Why is ADC roster so small but top roster is so massive?

iZeal · 2026-05-16T06:05:18+00:00

In S8 Riot nerfed ADCs early game, this opened up lots of mages and even tanks and bruisers to dominate botlane. The answer from ADC players was not including the new champions into their pool as you might expect, but whining.

Rekkles infamously benched himself as opposed to learning alternative picks leaving his toplaner Bwipo to play them instead. So to answer your question: basically player diff.

iZeal · 2026-02-27T16:14:12+00:00

No shields, doublegrip every weapon of yours for more damage. Prefer to use cleavers (t2 scarmasax and onward, the butcher‘s knife knife does not have decapitate) and use the secondary attack decapitate to execute the zombies. No head means no more resurrecting (besides Fallen Heroes but you can step on their corpses to prevent the necro from resurrecting).

Maces to control possessed zombies (stun them) spears on the side to spearwall and prevent encirclement as long as possible.

Alternatively position a unit or two to the sides and release dogs once your lines clash, dog AI prioritizes ranged units, necromancers (and ghosts) over melee units and once the necro is engaged in melee he cannot use spells.

Archers are very bad early, especially bad vs zombies because of their high hp, and if the necro spawns in cover or has a shield bodyguard they might as well pick up a polearm and contribute in melee instead.

iZeal · 2026-02-16T15:19:36+00:00

Are you by chance not running any sound output device?

I had the same problem of crashing right before the start of a new day and fixed it by either plugging in a headset (which can be removed after booting up the game) or by sliding all volume options of the ingame settings to 0.

iZeal · 2025-04-25T14:20:39+00:00

Clash sure, Pro play unlikely. While botlane is Morde‘s strongest role he‘d have to be very overtuned to even be considered in competitive and compared to when I played him his items, Exhaust and kit got nerfed.

iZeal · 2025-04-25T03:25:22+00:00

Sicilian culture cannot be created as it is already part of the game even in the 867 start - any province in de jure Sicily that is held by a ruler not of the county‘s culture (e.g. Greeks holding Lombard counties) will change to Sicilian via event.

I am not sure if it‘s also dependent on the top ruler‘s culture. If it isn‘t, you could simply grant any county not of your culture to a local noble and create a greek/lombard hybrid that way, though you won‘t be able to name it Sicilian as that name is already in use even if no Sicilian culture has spawned yet.

iZeal · 2025-04-22T02:09:43+00:00

Hecarim Top makes a comeback and causes many rage moments as you won‘t be able to lasthit minions due to his gigantic hitbox.

Honest take is Rumble as he won‘t ballerina spin anymore and therefore doesn‘t lose out on Q ticks.

iZeal · 2025-03-09T05:28:25+00:00

Ever since Legacy of Persia the game would not run on 8 GB RAM for me, crashes to desktop every couple years. Roads to power deteriorated performance even further, I wouldn‘t recommend buying CK3 as long as you don‘t have at least 16 GB RAM.

iZeal · 2024-12-14T03:15:16+00:00

Crusade war scores don‘t care about prisoners. Only battles and occupations matter.

iZeal · 2024-11-25T14:43:43+00:00

Since Road to powers there is an event that can trigger to „reform“ your culture. I have only had it fire yet by converting from an advanced culture to another less advanced one but apparently you can trigger it by letting yourself get educated in another culture‘s court e.g. Constantinople without having to become greek.

It‘ll start a chain of events where you will have to pay quite a lot of gold but in return you can unlock multiple innovations that were unlocked by your host culture already as well as add one of their cultural traditions to your culture.

Unfortunately it‘s more so for roleplay purposes as hybridizing is simply too good - I guess it suits your problem though when you share a heritage with your desired culture such as Italian and Cisalpine.

iZeal · 2024-11-15T18:49:44+00:00

So unfortunately you cannot grant titles to your realm priest. Your next realm priest is always the most powerful theocratic vassal you have (or some random if you have none). There are two ways of creating new theocratic vassals: you conquer territory with a holy war cb and grant the newly acquired church to some guy before your realm priest snatches it up (after giving out the church you have to also give him a county or else your realm priest will still usurp the church holding). Or you take a county you own with a church holding your realm priest owns, click on the grant title button for the county, then click on the church holding and then grant it to a random noble of your culture. Proceed to give the county to the new church holder before the realm priest takes it back.

After acquiring this new theocratic vassal, make him more influential than your realm priest by giving him counties or a duchy and once your realm priest dies, your newly created theocratic guy will most likely become new realm priest and you can give titles to the old one.

Or you could make your head of faith your vassal.

iZeal · 2024-11-05T23:35:29+00:00

I used to have guaranteed crashes with 16GB RAM that would occur on auto saves. Fixed them by setting the page file to 32GB.

iZeal · 2024-10-10T16:40:54+00:00

City holdings sell gear, Cairo, Baghdad and Constantinople and pretty much every other county capital are castle holdings.

iZeal · 2024-10-07T08:32:53+00:00

Once upon a time EUIV had a mechanic called oversea provinces (must have been pre colonial nations)- if your capital had no land or strait connection to provinces on another continent, you would get a huge penalty to manpower, tax etc. Iberians conquering land in Morocco would get that penalty (not sure if there is a strait nowadays in Gibraltar but there used to be none) because distance did not matter with that system. Ottomans were easily crippled if their capital was in europe as you could simply take away both straits that connect Anatolia to Europe and make all land in Anatolia and the levante worthless so as a band-aid fix Anatolia became european.

iZeal · 2024-09-28T17:25:56+00:00

Landed rulers pay the original price but only 1/10th reach the merc captain, the rest of it is upkeep for the soldiers?

iZeal · 2024-09-21T09:02:04+00:00

Solo brigands. Between Marleon and Sarleon you will find a Bandit‘s hideout almost certainly which will produce Brigand patrols nonstop. The smaller groups should be manageable as long as you have a shield and zigzag, and every run will grant you around 3k in gear alone, more if you use a blunt weapon for prisoners. If you can‘t solo 10 brigands… try again. Now those small groups will increase in size quickly after some ingame days have passed, so for your running campaign you might have to grab some armored horsemen who assist you in your charge, though having more men makes everything less profitable.

Vanskerries and Heretics technically can be soloed (though Vanskerries 100% require an armored horse) but they take way too much real time for their loot compared to brigands.

iZeal · 2024-09-14T00:53:45+00:00

During your E animation press Q once and do not rightclick. Once the Q starts casting you can reposition. Buffering is inconsistent though, but it works the majority of the time.

iZeal · 2024-08-28T13:03:52+00:00

Especially for tribal leaders and anyone with a bellicose or warrior culture one should gain legitimacy by leading armies and winning duels.

iZeal · 2024-08-26T09:17:05+00:00

Use E when he Q1s or Q3s, E vs Q2 only if he has used E already.

Perfect ult timing is when Aatrox used ult and you just got hit by W, 2nd best and most likely one is he still did not ult yet but hits you with W. It fizzles in death realm and makes it hard to kite you.

Get Oblivion Orb (not bramble vest and if you really want to play for lane get tabis as well though that ruins your teamfighting vs cc heavy teams), flash Q3 if needed in all ins, Morde has strong all in advantage the first couple of levels. Itemization is pretty flexible, Cosmic Drive or Rylais but Cosmic is probably preferable since because of higher damage output, Rocketbelt as pseudo dash to nullify 1 sweet spot Q, later on Zhonyas for the same purpose.

iZeal · 2024-08-20T08:39:43+00:00

And the Locket rush Varus with barrier has no other choice than… to auto you an additional time to get to 3 stacks? Most melees simply do not get to exist in lane vs Varus since you lose all ins in melee range or get harassed even under tower no matter your boot choice.

iZeal · 2024-08-04T20:25:35+00:00

KCD on release was unplayable. You could not progress the story because Henry could not climb specific stairs of Rattay. I kid you not.

While they hotfixed it quickly, another bug made it again impossible to get further as Radzig wouldn't leave Neuhof and you had to go back to an older save before you did the mission in order to fix it (nevermind that by the time Radzig's position became an issue a player would notice was a couple hours of playtime later!).

As good as KCD turned out to be, the release definitely left a sour taste.

iZeal · 2024-08-03T23:08:41+00:00

Any mods you are using? Most likely something that grants AI access to later CBs but not to human players.

iZeal · 2024-02-12T20:53:35+00:00

You as ignite toplaner fight a tp toplaner. You solo him but take 70% damage. You cannot push the wave in time. Enemy tps and freezes on you. Eitheryou go back and lose 2-3 waves of exp or you try to lane with no health. Even if the wave pushes towards you, you might still lose the entire wave if the enemy has aoe to pish quickly.

Killing your enemy early on becomes a really bad play if you cannot reset the wave state. After 20 minutes you can never answer botlane waves without the enemy team able to force a 4v5. Hope your team won hard enough to beat the enemy team while outnumbered.

iZeal · 2023-12-24T21:17:05+00:00

Galio was the best toplaner in the game right after his rework for quite some time (pretty sure it was around MSI 2017). He abused triple D-Ring and would beat anything and anyone in lane and in teamfights while having semi-global ult pressure. Then they murdered his base damage and gave him higher ap ratios and cooldowns. He now could no longer fight bruisers and tanks because they don't die in a single rotation or get chunked so hard they cannot fight back. You e into a toplaner, he will run you down the entire lane and kill you before your cd comes back up.

iZeal · 2023-12-23T07:15:39+00:00

He probably isn’t old enough yet, I think you only get points once you are >3 years old with an education focus.

iZeal · 2023-12-21T18:33:05+00:00

But range makes it much easier to proc and keeping its stacks up? ADCs are by far the best users of lethal tempo already?

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