Oh Lamora, I'm glad you're here.

My first thought was about how much you were playing League lately. :awesome

 

I had the exact same thought. "Lamora has been spending too much time on League lately. LoL!"

 

All the new items. Makes me want to support again. And jungle. Lanes can go Fuck themselves unless we start getting some beastly items.

2 support items, both are amazing. I have no idea what is supposed to compete with them. But I'm waiting.

 

For those wondering:

There are lots of other changes as well.

Meki Pendant/rejuv bead removed, all items involving them reworked to involve regrowth pendant/faerie charm.

Madreds BR removed. Blade of the Ruined King (currently on TT) available on SR to provide anti-tank. Let's face it, BR does nothing for anyone atm. Only stupid on-hit builds build it. And shitty kogmaws.

Ionic Spark removed. Xyph says that wit's end offers better on-hit and Tiamats is a better pushing tool, citing that "Tiamats has been vastly upgraded as a passive wave clear." He also mentions "Statikk Shiv" as another alternative item to build in place of Ionic Spark, but doesn't elaborate .

Elixir of Agility removed. No item offered as an alternative. Reasoning is that while health, AP, and CDR all scale well, the elixir of agi scales exponentially on AD carries and offer little for anyone else. It also widens the gap between a winning and losing AD carry, even if both buy it.

HoG removed. HP too strong.

Source for all of this can be found here: http://eune.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=4862528#post4862528

Also for next season's jungle changes: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2780182
No leashing, more commitment to required to steal wraiths, and some other goodies.

Jungle mobs will deal more damage. Although they reduced it with the jungle overhaul, they have increase the damage the monsters deal to prevent early game aggression from being as easy as it currently is. Having a full health level 2 lee sin with red buff and boots come into your lane before 3 creeps have died isn't very fun to play with or fair at all, and there is no true counter play for it besides sacrificing your early game strength by quite a bit. The goal here is to make junglers need to sacrifice something for that early aggression.

To counter the damage, Hunter’s Machete is being added to help clear the jungle with strength in the early game, and it builds into the mid-game jungling items (madreds/wriggles).

Jungle mobs rebalanced, with even more emphasis on the large mobs to make single target junglers more competitive. Gangplank is mentioned. Gold and EXP gained from the jungle will scale better than before, allowing farming jungles to be more competitive. Master Yi is mentioned.

More items being added for AP janglers apparently, but no further comment.

Champion minions will tank jungle mobs. Since shaco was left invulnerable with boxes tanking everything for him, jungle creatures deal extra damage to pets. They can still tank, but they don't completely remove the damage taken by the champion.


Also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6KCkgENki8
SC2 Vs LoL

 

List of item changes so far:

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2781374

 

Does this mean no more leashing?

 

Yes. It does make for something interesting when counter jungling though. For example, you hit someone doing their red, they run away, will the neutral minion now attack you?

 

PD lost Atk Spd and move speed. In exchange, it just got "Ignore Unit Collision".

 

Randuin's also builds out of ruby crystal instead of HoG now and apparently Locket is now built from Kindlegem and some other item that's not Emblem of Valor.

 

This is Bullshit.

(On a side note, I just got raped by the most fucking amazing Ashe ever. Best fucking Ashe arrows I have seen in almost 2k games. Not exaggerating. That shit was cash. Ruined my 7/2 score.)

 

In hindsight, I probably should have put the "some" qualifier in there so you wouldn't all freak out.

 

Where is this a quote from?

EDIT: nevermind. I was a bit confused since I thought the quote had a link back to the source, but I found it >.>


A Game of Champions by Lamora if anyone else is wondering.

 

TSM disconnects out of their own tournament. Wut

How can you not have good internet in a pro gaming house?

 

Try to use smartcasts and it shouldn't be a problem.

PS : was reading wrong page...my bad

 

Some interesting reading on the recent wave of bans by riot: http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=9311793#9311793

 

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/end-season-2-patch-notes

Season 2 almost over..Maybe.

 

New Tiamats:

Upgrades into:

Melee only. The passive active literally turn off when used by a ranged character. Jayce/Nidalee only have access to them in melee form. Much wider cleave radius, but lower damage as it spreads.

Source: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2795397

Some relevant responses later in the thread:

It will work with GP Q, not with any form switching camps. This includes nida/jayce/elise and kayle.

Xypherous responded that he isn't sure about Sion's ultimate. Imagine Sion lifestealing 110%+ on his passive cleave and aoe. Interesting.

Nasus Q can splash and give Nasus extra Q damage. Not confirmed.

 

I'm sad that things like Sheen procs and Nasus' Q won't increase Tiamat's splash damage anymore. I'll miss getting it occasionally on Ezreal to piss teams off with AoE Q spam and I'll miss stacking them for all Tiamat troll builds.

I'm not sad that they added a short ICD for multiple targets so that Shyvana pressing Q in dragon form doesn't instantly murder teams with a hundred Tiamat procs.