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[Neonivek]

This is incredibly frustrating to read. Stop focusing on the absolute worst case scenario where Fizz's E is strongest and realize that only a total idiot plays into that situation.

To admit with some characters !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!KATLIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they aren't overpowered...

But holy goodness are they going to destroy your team once they find the one weak link on your team and kill them over and over again. Some characters just become overpowered in casual play because of that factor.

Not that Fizz is in that situation.

Frankly the only characters in League of Legends that concern me is less game balance and more "When they are in a match, do they make the match less fun?" and maybe you could think of 5 champions that do so. Though last time I asked that people said Teepo was that in a nutshell.

[Skyrunner]

Welp, with my 10th placement match (where the Malzahar managed to feed Leblanc 4 kills before level 6) I am now Silver 3. Sigh. 4-6 record.

[defeeca]

how to play jungle teemo

• buy super teemo skin to let ppl know they are doooomed with fanfare
  
• build anything you want you cant go wrong with build. jungle teemo can even start with dagger but that is bit unsafer option
• you can use any masteries/runes you want jungle teemo doesnt give a damn about masteries.
• find the jungle spot were teemo cant be attacked by jungle monster.(remember camps are leashed to the ground for convenience of teemo).       

This is the dwarfen way to play teemo.

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http://matchhistory.euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/EUW1/1940140702/143251?tab=builds

[ggamer]

TIL that orianna is both easier and harder to play once you start zoning with her ball, instead of treating it like the quick q-e harass I was.

Easier, in that farming and laning are a lot more intense and fun once I learned that I can scoot that little motherfucker around mid lane if I just leave it there with my q on that delicious 3 second cooldown

Harder, in that your team will fail to realize this, and usually leave you behind in teamfights, letting you get rocked 4v1.

At least those assists are rolling in

[frostshotgg]

5.2 Notes Out.

Summary:
Assassins all got nerfed.
Fizz evolved into Magikarp, forgot Splash.
Junglers got nerfed.
Trist Rework Live
Annie bear runs around faster for a bit.

[UXLZ]

All junglers or just specifc ones? (Lee Sin nerf? Probs not.)

[frostshotgg]

Everybody who can clear 3 camps but then run the risk of execution on the 4th.

[UXLZ]

Blehh, that's irritating. Tank junglers become even worse now, yaaay we all get to play Lee Sin and Jarvan constantly, just like we wanted to.

After losing out on Deathfire Grasp, some champions might be looking for healthier alternatives (speaking from a holistic game perspective), and Gunblade makes sense for a few of them so... here we are. Yep.

So... They're nerfing Gunblade (an item I literally have not seen once since very early Season 2) because a few champions... Might use it?
Bleehhh.
I guess it might be a power redistribution rather than a nerf, but this really just makes it worse for hybrid champions.

[Arcvasti]

After losing out on Deathfire Grasp, some champions might be looking for healthier alternatives (speaking from a holistic game perspective), and Gunblade makes sense for a few of them so... here we are. Yep.

So... They're nerfing Gunblade (an item I literally have not seen once since very early Season 2) because a few champions... Might use it?

Where have you been since very early Season 2? I see every Akali and every second or third Kat building Gunblade. Mostly Akalis. If nerfing Gunblade hurts Akali, nerf away. I don't like Akali. At this point, I don't care how over-powered or under-powered she is. I don't like her.

EDIT: Huh, looking through the patch notes, frostshotgg's assessment is fairly pessimistic. Assassins are nerfed. How sad and unexpected. Mage Ahri got a new Pheonix skin, which actually IS unexpected. And junglers now have a longer minimum time before they can gank effectively. The last is sort of annoying, but my precious Mumu will probably survive.

[UXLZ]

Gunblade is terrible on Katarina, though I'm not sure about Akali. They're building Gunblade because they don't know what they're doing.

Here's a bit of history (hopefully I'm not screwing it up.)

Once upon a time, Jax was crazy overpowered, and his main item was Gunblade, so they nerfed Gunblade.
Then Jax was still overpowered, so they nerfed Jax.
Then they nerfed him again.
Then they nerfed Gunblade again because Akali was using it.
Then that didn't help so they nerfed Akali.
And they never buffed Gunblade.

Essentially what happened was that a very select few champions were abusing Gunblade so they nerfed it, and then they nerfed those champions because even without Gunblade they were too strong, but didn't give Gunblade anything back.

[IronyOwl]

Apparently Nemesis Draft is on its way. Soon we'll be able to play the worst team comp the enemy can think of versus the worst team comp your allies could think of!

I look forward to the dire mistakes.

Everybody who can clear 3 camps but then run the risk of execution on the 4th.

Hurray for WW!

[Arcvasti]

Gotcha. I only started playing... Was it really two seasons ago? Feels like less. No, Akali still builds Gunblade. I've also built Gunblade on Kennen once or twice, not that I'm any good at building/playing him. And Kat DOES have hybrid scalings and benefits from spell vamp. Its just that she benefits from other items more. And its not actually much of a nerf. They reduced AD by 5, buffed AP by 15 and took off 2% lifesteal. Probably still a net loss, but its a fairly soft nerft by Rito standards..

EDIT: Nemesis draft sounds hilarious. And it'll be really hard on the non-hipsters who have no idea how a Rumble or an Urgot or a Yorick work.

[UXLZ]

Yeah, Gunblade on Kennen is a teeerrriiibble idea.

Kat does have hybrid scalings, but it's a bad idea to build her hybrid.

As I said, Akali is eh~~~
It's not god-awful on her, but it isn't particularly good either.
And I really see her anyway.

[frostshotgg]

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[Putnam]

Huh, looking through the patch notes, frostshotgg's assessment is fairly pessimistic. Assassins are nerfed. How sad and unexpected. Mage Ahri got a new Pheonix skin, which actually IS unexpected. And junglers now have a longer minimum time before they can gank effectively. The last is sort of annoying, but my precious Mumu will probably survive.

Riot's balancing around the lowest common denominator

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