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Hey you stole my line!

BSN: ............Not bad.

edited 4th Apr '17 4:35:15 PM by ChaosMarineNautilus

That Master Yi skin......is amazing.

edited 4th Apr '17 5:39:17 PM by ChaosMarineNautilus

New champions look super cool in both design and kits. First day buy for both of them, as both an ADC and support player. Now me and my duo partner, who's a support main, can field a couple of matching champions during our climb.

As for the skins, yeah, that Master Yi skin is super cool. If I played more Yi (used to, but not much anymore), I'd buy that one immediately. Those animations and effects are lovely. If only we had ethereal, super fluid animations on Master Yi's base skin, considering they'd make sense on his mystical Wuju warrior character...

I might just buy it anyway for the few times I actually do field Yi as of now.

I gotta ask for one clarity here that has been going on, so I don't end up in an Edit War. LOL Japanese voice doesn't seem to have a credible source yet so far. There was a leak of the character seiyuu list but that doesn't seem very credible.

It lists Ashe being voiced by Aya Endo (thus it was listed in the page), but if you know your anime and hear this... You'd know it's Kikuko Inoue.

So... yeah, what should we do on the JPN voice list in this site?

Hmmmm I don't know what to do on that.

On another note, Chris should I add some stuff for Hecarim, Nasus and Nautilus on the pantheon page referencing the WorldBreaker skin line?

edited 5th Apr '17 8:15:52 AM by ChaosMarineNautilus

I don't see why not. We have tropes referencing champion skins that don't apply to the base skins on other characters.

I suggest we leave it out, then. If we don't have credible info on the seiyuu, it's best not to put in information that may be incorrect.

EDIT: So in the light of the Darkin being the weapons confirmation, I just realized that Riot gave us clues to it pretty much the instant Aatrox was released. His title is "The Darkin Blade." Guess they meant that literally. Didn't realize it until now.

edited 23rd Apr '17 1:49:19 PM by ILikeRobots

Now that I've got more time, I started going through my champion pool to collect chests, starting with top lane.

It's actually going way easier than I expected, I don't know how the fuck it keeps happening but I get chests on the first or second match with a given champs.

The biggest surprise for me was Galio, I tried him for the first time since his rework, and I really clicked with his new kit. Admittedly, I was only fighting a Malphite and ended the match as a glorified support, but a chest is a chest.

Now if only I could get some goddamned keys!

Same. The struggle for key fragments is real. I've got 6 chests just sitting on my loot screen, with a single key fragment. I don't wanna have to shell out real money to open them.

And Galio's new kit is great, if you know how to use it. Being a support is nothing to be ashamed of, because his kit is geared that way. He's got great poke damage regardless.

So the new champions, Xayah and Rakan, have been out for a few days.

Xayah strikes me as pretty strong, especially with a Rakan by her side. Her damage potential is absolutely insane. I've had Xayahs do upwards of 50k damage in a 25 minute game. Most of the games I've played with her (allied or enemy), she gets fed and ends the game at like 14 and 3 or something similar. She's banned in most of the Draft games I play at the moment, and firstpicked if she's not.

An an aside, I've picked up Orianna as my main champion, and am doing pretty well with her. Practicing her a lot in normals. She's super fun to play, and offers a ton of utility to the team.

edited 23rd Apr '17 11:33:49 AM by ILikeRobots

My boyfriend and I are learning to main the two new champs. Seems like a perfect pair.

Yeah, the synergy between them is pretty great. The fact that they get buffed when they're together helps, though neither is bad on their own.

Hopefully for you two, Xayah and Rakan stop being pretty much permabanned sometime soon. I've gotten maybe one or two games where either one or the other wasn't banned.

Of course, if you're talking blind pick all of that's irrelevant.

edited 23rd Apr '17 11:29:19 PM by ILikeRobots

I haven't seen a lot of bans, but they rarely get played on the same teams whenever I see them.

Which honestly makes me sad. I know everyone wants to play them, but I'd rather not play a single one of them than deny the duo to another team. Maybe it's a bit silly.

From what i've seen, Rakan isn't so bad to deal with.

Xayah, however, has absolutely busted damage potential. It's ridiculous.

Wow, really? I'm the exact opposite. And I can't stand giving a Xayah/Rakan duo to the enemy team. If they're decently skilled at the champs, they'll absolutely destroy the team they're against. Most of the Xayahs in my games have gone like 17 and 2 with 50k+ damage and ended the game at 25 or so minutes.

Rakan's got all the tools to be amazing, and it's really the difference between a good Rakan and a bad Rakan. If they can land good knockups, get good ults that charm the entire team, take advantage of the mobility with his dash ins and dash outs, especially with a Xayah by their side, they'll dominate.

But agreed on Xayah's crazy damage. She can wipe an entire team in an blink of an eye when she builds health shred and Runan's.

edited 24th Apr '17 11:40:09 AM by ILikeRobots

x4 That's the issue we keep running into. Blind Pick? We never get both ADC and Support. Draft Pick? Our heroes get kicked out of the line up.

Tad annoying.

Idk. I USUALLY go support over ADC, but I feel kind of trapped as Rakan. I keep feeling like I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing in laning phase. His W and E are more useful in engages rather than straight laning and poking. Particuarly since his W sends you balls deep and that's not always a good idea.

Thankfully, the bf takes Rakan while I go ADC as Xyrah.

Yeah, Rakan's definitely a teamfighting champ over a lane phase champ, unless you get lots of jungle pressure or just win the 2v2 really hard.

He does have to dive right in, but with some other engage on your team (like a Hecarim, a Nautilus, something similar) to get people to group and stay in place, he can land a knock up and charm on multiple people, and the team fight is pretty much won from there, especially with a Xayah putting out feathers to snare right after his CC wears off. Granted, his shield does tend to help his survivability, and most build fairly tanky too since his damage is extremely low.

edited 24th Apr '17 12:00:44 PM by ILikeRobots

I wonder... Could one pop his ult and use E to jump over a wall for an engage? That could be a pretty cool combo but I could also see it failing miserably.

Huh, that's a good question. I assume it works like any other dash, which puts the champion over a wall. That would actually be a pretty ingenious ambush...especially with, say, a Malphite ult over a wall...

I guess "really". The fact of the matter is that I never really get to make the call anyway, so it's irrelevant what I think. I can't first pick any of them and usually don't ban them because I have other champions that annoy me more.

Currently I'm more in the mood for playing champs based on their theme rather than their mechanic or performance, so I'd rather just let the lovebirds get their shot at it, but I don't really care enough to actively give them the duo.

Well the lore for the other Vastayan champs came out. Nami and Rengar's lores are pretty much the same except Nami is tied to Diana and Rengar is from East Shurima. Wukong being born in the Plague Jungles, his relationship with Ahri (Yeeeeeeeeeeessssssss.....) and his Monkey King vibes have been removed. Ahri had the biggest lore change, I suggest you go read it yourself. It's not happy.

edited 25th Apr '17 5:06:39 PM by ChaosMarineNautilus

Wasn't Nami tied to Diana before? I know it was at least heavily implied they were related by way of "The people with the Moon Stone didn't show, what's the deal?" being pretty obviously connected to the Lunari Genocide.

Wukong's little color story is great. Ahri's is a little melodramatic, but that's par for the course.

I just pray when it comes time for Bilgewater to get revamped, they don't make Nautilus into an evil monster who just terroizes others for the hell of it. I want him to keep that Tragic Monster image but not make him too revenge fueled.

Bilgewater already did get revamped.

Well I dont think Nautilus got a lore update with the rest of the champs there despite him being a part of Bilgewater.