Reign of Gaming

well, new strings for the violin bow and I was running out of glue.....

hopefully I can use that to play happy tunes while murdering people with changed kha and reworked shyv.

Smells like irelia without the mana dependancy and more self heals/burst....here we go!

As an elise main I am disappointed by the lack of context and information regarding the spider form change. I play her nearly entirely jungle, and while this might be right for her top lane, it will have huge effects on her jungle, possibly to the point of making her non-viable (its the source of a decent chunk of her early dueling power)

considering jungle is one of the roles she was designed for, more information other than "needs nerfed nao" should be one of riot's concerns

As an Elise jungle main, the loss of spider form armor/mr upsets me a bit, as those were what allowed her to be a decent early duelist in jungle to deal with red buff invades. (or invade a weaker dueler) especially against vi/xin/j4 where it somewhat mitigated the built-in armor shred

it also really hurts her toplane.

Gustaf, go home, you're drunk

While the article has something of a point, I think you could have let it sit and refine it so it felt like a humor article (as it apparently is meant to be) and not a hashinshin-esque rant.

normally your articles are much better in presentation of ideas, though i suppose we all have off days, just please don't make it a habit.

Is it just me or does black frost anivia look and feel like a legendary skin?

wtb minor tweaks for aniv and shyv to go with the cool new skins, even if they did butcher anivia's lore :(

No Elise?

edit: posting error, was @ rochai09

the problem with the "gold plus area gold" is its still makes support an issue, if it was the same gold for all in area but no bonus for the killer (like the drag/baron gold awards without global or personal bonus) then it becomes much more fluid. downside is you start to see phenomenons like 1/1/3 with 2 bruisers shielding an AD/APC or 1/1/1 with a double jungle gank team, resulting in dive comps that are as unfun to play as they are to play against. (or watch, as some have expressed displeasure at just watching current LCS matches devolve into "dive 3v1 as hard as you can")

I would say soloing baron becomes a judgement call of the jungler if he is running a champ capable of doing so within a reasonable timeframe. 

I have done it with nocturne several times, elise 4 times, shaco twice, khazix once. Each and every time it has either turned a game around or sealed a previously balanced game. One thing to note is to do this you MUST have an oracles and clear wards, then wait at least 30 seconds for a response, before engagIng, otherwise you're simply setting the enemy up for a smite steal. In the case of shaco and kha, use your stealth and a handy ward you before during the attempt to smite steal over the wall if interrupted. 

Also worth noting is that with the exception of shaco, every single one of the jungle champs capable of soloing baron without being a burden are incredibly high-sustain.

Sometimes it takes a major event in life to get that "hey! Wake up!" message, and not everyone listens.

being told you can't do something you worked hard towards is a pretty major event, and I'm glad dominate listened to the message. more positive people at the top usually leads to more positive people at every lower bracket.