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[patchday]

Inhouse reminder.

I always get home too late to make those. I just barely missed this one by like 15 mins

I'm in Central Standard Time zone. so the normal time you run those events I'm at work

 

[Dreams-Visions]

That's dedication.

Also guys, how about an inhouse today?

I'm down.

 

[Edwardo]

Then nobody would know when I'm actually posting.

It's true.

 

[SenorArdilla]

She was nothing like what exists now in terms of the top lane tank meta.

Build Sunfire+IBG to win lane.

 

[Nekofrog]

Irelia isn't a true tank champion, she doesn't have any defense steroids like Naut/Malph/Rammus/Ekko (i'll call his W and his R a defensive steroid, it's borderline)

You can build her tanky, but she's still going to melt way fast.

 

[zkylon]

breezy can be happy, swain is gonna get small changes in the midseason mage update: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.co...d-year-mage-updates-low-scope-mage-directions

sounds like most of the changes are solid

they're removing the ap scaling on veigar's ult like i said they should've done in his rework a billion years ago

they're making xerath q easier to dodge and his ult flashier and more satisfying to use

those two changes i've been saying forever but u know

and syndra changes sound all tied to her passive so i'm not too afraid of them screwing her up by doing something silly like making her ult a skillshot

 

[Fracas]

breezy can be happy, swain is gonna get small changes in the midseason mage update: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.co...d-year-mage-updates-low-scope-mage-directions

thank you god

 

[Vincent Alexander]

I missed another in-house?

 

[jerd]

Couple new splashes

Also happening

Wesley Ruttle ‏@SmashGizmo 2h2 hours ago
Just to clarify, Ekko is like, super duper crazy out of line. Like, way more than everyone else using grasp, sunfire, and ibg.

Wesley Ruttle
@SmashGizmo just wanted to say this because people seem to not understand the extremity of how far off he is right now.

Real

 

[Ken]

are those china approved tho

 

[PhillipCostigan]

thanks for the inhouses guys! Maokai is so brainless I love it

 

[Newt]

Inhouse games need more Illaoi. Step it up guys.

 

[Repgnar]

thanks for the inhouses guys! Maokai is so brainless I love it

Indeed, was fun the two games I got in tonight. What have you guys done in order to get even teams in the past? The first game I got in(I think the 2nd game of the night) was really even so it'd be great to have more games like that one.

 

[Nekofrog]

if you'd do inhouses at a reasonable time i'd play illaoi support with you

 

[23qwerty]

^

 

[PhillipCostigan]

Indeed, was fun the two games I got in tonight. What have you guys done in order to get even teams in the past? The first game I got in(I think the 2nd game of the night) was really even so it'd be great to have more games like that one.

these are the first I've played, but the second game was more even alright. I do think some of that was down to comp though. Realistically we should have won with our comp but were too bad to close it out.

rip

 

[Quonny]

That Kennan splash is creepy as hell.

 

[powerdrain]

New splashes look great! I imagine in the near future if any of those guys get reworked their visual is gonna stay the same, just cleaned up and their kits changed slightly.

Fiddle's and Warwick's look awesome!

 

[Fracas]

holy shit ap udyr is some freelo

 

[garath]

Couple new splashes





Also happening



Wesley Ruttle ‏@SmashGizmo 2h2 hours ago
Just to clarify, Ekko is like, super duper crazy out of line. Like, way more than everyone else using grasp, sunfire, and ibg.

Wesley Ruttle
@SmashGizmo just wanted to say this because people seem to not understand the extremity of how far off he is right now.

Real

Bah. Ekko nerfs. Expected but bah. They shouldn't have buffed him in the first place.

So the nerfs will be a wash around 200ap. That's crappy for my jungle ekko. Stupid toplane always ruining things.

 

[Stone Ocean]

breezy can be happy, swain is gonna get small changes in the midseason mage update: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.co...d-year-mage-updates-low-scope-mage-directions

sounds like most of the changes are solid

they're removing the ap scaling on veigar's ult like i said they should've done in his rework a billion years ago

they're making xerath q easier to dodge and his ult flashier and more satisfying to use

those two changes i've been saying forever but u know

and syndra changes sound all tied to her passive so i'm not too afraid of them screwing her up by doing something silly like making her ult a skillshot

By AP scaling you mean enemy AP scaling right?

 

[Blizzard]

That was one of the few satisfying things about Veigar, along with the instant stun -- LeBlanc is a horrifically annoying champion, but it was so satisfying to be able to instantly kill her.

Veigar's identity was basically an anti-high-AP-scaling mage in my opinion.

 

[jerd]

Bah. Ekko nerfs. Expected but bah. They shouldn't have buffed him in the first place.

So the nerfs will be a wash around 200ap. That's crappy for my jungle ekko. Stupid toplane always ruining things.

Funny thing is it wasn't even the previous buffs that broke him, just a build that hadn't come out of the woodworks yet. He still woulda been busted in his previous state if people had just been building him like they do now

I guess that's kinda how it goes sometimes

I've had to stop playing him anyway because after pulling a 62% win rate on him last season I'm at 42% this season with a gut wrenching number of my games ending up like this. It's been so bizarrely consistent that I would just get huge on him then not be able to carry so I had to drop him. He's def my favorite champion too it sucks :/

 

[drawkcaB]

Ziggs

What we’re happy with:

Perfectly captures the Mad Bomber thematic.
Fills a unique artillery role by lobbing bombs constantly
Mega Inferno Bomb creates some high-moments and big plays

What we’re less happy with:

Has the ability to stall out games by keeping multiple minion waves pushed
Doesn’t distinguish himself enough from the other long-range mages (like Lux and Xerath), meaning you tend to just play whichever is the strongest
What we hope to see coming out of the update:

Ziggs fulfills a strategic niche that rewards you for picking him over other mages in the right situations
His ability to stall a game is diminished to the point that a strong Ziggs doesn’t delay the outcome of games by large lengths of time

I've said it before and I'll say it again: focus Ziggs as a tower destroyer, the mage version of Tristana. A siege specialist, but not so hot at counter sieging.

Give him the ability to cast Satchel Charge on towers, let it deal lots of damage, make it so that it needs the full timer to explode, and give the other team a means to "defuse" the satchel charge. Ziggs can hasten the detonation timer by landing his own bombs on it.

An ammo system on Q, different ultimate, claymore-like mines...there's lots of space to explore with a bomb lobbing anarchist squirrel.

Unfortunately he's part of the small mage updates, so it'll be something very limited in the end.

Wesley Ruttle ‏@SmashGizmo 2h2 hours ago
Just to clarify, Ekko is like, super duper crazy out of line. Like, way more than everyone else using grasp, sunfire, and ibg.

Wesley Ruttle
@SmashGizmo just wanted to say this because people seem to not understand the extremity of how far off he is right now.

Real

Oh and we buffed him two patches consecutively because we're fucking dumb and don't bother looking at our own data when making balance decisions. Hey, let's watch some LCS er'body!

In other news, Kindred's nerfs did fuck all. She has the exact same win rate as before, same match stats, same everything. All they managed to accomplish was remove some interesting interactions of her ultimate.

 

[23qwerty]

By AP scaling you mean enemy AP scaling right?

It does not appear so

What we’re happy with:
Strong fantasy. ‘Getting revenge on the big guys’ is a strong theme for someone that ultimately catches you out and destroys you.

oh nvm, the answer was hidden in the comments

 

[patchday]

why did Riot buff Ekko then planning a nerf like 1-2 weeks later? I dont miss all the dumb balancing in this game

 

[Nekofrog]

Veigars R now does additional damage based on how many inches taller than him the targeted champion is in lore.

(malphite is totally screwed)

 

[Stone Ocean]

oh nvm, the answer was hidden in the comments

Oh thank fuck

 

[23qwerty]

Curious to see what they're planning

 

[jerd]

why did Riot buff Ekko then planning a nerf like 1-2 weeks later? I dont miss all the dumb balancing in this game

They wanted to help his laning which was shit. That buff isn't what makes current ekko op, it's his high bases and execute passive and his godly cc combined with two overtuned items

 

[Nekofrog]

IBG and sunfire aren't even THAT overtuned (ok, IBG probably really needs nerfed), it's the fact that you can get them so fast due to their Dollar Store bargain bin prices

 

[Stone Ocean]

I'm still trying to figure out why the hell would you give an assassin %Hp damage

 

[SenorArdilla]

Wonder what they're going to replace Veigar's "Enemy AP" scaling with.

 

[jerd]

IBG and sunfire aren't even THAT overtuned (ok, IBG probably really needs nerfed), it's the fact that you can get them so fast due to their Dollar Store bargain bin prices

Exactly they're so cheap

 

[Bacon]

Wonder what they're going to replace Veigar's "Enemy AP" scaling with.

Enemy AD probably

 

[jerd]

I'm still trying to figure out why the hell would you give an assassin %Hp damage

Idk it worked so well on khazix

Every champ that's ever been given %missing Hp damage has abused it as a faux tank

 

[Stone Ocean]

Idk it worked so well on khazix

It worked in the what now

 

[jerd]

I refuse to start putting /s it's not my fault you guys don't get my edgy humor

 

[Blizzard]

I report people all the time, but my new hobby is specifically sending a support request along with the report if they tell someone to kill themselves. Postgame:

"pls slit your throat tonight
u fucking sukc

both of u kill yoruselves"

 

[Envelope]

sad that jungle ekko which was fun and balanced has to take a hit because of riot made armor too cheap

 

[Stone Ocean]

sad that jungle ekko which was fun and balanced has to take a hit because of riot made armor too cheap

 

[Envelope]

at least you agree on the fun part :^)

 

[Wolf Akela]

Speaking of Kha, I wanna try jungling with him again. Where do I start in the jungle? Do you kill smaller creeps for isolation against the big one, or just focus on the big one?

I tried frog->blue and golem->red but I die eitherway. I was trying to follow the win% build on champion.gg but I'm pretty much near dead after 2 camps if I take the refillable potion + talisman.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Sounds like Ziggs' ult range is getting dunked on.

 

[jerd]

Hey everyone,

This is SuperCakes and I’m the Product Manager on Personalization (aka Skins Team).

I want to take a minute to chat with you about this year’s SKT Worlds Skins. When we released these skins to PBE earlier this week, we were excited to see what you all thought. And what we found out is these skins haven’t lived up to expectations.

Our approach to this skin line historically has been to treat it as something commemorative; a representation of a team’s victory at the World Championships. We would occasionally make a nod to a specific player, and we would try to choose champions that most reflected the team, but the focus was more on the team than the individual player. And that’s how we went into designing this year’s skins.

But what we’ve heard from you is that you expect more from these skins. You want to see the player, you want to see the highlights and you want to see cooler shit. To be honest, we’re really excited about that potential.

So, we’re holding off releasing these skins for now and looking for things we can do to make them even more awesome.

And while we’re at it, we’ll be adding Azir. Making a skin for a sub was not something we’d had to consider before and we were worried about setting a precedent. But it’s time for us to start looking at these skins as a celebration of the winning team’s year instead of just Worlds. Easyhoon was way more than a sub. He was an integral part of their victorious year.

This conversation reminded us how much this scene has evolved. It’s time for the skins to evolve with it.

Sometimes riot babies this community so much and other times they just ignore them I don't get it

We getting skt azir tho so that's cool

 

[Ferga]

IDK why everyone doesn't just play Garen into Veigar mid. I was last pick ... was gonna play Diana but saw Veigar and was like "I aint got time for that shit, easy lane pick time".

The 2 times I did it was a damn breeze. The only problem is that ya can't tower dive him if he stays safe.

Because you screw the entire team over by picking a no-waveclear, non assassin, non ap mid laner.

Plus the ranged jungler can just run mid every minute to chunk your tower since you're a melee with no range abilities.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Sometimes riot babies this community so much and other times they just ignore them I don't get it

We getting skt azir tho so that's cool

It's not really a matter of babying the community, they keep raising the bar for skins by themselves yet are surprised when people are salty when they don't live up to said standards.

I mean, SKT are champions for the second time and they get skins that are probably worse than their first set, right after Fnatic and SSW gets some really cool skins last year. C'mon, if Riot can make Gragas literally look like Shushei they can at the very fucking least make a skin for a champion Bang is actually known for.

 

[Wolf Akela]

Cool.

 

[Ferga]

Aww taric already nerfed on pbe.

 

[kenbo]

Small Mage Changes happening tooooo....

fidddle

kennen

ziggs

swain (rip breezey)

veigar

xerath

anivia

syndra


read more here: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.co...d-year-mage-updates-low-scope-mage-directions