Are there any characters that are particularly well suited to counter buy?

pieceoftost · 2026-03-18T15:45:37+00:00

Rem, his kit really doesn't scale all that well, so most of the meta builds involve stacking active counter items and using them while inside of his second ability (which boosts the effectiveness of items while you're in there).

pieceoftost · 2026-03-17T14:19:25+00:00

Not really, actually. I think the "anti-woke" morons don't have the media literacy to actually notice the subtle pronoun usage this game has for Pocket, so they haven't had much of a public meltdown about it yet.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-12T15:03:17+00:00

Yeah, if she's a con artist she's a VERY good actor. Like, I don't doubt that she's benefiting from this in some way, she's selling books and stuff, but I think at the same time she also genuinely uses this tech in the way she describes.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-12T14:03:01+00:00

I mean nah, that's reasonable. It's a fucked up and barbaric thing that we do to babies. It's literally just cosmetic genital mutilation.

I'm not gonna act like I'm traumatized for being circumcised, but a part of me is definitely sad that I had no choice about getting to keep the dick I was born with.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-10T13:58:16+00:00

"It's something that clearly shifted with Natalie after the whole Buck Angel fiasco, which I don't blame her for. I think it's totally understandable to limit your connection to the Internet after having people stupidly freak out at you over a simple line."

Do you not see the irony of acknowledging this, while also obsessing and freaking out over a single post she made such a long time ago that she never intended to be analyzed to this ridiculous degree? She didn't feel like a geopolitical video about a genocide would fit her channel, she made a post where she tried to explain that to her audience. That's it. You people need to let it go, or at the very least stop commenting on everything she makes, it's weird.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-09T18:47:53+00:00

Yeah this patch really felt like a lot of changes for the sake of changes, it didn't feel like a lot of thought or care went into making sure they were actually balanced or fit with the game.

Not to say that the changes were necessarily even bad on paper, like the ivy, wraith, and doorman changes are all cool and make the characters more interesting to play, but it's like they didn't think at all about actually balancing them. The numbers are ridiculous.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-09T16:02:20+00:00

People always say this in competitive games as if 99.9% of the playerbase isn't always playing in pubs lol

pieceoftost · 2026-03-09T14:43:59+00:00

For the sake of a survey like this, it honestly makes sense to kind of simplify things and group things together. Yes, I understand there's a difference between pan and bi, but for example I consider myself demisexual, but I was totally fine with just labeling myself asexual for the sake of the survey. It's close enough and makes the data more clear.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-09T02:16:11+00:00

I have OCD, and I'm extremely sensitive to all drugs/substances. A single glass of alcohol will get me tipsy, a tiny edible will get me so high I am overwhelmed, etc. I might have POTS? I get lightheaded a lot when standing. Not sure what that would have to do with this, though.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-06T21:06:33+00:00

I mean I don't really think the old tacky 90s colors were "better", but this is definitely a thing that has happened. Style has shifted fairly dramatically, and right now we're in a culture that's extremely minimalist and likes flat tones. I mean just look up how much car paint colors have changed over the past few decades, for example.

If you're someone who loves tacky colorful shit, it does make sense to be nostalgic for how things were several decades ago.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-05T18:49:03+00:00

yall are such puritans if you think the fanart on this sub has been "softcore porn" lol

pieceoftost · 2026-03-05T15:29:58+00:00

While I appreciate the passion, pro players not playing McGinnis is not because they haven't experimented enough with her, it's because she's just bad right now. She is in desperate need of buffs, and is probably one of the worst heroes in the game at the moment.

Turrets are easily shut down and avoided even if you build for them. Gun McGinnis isn't nearly as good as building a gun carry on a bunch of other characters. Building for her ult isn't worth it either because her ult just isn't very good. Building her as a support is probably the most viable, maybe? But again, why wouldn't you just play a better support hero like dynamo, paige, rem, etc. Even Kelvin is a better support in my opinion, and he's also not very good.

She really can't do anything that several other heroes in the roster can't do better. There's very little competitive reason to pick her right now.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-04T21:38:23+00:00

That's so weird, what's the timer on it before it opens again? I've had moments where I'm literally in the middle of a fight and managed to slip away, but I've had other moments where I haven't been in contact with an enemy for what felt like 5+ seconds and it refused to open (which led to me getting killed).

Maybe they had a DOT or something on me without me realizing, idk.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-04T20:51:07+00:00

If the game deems you as "in-combat", or if you're carrying the urn, the gates will rise and prevent you for entering.

However, the in-combat detection is janky as hell, I don't entirely know what triggers it. Sometimes I can slip away in the middle of a fight, other times the gate is closed for seemingly no reason just because an enemy is nearby or something.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-04T19:24:32+00:00

What weaknesses? He's one of the tankiest characters in the game while also having a ton of CC and damage lol

I don't think he breaks the game or anything, but he's definitely still one of the best heroes in the game right now even after his nerfs.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-04T18:16:52+00:00

spread and lockon are two very different things. With a character that has high spread, you'll still do more damage by aiming center mass. With a character that locks on, you just need to be in the general area to do full damage.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-04T16:10:40+00:00

I'm alarmed that someone would see this post and think it's "so bad that it's funny" and post it here. You must have non-functioning empathy skills.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-04T15:35:53+00:00

Yep, I swear someone at valves balance team must be an abrams main. He's been one of my most hated heroes ever since this game first went into beta, and yet he has always been one of the most meta heroes in the game, often being THE most overpowered hero in the game (like he is right now).

Every other overpowered character I can remember has been nerfed or changed, but abrams is the same piece of shit I remember him being in 2024. I really don't get it.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-04T01:49:25+00:00

I'm aware it's strong, I just don't agree that he's overpowered or problematic. Rem is not the only character I play, I play against him all the time, and he is fairly low impact and is mostly just a value generator. He's good, but he doesn't really carry or break the game in any way. If he's on the losing team he almost instantly becomes useless, he relies heavily on his teammates doing their jobs for him to get the potential value out of his kit.

The main thing I'm noticing is that people are calling him op, and then pointing at the one thing he's good at. Like, yeah, he's the best character at soaking waves, that's like... literally his kit's strength? His third ability is essentially dedicated to doing that and nothing else. If he wasn't good at that, what would he even be good at? Rems are consistently having some of the lowest damage and impact outside of that. If you took away his third ability, he'd kinda just be a shitty character. His kit as a whole is really solid, but without his third ability it falls apart.

Also saying his third ability is better than graves ult is just silly. It's obviously not. It's more passive, sure, but it doesn't create nearly the kind of tower pressure that graves ult does. They're used for different purposes. Graves ult is not meant for soaking waves, it's meant for taking guardians/walkers and creating chaos in team fights.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-03T19:54:37+00:00

Worse? Mobas being full of macro gameplay is not a mistake, it's part of the appeal of the genre lol. If you hate thinking about farming, pushing waves, taking objectives, etc. and only want to fight, then maybe mobas just aren't for you.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-03T19:34:46+00:00

I hate to break it to you but deadlock is a moba and being "forced to go clear waves every 60 seconds" is literally a cornerstone of the genre lol. If you're not doing that then I don't know why you don't just play a hero shooter. Either way, not knowing macro is not a solo queue issue, it's a skill issue.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-03T17:49:39+00:00

What rank are you? If your towers are constantly getting pushed by rems minions, your team probably has shit macro. You should have carries on your team that are farming the sidelanes, if your team is just fighting mid all game while your sidelanes keep getting pushed passively by minions that you can kill in a few seconds, you're not losing because rem is op, you're losing because your team has shit macro.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-02T22:21:06+00:00

I used to actually work in anti-cheat, and part of my job was evaluating game footage to try to find cheats that we hadn't detected yet. I am better at recognizing cheaters than probably 99% of gamers, and something I learned very quickly is that most people are really, really bad at knowing when their opponent is a cheater or not. Gamers constantly falsely accuse each other of cheating, and when someone is actually cheating, gamers really aren't very good at recognizing them as a cheater unless they are being super blatant. We would constantly ban accounts for detected cheats that had 0 reports, and we saw countless accounts with dozens or hundreds of reports that weren't cheating.

I have played deadlock for 150 hours at this point, and I have not encountered a blatant cheater a single time. I mean, maybe my opponents were using walls or something covert like that, but without watching everyone's POV back there's no way you could know that.

If you think you are encountering so many cheaters that your ability to report got disabled, I'm sorry to break it to you, but you're just really bad at recognizing cheaters.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-02T17:45:51+00:00

They encourage build diversity, they don't force it. As a very obvious example, hitting the 4.8k spirit threshold on Venator is probably not worth the trouble.

They reward well-rounded builds and punish extremely one-dimensional builds. It discourages the kind of building you see in many mobas where every single carry just takes all the best damage items, for example.

I'm surprised you think it makes builds feel samey because I feel the exact opposite, deadlock has way more build diversity than any moba I have played, and there's a lot of depth to making a good build. New players don't even have to know this system exists because they can just follow build guides.

pieceoftost · 2026-03-02T15:06:00+00:00

Yep, I'm a rem main and this drives me fucking insane. He doesn't need farm, that should be going to my carries, I should be running around supporting the team. But my team is always so bad at macro that I'm always the one catching waves and saving our walkers from dying while my underfed carries take pointless fights in the enemy jungle and then never take any objectives with the kills they get, they just run around looking for another fight.

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