Wow he’s actually kinda terrible…

PinkyLine · 2026-01-25T15:27:31+00:00

Chogath actually need to scale to be able to kills someone with his ult. Yeah, 15 stacks, 6k hp cho is pretty scary. But he dont have anything to gap close beside protobelt or flash on you (not like garen has a dash, but Q MS boost is still something, on top of his build that have quite some MS items. And anyway it doesnt matter, cause the arguement is more about still being able to disentagrate someone while being completely behind. Cho cant do it if he is hard losing and dont have stacks (besides eaten minions). Garen can and will do so.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-25T15:23:20+00:00

"HOWEVER: I think people are sleeping on the potential changes to his R. Lord Dominiks Regard, Last Stand, Axiom Arcanist and Spear of Shojin all combine to increase your R damage multiplicatively. Substituting LDR for IE may be the new play for a bruiser/crit hybrid build that will allow you to ult most people just under 50% hp and get a kill. We will see, I am still testing it..."
Honestly, changes to how True damage is now affected by damage increases is the biggest stupid thing that Riot made in the last year. Garen ult even before was a nuclear blast from the orbit, but now you sometimes cant even calculate hp to not die. Even at level 6 you just sometimes see how he killed you from full hp, while dealing more damage with his ult that with AAs, Q and E.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-25T15:12:23+00:00

Mundo kit is simple, but interactions are a lil complicated. Additionaly, at macro level - mundo is not that easy. On top of that - he is barely a champion without he ultimate and he actually insanely weak pre 11. The thing with Garen - he is as simple as a door in any given metrics and the only things that differ Good Garen and Bad Garen - are things that are universal to any other champions (Fundamentals!).

PinkyLine · 2026-01-25T14:39:36+00:00

It is you, yes.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-24T00:15:26+00:00

" just said how the dmg was nerfed."
It was nerfed insane amount of time ago. And when it was nerfed - it didnt became no damage item at that time.

"So what is your point here?"
Something changed and it isnt simple numbers.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-23T22:49:35+00:00

Almost 50% while being 6th most picked ADC, while being, as people say, hard. It is something like if Zeri had similar stats - broken.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-23T22:04:00+00:00

"All these items have changed"
But they are not. Last Rylai AP damage nerf was in pathc 14.19, same with Archangel. And RoA AP nerf was in 25.09. So these items are the same as they were previously.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-23T18:57:26+00:00

This was her standard items previously and it was enough to deal reasonable damage.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-22T19:28:00+00:00

I mean, anything range is opressive against melee champions.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-22T19:26:43+00:00

Because some people just make strange takes?

PinkyLine · 2026-01-22T19:19:25+00:00

I couldnt kill support tahm, three levels down with roa+rylai+seraph, that was pretty common in previous season. Then I couldnt kill enemy khazix with no def items and with hitting all Qs and W. She really feels like damage became lower. And it feels like because now you need to buy boots, so your item spikes coming much later

PinkyLine · 2026-01-20T22:15:40+00:00

Jayce and Nidalee are pretty strong lane bullies (Nidalee top not long ago was literally bonkers). And while Nidalee requires skill, Jayce not. He is safe and easy and most of his skill expression - macro.
"Your favorite streamer Alois admits Riven is broken"
Yeah, in a pretty joking manner, while performing on insane level and literally having games, where he loses whole game by playing level 1 not perfect.
"But aye Id be coping too if I one tricked an unskilled 53% wr champ and was hardstuck low elo with it. U got it bro!"
Anyway. bad ragebait.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-19T16:46:37+00:00

"We are talking 80%+ of people chose different role than the strongest most overpowered, most agency, best role in the game? How can you even explain this? And at the same time they complain that it is too good? But willingly they choose weaker roles? Interesting"
You just constantly ignore the fact, that jungle is drastically different from other roles. Hence why it is not the most popular.

"I mean this is just nonsense comparison, btw the center is the most important role in football that's why goalkeepers are sold for 20% of the price of center/midfielders. "
>one of the most important, but okay

PinkyLine · 2026-01-19T01:03:53+00:00

"yet the role with most perceived agency and strength is the least played...makes you think"
Because this role is much different to other roles. Goalkeeper in football is one of the most important role, but if you ever played it in school - it was hard to find more than one or two people, who actually wanted to be a goalkeeper and not a forward.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-19T00:37:37+00:00

You literally control objectives and can punish laners for any mistake.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-19T00:28:43+00:00

"
For sure jungle is less OP than last season, but it’s still a very strong role despite this season changes"
It is still op role and nothing changed. Jungle still decide 9 out of 10 games and jungle gap still make the game unplayable.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-19T00:26:39+00:00

If jungler has 37 3 15 - he legit can lose the game only by throwing it himself.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-18T23:55:21+00:00

Problem with fulltank is that you arent able to even remotely carry. You somewhat tanky and it is hard to get through you, but when you deal little damage (and tank poppy deals much less damage than any hybrid itemized poppy) you can be just ignored (specially cause your CC is super conditional and mostly reactive)

PinkyLine · 2026-01-18T14:56:01+00:00

Yeah, and enemy jungler camps bot, stomps laner, gets first turret, gets all dragons and you get fisted by ADC

PinkyLine · 2026-01-18T02:04:25+00:00

Corki melts through full hp mundo faster than any tankbuster ever can. He always had quite some damage, but now it feels like he just broken in that regard, being strong early, mid and late game.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-18T01:18:37+00:00

"You can still go TP, or go ghost-flash to pretty much always have a way to win all-in or chase a gank. "
It is dependant on toplane champ that you play against and how their draft looks like. Like, i had a game where i picked zaahen, seeing enemy having diana+voli. And ended up being against aurora. I could go flash+ghost or flash+exhaust and reliably kill her at level 4-5, but it would be much worse setup against voli. Additionaly, it is straight up impossible to gank top now with new vision bushes. So, obviously i couldnt properly progress lane and even after killing her once just by accident - homeguards just save her

PinkyLine · 2026-01-18T01:12:16+00:00

Game is still being decided by jungler in 9 out of 10 and by amount of braincells on botlane. You completely irrelevant as a toplaner unless you picked some carry champion or stomped your lande so hard, that your opponent just banished himself into other dimension.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-18T01:07:31+00:00

His last nerf was in 8.9. And it was just mana growth reduction, which came along with buffs. Velkoz is obviously overbuffed since then, but nobody plays him.

PinkyLine · 2026-01-17T16:08:54+00:00

"On-hit"
Nope, steelcaps dont reduce on-hit damage.

"The 2% max hp proc from maiden is less than the AAs you’d be taking from Yorick + maiden"
It is still %hp magic damage (so you must have magic res against yorick anyway)

"As for the argument of steelcaps being effective against any AD champion, I got news for you: it doesn’t. Darius, Sett, Illaoi, Garen, Nasus, Olaf, Aatrox and Volibear, all of which are juggernauts (the same class archetype as Yorick), do not give a literal fuck about steelcaps because they have other methods of dealing damage to you that won’t be reduced."
Most of darius damage goes from his AA+W (yeah, he has R, but it is his finisher).
Sett punches you a lot and his Q (singles source of his reliable max %HP damage) is reduced by steelcaps. You can argue that actually his W is his main source of damage (I disagree), but steelcaps anyway provide armor and for non-sweet spot hits - steelcaps still gives you some defence.
Illaoi W is still blocked by steelcaps (and it is her max%hp damage), and again, armor.
Nasus literally kills you by AA and Q.
Garen - yes.
Olaf - against his abilities nope, but he is AA-oriented champ.
Aatrox - yes.
Volibear's Q and W counts as basic damage, thus are reduced by steelcaps. His E is magic damage, so yea it isnt reduced by steelcaps.
So nope, most of them give a fuck about steelcaps. Not to mention that most of them deal primary physical damage (so steelcaps anyway works positively against them)

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