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I think this is best characterised as a well-intentioned person who sees a problem with League and wants to solve it, rather than characterising it as a sh*tpost.

I don't work on the team that would make this decision, but I do work on the security team. SMS verification for MFA was something we were considering while designing what our MFA solution should look like, and many of the problems with SMS verification apply here. Answering specifically from a privacy and security point of view, here:

• Not everyone has a phone or cell reception or can receive texts for free. These people should be able to play ranked.
• Requiring a phone number to play ranked means tracking many tens of millions of phone numbers, significantly increasing the amount of personal information Riot has to collect on players. This increases Riot's liability, but also increases the amount of data you have to provide in order to play League. Each piece of personal information we collect on you has to be stored, with retention periods, in specific ways, as well. This isn't to say that GDPR is a bad thing (it's not) but there is a duty of care w...

I am a security engineer. I can give you my opinion, but my opinion doesn't have the weight you think it does. I'm also quite bad at the game.

Every ADC has their own unique steroid, Jhins is his passive which is a kiss/curse thing. If Jhins autos didnt hit extremely hard, it would be hard to justify bringing him, because the drawback is that his autos are very slow compared to other ADCs. His per-shot and ability damage needs to be higher to compensate.

most carry champions at level 18 with full build are nuts - that's the strongest they can possibly be :P

well yeah that's because the other rule is if playing against a rioter, camp their lane

i'll settle for blue buff

There's no secret to landing skillshots. Just gotta practice!

I am both of these Pykes

He's not that strong on ARAM because of how frequent there are minion waves and how many people there are, in that regard, other hook supports are stronger. Pyke's only super strong if he can actually execute people or use his E, both of which become tricky when he's always around 5 people.

What are you struggling with in particular?

First Strike's 10% damage only lasts for 1.5 seconds

It's for 3 seconds, as all of the gold generation comes from the bonus damage. You're pretty much guaranteed that first hit when you ult :P

I think kill participation might be a stronger statistic to look at if you are judging impact, rather than KDA.

There are very few situations where I'd turn down an extra 10% damage and a thousand gold or so every game. The other option is Spellbook. If you can make more use of spellbook, by all means, but I'm not good enough to make good use of it, so I prefer First Strike instead.

RFC makes sense if you need the extra range but TF can do quite a lot of damage, even when only using gold card.

other runes are better but if i go other runes i don't get to mine gold by smacking the opponents face with q auto

I'm not running it to play optimally; I'm running it because it's fun :P I do take sorcery secondary on Viktor.

If you can burst hard in the first few hits of combat, then there is potentially an argument to be made that First Strike is stronger, since it amplifies all damage you deal by 10%, which is what makes me think it's pretty good on TF especially as the game gets later. But I haven't mathed it out so maybe it's not as strong as comet or ignite from spellbook? TF usually runs inspiration anyway, so it's not like he is taking comet

probably, but you're forgetting one key thing:

memes

I really like it in situations with a range difference but otherwise I'm running other runes. First Strike on Viktor or TF vs melee matchups is really nice, for example

(Although you can make an argument for Glacial on TF really easy, as well as Spellbook)

That's my point. He did really awful things, and at the end of Act 3 you could see why it all made sense in his head, how he justified it to himself. He wasn't someone doing evil things for the sake of evil. Act 3 made me understand his motives a lot more, and it's really hard to be like "well, yeah, he has some valid points" when someone is acting so obviously evilly

Being able to empathise with a villain is really important. Otherwise, they just come across as Generic Bad Twirling Moustache Dude, which doesn't lend itself to a compelling story and makes you lose your suspension of disbelief.

The thing I loved (and hated) about Arcane is at the end of Act 3 it was very difficult to say I hated Silco. Ultimately, his goal was the same as Vanders, he just went through very reprehensible means. Everything he did, he did for his people (and for Jinx), and he mostly had to take that route because the route that Vander took just wasn't an option for Silco (Vander had charm and strength, Silco just had intimidation and cloak & dagger)