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Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
March 17 2015 23:07 GMT
#501
Even with a "standard-sized" Cinderhulk, Sejuani would require nerfs because of how strong she was before taking the item into account. Riot simply fucked up by not toning her down at the same time they introduced the item despite the obviousness that it'd raise her to broken tier.
Meanwhile stuff like Malphite no help, Zac almost inconsequential, and Nautilus nerfed as a tank/frontliner.
I'd talk about Shen but Riot would probably never want him to be a decent jungler again because of his ult.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
Slusher
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States19143 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-17 23:12:27
March 17 2015 23:10 GMT
#502
holy shit they are buffing Bard, he's going to be broken as fuck in competitive if they actually try to make him good in solo q

On March 18 2015 08:07 Alaric wrote:
Even with a "standard-sized" Cinderhulk, Sejuani would require nerfs because of how strong she was before taking the item into account. Riot simply fucked up by not toning her down at the same time they introduced the item despite the obviousness that it'd raise her to broken tier.
Meanwhile stuff like Malphite no help, Zac almost inconsequential, and Nautilus nerfed as a tank/frontliner.
I'd talk about Shen but Riot would probably never want him to be a decent jungler again because of his ult.


the Naut changes actually read to me like they thought he'd be op if they didn't nerf him first (I have to assume they knew this was a nerf) which might have been true, it's just a much bigger nerf than they thought and/or they thought it was a buff somehow.
Carrilord has arrived.
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
March 17 2015 23:11 GMT
#503
On March 18 2015 08:07 Alaric wrote:
Even with a "standard-sized" Cinderhulk, Sejuani would require nerfs because of how strong she was before taking the item into account. Riot simply fucked up by not toning her down at the same time they introduced the item despite the obviousness that it'd raise her to broken tier.
Meanwhile stuff like Malphite no help, Zac almost inconsequential, and Nautilus nerfed as a tank/frontliner.
I'd talk about Shen but Riot would probably never want him to be a decent jungler again because of his ult.

shen really does need some love, his teamfights mechanics are so boring, and have no variety due to major energy bottleneck. Pretty much in teamfights, you save up all your energy to taunt, and if you're lucky you get like 1 W-shield in. Which is worth jackshit.
liftlift > tsm
Slusher
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States19143 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-17 23:18:47
March 17 2015 23:14 GMT
#504
? Taunt is 1/2 if you hit 1, free if you hit 2 people

not that Q is HOLY SHIT HERE IT COMES EXCITING! but in teamfights he is't really energy constrained unless you miss

if you want to make the argument that shen has a boring kit, I think you'd be pretty justified, but it isn't over UNINTENDED (missing E was nerfed to be this way purposefully) energy problems

when they nerfed his Taunt to reduce auto attack damage only they fucked him, he can't win trades in a LOT of matchups unless already ahead after that, and that reduced his value, since you need to outduel to be effective in split push.
Carrilord has arrived.
ShaLLoW[baY]
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada12499 Posts
March 17 2015 23:21 GMT
#505
Bard buffs on PBE? I'm going to keep collecting freelo from this already op champion until someone ruins it for me in competitive.
ALEXISONFIRE ARE FUCKING BACK (sAviOr for life)
Ketara
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States15065 Posts
March 17 2015 23:23 GMT
#506
IMO, if these PBE Sejuani nerfs go through as written, she'll be slightly weaker than she is right now, but still stronger than she was last patch.

Which is probably a good spot for her to be in.
http://www.liquidlegends.net/forum/lol-general/502075-patch-61-league-of-legends-general-discussion?page=25#498
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
March 17 2015 23:44 GMT
#507
On March 18 2015 08:21 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Bard buffs on PBE? I'm going to keep collecting freelo from this already op champion until someone ruins it for me in competitive.

34% winrate, op'd?
liftlift > tsm
obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
March 17 2015 23:45 GMT
#508
I completely forgot about Shen jungle. Cinderhulk probably does wonders for him.

Volibear has had one of the slowest clear speeds ever since he was introduced but now that the jungle camps have more life and gromp is a single monster camp, he's probably not as slow compared to other junglers as he used to be. I think he probably gained about as much as Shen from cinderhulk: a lot.
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.
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
March 17 2015 23:49 GMT
#509
On March 18 2015 08:45 obesechicken13 wrote:
I completely forgot about Shen jungle. Cinderhulk probably does wonders for him.

Volibear has had one of the slowest clear speeds ever since he was introduced but now that the jungle camps have more life and gromp is a single monster camp, he's probably not as slow compared to other junglers as he used to be. I think he probably gained about as much as Shen from cinderhulk: a lot.

Shen jungle still has the issue of the first few clears.
liftlift > tsm
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
March 17 2015 23:50 GMT
#510
I mean, Cinderhulk can help all you want, Nautilus still takes ~25 seconds to kill blue buff once he gets a leash on gromp (he can do a 6-camps clear even pre-5.5 though, but that sure ain't Olaf's clear).
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
ShaLLoW[baY]
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada12499 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-18 00:02:01
March 17 2015 23:58 GMT
#511
On March 18 2015 08:44 wei2coolman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2015 08:21 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Bard buffs on PBE? I'm going to keep collecting freelo from this already op champion until someone ruins it for me in competitive.

34% winrate, op'd?


I mean obviously he's not overpowered, but if you know how to play him and don't just abandon your ad at level 2 there are very few people who know how to play against him at this point. I think the low winrate is because people are roaming too much for chimes and overstating their importance early, or picking him with Vayne or into something like Caitlyn.

He is so incredibly matchup dependent though. In my experience he does well against Janna lanes, decent against Lulu, decent against Thresh, kinda rough against Blitz. I mean I'm only plat but I think he's far from useless. He's up from 34 to 38% in three days in Master, 30% to 37% in Plat and Diamond. Once his kit gets figured out a bit more I think it'll keep climbing, especially with PBE buffs.
ALEXISONFIRE ARE FUCKING BACK (sAviOr for life)
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35174 Posts
March 18 2015 00:01 GMT
#512
On March 18 2015 08:44 wei2coolman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2015 08:21 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Bard buffs on PBE? I'm going to keep collecting freelo from this already op champion until someone ruins it for me in competitive.

34% winrate, op'd?

It's almost like a champion came out without bonkers damage or CC and the shit community has its head up its ass on how to play/play with him.
ShaLLoW[baY]
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada12499 Posts
March 18 2015 00:03 GMT
#513
On March 18 2015 09:01 Gahlo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2015 08:44 wei2coolman wrote:
On March 18 2015 08:21 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Bard buffs on PBE? I'm going to keep collecting freelo from this already op champion until someone ruins it for me in competitive.

34% winrate, op'd?

It's almost like a champion came out without bonkers damage or CC and the shit community has its head up its ass on how to play/play with him.


I mean his winrate has gone up 7% in three days in Plat + Diamond with no changes, just because people are actually having to take time to learn to play as/with him. I mean even Thresh is high skillcap but see champion hook champion will usually win you lane.
ALEXISONFIRE ARE FUCKING BACK (sAviOr for life)
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-18 00:15:26
March 18 2015 00:13 GMT
#514
On March 18 2015 09:01 Gahlo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2015 08:44 wei2coolman wrote:
On March 18 2015 08:21 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Bard buffs on PBE? I'm going to keep collecting freelo from this already op champion until someone ruins it for me in competitive.

34% winrate, op'd?

It's almost like a champion came out without bonkers damage or CC and the shit community has its head up its ass on how to play/play with him.

That's why it was framed as a question. Cuz if shallow[bay] has some grand secret to get free elo on this champ, I wanna hear it. I wanna know, what he's doing that's ramping his Win rate seemingly up by 20% that's making this champ "op'd" or freelo.
On March 18 2015 09:03 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2015 09:01 Gahlo wrote:
On March 18 2015 08:44 wei2coolman wrote:
On March 18 2015 08:21 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Bard buffs on PBE? I'm going to keep collecting freelo from this already op champion until someone ruins it for me in competitive.

34% winrate, op'd?

It's almost like a champion came out without bonkers damage or CC and the shit community has its head up its ass on how to play/play with him.


I mean his winrate has gone up 7% in three days in Plat + Diamond with no changes, just because people are actually having to take time to learn to play as/with him. I mean even Thresh is high skillcap but see champion hook champion will usually win you lane.

his popularity also dropped by half, probably making it more so that support mains are playing him more (relative to # of games being played)
liftlift > tsm
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
March 18 2015 00:14 GMT
#515
lol I just played with a Riot employee who asked us at the beginning of the game if fizz did magic or physical damage and then fed 0-7 in lane.

He better be a really good programmer.
In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-18 00:16:12
March 18 2015 00:16 GMT
#516
On March 18 2015 09:14 sob3k wrote:
lol I just played with a Riot employee who asked us at the beginning of the game if fizz did magic or physical damage and then fed 0-7 in lane.

He better be a really good programmer.

? Do you seriously expect every Rito employee to have max knowledge of the game?
liftlift > tsm
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
March 18 2015 00:17 GMT
#517
On March 18 2015 09:16 wei2coolman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2015 09:14 sob3k wrote:
lol I just played with a Riot employee who asked us at the beginning of the game if fizz did magic or physical damage and then fed 0-7 in lane.

He better be a really good programmer.

? Do you seriously expect every Rito employee to have max knowledge of the game?


All the ones on my team
In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
March 18 2015 00:25 GMT
#518
The Riot employee on my friend list is a guy working on the server who added me to say "thanks" after I posted in a "server issues official com" thread to talk about how as I programmer, I was kind of curious about the more technical details of the issues, but understood how you just can't explain it as the average user will have no idea what that jibber-jabber is about, nor make a quick'n'dirty summary as they'll complain about not being explained what's actually going on.
He's been chilling there since. Maybe he removed me, haven't seen him on during the last few weeks.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
ShaLLoW[baY]
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada12499 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-18 00:32:48
March 18 2015 00:28 GMT
#519
On March 18 2015 09:13 wei2coolman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2015 09:01 Gahlo wrote:
On March 18 2015 08:44 wei2coolman wrote:
On March 18 2015 08:21 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Bard buffs on PBE? I'm going to keep collecting freelo from this already op champion until someone ruins it for me in competitive.

34% winrate, op'd?

It's almost like a champion came out without bonkers damage or CC and the shit community has its head up its ass on how to play/play with him.

That's why it was framed as a question. Cuz if shallow[bay] has some grand secret to get free elo on this champ, I wanna hear it. I wanna know, what he's doing that's ramping his Win rate seemingly up by 20% that's making this champ "op'd" or freelo.
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2015 09:03 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
On March 18 2015 09:01 Gahlo wrote:
On March 18 2015 08:44 wei2coolman wrote:
On March 18 2015 08:21 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Bard buffs on PBE? I'm going to keep collecting freelo from this already op champion until someone ruins it for me in competitive.

34% winrate, op'd?

It's almost like a champion came out without bonkers damage or CC and the shit community has its head up its ass on how to play/play with him.


I mean his winrate has gone up 7% in three days in Plat + Diamond with no changes, just because people are actually having to take time to learn to play as/with him. I mean even Thresh is high skillcap but see champion hook champion will usually win you lane.

his popularity also dropped by half, probably making it more so that support mains are playing him more (relative to # of games being played)



well obviously i'm using hyperbole because he's not overpowered but I think that he's a looot stronger than people give him credit for, see my previous posts for some clarification

On March 18 2015 08:58 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2015 08:44 wei2coolman wrote:
On March 18 2015 08:21 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Bard buffs on PBE? I'm going to keep collecting freelo from this already op champion until someone ruins it for me in competitive.

34% winrate, op'd?


I mean obviously he's not overpowered, but if you know how to play him and don't just abandon your ad at level 2 there are very few people who know how to play against him at this point. I think the low winrate is because people are roaming too much for chimes and overstating their importance early, or picking him with Vayne or into something like Caitlyn.

He is so incredibly matchup dependent though. In my experience he does well against Janna lanes, decent against Lulu, decent against Thresh, kinda rough against Blitz. I mean I'm only plat but I think he's far from useless. He's up from 34 to 38% in three days in Master, 30% to 37% in Plat and Diamond. Once his kit gets figured out a bit more I think it'll keep climbing, especially with PBE buffs.


ALEXISONFIRE ARE FUCKING BACK (sAviOr for life)
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-18 02:01:23
March 18 2015 01:37 GMT
#520
New zilean is an awful support. He really need some buffs. Its really hard to land the bombs, and the payoff is just not there. Landing two is such a low percentage and the stun isn't very long early anyway. You just don't have enough money to itemize for your stupid mana costs, and actually do any damage. The revive becomes surprisingly useless because you won't do any damage in the fight, so often your AD just dies twice in lane because you contributed a 40% slow and nothing else.
In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
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