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[IronyOwl]

I forgot who the imbalanced characters were, but it was mostly the duelists, IIRC. Warwick, Jax, and the like do well, I think.

I think anyone with a wall slam (Vayne, Poppy) also qualifies. I'd assume the tight spaces also give an edge to anyone you're supposed to dodge in general, similar but much less severely than ARAM, but I'm not certain.

Poor TT, nobody gives it any love. I like the idea, but it's so imbalanced that an Olympic gymnast would trip just by looking at it. It's like Kassadin for Dominion, except there are about a dozen of them.

Speaking of which, could somebody explain Kassadin to me? I've heard he's hideously, inexcusably, picked-every-time broken on Dominion, but the only explanation I've heard for why is "his early game never happens."

Well, I have a funny story for all of you. THE TALE OF THE HACKED ACCOUNT! I come back to LoL after 3-4 months, and what's this, my username has changed! I'm also in gold 3, where as before I was in bronze 5. Also, someone bought lists of shit on my account. Now, I swear this is not me ELO boosting, but I find it hilarious that someone would use real money on a account they stole. I suppose my username/password were not so tight, but it is being resolved now, since they changed the e-mail address I can not reset the password. I dont know if I should be happy or pissed, but I know I wont play ranked, Jesus I'm not ready for gold.

...bizarre. I wonder if it got hacked by someone who then sold it to someone else? I've heard most MMO gold for sale comes from hacked accounts, might be a similar issue going on here.

[Tack]

Oceanic servers go!

Australians feeling good!

[Virex]

Oceanic servers go!

Australians feeling good!

They're up already? Awesome!

Edit: Yop, they're up. Thank god, I wasn't finding my groove with DOTA...



Edit 2: Does anyone know how expensive it would be to transfer from Oceania back to Europe? I might port my account over for the time being if it's free.


Edit 3: Transfer is 2600 RP.... I'll be smurfing on Oceania for now.

[IronyOwl]

So I've been playing ARAM hoping for more AP Maokai lately. Got Janna for my latest match instead, which is hard to complain about.

Went 3/4/46. Second highest assists was Shen at 28.


Speaking of which, is AP Maokai viable anywhere else? I'm not so sure about Rift, but maybe he'd work on TT?

[frostshotgg]

There's a clip of an AP Mao instagibbing an unsuspecting Xin somewhere, it's funny. If you know what you're doing, he can work in the Rift. He might not be a top tier competetive pick, but he's not horrible.

[baruk]

Some news on the Heimerdinger rework:
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3615862

[tompliss]

If you know what you're doing, he can work in the Rift. He might not be a top tier competetive pick, but he's not horrible.

Yeap, that's pretty much that.
Maokai got more damage than most classic AP carries (more base damage + rate than lux, for example), but needs more time to cast them, and need to commit way more...
But as a mid-laner, he can do a great job, as long as your jungler has some hard CC, and if you build him a little tanky (rod of Ages, Abyssal, Zhonia, to keep it simple).

you cast your sappling + dash + ult on the first ennemy, the ennemy team tries to burst you, hile your jarvan jungle come and ult them in an arena in your ult, and you activate your zhonia. Worst case scenario, you die as soon as the zhonia ends => your ult finishes automatically, killing every ennemy in it, best case : you aren't in jarvan's arena, bump then ennemies in your ult while you go away, finishing it.
Little thing, though : if you wanan farm with the sapplings, you'd better get evey blue buff (begining at the second). If you can't (ennemy counter jungling), you'd better level the bump first, as it is much more cost-efficient, even if more commiting.

[frostshotgg]

Some news on the Heimerdinger rework:
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3615862

Some important notes:

Also - because the machine guns do relatively poor damage compared to the beams, they now benefit from things like spell vamp and liandry's and rylai's.

We tinkered with some other passives but his regeneration passive does a lot to make Heimerdinger easier to play with fallback patterns and the like.

His level ups aren't particularly interesting - that's kind of one of the prices of having a modal ultimate in a lot of ways. :x

His ultimate is a lot like Mantra, except instead of getting a side benefit, you just get more of what you want and the spell additionally slows.

For example - in his turret case, you get 3 slowing turrets instead of one.

I'm really interested in that ulti. Riot really fucked up with the Mantra rework, I want to see how they do one that wasn't Mantra before.

[penguinofhonor]

Lucian, the Purifier is the next champion. Once a righteous crusader, his angsty backstory has caused him to be torn between ridding this world of evil and finding his lost love/partner.

[CognitiveDissonance]

...his angsty backstory...

I laughed out loud

[Jopax]

So a black gun wielding evil hunter on a quest to save his girl.

I'm thinking they saw Django and said "We need to do this!"

Other than that I liked his initial concept guns much more. These are some sort of laser magic shooting rocks that look like guns, eh :I

[penguinofhonor]

Oh my god, he's totally Django. I must have him.

[frostshotgg]

At least now people can't bitch about no black champions, even though we've had Ryze and Karma forever. Karma was in fact dark brown before her VU.

[penguinofhonor]

Ryze is purple. And all his skins with a human skin color have him being white.

Also I hope people don't stop complaining about that. Increasing the amount of black champions from 1% to 2% is not incredibly significant.

[Graven]

Apparently his art got leaked a while ago :



Looks pretty nice, if a bit ...retarded.