Deck hipster? :D The deck he's playing was super popular in closed beta because Shen and Fiora were more OP, but I agree, it's nice to see different decks as opposed to the same old, same old Noxus/SI decks.
@@mchlup I mostly meant "deck hipster" in terms of optimizing decks that aren't very played/meta atm. :D Shen was popular in closed beta but after the nerf I can't recall me facing a single Shen deck on ladder.
I like it when you go over every card in the Deck Tech. It helps me with my own deck building to know the 'why' behind each card's inclusion and how many you put in.
also, the challenger meta and the gold meta is not exactly the same, there some ajustement to do to adapt the meta of your rank, but first you need to understand the deck. i like it too, that's why i watch his video, i really understand what he's doing.
32:47 Zed is Shen adoptive brother they both trained under Shen's father. But after they captured the golden demon candela Jhin.(a crazy murder who is obsessed with the number 4 and making death into art) after being scarred from the horrible things Jhin did to his victims it changed the 3 of them Zed also wanted to kill Jhin but Shen's father stopped him. This led to Zed opening a thing called the black box it gave him shadow powers. He left and started his own order to take more direct and permanent action. Zed returned one day to retrieve the black box. Shen's father waited for him and offered to destroy the box. They entered Shen heard his father scream and saw Zed with the black box his father's head and was also screaming. There is a comic for this you should check it out though it isn't finished. Also I really hope Jhin get into LOR he is incredibly popular in LOL and is incredibly well voiced and I been loving the voice acting in LOR.
There are also two other Champions shown in that comic I hope will get into LOR being kayn and Akali. Kayn was from noxious when they tried to invade Ionia under the old ruler boerum darkwill who became obsessed with immortality and power thank to LeBlanc (the woman in in the card guile.) He wanted to start the invasion by breaking the ionian's spirits so he sent kids to fight them. Kayn was one of them, so when the other kids were either running or dying when wielding weapons too big for them. Kayn grabbed an iron sickle and killed alot of people. After the battle Zed found kayn he pointed his weapon at Zed. Zed thought kayn could be a useful tool so he offered for kayn to join him. Kayn became one of his Zed's most powerful students mastering every weapon given to him and he refused to wear armour because he believed it slow him down. One day kayn was given a mission to destroy a Darkin weapon scythe (Darkin are god Warriors Who went insane and were locked in their weapons) found in noxious. Kayn got to the people transporting the weapon he killed all but one he took the scythe and was taken over by the Darkin kayn used shadow magic to enter the man's body saw the darkin's thoughts of drowning the world in blood. kayn exited the man's body killing him but rather than destroying the scythe he picked it up and by sheer willpower he fought off the corruption and he believes if he can conquer the darkin Zed will make him the leader of the order of shadows. Kayn could get 2 different level ups in LOL you can turn him into the darkin where he fails and the darkin rhaast steals his body or kayn wins becoming the shadow assassin and destroying the darkin but keeping the scythe. Akali's lore is a bit like Zed minus Jhin and killing a master she just wants to take more direct action. Though she is still on good terms with Shen.
@@harrycrab1677 well it hasn't been decided he more fought off the beginning of the corruption not the full thing. In the comic kayn's arm isn't corrupted till Jhin shoots him in the arm then the next time kayn is shown his arm that was shot is corrupted like we see it in game. Also what was the bruh about? How long my comment was?
Just found this thread, looks like they are already planning on implementing this change soon! www.reddit.com/r/LegendsOfRuneterra/comments/f7i40q/riot_exis_on_twitter_hey_everyone_we_hear_you/figjyp9/
I think a cool solution would be to be able to skip animations. I mean, they ARE really cool, but maybe after some time (and in clutch situations like this) they can be a little annoying
27:30 Opponent missplay?? you should use the mushrooms to have a chance at dealing damage on the draw, no point in saving them for ezreal because he won't get priority to play him
He should have used a single spell too, that way he deals 5 before Ez dies and then still has lethal, and in case Mog had a removal, which he did, he still could deal 5 damage before Ez died with the other one, which would have been lethal with 8 damage total, he did quite a lot of misplays here
@@bobbobby475 he missplayed happen. Your streamer mogwai also missplays often like missing lethal first turn. If net decking is all you need go do it and reach rank 1. Or stop watching mogwai if you play VS him and not only watch hsi UA-cam videos you will see more missplays than you think. (not saying not to watch him just telling you not to watch him if you can't stand people who abuse good decks to climb cause he did it too also abuse is the wrong word to be fair rather just use)
he had mystic shot though, so he could have killed the 3/2 or the greenglade (whichever wasn't riposted), and karma would have lived. was still probably worth going for though, as the chance of him having the 3rd mystic shot was low.
I've been following ya since you started doing Shadowverse videos. I've always liked how blunt and upfront you are about your channel and the content you enjoy doing. Keep up the amazing work my dude! PS: Would love to see your take on a Karma deck!
OMG, I'm sitting in 3 Shens, asked you to have a look on it and you came with this video. I know that wasn't me, but it will help with some ideas for sure. Thanks Mogwai, you're the best bro!
Shen has been my absolute favorite card once I got a hold of him. Does a ton of work and makes a brilliant pairing with Fiora. I wasn't sure how I would like the deck when I first saw Swim, I think it was Swim, first show it a few weeks ago. After my first few games I fell in love with it and it's been my go-to deck this entire time.
Damn man, I hope they fix that animation consuming timer... I felt your pain through the whole thing D; Great deck btw, giving it a try right now, thank you for your content! Glad I found your channel
I love your videos, keep up the good work. The analysis at the start is easy to follow and goes in depth and I appreciate your restraint in terms of swearing. I think you deserve more attention than Swim
Love your style, other youtubers don't usually explain their decks like you do. By the way, I'm working on a Fiora deck that is giving me very good results and would love to have some feedback from a higher ranked player (I'm climbing silver just now, got 6 wins in a row with the Fiora deck). Basically the strategy is play a Fiora on turn 3, buff her and aim to get 4 kills in 3 turns or less, so I avoid Rhasa or other strong board clears by using Ferljord to frostbite and Demacia to increase stats, with some single combat spells too. As a late game plan if this fails I aim to bait my opponent into a riposte Fiora judgment for OTK or try to go for the win with Braum and Steel Formation with For Demacia buffs. I also created a Yasuo deck that works pretty well (although is more draw dependant) that can easily OTK with a surprise 29 attack Fae with overwhelm. If you'd like to try them out I can give you the codes and a "quickguide" of the strategy, seeing my decks improved by you and even showcased on youtube would make me very happy :D
I rarely comment but I love the way you composed yourself after you ranted about the timer. Since these kinds of things affect the quality of your work, I completely get it. Keep up the good shit.
Thank you! I'm running this same deck for a week now but w/ a few different cards, your build just gave me a few ideas on what to change to make it more effective. More power to ya.
I've been saying it since open beta started, champion animations take way too long, the shortest one is 4 seconds, there should be an option for not seeing animations, that way it wouldn't waste the timer. Also a weird interaction i saw on a deck similar to yours was they used the card that gives barrier to a minion in hand on the 1 drop that buffs everytime you use a barrier, when he played the minion it got buffed right away.
@JT Nelson The two Mystic shots he can't play because he's on 2 mana? Remember, Mogwai played the Riposte AFTER the enemy spent 3/5 of his mana buffing Karma.
Finally some Shen gameplay, commented several times how much I love this archetype though I run a different version without Fiora (I do like her though) I like having 2 Garen and Lux in the mix, with a lot more spells (Purify and Rally are the biggies) also like to use some of the handbuff stuff (mentor and the 2 drop that returns a guy since he's elusive but also let's me recur things) It's honestly not that uncommon either for my Caretakers to jump up to 30+ power (my record is 72 LOL) oh man it can spiral out of control so hard, I actually think Brightsteel Formation could probably use a small nerf (it shouldn't buff itself, which also fits with the theme right they're a line of soldiers so having 2 out to guard each other would make more sense) Didn't know Shen got nerfed, been thinking to myself lately it's odd he only has 5 toughness when he's a Tank hero in LoL (who can also protect himself... ) he needs some kind of buff, kinda wish his +3/+0 from his leveled up form was permanent (or some way to give himself barrier). But yeah this kind of build is really insane once you start throwing in Garen and getting multiple Rallies it's a lot of pressure and with a good draw can lead to untennable trades for the opponent. Last thing bro - I know English isn't your first language so not harping on you, but it's pronounced "Rip - ost" (the "E" is silent) and Laurent is a french name, the T is silent.
Hoping you'll showcase an Elites-focused decklist soon. I love tribal themed decks in every card game, but I'm not sure whether Elites are going to be any good or not!
The animation timer thing is a fairly easy fix too (in theory). Here's how I think they do it: They have two variables, turnTimer, which remembers how much a turn lasts, and elapsedTime, which calculates how much time has passed since the turn started. Then, when when turnTimer - elapsedTime = 0, your turn ends. Here's what they SHOULD do to fix the animation problem: Apart from the two variables I mentioned on top, you have two more, myTurnTimer, which is equal to turnTimer when your turn starts, and levelUpAnimationTime, which is stored on the champion. When the champion levels up, you increase myTurnTimer by levelUpAnimationTime. This way, you don't loose the value stored in turnTimer, and you account for how much time it takes for your champion to level up. Then, when when myTurnTimer - elapsedTime = 0, your turn ends. You can also do this with burst spells, like the mushrooms, and other effects that take a while. I don't think this is necesary for fast and slow spells. Granted, I don't work at Riot, and there can be a plethora of reason why they don't do this (networking is like Karma... a bitch!), but this would be the gist of it.
Been waiting for this since I started playing LoR. Shen and Zilean were my favorite LoL champs back when I played it. If they ever put Zilean in LoR you know what combo of champs I'll be playing.
I have been having a blast with Fiora/Shen decks for weeks! I like your spin on it. Have you considered Rivershapers to fuel spells and increase the chances of drawing units? Or Laurent Chevalier to fuel more challenger units? I love your idea of Swiftwing Lancer over Yusari... He's such an awkward card and the unit fuel is nice when you can drop a fat Brightsteel Formation I'm definitely going to try War Chefs now though. I'm a convert. Will take out 1/3 single combat and 1/3 Spirit's refuge. What's your opinion on Ki Guardian?
Fun Fact: Vyrnna Scar-facewhatever is Sejuani's mother. Sejuani is a champion is LoL and may come in a future expansion. Sej and Ashe are blood bonded sister. Like the 4 elixir blood pack card that gives 0|4 to two allies. I cant remember any names rn
I think raising denys cost makes players mana manage more instead of always having spell mana to pay for it they now have to pay that and 1 regular mana making it more of players asking "can i afford this and deny" it makes me happy to make players use other cards then auto deny.... idk if that makes sense
At 14:30, if you buff up Shen with the war chefs, at end of turn he will be healed for 1 and have 3 health, isn’t that better than buffing the protector?
It’s ok, I hope they fix that too, level up animation shouldn’t still rope the timer. Should pause it for a little then resume. I love your passion for the game, love the content!
26:06 why does the brightsteel formation get +6 instead of +3? does the barrier effect trigger twice on it? It even says +3, but goes up from 9 to 15..
@@Lenichi I mean, yes, which should give the Formation +3, no? Formation just receives barrier probably twice it if is coded as a Barrier unit that gives all allies barrier, because then the +3 effect should occur two times.
Love shen decks. With your composition already heavy on demacia what do you think of getting some bannerman in there? Also what do you think about getting in some lifesteal could also make life easier. I was looking at Emerald Awakener, Radiant Guardian, or spirit refuge?
32:50 yeah shen and zed were best friends and both students under the same master (shens father) but zed killed shen him so now they kinda wanna kill each other
Hey Mogwai, I was completing a quest a while ago and stumbled onto a cool deck concept. A Shadow Isles/Ionia elusive and ephemeral agro. Your one drops are inspired mentor and aristocrat and then aristocrat can be killed by Ravenous butcher for a potential 4 damage off the rip. I found lots of success with Hecarim as the only champion but the main combo's involve shark chariot, haunted relic and soul shepherd with elusive's to aid the onslought. A great way to level Hecarim before he even enters the field and has surprisingly explosive early game results. I would love to see you play around with this concept. keep up the good work!
Hi MegaMogwai I randomly found your channel while searching for Legends Of Runeterra decks and i've been watching your LoR videos and they're great. I was Hoping you could maybe check some of the Backstories of the champions out i'm a huge League of Legends backstory fan and there are some stories that are Book worthy if you haven't read the backstories for Zed and Shen you should they are super good you can find the stories on the League of Legends Universe website thingi dingi Love From Iceland. Ps: Sorry if my broken english had to come up it happens sometimes, Would love to see more videos of the Shadow Isles Something with Thresh would be lovely. Thank you for reading if you did Have a good day.
@@samkim91 You can try, but i don't see it being better than without Lux. It's just less consistent on all parts. The only synergy Lux has with the rest of the deck, is that she triggers Shen and the 1-drop because she comes in with a barrier. By taking out minions you get less targets for your barrier cards and less ways to remove threats through challenger. Since you have less targets for your spells it is harder to upgrade Lux and trigger her effect often. Also most of the spells here a pretty cheap except for judgement, so it is a heavy card investent to upgrade Lux in the first place. I personally think Lux would fit better into a shell with either Karma or Heimerdinger and maybe, just maybe Ezreal
Wow NA server is a lot easier than Asia server ngl. I often notice this while watching Mogwai. That ezreal opponent easily had the win but misplayed twice.
It's not a bug, it gets +3 because it has barrier and then +3 because of the ability giving all allies including himself barrier again, after the attack another +3 so 9 in total
Genuine criticism, which I hope doesn't come off as just being a jerk: I think it's important to take some responsibility for the fact that you were punished for playing too slow, despite the game mechanics not being optimal. Maybe this is just because I'm a very slow player who has had this happen to them a lot, but I always try and think about the fact that both players are under the same game rules, so I shouldn't just blame the game. That being said, it is a frustrating player experience, and they've mentioned in the last patch notes that they're looking into it.
The thing is, when theres a lvl up happening you get less time on that turn, this is unfair and totally pointless for both players, you should have the same amount of time to think on every round.
@@walidachour3840 My point is more so that, if you know that it's a part of the game, unfair or not, you can always try to do better to play around those constraints instead of solely blaming the game. Also, for what it's worth, I don't know that you can call it unfair if the same thing happens for both players. Or if you specifically want players having the same time on each round, you could argue that pausing the time during a level up actually gives more time to think instead. In any case, I agree that the way it works now is pointless, it's a frustrating experience for no real benefit.
I really like how you've been playing a lot of decks that aren't very meta lately. I'm a bit of a deck hipster and I appreciate your efforts. :D
Deck hipster? :D The deck he's playing was super popular in closed beta because Shen and Fiora were more OP, but I agree, it's nice to see different decks as opposed to the same old, same old Noxus/SI decks.
@@mchlup I mostly meant "deck hipster" in terms of optimizing decks that aren't very played/meta atm. :D
Shen was popular in closed beta but after the nerf I can't recall me facing a single Shen deck on ladder.
We call that brewing. Not being a hipster lol.
Mogwai has always been like this, that's why we love this guy
What were the nerfs on the shen/fiora deck? I know that Shen got nerfed by 1 health, but is that it?
I like it when you go over every card in the Deck Tech. It helps me with my own deck building to know the 'why' behind each card's inclusion and how many you put in.
also, the challenger meta and the gold meta is not exactly the same, there some ajustement to do to adapt the meta of your rank, but first you need to understand the deck.
i like it too, that's why i watch his video, i really understand what he's doing.
32:47
Zed is Shen adoptive brother they both trained under Shen's father. But after they captured the golden demon candela Jhin.(a crazy murder who is obsessed with the number 4 and making death into art) after being scarred from the horrible things Jhin did to his victims it changed the 3 of them Zed also wanted to kill Jhin but Shen's father stopped him. This led to Zed opening a thing called the black box it gave him shadow powers. He left and started his own order to take more direct and permanent action. Zed returned one day to retrieve the black box. Shen's father waited for him and offered to destroy the box. They entered Shen heard his father scream and saw Zed with the black box his father's head and was also screaming.
There is a comic for this you should check it out though it isn't finished. Also I really hope Jhin get into LOR he is incredibly popular in LOL and is incredibly well voiced and I been loving the voice acting in LOR.
There are also two other Champions shown in that comic I hope will get into LOR being kayn and Akali.
Kayn was from noxious when they tried to invade Ionia under the old ruler boerum darkwill who became obsessed with immortality and power thank to LeBlanc (the woman in in the card guile.) He wanted to start the invasion by breaking the ionian's spirits so he sent kids to fight them. Kayn was one of them, so when the other kids were either running or dying when wielding weapons too big for them. Kayn grabbed an iron sickle and killed alot of people. After the battle Zed found kayn he pointed his weapon at Zed. Zed thought kayn could be a useful tool so he offered for kayn to join him.
Kayn became one of his Zed's most powerful students mastering every weapon given to him and he refused to wear armour because he believed it slow him down.
One day kayn was given a mission to destroy a Darkin weapon scythe (Darkin are god Warriors Who went insane and were locked in their weapons) found in noxious. Kayn got to the people transporting the weapon he killed all but one he took the scythe and was taken over by the Darkin kayn used shadow magic to enter the man's body saw the darkin's thoughts of drowning the world in blood. kayn exited the man's body killing him but rather than destroying the scythe he picked it up and by sheer willpower he fought off the corruption and he believes if he can conquer the darkin Zed will make him the leader of the order of shadows. Kayn could get 2 different level ups in LOL you can turn him into the darkin where he fails and the darkin rhaast steals his body or kayn wins becoming the shadow assassin and destroying the darkin but keeping the scythe.
Akali's lore is a bit like Zed minus Jhin and killing a master she just wants to take more direct action. Though she is still on good terms with Shen.
Bruh
@@aaronwolf6823 so in the actual lore its blue kayn?
@@harrycrab1677 well it hasn't been decided he more fought off the beginning of the corruption not the full thing. In the comic kayn's arm isn't corrupted till Jhin shoots him in the arm then the next time kayn is shown his arm that was shot is corrupted like we see it in game.
Also what was the bruh about? How long my comment was?
@@aaronwolf6823 yeah, because when I clicked "more replies" I just see another wall of text lol
22:37
Gosh, I hate that so much.
That timer thing was actually tilting, and I got worried after seeing you mad not gonna lie 😅
Yeah the timer should have paused for the animation
Just found this thread, looks like they are already planning on implementing this change soon! www.reddit.com/r/LegendsOfRuneterra/comments/f7i40q/riot_exis_on_twitter_hey_everyone_we_hear_you/figjyp9/
harry crab yes, leveling up a champ should pause the timer.
Mogwai is infamous for using nearly every second of his turn timer, but that doesn't mean the game should waste his time either!
I think a cool solution would be to be able to skip animations. I mean, they ARE really cool, but maybe after some time (and in clutch situations like this) they can be a little annoying
27:30 Opponent missplay?? you should use the mushrooms to have a chance at dealing damage on the draw, no point in saving them for ezreal because he won't get priority to play him
Alexandre Bélanger exactly my thoughts there
sometimes, decks and cards just carry people up in ranks, and its not because they learned to play at higher level.
@@Good18Man Good example was that last play from the net decker LOOOL
He should have used a single spell too, that way he deals 5 before Ez dies and then still has lethal, and in case Mog had a removal, which he did, he still could deal 5 damage before Ez died with the other one, which would have been lethal with 8 damage total, he did quite a lot of misplays here
@@bobbobby475 he missplayed happen. Your streamer mogwai also missplays often like missing lethal first turn. If net decking is all you need go do it and reach rank 1. Or stop watching mogwai if you play VS him and not only watch hsi UA-cam videos you will see more missplays than you think. (not saying not to watch him just telling you not to watch him if you can't stand people who abuse good decks to climb cause he did it too also abuse is the wrong word to be fair rather just use)
I've always thought that the card was War CHIEFS, not CHEFS. I guess Gordon Ramsey got extra angry or something...
16:40 yeah It was lethal if you had used riposte on an unblocked unit
Oof the misplay
Hurt me hard that one
he had mystic shot though, so he could have killed the 3/2 or the greenglade (whichever wasn't riposted), and karma would have lived. was still probably worth going for though, as the chance of him having the 3rd mystic shot was low.
Except he had deny for the mystic shot anyway. Lethal no matter what after the twin discipline was commited
@@deanlinden1635 ah true! then yeah was just a straight up misplay
I've been following ya since you started doing Shadowverse videos. I've always liked how blunt and upfront you are about your channel and the content you enjoy doing. Keep up the amazing work my dude!
PS: Would love to see your take on a Karma deck!
OMG, I'm sitting in 3 Shens, asked you to have a look on it and you came with this video. I know that wasn't me, but it will help with some ideas for sure. Thanks Mogwai, you're the best bro!
I honestly quickly began to love Shen when I tried him in expeditions. I was waiting for a Shen deck
Shen has been my absolute favorite card once I got a hold of him. Does a ton of work and makes a brilliant pairing with Fiora. I wasn't sure how I would like the deck when I first saw Swim, I think it was Swim, first show it a few weeks ago. After my first few games I fell in love with it and it's been my go-to deck this entire time.
I love the animations and the voice lines but yeah, don’t make the animations cut into the turn timer.
22:35 Those animations that are part of your total time of the round reminds me of Hearthstone.
Damn man, I hope they fix that animation consuming timer... I felt your pain through the whole thing D; Great deck btw, giving it a try right now, thank you for your content! Glad I found your channel
I love your videos, keep up the good work. The analysis at the start is easy to follow and goes in depth and I appreciate your restraint in terms of swearing. I think you deserve more attention than Swim
Love your style, other youtubers don't usually explain their decks like you do. By the way, I'm working on a Fiora deck that is giving me very good results and would love to have some feedback from a higher ranked player (I'm climbing silver just now, got 6 wins in a row with the Fiora deck). Basically the strategy is play a Fiora on turn 3, buff her and aim to get 4 kills in 3 turns or less, so I avoid Rhasa or other strong board clears by using Ferljord to frostbite and Demacia to increase stats, with some single combat spells too. As a late game plan if this fails I aim to bait my opponent into a riposte Fiora judgment for OTK or try to go for the win with Braum and Steel Formation with For Demacia buffs.
I also created a Yasuo deck that works pretty well (although is more draw dependant) that can easily OTK with a surprise 29 attack Fae with overwhelm.
If you'd like to try them out I can give you the codes and a "quickguide" of the strategy, seeing my decks improved by you and even showcased on youtube would make me very happy :D
I rarely comment but I love the way you composed yourself after you ranted about the timer. Since these kinds of things affect the quality of your work, I completely get it. Keep up the good shit.
People: *talk about lvl ups taking seconds of the timer*
Nozdormu: First time?
Thank you! I'm running this same deck for a week now but w/ a few different cards, your build just gave me a few ideas on what to change to make it more effective. More power to ya.
I've been saying it since open beta started, champion animations take way too long, the shortest one is 4 seconds, there should be an option for not seeing animations, that way it wouldn't waste the timer.
Also a weird interaction i saw on a deck similar to yours was they used the card that gives barrier to a minion in hand on the 1 drop that buffs everytime you use a barrier, when he played the minion it got buffed right away.
Lol why does the greenglade caretaker sound so smug when she says anything it's like she's doing everything ironically
16:23 way too focused on killing Karma there. What could he possibly have on 2 mana that deals with your board if you Riposte the 1 drop?
@JT Nelson The two Mystic shots he can't play because he's on 2 mana? Remember, Mogwai played the Riposte AFTER the enemy spent 3/5 of his mana buffing Karma.
Last time I was this early, MTGA was still good
So that you know the deck tech is the best part of the video. Generally the explanations of why you do what you do is the reason to watch
A lot of humility from you,you gained my respect from it :) keep it up bro !
Today I remade your prankster deck to play with and it was crazy fun and it was beating meta slaves all day. You are the best
I've been thinking the same about animations consuming turn time since open beta started, can't agree more.
Similar deck was my first ever deck I made, so happy to see I had an idea of a good deck. I’ve had green glade protector with 50+ attack :D
Finally some Shen gameplay, commented several times how much I love this archetype though I run a different version without Fiora (I do like her though)
I like having 2 Garen and Lux in the mix, with a lot more spells (Purify and Rally are the biggies) also like to use some of the handbuff stuff (mentor and the 2 drop that returns a guy since he's elusive but also let's me recur things) It's honestly not that uncommon either for my Caretakers to jump up to 30+ power (my record is 72 LOL) oh man it can spiral out of control so hard, I actually think Brightsteel Formation could probably use a small nerf (it shouldn't buff itself, which also fits with the theme right they're a line of soldiers so having 2 out to guard each other would make more sense)
Didn't know Shen got nerfed, been thinking to myself lately it's odd he only has 5 toughness when he's a Tank hero in LoL (who can also protect himself... ) he needs some kind of buff, kinda wish his +3/+0 from his leveled up form was permanent (or some way to give himself barrier). But yeah this kind of build is really insane once you start throwing in Garen and getting multiple Rallies it's a lot of pressure and with a good draw can lead to untennable trades for the opponent.
Last thing bro - I know English isn't your first language so not harping on you, but it's pronounced "Rip - ost" (the "E" is silent) and Laurent is a french name, the T is silent.
I love your videos man! I was really looking forward to see shen and also the crimson guys... keep it up man
Hoping you'll showcase an Elites-focused decklist soon. I love tribal themed decks in every card game, but I'm not sure whether Elites are going to be any good or not!
Hey Mogwai! Thank you for another great deck! Having a blast with Katarina/Zed deck!
Been playing the kata deck, kicks ass... thanks dude
The animation timer thing is a fairly easy fix too (in theory). Here's how I think they do it:
They have two variables, turnTimer, which remembers how much a turn lasts, and elapsedTime, which calculates how much time has passed since the turn started.
Then, when when turnTimer - elapsedTime = 0, your turn ends.
Here's what they SHOULD do to fix the animation problem:
Apart from the two variables I mentioned on top, you have two more, myTurnTimer, which is equal to turnTimer when your turn starts, and levelUpAnimationTime, which is stored on the champion.
When the champion levels up, you increase myTurnTimer by levelUpAnimationTime. This way, you don't loose the value stored in turnTimer, and you account for how much time it takes for your champion to level up.
Then, when when myTurnTimer - elapsedTime = 0, your turn ends.
You can also do this with burst spells, like the mushrooms, and other effects that take a while. I don't think this is necesary for fast and slow spells.
Granted, I don't work at Riot, and there can be a plethora of reason why they don't do this (networking is like Karma... a bitch!), but this would be the gist of it.
16:17 taking Karma is vital, but isn't going for lethal while having deny backup and opponent having only 2 open mana better?
Been waiting for this since I started playing LoR. Shen and Zilean were my favorite LoL champs back when I played it. If they ever put Zilean in LoR you know what combo of champs I'll be playing.
I have been having a blast with Fiora/Shen decks for weeks!
I like your spin on it. Have you considered Rivershapers to fuel spells and increase the chances of drawing units? Or Laurent Chevalier to fuel more challenger units? I love your idea of Swiftwing Lancer over Yusari... He's such an awkward card and the unit fuel is nice when you can drop a fat Brightsteel Formation
I'm definitely going to try War Chefs now though. I'm a convert. Will take out 1/3 single combat and 1/3 Spirit's refuge.
What's your opinion on Ki Guardian?
Fun Fact: Vyrnna Scar-facewhatever is Sejuani's mother. Sejuani is a champion is LoL and may come in a future expansion. Sej and Ashe are blood bonded sister. Like the 4 elixir blood pack card that gives 0|4 to two allies. I cant remember any names rn
I find a Greedy Crimson archetype actually works now becuase of the buff to the caretaker
I think raising denys cost makes players mana manage more instead of always having spell mana to pay for it they now have to pay that and 1 regular mana making it more of players asking "can i afford this and deny" it makes me happy to make players use other cards then auto deny.... idk if that makes sense
At 14:30, if you buff up Shen with the war chefs, at end of turn he will be healed for 1 and have 3 health, isn’t that better than buffing the protector?
Love your natural personality
Hi, i really would like to get a look to your expeditions or even deck creation if thats possible.
14:39 supporting Shen with chef plays around the beam (and heals shen for 1 which is relevant later)
Hey my amigo, I was wondering, que deck utilizastes para subir desde platino hasta D1 - Masters?
My question is why no spirit's refuge? Is it just inferior/unneeded?
How about "Animations don't trigger when your timer is below 50%"?
Hey @MegaMogwai! Great vid! I don't have Fiora, do you think I could fit another card or champ in her place and make the deck work? Thank you!
It’s ok, I hope they fix that too, level up animation shouldn’t still rope the timer. Should pause it for a little then resume. I love your passion for the game, love the content!
26:06 why does the brightsteel formation get +6 instead of +3? does the barrier effect trigger twice on it? It even says +3, but goes up from 9 to 15..
Shen is upgraded
@@Lenichi I mean, yes, which should give the Formation +3, no?
Formation just receives barrier probably twice it if is coded as a Barrier unit that gives all allies barrier, because then the +3 effect should occur two times.
@@pteroducktylus1189 Oh yea you're right. Barrier unit that gives barrier to all allies including itself. Makes sense.
4 mana 'Deny' KEKW great video btw :)
Love shen decks. With your composition already heavy on demacia what do you think of getting some bannerman in there?
Also what do you think about getting in some lifesteal could also make life easier. I was looking at Emerald Awakener, Radiant Guardian, or spirit refuge?
Can you do more EZ Freezy ? Maybe the meta version of it ?
What is the reason you omit buffs like stand alone/stand united etc.?
Mogwai how is ashe's deck doing in the meta?
can you make a shen only deck with brightsteel formation please?
every god damn time i start one of your video i feel dehydrated.
Nice deck!! Could you give any tips to use Cinthria in a creative way?? Thank you
She's a beast combined to shadow isles(both spider spam and ethereal builds).
Try a yeti deck?
UR RIGHT bro i' would have been mad too! btw mutch love from italy and thanks for ur content it helps me a lot!
You can read league lore its pretty good
I played against this deck today and lost. Thanks!
I was just about to ask you for a shen deck and voila here it is
Have Rito fixed that??
played against this type of deck today and the cithria of cloudfield really prevented me from doing a lot of things I wanted to do with me aggro deck.
Is this deck can play in this meta sir ?
Literally lost an expedition before from stand united into shen level up animation
32:50 yeah shen and zed were best friends and both students under the same master (shens father) but zed killed shen him so now they kinda wanna kill each other
33:28 ??????, what is he- w-what? This is why math is so important. Lol!!!
Didn't realize mogwai is actually a rapper 6:46
23:46 hahahahahaah that was amazing
So i go
In hearthstone you can miss the whole of your turn only because of animations(hi to Nozdormu), so in LoR not everything is so bad :)
I liked it lol you are totally way cooler than you think you are.
In the first game, you should have used war chefs to support Shen, so that he can be healed.
Why does Mogwai has a brazilian flag on the wall?
Você é do Brasil???
Hey Mogwai, I was completing a quest a while ago and stumbled onto a cool deck concept. A Shadow Isles/Ionia elusive and ephemeral agro. Your one drops are inspired mentor and aristocrat and then aristocrat can be killed by Ravenous butcher for a potential 4 damage off the rip. I found lots of success with Hecarim as the only champion but the main combo's involve shark chariot, haunted relic and soul shepherd with elusive's to aid the onslought. A great way to level Hecarim before he even enters the field and has surprisingly explosive early game results. I would love to see you play around with this concept. keep up the good work!
He already did a video on that type of deck in week 1 of the open beta.
Mogwai most used Champions:
1. Heimerdinger
2. Katarina
3. Hecarim / Ashe / Teemo
Mogwai least used Champions
1. Elise / Braum / Vladimir/ Anivia / Jinx / Garen / Lucian / Shen / Fiora
2. Zed / Ezreal / Draven/ Lux / Yasuo
*As of this video
Hi MegaMogwai I randomly found your channel while searching for Legends Of Runeterra decks and i've been watching your LoR videos and they're great.
I was Hoping you could maybe check some of the Backstories of the champions out i'm a huge League of Legends backstory fan and there are some stories that are Book worthy if you haven't read the backstories for Zed and Shen you should they are super good you can find the stories on the League of Legends Universe website thingi dingi Love From Iceland.
Ps: Sorry if my broken english had to come up it happens sometimes, Would love to see more videos of the Shadow Isles Something with Thresh would be lovely. Thank you for reading if you did Have a good day.
animation should count to turn time; otherwise imagine initial patron war in HS (hope we get something equally fun in lor)
cool cool! what're your thoughts on this with lux ?
Instead of Shen or Fiora? Or all three?
@@jumpstick9446 all 3, maybe subbing out some minions for spelsl like ki barrier or succession
@@samkim91 You can try, but i don't see it being better than without Lux. It's just less consistent on all parts. The only synergy Lux has with the rest of the deck, is that she triggers Shen and the 1-drop because she comes in with a barrier. By taking out minions you get less targets for your barrier cards and less ways to remove threats through challenger. Since you have less targets for your spells it is harder to upgrade Lux and trigger her effect often. Also most of the spells here a pretty cheap except for judgement, so it is a heavy card investent to upgrade Lux in the first place. I personally think Lux would fit better into a shell with either Karma or Heimerdinger and maybe, just maybe Ezreal
I do shen and his crimsons
The champion animations are cool! Riot should just pause the game timer while the animations happen and we're guuccii
Wow NA server is a lot easier than Asia server ngl. I often notice this while watching Mogwai. That ezreal opponent easily had the win but misplayed twice.
I've been watching Mogwai for a couple years but i still don't know what he says at the beginning lol "Ho there and traps"??????
He says "Hello there entrant"
"Hello there internets"
Can make it not pause turn timer just make it skippable
i beg you mogwai, share an updated vlad deck to the patch, you said you love this deck, that's my favorite, please sir
They need to add an option where you can disable level up animations. After a while it gets obnoxious
It's year 2020 and 2+3=5 is considered math and a hard calculation to perform even by the best of the best.
"Shen compa, buenos jutsus, pero podrías quitarte un momentito que vea el campo?"
HELL YEAH SHEN DECK, lets GO
Lucian cuando!?
Once got greenglade caretaker to 72 atk, playing fiora shen aswell
Please make more Shen and Katarina decks!
Ah yes, the classic "Please RIOT, fix your game"
@@9671548 I said classic because we've been saying that line since 2014 of league.
Maybe you've been asked this 100X times but I want to know what do you say in your intro?
Lo' there intrats
mogwai here?
@@DreadVille1 and what does "intrats" mean in this context?
"Hello there, internet! Mogwai here."
@@alysondavy2485 I thought he was saying "internet" as well but upon re-listening I dont think that's what I hear him say
what is a Good deck for a Beginner right Now?
Elites or elise spiders/fearsome
If you did not try to kill karma in the first game you had lethal with ripost on a non blocked unit
Why did that 9/9 unit gain 6atk instead of 3? I don't get it. Must be a bug
It gained +3 on the shield on play and another +3 when he atack because it shielded again.
@@Vicesplay no, it gained 6 right After he played that card. It was only one barrier
@@arifyi.8422 I didn't see that, it goes to +9 in total, I guess its bugged in some way, Riot is known for the bugs.
It's not a bug, it gets +3 because it has barrier and then +3 because of the ability giving all allies including himself barrier again, after the attack another +3 so 9 in total
@@carlosandrade5863 I didn't see that he has natural barrier, all is good then.
Genuine criticism, which I hope doesn't come off as just being a jerk: I think it's important to take some responsibility for the fact that you were punished for playing too slow, despite the game mechanics not being optimal. Maybe this is just because I'm a very slow player who has had this happen to them a lot, but I always try and think about the fact that both players are under the same game rules, so I shouldn't just blame the game.
That being said, it is a frustrating player experience, and they've mentioned in the last patch notes that they're looking into it.
The thing is, when theres a lvl up happening you get less time on that turn, this is unfair and totally pointless for both players, you should have the same amount of time to think on every round.
@@walidachour3840 My point is more so that, if you know that it's a part of the game, unfair or not, you can always try to do better to play around those constraints instead of solely blaming the game.
Also, for what it's worth, I don't know that you can call it unfair if the same thing happens for both players. Or if you specifically want players having the same time on each round, you could argue that pausing the time during a level up actually gives more time to think instead. In any case, I agree that the way it works now is pointless, it's a frustrating experience for no real benefit.