A friend and I were talking about it, and he was going on about how hard it is to balance a map, which I replied just take the lazy way and make a map, mirror it and blamo, new maps. No different from the map we have now.
well by map balance it is more dealing with things like walking distances, neut camps, etc
not necessarily side to side balance, because as you stated most maps in this genre can be symmetrical
Yeah, they did a little "what we've learned so far about Twisted Treeline" and I can't find it at the moment, but essentially they're having trouble balancing out things. For awhile, essentially things boiled down to who won a level 1 fight at the lizard. So, they then tried delaying the lizard spawn (like they did in the normal map) and that helped some, but they say that high hp champs still have too much advantage at level 1 (essentially because towers are so far apart that tower hugging is a huge disadvantage early on) and that since the map is so small the early game advantage is magnified significantly.
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ~ Terry Pratchett
Morgana's snare range is basically 100 units more than I ever want it to be every single time it hits me. Played against a solid one earlier that just made a joke of retreats or feints by rooting whoever was most likely to die every damn time.
Worst was when she hit me while moving out of line of my blitz grab from near middle second tower to the ghoul camp nearby. I got eaten alive by shaco while she someone walked free despite us both firing off at the same time.
So uh, finished a game as singed with like 4k hp because it went on for so long. Too bad none of it mattered against Sivir and Ashe with 4k hp Kayle as support. Both Sivir and Ashe had near 400 attack. I was chewed up in a second.
I hate bad teams.
Our Yi never pushed with us too, and by the time it came to fight a group or catch the last two low hp healers he was clearing creep on the top or bottom and left us all to die.
So uh, finished a game as singed with like 4k hp because it went on for so long. Too bad none of it mattered against Sivir and Ashe with 4k hp Kayle as support. Both Sivir and Ashe had near 400 attack. I was chewed up in a second.
I hate bad teams.
Our Yi never pushed with us too, and by the time it came to fight a group or catch the last two low hp healers he was clearing creep on the top or bottom and left us all to die.
Yeah, we had and Ashe pull a similar stunt earlier. Dude would constantly decry the need for us to stick together and win fights and then whenever 3+ of us would gather he'd start shouting about how it was an OBVIOUS TRAP YOU DUMB FUCKS and run to another lane.
Needless to say having our most hard-hitting toon constantly abscond from fights until he decided it was time to valiantly swoop in, 1v3, and die miserably hurt our chances to pull ahead.
* New LeaverBuster Additions:
o When players leave during Champion Select, they will not be allowed to rejoin the Matchmaking Queue for a period of time. The first time a player leaves, they will not be allowed to requeue for 3 minutes. The second time a player leaves, they will not be allowed to requeue for 10 minutes. This count will reset 8 hours after the last time a player left during Champion Select.
o Removed the "In champ select" message from buddy lists for friends who are in Normal Games (to help with queue dodging)
* The Play Game screen has a new look and feel. When a player presses “Play” they will see a new screen with the same options. Clicking on “Normal Game” or “Arranged Team” will take the player to a “Choose Game Mode” screen which is where the map/game type are selected.
* PVP.net should now support buddy lists up to 200 users more effectively
* Fixed the PVP.net rune list to allow for larger quantities of runes to be displayed
* Fixed a bug where the initial buddy presence was not correct upon login to PVP.net, causing some buddies to appear offline who were not
* Fixed a bug that would allow some players to view other player’s Most Played Champions wins and losses
* Fixed a bug that was causing some security answers on new accounts to not work
* Fixed a bug that was causing some new accounts to not be able to log into the Community Site or PVP.net after registering (if you still cannot log in to the web site but your account works on PVP.net, please contact support@riotgames.com).
* Fixed a bug in the PVP.net client that was causing the client to crash when chat was undocked
* Fixed a bug where online players were sometimes showing up in the “offline” section of the friends list.
* Fixed a bug where PVP.net was not cleaning up game logs more than 5 days old.
* Fixed a bug where sometimes players in the Arranged Team lobby would show as Level 0 with 0 wins.
League of Legends v1.0.0.75
Mordekaiser, the Master of Metal
* Mace of Spade: On next hit, Mordekaiser swings his mace with such force that it echoes out, striking up to three nearby targets, dealing his attack damage plus bonus damage. If the target is alone, the bonus damage is doubled.
* Creeping Death: Morderkaiser unleashes a protective cloud of metal shards to surround an ally, increasing their armor and magic resistance, and dealing damage per second to enemies in the cloud.
* Siphon of Destruction: Mordekaiser deals damage to enemies in a cone in front of him. For each unit hit, Mordekaiser’s shield absorbs energy.
* Children of the Grave: Mordekaiser curses an enemy, stealing a percent of their life each second. If the target dies while under the effect of the curse, their soul is enslaved and will follow Mordekaiser for 30 seconds. During this time, Mordekaiser gains 25% of their ability power and attack damage. The soul gains a percentage of Mordekaiser’s adjusted stats.
* Iron Man (passive): 20% of the damage dealt from abilities is converted into a temporary shield, absorbing incoming damage.
Annie
* Fixed a bug that allowed Annie to double stun.
Gragas
* Base attack speed and attack speed per level increased by 25%.
* Barrel Roll missile speed increased by 25%
* Barrel Roll's Cooldown is now decreased by the amount of time the barrel is stopped for
* Barrel Roll's Cooldown increased to 12/11/10/9/8 from 11/10/9/8/7 as a result of the above change
* Body Slam is now location targetable
* Cleaned up the collision detection on Body Slam
* Body Slam's speed increased to 650/750/850/950/1050 from 600/650/700/750/800
* Body Slam's range increased by 50
* Explosive Cask missile speed increased by 25%
* Explosive Cask range increased by 50
* Fixed a bug where casting Explosive Cask out of range could sometimes make it cast to a lesser distance
* Explosive Cask cast radius slightly increased
Jax
* Empower (Remake):
o Jax instantly charges his weapon with energy, causing him to deal 45/65/85/105/125 damage to all enemies nearby on his next attack.
o As there is no longer a charge-up time, cooldown increased to 7/6/5/4/3 from 1 second.
o Changed Mana cost to 35 at all levels from 40/35/30/25/20.
* Equipment Mastery (New Passive): Jax's prowess with weapons and armor increase his fortitude as he gains equipment
* Jax gains 5 health per point of Attack Damage received from items.
* Jax gains 3 health per point of Ability Power received from items.
* Leap Strike can now target allies.
* Increased base Mana to 235 from 215.
* Increased Mana per level to 35 from 30.
Katarina
* Added a new updated particle for Death Lotus.
* Fixed a bug in which Death Lotus would not immediately deal damage.
* Death Lotus channeling time reduced to 2.6 from 3.
* Number of daggers thrown by Death Lotus increased to 10 from 9
Karthus
* Updated the icon for Death Defied
Pantheon
* Fixed an issue that would cause Aegis to not stun targets if you did not move as part of the skill
Nidalee
* Fixed a bug where Nidalee could pounce while rooted
Sivir
* On The Hunt movement speed bonus reduced to 25% from 35%
Soraka
* Fixed a bug in which Wish did not affect all allies
Tryndamere
* Fixed a tooltip bug with Bloodlust
Twisted Fate
* Wild Cards Mana cost increased to 50/65/80/95/110 from 40/55/70/85/100
* Pick a Card Mana cost increased to 60/70/80/90/100 from 40/50/60/70/80
* Pick a Card Gold Card base damage reduced to 40/80/120/160/200 from 50/100/150/200/250
* Pick a Card Gold Card ability power ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4
* Pick a Card Gold Card no longer slows
* Pick a Card Red Card ability power ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4
* Gate cooldown increased to 135/120/105/90/75 from 120/105/90/75/60
Twitch
* Debilitating Poison now slows for 30% + 6% per Deadly Venom from 20% + 10% per Deadly Venom
Warwick
* Hungering Strike Mana cost reduced to 60/70/80/90/100 from 100 at all levels
* Hungering Strike cooldown reduced by 2 at all levels
* Hunter's Call attack speed bonus increased to 50/55/60/65/70% from 50% at all levels. Allies gain half of this bonus at all levels
* Hunter's Call duration modified to 10 seconds at all levels from 6/9/12/15/18
* Hunter's Call cooldown reduced to 30/27/24/21/18 seconds from 32 seconds at all levels
* Blood Scent now has new particles both for Warwick and his victims
* Infinite Duress
o Decreased cooldown to 90/80/70 from 100 at all levels
o Decreased Mana cost to 100/125/150 from 150 at all levels
o Decreased stun duration to 1.7 from 2.1
o Decreased number of hits to 5 from 6
o Increased bonus damage per hit to 40/60/80 from 30/50/70
* Increased base and attack speed per level by 10%, which also increases attack speed from items and Hunter's Call
* Increased base Mana by 20
* Increased base Mana regen and Mana regen per level by 20%
* Updated PVP.Net champion search tags
Veigar
* Added new "team color" versions of the Event Horizon particle
Items
* Executioner's Calling no longer causes reduced healing on hit, but the damage over time effect can now hit minions
* Executioner's Calling now has an active ability: for the next 10 seconds, your hits cause 50% reduced healing and regeneration for 7 seconds against champions; 60 sec cooldown
* Phage slow reduced to 30% from 40%
* Fixed a bug in which Phage was slowing for too much on the initial hit
* Sheen spellcast effect reduced to 80% of base damage from 100%
* Trinity Force Slow reduced to 35% from 50%
* Trinity Force's spellcast effect reduced to 130% of base damage from 150%
* Mejai's Soulstealer: Reduced the amount of AP per stack to 9 from 10
Summoner Spells
* Increased the cooldown of Flash to 240 from 210.
General
* Baron Nashor now debuffs his target with -50% attack damage rather than 60% attack speed.
* Blessing of the Lizard Elder
* Lowered damage per second by 5 at all levels
* Lowered movement speed debuff by 5% at every level past 5.
* The in-game experience curve was normalized.
* Champion kill experience system reworked. Experience rewards are now calculated on a per-champion basis, with the rewards scaling based on the delta of champion levels. The scaling is based on an S curve so that killing champions three levels and below provide negligible rewards, and kills three levels and above provide almost twice the experience of even level kills.
* Pets should now properly respond to stop orders issued while selected.
* In game chat should no longer accept HTML tags, which were causing chat to exhibit strange behavior
* Fixed several Game Server issues that were occasionally causing crashes
* Fixed a bug where camera lock would sometime turn on while dead
* Fixed several issues with the Animation System, which should improve the visual quality of many abilities
* Fixed a bug that would show your champion under the “Assist” section in Death Recap in some cases
* Changed Death Recap to not report tower damage as champion damage (this will not affect Kill / Assist crediting)
* Fixed several bugs with Death Recap that were causing Udyr’s stances to not report damage correctly
* Pressing the “Esc” key should unselect a controlled pet
* Buff stacks should show the stack count in the HUD now without having to mouse over them
* Karthus's (Lich) passive icon was changed to be more reflective of the ability
* Fixed a bug that was causing /surrender fail for some users in some circumstances
Queue dodging stuff seems a bit harsh, I bet that'll change fast. I do like the sound of the champion kill exp stuff, though I fear it will be a slight nerf to the solo player in a 1v2. Could be wrong though since I can't really make any judgments until I see for myself.
Is jax' empower remake as useless as the notes make it seem? The passive and leap strike changes both sound awesome but empower seems even more useless than it was
Is jax' empower remake as useless as the notes make it seem? The passive and leap strike changes both sound awesome but empower seems even more useless than it was
Sounds great for farming, depending on the AOE radius.
They really should have just removed TF until the remake, after this patch I think he'll be nerfed to the point he's useless in low-mid tier matches yet still completely dominate in high tier.
also i guess i can see empower being good for ap jax/lichane..but ap jax just seems so fundamentally wrong
programjunkie: define exceptional circumstances? having an eve on your team counts, right?
Jax's abilities all scale very well with AP actually, it's quite nice.
And heck, he's one of the few characters that a rageblade isn't a joke on (though that number has increased with the recent buff, I've found it to be quite useful for Nidalee at times because she can keep the charges up indefinitely for free).
programjunkie: define exceptional circumstances? having an eve on your team counts, right?
Eh. As I see it, 10 minutes is less than 1/2 of the minimum surrender time (which should probably be a bit lower), so if someone thinks that having an Eve will result in a soul crushing game worse than watching their childhood pet die or whatever, they still come out ahead.
But it also encourages people not to waste 9 other players' time. A given queue dodger could end up wasting like 12 minutes of other people's time per dodge. Fuck that.
Just had a pretty . . . interesting (awful) game. I knew it would be bad when we were against Twitch and Eve (I know they're easy to counter, but in solo-que games . . . )
My item development is so awful because I bought literally 6 Oracle's. I mean, I'm Ashe, tied for squishiest champion in the game, I shouldn't be carrying the Oracle's, but our team was pretty bad.
* Executioner's Calling no longer causes reduced healing on hit, but the damage over time effect can now hit minions
* Executioner's Calling now has an active ability: for the next 10 seconds, your hits cause 50% reduced healing and regeneration for 7 seconds against champions; 60 sec cooldown
Soraka
* Fixed a bug in which Wish did not affect all allies
As someone who occasionally plays Soraka, this makes me obscenely happy. Flash got nerfed yet again, which is meh. Mordekaiser looks like a lot of fun, I'll toss him a try when I get on next.
I've just started losing after a 5 game winning streak. I've started playing Alistar lately, been having a lot of fun with him. Popping ult, running in, and shrugging off the entire team's rotations is hilarious, especially when it allows my team to pick them off easily.
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<+Arco> You can totally bone with a baby in there. If you bump up against something, just apologize to the little dude and adjust.
Well I found an interesting (annoying) bug. If you use the US client to login to the EU servers you won't be able to login to the EU servers while the US ones are down for maintenance. So I've had to download the EU client, which should have taken 5minutes but I kept having to start and stop the download as it would keep dropping to 0kbs.
* New LeaverBuster Additions:
o When players leave during Champion Select, they will not be allowed to rejoin the Matchmaking Queue for a period of time. The first time a player leaves, they will not be allowed to requeue for 3 minutes. The second time a player leaves, they will not be allowed to requeue for 10 minutes. This count will reset 8 hours after the last time a player left during Champion Select.
o Removed the "In champ select" message from buddy lists for friends who are in Normal Games (to help with queue dodging)
* The Play Game screen has a new look and feel. When a player presses “Play” they will see a new screen with the same options. Clicking on “Normal Game” or “Arranged Team” will take the player to a “Choose Game Mode” screen which is where the map/game type are selected.
* PVP.net should now support buddy lists up to 200 users more effectively
* Fixed the PVP.net rune list to allow for larger quantities of runes to be displayed
* Fixed a bug where the initial buddy presence was not correct upon login to PVP.net, causing some buddies to appear offline who were not
* Fixed a bug that would allow some players to view other player’s Most Played Champions wins and losses
* Fixed a bug that was causing some security answers on new accounts to not work
* Fixed a bug that was causing some new accounts to not be able to log into the Community Site or PVP.net after registering (if you still cannot log in to the web site but your account works on PVP.net, please contact support@riotgames.com).
* Fixed a bug in the PVP.net client that was causing the client to crash when chat was undocked
* Fixed a bug where online players were sometimes showing up in the “offline” section of the friends list.
* Fixed a bug where PVP.net was not cleaning up game logs more than 5 days old.
* Fixed a bug where sometimes players in the Arranged Team lobby would show as Level 0 with 0 wins.
League of Legends v1.0.0.75
Mordekaiser, the Master of Metal
* Mace of Spade: On next hit, Mordekaiser swings his mace with such force that it echoes out, striking up to three nearby targets, dealing his attack damage plus bonus damage. If the target is alone, the bonus damage is doubled.
* Creeping Death: Morderkaiser unleashes a protective cloud of metal shards to surround an ally, increasing their armor and magic resistance, and dealing damage per second to enemies in the cloud.
* Siphon of Destruction: Mordekaiser deals damage to enemies in a cone in front of him. For each unit hit, Mordekaiser’s shield absorbs energy.
* Children of the Grave: Mordekaiser curses an enemy, stealing a percent of their life each second. If the target dies while under the effect of the curse, their soul is enslaved and will follow Mordekaiser for 30 seconds. During this time, Mordekaiser gains 25% of their ability power and attack damage. The soul gains a percentage of Mordekaiser’s adjusted stats.
* Iron Man (passive): 20% of the damage dealt from abilities is converted into a temporary shield, absorbing incoming damage.
Annie
* Fixed a bug that allowed Annie to double stun.
Gragas
* Base attack speed and attack speed per level increased by 25%.
* Barrel Roll missile speed increased by 25%
* Barrel Roll's Cooldown is now decreased by the amount of time the barrel is stopped for
* Barrel Roll's Cooldown increased to 12/11/10/9/8 from 11/10/9/8/7 as a result of the above change
* Body Slam is now location targetable
* Cleaned up the collision detection on Body Slam
* Body Slam's speed increased to 650/750/850/950/1050 from 600/650/700/750/800
* Body Slam's range increased by 50
* Explosive Cask missile speed increased by 25%
* Explosive Cask range increased by 50
* Fixed a bug where casting Explosive Cask out of range could sometimes make it cast to a lesser distance
* Explosive Cask cast radius slightly increased
Jax
* Empower (Remake):
o Jax instantly charges his weapon with energy, causing him to deal 45/65/85/105/125 damage to all enemies nearby on his next attack.
o As there is no longer a charge-up time, cooldown increased to 7/6/5/4/3 from 1 second.
o Changed Mana cost to 35 at all levels from 40/35/30/25/20.
* Equipment Mastery (New Passive): Jax's prowess with weapons and armor increase his fortitude as he gains equipment
* Jax gains 5 health per point of Attack Damage received from items.
* Jax gains 3 health per point of Ability Power received from items.
* Leap Strike can now target allies.
* Increased base Mana to 235 from 215.
* Increased Mana per level to 35 from 30.
Katarina
* Added a new updated particle for Death Lotus.
* Fixed a bug in which Death Lotus would not immediately deal damage.
* Death Lotus channeling time reduced to 2.6 from 3.
* Number of daggers thrown by Death Lotus increased to 10 from 9
Karthus
* Updated the icon for Death Defied
Pantheon
* Fixed an issue that would cause Aegis to not stun targets if you did not move as part of the skill
Nidalee
* Fixed a bug where Nidalee could pounce while rooted
Sivir
* On The Hunt movement speed bonus reduced to 25% from 35%
Soraka
* Fixed a bug in which Wish did not affect all allies
Tryndamere
* Fixed a tooltip bug with Bloodlust
Twisted Fate
* Wild Cards Mana cost increased to 50/65/80/95/110 from 40/55/70/85/100
* Pick a Card Mana cost increased to 60/70/80/90/100 from 40/50/60/70/80
* Pick a Card Gold Card base damage reduced to 40/80/120/160/200 from 50/100/150/200/250
* Pick a Card Gold Card ability power ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4
* Pick a Card Gold Card no longer slows
* Pick a Card Red Card ability power ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4
* Gate cooldown increased to 135/120/105/90/75 from 120/105/90/75/60
Twitch
* Debilitating Poison now slows for 30% + 6% per Deadly Venom from 20% + 10% per Deadly Venom
Warwick
* Hungering Strike Mana cost reduced to 60/70/80/90/100 from 100 at all levels
* Hungering Strike cooldown reduced by 2 at all levels
* Hunter's Call attack speed bonus increased to 50/55/60/65/70% from 50% at all levels. Allies gain half of this bonus at all levels
* Hunter's Call duration modified to 10 seconds at all levels from 6/9/12/15/18
* Hunter's Call cooldown reduced to 30/27/24/21/18 seconds from 32 seconds at all levels
* Blood Scent now has new particles both for Warwick and his victims
* Infinite Duress
o Decreased cooldown to 90/80/70 from 100 at all levels
o Decreased Mana cost to 100/125/150 from 150 at all levels
o Decreased stun duration to 1.7 from 2.1
o Decreased number of hits to 5 from 6
o Increased bonus damage per hit to 40/60/80 from 30/50/70
* Increased base and attack speed per level by 10%, which also increases attack speed from items and Hunter's Call
* Increased base Mana by 20
* Increased base Mana regen and Mana regen per level by 20%
* Updated PVP.Net champion search tags
Veigar
* Added new "team color" versions of the Event Horizon particle
Items
* Executioner's Calling no longer causes reduced healing on hit, but the damage over time effect can now hit minions
* Executioner's Calling now has an active ability: for the next 10 seconds, your hits cause 50% reduced healing and regeneration for 7 seconds against champions; 60 sec cooldown
* Phage slow reduced to 30% from 40%
* Fixed a bug in which Phage was slowing for too much on the initial hit
* Sheen spellcast effect reduced to 80% of base damage from 100%
* Trinity Force Slow reduced to 35% from 50%
* Trinity Force's spellcast effect reduced to 130% of base damage from 150%
* Mejai's Soulstealer: Reduced the amount of AP per stack to 9 from 10
Summoner Spells
* Increased the cooldown of Flash to 240 from 210.
General
* Baron Nashor now debuffs his target with -50% attack damage rather than 60% attack speed.
* Blessing of the Lizard Elder
* Lowered damage per second by 5 at all levels
* Lowered movement speed debuff by 5% at every level past 5.
* The in-game experience curve was normalized.
* Champion kill experience system reworked. Experience rewards are now calculated on a per-champion basis, with the rewards scaling based on the delta of champion levels. The scaling is based on an S curve so that killing champions three levels and below provide negligible rewards, and kills three levels and above provide almost twice the experience of even level kills.
* Pets should now properly respond to stop orders issued while selected.
* In game chat should no longer accept HTML tags, which were causing chat to exhibit strange behavior
* Fixed several Game Server issues that were occasionally causing crashes
* Fixed a bug where camera lock would sometime turn on while dead
* Fixed several issues with the Animation System, which should improve the visual quality of many abilities
* Fixed a bug that would show your champion under the “Assist” section in Death Recap in some cases
* Changed Death Recap to not report tower damage as champion damage (this will not affect Kill / Assist crediting)
* Fixed several bugs with Death Recap that were causing Udyr’s stances to not report damage correctly
* Pressing the “Esc” key should unselect a controlled pet
* Buff stacks should show the stack count in the HUD now without having to mouse over them
* Karthus's (Lich) passive icon was changed to be more reflective of the ability
* Fixed a bug that was causing /surrender fail for some users in some circumstances
Queue dodging stuff seems a bit harsh, I bet that'll change fast. I do like the sound of the champion kill exp stuff, though I fear it will be a slight nerf to the solo player in a 1v2. Could be wrong though since I can't really make any judgments until I see for myself.
I see no mention of the ignore list being used to prevent match-ups with ignored users. So I'll say it again: I called it.
Finally tried Cho'gath for the first time tonight.
Flashing into someone and eating them is fuuuuun
the guy who wrote the guide for Dr. Glock also wrote one about cho'gath
the whole time he only refers to him as "The MFING Cho'gath"
also, amumu's bandage distance makes me sad despite the huge light blue radius that shows around you, it feels like it is one of the few skillshots that actually goes shorter than the shown distance, unlike things like mundo's cleaver and blitz's rocket fist which both go their full distance and a little further than they should
Finally tried Cho'gath for the first time tonight.
Flashing into someone and eating them is fuuuuun
the guy who wrote the guide for Dr. Glock also wrote one about cho'gath
the whole time he only refers to him as "The MFING Cho'gath"
also, amumu's bandage distance makes me sad despite the huge light blue radius that shows around you, it feels like it is one of the few skillshots that actually goes shorter than the shown distance, unlike things like mundo's cleaver and blitz's rocket fist which both go their full distance and a little further than they should
ahh, the infamous Condon. the only one i liked was his Blitz guide.
So I bought Mord today, he seems pretty slick. Playing a few practice games it looks like his damage shield early game really isn;t much to look at, but late game when I'm popping my abilities all over the place, it really goes off the charts to keep me alive.
Anybody else give him a shot yet? I'm not very good and I'd like to hear what you guys think about how to build him. I'm tempted to pump his AP, but with so many AP items boosting mana, I'd feel like it was a waste to buy them...
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Yeah, they did a little "what we've learned so far about Twisted Treeline" and I can't find it at the moment, but essentially they're having trouble balancing out things. For awhile, essentially things boiled down to who won a level 1 fight at the lizard. So, they then tried delaying the lizard spawn (like they did in the normal map) and that helped some, but they say that high hp champs still have too much advantage at level 1 (essentially because towers are so far apart that tower hugging is a huge disadvantage early on) and that since the map is so small the early game advantage is magnified significantly.
Worst was when she hit me while moving out of line of my blitz grab from near middle second tower to the ghoul camp nearby. I got eaten alive by shaco while she someone walked free despite us both firing off at the same time.
Morgana can eat a turd sandwich.
I hate bad teams.
Our Yi never pushed with us too, and by the time it came to fight a group or catch the last two low hp healers he was clearing creep on the top or bottom and left us all to die.
Flashing into someone and eating them is fuuuuun
Yeah, we had and Ashe pull a similar stunt earlier. Dude would constantly decry the need for us to stick together and win fights and then whenever 3+ of us would gather he'd start shouting about how it was an OBVIOUS TRAP YOU DUMB FUCKS and run to another lane.
Needless to say having our most hard-hitting toon constantly abscond from fights until he decided it was time to valiantly swoop in, 1v3, and die miserably hurt our chances to pull ahead.
Gooooo-TEAM!
New skins in the Store
* Infernal Mordekaiser
* Dragon Knight Mordekaiser
* Vandal Jax
* Leopard Nidalee
PVP.net v 1.06.19
* New LeaverBuster Additions:
o When players leave during Champion Select, they will not be allowed to rejoin the Matchmaking Queue for a period of time. The first time a player leaves, they will not be allowed to requeue for 3 minutes. The second time a player leaves, they will not be allowed to requeue for 10 minutes. This count will reset 8 hours after the last time a player left during Champion Select.
o Removed the "In champ select" message from buddy lists for friends who are in Normal Games (to help with queue dodging)
* The Play Game screen has a new look and feel. When a player presses “Play” they will see a new screen with the same options. Clicking on “Normal Game” or “Arranged Team” will take the player to a “Choose Game Mode” screen which is where the map/game type are selected.
* PVP.net should now support buddy lists up to 200 users more effectively
* Fixed the PVP.net rune list to allow for larger quantities of runes to be displayed
* Fixed a bug where the initial buddy presence was not correct upon login to PVP.net, causing some buddies to appear offline who were not
* Fixed a bug that would allow some players to view other player’s Most Played Champions wins and losses
* Fixed a bug that was causing some security answers on new accounts to not work
* Fixed a bug that was causing some new accounts to not be able to log into the Community Site or PVP.net after registering (if you still cannot log in to the web site but your account works on PVP.net, please contact support@riotgames.com).
* Fixed a bug in the PVP.net client that was causing the client to crash when chat was undocked
* Fixed a bug where online players were sometimes showing up in the “offline” section of the friends list.
* Fixed a bug where PVP.net was not cleaning up game logs more than 5 days old.
* Fixed a bug where sometimes players in the Arranged Team lobby would show as Level 0 with 0 wins.
League of Legends v1.0.0.75
Mordekaiser, the Master of Metal
* Mace of Spade: On next hit, Mordekaiser swings his mace with such force that it echoes out, striking up to three nearby targets, dealing his attack damage plus bonus damage. If the target is alone, the bonus damage is doubled.
* Creeping Death: Morderkaiser unleashes a protective cloud of metal shards to surround an ally, increasing their armor and magic resistance, and dealing damage per second to enemies in the cloud.
* Siphon of Destruction: Mordekaiser deals damage to enemies in a cone in front of him. For each unit hit, Mordekaiser’s shield absorbs energy.
* Children of the Grave: Mordekaiser curses an enemy, stealing a percent of their life each second. If the target dies while under the effect of the curse, their soul is enslaved and will follow Mordekaiser for 30 seconds. During this time, Mordekaiser gains 25% of their ability power and attack damage. The soul gains a percentage of Mordekaiser’s adjusted stats.
* Iron Man (passive): 20% of the damage dealt from abilities is converted into a temporary shield, absorbing incoming damage.
Annie
* Fixed a bug that allowed Annie to double stun.
Gragas
* Base attack speed and attack speed per level increased by 25%.
* Barrel Roll missile speed increased by 25%
* Barrel Roll's Cooldown is now decreased by the amount of time the barrel is stopped for
* Barrel Roll's Cooldown increased to 12/11/10/9/8 from 11/10/9/8/7 as a result of the above change
* Body Slam is now location targetable
* Cleaned up the collision detection on Body Slam
* Body Slam's speed increased to 650/750/850/950/1050 from 600/650/700/750/800
* Body Slam's range increased by 50
* Explosive Cask missile speed increased by 25%
* Explosive Cask range increased by 50
* Fixed a bug where casting Explosive Cask out of range could sometimes make it cast to a lesser distance
* Explosive Cask cast radius slightly increased
Jax
* Empower (Remake):
o Jax instantly charges his weapon with energy, causing him to deal 45/65/85/105/125 damage to all enemies nearby on his next attack.
o As there is no longer a charge-up time, cooldown increased to 7/6/5/4/3 from 1 second.
o Changed Mana cost to 35 at all levels from 40/35/30/25/20.
* Equipment Mastery (New Passive): Jax's prowess with weapons and armor increase his fortitude as he gains equipment
* Jax gains 5 health per point of Attack Damage received from items.
* Jax gains 3 health per point of Ability Power received from items.
* Leap Strike can now target allies.
* Increased base Mana to 235 from 215.
* Increased Mana per level to 35 from 30.
Katarina
* Added a new updated particle for Death Lotus.
* Fixed a bug in which Death Lotus would not immediately deal damage.
* Death Lotus channeling time reduced to 2.6 from 3.
* Number of daggers thrown by Death Lotus increased to 10 from 9
Karthus
* Updated the icon for Death Defied
Pantheon
* Fixed an issue that would cause Aegis to not stun targets if you did not move as part of the skill
Nidalee
* Fixed a bug where Nidalee could pounce while rooted
Sivir
* On The Hunt movement speed bonus reduced to 25% from 35%
Soraka
* Fixed a bug in which Wish did not affect all allies
Tryndamere
* Fixed a tooltip bug with Bloodlust
Twisted Fate
* Wild Cards Mana cost increased to 50/65/80/95/110 from 40/55/70/85/100
* Pick a Card Mana cost increased to 60/70/80/90/100 from 40/50/60/70/80
* Pick a Card Gold Card base damage reduced to 40/80/120/160/200 from 50/100/150/200/250
* Pick a Card Gold Card ability power ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4
* Pick a Card Gold Card no longer slows
* Pick a Card Red Card ability power ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4
* Gate cooldown increased to 135/120/105/90/75 from 120/105/90/75/60
Twitch
* Debilitating Poison now slows for 30% + 6% per Deadly Venom from 20% + 10% per Deadly Venom
Warwick
* Hungering Strike Mana cost reduced to 60/70/80/90/100 from 100 at all levels
* Hungering Strike cooldown reduced by 2 at all levels
* Hunter's Call attack speed bonus increased to 50/55/60/65/70% from 50% at all levels. Allies gain half of this bonus at all levels
* Hunter's Call duration modified to 10 seconds at all levels from 6/9/12/15/18
* Hunter's Call cooldown reduced to 30/27/24/21/18 seconds from 32 seconds at all levels
* Blood Scent now has new particles both for Warwick and his victims
* Infinite Duress
o Decreased cooldown to 90/80/70 from 100 at all levels
o Decreased Mana cost to 100/125/150 from 150 at all levels
o Decreased stun duration to 1.7 from 2.1
o Decreased number of hits to 5 from 6
o Increased bonus damage per hit to 40/60/80 from 30/50/70
* Increased base and attack speed per level by 10%, which also increases attack speed from items and Hunter's Call
* Increased base Mana by 20
* Increased base Mana regen and Mana regen per level by 20%
* Updated PVP.Net champion search tags
Veigar
* Added new "team color" versions of the Event Horizon particle
Items
* Executioner's Calling no longer causes reduced healing on hit, but the damage over time effect can now hit minions
* Executioner's Calling now has an active ability: for the next 10 seconds, your hits cause 50% reduced healing and regeneration for 7 seconds against champions; 60 sec cooldown
* Phage slow reduced to 30% from 40%
* Fixed a bug in which Phage was slowing for too much on the initial hit
* Sheen spellcast effect reduced to 80% of base damage from 100%
* Trinity Force Slow reduced to 35% from 50%
* Trinity Force's spellcast effect reduced to 130% of base damage from 150%
* Mejai's Soulstealer: Reduced the amount of AP per stack to 9 from 10
Summoner Spells
* Increased the cooldown of Flash to 240 from 210.
General
* Baron Nashor now debuffs his target with -50% attack damage rather than 60% attack speed.
* Blessing of the Lizard Elder
* Lowered damage per second by 5 at all levels
* Lowered movement speed debuff by 5% at every level past 5.
* The in-game experience curve was normalized.
* Champion kill experience system reworked. Experience rewards are now calculated on a per-champion basis, with the rewards scaling based on the delta of champion levels. The scaling is based on an S curve so that killing champions three levels and below provide negligible rewards, and kills three levels and above provide almost twice the experience of even level kills.
* Pets should now properly respond to stop orders issued while selected.
* In game chat should no longer accept HTML tags, which were causing chat to exhibit strange behavior
* Fixed several Game Server issues that were occasionally causing crashes
* Fixed a bug where camera lock would sometime turn on while dead
* Fixed several issues with the Animation System, which should improve the visual quality of many abilities
* Fixed a bug that would show your champion under the “Assist” section in Death Recap in some cases
* Changed Death Recap to not report tower damage as champion damage (this will not affect Kill / Assist crediting)
* Fixed several bugs with Death Recap that were causing Udyr’s stances to not report damage correctly
* Pressing the “Esc” key should unselect a controlled pet
* Buff stacks should show the stack count in the HUD now without having to mouse over them
* Karthus's (Lich) passive icon was changed to be more reflective of the ability
* Fixed a bug that was causing /surrender fail for some users in some circumstances
Queue dodging stuff seems a bit harsh, I bet that'll change fast. I do like the sound of the champion kill exp stuff, though I fear it will be a slight nerf to the solo player in a 1v2. Could be wrong though since I can't really make any judgments until I see for myself.
Everything else is meh. Jax is pimp but I'm not excited for reasons unknown.
/fap
And there was much rejoicing.
That and the gate cooldown are going to help, but I'm still not sure if that is going to bring TF back to near-earth orbit levels of power.
I don't find it unreasonable, considering it is something you shouldn't be doing, except in exceptional circumstances.
Sounds great for farming, depending on the AOE radius.
also i guess i can see empower being good for ap jax/lichane..but ap jax just seems so fundamentally wrong
programjunkie: define exceptional circumstances? having an eve on your team counts, right?
And heck, he's one of the few characters that a rageblade isn't a joke on (though that number has increased with the recent buff, I've found it to be quite useful for Nidalee at times because she can keep the charges up indefinitely for free).
Eh. As I see it, 10 minutes is less than 1/2 of the minimum surrender time (which should probably be a bit lower), so if someone thinks that having an Eve will result in a soul crushing game worse than watching their childhood pet die or whatever, they still come out ahead.
But it also encourages people not to waste 9 other players' time. A given queue dodger could end up wasting like 12 minutes of other people's time per dodge. Fuck that.
Just had a pretty . . . interesting (awful) game. I knew it would be bad when we were against Twitch and Eve (I know they're easy to counter, but in solo-que games . . . )
My item development is so awful because I bought literally 6 Oracle's. I mean, I'm Ashe, tied for squishiest champion in the game, I shouldn't be carrying the Oracle's, but our team was pretty bad.
I mean, DPS Annie . . . yeah.
I feel like a Lovecraft protagonist. I know what I've seen, but my mind just doesn't have the capacity to fully comprehend it.
Does Tibbers share attack damage at least?
Getting a lot better with Ashe's arrows.
* Executioner's Calling now has an active ability: for the next 10 seconds, your hits cause 50% reduced healing and regeneration for 7 seconds against champions; 60 sec cooldown
Soraka
* Fixed a bug in which Wish did not affect all allies
As someone who occasionally plays Soraka, this makes me obscenely happy. Flash got nerfed yet again, which is meh. Mordekaiser looks like a lot of fun, I'll toss him a try when I get on next.
I've just started losing after a 5 game winning streak. I've started playing Alistar lately, been having a lot of fun with him. Popping ult, running in, and shrugging off the entire team's rotations is hilarious, especially when it allows my team to pick them off easily.
Sometimes the lack of VoIP can ruin what should have been a better team.
I see no mention of the ignore list being used to prevent match-ups with ignored users. So I'll say it again: I called it.
Probably going to see more people trying to force dodges with stuff like Clarity Mundo.
The same amount it costs everyone else?
*ba-dum-psssh*
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
I refuse to accept your bad joke
the guy who wrote the guide for Dr. Glock also wrote one about cho'gath
the whole time he only refers to him as "The MFING Cho'gath"
also, amumu's bandage distance makes me sad despite the huge light blue radius that shows around you, it feels like it is one of the few skillshots that actually goes shorter than the shown distance, unlike things like mundo's cleaver and blitz's rocket fist which both go their full distance and a little further than they should
Clarity Trynd with Revive imo.
ahh, the infamous Condon. the only one i liked was his Blitz guide.
I hate snow. So much.
I have no idea what Mord costs, I'm not at home
975 RP or 3150 IP
Anybody else give him a shot yet? I'm not very good and I'd like to hear what you guys think about how to build him. I'm tempted to pump his AP, but with so many AP items boosting mana, I'd feel like it was a waste to buy them...
is the leaving at champ select still happening a lot? i'm sure they haven't fixed the client bugs that cause the inadvertent leaves.