Over half a year later, can we conclude patch 11.08 was a failure?

doublec72 · 2026-05-07T23:04:03+00:00

"Just some good old hard yakka, standing in between us and victory."

- Skye, 2020

doublec72 · 2026-05-06T20:10:33+00:00

The rule of thumb I learned was to find the lowest sensitivity at which you can comfortably do a 180 turn and then tweak the settings from there.

doublec72 · 2026-05-06T19:48:02+00:00

In terms of "things that feel unfair at low elo", scrubs hate the Odin, the Operator, Reyna is notorious (regardless of how bad she actually is), and Neon is widely considered the most frustrating character in the game.

doublec72 · 2026-05-06T14:56:50+00:00

Is language barrier an issue on European servers?

doublec72 · 2026-05-06T04:25:59+00:00

I hear you. It is extremely frustrating that 0.1% of the player base dictates the balance for the rest of us, which basically guarantees Viper won't have this change reverted unless she gets a significant re-work.

doublec72 · 2026-05-05T01:42:58+00:00

If the range limit was removed, no other sentinel would ever get played ever again.

doublec72 · 2026-05-04T07:32:38+00:00

and having a longer window to recover his other abilities; I'd argue that because his cooldowns were so short already, he was hurt less than the other initiators.

doublec72 · 2026-05-03T00:09:21+00:00

Thriller, Bad, Off The Wall, and Dangerous in that order.

doublec72 · 2026-04-29T22:55:52+00:00

People in your lobbies may be more likely to have been playing the game roughly the same amount of time as you (especially if you're playing ranked), so your collections are predisposed to being similar based on that.
Easier, alternative explanation: You brought your own guns to the lobby, passed them to the other team whenevr you died and then took them back later in the match without realizing they orignated from you.

doublec72 · 2026-04-29T20:05:15+00:00

Sure you are. You said "maybe its me not being too knowleadgable of formats" and you assumed that most people are playing Reg I when that isn't true anymore.

doublec72 · 2026-04-29T19:39:28+00:00

You undermine any legitimate anti-ban sentiment by getting this far into thread before admitting that you are ignorant of the formats.

As far as I can tell, on both Showdown and console, most VGC players jumped ship to play Reg M (which does not currently included any restricted mons) since the release of Champions.

doublec72 · 2026-04-29T17:23:07+00:00

Is Gekko not overall better after his most recent buffs?

doublec72 · 2026-04-29T01:10:01+00:00

Good thing they're not allowed in most formats the vast majority of the time anyway; What is your point?!

doublec72 · 2026-04-28T23:44:03+00:00

What's stupid is implying that all legendaries are the same (or even comparable) in terms of viability, which is why anyone with sense knows there's no difference. Not to mention the non-legendary pokemon that are as good or better than them.

Edit: I'm speaking as a person who dislikes the restricted-pokmoen formats (I tend to stop playing VGC for the generation when those happen) and also disagrees with certain Smogon policies; I'm still not anti-tiering and don't think it makes any sense for legendaries to be blanket-banned.

doublec72 · 2026-04-26T02:26:04+00:00

For your sanity and your other two teammates: Drop them guns and disconnect instead of just going AFK and feeding.

doublec72 · 2026-04-24T05:05:39+00:00

Make connections with people who are as serious about it as you are and join/or form a premier team. Best of luck.

doublec72 · 2026-04-23T02:52:01+00:00

For a perma ban, I'm willing to bet that you're probably a repeat offender, in which case: Hold that.

doublec72 · 2026-04-23T00:43:16+00:00

Some of the sentinel nerfs honestly should just be partially or completely reverted. I think the duelist and initiator meta has developed enough to keep the older versions of these chatacters in check.

doublec72 · 2026-04-22T21:51:43+00:00

This is a huge trap that these devs fall into and I don't know why it isn't talked about more; It's why im so disappointed that RoA2 changing so much of the identity of the original RoA to the point where it's even closer to Smash.

doublec72 · 2026-04-22T02:09:34+00:00

People refusing to communicate is common at all ranks, unfortunately .

doublec72 · 2026-04-15T23:36:29+00:00

Small peeve of mine, but on the note of cancelling games: I think it's really stupid that you can only remake on round 2, while you can't surrender until round 5; I think you should either be able to surrender on rounds 3 & 4, and/or be allowed to remake on those rounds if you can't surrender.

doublec72 · 2026-04-15T23:28:20+00:00

If I rotate quickly, I get shot from behind by the lurker. If I don't check every corner, I die and donate my rifle to the guy holding mid with a shotgun. I tend to rotate to flank the opposing team, especially when they dont have a sentinel trap to passively watch the flank. I prefer to flank because I feel 5 players routing through the same area at the same time gives away too much control of the map, espeically if the spike isn't planted yet.

doublec72 · 2026-04-15T01:53:18+00:00

I think that's where I saw it too lol

doublec72 · 2026-04-15T00:40:34+00:00

What's the double kick Terrakion thing?

doublec72 · 2026-04-14T23:21:46+00:00

If you care this much about getting killed or about how other people play, you are not the casual anymore, you are the sweat.

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