That Alliance vs SK game was awful. It won me a bunch of fantasy points but after 20 minutes both teams just did nothing until they wandered into a situation where someone was out of position.
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Anyone else feel like Janus would work better with his kit rebalanced as a support? The main draw of his character is portals, but his ability to put them down at all is limited to one every 15 seconds. The portal aspect on his ult is novel, but it has this absurd amount of damage tacked on. It places it in this strange spot of forcing the player to decide if they want to burn it for the utility, or instead try to hit an opponent (made difficult by the crazy windup). It feels like HiRez decided he was going to be a mage, and gave his skills damage to bring him to that level.
What if instead, though, he were restructured as support?
Cut his portal CD in half, otherwise unchanged
Remove all damage from his ult
Make ult portals truly bi-directional, allowing anyone to travel back and forth through any pair once
Not sure what to do about his 2, perhaps cut the damage. It just seems like he could be a really fun team-based utility support rather than a mage with some difficult-to-hit damaging spells
Well, this Smite patch definitely shook up the meta... Semi final match of The Game Changers vs. Dignitas had a first pick Sobek while Hercules was still on the board.
And even beyond that, the teams are, TGC - Sobek (support), Hercules (solo), Artemis (hunter), Bakasura (jungle) and Zhong Kui (mid); Dig - Agni (mid), Ullr (hunter), Geb (support), He Bo (solo) and Bastet (jungle). Should be interesting...
Cog just lost to 5 Angry Men in one half of the semi-finals. Dig was very close to losing to The Game Changers, it looks like they might've gotten it back under control, but their mid player just DC'd and they're using all of their pause time to try to wait for him... looking at a 10 minute pause right now.
First time in a long time that the NA grand final hasn't been a combination of Dig, Cog and Snipe, I believe. And if Dig isn't able to finish this, it'll be the first time ever I think that none of Dig, Cog or Snipe has made it into the grand finals during the qualifiers.
Edit: Dig's mid laner was able to reconnect, the 5v5 continues.
And Dig finishes despite a valiant base defense by TGC... they lost all phoenixes and while they were holding Dig off, fire minions got the Titan down below half, then Dig rushed in and finished it. So, grand final is now set between Dig and 5 Angry Men, which should be interesting as 5AM have a slight roster shake-up they lost their usual support and gained DJPernicus formerly of Down 2 Frag. It seems to be a pretty good combination since 5AM took out both Snipe and Cog. I'd say they might have a chance against Dig.
Seeing some picks that haven't come out in a while this week as well, like Mercury. Hercules, despite being seen as extremely good since the nerf to Warriors in general, has a 0% win rate today. Zhong Kui also hadn't been seen much for weeks, has seen a resurgence. Bastet doesn't seem too affected by the CC nerf, though she hasn't been 100% picked/banned. Hun Batz still seems strong, he might be at about 100% picked/banned today, I'd have to check all the other matches. Scylla seems to be banned constantly, which isn't terribly surprising after last week. I don't think she was nerfed at all, and Warriors are less tanky in general against her, so... yeah.
What even is this? 5AM - Kumbhakarna (support), Freya (hunter), Vamana (solo), Nemesis (jungle) and Zhong Kui (mid); Dig - Agni (mid), Ullr (hunter), Loki (jungle), He Bo (solo) and Athena (support).
Dig is basically just team squish. They have a lot of damage, but they can be taken out so fast... not to mention, Dig's Agni mid last game was shut the fuck down entirely, he had lowest farm on the team, as mid. This should be a very interesting game/series.
Edit: team squish wins game 1 of the finals. Dig did 20k more damage than 5AM. 5AM had the game under control for a bit but it started getting out of hand.
Game 2... pick/bans seems like it got a little out of control. 5AM chose second pick since they lost, so Dig banned Zhong Kui, Freya and Agni out, 5AM banned out Loki, Aphrodite and He Bo. So... Dig got Scylla as first pick. Dig also got Hun Batz, Athena, Artemis and Bakasura. 5AM grabbed Apollo, Kumbahkarna, Ra, Vamana and Osiris.
So, Artemis/Athena vs. Apollo/Kumba, Scylla vs. Ra for mid, Bakasura vs. Vamana in solo which leaves Hun Batz and Osiris as the junglers. Casters are certainly excited by Osiris jungle, but man, I feel like 5AM might've already lost this match up in pick/bans.
And Dig takes game 2 to win the finals. 5AM had a very strong mid game after sort of losing early game, but then threw the hell out of late game and Dig took over. Pretty great series though.
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What if instead, though, he were restructured as support?
- Cut his portal CD in half, otherwise unchanged
- Remove all damage from his ult
- Make ult portals truly bi-directional, allowing anyone to travel back and forth through any pair once
Not sure what to do about his 2, perhaps cut the damage. It just seems like he could be a really fun team-based utility support rather than a mage with some difficult-to-hit damaging spellsI especially like #3
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And even beyond that, the teams are, TGC - Sobek (support), Hercules (solo), Artemis (hunter), Bakasura (jungle) and Zhong Kui (mid); Dig - Agni (mid), Ullr (hunter), Geb (support), He Bo (solo) and Bastet (jungle). Should be interesting...
First time in a long time that the NA grand final hasn't been a combination of Dig, Cog and Snipe, I believe. And if Dig isn't able to finish this, it'll be the first time ever I think that none of Dig, Cog or Snipe has made it into the grand finals during the qualifiers.
Edit: Dig's mid laner was able to reconnect, the 5v5 continues.
Seeing some picks that haven't come out in a while this week as well, like Mercury. Hercules, despite being seen as extremely good since the nerf to Warriors in general, has a 0% win rate today. Zhong Kui also hadn't been seen much for weeks, has seen a resurgence. Bastet doesn't seem too affected by the CC nerf, though she hasn't been 100% picked/banned. Hun Batz still seems strong, he might be at about 100% picked/banned today, I'd have to check all the other matches. Scylla seems to be banned constantly, which isn't terribly surprising after last week. I don't think she was nerfed at all, and Warriors are less tanky in general against her, so... yeah.
Dig is basically just team squish. They have a lot of damage, but they can be taken out so fast... not to mention, Dig's Agni mid last game was shut the fuck down entirely, he had lowest farm on the team, as mid. This should be a very interesting game/series.
Edit: team squish wins game 1 of the finals. Dig did 20k more damage than 5AM. 5AM had the game under control for a bit but it started getting out of hand.
So, Artemis/Athena vs. Apollo/Kumba, Scylla vs. Ra for mid, Bakasura vs. Vamana in solo which leaves Hun Batz and Osiris as the junglers. Casters are certainly excited by Osiris jungle, but man, I feel like 5AM might've already lost this match up in pick/bans.
and holy shit I am wrecking
only my 2nd game and I can feel the power flowing within me
I didn't feed
Are these power metal songs about league of legends items?
Some LoL characters have heavy metal inspired skins and Riot made some lore about them making music together.
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Then this happened:
Warframe is fun!
I kinda burnt out on it when it was still in beta but its a fun game
Wonder what they've added since I quit
What do I win
EDIT: they had an Arachne, so it doesn't really count
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