A buddy of mine said this is not the legit flash step.

The sliver of health at the end should not be there if I executed properly.

I'm still learning magic so I'm just practicing this ....

how is it fair when whoever got out of their fight would have 5 infinity stones while we only had 1??

we were winning by a landslide and guess what? we lost to strange and mantis because they got 5 stones

IF YOU ARE A FAN OF BOGUR: I will not degrade you as that is not my intention, enjoy what you enjoy I don't care

Ok hear me out, I don't even believe that this is even an attack, it's an observation, in his videos reacting to whatever drama video there is, such as "reacting" to father dark's video on Luna Snow's nepotism, a video I watched myself when he posted it, I noticed that Bogur has absolutely, positively zero idea what the fuck he's talking about ever.

That fact is that I firmly believe that he's so egotistical he can't believe anyone can have more brain power to process something better than he can in reading the room and he doesn't even realize it, I also believe that Bogur believes that he's in the right all the time and I get that. But you simply cannot just morph everything that the video he's reacting to into a completely different thing.

I know that the whole Luna Snow skin situation is its own big bag of worms here so I'll give one example from the video

Dark says that, and proves with data, that Luna gets more skins combined then 3 popular heroes combined, and points out the fact that Storm still has yet to recieve even an update on social media about her skin,

Bogur replies to that with "nobody talks about the Luna skin situation irl so who cares, it's only on twitter" yeah no FUCKIN shit Sherlock that's where people go to voice their opinions and who even talks about inherently negative things irl anyways? And you just morphed it into something completely different that's two different things just so you could talk.

To top it off he says "yeah I guess they talk about in the the rivals discord, do they?" He doesn't even know that people are getting banned for calling out favoritism in the official discord server, for someone so put high on a pedestal in the community he sure does bring absolutely nothing to it

Anyways that's it, don't attack Bogur or anyone that likes him, but that newest video by him pissed me off because it was such a lowkey dick move to just try to bring down father dark's video as much as he could

At this point if we run 5 dps we’ll run it and just don’t complain about heals…as a tank/support main. I’ll join in the insta lock dps. Quick play is hell.

Guys, this is ur warning, they are reissuing bans for mods... ive been banned for a week... i mean season 10.5 was dead anyways so..

my issue is, there are still ppl who are hacking, smurfing and harrassing... but they get 1 day mute or a 1 week ban from comp??? like this is absurdity. my bad i wanna see some muscles...

Love playing 18v18 but my goodness is it messy. I honestly think removing Ults is the way to go. Especially ones that are a little too OP like Wanda or Hela. Also the Top 6 spots should go to players with the best Kill to Death ratio. Cause I play Daredevil and barely die but since I didn’t get enough kills. Too bad I guess. So yeah little rant. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

I swear I have never seen a more socially stunted community in my fucking life. Every game, if someone plays a character someone else doesn't like "get off..." if someone gets a character someone else wants to play "give me... now" people throwing if you don't immediately do as they say when they say it, that sort of thing.

Why do people think that just demanding things and being rude is going to make someone do what you want?

It has gotten so bad. If i DARE to pick dps even once I'm harassed by duos and trios demanding I swap or they'll throw, it's almost every game that I try to play dps now.

Im a dps pool one trick this season my win rate is nothing special like barely above 60% im getting target banned like 40% of my games .. and whats funny is that they force me to play my other main (PHOENIX) which is top3 dps RN LMAO. How ever I played a game when i hovered sup pool (filling) before the ban phase my other teammates picked rocket/DD all of the chars we hovered got banned .. like how is that possible ? It felt like they know exactly what we picked ! Like is their a third party app that let them view what the enemy team is running? And its "dia1/gm3" lobby btw not a high rank

Technically balanced matches are a little bit more common in Ranked.

So here's the rough analytical breakdown:

Team Morale (7)

Individual Player Morale (9)

Micro (6)

Macro (3)

Meso (6)

Individual Player Winrate (9)

Connectivity (10)

(In parenthesis I assign an IV or importance value out of 10 of how important that factor is for your chances of winning).

As you can see:

A combination of winrate and connectivity are the most important factors for winning a game.

If you are given a team mate that for whatever reason has a lot of disconnects the enemy team will have a power advantage the moment they disconnect.

Micro is not as important as Morale.

The only thing I am doubting here is the Team Morale Importance Value.

It maybe closer to a 10 than a 7 I gave it.

So if your enemy team has a higher morale than you, and higher connectivity. Nothing can save you unless they're absolutely terrible at Micro. Which teams have good connectivity and good Morale??

6 stacks.

6 stacks are really hard to beat.

To make it harder for a 6 stack the Matchmaking will purposely find Heros with high winrates and Heros that do not give up (high morale) and heros that have good connectivity.

At any moment your own team mates morale can drop.

So what can you do?

At the very start of the match, play conservative. Let your team mates know you are willing to peel, heal or Shield.

If you are DPS peel to save your healers.

If you are strategist heal your tanks.

If you are Tank. Use your shield.

This is how you keep the morale high.

The dive agenda is ridiculous, everyone wants to act like when dive is on top its the worst thing every and runs the entire game. Fun fact dive has never been on top, it has never been "meta". It is deadass the only playstyle where 2 characters will be viable and the entire role gets seen as "meta". Dare I say in the history of rivals support has been more oppressive than dive has.

There has never been a "dive meta" no just because 3 dive characters are usuable does not mean thats a "meta". So I am very confused when I see people say "when dive is on top its fun for no one" because theres never been a point in time where dive has been on top??? In terms of balance its treated worse out of any other playstyle and its the most countered role in the game.

Yes go ahead and hate on dive because the toxic playerbase I get it, but don't let that hate delude you into thinking there was something that wasn't there

Getting a ban for leaving a qp match when your mvp and your team isn’t even playing the game is crazy. I get the game had a toxicity issue but 15- hour bans when you play 10+ games in a row and leave one is wild work. Not to mention getting a week ban for talking back to someone already being toxic is crazy too. Honestly the game needs to chill on the bans overall. People are gonna be toxic let folks talk back without getting banned or people will find another game simple as that. Or upgrade the system that reviews it. It honestly feels like if you get one person to report you over anything you’re just locked out the game. RIVALS WAS MT FAVORITE GAME BUT THESE BANS ARE RIDICULOUS ESPECIALLY FOR A GAME THATS 100% casual compared to its competitors

Genuinely one of the most sensitive mains subs I've seen ever.

Literally just pointed out how it's funny that a user is complaining about a legendary skin having slightly underwhelming animations while torch mains can't have shit and they ban me because apparently that hurt their pwecious fweewings🥺

Not even like an actual reason for a ban only a buzzword and mute because they know they just can't handle any criticism.

I don't think even Luna snow mains sub is like this when it comes to skin distribution discussion.

Edit: upon reflection I've come to a realization that most people in this community take the whole skin distribution situation much more seriously than I do which caused this disconnect as to why I believed that the mods overreacted.

To you it's like me trying to start a skin argument while to me it's just a funny reaction image to poke fun at the situation that I've seen people use a lot on behalf of torch mains. I do believe that the whole skin discourse matters to some extent but I really don't pay it that much attention as I don't care about skins in general personally.

Jeff sup pool adam even mantis and luna and now CnD had their seasons when they are either really bad or straight up a throw pick like jeff in season 9 ... why Invis is always top 3 ??? she is litrally a heal bot I would rather luna being S tier than her because she is litrally unkillable if you dont have dive her self shield is opressive it can cancel too many ults and doesnt have Cd like 1.5 sec LOL. She does too much healing and she has the best support ult in game because you cant kill her with mag ult due to her self shield if you play invis and die for ulting mag you suck.. and you guys wonder why support players are leaving ..

I don't know what the fuck is going on this season but holy shit this is the absolute worst. People not counter swapping and still wanna play the same character and getting diffed hard, I win one round then the enemy start sniffing COKE and turn into some pro league players, teammates just throwing and after that throw match it turns into a L STREAK CURSE, players swapping to heroes we don't need like bro just give me decent players...

Why did this happen? I couldn't escape and I lost the match bc of it. My team was up 2 kills on our team fight when I got trapped here.

If I could F****** SEE ANYTHING BEYOND THIS VISUAL VOMIT BEHIND THE PHAT DINOSAUR IN MY FACE!!

And rivals is at a new all time low

Ok I have been taking a break for a few weeks, come back for season 10.5 and this season is so bad for me. I have never had a winrate lower than 60%, the lowest I got was last season but even then I think I ended with like a 56ish winrate. This season just sucks so bad for me. Like it's gotta be me doing something different, I don't want to be like 'it's my teams fault' or anything but like, by the end of the game my stats are fine.

Are there some games I mess up in? Of course! I'm not a perfect player but Jesus I cannot figure out what is going wrong. I am trying to flex for my team but it's hard to flex when someone swaps from support to DPS so I swap from tank to support because it's too little healing but then we make no space and no one walks up. Ugh idk maybe I need to take another break because season 10 + 10.5 are really killing the game for me and making it no fun when it's just roll or get rolled.

Like I don't usually say the "Guang guang is out to get me" but I'm really feeling it this season. I dont usually go on losing streaks like this and it is really making it unplayable for me 😭

Sorry just ranting because I love the game but when I get losing streaks like this I feel like I'm shit at the game and should just quit lol

Anyone else getting MAD tweakers in qp for 10.5? I feel like season 10 was going decently in terms of my qp matches being balanced in terms of victory’s and defeats but 10.5 rolled up and now every match people be playing like it’s the last game they’ll ever get to play if they lose.

I’m not the best player, heck I’m mediocre at best. But MAN the people this game is putting me up against these past few matches on a random ass Tuesday night have been every word in the definition of try hard.

I’ll also add it’s entirely on me for still chugging along after so many losses in a row. (Out of 10 matches, I won a single game. It was bad) I’m also guilty of getting particularly salty and trying to rage play a dub in before I leave. So, I’m not free of that bad habit either.

Not trying to say “game bad” or “take shower” just really, REALLY wanna know if it’s just me getting those games with people who refuse to be on the losing team so hard they pull out the character they got 100+ hours on. Cuz WOW did it feel awful.

TLDR: very rough matchmaking, worse than season 10, break might be in order, anyone else?

Have a nice day or night ya’ll. Ima go to bed before I burst a blood vessel 💀

I keep seeing discussions about reducing healing and making supports more damage-oriented, but I feel like people underestimate how many players genuinely enjoy the current support playstyle.

How sad do you have to be to throw in a quick play game? You was the last pick should’ve chose second healer…I ended up switching to a healer. Quick play is hell. I’m willing to take the 15 minute ban.

This dumbass character genuinely makes playing tank this season unplayable

17 game loss streak into a fucking bot match. Fuck you netease I don't want a pitty win I want a win that I can be proud of. Oh and might I add I haven't gotten a bot match for god knows how long. Fuck you netease and fuck this stupid ass game