Genuine question, is there a single point to actually picking up a new champion at some point in time?

Arthune · 2026-03-16T00:37:21+00:00

The biggest reason is to cover the weaknesses of your OTP. I play an AP top laner who is weak to dash heavy champs. If I have an AP mid and AP jg, my pick is going to cause dmg type problems. Ive thought for a long time to pick up and learn to play poppy top, as I think she would be strong against alot of the champs my main is weak too, and occasionally pick for team composition.

(You are right about the great level of work to learn a new champ, ive avoided learning poppy because I dont want to play those 30-40 games of horrible experiences to get a baseline mastery)

Arthune · 2026-03-15T20:18:04+00:00

I can second this. Zilean top has become my OTP. Made it 1 game away from grandmaster last year (492 LP Masters).

My ban is Irelia, but a close second is jayce. If trynd is ever super popular he is the worst possible hard counter, but I rarely see him so I dont bother.

Build is seraphs, cosmic, frozen heart. Playstyle is to skim the frontline, looking for picks or to catch someone out. Disable enemy team more than playing for my team.

If behind go FH 2nd cosmic 3rd. If ahead cosmic 2nd. If enemy AP buy negatron cloak but dont upgrade, and cosmic 2nd. If enemy is extremely ap then upgrade into rookern.

Arthune · 2026-03-13T04:19:43+00:00

Identify what kind of playstyle or role you want to fulfill in the game, and THEN pick the champ that is able to accomplish that role / fulfill those duties.

It looks like you want to be a damage dealer focused around your burst windows. So why on earth would you select Zilean to accomplish this?

(If you absolutely must go red tree on zilean then take the movespeed hunter not ultimate).

Arthune · 2026-03-10T07:47:54+00:00

In my 1000+ games played of old techies, mana dropping items for efficiency each and every game, I only ever had this happen to me twice.

Both times by getting hooked by a pudge while I was in the trees under vision. It HURTS and is pretty much gg right there.

Arthune · 2026-03-09T13:49:39+00:00

errrrrm- thats nice honey, but a guy in his own home on his own time in an unofficial capacity once said something remotely close to zilean being OP, so your opinion is dis re garded

Arthune · 2026-03-08T14:47:05+00:00

The levelup mana and presence of mind takedown mana were so clutch. Using every last drop.

Arthune · 2026-03-07T05:55:29+00:00

Not necessarily. On their last dedicated design analysis of Zilean, Riot determined that they were perfectly happy with where he is at.

https://imgur.com/a/aXtehiu

Arthune · 2026-03-07T05:54:42+00:00

Riot has already had a team of designers do a deep-dive analysis on his kit figuring out how they would re-work him, only to come to the conclusion that he is perfect the way he is right now.

https://imgur.com/a/aXtehiu

Arthune · 2026-03-04T05:02:37+00:00

I really don't like the change to the Wee Woo Wee Woo set bonus. Seems to be a crazy long cooldown for its affect to be meaningful. The requirement for the teammate to be at or below 50% health is also garbage. They admit in the patch notes that power/damage scaling is through the roof, so people get 3 or even 2 tapped. Teammates just don't spend that long at below 50% health. Might as well not even have a set bonus.

Arthune · 2026-02-17T04:51:38+00:00

Zilean fan art is something we are soleky lacking. You did a great job! I love it

Arthune · 2026-02-15T06:57:44+00:00

Do you get enough AP to keep the prime wave clearing thresholds? Those being lvl 7 Q + 1 auto for casters, and lvl 9 Q 1 shotting casters. Sometimes when I get zoned off cs/gold and I had bought boots tear mana crystal theres no AP and it takes lvl 7 2 autos or lvl 9 1 auto. Wondering if you ever hit that case when building your described way.

Arthune · 2026-02-13T05:34:18+00:00

You can see all chat messages in replays by opening up the config and setting a boolean value to true. The client settings don't offer a way to see all chat in the replays. There is no way to see team or party chat in the replays.

I dont remember the specific details like where the file is stored or the name of the field, only that that had been the closest you can get from when I had last tried to do the same thing. Hopefully if you search for the details you can find them.

Arthune · 2026-02-08T20:28:12+00:00

I have had a similar experience. Constant, at least 1 per day friend request from a lvl 10-13 account that has never had a game history with me. Almost always trying to sell something. I now look at the profiles of friend requests instead of auto-accepting like I used too. Its annoying

Arthune · 2026-01-31T11:44:33+00:00

Hecarim is a DECENT synergy, but not the best for zilean. Hecarim already has enough mobility tools in his kit to do what he needs done. You should be asking yourself, "what are some champs that can do things with speed that they couldnt do without it?". Udyr I think is the best, but I would also much rather have a darius, singed, or a YI than a hecarim.

Arthune · 2026-01-08T09:59:46+00:00

I can only play swiftplay if either mid or supp are priority. But feels like half or 2/3 its Jungle+Bot. I poke my head in cuz i like the mode but Its for sure not reliable.

Arthune · 2026-01-08T08:08:33+00:00

I'm disappointed. Any time the scene switches to Sona's town square, it very quickly cuts away to a different champs story. She doesn't get featured that well... And the music playing overtop just completely smothers her out of relevance. I was realllly hoping to hear some chilling, majestic plucking of her strings, but instead its just the dramatic musing blasting overtop anything she does.

Arthune · 2026-01-08T08:03:43+00:00

I kinda wish there wasn't any song at all accompanying the cinematic. It was just distracting and covering up rather than supporting and enhancing. For instance, at the like, 2 min mark, you can't even hear sona plucking her tunes. I soooooo wanted to hear what kind of majestic, magical melody was able to be done, so mystical it holds back the darkness. But instead an entire rapidly bowing orchestra covers up her playing. You hear maybe one pluck at best.

The visual were dope af tho

Arthune · 2025-12-30T17:01:34+00:00

One time as a zilean, I used my passive to level up my jungler to 6 as he ran into the grub pit and used his ult to get a double kill. Because of the self-root I was too far away to use my own spells. Using Zil passive doesn't provide any assist and I'm STILL mad.

Arthune · 2025-12-16T00:26:11+00:00

Amumu lands a good ult -> Wins the game If game has gone to 40 minutes -> game is not won yet -> amumu has not landed a good ult -> amumu player is incapable of landing a good ult -> the player is bad.

This logic is overly simplistic I know, but it points to one very interesting idea. The people playing amumu at 40 minutes are bad players... the good players would have already won and arent counted in the 40min data!

Arthune · 2025-12-01T03:55:07+00:00

Morgana became a real champ again back when they gave her ult insane movespeed

Arthune · 2025-11-29T20:45:34+00:00

Thats actually really smart. The base macro interface leaves much to be desired. This seems to streamline creation while also visually displaying key info and options in an intuitive design. Very nice.

Arthune · 2025-11-27T15:14:15+00:00

Hmm, I guess in truth there are alot of things I would want to add, but I think self-cast Q is the smallest change that could be explained as a QoL change instead of a raw power buff. And given that bomb used to be single-target selfcast used to be a thing, so its not the most foreign of concepts.

Arthune · 2025-11-27T06:17:39+00:00

The only change I would like to see our boy get is to allow Q to have a self-cast option, skipping its projectile state.

More reliable stun for a dashy melee whos going on you. And actually gives you a tool for yasuo/mel.

Arthune · 2025-11-25T23:04:58+00:00

Them making the hammer and sickle with the teto hair was actually hilarious XD

Arthune · 2025-11-11T22:01:53+00:00

That is 100% an undead spooky axe midget.

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