u/Sephyrias

I finished updating my old Tron deck to the one from this top 8 list, but I don't have the sideboard yet and I want to attend a Pauper event this week.

What are some good potential substitute cards? I have a [[Vandalblast]] and [[Soul guide Lantern]] from EDH, which I guess are legal now, and a bunch of bulk commons. Is [[Tormod's Crypt]] worth using or am I better off using the sideboard slots of graveyard hate for other things if I don't have relic of progenitus? I have some [[Fiery Cannonade]], [[Life Goes on]], [[Pulse of Murasa]], [[ancient grudge]] and [[Moments Peace]] from the old deck, are they still good in some matchups?

Not including cards that trigger when other things happen, such as Up the Beanstalk or Tocasia's Welcome.

Some examples that I can think of at $2 or under:

• [[Endless Atlas]] (for mono/2 color decks)

• [[Reckoner Bankbuster]], [[Sunset Pyramid]], [[Eye of Vecna]]

• [[Aether Syphon]]

• [[Loreseeker's Stone]]

• [[Spectral Sailor]], [[Faerie Formation]]

• [[Search for Azcanta]], [[Bonders' Enclave]], [[Sea Gate Wreckage]] (lands)

I found that having some unconditional card draw is amazing in bracket 2 casual EDH to break out of topdecking stalemates.

There are two specific Gwen one-tricks who's builds I want to look at specifically: Shadow of game#EUW (Master 950 LP) and Kem Đá 1#MT1 (VN Challenger 2007 LP).

Shadow of game only plays jungle. Their build is always this:

• Summoner Spells: Ghost + Smite

• Runes: Conqueror, Triumph, Alacrity, Cut Down, Footwear, Approach Velocity + attack speed, AP, scaling HP

• Skill order: Q-E-Q-W-Q-R

• Items: Ghustwalker pet, Dark Seal (from a min2 recall if nothing happens), Nashor's Tooth and Gluttonous Greaves, then Riftmaker or Bloodletter's Curse, then Rabadon's Deathcap or Zhonya's Hourglass, then Voidstaff.

Kem Đá 1 switches between mid and jungle. Their jungle item build has 2 variations.

• Summoner Spells: Exhaust + Smite

• Runes: Conqueror, Triumph, Alacrity, Last Stand, Footwear, Approach Velocity + attack speed, AP, scaling HP (same as Shadow of game except for Last Stand)

• Skill order 1: Q-E-E-W-E-R-E, Skill order 2: Q-E-Q-W-Q-R-Q

• Item build 1: Ghustwalker pet, Nashor's Tooth, Sorc shoes, Riftmaker, Shadowflame, Rabadon's, Morellonomicon/Void Staff, item build 2: Ghustwalker pet, Dusk and Dawn, Sorc shoes, Shadowflame, Voidstaff, Rabadon's, Zhonya's(or some other defensive AP item)

Note that Kem Đá's jungle build is different from their midlane build. What stands out to me is that Kem Đá often maxes E first, regardless of whether they start with Nashor's Tooth or Dusk and Dawn. Also Kem Đá buys unusually many Control Wards, often more than 3 within the first 20 minutes. Shadow of game rarely buys more than one or two throughout an entire game. I'd like to see some of Kem Đá's replays, they must be playing Gwen noticably different.

A few days ago I posted a question about the old PS2/Wii Budokai Tenkaichi 3 here, but only got this response

>Wrong sub

Okay so where is the tenkaichi 3 subreddit? /r/tenkaichi3 doesn't exist and /r/BudokaiTenkaichi3/ is a restricted access subreddit (hence why nobody posted anything there in 3 years).

I don't think r/dbz or r/DragonBallZ are better places to post questions about BT3 than this one or /r/SparkingZero/.

I'm talking about Budokai Tenkaichi 3 on Playstation 2 (I couldn't find any better sub for this question). I want to unlock all the characters in the game and some of them require me to clear the "Dragon World Tour" event on a specific difficulty. However which event I get seems to be random. Is there a way to manipulate which tournament I get? I already tried clearing them in "Free" mode, but that doesn't do anything.

Back in 2025 I bought a booster box of BT22, since I liked the Cyber Sleuth game. Some of the cards looked cool, but hardly any of them were useful. CS Alphamon couldn't even keep up with my old 2024 EX6 decks. I just ended up building Nokia-Omnimon, sold what I could and let the rest rot in a bulk box. I later regretted having bought BT22 instead of BT23.

Now I finally got around to finish Time Stranger and I'd like to get a box of it too as a starting point. I can already tell that I won't be building Jupitermon or BeelStarmon. The former not because didn't like Inori and Aegiomon and the latter because EX7 Beelstarmon X is way too expensive - unfortunately, because I do like edgy designs and my TS teams were full of those. Naturally, BT26 Plutomon and Mervamon are interesting to me, but BT26 is packed with non-TS cards and I'll likely have to buy extra copies as singles anyway. What do you think?

I've been looking through profiles of high elo Vi OTPs on these websites:

• https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/rankings/summoners/vi/

• https://www.deeplol.gg/champions/vi/mastery/all

• https://www.onetricks.gg/de/champions/ranking/Vi

There are plenty of build variations, but one thing that's missing from all except one is Trinity Force combined with lethality, crit, or other full AD items. The only exception is this one guy on the BR server who buys Hubris before Trinity Force sometimes: https://www.deeplol.gg/summoner/br/Develicious-Mono Everyone else buys either Trinity Force+HP items, or combinations of full Crit and Lethality, or Eclipse/Cyclosword+bruiser items, but it is never Trinity Force + Lethality/Crit.

There are so many niche builds, like Cyclosword->Dead Man's Plate->Black Cleaver (like here), or Eclipse->Black Cleaver->Guardian Angel (here), so why not Trinity Force->Cyclosword->Dead Man's Plate or Trinity Force->Black Cleaver->Profane Hydra?

Lich Bane is 200 gold cheaper, gives 40 AP more, +6% movement speed (= +23 with upgraded boots) and a 35% stronger spellblade AP scaling.
Dusk&Dawn gives 10 ability haste more, +300 HP, +20% attack speed and has more spellblade effects.
Looking at the stats, Dusk&Dawn is 112.9% gold efficient, while Lich Bane is only 99.68% gold efficient.

At LVL 8 +9 base AP from runes: Dusk and Dawn (69 AP) - 67 spellblade damage and 16 healing vs Lich Bane (109 AP) - 109 spellblade damage.

AP build:

• LVL 11 +Shadowflame. Dusk and Dawn (179 AP) - 85 dmg and 27 healing vs Lich Bane (219 AP) - 166 dmg.

• LVL 14 +Deathcap. Dusk and Dawn (402 AP) - 115 dmg and 49 healing vs Lich Bane (454 AP) - 279 dmg.

• LVL 16 +Voidstaff. Dusk and Dawn (525 AP) - 132 dmg and 62 healing vs Lich Bane (577 AP) - 340 dmg.

HP build:

• LVL 11 +Nashor's Tooth. Dusk and Dawn (149 AP) - 82 dmg and 24 healing vs Lich Bane (189 AP) - 152 dmg.

• LVL 14 +Riftmaker. Dusk and Dawn (232 AP) - 98 dmg and 43 healing vs Lich Bane (266 AP) - 194 dmg.

• LVL 16 +Bloodletter's Curse. Dusk and Dawn (305 AP) - 110 dmg and 62 healing vs Lich Bane (339 AP) - 232 dmg.

D&D is much more gold efficient and the spellblade damage is similar early, so I would assume D&D is the better item at level 8 and Lich Bane is supposed to outvalue it at some point with the better AP scaling. However when is that? If Lich Bane is only better at 500+ AP then I would argue there is no reason to buy it over D&D, since many of your games will end before you get there.

When building Gwen for optimal 1v1 power, waveclear and turret destruction speed, what is the best build? Assuming...

• the game doesn't last longer than 30 minutes and you don't get to complete more than 4 legendary items

• you want to win every fight asap to either recall or keep pushing

• you only ever have to fight a single champion, but it is not always the same opponent and they can be any category. Juggernaut, assassin, marksman, etc.

Which runes would you pick?

A minute 25 sidelane duel rarely lasts longer than 5 seconds, but do you build HP or resistance items to survive burst damage or CC?

Which one is better at destroying turrets, Nashor's Tooth or Lich Bane? Is Voidstaff better than Rabadon's Deathcap, considering that armor penetration works against turrets?

https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/match/euw/7898462749#participant8

Runes: Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Sixth Sense, Relentless Hunter. For the second skill tree take Celerity, Manaflow Band, AP, MS, +65 HP. Flash+Ignite.

Q->E->Q->W->Q->R. Max Q first. Buy Doran's Ring, Dark Seal, Boots and Sheen. Upgrade Sheen into Lich Bane and boots to Swiftness. 2nd item Stormsurge, 3rd item Zhonya's Hourglass.

The goal is to act as a speedy assassin. You want a ton of movement speed to chase after squishies in sidelane or to run away from bruisers. Using your speed to dodge skillshots is essential. You join teamfights late by waiting until the fight is basically over and then do the cleanup.

With one item at lvl 8 vs a dummy with 1400 HP, 50 armor, 40 magic resist.

1st item	Combo 1	Combo 2	Combo 3
Malignance	976	1402	1655
Lich Bane	1160	1205	1589
Shadowflame	1085	1142	1509
Rabadon's Deathcap	1163	1194	1501
Hextech Gunblade (a.)	1208	1220	1472
Stormsurge	1113	1183	1455
Liandry's Torment	1046	1146	1441
Luden's Echo	1113	1128	1390
Dusk and Dawn	1112	1121	1386
Blackfire Torch	998	1111	1372
Voidstaff	1052	1124	1369
Hextech Rocketbelt (a.)	966	1027	1320
Zhonya's/Banshee's	977	1024	1288
Nashor's Tooth	1013	1056	1282
Riftmaker	958	1016	1281
Statikk Shiv	1020	1018	1249
Bloodletter's Curse	960	961	1240
Trinity Force	1066	1017	1205
Guinsoo's Rageblade	1012	974	1196
Cosmic Drive	907	943	1187
Blade of the R.K.	1101	1013	1186
Iceborn Gauntlet	927	941	1146
Rod of Ages (0 stacks)	857	906	1115
Sunfire Aegis	903	919	1107
Wit's End	910	878	1082
Hollow Radiance	866	895	1070
Abyssal Mask	825	859	1060

With 2 items at lvl 11 vs a dummy with 1600 HP, 60 armor, 40 mr.

2 items	Combo 1	Combo 2	Combo 3
Lich Bane+Shadowflame	1835	2149	2555
Lich Bane+Rabadon's	1880	2108	2479
Lich Bane+Stormsurge	1773	2007	2340
Lich Bane+Hextech G.	1822	1978	2324
Lich Bane+Luden's Echo	1648	1879	2198
Lich Bane+Nashor's	1641	1788	2100
Lich Bane+Riftmaker	1555	1764	2096
Lich Bane+Bloodletter	1535	1765	2064
Shadowflame+Hextech G.	1849	2106	2502
Shadowflame+Nashor's	1648	1886	2275
Shadowflame+Riftmaker	1537	1829	2255
Shadowflame+Triforce	1607	1822	2145
Shadowflame+Sunfire	1387	1600	1958
Dusk&Dawn+Shadowflame	1885	2091	2491
Dusk&Dawn+Rabadon's	1888	2032	2390
Dusk&Dawn+Liandry's	1687	1831	2194
Dusk&Dawn+Nashor's	1706	1640	2099
Dusk&Dawn+Riftmaker	1593	1740	2009
Rabadon's+Voidstaff	1680	1968	2354
Rabadon's+Nashor's	1688	1862	2218
Malignance+Shadowflame	1511	2407	2809
Malignance+Rabadon's	1545	2263	2637
Malignance+Stormsurge	1488	2252	2568
Malignance+Lich Bane	1540	2186	2514
Malignance+Dusk&Dawn	1566	2149	2445
Malignance+Liandry's	1411	2112	2443
Malignance+Blackfire	1387	2046	2371
Malignance+Bloodletter	1285	1936	2253

Using Conqueror Rune and Triple Tonic for a 4th point in E at level 11. No summoner spells used.

Combo 1: E-auto-Q-auto-auto-W-(delay)-auto-Q

Combo 2: E-auto-W-R-auto-Q-auto-R-R

Combo 3: E-W-auto-R-auto-Q-R-R-auto-Q

This other thread has a bunch of different takes, so I looked up the jungle games of a few of the top 50 Gwen OTPs on https://www.onetricks.gg/champions/ranking/Gwen

For the main rune there are only two choices: First Strike or Conqueror. Then there are a bunch of variations for the secondary rune page. Gathering Storm, Sudden Impact, Approach Velocity, Cash Back vs Magical Footwear and so forth. Regarding Summoner Spells, most take Smite+Ghost, but TiSaD VN#T1SaD sticks to Flash.

Every jungle Gwen starts Q>E and Q>E get maxed first, which isn't a surprise, but what did surprise me is how much Shadow of game#EUW varies with the level 1-5 skill order. Q>E>Q>W, Q>E>W, or even Q>E>Q>E>W like here https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/match/euw/7894504706#participant7

Most Gwen OTPs seem to have their own core build that they go for every game. Blue and Red Smite are both popular. For the first legendary item there are only 3 options though: Nashor's Tooth, Lich Bane, Dusk and Dawn. After that it gets chaotic, because there is so much variation between players. Some always go Nashor's Tooth>Dusk and Dawn, others always go Nashor's Tooth>Rabadon's, etc. Boots can be anything.

So there are actually a couple different ways to play jungle Gwen. What is the strategy behind them?