I gotta say, your stories cheer me up

The only bad experience I ever had with a party was with a mentor that warned us not to mess up on a certain boss in the dungeon because he had no patience for said boss and messing up would result in a kick vote, but he was a donkey and the boss he was talking about was in a different dungeon. They were both ice themed so I guess that's where he went wrong. When I called him a donkey for it he didn't take it too well and threw a tantrum. I screenshotted, and he lost his mentor status before the next fortnight rolled around.

And that's it. But somehow you guys manage to find, consistently, the coolest temperature IQ players, and though you don't mean to, you're taking a bullet for the rest of us, and I just wanted to show a little appreciation, and despite having to deal with these people I hope sharing your stories gives you some relief from the experience of being grouped with players like this.

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u/Avillahan — 22 hours ago

How do you ask your support to leave and actually have them do it?

Nightstalker (me) with pos 4 Clock vs Kez Lich

1 on 1 NS can just sustain and knock Kez out of lane with Q spam, but for that he needs exp, not to be level 4 when the Kez is level 6 from eating Clock's corpse 5 times.

Very few people queue as support to actually support, most are just 'Fuck I got support. Might as well choose a hero I like and have fun!', and having fun requires them leeching exp so much that they hit level 6 on the same creep that I do.

If you can't lane, then pull. If you can't pull, then gank. If you can't gank, then stack. But no, these people sit with you so long you start wonder who the support is.

I do get it, because getting levels is at least reliable and 'safe', but it's so awful sometimes and I don't have the time every match to have to write out an essay to my 4 just to convince him there's something more productive they could be doing with their time.

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u/Avillahan — 23 hours ago

I can't stand playing from behind

if we lose lanes I just lose the game coz farming back up is actually so boring and there's no way in hell I'm sitting in base waiting for creeps to dribble into our base.

what hero should i pick to just run at people 24/7 regardless of the game state?

I mean like actual animal, just run run run run run

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u/Avillahan — 1 day ago
▲ 1.7k r/texts+1 crossposts

Am I wrong for not wanting to get involved it’s a man who has a literal baby otw?!?!?

Dude who had been tryna get with me for a while kept sliding in my DM’s. We lived in the same neighborhood and I would see him with a girl at the pool in our neighborhood alot . When I questioned him on who she was apparently it was a girl he recently impregnated 🫠

u/Avillahan — 8 days ago

Div 2 struggling to keep up farm as Nightstalker

Early game is great, I hit timings earlier than D2PT.

Mid game-late game, I farm like a support.

I play around my other cores because I've got a big ult that we might have a chance to pop, but playing around them means that they've got farm priority and they farm crazy fast compared to me, especially in the day.

I can't go push lanes solo during the day because AT BEST I'll be forced to survive by popping a defensive ult.

Feels like if at any point our team drops tempo and I stop getting kills, I just end up with awful GPM.

Shard is an option, but unless I'm against PL it really doesn't feel like it does anything in fights.
If I get it really early, I have a weaker early game presence.
And whenever I do pick it up, it's basically a Midas that's purposely a waste of gold until it's paid for itself, which is hard to calculate.
And if I do pick it up I also have to grab a Soul Ring or Echo Sabre just to keep up the mana cost of spamming it.

Farming at night is fast and good, but why would I want to farm when my hero's capable of fighting?

I've watched replays, and the teams around NS play around his ult a lot, whereas my cores play way more for farm, so it just leaves me having nothing I can really do.

My supports don't want to follow me into a potentially 3v5 fight obviously, so I'm just sat there jacking it.

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u/Avillahan — 9 days ago

How, as a support killer, do you get past the awkward 'no Nullifier' part of the game?

They get a force staff or a eul's or ghost and if you chase or wait for them their team arrives.

BKB's fine, but it does nothing against phys damage so I find myself having to let a lot of kills go, especially recently against the rising amount of Drow pickers.

So then there's this kinda useless 5-10 minute phase where you're having to just farm nullifier

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u/Avillahan — 11 days ago

If you are pushing barracks as 5, and 1 enemy is also hitting your barracks, DO NOT TELEPORT BACK

THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO DO. THAT IS HOW THEY GET A 5v4 FIGHT. I THOUGHT PEOPLE AT DIVINE WOULD UNDERSTAND THIS AND STOP TRYING TO CHASE A SPECTRE BUT I WAS WRONG SO I JUST WANT TO DROP THIS LITTLE TIP HERE.

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u/Avillahan — 15 days ago
▲ 3 r/skytv

Broadband speed down to 15% of what it used to be

Used to get 5mbs download, like 1gb every 200 seconds, now at 800kbs

Can't talk to them coz my mum doesn't care and she's the one that pays the bill

Is there any reason this could've happened? She hasn't changed anything. We had our internet cut out for hours at a time over the past few days too, but an engineer apparently remoted in and fixed it.

At least if I know what the problem is I might be able to convince her that Sky are doing us dirty or something, and that might kick her into taking action.

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u/Avillahan — 15 days ago

If you're struggling getting over a loss or losses, just hit the Watch tab and watch your favourite hero.

You will see plays so dumb and games so stressful, it'll make you hate your carries less.

Also remember, any awful player that lost you a match, they're gonna stay awful. You'll rise while they sit in the same awful bracket they belong in.

Stay positive.

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u/Avillahan — 16 days ago

What's with being able to see when an opp uses a ward?

Playing NS with good night vision, run mid, see the enemy and the fact they have a ward.

They then leave vision, and from behind a tree they place a ward, but I can see it leave their inventory before they show again every time.

I'm not complaining coz it's giving us a free deward 1/3 games, but this shouldn't happen right?

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u/Avillahan — 19 days ago

What's the best way to make a suggestion to your lane partner?

Ogre vs Oracle, Ogre gets no levels in his Stun. We're at Divine, surely people consider things like this? He chases the Oracle down, Oracle purges the Ignite and Bloodlust with one spell. Help.

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u/Avillahan — 22 days ago

Just wanna thank a coach here

I'm a Divine player who's done my fair share, maybe a bit more than that, of crashing out over the past few days. Been top networth as offlane in my past 5 games by 10-15-20 minutes, had great KDA's, was convinced that my teammates were causing the mid game to then suck and ultimately turn my success into failure.

He took me back down to earth real nicely, showed me that while my KDA and networth was good, I wasn't doing anything with my advantages. I was very much coasting on a "I'll do my part, my team better do their part" mentality, where so long as early game went good, I clocked out and just started judging my team for not being as successful as I was.

We then go and watch a replay where I went 10-0-7 by 20 or so minutes. We go through the lane, and he shows me all the CS I let the enemy have for free. I'm 2 levels above their safe laner, yet the safe laner still gets farm under tower quite happily, because I just give it to him.

He shows me teamfights where my target prioritisation is basically the worst possible thing it could be. Rather than stopping Void's chronosphere with silence, I instead start punching a Wraith King who still has his ult. We lose the teamfight around 15-20 minute mark because of me, whereas if I played wiser our whole team could've lived, we'd take a Tier 2 and be able to threaten barracks. Instead Void gets to chrono, we lose the fight, and I leave with a nasty attitude rather than a T2.

He also cleared up some misconceptions I had, fixed my "brain off item build" I'd adopted because of seeing a good KDA, and pointed me towards some extra resources to help me out.

Full-Cantaloupe5254 thank you. I really need to ask advice more and take as much responsibility for each game I play. I got really cocky because of a good KDA, but how I was achieving that and what I was doing with it was dumb af.

Would really recommend him, he completely humbled me to the point where my face is still red now, but it's definitely what I needed.

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u/Avillahan — 26 days ago

Idk what to do better

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Me and my mid

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Me and my 1

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Me my mid and my 1

I win lane. I hit timings. I use my level 6 to gank. I take towers. I use my midnight feast on camps religiously to get my team neutrals. I don't play for KDA I just don't wait around to die once I've killed someone, I call for Torm and Rosh, I play around vision, I buy smokes when I hit timings.

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This is the only one I won, and IT WAS CLOSE! I've got coaching, I've watched replays, I've got notes. It feels like I can never use my TP because as soon as I do one of my cores just explodes. In the top game, Invoker bought Manta because he was dying so much to Crystal Maiden. Not a BKB, a Manta. She got a really good aghs timing just from killing him. It's not worth my time to chase a pos 5 around the map right??? Do I really just have to keep banging my head against the wall until I get 2 cores that want to win?

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u/Avillahan — 26 days ago

My biggest pet peeve has to be pick-banning Pudge

For the love of god, stop doing this. "Oh I actually got Pudge? Does anyone want swap? I don't know how to play Pudge."

Like holy shit, how is this acceptable at all?

"Oh well I was trying to stop them picking Pudge"

Why?? huh?? What is wrong with you people? And why is it so often our mid does this?

AHHHH

Please share your biggest peeve so I can have a laugh

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u/Avillahan — 27 days ago

Does MMR gain/loss still fluctuate after 100% Rank Confidence?

3 wins, 112 mmr gain. That's 37 per game on average. Losses seem to hurt me a lot less too. Like if I win one and lose one, I'll still net gain 10 or so MMR. No double downs, Divine 1, 4,768 MMR

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u/Avillahan — 28 days ago

Where should I start without ruining other people's games?

Sorry, this probably gets asked a lot. I'm very competitive and I want to respect the time and efforts of those who wanna compete, so I don't want to just jump in and grief.

I played a little bit a while ago. Can beat the Normal/Medium AI, but I doubt that's reflective of real games.

Is there a ranked/matchmaking system where I can jump in with other new players? Looking now, it looks like it's all custom games, but are some lobbies made for newer players?

If not, what would be good to know other than build order?

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u/Avillahan — 29 days ago