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Okay, so context, I have about 115 games of koz support with a 61% win rate. I have used 4 builds, and I think I've found the best one. I've had a massive success streak with using dark harvest Arcane axiom transcendence and scorch with giant killer. Eatch game i average about 3k damage from dark harvest. 500 dmg from axiom, and 1k from scorch and ,about 1.5k from giant killer. my average total damage is around 35k. Now I will state I haven't tried gathering storm with my current item build, but the difference between my 2 primary builds is huge. I love gathering storm but I'm starting to think it's just not as effective on koz bc he is better in mid game and lane phase plus. The other build I used was similar with but with late game power spikes and was more focused on carrying late game instead of early pressure. My current improved set up is supp sickl into sorc boot into horizon then infinity orb into d cap with the last parts being flex picks for anti shield ,anti heal ,cosmic drive or malignance. I normally start with the W with my current setup for wave clear. I like it bc it's safer then Q miss 3 Qs early and it's bad even more so with scorch so I just start with the easyest ability to hit with then go Q lvl 2 and E lvl 3 then go into W max. before when I ran gathering storm I would start Q and then W then E and would start supp sickl into rod of ages into d cap then infinity orb malignance then flex picks but I would also be using comet instead of dark harvest I like comet but it's bad late game when it's easyer to stack movement speed thus making it almost useless. I love the gathering storm build, and I've definitely gotten strong results with it in the past. but it isn't nearly as consistent as my current build with scorch in the past 10 games ive won 8 and climbed out of emerald this season only useing velkoz when I'm not auto filled jungle or top.[for jg I play Rammus ,yi or qwen for top I use kayle or mord] but I reached diamond I came here to see if my experience is based or naa about rushing my power spikes and to see if I should build infinity orb before horizon as support my take is I should keep this build bc it gives the kills to my carry early game also for summoner spells I always use tp and flash and for bans I always ban kalista and try to convince someone to ban jhin both bc they have a lot of movement speed and that makes it hard to win lane and carry late game normaly I prefer prio objectives and split pushing since I have insanely fast wave clear and can pull pressure and normaly can win my 1v1s or at least escape if I get ganked by 2 players Q slows E knock up and a defensively used flash I think this works bc I get my carry fed eaither by minnons plates or kills/assists so there strong enof if a team fight breaks out plus I have tp if I have to join late

So context I'm normally a dps player, but lately I've been put in situations that make me feel more like I'm competing to deal damage with whole teams of striker users. and more times then not we as a team suffer above t5 for it. so I've took it upon myself to become the best healer/support player I can be and after doing some research I've found birdies FI is how I like to help I use a tier 6 healing hive with re enforcer Chem with maximum repair skills. I like birdies bc it's saved a lot of runs for me in the past and I like making the team feel safer about going doun.but this where im gonna sound bad I don't shoot any non tanks or rushers. I use Scorpio and my Lexington tickles them and opens me up to going doun so I've stoped trying to damage enemies unless there rushers or chunga's/tanks. should I feel bad about ending missions with less then 100 mill damage but the most revives and healing/siting back playing safe and focusing on keeping my team toped off on health while boosting there damage with the FI chest?

So I grinded a ton yesterday and got pretty lucky geting proto strikers sets while doing t5+ escalations.[side note finally did my first t7-yay] but I'm interested in making a prototype ravenous build becuse it's one of my favorite exotics. is it worth it run above t5 since the damage to armor plates on blue and the explosions on red?and if so how much handling should I use? I'm primarily asking since I went to use it yesterday during a t5 and was kicked by a 13k shd normaly I run big Alejandro for t5 and st elmos t6 and above both so it was kinda surprising but I understood why. Normaly I'm not kicked when useing my meta wepons despite not being full proto at the time I'd like to think it's bc I wear the wolves mask+ the full legendary outfit so knowledgeable players know where I've been. Then on top of it my build isn't bad. I'm kinda off put by that experience tho and thought I should ask about viability here to gather more of community's thoughts on it.

Every time they have the most powerful gear sets as targeted loot some bullshit is always going on like rn with servers being doun on a day when we can get proto salvo proto equalizer and proto strikers I can't help but feel like there doing this shit on purpose bc they know everyone wants these drops and on top of that it's funny that the day they add more value to the escalation tokens via the vendor many pepole are lossing them to delta and Mike errors i mean what the fuck ubisoft are you gonna comp all the players agien with some shit cores no body needs anymore. It's really not hard to get protos to drop since the majority are shit rolls anyway they get turned into cores are you gonna comp everyone proto strikers or give us a UA named item proto cashe I mean you've made it just about impossible to farm everything today were looking for all 6pc of strikers then 2 named items from pathway Park there is no way with all the doun time the player base is gonna get enof time to get these drops unless there running tier 6+ back to back to back.... dissapointing disaster patch

30 runs of tier 5... looking for these fucking contractors gloves and nothing to show for it not even a soild petrov chest nothing but cores that are useless bc everything drops with a shit roll in escalation... I'm tired boss I've carried to many groups and not once today did I see any stat max rolled and that's complete shit from running t5 so many trash prototypes I don't even get happy to see it drop anymore becuse I get 5+ every run and there always terrible.

IDC what your watch lvl is in escalations I care what your build is if I see you useing a liberty and your useing a crusader shield with 3 mill armor on tier 3 with memento I'm leaving bro I will not do the mental gymnastics needed to understand why you feel that's strong enof to do anything considering there Is a complete lack of healing players i as striker main will not be wasting half the mission time reviving you or wasting the skill slot to revive 1 person every 2 minutes. also gonna keep it real unless your running refractor I do not wanna see your skill build eaither my God I'm not even hateing but I'm not gonna lose my tokens to someone being dense when build crafting put on your big boy pants already. oddly enof the lvl 500 with half the play time was better equipped then this 945.

I'm shd 1308 I run striker with chest+bag big Alejandro turmoil and exodus gloves with pulse and decoy I am on ps4 Gamertag:drewsickl

Okay so im a gladiator main I've been playing for a few hours eatch day and I've been more or less enjoying duals but I've noticed something I struggle with and figured it's worth asking about.

How can gladiator win vs a kyoshin.

Context I beat the ever living christ out of a shamen in dual 3-0. and then he switched to kyoshin and I lost... repeatedly, and he's not the only kyoshin I've lost too I've faced 3 of them all less then 1 rep but all have gotten the better of me for reference my win loss ratio is 63.29% my kda is 241/141/42 and I've been useing gladiator for 5 hours I predominantly play dual and am rep 1 lv7 i know how to play vs the vast majority of the roster outside of a few less then popular picks but kyoshin is hella weird... any advise would be appreciated