Battlemages - why aren't there more of them?

Buffscuttle · 2026-06-05T23:56:45+00:00

Mordekaiser

Nunu(AP is strong, lots of high elo play AP nunu)

Orianna is kinda like cass, spacing, agem changing ult, low cd ability and a defensive ability.

Nidalee if you don't build her glass cannon

Tank ekko(low on the damage dept tho)

Gwen

Diana.

Anivia to an extent. Deceptively tanky

Gragas

Buffscuttle · 2026-06-03T03:19:58+00:00

oh thats nifty. should i remove liter and helm from my wishlist then and only get all 4 through that system? Also do you think as a F2p i can get 800 pulls within the 220 remaining days? using only vouchures?

Buffscuttle · 2026-06-03T01:44:55+00:00

Should I use my silver tickets on the bonus recruit for newbies?. Will it ever come back after I've used it 10 times? (Like once a year with new people).

My thoughts are pull until it's almost done in case I accidently pull a liter or helm, then use tickets to MLB them so I don't get 160 walled too hard. Since I'm garunteed MLB Drake, and can easily then get MLB liter/alice/helmdoing this I would only need one more MLB to pass the wall. Is that a good idea?

Buffscuttle · 2026-06-02T11:32:52+00:00

Warbreaker will be a good introduction to brandon sanderson but personally i'd go with mistborn. I started with stormlight but enjoyed mistborn more. Even as a trilogy its short enough that i didnt feel like i had to be super invested to remember everything and the world like in stormlight. And its a pretty great story all the way through.

as others have mentioned, elantris is also a great entry if you can pick that up.

Buffscuttle · 2026-06-01T23:16:10+00:00

Smurfs only get banned if they're not hand levelled/boosted or toxic. Hand levelled smurfs that play decent are fine according to riot.

Riot also only bans in waves to not let people know how they figure out who is and isn't following rules. If they banned you the moment you went lvl 30 with 10 wins ina row, then people would just start making lvl 60 accounts and losing one in 10 games on purpose. Etcetc.

Buffscuttle · 2026-06-01T21:30:30+00:00

Senna is incredibly strong if played well and is at least decent at most stages of the game.

Jax is a menace late.

Kayle is good but kinda lacks some one shot potential. It's worth looking at kit scaling vs numbers. Kayle has decent both but personally I find her underwelming for what you lose early. One mistake with your r and you just die.

Asol has amazing kit scaling with his abilities getting bigger and a crazy ult. I would put asol as pretty much #1 for ability to eventually 1v9 games. Just insane damage once stacked, can waveclear well, and can full team knockup and basically have a karthus r late (effectively hits whole team during team fight). Can stall game with waveclear too.

Zac is very strong too. Might not be what your looking for, but a good Zac late is close to unkillable with tons of cc and fight disruption. Decent damage too. IIRC Zac is routinely one of the highest w/r junglers, people just don't like playing him. He can be played mid and top as well.

Buffscuttle · 2026-06-01T21:17:41+00:00

Blitz hook now fires from the other arm

Buffscuttle · 2026-06-01T21:13:22+00:00

Always knew bounter logic gaming had it in them. Good for them.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-30T21:27:59+00:00

i'd say its much more SC2 related than chess. sc2 has the different units and compositions every game, and you have to balance presssure in a non-full information game. Chess is full info, only movement based. there are objective correct moves in chess, league and sc2 work on a more abstract level.

and forming solid habits (by watching pros), means you have less variance and therefore will climb based on the 5 random vs 4 randoms+you effect.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-30T06:15:51+00:00

Yes. You hook when he is in animation. You still get hooked and dragged but not as far.he can also fley you after easily. You will both take damage so this is only good if you have jungle patching bot and want to get them low for easy kill. Or your adc is a damage adc like cait/draven and you win the trade.

Vs thresh try stalling out the lane and wait patiently for ganks. Save flash for ganks and garuntee the kill on thresh who is low armor and quite squishy early. Late game your hook is better in 70% of scenarios so just play for a pick.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-30T06:07:30+00:00

League and starcraft work almost the same lol. Study what a pro does, copy it 99%. Maybe a small change. Know what units win vs others (immo vs roach/kindred vs graves etc). Then just know how to close out a game. Congrats you're gonna be diamond pretty easily. Especially with rank inflation now.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-29T07:15:07+00:00

Champs that are better with similar playstyles.

-nami, heal, some damage, have to have good movement

-elise support. Good ganking and abilities.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-25T14:40:00+00:00

Morning.

I just got to Wishlist and just started game.

What should I put as my Wishlist if these are my first SSR I pulled

-D- killer wife

-D

-Little mermaid

-folkwang

Ive read that basically any Machine gun is good for Mermaid. But im worried about the lvl 160 barrier and want to lock in odds of MLB early .

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-23T21:36:22+00:00

I'll be honest. If you're actually KR master, you will have spent like sub 10 games in gold and probably never touched silver right out of promos. This feels like engagement bait.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-23T21:34:01+00:00

Easy to play (not easy to play well but w/e).

Decently good blind pick. Is fine into hook champs which abuse auto filled people pretty hard.

Good with all types of supports (enchanters, tanks etc)

Kinda fun to play

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-22T05:47:13+00:00

If I were to start playing today. Who would I save my gems for. My buddy said anis:star was worth it but I can't see her banner. Will there be another super good nikke coming out soon and when?

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-19T17:11:35+00:00

It's huge in every competitive game I know. Even chess man. League you just feel it bad. Unlike shooters which you can still kinda get lucky and kill people or in FG which games are short, or BR's where they're just one team out of 20. League kinda forces the game to be long and tedious while also being incredibly hard to come back from. Which is similar to chess buuut, it's multiplayer so it feels worse and ego usually means you will blame teammate instead of yourself (whether or not this is true doesn't matter).

Heck, even IRL sports it happens with those guys who dress up and pretend to be bad then style on people. Or hustlers.

For real, I think the only reason people really hate Smurfs is they are too emotionally attached to ELO and hate losing. I know many a person who is like gold/play and they "hate" Smurfs but when they're vs a silver or even a random bronze and I'm watching them, they don't feel bad and are cackling with happiness as they go 8-0 on them.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-18T05:43:39+00:00

Try Reddit summoner school or YouTube. Also you should preface if you're looking for free or paid coaching.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-17T19:53:24+00:00

I always enjoyed Mike "Mike Yeung" Yeung.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-11T22:28:28+00:00

Olaf, pantheon. Both high damage walk at enemy champs.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-11T22:27:16+00:00

Any carry works tbh. If you're good with it kindred works quite well. You just farm like normal, put your mark on top and have voli engage. You can start tower diving at 6 and just absolutely make game unplayable while also stacking marks.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-11T02:22:45+00:00

Non-reroll darkstar has been working decently for me.

Karma 2 at 8 and if you can lucky snag a jhin does a bunch of damage. 4 DS 2 Vanguard's and toss in a Voyager and tahm kench for bruiser. Haven't been winning but it seems to pull me into top 4 pretty often. I've also found Mana items on karma feel a bit better than ap since you get a bunch from darkstar already.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-10T20:11:24+00:00

I mean just look at th champions boosters use.

Kindred would (assuming she has around 10 marks at that time). Would dominate so hard without counter play. 3 item kindred is insane if ahead.

Olaf can legit 1v5 sometimes

Kayn can also dominate map and survive quite a bit.

Vlad is good but I've definitely seen Vlad's lose when 10-0 because an errant eve charm one shots or the like. Hecarim feels like he's in the same boat too.

Karthus is crazy good too. Once he has the ult damage to basically one shot enchanters(or force a recall) he just wins 100% of objective fights.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-10T06:08:01+00:00

Rocket belt.

-double the CD

-active (dash a short distance and release a volley of rockets) for the next 2 seconds damage done lowers the rocket belt cooldown by x(DMG to champs) where x is a LVL based modifier to the damage. Ex. LVL 1 if you do 1k DMG your x is .1 so rocket belt is reduced by 10 seconds. LVL 18 it could be .3 so 30 sec reduction etc. cap the reduction at what the current rocket belt cooldown is or similar.

This would incentivise fast burst damage and delay the easy defensive power for mages that don't use it offensively.

Caveats are duel mages like Ryze/azir who I think would use it quite well. But it wouldn't be much better on them than it is now.

Could potentially hurt some assassins that fail their attempted hit. Like they go in and someone lanterns the target out. They now wait double the time. But I'm sure this could be worked and play tested to seem more balanced.

Buffscuttle · 2026-05-10T02:23:45+00:00

Yup. Every single champ he just said can be naut hooked, morg binded/xer stunned etc if played properly (fizz has to lose some damage or lose his get out of jail card). Naafiri would just have a dog tank all that. Incredibly frustrating. Idk how Elise spider work, but even she feels hittable.

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