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idont think you understand the term hard counter

no matter how fed you are, if lulu ults and shields your target, it isnt going to die, if it uses any of those items or summoners, probably not going to die. stopping his ult from proccing does tremendous damage to burst and usefulness(and when you thing about it the ADC SHOULD have cleanse, and the APC SHOULD have zhonyas, in basicly all situations, especiallly against zed)

just because he can kill an unprotected target instantly when hes  fed doesnt mean hes op. so many other champions can have greater impacts on the game,even when theyre not that far aahead (ie jax and irelia, both of whom can kill carries just as fast and tank for their team at the same time)

so theyre planning to ruin zed????

hes already hard countered by quite a few things(qss zhonyas cleanse lulu janna orianna, not to mention that barrier screws up his burst) and theyre planning to go with a huge nerf to his e(his e wont be able to be used twice during his ulti, destroying his burst) the q nerf i could live with, but i do think its unjustified.

hes one of the first actually fun mechanicalchampions theyve released in a long time, and if those nerfs went through it would ruin him.

Curse did not lose that game because of blitz, they lost that because they forgot how to teamfight and not do stupid shit

although its yet to be seen how the tower buffs will affect the metagame, passive teams have been suffering since the beginning of S3(for a several reasons). idont think that sitting back and farming is a very viable option right now for a midlaner, unless youre playing someone like karthus. mids have the largest impact on the game through the midgame, and passively farming through the early midgame wastes some of that strength.

if anything passive play belongs more in the duo lane right now, and if you prefer staying at mid, you should practice some more aggressive play. just try some smart aggression like poking while they cs or while theyre out of position and you may put more pressure on them than you realize

(ii think someone like Oriana might suit your style very well, she isnt that aggressive in lane but can bully fairly well, she can assist your jungler gank, as well as her being incredibly strong during the current meta where divers/assassins are so common.)

karthus and Cassiopeia are the top two by far with kat being up with them circumstantially.

beyond them the only "dps mages" are really swain and vlad as i would classify most other mages as utility or burst.

if played at her maximum potential(something very hard to do) anivia comes in close behind karth and cass in damage

there was a post on RoG which listed all the mages by their base and scaling damage over certain periods of time that you should try to find, i dont think there have been too many changes since that post was written.

for the record, i said on the RoG  forums BEFORE S3 had even started that elise was going to be op based on item and pen changes.

and its amazing that elise has managed to not hit been hit by the nerfbat, but i think thats because they realize that she is very strong in lane but isnt all that strong in teamfights.

and you seem to be a sheep for simply agreeing with the article and thenpretending that they havent tried to adress elise's strength, or that they actually buffed liandries a couple patches ago

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Having said that, double bruiser bots (or at least bruiser+Taric/Leona/Ali/Thresh) will probably have a place because it's just so hard to peel S3 assassins and bruisers and I don't see a solution to it. Even the pros seem to be having problems with it. 

you simply cant peel for a twitch against an elise xin alistar diana comp very well, its true(im talking, and will continue to talk about the dig v curse). but why would you pick twitch when you see elise xin and alistar(even though alistar prob wont be diving him in pro games), and youre playing against dig, didnt ban diana, and diana has been picked up by scarra at every opportunity? when i saaw the twitch pick i knew that they were going to have a hard game, i knew that diana pick was going to come out, and on top of that they didnt pick up oriana which would havve been much better for protecting twitch(btw ORIANA IS GREAT FOR PROTECTING CARRIES FROM DIVERS). when you see elise and xin, and diana is a high probability pick, YOU NEED TO PICK AN ADC THAT CAN KITE, such as Ez, or tristana. you probably also need to pick up a support like janna or alistar, and a mid like oriana helps a ton. ADC's STILL DO THE MOST SUSTAINED DAMAGE OVER THE COURSE OF A FIGHT, BUT THEY WONt IF ThEY DIE INSTANTLY BECAUSE YOU PICKED ONE THAT CANT ESCAPE.

people need to LEARN how to deal with the current meta, i think that a adc-less comp will be more viable, but if you just learn to pick champions for the different roles that are more suited for the meta, instead of just doing the "comfort picks" on adc like MF or twitch.

i REALLY dont like these nerfs, because i liked playing bruiser nidalee, and this seems to affect ad nid more than ap nid...

everyone was complaining about ap nid(although i didnt think it was THAT big of an issue, i did understand the complaint) and they go and destroy ad nidalee.

She is MUCH squishier than she was before and no you have NO incentive to jump into cougar for unless its a 1v1 and the enemy is low, this is the opposite of what they said they wanted....