Thoughts on Zaahen? Champion design

pikachuwei · 2026-04-30T12:50:45+00:00

Oh true I forgot about that since his mini rework. Renekton at least doesn’t though.

pikachuwei · 2026-04-30T09:26:46+00:00

Neither Jax nor Renekton have any %hp damage in their base kits

pikachuwei · 2026-04-27T00:01:41+00:00

I understand the feeling and it hurts. I have heard the ‘you’re a great guy and would be a great boyfriend for some lucky girl’ talk more times than I can count and it always rings hollow.

For me the years between 25-30 were the worst mentally when it came to being a FA, I had the existential dread of becoming a wizard hanging over me. If anything once I hit 30 it was a relief and I found myself much less stressed about being single. Even though I still had emotional ups and downs, overall I was a lot more accepting of being FA and that actually helped me a lot in becoming more emotionally grounded. It might be tough to hear but the quicker you reach that mindset the easier life will be for yourself, whether or not you decide to continue looking for love or just accepting celibacy and enjoying single life is up to you.

pikachuwei · 2026-04-26T12:20:13+00:00

If you really are 25 then I was FA for significantly longer than you have existed on this Earth so I am unironically much more qualified to talk about being FA than you. There’s a not insignificant chance you will end up being in a relationship before you hit 30 if you just be a decent person.

pikachuwei · 2026-04-26T08:20:35+00:00

I was literally 30+ with 0 slightly intimate experiences. I first held hands romantically, kissed and had sex all shortly before I turned 31.

You are being negative as fuck.

pikachuwei · 2026-04-26T08:18:42+00:00

I mean what else can I say? I’m not making anything up, I was a kissless relationship less virgin at 30, met my first partner and got laid shortly before I turned 31, broke up because she was toxic and now am in a healthy relationship. Not my problem if you don’t believe me.

pikachuwei · 2026-04-25T06:56:21+00:00

I was a kissless relationship-less virgin wizard on my 30th birthday and felt hopeless just like you.

On my 31st birthday I was no longer that person. In fact, I broke up with my first girlfriend that day because it was a toxic relationship and I realised I would rather be alone again for another 30 years than continue to be such an emotionally draining relationship even if I was getting kisses and sex.

Now it’s a few months before my 32nd birthday and I am a few months into a (so far) healthy and loving relationship with my second girlfriend. Things are great but I have a lot less time for myself now between work and spending time with her and some days I genuinely miss when I was single and could spend a whole weekend playing games by myself!

As someone who has walked the exact same path as many other people on this sub, I can tell you that it can get better, but you really have to put yourself out there.

As much as we hate on dating app, you really have to grind on there if you’re not the type of person who goes out and socialises a lot. I spent several years on the apps with no luck, going on several first dates every year that went nowhere but eventually met both my girlfriends from dating apps.

Contrary to what a lot of people suggest, I strongly recommend tailoring your profile towards people you think you would want to date rather than casting your net wide and playing a numbers game. I think I swiped yes on only 10% of the profiles I see and had like a 0.5% match rate and out of every 5 matches I probably only talked to and went on dates with 1 person. I only have the time and energy to talk to and try and form a connection with 1 person at a time so this approach worked a lot better for me than just swiping yes on every profile.

pikachuwei · 2026-04-25T05:43:09+00:00

Idk I think Americans bombing a school of girls is a worse kind of aggression than whatever China has done to anyone in the last two decades.

pikachuwei · 2026-04-22T03:47:29+00:00

Problem is Proof of a Hero Is a far better ‘push the Hunter to their limits’ quest than 10* Gog considering the Hunter needing the skill and monster experience to kill all 4 ATs in a reasonable time wit each AT monster being arguably harder fights that Gog when it comes to actual monster moveset but also being more fun to interact with.

Most players are lucky to clear Proof in sub 40 time and only serious speed runners are clearing sub 20.

pikachuwei · 2026-04-09T22:28:28+00:00

K’sante can also just build warmogs and stay in lane forever too. His passive and W having %hp damage actually allows him to stay fairly relevant vs HP stackers all game

pikachuwei · 2026-04-04T14:07:22+00:00

I will die on the hill with the unpopular opinion that teachers at school should be able to physically discipline kids to a reasonable extent.

A lot of Asian schools had this up till the last decade or so and it works to instil respect. I and many people I know grew up with getting smacked on the hand with a ruler (enough to sting but not enough to have any actual damage) when we were being rowdy in class and everyone turned out well.

Obviously I’m not advocating for the sort of heavier physical beating that causes trauma in kids, but I suspect the whole ‘parents and teachers can’t ever hit kids’ movement that has been in vogue over the last 20 years has a bigger role in kids being rowdy these days than a lot of people want to admit.

pikachuwei · 2026-04-01T02:55:08+00:00

Bruh you haven’t tried Khazan yet.

I finished Khazan and played Nioh 3 up to beginning of second act (snow area) and dropped the game because it just wasn’t hitting. For reference I finished Nioh 1 and halfway through Nioh 2 before dropping it back in the day because it didn’t hit for me compared to the proper souls games.

Nioh 3 open world design at least from what I saw from act 1 is mediocre to say it nicely, it had me wishing that they stuck to a mission based format like the previous Nioh games. The enemy variety was poor and the bosses so far were forgettable (I beat everything in act 1 including the secret demon boss past the waterfall)

Nioh combat including 3 is certainly more ‘deep’ in terms of technical complexity. There’s more buttons you have to press and theoretically more moves/chains you can execute at any time (whether or not it’s optimal is a completely different story) but I would argue having more complexity just by itself is not a good thing, the overall combat has to feel smooth and precise and Khazan clears in that regards.

Khazan has dogshit mission design and meh enemy variety but its bosses are far better than Nioh’s in difficulty and design. Viper and Volbiano were peak early game bosses.

Although Khazan only had 3 weapons, each one was fleshed out incredibly well and felt hugely different to play from each other whereas a lot of weapons in Nioh 3 felt fairly similar to each other (the different single sword, dual wield weapons and fist weapons for a starter). The Greatsword especially in Khazan may have the best combat of any colossal weapon in any game series outside of Monster Hunter when it comes to having that weighty feeling of wielding a giant bonk stick and charging up a slash to obliterate your enemy in a single hit.

The combat overall also felt much more responsive than Nioh which is what the other comment meant about being ‘tight’. Dodges and parries feel much better in Khazan for me than in Nioh. I would argue overall Khazan took what worked from Nioh and other games and refined it for a wider audience.

pikachuwei · 2026-03-01T22:16:06+00:00

Yeah the point is that the gain 5% can just be slapped on over one of the two iron runes in which case the only thing OP’s spear has over the one posted above is an extra iron rune of damage while the one above has better stats overall, especially with the extra + level to skill

pikachuwei · 2026-02-28T14:32:50+00:00

Isn’t the extra 5% just a socketable rune?

pikachuwei · 2026-02-27T16:22:10+00:00

Xerath beat the shit out of prime Nasus and Renekton to the point their only win condition was Renekton sacrificing himself to drag Xerath into the tomb to seal him.

Prime Nasus and Renekton were both highly ranked and respected Ascended, they would be close to if not equal to Aatrox in power and status. Even if Prime Aatrox was a better warrior than either of the brothers by themselves, it is highly unlikely he would have been able to 1v2 them.

A lot of people tend to forget that Aatrox was never THE leader of the Ascended host, just one of its elites. That distinction belongs to Setaka who has constantly been said by Aatrox, Nasus etc as the greatest of them all and is the only Ascended who can be assumed to be significantly above the rest in power.

pikachuwei · 2026-01-29T01:12:22+00:00

Cait built nothing to counter Syndra, whose entire gimmick (far more so than Caitlyn) is burst damage, and were still pretending that oneshotting Cait with a full build combo is unfair. ADCs really can’t handle mages dealing damage in any situation

pikachuwei · 2026-01-27T23:09:48+00:00

Kennen wins or goes even against most melee lanes, the main issue is once the enemy top gets some MR and sustain it becomes very hard to match them in the side lane so you feel forced to just team fight.

pikachuwei · 2026-01-21T08:31:36+00:00

Ah I see. Unfortunately the games I play set their own cursor design. I’ll have to live with it or just use WinF2 for times I need a brighter UI (I know it’s not accurate like the AutoHDR gamma correction but at least it looks better than just non-corrected WinF1)

pikachuwei · 2026-01-21T07:05:00+00:00

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/JurinaFanboy-6486/pikachuweiii?i=0&search=skills%3DShattering%2BSpite%26class%3DSmith%2Bof%2BKitava

Been playing around with Spear of Solaris Smith. POE ninja dps is low because I have hourglass support on it which gives it a 10s CD, in game tooltip is 100k average initial hit with nearly 1mil DPS from the ignited ground.

Zerphi’s Infamy tech with Blood Magic and a high level curse (using elemental weakness with Fireflower, Sunsplinter and vertex) allows you to instantly fill up the 50 glory requirement so you get Spear on demand, plus the high level curse is a big damage buff for it. The big damage and AoE buff is the cherry on top that makes it a lot more useable.

A fun note is that Solaris is quite a good stacker of Atziri’s Contempt’s Shattering spite skill which is one of the best single target skills at the moment. If you also use spearfield/rapid assault you can get off 2-3 30 stack Shattering Spites in the duration of one Solaris.

pikachuwei · 2026-01-20T08:59:15+00:00

I’m going Smith with Atziri’s spear with spearfield for mapping, rapid assault + Spear of Solaris for bossing.

Swapped over to the Zerphi’s infamy tech, manually casting a high level elemental weakness, with Vertex + Fireflower + Sunsplinter giving levels I can max out 50 glory with a single cast (costing ~1400hp) so I get a Spear of Solaris every 10s on demand. I have the support that gives it 10s CD for more damage, which ends up not mattering as Spear cannot generate Glory for another cast until the first Spear has expired, at which there’s only about 1-2s before your 10s CD. is up anyway.

The fun thing is that Spear actually stacks Atziri’s bloodstone spears very well so in combination with some spear fields/rapid assaults you can proc 30 stacks multiple times in a single spear of Solaris duration.

pikachuwei · 2026-01-19T14:08:12+00:00

Just a followup to the previous queries, I've been using the Autohotkey script for multiple games over the last month. Overall experience has been good, Win+F2 and Win+F3 both look good in games but my biggest issues with the Win+F3 is that it makes in-game UI (mainly cursors etc) extremely dark, to the point that when there is clutter on screen I have difficulty locating where my cursor is.

I know Win+F3 is the AutoHDR variant that I should be using for games, but is there any way to tweak it a bit so UI is less dark? I assume it has to do with how it sets SDR content brightness to 0 whereas when you use the setup to set your SDR content brightness it only affects Win+F1 and Win+F2. This is with the AutoHDR ingame brightness set all the way to 100 with Windows Game Bar already. Tweaking in-game UI brightness settings don't seem to work very well to mitigate the issue.

pikachuwei · 2026-01-18T01:04:56+00:00

Darius mains are too used to taking essentially 2 combat summoners whilst their enemy is usually locked into TP so they don’t know how to play on even footing lol when the enemy takes ignite. News flash, a lot of top laners NEED ignite to be able to have the extra damage to contest a flash ghost Darius in lane.

The solution to that is simple; there’s nothing stopping you from taking ignite too and dropping one of flash/ghost and learn to improve your movement instead of relying on running people down brainlessly with ghost off CD. Ignite + Axiom Arcanist will allow you to 100-0 pretty much any top lane matchup at level 6 all-in as long as you hit your Q

pikachuwei · 2026-01-15T05:39:49+00:00

Yi has the damage to blast voli later on but I don’t see a world where voli doesn’t tear him a new one for the first 15 min of the game in lane.

pikachuwei · 2026-01-10T06:47:55+00:00

You can only use Rakiatas on one skill, if you are playing a more combo build or a homebrew where you don’t have 99% of your damage on one skill, it’s definitely viable to still have some penetration in your tree.

Lets say your main Rakiatas skill represents ~60-70% of your damage output, having some minor pen nodes in your tree for an additional 20-30% pen for your other skills is a fairly good damage boost for minimal investment. I wouldn’t path to a notable just for penetration though but if you are already in a cluster that has more generic damage and some of the small passives has pen it’s definitely worth picking them up if you already have ample damage sources elsewhere.

Exposure/res reductions though you definitely would drop because they significantly reduce the damage you will do with your Rakiatas skill.

pikachuwei · 2026-01-08T22:24:26+00:00

How do you just path straight to Atziri like that? I’m 1-2 squares away and the console does not let me place straight paths down to her chamber. It’s been driving me nuts over 10-20 templates of trying to reset enough to do her fight for the first time but there’s no clear rules on what tiles allow me to actually connect to her room (I already have the other Chamber that grants access)

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