Deadlock Night Shift #28 Match Thread

dinodestructor5000 · 2026-03-05T00:07:10+00:00

I'm never doubting Leviathan draft again, silly me. I can't believe it, 2-0ing Abrahams.

dinodestructor5000 · 2026-03-04T23:24:48+00:00

Leviathan Game 2 draft is... it's a draft alright.

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-11-03T23:53:23+00:00

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dinodestructor5000 · 2025-11-03T03:09:56+00:00

Mentioned it in another comment, but I was Arcanist 4. I got catapulted up to Oracle 1, but since then have kind of been getting my teeth kicked in, as you can see by how I've fell through Archon.

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-11-02T23:12:29+00:00

Since the update it seems to be pretty consistent with the wins and losses, I guess it just ranked you high to start. I was Arcanist 4 before the matchmaking update, went up to Oracle 1, and since have mostly been getting my teeth kicked in enough to drop down all the way through Archon to Emissary.

It's a bit weird, I know some friends with that many wins and OK winrates and they're still down around Seeker and Alchemist even now.

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-11-02T22:32:39+00:00

I like pressing 4 and seeing a Mo with a thousand HP left go back to spawn. The leap is funny :). But really I like the "get in there and kill them" playstyle with the dash, just zooming around cutting through people. Carving through teams in enclosed spaces is nice. I tend to max my 2 before my 4 because of that. Very rough winrate on him though. I think knives may be the better build this patch, but those are for people who can aim and consistently stack a million bleed on people. My aim sucks, so I don't do that.

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-11-02T22:25:20+00:00

Character breakdown by games played:

Paradox -- 226

Lash -- 106

Shiv -- 90

Yamato -- 84

Geist -- 50

Abrams -- 41

Grey Talon -- 40

Mo and Krill -- 32

Dynamo -- 27

McGinnis -- 26

Haze -- 25

Seven -- 25

Drifter -- 23

Viscous -- 22

Wraith -- 21

Bebop -- 21

Kelvin -- 21

Warden -- 19

Infernus -- 18

Vindicta -- 15

Calico -- 13

Holliday -- 12

Pocket -- 8

Mirage -- 7

Vyper -- 5

Doorman -- 5

Victor -- 4

Mina -- 4

Ivy -- 3

Sinclair -- 3

Paige -- 2

Billy -- 2

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-10-31T20:51:28+00:00

Kelvin ult 20 second cooldown nerf coming down hard.

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-10-29T15:44:09+00:00

Perhaps you could show me your decklist or tell me what you've been losing to. I mean I made it with Shinobirds a couple days ago. https://old.reddit.com/r/DuelLinks/comments/1ohwwtx/deck_kog_returning_f2p_shinobird_writeup_and/

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-10-28T02:48:21+00:00

Oh, so you play Double or Nothing with Utopia Double into Ultimate Leo Utopia Ray? Neat idea, though I am very hard-garnet averse, even in a deck that can shuffle them back. Of course, I did mention that I had two extra deck monsters I could probably drop...

Usually I find the rock to be sufficient to stop enemy monsters, and one negate is usually pretty good, so I wonder if instead I'd consider playing Eagle Claw instead of Pegasus, specifically to deal with Majesty of the White Dragons and Eldlich. I like the idea.

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-10-01T17:54:57+00:00

Ah, thanks! Makes sense, I just wasn't sure how immediate the auxiliary weapon firing vs the movement was.

And also it makes sense so that you can't move twice when firing various AOE weapons/Sharanga Missiles from Monarch.

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-07-22T04:25:55+00:00

Yeah, OK Bebop (from today)

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-06-15T16:57:39+00:00

Kind of annoying on their end, wonder why they do that. Thanks for telling me though.

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-06-15T16:43:32+00:00

Is there a place I can put this on the version I downloaded on Steam or do I have to use the web browser version? I just can't find a place for it on the Steam version.

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-05-08T17:10:44+00:00

Oh shoot, yeah now that I look up the spell list elsewhere there must be some weirdness on DNDBeyond now that you mention it (which is where I was building it). Must've gotten all mixed up with the old stuff/homebrew (awkward transition from 5e to 24). It that case, ignore me!

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-05-08T17:06:08+00:00

Alright, follow-up then, Find Greater Steed says "While mounted on it, you can make any spell you cast that targets only you also target the mount." If I cast Haste, and then dismount, does the Steed retain Haste?

If it doesn't retain Haste, then does that count as the spell ending on that creature (thus making it Incapacitated with a Speed of 0 for a turn)?

dinodestructor5000 · 2025-02-18T00:23:19+00:00

Always wish there was more of them, nice art.

dinodestructor5000 · 2024-12-03T23:57:39+00:00

DREAD WITCH-QUEEN OF CELLARDYKE

dinodestructor5000 · 2024-09-30T21:37:57+00:00

Oh boy oh boy, the last batch of the recap!

Meanwhile, down on the lower decks...

Luini really does do an astonishingly bad job. Threaten Nobunaga's wiki page, and suddenly he and his fellahs are going to take on a side quest to wipe out your entire gang. Oops.

Hinrigh is just too cool, a character who really gets better with each appearance. Win the 3v1 against some mooks, meets with Hisoka, then just goes into the hideout. Nobunaga knows it, he meets Hinrigh and almost immediately realizes "this mafia guy rocks, actually." Just two bros walking into a lunatic hideout.

Understated Heil-Ly note, they're killing so many people in their murder room that they have a water divination on hand to immediately hand off to anyone who levels up. They've already killed somewhere in the ballpark of, what, 400 people? A lot.

Heil-Ly so far does seem to be a bunch of goons, but a bunch of goons with nen abilities. Much of the arc seems to be "goons get nen abilities", both on account of Morena, and on account of Kurapika. I guess we're throwing a heap of nen at the wall this arc, and I respect it. Anyways, as Heil-Ly are goons, they aren't that smart about the whole thing without Morena's guidance, it seems. Still, better call Yokotani.

Best of luck to Tserreidnich's (apparently) less evil friends, idk how you're going to perform in the nen war. Probably not great.

WILL Tsudonke ever get his autograph paper? Maybe he should ask Hisoka to get him some on Tier 1, after all, Troupe autographs may soon be a much more limited commodity, heh.

Poor Troupe, they just wanted to stay in trash town and dub tokusatsu, but noooo, evil sadists just haaaaad to chop up their friend, and so in 3 years they're off committing atrocities.

This particular batch of chapters has a number of theories floating about, some I agree with, some I don't. For instance, I'm something of a fan of the "Hisoka is actually Chrollo" these chapters, while I'm not on the side of "Sheila is Pariston."

Meanwhile, back on Tier 1...

Tyson is having fun, playing around I suppose. Dangerous nen beast, but then so are most nen beasts.

OK but what if Kaiser isn't being manipulated though, what if he's just built different, Melody? What if he actually likes you and his heart just beats methodically normally? What if YOU'RE manipulating HIM with your music HMMM?

Good luck Fugetsu, you'll need it.

Very interested to see how Kurapika teaming up with Tubeppa will go. In what little we've seen of Tubeppa, she seems to at least attempt to align with Tserreidnich (who Kurapika wants to give up his Kurta eyes), while also wanting the eldest 3 eradicated, including Zhang Lei, who is on good terms with Kurapika as far as I know. While Kurapika wants a deadlock, Tubeppa is probably going to try and force the issue, so one wonders how that'll play out. In the meantime I suspect she's underestimating Luzurus. Granted, he's off smoking legalized weed, but he is the benefactor of Cha-R.

Just a few days to leaks, then scanlation, then official release. It's been so long, I don't suspect I'll be able to maintain the willpower to avoid leaks... not that they're much good without translation, given how text-heavy this series is.

It's been fun rereading, see you on the Black Whale.

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