u/Bruh-I-Cant-Even

Very noob question, but I'm trying to play veigar mid for the first time and confused about itemization into different matchups. Into something like Zed, I know a tear->Zhonyas gives you good survivability, but what would your second items be at that point. In the past I have typically gone ROA first and then zhonyas, but more often than not if he's gone bot and gotten a kill already, I'm getting one shot before I have time to build my zhonyas, so I'm unsure what you'd suggest being my second item.

Plat/Emerald elo for what it's worth. I've been playing veigar apc with good success this year (63% WR across 100 games) and climbed from silver to P1 using it, but as I'm getting higher I'm finding more often that people actually itemize and go MR and now we're against a Sion who doesn't die and I miss having an actual adc. I've been trying to transition into playing him mid lane but I just can't seem to grasp him or make good use of him. I typically go ROA->Rabadons->Crypt and then flex items but it feels like I take forever to ramp up and my overall contribution to the game is so much less than when I play bot lane, not to mention that I'm also still incredibly squishy. Prior to this I have been a Ziggs/support main, so I'm more familiar with the champions and ins and outs of bot lane, but I feel like I'm fundamentally missing something about veigar mid.

Context: my gf and I have been together 3 years and she has past trauma from assaults when she was younger as well as an experience of being hypersexual for a period following these assaults. She has been working through the trauma in therapy but is now having issues with penetration wherein it is painful. This was not an issue for most of our relationship or she felt uncomfortable stating it, but it seems like she's always had some degree of pain throughout her life relating to it and never made her partners aware of it until me. I'm unsure what the cause could be, but if anyone has experience how can I help her and support her through this?

Half my income goes just to rent and utilities, a whole paycheck just gone, and then between student loans and groceries, how am I supposed to survive? I don't even earn that poorly relative to the average American, how is anyone doing this shit?

To preface: I main Veigar apc, so I'm used to a very slow, often sucky laning phase that ends with a huge midgame spike and ridiculous lategame damage, which also does well into tanks but struggles with dive comps. I've tried Seraphine APC at various points and I struggle to understand her power. She seems like a very good lane bully who can make the early/mid game unplayable for many short range adc's, but it doesn't feel like her damage scales a ton into the lategame. I also don't understand how to utilize her into tanky comps. Can someone who mains the champion give me pointers regarding what works for her and how to play her most effectively?

My LS430 had previously been in a minor collision with a decade ago from reading the carfax and it left damage on the lower right rear passenger door (right where the plastic lower body panels start and the metal surface of the door ends). The damage was basically a scuff and was painted over with some touch-up paint, but the work was shoddy and the paint has since flaked off and the area has begun rusting (looks to be surface rust at the moment). Has anyone fixed something like this before or would this be a job for professionals? I can add photos of the area if needed.

I did my undergraduate degree in mathematics and did my master's in statistics. I've been working as a data analyst for the last two years and I've been increasingly considering pursuing PA in the future, but I'm unsure what the process would be for this. None of my coursework overlapped typical pre-PA coursework besides physics, but my GPA was alright across both degrees (3.8). I know post-bacc programs exist, would something like this make sense for my case?

Wondering whether any specific veigar skin has an advantage in-game, the way that certain skins (i.e. snow day ziggs) have harder to see visuals which can help with landing skillshots.

Does anyone have numbers on ARAM Mayhem playerbase size in 2026 vs. regular ARAM? I know in 2025 that regular ARAM had more games played than even solo queue in NA, but this was partially due to Mayhem only being released midway through the year, right? Curious what the distribution looks like now.

I'm unsure if anyone else is experiencing similar, but game quality feels like it's dropped off a cliff in the last few weeks for me. Out of 10 games, maybe 50% I'm experiencing players intentionally feeding and otherwise griefing the entire game, but it was the exact opposite prior to 26.09.

Has Riot had any updates on the timeline for the introduction of the griefing detection system they had hinted at last year or has it already been implemented?