 What's up everybody on the mangos, you are awesome and I'm back to playing some more mid lane with best girl Balika. As you may know, Mega Cosm was changed so that the heroes like Shinbi, Fei, and Gadget can't really exploit it as much. However, Balika with her two tap combo and auto zap her drone, it's even stronger on her with the changes. Mega Cosm applies a health based damage over time burn to targets on ability hit, and the old version of a deal 2.5% of a target's max health has magical damage when you refresh the damage. Heroes that can quickly deal multiple ticks of damage can pretty much just melt anyone with this item because it would just keep reapplying. It was changed though, so now a reapplication of the debuff deals 5% of the target's max health damage over time on an 8 second cooldown. I think you can see why this is strong, particularly on Balika. I would edit out the boring parts of this game and get straight into the action. I was up against the Revenant in the mid lane, which I don't have much experience with fighting ADCs in the mid lane, so I was a little hesitant to go in on him, and you can see it's like 10 minutes, I still don't have any kills. If I had this to do over again, there we get one. If I had this to do over again, I would have been far, far more aggressive. This guy was just free. He was just absolutely free, and I didn't take advantage of it. I should have been pushing a hell of a lot harder. Lesson learned, I'm not going to be afraid of ADCs in the mid lane anymore, even if they're really good. I have the advantage as a mage early, so I should have pressed it, and I didn't. Yeah, it works out for us anyway. Our team wanted to do Fangtooth, and I wanted to get a little bit of pressure on the duo before we went out. But my stuns this game were just not there, my cues. At least at first, I started laying towards the end, but at least we showed our presence. They're probably not going to come in on this out, you would think, but they do anyway. Here they come. Here comes the whole gang. And another cue that just goes into absolutely nothing. I was able to hit that Revenant, but he does ult on somebody, so I don't know what's going on. They're rampages ulting up. Our team's not here. Somebody got taken out by the Revenant. This is a bad situation, so I just left. I know my team was probably angry. I did hit that Revenant with a stun where I can't see him. That's the key. I just have to not be able to see them with the stun. That's the name of the predecessor. Minimizing your losses and maximizing your gains are right there. We needed to minimize our loss. Me dying was not going to help anything, so I just left. I know right here that he is extremely close to death, but rampage hits me with a rock. Revenant steps up like I figured he would. Popped him with the stun. That may have been overkill with the ultimate and the bomb, but luckily our grox comes in to clean up on this rampage. My bomb did not connect there because the grox knocked him up, but that's fine. We scared off the rampage. We got the kill on the Revenant. Rampage is really low. He's probably going to have to back. It's a bomb for no goddamn reasons. We're in a good position here. We can push this tower. I do see that Drongo was over there fighting in the jungle against the steel. I saw that, but there's nothing I can really do to help. I'm not going to go in on that. If your team makes poor decisions, then let them make the poor decisions. Don't contribute to them. I do have Mega Cosm now, so we're online. I did pick up Alchemical Rod, the builder item for Azure Core for extra mana. I've done away with that. I no longer build Azure Core on Bellica, at least. You just good mana management and you just rush the Mega Cosm. You're going to be doing a lot better for yourself. I wish I would have done that this game, but unfortunately we didn't. But we have it now. Bellica is so good with Mega Cosm because the drone and team fights, people just ignore it and they get hit by everything. They just use all their abilities and they keep getting zapped. If they get zapped twice, then they're taking 5% of their max health. It's just so good. The double tap, you're reapplying it. It's so good. I don't know why he stepped up there. He's very low. I almost caught him with a bomb, but we didn't get him. I'm not going to pursue that too much. Here comes Rampage, of course, to help his little Revenant out. Hit him with the stun, hit him with the bomb, try and retreat. We're going to wrap around and see if we can pick off this Revenant again. No such luck this time. I'm begging for my... There it is. There's my knockup, but... I don't know where he got that little bit of a heal from. He must have activated his health potion. I thought for sure we had that Revenant. That's more of the min-maxing that I was talking about earlier. I committed pretty hardcore to that fight, so if I'm going to die, I want to maximize that death and take at least one with me. Unfortunately, it did not work out for me at that point. It doesn't always work out, but the important thing is that you try. I'm taking Soulbearer this game. I take Soulbearer pretty much every game that I play mid lane. I absolutely love it. I know Stasis is probably better if you're a better player, but I am not, so Soulbearer is the way. You get that extra shielding, the extra movement speed. It accomplishes pretty much the same thing as Stasis, just getting you out of tight situations. Just not nearly as strong. I use it more, it's off cooldown more, and I remember to use it more. I'm a big Soulbearer fan. Enemy team is running a bellca off lane, and this Richter is fairly new. He said that at the top that he's pretty new to Richter. I'm going to come over and assist where I can. She does hit me with a stun, but we have our ultimate and she's just going to go down. I wanted to kill her without using the ultimate so that I had it available later. Unfortunately, I had to use it there. She was just going to get away after that knock up, so I just ended the deal. But if I do have any words of advice, don't be hasty with your ultimate. If you can get a kill without using your ultimate, then do it. Get the kill without using your ultimate. You don't have to be flashy and pop people with a neural disruptor every time. Save that shit for when it matters. This fight over in the off lane or the solo lane has been going on for quite a while, so I know some shit's about to happen. There's got to be people rotating over, and sure as shit as I'm coming through the jungle, there's Rampage. I want to look behind and make sure nobody's sneaking up behind me here and see if we can do something. I wanted to catch that bellica. Unfortunately, I did, but I did hit her with the bomb and the ultimate, so we at least took bellica out of the equation, and now our team can safely back up. I hope they back up. That's the time to back up a little bit, because we don't know who's coming besides that Rampage. I made quite the big mistake right here using the stun on Rampage and Steel. I should have just went after the Revenant. It ended up working out. I think Rampage died to the zapper of my drone. Either that or just mega-cosm got him. I don't know what got the Rampage there, but I was not expecting to get that kill. That ended up working out for us, but I still think it was the wrong play for me to throw my stun on the Rampage and Steel. That was just me thirsting after a kill on Steel. No other explanation than that. I should have gone after the Revenant. I should have gone after the Revenant. I know I said earlier that you shouldn't use your ultimate to get a kill if you could do something else, but I was very afraid for that Richter's life. So I went ahead and popped that bellica one real quick just to make sure that Richter didn't die. Big confusing fucking teamfight here. You can see the power of that Steel wall. It's so good. It is so good. But my drone was in the middle of that fight, just dealing damage the entire time. I would like to get some more damage on their ADCs, but unfortunately that didn't happen. But they're all going to have to back... Look at how much damage mega-cosm is doing in this teamfight. Simply because of drone procs and then me hitting abilities and shit. But holy fuck, it did so much. I don't think we could really capitalize on this. They wanted to take the Primal Fangtooth, which would be nice. But our grux is really low. I don't know what Rampage is doing. We don't really have that much damage here. Not a lot of sustained damage. Yes, I'm bellica. Yes, I deal damage. But it's not the kind of sustained damage you need for objectives like that. You need an ADC for something like that. And now bellica is coming over. It's time to just peace out. Rampage is getting chased down a little bit. I threw the void drone just as a distraction, really. They took the bait. Now, we know Revenant's going to try to rotate over in on this. So let's try and catch him out. And we do. We do see him coming over to the blue buff, hitting with the max range stun. And he is going to die pretty easily. Grux is going in, doing what Grux does. Rampage dives into the mix. But now we got their drone in there. And let's see if we can make anything happen. Does it look like it's going to? Now Drongo's here. Not much we could do. Our Grux went down, Rampage went down. Now their Rampage is in my face. Now I'm just fucked. That started out so well. Richter wants to push right lane. And I totally agree. We need to group up and do something. This game, we were just kind of wandering around a lot, not doing any kind of objectives whatsoever. I would really like to hit that Drongo. Nice wall from Steel, but he has taken damage from my drone and the mega-causin. Now, as I said, I would like to hit the Drongo, but the Steel is presenting himself. I might as well deal damage where I can. And Richter tries to land a hook. It's hard to land the hooks on the uphill like that. I feel for him, I really do. And now we're getting pushed back with minions. Drongo stepping up. Steel is fairly low, but it's Steel. He's the support. We don't really have to worry about him. Now our team's going in. We're going to flash in and see what we can do. I got stuck in my ultimate animation here. Ended up having to just pop it on Steel just to get it off of my fucking screen so I can land abilities. I almost got the Drongo, but now our team is getting just absolutely destroyed. It's time to roll out. And here comes the surrender votes. They've been trying to surrender this whole time. I don't know who it was. Not everybody, but at least two people have been trying to surrender this entire match. Once you give up and try to surrender, you're done. You're fucking done. If you get that defeatist attitude so early into a game, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just stop with that shit, man. See, I told you if I can't actually see the person that I'm using my stun one, I'll hit it every time. This is a really good team fight for us to take. We just need our team to push in. And they're being a little too cautious right now, I think. I don't know why the grucks is running back. So I'm going to wrap around. I'm going to wrap around the edge and flank to make sure that they're not flanking us and hopefully flank them and get some picks. And Big bought a boom right there. And Bellica ends up going down. So I used the ultimate on the rampage. Don't know why I did that. Probably not the best idea. But we are hitting him with everything we got. He did activate his razor back, so he was reflecting a lot of the damage. Steel just wants my ass, and it looks like he's going to get me. I'm trying to use the tip of my soul bearer to try to get out of that. And I don't know how our team is losing this. Like I really don't know. I popped a big ass freaking cool down. And just that rampage just got to Drago's face and freaked him out, I guess. I don't know, man. Off of the heels of that team fight. Enemy team took prime. They're pushing in. They're going to win this one. They ended up winning. Our team was doing, I thought we were doing fine, but I guess not. But it's fine to lose, guys. It's okay to lose. You don't have to win. Nobody has a 100% win rate. You lose games sometimes. I don't understand all these surrenders and just it's madness right now. It is absolute madness. But yeah, as you can see, I was kind of cooking, but it doesn't look like the rest of our team was. And that's fine. Like I said, our Richter even told us at the top he's not experienced with solo lane. He's not experienced with Richter, but he's got to learn. I'm proud of the guys that played it out. I hate the guys that tried to surrender and got that defeatist attitude early. It's been so hard to get content for either one of these games. And let's take a look at the damage numbers. The Drago, NB Team Drago just barely beat me out on the damage charts. That's son of a bitch. And that's what it's really all about. You can lose games, but you still got to be top damage. So I lost in two accounts this time. Man, go.