#doublelifting

[amanedachi]

samarium / tsm bjergsen

Part of LoL Esports Elemental Series.

[daily-esports-hug]

Day 46

[spiritblossoming]

also here are the quiz descriptions for the OTHER uquiz except some of them are written from the perspective of some random reporter with access to google

Showmaker

Showmaker is simultaneously one of the biggest threats to international security and the most carefree, fun-loving person you will ever meet. Being both a skilled Summoner and an artificer, Showmaker crafts each of his cards by hand. When asked what his championship wish was, he simply replies, "I wished for more wishes!" The truthfulness of this statement is unknown.

Canyon

Widely renowned as one of the best Summoners in the world, Canyon is a force to be reckoned with as he shifts between beast and human as fluidly as water—water he now controls after conquering the Rift. His enchanted spear is the result of his and Showmaker's combined efforts after their embarrassing loss to G2 in 2019.

Scout

After living in the shadow of superstar Summoner Faker as his substitute, Scout managed to conquer the Rift in 2022 with EDG. He fights by draining energy from his enemies and converting it into magical bolts that do massive damage. Rumor has it that he never sleeps.

Meiko

Loyal and determined, Meiko serves as the support for EDG. He possesses the ability to heal people through physical contact with them, and can also induce happiness, energy and good dreams. Meiko is often referred to as the perfect support by his teammates, both in and out of battle.

Jiejie

At only twenty years old, Jiejie did what was thought to be near impossible: he defeated Canyon at the peak of Summoner's Rift using nothing but his blade and black mist. Sarcastic to the very end, he takes very few things seriously, except for his role as EDG's jungler. He is often referred to as the Third Prince of EDG.

Viper

Calm and collected, Viper serves as the marksman, or ADC, for EDG. He is often thought to be the strongest ADC in the world. Wielding five guns of moonlight as well as an inexplicable darkness, Viper strikes fast and hard, leaving his opponents no time to recover.

Teddy

Don't let his name fool you—Teddy is far from a pushover. A master of acrobatics and stealth magic, Teddy uses his crossbow to dispatch enemies with ease. He acts playfully for the most part, but never fails to be serious when the situation demands it.

Bjergsen

Bjergsen's years-long career came to a sudden halt in 2020, when a tragic accident resulted in the disappearance and presumed death of him and two of his teammates. However, it didn't take long for the star mid laner to literally turn back time, bringing himself back to life with the help of his enchanted pocket watch. Bjergsen: 1, Death: 0.

Spica

One of the only two surviving members of TSM 2020, Spica was the only one to remain with the team for next year. His control over shadows and mastery of the scythe help him to be one of the best junglers in all of North America, all without winning a single battle internationally.

Doublelift

The veteran Summoner known as Doublelift is the only member of TSM 2020 still missing as of 2022. His gun, which he designed and built himself, serves as an inspiration to a new generation of Summoners and rests at the foot of his monument in Los Angeles. At the feet of his statue lies an engraving of his most famous quote: "Everyone else is trash."

Keria

Although he's rather short and clumsy outside of battle, Keria is a force to be reckoned with. He is one of the few people in the world capable of adapting mostly defensive water magic to be able to heal. Many people consider him to be the best support in the world.

Gumayusi

With his support Keria at his side, there's (almost) nothing that Gumayusi can't do. His confidence is legendary in every region along with his sheer skill. Wielding a gun similar to Doublelift's, Gumayusi uses nets, traps and his near-perfect aim to secure a victory for his team.

Jojopyun

Jojopyun is the youngest Summoner to ever be crowned as a champion of North America at only 17 years old. He discovered his powers while streaming Fortnite on Twitch, accidentally cloning himself. Within 24 hours, he became an internet celebrity and was picked up by Evil Geniuses not long after that.

Danny

Danny is often regarded as one of the most promising talents North America has to offer. He carries a powerful secret: he is one of the first Summoners with his special brand of lightning magic, which he hopes to conceal from the world in order to have an advantage when he's ready to conquer it.

Ghost

It took him years of hard work and countless failures before he reached the top of the Summoner's Rift and achieved his dream. Ghost hides his face behind a mask and rarely speaks out loud, preferring to use his magic when possible. Although he seems incredibly cold, his teammates insist that he's a very different person when the mask is off.

Razork

With the power to summon both ice and lightning, Razork balances both to create a unique fighting style. He's full of energy and always has a joke or two at the ready no matter the situation. Although he's one of the best Summoners in Europe, he has yet to make a name for himself internationally.

Vulcan

Veteran Summoner and highly skilled support, Vulcan helps to lead the way for his young teammates in EG. He fights by controlling water, and, on very rare occasions, using his unnaturally long tongue. (Demonic deals have their side effects.)

Jankos

Although he's a world-class jungler, Jankos is best known for his tendencies to scream, make jokes, miss spears and flirt with his teammates. Famously lost to Canyon despite sharing the same powers and having beaten him last year. He works hard to lead his team to victory, one "zoning" spear at a time.

Rekkles

Handsome and outgoing, Rekkles is the golden boy of the European league—which makes it a surprise that he was rejected from all ten major guilds in 2022. He fought for Fnatic for nearly seven years before joining G2. Despite the high hopes for the new G2, he and his team ended up at the rank corresponding to his favorite number: fourth.

Biofrost

After TSM 2020's run on the Summoner's Rift ended in tragedy, Biofrost was thought to be dead. Although Bjergsen soon returned from death, it would take much longer for Biofrost to reappear in the land of the living. No one knows where he was, exactly, but there's new shadows to weigh him down no matter how bright his light shines.

Faker

Known as the Unkillable Demon King, Faker's very presence is enough to shake the heavens. There are very few people, living or dead, that are capable of matching Faker. He wields shadows like an extension of himself, bringing a swift defeat to his enemies with his razor-sharp blades. Faker is no normal Summoner—with the power accumulated from his three championship wishes, he is the closest thing to a god.

[dabihaul666]

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[tenacity-lol]

LCS Spring Split Asset Day 

Photo Cred @ lcsofficialflickr

[chungledown-bimothy]

wait it's just an MOU? something that is NOT legally binding?

and the player's association is, what, just trusting that riot's not gonna pull the rug out from under them (on their bare minimum concessions)?

jfc this is so disappointing

[lys-jeorge]

I need to stop reading the fnatic subreddit. It is a silly place.

[adventuresofahorsefanatic]

Let's go Flyquest!!!!

[powpowhammer]

[jojopyunning]

More players who have jojo muted:

Closer: I have jojo muted

DL: if you wanna enjoy your time in LCS, you need to mute jojo instantly, every single game

Closer: you need to block jojo fast, quid

DL: this guy is too cringe. i'm not even kidding. just block him instantly.

[jpopstreaming]

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[bebescorpio]

Corejj has been guiding some of the best ADCs from Ruler, often known as one of the best ADCs in the world, to Doublelift, one of the GOATs of NA, and now to Yeon, someone who is sure to bring life back to North America. (I did an edit and I have zero clue what I'm doing someone help :D) @enarratives o/

[rimeiii]

Random WHB tier lists based on games/franchises I've recently had brainrot of

I may not play WHB regularly now (no, seriously, last time I played was during the Tortured Leviathan Nightmare Pass, then Girls Frontline 2: Exilium and especially my Puyo Puyo + Trauma Center obsessions resurfacing from high school happened) but I still love some characters a bit too much to truly let go of them aha...Marbas, Lucifer, Minhyeok, Belial, Gusion, and Naberius, my beloveds-

But more than that I guess it's more of like...my old obsessions being annoying brainworms again, which leads to brainrot, essentially. That, and watching an unhealthy amount of League of Legends esports content.

Fair warning that most of these are purely based off vibes!

So, without further ado...

1.WHB as MOBA players when facing an OP character

Yes, this is the MOBA brainrot speaking.

As for tier explanations:

Tier 1: Some people just want to watch the world burn.

Tier 2: When Mewtwo X and Zacian were first released in Pokemon Unite, many players were so disgusted by how utterly overpowered they were (these two Mons can easily 1v5 coordinated efforts to kill them, even in the hands of not-so-skilled players). It got to a point a subset of these disgusted players actively griefed and trolled those who played them.

Tier 3: Doublelift had this to say about Yuumi, who was a notoriously overpowered Support in League of Legends:

"I am not kidding when I say that if they removed Yuumi from [League of Legends], it would be a better game."

Tier 4: Heo "ShowMaker" Su, professional League of Legends player, had this to say about the then-OP Champion known as K'Sante...keep in mind this is just the K'sante rant, which has become a meme, and the original stream highlight as uploaded by his esports team (Dplus KIA) was simply titled "NERF THIS".

Tier 5: Comfey is essentially Yuumi in Pokemon Unite, which is why people said it's overpowered in coordinated play. Notably, spragels has an entire video going in-depth about how Comfey breaks the game and how to, essentially, mitigate the sheer brokenness of the Mon.

Tiers 6 and 7: self-explanatory

2. WHB as Arknights Icebreaker Games players

A bit of context - Icebreaker Games was a multiplayer co-op game mode where players deploy their own squad of units on the same map (this was different from the R6S collaboration event's co-op game mode, where both players are on different but connected maps).

Wis'adel is an absolutely BROKEN Operator whose usage was criticized in Icebreaker Games for being such an insane DPS she essentially ignores stage mechanics and having her Revenants taking up three extra deployment tiles that your teammate might want to use. She absolutely can easily win stages (tier 1) but her Revenants is how most people who want to troll use her (tier 2).

Seeing this, many players attempt to try and limit Wis'adel from ever being used. Some do it in a more violent way using Aak (tier 3) - who inflicts damage on an Operator in his range before buffing them. He's most commonly to buff Operators with high Defense...a stat Wis'adel lacks, so she just Dies.

More peaceful players would put Wis'adel in their subs and simply Not Pick Her whenever she shows up in their randomly-generated picks (tier 4). Not the most foolproof strategy, but it helps.

Last two tiers are, again, self-explanatory.

3. WHB as Puyo-Puyo AI levels

Puyo Puyo is a competitive puzzle game where your main goal is to make your opponent's board fill up to the 'X' of their field. You do this by sending what is known as Nuisance Puyo to your opponents, generated by popping the regular Puyo you drop into your field.

Regular Puyo, which are the colored blobs, are cleared by matching four of the same color together. Nuisance Puyo, the grey blobs seen in Lemres (COM1) and Yellow Satan's (COM3) fields, can only be cleared by clearing regular Puyo touching them. You are expected to create chains in order to generate more Nuisance Puyo by arranging your regular Puyos in a way that when one regular Puyo set is cleared, it'll cause another regular Puyo set to be cleared - like what Ecolo (COM2) is doing to the red Puyo set by clearing the yellow Puyos below it. The row on top of your board gives a visual indicator of how many Nuisance Puyo are about to be dropped onto your field (the limit is six rows at once), and you can chip away at it by clearing Puyo chains of your own (otherwise known as offsetting).

The general difficulties are as follows, starting from the ones at the bottom (i.e. easiest difficulty):

Beginner difficulty: allows gravity to drop the Puyo, doesn't really try to form a chain higher than 2. Rotates their Puyo minimally.

Joke AI: uses fast drop to build their joke build before actually playing, prioritizing clearing Puyos in their joke build. Their joke builds may include stacking all Puyos to the sides (Yu and Rei, Dongurigaeru), or stacking Puyo evenly up to a certain height (Suketoudara).

Normal difficulty: will actively attempt to make chains (a 3-chain is the average), but will still let gravity drop their Puyo - until around halfway down the field, where they will then fast drop the Puyo.

Tough, but fair: will bunch Puyos up in threes for ease in chaining, it's not uncommon for them to suddenly pull out 3+ chains. Will fast-drop their Puyo. Starting here, the AI will rush to start a chain to offset any incoming attacks. In 20th Anniversary, in game modes where rotate-stalling is a legitimate strategy to win, they'll do it.

Very tough: the previous tier, cranked up to 11.

Rubber band AI: the AI plays better when you play better...but the issue is that Strange Klug is essentially the final boss of Fever 2, so his base difficulty is already hard.

Unfair: can and will counter your measly 3-chain with a 7-chain, essentially generating enough Nuisance Puyo to fill your board completely unless you offset it. Plays optimally and shows no mercy, including stalling and fast/hard-dropping Puyo in modes that allow them (instantly teleports Puyo to the bottom of the field).

4. WHB in Trauma Team game modes

Disclaimer: This tier list is made while ignoring the fact that all of them, save for the Paradise Lost demons, absolutely cannot function in an actual hospital scenario.

Trauma Team, released in 2010, is the final instalment in the Trauma Center franchise, a series of medical malpractice- I mean anime surgery simulator games by Atlus (famously known for the Shin Megami Tensei games). We use the term 'surgery simulator' very lightly because, well, it's very anime at times (you fight bioweapons in all previous instalments) and there are still some medical inaccuracies (like operating on a still-beating heart).

Trauma Team, for the most part, is tamer compared to all of its previous instalments. Very standard hospital procedures - until the Rosalia chapter, where you deal with the Rosalia Virus epidemic (which becomes harsher in hindsight when you realize Trauma Team's events happened in 2020 of their canon and the Rosalia Virus is an Ebola-type virus). It has more game modes compared to the previous games, and this tier list would pretty much fit them into the 'vibes' of the Trauma Team game modes...save for the last two tiers.

Surgery: What we often call the 'standard Trauma Center game mode'. Surgery deals with most standard surgical procedures, and in Trauma Team especially a lot of them are very detailed. Most of the time you're only dealing with one patient in each level - in previous games, there were times when you had to deal with multiple patients in one level.

First Response: Always at the scene of an accident or disaster, this game mode focuses on giving first aid and stabilizing victims before transporting them to the hospital for further treatment. The gameplay is frantic, and you're expected to juggle multiple patients at the same time while keeping them alive.

Endoscopy: One of the harder game modes for most, Endoscopy has you, well, operate an endoscope to treat internal wounds - usually conditions within either the digestive or respiratory tracts. Gameplay consists of moving the endoscope around and treating symptoms as they appear.

Orthopedics: Bone surgery, essentially. Along with Endoscopy, it's a game mode that requires delicate control of the Wii remote's motion controls. As such, the amount of precision needed is insanely high, and it rewards careful gameplay. Chip and drill away at bone, affix synthetic bone, treat bone cancer - this game mode has it all.

Diagnosis: Your standard consultation. One of the two more chill game modes, you're really only taking note of symptoms based on patient interview and observations, as well as comparing chart results with potential diagnosis. Requires some creative thinking to get the symptoms you need, for example asking your patient to lift his shirt after he coughed to reveal the fact he has bloody sputum as his clothes came out stained afterwards.

Forensics: The only game mode that doesn't involve medical treatment, and is the other chill game mode. You're solving mysterious deaths, piecing together evidence to deduce and determine how they happened. As an aside, wondering why this game mode is in Trauma Team? Because Naomi Kimishima, the character you play as in Forensics, was a surgeon previously known as Nozomi Weaver, who was playable back in Trauma Center: Second Opinion.

The nurses: Staples in all of the previous instalments, they're your surgical assistants who often remind you of procedures - yes, this includes reminding you to be careful while extracting objects or what tools you're supposed to use. Their role is mostly replaced in Trauma Team by the other doctors or the chairman of their hospital (Esha Patel), except for Diagnosis and Forensics. In Diagnosis, you have RONI, a state-of-the-art computer that eases Gabriel Cunningham (the doctor for Diagnosis) with his job. In Forensics, Naomi is assisted by her previous coworker, Navel (aka Little Guy).

The patients: Self-explanatory, for one reason or another.

[ryan-nugenthopkins]

gamer au. you have thoughts i know this

(cheerful evil clapping) It's LCS Time Babey

The OEG team usernames are, top to bot: SoaR (in honour of Hyman's actual esport org); Nugget or Patience (his hockey nickname or as a nod to his horse); cmd (people say it as "command," but no, it's just his initials); drat (good work buddy); Butcher (it was initially Bomber ie Bouch Bomb, but no, Riot got really upset over that for some reason)

cmd is close to some of the LCS "old guard" - Bjergsen, Doublelift, Meteos, Sneaky, etc. Part of it is probably a "pity adopt" in the sense of this poor kid with all the weight of NA on his shoulders, but also I think real recognises real, you know. He's absolutely terrible on the co-streams, but it's funny, so they keep inviting him.

drat would probably a pretty distinctive German accent compared to NHL player Draisaitl. He probably would've been playing in the ERLs instead of NA Academy, so it's not as if he'd have the time to develop a Canadian affect.

OEG keeps their Academy/NACL slot because I said so. Everyone who was on that team got TRADED, so I'm happy that OEG has such a robust development system and everyone got signed onto real LCS rosters. I'm coping.

This team is a nightmare for their content department. The videographer is trying to make any of these idiots emote for the hype video. Their GM keeps shooting down the content producer's ideas for being "cringe" and taking too much time from scrims. The social media manager is fistfighting partnerships and legal at the same time because SOMEONE forgot that drat had some niche artisanal energy drink sponsorship that's technically a conflict with their Red Bull partnership and now the hot new import can't be in any of the goddamn deliverables and his representation back in Berlin isn't answering their fucking emails, the BASTARDS -

[streamerdrama]

Ariasaki slept with HotShotGG when she was working for CLG

Was looking up some tea about our queen and saw a tweet of hers about some truly despicable behavior.

Seeing as how HotShotGG famously created CLG and was known to live in the house with his team, the evidence seems to point strongly in his direction.

Edit:

She worked there as a chef

I know that Hotshott dated Lily for a while around the same time. Devon Nash (former CLG CEO and friend of Lily) said on a podcast once that he knew some traumatic stuff happened to Lily when she lived at the CLG house, so wouldn't surprise me if it's linked in some way.

You have to remember that 90% of the OTV+F girls came from the Leqgue scene, and there are many stories and plenty of tea about things happening 5-10 years ago

Edit: https://youtu.be/2OnKXBbseuU?t=3125 In this CLG reunion podcast, all of them spend the entire time laughing and having fun roasting their organization, staff, coach, fellow players, and each other.

But as soon as Ariasaki got brought up at 52 minutes the entire vibe changed and everyone went silent. Doublelift even said he was afraid of her getting brought up and that there was some strange dynamics with her being on the team that shouldn't be discussed, before awkwardly trying to change the subject.

A very obvious explanation is that Aria was having a sexual relationship with the owner of her organization, otherwise it would make no sense why he'd be so comfortable with barging into her room like that so many times. Years later she realized it was extremely predatory and inappropriate behavior for the CEO to take advantage of a young female employee like that, which is why she came up with the tweet calling him out. But since she was in a voluntary relationship with him, it makes it so that his behavior was not completely criminal, as it would have been if they were platonic. Which is why she is hesitant to fully call him out.

[spiritblossoming]

to celebrate the end of ruination station here are the descriptions for the which ruined summoner are you quiz

Baolan

After a short break, Baolan has returned to the Summoner life alongside Ning, one of his old teammates when he won the World Championship. Even after winning it all in 2018, Baolan wasn't sure he was worthy of the trophy or the crown that came with it. He desperately wanted to be of help to his teammates, and with JackeyLove already lost to the Mist, he was a prime target for the Ruined King.

Chovy

Despite being a fox shifter and needing to feed off others' life forces to survive, Chovy has never directly killed anyone. Similarly, despite being one of the best mid laners in the world, he has never won a championship. Years of defeats and the loss of his ex-teammate Keria weren't what did him in, though—it was his own hubris when he attempted to kill the Ruined King on his own.

Crown

With a Summoner name like that, it's no wonder that Crown was corrupted. Despite doing the impossible and ending Faker's reign in 2017, Crown hasn't been able to find the happiness he desires so fiercely. Such weaknesses only made him an ideal target for the Ruined King.

Deokdam

After joining the now world-renowned DRX, Deokdam found himself in a tough situation: he was left trying to live up to former DRX AD carry Deft's legacy all while having... disagreements with his new support. The Solari and Lunari have been at each other's throats for as long as anyone can remember, and Deokdam and BeryL are no exception. Strangely, even the ruined Deokdam holds no ill will towards BeryL, or towards anyone for that matter. He simply seems... tired.

Finn

Finn hasn't had the easiest few years—after leaving Rogue, he suffered through loss after loss with CLG before returning to Europe to join XL. Though he and his teammates managed to escape their seventh-place curse at long last, they lost a close battle to FNC and failed to qualify for Worlds. Years of disappointment have only made him a better soldier for Viego to control.

JackeyLove

JackeyLove is not a monster. He is not insane. But if that's what everyone thinks he is, if that's all they're willing to see when they look at him... it's not like they'll miss him anyway, right? Right? The Ruined King has found uses for JackeyLove's signature ruthlessness and his unnerving ability to control the creatures of the Void, and in turn, JackeyLove has found someone who truly appreciates him for who he is. Or so he thinks.

Jiejie

Having gotten his powers from the Ruined King in the first place, Jiejie was left with only one option in the face of the Ruination: join or die. At least being both a champion and a servant of Viego has its perks: Jiejie isn't just another ruined knight. He's a prince.

Keria

Keria never wanted this. He only let himself be ruined in order to save someone else from the same fate—Faker, a Summoner the world can't afford to lose. Keria's unique sacrifice may be the difference-maker in this war. Even now, while he's supposedly under the Ruined King's control, a part of him remains to fight back. He just has to make sure none of the other ruined Summoners figure that part out.

Meiko

For years, Meiko has served as the support of EDG, one constant in the ever-changing environment. He's seen ADCs come and go, some of which include the world's best like Deft and Viper. But after suffering alone in silence for so long as his teammates leave him one by one, Meiko's final straw comes when Scout and Viper leave EDG. Now there's nothing but hatred where his heart should be, and he will stop at nothing to rip those who dared leave him behind apart.

Spica

It was Spica, alongside his four teammates from 2020, that inadvertently freed the Ruined King while bringing Doublelift back to life. In 2020, Spica was left as one of only two survivors of TSM's disastrous Worlds run, and although he's gotten all his old friends back, the hole in his heart hasn't quite sealed. Which is kind of an issue when that's exactly what Viego is counting on.

Viego

HUH?