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Also, re Graves: Was designed to make you feel like a badass guy who walks around and shoots things in the face with a shotgun. Corki doesn't quite have that feel. The feel of a character is important for their design (see: Kassadin or Ezrael). Also, Graves made by same team that made Rumble.

Attakijing

United States693 Posts

October 19 2011 12:02 GMT

#165

whats graves range

Truez

Australia147 Posts

October 19 2011 12:21 GMT

#166

550 range, wow Graves is the first champ that I was not disappointed with after buying since Nocturne.

tyCe

Australia2542 Posts

October 19 2011 12:38 GMT

#167

Damn it, I wish I didn't spend my IP on that rune page yesterday.

Flicky

England2675 Posts

October 19 2011 13:01 GMT

#168

Any spooky quints in available on US? I want to save some IP.

clickrush

Switzerland3257 Posts

October 19 2011 13:01 GMT

#169

I've thought alot about the gunblade nerf and I've come to this conclusion:

It was absolutely the right thing to do. I've had alot of games where I counterpicked akali in lane (garen/wukong/ww) and dominated her.

The problem: Akali didnt have to win her lane at all to be stomping you afterwards. When for example midlane is equal and botlane gets stomped then pressure is on you from their jungler. A good akali will eventually farm her GB nontheless if she's positioned solo top and that was often a too huge of a comeback tbh. Despite her losing lane, and as in this example, her ad carry winning his/hers you have to focus her nontheless. If her other mates are strong enough then they will charge your team boldly in a dragon/baron fight and she can despite being behind clean up everything with only her gunblade.

I've only encountered this just recently a couple of times. When solo top akali gunblade rushing first became popular a couple weeks ago then I laughed at the incompetence of most akali players. They had time to figure out the champ now and suddenly the imbalance came to light: this item was just too costefficient.

The more classic akali-mid-westrice build is completely unaffected through this and is still good. But it depends on you actually doing well, which is fine and dandy. So in the end Akali never needed a nerf, but the synergy with GB just was too forgiving and too hard to stop.

Cytokinesis

Canada330 Posts

October 19 2011 13:02 GMT

#170

On October 19 2011 22:01 Flicky wrote:
Any spooky quints in available on US? I want to save some IP.

None yet

NightWalks

Latvia252 Posts

October 19 2011 13:14 GMT

#171

On October 19 2011 21:21 Truez wrote:
550 range, wow Graves is the first champ that I was not disappointed with after buying since Nocturne.

Hope you don't compare Graves to release - pre nerf noc .....

Flakes

United States3125 Posts

October 19 2011 13:25 GMT

#172

Graves looks strong but not vayne strong. I feel like Vayne only got through balance testing because phreak rushed sheen on her

TheKefka

Croatia11752 Posts

October 19 2011 13:25 GMT

#173

Is anyone else fed up with fucking large front-cone attack skills?Every time I play against a Talon/Raven/and now Graves I start running and it seems like I could get away easy and than they just strafe me with the edge of a god damn karma Q and I drop-__-.Please no more...

Phrost

United States4008 Posts

October 19 2011 13:44 GMT

#174

Is it just me or does Jailbreak Graves look a lot like Cable?

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Requizen

United States33802 Posts

October 19 2011 13:50 GMT

#175

Whaaaat? I'm usually fine going to work on patch day knowing that servers will be down half the day anyway, why are they back up? T.T

Anyone play the new Skarner yet?

NeoIllusions

United States37500 Posts

October 19 2011 14:08 GMT

#176

Riot soon™ huehue.

SaetZero

United States855 Posts

October 19 2011 14:14 GMT

#177

yay a patch that 100% doesnt affect any character i play at all!

i something it!

graves looks kinda cool i guess

Phrost

United States4008 Posts

October 19 2011 14:18 GMT

#178

On October 19 2011 22:25 TheKefka wrote:
Is anyone else fed up with fucking large front-cone attack skills?Every time I play against a Talon/Raven/and now Graves I start running and it seems like I could get away easy and than they just strafe me with the edge of a god damn karma Q and I drop-__-.Please no more...

Graves has a nice risk/reward with his Q. Getting closer to someone makes you a) take more damage and b) be a lot more liable to miss but if you hit, does like 70% more damage

NeoIllusions

United States37500 Posts

October 19 2011 14:22 GMT

#179

The idea behind Graves Q and passive works really well together. What a manly ranged DPS. Will definitely be a new feelings for AD players (compared to the current flavor of Kog and Cait)

Conceptually, gud jorb Riot.

Phrost

United States4008 Posts

October 19 2011 14:28 GMT

#180

On October 19 2011 23:22 NeoIllusions wrote:
The idea behind Graves Q and passive works really well together. What a manly ranged DPS. Will definitely be a new feelings for AD players (compared to the current flavor of Kog and Cait)

Conceptually, gud jorb Riot.

WELL TO BE FAIR, Grave's Q is a spell from a LONG time ago. Ashe's volley used to be the same thing (then they realized wow that is dumb)