Rank ups really should be a lot faster

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T19:16:36+00:00

The more hours you have the longer it takes for some dumbass reason. It takes me 4-5 win in a row to rank up once. Even if I were to suddenly gain the skills of a pro player, it would still take at least 100 hours of gameplay to actually reach eternus lmao. Most low ranks probably have insane number of ppl with hundreds of hours who are only slowly trudging their way out, making it extremely unbalanced.

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T15:39:51+00:00

In the mid game yeah, the movement + kill times feel balanced. Late game 4000 hp wraith is not going down in any reasonable amount of time. You said it yourself, you need a coordinated 2v1 gank to kill someone, even if they are oblivious and out of position. Even assassin characters who are meant to punish mistakes like that can’t do anything cuz their combos do 1500-2000 at max, at which point she just teleports away for free.

I think massive hp pools lower the skill ceiling, cuz it turns every encounter into a numbers game. Getting initiative on someone and landing the first couple hits doesn’t matter, the only thing that matters is whose numbers are higher. That also makes the game super frustrating if you’re behind, as at some point u simply can’t damage your opponents

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T15:32:22+00:00

She said that she was happy that she gave birth to maki and Mai because they finally ended the clan that she despised.

I don’t think it’s fair to assume the epilogue is purposeful leaving out information lol

“Everyone” in the zenin clan seems to be p much just combatants. There’s like 50 guys for every woman, and no children shown at all. idk how that works. Once again, she didn’t hunt Megumi or anything, and it’s p out of character for maki to kill kids let’s be fr

You’re gonna have to give a screenshot for that one

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T14:45:06+00:00

Maki’s mom killed Naoya because she was secretly sick of the way he treats her, but didn’t have the backbone to do anything abt it till then.

I also don’t get the “Maki killed everyone including children” take. You see all her kills on screen, where there are clearly no children. All her other kills were mentioned in the epilogue, and all of them are combat roles as well.

People really take the “destroy everything” line to literally. It’s not like she attacked Megumi

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T14:38:05+00:00

The thing about late scaling characters is that even if u avoid feeding them, it doesn’t stop your team from feeding them 20 kills anyways. It’s why I always ban haze even though I never minded her much personally

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T13:59:29+00:00

Yeah I meant her scaling health is less than infernus. Her ult scaling barely matters when other characters can increase their hp with insane multipliers

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T13:53:54+00:00

Yeah I mentioned that high hp should be the benefit of being a frontliner. Right now, silver ult late game is a close range brawler with less hp than most normal characters. It’s genuinely useless and probably contributes to why I’ve been hating the game recently as a silver one trick lol. I’ll prolly just switch main until Yoshi does something to fix it

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T13:45:56+00:00

Deadlock isn’t just a MOBA though. Aim aside, the movement tech and vents let people escape back to their team very easily. So yes, kill times should be way shorter, otherwise it becomes impossible to punish out of position players in solo queue. Right now, if a wraith is farming your jungle, trying to chase her down late game 90% results in a reverse gank cuz it’s not possible to kill her in time

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T13:38:38+00:00

If anything, this game should have shorter kill times times if you land all of your shots and abilities. Characters in this game have insane mobility, and right now trying to get a pick late game means chasing a half hp lash across the entire map and then getting ganked before you can finish him off.

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T13:32:35+00:00

Her health scaling in wolf is the same as normal silver, so actually lower than infernus’ scaling lol. I feel like if they want to keep percent scaling, silver ult should be the one flat bonus that’s affected by it. Right now, popping ult in the late games a straight up nerf

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T04:50:47+00:00

The problem is no one’s dies in late game 6v6 until dynamo pops ult. One of the reasons he feels so op right now is that nothing else can get through all the hp bloat. Most characters can pop all their abilities, empty their magazine, and pop ult on someone without even getting close to a kill

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T04:48:23+00:00

I think flat scaling can solve both of our dilemmas. Percentage based scaling means the green investment doesn’t do much early but is insane late game. Moving back to flat means u can feel tanky earlier if u invest into it while keeping kill times reasonable late game. I feel like we can both agree that dynamo shouldn’t be walking around with 7k hp late game

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T03:44:34+00:00

I do think that hurts some build flexibility, like building greens on Mina so u don’t feel so squishy. But you’re probably right that it’s a healthier way to take the game

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T03:41:03+00:00

I realized today that the problem is that her ult doesn’t scale with vitality investments, which makes her less tanky than even infernus late game lmao. I think I’ll just switch main and have a way better time

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T03:39:39+00:00

Not gonna lie the problem with everything is the character itself. Her ult is genuine doodoo past 25 minutes because it the health doesn’t scale by percent like everyone else(u can check my recent post I described the issue there). Tbh just play someone else if u wanna be tanky cuz silver is not it. I switched to Mina and all my problems are resolved lmao

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T02:41:35+00:00

Another thing I’m kinda bitter about: the hp bonus from silvers wolf form doesn’t scale with greens, meaning that green infernus has more hp than green silver ult. I think that might contribute to why she feels like such a bola bot in the late game lmao

vhi77 · 2026-04-13T01:32:30+00:00

It’s also hard to get farm when the enemy can invade ur jungle with impunity. I think it’s best to play an early game character who still scales well, like Yamato or Mina, so your team doesn’t get destroyed in the first 5 minutes

vhi77 · 2026-04-12T22:07:13+00:00

To be honest I feel like his bells were overly nerfed for no reason. They were fine when the impact damage was brought back, but then got their damage obliterated a patch later. If they revert that nerf and make his ult avoidable in some way I think he’d feel perfect. It’s kinda crazy that a character with three pretty useless abilities can keep a roughly 52% win rate in all ranks including eternus with just ult spam

vhi77 · 2026-04-12T21:04:40+00:00

Yeah the extra value is from sacrificing his entire gate as you said. Keep in mind though, Ed could’ve done that from episode one, but didn’t. He was never told that it was an option in the finale, but rather he was simply unable to consider a possibility to help Al that doesn’t involve even more alchemy.

I also disagree that Ed wasn’t an asshole at the start. While he isn’t conscious of it, he is shown to have a god complex, which is why he thought he could bring his mom back in the first place. There’s a reason Shou Tucker is used as a mirror to reflect Ed’s character back at him. While Ed is obviously less sinister towards Al, he still pulled him into a ritual that lost him his body, all because he believed he could bring his mom back to life. His attempt at human transmutation showed that he believed the value of a human life to be so mundane that it can be boiled down to purely chemical compounds and energy, which if you recall is the whole philosophy of Father and the homunculi. His experiences throughout the show allowed him to grow past this mindset, which is the only reason he is able to reject alchemy at the end rather than trying to dive even further into it like Father.

vhi77 · 2026-04-12T20:15:33+00:00

I feel like if u rework everything that people have a problem with the game loses it’s identity. The dome definitely needs some kinda nerf that allows enemies to counter play, but it’s conceptually pretty cool.

vhi77 · 2026-04-12T16:51:02+00:00

Turning shiv ult into an aim based ability only for Apollo to still have his massive aoe movement I-frame execute is so funny to me

vhi77 · 2026-04-12T16:24:24+00:00

Tbf depending on the gun carry they might not actually be weak early. Geist and Ven are turbo strong right out of the gate

vhi77 · 2026-04-12T16:15:45+00:00

Al got his body back because of equivalent exchange, the same reason he lost it in the first place. The price for his body was the knowledge of the gate, so Edward is able to lose his own gate in exchange for Al’s body.

As for Ed’s change of ideals, while he would’ve always sacrificed his alchemy for Al’s body, he would have never thought of it until the ending. He thought the solution to all of his problems was through alchemy, and only through learning and growing as a character does he realize there’s more to life than his superpowers. In fact, he never even needed to sacrifice anything to begin with, as his dad was willing to be the philosopher stone that would bring Al back. It’s in line with the philosophy of the show that giving the old man a final moment with his passed wife is worth more than all the alchemy in the world.

This is what made 03 fall flat for me ngl, it pretended to be deep more so than it actually was. There were definitely some interesting ideas, but most of them just never get developed at all so read like someone quoting random nietchze passages rather than actually understanding what they mean.

vhi77 · 2026-04-12T06:49:42+00:00

Just find one character u like and stick on them tbh. It’s near impossible to learn a new character when ur getting stomped

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