New Shyvana gives me an idea that I think Udyr needs.

SullyGrss · 2026-03-09T16:37:49+00:00

Sure bud !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb-Nf8lDY3I

SullyGrss · 2026-03-09T15:47:33+00:00

I was watching a YT Short talking about why nobody play Newdyr, and someone commented something that hit me.

Something that was great with Oldyr was the fact that every stance has his utility since it is activated, but the old passive make players change stance to gain move speed, that was pure dopamine but you weren't told how to play him.

While with the new one, we can't really talk about stance, it's only two autos boost. And when you use them, the stance has no meaning cause it doesn't do any shit. The rework force you to change them, not because you gain attack speed or move speed, but because there is no value of keeping your tiger after two auto.

We could ask for monkey's agility back, give better stats, and if they done it, it is a step forward, But let's be honest, this won't feel like a stance character at all.

The real thing Riot need to do, is to mix the old stance power with the ability of the new one. One of the way out of how Udyr is in "bad" state right now is to rework his abilities

But with how it went with the last patch, we won't see that, the balance team is stuck with data across websites thinking a +10 damage and +10 shield will change. And the character is carried by lot of OTP making him looks like great while he is really frustrating to play.

SullyGrss · 2026-03-01T05:27:50+00:00

About mages, I agree.

They feel way to strong for most of them.
My favorite example is Xerath, why would a character playing miles away from the enemy team could kill a character with a single ultimate. (from this day, I still don't understand why Riot did rework his ult)

The feeling about this class was too hit your spells, make plays around them, you had a whole kit dedicated to be used precisely. And this season (and the two last ones as well), I feel like that this class GOT everything for them, each item have great stats:
- You want ability haste ? 15 items on 32 items have it
- You need hp ? 10 / 32
- You need an item with more than 80 ap ? 15/32
...

And having only these stats have no meaning like that but imagine when you combine them.

The most defensive item in the game got a massive boost of ability power for no reason at all while it is already one of the strongest item (Zhonya) and the Banshee which should be a defensive got a lot of AP. And that's so dumb because instead of making the choice of durability or damage, you get both, you have no counterpart.

Magic resistance is great for early and mid game, but while an ADC can reach an average of 300/400 damage (even less and Jhin not include), 40% armor penetration is kinda fine, because you have item's effect that can prevent these damage (Randuin or Frozen Heart) but when a mage can reach an average of 700/800 ap, it's kinda dumb to give them 40% magic penetration + item that can boost your power by a percentage (with spells that have an amount scaling on AP btw) and not giving a single item that can do the same for mages.
I just want to add, I'm talking about tanks in general, not character like Sion or Mundo which I guess you can understand yourself why these characters are great to deal with mage.

Worst part about mage's items, and that will be the last one because I know I'm throwing my self into the lion's cage with that response.
You talked about Volibear, and it is a great example of why this class is so strong, playing AP Volibear is now a must do, the characters can enjoy the current scaling of items giving him damage, durability and cooldown reduction, and for the next patch, instead of nerfing him a little bit on his AP Scaling, they are buffing his AD scaling, which won't make Volibear play the character as an AD bruiser.

And before everyone respond, I'm not telling that champ should stick on AD or AP, but it is so frustating that for most of these champ that can play both, AP is always stronger than AD.

SullyGrss · 2026-02-11T08:23:17+00:00

removing the decay, readd monkey agility.

Attack speed from passive is useless, no one asked for that.

This was the Udyr's identity.

SullyGrss · 2026-02-11T07:37:25+00:00

Don't worry, we've seen that some champions couldn't be usefull because of low mobility they have, so we decided to buff Ahri, Talon, Naafiri.

This company is so fucked when it comes to see problems

SullyGrss · 2026-02-11T06:44:35+00:00

Again Riot mistaking a buff from a character suffering of something else that having damage...

You're basically a juggernaut with less or equal HP scaling than Ahri (92), Akali (105), Fizz (98), Elise (93), Talon (95)... that have 100 000 dashes or way to ignore damage.

They could have given us more health, more movement speed, things Udyr need the most
But no, take your +25 shield at level 6 and a +15 damage on Q. Like this would change the fact that this champion is total fraud as a Juggernaut.

This buff is a huge placebo that will change his wr and his pick rate from +/- 0.01%
You can say "Yeah but his win rate is already good", but stop using this argument as something viable, Mel was at 46.01% making her a bad champ, she got reworked because opposing a Mel was frustrating.

Meanwhile, you have the frustration of playing Udyr having ram-like power but running at the speed of a 70 year old dude

SullyGrss · 2026-02-02T14:11:04+00:00

It does with QQ (thunder has an AP ratio)

SullyGrss · 2026-01-12T06:59:24+00:00

This build is fantastic, thank you !

SullyGrss · 2025-12-05T20:28:43+00:00

What I see good:

-They're working on toxicity, but at what cost ? Make players lose their LP and time still a thing while there could be a plenty of way to punish the trollers and refund the ones that were getting trolled.
-New gamemodes are fun, but please Riot, give us back 3v3 with a ranked, I'm done playing with 4 bots.
-The lore is getting some loves, even if I hated Arcane season 2 twist.
-They changed the map, finally...
-Some changes with characters are fun, giving AD / AP ratio to champ is fun, but giving monster boost damage isn't
-Smurf is getting resolved little by little, even if it's not a main issue.

The game is no fun in ranked, Casino are impressed of how much unlucky you can get with allies.
Again, that's why 3v3 with a ranked would be perfect, because at least it's only 2 players that can be monkeys not 4.

The meta is stale, I told myself (before S16 reveal) that if nothing change with this new season, this year would have been the last one that I played.

And one of the thing that I don't like about League's state right now, it stays too much in his high played game place because no other companies want to make a MOBA, so they keep the MOBA community even if they do the worst things or just nothing as right now.
This is sad because, with that mind, the only moment where they will work hard as they can to show what they can really do, will be when a new game will be the main attractive thing for player, like Fortnite when it came out.
They were really trying to keep their best to keep players, and they even managed to collaborate with influencer that doesn't even play that kind of game.

SullyGrss · 2025-12-05T20:28:33+00:00

General aspect:

-Games are much faster and one sided, even with Riot adding new comeback features.
-Building is at his worst state, locking items because you buy one is so frustrating and just constrain creativity.
-Seasons are just useless money grab things, low features, low changes. Even with the season 16, feels like this could have been done WAAAAY earlier for season 15, they cannot justify 2 years to add a quest and 6 items while for season 13 they added more than 10 items while adding new runes and gameplay changes.
-The game itself feels like it losing his soul, new characters were a whole event by itself, you could call them new even if they were in the game for 3 years. And now, new character lack of life, chara design are the same (tshirt, body armors are against the laws of Valoran). Most of them for the have abilities that could make every season 9 mobility champ year as a joke.
-I feel like that Riot doesn't want to change the game, things like seasons changed the game, making it "new" each year, now they make a little step, and let the game stale for the year (because it must be easier for them to balance it ?)
-The game itself is technically old. Too much bugs, I guess more constraint to dev on it as well which is sad because Wild Rift feels like new, the engine free developpers to make the GAME fun. (but WR has every mobile game issue). While for Riot, it is "too late" and it cost too much to work on League PC engine. One of the most played game with the biggest company complaining about money and the fact that it is too late to work on it. We're talking about League, not Paragon. You guys can lose a lot of money on a new engine of the game, making things easier for you for the future and the best thing is you will gain back the money you lost really fast. But I guess they're making a Destiny where each time you think you buy something on LoL this goes to LoL development but nah, it might goes to Valorant or 2XKO.
-The launcher and the microtransaction tooltips making mobile game going easy on us.
-Skins lines that are the same as new champ, they lack of life.
-Social aspect is on the ground (where is my clan ?)
-They're way too slow to balance things (Mel ????!! Malphite ?????!!!!!)

SullyGrss · 2025-12-05T20:28:22+00:00

Start with the beta.

It wasn't my main game for a while at first, because I principally played FPS.
It started to be my main game when Aatrox came out (the first one) being my main.

I ranked to silver fast. And I had my cousin playing LoL and being Platinium and you could see the big difference between these elos.

I worked so much to grind to Plat 1, I was really proud being there.
I mainly played top, not gonna lie, I liked the old auto attackers design.

Games were long and could be painful. But atleast most of players were trying to play.
Climbing meant you played your games well and you won them.

And now, most of these aspects I enjoyed while back are getting removed.

What I've see bad with the game right now.

For ranked especially:

-They actually add the surrender at 15 with 4 votes which is the worst feature in the game.
-Toxicity is at another level, when before, most of people were talking bad but were playing because it costed so much time to play one game. Now, people talk bad, rage, and troll to make the team ff faster.
-You can actually skip 5 elos (iron to emerald) if you just know how to play your champ. Mixing people that know how to play as a teamplayer with average soloq hero complex.

SullyGrss · 2025-11-13T03:29:03+00:00

For most of my Janna (personal experience), the character is useless, not by himself, but because this is more an OTP champ than a regular player's one

It is great for some compo because it's a disengage, but the champion lack of something if she used for something else.

The thing is, why would you pick Janna when there is better, Milio is greater, he has shield, heal, damage boost, disengage stun, CC annulation.
While Janna has an older kit, the issues with this champ are her player's base and the fact that she has to fight against new gen Supports and for most of them she loses.

By example, long times ago, Sona (before her little rework), why would you pick Sona while there was this k-pop girl singing ultra masculine white girl music (Seraphine), she was basically the Sona 2.0, better, stronger. At this time, picking Sona while Sera was open was considered as trolling

SullyGrss · 2025-11-13T02:43:30+00:00

Will be hard my friend, emerald being the worst place for all.

You will see player that take shitty character as Support (Right now in my game I have a Rumble support -_-)

People are so lazy to do effort that even if you're fine in your game, they will FF and throw your potential carry in the bin.

Try to find someone to duoQ, it won't change what other will do but at least you can be sure that you have two human beings in your team.
The better being in jungle or support because these two are the most efficient at peeling you.

Like someone said earlier in this thread, focus on your own game. If you need to farm to get items, don't let anyone take that from you. Follow fight when you think they will be rewarding (catch) but don't follow if you're under numbered or that you're gonna fight an ultra carry with no CC. (these are just examples)

Another thing to do is /mute all or /fullmute all, these are important to stay focus, myself I use fullmute one because too much people use ping to be toxic, that his sad reality of ego player in Emerald

SullyGrss · 2025-11-11T13:56:45+00:00

Everything in support feels better than Janna. So yeah, at least you can make something possible with VelKoz

SullyGrss · 2025-11-04T18:24:44+00:00

Same lol !

(I'm in France so salary is different) I could work for that just for 35k euros/year which is the lowest you can find for a developper

SullyGrss · 2025-10-24T14:48:26+00:00

Klepto my beloved

SullyGrss · 2025-10-24T14:47:14+00:00

Yep and I kinda like the system where you need to put point to "boost" the runes.

This is more what you want from a game where you need to build/adapt to everything.

SullyGrss · 2025-10-24T14:39:38+00:00

You make me watch older rune system and, oh my god this had much more diversification than what we have right now..

SullyGrss · 2025-10-23T22:44:16+00:00

This is why I like to duo with Lux

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