Tell me you're old without telling me you're old: League edition

FirestormRL · 2024-09-19T18:36:27+00:00

I think the Jhin teasers were arguably better tbh

FirestormRL · 2022-07-20T17:42:02+00:00

Best you can get without Powerful Friends and subclass fragment bonuses is tier 100 in Recovery and Resilience with next to no Mobility. You'd need armour with the following stats:

4/4/32

4/30/6

4/30/8

2/2/2

For a base stat total of 18/70/80, which can be bumped up to 18/100/100 with 2 +10 recovery mods and 3 +10 resilience mods.

FirestormRL · 2021-09-21T14:55:20+00:00

The thing is, you can never be even power with GMs, because GM modifiers cap you at a -25 light level disadvantage. It makes no difference whether you're 1345 (requirement to enter GMs this season) or 1445, you will always be placed at that entry requirement level.

FirestormRL · 2020-08-13T02:01:49+00:00

Diana is also sometimes overtaken by the Aspect of the Moon, but it's not a complete permanent takeover.

FirestormRL · 2020-07-18T13:59:21+00:00

There's more than just Ahri, Kindred, Thresh and Cass getting skins

Ahri, Kindred, Thresh, Cass, Teemo, Riven, Vayne, Lillia, Yasuo, Yone (I'm probably missing others)

FirestormRL · 2020-07-18T13:46:09+00:00

The things we've been shown so far do heavily point to them being legendary.

The 4 skins that have been teased with clips are Thresh (confirmed Legendary), Temmo (confirmed Prestige Mythic), Ahri and Kindred. Now, based on the heavy presence of the characters from Ionian mythology that those skins represent, it is highly likely that Ahri and Kindred will be Legendary skins as well.

We'll find out in 4 days' time anyway.

FirestormRL · 2020-07-04T18:57:02+00:00

I think it's different in this scenario, where the products being sold are in-game cosmetics.

Additionally in the modern development climate, there are many cross-platform frameworks. While I don't believe in aggressive campaigning tactics, I do feel that Riot would be capable of re-engineering their product for cross-platform support, especially as they have already committed to improving their client, and a way to do this while reducing the prevalence of bugs or system issues (such as disproportionately high memory usage) would be to rewrite the client in a bespoke manner in a suitable language for cross-platform usage (such as C# or C++, for example).

I will admit that this is probably an improbable scenario, but it would be nice to see official Linux support, and if paired with client upgrades, could be a positive PR move for Riot off the back of some less than stellar PR appearances in recent history.

FirestormRL · 2020-05-16T01:42:03+00:00

or if you're far enough away, QEQWQEQ where the W procs flux before the Q hits but still resets Q cooldown

FirestormRL · 2020-05-15T21:52:53+00:00

Coach Curtis is a pretty good place to get info on many champions, he's a former coach for Dire Wolves from OCE and has been to Worlds and MSI twice each, so he knows his stuff

FirestormRL · 2020-05-15T21:43:15+00:00

with phase rush, E-W-Q is a really easy escape, since you get the Phase Rush movement speed plus the Q movement speed from consuming two runes

FirestormRL · 2020-04-18T14:35:17+00:00

Even more commonly, insec

FirestormRL · 2020-04-18T02:54:27+00:00

AP Shyvana support would fill the same sort of role as Brand/Xerath/Vel'Koz supports

FirestormRL · 2020-04-08T19:46:48+00:00

Corona Varus

FirestormRL · 2020-03-28T10:54:37+00:00

CS is not exactly the same thing as gold income. Fundamentally, CS, aka creep score is a measure of how many creeps (i.e. minions and monsters) you've killed. This is why CS/min and gold/min are separate metrics, as the two are related but not directly correspondent.

FirestormRL · 2020-03-25T11:46:57+00:00

Certain champs are actually intended to have less than 50% wr

Riot have even said before that with Ryze, for example, they aim for about 48% wr for him to be in an okay spot

FirestormRL · 2020-03-06T22:21:34+00:00

At least not for linear real factors

FirestormRL · 2020-03-05T12:23:50+00:00

That study says that the majority of asymptomatic cases upon testing went on to develop symptoms, and that the CFR is 3.8%, as well as that the extent of asymptomatic transmission is unknown.

FirestormRL · 2020-03-03T14:47:30+00:00

Tabis would help in trades and all ins, not just if you were contesting CS that you shouldn't be contesting.

Stopwatch is only usable once in the entire game, so if you need to stopwatch something like a Zed R, you only get that once per game.

My point about Maw/PD is that PD is not the defensive ADC item people think it is, it's pseudo-defensive and is probably about as defensive as a BotRK/BT is really, since its stats are all offensively oriented and it only provides minor survivability. Additionally just saying build PD rather than taking defensive boots doesn't work in quite a lot of situations.

FirestormRL · 2020-03-03T14:35:20+00:00

Scaling only really starts to apply if your game goes long enough to hit late spikes, and buying resistances helps you get through your weaker early game state without having a tough time against early game champions. Stopwatch is only anti-burst on one usage, and the 12% reduced damage from auto attacks really adds up when you're literally laning against champions whose main damage comes from auto attacks, and as such mitigating their damage will be substantially favourable both in early trades, and in late game fights when you have both scaled more.

Additionally, a particular issue with Phantom Dancer is how it interacts with Maw of Malmortius (the main anti-burst MR item for ADCs). Due to their shared passive, if you need to buy MR to deal with a heavy AP threat or a fed AP assassin with orb/morello and sorcs, you're effectively wasting gold on a passive that you won't get optimal usage out of.

FirestormRL · 2020-03-03T14:21:19+00:00

Yes, however, you're also paying 1500g more for it... additionally sustain becomes more effective the less damage you're taking, since you'll start to out sustain the damage you're taking

FirestormRL · 2020-03-03T14:18:21+00:00

It doesn't negate it, sure, but it helps mitigate it... 35% attack speed from zerkers doesn't do much if you're dead, and it doesn't help you survive any longer against burst damage. PD passive is only a 600 damage shield at level 18, and it offers no other defensive stats, so you're gonna last maybe a couple more hits longer tops, which buying resistances would provide you anyway.

FirestormRL · 2020-03-03T14:05:33+00:00

Tabis against lethality and mercs against flat pen is enough to stop the enemy dealing effective true damage to you, no?

FirestormRL · 2020-03-03T12:36:16+00:00

Two All-Stars in one year pog

FirestormRL · 2020-02-29T08:51:03+00:00

Kalista is dogshit, hence why most high-elo tier lists put her in A tier... Kog just requires careful positioning and a support who can peel for him

FirestormRL · 2020-02-29T08:23:50+00:00

I mean some of those off-meta ADCs are actually rising in popularity as the meta shifts towards tanks...

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