It's literally addictive. I have never once gone overboard with alcohol, but I regularly struggle to put my phone down when I get caught in a doomscrolling fit.

And yes, it is ruining our attention and creativity. Something that isn't talked about much is that art is a product of boredom. For almost all of our history as humans, there would be hours a day where we just don't do anything. We used to fill it with just sitting around, thinking, processing our emotions. Sometimes singing or dancing or coming up with stories. It was idle time to simply let the brain run its course.

Consuming short form content takes that time from you. It's weeks, months, even years of never allowing your brain to stop and process your life. It goes hand in hand with insomnia, as lying down in bed and trying to fall asleep is exactly when all those strangled thoughts and emotions come through.

We call it "meditation" now, but it was something almost everyone used to do - sit in silence and just let your brain run.

It is every bit as scary as what you said in your last paragraph. This is intended by the people in charge of these media platforms.

You have to threaten the mound push to pressure them into using utility earlier.

If you're having trouble on C, call a duelist over to fight mound. You want to make them burn through flashes/recon to clear mound so they have less for dumping on site and post-plant. Tejo's weakness is that he runs out of utility very quickly.

edit: since you play Cypher, this is even more doable. You can save a cage to help you cross back to site from mound

I still feel like people would use it to just never learn new maps

Your reading comprehension is terrible.

Let me say it again more clearly.

"Abusive" is a loaded word associated with violence and assault. You're talking about cosmetics being too expensive in a game that is otherwise completely free to play. Don't be so dramatic.

What do you mean by this

"abusive" it is literally a free to play game, it is not that deep

Solidly balanced. His utility is good but really slow to activate and it runs out quickly.

He honestly is pretty bad in ranked. Unless you're using missiles on someone hiding in a corner, stun is the only ability you can really swing off of, and it's strictly worse than Neon's.

He's an initiator with no flashes and no recharging recon. It's very expensive to run him in a comp

EDG (how am I the first to say this)

"We're going to be following up on Iso, doing like some kind of power redistribution around the kit."

That's all they've said so far

I would assume they're changing the rest of his kit. The shield is fair enough as is.

Hopefully redesigning their logos

And also why Clove is so successful in ranked

I know. It's very sad. Brim used to be up there around Phoenix/Sage before Clove came out.

My theory is that most people who are confident in their mechanics simply play Clove, and so there's an overrepresentation of controller mains on the other agents who are just too scared to take fights and end up in really bad late round scenarios.

No, I'm talking about non-mirror winrate. Check vstats.gg. She is 4th both in asc+ and immo+ (rad alone is kinda small sample size)

He's cracked but I've always felt like he shouldn't be on sentinel. He shines in chaotic teamfights but really struggles in late round clutch scenarios, or just holding out long enough for the team to help. I want to see him on initiator again.

Clove and Sage are literally two of the top 5 in ranked by winrate

You gotta understand, what's good in coordinated play =/= what's good in ranked

That's true. Kayo might work. I really can't tell how viable Vyse is as a flash initiator stand-in. It feels like she should, but a 45s cooldown on the thing when it's broken (which is pretty much every time you use it like an initiator flash) is pretty harsh

Wait I thought you said the bug is that they open it directly from the exit side

I'm just glad to finally not play Ascent after four and a half years of that shit

No way Tejo gets picked with Breach. His singular crab drone is not enough scouting utility. If the enemy team has double controller you're cooked.

If he gets picked at all it will probably be with Fade, Skye, or Gekko

1 - it is way too easy to get cheese kills in ranked

Ok but it would also look goofy as fuck if they went all the way through defender spawn to the TP entrance lol I'm not sure what's worse

Chiropractors aren't licensed medical professionals. If you're serious about it, see a physical therapist

What are the bugs

inside

My point is that making a free to play live service competitive tac shooter isn't exactly minimum effort

Calling it now: Tejo will be picked exactly twice at Bangkok

The shooting gallery, really? How many times are people gonna be sitting in the open on a 40m line of sight without cover in an actual game?

You all yap about this and then when Riot waits until major events are over to introduce changes it's yap about not enough new content and that they only care about pro play

Because it was copy and pasted from another thread

didn't mean to reply oops

Be serious. He has one easily destructible drone, no flashes, and no recon signature. He is not "replacing" any of these agents.

He will have about the same niche among initiators that Deadlock has among sentinels.

Shouldn't Skye dog be more expensive too with that reasoning?

Sova drone is airborne, farsighted, and has enough HP to reliably tag someone it sees. It's way better than Tejo's little crab which needs time to jump up and explode to be any better than a Fade dog.

We are so back

The game is literally free to play

Wasn't it the teams that were complaining about having to make original content

I don't care about them personally but it makes sense to have them. There's a lot of cool cosmetic items they could add that don't make sense being a melee weapon.

Running with one should be the same as knife speed though.

fr0st

The sentinel meta is just permanently fucked up because the best ones will always be Cypher/KJ unless there's someone overpowered.

Passive information is inherently too strong in a tac shooter. That means all the other sentinels, no matter what they do, are relegated either to niche map picks or an awkward secondary role that feels like defensive overkill.

Initiator designs can be a lot more creative because there's so many variations on utility that challenges space.

What does that have to do with single ini and double initiator comps

No. Solo Tejo is like running solo Kayo. His one little drone is nowhere near enough scouting utility.

It is nowhere near as good as Sova drone to be more expensive than it

It has 50 hp, is completely visible, and only scans/suppresses within a limited range

Yeah they'll probably change that. But I mean, a Kayo knife can already cancel stuff like Raze, Sova and Gekko ults anyway

• signature is useless if it doesn't kill someone standing in it
• the drone already only scans/suppresses within its sight range, which is much less than a Sova dart
• the drone is always visible, the "stealth" bit refers to the fact that it can get past trips

No pressure I just be rambling

The solution is to double down and absolutely destroy premier with triple ini /j

Probably Raze. Certainly not all maps, but I was thinking Haven, Split, Bind, maybe Fracture - maps where there's a lot of close corners and dense sites to take advantage of the very high amount of area-based debuffs this team has

I think Gekko and Tejo are a great combo. The former has high-volume, low-threat utility to spam for soft info throughout a round; the latter has low-volume, high-threat utility to dump on execs/retakes or critical fights.

I saw a video by Anderzz the other day which really blew my mind. Idk if you're familiar with it. It breaks down agents and utility into three main archetypes prevalent in many competitive games: control, aggro, and midrange, which form a sort of rock-paper-scissors dynamic.

The standard Ascent comp and just about everything commonly run in 2023/2024 is a hybrid of control-aggro. This comp is more midrange-aggro, leaning on refreshing utility from Gekko and double smokes but also intense aggro from Tejo and Raze, dropping the "control" aspect that Sova and a sentinel would bring.

In theory, this counters the control-aggro comps that are overwhelming the current meta. You have enough aggro to blast through defensive control setups, and you have enough regenerating midrange utility to soak up aggro executes and still have enough to retake with when they burn out.

or Skye triple initiator @cloudberry