i appreciate that they're mostly fair with their review of this half of the year. plants were the things i was most scared of and while i still keep accidentally clicking on them cos they're always right in that fucking midlane river ramp lol, they've added cool stuff to play around with and were overall the most positive thing i've seen from this preseason. i would've liked to see some direction on where they're taking leblanc since they seem to have completely forgotten about her and they'll probably do so again after they nerf gunblade, but i guess they don't know what to do with her yet. in general i feel like the assassins rework was largely unsuccessful because i don't feel khazix or talon or katarina or rengar or leblanc or zed or fizz or anyone really feel much more fair to play against than before, and i don't think they've cut down on their snowballing as much as they're saying. they've given kat and talon more interesting kits for sure, but i don't think they met their goal of injecting counterplay to these champions. if anything they've made some of them worse :/
so it's a rocky first half of the season, even tho i think plants are cool and they've course corrected a bunch
anywho, most of these new reworks sound cool, tho not sure how irritating some of these champions are gonna get (zac specially)
sejuani looks like she's gotten a lot more interesting. i wonder if the frozen thing works with anivia e, i understand why those interactions aren't generally there but at the same time it'd be kinda cool
zac q is hilarious and new ult is also pretty funny. also is his revive passive faster or did it just seem like it? ult is also pretty funny. seems like decent changes, tho i wish they had reduced his e range, i hate that fucking thing
maokai doesn't look much more interesting and his ult looks kind of really hard to see at times since the vines keep going underground and whatever. like i wonder if you need to hit a vine or be in the ult are to get hit by it, cos getting hit by an invisible vine would suck. nothing super positive to say about maokai, as long as he deals less dmg and is less bullshit i'll be happy
not sure if the abyssal/banshee's thing was pulled, that would kind of suck since i liked it a bunch. overall the rest of the patch is cool, better clarity is nice and stats like vision score and crowd control score are cool. would love to see them create a "play of the game" system or like automatic highlights or whatever sometime soon if they intend to surface more stats and contributions to the game
finally nice to hear about honor and 10 bans being relatively soon on the horizon, as well as ranked 5s. honestly i think the ranked 5s thing is great but it's probably too late for me as my ranked 5s friends dropped out of the game kind as soon as riot removed it but who knows, maybe they'll come back
hopefully the next half of the year will be great
Hmmm
Seems like little on paper, but this has the potential of breaking Karthus and/or ryze if used correctly? Buffering is..interesting in a game like League.
Also Udyr got nerrrfed
not really gonna do much for karthus unless you're in high ping, for most ppl it's not gonna be noticeable
Lol, those Ivern nerfs. I smell mini-rework incoming (Illaoi, Tahm Kench scale).
i forget, did those two actually get reworks? i vaguely remember illaoi's test getting changed a bunch but idk if they ever catalogued it as a mini-rework
Not much of a patch, is it.
yeah, i wish they had done a little bit to address some solo q concerns (like ahri or lulu)
can't really expect them to change much this close to msi tho
at least lizzy got a small buff, tho i don't think the passive will do much
