League of Designs

Ugh. I hate that "they" thematic. It's not two characters- it's ONE character and a fucking circle debuff with a face.

Anyway. I hope we give Kindred some love sometime soon- Jungle Marksmen is a super cool idea- I just wish her success was less tied to her Marks (just to be clear I would not be asking for a full removal, just less marks required to be useful at the cost of less scaling via marks).

Janna is one of those champions that will probably always have a super high winrate when she's in a healthy spot balance-wise. What she brings to a game is constant mitigation of mistakes at the cost of Janna's mana pool (not much of a cost if you ask me). It's okay that you took that skillshot because Janna shielded you. It's okay you were way out of position and got dived on because Janna R'd them away. It's okay that the enemy team dogpiled on your tank line because Janna knocked them all up with Q. It's okay that Janna got totally caught out warding by herself because she used each of these tools to self-peel an entire team of champions away from her.

In addition, E's AD+ is a bit of a win-more tool. So while she's mitigating all these mistakes she's also empowering her carries. Pretty powerful combo. With tools like that, even when she's not very powerful she will win a lot of games.

On a scale of 1 to replays + sandbox mode I'm gonna have to rate it an Urgot.

I'm always excited for VGU's. Every time it's a new puzzle to solve- learning how to win with a new kit is always exciting for me. The cool thing about VGU's is you can see the bits and pieces of the characters as they were before they were updated- Urgot is riddled with them. You can see bits of the R swap mechanic on his new E, the lock-on mechanic from old E still lives on QER, etc.

Personally I feel like Talon is in a good spot. He has a pretty interesting niche as a hardcore roamer and finds relative success in that niche. What do you think is wrong with him? Rather, what do you think should be changed about him?

Team-oriented champions with a weaker early game will typically need to rest a bit weaker in unorganized play- that being said, Sivir is easily "good enough" for solo Q

These 2 comments are pretty much what I think about Yi. Some people love the character and want him to be stronger, others absolutely fucking hate him.

If we were to rework Yi (which I think is a good idea) I think we'd want to really pay close attention to the playing against experience and offer options to out play the guy. Currently it feels like he just right clicks you and you die and there's nothing you can do about it.

Try out either Fervor or Stormraider's, and you can use you a standard ADC page as a baseline for runes (AS quints/AD red/Armor yellow/MR blue)

I believe the Urgot expert (S0be) on our team set the recommended items so they should be a good general baseline with hybrid offensive/defensive items- you can adjust it based on whether you need more survivability or damage.

Black Cleaver first is nice as he stacks it very quickly and values all the stats on it, and Frozen Mallet is good since Urgot can afford to sacrifice a bit of combat efficiency and still win fights as long as he can keep his enemies from kiting him

My god. I hadn't heard this until now. This is so damn good.

IMO Sivir's gameplay is pretty good- it would be hard for me to argue that she needs a gameplay update on the scale of a champion like Azir.

ALSO IMO I think Sivir was already a powerful pick in soloq in 7.14- but since she's a late game carry that requires a significant amount of gold to really start killing teams her style doesn't succeed well in soloq because of how snowbally soloq can be (her R is great before she gets her items tho).

Hi! I'm the Playtester for Urgot! I helped make his recommended item page. If you need a build, I would recommend that one. BUT here's my personal set of runes/masteries and itemization since it deviates a little bit from the rec items.

Here's my preferred setup for runes: Marks: 9x Attack Damage Seals: 9x Armor Glyphs: 9x Magic Resist Quints: 3x Attack Speed

You can replace the armor seals with Hp/Level depending on matchup, and Lethality Marks are good into squishy matchups.

Masteries: 21/0/9

Important masteries to take: In Ferocity: Sorcery, Feast, Natural Talent, Battle Trance, Battering Blows, Fervor of Battle In Resolve: Recovery, Tough Skin (or siegemaster, you spend a lot of time at their turret since Urgot tends to auto push with P procs), Runic Armor, Fearless

Itemization: Starting Items Start with a Doran's Shield and 1x Hp potion and yellow trinket

Core Items: Black Cleaver{{item:3071}} Ninja Tabi {{item:3047}}

Into magic damage matchups: Spirit Visage{{item:3065}} or Maw of Malmortious{{item:3156}} are good second item buys

Into physical damage matchups: Bramblevest!{{item:3076}} You should already have tabi, so with Tabi+Bramblevest you should have around 70 bonus armor and resistance to AA's.

3rd-6th items: Choose from damage or defensive options:

_Damage: _

Frozen Mallet{{item:3022}} Sterakk's Gage{{item:3053}} (if you didn't build Maw), Guardian Angel{{item:3026}} , Death's Dance{{item:3812}} , or Mortal Reminder{{item:3033}} (if they have lots of tanks, but it's 7.15 they will probably have lots of tanks -,-)

Defense:

Warmog's {{item:3083}} , Thornmail {{item:3075}}, Spirit Visage {{item:3065}} , Righteous Glory {{item:3800}}, Locket {{item:3190}} are all decent options.

My favorite build looks like this: {{item:3071}} {{item:3047}} {{item:3076}} {{item:3022}} {{item:3083}}{{item:3156}} {{item:3075}}

Talon feels plenty good to play right now IMO with Lethality being strong

The nerf in 7.14 for Fiora hit her a bit harder than we wanted- we'll still be working on what (if anything) ships for Fiora next patch. Regarding the buff on PBE for 7.16, assuming that ships it would be partially reverting the 7.14 nerf but not all the way.

In other words, you can still think of her as nerfed compared to pre-7.14 but not as hard.

It's still less feast or famine than old flat pen.

As a mage main, I don't really think mages are in that tough of a spot. Initiation tanks are powerful and naturally do a lot of work against the class, but without Aegis giving MR auras mages still provide a lot of needed sustained magic damage. Positioning on them is just harder. There's a reason Ori/Syndra/Taliyah are some of the most contested picks in pro play.

Personally, I don't think she'll see much play because tanks generally do well into her - lots of dive options and a lots of health to sustain through her burst. Her cooldowns are generally too high to deal with them too.