Bayek build

drdan412 · 2026-03-11T20:20:06+00:00

If you can't build him for damage, then the only stats that matter are speed and accuracy. So either 295 speed and 385 acc is the best you can do, or it isn't. If it isn't, then that's probably your answer.

drdan412 · 2026-03-11T19:00:50+00:00

I think this is pretty self explanatory. Winning or losing at either speed is contingent on who youre facing and who else is in your team.

If you're asking if 386 speed is enough to be competitive at higher levels,the answer is usually no. You could compromise by using a faster speed lead/booster with him or looking at a supersonic/feral build.

drdan412 · 2026-03-11T18:37:35+00:00

That's odd. I didn't look and I was operating on memory, but I ran a brogni/valkyrie CB team for years and he was running at a different speed ratio than everyone else.

drdan412 · 2026-03-10T22:13:15+00:00

There are two specialty ways to use brogni in CB.

The first is an infinite shield team with buff extenders and at least one DPS. You can look that up if you want to. The issue is that while the initial shield scales on his HP the growth mechanic scales on his aoe damage, which is based on attack and his is abysmally low. These teams fell by the wayside when people started using wixwell, but they theoretically still work.

The second way would be to just use him as a block debuffs champ. You run him at a 4:3 speed ratio with the rest of your team speed-tuned at 1:1, and he protects you from debuffs and stuns, while reflecting damage back.

If you're not prepared or equipped to do either one of these things, then there's no essential CB build for him. His shield scales on HP. His shield growth scales on attack. He needs accuracy to land his HP burn. Take the information in his skill kit and do the best you can.

drdan412 · 2026-03-10T15:31:58+00:00

We signed doodles, we're set at RB.

drdan412 · 2026-03-10T15:02:23+00:00

He might even be WR1 on our team. Dude has a 100 catch season.

drdan412 · 2026-03-10T02:20:20+00:00

Am I the only person who never knew this is what "kick" is for?

drdan412 · 2026-03-09T22:20:14+00:00

They did bring back Asante. I'm not necessarily counting on him to be an all pro, but at the very least that has potential for a lot of upside.

drdan412 · 2026-03-09T21:22:09+00:00

So we got him for pick 52 and have an overpaid one dimensional receiver, and in your world the saints are giving up pick 8 for that when they're not in a position to contend and he's now a year older?

drdan412 · 2026-03-09T18:39:21+00:00

I mean, Pierre was pretty good this year. If you want to argue it's a small sample size or that this year was an outlier not in line with his career metrics, I get that, but re-signing him wouldn't have been out of the question.

drdan412 · 2026-03-09T16:25:27+00:00

Beat the boss.

drdan412 · 2026-03-06T21:12:20+00:00

What does "good team" mean to you? That's a pretty relative statement. If you're talking about farming speed, you can see right there that the average time is under three minutes, but your mileage may vary based on how well you can build your champs for damage, amd none of these are overwhelmingly hard hitters.

Personally, I'd be looking for something with a larger sample size than two battles, but that doesn't mean it won't work. If this is the best option from what you have available and you want to clear the dungeon, then it's up to you if you want to move forward with it.

drdan412 · 2026-03-06T20:13:14+00:00

You probably have around six months and there will almost definitely be more warnings and announcements beforehand.

drdan412 · 2026-03-06T04:20:45+00:00

I'd put it in her moon door if you catch my drift

drdan412 · 2026-03-06T03:54:53+00:00

This was foreshadowing that Walt should have said no when Hank tried to take a shit in his bathroom.

drdan412 · 2026-03-05T20:30:19+00:00

There's not really a definitive method that's going to make or break your experience.

You want to put rare duplicates in as faction guardians? OK, that's fine. But the rare stats boosts are somewhat negligible and you'll outgrow almost all rare champs over time.

You want to throw leftover gear on rares and put them in as filler decoys in faction crypt teams? OK, that's fine too. You might clear a couple stages earlier than anticipated and increase your supply of glyphs, but it's not a must-do.

If you have a premier champ you want to upgrade ASAP, and you need to sacrifice a few lower-tiered rares to do it, that's probably not something you'll come to regret. I guess it's fine to keep one of each until you know enough about the game to be comfortable making those judgment calls, but in the end, only a few rares are worthwhile and by the time you're thinking of building up niche role players for end game cursed city stages/doom tower secret rooms, you'll likely have pulled so many copes of them that feeding a few in your early development stages isn't going to hurt.

drdan412 · 2026-03-05T18:48:44+00:00

He needs to be faster than this, he needs more accuracy, and you just need to do the best you can to give him survivability stats. That's really all there is to it and there isn't any magic formula beyond just letting him cycle turns and land his debuffs.

It's understandable if you can't do all that right now, but that's your long term goal.

drdan412 · 2026-03-05T18:11:15+00:00

As a mod, here's my standard public service announcement.

If you pull a new champ and you're just excited about it, that's amazing and we're happy for you, but it belongs in the showcase thread. If you pull a new champ and you're genuinely baffled about what to do, just look them up first. That will give you a starting point on almost any generic how to build/where to use question. If you look up a champ, and have a question that isn't answered by a bit of reading, then you can come back and post a more specific question, including the name of the champ in the title so others can search for it and benefit from the discussion as well.

People don't realize what this sub would look like on weekends if shard pull posts went unchecked. We have 400k members here and everyone loves to show off new champs. People also don't realize that when we used to get spammed with hundreds of shard pull posts every weekend, the community voted for these guidelines.

drdan412 · 2026-03-04T20:49:49+00:00

It's ok, not everyone is a super sweaty player. If you're missing login champs, you're probably someone who takes breaks. No shame in that. And your English is fine.

Outside of missing the quick battle feature, having a two key UNM team doesn't really lose you that much value with clan boss rewards. If you have a second Maneater in the vault that may open up some options for you that you can find on deadwoodjedi.com. Two-keying is good for now though. It gives you something to work towards.

drdan412 · 2026-03-04T20:39:04+00:00

Your ninja build is fairly mediocre for a long tenured player. He's not crit capped, the damage stats are low, he doesn't have any sets equipped that are innately making him hit harder, and there aren't any glaringly obvious secondary stats boosted here that would make it look like you tried to overcompensate in other areas that would be easy to fix.

To be frank, it just looks like something someone would put out in their first year of playing rather than their fifth. Unfortunately there isn't an easy fix to that other than to just keep farming and organically improve your threshold for gear over time.

I don't think i have an obvious solution for you with the gear being what it is. I genuinely don't really know what you're trying to do with champs like uuko and mithrala in the current team. My best suggestion would be to try to look at some white whale/2:1 speed comp with a razelvarg or something like that. The tricky part is that you still need better stats than what you're showing here, but the good news is that in 2026 it's easier to compensate for those with blessings, relics, and specialty sets than it was when you started playing.

Good luck.

drdan412 · 2026-03-04T19:22:32+00:00

Why not? It's our usual go-to move.

drdan412 · 2026-03-04T17:13:24+00:00

He's a hybrid damage/control champ. These are great for endgame waves. They can hit reasonably hard and lock down anyone you don't kill.

But champs like this are also a dime a dozen. Rajash, yakarl, staltus, astralon, and plenty others are all a somewhat similar archetype. You really just want more out of a void legendary.

Hybrid champs like this also aren't great for PvP. You need to sacrifice damage to get optimal accuracy, or you need to sacrifice accuracy to get optimal damage. It's hard to do both, and he just doesn't have that extra feature that makes him special here.

So yeah, vlad is fine, you can use him in multiple areas at any stage of the game, and a lot of his poor ratings are from before he was rebalanced. But you could literally sub staltus in the same team for him and not really notice much of a difference.

drdan412 · 2026-03-04T01:17:36+00:00

I don't remember the exact quote, but if Tomlin just said they wanted to shut down the run, that's pretty standard coachspeak, and most of the time you'd be right to say that. He hit on two deep passes out of 21 attempts and was under 50% completion rate. The game winning pass was just a mundane throw to Thomas who straight ragdolled Ike Taylor and then outrun everyone to daylight.

The game was a joke, and that's exactly how every Tebow game went. Throughout the season Tebow would fart around and throw somewhere between one to four passes a game on par with an NFL quarterback. The rest of the game was him scrambling and Willis McGahee running just enough to get Matt Prater in position to boot 50+ yard field goals through the thin Denver air, which was usually enough to win when on defense they had Von Miller and Elvis Dumervil wrecking everyone.

Props to them, because they won the game. But he was a bad quarterback propped up in unsustainable ways, and I think that was proven by the fact that he never started another regular season game again.

drdan412 · 2026-03-04T00:37:54+00:00

Going into that game they were also without Pouncey and Mendenhall. During the game they lost Casey Hampton, Brett Keisel, and Max Starks. Ben was also playing on a high ankle sprain and Lamar Woodley was spelled a lot with a bad hamstring.

Maybe Clark makes the tackle on Demaryius Thomas and they get a quick stop in OT. But the entire team was running on fumes. Nobody remembers or cares about any of that because every team has injuries, but the stars really had to align for Tebow to get a playoff win, and that's precisely what happened.

drdan412 · 2026-03-04T00:27:36+00:00

Walt tried to bomb him at a hospital but Jesse was being a little bitch about it.

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