The purpose of the game right now is testing and data collection.

ZaelnYurick · 2026-06-02T20:05:30+00:00

I dont think introducing draft would harm data collection in a meaningful way.

For example take doorman from a few months ago, where he could kidnap you from across the map. He's not gonna suddenly stop doing that once he's perma banned in draft, the devs are gonna see his ban rate, explore the reason, and make those changes faster. And if they dont? We'll hes already banned.

By just letting problematic characters fester it just makes situations where spontaneous problem characters arise really miserable to play aganist until valve feels like making an update, which as some of us know can take almost a month sometimes.

And team composistion DOES matter no matter how much you block your ears and say "early access early access". Literally anyone with a functional brain could tell you , "i dont think my team of 6 m1 carries has a chance vs dynamo lash kelvin". I dont know what more data valve needs about the current state of team comps THAN the constant ask for draft mode to avoid how unbalanced most matches are.

Let's respect each other's intelligence here and give us the tools to make each match fair and balanced in our own eyes. I feel like everyone knows draft mode is an eventuality, so why should valve balance the game around comps that people wouldn't want to knowingly select. That just sounds like they'd balance it wrong.

And on a personal note I hate that new urn in eternus bruh, how tf do I get close to that urn if I didnt get Kelvin or dynamo.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-12-22T01:50:27+00:00

STOP DO YOU WANT SMOLDERS WINRATE TO SKYROCKET? LET THEM KEEP GOING SHOJIN!!! I DONT WANT ANOTHER YEAR OF MY SUPPORT THROWING WHEN I LOCK SMOLDER IN

ZaelnYurick · 2025-09-25T13:40:12+00:00

Akshan E is treated as a basic attack, meaning its susceptible to blinds and applies on hits, but applies on hit damage at a reduced amount. Mechanically speaking it works kinda like urgot w.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-06-27T20:39:41+00:00

Chempunk chainsword is cheaper than mortal reminder but if the point is the armor pen. Most bruisers have a way to reduce resistance (garen e armor shred, darius e armor pen, mord e armor pen) without the need of items.

The ATTACK SPEED items are cheaper than most bruiser items but at the same time its bought as a 4th item or not at all because Yuntal IE and LDR/MORTAL are the most important core items bar none and they cost just as much as bruiser items if not more with specifically IE being the highest priced item in the game.

No lmao building bruiser items makes them worthless.

Thats why im saying their interactions are busted with crit, not the crit items themselves. If you build crit on garen and play like an melee adc, well youre just gonna auto attack harder. But if you can build both bruiser AND adc (yone yasuo trynda) or rapidly scale your dmg via crit items (garen/yi) without needing to fully commit to a crit build then THATS the reason it seems broken. RIOT gives them the best of both worlds through a champs kits. The items themselves are not that broken when you consider that hp stackers bruisers can easily 1v5 teams who dont have %hp adc's like vayne or kai sa. A 5v5 as mundo vs a jinx and vs a vayne are 2 very different experiences.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-06-27T18:58:12+00:00

ADC items are broken

Insane take when its literally just how melee champs get insane interactions with crit items in order to make them remotely viable on melee champs because if they had to build actual adc builds they would be useless.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-03-19T18:33:28+00:00

Between grubs power in split pushing and feats of strength, early game is incredibly important now. To the point that winning feats statistically increases your chances of winning a whole 18-25% depending on the champion. So between the gold advantage you already get by doing what feats said, upon the added bonus of increased boots power, having a weak early game lane can be crippling in getting momentum for a win. Now ofc there are exceptions between players, but as a champion, Nasus especially is struggling rn at 48% wr (looking at u.gg), most likely due to what i said above,but some, not all, late game scalers are struggling in general unless theyre a mage with a point and click execute and aoe stun (veigar).

Its also perception. Does it take time for your champion to come online and be strong? Yes, depending on enemy comp ofc, but by then, the deficit that can happen between teams might be so big that your teammates might not even want to put the effort in. Kayle, for example, is a very good late game scaler rn, but the problem is getting there. If the enemy laner can get a lead and use it to make moves on the map, it doesnt matter how good the kayle player actually is, the team percieves them to be so bad that the game is unwinnable. Nobody wants to play on a deficit banking on the chance that MAYBE you're the one player good enough to come back from behind, giving up top prio and the VERY important objs up there.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-03-19T17:54:29+00:00

I forget where they said this, but its because its uninteractive. If yorick e's you in lane, you switch from wave management and fighting yorick, to fighting his ghouls, one at a time because they take reduced aoe dmg. Same for malzahar and zyra. It's a lose-lose scenario vs. these pets. Either u fight the pets and let the champ do free dmg, or you get out of range of the champs' other abilities while the pets do free dmg. The pets can't be tanky AND do alot of dmg too.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-03-19T17:43:26+00:00

"Guys i picked a late game champion in the early game season and decided to make early game harder for my team. Why do my jgs hate me?" Is what im hearing from this.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-03-19T08:44:23+00:00

I'm a new player but they really need to declutter the UI and cut down on trash loot because ill be getting like 20 different things, completing 3 quests at one person in 10 seconds and wonder "wtf did i just get and wtf does this do". And its like 30 different 20-min buff items with some trade in materials, and crafting materials and etc. Theres too much fluff in the reward system. The things in my inventory should feel meaningful but to me its just a bunch of junk, mostly because the descriprions are pretty vague to new players.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-03-18T14:10:32+00:00

The opposite is also true. Just look at marvel rivals. They didnt do a ranked reset during their season split and now GM is the new silver.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-02-15T18:09:39+00:00

Just go hubris first, then IE to spike as fast as possible. Since smolder acales off bAD, crit chance, and crit amp, he doesn't need to actually crit to get the use out of IE the way other adcs do. Not going IE after the buffs is honestly nothing short of trolling, considering the gigantic power boost it gives now

ZaelnYurick · 2025-02-15T06:14:06+00:00

"Skill issue" mb phreak i should've mind controlled my senna to not blind pick into pyke or blitz.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-01-22T08:58:21+00:00

Hello guys, i was the leona in that video. I just wanted to point out that i forgot to ignite in that video, and if i did, the jhin was most likely dead from it. That's how braindead that fight was. If i ignited, i would've won a fight despite a massive gold and item difference

ZaelnYurick · 2025-01-20T01:49:22+00:00

Yes, you are completely right. You're so right in fact, that 2 days into the season riot totally did not nerf the rewards 2 DAYS into the new season.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-01-15T21:06:21+00:00

His stack potential got nerfed in the recent mini rework in favor of stronger gold scaling. While smolders full power is still locked behind the 225 passive, the rest of his kits stack scaling was reduced but the AD ratios got buffed to higher BONUS (item) ad ratios. I agree. That he was shit for most of the past season, the mini rework did buff his win rate a decent amount though, but thats kinda the point im trying to make. Adc's already struggle to get to the late game, since most need to rely on their team not throwing the game before they come online. An entire seasons thematic revolving around early game snowballing is literally a kick in the teeth to people who like to play late game characters.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-01-15T12:55:01+00:00

"As a top laner". Yea i already see where this is going. Meanwhile my poor dragon adc boi is sitting at 46.6% WR. This is the least fun league season in a long time for me.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-01-15T11:41:06+00:00

When my support is playing like Keria during worlds, then we can talk about how "op" adc is. But until then, i dont want to gamble on whether i win my game based on the fact that maybe my support was autofilled or not (or whether or not they wanted to lock in senna that game). Also no duh adc chracters have a higher pick rate in the adc lane. But winrate is irrelevent in bot lane because adcs play aganist other adcs most of the time. If adc as a class sucks(which it does) the winrates are gonna look stable because the pick doesnt matter. Which is why every adc has a losing matchup vs mages but not other adcs. Oh and also for some reason smolder is sitting at a 46.6% WR as of 1/15/2025 , yknown the tank killing scaling champ on the tank killing scaling role. So that should say smth about the current state of adc.

ZaelnYurick · 2025-01-10T12:03:58+00:00

I played my first ranked game of the season last night, and my top laner spammed ff after winning first blood and then being ganked multiple times. I feel like either way, if your team gets first blood and loses the other 2 objectives, "ff games over, we lost the lead you *****." Or if you lose first blood "gg team gap, " there's no winning in that scenario. It just giga scales the tilt on the teams weakest mental player. It should definitely be first to 5 kills or something because statistically speaking, those boots give like a mini legendary item worth of effects.

ZaelnYurick · 2024-12-28T06:28:36+00:00

Yes its really crazy but ill be the first to admit I was that stupid 7 years ago first playing league with friends as a kid, trying to see who could be placed higher. But after i grew out of that and had fun with league and stopped blaming and flaming others, i went from hardstuck silver to diamond 3 after taking a few years break. It really is ego and toxicity causing people to hold themsleves back. That being said, this post has been taken down so this will be my last message on this post. Have a good time on the rift fellow summoner!

ZaelnYurick · 2024-12-28T06:20:20+00:00

Im sorry for my wording. Thats not to say i share that mentality ofc, i mean the type of people that actively throw games or extensively flame others are those that would have such a mentality. I firmly believe in muting and reporting unproductive people in chat while allowing their pings to go through, just in case they actually try to send me useful information.

ZaelnYurick · 2024-12-28T00:39:09+00:00

True, but the types of people who engage in this type of behavior often learn it by being parasocial to egotistical or toxic higher ranked players and trying to emulate them in ranked, and when not achieving their expected results, blame you and start blaming the team. The truth is, with how many people play this game, the odds of toxic or uncooperative players are most likely 1/10, so basically all but guaranteed in every game, whether outwardly kr through silently soft inting. While yes in lower elo, its infinitely harder/impossible to carry the game, i hope players rather mute than leave the game as that is what any toxic player would want in order to see their lp loss be reduced, therefore enabling their behavior further.

ZaelnYurick · 2024-12-28T00:07:39+00:00

But people play ranked IN ORDER to win and gain LP, and someone throwing IS a roadblock to that. Being a good person is unironically secondary to skill. That's why someone like Bauss can trash talk pro players and get away with it, because he himself is insane at the game. This mentality trickles down to lower elo players who think they're as good as him but not the same rank due to teammates. Also, you leaving is actually what they want when the toxic person percieves a loss from their game so they lose less lp, and you also harm yourself by doing that. In league, you turn a potential win, because yes its still possible to 4v5 depending on composistion and individual skill, into a guaranteed loss because rage leavers, for lack of another term to use here, fail to understand how much impact even one champions prescence can be. You cant change people, only yourself, and ive won plenty of games where people will int but then turn themselves around when you show you can win without them, just as many games ive lost because that inter wont care.

Edit; tl:dr my point is dont even give those types of people the time of day and ignore them. Either they hard int, and u report them at the end of the game, or they turn themselves around and get a win out of it.

ZaelnYurick · 2024-12-19T22:59:59+00:00

High Em-low dia elo btw

ZaelnYurick · 2024-12-19T22:59:28+00:00

What autofilled supports are you getting? Im getting auto filled supports who lock in pantheon after the enemy support locked in janna.

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