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[Skyrunner]

Xerath and Heimerdinger have their reworks on PBE soon, I hear!
Xerath now has his seige mode on his ult, which apparently has absolutely rediculous range, and his Q, W and E have the old rooted range. I'm not 100% sure that's true though.
Heimer now has turrets which shoot lazors and non-homing missiles. His ult is like Karma's in that it powers up an existing ability, be is super-stun or missile bullet hell or a huge turret Nunu can't kill in one bite.

Also there are the Ahri nerfs that give her a built-in DFG on her Charm but take damage off her Foxfire while increasing early game mana costs. :< She's intended to be unable to assassinate people without landing her charm now. On the other hand this could make her deal even more damage than before if DFG stacks with charm multiplicatively.

[frostshotgg]

Not soon. Now.

[Skyrunner]

Though, how do people get into the PBE? Signups never seem to be open.

[Astral]

Note: These videos don't have any talking, and are just a visual look at the skills that have changed. They're also not mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg0k3SC1iIA

Heimerdinger now appears to get LASERS on his turrets, which charge up over time, pierce through targets, and do much more normal damage. His hextech micro rockets can be aimed as a skillshot, but it appears that they cannot do damage beyond a certain number, or do much less damage per extra rocket hit, and he gets 5 shot in a single volley). The concussion grenade now appears to move quite a bit faster and will clearly show the impact differences on the targetting reticle. Upgrade now makes the turrets as big as Heimer himself (increasing damage, giving a slow, and it looks like the laser hits harder), makes rockets shoot out 5 volleys of 5, and his concussion grenade bounce like Zigg's bombs (but continue even after a hit).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yYF-373CI

Xerath looks like his Q now has a Varus-esque windup that stops him from moving while charging, and does damage in a line. W appears to do a fairly large AoE effect in a single go, with a small windup time before it actually hits; presumably it has secondary effects to keep his kit similar (such as shredding magic resist on hit) otherwise it's a spammable, normal version of his current ultimate. E is his stun, but it's a skillshot that hits the first target encountered. The ultimate seems to have 4 or 5 shots available, which look like they do a lot of damage; I wish they'd include the actual tooltips in these videos though.

[Skyrunner]

Xerath's quote

"Power laning, power farming, power ganking, power kills! So many kills! Four-hundred kills!"

so funny xD


edit: wow, how the heck do you win against Urgot+Soraka lane? .-.

[IronyOwl]

edit: wow, how the heck do you win against Urgot+Soraka lane? .-.

Urgot doesn't scale especially well, so in theory you just outlast them.

Definitely easier said than done, though. Urgot's absolutely brutal early on, and once he gets infinite mana you're pretty SOL. Raka heals also deal with his difficulty getting sustain.

The main thing to remember is that if he lands his canister, RUN. You will not outduel him unless you're way ahead, and he will poke you down VICIOUSLY if he can autolock his missiles onto you. The fact that the acid also reduces your armor doesn't help, either. Remember that the range is also very, very long at that point. He can also lock you even when he can't see you if he puts his cursor in the right place, so don't rely on bushes too much.

Other than that, most of what he can do involves a skillshot, so hide behind minions and get ready to dodge like you would against Ez or Blitz. Keeping moving will also make it harder for him to land his canister, which is, as mentioned, pretty all-important.

[Wiles]

Yeah it's definitely a tough lane to face early on. When you're in a tough match up it is important to convey to your team that your lane needs help. Bullying Urgot out of lane with jungle/mid support can help alleviate the early pressure he puts on you. It's important to make it as easy as possible for your team to help, so having vision supremacy and good positioning when they come to gank is very important.

Sometimes it is tough in solo queue to get that kind of help, but generally if you're nice about it people will come. If you don't have vision control tell them where to come gank from and where not to walk. Good communication is key.

[frostshotgg]

You win the game by standing behind your creeps and dodging the grenade. Accept that you're not going to be able to play aggro that lane, farm safely for 20 minutes, then massively outscale him easily.

[werty892]

I miss old LB

[Skyrunner]

I tried my best, but he landed his grenade and chipped me down, while the other lanes also collapsed. No-one left to win. D:

[Chaoswizkid]

I miss old LB

You mean when she wasn't balanced for the whole game-length and had all her power on the front-end of a game to wreck face from 6 to 15?

I miss that version sometimes, too.

[Skyrunner]

Well this is weird.

In the post-game lobby, a couple people on my team harassed Ahri a bit for playing badly against a Katarina. Someone said that "DFG first item, noob" (I dunno if that means you should or shouldn't rush DFG), and I said that actually DFG is why Ahri works, describing that using everything Ahri has along with ignite and DFG lets her burst down anyone. Katarina proceeds to threaten me that she's going to paste the post-game chat into the report and report me for harassment and yelling at her. And I think she actually did. I'm... perplexed, to say the best. What did I do? :p

I mean, to me, it looks like he's trying to look like the good guy, the white knight, protecting the poor newbie mid from evil jerk teammates or something, except that I said nothing in-game to Ahri, nor did actually address her directly at any time during the lobby.

LoL has weird players. :S

[Sindain]

There is also a lot of people who use reports as a threat in response to almost anything, so he could have just been one of those arseholes.

[Cthulhu]

Toxic toxic toxic toxic

Just had the worst (most toxic?) game ever.  Went solo top Trundle which is already a high-risk move in blind pick because he destroys most melee tops but can't do anything against ranged tops (And I don't do normal draft because I'd rather get accidentally outpicked than watch my teammates deliberately pick Veigar into Kayle)

Anyway, the enemy has a weird comp, Garen, Jungle Lee Sin, Jayce, Gragas, Jinx.  I figure Gragas is going support and Jayce mid, which leaves Garen to get owned top by the Troll.

I get up there and it turns out the Garen and Jayce are a duo-queue, both top.  Meanwhile our Volibear has decided to do a full clear of the jungle, and when he finally gets up to me he waits until I'm dead to head up and feed them another kill.

Worst.

[xaritscin]

i had a one yesterday, in a 3v3, it was very cool, we were par with the enemy, both have lost their lane sides, they were moving bot while we were going top. it was really random but some of the group decided to attack, but then they sticked to the lane, at the end both teams reached the other bases but we went faster and destroyed their nexus, i think they were still destroying the inihibitor....it was really interesting