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Inskipp
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Sounds like they just want to brush the old legendaries under the carpet and forget about them. Pretty fickle move imo.
Karma is pretty good in ARAM.
Wolf Akela
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I finally caved in and bought 500RP. Pricing scheme in my region is different, so 500RP is about $12.50.
Now I can't decide!
As much as possible I'll only get one skin for a champ. I'm running through my fave champs
Anivia
- Bird of Prey - always liked the simplicity, prolly one of the first I wanted
- Hextech - just found this, and thought she looked quite cool
Dreadknight Nasus, but problem is that even though I really like Nasus, I'll only pick him if I'm assured of a solo lane (blind pick)
Amethyst Ashe, but Vayne is my primary pick and I don't like any of her skins.
Warwick - Flame and Tundra, but I hate his nerfs so I don't play him often now
Udyr - Black Belt is barely noticeable. I only like Phoenix for Primal.
No legendaries! PFE is $15 right now as a promo but I never liked the skin that much and I don't like spending that much money on one skin.
Now I can't decide!
As much as possible I'll only get one skin for a champ. I'm running through my fave champsAnivia
- Bird of Prey - always liked the simplicity, prolly one of the first I wanted
- Hextech - just found this, and thought she looked quite cool
Dreadknight Nasus, but problem is that even though I really like Nasus, I'll only pick him if I'm assured of a solo lane (blind pick)
Amethyst Ashe, but Vayne is my primary pick and I don't like any of her skins.
Warwick - Flame and Tundra, but I hate his nerfs so I don't play him often now
Udyr - Black Belt is barely noticeable. I only like Phoenix for Primal.
No legendaries! PFE is $15 right now as a promo but I never liked the skin that much and I don't like spending that much money on one skin.
I finally caved in and bought 500RP. Pricing scheme in my region is different, so 500RP is about $12.50.
Now I can't decide!
Anivia
- Bird of Prey - always liked the simplicity, prolly one of the first I wanted
- Hextech - just found this, and thought she looked quite cool
Dreadknight Nasus, but problem is that even though I really like Nasus, I'll only pick him if I'm assured of a solo lane (blind pick)
Amethyst Ashe, but Vayne is my primary pick and I don't like any of her skins.
Warwick - Flame and Tundra, but I hate his nerfs so I don't play him often now
Udyr - Black Belt is barely noticeable. I only like Phoenix for Primal.
No legendaries! PFE is $15 right now as a promo.
I personally like Amethyst Ashe.
Hm ... should mean Kassadin ult does more damage after ~134 AP when maxed out (and obviously much sooner for lower ranks of it)? Interesting.
Complex Shadow
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i always ban kass first.
karthus dies easy. i just go fiora and get someone to carry me.
XeroSauce
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These are all perfect
GP was falling off, Orianna felt nerfed, and Kassadin was also falling off.
IsayFever
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gp is fine
XeroSauce
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GP has a pathetic passive, a Q and kit that it countered by armor when they changed the dodge mechanic, really bad sustain, and a RNG ultimate. The only reason GP can stay relevant is because his ulti is global and he can build tanky, but his early game sucks, esp. from the increased mana costs they gave him.
I'm not saying he is underpowered, just weak.
Xin Zhao is getting a new skin called:
Zhao Yun Xin Zhao
heh.
how can kassadin fall off when is still banned alot in in high level play.
urgot will be hit hard this patch.
IsayFever
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Jungle him, still fine. Armour penetration helps early
XeroSauce
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Kassadin is falling off the radar because he can be destroyed pre-6 by more mobile mids and can be denied by smart teams. He is not weak, he is just hard to use with the advent of powerful mids and gap closing tankys.
I'm around 1400-1500 elo and Kass isn't even considered a ban anymore, while Morg, Ahri, and Karthus still get banned first or second.
Jungle is slow and his ganks are not great, albeit better then Shyvana thanks to his E.
Wolf Akela
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Fuck it. Bought Bird of Prey since it's the cheapest.
SKIN OP
SKIN OP
XeroSauce
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Fuck it. Bought Bird of Prey since it's the cheapest.
SKIN OP
I actually really like that skin, nice.
My understanding of it isn't so much that Kassadin is bad, per se, it's just that he's easy to counterpick and beat him in lane.
Schmattakopf
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These are all great.
Kassadin is banned because people don't want to deal with his mobility/global presence. Same reason you would ban Ahri or a global champ like Karthus or Shen.
Kass and shen I agree. Yet karthus and Ahri are far more controllable in my view than those two. People bitching about karthus show me they can't buy a veil or have decent MR and you deserve to die to that ult. Unless karthus is getting mega feed he shouldn't be cheese ulting your team and you shouldn't allow yourself in to one of the longest standing bait move this genre has had since dota aka zeus ulti.
dunno, the problem with karthus is that the range on his q is absurd that he cant miss cs all game long and when he reach lvl6 he just shut down low health enemies with his ultimate.
he is really squishy but it doesnt matter if u are farming passively the whole game and becoming hyper carry.
Lone_Prodigy
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So new hero = Poison Ivy?
lazorexplosion
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Fuck it. Bought Bird of Prey since it's the cheapest.
SKIN OP
Best champion's best skin, grats.
kiunchbb
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They have to nerf her Q because everything else in her toolset got a buff.
I played her for a few days, I dont' feel that she is weaker than any other ap from early to end game except for champ like morgana. And that is with me keep losing track of the ball, wasting time locating it, ult in the wrong place, etc during important team fight. I can't imagine how good she will be once people got used to her.
No, all of her scaling is really poor, particularly on her ultimate. She will probably be a damage over time champion, or someone who excels at zone control. It's hard to imagine people standing in her ultimate for two seconds for the knockup though. I would guess she would be most valuable protecting high priority carry targets with few escapes. If she is safe enough to run top, she would pair really well with someone like Orianna to offer huge amounts of protection on a carry.
His laning phase is really bad. Maxing out W is fine in the jungle but in lane you are giving your opponent free reign. GP used to be about harass. At least with this change he can farm hard and won't have to seriously alter his runes or build for his ridiculous mana requirements early and mid game.
She will probably be super strong. She already is good.
Eve looks stupidly good. Range and AOE on Hate Spike and ult. Good ratios. Super high mobility. She will crush people. All of the changes in the patch look really good. Nerf to gold per ten stacking. Morgana, Malphite, and Nocturne nerfs. Kass and Akali buffs. Not only is this patch huge but it will have a pretty dramatic impact on picks.
Barrel Cannon
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To be fair the majority of their base models are amazing. Sometimes they are so good that I don't feel like buying extra skins but sometimes the other skins are so good(dam you pulsefire ezreal) that I end up buying them still
.... Quality varies wildly. Old models are usually pretty not good, though skins rarely make things that much better unless there are changes on spell effects.
Apparently she falls off late game now. Haven't had a chance to try her out but that's the complaint. Don't know if a 0.1 ap increase will change that.
Barrel Cannon
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I was leaning towards that as well. That is what Axe took inspiration from as well.
SouthernDragon
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Whoever is managing art production at Riot is doing their job. The old policy with new champs and skins simply didn't make sense, and their numbers HAD to reflect that. Think on it.
They'd release a champion with two skins. They would then offer 3 ways to buy the champion: solo, bundled with skin 1, bundled with both skins. Often it'd also seem that one skin was lamer than the other, and that was often the skin that was bundled. I'd wager that they noticed one skin was often heavily favored by the user base over the other.
So now they went for one champ, one skin on release, but making that skin stand out. Basically, taking what they suspect would have been the favored skin and putting extra effort into that.
They'd release a champion with two skins. They would then offer 3 ways to buy the champion: solo, bundled with skin 1, bundled with both skins. Often it'd also seem that one skin was lamer than the other, and that was often the skin that was bundled. I'd wager that they noticed one skin was often heavily favored by the user base over the other.
So now they went for one champ, one skin on release, but making that skin stand out. Basically, taking what they suspect would have been the favored skin and putting extra effort into that.
Barrel Cannon
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I know how the setup works we had a few gaffers recently abuse the setup. Start a gank somewhere and finish them off with it. I find his aoe crap more annoying than his ulti tbh.
Also like I mentioned teams letting you do that is equally as bad as letting nasus or other types get farmed up and go in to hyper carry. You shut this guy down and give him little opportunities it's hard for him to do anything. Most games are about this already but he really requires an effort and if you aren't doing that I totally agree he is one of the worst mid to late game to start letting roll people/
Ame Ashe is my pick. I bought (with IP) Ashe only because of that skinI finally caved in and bought 500RP. Pricing scheme in my region is different, so 500RP is about $12.50.
Now I can't decide!
Anivia
- Bird of Prey - always liked the simplicity, prolly one of the first I wanted
- Hextech - just found this, and thought she looked quite cool
Dreadknight Nasus, but problem is that even though I really like Nasus, I'll only pick him if I'm assured of a solo lane (blind pick)
Amethyst Ashe, but Vayne is my primary pick and I don't like any of her skins.
Warwick - Flame and Tundra, but I hate his nerfs so I don't play him often now
Udyr - Black Belt is barely noticeable. I only like Phoenix for Primal.
No legendaries! PFE is $15 right now as a promo but I never liked the skin that much and I don't like spending that much money on one skin.
kiunchbb
www.dictionary.com
All AP fall off late game when AD carry kills everything in 2 seconds. All AP can do in end game is either being stun support, or sniping enemy carry. The only exception is when enemy team build paper cannon.
It was in comparison to other ap characters.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Playing one normal game with boken already made me a better player
Is his rage truly that useful?
Boken doesn't rage. If anyone rages on GAF it's me. Boken is a really smart player when it comes to what the team should be doing and he has a really high mechanical skill. You can learn a ton by playing with better players. I get pretty worried about messing up and stuff though because it's groups of 1400-1500+ players when I group with like him and Bind and xcloser, but you just try to take stuff away from mistakes. It's probably worse because I have been in a bad habit of picking low tier champions or ones I don't know and running the wrong summoners on them.
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