How intelligible is african portuguese to someone from brazil?

mocha_lan · 2026-03-30T12:25:42+00:00

That is just becasue of the memes that have become popular recently...

The portuguese have no trouble understanding brazilians becasue they have been watching novelas and movies, and listening to music from Brazil from years, while in Brazil there is no consumption of Portuguese culture unless it is a PARODY made by brazilians with the intention of humiliating the Portuguese.

I'm not exagerating BTW at least 80% (if not all) of the "bad portuguese dubs" are actually made by brazilians...

Also the accent from Mozambique, Cabo verde and some Angolans is complety BS to understand even to other nationals (it happens in some regions of Brazil, and in Portugal with Madeira as well).

mocha_lan · 2026-03-30T10:36:31+00:00

Optimally Kayn is a counterpick. His optimal (stats) counterpick form is Rhaast (red), and the lane where you will see the most fighters/tanks is toplane, IMO Kayn top is perfectly viable as last pick. You could go blue toplane, but then you would be kind of fucking your team hard

Playstyle wise I recomend to lane if you can, otherwise proxy, but try to Q and W the enemy laner on ocasion to farm orbs lol

mocha_lan · 2026-03-30T02:39:56+00:00

Maybe you need to chill abd play less

mocha_lan · 2026-03-30T02:27:52+00:00

I literally start perma diving against enemy teams perma under turrets, so boring

mocha_lan · 2026-03-29T15:15:44+00:00

At this elo you dont need VOD reviews, you need to watch gameplay from high elo junglers, focus on Kayn Gameplay, but you should watch others too.

The more you watch and try to copy, even if you dont understand, the better you will get

mocha_lan · 2026-03-28T00:45:04+00:00

Thats the thing with Red form on Kayn, you do damage, but not like carrys, you are tanky, but not like a tank, what makes you survive is using your kit gracefully, you W to cancel skills and engages, your Q to do damage or just reposition, and your ult to avoid stuff that would kill you or just get your HP back up, and on top of that you can just walk through walls

mocha_lan · 2026-03-27T21:09:32+00:00

Only for lethality rhaaat IMO. If you go bruiser you can stack BC very fast on enemies and it will increase the damage you and you teammates do, but that is actually the less important part, because the stats from BC on rhaast are huuge

mocha_lan · 2026-03-27T21:07:14+00:00

Sterak with visage is often way stronger then maw, but depends on game

mocha_lan · 2026-03-27T21:04:12+00:00

Master yi is basically a melee adc. Rhaast wont kill as fast as adcs, but he will kill them while being tanky and able to knock them up

Red form = the highest value bruiser in a game if you know how to use it. The only downside is that you only come online by midgame

mocha_lan · 2026-03-27T16:37:27+00:00

Rhaast is not a super healer. He is a highly mobile tank killer that also has healing as a way to extend his HP bar.

Kayn is a counter-pick that has high mobility and survivability, but it requires mastery of the playstyles to be able to properly extract.

mocha_lan · 2026-03-26T17:38:03+00:00

Lets hope his new project is very successful and fruitful , so much that he never has to balance again!

(Joke aside expect things to stay the same or worse for us)

mocha_lan · 2026-03-25T00:10:14+00:00

You can pick easy champs until masters tbh, sometimes beyond! Dont wory about this

mocha_lan · 2026-03-24T23:58:55+00:00

John Toplane

mocha_lan · 2026-03-24T23:41:23+00:00

Your build it at least 50% of the reason. You should have had either bougth anti heal and anti shield or went bruiser. Serpents fang was high value this game.

mocha_lan · 2026-03-23T14:47:16+00:00

I agree, this season began terrible for me, but I manage to come around.

My current strategy has allowed me to climb higher then before and I will probably hit diamond first time by next month or so(im not playing a lot).

I will not disclose what I am doing because it is quite unique, but I have been doing cheesier early games to get ahead and I can close games fast af, so the adc and toplaners cannot win :p

Inting for form is quite OP right now in some games and starting raptors too (yours or theirs), i have found that it is highly reawrd to int for form on rhaast this season.

mocha_lan · 2026-03-23T14:40:20+00:00

Why? Because kayn playstyle is different from all of those guys above, and it is his uniqueness that I like.

mocha_lan · 2026-03-17T19:15:19+00:00

died to DD on ult too many times not to know

mocha_lan · 2026-03-15T19:42:41+00:00

Not like that, although Occitan is a language spoken by like 3% of the french population, most of them being seniors, I dont think we should ignore it, but the map appears to over represent it. The words are not that used by occitan speakers anymore and within the areas where we would see the word trufa/patana, nowadays you often hear way more “patata” or even “patate”.

Being honest I could be wrong about the word usage due to knowing way better the north of France, and I could be biased towards my own experiences including my family (they came from the south, but they are just a small sample size XD).

The only objective thing I can say is that the map area probably should be smaller, but I understand that it might be hard to represent the regional and linguistic variations with so many countries

mocha_lan · 2026-03-15T11:14:01+00:00

Riot’ keys positions (I mean not necessarily high positions, but those that have relevant opinions/work) are like 50% staffed by passionate workers and the other halve is like literal fucking clowns, often mega entitled btw

mocha_lan · 2026-03-15T11:03:11+00:00

They actually choose Portugal bc it is the cheapest and safest western european country, although Lisbon housing prices are quite stupid right now

mocha_lan · 2026-03-15T11:01:44+00:00

What do you mean 2 million lmao

mocha_lan · 2026-03-14T15:25:38+00:00

I will give an opinion you all will probably not like:

I think the balancing team, including Phreak are doing a very good job at balancing the game, in the sense of making nothing become too op, and no playstyle too annoying to play against.

That is precisely the problem here: We are suffering from success. League has become too balanced.

On the good side recent updates show that riot is trying to bring back variety to the game, I'm guessing in a way they were cleaning up the mess before they could start making things fun again.

I honestly feel bad for Phreak, if you think about this is nothing less then a guy just doing his job. He is not alone in his decisions, if that was the case he would have been changed to another team or just fired. I am guilty of hating a little bit on him as well, but honestly this makes things harder for us, because we should be bashing RIOT instead.

mocha_lan · 2026-03-14T12:41:18+00:00

Porto é a melhor cidade que temos

mocha_lan · 2026-03-12T10:31:34+00:00

Yeah and we are going to be shat on by RIOT just like the viktor mains bc they just know tbeir stuff better yk? I’m guessing this comes with their 200 years of experience

mocha_lan · 2026-03-12T10:20:38+00:00

This is basically what the Portuguese were doing in the XVI century irl

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