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Which champs will you write about next time?

Hey Emerald, I liked this article :) 

Here are the things I liked the most:

• Relative rankings, e.g. you noted her AA range is "Above average" and her MS is "Below average". Too often people post numbers and a lot of newer chumps don't know what they really mean :) 
• Noted her level 1. Level one fighting is important, please try to do this for all future champs.
• Noted how ambiguous item effects are proc'd, e.g. Spell Vamp and Ryali's slow. 

What I thought could use a little improvement:

• Hard numbers on burst. While the hard numbers are good for some people who already know how much burst an AP mid generally deals, saying something to put it into perspective like "Has more burst than Morgana, but less than Le'Blanc" would help people like me who don't know the hard numbers  :)

I enjoyed the article, can't wait to see the next one if the series continues

I like this new kind of post, on champions!

Hope to see more of that in the futur :)

She is so broken atm you don't even need to rely on hitting with your most skillshots. Your plant's dmg and slow are sufficient to make your opponent cry.

I really like this approach. It gives us non-champion-experts daily gamers a better insight in what the champion is good for.

In addition, i'd like to see what kind of team she excels with, maybe also what kinda of opponents/enemy team she will be shut down by and when she would be a bad pick for your team.
Say our team lacks initiation and/or CC, would she be a good pick or would another mage be better?
If we lack good damage, does she provide this for our team or is another mage better?
etc... :)

Great start tho, will definetly be reading these series if you continue!

I realize this is simply a set of notes for a champion and not a full guide, but it would be very helpful to have a list of abilities and ratios on those abilities as well, for the sake of reference and comparison. I like the idea to have a cheat sheet like this for all champions, though, so keep up the good work!

You might want to add a bit more information such as counters, effective runes/masteries/items to use her with, and maybe some videos that highlight her play. Other than that, its pretty good. I like the damage calculations that you provided, they will be useful to know. GJ, i hope to see more of this.

You can base your masteries and runes on the fact that your ranges are super long and you don't really ever need to go that close to the enemy. So just flat mpen, ap and armor or mana reg on seals.  As for effective items. Roa is viable. Rabadon is the best item. Zhonya is also great. Rylai is meh, but viable. Void staff is a great 3rd, 4th item. Chalice is good, but not that efficient late game. I could upload one game where I fail in many regards quite hard, but still just pubstomp thanks to early game skirmishes and so. And then a game that shows the difference between good positioning and good skillshots vs bad positioning and bad skillshots.

Good read, I would like to see this as a series. It's just nice to have a new type of article.

I think that this missed on a golden opportunity to talk about Zyra as a support.  With her popularity growing, especially in Korea and Europe (the leaders in innovation really), there really hasn't been much talk about her in the support role.  In my opinion this kind of "lack" of forward thinking is the first problem with North American League'ing right now.

Nice, i really liked the idea of putting a poll at each champion note, with 5 champs of the same type so that we choose the next one. I would like to extend the idea, to making a cycle between the 5 positions and having 5 champs of the same role every time so that we cover all types

I main zyra and still picked up a thing or two.  Good series, i like it.  Keep up the good work.

I like what this can turn out to be. Sort of Flashcard for champions, covering minor details for when playing as and playing against (I would expand more on the counter play part).

This is probably trivial and probably brought up but if you are calculating burst at 0 MR then wouldn't you calculate burst at 19 MR and not 42? I say this because 0 MR is obtained with runes and masteries plus Sorc Shoes against some one with base MR, so including MR blues will bring MR up to 42, but you are still lowering it by 29. This of course is under the assumption that 99.9% of the time you are running MPen runes and Sorc Shoes.

Either way I like what this can become and look forward to future ones.