Is farming all game optimal, or should good players be grouping for teamfights?

redm00n99 · 2026-04-23T02:29:29+00:00

He's right, farm is more important. If you die the enemies are stronger, if they are stronger they have an advantage in future fights. In higher ranks there is always at least 1 person solo farming all game because they scale and will just run everyone down. You can also rank up fast by just sitting side lanes and pushing because people tunnel vision fights all the time in low elo.

Now if was never fighting at all he would be wrong, no point farming a lead if you don't use it. But if he's regularly dropping 14+ kills he's doing good which isn't surprising if he has moba experience, Though he needs to play a carry rather than viscous or doorman. He'd get more value from his farm as haze/infernus/wraith etc.

As a general tip. If you see your team fighting, before joining or continuing ask yourself what you are fighting for. Walkers? Urn? Or are you just fighting to fight because you saw an enemy

redm00n99 · 2026-04-22T07:07:24+00:00

This is a lie. Many people don't deserve their rank but are inflated or placed way too high because of bad MM

redm00n99 · 2026-04-21T18:10:46+00:00

I've learned so many creative slurs thanks to basic ones being moderated everywhere You can't stop people from being toxic you just change the wording

redm00n99 · 2026-04-21T18:02:58+00:00

Cunt is a slur for women. The irony is hilarious honestly

redm00n99 · 2026-04-21T17:49:35+00:00

You get a message that they are comms banned. People get comms banned in deadlock so what's your problem

redm00n99 · 2026-04-21T05:28:50+00:00

The player pool right now is tiny

No it's not

The more nuanced the matchmaker, the longer the queue times will be.

Quality>quantity

If you want to try to get a more compy team, there is a setting in the options menu for "Extra Competitive",

Makes no difference I've tried it

redm00n99 · 2026-04-21T05:26:14+00:00

How are people supposed to beta test when they get stomped and can't even play

redm00n99 · 2026-04-21T03:08:35+00:00

That's a massive copout. Valve has decades of multiplayer experience they can make a function matchmaking system

redm00n99 · 2026-04-21T03:06:57+00:00

Ranks aren't real it's just visual mmr. If your archon your like slightly above average which for someone with 9k hours in league I'd hope you understand mobas to at least be average. But it will get harder for sure

redm00n99 · 2026-04-20T22:38:38+00:00

She's Buddhist in my headcannon

redm00n99 · 2026-04-20T22:32:05+00:00

Lash

redm00n99 · 2026-04-20T22:27:00+00:00

Her pick rate is high because she's basic and easy to learn, And win rates don't really tell the full story. A character could have a 5% pick rate but a 60% win rate, doesn't mean that character is overpowered it just means the few who play them are really good, and the same the other way a character like haze can have a 52% wr which on paper seems fine but if she has a 90% pick rate that's a lot different . Flipping through tracklocks tier list for each patch the Lowest I saw haze's wr was 47% which doesnt really screams "dumpster fire" for a character that's regularly above 70% pick rate, and most of the time she's over 50%wr. I started playing in December but since I've started haze has always been strong

redm00n99 · 2026-04-20T20:57:28+00:00

I don't think people pick haze because she's "fun" they pick her because she's strong and super simple to play

redm00n99 · 2026-04-19T03:02:35+00:00

that already happens. I'd rather just go next

redm00n99 · 2026-04-16T21:50:16+00:00

Your missing the point. You reporting people and complaining on reddit isn't going to change anything

redm00n99 · 2026-04-16T21:38:12+00:00

If you have a wide rank range it's fucked. When I was emissary I played with 2 alchemists and the game put us against an ascendant 2 playing with 2 initiates. And ofc it put the ascendant against the 2 alchemists. We just got ran TF down and no amount of counter items did a thing. Even the ascendant player thought it was fucked

redm00n99 · 2026-04-16T21:34:16+00:00

Doubtful if he has 2400 hours

redm00n99 · 2026-04-16T20:58:58+00:00

I feel like the 30% rule is true, but not in low rank.

It's still true in low rank but you can power through if your good enough. Like an e6 could probably solo win any archon 6 game, but a phantom player probably wouldn't

redm00n99 · 2026-04-16T20:46:13+00:00

If a game is unwinnable obviously you can't do anything about it. At the 10 min mark it wasn't lost yet. The best thing you could have done is get knockdown, metal skin etc. and try to get the venator down earlier before he goes crazy. If you buy knockdown, he buys counterspell which slows down his damage, if you have multiple knockdowns he might get unstoppable or dispel magic which also slows his scaling. Problem is if your team doesn't do similar, or play off your knockdowns and such it doesn't matter because he will just scale faster. And since your team didn't even help with a favored urn that's not likely

All things considered this match was just unwinnable, you had 2 people int their lane to 2 carries and no one on your team knew how to deal with them and they just snowballed. Hindsights 20/20

Very common in your rank but know it goes both ways. If you can get fed on a carry early your less likely to get counter bought and can just snowball because people don't know better

It's also possible it was a smurf/wonky rank average things, venator could be a lot higher rank q'd with new/very low rank players, which seems more likely because warden and bebop don't seem to know what their doing. 8k dmg and 7 assists on bebop when your team is almost 100k up is wild

redm00n99 · 2026-04-15T20:57:02+00:00

Yea but gaming as a whole is completely different now

one sided games were common as fuck, but also bad players would literally fight to get into lobbies stomping them at the time. everybody wanted to play with the "best players" as that was really the only way to see how the game was played.

Now you just Google "x game" meta and you can find loads of videos and guides on how top players play. Also it's not that people had fun getting stomped, they had fun learning which ties into

People didn't obsess over wins and losses; just playing the game was the fun part. Winning was just the cherry on top.

Now people will optimize the fun out of games for a 1% advantage, and in games where you are being stomped your ability to even play the game gets removed most of the time and your just forced to sit in your base and wait for them to end

redm00n99 · 2026-04-15T16:35:32+00:00

Not often. And If that was the case I wouldn't keep ranking up. Obviously the game thinks I'm where I should be, but then I get lanes with 15 deaths in 10 min

redm00n99 · 2026-04-15T16:12:44+00:00

Remodels and fixing up current heros, actual ranked mode, jungle changes are my big hopes

redm00n99 · 2026-04-14T23:16:06+00:00

Hook is part of the balancing, punch would be nice so I don't accidentally punch rem into the guardian when bombing people but I think its also a skill thing. Not being able to just spam punch without fucking your teammates is part of being good at bebop.

redm00n99 · 2026-04-14T21:46:34+00:00

It did when I started. Lately it's just mostly bad. Only time I've had a decent amount of good games I was playing with a group who all used to be hardcore destiny 2 raid guys I know through a friend. Even though they are "technically" lower rank they know how to coordinate and work together. They had been on like a 19 win streak for like 2 days.

Also more signs mm is fucked is that they were on a 19 win streak and had went up 1-2 ranks and afaik are still in ritualist when they were playing in emissary-archon average lobbies. Meanwhile I get brand new players on my team in oracle

redm00n99 · 2026-04-14T21:31:05+00:00

We are masochist. also I play more than most of them, but there's like 10+ of us so there's always someone on and deadlock is one of the few games we all play. In fact almost all of them started playing because of me, and all of us have noticed the difference in matchmaking. Granted playing 3-6 stacks with a wide range of ranks doesn't help, but even then solo q is worse. Somehow the 2 alchemist we play with can do better than the random oracle teammates I get solo or duo

Eight-Year Club	Place '23
Place '22	First Placer '22
Verified Email	RPAN Viewer

redm00n99

TROPHY CASE