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I can speak a little for Sylas and a little to the general strategy. We generally want as many champions playable for regular play as possible. This includes Sylas. Usually when we're talking about removing a champion for a role, this is with relation to Pro play as it makes then very flex heavy and thus high blind pickability (and raises their presence dramatically). Usually when we're trying to remove a particular champion from a role for regular play, it's called out explicitly in the patch notes.

For Sylas specifically, we wanted him out of jungle for Pro. As it stands, Sylas is very playable for regular players in jungle, but not for Pro and that was basically the intended result. We were prepared to accept Sylas being a suboptimal pick for regular players in Jungle, but it seems like for now, we didn't have to weather that cost.

The main times when we want to remove champions from roles is when their gamepla...

It's in the patch notes and usually mark Yetter should tweet them out. I'll let him know, I know he was busy this morning.

There's an E bugfix that was micropatched in yesterday for his E being longer than what the indicator intended.

Generally speaking, we try to avoid having "UNIQUE Passives" on components (at the primitive stat level; eg. long sword, mana crystal, pickaxe, etc.), mainly due to the complexity that bubbles up into the items that build out of them.

It did make Baron harder to take, yeah. There were many ways to flank and close on the team that was taking it there were pretty side agnostic.

This has been fixed for next patch. Sorry about that hexflashers :(

It's current health damage so she shouldn't be able to kill herself on the charge. She would die easily afterwards though if somethings not tanking.

Mark forgot to mention that Statikk Shiv no longer crits.

We tried doing some stuff like this for Rise of the Elements in early prototype. While they were cool thematically, when the mechanics were tuned to be meaningful it made it really difficult to get any meaningful progression in the dragon game, because teams found it difficult to take dragons safely. We tried things like fire damage walls, anti dash damage zones, cloud wind walls that emerged and pushed when dragon was aggroed, etc. We ended up going with things that had a more subtle effect on the encounter instead and still had the depth and Mastery, but not halting teams being able to take dragons.

While this is true, it is primarily due to worse ezreal players taking this rune, which further tanks the winrate (worse players taking a suboptimal rune will result in a lower winrate than that rune's true winrate). When the good players have migrated over to different runes, we'll be able to more accurately target a certain value of buff, to balance ezreal if it's required.

The Herald damage has been buffed since the player labs. It now gets ~2-3 plates on average, depending on how it's defended.

Cloud Soul applies after channels finish, similar to Nimbus Cloak on Live. It will also be special cased to work on Udyr; (it will work on any of his abilities) and will work on Shapeshifters when they cast transform if they don't have an ultimate ability like Gnar does (Elise, Jayce, Nid, Shyvana).

aren't you taht warwick top player?

Is it just me, or is Annie green?

Faker is too good. Against almost any other pro they get that gank off, but against faker they need more guaranteed ccs because he's just so confident at estimating damage.

After Faker stunned Reksai coming in, I don't think they had the damage to kill him. They needed to get the CC layer to go off so that Reksai could DPS while Cass was CC'd. Would've been close if Ryze had landed the empowered Q, but still not enough.

Thanks for the kind words. It is always nice to have people post my stuff on the sub, so thankyou :)