u/tthrowaway712

I've recently adopted the bruiser build on Diana and tested it on ranked (EUNE master elo). It's genuinely very strong for duels, the hp, healing and consistent dmg output with DnD allow Diana to stat-check a lot of melee champions that would otherwise be impossible to fight. I've played it top recently and completely dominated a nasus, kayle, kennen and garen, to the point where I could actually 1v2 them+their jungler on a gank.

I've also been playing it on midlane. But I can't shake the feeling that this build is actually suboptimal for exerting map control and such. It provides no bonus movement speed so effective roaming is a lot harder and I'm struggling to even mentally make roaming for objectives a thought in my mind. I'm mostly staying on my dominated lane for most of the game, getting fed, getting plates, getting gold and level advantage, pushing up to enemy inhibs but I never get quite strong enough to win the game completely, unless the enemy ff and usually after a while I start falling off. My win rate has actually dropped significantly, even though I'm performing well most of the games, at least in terms of kills, gold, dmg output etc.

Are you guys having a similar experience? I'm thinking about going back to lich bane + zhonya build for midlane at least.

I've noticed this tendency in myself and was wondering if anyone else feels this way. I really enjoy making some bleak scenarios and in general roleplays that focus on tragedy, suffering, post-apocalypse, torture, non-con and similar topics. I do these quite often but it always brings my mood down at some point. It's a strange feeling - I enjoy the dark topics but I feel bad for indulging in them. It helps me to not feel guilty by making my character the victim of the scenarios, which lets me enjoy the prose and llm's creativity without guilt, or at least with less guilt.

When I hit that point when I start feeling really bad I usually break things up by introducing the sudden plot-twist that the entire scenario is actually a movie-set where all characters are actors and professionals who're merely putting on a performance with special effects. I flip the entire scenario and make everyone alive, polite and nice to each other and I engage with that for 5-10 messages until I feel better. It's kind of my ritual to cleanse myself after the more dirty roleplays. Yes, I'm perfectly aware how ridiculous it is that I have to turn a fictional scenario into an even more fictional scenario.

On the upside, the opposite effect is also true and wholesome scenarios have a really strong effect on uplifting my mood.

What about you guys? Does anyone else struggle with this and has some pro-tips on being a guilt-free degen?

Took me about a week of work and posted it on SophiaLorebrary a while ago but I keep seeing people saying they can't find a good lorebook so I'm making a post for visibilityy. Still WIP, a lot of info that could be made better, more precise for the llms but on the upside it's up-to-date, in-depth, contains all characters, most locations and world-setting.

I'm testing it on Kimi k2.5 and fine-tuning it for that model. Works super-well for me, I'm eager to hear some feedback from people using different llms.

Link: https://lorebary.com/lorebook-library?view=9ABE9D60