Thanks everyone for watching and/or playing today and in past seasons- this game was a part of my life for a long time and solo ranked and the community around it was what kept me here. It was a good ride and I'm grateful to have met a lot of amazing people over the years - something you take with you when you leave. The community in general, despite some minor differences here and there did mean a lot to me. I wish those who stay and those who move on the best for the future.

Genuinly interested if people like you a.) played more than 5 games of ranked in their lives and b.) are actually serious

What does qualify someone as a ranked player?

Bullying low geared people in regs sounds very toxic to me

Pretty solid statement, Ling is indeed very bad against sin - talking about a sr setting here; Ling can handle itself fine in duels. Lack of sustain heal means they cannot recover from the opener if one or two just keep tunneling them. Wouldn't say it's a meme tho, depending on q ling might be the better choice from time to time, although madness is better overall.

He is pretty bad tbh

Why would his rating affect his ability to comment on the topic, from what I've read he's trying to make valid points and not just random trashtalk. That's like me saying you don't have a top3 on the class, how dare you claim it's op and needs to be nerfed, talk again when you got at least 4 top3s yourself. In regards to the topic - decep sin opener is op, dr is fine and constant dps is pretty bad, so it's going to be hard to nerf the opener without making the class pretty much useless. Additionally even now decep is only very good in 4dps games, it's already terrible in t/h and okay in h/dps and t/dps.

I use these utils, they are a very solid choice for ranked pvp. https://gyazo.com/81211466c04bc9a9525d669d45b0b30a Hatred is playable but much worse than decep.

You always take two cloaks, the only matchup where you could potentially take something else is tank/heal games. Also like Grand said the most important implant for you is shadowcraft - the second one is personal preference.

At least I managed to get bronze on several toons while you are just talking 800 elo nonsense.

Sounds like something a bot would say. Go next

I'm actually amazed that you are trying to make it sound like this is intended lol - and even more so if it actually is. This makes no sense whatsoever, giving out a reward that is supposed to be given to the "best" players to actually very much below average players that don't even achieve bronze elo/rewards in solo ranked but just happened to have played 1 teamranked game and got the wins in solos (totally different gamemode and not eligible in either one of them, just by some bizzare nonsense combination of both). How can anyone think that this makes sense or explains anything?

You got to be kidding me, how exactly is Snave a benchmark for a Gold player? Are people actually this clueless and believe just because a person streams and talks bs they are good at the game?

Yeah everyone at Gold is wintrading

PvP Balance overall is pretty good in this game. Every class has strengths and weaknesses and not a single class is "unplayable" or "overpowered" in both ranked and regs (apart from jugg tanks). Some classes perform better overall and/or in certain situations than others but it's literally impossible to fix that problem in an MMO. There are very few "obvious" balance issues that come to mind at the moment - examples would be Grit Teeth Tac and Forcebound set for Jugg tanks and EP set/Powerload Tac for PT dps.