got hot fixed, they removed 40%+ ap ratios and like 80 base dmg and its still broken (even more cuz people are playing it better) expect another one in a week of time max what a failure of a champ LOL
The issue with modern champ design is they only think about whether it's fun to use, and not if it's fun to go against. Never ever thinking about weaknesses, only strengths and the strengths of opponents.
Completely agree, as an anivia 1 trick since like season 2, every new champ with overloaded mobilty and cc makes it less and less fun to play mid. This Champ in particular seems to counterplay my entire champion with her reflect, that doesn't mean I cant push waves or utilize my wall to win teamfights, but chances are I won't be able to lane against even the most novice Mel's. Effectively Mel disables one of my core abilites per engagement and its not an even trade of 1 ability for 1 ability anyways because she will reflect it back into me and stun me with my bread and butter.
@@codyasdourian8191feels bad to play old champions that's built on phylosophy of landing 1 crutial skillshot and follow up your combo after man Champs these days are designed with 100 spammable skills and 0 mana cost and 0 cd
What I genuinely dont get is the Q range. They mustve had a developer purge or something cause I swear like 6 months ago they were gutting movement speed and ranged things. Now both of these things are out of control again.
@@ExiledSummoner Current Ryze is his best winrate. Current Ryze is also his most unpopular. Even 100% P/B in Pro, useless in Solo Queue Ryze is still more picked than current day Ryze
@@snail367I'm counting on it (PLEASE RIOT THIS CHAMP MAKES 0 SENSE, WHY DOES A LOW RANGE BATTLE MAGE HAVE 0 SURVIVABILITY AND AN AOE OLD TAHM KENCH ULT)
Expected from them tbh. When I heard about the Senna AP changes in split 2 last year I went on there to lab. As soon as I learned the echanted items and did the math I found that Helia -> Moonstone was broken. I didn't have a single game where I didn't shit on my lane and have anywhere from a 5.0 -> 30.0 KDA from that point on. And it released as is before needing an adjustment on live. I think the problem is the PBE server is only in Cali so bad ping for a lot of ppl, and the game quality on PBE is extremely low. I think they maybe should have some internal high-elo testers. Like actually high-elo. Just a team of ~10 people maybe a bit more who are GM-Chall in good regions who can scrim matches to test new champs. I get the impression they do not have that atm.
Riot are firing half their employees a year they aren't enough to hire people for a new reason especially when league is just turning into a money printing gacha game for them.
No one plays pbe because of how irritating it is to log out and into a completely separate account and then deal with loading the league client again, then having to do it again to go back to live. If it was actually seamless and easy to go between like wow's PTR I think it might be more popular and at least more accessible.
I think part of the reason she feels so broken too is that shes just so easy to play. There's nothing unique or new about her kit. Shes just a long range mage with insane ap ratios and an execute xD
@DD-mp1kl youre right, what I meant is her main damaging abilities arent complex. Shes not lile hwei with 9 skills. Her q is a point and click aoe and her e is a lux her. Her r is kalista E. And even her w is just a mega buffed spellshield lile sivir or nocturnes has. It just makes her invulnerable and reflects projectiles. As far as mechanics go its not "new", and its easy to grasp and play.
@@window9213like you said - "deceptive", because Hwei is only easy when you spend time to play him and be able to wrap your head around the phylosophy of him just having "3 basic abilities with different flavours". But for new players picking him up it's like old Ryze level of complexity, you mess up your E and you're pretty much dead. Mel on the other hand her kit is basically automated, you physically cannot mess her up unless you actively try to, there's no deep mechanic to learn or high level combos to pull off, just spam your ability to build up your Kalista E and press Ult, that's it
I'm confident the reason Riot thought this was even remotely balanced is because all the lowelos were complaining about the W instead of the actual problem with the champ so Riot just wrote off all the complaints.
Funny thing is nerfed or not, her kit allows her to play support/apc regardless of her state bcs of how botlane works she can freely counter 90% of champs there by existing, and she gonna be broken all the way till her death (rework)
Mel is way stronger if people engage on her. If you try to engage on them its harder. You can walk while you use Q but if you max range the Q and the enemy walks towards you, you can hit all instances of Q. But if they run away from you, you will need to Q further in their walking direction. So you need to be closer for more damage. Once the champs is "normal" this will be super annoying.
@@rinerwainkler3108 Cant read? I said "once the champ is normal". Back to 6th grade english my friend. Drututt said the same thing "she will be useless after all the nerfs". Once that happens, this isnt a minor drawback. More like a "why would anyone pick Mel over syndra" kind of thing.
Im honestly surprised that after this long, most people seem to agree her q is actually so busted rather than her w. It comes out so quick that early game she can get really cheeky executes on low targets since its near unreactable
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First game i played against her was that I was MF mid she had 15% health and i had 75% health went to back in my tower. She just walked up to my tower, reflected my Q, and threw her orb and ulted and i instantly died at 30% health. I found you can stop the execute with barrier but i just sat there and thought how fun it was she could just do that. I actually contemplated going AP instead of AD Lethality
the fact that her W reflects ults is just disgusting. How is that fair and logical in anyones mind? 15 second cooldown for a spell that reflects ults that take over 60 second cooldowns.
Wait until you see yasuos wind wall, the thing balancing it is how obvious it is, and you typically wait until she uses it to use ults it can work against. Definitely a bit overtuned considering the rest of her kit, I am a low elo pig though.
If her bullshit reflect was at least challenging to time but as it is its just a braindead op champ to bait in new players? Not sure why riot does this.
The Q range should be decreased, the W should be the R and the R should be the W with a limiter for the passive procs or less damage for each passive mark. I think that would make the champ balanced.
Druttut. How about trying out tilterella's approach on double jungle strat? You already got chall on jg. Do you think that strategy would be viable in higher elo? Do you think you could try it?
The longer ago I quitted this game, the more happier I become seeing what league is turning into. tbh I kinda hope the game dies, no offence to the players but where league is going is getting more and more fricced up with the gacha and with even more stupid champions and still having way too outdated champions almost 15 years after the game is out like zilean and cho.
As for someone whos been playing miss fortune lately, mel is an absolute nightmare, not even talking about deflecting my R, but auto Q auto as a burst attack from me if reflected almost immediately kills me, I do like 1500 damage TO MYSELF just because she clicked W when I start attacking her
i think mel will be the next yuumi. giga broken on release, then she got reworked, nerfed and became a useless champ. some champion are either 100 or 0
They could bring her back in line by just significantly raising her cooldowns. Like triple all the cooldowns and keep the same damage she is no longer broken
When i first played against her I was very surprised to learn that her W does not in fact just reflect projectiles, but rather makes her immune to damage as well. Maybe i just didnt notice but in all the reveal trailers they didnt really touch on that part much lol.
Well i wasnt wrong about my prediction. She will continue to be strong just because how the kit works. They can gutter the scaling but will not matter its just old Kassadin all over again, she will need a really minor rework probably, like an aurora treatment.
Druttut morning routine confirmed. Cry -> shitting himself -> good meal -> get out of bed. Not gonna question where that meal is coming from if youre eating it after shitting the bed but before getting out. Polish tradition im missing
this is the first champion release, after just a few minutes of playing them, my friend said yea nah I don’t want to ever play this or see this in any game. like champ releases are normally strong the first patch anyway but mel is disgusting. the thing I hate about her the most is her Q, she gets more range than normal mages and basically doesn’t have to hit a skillshot while safely staying max range away. mages that throw their shit in a straight line AND have to be closer are crying rn
@@ubeykim5087 ludens has mana brother xd. The diference is that blackfire torch is 80ap and 20 cdr and ludens 100 ap 10 cdr and both of them gives 600 mana
She would get countered by assassin's. But assassin's losing eyeball collection + towers 2 shooting them makes it impossible to dive Mel. Which gives her a free lane. She wave clears instantly by lv 5, roams, then gets fed by default. I 1T fizz, and fizz seems decent against her, but she's still executes me at 40% health with just 2-3 kills.
Released champ getting S tier making people surprise prove that the last few champs was underpower because back when the Zoe time, those champs was something else on release
This champ until now has no real counters, assassin's cannot burst her because of her w, mages are out poked and assassinated by her r. Yeah real gem of a champion.
If only Mel took some sort of skill to play, it has collector passive with some DoT, a Q and R that's impossible to miss, E is the only skill shot which is hard to miss, and W only depends on your reactivity. And it even has minion execute. Mel has a positive %WR on release for a reason, it's easy to play, and does too much damage
Ive played agasint her 2 times now. I completely forget about her w bc its hoenslty the least of my worries when im getting perma poked from my second monitor
idk i just had to face it, picked karma, just E'd all of her Qs and she ran out of mana perma (she had tear btw lmfao), plus she just couldn't break my shield her dmg felt worthless
Even if her numbers are adjusted, the very ability to reflect skills back into the opponent makes a 1 on 1 fight with Mel impossible for a huge number of characters. It's especially dumb when Mel attacks you - let's say she roams on bot - and you just can't use your control against her, since she'll immediately reflect it back at you. Where's the counterplay?
i hate playing against mel why does her W give her invincibility frames on top of the reflect she literally negates gragas entire combo with one button press
range like xerath, dmg like syndra on 0,5 item advantage , root only bit shorter in range then morganas, nilahs shield where its even more broken then on release and ah ult execute with passive where you press button and shit on someone who is screen away, literally every execute in game is on mele range or skillshot (exp. smolder) but why not
This champion was a terrible idea... I don't think that kit can ever be balanced because she has bad AP ratios as is and if you touch her passive damage she becomes useless. You have to double her mana costs and probably give her 0.35s cast time treatment but even then I think she will be 100% pick/ban in pro...
Mel is just another mage, there is nothing ppl need to learn in order to 'master' the champ. Her skill floor isn't as low as ambessa, briar or akshan's.
the problem is not the way Riot uses the PBE, the problem is that the people responsible for balancing champions and gameplay at riot are a bunch of morons with a lead that has zero qualification to do the job and should have just remained an announcer. THAT'S the problem.
got hot fixed, they removed 40%+ ap ratios and like 80 base dmg and its still broken (even more cuz people are playing it better) expect another one in a week of time max what a failure of a champ LOL
funny champ
like the video
Trollki
ngl even without the w, the relatively low cd of the e and the high q base damage still feels pretty decent
Atleast its not another funny bruiser/tank op champ so well played rito 👍
thank you Dr. ututt for using Mel's W ability "Rebuttal" to reflect my step dads Q ability "belt attack" back to him dealing 40% magic damage
Did it proc the Passive execute?
@@TheLastCity417 unfortunately yes, rip handsome
Sadly me W doesnt reflect "belt attack" emotional damage and in 15 years "get therapy" passive skill wil proc
@@tangahkoncek6841 you should use QSS to remove PTSD debuff
@@buzia7530 luckily my step mothers dog sneakily took Voracious Atakhan so instead of dying I just went to base
Every game I saw someone playing Mel they were giga fed randomly, people sure know how to play her perfectly in a single day huh
She's super simple to play and easy to farm with. You can hard counter her with like gragussy or malz.
@@sprite0nation how would malz counter considering he has no mobility and she can just outrange him
You can country her with thenvoidwalker, just riftwalk behind her and british her with Ur w
@volcanio1 you perma shove and play as aggressive as possible, she only wins if you play passively.
I had one in my team go 3/12 lvl 12 after 30 mins
I understand it now, what Jayce glimpsed in order to come up with the Sextech...
He glimpsed viktor in the shower
@@catso9555you're annoying ash
@@catso9555pov you didn’t watch arcane with your eyes open
he glimpsed a literal blackhole
The fact that she had POSITIVE winrate on Day 1 is actually baffling
She is so broken and so easy that people first timing her are dominating
Its so funny cause briar/hwei/smolder and even q'uasonte were under 48
@galaxydragon8326 Exactly
100% agree, but I would say mei is easier to play than all you said @@galaxydragon8326
she's easy to play ofc she's positive winrate
@Raiko01 we are speaking about of a day 1 champ even the most piss easy champ has at least 45% winrate or lower in day 1
Riot finally made a strong independent black woman
again
AGAIN
ARMED AND DENGEROUS
again
again
shoutout to Phreak0xxx for letting this hit the live servers
The issue with modern champ design is they only think about whether it's fun to use, and not if it's fun to go against. Never ever thinking about weaknesses, only strengths and the strengths of opponents.
right it seems like they have done away with draw backs to power levels of abilities like her q and e should be useless with the power of her w and r.
Completely agree, as an anivia 1 trick since like season 2, every new champ with overloaded mobilty and cc makes it less and less fun to play mid. This Champ in particular seems to counterplay my entire champion with her reflect, that doesn't mean I cant push waves or utilize my wall to win teamfights, but chances are I won't be able to lane against even the most novice Mel's. Effectively Mel disables one of my core abilites per engagement and its not an even trade of 1 ability for 1 ability anyways because she will reflect it back into me and stun me with my bread and butter.
@@codyasdourian8191feels bad to play old champions that's built on phylosophy of landing 1 crutial skillshot and follow up your combo after man
Champs these days are designed with 100 spammable skills and 0 mana cost and 0 cd
What I genuinely dont get is the Q range. They mustve had a developer purge or something cause I swear like 6 months ago they were gutting movement speed and ranged things. Now both of these things are out of control again.
They haven't had a clear direction since Mark Yetter moved to MMO division. Game got worse these couple years.
Mel gets to be the Antichrist but ryze can't have a shield is crazy.
LMAO
You shouldn't have mentioned that name. Now Riot will do another Ryze's Rework
@@snail367 to be honest, I'll take whatever it turns out to be over this bad imitation.
@@ExiledSummoner Current Ryze is his best winrate. Current Ryze is also his most unpopular. Even 100% P/B in Pro, useless in Solo Queue Ryze is still more picked than current day Ryze
@@snail367I'm counting on it (PLEASE RIOT THIS CHAMP MAKES 0 SENSE, WHY DOES A LOW RANGE BATTLE MAGE HAVE 0 SURVIVABILITY AND AN AOE OLD TAHM KENCH ULT)
Mel looking caked in the thumbnail
thank you Miyu for caked up Mel
as she is
Lore accurate
12:35 is that Atakshan?
Imabautukaaaaaam
Expected from them tbh. When I heard about the Senna AP changes in split 2 last year I went on there to lab. As soon as I learned the echanted items and did the math I found that Helia -> Moonstone was broken. I didn't have a single game where I didn't shit on my lane and have anywhere from a 5.0 -> 30.0 KDA from that point on. And it released as is before needing an adjustment on live.
I think the problem is the PBE server is only in Cali so bad ping for a lot of ppl, and the game quality on PBE is extremely low. I think they maybe should have some internal high-elo testers. Like actually high-elo. Just a team of ~10 people maybe a bit more who are GM-Chall in good regions who can scrim matches to test new champs. I get the impression they do not have that atm.
Riot are firing half their employees a year they aren't enough to hire people for a new reason especially when league is just turning into a money printing gacha game for them.
No one plays pbe because of how irritating it is to log out and into a completely separate account and then deal with loading the league client again, then having to do it again to go back to live.
If it was actually seamless and easy to go between like wow's PTR I think it might be more popular and at least more accessible.
PBE is literally not League's test server. it's TFT's at this point. Riot upgraded their PBE server BECAUSE OF TFT.
Team fortress Two?
@yazansuliman2636 The other game in the League client that almost every League player ignores or cringes at.
Hoping the first korea video is titled "the return of the chinese spy"
riot mindset: launch broken character>gives it for free>doesn't nerf it>waits for it to sell some skins>nerf it after profit>absolute business
I think part of the reason she feels so broken too is that shes just so easy to play. There's nothing unique or new about her kit. Shes just a long range mage with insane ap ratios and an execute xD
nothing new or unique? what other champ can reflect an ultimate back to its caster?
@DD-mp1kl youre right, what I meant is her main damaging abilities arent complex. Shes not lile hwei with 9 skills. Her q is a point and click aoe and her e is a lux her. Her r is kalista E. And even her w is just a mega buffed spellshield lile sivir or nocturnes has. It just makes her invulnerable and reflects projectiles. As far as mechanics go its not "new", and its easy to grasp and play.
@ ok I get it now. and true.
@@mewple i get your point but using hwei to compare is terrible that champ is deceptively easy
@@window9213like you said - "deceptive", because Hwei is only easy when you spend time to play him and be able to wrap your head around the phylosophy of him just having "3 basic abilities with different flavours". But for new players picking him up it's like old Ryze level of complexity, you mess up your E and you're pretty much dead. Mel on the other hand her kit is basically automated, you physically cannot mess her up unless you actively try to, there's no deep mechanic to learn or high level combos to pull off, just spam your ability to build up your Kalista E and press Ult, that's it
I'm confident the reason Riot thought this was even remotely balanced is because all the lowelos were complaining about the W instead of the actual problem with the champ so Riot just wrote off all the complaints.
Funny thing is nerfed or not, her kit allows her to play support/apc regardless of her state bcs of how botlane works she can freely counter 90% of champs there by existing, and she gonna be broken all the way till her death (rework)
Mel is way stronger if people engage on her. If you try to engage on them its harder. You can walk while you use Q but if you max range the Q and the enemy walks towards you, you can hit all instances of Q. But if they run away from you, you will need to Q further in their walking direction. So you need to be closer for more damage.
Once the champs is "normal" this will be super annoying.
Ye a champ having minor drawbacks sure is "super annoying"
@@rinerwainkler3108 Cant read? I said "once the champ is normal". Back to 6th grade english my friend.
Drututt said the same thing "she will be useless after all the nerfs". Once that happens, this isnt a minor drawback. More like a "why would anyone pick Mel over syndra" kind of thing.
Im honestly surprised that after this long, most people seem to agree her q is actually so busted rather than her w. It comes out so quick that early game she can get really cheeky executes on low targets since its near unreactable
Hello drututt, Alex from New Zealand here.
I really.enjoyed when you discussed crying and shitting yourself. I enjoy this interesting insights into your life
Cheers
liar your name is Axle
First game i played against her was that I was MF mid she had 15% health and i had 75% health went to back in my tower. She just walked up to my tower, reflected my Q, and threw her orb and ulted and i instantly died at 30% health. I found you can stop the execute with barrier but i just sat there and thought how fun it was she could just do that.
I actually contemplated going AP instead of AD Lethality
Got a pentakill first timing her on bot lane. Truly a release of all time.
I hate mel, what the hell do you mean i can't explode the entire enemy team with twitch because she deflects my BULLETS, what the hell riot
Holy thumbnail, she caked up
the fact that her W reflects ults is just disgusting. How is that fair and logical in anyones mind? 15 second cooldown for a spell that reflects ults that take over 60 second cooldowns.
Wait until you see yasuos wind wall, the thing balancing it is how obvious it is, and you typically wait until she uses it to use ults it can work against. Definitely a bit overtuned considering the rest of her kit, I am a low elo pig though.
If her bullshit reflect was at least challenging to time but as it is its just a braindead op champ to bait in new players? Not sure why riot does this.
@ it makes sylas' ult look like a joke
Thank you Dr.Ututt for playing russian roulette with 6 bullets in chamber to play Mel 1 game.
The Q range should be decreased, the W should be the R and the R should be the W with a limiter for the passive procs or less damage for each passive mark. I think that would make the champ balanced.
How does he show negitive bounty on scoreboard? is it an extension?
Thank you drututts artist for another banger ❤
HEY DRUD WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT SHADOWFLAME MEL I THIS IT SYNERGISE WELL WITH HER ULT
Druttut. How about trying out tilterella's approach on double jungle strat? You already got chall on jg. Do you think that strategy would be viable in higher elo? Do you think you could try it?
Wouldn’t shadowflame be useful on her? If I remember correctly her passive calculates shadowflame correctly, so it raises the execute threshold a lot.
like how do you fix this
you remove execute on champions
and make w not a walking zhonya's???
The longer ago I quitted this game, the more happier I become seeing what league is turning into. tbh I kinda hope the game dies, no offence to the players but where league is going is getting more and more fricced up with the gacha and with even more stupid champions and still having way too outdated champions almost 15 years after the game is out like zilean and cho.
As for someone whos been playing miss fortune lately, mel is an absolute nightmare, not even talking about deflecting my R, but auto Q auto as a burst attack from me if reflected almost immediately kills me, I do like 1500 damage TO MYSELF just because she clicked W when I start attacking her
i think mel will be the next yuumi. giga broken on release, then she got reworked, nerfed and became a useless champ. some champion are either 100 or 0
Drut really thought Riot was going to make Mel, from hit show Arcane, not broken.
They could bring her back in line by just significantly raising her cooldowns. Like triple all the cooldowns and keep the same damage she is no longer broken
I think they wanted to change the hatred people have for removing chests into hate for releasing broken trash
When i first played against her I was very surprised to learn that her W does not in fact just reflect projectiles, but rather makes her immune to damage as well. Maybe i just didnt notice but in all the reveal trailers they didnt really touch on that part much lol.
Well i wasnt wrong about my prediction. She will continue to be strong just because how the kit works. They can gutter the scaling but will not matter its just old Kassadin all over again, she will need a really minor rework probably, like an aurora treatment.
you should do an A to Z item challenge. Only buying items to the corresponding letters
Druttut morning routine confirmed. Cry -> shitting himself -> good meal -> get out of bed.
Not gonna question where that meal is coming from if youre eating it after shitting the bed but before getting out. Polish tradition im missing
this is the first champion release, after just a few minutes of playing them, my friend said yea nah I don’t want to ever play this or see this in any game. like champ releases are normally strong the first patch anyway but mel is disgusting.
the thing I hate about her the most is her Q, she gets more range than normal mages and basically doesn’t have to hit a skillshot while safely staying max range away. mages that throw their shit in a straight line AND have to be closer are crying rn
why she gets smalder passive on lvl1 didnt rito learn from smolda release how op that shit is?
I think last time champ had positive WR on day one was either Samira or Sett, this is insane
Thank you Drututt for using Mel's W and reflecting all the beers my alcoholic dad threw at me!
Samira 70% winrate was the strongest release and most chaotic
Same day rework was wild for her
And aphelios the mr 200 years champ
Holy shit, I've been playing another moba entirely and I forgot riot lets champs be pickable in rank day 1 of release LMAO.
I think the worst part is Mel doesn’t really have a mechanical identity in the game. She just… has stuff
riot has overcooked with this one. i think having her q such a big range is simply too strong
Why torch on her ? I tried both and ludens seems to always outdamage it.
mana starving on early, so torch will be giving more time to stay
@@ubeykim5087 ludens has mana brother xd. The diference is that blackfire torch is 80ap and 20 cdr and ludens 100 ap 10 cdr and both of them gives 600 mana
I just wish this champ came up during worlds. The one game it managed to hopefully slip in a game would cause an uproar.
anyone knows how's the annoucer voice mod called?
I need Mel's W IRL to defend myself and my mother from my drunk dad's punches
My first game I went 32/0/4 in a 20 minute game. This champ pre hot fix was one of the easiest champs I’ve ever played.
i think the problem is range and that its just not ult execute
She would get countered by assassin's. But assassin's losing eyeball collection + towers 2 shooting them makes it impossible to dive Mel. Which gives her a free lane. She wave clears instantly by lv 5, roams, then gets fed by default. I 1T fizz, and fizz seems decent against her, but she's still executes me at 40% health with just 2-3 kills.
Released champ getting S tier making people surprise prove that the last few champs was underpower because back when the Zoe time, those champs was something else on release
Have you seen Azzapp build?
This champ until now has no real counters, assassin's cannot burst her because of her w, mages are out poked and assassinated by her r. Yeah real gem of a champion.
1:38 620 hp to 450 hp... lvl 1 ability with quite good range btw
To someone that hasn't played for a while, is it worse than reworked Akali? Or camel
If only Mel took some sort of skill to play, it has collector passive with some DoT, a Q and R that's impossible to miss, E is the only skill shot which is hard to miss, and W only depends on your reactivity. And it even has minion execute.
Mel has a positive %WR on release for a reason, it's easy to play, and does too much damage
i had a mel that feeded like crazy, it was a swift against another mel, mel counters mel guys ;D
The reflect game with mel e reminds me of genji ball, if any ow enjoyers here xD
Ive played agasint her 2 times now. I completely forget about her w bc its hoenslty the least of my worries when im getting perma poked from my second monitor
why cant i join discord :(
this champ will never be in my game for 2025 at least
how long till bludutt gets unbanned
The q range is disgusting. It should be lower and maybe scale up with level
Are you still banned on twitch?
idk i just had to face it, picked karma, just E'd all of her Qs and she ran out of mana perma (she had tear btw lmfao), plus she just couldn't break my shield her dmg felt worthless
Even if her numbers are adjusted, the very ability to reflect skills back into the opponent makes a 1 on 1 fight with Mel impossible for a huge number of characters. It's especially dumb when Mel attacks you - let's say she roams on bot - and you just can't use your control against her, since she'll immediately reflect it back at you. Where's the counterplay?
briar was bad until people learned how to play her, mel will be strong until people learn how to play against her
i hate playing against mel why does her W give her invincibility frames on top of the reflect she literally negates gragas entire combo with one button press
My stupid ass thought she was gonna be a balanced/easy champ for new players to join 😅 why would I trust Riot to do anything right?
4:13 this kinda remind me of Microsoft 3D Pinball Space Cadet
She should've been a support, that's the only way to justify that W ability
I love that she has Smolder max stacks passive for free
range like xerath, dmg like syndra on 0,5 item advantage , root only bit shorter in range then morganas, nilahs shield where its even more broken then on release and ah ult execute with passive where you press button and shit on someone who is screen away, literally every execute in game is on mele range or skillshot (exp. smolder) but why not
Friendly reminder that mel’e has a 1.75 s root at level 1, increase to2.25s at level 5 and only have 5s cool down late game😂
Mel W is new Jax E??? The amount of range this champ has is actually insane.
Mel basically makes 90% of mages useless/unplayable.
No views 22 seconds. Start flipping those burgers bro.
This champion was a terrible idea... I don't think that kit can ever be balanced because she has bad AP ratios as is and if you touch her passive damage she becomes useless. You have to double her mana costs and probably give her 0.35s cast time treatment but even then I think she will be 100% pick/ban in pro...
Played against her one time, the dude was first timing her. Perma ban from that point on
The point of PBE is stability testing. Unlucky
champ is completely of the leash. even after hot fix. I dont think I was in lobby where it wasnt completely taking over the game
Mel is just another mage, there is nothing ppl need to learn in order to 'master' the champ. Her skill floor isn't as low as ambessa, briar or akshan's.
I mean aurora also had big win rate on release
Thanks god I'm in the mountains rn healing from league for a week and cant face this champion
Remember day 1 s-tier sett and that wasn’t close to okay
Thumbnail has me drooling
the problem is not the way Riot uses the PBE, the problem is that the people responsible for balancing champions and gameplay at riot are a bunch of morons with a lead that has zero qualification to do the job and should have just remained an announcer. THAT'S the problem.
Glad to see more youtube drututt
It feels that riot now balance game for arcane, rather than balance(never was but anyway)
Any gank is free mel kill, w being invulne as well as a kill goes hard