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Riot didn't revert the all changes, though.

Marksmen still have very low HP regen because that's what internal playtests identified as the major problem for mages: That they couldn't sustain as well and thus got pushed out of lane (I'm sure Doran's Blade is a big part of this).

Let's be clear: Mages are totally viable in bottom lane. Swain was my 1st or 2nd most played on my road to Diamond last season but there are others who are strong as well.

As always, popularity does not necessarily imply strength. Bot laners are used to playing marksmen, so that's what they play. Thankfully, I'm not a typical ADC fan, I'm a bot lane enjoyer and that means I'll feed on Yasuo in three different lanes.

Valid for sure. But yeah, Rabadon's is great.

You say "back in the day" like that wasn't pre-closed beta. That's not really a fair argument to be like, "They were still discovering which game mechanics worked, so maybe they'll go back in time to before they knew what would make League good."

I'm a little late here, but I'll add some insight from our end. I can ramble on this topic, so I'll try to keep this as succinct as possible.

• The top champions played mid actually are not that different than previous seasons. People like playing these champions, and we do not punish champions solely for being popular.
• That said, we do believe standard Mages as a class are a bit weaker, and we are investigating the best solution here. There are a few mages that do well in the current environment (those that do better into melees like Annie, Anivia, Viktor), but we understand that Mages feel unsatisfying.

While new items are definitely a factor here, this has been a trend that extends beyond S11. As others have mentioned, Mages require wave manipulation, team coordination, conservative early play to succeed. These are things that are both difficult to know when you've done it correctly and often have factors that are out of your control (say you ...

Funny you should mention CLG...

Regarding the timing of the upgrade, if there's space for a 2nd NLR in inventory, you're in a fine spot: 1250g for 60 ap is better than 1350g for 57.8 ap. Then the further upside is better.

In general, once you have Tear (and a mana mythic) it is REALLY hard to OOM. I don't really think you need even more.

This is a good idea, I'll definitely include it in a teamfight call next time I'm casting with top 5 LCS caster Azael.

Excuse me it's Dugduo

:)

Always a treat when I get to cast in the dugduo.

WTF two Shens, but with a summoner spell instead.

Gonna have to be more specific 😂

The game four Lucian I assume?

I had the original skeleton for a history based show, but the whole effort was a collaborative thing to get to what we have now!

Nice

Thank you! Always good to catch up with Lawrence!

Oh don't worry, you'll see a lot more directly LCS focused stuff =)

I have GREAT news for you all. We are doing more!

EDIT: ICYMI the episode is now up on YouTube! https://youtu.be/Gt1DGbDKk7w

Same except it was PS2 and I was sad every day that Heihachi was not Link or Spawn.