More to the skin I’m using, but generally yes, I try to match every game. I gathered so many free ward skins throught the years, that I think it would be a shame to not try to use as many as I can. Maining support and actually placing many wards per game probably plays a huge part in why I started doing this in the first place, but now it just feels as natural as setting your runes and summoners every game.

I played maybe 10 aram games in my whole life, what exactly we’re looking at here and what is the issue? I can’t see much difference between those two screenshots.

Wasn’t there a big “!” next to the play button for the last 2 or 3 days saying that there are problems with champ select right now and they’re working on a fix? It’s gone right now, but maybe this is what it meant…?

You sure they were even real players and not just bots? Did they communicate at all? Or did they just attacked minions when they get close and used their abilities semi randomly off cooldown? Because in my last 10 or so normal games I encountered 3 different bots like that playing adc (Tristana, Nilah and Karthus). You can usually tell by their weird gameplay and lack of any sense in decision making.

I agree with you 100%. I was so hyped when they announced that Athene will return in some form and we got… this. It’s not satisfying at all, both the dmg and heal are so small, it’s almost unnoticable. Old Athene felt so good when you could actually see your heal being almost doubled. And now they’re removing the mana regene to AP conversion passive, another big and iconic part of the old item, in exchange for what? Three stacks instead of two? And they made another item just around that passive with almost no additional benefits. Let’s take already lame item and split it into two even worse ones. It’s not like most supports alread can barely afford 2-3 full items per avarage game.

I think there are two main problems with recent opening ceremonies.

First, not sure if it’s really technlogical restriction with AR, but those 3D models without proper shading and stuff just don’t work in this darker lighting inside a closed stadium. Just compare Heartsteel and KDA form More with Dragon and KDA from Popstars. In normal daylight they don’t stand out that much, but when everything around them is dark with many different colored light effects and stuff, it looks really off.

Second, I think they are trying too much lately. When they started with this AR thing, It was used to echance just one small part of the whole show. Whole Dragon thing lasted for what, maybe 20 seconds overall? First KDA was mostly just dancing here and there with one bigger moment for each and some focus on the final moments of the song. But today it was like all this graphic show was the main part and they tried to do so many “cool” things with it, that it ended up being super cheesy. Like, I don’t know, instead of the whole show focusing on random guy vs Mordekaiser, just give us one big moment where Morde disrupts the show for a moment and Leona shows up to defeat him, then go back to real people performance. Sometimes less is more.