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AdsMoFro
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Last Edited: 2019-07-30 18:23:19
July 30 2019 18:23 GMT
#1
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Patch 9.15: Live on July. 31, 2019

Team Fight Tactics Patch 9.15 Live on July 31, 2019

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Patch 9.14 TFT Ranked Release General Discussion
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AdsMoFro
Profile Joined January 2015
Japan4761 Posts
July 30 2019 18:24 GMT
#2
Pretty small SR patch.

ICYMI:

Panth Rework was announced to be released Next patch.



Here's his Gameplay preview.

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cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
July 30 2019 19:00 GMT
#3
From last thread.

On July 31 2019 01:05 DarkCore wrote:
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First, Aatrox's rework is kinda the norm. They rarely result in a good, easy to balance champion. So that is not an acceptable rationale for reworks anymore. Maybe 3-4 years ago this thought had promise, not anymore.


Personally I think that pretty much every rework has been in the vein of Aatrox, they all got more intricate kits where Riot had the possibility to adjust things besides damage numbers. And yeah, lots of them have failed miserably, the only one they've ever really gone back on was that Kog abomination.

Oh god, did he just block Syndra ult. More Yasuo windwall cancer?


But more intricacy doesn't always make balancing easier, with so many champions it makes it harder in many ways, because as they all get "intricate" they increasingly look the same and they lose their niches. Like, Zed used to be the AD Assassin who could get out after assassinating his guy. Now Zed's slipperyness doesn't feel all that unique in the category. Talon jumps over walls, camille hookshots around, irelia bladesurges into the backline then back out again. Much harder to have any of them as a good niche pick.

On July 31 2019 02:22 AdsMoFro wrote:
The main thing about reworks is usually the ones that are done solo are better than the ones done in batches. The Assassin update was a failure, ADC one was pretty fkn bad. Juggernaut one resulted in MEGA OP champs. Tank one (although only 3 champs) was bad considering the Zac one was reverted and Maokai is so fkn trash to play now.

The Aatrox update and the subsequent attempts at balance are so weird lol.

That trio of updated champs (Irelia/Akali/Aatrox) were allowed to just control the meta for over a year with many changes failing to fix the core problems of the champs.

Other updates that I liked/Improved upon the champ with some balance issues but overall a healthier champ: Sion/Taric/Poppy/Nunu/Swain**/Eve/Xin/Urgot/Warwick/Fiora

I think the solo updates in general were way better and Riot has learnt (or at least said that they've learnt) from attempting to do massive sweeping changes to classes in one go.


I have some serious issues with some of your picks. Swain and Urgot in particular I don't think are healthier at all. They just got buffed a lot. A lot of the others are pretty non-memorable to me aside from Sion (which I think was fine), Taric (also fine), and Poppy (to me pretty lame, caused the same homogenization problem as above, just in a different character class).
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iCanada
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada10660 Posts
July 30 2019 19:48 GMT
#4
The Sion rework was awful. Game is still missing a replacement for the old AP Sion. Closest equivalent is perhaps taliyah, but her feel is so incredibly different it's impossible to compare.
Ansibled
Profile Joined November 2014
United Kingdom9872 Posts
July 30 2019 20:10 GMT
#5
On July 31 2019 04:48 iCanada wrote:
The Sion rework was awful. Game is still missing a replacement for the old AP Sion. Closest equivalent is perhaps taliyah, but her feel is so incredibly different it's impossible to compare.

Wrong.
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iCanada
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada10660 Posts
July 30 2019 21:43 GMT
#6
Who exactly replaced ap Sion, then? Because that's what old Sion players played. There is no other early spiking tanky burst mage that could one shot waves and roam with reliable CC. Taliyah is imo the closest, but she can't push and has no reliable CC, and isn't tanky.

I guess perhaps new Galio.
DarkCore
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany4194 Posts
July 30 2019 21:48 GMT
#7
But more intricacy doesn't always make balancing easier, with so many champions it makes it harder in many ways, because as they all get "intricate" they increasingly look the same and they lose their niches. Like, Zed used to be the AD Assassin who could get out after assassinating his guy. Now Zed's slipperyness doesn't feel all that unique in the category. Talon jumps over walls, camille hookshots around, irelia bladesurges into the backline then back out again. Much harder to have any of them as a good niche pick.


I agree, the more intricate champions are the higher the likelihood of the player base finding something exploitable. A lot of the recent reworks have felt like Riot rolling back features every patch, playing a game of whack-a-mole until the champion is crappy. And with how big kits have gotten, nerfs can keep rolling out for months, just look at new Irelia, she's still pretty frustrating to play against. Aatrox and Akali are probably going to continue being tweaked or Riot's going to just say fuck it, time to get out Morello's nerf hammer.

Swain and Urgot in particular I don't think are healthier at all


New Swain, so after the rework, is not healthy for the game at all. His passive is incredibly oppressive, imo he's in that weird limbo region where he can't be allowed to become meta because he'd be pick/ban every single game. And now Riot double downed on it by giving him the health scaling.

Game is still missing a replacement for the old AP Sion.


Lol, I literally started the game watching Reginald play old Sion and copying him, that champ was awful. Everyone should be glad it's gone.
Fixed a bug where LeBlanc could lose
iCanada
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada10660 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-07-31 02:50:58
July 30 2019 22:11 GMT
#8
AP Sion was my go to for farming freelo when duoing. Level 2 gank was basically impossible to stop and then both me and the jungler would just hard snowball. By 15 minutes you could be diving inhib towers with a 1500 life shield and the point and click stun. But if you didn't win by 25 minutes you kinda were a glorified taric. Lol.

I loved that champ. I don't think any other champ ever had such a steep drop off mid lategame though.

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2019/07/730-pbe-update-pantheon-champion-update.html

Ooof. Update kinda guts pantheons ratios, although E is total AD. But yikes that ratio is much lower. And they doubled all his CDs. His damage got cleaved; he likely is losing 25% of his burst combo damage even if he hits all his skillshots, you miss some its like halfed.
AdsMoFro
Profile Joined January 2015
Japan4761 Posts
July 31 2019 04:17 GMT
#9
On July 31 2019 07:11 iCanada wrote:
AP Sion was my go to for farming freelo when duoing. Level 2 gank was basically impossible to stop and then both me and the jungler would just hard snowball. By 15 minutes you could be diving inhib towers with a 1500 life shield and the point and click stun. But if you didn't win by 25 minutes you kinda were a glorified taric. Lol.

I loved that champ. I don't think any other champ ever had such a steep drop off mid lategame though.

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2019/07/730-pbe-update-pantheon-champion-update.html

Ooof. Update kinda guts pantheons ratios, although E is total AD. But yikes that ratio is much lower. And they doubled all his CDs. His damage got cleaved; he likely is losing 25% of his burst combo damage even if he hits all his skillshots, you miss some its like halfed.


Yup, just looking at his preview the dmg was low af. I'm sure it'll be hotfixed to be OP tho
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DarkCore
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany4194 Posts
July 31 2019 07:13 GMT
#10
Not a hotfix please, they need to let him have two weeks or more before buffing him. It takes time to figure out where to place new champions because of how big the game has gotten, like people took over a week to not use Flash on Yuumi.
Fixed a bug where LeBlanc could lose
Ansibled
Profile Joined November 2014
United Kingdom9872 Posts
July 31 2019 10:16 GMT
#11
More Yuumi fun

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iCanada
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada10660 Posts
July 31 2019 13:42 GMT
#12
He seems to break even damage from old Pantheon midgame. That feels still to me looking at it through the lens of old Pantheon; if I didn't have a substantial lead by then I lost or was actively being a 6v4 participant. But idk, new panth is fundamentally different in a lot of ways, like his mid late have should be much much better.

I lost lane to a teemo on pbe. Can't say I've ever seen that happen. Lol.

But I have a lot of hard ingrained pantheon play patterns that are fundamentally wrong at this point, so idk. I'm probably a worse judge of his strength than random players. For example a couple times I wanted to go do something else, when i realised New pantheon of actually good at messing around Aram style near a tower. My gut feeling is that he's weak though, but I'm probably reflexively playing him wrong.
AdsMoFro
Profile Joined January 2015
Japan4761 Posts
July 31 2019 15:14 GMT
#13
On July 31 2019 22:42 iCanada wrote:
He seems to break even damage from old Pantheon midgame. That feels still to me looking at it through the lens of old Pantheon; if I didn't have a substantial lead by then I lost or was actively being a 6v4 participant. But idk, new panth is fundamentally different in a lot of ways, like his mid late have should be much much better.

I lost lane to a teemo on pbe. Can't say I've ever seen that happen. Lol.

But I have a lot of hard ingrained pantheon play patterns that are fundamentally wrong at this point, so idk. I'm probably a worse judge of his strength than random players. For example a couple times I wanted to go do something else, when i realised New pantheon of actually good at messing around Aram style near a tower. My gut feeling is that he's weak though, but I'm probably reflexively playing him wrong.


Have you tried him jungle? Seems like some of his lane power got moved around to ganking ability and general scaling.
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DarkCore
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany4194 Posts
July 31 2019 16:39 GMT
#14
The old Riot classic, rework champion to be too weak for lane, but people discover he can be jungled.
Fixed a bug where LeBlanc could lose
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
July 31 2019 18:12 GMT
#15
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Jek
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Denmark2771 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-07-31 21:25:03
July 31 2019 21:11 GMT
#16
Galio seem really strong now. I love it, liked playing him top.

On July 31 2019 07:11 iCanada wrote:
AP Sion was my go to for farming freelo when duoing. Level 2 gank was basically impossible to stop and then both me and the jungler would just hard snowball. By 15 minutes you could be diving inhib towers with a 1500 life shield and the point and click stun. But if you didn't win by 25 minutes you kinda were a glorified taric. Lol.

I loved that champ. I don't think any other champ ever had such a steep drop off mid lategame though.

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2019/07/730-pbe-update-pantheon-champion-update.html

Ooof. Update kinda guts pantheons ratios, although E is total AD. But yikes that ratio is much lower. And they doubled all his CDs. His damage got cleaved; he likely is losing 25% of his burst combo damage even if he hits all his skillshots, you miss some its like halfed.

How much stronger (if it is?) is his all-in with his passive ready? I'd imagine you can get two empowered off one from the engage and a fade away spear?

On August 01 2019 01:39 DarkCore wrote:
The old Riot classic, rework champion to be too weak for lane, but people discover he can be jungled.

Yes. The reworked Aatrox, Irelia, Akali, Shen, Sion, Mordekaiser, Urgot, Gangplank, Fiora, Poppy, Ryze, Graves and Nidalee is/were definitely weak laners and most didn't get nerfed because they were too strong laners. :^)
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Slusher
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States19143 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-07-31 22:45:06
July 31 2019 22:44 GMT
#17
I’m not going to comment on the pantheon mechanics as my opinion on reworks is basically known, but I will say the Art team didn’t understand the appeal to ruthless at all.
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DarkCore
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany4194 Posts
August 01 2019 07:43 GMT
#18
Yes. The reworked Aatrox, Irelia, Akali, Shen, Sion, Mordekaiser, Urgot, Gangplank, Fiora, Poppy, Ryze, Graves and Nidalee is/were definitely weak laners and most didn't get nerfed because they were too strong laners. :^)


Can't tell if this is sarcasm. But I mean, there was a small period after some Aatrox changes where pros ran him more in the jungle than lane. After Urgot was heavily nerfed, he disappeared for a few weeks only to suddenly become the strongest jungler in the game. And I do believe reworked Graves was initially intended for the lane, his kit is just useless there. Point is, reworks have unintended consequences, and once Riot tries to tweak them quite a few have found their home in the jungle.
Fixed a bug where LeBlanc could lose
Jek
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Denmark2771 Posts
August 01 2019 21:59 GMT
#19
On August 01 2019 16:43 DarkCore wrote:
Show nested quote +
Yes. The reworked Aatrox, Irelia, Akali, Shen, Sion, Mordekaiser, Urgot, Gangplank, Fiora, Poppy, Ryze, Graves and Nidalee is/were definitely weak laners and most didn't get nerfed because they were too strong laners. :^)


Can't tell if this is sarcasm. But I mean, there was a small period after some Aatrox changes where pros ran him more in the jungle than lane. After Urgot was heavily nerfed, he disappeared for a few weeks only to suddenly become the strongest jungler in the game. And I do believe reworked Graves was initially intended for the lane, his kit is just useless there. Point is, reworks have unintended consequences, and once Riot tries to tweak them quite a few have found their home in the jungle.

They were all initially played as laners after their rework. My point was it wasn't their rework that got them into the jungle, it was post rework changes. But changes can have all sorts of unintentional consequences rework or not. So I dont think it's fair to call it a Riot special that their reworks are too weak laners.

Graves was a high priority toplaner for some patches since he completely clapped melee champions. Cant remember if it was nerfs or meta changes that placed him back in the jungle.

The only reworks I can think of that became junglers was originally junglers - Nunu and Warwick.
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iCanada
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada10660 Posts
August 01 2019 23:35 GMT
#20
Aatrox right after the rework was an S tier jungler. But you're right, that's pretty much it.


New pantheon I'm convinced that PtA (jungle) or conqueror(lane or if your comp lacks damage) is best Keystone options. With Conqueror especially I think boneplating is op. I think he's better in Lane than I originally thought it's really hard to trade with him from level 3 on when he has all his abilities because he just has insta 5stack on conqueror after you hit em with Qt-Wp-auto's you and he's just sticking to you with auto+Q spam holding E for your retaliation. Q start, W or E level 2 i think matchup dependant. R>Q>W>E. I honestly think E one point wonder, lower W CD is more useful. You're weak as shit till level 3 though, you need threat of E damage mitigation to force trades other guy doesn't feel like they can retaliate on.

His strength in Lane really shifted though. Less of a harass / poke -> all in style and more of a, to quote one of my adolescent hockey coaches, "go wear his ****ing equipment!" style. Like... All in -> poke and zone with HP advantage instead. Kinda backwards from old Spartan. Matchup paradigm is different too, think he's kinda bad into the ranged stuff he used to poop on (see teemo, GP), but a lot a lot better at fighting tanks.

Although perhaps I didn't crack the code and it's just a plat player styling on lower level players due to pve matchmaking. Idk.
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