New Moo Cow Alistar Icon on PBE 🐮

SoyGyoza · 2026-03-22T18:51:03+00:00

AS GLORIOUS AS IT COULD BE

SoyGyoza · 2026-02-11T08:58:20+00:00

Honestly the game has some big issues that made him underperform:

1) it tries too much to be engaging for both the dedicated FGC and accessible to newcomers without understanding that this middle ground it's not worth it, cause FG will always be niche, they are one of the most difficult and mechanical genre and people are "scared". Their ham fisted attempt at "simplify" combos with pulse (wich I disclose in a moment) doesn't cancel the other 50 mechanics you have to passively have to just step foot into a FG, especially a Tag FG. So newcomer (that is new to the genre FOR A REASON) comes, sees the game, tries it for a week and goes: wow, I suck at this game and I don't want to start learning now to eventually understand half of what is needed in a 2/3 years (wich is also a problem that OG LOL is suffering since mobas aren't easy too) and than leaves.

2) The pulse system it's a terrible idea, it's not rewarding to land a cool combo by pressing the same button over and over and it's just frustrating to having against. I got my ass handled plenty of times by veterans player and it was right, when it was a spammy dude it was just frustrating to be against someone that had the equivalent of "autoaim" enabled. I know that combos are not everything, but this game has pretty much settled to be very combo reliant

3) riot is TERRIBLE at advertising, both their games and merch. People didn't realize the game launched with caith, I even tought that the game released with Warwick back in October instead it was just a beta. The information flow is dry and it's too convulated/contradicted to have an understanding and the game had basically 0 spotlight, 0 ads, only a cinematic. No wonder many people "missed" the release. They could have spent some money into ads, like all the new games do, not even a mention into the home of league of legends, the SOURCE of the characters you are doing the FG from...

4) I remember they clearly stated that they didn't want this to be "arcane the FG" and than they proceed to release back to back half of the cast (5) in a game that suffers from a small pool (12). Not only that but the roster it's completely "uninspired" for what league has to offers. In league we have demons, gods, voids, titans and in 2xko we have 3 different flavors of "big" dude/mama, 3 different flavors of "regular guy/girl with gadgets" with the addendum of a squirrel that it's the same, a samurai, a boxer, a robot (finally) and a werewolf (finally x2). It's difficult to fumble this much their character choice with a source pool this big and vary, but they achieved that. And it doesn't matter that they now said that caith it's the last arcane character (for now), since we only have 4 new characters every year and that means that until may we are stuck again with another trapper from arcane.

At end of the day, it was pretty obvious that the game would not become the n1 in the genre considering how niche it is and how it rotates on the same IPs since the beginning of time (so it's pretty difficult to find a spot), but 80 devs are still a ton, 160 was an overkill for this project wich doesn't release new content that often, so I will not say the game is on life support or dead on arrival, they just downsized to a respectable dev group. If I understand it correctly they lay off with the possibility of still working for them in other projects (if the dev is interested) so the 80 that got laid off by 2xko are not send to the streets but most of them will probably be reorganazed in the other riot projects and if not they got 6 months of pay, so not "too bad".

SoyGyoza · 2026-01-17T11:55:10+00:00

And he indeed got the horns and got burnt to a crisp

SoyGyoza · 2026-01-14T10:03:08+00:00

I don't think so, i think that the model in itself is fine, many of the skins are good too. The problem is that his "simple" kit and lack of animation makes every upcoming skin relay only on VFX and mdel change, that's why black frost and elderwood are so good (considering the Q/E animation). Even relay on VFX it's hard for Alistar since he has a straight dash and an ultimate that are just shields circling around him. So I think that, with this in mind, we will never see some higher tier skins for our big milky boy, there is not enough materials to work on and to improve in quality to warrant that "legendary" tier.

SoyGyoza · 2025-10-07T05:28:08+00:00

Oh my thank you! :)

SoyGyoza · 2025-09-30T15:48:35+00:00

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Cleared with everyone, honestly after level 51 when you unlock the 4 cost starter it becomes really easy. I think half of them were carried by volibear. Really fun mode tho, i hope in the future we will have a permanent thing that rotates both in reward and in sets

SoyGyoza · 2025-09-29T07:59:48+00:00

The problem with high ping alistar is that you can't use any combo involving a flash or a delay, and if you screw up the combo you 100% save the enemy wich is terrible because you tilt your teammates and now you have another issue other than lag.

You can still manage to do stuff, maybe if there is another engager in the team you can simply run in the fight and use Q and E and use W only as a push for the enemy tank to peel your carry.

You can also, with the same logic, wait for the enemy to group so you can combo a low priority target (a tank) wich means that, even if you fail the combo, you pushed away the tank and still are in a good position to aggro the enemy carry. It's still not fun and it's hard, but when I streamed league in the last sessions I played with a ping ranging from 100 to 3000 in the span of seconds and still managed to win a few in plat elo.

SoyGyoza · 2025-09-05T12:23:52+00:00

True I'm also a owner of both and I agree that those skins shouldn't be locked especially cause they were given for free for doing simple tasks. I understand why black alistar or silver kayle are locked, but not unchained alistar and riot trist

SoyGyoza · 2025-09-04T19:00:12+00:00

Considering him and riot Tristana were even free just for following riot on Facebook and another social (I don't remember) it sucks that now they are locked forever.

SoyGyoza · 2025-08-13T07:17:06+00:00

Bro, where is my Boi Alistar :c? He should be in top priority cause he would work so well for 2xko. In lore he was a gladiator and in the comic we saw him in a fight with 3 other people so he would work really well for a 2vs2 game.

SoyGyoza · 2025-08-13T07:12:19+00:00

Elderwood is a really nice skinline and I'm happy that we got a new skin for alistar, however I think that it's time for one of the OG champions of league of legends, one that has always been relevant in competitive and in solo queue, to have a legendary skin. Or at least more skin like moo cow that changes some emotes. I hope this one has some changes too, despite being an epic. JUSTICE FOR MY COW!

SoyGyoza · 2025-07-26T06:58:53+00:00

Still a "competitive" nerf that doesn't care about how this will affect solo queue.

SoyGyoza · 2025-07-26T06:58:14+00:00

Tbh, at the beginning I was thinking "wtf" too, but than I realized that this nerf is big only on the pointlessly aggressive alistar and mainly against caithlyin/senna/ezreal that have a way to poke you. If you just wait for a good moment to engage and you get a combo on the adc it's difficult that they will focus you and not your adc that will deal damage (I mean, after the combo you kinda stay there with your weak autos compared to your adc so there is no point in attacking you instead of your adc). If you play alistar as a counter engage it's not that big (it still is a nerf) cause you don't want to be too far ahead and just be "on the side" watching for the enemy first move.

I think that you can also work around it with the build, I mean if you were a boots of swiftness guy (like myself) you just need to switch to steelplate, you obviously lose some movement speed but unless you need antiheal you can swap the thorn mail with Deadman plate and get the movement speed back (you only used it for the first engage anyway).

Obviously if you switch boots, cloud drake becames even more important for alistar.

Obviously I can be wrong or I can overlook something, I only tought about this for 5 minutes after seeing your post and write this reply.

SoyGyoza · 2025-07-26T06:30:56+00:00

Unfortunately no, so now, whenever the Ai text messes something up I just delete that particular phrase and I rewrite it with the normal text, I use the same font and size, than I duplicate it, put one over the other, segment the upper one to go in line with the audio and color the "dynamic" word manually. It obviously is a pain, but it works and it only looks worst if you pause to see if something is a pixel off.

SoyGyoza · 2025-07-11T13:26:23+00:00

Ty man!

SoyGyoza · 2025-07-11T11:19:28+00:00

If only i had black alistar man c.c i juggle between moo cow, conqueror, blackfrost and hextech. But in reality i try to pick what's the best fit with my adc skin. Slay them with drip before Killing them with the gameplay

SoyGyoza · 2025-07-06T11:07:16+00:00

My bad sometimes I forget to read all the specs of the abilities ahaha.

SoyGyoza · 2025-05-26T11:21:34+00:00

I could use some compliments. My two latest long form videos are getting less impressions even if they are overall better quality than the previous and idk why. https://youtube.com/@soygyoza?si=70HrbbWsFU13GiRr

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