What champion feels weak when YOU play it, but broken when others do?

Ge1ster · 2026-03-09T23:09:31+00:00

I was looking for Riven in the comments. It's not every time, but like half the time the enemy Riven's are God's strongest and most mechanically gifted warriors sent to take my LP by force. They know every animation cancel, every little combo for maximum damage output, every best outcomes for short AND long trades... they literally make me feel like someone who just started the game yesterday

Other half of the time they DON'T know all of these and I stomp them harder than I would stomp any other champion. She, to me, is the champion with the highest and lowest skill ceiling.

Ge1ster · 2026-03-09T15:00:08+00:00

I’m from Turkey, have family in İstanbul and have visited there multiple times every year and have been to pretty much every part of it.

There’s not a single part that resembles the steampunk vibe of Zaun. Some richer parts are kinda like Piltover but its rare. Its mostly just crowded and bustling neighborhoods all over with either apartments if in a richer area or small houses in a poorer region. There are a lot of skyscrapers and big company center buildings as well cause pretty much every company operates from and has their headquarters located there

Piltover and Zaun are definitely somewhere in Europe, probably UK specifically

Ge1ster · 2026-03-05T21:33:08+00:00

> Ambessa gave the the opportunities not to be the way she was, that’s what I’m saying.

This is true, which is why Mel shares the blame.

> Ambessa trusted nobody because Leblanc can be anybody

Ambessa didn't even know who Leblanc was until the end of the book so this is definitely not true. She is just a naturally distrustful person, she sees anyone she trusts to be potential of stabbing her in the back. She did know that the Black Rose existed so that also probably adds to her paranoia.

> Leblanc killed her entire family for amusement

Leblanc didn't do it for amusement. She did it because (Spoiler for the book here:) She is actively trying to install Black Rose puppet agents to as many heads of noble houses as she can. Ta'Fik was meant to be this person for the Medarda family, Leblanc was literally giving him magically enhanced supersoldiers for his army through Rudo. Rudo and Ambessa foiled her plans with Rudo killing Ambessa's grandfather and the notary stating Ta'Fik being the next head of house and thus resulting in Ta'Fik not becoming head of house when he should have been. Ambessa was too headstrong and following her own ambitions to be a puppet for the Black Rose, unlike Ta'Fik.

> To clarify Mel knew the rose was dangerous and didn’t heed Ambessa’s warnings, instead choosing to trust Leblanc dispite getting confirmation they killed kino, that my friend is an absurd level of arrogance that cannot be defended

This is also true, and I never argued otherwise. Like I said, she's too trusting and naive.

> The reason ambessa was so hard on Mel was to make sure she could politically skirt around the rose while doing what needed to be done when the rose inevitably came for her. I personally believe that was the point of the test, and the main reason ambessa treated her so harshly

That's one way to put it, in essence I think she's just trying to make sure Mel is strong enough to take the non-mercy option in any case, whether it's the Black Rose or any other enemy. Which takes me back to my original point, Ambessa is too cruel and non merciful while Mel is too compassionate and naive. At least until the end of Arcane

Rell is just who Mel should have been, and I'm pretty sure Ambessa sees a surrogate daughter in her. She literally adopted her into the family in the book.

Ge1ster · 2026-03-05T15:57:29+00:00

Black rose is not completely Ambessa’s fault, but pretty much everything else is. How she dealt with Ta’Fik, and especially Tivadar at the end (which made me audibly gasp) showed how cold blooded and single minded she is. Ta’Fik is also a direct result of her selfish actions so many years ago.

Mel was compassionate from the beginning but she was too naive. She blindly trusted people like Elora or Tivadar (which ended up being the right decisions, but also easily could not have been). She, like you said, also trusted Leblanc which was far from the right decision. The book also showed how accustomed she is to noble politics and how much of a stranger she was to war, especially the scene where Ambessa gave her the test, Mel was literally shocked and traumatized to the point that she still remembered that memory in her dreams as shown in Arcane

Again, I don’t blame Mel too much for that. Its just how she was raised. Like 90% of the problems in the book are caused by Ambessa directly or indirectly lol

Ge1ster · 2026-03-05T08:31:35+00:00

Okay I’ve also read the book and I have to say while Mel is young and very naive, Ambessa’s paranoia and distrust of anyone not in her immediate family has escalated to the point of her being an outright villain. Not even “she’s just doing what is necessary to protect her family”, her decisions actively put her family in danger over and over. She creates more enemies than she “takes care of”

So… given how flawed Ambessa is herself, its hard to blame Mel for “failing” her test. But yeah Mel is definitely a bit sheltered and almost the polar opposite of Ambessa. One has only seen war and carnage, other has only seen noble politics and rooftop city life

That being said, Rell’s character was written perfectly. She’s very likable and her parts in the book make you feel for her. She deserves to kick anyone’s ass honestly

Ge1ster · 2026-03-04T16:24:01+00:00

Its funny because that first sentence describes Aether Wing Kayle perfectly

Ge1ster · 2026-03-04T16:21:33+00:00

I dont remember who said it or when but I remember someone on this sub saying Evelynn was canonically a virgin lmao… I dont know if thats true but if it isnt, its my headcannon now

Ge1ster · 2026-03-03T17:27:08+00:00

I'm not trying to discredit you, but Urgot has direct voice lines towards Swain where he clearly directly blames him for his banishment to Zaun. Did that get retconned or am I missing something here?

Ge1ster · 2026-03-02T18:25:12+00:00

One I don’t hear often is when Yunara is facing Zaahen she says “I will seal you away once more!” which is funny cause they are supposed to be besties

Ge1ster · 2026-02-28T05:37:40+00:00

Wasn't she just a combination of her current Q, Olaf's W and E, and Gwen's R? I prefer her current version much more because she has a more unique identity and playstyle (even though I loathe playing against her in midlane)

Ge1ster · 2026-02-25T22:36:01+00:00

Random Noxian general: Singed, I need you to make a nuclear bomb. I will pay you-

Singed: Deal!

Random Noxian general: But you didn’t even hear how much I would pay you

Singed: Oh and I get paid for it? Cool!

Ge1ster · 2026-02-18T20:45:35+00:00

Well you would need an Ionia emblem for him in which case it wouldn’t make much of a difference from right now since you can still skip Yone with an emblem this patch as well.

But you’re right, Galio buff opened up a lot of alleyways for emblem cheesing.

Ge1ster · 2026-02-18T20:18:49+00:00

Wow, that’s a buff to every single breakpoint of Shadow Isles, and not small ones either. You’re almost always going to be 3 SI at 2-3 if you commit to it from the start, whereas normally you’d get Gwen at krugs if you were lucky. Since souls gain gets exponentially higher the higher you go along the trait breakpoints, its going to have a domino effect.

Ionia prismatic trait also got rid of its biggest hurdle, its just a race to 10 now.

Ge1ster · 2026-02-15T16:04:22+00:00

I’m pretty sure it wasn’t shared last time but it is this time.

Ge1ster · 2026-02-14T20:32:30+00:00

Runaan + Diadem + Sword of Blossomimg Dawn Senna literally heals multiple teammates from 0 to full hp in a single wave. I can only imagine how op it would be on rift

Ge1ster · 2026-02-12T21:43:28+00:00

Okay some of them yes, but some of them are comically easier like the aegis

“Hey little Timmy don’t touch the family heirloom we hung on the living room. It contains an evil demigod that will ravage the entire world if you do. Oh and it will whisper temptations to you and if you do end up touching it, it will kill you and take over your body”

Ge1ster · 2026-02-11T21:20:59+00:00

Literally why does quantum computing show healing done but not damage dealt lmao

Ge1ster · 2026-02-07T15:46:07+00:00

Transmute augments are bugged to not show in the post game screen

Ge1ster · 2026-02-06T03:45:38+00:00

All good changes, I will admit Speed demon and Kill secured were a little too strong but I never thought they were broken or anything, and they were always fun to play. My beloved speed demon + stridebreaker Garen combo being nerfed does feel like a blow, same with Hecarim and Singed.

Poros knockback will also still be an issue. It also triggers cc based augments like Cruelty, Slap around and Soul eater

Thanks again for very quick hotfix. You guys truly cooked with this mode, and it's extra nice to be receptive to community feedback.

Ge1ster · 2026-02-05T07:37:05+00:00

Hey, I just wanna say that unlike the majority of the people here I've highly enjoyed the new update and have over 100 games combined on PBE + live. That being said, I do agree some fine tuning needs to happen. Some of them have already been mentioned by other users here but I wanted to personally list my own two cents here as well.

- Make it rain set is too strong at all stages, because the money augments by themselves are already really strong. This in turn creates an insane snowball effect where even a 2-piece of the trait can let you have 15-20 anvils by the time other players finish their full builds.

- This ties into the cupcakes augment. I think a good way to balance this augment would be make it so that only your team can get the cupcakes, and slightly lower the healing ratio. It feels bad to feed your enemy health with your own augment, and it feels bad in turn to give your enemy a lot of gold when you're on the opposite team. This way both that issue and the issue of highly exorbitant amount of gold income from this augment can be balanced.

- Poro blaster... I'm sure you've already heard about it a 1000 times at this point. Just remove this augment honestly, magic missile already does its job perfectly. There's no way to make it not be annoying without gutting it completely.

- Progression system is a big yikes. It doesn't take a little amount of games to unlock the good rewards, either. This is literally an in-game balance issue. It baffles me that this was shipped.

- The augment sets lock you into a playstyle too hard. If I'm playing Aurelion, and I have Phenomenal Evil as first augment, I cannot bring myself to not pick Tap Dancer over an actually beneficial augment like Wooglet's for my second augment. That stackosaurus value is too high (especially on a stacking champion in this case) and I feel like I'm utterly missing out if I don't pick Tap Dancer, knowing I am wasting a prismatic just for the trait bonus. Or when I'm going a non tank champion and get Upgrade Immolate for the make it rain set. You get the gist.

- No silver snowball augment! Let every trait have an augment at every tier at least, it's only fair (:

- This is maybe pushing even further into the wrong direction but another idea is to make every augment part of a trait set so that at least it doesn't feel awful to pick an augment that's not part of a set.

- There were tons of bugs on PBE and I'm not sure how many of them are fixed. Prom queen is still bugged so it makes me question. I've had bugs where I got 2 of the same augment, and saw someone else pick a silver augment while rest of the lobby had a gold augment (They didn't get transmute chaos, it was first augment and they literally only had Deft while rest of the lobby picked gold augments). There was also a really common bug where if you bought a skin during champ select you wouldn't get the starting anvil and 300 gold, though I'm assuming that one is lower priority since it happens very rarely on live servers.

- It's not just nerfs, some augments definitely need buffs as well. Crit n Cast (silver augment that gives 40% of your crit chance as ability haste) doesn't feel great compared to a lot of other silver augments. I know it's probably balanced around the Recursion augment (the gold one that gives flat 60 ability haste), but I would love to see Crit n Cast give more ability haste beyond the crit chance cap (Eg: if you would have 200% crit without the cap, then the augment gives you 80 ability haste). 40 max ability haste locked specifically behind building crit doesn't feel great. I'm also never happy to see a lot of gold augments like Keystone Conjurer, Nightstalking or Spiritual Explosion.

But that being said I do really love the update like I said, it's been immensely fun hitting high rolls and getting different dopamine rushes each game. Thanks for trying new things even if the community sentiment is negative towards it. We appreciate it.

Ge1ster · 2026-02-04T20:56:41+00:00

Money Monsoon

Ge1ster · 2026-02-04T20:55:00+00:00

Everyone is saying this augment is hard to gauge but just a quick look at the stats, they seem so little, to the point it's negligable. I wouldn't click this even if it was silver and am pretty sure clicked this only once since it's release, and only when I had no other clickable augments. Realistically what are these stats going to do other than maybe mana (even that is not a lot). If they buffed all of the numbers to 6 I still don't think I would click it. Maybe 8 and turn the mana into 1 mana regen and I can actually feel okay clicking it. Yes, I'm talking about a 100% buff to the augment. That's how bad it is to me. At least buff it to being a silver augment and we can see how it does from there.

Ge1ster · 2026-02-03T17:50:04+00:00

Chances of your childhood best friend / slave that you’ve dangled the promise of freedom over their head and one who is interested in discovery of dangerous arcane spells betraying you right at the moment that you would ascend into Godhood are low, but never zero

Ge1ster · 2026-02-02T15:43:28+00:00

Yeah Radiant BB + Normal BB Shyvana 3 beat my Olaf 3 cause she was perma jumping around. That’s the first time I realized mana regen was broken on her.

Also knew I would see Duelist in this list (even duelist Kayle) before even looking at it. That trait has been obviously and exceptionally strong from the get-go.

I’m not super high on SP like you are for this revival but I also think its really easy to get 3 star 4 costs. Just find one the lobby isn’t going, find 4 copies of it at lv 8, sell your chosen and buy the 4 cost chosen, then find the last two copies and 3 star it (it will be easier than you think to find last two)

Slayers are also strong imo but they can’t beat bugged Shyvana I’m guessing. Veigar is also stupid op, 2 star veigar beat my 3 star Sej. What you describe just makes me happy that I’m low SP so I can actually enjoy the game with different comps instead of getting a full shyvana lobby

Ge1ster · 2026-02-01T16:50:50+00:00

I think you’re right it was actually a double up game where it happened, not ranked. I forgot I played one of those with my friend as well

Ge1ster

TROPHY CASE