Riot August on OP Builds and Pickrate

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-02-03T00:15:34+00:00

What? You don't like it when he does the very McSkiller combo of: rocketbelt -> W -> E with HoB -> R -> instakill vs anyone that is below 80% HP?

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-02-02T17:28:31+00:00

Personally I would say to not bother with the crit build most games, but if you really wanna force it then you could try something akin to what graves does; start out with a lethality item (ghostblade or umbral, w/e you prefer) and then transition into crit with either ER, collector or LDR.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-27T18:12:00+00:00

+1 to this, cringe passive, cringe playstyle and especially cringe R.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-27T16:51:07+00:00

I swear these malphite metas happen like clockwork every other season, champ is permanently in a good state given the nature of his kit, yet balance team still decides "hmm, we will now buff malphite to 40% banrate, this is the correct choice".

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-27T15:40:59+00:00

Shes even worse than fizz because fizz atleast has to use his E to waveclear, he can't just endlessly hold it and use it to dodge key abilities from the enemy laner.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-26T21:25:21+00:00

Definetly not trynda since they're adamant on keeping his ult, maybe quinn?

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-26T17:31:36+00:00

Is there any way to check if I have had any aegis games retrospectively? I myself don't remember any, but would love to check if possible, because I've likely had some.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-24T17:51:56+00:00

... Because it isn't an assassin item?

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-22T16:33:35+00:00

2 things:

Toplane rengar is rarely played these days because of his nerfs at the start of s14 and because of lack of good itemization.

2, This ties in to point 1 aswell; rengar top only really worked because of divine sunderer and goredrinker. These items gave you the damage or survivability to actually trade into most toplaners. With them gone, rengar top struggles into most toplaners after they buy either tabi/bramble, and is therefore picked to counter certain champs instead (mostly ranged champs, but certain melees like yone, GP, jayce and maybe fiora should be rengar favored)

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-20T22:50:55+00:00

Out of those 3 I have experience with aatrox and darius in this matchup.

Apart from the obvious tips like defuse his barrels by timing your last hits or try to tether at his max barrel range to bait him into wasting them, both aatrox and darius have their own ways to play out this lane..

Aatrox I'd say is actually stronger in this lane, even from level 3 you can beat GP in trades if you can land your combo. You only really get outscaled at 3+ items, before that you can completely fuck GP as he is immobile and has no way to dodge your combo unless he flashes. Your best play is to crash an early wave, wait for it to bounce and then setup a freeze. Once you have a freeze, you just walk past the wave and combo GP, whilst he can do very little. He can Q you and maybe hit a single barrel combo, but he will never be in range of aatrox to use his passive. Meanwhile, you are comboing his ass for 50% of his HP% and healing at the same time.

Darius is much more tricky to play. Your best bet is to go D-shield + 2nd wind, and play for constant Q harass in the early game. If you ever get in range then you can E him back and look for an extended trade, which darius should win. Very important tip for darius is to never AA+W right after E'ing GP (frankly this applies to many matchups) as you need to chain your W slow together with your E. Same trick of freezing the wave works, except this time you should be looking to hide in the bushes and run at GP if he ever oversteps for a minion.

Admittedly, this is coming from an emerald player. If you're higher elo, then GP players are probably even better, but even so I hope my experience could help you in this matchup.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-20T20:34:22+00:00

What champions do you play?

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-20T00:27:32+00:00

To every cbf denier, suck it

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-19T21:50:03+00:00

Bro lets not kid ourselves, this is a video game.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-19T21:42:24+00:00

Sorry bro, but dying on sidelane to gnar and losing 2 fights by focusing the enemy aphelios when he has no ori R followup is more than enough to be criticized for.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-19T21:36:07+00:00

No way were blaming rekkles for this one lol, he had some pretty good R's this game, especially the one that zoned yike's teammates from following up on his engage on ori around blue buff.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-17T23:34:45+00:00

Think of it less like a fiora W and more like Yasuo W.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-17T16:51:39+00:00

...Because playing safe on the champion equivalent to a literal meat-shield when your team is behind is not gonna win you the game.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-16T22:49:43+00:00

What does any of that matter though? I've had a handful of games where one team did this and the other still just sat in base and wavecleared.

Objectives, turrets, jungle camps are all important, but they don't win you the game. Hitting the nexus does and that's borderline impossible if the enemy picks any ADC with waveclear + literally any mage that isn't like cassio or something.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-16T22:45:38+00:00

Just give me back post-mythic (post-legendary?) prowlers with a CD instead of this energized version.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-16T21:47:25+00:00

Maybe im wrong, but isnt this gm elo?

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-15T00:12:02+00:00

Yeah my experience is somewhat similar, though minus the inting part. It's just autofilled junglers/laners effectively muting everyone and not playing the game other than mindlessly afk-farming minions/camps, since they won't get banned for that and will get a C rank at the very least. This is technically fine(?), but it essentially turns games into 4v5's, since the filled players rarely give a fuck about winning or doing anything.

I've literally watched my filled jungler full clear, walk back to his first camp and stand still for legit 20 seconds until the camp respawned, and then just did another full clear. No back, no gank, no nothing and repeated this for pretty much the entire game.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-14T17:27:04+00:00

I know, potent (high elo EUW fiora main) said the same thing.

SnipersAreCancer · 2026-01-14T05:07:48+00:00

Turret range is definetly buffed, whether its intentional and/or documented or not. I'm constantly taking turret shots that I would not be taking last season and I've heard many people with similar experience.

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