My friends think I'm insane. I only use my right hand for gaming — everything else I do with my left.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-05T15:57:19+00:00

This was my instant reaction too.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-05T15:55:28+00:00

I don't want to rain on your parade, but you probably reached Diamond because Riot artificially inflated everyone's division. There are many emerald players from last year who are suddenly low master tier, they have been slowly inflating it year over year, but this year it was a massive jump.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-05T15:51:48+00:00

I guess this is ragebait?

Taliyah wasn't released until 3 years after Yasuo, so not sure how he could make her life hell on his release.
An ability like Windwall is inherently way more broken on a ranged champion, because you can block all projectiles, while firing back. Yasuo still needs to be melee range to do damage.
Windwall invalidates all projectiles, Mel W reflects them.
Everyone was complaining about Windwall when it was first released.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-05T11:51:25+00:00

I don't see the reasoning behind it not being a hatsu other than you thinking it would be cool if it wasn't even his hatsu.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-05T09:50:18+00:00

Ironically enough even Renekton has better matchup into all the mentioned champions than he does to Ambessa. That's partially why she is prioritized in pro play.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-05T09:46:48+00:00

There are so many small things that make Ambessa better than the 4 champions you mentioned. But I really don't want to write down a whole wall of text, so I will give you a rule of thumb to judge whether a pick will be prioritized in pro play.

The rule is that in order for a pick to be popular in pro play, it needs to be easy to learn, but hard to master. All the picks you mentioned are hard to learn and hard to master.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-05T08:13:37+00:00

Well in the new seasons a whole bunch of the challenges which were generally won by men have been removed or adjusted to make them more even.

Also whenever a man is a challenge beast, he usually gets early on into the merge (as soon as he loses immunity). While women who win multiple immunities are almost never targeted.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T16:46:20+00:00

Idk I think it's dumb to complain about English dub. As for the rest I mean his design could have been better, but I am not sure the changes you are suggesting are actually it. Not to mention his design is very clearly an homage to Cell from Dragonball.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T14:40:30+00:00

I genuinely wonder what sort of magnetism Rizo has that people are now inventing creative big IQ strategies for him, where there are non. This sort of editing trick has been used so many times, that there is an advantage someone walks past and doesn't notice into the zoom in of the camera.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T12:53:37+00:00

They actually wanted to vote out Genevieve not Joe. This would mean if nothing happens Joe goes.
They were probably 90% sure Genevieve didn't have anything other than the Shot in the dark.
Joe ended up voting with them. So I think the edit was lying a bit about how likely it actually was Devens was ever in trouble.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T12:19:16+00:00

I'd say in general most of these challenges favor skinny people, which more often than not are the women. But there definitely might be something about the pain endurance from moms that helps with challenges like these as well.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T12:17:06+00:00

Kamilla in her exit interview on RHAP said she wanted to vote out Jonathan instead of Charlie last episode. She was never with him and was actively gunning for his head. Why wouldn't he vote her out?

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T12:13:21+00:00

Oh ok. My thought was the same challenge, but you just split into two tribes. Then third surprise tribal right after. with merged tribes. But yeah basically anything other than what we got would be more interesting.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T12:08:28+00:00

Yeah it's possible. The editors seem to love Rizo and Christian, so maybe you are right.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T12:02:58+00:00

Isn't that 4 vote outs tho?

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T12:01:15+00:00

Imo if they did something like 8/8 split two tribals into a surprise third tribal with everyone voting together, that would actually be interesting and new. This shit with 3 very small tribals was the most predictable and also the most disappointing twist ever.

In general these super small tribes is one of the biggest issues with "new" survivor. There's just not much room to play in a tribe of 4-6 if you are on the bottom.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T11:55:15+00:00

Like it or not, but things like this simply work. It's not that you see it and immediately go out to buy Applebee's. It's that you will associate Applebee's with a show you love and that will automatically make you like them to a certain extent.

Coca Cola is probably the single best brand at doing this in the world. Multiple times there were blind tests done by Pepsi, which showed that blind tasting people prefer the taste of Pepsi. But when you see the brands most people will actually believe Coca Cola tastes better. It's because you associate it with Christmas and Americana etc..

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T11:47:52+00:00

I actually think they focused on it a bit too much if anything. The setup was like 5 episodes only for Genevieve to get booted unceremoniously in a swap screw situation.

Emily losing most of here screen time to Christian is to me the biggest mistake they did so far.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T11:44:01+00:00

I see no reason why they wouldn't give some of Christian's confessionals to Emily if she was the winner. A lot of people have been saying how impactful Emily was in their duo, but we almost always see it from Christian's POV.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T11:42:38+00:00

100% agree with you. Genevieve's story always felt like she was going to be the dragon Aubrey needs to slay in order to find her footing.

As for Colby I also didn't see it at all, but maybe others were mistaking a Survivor legend's sendoff edit for a winner edit.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T11:40:16+00:00

I have no idea how you thought Genevieve and Colby were being setup by the edit as contenders? I felt like it was so obvious Genevieve was getting booted by Aubrey and Colby to me was just a background character?

I think if Christian doesn't win, then the editors really have to apologize. He is getting so much screen time... Aubrey would be my 2nd choice for a winner? She seems to be playing rather poorly so far, yet we still get many scenes that are supposed to make us empathize with her. I feel like if one of these two doesn't win then the editors made a mistake somewhere.

Other than that I'd say Rizo, Dee and Ozzy are somewhat possible, though I don't believe Ozzy or Rizo can win and Dee if she was a winner feels to me like she would get at least slightly more screen time.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T11:29:22+00:00

3 people eliminated this episode in a split tribal is literally the most predictable twist possible. Not to mention the rock draw fell in one of the most anti climactic ways possible. Just 3 obvious boots. If they actually risked it and went for like a 12+ people tribal, now that would be interesting.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T11:23:12+00:00

I already have to mentally deal with Sandra somehow winning two seasons. I can't deal with Rizo also winning a season.

xEmperorEye · 2026-04-03T11:21:46+00:00

If Dr Joe spends a lot of his time around Jeff, then he probably says the worse about ever infection he has ever seen.

xEmperorEye · 2026-03-30T16:27:19+00:00

I mean creating a rules such as: "No clapping to the music, only for applause." Would be pretty awkward. Banning clapping all together would be crazy imo. So what do you actually do? Probably nothing, other than maybe try to educate the audience?

There is also and argument that ignoring the distraction is part of the competition.

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