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In general, melee champions tend to have either poor target access (fighters) or poor sustained damage (assassins). Gangplank is certainly a bit of a special child, but I'd consider him a caster. Technically he has a melee auto-attack but he's really all about Q/E/R for damage and occasionally autos things when he's forced to, but you're not going to see him right-clicking a Lux any time soon.

So as a mage, yeah he's a bursty boy with decent target access and a big unreliability problem via barrels. If he hits the barrel chains or does a 5Head setup, then he's going to be rewarded. But the oneshot builds have at most Trinity Force or Shieldbow for durability so that champion isn't much more durable than the Ashe he's killing.

Gangplank's weakness is that he doesn't actually win all that often. ~48% win rate. So as much as he has really high points, it's sort of a montage problem: Sometimes he oneshots and looks like the best champion in the game. But that isn't happ...

Was fixed this patch!

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I think allowing Marksmen to take a DPS hit to ramp survival would be a good thing as a frustration outlet. I agree Scimitar and Maw feel bad. That said, Wit’s End is still exceptional.

But regardless bot laners don’t need to switch to another role. Marksmen dominate the overall power level of bot lane. There are like four champions that can compete with the entire crew of marksmen down there.

Seems pretty balanceable to me. There exist numbers where her win rate hits 50%. She’s extremely popular and her ban rate is usually very low when her winrate is fair (she’s currently OP). Seems like a solid champion design to me. Fountain dives notwithstanding, just dodge the Q. It’s more counter-play than most damage champions give you. Champions are allowed to be reliable.

Show me a Rengar that can win a teamfight by going through the Leona first and I’ll show you a team that already had a 90% winrate from their gold lead.

Show me a split pusher that can’t threaten a side lane against Ornn and I’ll show you a tank meta.

Assassins can’t kill tanks fast. But being unable to scratch them is not something you actually want.

Ok let’s keep going then: if fed Ekko can’t kill squishies quickly when ahead why ever pick Ekko? Seriously what damage numbers do you need to give the champion for 2 maxed abilities and 600 AP and Lich Bane to not meaningfully threaten 1500 hp and 42 mr? Why build a Deathcap when the AP ratios are 0.15. Why pick the champion at all when the base damages are all 190?

The point still stands that marksmen are very viable. The point still stands that marksmen have the same average durability as mages. What one-shots Ashe also one-shots Syndra. Vayne is currently the single best ban in the game. Outside of Yasuo and very specific single-champion duos there are no strong farming melee champions in bot lane.

Assassins and burst champions one-shotting squishy champions is healthy for the game.

Thanks I’m headed to bed now. Good night!

In general if fed carries can’t oneshot squishies how are they meant to kill tanks? Like yeah your tactical gameplay is completely shot when you’re Ashe here but also if AP Ekko doesn’t actually obliterate you with Deathcap Lichbane Rocketbelt Void, then why even bother building anything but tank on him?

I’m back to playing bot lane this season and so far I’ve never felt like any of my deaths are unreasonable. Fed assassins do hella damage. Good. Otherwise they’re not viable.

In this exact case I’m not sure a new mechanic like 50% damage reduction in the fountain would be an improvement to the game. Maybe. But the game is already over when you start getting fountain snipes so just let them have the high point.

I don't think hp/s was going to do it for him. He died in like .1 seconds.

Submitted a volume adjustment that brings tones down the Auto Attack On Cast and On Hit sound, as well as the W proc sound! I think it'll update on PBE sometime within 1-2 days.

Oh dear.... Noted, thank you!

I thought poisonous was if you eat it ?

Thank you for the feedback! I'm the sound designer who worked on the Gnar's SFX. I'll adjust the volume so it matches Base's volume. :)

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Perfectly reasonable opinion mate

It's not as simple as "The LEC forces casters to" it's more like we get new viewers all the time who have never even heard of these teams, so we're encouraged to talk about their history for sure. They're also two fan favourites, so a lot of fans just want to hear a lot about them. It's never as simple as "The lec made me!! :(" Ultimately as casters we can say what we want so it's on us at the end of the day. People will always disagree on what is too much though, that just won't ever change

I think a lot of the feedback here is valuable.

I do want to point out that the Q travel time change (while slightly better for being aggressive), makes peel/disruption much better for the Janna player, where the Live version is pretty inconsistent.

There's definitely some parts of power that are being drawn from, but overall there's still a lot of skill expression added with August's changes beyond just spamming your E.

I think it's perfectly fine for you to not enjoy my casting. I also think it's fine if you think I overdo narratives, especially on Fnatic or G2 games when I'm told to put a larger focus on them. As they are historic orgs, during downtime it wouldn't surprise me if I often relied on their extensive history to fill time if there aren't many things to focus on in the moment. It's not my place to tell you what is too much or too little as casting is ultimately subjective, people have their favourites and their dislikes and what they see as too much to too little is up to you.

The only thing I wanted to challenge was bias. I have no affinity or favoritism towards either of these teams. In fact, it's much better for the league when they lose. I was really happy that MAD won back to back splits, I care about the success of the LEC as a whole and the more competitive teams we have, the better! Feel free to be as liberal with your mute button as you want, you should do whatever giv...

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