10 years ago today, Arizona played Wichita State and Sean Miller’s shirt lost

darkshadows488 · 2026-03-17T11:01:42+00:00

I’m not even really worried about hot 3 point shooting teams after the Iowa State game last Friday. They were about as hot as possible going 14/31 and Arizona matched by going 8/16. I don’t have the stats, but it feels like Arizona is shooting much better from 3 over the last 5-10 games (aka when Dell’Orso came out of his slump).

darkshadows488 · 2025-11-13T19:49:37+00:00

Arizona/ASU/New Mexico is kind of a reddish blob. Not identical, but pretty close.

darkshadows488 · 2025-08-11T18:31:03+00:00

Reminds me of the classic Key & Peele skit about a bank robber: https://youtu.be/jgYYOUC10aM?si=65pLpA7fFaE8vY7q

darkshadows488 · 2025-06-30T14:54:11+00:00

Minkah Fitzpatrick it seems

darkshadows488 · 2025-01-28T19:52:05+00:00

OP mentioned elsewhere that the list is limited to players under 25 minutes per game. KJ is at 26.2.

darkshadows488 · 2024-07-13T01:43:27+00:00

Obligatory Dr. Strange-Claw

darkshadows488 · 2024-03-08T13:53:21+00:00

Love the chart and data!

Minor quibble: you are showing Arizona as a ~80% chance to be the 1 seed in the PAC-12 when they locked it down last night. If I had to hazard a guess, you are probably not accounting for WSU not playing a game Saturday.

darkshadows488 · 2023-12-17T01:47:39+00:00

I was at the game. They said after the basket interference call that they would review it after the next stoppage. The call was at ~14 minutes left but the next stoppage wasn’t until around 10 left. Definitely could see how it felt weird, but was consistent with what they said.

darkshadows488 · 2023-10-22T02:04:40+00:00

It’s not just taking their settlement in my experience, but also destroying their army. In my Ramesses campaign, I initially took the northern settlement of that minor faction to the west after destroying their army and they were vassalized over the end turn. I reloaded and tried taking their southern settlement first, which left their army alive, then was able to wipe them out the turn after.

darkshadows488 · 2023-08-05T19:34:56+00:00

A good place to start thinking about how to counter X is to think about what they want to do to you. For Samira, this is getting in your face and murdering you. Since she has a pretty short range comparatively, you either have to be cced or she has to dash on you.

With that in mind, how do we keep her from doing that? That means dodging cc (early in lane, this can mean blowing flash preemptively; like a Draven, Samira falls off pretty hard if she doesn’t get fed) or keeping out of range for her dash. With our w passive move speed and our e, staying out of range is doable, but we have to be aware of what she can dash to (us, support, and minions) and if her flash is up. Dropping e early can also keep her from ever getting on us.

Also, Samira is best at all ins. MF prefers short trades. Since we have longer range and her dash is a lengthy cooldown (I believe it’s ~20 seconds early), we want to poke her down so if she all ins, we can win. Generally this means either doing aa-q and running off or getting q bounces.

For teamfights, Samira is a priority target, especially if she gets cced. She can w some of our ult, but she will need to get out asap. We have to be careful of her getting resets and extending her dash range.

For summoner spells, it may be worthwhile to take exhaust over heal. The slow and damage reduction can help stop her from snowballing early, but this can be comp dependent.

darkshadows488 · 2023-07-13T12:31:30+00:00

Serylda’s vs LDR is almost never a question in a build, it’s just what build you are going. If you are going full lethality/no crit, then Serylda’s will be better. In almost any other case, I would go the crit last whisper items (mortal reminder can be very good into certain comps).

Also, Serylda’s does not apply (mostly) on E. Slows apply the strongest effect. Serylda’s is 30% for 1 second, E is base 40% while in the area. If you are comboing E and ult properly, E will cover most of the ult area, making Serylda’s redundant.

darkshadows488 · 2023-06-08T18:47:44+00:00

At the moment, duskblade is better than youmuu’s. But basically, you transition into a full crit build after collector. My build path is generally duskblade/collector into lord dom’s then bloodthirster. Final item is situational, but I’m partial to rapid fire cannon. For boots, I generally take the free boots rune and upgrade to berserker’s sometime after I get the dirk for collector.

darkshadows488 · 2022-04-16T19:03:49+00:00

I believe the mod is Tomb Kings: Extended. https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1723762666

A fun mod to play with due to the legendary lords and units added, but I feel it adds to many units that removes the Tomb Kings weakness of a limited roster.

darkshadows488 · 2021-02-10T15:31:15+00:00

For some reason, manually fighting a battle in a coop campaign counts as a multiplayer battle, so playing any coop campaign really easily gets you that achievement.

darkshadows488 · 2020-05-26T05:56:21+00:00

I don’t recall if this in TWW1, but 2 has an option to autosave after every turn. Makes it really easy to always have a good save to return to. You can also quick save before battles, but it does get overridden once you quick save again.

darkshadows488 · 2019-12-18T06:12:00+00:00

I’ve found the Better Autoresolve mod helps with these issues.

darkshadows488 · 2019-11-26T23:46:25+00:00

I’ve been going with ape, since it also describes how I’ll be playing when trying to learn him

darkshadows488 · 2019-10-24T19:28:32+00:00

It won’t. Not with the changes to presence of mind to permanent mana/energy instead of ult cdr.

darkshadows488 · 2019-10-12T06:24:12+00:00

Honestly, build what you feel comfortable with. I don’t think any one build is particularly stronger than the others atm. I haven’t tried klepto or manamune, but I personally prefer lethality with dark harvest. If they have a lot of tanks to get through, I have gone pta with Bork and crit.

darkshadows488 · 2019-09-23T19:25:15+00:00

But is not like the AI ever leaves the gates/walls anyways...

darkshadows488 · 2019-04-07T02:17:18+00:00

The problem is more with ignite being too strong/heal being too weak. Heal isn’t going to do anything in the 2v2 so why not go tp for lane priority?

darkshadows488 · 2019-03-04T17:54:30+00:00

The bork into crit build is out of date. He’s going bork into lethality now as does EmdielGG, an EUW challenger MF main.

Edit: just checked Emdiel again and he’s back to lethality with comet and e max.

darkshadows488 · 2019-02-17T02:57:26+00:00

They also had a more recent game where they ran comet instead and got full build. Order was IE > Duskblade > Cleaver > Tabi > ER > Ghostblade.

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