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In a pubstombing kind of way.

So... its a "win more" sort of item?

No. It's a item that is hard to get because it costs lots of gold, but if you can get it the reward is great. As long as you can pay for it it gives much bigger value on Udyr than Bloodthirster would, but getting either of them early enough to matter is almost impossible in a equal game.

In a way it is like Mejas. If you can get it stacked at a time where it matters it is probably the single strongest item for mages. It is not really a win more item, but getting it in the first place is to hard in a serious match.

Auto attacks are more like 'set attack timer to 2 out of 2' instead 'set attack timer to 0 out of 2 and give free attack'. So 100 free damage without auto attack reset is 100 extra damage. Getting 100 free damage and reset increases your damage and gives you and instant attack. It probably is easier to understand when you think about them as attack with cool down. Through the reset you can ignore the cd and increase your damage.

As long as you use it with perfect timing you get an auto attack without delay. So you get basically 100 free damage plus AD...

There are four/five champions I would say Hydra is viable and actually strong. The first is obviously Gangplank. Then there are split pushing assassins like Shaco and Rengar that want the aoe to clear waves fast and can use the active as extra burst. There are better items for that, though.

Zed's ultimate and W work kinda nicely with the active, but sword of the divine is just stronger.

And Udyr. Yep, Udyr. His Tiger attack speed triggers the passive extremely often, the dot and the active give an incredible burst, you Bear stance allows to stick to opponents. Oh, and the regeneration on Turtle stance works with Ravenous Hydra. Admittedly it was stronger when you got an endless supply of mana for free through Turtle,  but it still is strong. In a pubstombing kind of way.

Short thing to throw in here: Even though the Shyvana tooltips were changed,  the ingame abilities stayed the same.

Passive stays the same, armor and magic resist are still part of the ultimate, E still only hits one target and shreds armor... So yeah, pretty sure that she isn't going live with these numbers. Maybe the new R passive is only going to be active while in dragon form? But at least with some attackspeed you could spend half an eternity as dragon anyway, so I don't really get it.

When fed enough you might wanna try Hydra. It works ridicoulusly well with Tiger and Turtle, giving you great burst, completly insane sustain and farm of this world. 

Seriously, with Tiger stance and Ravenous Hydra you farm faster than even Phoenix and have supperior lategame. Only problem is that you need so much gold before getting started, so this really is more of a pubstomping thing...

But it is part of the auto attack:

• <pre>Locus of Power is his ultimate, with a realistic cooldown, new bonuses, a ranged auto-attack replacement and possibly increased range. </pre>
• <pre> Arcanopulse can now to be "held down" to charge up to its old "poke" range. </pre>
• <pre> Arcane Barrage has been downgraded to a two-charge basic ability with a % movement slow that does bonus damage equal to three charges if you hit a target with the exact center of both blasts.</pre>

To be fair, it's like THE ultimate in team fights. You can just fly in, knock everyone up and then activate the ult to get enough health to survive and stupidly high attack speed. I mean 95 percent for 12 seconds is even more than Tristana has.

Then you can just slow all enemies and have fun with Hydra... And in case they still try to focus you, you still have your passive to get out easily.

Not sure why everyone hates him. I find the idea of a working carry-like melee character kinda fun! ;)

Funny how the changes make Kha'Zix useless, completly broken or don't make a difference at all depending on the person you ask.

Anyway, Shyvana changes sound quite interesting, especially with the new wriggles... I want to play the giant dragon again!

Oh, and the Karma change sounds goddamn stupid. Almost doubling the heal, making so much of it instant and that with such a short cd. I really hope this won't go live; Not because I don't like Karma, hell at the moment I main her, but this change combined with the scaling Mantra cd and the buffed passive is definitely overboard.

Ashe and the free Tristana, I would guess. Although they might be way harder to play then newer carries like Graves or Cait for newer players...

I would guess that they try to fix the lag/disconnect problems with this... And only just after EU-W got an ip boost XD