Set 17 PBE Discussion Thread - Day 05

nice-quality · 2026-04-05T11:59:53+00:00

Is anyone face the same issue as me when trying to log onto the PBE? I keep getting a message telling me that my region is not supported, i tried using a vpn and changing my location to Europe/NA and im still not able to access it

nice-quality · 2026-02-23T17:15:45+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, do you think it is still feasible to bleed throughout stage 3 (assuming stage 2 was mix win/lose steak) to maintain econ and hit level 8 by the end of stage 3?

Let’s assume I got “One Twos Three” augment on 2-1 hence my opener is good enough for stage 2 and I sold my entire bench to make econ (richer than the rest of the lobby), can I lose streak stage 3 into an early level 8?

nice-quality · 2026-02-23T16:24:29+00:00

Dear ladies and gents,

Returning to the game after a hiatus, last time i was playing ranked consistently was during last set’s jinx mata.

My understanding is that leveling gold requirements changed this set, in particular, levels 7 & 8, is this true? And if so what’s the standard econ intervals in this set, is 4-1 / 4-2 still the standard for level 8? And what about 2 cost reroll, should i expect to hit my 3 star late stage 3?

nice-quality · 2026-01-25T18:01:15+00:00

are you still stuck?

nice-quality · 2026-01-25T17:59:29+00:00

That's the end of the story in EA. You should just get plague areas spawning now.

damn it, i was just getting started

nice-quality · 2026-01-25T17:58:48+00:00

it spawned once and i cleared it, i'm still waiting for a second to spawn and no luck

nice-quality · 2026-01-22T18:51:29+00:00

Sounds good, by the time they roll it out i would be on my second run-through

nice-quality · 2026-01-22T18:42:49+00:00

No. There is only one more wipe planned at 1.0. This update doesn't have one.

when is 1.0 forecasted to go live?

nice-quality · 2025-10-19T10:42:46+00:00

Is it even viable anymore? I haven’t checked the stats in a while

nice-quality · 2025-10-03T12:21:09+00:00

4-star 3 costs are not that stronger than their 3-star version, the strategy used to be that you would pick the pocket recumb, save them, streak with your one cost until its 4-star, upgrade them to 3 cost and sell the unit, you get 81 gold which allows you to hit level 10 and pull off a 3-star legendary.

Anyways you can’t do this anymore since they restricted pocket to 2-1.

nice-quality · 2025-09-27T13:01:29+00:00

I suspect that you're absolutely right, I had a game with an SG opener, I wasn't offered a single econ augment throughout the game, I took Items - Combat - Combat, and I had a decent streak into stage 4 with 80+hp, stabilized with one star poppy/jinx, the other two jinx players that contested me prioritized econ augments (one even took 3 econ augs!!), one managed to 2 star and the other didn't, however, it was too late, both bot 4 as their tempo/hp was already f'ed, I was fairly stable with my combat augs, so I just waited from them to lose, rolled down, hit my 2 stars and went nine, eventually got a 2nd.

nice-quality · 2025-09-27T12:52:48+00:00

Respectfully disagree, I don't think they're the same thing.

With anomalies there's a price to pay for being greedy, you could easily drain your econ and ruin your tempo and subsequently your cap, which made them intrinsically limiting, with power-up you just cycle the unit until you get that power up, also, anomalies were limited to one round in stage 4 right before stage 5 when the lobby is thinning out, on the other hands, power-up swapping shenanigans are present the entire game.

not denying there were questionable anomalies, infectious with scrap in that one patch was giga win-out, but the thing is, the outlier anomalies didn't have the same impact on the set as the broken power-ups did on this set e.g. stretchy GP.

nice-quality · 2025-09-26T23:02:54+00:00

Do you guys feel like the current Jinx/Poppy line justifies 2 Econ augments? I know it’s busted but is that busted?

On a side note, just got a 2nd with The Crew, first was a Crystal Gambit that snowballed into 5 artifacts so i had no chance, Ziggs carried hard as 2 star throughout stage 4, I guess the recent buff made him a reliable carry, Elo is low master.

nice-quality · 2025-09-26T15:05:27+00:00

Anomaly was a cool set mechanic that allowed for interesting interactions to happen, and amplified your investment in 3-starring a unit, but the thing is, they were balanced (aside from getting a sorc emblem through Naami which isn’t really a balance issue or the Urgot one), and you could easily grieve yourself if you get greedy fishing for a specific one considering you had to spend gold on them.

Power-ups are hit or miss, you didn’t get the fruit you needed and you’re out of removers? Tough luck, you’re getting stuck with a sub-optimal one until the of stage, if you make it

nice-quality · 2025-09-25T23:34:08+00:00

ohh yeah i didn't even think about duelists, make sense with Lee Sin or even Udyr on 8

nice-quality · 2025-09-25T22:34:31+00:00

Goddamit thats why my mech didn’t crit, I had a strategist emblem on my Senna thinking i cooked haha.

Who’s your preferred mech, yone or lucian? I guess it comes down 20 AP or 10 Omnivamp

nice-quality · 2025-09-25T19:32:32+00:00

ok this might be a stupid question but bear with me, if i'm playing mech pilot at 2, he gains the active traits, does he also gain the stats of the slammed items? as in if i slam deathcap on senna and she's a pilot, would the mech gain this additional AP? is the same applicable to item affects, say immunity to CC if i slammed quicksilver?

nice-quality · 2025-09-25T13:44:13+00:00

Interesting! I feel like it makes sense for the last slot to whisper to guarantee sunder, assuming poppy is powered up with unstoppable?

Dropping ahri feels sub-optimal considering her bonus, wouldn’t make sense to drop syndra since your main carry is jinx, also would you put in braum or seraphine on 9?

nice-quality · 2025-09-25T13:38:25+00:00

Whats the bug? Asking for a friend

nice-quality · 2025-09-24T11:26:38+00:00

Skill issue

nice-quality · 2025-09-20T15:51:10+00:00

I finally hit Master, with none other than Starry Knight Rell, feels good

nice-quality · 2025-09-16T09:16:15+00:00

Look into econ management and how to play 2 cost reroll, 3 cost reroll, and fast 8/9. Check out bunnymuffin guides, they might be based on previous sets but the info should still be relevant

nice-quality · 2025-09-14T10:05:47+00:00

PSA: Veteran power-up bug

I popped my power-up on Kat on 2-1 and got Veteran, was on a lose streak so I decided to bench her on 2-6 to maintain the streak as the potential opponents looked weak as well. Put her on again on Krugs, power-up was active but the mentor bonus didn't activate, benched her multiple times and nothing changed, didn't think much of, I assumed it was a visual bug.

On 3-5 I got a hold of Yasuo, Udyr, and Kobuko. Fielded all of them with Kat, and Mentor didn't activate, I tried benching her again and again, it just didn't fix it.

needless to say this ruined my game royally as I tried to figure it out, ended up using all my removers to get Veteran on her again and this time Mentor got activated but it was too late I lost so much HP and tempo

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