League of Legends: The New Thread

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Ryze was announced again shortly after Taric's rework, around the time he was modded to only using 5 spells per passive I believe. I agree that it's senseless to try and balance him as the way he is based is similar to Udyr, when items are easily available or in an overpowered state he capitalizes significantly more than most others in the same boat (namely, mana items for him).

I think they need to remove the mana scaling altogether, but maybe allow him a CDR modifier based on his mana or a percent increase on his AP or something.

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I'm notty on the PBE.

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There are special instances in which you use Warlords.

1) (For ADCs) Poke lanes (especially with cait being so prominent now, I find myself really needing the lifesteal in lane should I have to go against her)

2) As Draven (He doesn't really need the bonus damage from Fervor, and Warlords procs on the entirety of his Q damage)

3) (For ADCs) I personally find Warlords to be better if they don't have any tanks. Fervor helps you kill tanks faster and is usually negligible on non-tanks.

4) Toplaners who tend to fight around low health (Aatrox, Olaf, Tryndamere all come to mind) as the Warlords scales with the percentage of missing health.

You pick Fervor on anything that consistently Auto Attacks. It works on Aatrox and Tryndamere as an alternative to Warlords.

You pick Thunderlords on anything with a fair amount of burst damage. Some people like to take it on Nidalee or Lee Sin, junglers who want to snowball the early game. The reason this tree is so powerful is the flat pen granted in the fifth tier.

Windspeakers is predominately used on your utility supports, turning them into a poor man's version of old Soraka (where heals provided bonus combat stats) as well as increasing your base heal. There's a similar talent in tier 2 of the defensive tree which increases incoming heals, which should be used in conjunction with these healers.

Strength of the Ages is for any jungler who wants to build tanky/doesn't need to snowball the early game to be useful. Lee Sin and Nidalee, while mentioned above could both use this as well, but my personal preference is Thunderlords. At max stacks it gives you 300 bonus health (plus additional if you took Cinderhulk) and killing camps allows you to regen some health. I used to niche pick it with my Graves ADC (I built entirely bulk, attempting to survive all their burst and CD's while my team cleaned up). But it is really only a jungling Keystone.

Bond of Stone is best on Tank supports to mitigate some of their AD's damage and allow them to offtank better. There was a time it was used on tanks, but Grasp and Strength of the Ages severely outclass this in solo lanes.

Grasp of the Undying is your go-to if you are a toplane tank. It provides percentage of health damage and gives some sustain in long trades which tend to happen more toplane. Some Yasuo's do use this in the midlane, but I don't know enough about his matchups to say which ones.


The two I missed were Deathfire Touch and Stormraiders.

Deathfire is used on poke champions, or champions with damage over time (Think of it like a second Liandry's). It is also good on Jhin, who has abnormally high AD scaling.

Stormraiders is a niche item, which requires strong burst which can then allow for sticking power, a fast escape, whathaveyou. I've seen people run this on Mordekaiser, Vladimir (I don't know what his pref is but I have seen stormraiders vlad) and iirc Faker runs it on Zed.

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I think SotA is also good on anyone with health scaling.

I have to look up the skills, but I am pretty sure that grasp is stronger on those laners with health scaling. Iirc they just changed grasp to a percent of YOUR max health, so while yes, SotA could increase the scaling on, say, Voli's bite or Tahm Kench's passive, I think it would end up being negligible given the percentage from Grasp.

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Did anyone see that SAD was in an imaqtpie video

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95% sure cabd was the nami in said scenario so this whole line of argument is moot

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http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends. ... b=overview

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I will forever say my least favorite meta is when non-supporty supports are meta.

It's not fun to lane with Malzahar or Miss Fortune. Zyra is kinda bad but at least she can kind of supporty support.

If you want to play mages, go midlane.

Makes me not like playing AD <_<

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I'm not sure if it's ali being OP or me only being able to play him but I'm 9/0 with him in ranked atm

If my laner sucks I just say screw you and go roam

If my laner is winning I just say "nah he can 1v2" and go roam

its a lot of fun

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I feel like that's why roaming works, I pick up mobi's so they can't punish my AD too hard and bc if I was going to be zoned from cs anyway might get another lane ahead

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I run hp/5 as well as the hp/5 mastery that gives me like 10 hp/5 base on top of what I already have

I think trying to focus on putting an ad ahead with all the assassins running around is futule, better to get my other lanes, be they assassins or tanks or high damage mages ahead is a much better use of my time.

I actually like the e changes and the added CC. Yes his heal is up less but he is, in his core, a roaming initiator.

And when it comes to teamfighting, I still peel for the AD. But getting an imobile lethalty ad or an ez who has super low damage ahead of the tanks they will have to fight against with no real sustained damage or the mages that light them up with less items is not on my priority list. Not to mention if I get the other lanes and/or jg ahead we can get drags and objectives and even gank bot

I still show up bot, typically to gank because the other team overextends because it was a 2v1. But just sitting in lane does nothing for my team, which is why I dont.

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This meta is based around roaming. So meh.

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Is clash fun? I’ve debated trying it

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You just have to play udyr or singed, the ultimate anti-lag champions

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I used to play him a ton and haven’t seen him in games in a while.

But I could be wrong and I’ll rescind Udyr.

I’d say some of the enchanters require timing too though.

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I like the tanks on normal tho I feel like it’d be a hard adjustment. Probably is the most forgiving though due to the nature of the role- Maokai would be fine as would a cho or poppy

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At its core the concepts are the same

Melee play safe v ranged early

Level 2 all ins
Level 3 all ins

Death, taxes, AD Mid will int

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I’m going to be playing some games tonight if anyone wants in

Angie yonaga is my ign, I’ll be on around 9 est