R0gueFool

It would be cool to see some fan art that you made of your favorite champion.

If you're duoing with him, then a bot lane pairing might be nice. I'd suggest Jinx as a great entry point champion that is a lot of fun.

I'm so excited!!!!

The team agrees that we want more rune choices, nothing you'll be seeing right away though. It's a matter of priorities and we have been focusing on other areas that we feel we can better improve.

We currently have no plans to bring over LoLPC's rune system or the full set of runes. There are some really good and interesting runes, but also many that overlap and fill similar roles. But we like the simplicity that comes with the current Wild Rift rune system. This makes it much easier to learn when swapping roles/situations. There is still room to improve. The rune changes a few months back went a long way to providing variety and situational rune choices, to the Resolve and Inspiration trees, but we still have work to do with the Domination tree.

This doesn't mean we won't bring over certain keystones/runes and possibly change up/add minor runes. Just that we want to be surgical about what ones we bring over, do they bring something we are currently lacking? How do...

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Definitely a great item for him, and rushing at a target can work. But you might not need the armor and Blitz rushing in to knock up means you don't get the displacement power that comes with a hook. The E>can be great for locking someone down but if that is what your looking for Leona or Alistair do it better, Blitz brings in the ability to hook your target while keeping yourself safe. The risk is the high CD and mana cost of Blitzcrank's Q. Fimbul removes that risk, while also making you tanky.

Ya Im unsure what his second item should be, likely a boot enchant or situational item. Zeke's makes sense, specially with it's duel stats.

Your right the shield is a little less valuable for Blitz here, it'll still come into play in team fights but ya the shield is really the least valuable part for him.

He makes good use of the health, and the Mana means he can use abilities more. But he is also converting mana into his shielding with his passive, and ability haste so he can be even more if a CC bot. The Fimbul shield is really icying on the cake for him.

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I HIGHLY recommend getting this first with Blitz.

Where are you hearing Teemo was nerfed due to people not wanting him on their team? Teemo was nerfed due to his ban rate, he has been a powerful pick for a while, last I saw his banrate was nowhere near the top.

This is why, like I have said throughout these posts, that the balance team uses multiple metrics to guide balance changes. It's not just a champions winrate, nor is it just their banrate.

The team actually starts working on Patch B before Patch A comes. Basically by the time the team locks a patches content we start working on the next one (but don't lock anything in) based on expectations or things we couldn't get to.

Then when patch A comes comes out we look at day early data to get an idea of what we should be working on. This might mean we discard work we had been planning for that patch, or we add things things. When first planning work for the patch the team plans for some amount of wiggle room so that we add things or adjust as needed.

It can be, but that is why we look at more than just their winrate. When looking at their winrate we don't look at at their overall winrate, but winrate at different skill levels, positions, winrate by game length, and builds. Then tailor balance changes to those, aspects. Things like pickrate, banrate, player perception, and difficulty of the champion also come into play on top of just a champions winrate.

Ya he is a fun one. He is one of my go to champions when I'm mid lane.

I wouldn't assume thornmail on Corki, but PD, GA, or BT seem like decent options.

I am surprised by the results I'm seeing, no winning out by a decent amount. This likely explains why so many people struggle vs assassins. Zonyas, RoA, Seraph's, Reflector are all really good for surviving a rough lane.

And anyone will tell you a dead dps deals no dps so you might trade a bit of up front burst but that extra time can go a long way. Maybe you only get another spell or two in a team fight, but maybe it means you don't need to back as frequently, get poked out before a fight, or give away a kill that lets the enemy snowball.

Seems unlikely the balance team would do that, Asol has always been strong, he might just not be the champion for you, if your interested in playing him I suggest checking out some guides and roaming with him more.

As for Rengar, he has been on the stronger end for a bit and is always a frustrating champion when he gets ahead. If your struggling with him too then it maybe don't dive in 1v4?

It's not much of a placebo if it actually help his winrate vs certain champions. But as the the idea itself, players are smart there isn't a buff that we could do that would make the average player FEEL he is strong that wouldn't also make him crazy OP. And something small wouldn't make average players better at him without boosting the power of an already powerful champion.

Even if there was a placebo buff we could do the issue isn't his power level. It's a combination of things that basically boils down to him having a high skill floor, with low satisfaction for most players, and an unclear way to judge success/express power.

He was more popular, still not very popular, when he was even more crazy OP. That was when the game was brand spanking new and he was sitting at around a 60% winrate across the board (higher than any champion has ever had in the game). That winrate would likely grow as players became more familiar with him, and for hardcore Asol players his winrate must have been through the roof.

Players weren't playing him because of the fantasy, it was basically a free win to pick him they were being bribed with his power. Like I have said plenty of times he is still one of the strongest champions, and likely the strongest in the right hands. Yet he is unpopular.

You are right that the average player prefers micro over macro plays. Macros plays are harder to appreciate, and feel, and that is what Asol is all about. A buff to his power level doesn't change that.

No problem I love these kinds of topics and he is a very interesting champion. He has a lot of things going on that make him a tough champion design problem. Like you said cosmic dragon is appealing and we do wish that he was appealing on the mechanical/gameplay side to match it.

Though he is far from under-powered, he unquestionably strong, and I suspect even strong than we think.

I wouldn't say that, the two games are different and we have champions with tweaked abilities. But he has this same problem in PC so if either team could find something appealing that worked to broaden his appeal, while still appealing to Asol players I suspect both games would want to move in that direction.

We aren't actively working on him right now, but he is a topic that comes up a lot. It's really a matter of finding what we can chance without changing him too much. Basically it's a narrow target that everyone has ideas about, but nothing that gets everyone saying "hell ya, that'll do it!".