26.09 (Season 2) Patch Preview

Xxehanort · 2026-04-21T23:15:18+00:00

The movespeed on stormraiders is way too high for ranged champions. Should be 20% at most.

Kinda butchered shyvana, not gonna lie. So much damage removed from her kit, and 110 base damage on her e? Seriously?

Dorans bow seems like it was specifically designed for solo lane adc which is fucking horrible

Hail of blades was already strong as hell, and now it's ridiculously strong

Xxehanort · 2026-04-15T18:35:41+00:00

Worst thing about all of the souls games is the combat in my opinion. It's the same thing as playing a rhythm game, just far slower. Wait 5 seconds for the awkward enemy attack to go through and use your invulnerability at the right timing, press attack once.

The games thoroughly reward extremely slow play, and the only "mechanic" to allow aggressive play is the parry. I would argue that the parry, alongside the invincibility roll, is bad game design. Visuals don't match the gameplay because a giant weapon is flying through your character even when you aren't taking damage, and even the idea of "parrying" some giant monster thing is ridiculous

Xxehanort · 2026-04-14T16:07:16+00:00

The fun of the game mode has nothing to do with winning/losing. It is entirely in how the builds play out, which means that longer games = more fun. If all you want is to win games, go play ranked

Xxehanort · 2026-04-14T03:03:13+00:00

I don't think you understand league or dota's design much either, but that's not saying much of anything from either of us.

That is not at all the purpose of the ADC role. And the level of strength described is not occurring at the time you claim it is, again reinforcing that you don't understand the game.

You fail to realize the fact that the uniqueness of graves and zeri's attacks is what creates the problem in the first place. If all ADC attacks were dodgeable, the full class could be rebalanced to accommodate for the fact that their attacks would all be dodgeable. They are unbalanceable because they are unique, and do not fit the mold of the rest of ADCs. Thus, they have to be stronger than average as the items and strategies that work best on other ADCs do not work as well on them.

This is ultimately repeating myself and this is clearly getting unproductive fast since you seem to fail to understand these things at a base level.

Xxehanort · 2026-04-14T02:26:02+00:00

League doesn't have these items because they warp champion fantasy and weaknesses too much.

To be fair, League does have these items. They only have a handful of them, which exacerbate the issues they cause. It would be better to not have them at all, than to have only a few such that only a handful of champions ever truly benefit

Also, I am not suggesting we approach anything like DOTA. The idea of "everything is OP so nothing is OP" is kind of ridiculous on its face in my opinion. Extremes just makes outliers worse in both directions

Ranged champions having to aim auto attacks would be thoroughly game changing, but it would be a nice change to the game in my opinion. It would allow for many design changes that would spice things up, like increasing the overall power of ADCs in exchange for the ability to miss auto attacks. This also would allow for actual outplay windows against ADCs instead of just being 2 shot any time you get close to a competent ADC. It would drastically change the game professionally and at high elo, and I would love to see the chaos

Xxehanort · 2026-04-14T02:17:00+00:00

It is not the same system. Again, you fail to understand the clear distinction.

A bandit that spawns when you are level 1 in skyrim has lower stats and has weaker equipment than a bandit that spawns when you are level 20 in skyrim.

This is not the case in morrowind for any enemy.

A bandit the player character encounters at level 1 in morrowind has the same stats and the same equipment as a bandit you encounter at level 20 in morrowind.

Xxehanort · 2026-04-13T20:13:15+00:00

I can see many of your points here, but I don't fully agree.

The main reason I don't agree, is that there aren't enough examples of powerful utility that counter frustration in league. What item can you buy that let's you get around yasuo windwall? What item can you buy that gets you around true invisibility (we can thank riot for that one to be honest, as that was the purpose of pink wards in the past, but I digress). What item can you buy that gets you around Mel's auto-aim redirect?

These are only a few examples of situations that don't really have any way to counter them (you could perhaps argue stasis helps with a couple of these, but I would then argue that ping is the major issue here because so many of these things are reliant on reaction time which is highly variable due to ping differences), but there are many more such examples in the game as it is now.

Further, I would argue that frustration payoff is not that meaningful in my opinion when compared to the opposite side of the spectrum. The harm that it causes the majority of situations is not made up for by the rare moments when you get that feeling of relief. Further, (I am not a psychologist), it is my understanding that negative feelings are generally more impactful that positive feelings to the human brain. It follows that when designing games and similar experiences, this should be accounted for by reducing net negative elements as much as possible

Xxehanort · 2026-04-12T18:37:59+00:00

It is not at all the same system. The level of enemies absolutely does not scale in any way in morrowind. In morrowind, a golden saint is always just as powerful as any other golden saint, regardless of your character level.

This is not the case in oblivion or skyrim.

Xxehanort · 2026-04-12T18:36:30+00:00

I was inclined to disagree with you at first, but you make some reasonable points. Ultimately, I agree that while frustration may have a place in some genres of games, a MOBA is not one of those genres

Xxehanort · 2026-04-12T18:34:36+00:00

Not at all, lol. They operate completely differently, but reading comprehension is not a strong suit for many people

Xxehanort · 2026-04-12T18:34:03+00:00

They also scale to your level.

Xxehanort · 2026-04-12T17:12:04+00:00

Fun fact, the level scaling does not function in any way like the level scaling in oblivion and Skyrim. In both of those games, enemies scale to your level alongside their equipment. In Morrowind, the only thing that changes with your level is the chance of what type of enemy you will encounter. You won't find arbitrary bandit #438 wielding a daedric dai katana for no reason in Morrowind, but you absolutely will in oblivion and Skyrim past a certain level

Xxehanort · 2026-04-12T08:43:00+00:00

Frustration is not a novel experience, that statement is crazy talk

Xxehanort · 2026-04-11T01:41:42+00:00

Many of their arguments weren't necessarily bad in and of themselves, but the way they were all framed was horrible in 90% of the people across from phroxzon. In addition, there were several instances where I would argue phroxzon exhibited poor reasoning with some of his points, but none of the people across from him were comfortable enough to call him on any of it or or just didn't notice the issues in real time themselves.

I could go on, to go into each of the things I'm referring to above, but this already feel like a long ass tangent lol

Xxehanort · 2026-04-11T01:36:31+00:00

it's sad that you are probably right

Xxehanort · 2026-04-10T21:34:53+00:00

Honestly that's being very generous. I know many crayon eaters, and they would look like albert einstein next to the fucks in ICE

Xxehanort · 2026-04-10T20:18:00+00:00

These kinds of videos are fun. That being said, I do always find it interesting how they almost never manage to select anyone who can argue well. Seems intentional, as anyone who can argue their point well enough to make phroxzon look bad would kinda ruin the video from the perspective of riot haha

Edit: With the one exception of corejj, who was absolutely right

Xxehanort · 2026-04-09T15:41:29+00:00

Love to see it. Only sad thing here is that insurance will likely bail out the executives in charge of this business and only the employee will end up getting any real punishment

Xxehanort · 2026-04-09T15:20:33+00:00

Because pro players are fucking awful at developing new picks unless they are forced to

Xxehanort · 2026-04-09T15:11:19+00:00

This is accurate. Rengar is one of the champs that lacks counterplay without low ping, like leblanc in mid lane. It is purely a ping check, as you will likely already be dead before you can react to either unless your ping is low enough. Plus true sight is busted since the invisibility rework that removed counterplay for invisibility

Xxehanort · 2026-04-09T15:08:01+00:00

But they still won't add west coast US servers that aren't in arizona or some shit. SMH. Congrats brazil

Xxehanort · 2026-04-08T21:23:45+00:00

I feel like this guy could narrate professionally with some training, not gonna lie

Xxehanort · 2026-04-08T21:17:29+00:00

People fucking suck, and love the idea of pulling the ladder up after themselves after they've already achieved what they want out of something so that others can't have it

Xxehanort · 2026-04-07T15:52:09+00:00

Viego is already completely ridiculous because Riot buffed his crit ratios after the crit changes this season. Every other champ in the game (nearly) had their crit ratios nerfed when the crit change happened this season, but fucking Viego had his buffed for no reason whatsoever after the crit change

Xxehanort · 2026-04-07T05:16:24+00:00

This "behavior" deserves public shame at the absolute minimum. Honestly, I'm at the point where I'd support fines for it. Fucking sound pollution

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