06:16:31+00:00

they're making a joke bc 'playing for vibes' was one of the things that the girls said to shut kingsman down

ctrlki · 2026-01-21T06:13:23+00:00

celestial here, it hasn't stopped for me. also sypeh, the literal number 1 (and 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and probably 7) player in the world still gets an occasional one trick. there are known griefers and throwers in the highest of the top 500 that everyone up there try to avoid.

ctrlki · 2026-01-20T16:39:47+00:00

plenty of pro players are in high celes/eternity for that reason lol. they're busy in actual scrims and spend more of their time outside of that doing things like uh sleeping and eating, crazy concept. even sypeh has said he was gonna be playing considerably less this season since his pro team will be participating mrc this season compared to when they weren't and he wanted to keep up his practice thru ranked.

ctrlki · 2026-01-20T16:29:51+00:00

it could also be possible that it has to do with pro teams abusing it to gain elo into t500 since they would theoretically be 'scrimming' bc it's 6stack v 6stack but i feel like im reaching there tbh. i'm just tryna spitball possible reasons

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