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We just had Worlds dominated by Sylas, Aatrox, Akali. That was before the dragon nerfs this year. LCK dominated that tournament and their teams all had ultra low dragon prio.

History says that the doomer comments in this post are wrong.

Not very much. Little of it scales with crit and only some of it scales with attack speed. Physical crits will be significantly larger.

If every other champion's job is peeling for a damage dealer, make them do something else.

Plenty of pro tournaments have been played where winning top and mid meant more than winning bot. Very little has changed about the game since last Worlds.

I mean, specifically picking peel is the counter to an assassin. Lmao, or something.

If the defensive team comp is defending then you need to attack somewhere else. The ADC has to show up on waves. You accomplish stuff where they aren't.

Not all the teams have good top laners and not all the teams pick champions who are good on side lanes but generally speaking if one team is making a deathball then you either make a better deathball or you split it apart. Picking a worse deathball comp and complaining that you lose to their deathball is just kinda obvious.

No I didn't lmao there are tapes and everything. I've been extremely communicative about our changes and specifically said more or less, "ADC is already strong but they need satisfaction wins right now, we'll nerf when we can."

TIL I buffed enchanters? Are we even reading the same patch notes? You know, the ones where I buffed a bunch of engage tanks?

How to people upvote directly obviously wrong stuff like this?

Zed has zero chance to kill an ADC with a Lulu attached, whether or not they go BT or Shieldbow. Whimsy will always shut that down way too hard. Replace Lulu with Rakan or Nautilus or Leona and the result is still the same. If someone's job is dedicated peel, an assassin will never win in a team fight.

Yeah, generally players didn't like having to skip a crit item by the end. People would rather buy a Bloodthirster than a Wit's End. Not saying they're right, but feels are important.

Lmao they pick someone else for group draw and this happens. SMH Riot

I'm honestly pretty convinced that even for players "item diversity" is actually just seeing different things on the scoreboard every game, not making really specific choices on an individual champion.

It's really hard to have 10 nearly-equal power items for any individual champion. Getting a couple of swaps is largely going to be the best we're going to get.

What's nice is things like "This is the defensive option" is a pretty obvious axis. As is the item that's good in longer fights (Kraken) or shorter fights (Stormrazor).

I think in general, it's correct to chase unique outputs. Shiv has the best wave clear and it's not close. It's up to you to realize if you want wave clear or not. Something's going to have a generic win rate advantage. That's just going to happen. But that doesn't mean it's the best in every case. That'd be like saying only Swain is viable in bot lane.

Don't leak the 2024 script smh

I've read your feedback and have elected to ignore it. 👍

Just fixed this bug.

It's not Yone-specific. I also really had no good way of knowing this would exist without some fairly involved testing.

tl;dr Yasuo and Yone have scripting in their passives that say, "Hey, if you have an item that converts your crit chance, turn off the bonus crit chance functionality." Cuz it turns out that when two things at the same time try to modify crit chance, unpredictable things happen. Shocking.

Of note, this tends to not break when buying items. I can spam-buy cloaks of agility and we're chilling. It's when items get removed that stuff gets weird.

Anyways, Yasuo and Yone have now added Seething Sorrow to their list of, "When you see this, don't give me free crit chance." Not that either tended to buy the item anyway.

That’s the intent.

Reddit users doing math before outrage posting challenge level impossible

Long-term it's better if Rageblade doesn't turn off critical strikes but that requires having meaningful crit tie-ins that make on-hit users feel good about it.

Testing without the conversion, Rageblade users felt like half of the marksmen items no longer worked for them since they didn't tend to have much AD to crit with.

You're welcome :)

Very excited for that :)

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