Probably just me, but my head twists one degree clockwise permanently and my life is shortened by one month whenever people argue about pronunciation. Like why should you care? If you get the gist of what the word means, why bother discussing how it's pronounced?
This article was definitely made to spark this debate. XD
I do hope you realize that all of this is just some friendly banter between the community. I highly doubt that most people here are taking any of it seriously.
Smells like a Shaman card to me. However the best fit I found as I lazily scrolled through them was Command the Elements which i don't believe is right.
And if you take a look at what archetypes don't care about champions it all are aggro decks
It should not surprise anyone that champions who by design aren't supposed to instantly level up won't be played for their level 2 in those lists.
So it's not because champions being weak but decks aiming for faster endings that building around champions is maybe less a thing than in the early days of LoR
Thanks for deck and guide. Awesome as always. I always loved exodia paladin too and Shirvallah above all. I used to run her with Zola, which was basically a Reno turn against aggro when they thought they had you. Then Uther DK followed etc... Good times
Hey look they did that thing I suggested...hey look spider aggro is in S tier who guessed that....maybe you guys should stop bad mouthing me when my calls and suggestions literally are meta before the meta?
S tier - Spiders, Ahiri, rally, Pantheon
A tier - everything else
Wow they literally even kicked Lee Sin of the tier list entirely not sure who called that? Need I go on guys, money talks bs walks.
Like some of the high minded stuff like the general decline of champ based win cons in favor of over powered followers...we might not really see the ramifications of that for a other year but it will happen if Riot doesn't start changing up its knee jerk champ nerf reactions in favor of buffing other weaker under played Champs.
Like its not enough that a ton of amazing decks have either dropped a tier or have disappeared all together practically overnight? How big and bright does the bat signal need to be till we start taking notice?
Your thesis, Nifty, is that champions don't matter enough currently. Here are the top 10 decks, by competitive winrate:
1. Lulu Fizz - a deck where both champs are crucially important to winning
2. Rally Elusives - champs are not very important
3. Kennen Ahri Absolver - champs are extremely important AND they also need to level up (side note - this is universally considered the most powerful deck in the game presently)
4. Spider burn - champs aren't that important, though Elise definitely helps a lot, and her level up is also relevant.
5. Pantheon Taric - umm, yeah. This deck is all about the champs.
6. Pirates - the champs aren't required, but they make it a ton easier to win if you draw and level them
So, we have 3 out of the top 10 winrate decks currently where the champs don't matter much. That does not seem to support your thesis very well at all.
Im amazed that we're having a discussion about pronunciation here, in an article about internet stickers.
The correct pronunciation according to the creator is 'jif', with a soft g. It was a deliberate move to mirror the peanut butter brand jif, and before someone asks why isn't it just spelled jif then, the reason is because GIF is short for Graphics Interchange Format.
But ultimately its just language, where meaning is more important than the spoken word itself. As long as the other party understands what it is, we'll happily let language professors debate this impending armageddon amongst themselves
Oh wow I was 1 percent off the top of my head and thats an aggregate I probably saw a list specific score.
Also saying you don't have to be a genius to build Ekko to only realize that rhe deck has like a 48% winrate.
You would have to be a genius to pilot a list to masters with Ekko in it. Do you guys even think about the words you write prior to posting?
Also 52% for a S tier champ focused strategy is awful like absolutely awful.
Face it hard nerfing every champ that begins to perform slightly statistically better than your average common follower is a stupid design philosophy and it's killing the game slowly.
Like was Poppy thaaaat bad as a 3/3 for 4 mana did she need to be a 2/3. Did Fiora really need to be a 3/2 for 3 mana like literally the same stats as the 2 mana dragon challenger.
Did TF need to be impossible to level?
What about Shen he's not even an op card?
Like God I can do this all day all these once great cards went form unique and interesting to deleted just shot dead in the heart because a minority of bad players cried about it because they couldn't hard counter specific strategies.
Ezreal might be the worst victim pretty sure he's been nerfed on like 5 seperate ocassions or decks where he featured prominently...burn is op guys we can't have non linear non hit face strategies we just can't...too small brain for the big brain folk out there.
Only picked the alliance one because it was objectively the better option unless I was going to play aggro. Which I don't. I wish it let you choose a faction then let you pick a legendary. Especially since I hear a lot of people had undisenchantable copies of the legendary for a while after release.
English is indeed very inconsistent. But the general consensus is always Gif then some stubborn person shows up, says it's Jif, and a debate sparks up. Plus Gif is consistent with G from graphics, so at least it strives for consistence.
If we're going by languages, I'm Romanian, and we pretty much always pronounce 'gi' as 'ji' (within our language). And you can't exactly use that logic with GIF since it's an acronym, so you should pronounce each letter individually. Also, let's not pretend English has any consistency within itself.
Geography and giraffe comes from french as borrowed words and thus copy the french pronunciation. Gin is a shortening of genever which comes from dutch which comes from old french too (genevre), which is itself a translation of the latin juniper.
If you love the french so much i'll await your white flag.
Setting aside the fact that an aggregate 51% win rate across players of all skill levels is really not bad, I'm not seeing 51% for Plunder Midrange, I'm seeing 53.3%. Not the highest win rate, but perfectly respectable (again, particularly true when you consider that this is an aggregate across players whose skill levels vary). The "Archetypes" view on Mobalytics has a slightly lower win rate (52.9%), but still respectable and above 51%
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Those are really cool NALDOL (nicely animated little dots of light).
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Probably just me, but my head twists one degree clockwise permanently and my life is shortened by one month whenever people argue about pronunciation. Like why should you care? If you get the gist of what the word means, why bother discussing how it's pronounced?
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (Hearthstone Riddles)
It's really close. Just add a rock part.
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This article was definitely made to spark this debate. XD
I do hope you realize that all of this is just some friendly banter between the community. I highly doubt that most people here are taking any of it seriously.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (Hearthstone Riddles)
Smells like a Shaman card to me. However the best fit I found as I lazily scrolled through them was Command the Elements which i don't believe is right.
New Mobalytics Tier List
How about you stop always creating new posts for the same topic?
Just name a posts Nifty's metatalk and continue it.
The consistant flood of "new" topics is just annoying imo.
Up To Date Winrates Post Patch
And if you take a look at what archetypes don't care about champions it all are aggro decks
It should not surprise anyone that champions who by design aren't supposed to instantly level up won't be played for their level 2 in those lists.
So it's not because champions being weak but decks aiming for faster endings that building around champions is maybe less a thing than in the early days of LoR
Shirvallah Paladin - Wild Hearthstone Full Deck & Detailed Guide on the Wildest of Wednesdays
Thanks for deck and guide. Awesome as always. I always loved exodia paladin too and Shirvallah above all. I used to run her with Zola, which was basically a Reno turn against aggro when they thought they had you. Then Uther DK followed etc... Good times
New Mobalytics Tier List
https://lor.mobalytics.gg/meta-tier-list
Hey look they did that thing I suggested...hey look spider aggro is in S tier who guessed that....maybe you guys should stop bad mouthing me when my calls and suggestions literally are meta before the meta?
S tier - Spiders, Ahiri, rally, Pantheon
A tier - everything else
Wow they literally even kicked Lee Sin of the tier list entirely not sure who called that? Need I go on guys, money talks bs walks.
Like some of the high minded stuff like the general decline of champ based win cons in favor of over powered followers...we might not really see the ramifications of that for a other year but it will happen if Riot doesn't start changing up its knee jerk champ nerf reactions in favor of buffing other weaker under played Champs.
Like its not enough that a ton of amazing decks have either dropped a tier or have disappeared all together practically overnight? How big and bright does the bat signal need to be till we start taking notice?
Up To Date Winrates Post Patch
Let's look at the top performing decks right now. Dr. Lor's meta report.
Your thesis, Nifty, is that champions don't matter enough currently. Here are the top 10 decks, by competitive winrate:
1. Lulu Fizz - a deck where both champs are crucially important to winning
2. Rally Elusives - champs are not very important
3. Kennen Ahri Absolver - champs are extremely important AND they also need to level up (side note - this is universally considered the most powerful deck in the game presently)
4. Spider burn - champs aren't that important, though Elise definitely helps a lot, and her level up is also relevant.
5. Pantheon Taric - umm, yeah. This deck is all about the champs.
6. Pirates - the champs aren't required, but they make it a ton easier to win if you draw and level them
7. Draven Rumble - champs are important
8. P&Z Noxus Burn - champs don't matter
9. Scouts - champs are very relevant here
10. Shyvana Pantheon - again, champs definitely matter.
So, we have 3 out of the top 10 winrate decks currently where the champs don't matter much. That does not seem to support your thesis very well at all.
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Im amazed that we're having a discussion about pronunciation here, in an article about internet stickers.
The correct pronunciation according to the creator is 'jif', with a soft g. It was a deliberate move to mirror the peanut butter brand jif, and before someone asks why isn't it just spelled jif then, the reason is because GIF is short for Graphics Interchange Format.
But ultimately its just language, where meaning is more important than the spoken word itself. As long as the other party understands what it is, we'll happily let language professors debate this impending armageddon amongst themselves
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If we are going with jif, then the site is jiphy?
Sadly, as a Spanish native speaker, I have just one way to pronounce it, I use the same sound you would use in Guitar.
Blizzard Adds Hearthstone Hero Stickers & GIFs for Social Media to Giphy
If we are going with jif, then the site is jiphy?
Sadly, as a Spanish native speaker, I have just one way to pronounce it, I use the same sound you would use in Guitar.
Up To Date Winrates Post Patch
Oh wow I was 1 percent off the top of my head and thats an aggregate I probably saw a list specific score.
Also saying you don't have to be a genius to build Ekko to only realize that rhe deck has like a 48% winrate.
You would have to be a genius to pilot a list to masters with Ekko in it. Do you guys even think about the words you write prior to posting?
Also 52% for a S tier champ focused strategy is awful like absolutely awful.
Face it hard nerfing every champ that begins to perform slightly statistically better than your average common follower is a stupid design philosophy and it's killing the game slowly.
Like was Poppy thaaaat bad as a 3/3 for 4 mana did she need to be a 2/3. Did Fiora really need to be a 3/2 for 3 mana like literally the same stats as the 2 mana dragon challenger.
Did TF need to be impossible to level?
What about Shen he's not even an op card?
Like God I can do this all day all these once great cards went form unique and interesting to deleted just shot dead in the heart because a minority of bad players cried about it because they couldn't hard counter specific strategies.
Ezreal might be the worst victim pretty sure he's been nerfed on like 5 seperate ocassions or decks where he featured prominently...burn is op guys we can't have non linear non hit face strategies we just can't...too small brain for the big brain folk out there.
The Alliance Win the Battle for Alterac Valley! Diamond Card and More Stats to Arrive Later
Only horde player here.
Only picked the alliance one because it was objectively the better option unless I was going to play aggro. Which I don't. I wish it let you choose a faction then let you pick a legendary. Especially since I hear a lot of people had undisenchantable copies of the legendary for a while after release.
Blizzard Adds Hearthstone Hero Stickers & GIFs for Social Media to Giphy
1) I applaud you for using the correct pronunciation of gif.
2) Anduin does not have an animated gif (at least not as a solo hero like the others here). This makes me sad.
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Wow they made one of Kibler. Cool!
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Gym, Gel, Giraffe, General, Gin.
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Ai scăpat de data asta
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A surprise, to be sure, dar e binevenită.
Edit: Pronunț "mimuri".
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Bună seara dragă :)
English is indeed very inconsistent. But the general consensus is always Gif then some stubborn person shows up, says it's Jif, and a debate sparks up. Plus Gif is consistent with G from graphics, so at least it strives for consistence.
ps: dacă cumva pronunţi "memeuri" te bat >:(
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If we're going by languages, I'm Romanian, and we pretty much always pronounce 'gi' as 'ji' (within our language). And you can't exactly use that logic with GIF since it's an acronym, so you should pronounce each letter individually. Also, let's not pretend English has any consistency within itself.
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I don´t know, Flux is goking, right?
(btw, I love how this simple article about silly jifs simply turned out with people arguing about grammar. WP XD)
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Geography and giraffe comes from french as borrowed words and thus copy the french pronunciation. Gin is a shortening of genever which comes from dutch which comes from old french too (genevre), which is itself a translation of the latin juniper.
If you love the french so much i'll await your white flag.
Up To Date Winrates Post Patch
Setting aside the fact that an aggregate 51% win rate across players of all skill levels is really not bad, I'm not seeing 51% for Plunder Midrange, I'm seeing 53.3%. Not the highest win rate, but perfectly respectable (again, particularly true when you consider that this is an aggregate across players whose skill levels vary). The "Archetypes" view on Mobalytics has a slightly lower win rate (52.9%), but still respectable and above 51%