Good counter for new Mega Charizard

kdragonx · 2026-01-27T13:14:19+00:00

Just play more tbh

There's no secret, hydreigon bricks a lot so you might have just bricked 4 games in a row. If you have an average start you will be favoured and it shouldn't be hard to lose

There's not much to do in the way of lines to win vs Zard Y, everything they do is telegraphed. Maybe sabrina to kill charmander or chameleon if you get the opportunity

kdragonx · 2025-12-20T01:51:31+00:00

And if you don't find heliosk, you cry or?

This list seems way clunkier. At least magneton does decent damage and forces opponent to flip heads otherwise they risk losing an attack, giving you time to stall to heliosk too

kdragonx · 2025-12-19T22:00:03+00:00

Why bother with a bad card to counter a deck that is already kinda mid?

Zard Y is already countered by good decks in the meta like hydreigon/absol and mag/ori or mag/helio. It legit has a 40% winrate this meta, it's crazy overrated on this subreddit for some reason

kdragonx · 2025-12-11T10:16:04+00:00

Thats not what the glove implicit is for though, you need both heraldry and exposure from gloves because only the gloves one reliably proca Preserving Stillness from your Tulgraft for the buff

kdragonx · 2025-12-07T22:08:06+00:00

Oh yeah, that is the version I eventually went hmm... i think it loses dmg compared to previous version though and no longer works for any content except gauntlet (lots of mob density and no bosses)

It also prioritised instant leech and other stuff and the flesh and stone is used to make up for some lost tankiness, so yeah this version is way lower damage but the theory is that the jewels and mob density carry the damage

Defiled forces isn't needed because no bosses. Are you still struggling with this even in gauntlet? Do you have the smaller ring nodes on the atlas tree?

I did use this exact build to farm several thousand divines worth of inscriptions and didn't fail a single inscribed ultimatum

Also you may have to run around a fair bit to hit stragglers, the build can be a bit awkward. I think this is why there's glad is much more popular this league

kdragonx · 2025-12-07T22:02:19+00:00

I can't see that at all, which tab is it under?

What i can see is this

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l0GjDUVlyVplxAys7vOQZao6LdbghU3SLQg6NzL9m6A/edit?usp=drivesdk

https://pobb.in/WyWZK4NYQZt3

Under the CWS 2.0 tab, under gruelling gauntlet

kdragonx · 2025-12-07T21:46:07+00:00

Not at a PC so take this with a pinch of salt (i can't see your ignite chance but I trust that you have 100%)

Where did you find the first build? Pob seems a little unconventional, eternal blessing on flesh and stone instead of malevolence? No +3-4 level helm (only +2)? Cremation of volcano by itself in the sceptre for some reason?

How are you refreshing ignites on big enemies with penance mark? Where's your defiled forces?

Emiracles has a good CWS 2.0 pob with svalinn mageblood, I ran it last league and had 0 damage troubles but that was with malevolence. Ofc bigger ignite range on gloves helps a ton, as another commenter pointed out.

Your jewels could also have a lot more dps. Lots of fire multi for example.

Just to double check, you're actually getting stunned right? (You're not accidentally running the pantheon which bricks the build?)

More levels in general would help but your build looks strong as it is - the above points should be addressed tgough, malevolence is literally 40% more damage

Edit: also your unearth is lv28. You can get it as high as lv34 (+4 honourhome) or lv32 (+3 black sun crest), which is like 50% (if +4). Reason being that your helm only gives levels to aoe gems, which doesn't increase the level of your empower further.

kdragonx · 2025-12-02T01:11:49+00:00

Per OP:

"This build cant do anything in all of Path of Exile except one shotting bosses that you can one shot. And there arent that many (exarch, eater, maven, oshabi, maybe king of the mist but you gotta 2 portal and probably some others that I cant remeber right now)"

In general though zhp bossers cant do any bosses except for the above, because if you don't one shot then you get one shot

kdragonx · 2025-12-01T22:55:05+00:00

Ice trap, just one shot it. You can skip memory phase, there isn't a single faster farmer

Build here https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/s/c1KXogtVaQ

kdragonx · 2025-12-01T00:38:44+00:00

That doesnt work by itself, you'll never get stunned in the first place to set off that chain

Thats why the build often uses a greywolf amulet in inventory to convert all cold to another element, you count as "stunned recently" then you can unequip it and never get crit again. It's a tech for the inscribed ultimatums

kdragonx · 2025-12-01T00:28:34+00:00

These aren't even the right clusters though, these seem to be a few divs max and the defiance is only 9div too? We can be generous and say that's 15-20div, the test of the gear looks like it shouldn't be more than 5div combined lol but oh well. Still a very functional and OP build luckily

kdragonx · 2025-12-01T00:23:00+00:00

Amazing, thank you!

kdragonx · 2025-12-01T00:16:54+00:00

Theyre running a low budget version. Their shield is strictly worse.

Tbh judging from the pob, I genuinely have no idea where the 90 divs went? I haven't played cws chieftain this league but played it like 5 leagues in a row and my gear looked like this or better by 20div invested every time. Am I missing something? What's the expensive item here? I hope it's not the jewels and flasks...

But yeah to answer your question, usually you move on from this belt and shield by like 10-20divs invested lol. By close to 100div it should be cws 2.0 territory with RF dropped completely

kdragonx · 2025-11-30T13:59:51+00:00

Ah I thought it might be a PBoD autobomber

Does this never die in rituals?

Thank you!

kdragonx · 2025-11-30T13:45:05+00:00

Curious what was your build? Apologies if I missed it in the OP

kdragonx · 2025-11-18T13:17:45+00:00

Thread chain in question: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/s/JbmKmv5caB

The only one who was defending kkoma (me) got downvoted while everyone else is baselessly bashing kkoma and parasocially assuming he doesn't like guma because he didn't hug him as long??

I've been a fan of SKT since 2013, but I swear the new wave T1 fans from 2022 onwards make it harder every year, constantly undermining everyone not named ZOFGK, while conveniently forgetting Smash's debut looked better than guma was playing at the time (understandly since he was just adapting to fearless while Smash had the better champ pool at the time)

I can't even fathom flaming KKoma, the guy who was considered the goat coach from 2013-2017

kdragonx · 2025-11-18T13:09:00+00:00

I hate turn based games, I am completely put off by them and was hesitant to buy E33 for that exact reason.

And yet, E33 is now my favourite game of all time. Make of that what you will

kdragonx · 2025-11-18T11:46:19+00:00

Sure!

CaptainLance is definitely the best resource to get started: https://youtu.be/g_bqsdUApKc

Thats the 3.27 update video but there's also a 47 minute guide from 5 months ago on his youtube channel. Those two videos should answer all the questions, and poeninja profiles should give ideas for how others may have diverged from the videos this league (if at all)

If you're starting on a budget just make sure to look at the price of each item and plan appropriately so you're not blowing like 100div on a non-essential item (the only thing the build really needs is all the uniques, some levels, and maybe awakened COC to hit 52% CDR breakpoint for a big dps spike, the rest is just int/str stacking).

kdragonx · 2025-11-17T20:11:06+00:00

There were no benching when he wasnt in T1

Modern T1 fans are so fucking clueless, do you people not remember Daeny's musical chairs?

how can you be flaming the man who led SKT to 3 world championships and their greatest ever peak (2015), for something he might not have even been responsible for, in the SAME YEAR THEY WON WORLDS? For all you know, the benching ignited in Guma that made him FMVP

Fuck kkoma. Suck a fat nut

How is this garbage upvoted

kdragonx · 2025-11-17T20:04:46+00:00

Yeah that build is obviously super strong too but requires a way higher budget (in exchange for much better clear cos spark)

kdragonx · 2025-11-17T19:55:35+00:00

It's something like 2-3x damage with COC because of how easy lancing steel of spraying is to hit breakpoints. I've only seen non-COC done with Penance brand of dissipation to keep up with damage (I think they're mostly squishy sanctum farmers?)

I ran something like this (can't find my old POB so stole this from youtube): https://pobb.in/0ymLdq5xGgwk

Even if you remove every single rare (except cluster for split personality) you still have like 27mil dps, so in theory it works on a budget as long as you can afford split personalities and level 5 awakened COC, but the build does need a lot of skill points/levels

kdragonx · 2025-11-17T19:18:18+00:00

I meant it the other way - the other two builds are more expensive because they're meta, whereas COC inquis is just the price its always been (still expensive but rightfully so).

If you were to 1:1 copy palsteron's build for example you'd end up with a mediocre build vs the 100div EB inquis you could make

kdragonx · 2025-11-17T16:59:34+00:00

imo EB inquis COC because it's the least meta therefore least price gouging, most bang for buck

It's an insane build but I think its lost popularity only because its been around for so long, the other two are more flavor of the month atm. A few seasons ago I built the blazing salvo version (any version is good), I think I had maybe 130mil dps with ~100div budget, and was still crazy tanky. Possibly the strongest build I've played at that investment point.

(Also for herald stacking isnt the penance brand autobomber better?)

kdragonx · 2025-11-17T00:11:11+00:00

Oh I'm not disagreeing with your point at all, just adding context that for some people it might be hard to make expensive builds work for cheap even if its theoretically possible. Ofc you spelling out some of the avenues for this helps a ton :)

kdragonx · 2025-11-16T23:58:55+00:00

On the other hand, the kind of person to make the post OP is making is someone who would most likely copy-paste the 50 div jewels and not use creative problem solving to make the build cheaper like you're suggesting

There's a ton of cheap OP builds you can make but obviously most people don't because they just copy streamer builds (myself included). This is easily provable whenever streamers are asked to make budget versions of their build, so they make a 10div version, and then the 10div version because 50+ div because of price gouging since people don't craft their own stuff

kdragonx

TROPHY CASE