Garen OP Damage, but even more stupid easy to kite now.

Q, I was playing heavy damage Garen. IE, Atma's, Maw, CDR Boots, crit for 800. E was spin critting for like 200~ per tick.

Calc'd out how much the Damage Redux on W actually helps Garen. At 100 AR/MR, Garen basically has the equivalent of 210 AR/MR for the duration of W.

That's a lot of extreme power there, especially since he can now just rush CDR boots since his W gives him tenacity when active.

He farms minions like a boss now too. At 100~ AD, his rank 5 E can kill off caster minions without any problems at all. At 170~ AD, his E wipes out a full minion wave.

Basically, he builds doesn't need to build as much defense now while being able to unload a higher amount of damage.

The thing that's really killing him is Q being the slow cleanse instead of E. It lets him escape easier, but his engages are insanely hard now since he has to save Q for the cleanse when they inevitably slow him or use it to engage and get kited.

 

I think AD Taric is the most fun and engaging build I've played since 3 turret Heimer. I have to watch my spell timers, because my heal comes up so fast I can lose 1k or more in heals over the course if a teamfight. Hitting my ult just after shatter is devastating to an opponent squishy, and I can lock them down with a targetted stun. My sustain in jungle is so strong, and I have stronger ganks as Taric than I do as Maoki for most levels.

When I walk out of bush and stun an opponent, shatter and ult, my lane is gettung free damage and spell power, plus armor shred. If I'm lucky they have exhaust and I can bash their face in while countering any damage they do to me and my helpers with Q.

 

GOD FUCKING DAMN! I really hate idiots right now.

Leona, at fucking 40 minutes in. Zero Armor or MRes. Only has GP/10, Kindlegem, and fucking MTreads.

The ENTIRE enemy CC consisted of Irelia and Soraka.

Fucking retarded Gragas used Flash and Body slam to ulti the enemy team behind TWO towers.

Shitty Lee Sin actually got killed by fucking twitch when he was fully geared and had wards everywhere.

I'm going 7-1-6 as Garen and destroyed their Irelia. I can't carry these retards even if I 3-shot like 1/2 their team.

 

Ghost/Cleanse now OP on Garen.

 

Garen is secretly Batman. He goes in, he strikes, and he leaves before anyone figures out what happened.


P.S: I <3 Riot Graves

 

New Katarina seems... I dunno, from the few games I've played with/against her today she seems to get kills a lot more often though she's still stupidly easy to shut down in teamfights as Taric, then again it's normal syndrome so... Had a load of cocky Kata's raging when we let them die in a 1 vs 5. Stupid number of Mejai's today too.

Not sure about the Full Metal Rammus skin, never seen Rammus outside last week's free rotation, seems like it'll be another Battlecast Cho'Gath, cool idea, bought, played, realised still not so good and put back on the bench.

 

I can't wait for at least 1 pro team to use the 20% damage reduction on Kat with Maoki ult and just lol. I hate her, so I am bias, but her kit seems too good. Damage reduction, ms boost, cd reset, healing reduction, gap opener/closer.... Most people can't even do half of that.

 

Seeing about Custom 5v5's this evening for anyone interested. We already have six people in the game lobby.

:EDIT:
Seven now.

 

Rammus makes me sad. Does alright for jungle with wriggles, but otherwise his clear his sooo slow. Ganks are very strong though.

 

Need 1 more for our Aram game, gogogo

 

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

Rammus jungle so slow unless you start cloth5. And if you do, ganks so slow. Maybe I need to refine my technique yet but he definitely wants wriggles. I think your level 3 point definitely has to go into taunt if you want to gank ever. Powerball last and you just don't rush gp10 items, but I'm not sure how that effects your endgame. Also, the build I liked the best doesn't use his passive very well (warmog as a core, which grants no items, then depending on enemy comp randuin or FoN) but leaves him pretty tanky. I wish their was a health/ms item that wasn't trinity. I get tired of building that item on every character.

 

Then... don't? Movespeed from FoN, plenty of health and more on Warmog's, and situational greater movespeed/movespeed-reduction on Shurelya's and Randuin's, respectively. They even have health to go with them. That is to say, that I wouldn't bother with the very expensive Trinity on quite a few tanky champions, who are not really meant to be auto-attacking enough to make proper usage of it.

 

Why are you even trying to clear with Rammus? Play him like Alistar, get buffs and gank all day.

 

I meant his initial clear.

 

Stack armor runes and gank all day then. Can easily get into the 30s at least on pure runes.

 

Need more runepages to do that. I either have to save to 6300 to buy a single runepage (in which case, I would probably make a dedicated ADC page over a full armor one for a jungle like Rammus) or pay money for the 5 runepage bundle. Either way not something I'm very interested in. The sacrifices you make to be a cheap miser, I suppose.

And I'm already level 30....

 

I didn't have a full runepage until like 200 games after I hit 30... They're so expensive Dx

 

I had my full rune page as soon as I hit level 30. o,o Champions, there are always free ones. But the two standard ap/ad pages are simply necessary to not be behind early levels. Variations of rune pages are nice, and may fit in with specific champions better. But in the end, there differences usually aren't too major compared with just running the standard runes (Armor Seals, Scaling MR Glyphs, AP/AD pen Marks, Flat AP/AD)

 

Anyone know at what point new summoners started getting two runepages instead of three?

 

I, too, am curious. Amusingly, I believe that I made an account several days before my brother, but he has three pages innately.