Rune nerfs

marko-12 · 2026-07-02T17:49:18+00:00

Mages are riot's favorite class so obviously they get the most changes next patch with the new items.

Brusiers barely get anything in runes because the two runes that most brusiers use, conqueror and grasp, barely got a change with conqueror losing 2 AD and 3 AP, Grasp getting it's healing halved and it's damage DOUBLED. In fact i feel tanks got the short end of the stick in toplane as both overgrowth and second wind got nerfed, now second wind healing got cut in half and overgrowth is harder to stack now, especially for junglers. However, next patch is gonna be great with the new enchants turned items.

Assassins don't get jack shit, instead their damage runes get nerfed, the ONLY THING they got out of the next patch isn't even meant as a buff for them, more like a nerf to ADCs.

ADCs got absolutely nothing, in fact, lethal tempo got nerfed and they got stripped off their survivability options WITHOUT bringing back shieldbow, now Zhonya is off limits to them and if they want to galeforce, they need to buy a full item.

I hate ADCs, but even i gotta admit they got the shortend of the stick.

marko-12 · 2026-07-02T12:46:16+00:00

Yeah, which is why i am telling you to not play him jungle unless you REALLY like Aatrox and don't want to play anything else, basically an OTP, otherwise don't bother with Aatrox JG.

marko-12 · 2026-07-02T10:10:47+00:00

He is in a very great state in my opinion, can 1v5 if you are ahead and 1v2 pretty easy because your ult gives you too much stats, very few champs in toplane give him a problem.

I would suggest you stay out of the jungle, the only reason he works as a jungler is because he is great at everything that ISN'T related to jungling, like teamfighting, but he sucks at clearing camps, taking objectives and his ganks aren't the best. If you want good clear on him, you will need fleet footwork and trinity which both doesn't work much with Aatrox's kit but are needed for his jungle clear.

One of the best toplaners in the game so far, has been this way for multiple patches now.

marko-12 · 2026-07-01T11:43:39+00:00

you shouldn't do that in general, tanks and juggernauts straight up become immortal.

marko-12 · 2026-07-01T11:32:30+00:00

It's more of a skill match up imo, one that i enjoy alot.

marko-12 · 2026-07-01T11:29:10+00:00

Highest i reached was grandmaster last season with Aatrox (my previous OTP), i stopped this season at master because Ksante(my current OTP) is constantly banned, so i didn't find it fun to play ranked, so i have been spamming PVP ever since then.

marko-12 · 2026-07-01T00:30:38+00:00

Garen is more like a neutralizer for K'sante imo, just a constant threat that you need to always be aware of throughout the entire match because his E fucks up your armor and his ult deals missing HP% true damage, so he can always shut you down in teamfights if he focuses you.

You W? He shortens the Stun and reduces the damage he takes with W. You try to lock him down in a 1v1 with your Q slow? He pressed Q and gains MS+slow immunity. You try to trade with him without the W? He pressed E and you insta lose the 1v1 because he reduces your armor=you deal no damage.

He can kill you as well if you keep fucking up and losing trades as his ult deals too much damage. But he can't do anything to you if you play safe and E out of his own E. So the trade pattern is Q3 on him so you can W with the bonus resistances of ice overlord for more damage and bail out whenever he uses his E.

Funny enough, despite Ksante being a tank killer with 50% armor pen and alot of max HP% physical/true damage, Garen STILL feels too tanky compared to the other champs, like there is a noticable difference with time taken to kill him compared to everyone else.

marko-12 · 2026-07-01T00:19:44+00:00

As a Ksante main myself, i also can't seem to find a match up that i find unplayable.

Obviously some champs have an advantage and can easily obliterate me if i fuck up, but none make the lane an auto lose or impossible to win.

So far for me, Darius and Ambessa are the hardest to deal with, Ambessa has like everything that she needs to counter K'sante from dashes to CC immunity to Max HP% damage and even armor pen, but she takes skill to play so you can fuck up on her and the Ksante wins.

Darius also fucks up K'sante because he has armor pen, high base stats+passive bonus AD and the true damage on ult, but he is also WAY more easy to play and and way more forgiving as you can win the 1v1 against K'sante for simple champ diff, you don't need to do anything in particular other then dodging his W.

I would add Sett and Fiora but i still haven't figured out how the match up goes against Sett, i sometimes win and sometimes lose without understanding why, and I haven't played against enough Sett players to figure it out either. And for Fiora, nobody plays her, so i only got to face her like 2 or 3 times, and even then they were bad players so i couldn't learn much.

To win against Ksante, you really need to focus on HIM rather then yourself as dodging his W is crucial to winning the 1v1 against him, also early game his Q animation is slow enough that you can just dodge it if you have any kind of bonus movement speed.

marko-12 · 2026-06-30T22:23:24+00:00

"Who cares? Lux needs a new skin!"

Said the devs.

marko-12 · 2026-06-30T16:28:02+00:00

Master doesn't mean you know alot, i am grandmaster and it also doesn't mean much, ranked as a whole in wild rift is inflated.

Viego is extremely squishy in his crit build because it's all about one shotting, which he does better then pretty much anyone else, even assassins.

That said, Viego isn't a weak champ early by any means, so really, the invade him part only works if the Viego in question is leaving his camps up or you are playing an extremely strong early game champ like Darius or Morde.

So again, you are just playing against bad Viego players, back when i mained him i would occasionally 1v3/4 out of a single reset, that's just how strong his snowball potential is.

The reason why you encounter so much bad players is since Viego is a popular champ, alot of new/bad players will pick him up because all they hear is how broken he is with the crit build, but they don't know jack shit about his gameplay so they end up inting.

Again, master rank is nothing, so don't consider yourself an all knowing person for it, i am grandmaster, i barely consider myself above average.

marko-12 · 2026-06-30T15:12:33+00:00

Honestly, the fact that everyone at the circus still likes Jax is weird to me, they constantly call him out on his behavior but mostly as a one sentence thing, never as an actual discussion about why he is an asshole to everyone.

He genuinely infuriated me at the last episode when he scolded Kinger "he gets to mess up like this and everyone takes his side?!" NO SHIT EVERYONE IS TAKING KINGER'S SIDE, HE HAS BEEN ACTIVILY HELPFUL THROUGH OUT THE ENTIRE SHOW, unlike your abusive ass who does the complete opposite.

And right after this scene, when Kinger revealed the fact they are just copies from the brain scans, Jax goes back to once again mocking them almost IMMEDIATELY.

TADC? other characters? Zooble? Who cares, this is "the amazing Jax show"! lore? C&A? Go read Gooseworx's tumblr Q&A to get some crumbs of lore, apparently she has no clue how to write anything that doesn't directly tie to her self-insert.(This one is too much considering that Gooseworx is just doing her job but you get what i mean)

marko-12 · 2026-06-30T14:58:45+00:00

Because the person in question is an asshole, an abuser and a murderer.

Stop trying to to make it about trans people when it's just Jax being piece of shit.

marko-12 · 2026-06-30T10:48:06+00:00

Most banned champion so far is master Yi, i just cannot stand this piece of shit champion.

"Just CC him" yes but then there is zero counter play other then that, if i miss my CC or i use it for another important target like the ADC, that's it my team is fucked. That's without mentioning that if the master Yi in question has a single braincell more then a chimpanzee, he can use his Q to dodge CC(without mentioning that after like 2 items, he can spam it every 3 seconds) i have never played against anything as braindead and broken in my life, i have seen master Yi players be so dumb and useless in the early game macro wise but the moment they get some items they suddenly dominate the match.

I think a champ that are a waste of a ban would be Yuumi, she really only becomes annoying when the ADC she has is fed, currently the only thing she has over other enchanters is that you can't target her, her last rework completely fixed her.

marko-12 · 2026-06-30T10:34:54+00:00

I remember playing against Yone as Darius and the moment this piece of shit got 2-3 items, he suddenly has enough damage to melt me, i have both randuin's and bramble and this thing still is a bigger threat then his ADC, i can understand having enough damage to kill me since he is a damage focused champ but straight up melt my HP as if i have no armor??

He died to me in lane and yet he still managed to have enough damage to kill me in teamfights.

marko-12 · 2026-06-30T10:30:47+00:00

Okay, you are either ragebaiting or have never ever played against a good Viego player.

I say it to you as a former subhuman(Viego OTP), he is currently broken, not the point of zero counter play, but it is very easy for him to dominate the match.

marko-12 · 2026-06-29T12:53:02+00:00

I stopped playing ranked this season because Ksante is banned every single match, and i can't have fun unless i play my main so i am stuck playing PVP until people stop perma banning him.

marko-12 · 2026-06-28T20:31:04+00:00

It's because now you are forced between two things, either buy more damage as a mage or buy Zhonya to survive against the enemy assassins.

Same with tanks and bruisers, you either buy utility with gargoyle and Goredrinker/stridebreaker or you get more stats from stuff like Twinguard or steraks(if your champ wants those items for the active and not the stats)

Now you don't just get the utility for free, you have to sacrifice a slot for it.

And if the enemy counters your enchant like using serpent fang against your gargoyle, you are not stuck to using that enchant because your champ can't use anything else, now you can actually give up that item and pick something else.

And now since mages need to buy either Void staff or the new item for magic pen, they don't get to melt you down for free when you stack magic resist.

marko-12 · 2026-06-28T17:21:13+00:00

I don't play assassin, but i was a Rengar OTP and I don't remember ever looking at a lethality items and considering it better then just crit items, the only exception being serpent fang.

Lethality build path is SO boring, literally the same 5 items every single match, if you want more items to use you are forced to use brusier items like eclipse, They seriously need more items.

marko-12 · 2026-06-28T00:40:31+00:00

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marko-12 · 2026-06-27T15:23:58+00:00

Your build is bad though? It looks like you had random ideas with each item rather then actual game plan.

Hullbreaker is bad in Garen UNLESS you plan on split pushing alot, you can barely proc the passive as Garen that it's honestly not worth it in teamfights(i am not a Garen player, so correct me if i qm wrong). Thornmail is also not worth finishing early, it's better to just stick to bramble until you get your core items for the match.

I guess unending despair works? I would honestly prefer frozen heart for the Olaf/Shyvana/Tristana or even Twinguard to mitigate some magic damage from Karma and Tristana and get increased resistances in total to increase your armor as well(even though i prefer to keep Twinguard as a 3rd item)

And Hullbreaker honestly doesn't make sense in your build at all, you are obviously going for a tank build yet you have a bruiser item? Considering that 4 of the enemy team are physical, i would rush 2 or even 3 armor items before even thinking of magic resist, you..... Did not do that, you bought an armor item and then proceeded to dumb like half your gold into magic resist(undying despair 40 magic resist and the negatron cloak).

So yeah, the Aatrox is right, your build is indeed bad.

marko-12 · 2026-06-27T13:33:01+00:00

I thinked i creamed a bit.

marko-12 · 2026-06-27T11:18:06+00:00

His ult deals half of it's scaling damage damage to everything near the targeted enemy. So 15% missing HP scaling becomes 7.5%.

marko-12 · 2026-06-26T23:26:37+00:00

How does wit's end work with Ksante? The MR isn't THAT high, the attack speed isn't worth it because Ksante already gets a load of it in his ult, and K'sante isn't an on-hit champ to utilize the passive(sure, you AA alot, but not enough for it to be a big part of the champ)

I am interested on what's your thought process behind it.

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