I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS JUST HAPPENED IN SWARM HARD MODE...

[@whitewatersflame]

0] Bel'Veth is a DPS check. You're on a timer limit to defeat her. Leona's basic ability does very low damage, so she's at a major disadvantage against this specific boss. You had a nearly "optimal" build on Leona (swap Static Sword over Searing Arrow though). But, you didn't take the +% Damage stat augment (Projectiles was a poor pick on Leona) so there was no way you were going to make it. Briar, Yas, Riven, and Seraphine are more doable in that order of difficulity. I beat her with Briar, who does way more damage for with her basic ability. Prioritize: +HP, +Damage, +HP Regen, +Armor, +Haste. Use Radiant, Cyclone Slicers, Static Sword, UwU Blaster (Highest single target DPS weapon). Riven can do it too. Remember her shield scales of Max HP. So for her you want: +Mobility, +HP, +Damage, +Armor, +HP Regen. Use Radiant, Cyclone Slicers, Static Sword, Ice Blast Armor. 1] Bombs: UwU blaster or Static Sword are both great a destroying them. When bombs are currently spawning avoid walking along walls. I'm sure you noticed that enemies only spawn at walls. So if you're staying in more open areas they can't spawn on top of you. 2] Against the Morgana Toads: don't "kite" so much. Especially with cyclone slicers they die before they get close. Defend a small area around yourself. This wont work if there's Charging Bosses around, but in general that is the counter-play. 3] Consider leaving access cards on the ground for a bit; especially prioritize picking up the XP orbs after a Bel'veth trial. Access cards never expire. So at 13:30 you run the map and pick up any left overs. You're definitely getting a lot better at playing the game. Cheers.

[@i0kiPlus]

Thanks for the tips brother!

[@shodron9898]

Just do a run with only dmg, ability haste, main ability scaler. You took exp, health, health regen, projectile on leo. Leona basic deals tons of dmg, you can get 12k crits on each procs VS 4k-8k crits on most champs (Briar,aurora,riven) just balance out the kit Leona has massive aoe dmg, uwu blaster is huge at single target. But still no crit unlocked

[@haydenhenderson19]

To unlock crit chance: Reach level 25 with Jinx to get the vortex glove or something like that Then pick the vortex glove and get it to level 4 to unlock crit chance.

[@MoadDib]

Exactly this.

[@i0kiPlus]

DONE! Thanks for the advice, check next Swarm video to see me go CRIT-CRAZY!

[@michealstout4619]

Best rule of thumb for prioritization of pickups should look like this. 1st rank of desired passives > 1st rank of desired weapon(s) > Max ranks of weapons > Max ranks of passives. Reason being is that every passive can evolve multiple weapons, so if you have the worst possible RNG and you miss the weapon you're going for, you can still potentially evolve a different weapon off that passive. Now this isn't a hard and fast rule, as in some instances it'll be more beneficial to add ranks to something like haste or move speed just to increase your survivability. Also, on just about every champ other than xayah the vacuum augment is a godsend. You'd be surprised at how much xp gets left behind just because you have to stay constantly on the move, and not having to worry about it allows you to concentrate on optimal positioning to live.

[@kaneki-kun6815]

true shit, the fact that u can vacum all the xp and gold off the map is free progress and scaling

[@tekkorb778]

Ioki this is not an easy gamemode, but we see you learning every day. I have faith that the GSA (Greatest Swarm Alive) will solo all the content. One thing I'll say is to look up how to unlock each weapon and stat, they are unlocked by using and upgrading characters or weapons.

[@i0kiPlus]

Yes! I understand now how much not abusing UNLOCKS has kneecapped me. Trust me, watch next Swarm video you'll see I've got this on lock now!

[@mirzu42]

You unlock critical chance by getting vortex glove to level 4 in any game. You need to reach level 25 with jinx to unlock vortex glove. Just play the first level on story mode with jinx, build full dmg and its super easy to get in the first game you play.

[@TracyLayden]

1. I'm addicted to these swarm videos, literally can't stop watching 2. Not the belveth bug noooo 😭

[@i0kiPlus]

1. So glad you're enjoying them, half the fun for me has been seeing how much yall been enjoying them. 2. WE'LL GET HER NEXT TIME!

[@idoisaac6602]

Searing bow and Ani-Mines evolve with area size passive which is bugged right now and you can't get it, so don't pick those weapons. Also the flashing colors on the ground lead to a miss fortune boost

[@taurins4967]

11:03 It isn't projectiles, but there was an objective containing the Anima Power upgrade on screen here. There should be something similar for projectiles. I think if you select the card icon on the top of the objectives it might narrow it down to trait unlocks. Also, save important resources for when you need them. Thus far I've seen you use two of the bomb drops that clear out the area around you. Wait until the swarm converges around it to use the bomb. That will increase it's value. I've really enjoyed these videos, and seeing your growth. Keep it up ioki. 19:52 THERE IT IS!! Reaching lvl 25 with Seraphine. There's a bunch of upgrades right here that unlock after reaching certain levels with different champs.

[@NayaM0]

the beach ball going over the wall tho 😂😂

[@idoisaac6602]

You can control where the beach ball goes, if you stand on the north side of the circle it will bounce south, if you stand east it will bounce west and so on.

[@NayaM0]

@@idoisaac6602 oh that's a good tip

[@kingboomi2395]

Damn, GG! Game's still got kinks! Hopefully it's all sorted out when it goes live! Riven seems dope

[@michaeltjohnson88]

Seraphine's ultimate has s - you can use it to completely dodge those big waves from the mini-bosses. I recommend turning on the auto-aim once the swarm gets too big... it's just better to focus on moving through the swarm at a certain point alternating the shield cooldown + ult s. You can toggle the auto-aim it if you want to target a bunch of enemies that are lined up and/or clear a path for yourself. Since you're going to be shielding through enemies often, the upgraded uWu blaster and radiant field/spinning axes combo does a lot of work. Super good on bosses, too... you can basically: shield, run next to swam/boss, wait for shield to about run out then find safe place... use ult s as a get out of jail free card and then cycle back to another shield.

[@peterstegeby]

The silence in the end to the sudden stop of the video was such a heart breaker! 😢 You can do it champ! I believe in you!

[@jordanhauser9252]

As someone thats played a vampire survivors and deep rock galactic survivor an ok amount -agree with the guy saying to leave a card on the ground for lvl5 weapon upgrades -trying to focus 1 or 2 weapons to max and evolved is way more powerful than spread out upgrades -damage is survivability more than tanking, so if your build is melee and needs health artifacts or whatever for the weapon evolve, leave it at lvl 1 til the end since you just need to have it to evolve the weapon -the game will seem really hard til you get a good amount of out of game progression upgrades like +%damage. I kind of just assume its actually balanced around max stats but thats just my opinion Idk i havent played this but watched a couple of your vids and your really committed, props to wanting to beat it

[@kaneki-kun6815]

31:23 just flash over the wall bro

[@thwago]

Reads passive -> hmm multicast projectiles? I guess I'll take zero projectile weapons

[@Heightren]

Doesn't use reroll

[@yulianderidder2704]

Hey Ioki, I love the swarm gameplay and the progress you’re making on the game. Try to focus a little bit more on getting EXP. Sometimes it’s not worth the trade-off on the card. But a good measure would be the earlier the better EXP is. Also try to not leave behind the purple EXP orbs on the field, they give massive amounts of EXP.

[@ZipperZsquared]

Usually mobs spawn in from edges of the map so during bomb rounds, don't hang around on the edges. Also you did no damage to boss because you had exclusively defensive stats other than projectile number.

[@zaumarian2949]

quick tip for yummi quest beach ball one, it bouces based off where ur standing in the area

[@samelzinga4337]

When wil you Carry the for fun Squad through this ? Looking forward to that vid GJ so far Ps. Use jinx once and level her to 25 to unlock crit if i saw it correctly

[@MoadDib]

Jinx to 25 unlocks the Vortex Glove weapon, then getting the glove to level 4 unlocks the crit shard, critting a few million times unlocks the ability to spend gold on the crit permanent upgrade.

[@samelzinga4337]

@@MoadDib for only obtaining this information by watching these video’s i’d say close enough Thanks for the correction and clearing this up

[@morrigan3957]

For Bel`Veth you need UwU blaster and Tibbers so you have alot of dps. They worked for me even on the extrime difficulty so i can guarantee it. If you want to see how things are unlocked for the update shop go to objectives and press hide completed. Btw it will show you that you have unlocked area size for in game card upgrade but it's bugged so don't pick anything that need area size to evolve.

[@mrtoastyfroggie]

damn... G effing G man! dont understand how your damage was coming off so little, since it should be doing more per second to the other enemies than it was to her, all things considered... But awesome run there! dont see how other champs we'll have such a good time tanking and CCing that much

[@iamthe12th]

Even though you found a Bel'Veth bug, we believe in you!

[@thwago]

What bug? She's meant to knock you away from the arena, it's part of the boss fight

[@luckytrece4985]

I´m not sure but pretty much everything scales whit Haste, only Radiant field doesn´t if i remember well. And, for all the "panic button" abilities it means to have it more constantly, so i can be a good idea to give it at least a top 2 prio to get Haste on all the champs.

[@Hexadsos]

How can i fix movement glitch? Fps doesn't help on my both PCs

[@levinium]

For Leona I think a lot of your damage was radiant field upgraded causing explosions when you kill things. Fighting bel'veth solo that's useless, and she was pathing too fast through your spinning blades to be damaged much there. If you had something like OwO blaster it would have done a lot more damage. You really need to figure out how to unlock the projectiles upgrade, it's massive. I think maybe it unlocks off playing seraphine enough? Not sure though.

[@kami0x0]

at 43:16 radiant field became smaller...

[@tahaselmi3352]

Want to see you play yasuo with full crit and projectile count with uwu blaster and admire the insta death tornados

[@tahaselmi3352]

You have projectile cound so crit you get by reaching lvl 25 with jinx to unlock vortex glove then level vortex glove to lvl 4 esey to do

[@dzgw]

Do you want coaching my guy?

[@gorriebyte2936]

So I 1 tapped pretty much all of hard mode with yasuo. U need to unlock projectiles and crit and max those for account. In game you want, crit, cd, projectiles, dmg. The last can be max health or armour. Ability pickups I'm not certain which are best but I like the ice armour, cyclones, uwu, gauntlet, crossbow. You really just need to evolve his tornado attack and then prio crit>cd>projectiles. You can stand still and everything on the screen insta dies.

[@jreynolds8734]

IOKI BRO YOU GOT LUX ORIANA RULE 34 AT TOP OF TABS 1 second in omg im ashamed need to check ur browser before recording it or edit it out lil bro

[@MoadDib]

I can't believe I missed this XD

[@i0kiPlus]

OMG

[@murilowsful]

Fyi projectile count Max + sound waves and WuW blaster evolved are core on seraphine. then iceblast, hability haste and damage. You should be able to beat any map with this. but this is a type of game you have to get lucky i fear

[@kameron1130]

Ioki my guy, I promise you need to unlock the crit stat and start playing yasuo. Play jinx get her up to level 25 in a story mode round, then level up vortex to level 4 the next game and you can start playing yasuo. Once you have crit unlocked you play yasuo with any weapons that say they can crit. Crossbow > Static > Uwu > the rest > vortex. (Vortex glove is extremely unreliable and random, it misses way too often to be useful but at least it *can* technically crit and help you proc tornadoes) Passives: Crit > projectile > damage = ability haste > move speed = health = regen = armor. For the last passives just take whatever will evolve the crit weapons you have. If you have overlapping evolves then just go for whatever you feel like you need. You can grab exp if you get it in the first couple levels but it costs either damage, AH, or a defensive stat. Pick up radius is a scam. The passive pick up you get from out of game is more than enough. Prioritize just getting the weapons in the first place so that you have more chances to crit. You get to a point around level 15-20 where you have permanent tornadoes creating a circle around you, and once you have evolves it gets much more safe. You can literally beat maps on hard just standing still with this once its rolling. You can pretty reliably solo extreme maps once you are good in the early mid game. Mid game is tough until you hit your first evolve, late game you one shot every mini boss and can stand in belveth circles no problem. Side note: Riven E can cancel the charger's knock up if you use it the instant after you get hit, I'm not sure if it applies on yasuo as well since it's always dead before i get knocked up when I play him.

[@i0kiPlus]

Check next video! Crit chance unlocked now

[@kameron1130]

@@i0kiPlus Sweet! Can't wait to see the GSA adapt and overcome!

[@jeremyhorton5808]

Max out ability haste in the upgrades out of game and also in game and go illaoi. She can spawn sooo many tentacles.

[@csabakiss2662]

When this game mode relase on live servers?

[@MoadDib]

July 17th

[@EgotisticApe]

Yeau I feel like on Leona you need the damage stat evolve and crit chance evolve just to make it through the dps check

[@benferrell-tillman5095]

Getting uwu blaster over static sword is crazy 😂😅 love ya GSA

[@jlayman89]

Is this hard or extreme? Ive soloed extreme Aatrox with Yasuo and Illiao, but its a tough one. The curve getting there is tough. Yasuo is by far the easiest in the late stages if you get the crit build rolling. Hard hump in thr middle to get over and you gotts use the wall and dash well. The trick to this is knowing a build before you begin, thrn trying to get at least level 1 in those weapons/stats then work on leveling them up. So basically know the build, and take a new piece over leveling an existing one, and eventually youll be power leveling all the right stuff. Youll rarely get a "perfect" build, but youll have good ones and a flexible last slot or two. Also, play into the default attack. Youd be surprised how strong any champ is with 5 evolutions and thsts only posisble if you plan it out ahead and make smart calls. Leona has by far thr highest floor snd is the easiest to get to bosses. Any boss with a dps check she rrally struggles with though. Yasuo has the highest ceiling. The illiao and riven both do ok, illiao can absolutely crush with a lot of thre anima upgrades to boost her tentacle count, bur beforr that shes a weaker leona. Xayah and Jinx can shred, but its almost impossible to get to thr point theyre killing faster thsn stuff reaches you. Seraph is her own desl and idk, shes ok, but its like trsding end game of jinx/xayah for some early game. Briar is ridiculously good when you get her, but she's just a worse leona in almost every way. They have some balancing to do for sure. Some abilities are crap and there's plenty of bugs. So i imagine this hits live in a kuch bettet state.

[@MistletoeGames]

Seraphine needs her sound wave, projectile count, damage, and cooldown. Just a friendly tip :)

[@xavortjuh]

Still avoiding statik shiv when you are playing a melee.. statik shiv most op weapon imo and prioritezes attacks most health opponents(bosses)

[@jordanlicht1601]

Your Leona build would of been perfect with statik instead of bow dam Soo close on items

[@murilowsful]

Uhuul i'm on the video🥰

[@jakeazfitness]

So excited for this game mode!

[@JohnMurphy04f]

the technique i used with frogs is just don't move

[@zacelmir8078]

those tabs are valid ngl

[@alejandrotoro8499]

First time u lvled up everything because u took exp and maxed it.....

[@jackbolton2045]

Idk why but I’m obsessed with watching you play this legit open yt go to your channel before I do anything to see if you’ve made another swam video

[@i0kiPlus]

I'm surprisingly just as obsessed with this game too! Can't wait to show you the next episode :)

[@austinbarnes6652]

Lmao dang, bro. You got robbed imo

[@i0kiPlus]

I REALLY DIDDDDDDDD

[@austinbarnes6652]

Are you on IG or just twitter? I don’t have twitter. Was going to keep up on ig if so

[@i0kiPlus]

@@austinbarnes6652 Nah just Twitter bro

[@scottgraham7064]

You always running from the bosses is rough to watch. They dont despawn

[@justarandomcatonyoutube1729]

Gunny Buns 🐇🔫

[@i0kiPlus]

gunny buns gunny buns gunny buns gunny buns

[@jordanlicht1601]

U ditched statik that's probably the highest dps weapon u can get Jesus..

[@mirzu42]

Dont pick up blue cards. Leave them on the ground and pick up one when you can evolve. If you have 3 or more pick one up when you kill an enemy. The stats arent as good than evolved weapons and weapons cant evolve without the cards. The blue cards are especially bad early game. Such a waste to take them when you can just easily level up.

[@collinhould9408]

Why don't you turn on auto target while you learn movements and champs better

[@thwago]

This is really useful in boss fights for sure

[@randydehnel3020]

*This comment aged terribly by the end of the video how dare I doubt t the GSA's capabilities* Lets see everyone's best guesses on how many episodes of lvl 3 we see before briar makes another appearance 😂 sorry ioki I had to do it

[@i0kiPlus]

No Briar. I just made a pledge to myself. You'll see me conquer it without leaning on her again!

[@idoisaac6602]

Ioki this game has nothing to do with skill, you need to get a few more shop upgrades and you need to stop moving so much, running around dodging works early but when the swarms start coming you gotta carve out a safe zone and move with it

[@superokula]

Leona otp

[@superokula]

To be fair I can only beat extreme with leona

[@mirzu42]

I really like this series but for the love of god stop griefing with these item/augment picks lol. The only champ that should take armor as anything but last resort is leona. You need damage. If you dont know what weapons you want bunny guns and uwu blaster are always a safe pick. Get weapons before stats and only get stats you need to evolve weapons. If you are forced to take a stat that does not evolve to any weapon you currently have pick a weapon you want to get and get the stat needed for that weapon. The more damage you deal the less damage you take. You will never tank a wave if you cant one shot minions. Edit: Also yes, it is good to take 5 weapons before stats. However it is not good to take garbage weapons when you have 3 rerolls. You shouldnt take tank and melee items on projectile based champions. Hell I like to play leona with full damage builds (and to good success might I add) Oh and one obvious disadvantage to not building damage is that you get less XP because you cant kill things as fast which is also really bad when solo. These builds you are doing could work on a squad game.

[@ahrivixen5594]

ioki u kinda need to start learning some proper movement, ur gonna need it for any higher level stuff, an in games like this knowing how to move properly, and properly through mobs is important

[@i0kiPlus]

What type of specific movement should I be improving? Like walking in certain patterns to manipulate mobs?

[@ahrivixen5594]

@@i0kiPlus yep generally that, now in other vampire survivor type games it is a bit easier to manipulate mob movement, but u generally are taking alot of risks on your movements, also dont be afraid of taking ur time moving around the entire map using the space to ur advantage