u/Motherfucker29

INFPs can suffer from worrying that they are incompetent or that they're objectively worthless. The reality is that you're just not.

In reality, Fi users, your goal isn't to show the world you're competent it's to show the world that competence starts from within.

Fi intelligence isn't cerebral. It's embodied. I takes a certain courage to be willing to embody the wisdom of the world because knowledge hurts. Truth hurts. No one with a bright light is spared from that truth.

People might attack you, talk shit about you, talk behind your back, argue with you excessively or make you feel stupid but the reality is that it's all proof that youre the medicine.

Does this mean the things they do to you are right? No.

Does this mean you deserve what happened to you? No.

Do you deserve better? Absolutely.

All it really means is that the world is still broken. People are still broken on the inside. It's not you, it's them.

I realized this when reflecting on why INFPs may get attached to logic. My own desires to be logical. Here's the thing. I'm a strong enough soul to make it happen. I became exactly that. I became logical and intelligent through my own will at the cost of much of my sympathy and sensitivity at times. I feel as though I have forsaken my own gifts.

Will I ever stop fighting to reclaim myself and what's rightfully mine? To find the courage to reject the image I created for myself? Absolutely not. I will not give up.

In the meantime what I want for you, is not to forsake your own gifts. The value of Fi which is embodiment, it's to avoid making the same mistakes I have. To know that I know that you aren't worthless, stupid or whatever.

You might be clumsy, you might fail or make mistakes or look stupid in an argument because you're not willing to hurt them or because you're hurt. You might look like an asshole at times and question if you could have done better.

The reality isn't that you never need to learn. It's that you can't afford to forget who you are. Even if it means looking stupid, looking like a beginner, looking like a fool, a dumbass if you will.

Not to hold resentment towards those who hurt you. But to feel pain instead of feeling like they need to pay. They might never learn their lesson.

The world needs you to remind people how to move through the truth in their bodies and hearts.

Anyways, this was on my mind and I felt like I needed to get it out.

I hope you enjoyed. Thanks for reading and take care.

I can't boot my computer because I keep getting startup errors. I have an SSD with window and a external hard drive that boots Linux using unetbootin and neither of them work.

It broke last night while my computer was on. I keep my computer on most of the time. My screen froze completely out of nowhere and nothing worked which forced me to shut it down. It started in a permanent loop, then after shutting it off forcefully again, it started up with this error.

It's not the first time something like this has happened (the freezing part). This is just the first time it broken.

I hope it's not a hardware problem because I don't exactly have the money or skills to pull this off ATP. Is there at least a way for me to figure that out?

I tried using chkdsk, startup repair and neither of those worked. Safe mode doesn't work either.

I have been here since the community started before Seraphine came out, I already decided that if the next midlaner was a cute girl I'd main her. That I did. I was putting up crazy numbers. Then I quit shortly after because of league is not good for my future long term. I love the game and I love sera.

I got one taste of a few league videos and immediately I started missing her. So I came back to play Mid Seraphine. Sure she was weaker, but I still managed to maintain a 57% winrate over 200 games give or take. I quit again for a few months and came back to try the new items. Now I'm quitting again. Hopefully, this time is for real.

I'm not quitting because of Mid seraphine's state or whatever. While I think riot is being stupid as frick about her, I honestly feel like she's in a better state than she's been in for a long time.

Burn is good, Actualizer is good. God is good etc.

Anyways, here's what I have to say about her.

Mage Sera Rant

A quick rant for Mage Sera's sake. I actually really hate how quickly they folded on keeping Sera a Mage. We do not need whatever the frick the community gaslit the designers into making. This was one of the most unique and elegant champion designs in the entire game for a midlaner. What the frick were they thinking?

I wish I could show you exactly what I see in her design, but there's so much. You have a champ that thrives with allies but doesn't need them, that has a beautiful gameplan that revolves around weaving in and out of range to lure your opponent into spells and wearing them down. How she uses all of her spells to compliment each other to organize combos. How you organize your combos with timing (do I wait for Q to get echo E or will I use W? Or maybe I want to E-EchoW)

This is the PERFECT design for a mid support mage and what did they do? Butcher it becase "people want to play her support" BITCH, of course they do when you call her a support. When you design every single enchanter support to be a cute girl who shields you with her cuteness or music or whatever. She literally has a KILL STEALING ABILITY BUILT INTO HER KIT. She is DESIGNED TO KILL. She has a literal insta wave clear ability IN HER KIT.

Not to mention the W has a DELAY on it's heal for a reason. Same with the shield. Why would you put a teamfighting 200 second cooldown shield on a support who needs to trade blows with two guys constantly?

She's like the Wii U people don't even know she's new hardware. They think she's just an upgrade (Sona 2.0 as they say). She's not even Sona 2.0. Sona's game is about Auras, avoiding attacks and positioning around allies. They just saw "oooo music girl with shields and a big wave ult" and said she was Sona. Like go frick yourself.

They managed to actually capture this space between utility/enchanter qualitys/laning power all while making sure she is distinctly a mage. You throw it away and claim "the mains are wrong" because a bunch of numb nuts that don't care about the design enough to actually engage with it as is instead of engaging the stereotypes about her.

She's a midlaner who happens to work be a good support and APC. Stick. With. It.

She can't be a sona. She can't be a lulu. She can't be a Karma. So the more we expect her to be these things the more we'll be disappointed. Because if she's even balanced like a karma, She'll have most disgusting shield in the game and completely out class her. They can't balance her to be like other supports without breaking her because she's INCOMPATIBLE with that lifestyle. the closest thing she gets to being a support is like Lux (who I've honestly not seen mid). Because she is so tightly designed, she can't be balanced like any other champ she has to be balanced like Seraphine or she'll lose her essence and be caught in a limbo of either being overtuned or undertuned for the rest of her days.

This is where the "Design around the majority not the game" shit fails. What do you do when a champ is so unique? It's not because there aren't spells like hers, it's because the bigger picture of her is so weird. THAT'S what makes her unique. She's not a bad design or a failure, like others might think of her. It's that her design is delicate and particular.

RIOT. Do you guys seriously want your game to be designed around people's stereotypes and misconceptions instead of the people who actually like what you created? It's not chill. Their whole modus operandi for this champ is a load of shit. They think they're right because it's "popular" and it's a "better game" because "more people like it" motherfricker. This isn't about adaptability. It's about holding to your vision. Believing in the value of what you have created and having a goddamn spine.

They need to tell people they're wrong by balancing her according to her actual design goals. This is the only way to make her healthy.

More people are getting what they expect and not what they de

I want to talk about that yasuo matchup because it's tough but it's fun.
All you really need to do is track his E's, at first he seems untouchable and so you just stay away so he can't e on top of you, but that's the trick.

If you watch carefully, you'll notice that he's stuck in his E until the end of the dash. You can pick up on where he'll be and where he's going and when he dashes. Especially if he dashes mindlessly. So you aim your spells right where he's going to be, you'll always hit him. Here's the thing, you want to be close enough to be E'd on.

You want to apply constant pressure on him with Q and break his shield with autos, E him during his dash. That way you can outspace him if he looks on you. If he does get on top of you, just echo W and run away.

Windwall is aids and your biggest enemy is mana problems.
I agree with all of you that her mana problems are unfair and really bad, but since we have to just deal with it. Mana management is your friend. You don't have to spam and it's still possible to win with less spells.

Playing Sera Yasuo finally made me admit that the champion is actually well designed. At first I thought he was bullshit, but now I actually get it and it's really fun.

Lastly, My Sera rework
Sera is (i say this a lot) about spacing. You want them to be as close as possible to hit her Qs more easily, but far enough away.

Passive: Notes now only lose 25% damage.

3. Q now has a higher execute threshold scaling with ult rank. (25/30/35/40% HP)
   Her scaling is already nuclear, she just needs more access to it. Max scaling echo Q + E is like 2.1x AP (before modifiers) on a 5 second cooldown and it's designed to hit 2-5 people. That's fucking nuclear. That's like 4-10x ap total damage. Insanity.

4. Her W now produces a shockwave which shields allies and damages enemies. it's fast, but your allies can walk out if you aren't positioned right.The damage scales to (60%/70%/80%/90%/100%) of the shield's power per rank.The heal still works exactly the same though. It deals 20% damage to minions.
   This gives you incentives to max W in mid and play for support items if you want. W shockwave applies spell affects giving you a massive slow or burn into tanks. This keeps her close to her opponent. I love her W as a way to get echo stacks, and thus increase the damage of her Q it's very elegant.

E: it's now 1050 speed instead of 900 but goes down to 700 speed towards the end and width, but now gains width based on targets hit.
This keeps her engaged in fights (looking for the right angles) and gives her more creative ways to engage in lane. It also acts as "training" for using her ult and synergizes well. It rewards her for being just far enough away to actually deal damage.

R: Give me the old ult back.
New ult sucks dick and it's unintuitive. The old ult was perfectly healthy. If you got hit across the map by a sera ult, you ABSOLUTELY deserved it and so did she. You got goobed. Also, you should have never lined up. There are a million ways to nerf and rework it, but they chose the worst one.

This change gives her damage without overtuning her waveclear any more. Rewards her for proper spacing and gives her more tools. My rework wasn't written in response to my rant at all. I wasn't even planning on writing the rant. With regards to it, I want to reinforce more of what makes the champ fun.

How do I think she's actually designed? + Matchups for the last time

Seraphine wants to play like Orianna and Taliyah early game. A strong teamfighting control mage that is all about spacing. She has good range, but she doesn't always play the best from that distance like Xerath or Ziggs. You really can't Kobe her spells unless you have a LOT of targets or they're already CC'd. She just likes to be in the backline. Unlike Orianna, she wants to do a lot of short trades with E-EchoQ-AA or E-AA-EchoQ-AA. That's why she wins the matchup by the way. She can deal out way more damage in these small trades and run before orianna can get started. You can dodge her Qs with your W if you're far enough away. Out wave clear her etc.

You beat Malzahar because you can just outspace him and outwaveclear him.
You beat Lux because she can't beat your EQ trades and you can keep up with her waveclear. Just make sure you don't force it too hard. Force her to choose between Eing you or the wave (either way she loses).
You beat veigar because you have WAY better waveclear and early game
You beat sol because you instaclear and Q trade.
You beat Yone if you harrass him hard level 1-3 and kill him. you can use EchoW to run or echoE to catch his very predictable approach
Yasuo matchup is hard but not bad (except for the mana issues) you more tools to deal with him than the average midlaner.

You will probably lose to most assassin's because they deal too much damage, not because there isn't counterplay.
Zed WW is pretty predictable. Just place phase rush in this matchup so he can't grab your balls (if you have them), dodge shurikens and try not to be low enough to die to a low effort ult.
Leblanc literally travels in a straight line if you call her out it's a free echo E.
Fizz is ♋︎ ♑︎♓︎♋︎■︎⧫︎ ♐︎◆︎♍︎🙵♓︎■︎♑︎ ◻︎♓︎♏︎♍︎♏︎ □︎♐︎ ⬧︎♒︎♓︎⧫︎ ♋︎■︎♎︎ ♓︎ ♒︎♋︎⧫︎♏︎ ♒︎♓︎❍︎ but he has no wave clear and you can probably goob him with echoW+bone plating.
Irelia can kill you if you disrespect her
I don't know how you beat galio once he gets MR because his E is REALLY fucking hard to dodge. i ususally just outspace him (but get caught by WQAA anyways) and permaclear.

That's all

Thank you all for reading it's been a pleasure to be apart of this community and to share my ideas and theorycraft with you all. If you have any questions about matchups or anything seraphine or her design I'd be happy to answer you.

I'm not the best player of all time obviously, but I spend a ton of my time analyzing and understanding anything I play on a design and systems level. I really love game design, but anyways.

I've written far too much and I'm tuckered out, so I need to take a big break. I hope you all enjoyed reading my post.