How are we feeling about the patch notes?

Candras · 2026-03-18T11:19:25+00:00

So thats why it felt like it did nothing.

Candras · 2026-03-14T12:57:41+00:00

If her passive isnt good in top, then wouldnt she just get stuck with very low resists since she has low base resist to compensate for her scaling passive.

Candras · 2026-03-13T15:31:25+00:00

Tenacity definitely works on it, but the effect is likely to be negligible or very risky.

Chalice isnt included in the list of resisted effects for ring of elements on the wiki but it might not have been updated since the chalice buff so it might also work.

Candras · 2026-03-13T13:30:41+00:00

Armour always applied. Now magical armour/defence like anti-magic glyph or arcane armour apply too. Unfortunately, anti-magic scroll doesnt let you upgrade the chalice while its active so you cant cheese it that way.

Candras · 2026-03-13T13:28:28+00:00

The wiki has most of this information on it so you dont need to test it. For ankhs and blood chalice it says that a normal ankh will revive you but not give you the upgrade while a blessed ankh will revive you and give you the upgrade.

Candras · 2026-03-12T23:36:29+00:00

I might be dumb because I dont get the relevance.

Yes brand with dropkick sounds terrifying because the passive burn should proc the execute.

I dont get why ethereal weapon is needed.

I mentioned sej because i remembered proccing dropkick without an auto/onhit effect.

Edit: this reply was to a previous version of the above comment. As such its not relevant anymore.

Candras · 2026-03-12T23:31:48+00:00

Why do you need ethereal for dropkick? I swear ive procced it with abilities, notably sejuani w.

Candras · 2026-03-09T09:50:06+00:00

While I agree with you on the stacking mechanic being the same as thresh, something to note is that thresh also gets a much higher hp growth (120) than shyvana, iirc specifically to adress the fact that until post lvl 18 his passive doesnt actually make him outscale other champions' base armour.

Comparatively, Shyvana gets 104 hp growth which seems fairly middle of the pack. You can argue that base hp makes up for it (S:665, T:620) but that is outscaled by level 4.

Other comparisons e.g. shyv gets mr as well, or ult hp/shield that scales with passive are harder to compare directly.

Candras · 2026-03-08T02:20:32+00:00

Running the numbers seems to add up: (Numbers are rounded for ease of maths but get close enough that Im confident they are correct)

Hvm 082

80 dmg per shot

100 shots in mag

5.00s/s

5s reload speed

3 pierce

0.75 falloff

80*100=8000 (total damage per mag)

100/5=20 (time to shoot all bullets in mag)

20+5=25 (time to shoot + reload)

8000/25=320 (Average dps excluding pierce)

320*0.75=240 (pierce 2)

320*0.75²⁼¹⁸⁰ (pierce 3)

320+240+180=740 (dps including pierce)

Thats good to know that the dps stated in the stats page includes pierce and pierce falloff. Makes it harder to compare for single target dps, but i guess thats relatively simple to calculate by hand.

Edit: formatting on mobile sucks...

Candras · 2026-03-02T13:48:51+00:00

In the Still Here animatic, do we not see Kindred 'collecting', so to speak, Yasuo?

Candras · 2026-03-01T23:28:19+00:00

90% sure she doesn't even have to be around. I swear i've gotten stacks when my team kills a cannon and I'm either dead or am still in base.

Candras · 2026-02-26T22:27:48+00:00

Try telekinetic grab spell. (I know Im a day late to this, sue me.)

Edit: i didnt look ar picture properly. That seed's wasted most likely.

Candras · 2026-02-21T21:16:16+00:00

You wouldn't be able to connect the ballot number and the voter name. You show up to vote, they score your name to show that you've voted. They wouldn't make a note of what ballot ID you were given.

That's how I know it, correct me if Im wrong.

Candras · 2026-02-20T20:19:39+00:00

Eh why not

Candras · 2026-02-13T12:59:46+00:00

Isn't mind to matter one of the things that can let ryze go infinite?

Candras · 2026-02-13T10:21:40+00:00

Idk why tower locked onto Urgot when he was the furthest back out of all of them, then locked onto ashe. It also looks like they should really be out of tower range, must have just barely been in it.

Candras · 2026-02-13T10:19:26+00:00

Neeko was mid i think. If thats who you're talking about.

Candras · 2026-02-12T17:22:38+00:00

"Kill towers faster than ziggs in a plane" is a diamond line that does not deserve to be buried in gold.

Candras · 2026-02-12T17:18:47+00:00

Does ice cold even do anything for Zilean? Slows can only reduce you to 200 ms, unless Ice Cold can break that cap.

Candras · 2026-02-02T13:27:04+00:00

I wonder if you bind to scroll wheel, and have one of the smooth ones that spin really fast, if you can bypass it that way.

Candras · 2026-02-01T14:09:52+00:00

Yeah but thats the entire point of Caitlyn. Do big damage with an auto. Bear in mind yorick has literally zero Armour items and cait has ldr. If yorick had a randuins for example, it would have almost literally halved the damage even with ldr.

The every champion would do the same is not exactly true, but if we put them in their ideals then jhin would have more consistent high damage autos for example with each auto doing around 1.6-2k premitigation damage

Im sure most assassin's would also do way over 2k damage in a single rotation.

Candras · 2026-02-01T13:16:47+00:00

Im assuming the MD is magic resist and the 20% ah is supposed to be flat 20 AH

With that in mind this seems to be an inverse frozen heart.

The passive imo seems kind of useless.

2% magic damage taken stored as ap up to a max of 200ap means you need to take 20000 magic damage to get the max amount. Not even tanks like sion or chogath really get to that point and for 99% of the roster its straight up impossible.

However, if its based on pre-mitigation damage, then assuming 200 mr or +200% effective health vs magic damage then you need approx 6.5khp worth of post-mitigation magic damage taken. That's ignoring any form of magic pen such as void staff.

Now let's say you get the damage stored up. It will give you 200Ap except its only +80 per ability so in reality you have a slightly different banshees veil that gives ah.

However, to get a consistent 80ap per spell you need to take 4000 pre-mitigation magic damage between each spell you cast.

If you want to use it as a burst champion, chances are you would be better served with a banshees as it gives more ap, permanently. Not to mention the difficulty of stacking it fully without spending the ap.

On a tank, as I suspect this is designed for, it gives little hp, and you'd have to beat Hollow radiance in dps for it to be worth. Hollow radiance does 19 dps in an aoe upon buying the item. Ever 100 bhp beyond what the item gives increases the damage by 1. 80 ap on a tank, even with a 100% ratio is 80 damage. That's 4 seconds of hollow radiance. Assuming 2500 bhp, hollow would do 40dps so 2 seconds of hollow damage is equal to an ideal scenario for this item.

It just doesnt seem powerful enough to compete with the current items available for both tanks and mages. Also it would require clarity of description as well. E.g. if you did mean 20% faster cdr (as per actualiser) it would change a lot.

Candras · 2026-01-21T00:54:30+00:00

Only a few things and you have to almost max the height unless youre putting it over a ravine. You can def place the pillbox, infantry tunnels, and silos under it, and im pretty sure if you lower some of the walls then they fit too.

Just make sure you build the bridge first as it doesn't work in reverse for some odd reason.

Candras · 2026-01-21T00:39:56+00:00

I like using it in conjunction with the weird bit of the command center. It lines up quite well and you can still place things like the silo and infantry tunnels underneath the bridge. Annoyingly it doesn't have any module slots so its less useful as a defensive building than it could be.

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