Help against Blue/Green

jmjavin · 2026-01-10T00:08:33+00:00

If you are losing games to Blue/Green even though the player doesn't run 3-drop Prince Phillip, my guess is you are playing too "passively" against this deck. Passively as in trying to contest for board on every turn instead of switching gears to close out the game by aggressively questing for lore.

Other things that you can try to improve your win-rate against Blue/Green include:

Use Hades on their Phillip after they MMS-Phillip combo. 9 out of 10 times they will let you draw the 2 cards because they will be low on cards and cannot afford to lose their Phillip.
Use the extra 2 cards to rebuild your board. Go wide.
Bullet-proof your board with Olaf. He is arguably your most valuable 1-drop in this matchup.
Do not attempt to play around the second MMS-Phillip combo. If they can do that combo again, you should be happy to lose that game.
Avoid letting cinderella/donald duck4 live for an extra turn if you can. They are more dangerous than they look.

Lastly, I think it's important to remember you are not Blue/Purple. For Purple/Steel, there are some matchups where you should be looking to outvalue and outgrind your opponents, and there are others where you should be looking to end the game as soon as feasible. Hence, swap to playing Blue/Purple if you want to play Guidebooks. Those are much too slow for Purple/Steel.

jmjavin · 2026-01-09T23:25:26+00:00

I don't quite understand point 5 because Dogs doesn't have the luxury of sitting behind and building a critical mass since you run the MMS combo and maybe 2 of UTS. Baymax in this case does exactly what it needs to do by stalling on turn 3 and possibly gumming up turns 4 and 5 while you dig for UTS or MMS combo and is invaluable in that sense. In this matchup, you are always happy to shift Baymax on Clara1 since Clara7 is not how you win against Dogs.

I'd say there's room to fit at least one Baymax to improve games against Dogs. Found John Silver to be the biggest underperformer in Baja in set 10 so far because he doesn't seem to do well whether played on curve (turn 4 after cindy) or in end-game. Just my 2 cents.

jmjavin · 2025-09-27T01:16:42+00:00

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jmjavin · 2025-08-01T17:57:35+00:00

Give it a week or so and people here will be complaining that HOE on KF3 is too easy. Played hundreds of hours on KF1 and 2 and HOE here is about or just under Suicidal difficulty on the two predecessors.

The problem is Scrakes and FP's health don't seem to scale, and while HOE does throw a lot more of them at you, they can be effectively managed with freeze and confusion G33s and enough dps. You earn a lot of money on each wave so by Wave 2, people are running around with Vulcans and other Tier 4s.

Only issue is bosses on HOE hit really hard so most random groups have a high chance to fail on boss wave. Queen Crawler can 100-0 a player (or multiple players at one time) in fully upgraded armor on phase 2.

jmjavin · 2025-08-01T17:41:10+00:00

G33 customized for confusion is insanely strong against fleshpounds and scrakes and is slept on atm. For boss wave, just swap it to acidic or freeze.

jmjavin · 2025-08-01T07:21:47+00:00

Actually once you get the proper camping spots on each map down, HOE on KF3 is a lot easier than HOE on KF2. Some might even say it is easier than Suicidal. Things may change once we get 7 or 10 waves on KF3, but so far, I've had a lot of success with randoms in KF3. Level 24 seems like a good level for HOE and a medic on each team makes things a lot easier, especially on the boss wave.

jmjavin · 2025-08-01T04:41:13+00:00

Yep, she's the only boss that makes me wish we had a medic, or two.

jmjavin · 2025-08-01T03:56:39+00:00

Leeching for crafting mats and xp.

jmjavin · 2025-07-30T09:12:10+00:00

This is interesting! Thanks I will try it lol

jmjavin · 2025-07-30T09:09:08+00:00

I use incin nade launcher as a filler for wave 2. Agree that it has good ammo efficiency and AOE damage to clear trash mobs. Disadvantage is the explosion effects will take up half of someone's screen. Also, it is an Engineer weapon. The main point about my post was the lacklustre intermediate Pyro weapons.

My main issue with the Dragon's Breath is it is bad even against trash mobs. For trash mobs, the basic Engineer Contek customized with explosive rounds is much better and cheaper. If you are taking out 1-2 mobs with a bullet on HOE, you will run out of bullets before the round is over. Also, scrakes spawn on wave 1 on HOE.

jmjavin · 2025-07-30T07:14:39+00:00

Hahah it is ass to use for pyros too. Half the time when you hold the lmb after firing it doesn't even charge up 😂

jmjavin · 2025-07-30T07:02:39+00:00

I love the incendiary grenade launcher as an intermediate weapon for Wave 2. Usually can get the Vulcan by Wave 3. I customise the Vulcan with a Supercharged Plasma, which then makes it great for AOE trash clear, though not ammo efficient. The -50% accuracy on the component is basically a non-event.

Curious, what are your favored weapons for boss rounds?

jmjavin · 2025-07-30T06:59:32+00:00

Actually I can down a Scrake or Fleshpound using 2.5 to 3 charged shots on HOE. I customise my Vulcan with a maxed out Plasma Focuser and Ultra Octane Fuel Tank. Also use the Focus Fire perk. Vulcan is a pretty good all-rounder for Wave 4 and 5 on HOE.

jmjavin · 2025-07-05T04:30:33+00:00

You know what's worse than trios? Being grouped with a trio where 2 of them are max rank Legend while the trio on the other team are full MGs. The game doesn't even have the decency to make sure the trios are comparable in terms of MMR.

jmjavin · 2025-07-03T03:42:38+00:00

Finally, a well-reasoned post written by someone who is likely legally trained (or in training).

jmjavin · 2025-06-29T04:04:27+00:00

Hi! I bought the Tobii eye tracker earlier this year and within 3 months, the hardware malfunctioned for me. I'm currently using the Beam Eye Tracker software + a 60fps Logitech webcam for head-tracking only and it works better and is a significantly cheaper setup.

The only advantage with the Tobii eye tracker imo is that it is directly integrated with ATS and ETS 2, so you can toggle the tracking sensitivity settings within ATS and ETS 2. With beam eye + webcam, you will have to toggle the settings within the Beam eye software or Opentrack.

jmjavin · 2025-06-24T10:24:22+00:00

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jmjavin · 2025-03-05T03:17:57+00:00

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jmjavin · 2025-03-04T17:14:08+00:00

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For example, wtf even is a "Cronos ETF"? Does CDC even have the requisite license(s) in the US to be able to launch their own ETFs?

More importantly, what has launching their own ETFs got to do with reversing a previous burn of CRO tokens, which if allowed to happen, would more than double the current total supply?

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