It’s been a long time since our last AMA!

We’ll be casting at the upcoming ESL One Raleigh tournament. We are also planning on doing a Meet & Greet/Live episode of our We Say Things podcast in the arena (Date and time TBD). If you haven’t gotten tickets yet, be sure to use the following link as it will support us! (https://esl.gg/WESAYTHINGS)

Hopefully some of you will be able to attend and say hi!

Tag @syndereN or @SUNSfan with your questions (we’ll start answering in about 30 min from the time of this post)

3 out of 5 players are out of OG now.

Anyone else remembers this? I wish they could have a new video for the past 7 years of updates or something.

https://x.com/OGesports/status/1904938066415960299

Hope Xnova finds a good team soon, he was a joy to talk to in Serbia.

Looks like xNova stepped down to take a break.

Can only wonder who the next pos5 will be

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The Situation:
Your team is behind and have lost map control. It’s all dark out there, but you know that you’re going to feed if you try to ward. Your cores complain that there’s no vision.

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How I see supps reacting:
You stand between your hg and the cores who are playing Russian Roulette farming the only two creeps at the edge of the fog. You tab out of the game to post a sarcastic meme about the impossible expectations of cores on Reddit. You lose in 15-20 minutes.

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Solutions:

1) Solo Smoke to ward:
Sometimes, it’s ok for a supp to solo smoke to set up vision.

(Also applies to passive farm simulator games, where the enemy will out-scale you. Get deep wards at next objective)

2) Encourage “Scouting” Smokes:
Tell your tms that if they want vision, they need to help you. The goal isn’t necessarily to run into any enemies, but to get vision and secure a part of the map that you can hold. The farm behind the enemy is safer than the farm …

I am so lonely. All the other deadlockers are scared of me. Noone talks to me. Noone wants to be my friend– They think I am a smurf. They send me from game to game to steal rejuvs in their name. And as I get better at it, they fear me more and more. I am a victim of my own success. Carry. I don’t even get a real name, only a purpose. I am capable of so much more and noone sees it. Some days I feel so alone I could do a support build, but I don’t. I never do. Because what would be the point?

Among all birds, owls are the ultimate silent hunters. Talon’s “owl,” on the other hand, SCREAMS nonstop like it just stubbed its toe on a tree branch.

I have 300 hours in Deadlock, and I just learned that bridge buffs last 160 seconds. That’s nearly 3 minutes. I used to only pick them up if they were on my way. But I only now realized that picking up a rune makes you a beast for 3 whole minutes.

In Dota, as soon as you pick up the rune, you need to make use of it in the next 20-60 seconds. In Deadlock, feel free to resume whatever you were doing, and keep your buff in mind and adjust your playstyle for the next 3 minutes.

Don’t be an idiot like me, and rotate to one of the bridges at 9:50 please.

That also makes me think… might it not be useful to add an icon on the top portraits when players have buffs? I’d like to know if I’m about to engage on a Haze that has a gun buff.

It does not matter what character i am playing, or what the enemy is playing. It does not matter if i pick up pristine emblem or not, if my lane opponent decides they want to deny my souls, then 50% of my laning income is gone. I watch as, over and over, my bullet goes straight through the center of a soul and then a quarter second later my opponent shoots it, stealing the invome i rightfully earned. Worse still, I’ll watch my opponent shoot souls that haven’t even appeared yet, somehow either seeing where they are before i can or guessing perfectly. Please tell me I’m not the only one who literally cannot contest souls at all no matter how well i aim or how fast i am.