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1. smite now gives a burst of HP+(amount per lvl) when used on neutralsIn post 7205, SensFan wrote:Can someone give me (or point me to) a tl;dr of the major S7 changes? Haven't played since Worlds ended, and couldn't follow well when I tried to watch LCK this morning.
2. plants. Ghostcrawler really wanted some buyable plant in the game to replace wards but it was scrapped because it was stupid. Instead the idea was reworked to replace smite buffs
3. The assassin class was reworked. Katarina now has real dual scaling, and with the new Gunblade scales pretty hard. Other honorable mentions are Khazix (new Q is crazy with CDR), Rengar was given a CC-break in place of resists, his HP gain was nerfed to a gray health system like TK. His ult was sidegraded while his burst with Q combos was removed, but given AoE/waveclear in Q to compensate. Riot wants Assassins to move towards winning any 1v1 over time opposed to instantly deleting someone and trying to get away with it.
4. Armorpen was gutted, replaced by lethality. Lethality works similarly to arpen, but scales with opponent level. Making it pretty useless. You'll find archetypical assassins like Khazix or Rengar skipping it and going Black Cleaver for the mix of survivability, armor pen and cooldown reduction. It gives far more damage.
5. ADC meta is yet to settle. LCK is being conservative and playing S6 adcs, utility picks. I think with the substantial nerfs to Jhin's itemization it allows Kalista to re-enter the meta as she is primary a laning/midgame ad, not too unlike Jhin, and while her mechanism is riskier, she can start fights like he does. We need to wait until EULCS and possibly the debut of the NALCS to see what everyone wants to play.
6. Ziggs is being played bot lane. This is actually something symptomatic of late S6 and rise of tanks, but the real change that made it boil over was the new tank mastery in the resolve tree. Ziggs takes towers and only needs levels 6, 9 to be effective. Typical ad carries have little in the way of damage until 7-8k gold.
7. Jungle gives much more experience (though not as much as preseason). This is allowing for carries to be played over the jungle tank meta.
8. Malzahar is drawing bans because he is being played as a support in scrims. His rework made it so W is a consistent form of damage + gains pushing priority not unlike Karma and Zyra and has superior tower taking power. He was played in the first game of the season (ROX vs KT) and every support thought to be able to play it has had it banned against them since.
9. Teams are failing to bust tanks (40% winrate, and 1 of those wasn't a bust.) As it stands with the new mastery Maokai is the best top in the game. I see teams continuing towards a centralized tank top meta and with a Maokai ban I think Alistar will replace Singed in pick priority and Shen/Lissandra flank comps to appear.-
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some really uninspiring eu games this week. by that i mean i didn't bother watching them. i'd wager h2k vs uol was probably watchable. i think xerxe and exileh have a lot of potential to grow in general.
i feel vindicated after being wrong about taliyah after seeing Hai pick TF. i probably should have seen the resurgence of Corki, who was a great roamer before Aurelion Sol auto won lane against everyone.
we're seeing shen played but not necessarily played with flanking playmakers, instead he's more of a duelling enabler along with khazix. still have no idea why alistar isn't being played. i think his playmaking power is among the highest for tanks and he has a favorable matchup against shen and nautilus. i guess tank busting in scrims must be a real thing now, because we're seeing more top lane carry bans and less maokai ones. seeing nautilus into maokai makes more sense than alistar, because maokai shuts down alistar in lane and can stop his TP flanks instantly via point click root.
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>Piglet is one of the best mids in NA
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tomorrow:
TSM vs CLG, round robin match 2
sunday:
C9 White vs C9 Blue, round robin match 2.
SKT vs KT, round robin match 2, rematch of the bloodbath of thursday night.
thursday:
Origen vs Roccat. Who will be the worst team in any major region? Featuring xPeke in mid again. Naehyun to support.
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This isn't final form SKT. Peanut is stylistically a joke for SKT. They want passive lanes.
Peanut will still be played in groups: SKT wants to give no information over of how Blank will perform on meta junglers, or whether Blank has Ivern ready. Where he paths and the enemy being prepared for it is one of the biggest concerns when Blank plays. Blank will come out after game 1 in a series against LZ/SSG/RNG. Teams that require respect.-
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That is the team you would play if you wanted to shake them in the early game. SKT wants to prepare a roam or a TP to get a first tower, then out macro you. They're very good at it, but if you knock them out cold before they pull it out you're proving to yourself that you did it properly.
Sad thing is that I'm sure TSM did some lategame arms race shit in scrims with them to see if they could out teamfight the best. [though that flash from pray vs gam the other night was amazing]-
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weldon korea nationalism / tsm vod leaking / taipeichingchong might have had something to do with it. lz would see tsm early in prep (top vs second), while skt was guaranteed to meet them earliest in semis, making prep from weeks before worth less.In post 7776, Voidedmafia wrote:Westdoor has a kid?
Looks like we got a badass dad up in here
P-EDIT: Huh. Makes a bit more sense. Why no LZ or RNG, though...?-
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C9 gets their pick here: focusing on Clearlove or Scout is pretty much the key to killing EDG. Mouse is a role player, and focusing ADC is pointless in this meta (targon brace if you're losing for the shield, get an earlier ardent censer...). That's partly why Hans Sama has had an easy time. Focusing a side lane without an advantageous objective trade (free herald or double tower) would be a sign to me that EDG gets an opportunity to knock out C9 in a teamfight, which iBoy is really good at.
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Sure. However the meta has developed in a short time. Additionally, both MSF and RNG has pushed SKT to grow stronger, and play in the early game. Something like the miracle combo of Rakan+Galio like versus EDG, except with an Ashe on top I think is a great answer to Cait's early game, and trap hell. The ECA grants the extra time needed to collapse. Actually, I'd say the time it grants would allow Orianna over Galio, which may end up banned.-
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Games to watch tomorrow: Fnatic vs iG, C9 vs GenG
I'll eventually watch them all but I think these two are the big ones. iG is looking super strong and Rookie vs Caps is going to be hype. C9 is capable of some high highs, but I don't have faith in them making it out of groups. Still, they decide the fate of GenG tomorrow.
TL vs EDG is going to be put up or shut up, but I don't know how much I trust TL.
Something the analysts haven't brought up is how good Chinese junglers are. Chokelove and MLXD are warming the bench. The players trusted to start in groups have been Karsa, Ning, and Haro. Ning just had a kick ass Zac game against GRX, pulling off plays other pro players only dream of actually performing in a real game. Haro was looking like the best jungler in the world in the gauntlet. Every other jungler not named Score or Moojin have been ass.-
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Really unhappy with the casting this year.
1. Riv and Quickshot are awful. They have no idea how the game is played, hype up things that don't real, and go on unrelated tangents all the time. They only have a job because they're the "face" of their regions.
2. Phreak/Quickshot only know how to flame people. Deficio is guilty of this, but Deficio wasn't dropped on his head as an infant, so he has some redeeming qualities.
3. The promotions are overbearing. If somebody fumbles the "ACER Predator replay" somebody else will awkwardly remind everyone that it was, in fact, an ACER Predator replay. I doubt they're contractually obligated to say it every time, because they had missed it often during play-ins. It's like they get thrown bills every time they say it, which makes it all the more pathetic when they forget to say it and have to be corrected.
5. Yodaspeak. Sometimes it's intentional, and whoever talks like Yoda to look cool, immediately becomes my least favourite person ever. What is different at this worlds isn't simple deliberate Yodaspeak, but every game a caster is saying something like "they know they can't contest, C9 is".Every game. It's like there was an internal memo that informed the casters that the average viewer is pants on head stupid and needs everything explained. Never mind that you know which team they're referring to if, I don't know, the viewer decided to open their eyes? What's worse is that when they fumble and end up yodaspeaking they could easily just continue their train of thought. Example: "they know they can't contest, C9 has to find the right plan to proceed". Nope, just yoda this bitch.
4. Calling Group B the Group of Death because your favourite teams were expected to never get out is hilariously racist. That's not even the meaning of "group of death".
5. The best caster is on the analyst desk because he's an OGN employee and not a Riot one. Classy.
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Despite the Inven reactions to TL Nami was not intended to be a troll pick by GenG.
It was bad coaching
Heart himself was a Samsung support, a stereotypical heal bitch. His most memorable play is on Nami when he defended something like 1v4 against C9 in 2014 and swindled the game resulting a 3-1 victory for Samsung Blue
A common theme Frosk kept pushing in LPL was the "lane kingdom" which referred to Uzi+Ming and sometimes Xiaohu. Heart picked for lane to smash Uzi+Ming. They failed.
That doesn't mean it was a bad pick or troll pick. It was a bad pick because engage are top class right now for a reason. Zeke's burns for 1000s of damage while giving tank stats. Ardent censer looks dumb in the age of Stormrazor.
Either he wanted to say "but my players beat Uzi in lane, Uzi sucks" no matter the game result or he was testing RNG not for the benefit of his team / players but for the other LCK teams. Bad coaching.-
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still don't think hjarnan is some god adc like he's being hyped to be. he's better than he was before, but i still see him trip over himself when kiting, missing autos.
i do think he's the best carry g2 could have gotten, though. you need a counterweight from the aggression. a patient player in the 3 in the 1-3-1.
this series said more about uzi's skill level than hjarnan's. needs lucian to beat hjarnan. jackeylove is behaving more like the 2013-2014 finals uzi that would jump into a fight and completely change the expected outcome.-
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I suppose I was overrating AFs. They're at this tournament because they made it to finals twice. C9 is comparable in that they made it to summer finals.
Second seed from Korea used to mean something. AFs has good players. I mean, at least Kiin, Mowgli, and Kramer are all solid. Something is wrong with this team, and it isn't carrying the weight top class Korean teams typically do.
I expect Mowgli to play the rest of the games. He had a good showing in group stage and I felt he was better than Spirit.
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AFs agrees with me. Mowgli is in.
Feel like AFs could have committed to the Kassadin hover. Ryze v Aatrox wouldn't be fun, but Graves was drafted to help exploit Braum. So, Graves should naturally gravitate botside.
I don't think Viktor was doing anything for the team, but overall the draft has improved from game 1 with key steals. Jensen dropping down to Ahri is pretty sad. Too slothful to play Ekko. Too proud to play Malzahar. I want C9 to lose for this alone.-
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My meta analysis
S tier: Papa, Kobe
A tier: Pastrytime, Vedius, Azael
B tier: Frosk (promotes to S+ tier every time she angers the twitch virgins), Deficio
C tier: Flowers
D tier: Spawn
E tier: that jester guy from mlg 6 years ago who was wearing a hat to cover his male pattern baldness
F tier: Quickshot, Riv, Phreak, LOUD NOISES FLOWERS, LOUD NOISES QUICKSHOT, LOUD NOISES PHREAK
If you disagree with this, your opinions areand you are unable to enjoy watching intellectual macro gamesSHIT-
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LS has vod reviews of some of the games on his youtube channel
The Afreeca ones are pretty good. Something he didn't mention was that C9 and AFs were scrim partners from the beginning of bootcamp. In game 2 he basically says Mowgli needs to focus on the botside quadrant, but he instead focuses on the topside one. The AF botlane in general sucked, and parsing the performance with LS' thoughts on pathing along with the scrims makes me think Sneaky and Zeyzal smashed AFs to the point where they got islanded. Upon realizing that strategy didn't work in game 2, they have Spirit camp botlane and turn it into a party, but it doesn't do anything at all.
Basically, their botlane sucked and the coach even ordered them to be quarantined.-
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okay ornn isn't banned and ig drafted akali j4
in the trash you go. that should have been ornn graves. elo hell coach.
this is just another example of korean fragility. wanting an insurance policy on a dumbass car. how about you crush with a good draft so the AD mid doesn't matter? if anyone can force fights early it's graves braum.-
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ig was very fortunate that that guy (G2 Perkz) smug face never practiced against wunder in the matchup
vietnam has this super cool counterpick to aatrox. maybe we should learn it? you know, zeros, the only good player on PVB thinks its good.
g2 got totally found out trying 1-3-1 comp again. similar comp: gangplank, lissandra. congrats you can make space better than swain can and get sivir to lategame.-
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Irelia is a cool pick to switch back into Jayce. Dislike that Hjarnan had a week and is still on Jhin. If he could play Varus at a top level, why wouldn't you just play Varus TK?
ig's comp is macro or die. gragas is a good insurance policy that ensures jayce does nothing in a teamfight. ig seems pretty content to assign favorable lanes and play g2's game. perkz can't match the jayce due to lack of TP.-
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