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[Wiles]

From the 3.04 patch notes:

Singed:Insanity Potion no longer reduces the duration of disables

Sad day for Singed.

[werty892]

From the 3.04 patch notes:

Singed:Insanity Potion no longer reduces the duration of disables

Sad day for Singed.

This is the end... SINGED:NO LONGER VIABLE.

[Graven]

Well Singed was kind of smashing through the last few weeks of tournaments, and that does get Riot's panties in a twist.

What do you guys think about Xerath? Specifically, Xerath for Dominion, but even in general. I wanted to blind-pick him for a while, but now it seems he's going free tomorrow, but I'd still like an opinion. The penetration changes in s3 should theoretically be great for him, and I kind of want to pick an obscure champion, get good at him and smash peoples, but last I tried him he felt clunky and hard to use.

[Lord Snow]

Xerath is hard to use, especially if you actually want to stun people in fights. The single target spell range is small compared to his other abilities.

He's all skillshots, but his damage and penetration on it are devastating.



Also: yay, Silver 4. Slowly inching my way up, had the most terrible start to the ranked season. At least the promotion games were fun.
Both were close, first because i was supporting and lanes didn't do well to begin with - my janna is good but i can't save people from themselves . Second because i almost threw the whole game after getting fed on Trist* while other lanes, again, lost.
That second game then went full retard, and you know you should never go full retard. from my throw attempt onwards, everyone went bonkers. In straight succession our teams engaged in the dumbest way possible, immediatly forfeiting the advantages gained from the previous fight/throw. i refused to participate in throw 5, survived the teamfight and got a double while 1v4ing them from outside our base. That was the 6th throw, both teams with mid inhibs down and bare nexus, rest of team respawns and cleans up with me, we go win.

*attacked 10hp inhib tower and got caught for it. Shouldve just told someone on the team, or done it sneaky instead of provoking a full on teamfight from it.

[Jopax]

Yeah, Xera is somewhat hard to get used to since you need to get a feel for a certain rythm of going into lockdown and harassing then moving on before they have chance to respond.

The delay on all his abilities (atleast his main damage dealers) also takes some getting used to but once you get the hang of it leading targets becomes rather easy most of the time. His stun is usually useful only in lane and smaller skirmishes where you can afford to get close enough to use it, bigger fights you either hit that and run away to deploy or use it only after most of the fight is over to catch the stragglers since your full ult and Q combo (that is Q,R,R,R,Q) will do well over 2k magic damage in AoE lategame which is scary as fuck.

As far as laning goes, poke around whenever you can but around minions if they aren't pushing that hard (don't want to leave yourself at their tower with a jungler breatihing down your neck since you don't have any escapes) and if you hit level 6 and they haven't gone back yet (stupid) chances are they are at a third of their hp or less. All that is left is to get close enough to fire off the E somehow (flashing works most of the time but isn't needed if they're overly agressive) and smack them down with your ult for a nice easy kill.

Furthermore, getting some CDR is pretty awesome on him, yes blue is nice but Morellonomicon or the Grail are great to help bring your ult down to Lux level frequency (minimum is 34 seconds IIRC), except you do much more damage which is much more focused.

This is all for SR since I don't play that much dominion, but try him out definitely, it might take a while but he's one strong bastard that has carried me many a ranked game

[Graven]

Xerath experiment, field report 1 :

 

[Kalemyr Skyfire]

Heh, I realized 3 of the Champions I play (Pantheon, Irelia, and Gangplank) are in the week's rotation. Boy am I going to enjoy watching other people play them.

It takes time to get used to Xerath, Graven. Keep trying and you'll get the hang of it eventually.

[frostshotgg]

Xerath is weird. He does a ton of damage and all, but he feels so terrible to use.

[Jopax]

Most people think that, and he is kinda clunky but I find it incredibly satisfying to land his shots. The only gripe I have is that his FX feel kinda insubstantial, like they don't pack any punch but that's a minor cosmetic detail.

[Graven]

Xerath experiment, field report 2 :

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[Errol]

So... apparently reworked Karma has crappy ratios without her Mantra (in the ballpark of 0.5~0.6), 45 seconds cooldown on Mantra early on, only one stock of that anyway, just about zero AoE without stock, and lost her crapload of free AP as well. I'm kind of worried, if Karma doesn't get 700ish strong shield nukes off anymore as par for the course she just kind of isn't Karma. This version has a lot of power shifted to Q, which is not unlike every other caster Q in this game.
Particularily the Mantra's a bit - the cooldown might be going hilariously low lategame thanks to her passive and CDR. But, early on... Old Karma already had been counting Mantra early in the game, and that was a 25 seconds CD with two stocks.
Also, a lot of her stuff only works on champions - passive, W, - and any sort of actual area spell is, you guessed it, locked behind a Mantra barrier. R.I.P. waveclearing.

That being said, I think that one's just down to the numbers. Their redesign for Karma makes sense and preserves a lot of her playstyle (including shield nukes, whoooo). Also, I haven't played her yet so a lot of my generic internet rage is due to second-hand information. Also also, obligatory PBE disclaimer.

[penguinofhonor]

The league community getting mad at things just to get mad at them, Episode 822. Important post summaries:

Ironstylus has been on the forums for a while basically telling everyone Sejuani will have a traditional skin.
This thread's OP: "Will Sejuani's remake have a traditional skin?"
Ironstylus: Quotes a post saying "Ironstylus said she'll have a traditional skin."
OP: Wait, do I need to make a poll to show Riot people want a traditional skin?
Ironstylus: That's not necessary. She'll have a traditional skin.
OP: Wait so will she have a traditional skin?
Ironstylus: Yes. She will have a traditional skin.

I understand when reds repeat the same information across different threads or to different people, but he basically had to tell this guy outright three times in the same thread before he stopped getting pissed over nothing.

This version has a lot of power shifted to Q, which is not unlike every other caster Q in this game.

That's because they've designated Q as the bread-and-butter skill slot for consistency. Saying this makes her less unique is like saying all the champions are boring because their ultimates are all on R.

[Bluerobin]

AP Karma still does craploads of damage with the shieldnuke, waveclearing with Q + shieldnuke still works once you get the AP to do it because Mantra's cooldown is low enough by then, and I'd say they successfully made Mantra into something that actually feels like an ultimate. I actually want to build her a lot like Lux except with a little more survivability, because her R ends up with similar or lower cooldown and similar impact. Also, seeing the shield bomb also put shields and movespeed buffs on all nearby allies is pretty awesome.

[Errol]

Hah. Well, without a solid bread&butter she'd not be the sustained mage she'd be otherwise, it's just that it's yet another line skillshot (tm). That being said, it'll probably work on her.

Aaaand after messing around in other games with online communities, I can safely say that the League community is silly and the notion of them being competitive is also silly.

[Yodamaster]

Champion remakes are always fun because they basically mean 2 effectively new champions coming out at the same time .