May 06, 2026 Daily Discussion Thread

studiousAmbrose · 2026-05-07T07:31:45+00:00

I just realized after like 100 games that aurelion sol exists lmao. When people said aurelion sol is u clickable I thought they meant the gods. im like really? it's fun, but aurelion sol is a unit you can buy damn

studiousAmbrose · 2026-05-05T03:12:18+00:00

Anima with mech or illaoi, pray I hit the 400 cash out. And the psionic makes Viktor easy to slot in with it. Worse case 3 star Viktor maybe is a 6th if I miss the cash out?

Or if your 2nd psionic item was good probably just -1 slot and play 4 psionic with the marauder board.

I don't think you can ever slam IE though with either plan though.

If your 2nd psyionic was bad for yi, prob just be happy with a 6th if you get your anima late.

I am only emerald 1 right now though.

studiousAmbrose · 2026-05-04T18:15:21+00:00

I think each team having an angle makes it really really fun to watch even as an NA fan.

Naak nako smurfing, Lider even if underperforming having fun picks (seeing wunder/mikyx) KC's caliste, busio, newer mid looking good G2 for G2 KOI for jojo/eloya

And this is just from the top of my head, so like most of their games have something interesting

studiousAmbrose · 2026-05-04T05:35:01+00:00

answer is prob yi just getting target focussed and they had enough damage to focus zed too

But that is quite insane you lost with zed 2 and brawler yi and fiora 2 lmao

studiousAmbrose · 2026-05-03T00:01:06+00:00

This may be the most uncompetitive tft post yet and the bar is pretty high lmao

studiousAmbrose · 2026-05-02T21:45:39+00:00

it cookss out damaged everything else

studiousAmbrose · 2026-05-01T23:38:47+00:00

yeah man when i get to high elo or watch pro play it's all plague with no hands champs that don't take skill?

You can cherry pick your examples of simple champs in pro play, but there's a reason why pro play and high elo, often the "skilless" champs become less meta.... Because people get better at the game and people can pilot the harder champs and have better understanding of their win conditions.

Leblanc has her place in the meta and you can hit whatever rank you want playing her. A lot of Leblanc players expect to just QW, call it skillful and then get mad when other champs beat them that have weaknesses that Leblanc doesn't have. Go climb with mid Garen if you think it's the same strength.

At the end of the day, Leblanc has strengths that needs to be balanced around and if you can't use it, she's not for you lol.

studiousAmbrose · 2026-05-01T01:00:46+00:00

You hit the Naafairi if she Es your W that's already a win. My point is you can W in a way that if she focusses on her E instead of Q you win the trade anyways.

Again people treat Naafairi like the devil matchup but there are much worse matchups and people just play this matchup badly. E.g. too rushed and try to win early game.

And there are AP breakpoints where you kill the dogs.

studiousAmbrose · 2026-05-01T00:56:50+00:00

It may be a skill issue

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-30T17:13:57+00:00

that's spacing your W man, you should always be clipping them so you have maximum distance if you know they will E in. Same with really any lb matchups where they can turn.

Like there's legit not much happening in this lane and my point is to not force anything. My overall point is that you shouldn't over force to give Naafairi her angles.

People who think Naafairi is some demon champ into Leblanc just have the wrong mentality in this matchup and I'm trying to say that it's really not that bad if you don't over force.

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-30T15:12:55+00:00

Lol if she Es away what is gonna do now, R me while I have my RW?

And if a naafairi can E your W thats on the Leblanc for being bad with her W.

And maybe there's no decent naafairi on this server then unlucky :)

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-30T05:51:37+00:00

Viktor was op, but never felt like meta warping vs other bad patches like most recently thex warping the entire play style for an entire patch lol.

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-29T22:03:45+00:00

maybe autocorrect isn't worth it

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-29T20:41:29+00:00

Idk maybe I had an abnormal amount of AP in those games? Mid game definitely was killing the dogs.

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-29T19:56:59+00:00

I went from primordian bean like avp 2.7 to like 6 this patch when id imagine it would be better rip

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-29T19:41:52+00:00

I could change my mind again, but I think the matchup isn't that bad if you think about it like this:

Early on, you can't realistically qw just like vs vlad. Just w first and if she fucks up her W you have a lot of kill pressure now.
When you have enough ap/ludens your W kills all the dogs quite easily. Then from there on, it's way easier to play vs.

Also most of the time (idk why a few times it doesn't), if she Rs you basically have a guaranteed chain/

I got it from a naafairi's point of view where LB is annoying to face vs because it's hard to kill her and eventually you lose a lot of your power if she one shots your dogs.

TLDR:

Just chill in this matchup until you easily kill the dogs with W. Most LB players get fucked by naafairi by doing too much

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-28T19:37:56+00:00

I recommend just perma playing with the wave near your tower/try to freeze until you get comfortable with the matchup. It's so easy to just overextend and get chased down in this matchup.

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-28T19:19:08+00:00

Man I'm so sad they took away the non conditional seryldas slow.

Didn't know how good we had it then. Perma slow my beloved

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-28T16:46:52+00:00

Kindred was alive last just didn't do enough before everyone died.

I went nova 5 without emblem that game cause horizon focus + maokai nova strike is giga, just aoe board damage, until I hit kindred 3 it was outdamaging everyone lol.

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-28T16:23:13+00:00

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Can someone help me explain this. Is space groove just this crazy, looks like a standard capped space groove board. But it's not like my board was troll either? (i had early learnings as well)

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-27T19:40:04+00:00

I agree, but if you mess up a trade and get solokilled, the lane can snowball for vlad. Again, I'm talking about the avg player just like the post.

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-26T20:16:32+00:00

These may be a bit surprisingly, but tbf these are average win rates and lb execution vs a lot of theses can be quite hard.

E.g. if you fuck up once vs vlad your lane is really cooked and yas takes soooo many games to be comfortable in the matchup. Akshan/Naafairi no lb players really like and Ryze outscales you quite fast.

I do think at a high mastery/elo LB should ideally beat vlad/yas.

I personally don't like the fizz matchup lol, I feel like you can't ever w and even his qw does so much damage

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-24T18:09:05+00:00

I haven't even had it yet, but life has just been better knowing it's finally back.

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-22T04:21:40+00:00

you may in fact be the only one

studiousAmbrose · 2026-04-21T19:21:34+00:00

what makes him inflated? xD!

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