I don't like carry Lina
games
Thursday, August 20, 2026
I feel like draft encourages this weird metagame where you need characters that you can play multiple ways
and decide later what your exact 1-2-3-4-5 order will be
That's always been a thing
but I feel like this year there's WAY less super hard carries being played
yes, Naga used to be a great example of that
but it works for a lot
I think I just miss Chinese dota
where there was an art to beating your opponent in-lane and out econ-ing your enemy
also
where the fuck are all the CN teams
I've seen nothing but Russians so far
this
This is a great picture of Team Liquid
your ember getting out-farmed 2-1 by a Wisp
put the gun in your mouth bro
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 where the fuck are all the CN teams
China is cursed, they all drowned in groups
hahahahahahahahaha
Replying to taxes #tzfi the best way to do this is to make the base very very simple and then add a ton of features that require certian inputs to increase the skill cieling, with stuff that is obvious to combo with (which is what smash does)
I swear if more fighting games added "fun modes" outside of the generic fighting game arcade/survival mode theyd be more accessible. Instead accessible in FG terms means auto combos and simple inputs
Riot has also just failed to launch/publish successful games in general
zero exposure outside of LoL players who happen to pay attention to a new icon getting added to their client
They resent having to slap "A League of Legends spin-off" on their stuff
despite that being the only reason anyone would play them
oh right, I forgot about Valorant
ok, they've done it once
TFT is just a LoL mode imo
Riot is sorta similar to what the gacha market is doing, but dont understand their own market
Hoyo, Kuro, and the rest adapt some aspects of other games into their very homogenized, audience-tuned game framwork
Kuro does WuWa
the model now is to just pick popular existing game, lift the core mechanic and implement it into their standard formula that people like
Riot would be successful if they actually tried to understand what people wanted
instead of insisting they were right, releasing stuff like 2XK0
and going out of their way to antagonize their players from day 1
I will say, I give Riot some props. While they did ape the idea, the two markets were relatively low competition. There really wasnt any alternative to CS at the time Valorant launched. 2XKO released during a big drought of Team Fighters with the only exclusion being Dragon Ball (Marvel vs Capcom Infinite died before launch).
yeah, I won't shit on valorant, it gave a lot of people something close enough to CS that they like to play