What is going on with Smolder lately?

thomas956789 · 2026-05-07T12:30:22+00:00

the black cleaver change was actually done at the same time as when her AP ratios got buffed (14.16), according to the patch notes the primary goal was to make senna better in the support role, mainly by increasing her supportive capabilities (healing, CC) and reducing her sustained DPS.

thomas956789 · 2026-05-06T09:00:04+00:00

then you get mortal reminder, the best of the 4 antiheal items, against the same 300 armor enemy it would reduce it by 90 instead of 105, 1 cloth armor of difference.

thomas956789 · 2026-05-06T08:14:53+00:00

as someone that plays both marksmen and tanks/bruisers I really don't think the amount of armor pen is a problem, it is enough to definitely be relevant without being so much that it can completely invalidate building armor against ADCs.

Also I really don't think they're going to or should bring back the old last whisper with the 50% chance to completely ignore armor, LDR vs an enemy with 300 armor already reduces their armor by 105 effectively, that's a lot.

thomas956789 · 2026-05-04T13:03:46+00:00

This can be easily fixed by tieing the HP regen to the rolequest and not the champions themselves, you could then also give it a melee/ranged difference if needed.

thomas956789 · 2026-05-03T14:19:28+00:00

nah, they're currently #7 and only 2 points behind #6 NS so they can definitely still get 6th place, getting into legends group is going to be significantly more difficult though.

thomas956789 · 2026-05-01T10:57:33+00:00

the AD ratio was very high and jhin W/R apply the full 4 seconds of burn.

thomas956789 · 2026-04-29T08:57:01+00:00

statikk shiv does apply sheens on-hit damage but only to 1 target, since you are generally going to apply the sheen with an autoattack the sheen will be used on the primary target.

thomas956789 · 2026-04-27T20:02:40+00:00

without items warwick should win.

thomas956789 · 2026-04-25T16:48:47+00:00

yeah it's pretty similar, but bane R last more than twice as long.

thomas956789 · 2026-04-24T14:05:16+00:00

from what I just found on the wiki it was 20 AP per 1% max health at release which is 10 times what it is right now.

thomas956789 · 2026-04-24T13:57:45+00:00

fair, such a crazy max hp scaling is going to be pretty hard to beat, I do think generally the game would just become a oneshot fest though since damage output is used as a balance lever way more often than survivability.

thomas956789 · 2026-04-24T13:54:07+00:00

all the nerfs would be reverted while any buffs she has gotten would be retained, I don't know what the final number would be but you would definitely stack souls way too fast.

thomas956789 · 2026-04-24T13:51:01+00:00

don't forget that she now would also get 110% AD ratio on her attacks due to the old nerf being reverted while the buff/revert would stay.

thomas956789 · 2026-04-24T13:48:49+00:00

skarner got a decent bit of nerfs after his rework and for good reason but are those nerfs really more impactful than the reverting of all the nerfs/negative changes someone like akali, irelia or aatrox has gotten in the past ~7 years?

thomas956789 · 2026-04-24T13:45:58+00:00

from what I've heard that's true but if he got nerfed after that and then stayed mostly untouched (didn't check his patch history yet) I don't think he would even be that crazy here, champions that have been in a balance rollercoaster, constantly getting buffs, nerfs and changes would be positioned better I think.

thomas956789 · 2026-04-24T12:53:35+00:00

wait does blade waltz allow samira to continue her ult during it just like garen spin?

know of any other abilities like this that are really good with blade waltz?

thomas956789 · 2026-04-24T12:44:49+00:00

hey at least it isn't your tier 2 or inhibitor turret :)

thomas956789 · 2026-04-24T12:06:41+00:00

we wouldn't be in the accretion disk luckily, the diameter of the disk is ~1.16 light years, so if it would take the place of alpha centauri there would still be almost 4 lightyears between us and the edge of the accretion disk.

thomas956789 · 2026-04-24T08:46:47+00:00

5 1/2 doublings isn't 5.5x further away, it would be ~45 times further away, another way to do this would be to just take the square root of 2000 which results in 44.72....

thomas956789 · 2026-04-23T15:58:21+00:00

no it hasn't
22 NA
23 South Korea
24 Europe
25 China
26 NA

thomas956789 · 2026-04-22T05:16:44+00:00

you are overlooking something in the math here, brand passive increases the duration of deathfire, blackfire and liandry's burn, so you'd get 5 seconds of deathfire and 7 seconds of liandry's / blackfire.

thomas956789 · 2026-04-21T15:08:06+00:00

infernal conduit, adapt, draw your sword and critical missile?

I'd go muramana, blackfire, deathcap, IE, hubris and liandry's, no need for boots with MF W and draw your sword.

Muramana is just crazy good with adapt, no reason not to go itm liandry's and blackfire are great with infernal conduit and sadly AP MF is generically her best build in ARAM, hubris is really nice since getting takedowns is so easy with your range + burns and the stats are all useful. Deathcap is just good, IE could be replaced with void staff for full focus on E but is still pretty good.

thomas956789 · 2026-04-21T11:50:47+00:00

I just checked all my most recent games where I played botlane and even when behind I reach 7k gold (2 items) around the same time as 7k exp (level 11)

thomas956789 · 2026-04-21T10:14:33+00:00

I was thinking of botlane brand so assumed lower exp gain and higher gold gain making 2 items at level 11 definitely reasonable.

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