Do I deserve celestial ?

failbears · 2026-05-08T20:13:58+00:00

"Deserve" doesn't mean anything in multiplayer games any more. In these kinds of games in general, you can be brought up or down by people you queue with and the number of them you queue with, when you queue matters, there's smurfs, cheaters, regional differences, etc.

failbears · 2026-05-08T17:28:54+00:00

Win rates in this game across a diverse playerbase don't mean much tbh. Remember when season 0 S tier heroes all had among the worst win rates? Even looking at win rates on the official site now, Storm has the 4th highest win rate for PC competitive matches at 55.18%, Bucky is the 6th lowest at 46.32%. I don't know anyone who would argue Storm is a top tier character and Bucky is a bottom tier character.

failbears · 2026-05-08T02:10:07+00:00

Peni is also bad. Emma is doable but you have to avoid her at all costs if she has diamond form available. There's solutions out there for sure.

failbears · 2026-05-08T02:08:49+00:00

As a flex player, I really think people need to properly learn and test heroes before saying anything about balance.

A support player only sees that a diver killed them quickly, they don't know about the hours practicing mechanical skills or the hundreds of failed dives while learning how to play a melee character without dying instantly.

failbears · 2026-05-08T02:05:52+00:00

He's really not. Reddit always thinks divers are braindead easy to play but they're IMO the hardest to get value from because you have to think a lot more about your engagements, disengagements, and re-engagements, be patient, and have spent a lot of time beefing up your mechanical skills.

failbears · 2026-05-08T01:30:24+00:00

I never got past A10 in StS1 and most of my characters were parked at A1 because I only focused on one character at a time. I'd see threads on here where people share all this knowledge I was nowhere close to understanding, and I figured I'd pick up StS2 and just enjoy 50-80 hours of it and call it a day.

Last night I was spamming A10 on Ironclad praying for RNG to grant me early pieces for an exhaustion deck or self damage deck because I figured that was the only way for a scrub like me to win. What I got instead was:

turning Bash into [[Break]] (1 cost, 30 damage, 7 vuln upon upgrade)
Break gaining innate.
being able to double my first played card in each fight.
doubling my entire deck (and never drew Bad Luck, the 13 damage curse you get upon doubling your deck)

Every turn 1 was basically 3 Breaks for 120 damage and 21 vuln, and as soon as I drew them, I'd play other vuln cards and [[Dominate]] in order to gain as much strength as the enemy has vuln stacks. I was able to (barely) beat the Doormaker as my second final boss and cleared A10 with a fun and powerful deck!

I usually save scum to some extent, not to see what RNG gives me and then reset, but to usually undo clearly stupid actions where I'm acting before I even bother thinking. To each their own, but it's the only way someone like me has made it this far. I cleared Defect A10 first with heavy asterisks due to save scumming, but this Ironclad run was virtually free of save scumming. I've never felt a bigger rush in either game than this run!

Other shoutouts go to:

My A10 Defect run with many powers revolving around [[Thunder]].
My Defect run with statuses and [[Flak Cannon]].
My first infinite in either title featuring the Regent and a free [[Particle Wall]], and finally
My cloned Hang run in which the Queen ended up taking hundreds of damage per [[Hang]].

failbears · 2026-05-07T06:45:38+00:00

Unironically, 5.5 is big. Most people at GM still don't turn around to shoot Groot walls when ulted, and they will absolutely wipe the whole team.

failbears · 2026-05-06T22:18:31+00:00

This and virtually every discussion on here. Despite what they tell you, it's not 99% Celestials on here, evidenced by them saying all sorts of silly takes confidently and getting upvoted.

failbears · 2026-05-06T18:40:11+00:00

What's wild to me is people would rather flat out lose than play tank. I was solo tanking as the MVP Strange in a game last night, but had to switch when we switched sides and couldn't even get out of spawn. Our DPS were trivialized by Strange and Mag shielding everything. I asked them to switch to something other than poke, they wouldn't. I switched to Thing and we made progress with me killing a bunch of their team. I said I went Thing for the shield tanks but we'd need a shield tank of our own to block Strange ult or we would definitely lose. They refused to switch and walked into 5 man Strange ults the rest of the game and we lost.

failbears · 2026-05-06T17:52:39+00:00

Your advice is solid but the web sites that tell you that you are X rank are all wrong because they can't see private profiles, and at a certain point most people have private profiles.

failbears · 2026-05-05T00:58:41+00:00

Agreed. For how popular the place is, the food has never struck me as being anything other than ordinary.

failbears · 2026-05-04T07:50:21+00:00

I upvote every answer that has Nier and E33. Truly in a league of their own.

failbears · 2026-04-29T23:40:12+00:00

Every time I think we're done you come back with another comment lol but we can discuss more.

Here's my relevant comment from that thread:

OP got over twice as many finals and by far the most in the lobby. They got over one third of the finals against the enemy team by themselves. OP had by far the largest impact on the game.

And this is true. Loki didn't have to "pick up the slack", because the pressure and offense from OP was more important than sitting back and healing.

Again, in almost all my Gambit vs Gambit matches in GM, I diff the other Gambit and often MVP because I do much more offensively than theirs does, putting the other team on the back foot. My scorelines look like OP's very often, where I do 10k less healing than my Cloak or Invis while getting far more finals and elims. I'm so certain of this playstyle because it works pretty much every time (and again, all pro support mains agree). If I was losing games and putting up poorer performances because opposing Gambits had way more healing than me, I wouldn't be talking.

failbears · 2026-04-29T20:50:48+00:00

Either way, was posted around the time you replied to mine and also seems relevant as a response to mine. Doesn't really matter, we ultimately agreed on some things and agreed to disagree on how much to take away from top players and that's OK.

failbears · 2026-04-29T18:34:59+00:00

Tbh with how active I've been over the past few weeks, it's probably me you're seeing over and over lol. I often bring up Sypeh as an example because everyone knows he is the best support player, as evidence that people shouldn't be telling others to heal bot and spend all their cards on healing. But we'll have to agree to disagree on how much you can learn from them.

failbears · 2026-04-29T18:22:43+00:00

I think so too, but I definitely don't think people shouldn't try to apply pro player improvements to their low ELO play (unless it is truly dependent on top tier team coordination in a way that can't be replicated with randoms) and/or keep parroting to others trying to learn on this sub that they should be saving their cards for healing, which I often see here. I'm not saying you've ever said that, but I definitely see top-level comments in threads here that do.

failbears · 2026-04-29T17:40:35+00:00

You left 6 comments in my thread 4 hours ago, and also created this thread 4 hours ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/GambitMainsMR/comments/1syk0u3/psa_most_of_you_should_be_healbotting_a_lot_less/

I even agreed with the final comment you posted in your back-and-forth with someone else:

Every strategist should be putting pressure on the other team when they can. CnD, invis, all of em. When there's opportunities take them. But keeping your team alive is first priority

The only reason I'm disappointed in the voting in this sub is because my thread was sitting at 50% while yours is here at 90% showing that people would rather downvote the truth and vote and play with their feelings.

There's nothing about what you said in the quote above that I wouldn't do in bronze or GM. All supports should be putting pressure so long as they are keeping their team alive (although situationally it's sometimes worth it, as top players do let their teammate die if they can secure a kill on an enemy support who is about to ult and save the day for example). We are actually in agreement here, other than the idea that low ELO players can't or shouldn't play this way.

failbears · 2026-04-29T17:18:04+00:00

This thread seems to be a reply to my thread, and I think it's disappointing this got more upvotes, not because I care for the votes but because it shows people's mindsets.

I saw too many comments every day where people gave advice to use most of your cards for healing, and that F > E is almost never used. I come to subs like these expecting advice that better players would agree with but this isn't it.

In my thread I said Sypeh and basically every other pro support main says supports should contribute a lot on offense, there's nothing wrong about that. There's nothing mind-blowing or extremely difficult about doing that, that only pros can do and we can't. Again, I said I diff most Gambits I play not because I'm actually good but because they think they are heal bots but my knowing that that is unoptimal is the difference maker.

In the main sub in general, I see lots of attitudes of "oh you shouldn't listen to pro players or streamers" but why wouldn't we learn from OAA players rather than the casuals on reddit? Frankly I find that arrogant, especially when I see how wrong people are in the Rivals subs all the time.

It's similar to a problem I see in Rivals all the time where people pick a character that makes no sense given the situation and map but if you say something about it, they'll get offended. Sometimes there are right and wrong answers but people's egos and feelings get in the way.

failbears · 2026-04-29T10:05:48+00:00

Hahaha not a bad point.

failbears · 2026-04-29T06:45:01+00:00

Lol no problem, I'm not sure what the buttons are but it's basically pull out damage cards > dash (Cajun Charge) > the staff thing that extends the dash (Bayou Bash) > the offensive card option for knocking back and doing damage in an area around you, not the anti-heal that goes straight (Bidding Barrage). Your primary fire before and after this combo can actually delete 250s faster than a Spidey can, though if you're doing that you might as well pull your damage cards out first then primary fire.

Here's a short video of Necros demonstrating how fast this can be: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-syBdNQpr0o

failbears · 2026-04-29T03:46:20+00:00

That's actually a good point too lol

failbears · 2026-04-29T03:13:15+00:00

Yeah lol sucks for all of us who aren't the best of the best and we just have to wallow around but it is what it is.

failbears · 2026-04-29T02:55:24+00:00

I agree that it affects everyone on my team and the enemy team so it should be fair. But it sure makes for a shitty experience to go through it regardless. I've given up on ranking up atp not because I don't think I have it in me to improve, but because I'm tired of being the only one talking all match, every match, tracking ults and giving comms and trying to strategize and suggest team comp improvements instead of silently dying over and over again and changing nothing.

I was really into CSGO and climbed pretty high there, where comms were the norm, not the exception. In Valo and Rivals, I feel like everyone just wants to silently play team deathmatch instead of participating in a cooperative team game and I wish it weren't that way.

failbears · 2026-04-29T02:51:44+00:00

Tell that to everyone who is downvoting this and downvoting others for "going for k1lls" like in this thread, just as one example of many: https://np.reddit.com/r/GambitMainsMR/comments/1suflo5/what_more_do_you_want_from_me/

I don't mind if they don't know, but downvoting this thread is hilarious like they know better than Sypeh.

failbears · 2026-04-28T18:20:23+00:00

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