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Ever played Q max Teemo vs Vayne top?

Lol how is Zed not one shotting you, essentially giving you opportunity for counter play or at the very least react, worse than getting one shot? Bc it hurts your ego? What is this?

For the first time in a long time, Zed has competition for the most frustrating champ in Aurora

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The funny thing about the burst timer is actually part of why burst sucks now. All anti burst mechanics strongly discourage damage within their activation windows, eg barrier, shieldbow, shattercrown, where you are punished if you use your abilities in this window. This essentially negates the need to "burst", and instead incentivizes you to DPS to counter that window of tankiness. There are also a lot of damage reduction abilities that when timed right massively reduce damage in a small window. However there are almost no items that directly counter sustained damage in the sense of punishing you for DPS as you continue to attack, incentivizing you to unload a lot of damage quickly then withdraw. The only one might be thornmail. So it feels strange to frame this time window as a benefit when now it's actually often a downside, eg when I get exhausted as an AD assassin after jumping in, I am infinitely worse than an off tank diver who can eat those first couple seconds of punishment before returning fire.

It sounds logical until you ask why we don't just remove grievous wounds and nerf healing

The issue with brand, is that you can int your ass off and still deal the most damage in the game. Champion has a built in liandrys that can spread to other champs and buy the dot items himself. Seeing a brand support down 5 levels and items from the rest of the enemy team and still nuking health bars isnt uncommon

So how exactly do you, as a melee champion, deal with sustained burst thats being peeled. Against Zed i can build resistances survive his burst and walk off or maybe even kill him, what do i do against a Draven or Jinx or Vayne being protected?

Well, not trying to be insensitive but 3:05 explains a lot about Riot's overbearing attitude towards toxicity, over communication. That and obvious financial incentive, which I still believe being the main issue.

1:45 ? Setts shield doesnt even matter, you never want to trade into his shield, you wait 2 secs till it expires or you press renekton W

How do you intend to fix irelia item’s problem since you can only build bork and then every item is just bad

Just give him AD Scalings and be done with this already.

I liked how August argued for Anti-heal being a pretty poor mechanic, especially so when highly accessible and mandatory almost every game, yet anti-heal is a pretty poor mechanic that is highly accessible and mandatory in almost every game. Not to mention, all the anti-heal items(except thornmail which is is probably the worst of the bunch at actually applying anti-heal) are pretty damn bland. No one ever wants to buy them over anything else, but you have to.

The thing is, assassins don’t buy Serpent’s Fang because it’s a trash item. The item provides nothing worthwhile except some shield reduction. The item should be given to adcs or mages and assassins should get a replacement item like Sword of the Divine or Sanguine Blade. Adcs need nerfs and assassins need buffs. Do both and I guarantee you, we will stop seeing adc in solo lanes.

Off topic but do y’all think the game would be better without crit?

Sylas is terribly designed. You took Rubik's Spell Thief from Dota and removed all skill expression from it. Like you do with all new concepts in League

"we can make mudo weaker on average " yeah right.....

Deserved for Tristana mid

I mean there is always the option of having champions specifically to counter thibgs like shields. I mean, we had that, but bruisers cried. We could have anti healing champions. We already have these things for entire damage types after all.

The fact that people even high elo "analysts" thought it wouldn't do anything just proves that league players generally don't know shit about the game's balance

more proof riot august doesn't actually play league of legends

The Shielding argument makes sense, making Anti-Shielding be super available by giving it to Mages that can apply it easily would be an issue. But at the same time, AP Assassins are a thing. So, why isn't Ekko allowed to have counterplay to Janna, but Zed is? They're both assassins.

Auto attack burst takes no skill because all you have to do is point and click the enemy and boom you crit burst them haha xd and btw you are ranged as supposed to a melee assassin who has to you know, GET IN CLOSE AND RISK DYING to said point and click auto burst sustain damage and these so called auto attack timers a non factor considering you lower them with attack speed but also assassins HAS to hit their abilities to kill stop making excuses and nerf those adcs already. You should chunk someone for half their hp with a point and click auto. Imagine if a mage did that. Oh wait, smolder already basically does. oops

I agree with the flash take but since the third party programs exist there’s really only two options you ban the app or you make the timers built in. Because here’s the deal once all the famous streamers use an app for an advantage it will become the standard and unless all the apps are owned by riot I don’t see the point in letting these people make money off your game.

would be very true if ADCs weren't giga buffed and played in all 3 lanes at this point as well as a known rule whoever wins bot wins the game

I'm confused can't riot ban streamers from streaming via copyright/tos? You can stream only if you follow tos.

Nah she didn't get gutted it did nothing thisbonly proves people can't think forthem selves and make simple rune changes if you take pressence of mind she is the exact fucking champ with less sustain and we have played the game without absor life for years so people should be able to adapt to having less sustain

Funny enough that Tristana nerf proved that the main issue are not individual champions, but Marksmen items in combination with Marksmen being just superior early game.

Good that this shitty champ got nerfed

I love laning vs zed, there is alot of counter play and very easy to wrap your head around as well. It doesn't require you to know everything or even alot about him to engage with him. Skillshots+proximity is really just the only things you need to understand to have a fair lane vs him. A champion that is way more frustrating is Katarina. She requires the person she is playing against her to have a significantly higher understanding of her kit than she of theirs. She raises the skill floor required of the other player to play the game in general. This obviously isn't a universal effect, and the closer you are to maximal understanding of League in general, the less this problem will matter to you.

They need to take a good, hard look at AP itemization. AP is such a bad stat from a design perspective. It is very much outdated, skewers WAY too hard towards burst etc. etc. AP Bruisers especially have always been horribly undeserved by the system.

Ap bruiser builds are basically rock-paper-scisors of ROA, Liandry's and Rift, you slide eventually a cosmic and/or rocketbelt and that's it. So you basically only have one, without any versatility. For AD bruisers, you have 15 op items without even opening tank tab. Also, AP bruiser gets less CDR than burst/poke, which is seriously inconvenient for Sylas. It would be interesting if he had his ratios trimmed and his CDs lowered - this way you will prioritize utilitary and skirmishing part of his build rather than jump in, oneshot someone and jump out.

What I find fun about ranged top discourse is that everyone is whining about them but no one wants to play with them. Turns out when I play ranged top my team wants frontline. I thought they were gigabroken, why does no one want to abuse them?

"risks is what gets us characters like zeri sylas viego jhin and hwei" yeah thats why u shouldnt take risks (hwei and jhin r ok)

I agree, Sylas with Malphite ult is ridiculous. It dosen't win you the lane, it wins you the GAME, what is backline options against better Malphite? That being said, why tf would you make a champ like Sylas who automatically invalidates 50% of the cast? My bro goes to pick ANY champ with a huge team fight ult, and now enemy just has a better version of whatever champ he picked, it shouldn't work like that.

"maybe druttut is going crazy" I lost, smiled.

Would probably nerf all other lethality items. So lethality boots would be a must buy on assasins to compensate .

What counters Sylas? Zoe? Who has a shittier ult?

I love this channel but I really dislike how you’ve changed the intro to be a 10s clip from the middle of the video.

switches to master+ and sees seraphine having 55% winrate for 0 lane/teamfight interaction and 0 skill expression "yea so she seems completely balanced and i dont think we would ever nerf her"

Brand has two issues, he's another example of mages that do not care about MR, and he's also skillless. Rylais removes any form of skill expression that he could possibly have and even then it's too low. R-E does 80%

Watching this a few days late, but going to throw this out there- If you blind pick Garen for example, you are more likely to get a ranged counter matchup. So, if you are a Garen otp you might face a lot of ranged champs in top.

The solution is to give every champion 1 role and if they go any other lane they get no xp or gold from lane minnions

Ahh yes.. players argue about being at a disadvantage in a ranged matchup😂 I get the feeling that the people who really cry about vayne, never have the spine to pick their main vs a counter pick😅 Players nowadays cry whenever adversity appeares and are only interested in "Winning Lanes". Top lanes dies twice with no river vison and a bad matchup and goes "ff15", afk or flame the jungler... I get vayne or other top rang3d are annoying😂 but you dont have to play to "win lane" every time😅

The only real problem I see with this is when people work within the system to establish a new meta or alternative strat, RIOT nerfs the evel-living fk out of it to make it fit their idea of what they think League should be. RIOT should focus instead on providing a platform where players are free to strategize, synergize items/champs/team comps to improve the chances of winning, and overall play the game. They should focus on buffs/nerfs when one particular combination becomes so powerful it dominates and makes any other choice nonviable due to how much worse it is. I hated it when someone would come up with a clever way of using a champ's kit to make them a viable carry champ, and RIOT would be like, "no, we want that champ to be a SUPPORT, we need to nerf all this so they can only be viable as a support".

Sylas hecarim is practically the same.

I play rammus supp and idc about others opinions

Im curios on where his stats come from, because sylas is not even in the top 3 worst matchups for malphite, never was. Its a bad matchup but not "the sharpest counterpick" Sylas has like a 35% winrate against poppy, which is way worse than the sylas malphite matchup aswell

"Seraphine and Brand are dominating bot lane" My brother in christ, August has literally shown Kai'sa with 36.5% pickrate and 53.6% winrate

Rengar vs shaco