[Patch 3.10a: Worlds Balance] General Discussion - Page 9

On August 22 2013 18:32 Sponkz wrote:
New UNIQUE Passive - Rage: basic attacks grant 20 movement speed for 2 seconds on hit. Minion, monster, and champion kills grant 60 movement speed for 2 seconds


gg irelia

On August 22 2013 19:55 Amui wrote:
By my count there are 46 competitively viable champions, or like 40% of the available pool. Compared to Dota2, where something like 80?% of the pool was used just in TI3, it is pretty bad.

I think a lot of it has to do with item homogenization. If you can add 3-4 champions to the competitive pool by adding an item, then I think it'd be worth it to add. Obviously too late for S3, but for S4 it'd be great. More utility items, actives etc.

Right now, almost every champion in a role builds the same way, so there's pretty much a couple optimal champs taken because they can build that way and still be useful.

On August 22 2013 17:14 TheYango wrote:

And this is where you (and Riot) VASTLY underestimate the time it takes for the competitive community to fully analyze, digest, apply, respond to, and develop counterplay to new changes in a patch.

The typical turnaround time on a new champ (or, in some cases a new item--see Locket) even being recognized as strong is ~2 months. Typically unless the champion is absurdly broken, players do not even have enough proficiency at a champion to even make it appear strong until that point. To fully flesh out playstyles, how to draft the hero, and how to counter-pick/counter-play? We're looking at a clock on around 4 months.

Obviously that is the effect of a new champion. But consider the cumulative effect of all the changes in this patch. Is that more or less of a change to the game than a new champion? Considering that the change to Triforce is drastic enough to potentially require players to re-learn and re-assess champions that they quite literally have not played for almost the entirety of Season 3, I'd say that it's at least comparable. We're obviously never going to get 3 months off a balance patch, but to argue that 2 weeks is "good enough" for competitive teams to assess a patch like this is completely moronic.

On August 22 2013 16:56 SnK-Arcbound wrote:
I'll also add something contructive, they didn't test Vi out in the jungle, and gave her a passive powerful enough to solo dragon at lvl 4.

On August 22 2013 21:21 LaNague wrote:
this patch is retarded. How can Riot be a game company with so much prestige and have so stupid employees.


There is zero reason to change triforce like this so close to worlds.
They should have just nerfed zac and maybe yi if they really feel like they need to protect their newbies and called it a day.

On August 22 2013 21:08 Alaric wrote:

Out of curiosity, what's your setup for this? I'm assuming you're talking about "enemy botlane recalled, Vi is level 4, let's 3-man that dragon" since I don't see how she could solo it so early in any way.

On August 22 2013 16:48 Gahlo wrote:
I had hoped that /r/leagueoflegendsmeta would be a nice little haven of sanity on reddit where I can talk to people about decent league play without "DAE draven?" and "Regi eyebrows MIA." Sadly, it has failed me as I now have people flaming me and calling me retarded because I called frozen mallet bad while somebody is trying his best Yango impression trying to forecast Trifoce/FM combo being OP.

TL pls, talk about something so I don't have to go back there.

On August 22 2013 21:45 Waxangel wrote:
Prime is recruiting for a LoL team

http://sc2prime.com/xe/?mid=lol&document_srl=872664&page=1

On August 22 2013 22:02 NeoIllusions wrote:

Prime still a big name in SC2?