Most of the time items with like 900+ combine costs feel bad, especially when you have no single component costing more than 800g. If you want a high one time cost you have items like NLR or BF you add, you don’t need another 1100g for the combine costs. Just add one Tome (140 AP then in total like on the PBE) and you reduce the combine cost to 700g.

DC, Fimbul, Horizon Focus, …

Especially when such an item is your 1st or 2nd slot item. 4th or 5th slot is a lot different.

Too often are items niche because they have too high combine costs.

Most bruisers have their mana costs adjusted. Only older tanks like Mao, Malph and Poppy still have higher mana costs on their core abilities. 55 Mana on Poppy for her Q is a lot compared to like 20-30 mana on many bruisers. And Poppy has one of the worst base mana values on top.

Without mythics you can get Seraphs 1st again, which was possible before mythics already. It just made little sense with mythics existing.

We know that the removal of mythics and items reduces item diversity. The removal of mythics is there to reduce item power creep and to make your champ build items that fit them instead of chosing an item based on your enemy/situation.

Riot once wanted diversity but what they found was that diversity also means you have to make the item passives/actives strong enough to matter a lot, which is against the champs identity. We had the same with runes. When everyone went OP Conqueror everyone was a DPS bruiser with sustain.

Now they want to focus on champ identity again and get away from powerful items and runes, lowering diversity of these but helping out champ identity instead.

ADCs were often mid in the early first year, especially Ashe with TP (R from base and TP to lane).

A lot of that comes from smurfs making MMR less accurate than ever before. When 20-40% of your currently playing accounts are smurfs with totally inaccurate MMR it all becomes really hard for any system evaluate players for real.

They once had the plan to combine the defensive stat runes into hybrid runes. Thought it was a great idea.

I would want them to remove the stat runes all together as their impact is small and rarely useful to swap around too much except for Armor or MR in the landing phase based in the matchup.

The goal is to make mages who are about burst do exactly that. If you want DPS as a mage play Vlad, Cassio or some other mages who have the kit for it.

LeBlanc or Annie should have more trouble with tanks and want to reach the backline.

I am not saying that Riot hits the perfect spot right now but the direction is intended.

When it says patching, let it patch. Don’t close the client as it needs to download and update.

If you click on it, you will get to Ziggs and there you can click onto mid. It just says bot in the summary because that is the main role that gets played.

3 or 5 points into W is nearly the same. So go for it if you want to.

How many players are dia+? Nearly nobody cares where trundle is in dia+.

Milio has an above 4% PR which is around AVG for support. And compared to Briar he is not way OP. She is the best soloQ champ to play even on 13.23, which already says how OP she was before her 3 nerfs.

I want to see Briar with a ~50% WR next year. I doubt she will have a higher than 5% PR except she gets played in pro play.

Wait till she isn’t OP anymore.

52-53% WR in most elos and that while many people still dont use her lethality build with is still ~3% better than Bruiser.

She is still the best soloQ champ right now. Riot will likely aim for another ~2% lower WR

I don’t see it as a problem as AH gets mostly reduced next season.

But I agree that it is boring. It makes the map the least interesting one and that says a lot when you have cloud map (2nd most boring one).

With the changes nearly nothing changed. Nashors is still not his best 1st item, still a good 2nd item. He can use Lich Bane now (maybe).

So nothing really changed for him except that he got nerfed if you don’t take Nashors 1st or 2nd which is like ~15-20% of his games.

Ludens + Sorc + Nashors is his best build by far right now, but more so because of Ludens than Nashors.

Zoe is not really true dmg in the way it works for others. It uses post mitigation dmg as the number for the dmg. So you can still reduce that dmg with MR (MR - 30%). Just so that it won’t get reduced twice it uses true dmg.

They could have used pre mitigation dmg also, just like they do with Zeds R.

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Amumu is different to Zoe as he uses pre mitigation magic dmg and enhances it, so MR doesn’t do anything against his true dmg.

Good thing in my RL such a place doesn’t exist. In my work I get supported and everyone trusts me and when I make a mistake or have a bad view we can talk about it in a constructive way. Seems not every place on earth is like that. Most places I know aren’t like that.

True, but every game does that. All the games rankings are based on an elo system and most of them are team games.

I hope that he is doing fine. I totally disagree with his comment in the clip but I can do it in a normal way.

The way reddit makes fun of him and pulls him through the mud is crazy. He is still a human being. If I would get such a treatment I would likely kill myself, because my brain can’t handle it.

I do feel bad about it already and there is no hate towards me but him.

Chess is a 1v1 game, league 5v5. But in soloQ we have no premade team and so the other 4 are randoms and these do have an effect on the outcome of the game.

That means there are possible luck/bad luck streaks that have an impact on your MMR without your impact.

To reduce these LP was added with a rubber banding effect. It allows for larger MMR movements without making RNG too much of an impact.