Jake “kites” Silverman

kites/kyts | b.s. in data science pursuing m.s. in data science | gm peak adc & esports superfan | @UCSDEsports varsity adc | 23

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

over 3 years after becoming a masters peak adc, i am now a GRANDMASTER PEAK ADC

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

@brianryhuang oo yeah it’s def not Victory Madeon fs. as a huge madeon fan i woulda recognized that vocal chain anywhere it’s most similar to like how he sounds on songs like All My Friends or No Fear No More! regardless when features kinda disappear into the main artist’s prod it’s 🔥🔥🔥

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

@nickich you know you fucked up when you force nickich to write a serious tweet

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

@dubukiro this cover is so Bladee cold visions esque i love it

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

i've done it. i achieved grandmaster without early season luck and 55% wr smolder. surely will be back to purple rank tomorrow

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

@TimmyChooos @angiexku some isoknock fans know very little about how influenced iso and knock are by this scene. not me though this is my ideal festival

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

@whisterial what about sett as a 4 cost tank though

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

The song that made me download Spotify was Overtime by Cash Cash, but it was probably Clarity or Bangarang that made me originally fall in love with EDM

[𝑀𝐴𝐷 𝑀𝑈𝐹𝐹𝐼𝑁𝑍 @MadMuffinz_]

SOCIAL EXPERIMENT:

If you come across this tweet, name the EDM song that made you fall in love with EDM. DO NOT read the replies before you comment.

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

@ttfanie_tiffy great work yall deserve it so much!!!!

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

cloud9 finally back at worlds :DD so happy for the guys

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

@nt__ns hi nathan your graphics are amazing sincerely an isoknock fan

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

why are we nerfing lucian bot and buffing his mid? he is not even good bot rn

[Matt Leung-Harrison @RiotPhroxzon]

Patch 26.19 Preview!

This is the first of our 2 Worlds patches, with Worlds happening on 26.20!

Support HP Regen
- After Support roaming was nerfed in 26.16, pre grub spawn Support roaming is all the way back down again, especially in Pro Play which is what we were after
- That said, Enchanters and Ranged supports are now dominating the meta again
- So we're making some targeted adjustments to melee supports so that they are able to engage and withstand some poke, rather than get poked out and not be able to engage again
- Overall, this isn't going to be a giant swing, but hopefully enough of a nudge up for Melee Supports that players think about dynamics of the lane a bit differently

Top Role Quest
- For quite a while now, in some regions, especially at higher skilled play, Top has been a decent amount weaker than Bot (who are the natural counterparts)
- That said, Top in regular play is both very popular and very powerful, and we're not looking to change the dynamic very much (and also why we're not nerfing bot lane overall)
- So we're giving a targeted adjustment to the more skill skewed aspect of Top lane, through the Teleport and upgraded Teleports from the Role Quest, which are typically used more effective in skilled play (where Top needs the help)
- That should allow Top to exert its influence on the map more reliably, especially in split push scenarios

Ranged Top Laners
- We hear a lot of the complaints about Ranged Top laners and agree that when these champs get too powerful it leads to pretty degraded "low gameplay states". That said we do think it's reasonable for Ranged Top laners to be a thing you can play there viably, it just needs to be at the appropriate power level with the appropriate power curves
- We don't feel comfortable taking a large swing here, especially before Worlds, but just wanted to let y'all know that we're working on some small changes to make it a bit more tolerable for melee champions
- This will hopefully allow us to also buff some of the ranged champions that are normally played bot who were nerfed due to their top lane performance (eg. Vayne), but we won't be able to do this until this set of systems changes is released

Simple Champions & Nasus
- In the post the other day about simple champions, I mentioned that we think it's good to have simple champions be strong at all levels of play. Not all of them, but some
- This can often be frustrating, especially when in moment to moment combat, their play patterns are very straightforward and feel lower counterplay if they can meet their success condition
- Our philosophy is that if a simple champion is overpowered and causing frustration, then that might be a cause for nerf
- However, if a champion is frustrating and simple, but not overpowered, if it doesn't have an unintended design flaw, we're likely to leave it as it is (eg. Viktor)
- Viktor is strong in lane, but he's also easy to gank and weak in early skirmishes; we think this is a reasonable strength and weakness profile and also over the last few years we've taken (imo) too much power out of early game trading from many champions, which has caused laning phase to lose texture broadly across the game
- Nasus however, has been strong according to this principle, even when accounting for his mastery curve and he has more sharp success conditions now with Q 4 stacks; in lanes where he can stack freely he becomes more of a threat, while in lanes where he's contested, he's easier to keep down
- This often means when you run into Nasus in a good matchup, he's often scaled without much holistic counterplay for the team (only his lane opponent)
- So while we think this shape of Nasus is broadly correct, it does warrant sitting at a slightly lower resting power level due to these considerations

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

@nickel3277 absolutely awesome 🔥🔥

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aj brown and drake maye hatewatch week 1 HUGE SUCCESS

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

The way the entire internet hates his character so much should be a testament to how great his acting was. Don’t think he’s winning it but a nomination would be deserving

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Michael Johnston will officially campaign in the Best Actor category at the Oscars for ‘OBSESSION’.

(https://t.co/kXjMyrIa39)

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

this morning riot games blessed me with worlds finals tickets. me and @SlayerCasts are headed to the big apple baby 😎😎

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

As a kid I was lowkey more invested in these than Percy (sue me) so this is gonna be interesting!! Also don’t see Egyptian mythology get the spotlight nearly as much as Greek/Roman/Norse

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

A series adaptation of Rick Riordan’s ‘THE KANE CHRONICLES’ is in the works at Disney+.

(Source: https://t.co/TkhMquTIag)

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

They could never make me stop loving you Jalen Hurts

[Football Crave @FootballCravee]

Jalen Hurts (Eagles) and Tyler Shough (Saints) are the only two quarterbacks in the NFL currently registered as democrats.

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

It’s amazing how quickly this app became filled with fake text message chains and fake emails just to farm engagement for checkmark revenue. And if you call it out in the replies you just generate more money for them

[Jake “kites” Silverman @kytsna]

A single image of concept art of NYC was found to be AI and now people are just claiming other things to be AI when there’s bts footage of how they were actually created ts so annoying. You can be against AI in art without putting your head in the sand yknow?

[Quarter Cheese @Quarter_Cheese]

oh so thats why these shots looked so bad