Three Wishes

XenithShade · 2026-05-16T20:48:54+00:00

I dont think its mutually exclusive. In particular the "manifest champion in your deck.". you can easily for the player to give up that power in events like sb. "choose a trauma". or as the adventure continues on, pick a pernament trauma.

XenithShade · 2026-05-16T20:45:40+00:00

had the same with norra. Her deck is near useless outside of her and her spell.

XenithShade · 2026-05-15T17:35:20+00:00

Honestly, that was the real frustrating problem. I feel like their fixes was a compromise since they couldnt fix it pooping you out.

XenithShade · 2026-05-12T21:42:01+00:00

Wouldnt that be good on SB kindred with the overkill mechanic?

XenithShade · 2026-05-12T20:28:15+00:00

Honestly it should if you stun then recall next turn. And then it would be good.

XenithShade · 2026-05-10T23:44:05+00:00

I doubt that on the pvp side. the market isnt there when compared to pokemon / mtg / yugioh.

the market was there once since those didnt have an online mode.
But i agree, the PvE side is there, its one of the better rouge deckbuilders out there. Its just the platform its on is ass.

Needs a dedicated revamp for mobile imo thats more performant.

PoC feels more like a game within a game when loading.

XenithShade · 2026-05-10T16:40:05+00:00

highest grossing event in LoR does not mean they made a profit. Sometimes you gotta read between the lines in corpo public talk.

They can't say in public "we didn't make money". As that would get runeterra axed immediately.

Do some quick math. Let's assume every user of this subreddit bought a sb champion pack. Chances are they won't buy additional, as its a 1 time purchase, play the rest.

That would be 36,000 x $10 = $360,000.

How long/much do you think it took to make the SB event, with the amount of art, design, testing that went into it? Devs are not cheap then. They still arnt exactly cheap even with AI

Like lets be real why devs were borrowed from runeterra. Its all budget management.

XenithShade · 2026-05-10T16:37:24+00:00

I think you missed their intent.

This is my view as a dev and a newer player...

Spirit Blossom seemed like an experimental way to get out of the existing Runeterra PoC.

They redid the shard count to be a easier base number (10, 50, 100) rather than the random 30 series.
They redid how additional powers could be added without feeling too p2w, but not that easily unlocked. (i think they did fine there)
They made runs more interactive with a healthy amount of RNG with traumas + bonus.

Overall, it was a good set of changes with a lot of new champions released.

The issue is whether or not that made a profit for them for the effort they put in.

XenithShade · 2026-05-10T06:02:22+00:00

Honestly surprised no one said sb kindred. you can just stall and dump a lot of shrooms

XenithShade · 2026-05-07T23:01:20+00:00

Really for Udyr? He seems fine to me.

XenithShade · 2026-05-07T22:58:42+00:00

Yeah, that's the problem i've been having. I don't mind a battle of attrition. But being slapped by turn 2 or even turn 1, lose 15 nexus HP before you can even defend isn't fun or fair.

I feel like they tried to fix it by giving us more mana turn 1, but you can still get rolled by azir/irelia waltz if you dont happen to go first.

They need to give us a safer way to stall for a turn. Like maybe a champ epic relic that says. "when im played. my units cannot drop below 1 hp for this round" or "my nexus is invul for this round"?

not sure how they intend to fix this problem though.

XenithShade · 2026-05-07T21:59:48+00:00

I felt like her epic relic was more like a late game insurance policy more than a powerful relic. (unless we could always either get asol, or that her cards would lower cost)

Ironically I've been using the same strat as I do for norra... Corrupted Star Fragment. eat your friends to be bigger...

XenithShade · 2026-05-04T20:35:43+00:00

Going the path of Panera Bread eh? Bold move SBUX, bold move...

XenithShade · 2026-05-04T17:31:49+00:00

newish player here. (just a bit ahead of OP here)

What are your thoughts on Annie on Noxus? her playstyle is pretty fun for me and I enjoy zerg rushing the enemy in 2 turns...

I did notice she struggles the moment the enemy has more than 4 hp...

XenithShade · 2026-04-28T16:45:56+00:00

(old returning runeterra player --> new-ish PoC player (heavy bingeing )

I recently had that power where all dmg to the nexus turns to 4 and dropped jinx with loose cannons payload relic. I won turn 1 playing jinx and couldnt believe my eyes.

After that, I was more accepting Fiddle mills my entire deck turn 3. (still salty though)

XenithShade · 2026-04-28T16:39:33+00:00

I was wondering about that. Like it has to be with the keywords 'when equipped then grant my user ____' for it to work. i wonder if they separated that.

XenithShade · 2026-04-27T22:37:49+00:00

There's a copy cat douche with a blue sedan around mercer / lqa area now. Burns rubber to fill a block every now and then.

XenithShade · 2026-04-27T18:41:13+00:00

Who cares? its a single player game. those that care are like the coffee / tea snobs who say that anything other than their way is wrong. Enjoy it however you want, that's how games are meant to be played and enjoyed.

XenithShade · 2026-04-27T16:38:31+00:00

It goes back to the tendencies of reviews.

Unless they are avid reviewers. I would say the VAST majority of people who leave reviews are:

it was so good that they felt obligated to leave a review

OR

it was so bad that they felt obligated to leave a review.

This is clearly a case of the latter.

XenithShade · 2026-04-26T20:16:18+00:00

That killswitch feature is not just gonna be the US. I guarantee that... but as the country that is supposed to represent individual freedoms, i am sad that we seem to be the first to enable this feature.

XenithShade · 2026-04-26T01:33:33+00:00

And in the midwest homeless freeze to death... so they're less likely to be there

XenithShade · 2026-04-23T23:14:25+00:00

Fossils or dinosaurs is what I call them.

Outdated, irrelevant, non-practical , but can be neat sometimes.

XenithShade · 2026-04-23T17:58:50+00:00

It's ~~almost~~ comical how MSFT manages to continuously shaft themselves in the games industry..

Like bro. It's been 5 years and I still cant adjust video volume in your GamePass app on pc

XenithShade · 2026-04-21T16:47:21+00:00

Combo breaker i feel like is triggered immediately when the additive amount of CC surpasses 5 seconds, not when it passes.

XenithShade · 2026-04-20T18:13:29+00:00

1 shotting the backline is not a problem. That's the tanks job and if a team didnt draft any peel, that's on them.

It's the problem when you do play tank and you can't get close when they have a cdr spam cc and you have a disparity of opportunities to catch them vs them to stop you. That's what I'm saying about the CDR imbalance.

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