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16 Apr

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Originally posted by EROTIC_RAID_BOSS

Morgana is popular and isn't a pro play flex. The point of these changes is to give newer players more familiar picks they can use in the jungle role. Since her jungling will never be popular in pro it's not really a balance problem the way pyke is

I think it should've been zyra jg though, for thematic reasons

Pretty spot on take, When talking about popularity and new players in the jungle role, I couldn’t have said it better myself. I don’t think she will never be a pro flex but she is much less so, I think frustration and intuitiveness factor in here as well. Pyke mid doesn’t actually play the game like a mid laner normally does, he mostly ignores farm and roams, and when he doesn’t ignore farm he tends to just shrug off poke and never really engage in trading. Such an unintuitive play pattern tends to lead to much higher frustration levels. Pyke mid was also a bonkers winrate despite all its nerfs for a long, long time. These morgana changes arent nearly a drastic swing in winrate, and like mentioned before she hasn’t shown up in pro much so the concern there is minor, but likely will be monitored.


15 Apr

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    /u/Reav3 on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by bz6

Do you and the team feel that all the new champions added to the game are adding UNIQUE gameplay?

It's cool if some abilities are reused but are they truly adding something new to learn to play & play against?

/u/Reav3

I mean that's the goal, and any champion we ship we feel is going to do so

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    /u/Reav3 on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by superzpurez

Thanks for the update.

should be enabled now

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    /u/Reav3 on Reddit - Thread - Direct

Sorry, we are trying to figure this out right now and will enable ASAP

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Originally posted by Captain_Crisp

Phreak snatched atleast 5 puns from the champ reveal haha.

Other way around - this was written first :D

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Originally posted by ToTheNintieth

is odin his real name?

Yeah, it's pretty epic.

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I'd argue that any free time for Aatrox is such excruciating pain that it motivates him to go destroy something.

But Odin would be the real one who knows.

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Originally posted by Cocoperroquet

"Schalke?... No one is gonna say Schalke, there is no one who believes in Schalke."

Oopsie

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Originally posted by cygodx

FWIW, Hecarim and Udyr each received several nerfs in addition to Chemtank being nerfed.

A champ that gets AD from movement speed that builds three movement speed TANK items to also deal damage in return will not be balanced by spell numbers tho.

I bet if Hecarim Q dealt 12 base damage he'd be unplayable. Wanna take me up on it?

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Originally posted by Miyaor

I agree with your overall point, but unless something has really changed, Kindred has never been good into Udyr. I haven't played jungle since the season started, so maybe galeforce or something has changed things for Kindred, but they could never kite an Udyr, unless you keep jumping back and forth over a wall. He is simply too fast, and I would suspect its similar to Taliyah. This was before chemtank, and I imagine chemtank has made the jungle matchup harder. Maybe winrates support Kindred doing well into Udyr, but that is definitely not because they can kite him.

Agree that there are some counters, but just an exception to that one. A good Udyr will always shit on a Kindred. Once you get your second item you can start standing up to him, but in pro play I assume that is far too late.

A lot of it is also that he just doesn't get anything done against Kindred ultimate. You're not oneshotting, even with help, with Flash Bear Slap so after Lamb's Respite you're just a 20% health Udyr in front of a team. It's not terribly successful. Jumping walls also lets them get away reasonably well.

Kindred aren't in a great spot in overall power, but the Udyr matchup is very winrate positive.

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Originally posted by yehiko

but you do. priority or not, if everyone reacts, level 4 > 3 makes the fight in your favor every time. plus your smite is stronger.

Your smite dealing 30 damage is not going to make up for the 500 health and flash you lost because Viktor roamed first and you can't 1v2 in front of a full health scuttle. Good players use wards and just shepherd the crab out of smite range.

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Originally posted by LumiRhino

I'm just curious for your opinion, but do you think nerfing systems around the jungle meta (Phase Rush/Chemtank, even the starting jungle item) would do more for the meta than actual changes to the jungle champs?

I think Chemtank dominating both pro play and solo queue win rates would indicate Chemtank is more the problem. At least it got nerfed two weeks ago. It's possible that the cheaper tank mythics were just not a good idea since it heavily pushes junglers, who have slightly less gold income than most roles in pro, to just play for the cheaper mythics and move forward.

I don't think Phase Rush is that meta warping. If anything it's pushing back on melee run-at-you junglers since Orianna and Cassiopeia can just run away from them with their keystone.

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Having perseverance and pushing yourself to better tomorrow than you are today is something that everyone should be proud of. Grats. :)

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Originally posted by sevinon

huh, that makes sense. I hadn't thought about it that way, but as someone who loved the lounge casts when someone like Meteos was on, it makes sense why these co-streams are working so well (and definitely appreciate having the extra freedom).

I am still sad we lost the fog of war casts though (and pro-view after that).

Once we're back in studio, we can be more flexible with our capabilities. Pro-View will definitely be returning.


14 Apr

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TFT Turbo: The "rounds til level up" bar displays over the first champion in your shop when playing on 1440p ultrawide resolution

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Originally posted by showmethestarcraft

This is helpful. Appreciate the clear conversation + involvement in the community.

Are there any plans on nerfing MS in general + do you think Mage items this season that have mana are a bit lackluster? It's wild that I can play Garen have a Stridebreaker dash + 300 armor and 300 AD but there's no counter for mages.

Sure there is. Void Staff exists as do all sorts of ways to slow him down or stop him in his tracks.

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Originally posted by drmamumumu

sorry did you say taliyah and kindred for outkiting udyr? the guy that runs at 600 movement speed constantly without chemtank?

Yeah if we make up numbers anything can be true! Taliyah does over 9000 damage and just oneshots the poor guy!