LoL General Mk2 - My boots, they drop wards!

[Raxxman]

So I was thinking as the Deathfire Grasp remake has been a good success, maybe they'll fix the Ghostblade to be more useful for a number of champions.

Although they seem to nerf brusier items more than buff. That said Sunfire did get restored back, prob because nobody used it.

[Omega Supreme]

New rotation:

Vayne
Galio
Urgot
Wukong
Janna
Cho'Gath
Kassadin
Heimerdinger
Darius
Gangplank

Draft mode week, at least two of those champs are permbanned already. Also "Welcome to Summoner's R- PURGE WITH SILVER" week. Shit you not, there's Vaynes that start with bolts at 1.

[Voulture]

Huh? Only Darius looks like a ban here, maybe Janna if you want to make aoe team comp. Kass is easily countered, just annoying to play against so in solo queue it may be a ban.

[Omega Supreme]

That's actually why you ban Kassadin, you can't count on your team (unless 5 man) to not be retarded and know how to deal with one. Main reason anyway, I've found.

[Omega Supreme]

Patchnotes up:

New Skin in the Store

Soul Reaver Draven


League of Legends v1.0.0.140

Draven, the Glorious Executioner

Wicked Blades (Passive) - Draven's Critical Strikes deal bonus physical damage over time. Spinning Axe also causes this effect even if it does not Critically Strike.
Spinning Axe - Draven's next attack will deal bonus physical damage. This axe will ricochet off the target high up into the air. If Draven catches it, he automatically readies another Spinning Axe. Draven can have two Spinning Axes at once.
Blood Rush - Draven gains increased Movement Speed and Attack Speed. The Movement Speed bonus decreases rapidly over its duration. Catching a Spinning Axe will refresh the cooldown of Blood Rush.
Stand Aside - Draven deals physical damage by throwing his axes, knocking aside and slowing his targets.
Whirling Death (Ultimate) - Draven hurls two massive axes dealing physical damage to each unit struck. Whirling Death slowly reverses direction and returns to Draven after striking an enemy champion. Draven may also activate this ability while the axes are in the flight to cause it to return early. Deals less damage for each unit it hits and resets when the axes reverse direction.


Ahri

Fox-Fire
Damage reduced at later ranks to 40/65/90/115/140 from 40/70/100/130/160
Ability Power ratio increased to 0.4 from 0.375
Spirit Rush
Damage reduced to 85/125/165 from 100/140/180
Ability Power ratio increased to 0.35 from 0.3


Amumu

Fixed a bug that caused players to hear Sad Robot Amumu's voice across the map


Darius

Hemorrhage (Passive) bonus Attack Damage ratio reduced to 0.3 from 0.4
Noxian Guillotine will now only refresh its cooldown when it deals the killing blow
Apprehend pre-pull animation modified to be more readable for enemy Champion
Fixed a bug with Hemorrhage applying Rylai's Crystal Scepter slow and Spell Vamp effects


Ezreal

Essence Flux Mana cost reduced to 50/60/70/80/90 from 60/70/80/90/100
Trueshot Barrage Mana cost reduced to 100 from 150


Galio

Resolute Smite Ability Power ratio reduced to 0.6 from 0.7


Graves

Buckshot
Damage reduced at later ranks to 60/95/130/165/200 from 60/105/150/195/240
Damage per extra bullet increased to 35% from 25%
Smoke Screen duration reduced to 4 seconds from 5 seconds


Jax

Empower damage reduced at later ranks to 40/75/110/145/180 from 40/85/130/175/220


Kog'Maw

Living Artillery damage bonus to Champions reduced to 125% from 150%


Nautilus

Titan's Wrath damage reduced at later ranks to 30/55/80/105/130 from 30/60/90/120/150


Nocturne

Umbra Blades healing amount per target hit adjusted to 10/18/26 from 15/20/25


Nunu

Fixed a bug where Absolute Zero was revealing Nunu when cast from brush


Renekton

Slice and Dice Armor reduction increased at later ranks to 15/20/25/30/35% from 15/17.5/20/22.5/25%


Shen

Ki Strike cooldown increased to 9 seconds from 8 seconds


Swain

Basic Attack range increased to 500 from 480
Decrepify
Range increased to 625 from 600
Slow increased at later ranks to 20/25/30/35/40% from 20/23/26/29/32%
Ravenous Flock cooldown reduced to 8 seconds from 10 seconds


Urgot

Terror Capacitor shield health reduced at later ranks to 80/130/180/230/280 from 80/140/200/260/320
Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser Armor and Magic Resist bonus reduced to 60/90/120 from 80/105/130

[TroN]

New champion look like a lot of fun, his mechanics look like he will reward player skill - can only be a good thing.

[Omega Supreme]

Draven patch delayed 24 hours, critical issues were identified during the initial deployments. Would've broken login queues if they released it as is.

[Voulture]

Yay Swain buffs that is actually pretty huge. As you probably don't know slows works pretty dumbly in LoL - the highest one is working at 100% power while every next lesser amount of slow is reduced by a lot. Making it 40% and giving it a W cast range let's you hit your root without any troubles. If only they buffed E to have that range as well ;3

[Kanv]

Allegedly Draven's axes can be picked up by any draven

[Raxxman]

The defence of Darius is getting very derpy.

Just because he's cockstomping at all levels, including the high level tournies, doesn't mean he's broken, stop trying to use logic you 'tards.

Grrr

[filingo]

hes just overpowered in every regard. make him squishy like yi or something. still needs nerfing.

[Kanv]

Just had a Draven+Darius game...









Oh lawd, that poor enemy team.

[Raxxman]

if Draven dies while his ult is out, it bugs and never returns...

he's strong, but not with 300+ ping he isn't

[Zekk Pacus]

Thing about Darius is at the moment his numbers are all wrong. His numbers need to be all wrong because he doesn't actually do anything new. He has a DoT passive as do a lot of champs, an AoE attack as do a lot of champs, a potential AoE knockback as do a lot of champs, an on-hit slow as do a lot of champs, and an executioner ult as do a lot of champs. The way some of that stuff interacts is quite nice but nothing new or special. So his numbers need to be scaled way too high to make him worth playing. Give it one, two patches and his numbers will be normal, and then nobody will play him because he does nothing that a bunch of champs don't already do, added to which he has no innate tankiness, sustain or disengage unlike a lot of the more popular bruisers. He just does tons of damage but that won't last.

This is a problem I have had with Riot and their new champs for a while - there are no interesting or fun new mechanics coming out, only broken numbers. Last proper new mechanic was Viktor and that didn't work, before that was Yorick, Orianna and Rumble all of whom had something 'new' to their kit. So Viktor was December '11 and we're now at June '12 - K so Draven has a new mechanic but apart from that what we have had are interchangeable bruiser/AD Carry/AP caster champs with interchangeable spells (one AoE, one utility, one CC, one nuke. Chop and change positions and hope nobody notices).

Draven is 99th champ - I'd really like to see them release something special for the 100th and then not release any new ones for 6 months, instead focus on all the champs that never get played anymore, like Evelynn, Kayle, Karma etc. People who just don't work quite right in the current meta or who's mechanics have become outdated. Do some proper reworks, not stealth nerf/buff in the guise of a rework.

[Lilalaunebör]

And i think thats a bit black and white, looking at release history and what i consider "new" mechanics or concepts:

Varus - channel-release longrange poke

Fiora - HP5/hit passive (which failed horribly, but still, new or at least a bit unlike Shens since he has to expend energy and it scales) and parry reflect (which needs to be "next attack or ability cast" to be useful)

Lulu - permanent "pet" that deals damage and buffs (in practice very little impact since no scaling + no meaningful interaction, unfortunately)

Ziggs - knockback that can be used for mobility (small part of his kit but still useful enough)

Pigrider was supposed to be built around permaslow i guess, but doesnt feel novel nor very effective.



So, they are trying something new every other champ, but id consider only Ziggs Satchel Charge an unconditional success from that list.


e: lolwut Kayle not played, she RAPES as carry top/mid.

[Kanv]

ziggs knockback is similar to a gragas skill

[evil edna]

riot is out of ideas, tho its hardly surprising 99 champs in

[Lilalaunebör]

ziggs knockback is similar to a gragas skill

There are so many differences that id still call it new.

[filingo]

there should be a champ thats an amorphous blob that swallows enemy champions for its disable

vlad pool style escape/engage
goo splatter slow like nunu
aoe damage shield goo armour like nauti
ult is like skarners in effect but he literally eats them and blobbles off

would be amazing

[Lilalaunebör]

And they called him Bukkakke Jones.