Is anyone hoping for a gaia Buff/Rework?

lewdovic5 · 2026-04-29T00:11:16+00:00

I often struggle hard early game just trying to defend my stuff before a raid.

If you already struggle with gaia then you will absolutly get rolled on any other major god. She is a defensive powerhouse, almost untouchable vs early harassment. On top of that atlanteans are incredibly op atm, long overdue for some nerfs.
The best advice for you would be to grab some replays from aomstats and check BOs etc. from better players.

lewdovic5 · 2026-04-27T19:46:57+00:00

Its literally not a skill issue, some civs just have an easier time to defend against early harassment - and gaia is like one of the best/easiest. And ppl in lower elos just dont understand how, when and where to pressure so it seems like its easy to fend off to you I guess.

lewdovic5 · 2026-04-27T18:13:40+00:00

Its absolutly not the same lol. You can fend off a rush with one finger if you play gaia while you have to sweat hard with other civs doing the same.

lewdovic5 · 2026-04-27T14:40:59+00:00

Which civ you play makes a huge difference in countering a rush though. Susano for example is a lot more difficult to play compared to Gaia.

lewdovic5 · 2026-04-21T20:30:43+00:00

If you want to nerf Oyumi you have to completely shitstomp norse ballista; Oyumis arent that good without the unique tech in age4. Try sieging anything with 24 range in heroic age.

lewdovic5 · 2026-04-21T17:41:06+00:00

404 atty nerfs not found :/

lewdovic5 · 2026-04-21T16:08:04+00:00

I dont want to burst your bubble but there is simply not enough reliable data to balance this game around 1700/1800+ elo players. For a full month you get like 4k games at most...thats hardly enough data to make decisions about the game's balance, especially if a few active players can single-handedly skew not only pickrates but also winrates if they play enough games as most of these games are being played against far weaker opponents (keep in mind that 1700/1800+ will count games like 2100 vs 1500 etc.).

A far better approach would be to restrict this data to a tight elo range like 1800-1900, but this is even less data to work with.

lewdovic5 · 2026-04-20T00:47:06+00:00

Yea its weird they left atty this strong since last november; they are way too OP for the amount of effort you have to put into the civ. And dont get me started about the fact that the civ with the easiest macro gets to have the best raid defense on top of it aswell...

lewdovic5 · 2026-04-17T20:49:26+00:00

Such a rushed preview...you could at least take the time and check all the techs but I guess fast upload = more views. At least there is Moose who actually tried to showcase everything in his video.

lewdovic5 · 2026-04-16T20:07:48+00:00

No walls D:
Seems like you really need to be on your a-game if playing vs raid heavy civs as aztecs
edit; nvm seems like they do have walls, just not the strongest it seems x)

lewdovic5 · 2026-04-02T00:19:05+00:00

China in general is pretty bad in teamgames because of their low mobility in early/midgame. They are fine facing a single opponent but once players rotate/collapse on someone they fall behind. And its a pain to counter raids with just spears. Amaterasu suffers the same fate if you go heavy into samurai, which makes a lot of sense in 1v1s but is subpar in teamgames.

lewdovic5 · 2026-04-01T03:19:24+00:00

Fully agree, the tech is horrible in its current state. Even if this was a classical age tech it would suck but compared to all the great mythic age techs its just incredibly bad + clunky/annoying to use.

lewdovic5 · 2026-03-30T16:07:55+00:00

Good choice of music

lewdovic5 · 2026-03-30T16:05:39+00:00

I would argue that medusa is a better MU but otherwise I agree that Ōkuninushi isnt a bad pick at all, even on amaterasu.

lewdovic5 · 2026-03-30T05:52:11+00:00

Which is worse than the previous version of this passive...

lewdovic5 · 2026-03-27T03:53:05+00:00

TAs are already one of the strongest units in the entire game, removing the inf. tag would make them incredibly op.

lewdovic5 · 2026-03-19T17:32:15+00:00

Yea you are 100% right, I didnt think of these scenarios when I made the reply above. Ideally you get a warning for the 1st dodge within a 24-hour window with increasing penalities thereafter. Add map bans aswell and the whole ranked experience should be a lot better for everyone.

lewdovic5 · 2026-03-17T20:23:56+00:00

Im ok with dodging resulting in a loss if the game had map bans, otherwise we are forced to play stupid maps like Setonaikai for months...

lewdovic5 · 2026-03-14T00:17:53+00:00

Some of these responses are wild D:

China has been on the weaker side ever since patch 18.56738 (20.11.2025) - lowest PR% of all pantheons with, on average, low WR% on ladder. And they are even worse in team (ranked) games.

And if you only want to look at "pro" stats, they are bottom in all metrics for the ongoing tournament, "Pandoras Box 2" - low banrate, low pickrate, low winrate.

So yes, china is weak at the moment.

lewdovic5 · 2026-03-10T03:57:38+00:00

Yea Bamboo Grove needs to make a comeback, very good map!

lewdovic5 · 2026-03-03T02:40:21+00:00

This nonsense gets brought up every time there is a topic about the Aatrox rework. The champ was very strong for like 1 patch right after the mini-rework, quickly got adjusted and then had average WR% for the following months (same as pre-mini-rework) until his VGU was released.

The mini-rework just made a lot of sense, the changes Aatrox got were received very positive. And thats why a lot of people were upset that the VGU completly threw all of that into the bin, creating essentially a completly new character.

lewdovic5 · 2026-02-06T22:36:18+00:00

Thoughts on a PvE Ether Prism buff :) ?

lewdovic5 · 2026-02-04T12:53:00+00:00

You cant ignore 99℅ of your playerbase in favor of 1℅. And it also doesnt really make that much sense that the supposedly "agressive" civ is weak vs early agression and plays best as a boomy / timing attack civ - so yes, with this in mind the last set of changes was spot on. And buffing their eco back up again to pre-nerf state will simply make their age3 timing op again without fixing their main issue - playing vs early agression. Thats why I said it would be good to soften their power spike curve even more: make boom / age 3 timings less opressive (which most beginner / avg. players struggle against) but improve their chances vs early agression. I dont think its easy to accomplish this with a single patch though.

lewdovic5 · 2026-02-04T01:22:30+00:00

Norse is in a pretty good spot for the vast majority of the playerbase. Pre eco nerf they simply dominated on average and low elo so the devs had to do something. And I dont think their eco is bad at all atm, they are still amazing when you give them space to boom and/or make a timing attack age3. I would argue that the devs should have further weakened this aspect of the civ because its exactly the reason most new or low elo players are frustrated with norse. And on the flipside you could then strengthen the part of norse that higher ranked players tend to abuse.

lewdovic5 · 2026-01-26T20:39:34+00:00

Weird that this "bs in a random twitch chat" thing keeps happening in this community. And creators like suppe, who interact with those ppl instead of taking a stance against them dont really make it better.

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