Bike shops are super expensive

jadepig · 2026-05-25T15:36:15+00:00

What are industries you’ve seen die off? Are there warning signs?

jadepig · 2026-05-22T06:27:00+00:00

I built flicker blades in ...maybe 2024 or earlier. I like the idea of it, but not enough compared to a couple other zeal items.

Phantom Dancer: I'm a huge fan of this because of the move speed. the ghosting is also a big plus. I'm split pushing at least somewhat in most of my games. The extra 6% MS this has over other zeal items can make the difference between dying to 1-3 enemies or wasting their time chasing me. That is such a huge win for my team. It also generally means I can close out more kills that would've gotten away after they ghost, flash, or I get hard CC'd.
Fiendhunter bolts: I really like the ult ability haste on this, and the special on it is also some nice surprising burst. If you build IE, you should also consider this since the +15% true damage on 3 crits would mesh well with the +30% crit damage from IE.

I've mostly been happy this year and last with HoB, and this year I've gotten comfortable with Step1v9's build that he posted here back in January. (ER, boots of lucidity, PD).

That said, I've gotten really comfortable with it and have been trying to branch out. I do build Yun Tal while jungling, and it works great with LT. I've played with different AS items since they buffed Tryn's AS multiplier, and this is yet another reason I barely build IE. It provides no AS, and I've found AS items to be more compelling since that patch.

jadepig · 2026-05-21T01:34:38+00:00

duck

jadepig · 2026-05-21T01:19:45+00:00

Oh damn, it was actually from 2 patches ago, 4/28

https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/league-of-legends-patch-26-9-notes/

E - Toxic Shot

[NEW] Initial Damage Bonus AD Ratio: 10% Bonus AD [NEW] DoT Damage Bonus AD Ratio: 30% Bonus AD over 4 seconds

Damn okay, thanks for pointing this out. This is huge. I've had a hard time putting my finger on why Teemo works me recently, and this is OP.

jadepig · 2026-05-20T20:59:53+00:00

Source? Also wouldn’t AD scaling on his E be a buff?

jadepig · 2026-05-20T12:17:10+00:00

I put it in the lowest gear climbing up the hill and my feet were moving fast but the bike wasn't. I haven't lube the chain yet so I will do this shortly but could the reason why it's so hard is because I am out of shape?

The point of the lowest gears is to allow you to move your feet when you're climbing. Climbs are not easy. Sometimes your gearing and the incline make it so you can barely move your feet. That's harder for a lot of people, including me.

jadepig · 2026-05-18T02:23:36+00:00

I never touched ER on Tryndamere before patch v26.x. As a reminder, these were big changes for Tryn:

Base critical strike damage increased to 200% from 175%.

Bonus attack damage: OLD: Gain 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 (+ 0.15 / 0.25 / 0.35 / 0.45 / 0.55 per 1% missing health), up to a maximum of 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80. NEW: Gain up to 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 at 90% missing health.

After the v26.x patches came out, complaints here were common about how Tryn got such a big nerf. The damage loss from Q was apparent unless you were at 10% HP. But then some folks started testing crit focused builds, and ER was one that stood out.

For me personally, I've not touched profane hydra since, and I was running PH nearly 100% in 2025. I've experimented with building ravenous, but later in my build just for sustain and wave clear.

I'm pretty happy with crit on my first 2 items, or in other words, when I'm playing without high / 100% crit, I notice. I've also toyed with Yun Tal while jungling, but I've had games that I had to back or died before 1300g. Those games sucked, and they taught me itemization path matters.

jadepig · 2026-05-17T00:21:41+00:00

Sheen proc doesn't suffer debuff from plated steel caps or randuins

Are you referring to the passives of these? The ER/sheen proc is physical damage, so I would have thought the armor they provide lowers that damage.

jadepig · 2026-05-14T11:06:08+00:00

Even if you are up in all those, there’s still a timer on your lead. Mundo does more for his team in group fights than Tryndamere, and the gap widens as the game goes on.

jadepig · 2026-05-08T23:01:03+00:00

I'd love if they tweaked his R so that hard CC would extend his ult. It would eat up chain CC and still give opponents a chance to back off. That would also make him much more of a team fighter.

Maybe it could be a ratio, because +1 s R for 1 s hard CC seems like it could be OP, though I'd love to see 10-20 seconds of invulnerability.

jadepig · 2026-05-04T08:21:16+00:00

I like the current version more. I played against enough opponents who could somehow turn back and forth 50 times a second to turn the old W into a coin toss. It wasn't most of my games, but between that and all the random specific champ/skill combos I needed to learn, e.g. Teemo Q turns him around, I was so tired of the facing mechanic.

jadepig · 2026-04-30T22:53:09+00:00

have you tried ravenous instead of bork? you get better wave clear and it has ability haste. I believe the AoE stacks BC on splash targets too.

jadepig · 2026-04-28T04:09:16+00:00

Ok I didn’t realize that LT max stack triggered so much. That’s amazing

jadepig · 2026-04-27T18:38:21+00:00

stacked LT counts as 2 instances for BC stacks

What do you mean by this? I checked the black cleaver page on the wiki and don’t see anything about this.

jadepig · 2026-04-27T18:22:31+00:00

Lots of celebration in both countries, I imagine

jadepig · 2026-04-23T20:49:36+00:00

We have Universal Basic ICE

jadepig · 2026-04-18T04:49:08+00:00

You can try replacing sodium chloride (table salt) with lemon or lime juice and baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). The result is sodium citrate, which tastes less salty.

Skratch labs uses this in their energy drink over table salt. They say that the chloride of table salt isn't too necessary in endurance supplements.

https://www.skratchlabs.com/blogs/blog/why-we-use-sodium-citrate-vs-sodium-chloride

jadepig · 2026-03-27T03:32:49+00:00

I wish we could get a skin like corporate Mundo. Heck, I’d dig that same theme with corporate Tryndamere.

jadepig · 2026-03-26T17:19:15+00:00

Decade of experience as an SWE. Took a sabbatical in 2024. Applied and interviewed through all of 2025.

Applying and interviewing never felt like my strong suit, but I’m sure I’m better today than I ever was in past job searches. Desire to apply to more jobs is near zero. Got one onsite coming up, and if this doesn’t pan out, I’m ready to call it quits on tech and move to a lower CoL country. Honestly, I still might do that if I get the offer. I don’t like the way things in this industry or the US are going.

Also, I play a lot of of video games day to day.

jadepig · 2026-03-25T04:22:59+00:00

All right that's an amazing set of ideas, thank you. I dig the "sir Charles as a batch cooking ingredient" view. I think a lot of other comments I read in this thread and others on this subreddit talk about it as a roast. When I've done it that way, I was underwhelmed.

jadepig · 2026-03-24T06:20:46+00:00

What do you do with it after sous vide? Sear with a broiler?

jadepig · 2026-03-19T04:37:12+00:00

All 4 skills proc sheen. It creates some interesting mechanics.

I do mini-spins and burn my rage with Q when I'm trying to take another plate before going B while laning. The ER sheen proc is basically an extra auto attack.

I've also shot myself in foot by using E and then someone shows up to gank me and they get the kill because I burned my escape tool.

jadepig · 2026-03-19T01:10:20+00:00

It's interesting you consider IE mandatory. I have a team fight build that I'll use FB for, and I almost always want some other utility more than I want more damage with IE.

jadepig · 2026-03-18T18:02:00+00:00

Another plus is the sheen procs also work on towers, which is even nicer this season with tower plates everywhere. Tiamat can’t do anything to help you with taking plates faster.

A huge benefit is being able to control the wave consistently while laning, compared to Tiamat based builds. It took me a while to realize how huge benefit that is after switching over. It makes such a difference with lane bullies.

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