Reign of Gaming

The position of editor hasn't been available for well over a year and a half. Trust me, I tried.

I was actually making this comparison except using hockey instead of basketball just the other day. it's... not perfect.

I don't know if this is even a thing at all, or if I need to talk to someone specific about this, but here goes.

I'm gonna put this as gently as I can. There are a lot of great writers on RoG, and they bring a lot of wonderful insight to League, but there's one thing that bothers me. It's all the typos. I see an average of about 3 every 2 articles I read, and it's, well, it's rather distracting at best and reflects a poor image at worst. Therefore, I propose a plan wherein I edit for the front page. I can go through each article, looking for typos or places that I can copy edit or even fix HTML/CSS (there have been times where this was an issue), probably going over my changes with the original author(s), to make the site as a whole more readable. Is this something that's doable? I don't know if the writers get paid, as a young writer myself these things often happen. however, something is needed and I can bring that. I'd be glad to do it for free if only for solid experience, but would naturally prefer compensation. If this is the improper forum to address an issue such as this, please point me in the right direction.

Anyway, thanks for listening to my spiel y'all. have a nice day.

well, it' a moot point now, ha. although I will say that people often buy doran's blades in lieu of actually having any items in lane if they're building BF sword and forced to b before they actually manage to farm 1550, or enough for a vamp scepter. doran's blades are just really really good right now. having a doran's blade, vamp scepter, and pots makes you nigh on immovable sans jungler influence, as you can heal while you push and heal when you don't want to push either. i feel that if you were to get RK as a first buy, you'd definitely want to bolster your early game lane presence with a dorans.depending on how well you're farming of course. 2 dorans would put you too far back in terms of gold to DPS and you just don't need that much sustain. a single doran is nice because you get the bonus health which you might need against a graves or an MF (or a nidalee, if you're playing against dragonbornes). anyway, my point is much the same as my last one: if you're a champ with high AD scaling, buying RK is definitely a viable route, but think about how the build path is going to affect your lane presence, and always remember that you can get the other item you wanted to get first second instead. i'd write an article about this (amongst all the potential ADC first buys) but i doubt anyone'd read it :p

in-game, RK really doesn't give you that much early damage until you complete the full item. if you build IE/BT first you're usually getting a BF or at least a pickaxe to bolster your AD in-lane. the tiny bit of increased lifesteal over BT doesn't really give you much advantage in terms of lane sustain, since the BT has a higher DPS/lifesteal scheme while you're building it, and with the active on the bilgewater blade damage reduction and cooldown increase, it's generally a safer play to finish up a BT first. high AD ratio carries like MF, graves don't scale as well with AS + RK proc as they do with AD/shred, and you can always build RK later on if you need to chunk down health stacking champs. something to think about.

Sure, no harm done.

I was very careful to never say he wasn't picked, or couldn't be viable. I'm aware of that fact. I'm just saying that he doesn't have a place in a team often enough and tweaks would surely help in that regard.

I've been running into randoms who try and tell me that counterpicks and matchups aren't real. like, how is that even a defensible assertion?

This is exactly right. Trynd sucks because there are other champs that do the exact same thing better. Same thing with Voli, really. I agree with you that he has his place in team comps, but as I said of Voli in the other comment I made, the amount of edge cases he'd be better in a team comp rather than some other hard-to-peel (olaf, hecarim, thresh, naut, sky's the limit really) are so few he may as well not exist.

Voli is an interesting case. He doesn't seem bad in solo queue (but then really, who does? don't say karma) but I can definitely see him never, ever being used in high-level games. Why? He's basically Singed with frontloaded damage. And also he isn't as good as Singed in terms of durability and mobility. Sure, he might have more survivability early game, but who cares? Maybe you get a free kill by tower diving with dat passive at level 2/4, whatever. Voli snowballs terribly, so that doesn't help him out very much. He saw some stealth buffs with the current health-stacking meta, but it really isn't enough to plead his case with. I'd love to be proven wrong about this, because I think bear is a cool character, but he just doesn't seem good.

As for Tryndypoo, I like the idea of lifesteal on him. Maybe instead of giving him lifesteal at full fury, what about lifesteal per point of fury? He's a shitty laner and a shitty jungler but he snowballs superbly. Problem is, that just means you shut trynd down, take him out of the game, and then he can't do anything. Problem is, he faces the same difficulty that every other melee AD carry faces. they suck. He does need a rework.

I'd like to talk about the comparison of Voli to Singed. Guys, it isn't just his flip. Granted, the flip is identical on both champions, but check it. They both have an AoE slow, they both have a movespeed buff, and they both have a move that makes them pretty much immortal, and they both have a move that gives them respectable DPS if you build right. The comparison isn't just understandable, it's damn near unavoidable. Now, don't get me wrong. He IS different. He has a different playstyle and his durability and power curves are different than Singed, but they both fill the exact same role. Singed is just better, though, and the amount of edge cases where Voli would be better than Singed in a team comp are so few that bear may as well not exist. This is a problem and exactly why he needs a rework.

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