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[VivianInfinity]

2:28: I'm mostly going to skip past this fight, but as a small reminder, WWT does more damage the further you are from a player. If you have it up, you should back up to get value, then dash back in with High Jump to get back in melee range. There are honestly a lot of mistakes in this fight, but this fight is incredibly sloppy on everybody's part. You probably know this, but as a heuristic, if you're low and going to elixir, it's probably a good idea to just take the potion on the ground before you get poked and denied by an enemy team member that can do that. Honestly, I think potioning here, even with your health this low, is incorrect; your team has a numbers advantage, your team has limit breaks up, the enemy team is relatively low, and you get limit break at a prime time to do substantial damage to the 3 on the point. Remember, Sky Shatter gives you a 25% max health shield, and if you really need to, your Chaotic Spring will probably be off cooldown when you land.

3:28: Turbulence happens around this time, and this means a couple things; either the enemy has just taken 30k damage, or the enemy no longer has guard. This is the single best time for a Dragoon to limit break, and every time you are on Cloud 9, you should be thinking about whether or not this is an option. While you do eventually limit break, you do it slowly, you do it late into turbulence (i.e. closer to when guard comes back up), and you do it in full view of 5 members who have already signaled that they want to kill you. Generally, if possible, you want to use Sky Shatter when the enemy isn't paying attention to you.

4:54: This positioning, where you walk up into the enemy spawn and around the corner away from the support of your team, in order to melee range WWT, should have killed you way sooner than it did; you are so far beyond your team's ability to help you when you move around the corner near the end point that you are essentially 1v5. The only reason this didn't immediately lose you the fight is because your Ninja did the same thing 10 seconds earlier and already lost it for you. Try to be mindful of where your team is positioned and if you are putting yourself in immediate danger.

5:51: Bluntly, you should have lost the game off this play alone; you dive in 1v5 without having gotten your limit break off and so far from a position where your team is available to support you that you basically immediately make the fight a 4v5 having contributed almost no value whatsoever. You should probably wait for your White Mage to limit break first to utilize the space that the AoE stun provides to make this play safer.

for what it's worth, i am also guilty of doing this, and i have lost so, so many games from doing this exact dive (to the people in revival reading this, please understand)

[VivianInfinity]

In summary, things you should probably be thinking about going forward, in order of importance:
1. Position less aggressively and be mindful of when you walk into a position where your team cannot help you.
2. Make sure you're using cooldowns with an objective in mind, be it to kill or to get max value with a cleave.
3. Have an escape plan ready when you engage, and be ready for when the enemy turns.
4. Recoup faster, guard faster.

I hope I don't sound like I'm being too harsh, so please tell me if I am, but considering that you are able to create value for your team even with notable mistakes, fixing points 1 and 2 alone probably push you to low Diamond on Aether. You've got this; keep at it.

[Ransu]

Just a tip Vivian. You can edit your posts to get around the text limit on posts. That way you won't have to waste your daily post limit on multiple posts.

[VivianInfinity]

Just a tip Vivian. You can edit your posts to get around the text limit on posts. That way you won't have to waste your daily post limit on multiple posts.

are you forreal

dammit

[nighttimebunny]

In summary, things you should probably be thinking about going forward, in order of importance:
1. Position less aggressively and be mindful of when you walk into a position where your team cannot help you.
2. Make sure you're using cooldowns with an objective in mind, be it to kill or to get max value with a cleave.
3. Have an escape plan ready when you engage, and be ready for when the enemy turns.
4. Recoup faster, guard faster.

I hope I don't sound like I'm being too harsh, so please tell me if I am, but considering that you are able to create value for your team even with notable mistakes, fixing points 1 and 2 alone probably push you to low Diamond on Aether. You've got this; keep at it.

Not too harsh at all, it’s really helpful! I actually did manage to get to diamond because I was playing way better for a bit, but I’ve dropped off a lot for some reason so I’m really inconsistent lol. The video I showed was when Istarted playing admittedly worse (idk, probably a personal issue) so your tips help a lot! I feel like it was kind of a weird match too but I thought one where I made a lot of mistakes would be good to show.thanks!! (If no one else submits vods I would be down to submit more eventually lol)

[VivianInfinity]

Not too harsh at all, it’s really helpful! I actually did manage to get to diamond because I was playing way better for a bit, but I’ve dropped off a lot for some reason so I’m really inconsistent lol. The video I showed was when Istarted playing admittedly worse (idk, probably a personal issue) so your tips help a lot! I feel like it was kind of a weird match too but I thought one where I made a lot of mistakes would be good to show.thanks!! (If no one else submits vods I would be down to submit more eventually lol)

Feel free! I'm trying my best to make all the reviews as universally applicable as possible, so no worries if you submit multiple. That said, each one takes me like an hour, so if someone else submits one before I get to yours, I'll probably do theirs first.

Seems like the pace is slowing down regardless, so if you've got another, I'm willing to take a look. ^^

[nighttimebunny]

Feel free! I'm trying my best to make all the reviews as universally applicable as possible, so no worries if you submit multiple. That said, each one takes me like an hour, so if someone else submits one before I get to yours, I'll probably do theirs first.

Seems like the pace is slowing down regardless, so if you've got another, I'm willing to take a look. ^^

okay! I took a break this week because I played a lot the last week and probably burned myself out (literally my first week trying out/playing ranked :,) lol so any advice is super helpful!) I will probably start it up again soon and try to take a better vod but I’ve been playing some casual just to work on my reaction time/positioning, and trying to make sure I get 0 deaths there are some fun matches to be had there too haha