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[Bordellimies]

+5200 hp, 200hp/per 5 Mundo is fun. Esp when enemy has mainly Ap, FoN, Mercs and Visage give neat protection.

[Boksi]

So far it seems that my main problem with playing Mundo is getting ganked early on and therefore lagging behind in XP/GP and thus feeding. Any tips?

[Dakk]

Attack Speed:    0.992    1.878 (+0.886)

Total DPS: 185,922 DPS.

Uh.

See Sirian's post. Those are trist's level 18 attack speed values, the second one being that + 2 PDs, meaning almost 2 attacks per second, not taking her Q into account.

Total DPS is calculated by multiplying attack damage by the attack speed, meaning she'd do roughly 186 damage per second in that setting, not taking armor, armor pen or special effects from items into account, or criticals, that is.

Criticals would make her total DPS a bit higher, but really I don't think buying two phantom dancers instead of a bf sword as the starting items for your build is a good idea in any plane of existence.

[umiman]

Lol replay thing doesn't work any more! It recorded but it won't play!

Edit: To be specific, LolReplay crashes the loading screen of LoL and thus I have to reconnect to games. But the replay thing can't handle reconnects and produces corrupted files instead. So I can't save all the awesome games.

Edit edit: Fiddlesticks is getting some changes. Tl;dr: A weaker drain early on but everything else is better.

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Hey all,

Since these previews have (generally) spurred good discussion, I wanted to talk about a Fiddlesticks mini-rework we have in the pipe.

Dark Wind: Bounces changed to 5 at all ranks. Silence duration 1.5 at all ranks. Leveling the skill increases base damage. Large increase to AP ratio.

Drain: Now heals for a % of damage as health. Begins at 50% and scales up with AP ratio (and can go over 100% with enough AP). Range slightly reduced. (Might increase CD if we have to).

Crowstorm: Base damage lowered, AP ratio increased.

Base Stats: Pretty sizable increase. His base armor was abysmal to make up for drain - with these fixes, he can have more normal base stats.

* Why change Fiddlesticks?

The changes were really easy to do, and Fiddlesticks is not in a good spot right now (he's bad in serious games, but still can pubstomp well). These changes are to fix how feast-or-famine Fiddlesticks is right now (he either snowballs heavily or is worthless) while giving him more late-game damage scaling.

* What about junglesticks?

We're running some heavy jungle testing today to see if this is still possible. We expect speedier jungling with the Dark Wind changes, it's really level 1 golem we're going to look at. We'd like him to be a good jungler.

* Why not let drain stay 1:1 on the health gain?

Fiddles sustain from this is exceptionally high early, but letting this scale throughout the game lets us both make him less crazy sustain early (which is an important counter-balance to lane presence with the Dark Wind changes) and lets him actually drain much more effectively late game, where stuns are flying around a lot more and the move is riskier.

Regarding Jax:

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Counterstrike is dead to me, at least in anything like it currently exists. Let me warn you now, I will douse this in gasoline and burn it with the fire of my rage for luck-based procs that are rendered useless by playing smarter.

And finally, my favorite, regarding Xin Zhao. I know I'll make some people cry with new and improved perfect warrior.

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Hello again!

We talked a lot about the Xin nerfs last week, and possible buffs to him to compensate. Here's the current plan;

    * Three Talon Strike
          o Fixed a bug where Three Talon Strike could be activated while it was still active.
    * General
          o Base attack damage increased to 59.1 from 52.3
          o Attack damage per level decreased to 3.1 from 3.3
    * Battle Cry
          o Passive Attack Speed is no longer removed while the ability is on cooldown (<- this here is amazing)
          o Attack Speed increased to 20/25/30/35/40% from 15/20/25/30/35% (<- x2 when he activates it)
    * Crescent Sweep
          o Armor and Magic resist reduced to 25 at all levels.
          o Now scales and gives 7/10/13 Armor and Magic Resist for each champion hit (<- if he hits 5 champs, 90 extra armor and MR. Realistically if he hits 3, 64 extra. Used to be bonus 50.)


We believe this will be a good set of changes to fix the original problems and make him generally better in most elo ranges. The change to Battle Cry will add a ton of consistency.

We expect this to go out this patch.

[SalmonGod]

So far it seems that my main problem with playing Mundo is getting ganked early on and therefore lagging behind in XP/GP and thus feeding. Any tips?

Mundo is squishy early on.  You just have to be careful until you've built up a bit.  Cleavers are everything to Mundo early game.  They're his defense and his offense.  Even level 1 ultimate doesn't do much for him, besides more sustainability in his lane.  It won't cause rapid enough regeneration to save you from a gank like it will late game, so its only defensive use is the speed boost. 

He's very much a mid-late game champion (assuming you are building mainly tank items on him).  After you have boots/spirit visage/warmog's, you really start to shine.  Until then just whittle away at the enemy from bushes or a safe distance with cleavers.  If you're pushed out to the river in your lane and there are enemies missing, throw cleavers into the river bush often (from max range) to detect anyone there.

Also, you fear certain champions more than others early game vs late game.  Early game, you can out damage most carries with cleaver and masochism, at least enough to kill them 1v1 after whittling them down with a couple cleaver shots.  Take advantage of this while you can, because they'll be your biggest threat late game (as usual with carries).  What you need to be afraid of early is cc + burst damage.  AP Nukes and assassins will tear you apart quickly if they can get you in range, though late game you will be able to almost completely ignore them.  Keep cleaver distance between yourself and any such enemy characters, and beware flashes and other such moves to catch you suddenly.  Keep your HP high.

You might also think about which teammates you take with you into lane.  I find Mundo works really really well with an assassin or other catch/burst damage type character, because his cleavers should be keeping the enemy at half health or less at all times and constantly ripe for someone else's finishing move.

This is assuming, of course, that you're playing Mundo the same way I do.  That is, build tank items until immortal, and then build some damage.

[Dakk]

I like the Fiddlesticks changes. With a better dark wind he won't have to rely on drain to steal kills early on now, and crowstorm won't be his only way to get kills, and drain did seriously lack power in the endgame, might play him again after these changes take place.

I dont know about xin zhao changes though, looks like they just shot their own foot regarding their "lets fix tanky dps!" attitude, altough xin was sorta lacking in comparison to the other tanky dps, might play him after these changes.

And Jax really does need some work, but you can't take dodge away from him, its what makes Jax, well, Jax.

I like how they actualy started talking about doing stuff with champions that really did need more then just some adjustments, instead of declaring something OP or bad out of nowhere and changing one of the champions that are actualy somewhat balanced (see Morello and his Nidalee rant).

[eerr]

Do I actually have to go play as fiddle to check out the changes?

Though I do like how he will be less useless vs organized teams, because I can get in real trouble with that lategame.

(Fiddles=main, moreso than nasus and a bit more than karthus)


Anybody play zil? he seems enormously powerful, what with max cdr and rewind.

[Dakk]

Zilean is a great harasser and very strong on the early and midgame. He starts as a powerful mage then slowly drifts towards a more supporting role, altough his E and ultimate make him a useful support during the whole game.

[umiman]

You know, looking at the Xin Zhao changes I might actually change my playstyle with him from an AD nuker (e.g: Pantheon) to an actual melee dps (e.g: Master Yi). It used to be that once Battlecry was on cooldown, Xin Zhao's damage was pathetic. It's why I always advocated going in. Blowing someone up. Then running away. It's also why I rushed Black Cleaver instead of all the "recommended attack speed" items such as Ghostblade or Sword of the Divine.

But if Battlecry doesn't remove the passive AS bonus any more, I would definitely build those items as I'd be able to stay in the fight so much longer.

Also, jungle Xin Zhao might actually work again.

[Bordellimies]

Zilean can fill few roles quite well.

1. An AP caster for very high endgame bombs and his ulti will revive your tank to full hp. Most likely very squishy.
2. A tanky team supporter. Items such as Frozen Heart, Soul Shroud, Guardian angel, Banshee's Veil, and Shurelya's Reverie.(my favorite)
3. A "henchman" for your carry/tank: Keep that Yi sped up all the time, or additionally his target slowed. With CDR and Rewind you can spam your ulti for easy saves.

And he has huge chance to crit on enemy's morale with dem bombs during laning.



If you have a Zilean on your team (or if you are one) ask all of your teammates get Guardian Angel, and Zilean also get CDR. Enemies will love it.

Kudos if you also have a Tryndamere, Dr. Mundo and an Anivia in the team. They all just love fucking around with enemies by not dieing.

[umiman]

That man speaks the truth. Just two tanks alone getting GA is horrible. If you seriously want to troll the enemy, everyone buying GA will make them cry.

[Pandarsenic]

Attack Speed:    0.992    1.878 (+0.886)

Total DPS: 185,922 DPS.

Uh.

See Sirian's post. Those are trist's level 18 attack speed values, the second one being that + 2 PDs, meaning almost 2 attacks per second, not taking her Q into account.

Total DPS is calculated by multiplying attack damage by the attack speed, meaning she'd do roughly 186 damage per second in that setting, not taking armor, armor pen or special effects from items into account, or criticals, that is.

Criticals would make her total DPS a bit higher, but really I don't think buying two phantom dancers instead of a bf sword as the starting items for your build is a good idea in any plane of existence.

Emphasized what was weirding me out.

[Dakk]

Uhh, might want to check your punctuation there. 166,000 damage is probably enough to destroy every unit on the map at any given time.

SomeMost countries (including mine) use the "," instead of "."

For example, 23,000 = 23 for me. And 23.000 = 23 000.

[V-Norrec]

In other news, I hate filling out rune charts in T3 runes.  I love the bonuses I get, but it just takes so long to make progress.

On the brightside I just had two wonderful games as LeBlanc.  First game the enemy team had a total 4 kills.  I ended 6/0 IIRC.  Second game I had a bit of a rough start as I was solo laning half the time against Amumu and Brand.  Once the laning phase was over I did decent until they surrendered at about 30:00.  I ended with 2/3 IIRC.  Not bad since we were disorganized.

[Micro102]

I find brand to have way too much damage. I was like "Ok he is a mage who can harass easily, I should buy MR". I stack MR right away, merc treads and negatron, reach over 120 MR, all Brand has is blasting wand for AP, I dodge 2 of his abilities, he hits me with the 2 others, one his ulti which bounces on me twice, down to 25% my health.... It's ridiculous.