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Join the LiquidLegends 2017 Worlds Pick'em Group!

Ban bets!!
Ban bets will continue for the duration of Worlds. You can place bet at any phase of Worlds; on individual games, series, whatever your heart desires.
Bans will be enacted the day after Worlds ends, to ensure everyone can still post on LL while Worlds is ongoing. glhf~

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dsyxelic
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1417 Posts
October 21 2017 02:13 GMT
#1401
Kalista > Xayah =? Trist > the rest

Trist is stupid good just because she has so much self peel and margin for error. Really great when your ADC is struggling.

TL/SKT
chipmonklord17
Profile Joined February 2011
United States11944 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-21 02:20:55
October 21 2017 02:20 GMT
#1402
My pleb mind still doesn't understand why Kalista is permabanned. Is it really so much better than say, leaving it open red side so you can try and grab Xayah+Rakan in trade for it? Or Galio+J4?
NeoIllusions
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States37500 Posts
October 21 2017 02:21 GMT
#1403
Kalista is prob gonna pull a Morde 2016, basically not see play. I think Trist > Xayah.
ModeratorFor the Glory that is TeamLiquid (-9 | 155) | Discord: NeoIllusions#1984
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35173 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-21 02:29:23
October 21 2017 02:28 GMT
#1404
On October 21 2017 11:20 chipmonklord17 wrote:
My pleb mind still doesn't understand why Kalista is permabanned. Is it really so much better than say, leaving it open red side so you can try and grab Xayah+Rakan in trade for it? Or Galio+J4?

I would assume the magic damage from Censer makes up for some of her rampup on Rend and the AS makes it easier to get to that point.

On October 21 2017 11:13 dsyxelic wrote:
Kalista > Xayah =? Trist > the rest

Trist is stupid good just because she has so much self peel and margin for error. Really great when your ADC is struggling.


K>>>T>X>>R
chipmonklord17
Profile Joined February 2011
United States11944 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-21 02:36:22
October 21 2017 02:35 GMT
#1405
But even then I can't imagine Kalista alone would be worth trading a Xayah/Rakan or Galio/J4 on red side. Even if the blue side team bans any of those you still would get to trade and get Xayah/Janna or Galio/Trist or some other combo.

EDIT: I mean clearly I'm wrong because it keeps happening, but I just feel like you could draft a few 'trap' drafts where you give them Kalista on blue for something great
geript
Profile Joined February 2013
10024 Posts
October 21 2017 04:37 GMT
#1406
The thing with Kallista is that you can’t also give up Rakan. The mid game teamfight abuse even if behind is way too huge. You’d need to trade it for Galio and something. But Jarvan isn’t good enough to warrant it. With Galio being a pretty heavy blue side ban (usually second) I find it hard thinking of a scenario where you can deny Rakan combo and still get enough value to give up Kallista. Sure Mord was good in 2016, but teams let him through bans a few times. He required a heavier bot side focus so you could do dumb dragon things. He could be abused. It’s much harder to abuse Kallista.
cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
October 21 2017 04:54 GMT
#1407
Red side always first bans kalista, so its silly to not think people would notice what's up.
Freeeeeeedom
dsyxelic
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1417 Posts
October 21 2017 05:13 GMT
#1408
kalista has just too many good things

-lane priority in every meta matchup.
-can kite these tanky engage champs
-can enable supports to do some ridiculous playmaking, especially if you pair it with thresh or rakan
-objective control. think of how many times smite wars happened or chogath ult single handedly deciding how teams play around baron/dragon. kalista rend > all of these objective finishers

in the right hands kalista is just broken at the pro level.
TL/SKT
AdsMoFro
Profile Joined January 2015
Japan4761 Posts
October 21 2017 07:39 GMT
#1409
Morde was a melee carry with insanely overpowered stats, but his kit, in general, was not very repressive. Once they removed the unlimited range of his ult and lowered his stats he became a niche pick like he was always meant to be.

Kalista's numbers can be mediocre, but it doesn't matter because her kit is inherently repressive. She has self-peel and team peel. She dumpsters every laner without even trying. You literally can not trade vs her or you're fucked. Play Ardent supports? You're fucked because she gets a free pass to the midgame and dumpsters you. Play engage supports? You're fucked harder because it's difficult to engage on her and IMPOSSIBLE to engage on her support.

As a champion, she needs a rework to ever be viable in SoloQ without being busted in competitive.
Que Sera Sera
DarkCore
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany4194 Posts
October 21 2017 08:13 GMT
#1410
On October 21 2017 10:53 NeoIllusions wrote:
Biggest power pick so far of Worlds? We can look at Groups and the two Quarter games.

My vote is Trist. While Censer meta is still dominate at this tournament, Trist really shines on two facets: her late game scaling with her range, allowing her to team fight front to back with relative ease, and second, how well she can take down turrets, despite being a "late game" carry. I've seen good Varus games during LCK this season but no one's stepped up on the champion yet imo. I'm not a fan of Kog/Twitch as much but I suspect the CN ADCs will still lean heavily towards hyper carries. She even made Doublelift look good zz.

I know we went over "overrated/underwhelming" picks a few pages back but Faker still looks like a god on Ryze, everyone is babo as fk. Shen amusingly enough does best with aggressive teams, using Stand United offensively than defensively.


Trist is very strong right now, but only because a lot of other ADC are being banned out or teams are drafted against. Definitely stronger than Xayah right now, although Mystic's mastery of her suggests otherwise.

My pleb mind still doesn't understand why Kalista is permabanned. Is it really so much better than say, leaving it open red side so you can try and grab Xayah+Rakan in trade for it? Or Galio+J4?


Because Kalista's entire design is broken, and when the meta allows her to see play she will always be busted. She's like the only champion in the game with a debuff built in with her 90% AA, because Riot want to keep her unique but it's so damn hard to balance her when her kit is bonkers.

She's probably the best laning ADC right now (ignoring a solid Draven matchup), because Cait has been nerfed. I've been watching players like Hans and Zven play her on their streams, and when you play her well she will always pull ahead in cs. There are certain matchups which she destroys so hard that you're enemy ADC will be sitting on 40@10 cs if they're lucky. It's very easy to misstep and end up blowing flash/dying to her. Her kill pressure with engage champs like Ali, Taric, Rakan are so high because she can kite you forever if you get locked down. Then there is the level 6 engage, which again forces the opponent to play very careful, if you don't have flash then the moment a jungle gank comes you are dead 100% against the likes of the previously mentioned supports. It's far more reliable CC than Varus or Ashe ult which imo are easier to dodge, and throwing the support makes chaining so much easier/stronger.

Her team fighting is also pretty strong, her ability to kite many champs makes them practically garbage against her, and some of those happen to be meta picks. You'd think that her damage falls off in comparison to the likes of Twitch and Kog, but Kalista naturally accrues such huge leads and speeds up the game so much when played properly that she can still out damage them at the 20 minute mark so long as the hypercarry can't sit and AA non stop. Which is another strength: her passive means that she doesn't have to worry about running away without AAing because there's some big bad tank running at her. Then her objective control, imagine Kalista and Cho on the same team, there's no chance you would be able to steal from that.

Ardent is pretty dope on her as well, but that applies to all AS based ADC. Overall she's just one of the most busted champs to ever be introduced, and my biggest candidate for a rework.
Fixed a bug where LeBlanc could lose
Skitter
Profile Joined August 2015
United States899 Posts
October 21 2017 08:14 GMT
#1411
"c9 and contractz continue to evolve the meta"

does c9 even have a full set of hands and a whole brain among its 5 members
xd
iCanada
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada10660 Posts
October 21 2017 08:51 GMT
#1412
Jatt and Deficio been so EU biased this game. Gold like even and RNG has sick good team fighting and the better scaling compe, and they all "FNC playing so well, RNG might get upset!"
Soularion
Profile Blog Joined January 2014
Canada2764 Posts
October 21 2017 08:52 GMT
#1413
Royal is such a crazy good team. Their understanding of the meta might be the best of any team at worlds. I'm really fanboying for them right now, even though it's realistically super close between them, SKT and Samsung.
Writermaru pls
Skitter
Profile Joined August 2015
United States899 Posts
October 21 2017 08:54 GMT
#1414
On October 21 2017 17:51 iCanada wrote:
Jatt and Deficio been so EU biased this game. Gold like even and RNG has sick good team fighting and the better scaling compe, and they all "FNC playing so well, RNG might get upset!"

gragas is a scaling jungler XD
xd
Soularion
Profile Blog Joined January 2014
Canada2764 Posts
October 21 2017 08:55 GMT
#1415
On October 21 2017 17:54 Skitter wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 21 2017 17:51 iCanada wrote:
Jatt and Deficio been so EU biased this game. Gold like even and RNG has sick good team fighting and the better scaling compe, and they all "FNC playing so well, RNG might get upset!"

gragas is a scaling jungler XD

Fnatic are playing well, but RNG are better. Better teamfighting, better positioning, better rotations. They slip up sometimes, and Fnatic has been good at punishing, but RNG are much better at snowballing the opportunities they get.
Writermaru pls
Skitter
Profile Joined August 2015
United States899 Posts
October 21 2017 08:56 GMT
#1416
nah i was pointing out how jatt said that. ofc, rng have been the better team. fnc just playing the basics w/their early game comp
xd
Amui
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada10567 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-21 09:04:14
October 21 2017 09:03 GMT
#1417
Soraka and the absolutely giant chogath is just disgusting.

How do you kill something with 20k+ eHP?

Also, I think ocean drakes with soraka is probably one of the most broken things in the game, as it's basically old baron buff.
Porouscloud - NA LoL
iCanada
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada10660 Posts
October 21 2017 09:05 GMT
#1418
LOL.

The 40s teamfight where no one dies. So much damage in this meta.
Amui
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada10567 Posts
October 21 2017 09:05 GMT
#1419
I'll bet you if you look at damage done at the end of this game, fnatic will be ahead by a ton, but it's all just onto a chogath that doesn't die
Porouscloud - NA LoL
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35173 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-21 09:07:07
October 21 2017 09:06 GMT
#1420
It's like an archon chilling next to a shield battery.
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