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- Geb is coming. For those that don't know, he's a guardian.
- New Arena may feature the triumphant return of the manticore. Last week they stated we may have as many as three Arena queues until they iron something out.
- Assault healer balance in the works? Maybe, I dunno, not have characters that can heal simultaneously be mages? I really don't like that aspect of the game.
- Smite's playerbase is "growing wild", and they're constantly hitting new records.
- Pool Party Poseidon will be available at launch. RELEASE THE QUACKEN.
- Double Damage Potion has been axed in favor of utility potions.
Pool Party Poseidon is actually the result of a poll they did, with Fargate Anubis being the first of these poll skins released. Naturally, Hi-Rez being Hi-Rez, of the ten characters on there, only three were skins for female characters, and two of those were "sexy" skins (Cheerleader Neith and, I swear I'm not joking, "Sexy Soviet" Athena). Chang'e in Wonderland would actually be really cool, so I look forward to being angry when Communist Cleavage Athena ultimately wins.COME FORTH, AMATERASU! - Switch Friend Code SW-5465-2458-5696 - Twitch
COME FORTH, AMATERASU! - Switch Friend Code SW-5465-2458-5696 - Twitch
but here's a thing in the meantime
Smite: Plutoniumwombat
It's getting too addictive
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
How is that even fair man
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Riven is super unbalanced and probably OP right now. Her early game damage is ridiculous and I hate that she has a low cooldown shield that scales off AD. There are only two things I know of that you can do to survive her in lane. First, don't feed. Live under tower and lose some farm if you have to but don't let her get that early kill or there's really no end to that snowball. Second, try out some of the other OP champs yourself right now e.g. Mundo, Shyvana, or Nasus.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm really feeling the Ares nerf.
There are plenty of balanced resourceless champs, riven is not one of them.
I've got kind of a bad feeling about that method but it might be fun to try something new and I guess ~it's still in beeetaaa~
my problem with it is that smite's already got a bit of an issue with there basically being an objective best way to build a lot of the characters and I feel like characters not needing to even consider mana or mp5 as wanted stats would exacerbate that
Giving Riven a mana bar wouldn't change the fact that she can all in and kill almost any opposing top lane champ at level 2. Her q is fucking three moves in one.
It is interesting that from watching League over time, they've more and more switched off balancing via mana, with mana only being a balance factor on a few high cost junglers and for preventing total spam of abilities. While blue did stop being infinite mana and huge CDR, all the itemization and most new champs really make it difficult to run out of mana without trying to do so in lane.
EDIT: Giving Riven a mana bar would stop her from being able to arbitrarily keeping up 3 stacks of her passive by missing Qs and mean that she couldn't dash in reaction to any possible trade against a ranged top. Even if she could go all in, it would at least have consideration attached to it.
Also, sorry I haven't been on much. This was my last week of break before the next semester, so I've had to start going to bed like an actual adult instead of Smiting past midnight.
Chang'e is soooooo difficult to play.
This is absolutely untrue. Swain, Anivia, Brand, Veigar, all of these guys can and will run out of mana late game unless they buy a chalice, RoA or Archangels, or some combination of the above, if they don't have blue.
I never really got why Riven's resourceless.
Like Yasuo needs no limiting resource because his kit is built around spamming. Kat is built around resets so it'd probably only matter on quadra kill style stuff and make for awkward itemising.
Riven's got no mana/energy to deal with because? Is a question I really can't think of a decent answer too past 'it helps her in lane'.
also nami, lucian, malzahar, etc etc
But I still love Riven and will not listen to any QQ. Yeah, I'm glad they've moved away from the high mana costs.
As for the few people in League who need mana: I suppose those champs are somewhat mana hungry (not nearly as much as many DotA heroes, since I usually make relative comparisons), but my point was that the combination of most champs having low mana costs and there being supremely effective mana regeneration options for those who do have high sustained costs means there's very little need to go out of your way to support it. Yes, if you intentionally get no mana pool or regeneration options, Anivia might be screwed (many of the others listed have naturally low mana costs [brand] or natural regen, so they're much less screwed), but that's dumb enough to be nearly meaningless; you'd have to intentionally avoid picking up blue and picking up quite a few overall-good items just to not get regen. Comparatively, there are very few champions who need to make a conscious effort towards having mana regeneration in their lategame build to be effective, and those that do usually get QoL fixes eventually (see almost all the original 40 champs having their ults dropped from 200-300+ mana to 100-200 mana at most).
I guess, but I'd prefer a situation where she still had mana and it could be used as a balancing factor. To mana should be default unless there's a good reason not too. Even if it mostly wont matter.