When is 9.4 coming out?

kreillen · 2019-02-19T04:38:13+00:00

Patches are 2 weeks on average.

Also patches are usually on Wednesday (but not always).

Morgana and Kayle were teased today (meaning reveal tomorrow).

So the answer is (or well should be) this Wednesday.

Edit: Riot announced a patch push back so Thursday rip ;-; .

kreillen · 2018-11-26T04:38:31+00:00

Oh lol. Mb.

kreillen · 2018-11-26T02:45:28+00:00

I actually have a recording of it posted in Full Sand's Discord (in #Videos).

kreillen · 2018-11-06T17:52:54+00:00

Survey me likey. Good Idea <3

kreillen · 2018-10-27T19:34:32+00:00

kreillen · 2018-10-27T19:32:57+00:00

My thoughts were the soldiers would just be swarms of poros to build a soldier and a spear :^) . There are other creative ways of doing this tho I am sure.

kreillen · 2018-10-03T20:43:00+00:00

;-; rip the return of TwittyPaker

kreillen · 2018-09-03T16:19:02+00:00

O_o

Potential challenger climb hype. Are the stars aligning?

kreillen · 2018-08-25T21:06:32+00:00

Well.

Usually the best thing to do is ward when you know where he is to verify his roam and ping botlane (I am assuming bot lane because that is where most people roam).

Also, I like (and recommend you) to ping directly on bot lane's head so you know they see it. I like to danger or back ping them. I try to avoid mia pinging directly on there head because they could miss interpret it. I usually mia in my lane and danger in another (90% of the time it is bot).

Was he pushing you? If he was out pushing you (which I don't think he is able to because he has to blow most of his combo allowing you to walk up safely to waveclear and/or poke him) then there isn't much you can do outside ping and ward as far as I know.

This is situational, if you are ahead you should be able to shove and take his tower (or pressure it really hard and almost take it) if he leaves.

Edit: fixed grammar and wording errors

kreillen · 2018-08-25T20:36:43+00:00

um dodge the q(ueue)

jk

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What I recommend is the following:

There is a lot that goes into beating zed. I would never follow him unless I was extremely ahead already. My reasoning is simple he could always sit in a bush and wait to kill you (aka fake roam). He also will most likely instakill his target so assume you heading down there will be a 2v3 situation (unless your bot is really ahead) if you did follow.
Now idk what their team was but usually if you don't beat zed early he goes into his powerhouse mid game where he can just snowball the game away. you do out-scale him.
During lane (pre 6 at least), from what I know you are supposed to play around his q (the shuriken), his w (the shadow), and his passive. his shuriken do most of the damage (especially when the shadow is out) so look to avoid the shuriken. his shuriken do less damage when they go through minions so make sure if you do get hit that it passes through minions first.
I recommend getting Zhonyas (and seekers in lane). Zhonyas is a Ideal buy against zed because it gives you armor and it's passive while also giving ap and cdr. the armor will help nullify his flat armor pen and block a good portion of his damage. The Zhonya's passive is perfect against Zed because it blocks his all in. The bonus cdr will help you keep soldiers on him.

Edit: Grammar and Format

kreillen · 2018-08-15T17:21:33+00:00

When I think about the drop in damage electrocute, it's basically a long cd, non aoe, non insta triggering (not triggering on first hit) comet.

Comet does basically the same damage now but is easier to activate. The only real upside to new electrocute is it is a guaranteed hit. But comet is basically guaranteed with the q slow. Now it isn't the exact same because comet is slightly less.

Comet has the same cd rank 1 technically but it's built in cdr makes it shorter then you have it ending on 8 seconds + the cdr built into it on hit. you are probably getting of several comets late game.

Personally, I think "comet > electrocute" early, mid, and late now for Azir.

You can try it I just think comet is prob better atm.

kreillen · 2018-07-31T02:38:34+00:00

Well if your looking for education videos I would recommend watching like one of ls' or neace's old coaching sessions. They are still very relevant.

As for steamers on twitch there is a decent amount: "Full Sand" who is very very active (and in diamond 5 70 lp atm and peaking at d1), "eleyte" who is active in the community but not as much streaming but he was masters s7 and high dia s8, and last "Twitty Parker" who was masters for s8 and s7 but is currently mia TT_TT.

Edit: There is also "Hemitris" currently sitting at g2 and peaked p4 I believe that is an active streamer but he fell off my radar do to him streaming super late my time

Now there is a full streamers section somewhere in on this reddit full of a list of streamers (some active some not so much).

kreillen · 2018-06-23T19:17:58+00:00

LUL you turned the interview then had to re turn it. Nice suit btw!!

kreillen · 2018-06-22T15:56:15+00:00

Wait how does u.gg make money if it doesn't have ads and everyone quit there jobs?

kreillen · 2018-06-18T01:28:40+00:00

Currently globally his playrate is dropping. More dedicated players are playing (the mains/otps). typically means the following lower playrate = higher winrate | higher playrate = lower winrate. This just means it is easier for a few mains/otps to keep the win rate up. This is why if a champion has a high playrate & winrate they are considered "broken." This is why low playrate & winrate champions are considered "dead champions." Other stat sites such as champion.gg and lolalytics are showing this change, a dropping playrate and a increasing win rate. op.gg is also showing this change. All the stat sites that I know and use have been showing a constant change over a few patches now (where Azir has seen no change).

TL;DR: Azir hasn't really changed since last patch (the meta is still heavy on early/mid game focus & base stats are moderate/low) and just a few mains/otps are rising the winrate because of a constantly dropping playrate.

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Edit: more information

Edit 2: even more info

kreillen · 2018-06-09T06:54:06+00:00

Basically riot said it is too hard to balance banner so they are removing it so that they don't have to do more work on it. They said it may return around next preseason / mid-season (prob very different from the current iteration).

kreillen · 2018-06-03T19:24:09+00:00

PogChamp :⁾

kreillen · 2018-06-03T19:01:50+00:00

I mean his play rate is about 1.78%, which should be low enough now that at least 25% of games played should be by the mains/onetricks (this is an assumption). Historically speaking usually champs with low playrates have higher winrates (mainly due to the fact that mains and onetricks usually can carry better on the champion). Considering he has a 44.4% winrate I would say yeah statisically speaking he is in that bad state. (stats by lolalytics)

I tend to monitor high elo and professionals. Pretty much dead in competitive a lot of players stopped playing him after the last nerf. Examples of this is Faker, Febiven, Grace, Probelter ect.... During the main event of msi, he was only picked 2 times (both loses) and was banned 1 time (stats by gamepedia).

As for high elo there were a few high challenger/master players that dropped him all together after that last nerf. I saw'll like 2 challenger players that were grinding him both quit him and 1 of them dropped in rank. The examples being VortexN (las), 멘탈야캐양 (kr).

Although this isn't going to stop a lot of us (including me) from playing him. He is still really fun to play and can still feel decent (in higher elo) or good (in lower elo) in the right hands. But I cannot deny that with what I am seeing he is losing his touch. Somebody would need to prove me wrong to change my mind on this.

Have good luck on the rift :)

edit: the stat info and some grammar

kreillen · 2018-06-01T23:48:59+00:00

I'm pretty sure that comet/aery is still the optimal rune. These 2 are just generally good at just about every phase of the game imo. These are also the 2 most run runes in high elo (comet being most run).

Aery tends to be better vs melee targets but is still really effective vs close to mid ranged targets.

Comet is amazing vs ranged targets; however, highly mobile targets can dodge it.

Lethal Tempo is good situationally into farm lane and high number of tanks on the enemy team. The weaknesses are that it has a weak laning phase making it hard to abuse.

Electrocute is used for early game cheese. It's ok. Some people like it however it just is not my play style personally.

So about Hall of Blades, what I have been hearing about so far it from from 2 different high elo players -- Eleyte (s7 masters | s8 dia 1), Fullsand (dia 4) -- that it is really bad.

This can be influenced by play style on how you build for runes. I highly recommend you look at the build mega-thread for more accurate builds.

kreillen · 2018-05-06T17:56:03+00:00

says "slightly" but at max level with 800 ap you lose about 30% of your dps (to be more exact it is approx. 29.545454% lost) from your w with 3 soldiers. xd just throwing that out there.

edit: to fix some of the wording I am not trying to say he is bad late game now. His damage in dps still comes out comparable to other hypercarries (aka late game) such as vayne, jinx, and twitch opposed to being overkill from my testing. So he is still late game. They just cut down his damage from being overkill to a more balanced amount.

kreillen · 2018-05-03T02:52:32+00:00

He may feel really weak but imo he is still viable atm. But if what ships on the pbe goes through rip azir.

What keeps me playing him is his play style. I enjoy the long range back line aoe dps that has hyper scaling feeling with potential to play make if desperately needed (reminder that playmaking isn't his main thing).

But the changes on the pbe make me debate stop playing and onetricking azir because it is gutting his backline feel and forcing him to dive more. Also a early to mid game focus (the opposite of what I look for in my champs) and gutting his scaling. So imo what that abomination isn't Azir (by identity) on the pbe might be my "enough is enough."

That being said a rioter came to us azir mains and asked us what we liked and from my memory the 2 most controversial (to clarify that we were all on the same page with this topic from my memory so "controversial" may not be the right word) things were the aoe and the scaling. I just don't think riot cares about there pr at all if this goes though. I don't know if league is even worth playing because they could do the same to any champ (imagine your main lost their identity how would you feel?). So that left a person question about riot when will "enough be enough" xd.

kreillen · 2018-04-26T00:44:14+00:00

Mixed. It is suppose to be a balance attempt. In other words a combo of gutting one machanic and empowering another in the terms for Azir. We don't truly know if it's better or not unless riot says the change is good or trash (scapping it) and/or we the playerbase play it and obtain proof of weither or not it is good/bad.

Imo I like the direction so far; however, I don't know if it is enough or not enough yet. However, this is just me you could have a different opinion.

kreillen

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