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Bran's Random Recordings - Welcome DV-8 (Conquest)

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Conquest

This was a fun night...Zilby came back to play with us for a bit. In addition, we welcomed 2 SF members to the clan...Carve (boogiebass) and Vocoder (DV-8). After some earlier games (a couple of failed Custom matches and a solid Corrupted Arena match), Carve went to play with his friend, so we got into a Conquest match (unusual for us these days).

Our roster:

Taco: Vulcan Mid
GGF: Ne Zha Jungle
DV-8: Guan Yu Solo
Zilby: Apollo ADC
Me: Ganesha Support

After what felt (to me) like a slightly rough first 5 minutes (at around 4:20, the fun started, with Taco rotating to our lane but 2 of theirs rotating in also), things started looking up for us.

I still find myself wandering without purpose too much, and not dropping enough wards. Will probably continue to happen unless I play Conquest more. Oh well.

Solid games from everyone, though the competition was questionable...I outdamaged the enemy , , and , and was within 500 damage of outdamaging their …
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Happiness, Vol 1.: A Freya Rant

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Fatalis | Freya | Nerf | Rant

Right now, I just straight up do NOT suggest even touching . I'm not even going to make an effort to play her until she's fixed.

That's maybe an overreaction, depending on who you ask, but to me, Fatalis was a 100% core item on her. The only other god where it is 100% core is (oh and sure, too, happy Bernardo?). But for , she got an arguably BETTER version of Fatalis in ...yes, it loses a bit of early function from its 10 pen that was taken away, but it added 25 physical power, went back DOWN in price, and so...yay for ?

But see, has some really nice things going for her. Besides sticking to enemies with the new , she has:

A leap / escape...she can jump over walls or use it to catch up to fleeing enemies. Freya does not have a movement ability.
A stun, after which Kali can continue slashing away. Freya can interrupt with Banish, a smaller AOE but at distance, BUT she can't damage them while they're hanging up

Bran's PS4 Adventures (Plateau)

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iSux | Plateau | PS4

I think I've basically hit it. You know it. The point where you feel your skill has hit its peak and you don't see any noticeable improvement. It's pretty frustrating.

Here's my main Guru stat page on PS4.

(IF you're interested) Check out game details of recent matches.

If you delve into the numbers, the general theme is that, with this last set of games last night, I've been basically carried by GameGeekFan and bad_juju40 (newbiemj here on SF). Even when I'm an offensive god that is supposed to carry, it's just not happening that much.

Excuse or not in some cases, I know some of my biggest issues:

I will never be that good with PS4 controls. I still struggle with instinct with regard to the buttons (shoulder buttons are absolutely not the natural controls I'm familir with on my keypad), and my aim is often trash.
I get tired of playing the same gods over and over...so I play gods that I'm okay with on PC, but it's not the same. No way in Hel I can combo stance switch with her

The State of S4 Zilby (and other thoughts)

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Stupid Ideas

Yes, this is what it's come to...

(as I'm getting to lane in a Conquest match)

Zilby: "I guess Watcher's Gift is still fine to get."

GGF: "Yep."

Zilby: "Watcher's, shoes, potions."

Me: "Watcher's, Lono's Mask, and potions."

Zilby: "Watcher's, WHAT, and potions?"

Me (slowly): "Lono's Mask."

Zilby: "I...literally can't afford that."

Also, side note, some other "fun" things we're not doing again:

And one that's always fun:

Dunk Squad (or Dive comp or whatever). AKA everyone has to have an ult that crashes down from up high in some way. Other gods that work: Thor, Ao Kuang (sorta), Apollo, Ne Zha, Sun Wukong (sorta). And NO, Tech, Nu Wa doesn't count. She floats down. You messed it up!!!

The Old Gang

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Conquest

Well, the old gang was able to get back together for a night. The old gang was rusty.

GGF and Taco have played regularly. However, Zilby and Prism haven't played much over the past couple of months. I've been splitting my time with a variety of other games, and have only played 10 PC matches over the past 2 weeks, none of them being Conquest. Excuses, though.

This was a fun game. Our lineup was:

GGF: Ganesha Support
Me: Medusa ADC
Zilby: Scylla Mid
Prism: Athena Jungle
Taco: Sun Wukong Solo

We were against , , , , and .

Initial thought was to sort of talk about gameplay, builds and whatnot, but with a full group of 5, we got sidetracked. Oops. I've now added comments here about thoughts on all builds.

Critiquing Builds

Bran's Random Recordings - Welcome DV-8 (Conquest)

Happiness, Vol 1.: A Freya Rant

Bran's PS4 Adventures (Plateau)

The State of S4 Zilby (and other thoughts)

The Old Gang

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