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Zoe after one shotting me from 6-7 screens away

@praneethpike @aakashgupta Monster does not contain L theanine though lol

@aakashgupta The monster energy has Caffeine + L Theanine + Inositol + B Vitamins. Can we just drink that?

L-theanine is the only legal compound that changes your brainwaves on an EEG within 40 minutes of swallowing a capsule. And the mechanism is wild. Your brain constantly balances two opposing neurotransmitters. Glutamate fires neurons. GABA calms them. L-theanine is a structural mimic of glutamate, close enough to cross the blood-brain barrier and sit on glutamate receptors. But instead of firing the neuron, it partially blocks the signal. Your excitatory system downshifts without you feeling sedated. That downshift cascades. GABA levels rise. Serotonin and dopamine both increase. EEG studies at Oxford showed 200mg produces measurable alpha wave activity in the 8-13 Hz range across the parietal and occipital cortex. Alpha waves are the frequency your brain produces during meditation and flow states. Most people spend years trying to access that band through breathwork. A capsule gets there in 40 minutes. The part that makes it genuinely useful: a 2016 study gave subjects L-theanine during a multitasking stressor. The placebo group's brains shifted into high-beta stress mode. The L-theanine group maintained alpha dominance under the same conditions. Their brains stayed in calm-focus while processing the same cognitive load. Pair it with caffeine and the synergy gets even more interesting. Caffeine alone sharpens attention but triggers tremor, anxiety, and an eventual crash. L-theanine blocks the jitter pathway without touching the alertness pathway. You get the focus of coffee without the cortisol spike. One cup of green tea contains roughly 20mg of L-theanine, which is why tea feels different from coffee at equivalent caffeine doses. 200mg daily is the dose most studies use. That bottle is 100mg capsules. Two per day. Yes, it's worth the hype. One of the few supplements where the EEG data actually matches what people report feeling.

@Ablazeolive @WayOfTheTempest Tempest is coping but this is astro cope. Yone has been strong for like 3 patches of the last 2 seasons lmao. One was because of botrk and the other was when they Giga buffed fleet for melee and absorb life was mega op.

@WayOfTheTempest Yasuo I'll give you but yone has been meta/playable for like 2 years

If you ever wonder why no one plays yasuo/yone besides one tricks its bc this champ is yasuo/yone on training wheels, x10 less effort and more op, virtually no reason to play those champs when this exists

@SLAASHJGDIF @Vayneski Storm Razor was never really good on either champ, and its especially dogsht now that it builds out of fking slingshot and bf sword

@ow_nomad @Vayneski Ay, we got stormrazor back, thats a plus, im honestly happy abt that even though it makes my life hard deciding if i still want yun tal or stormrazor lol

i think its time to bring this item back to its original glory and fucking nerf it for melee champs just like how you've already nerfed a billion items for ranged.

@HorrocksFPS 6v6 role queue was never bad as a format, it was that the old balance team was too stubborn/busy with ow2 to balance it. I remember one of the last patches was them buffing Cassidy HP, randomly Giga buffing Roadhog, and ignoring virtually every balance outlier. It was insane.

Peak Overwatch was 6v6 open queue, but the 5v5 we have now is infinitely better than role-locked 6v6

@BignessYT @Chase_kt @ggnodps How? They solved nothing about the his original design, and made him the most inconsistent feast or famine design in ow history. 90% of his value relies on getting fed/landing powered up punch, which feels inconsistent for the doom and blatantly unfair for the opponent.

@Chase_kt @ggnodps Doom is lowkey chill asf as a tank, I think its working lmao - gm doom otp

i’m telling you he’s coming back as a dps

@ArcadiumOW Had an ana finish an entire game with 2 k healing on Ana and 3 k damage. I've left the game for nearly 2 years how have these mfs gotten significantly worse while DPS and tank players have gotten better. I DONT GET IT MAN

Horrendous terrorist supports have made me just decide to quit OW so honestly thank god for them for saving me some time. I was playing about 2-3 matches a week anyway but now I get my hour back.

@RiotPhroxzon THESE VOLI BUFFS ARE INSANE HOLY FK!!!!!!!!

Patch 26.5 Full Preview! Ranked EUW Test delayed for another day, we're playing it safe to land the changes without breaking anything Volibear - Voli changes are targeted at balancing out his AD builds vs his currently strong AP builds; needs a bit more time to land Lillia - We're looking to pull back on some of the previous changes and bring Lillia's power level most of the way back to where she was before Orianna - Changes are targeted at reducing the power level of her early laning phase, especially when sitting on Rank 1 Q for several levels Neeko - Neeko has been strong in Pro Play for a while while not being overly strong in regular play - We're taking some power out of her vision outputs which are better used in Pro Play without overly impacting her regular play Varus - Varus was overbuffed a while ago and so we're practically reverting the buff to his Q damage - Lethality Varus has been the strongest ADC in Pro and so we're tapping him down to not overrun the Pro meta

@AchrafKelil @RiotPhroxzon 1. How does Garen hard counter Jax. Its a 50/50. 2. Yes. Garen should be dogsht past diamond, especially in his current state where he has no actual cooldowns so he can just clear a wave/whiff his whole rotation and just have Q E back up in 2 seconds.

@ow_nomad @RiotPhroxzon The champion is at his worst point when you're higher than diamond, he's supposed to be a hard counter to jax and gwen but even his most free matchups are hard rn

Patch 26.5 Preview! Ranked EUW Test - We ended up getting delayed and the new plan is to deploy around 6pm PST tomorrow (roughly 2-3AM EUW) - There will be about 5-10m of Ranked downtime, so we're doing this in off peak and monitoring that things are working correctly First Stand on 26.5 - We made a significant number of changes on 26.4 and so 26.5 is a more conservative set of changes to ensure a good Pro meta for First Stand - Ori, Azir, Neeko, Lethality Varus are some of the strongest outliers in Pro Play currently, and so we're tapping them down Items - Hubris is looking just generally underpowered - It doesn't really have an audience and also doesn't exhibit the same properties that other snowball items like Mejais have (higher winrates because being purchased when snowballing) - Bandlepipes is looking pretty strong, especially on second item. Locket is one of its primary competitors so we're giving it a buff on second item by flatting some of the shield value Patch Followups - Lillia is looking a bit worse for wear after her buffs in a previous patch were over magnitude, so we're giving her a bump back up (it may end up getting delayed to a future patch if we need more time to land on a higher quality changelist, but haven't decided) - We're looking to see what Mel looks like at a higher power level after making some of the frustration lowering changes in 26.3

@RiotPhroxzon MEL VOLI NOCTURNE GAREN LILIA? WHAT IS THIS BUFF LIST??????

When games die you should be legally allowed to just steal their characters because why they have to be in Paladins.

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@D1gitalTrap If it's faster it's not by much. It feels like the same weapon but it does no fking damage lmao

@ow_nomad i would assume fire rate but emre is legit ass.

Why does the DPS burst rifle do significantly less damage than the support burst rifle. This is the most hilarious representation of the ow balance philosophy i've ever seen.

they really just put all the pedophile characters into one sub role Well Played

Doomfist is the greatest flop of an antagonist I've ever seen Was built up to be one of the most badass characters in the verse just to get 1 shot by the new girlboss character The doomfist community hasn't been down this bad since he got moved to the tank role

@DekuGGs Gonna have to deal with EX Fan in neutral in 2 different games lmao

We got Mai from SF6 in Overwatch now 😭 I can’t escape her

@chowosen Or you could just add an extra tank and 90 percent of this goes away

Blizzard gave up on balancing 5v5 tanks over a year ago, and we have been stuck with the rotting corpse of the "OP tank experiment" ever since. I don't think 5v5 tank is perfectly fixable, but it can be so much better just by nerfing the role and making hero specific changes to decrease countering. I'm hoping this tweet is badly timed, and it all gets fixed tomorrow, but i doubt it.