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NRG speedrunning the Esports career: get to LCS in a middle of the year, win LCS immediately, win Worlds in a span of like 5 months? The World ain’t ready
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NRG speedrunning the Esports career: get to LCS in a middle of the year, win LCS immediately, win Worlds in a span of like 5 months? The World ain’t ready
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Contractz played the best game of League I've ever seen him play.
Holy moly the dude was immaculate.
Never for a second doubted them
Why do people still think this happens? It’s been disproven a ton.
People love their conspiracy theories. I mean just look at real life.
Anti-poaching is only implemented for second spawn and up, so...
Not true. All jungle-vs-lanes mechanics exist from the start of the game.
They told Phreak Ksante better be strong enough to sell skins or his @** is grass.
Legit didn’t even know he was in Heartsteel until after we locked the patch. I intentionally don’t go looking for what skins are upcoming and 100% no one told me.
Then blue side has been getting most of these champions, teams haven't yet figured out the meta. Maybe its all due to very few champions, I'd say Xayah and Maokai for an example, but teams haven't yet gotten to that conclusion which is why Xayah is so often open.
The times teams have won on red side have been because the team is just flat out better:
BDS vs JDG
C9 vs LNG
D+ vs KT (also D+ blundered draft)
G2 vs GenG (2x, in this case G2 was willing to trade Maokai for Xayah and it didn't payoff either)
Liquid vs GAM
BDS vs D+
The counter-argument can be that there hasn't been many upsets in worlds at all, it would be true, and that better teams have picked blue side quite often and it is true. But it also has to be accounted for that teams cannot use counterpicks effectively so far and haven't figured out what to ban and what trades are decent, therefore there are many champions that can be blinded with no punishment w...
Red teams can't tell even numbers from odd? Weird how one team gets "most" of them when each team gets an equal number of picks.
Like if you told me Maokai is earth-shatteringly broken and counters the 2nd best champion, then cool, that's a real reason to declare that red has a ban burden.
But that claim hasn't been made, which means the logic reads really fishy to me.
It changed https://youtube.com/shorts/V6V_DTQCPBA?si=XHblNJtC0p7ID6xm
Why do you blatantly lie?
when your opponent ults
There are way too many champions that need to be banned regardless:
Xayah Kalista Maokai Orianna Rell Rakan Rumble Alistar are all first pickable and should be banned accordingly, red side draft is considerably worse because of that, specially because these champions don't have many counters, which is what redside is for. Therefore blueside is way too strong.
This could obviously andnprobably will change next week though as teams try to come up with solutions to these draft issues.
..........and what happens when Blue Team can't first pick eight champions at once?
IDK how anyone can still think red team has three must bans. It's straight asinine.
Pretigious phreak basement invitational > worlds
Based.
There weren't really lanes in S1. Peke and Shushei just played whatever lane had the better matchup.
Dyrus played top, bot, and support at Worlds 2011
On the other hand, your shit eating grin after drawing just four civil wars might have been large enough to seriously injure your face. Might be better that they brought out Mr Negative Expressions, he sacrificed himself so you didn't end up looking like Pac Man.
Would have actually just started laughing.
SMH shoulda brought me back
10% No LCS or LEC teams make knockouts
50% something that no one played all year long becomes 100% pick/ban after quarterfinals
90% At most two LCS/LEC teams make knockouts
Thanks for the insight. The change I was worried about though was the W mana cost going from 0-90 to 80-100. 30 more at the early game seems like a lot when her base mana is going from 440 to 360.
(plus I think basic abilities costing 100+ mana always feels kinda wrong somehow)
Her base mana went down and her base mana regen went into the stratosphere.
She's got the same regen and W cost profile of Sona. I mirrored other enchanter mana/costs.
Are the current changes final? A lot of peopled liked the faster Q missile speed buff but it was just reverted. Plus the W mana cost nerf along with the base mana nerf is a bit rough. Will there be follow up for her if she ends up bad?
I think Q speed is a good change for Mid/Support but the internal feedback was that these changes were too much power so we had to start cutting somewhere.
I'm a big believer in E rank-up and AS Growth to help mid specifically. The re-shape to Q damage is a support buff at all points in time and largely a buff to APC/Mid. The W changes should be a huge feels win for support as well (better at applying Echoes of Helia and Censer, stronger synergy with Redemption and such if you choose) but the heal cut marks a substantial power decrease overall, which is the primary nerf of the change list.
If she's weak everywhere, Q missile speed is the first buff I'm putting in. If she's OP, we have to find something else to cut.
because yall didn’t balance her properly around mid like we were promised?? She couldn’t lane against most laners especially with shit like horrendous 19 base armor like make it make sense? All the mid players went bot because of a balancing failure you guys permitted you guys never truly prioritized mid even when she was released like we were promised. If you guys actually went through with what was expected and killed support seraphine way earlier then we wouldn’t have this issue. Yall keep f**king forcing mages to become supports and it’s frankly exhausting and disgusting
She was like a 53% win rate mid laner on release.
But then why are Brand and Zyra for jungle buffed when they have no pick rate at all? This is even more niche than sera mid.
Seraphine was not a popular mid laner even when strong. Brand and Zyra have never really had the chance. For reference, either Zyra or Brand Jungle is currently closer to Seraphine Mid's pick rate than Seraphine Mid is to Support. And Brand/Zyra jungle are quite bad.
The reason Seraphine mid has no popularity is because there is simply no reason to play it over apc, because apc is simply more broken. Matchups for bot lane are much better and you have an ally to power you up. If sera apc had similar win rates to mid, sera mid would've been picked more and I can guarantee you this. So I think its important to keep mid lane in mind when balancing apc.
At launch Seraphine only had play rate in mid and support. And it was overwhelmingly support even though support sucked and mid was OP.
Then the power levels got closer together. Mid Seraphine disappeared and support Seraphine is now 16x the pick rate on the same power level.
Then high MMR players discovered that Seraphine Bot is OP. So now she has some pick rate there in high MMR.
That's the entire history. Claiming anything else is straight up gaslighting.
Wasn't she literally described as a "melodic mid-lane mage with massive potential" in her spotlight?
And then no one played her there 🤷♂️