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[DemonOfWrath]

You aren't the only OCE player, it's just there aren't many of us full stop, else we'd have more game modes. 

On the topic of power creep and meta champs, it honestly doesn't matter at all aside from competitive play. At lower skill levels (solo queue) anything works because everyone sucks, and at higher skill levels everything still works because people actually play them well. The meta is really just the stuff that's the most consistent at the specific roles required in a team composition. As long as you have a good idea of why you're picking an oddball champ, and when you can pick it, you're fine.

For instance my current pet off-meta pick is top lane Ahri, since her range, consistent poke damage and slipperiness trashes a lot of the less mobile melee champs that usually sit up there, it works well with how I play the lane and map (I like turning advantages/stalemates into ganks on mid and pressure in their jungle, and she roams really well), and can go into a few roles later depending on how I build. But when I pick her I have to be sure it's against something that can't close the distance well (so say a Shyvana would be ideal to pick into), and that the rest of the team has enough tankiness to allow me to go full squishy up top.

[UXLZ]

What do you mean by the game modes comment? I'm totally out of the loop. >_>

Yeah, thankfully that's true, it's just a shame, really.

I can see Top Ahri doing well. I just don't really like playing her so I'd never make that choice. I was working on a top lane Ezreal build for a while but it never really lived up to what I had hoped it be (just like Jungle Ezreal, though this one time I went up against the worst jungler I have ever seen and crushed him, despite him being Malphite.)
I ended up against Renekton too much. Freaking Renekton...

By the by................ WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THE NEW LORE!?

THEY BUTCHERED KARTHUS!
AZIR ONLY HAS LIKE THREE LINES!
RENEEEKKTTOOOOON!
REK'SAI HAS LIKE FOUR LINES!
EEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLL

I could go on and on, but I think you get the point. I hope there is a very good excuse for this that I haven't found yet. Man, they even fucked Xerath.

I was impressed because Riot looked like they were finally getting their ass into gear with the Rift updates and champion texture upgrades but it looks like the Lore department is spiraling ever down and down.

[DemonOfWrath]

We kept losing game modes due to lack of players, for a while it was only ARAM, blind picks and ranked. We have team builder permanently at the moment but I don't expect that to live for too much longer, it was removed for a while and now it's basically dead again.

Yeah like I said you gotta be careful what you pick odd stuff into (and picking them blind isn't a great idea), Renekton has the gap closers to demolish anything squishy.

A lot of the lore is being re-worked at the moment, I think Riot's plan is to relocate a lot of it into short stories and stuff on the main website due to limitations of the game client. Rek'sai and Azir had a lot of lore actually but that was delivered through mini-sites instead of the client.

[UXLZ]

So, essentially, the only people who'll know about the character's lore were the ones who were there when they were released? That sounds like Riot is just shooting themselves in the foot. If it's on the main website, sure, but minisites that will eventually get taken down or lost? That's ridiculous. To the people who missed it (like me), it seems like Azir only has a tiny, tiny bit of lore. Also sticking to the 'butchered Karthus and Xerath' angles, their original stuff was so, sooooooo much more interesting. Also looked like the finally caved in to their Chinese overlords (may or may not be joking here) and made Karthus no longer a skeleton. His default skin, at least.

The lack of players is unfortunate. I mean, obviously we were going to have less than NA, but do you know what the current total is? It's not League is dying in OCE, is it?

I wasn't even playing Ezreal when I kept running into Renektons, I was playing Kennen. The matchup wasn't actually bad for me, just sooo boring, and I realised I would get wrecked as Ezreal.

-sigh-, maybe Riot just wants to make LoL into a McLeague.

[Bormok, God of Mud]

Also looked like the finally caved in to their Chinese overlords (may or may not be joking here) and made Karthus no longer a skeleton. His default skin, at least.

No more skeleton Karthus, even Grim Reaper is fleshy now.

[UXLZ]

Also looked like the finally caved in to their Chinese overlords (may or may not be joking here) and made Karthus no longer a skeleton. His default skin, at least.

No more skeleton Karthus, even Grim Reaper is fleshy now.

Yet, the splash art for the Grim Reaper skin still shows him as a skeleton, with no indication of what he looks like in game or that he looks differently in game. Isn't that false advertisement?

[Flying Dice]

The new lore is more or less "Lore? What lore?"

Just do what I did and treat everything post-wipe as none-canon. Pff, one of the reasons I picked League was because of the lore 1) existing and 2) being interesting. :\

[penguinofhonor]

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[Flying Dice]

Ha! I just saw that on the local news. Some place out east, right?

[GreatJustice]

There's some serious rose-tinting going on about the old lore too. I read it all because I like lore, but man.

"Champion X did some super cool thing and worked with/fought Champions Y and Z and then joined the League of Legends for some reason"

Mind, as dumb as the old lore was, it isn't much of an improvement to look at a current champion's lore and see one paragraph that can be summed up as "He's super stronk"

[Flying Dice]

That's basically it. It's the difference between something which, while sorta crappy, was nostalgia-ridden and had potential for development versus a pile of shit dumped into a text editor and copy-pasted a few score times.

[Arcvasti]

According to the PBE, Amumu might be getting some decent lore again. Maybe.

[Flying Dice]

Oh and by the by, everyone who managed to not get any sort of ban or chat lock in the past year is going to get a free mystery skin in the next few days.

[Skyrunner]

Source?

[UXLZ]

Wishful thinking?

Come on Skyrunner, we can all dream, can't we?

Maybe I'll get Striker Ezreal...