DJisKxng
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
In the couple of times I've played Shen, his kit has struck me as just plain odd. His "sword" isn't a sword isn't anything but name, and allowing it to deal damage to non-champions would at least be a small step toward making the thematics and gameplay align.
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sirglocksalot
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mvmlego
(NA)
They've made their guidelines for buffing and nerfing public. Are they violating those guidelines with these buffs, or do you consider the guidelines to be bad?
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Pithuahua
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mvmlego
(NA)
That occurred to me, too. At this point, what's the intended use of Devour as a support? Switching tower aggro? Keeping the ADC safe for a couple of seconds while your team cleans up the enemy? (The latter seems unlikely since you'd have to outnumber them by 2 for it to work, considering that TK and the ADC are useless while Devour is used on an ally.) Those seem like they should be niche uses of the ability, not its primary purpose.
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Byrden
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
I used to encounter them all the time, but I haven't at all for the last patch or two. Is it still an issue?
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Uminaga
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
I remember thinking the same thing a few months ago. I think that image is the standard thumbnail for lore updates, and they chose it because she looks like she's leisurely reading something.
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finchlark
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mvmlego
(NA)
I knew that someone would write that reply, but I didn't address that point in my original comment because I figured people wouldn't read it if it was any longer.
I understand that real people and institutions have flaws, and I actually think that Piltover harvesting brackern crystals was a great touch to the world-building. On the other hand, the frequency and degree of derogatory comments and poor treatment against mages in the Lux series borders on obnoxious and strains my suspension of disbelief.
Regarding Runeterra's various personal rivalries: there's a right way to show conflicts between people who are well-intentioned (or genuinely good), and a wrong way to do it. Captain America: Civil War is a great example of that; two genuinely great characters are each trying to make the world a better place but have incompatible plans for doing that. There are a few important things to point out, though. Both characters had extensive characterization, whereas Kayle and Morgana don't. Second, we understood what the characters were fighting about, there was a lot of subtlety to the issue, and we knew exactly what each character's position on the issue was. The lore for Kayle and Morgana never got more specific than stating that Morgana tried to rehabilitate criminals when Kayle would have preferred to punish them.
Finally, I'd like to point out that you don't need to make everybody and everything grey in order to make a good story, or even to be realistic. Lord of the Rings has some pretty clear-cut lines between the good guys and bad guys while giving characters just enough flaws to be believable, and it's a great story. Regarding the point about realism: plenty of real-world conflicts have been black-and-white (or black-and-light-grey at murkiest), such as World War II and the 1960s civil rights movement. Stories based around such conflicts can be interesting, even though we know exactly who we're supposed to root for.
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ShadowGlaive213
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mvmlego
(NA)
I hadn't really noticed it at the time, but you're right; your boat analogy is spot-on. My other criticism of the comic (though I suppose it's the Lux series and the lore more broadly, not Lux: Issue 3 in particular) is that they've gone too far in subverting the classic good and bad roles.
It seems that most elements of Runeterra that were thoroughly good in previous lore have been changed to be just as bad as many of their classically evil counterparts. Demacia is over-the-top magophobic, Kayle seems to think jaywalkers should get the death penalty, Piltover blew up or flooded half of Zaun in order to open up a trade route and is committing genocide against the brackern in order to make some fancy gadgets, Jayce killed a hospital full of people in order to stop one of Viktor's inventions, and Ashe betrayed all of her ideals at the end of her comic series.
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ChiefMustardo
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I'm pretty excited about this, too. I'm wondering how they're quantifying percentages of a costume, though. That seems like a nightmare for judges. Even a theoretically simple metric, such as weight, isn't practical, since judges can't take apart most of these costumes in order to weigh their parts.
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Riot swimbananas
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I'M JUST REALLY HYPE OK?!?!
ok
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EdgeLady
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
I disagree. There are plenty of mages that were intended to be played mid lane that seem to work better as supports right now, and I don't see why assassins are different. You could make the case that mages are just meant to deal lots of damage (which helps the ADC), whereas assassins are meant to secure kills (which isn't helpful to the ADC), but that was specifically addressed in Pyke's design by the gold-sharing mechanic.
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Glaricion
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mvmlego
(NA)
> 1st - You usually buy RP with a credit or debit card, which is less psychologically painful than using actual cash.
That's not obscuring the cost.
> 2nd - RP is funny money, it is hard to put actual value in it, giving a psychological disconnect between items and their costs.
Actually, it's pretty easy to put a dollar value on it: 130 points per dollar. Check the store, which offers 650 RP for $5. If someone is in the habit of making bulk purchases of RP, then they can use the bulk rate instead.
> 3rd - Random chance (again) hides the expected chance and costs of getting the item(s) you are after.
Fair enough. I see this as a problem with player expectations, rather than Riot's business strategy, but I see where you're coming from. I would just spend $5 and use the best thing that I got from it, rather than keep insisting to myself that I **NEED** a particular item, regardless of the cost.
> 4th - This all makes it rather hard to keep track of repeated RP purchases made in an attempt to get the item you want.
Not really, unless you're interspersing Little Legends purchases with other purchases. Even then, it's not any tougher than keeping track of the money in one's saving's account.
> 5th - These repeated purchases are further encouraged by degenerative patterns of thought such as Gambler's Fallacy. If I just rolled the dice a few dozen times and failed to get what I wanted, that must mean that if I roll them one more time I might get the thing I actually want!
Once again, that's a problem with player expectations. Riot never suggests that getting boxes that you don't like increases your chance of getting a box that you do like, so they're not obscuring anything.
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holywhitetrash
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mvmlego
(NA)
I don't see how the randomness makes it immoral. Do you also consider Pokemon to be immoral on the same grounds? I don't see the difference.
I'm not disagreeing that the randomness makes the product worse, by the way. I can guarantee that I won't be buying any loot boxes, whereas I probably would have spent a couple of dollars to directly get the little legend that I like.
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muchorojo
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
IKR. The OP made it sound like he was personally wronged.
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ELITEGundam
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mvmlego
(NA)
On the other hand, she's also introducing a new faction. Consider all the stuff that happened when Azir was released along with the new Shurima lore.
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Islandcrater
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mvmlego
(NA)
In B4 the guy who says "So you're fine with child slave labor if it lets you get free stuff? >:("
Obviously, Islandcrater's statement is limited to ethical means. If you think there's something _morally_ wrong with the system that Riot has, then you'll have to explain why, because it's far from obvious to me and many others.
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Glaricion
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
> the obscuring of how much money you're spending to acquire said legends in several different ways?
Such as... ?
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Worst Summoner
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mvmlego
(NA)
Good to know, thanks.
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Crystalysk
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> I would also recommend to not try to climb on saturday/sunday, the amount of trolls in those 2 days is just out of control.
I'll have to keep that in mind. The thing that bugs me about that sort of strategy ("do X to avoid the trolls"), though, is that I should theoretically be benefiting from playing during those times. Given that I'm not a troll, there's a greater chance of a troll being on the enemy team than on my team (5 random players vs. 4). It doesn't seem to work out that way, though.
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Tremaursen
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I feel your pain. I've been in low platinum for the last three seasons, and it's pretty disgusting what behavior people consider acceptable, and what Riot makes de-facto acceptable by not punishing. The proportion of people who ragequit from the game who actually get punished is abysmal, and there's at least one toxic player almost every game. If I'm lucky, that player is on the enemy team and only types in the team chat. The ragequitter part is especially frustrating, both because of how devastating it is to a game, and because of how easy you'd think it would be for Riot to verify those reports.
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Worst Summoner
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mvmlego
(NA)
Wait, what's the relationship between Taric and Twisted Treeline? I'm curious because I'm a Taric main and recently got into TT with my roommate who's new to the game.
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Qiyana Rundown
mvmlego
(NA)
I really like the idea of an elemental magician, and I like that her abilities distinguish between different types of terrain on Summoner's Rift. I'm a bit less satisfied with her specific background. Presumably, her civilization is the oldest in the known world. Such a civilization could not survive with a system of government that relied on ritual combat.
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Qiyana Rundown
mvmlego
(NA)
I'm a little confused by her AD scaling. I understand that she's using a weapon with a sharp edge, but she's also using lots of magic. She's supposedly the best elemental mage in the world, after all. At the very least, stats like her bonuses from being near the current element, as well as the effects of her ultimate ability, should scale with AP. There are a lot more AD-based assassins that AP or hybrid ones, so what gives?
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BettyWhiteLifts
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mvmlego
(NA)
I said that Karma Chameleon referenced it, not invented it. Apparently, even five years after Baker created the pride flag, the color combination of red, gold, and green was still associated with gay pride in the public's mind.
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BettyWhiteLifts
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
I don't see how your response was warranted whatsoever. In what way am I not minding my own business by posting on the forums of a game that I play regularly?
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Cetri
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
Then it's not "gay pride" or, more generally, pride in one's sexual orientation; it's pride in one's character--specifically the character trait of persistence. I'm fine with people being proud of that as long as they are, in fact, overcoming substantial adversity, and as long as they make it clear that the celebration is a celebration of character, not demographics.
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Minerva Theory
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mvmlego
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> There's nothing wrong with taking pride in what your demographic (so to speak) has accomplished.
There absolutely is. A person who is the same sex, race, or sexual orientation of someone who has accomplished something (or does something wrong) doesn't confer credit (or blame) to that person, and violations of that principle constitute stolen valor (or unjust punishment).
> Minimizing it like you are is problematic.
What problems would be created by everybody being indifferent toward sexual orientation?
> quit your bellyaching because it's doing nothing but trying to steal the spotlight like a child who got upset about not being the centre of attention.
Did you just assume that I'm straight? You definitely assumed what my motive is. Both of those assumptions are unjustified.
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Rosso
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
That's not how LGB people and their "allies" are treating it, though--or, presumably, the people at Riot.
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mvmlego
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
I really, really, really don't see what a net three people saw in this that was problematic enough to downvote it. I'm sick of having polite and (what I thought were) non-controversial statements of fact down-voted with no reason given. Please, to anyone who reads this, if you're going to downvote a comment that doesn't have a response saying what the problem with the comment is, then write one.
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xAcidik
(NA)
I'd like to make an addendum to point number 13. Sometimes, it's reasonable for laners to be hesitant to follow up on gank attempts when there are large minion waves near their tower. Typically, large waves like that develop because the champion who is extended has much more health and mana. If a laner in that situation initiates a fight, then there's a good chance they'll die to the combination of their lane opponent and the large wave of minions.
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Vhozek
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
IKR. One doesn't have to be a homophobe (or even be straight) to realize that it's absurd to take pride in who you're sexually attracted to.
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Drewskey
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
There really isn't any reason to think Taric is gay. The idea of it grew out of a running joke in the community pairing him with Ezreal back when Ezreal's splash art made him look like a girl. So, it was actually a "straight" relationship. Once Ezreal's splash art was changed, the joke was lost on newer players, and so the idea that Taric is gay was born.
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Worst Summoner
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
If it's about not liking "who you're supposed to", then the acronym really should be lopped off after the first three letters--and I do think it should. It's always been concerning to me that people will proudly claim to be part of a movement whose name they can't articulate.
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Rowanstar
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
I was wondering that, too. Originally, at least in western culture, the rainbow had religious importance. Specifically, it was a sign to Noah's family after the flood that there would never be another flood that would destroy mankind. In contrast, the combination of colors representing gay pride used to be red, gold and green. (The song "Karma Chameleon" makes a reference to this.) I'm not sure how that all got shuffled around.
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Blankr
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
From the perspective of someone who regularly bans Akali (yes, even after the most recent nerfs), what I find frustrating is her unique combination of burst damage, sustained damage, mobility, healing, and untargetability. Having having two or three of those is pretty standard for an assassin, but nobody else that I can think of has all five.
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Best Stripper NA
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
I thought that a lot of its usefulness came from allowing her to reposition without being targeted, and by giving her an advantage against skillshots. That said, I've never played Akali.
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Best Stripper NA
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
That might be what he was referring to. I was getting some of the terminology mixed up. Specifically, I was thought "stealth" referred to the mechanic that is specifically called "invisibility".
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MasterMYi
(EUW)
mvmlego
(NA)
I think you passingly mention a problem that could, by itself, reduce much of the problem with Akali if it was fixed. If she became targetable for a tiny bit longer when she attacked from her shroud, then champions would be able to get in a basic attack. That opens up a lot of counterplay for opponents, especially those such as Nasus and Mundo who can pack a lot of power into one basic attack, while preserving much of the ability's usefulness. Your thoughts?
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ZT Xperimentor
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
> they're undoing it while trying to ignore taking the blame
I would agree if they didn't acknowledge that they were reverting the changes, but they acknowledge it consistently. Why do you think they're trying to shift the blame to, the players? What more do you want from them, someone from Riot literally saying "sorry that we made a mistake"? I don't see why people would want that in all but the most extreme cases, such as leaving Dominion to rot--and they did apologize for that.
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KMS Cyrekt
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
I agree about the turret sight thing. Having an ability that supersedes true sight is like having an ability that reduces true damage. It's bad from a consistency standpoint, and it further weakens an already-weak game element (i.e. turrets).
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kcrimsonrequiem
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
I don't think they need to remove her stealth, but they should trim it down in two important ways. First, remove its ability to cloak within tower sight range. Having that mechanic is like having someone capable of reducing true damage by a percentage; it breaks a good and long-standing game rule. Second, increase the duration that she is revealed for when she attacks from her shroud. Even some champions who build some attack speed can't target her with her basic attacks, even though she can hit them once a second or so.
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MrWasjig
(EUW)
mvmlego
(NA)
You said that under the patch notes where they reverted Zac's ultimate due to player feedback. Take your cynicism elsewhere, please.
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Patch 9.11 notes
mvmlego
(NA)
Either you guys wrote this backwards, or the bug didn't actually get fixed: "Guardian's tooltip now properly indicates an ability power ratio of 0.25% instead of 0.25 or 25%". Currently, it's displaying as 25%. This seems right, because .25% is incredibly small.
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igniteisfornoobs
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
Yep. I was just in a game yesterday as Cho'Gath against a Vayne who did more true damage than physical damage. I couldn't even make any of my damage stick to her, even though I had Thornmail, because she had two lifesteal items. It was dumb.
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MauledByAPenguin
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
Cho is actually a sleeper OP in the jungle, IMO, especially with the scuttle crab spawn time moved back.
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metamilo
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
What's wrong with Twisted Treeline? I've been playing it a lot lately, and it's pretty fun. There are definitely some champions who are fine on SR but overpowered or underpowered on TT (with Kayne being the biggest offender that I can think of), but there's a reasonable amount of diversity.
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MarceIo
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
This feels satisfying, but I'm a little concerned that a buff to Refillable Potion would crowd out other secondary jungle items.
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gðose
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
...and that waiter's about to drop a tray.
*crash*
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TimelessLuck
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
Which ones, specifically? With only one exception (Malphite), I think that all of the champions who were put in limbo after the Great Retcon (e.g. Nocturne, Kayle, Taric) have been given updated biographies.
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JonnyBoyy
(NA)
mvmlego
(NA)
I like the idea of having a quick way of getting information about different races/species/creatures. I really don't like the idea of a comments section on Universe, though.
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michaelchan
(NA)
I know you like to set up ambushes from brush, but that can backfire badly if the enemy has vision of it. To ensure they don't, do you typically take the Oracle upgrade, buy lots of control wards, or only set up your turrets there if you just saw your support or jungler clear the area?
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