• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 06:52
CEST 12:52
KST 19:52
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
[ASL21] Ro16 Preview Pt2: All Star10Team Liquid Map Contest #22 - The Finalists16[ASL21] Ro16 Preview Pt1: Fresh Flow9[ASL21] Ro24 Preview Pt2: News Flash10[ASL21] Ro24 Preview Pt1: New Chaos0
Community News
2026 GSL Season 1 Qualifiers13Maestros of the Game 2 announced72026 GSL Tour plans announced14Weekly Cups (April 6-12): herO doubles, "Villains" prevail1MaNa leaves Team Liquid24
StarCraft 2
General
Maestros of the Game 2 announced Team Liquid Map Contest #22 - The Finalists MaNa leaves Team Liquid 2026 GSL Tour plans announced Blizzard Classic Cup @ BlizzCon 2026 - $100k prize pool
Tourneys
2026 GSL Season 1 Qualifiers GSL CK: More events planned pending crowdfunding RSL Revival: Season 5 - Qualifiers and Main Event Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament Master Swan Open (Global Bronze-Master 2)
Strategy
Custom Maps
[D]RTS in all its shapes and glory <3 [A] Nemrods 1/4 players [M] (2) Frigid Storage
External Content
Mutation # 522 Flip My Base The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 521 Memorable Boss Mutation # 520 Moving Fees
Brood War
General
ASL21 General Discussion Data needed BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Any progamer "explanation" videos like this one? ASL21 Strategy, Pimpest Plays Discussions
Tourneys
[ASL21] Ro16 Group D [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [ASL21] Ro16 Group C [ASL21] Ro16 Group B
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers What's the deal with APM & what's its true value Any training maps people recommend? Fighting Spirit mining rates
Other Games
General Games
Dawn of War IV Nintendo Switch Thread Starcraft Tabletop Miniature Game General RTS Discussion Thread Battle Aces/David Kim RTS Megathread
Dota 2
The Story of Wings Gaming
League of Legends
G2 just beat GenG in First stand
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas TL Mafia Community Thread Five o'clock TL Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Russo-Ukrainian War Thread YouTube Thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books Movie Discussion!
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion McBoner: A hockey love story Cricket [SPORT]
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
[G] How to Block Livestream Ads
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Sexual Health Of Gamers
TrAiDoS
lurker extra damage testi…
StaticNine
Broowar part 2
qwaykee
Funny Nicknames
LUCKY_NOOB
Iranian anarchists: organize…
XenOsky
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1727 users

[Patch 1.0.0.154: Preseason Balance Update 2] GD - Page 133

Forum Index > LoL General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 131 132 133 134 135 220 Next
Numy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
South Africa35471 Posts
January 25 2013 14:05 GMT
#2641
Well Locket was also a perfectly viable use for cloth armour if you started it. In fact it might still be superior to this new item right?
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
January 25 2013 14:21 GMT
#2642
It is, but if you want to build zhonya you'll probably still want seeker's somewhat early to be able to stack it (it isn't cost-effective until you start stacking it, if I made the math right) or the completion of locket will only delay your "core" (or at least "AP granting") item.
Seeing how one "issue" evoked by the people whining about "having" to buy cloth is that it's less gold spent on damage (cue another angry "you won't deal damage if you die because you have no idea how to play without a cloth, smart ass!" rant from me), the fact than Seeker's grant AP while Locket doesn't probably means that Locket isn't perceived as a "viable" AP mid item.

Which is dumb, but whatever.
(I edited my post at the bottom of the previous page for a tl;dr of my arguments, btw.)
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
January 25 2013 14:38 GMT
#2643
How are you supposed to play Jayce? Just realized how obnoxious Muramana is with his W(cannon) and E(hammer) Do people max Q or E on him? Seems like youre trading good damage vs champs for better waveclear.
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
AsmodeusXI
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States15536 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-25 14:50:07
January 25 2013 14:49 GMT
#2644
On January 25 2013 23:38 arb wrote:
How are you supposed to play Jayce? Just realized how obnoxious Muramana is with his W(cannon) and E(hammer) Do people max Q or E on him? Seems like youre trading good damage vs champs for better waveclear.


Not entirely sure, but I think Q is preferred now with the E nerf. Also, I do believe there are some who tout the benefits of W max.

+ Show Spoiler +
Also, this.
WriterTL > RL. BNet: Asmodeus#1187 - LoL: DJForeclosure - Steam: asmodeusxi | www.n3rddimension.com
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
January 25 2013 14:52 GMT
#2645
On January 25 2013 23:49 AsmodeusXI wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2013 23:38 arb wrote:
How are you supposed to play Jayce? Just realized how obnoxious Muramana is with his W(cannon) and E(hammer) Do people max Q or E on him? Seems like youre trading good damage vs champs for better waveclear.


Not entirely sure, but I think Q is preferred now with the E nerf. Also, I do believe there are some who tout the benefits of W max.

+ Show Spoiler +
Also, this.

Yeah I know i just wanted a faster response tbh.
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
thenexusp
Profile Joined May 2009
United States3721 Posts
January 25 2013 14:57 GMT
#2646
Does the bonus armor/AP from seeker's armguard get "rolled into" zhonya's stats or are they applied on top of zhonya's?

And you can still buy chain vest on AP mids, just make it into a GA or FH or something

On January 25 2013 21:17 clickrush wrote:
thoughts on some of the new adc items:

- bork deals more damage and steals more life than bt as a first / second item + has some added utility.
- hurricane loses about 10-20% (depending if you have IE) single target damage compared to PD but gives 80 - 90% more overall damage if you hit 3 targets with it, 30-40% on 2 targets.
- if you combine bork and hurricane you deal more than 50% on each side target because about half the damage from bork is an on-hit effect.
- the on-hit from bork scale with attackspeed and arpen, the arpen on-hit from cleaver is applied with every hurricane attack.

never tried it but based on guessing i think you can do an adc build with those three items that works very well given the right circumstances.


How did you do these calculations? 20% crit chance will give an AD carry vastly more damage than 20% attack speed, mainly because most ADs get something like 50% natural AS from level up and AS increases are only applied to an AD's base level 1 AS.
AsmodeusXI
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States15536 Posts
January 25 2013 15:00 GMT
#2647
On January 25 2013 23:52 arb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2013 23:49 AsmodeusXI wrote:
On January 25 2013 23:38 arb wrote:
How are you supposed to play Jayce? Just realized how obnoxious Muramana is with his W(cannon) and E(hammer) Do people max Q or E on him? Seems like youre trading good damage vs champs for better waveclear.


Not entirely sure, but I think Q is preferred now with the E nerf. Also, I do believe there are some who tout the benefits of W max.

+ Show Spoiler +
Also, this.

Yeah I know i just wanted a faster response tbh.


Figured. =)

+ Show Spoiler +
laziness 2 stronk
WriterTL > RL. BNet: Asmodeus#1187 - LoL: DJForeclosure - Steam: asmodeusxi | www.n3rddimension.com
JonnyLaw
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States3482 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-25 15:01:29
January 25 2013 15:01 GMT
#2648
*wrong thread
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
January 25 2013 15:09 GMT
#2649
On January 26 2013 00:00 AsmodeusXI wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2013 23:52 arb wrote:
On January 25 2013 23:49 AsmodeusXI wrote:
On January 25 2013 23:38 arb wrote:
How are you supposed to play Jayce? Just realized how obnoxious Muramana is with his W(cannon) and E(hammer) Do people max Q or E on him? Seems like youre trading good damage vs champs for better waveclear.


Not entirely sure, but I think Q is preferred now with the E nerf. Also, I do believe there are some who tout the benefits of W max.

+ Show Spoiler +
Also, this.

Yeah I know i just wanted a faster response tbh.


Figured. =)

+ Show Spoiler +
laziness 2 stronk

Pretty much.
2 plats in 1 game, moving up in the ELO.
Fuck yeah.
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
101toss
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
3232 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-25 15:11:36
January 25 2013 15:09 GMT
#2650
On January 25 2013 22:55 Alaric wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2013 22:49 upperbound wrote:
This seeker's arm guard thing seems pretty strong for ap mids; glad to see that you get something decent for stacking those cloth armors now instead of just selling them later.

Don't stack them, lose 90 gold for selling one and surviving through laning phase?
It's weaker than a chain vest if all you want is defenses, and you get it later. Then you have to stack it to make it worth it. I already spammed quite a bit about it, but cloth wasn't required in any way to survive an AP vs AD/bruiser lane mid, and I really dislike how Riot screwed over the chain vest option just so people could "not feel bad" about getting a cloth and not turning it into anything.
Hey, you dislike cloth? Why do you buy doran rings then? You lose even more money when selling them back!

Or "oh, no, chain vest doesn't provide AP, I can't buy that item at all, my damage would suffer from it!" but Seeker gives you some AP for a big initial price and then ramp-up time to make it cost-effective, and people think it's a goddamn buff because they'll have less armour but more AP than currently at a given time. So you whine because you can't do without armour, but you call having less armour than usual "a buff"?

Fuck you, ignorant masses.

i tell mid laners to buy dodge boots, but no one listens

nvm, riot just nerfs khazix/talon/insertadcaster anyways, proceed rant

edit: yeti changes are buffs to top yeti, gg noobs
Math doesn't kill champions and neither do wards
zer0das
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States8519 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-25 15:34:29
January 25 2013 15:10 GMT
#2651
On January 25 2013 23:38 arb wrote:
How are you supposed to play Jayce? Just realized how obnoxious Muramana is with his W(cannon) and E(hammer) Do people max Q or E on him? Seems like youre trading good damage vs champs for better waveclear.


Maxing q first has been pretty normal on Jayce for a while. I also prefer maxing w over e (in most situations), because you get two damaging skills instead of 1, and you get the full benefit of an accelerated shock blast with one level of acceleration gate. The cooldown on hyper charge goes down a lot per level, so if you have a phage/frozen mallet you can latch onto someone and never let go.

Also, I think it is fairly normal to completely ignore his ult until the final levels, because what it gives is pretty paltry compared to his other skills.
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
January 25 2013 15:15 GMT
#2652
It's "rolled-in" (stacked Seeker's is 50 armour, same as Zhonya, and Zhonya's AP is raised because Seeker's + NLR is more than 100 AP).
And that was what I meant: FH, GA are options from a chainvest, same as thornmail if you want it, but these are more niche items for AP champs, and their cost is pretty high compared to something like tabi or locket (worst case you sell tabi for 700, making the cost for replacing it with sorcs only 400 gold, for example, while you have to value GA's passive at ~1100 gold for it to be cost-effective, not even talking about how it's less useful for an ult-reliant AP champ if he died after getting said ult off or how armour shredding will reduce its value even further compared to a Locket's HP+shield or tabi's passive).

So the cost for buying a chain vest to "pad" your armour is 420 more (while being a bigger opportunity cost because you should already drop 600 into 2 cloth armors for Seeker's), selling back costs you 216 instead of 90 (while dropping more than twice the amount of armour). This makes it harder to rely on chain vest as a "transcient buy", while its upgrades aren't as cost-effective/good as cloth armor's.
(Another way to put it is that you upgrade chain vest slot-efficiently rather than cost-efficiently, emphasising the need for the upgrades to appeal to you. But if they did, you shouldn't have any qualms with buying a chain vest in the first place.
Zhonya's appeals to most AP champs, the other options not as much (though Galio, Swain, etc. can obviously put FH to good use).)
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
thenexusp
Profile Joined May 2009
United States3721 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-25 16:12:22
January 25 2013 16:11 GMT
#2653
Isn't a fully-stacked Seeker 45 armor? Also, does that mean that buying a zhonya's directly will give the same armor as getting a seeker, stacking it up, then upgrading it to zhonya's?

basically it feels kind of silly that they'd make a stacking item that you could automatically get full stacks by upgrading it
MattBarry
Profile Joined March 2011
United States4006 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-25 16:13:27
January 25 2013 16:11 GMT
#2654
Urgot/Thresh has stupid level of synergy. Urgot ults the enemy carry the hops on a latern into his own personal peeling machine support

Edit: I really like the new item for Morgana. It fits the niche where you don't have 1600 gold and you don't need a chain vest so you would go double doran's into plate of the warmage or whatever it's called now.
Platinum Support GOD
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
January 25 2013 16:13 GMT
#2655
50 armour, and yeah, building Zhonya gives you the 50 armour immediatly compared to building Seeker's, stacking it then converting it to Zhonya's (you can prob buy Zhonya before you get the 30 stacks anyway).
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
January 25 2013 16:25 GMT
#2656
On January 26 2013 01:13 Alaric wrote:
50 armour, and yeah, building Zhonya gives you the 50 armour immediatly compared to building Seeker's, stacking it then converting it to Zhonya's (you can prob buy Zhonya before you get the 30 stacks anyway).

You still get the 50 armor if you dont need Zhonyas right away though. That's always pretty nice
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
January 25 2013 16:40 GMT
#2657
Yeah but for 720 you can get 40 armour immediatly, while Seeker's gives 30 for 600 until you fork out 550 more then kill 30 minions/monsters/champions (or at least 20 to reach 40 armour). You get it some earlier, then you get the rest much later, which is what annoys me as to the "timing" part (as I said, 3 things annoy me: the idea of fucking up stuff just because some people are too peeved to deal with the viable current state, the constraints it puts on your options while pretending to give you more of them, and the fact that you actually only get more armour later than currently).

It can be better overall because it gives AP too, but from a survivability standpoint (the focus of the item), it is worse.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
January 25 2013 16:51 GMT
#2658
On January 26 2013 01:11 MattBarry wrote:
Urgot/Thresh has stupid level of synergy. Urgot ults the enemy carry the hops on a latern into his own personal peeling machine support

Edit: I really like the new item for Morgana. It fits the niche where you don't have 1600 gold and you don't need a chain vest so you would go double doran's into plate of the warmage or whatever it's called now.

Thresh seems to provide a lot of interesting utility with his lantern. They can greatly nerf his damage if he turns out to be too powerful but it's always going to have the utility of his lantern which is really unique to him.

Good thing too. I was getting tired of all the lee sin clones.
I think in our modern age technology has evolved to become more addictive. The things that don't give us pleasure aren't used as much. Work was never meant to be fun, but doing it makes us happier in the long run.
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
January 25 2013 17:02 GMT
#2659
On January 25 2013 22:04 Gahlo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2013 19:31 TheYango wrote:
If that Triforce buff stays, that will be the most ridiculously cost-effective recipe ever, rofl.

Locket got a minor nerf, Sunfire and Warmogs got gutted.

League of Warmogs -> League of Locket

Am I missing something here? How is 180 gold "gutted"?


Also, Triforce price change intentional.
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=33877588#33877588

Yeah I misread the Warmog's change. Not as bad as I thought.
Moderator
onlywonderboy
Profile Joined August 2012
United States23745 Posts
January 25 2013 17:07 GMT
#2660
On January 26 2013 02:02 TheYango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2013 22:04 Gahlo wrote:
On January 25 2013 19:31 TheYango wrote:
If that Triforce buff stays, that will be the most ridiculously cost-effective recipe ever, rofl.

Locket got a minor nerf, Sunfire and Warmogs got gutted.

League of Warmogs -> League of Locket

Am I missing something here? How is 180 gold "gutted"?


Also, Triforce price change intentional.
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=33877588#33877588

Yeah I misread the Warmog's change. Not as bad as I thought.

Good, I was worried you were going to drop some crazy knowledge about how having to buy an extra Rejuv Bead makes it trash or something. Triforce change is interesting, wonder if we'll see a resurgence of Jax/Irelia.
RIP Ryan Davis / TL or Die / @onlywonderboy
Prev 1 131 132 133 134 135 220 Next
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
RSL Revival
10:00
Season 5 Korea Qualifier
CranKy Ducklings SOOP132
SortOf116
CranKy Ducklings111
Ryung 0
Liquipedia
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
Lowko158
SortOf 116
Ryung 0
StarCraft: Brood War
Calm 4384
Sea 3462
Hyuk 2116
Jaedong 1429
Leta 585
BeSt 357
Mini 226
actioN 205
Stork 187
Soma 172
[ Show more ]
Rush 136
Larva 115
ZerO 98
JYJ 98
Dewaltoss 94
Last 85
Killer 79
Soulkey 69
Light 68
ToSsGirL 66
sSak 41
Backho 34
Sacsri 29
Sharp 27
sorry 24
Bale 21
soO 20
Pusan 18
Hm[arnc] 18
HiyA 16
yabsab 14
zelot 13
[sc1f]eonzerg 11
Shine 9
IntoTheRainbow 7
Dota 2
Gorgc2027
Counter-Strike
shoxiejesuss1299
SPUNJ251
Super Smash Bros
Mew2King124
Other Games
singsing1341
XaKoH 319
Pyrionflax152
Trikslyr129
KnowMe59
RotterdaM49
B2W.Neo38
ZerO(Twitch)9
Organizations
Dota 2
PGL Dota 2 - Main Stream7901
Other Games
gamesdonequick629
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 13 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• blackmanpl 7
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• TFBlade1391
• Jankos1101
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
13h 8m
The PondCast
23h 8m
KCM Race Survival
23h 8m
WardiTV Map Contest Tou…
1d
Gerald vs herO
Clem vs Cure
ByuN vs Solar
Rogue vs MaxPax
ShoWTimE vs TBD
OSC
1d 4h
CranKy Ducklings
1d 13h
Escore
1d 23h
RSL Revival
2 days
Replay Cast
2 days
WardiTV Map Contest Tou…
3 days
[ Show More ]
Universe Titan Cup
3 days
Rogue vs Percival
Ladder Legends
3 days
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
3 days
BSL
3 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
3 days
WardiTV Map Contest Tou…
4 days
Ladder Legends
4 days
BSL
4 days
Replay Cast
4 days
Replay Cast
4 days
Wardi Open
4 days
Afreeca Starleague
4 days
Soma vs TBD
Monday Night Weeklies
5 days
Replay Cast
5 days
Afreeca Starleague
5 days
TBD vs YSC
Replay Cast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-04-20
RSL Revival: Season 4
NationLESS Cup

Ongoing

BSL Season 22
ASL Season 21
CSL 2026 SPRING (S20)
IPSL Spring 2026
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 2
StarCraft2 Community Team League 2026 Spring
WardiTV TLMC #16
Nations Cup 2026
IEM Rio 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League S23 Finals
ESL Pro League S23 Stage 1&2
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S2: W4
Acropolis #4
BSL 22 Non-Korean Championship
CSLAN 4
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
HSC XXIX
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
Maestros of the Game 2
2026 GSL S2
RSL Revival: Season 5
2026 GSL S1
XSE Pro League 2026
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 2
CS Asia Championships 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
PGL Astana 2026
BLAST Rivals Spring 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.