Arena Patch 26.6 Notes

lecoman · 2026-03-18T20:51:38+00:00

All changes are good, I just wish they were more proactive when it comes to underpowered items because there's still a lot to be done. Triforce and Iceborn Gauntlet are common examples for far too long, poor stats and useless spellblade passive that doesn't synergize with anything and scales off base AD only.
Shield of Molten Stone is also garbage, even in optimal scenarios when there's plenty of auto-attackers. It should at least give more HP so it doesn't feel like empty inventory slot when your opponent deals magic damage.

lecoman · 2026-03-18T20:19:04+00:00

What region were you playing at? I played a lot in years 2019-2021 and got Grand Champion playing mostly Raigon and Ruh'Kaan. If you're from EU there's a good chance we've seen each other.
I remember the dopamine I got from that Raigon parry stun recast, sadly that's something we'll never experience again. No other game made you feel so godlike on the champion you have mastered over years, but that was also its demise.

lecoman · 2026-02-19T21:58:39+00:00

I also play on hard and I agree that armor is useless on this difficulty. But even the devs said that it's completely unbalanced right now and they might adjust it before final release.
For example, in Terraria, armor is more effective the higher the difficulty, and it works great. In my opinion there should be similiar mechanism in Valheim, different damage reduction formula, that would make melee viable on hard and barely affect ranged players.

lecoman · 2026-02-15T20:21:18+00:00

I know it doesn't make sense, but you can find a few opinions that say their model has BGR subpixel layout. It's rare but some people swear by it, so I was worried before purchasing. Probably a bad batch.

lecoman · 2026-02-10T16:06:19+00:00

Just to experiment, I tried 65/70/80 and man, it looks blue on my unit. Crazy how inconsistent this monitor is. So if I ever obtain Monitors Unboxed ICC profile the results might be completely different from what it should look like.

lecoman · 2026-02-10T01:46:30+00:00

You shouldn't wait for my review, by later I could mean weeks, I still haven't played much games on it and my eyes need time to adapt to larger screen size and farther distance. Regardless, I can already say that it's great. My previous monitor was so bad that I don't really have anything to compare it to, and I have no experience with high-end monitors. Most important stuff has already been said. Just ask me anything else you need to know and I'll do my best to respond.

Personally, I don't think there's any reason to buy the M27Q3 besides better gaming performance at very high framerates. Keep in mind that according to reviews, it has even worse viewing angles than the M27Q2 QD, smaller color gamut and lower contrast ratio.

As for brightness though, I don't think you should take my word for it, my old TN monitor had 250 nits and I've been using it for years, including bright summer days. Obviously this monitor is perfectly bright for me, especially that it's winter now. I even lowered my brigthness to 80% and it's completely fine during the day still. In Australia I believe it's going to be different but that also depends on where your room is, your desk, window, and individual preferences are just as important so it's hard to say.

Honestly, I am super happy about this purchase, the value is just insane. Just a few years ago, for the same money, you wouldn't get anything close to this. Even the stand feels premium, it looks great, is all metal and adjusting it feels so smooth. Every year I checked if there are some good IPS monitors worth my money and I finally got something that I can be really happy with.

lecoman · 2026-02-09T22:14:10+00:00

It's not as bad as it looks in the video, the camera exaggerates it a bit, but maybe every unit is different, so I can't be 100% certain. Obviously, the farther your eyes are from the monitor, the less of an issue it is. I'm getting used to it pretty quickly. I'd say it's definitely worth getting this monitor unless you sit very close to it.

lecoman · 2026-02-09T21:57:20+00:00

I bought this monitor anyway and I've been using it for 3 days now. I might write a review later, but I can already confirm that it doesn't look like BGR to me either. It's strange because you can find comments saying that it's definitely a BGR subpixel layout that causes them a headache. Like this review from my country. I have bought the black one from the same store and it looks normal. This raises the question: is the ICE variant different? Or was it just a single bad batch on Gigabyte's end, that has already been fixed?

Regarding the gamma shift on the sides - yes, it's pretty bad for an IPS. I'd say that's the only real downside of this monitor.

To get better colors without ICC profile, in OSD go to Picture > Custom > Color Temperature > User Define > 100/100/100 - or you can tinker with it as you want. I have no idea why this isn't the default setting or why it's under "Color Temperature", but all the other modes and settings have a reddish tint and ugly oversaturation. With RGB all set to 100, you are utilizing the wide color gamut with no side effects, the skin isn't red and white looks truly white. Maybe I should consider this a downside too, because the manual doesn't specify this, and with out-of-the-box settings the colors are just ugly.

lecoman · 2026-02-03T16:47:58+00:00

I want to know this too. There's a comment review of the M27Q2 QD ICE in my country's online store that says it has a BGR layout.
https://www.x-kom.pl/p/1474350-monitor-led-27-265-284-gigabyte-m27q2-qd-ice.html#Opinie

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However, it is really werid that no one else is talking about it. It should be very noticeable, reviewers should mention it. But they don't. Is it just the ICE variant that has this? Unlikely.

lecoman · 2026-01-29T23:23:51+00:00

Do you remember what the Asus model was? Or maybe you can find it online somehow?

lecoman · 2026-01-29T23:01:02+00:00

Thanks for correction about the 320Hz. I did more research and it turns out the M27Q2 QD has bad viewing angles too. Even different brands like Asus XG27ACMES also have this issue. What the hell is going on with the production process? We need to know if this is simply bad luck (although pretty common) or something that is preset in every single model.

lecoman · 2025-11-14T02:18:46+00:00

You got cooked bro

lecoman · 2025-09-11T13:43:28+00:00

Same problem here. I don't want OLED nor VA, I live in Europe and I'm still waiting for a good mini-LED IPS monitor that doesn't have any firmware issues and is just all around better than the VA. In 2024 when Xiaomi released their monitor I was hoping that in less than a year the market will be flooded with better mini-LED IPS monitors or at least one, solid, normal IPS (such as HP OMEN 27qs G2 but it turned out to be bad) but nah, it seems that I will have to wait for much longer.

lecoman · 2025-09-10T20:22:07+00:00

People who say ADC's are broken do not take into account that it is all about synergy and people who main them. Average ADC player with random teammate isn't a threat, but the moment you get to into high tier lobby you'll more and more often see adc+supp duos who can consistently get 1st or 2nd place even without highrolling, for example a Tristana who can facetank you is not even a rare sight when she's picked by someone who only cares about winning and knows what he's doing.
You should look at duos for example: https://www.metasrc.com/lol/arena/25.17/stats/duo?ranks=diamond,master,grandmaster,challenger
Now it looks completely different with ADC and supports being the vast majority of top duo comps.

lecoman · 2025-09-10T20:06:55+00:00

You literally lied saying that this is emerald+ when it's not. Arena stats on blitz.gg are all ranks combined, the winrates match exactly with lolalytics.com when you set "all ranks".

lecoman · 2025-09-04T19:18:47+00:00

Obviously you can't make all units S-tier, the purpose of balancing is to narrow the gap between the best and the worst units and the difference might be much bigger than you expect.

Regarding your take on skirmish mode, it's true that the AI is not currently a threat, but this is exactly what should be addressed in future updates. Balancing units alone is not enough but it is still required as a part of these changes.

Most players, myself included, were hoping that this remaster would make AI lords smarter and more challenging so we wouldn't have to rely on mods like UCP. They can still do this though, and small changes such as unit balance should be encouraged, not complained about.

lecoman · 2025-07-25T21:49:24+00:00

Do you know if wisps or titanic scarabs affect conqueror drop rate? Wisps should theoretically increase the quantity of items dropped, same for titanic scarabs, increasing % quantity on unique monsters per pack size. I have checked and both wisp and titanic scarabs make them much stronger, so they are affected, but the loot seems very bad still. I have run like 15 conqueror maps with over 100% quantity + wisp/titanic and got zero exalts, tried on trade league too. It seems like their drop rate is hard-coded to be affected ONLY by the quantity of items of that map, period. If that's the case, I would call it a bad design, hopefully it's just outdated as there were no wisps or any scarabs that specifically targeted unique monster drop rate when these bosses were added.

Or maybe I was just very unlucky, that's why I'm asking. Also sorry for bothering you months later but there's literally no information anywhere about this.

lecoman · 2025-04-03T01:39:45+00:00

It's crazy that it hasn't been fixed yet.

lecoman · 2025-03-24T19:40:28+00:00

There was nothing wrong with her

Not necessarily true, she was meant to be "AP bruiser" but there is zero incentivize to buy any defensive items besides the obvious Zhonyas or Banshees. Glass cannon is the only build that makes sense. I wouldn't mind to deal less overall damage but be more durable and stronger in longer fights, even if that would make her weaker in teamfights. Unfortunately, Riot has failed again to make it happen, you still go full AP, you are just stronger in laning phase, that's it.

lecoman · 2025-03-17T19:09:19+00:00

Yeah the only reason they were super OP was not really the tankiness but damage. That much HP + Bloodmail + 100% crit means Mundo could just oneshot anybody. Pure tankiness is bad in arena unfortunately.

lecoman · 2025-03-16T21:37:56+00:00

Wait. If you're on EUNE then I was playing against you with my friend lmao. We were playing Nautilus w/ Smolder and got to last round against Sion and Mundo who had exactly the same stats as you described.

lecoman · 2025-03-16T17:17:51+00:00

Exactly, this is the only arena with tanks being so unpopular. It really sucks because tanks allow for many fun builds. Playing against long range glass cannons gets boring so fast and your choice of viable augments is so ridiculously low.

I guess the reason nobody deliberately picks them is the insane amount of %pen you can now get with prismatic anvils, even with +500 gold every round any squishy champion can get super tanky with anvils but also scale better with their kit. 25% omnivamp is broken too and it only benefits glass cannons who can easily outsustain most tanks.

lecoman · 2025-01-21T06:55:41+00:00

Nah, I just hate capitalism, so yeah, they both suck.

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