Their reasoning for buffing serpents fang is just so dumb. The item is meant to be niche, not an item that you build every game. Serpents fang when it had 18 lethality was an item that was built every single game because it was super cheap and gave lots of lethality. It’s concerning when the balance team doesn’t even know the role of the items that they make
@@joaobrito2653 For real. Riot always says they want to make building a diverse set of choices but then they only give us like 4 to choose from for any given champion. Honestly they just need to double the number of items in the game and give way more Zhonya's/Serpents Fang/Youmuus actives rather than Night harvester or Ludens. Things that actually enhance how you play the game rather than just more damage.
For Tristana, Phreak's math has her being squishier to physical damage until lvl 4, so early lane autos will do more (or the same) to her. If you're dealing exactly 50/50 physical/magic, she's squishier, and it only gets better the more magic damage you do.
That akali buff seems absolutely crazy, she is so much more dangerous pre 9 and has actual damage even at level 1-2. I guess it's time for the now annual cycle of; buff akali Q energy cost --> Nerf akali Q energy cost --> "This ability is hard to balance, so we are gonna readjust Akali Q"
@@giorgos346 As an Akali main, i mostly find the Q buff/nerf/rework cycles annoying, all though hilarious. But thinking that Akali needed an extra 100+ damage at level 1-5 to be viable, has to be the most metal league take i have ever replied to, grats!
The previous nerfs to her energy is still sometimes giving me trouble since I was used to being able to Q twice at lvl one either with the energy regen from passive back then or the lower energy cost.
@@mr.mc.doesntexist7693 i have a feeling that the Q will get nerfed again in either 1 or 2 patches, maybe after worlds if we are lucky, gotta enjoy it while we can haha
serpents fang buff makes 0 sense. The item is supposed to be a niche purchase where you only buy it against shields. Riot did the durability patch and went right back to mindlessly buffing damage to the point where they are buffing a niche item into not being niche xD
also if you pay attention to the akali math youre going from 6 seconds between q casts to 2 seconds in a trade going from 200-70 needing 130 a recast to 200-90 110 recast
100% Agree on Shaco! They didn´t give it a real thougt and just wanted to gut him... I play shaco mid and its even more frustrating now for no reason. Can´t you talk to Phreak he should do somethin? xD
they gave nida an ad ratio for arena so she has more build flexibility i lowkey hope they do the same for more champs, as an off meta enjoyer id be very happy to get some ratios on champs. wouldnt mind an ad ratio to make ad/hybrid zoe more viable :3
@@faveologyApparently the arena team can't make Arena specific changes to things that aren't already in Summoners Rift. That's what Riot told us. With build diversity and flexibility required for arena, they added a scaling so that the Arena team can run with it and change it to whatever they want.
Lulu would need 60 ratio on Q and preferably E again to be able to be somewhat viable ap (Wildgrowth back to 50 or bring back a higher ratio on W would also be great.)
@@y2wok I knowww but be prepared because it seems like Riot is testing the waters with actual ap enchanters again and we all know she'll just go back to the solo lanes if she does
NGL as someone with Riven in her top 3 most played, I kinda hate when they incentivise her lethality builds. I just kinda prefer being more tanky and staying in teamfights longer and so on with Goredrinker Cleaver Deaths dance Hydra and so on. Just killing things in like 3 button presses doesn´t do it for me tbh. Why be mobile when you can be tanky and mobile? Fulfills my primary objective of being diversion #1 more effectively.
Akali needed that huge buff, from a Akali main she was not a champ pre 5 before you put a 3rd point in the Q because of the energy cost, she wasn't able to trade correctly wihout over depending on her shroud, which is a problem to be so inexistant and slow pre 5 for a assasin who is supposed to snowball in midgame. Their was a reason if even the best Akali in the world like Zeka wasn't playing her anymore in world, because she was bad. The damage buff is overkill, she didn't need more damage, just needed the energy cost to be lowered, wouldn't mind for them to nerf it by reverting the damage buff to the initial one but keeping the energy buff they gave.
Why would you play champs with no mobility, and barely any CC when champs like irelia ,yasuo ,yone, kayn, reksai, khazix, malhpite, talon exist. Champs like brand are just food to them. They'll jump on his head and 100 to 0 him quicker than the cast times on his combo. A 5% ap ratio buff isn't going to fix why brand (and most enchanter supports) aren't viable. There's too many champs they can't be on the same screen with or they get deleted. By the time they get a 2nd item to fix all their inherent problems the game has been decided.
I cannot tell if you are trolling or not. Because enchanters are usually especially good against assassins since. Most make it nearly impossible for assassins to get pics, because of all the shielding/disruption they have.
LS didn't say he had more DPS, he said that his damage was faster, which is true. Half of your damage is now coming out .25 seconds earlier than before, which may not seem like much but can be a big deal in a lot of instances.
@@eviltom8783 The way he uses the term "dps" is abit strange, the damage comes out faster yea but over the full duration of the spell the dps remains the same. The dps DOES increase during that .25 seconds where the damage wouldn't have come out before but yea overall dps is the same.
Might have forgotten an exception, but the Duskblade change harms Duskblade Pyke resets greatly, who does actually benefit from multiple takedowns consistently throughout teamfights.
True, what could I have possibly meant by the comment. For sure it isn't referencing Pyke getting an ult, dashing out, waiting for CD and coming back in and repeating it when in extended fights; where your solo laners lost and bot didn't so that you have the burden of carrying close fights. @@DDDEVILDUCK
But wouldnt Malzahar E lasting half the time it used to kind of nerf Liandrys and Rylais a little bit? I mean especially as poke, even in lane when after u build Liandrys? (I’m not too good of a player, so maybe to a lot of you this is a dumb question xD)
@@lennzo9231 He definetely worded it weirdly. I guess you would technically do more dps every other quarter of a second, where usually no damage would've happened.
Good milio players hitting does Q are gonna solo win lanes, this is underestimating the buff, it is A LOT of dmg. Fuck shaco support, that shit has no counterplay in a lot of matchups and makes 3 players unhappy about his presence in the game. Shyvana top gets bodied by a sion that is not gonna get moved out of lane and is gonna outscale her anyway, i don't understand the nerfs, mayne she is too oppressive as a counterpick.
So they are nerfing Ap Shaco cause he is good vs champs he counters?! Oh well, time to nerf Poppy next, I heard she is extremely good vs champs with dashes, time to nerf Rammus for being good vs ad champs, Galio for being good vs heavy magic dmg team comps, Master Yi for being good vs 0 hard cc team comps. But on a serious note, how can they say he is overperforming when he has 1/3rd of Zyra's pick rate, while supporting 3% lower win rate than her, can't they just be honest and be like "We find him annoying, and it doesn't matter if we think he is balanced already, we want him so underpowered that nobody dares pick him"
What? No. They just don't want to see AP Shaco nor his lane variant. The fact AP Shaco only has a 3% lower winrate than Zyra, despite Zyra only really being viable support and as AP, just shows how busted Shaco is. Besides, you are trolling if you aren't playing him AD. His damage is absurd
@@faveology ap shaco has lowest win rate he has had in years. They gave him less severe nerfs back when he was at 56%wr with 4 times larger pick rate(early s12). Also ap shaco has always been viable, if anything it has gotten worse over the years not better, it is not like ap shaco is something new that riot sees as an unfortunate mistake.
@@faveology also I forgot to say, even after buffs last patch, ap shaco supp had larger win rate than ad shaco jungle cause even with buffs to his Q ad Shaco barely hit 50%wr, which is abysmal when you consider how simple the champ is and how low his pick rate is.
I looked at Akali change and thought "hey I'd like to try that I really like playing Akali." Then I remembered. Silly me I have BG3 to play and league is like eating gravel compared to playing BG3
I think shaco nerfs is fine, it's a toxic champion that you don't want on your team anyways because it's useless, and also annoying to play against, so nerfs to make less people pick it is good
How can u nerf a champion that is "op" only in fking iron? Im shaco main and this champion literally sucks as a champion in high elo and has been never played in competetive. GOOD JOB RIOT. Nerf champions because noobs can't deal with it while it suck against players with brains? How is shaco support stronger than... Xerath? or every other champion that is played on support? How can Shaco compete even in jungle against maokai, sejuani etc if u nerf him? XD
Because girls that play league of legends main ADC and Support meaning they stay bot lane all day everyday and never leave lane or each other in low elo and wonder why they never win games so they complain about Shaco and here we are
Nice patch! I always love the fact we will never experience new champs at worlds as Riot will just force the same 12 champs. Amazing to see Akali will be permapicked
Is LS mispronouncing champion names on purpose? Like Aatrox, Shaco, and worst of all, Veigar. Or does he actually think that he's pronouncing them right?
@@BlahajGoesNom oh, so you think that everyone, including the people in Riot who came up with Veigar, are mispronouncing his name? And LS is correct when he calls him Vaigar?
he doesnt mind caitlyn buffs cuz she is fun to watch but he minds akali buffs which is very fun as well maybe cuz he has some bad dreams from last year its ok bro ull get through it
bro they are forcing akali and other skill based champs cuz this is what people want to play and watch they dont want to see boring tanks and 0 skill mid laners like corki . if u dont like it then dont play them
Hey LS it's everyone
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Hi everyone I'm dad
The big thing about that Ekko buff is that with blasting wand at lvl 8 rather than lvl 9 you one shot the wave with q
Their reasoning for buffing serpents fang is just so dumb. The item is meant to be niche, not an item that you build every game. Serpents fang when it had 18 lethality was an item that was built every single game because it was super cheap and gave lots of lethality. It’s concerning when the balance team doesn’t even know the role of the items that they make
Leagu3 has never been balanced in its entire history so this team must be min wage or interns
@@joaobrito2653 For real. Riot always says they want to make building a diverse set of choices but then they only give us like 4 to choose from for any given champion.
Honestly they just need to double the number of items in the game and give way more Zhonya's/Serpents Fang/Youmuus actives rather than Night harvester or Ludens. Things that actually enhance how you play the game rather than just more damage.
For Tristana, Phreak's math has her being squishier to physical damage until lvl 4, so early lane autos will do more (or the same) to her. If you're dealing exactly 50/50 physical/magic, she's squishier, and it only gets better the more magic damage you do.
That akali buff seems absolutely crazy, she is so much more dangerous pre 9 and has actual damage even at level 1-2. I guess it's time for the now annual cycle of; buff akali Q energy cost --> Nerf akali Q energy cost --> "This ability is hard to balance, so we are gonna readjust Akali Q"
learn to play skill based champs and stop crying . akali is skill based and she deserves to be viable
@@giorgos346 As an Akali main, i mostly find the Q buff/nerf/rework cycles annoying, all though hilarious. But thinking that Akali needed an extra 100+ damage at level 1-5 to be viable, has to be the most metal league take i have ever replied to, grats!
The previous nerfs to her energy is still sometimes giving me trouble since I was used to being able to Q twice at lvl one either with the energy regen from passive back then or the lower energy cost.
@@mr.mc.doesntexist7693 i have a feeling that the Q will get nerfed again in either 1 or 2 patches, maybe after worlds if we are lucky, gotta enjoy it while we can haha
@@giorgos346since when having no counterplay is skill? She's already viable, they just want her for world to be broken.
Wait, LS aka Lost Skins forgot the most important part... the skins! 😲
*He also lost his foreskin*
HUH@@drpygmr2416
serpents fang buff makes 0 sense. The item is supposed to be a niche purchase where you only buy it against shields. Riot did the durability patch and went right back to mindlessly buffing damage to the point where they are buffing a niche item into not being niche xD
Zeka smiling right now 😂 😂
Now he only has to make it their xD but sadly for him beryl is on his way to another worlds finals 🤡
i feel like shyvana isn't getting reworked within the next year because a new skin just came out
jungle ekko almost never consumes the entire sheidl because he should be stunning the mobs as well
The shield runs out before the stun does, the shield doesn't really do anything
also if you pay attention to the akali math youre going from 6 seconds between q casts to 2 seconds in a trade going from 200-70 needing 130 a recast to 200-90 110 recast
Reality is Shyvana is nowhere near a rework since Skarner rework is not even set to launch before the end of 2023
100% Agree on Shaco! They didn´t give it a real thougt and just wanted to gut him... I play shaco mid and its even more frustrating now for no reason. Can´t you talk to Phreak he should do somethin? xD
I'll believe Shyvana is getting her rework when it comes to live. She's gotten screwed over so many times it's hard to believe it will happen anymore.
they gave nida an ad ratio for arena so she has more build flexibility
i lowkey hope they do the same for more champs, as an off meta enjoyer id be very happy to get some ratios on champs. wouldnt mind an ad ratio to make ad/hybrid zoe more viable :3
They would have just made that arena specific. They gave her AD for another reason. They want hybrid and top Nidalee to be viable
@@faveology phreak literally said it was a change mainly for arena
@@faveologyApparently the arena team can't make Arena specific changes to things that aren't already in Summoners Rift. That's what Riot told us.
With build diversity and flexibility required for arena, they added a scaling so that the Arena team can run with it and change it to whatever they want.
Dude if they ever make Tri-force/DS Nida top viable I'm gonna no-life this game for the entire season.
Lulu would need 60 ratio on Q and preferably E again to be able to be somewhat viable ap (Wildgrowth back to 50 or bring back a higher ratio on W would also be great.)
Would be fun to see
Top laners are cursing your existence as we speak
@@y2wok I knowww but be prepared because it seems like Riot is testing the waters with actual ap enchanters again and we all know she'll just go back to the solo lanes if she does
@@Dyna1OneI'd be okay with enchanters having high AP ratios if they didn't also have higher base damage than some ultimates (looking at you, Milio)
NGL as someone with Riven in her top 3 most played, I kinda hate when they incentivise her lethality builds. I just kinda prefer being more tanky and staying in teamfights longer and so on with Goredrinker Cleaver Deaths dance Hydra and so on. Just killing things in like 3 button presses doesn´t do it for me tbh.
Why be mobile when you can be tanky and mobile? Fulfills my primary objective of being diversion #1 more effectively.
Hoping the Malzahar QOL doesn't end up boosting his winrate in any relevant way, don't want my main nerfed for no reason.
I mean, balance team is brainded if they nerf him for this on anything outside weaveclear.
@@kos4793 i would love for them to nerf his ult and actually buff his E. But that will never happen
Uhm.... Malzahar is insanely weak right now. Needs a buff badly.
@@SuperXD44 they should just buff him period, no nerf since his ult is already gutted by qss. Only on silver his ult is broken.
@@chillmegachillno? Positive high winrates in low and high elo?
Akali needed that huge buff, from a Akali main she was not a champ pre 5 before you put a 3rd point in the Q because of the energy cost, she wasn't able to trade correctly wihout over depending on her shroud, which is a problem to be so inexistant and slow pre 5 for a assasin who is supposed to snowball in midgame.
Their was a reason if even the best Akali in the world like Zeka wasn't playing her anymore in world, because she was bad.
The damage buff is overkill, she didn't need more damage, just needed the energy cost to be lowered, wouldn't mind for them to nerf it by reverting the damage buff to the initial one but keeping the energy buff they gave.
they need to fix tick rate on alot of champs. like darius e and atox w. sometimes your out of it but the tick rate say nay.
Been waiting a long time for target dummy buff 🙏 finally!
The cait buffs are supposed to be 6 to 5, not 7 to 6 right?
its the number it takes to get the Headshot Proc i think. So shoot 5 times and 6th one is Headshot
according to patch notes on client, 7 to 6
7 to 6 is the number of AA you need to proc the passive meanwhile 6 to 5 is the number of AA you need to ready the passive
The 6th is the headshot
LMAOOO I didn't even read malz abilities correctly didn't realise he can execute minions
Why would you play champs with no mobility, and barely any CC when champs like irelia ,yasuo ,yone, kayn, reksai, khazix, malhpite, talon exist. Champs like brand are just food to them. They'll jump on his head and 100 to 0 him quicker than the cast times on his combo. A 5% ap ratio buff isn't going to fix why brand (and most enchanter supports) aren't viable. There's too many champs they can't be on the same screen with or they get deleted. By the time they get a 2nd item to fix all their inherent problems the game has been decided.
Like why not improve his base stats instead? Damage going up makes no sense
I cannot tell if you are trolling or not. Because enchanters are usually especially good against assassins since. Most make it nearly impossible for assassins to get pics, because of all the shielding/disruption they have.
HLE on hands and knees begging for gauntlet to be on 13.16
can some 1 explain the youmuus + umbral glaive combo to me? like why are those 2 items good with each other?
Run around the map fast and clear wards, used to be my go-to on pyke
Imagine Giving brand movement speed burst whenever his passive blast procs. He could be like ap jinx
Does Malz really get more dps? I would assume that the tick dmg went down and the total duration stayed the same.
LS didn't say he had more DPS, he said that his damage was faster, which is true. Half of your damage is now coming out .25 seconds earlier than before, which may not seem like much but can be a big deal in a lot of instances.
@@KeroseneZanchu He said it right here 11:40. But he probably meant what you said, which I agree can be big deal.
@@eviltom8783 The way he uses the term "dps" is abit strange, the damage comes out faster yea but over the full duration of the spell the dps remains the same. The dps DOES increase during that .25 seconds where the damage wouldn't have come out before but yea overall dps is the same.
Any idea where I can watch the Asian games?
AfreecaTV, BiliBili or Twitch
The hell are u talking about Shyvana rework, her rework is postponed almost closely to 2k25 lol.
yes, but she won't ever be competitively relevant til a rework.
Where will you be able to see Asian games. Does someone know?
Google it
25:17 she doesnt need ingenious, take futures / cosmic.
he just glossed over the target dummy changes??? hello???? unkillable in every matchup, and now movement speed buff?????
Not important notes
Hoping fot a big patch for worlds
millio gets the rank 1 q damage back when he finishes mythic
Might have forgotten an exception, but the Duskblade change harms Duskblade Pyke resets greatly, who does actually benefit from multiple takedowns consistently throughout teamfights.
i feel like you weren't listening to his reasoning.
True, what could I have possibly meant by the comment.
For sure it isn't referencing Pyke getting an ult, dashing out, waiting for CD and coming back in and repeating it when in extended fights; where your solo laners lost and bot didn't so that you have the burden of carrying close fights.
@@DDDEVILDUCK
I don’t think Shyvana is going to get a rework soon. No this year at least.
Bro, skarner rework isn't here yet so think shyvanas won't be coming anytime soon xD.
no xerath nerf, my climb shall continue
But wouldnt Malzahar E lasting half the time it used to kind of nerf Liandrys and Rylais a little bit? I mean especially as poke, even in lane when after u build Liandrys?
(I’m not too good of a player, so maybe to a lot of you this is a dumb question xD)
I'm pretty sure the duration is unchanged. Imagine it does 10/10/10/10 over a second instead of 20/20
@@leaveacomment ohh.. i guess LS saying dps confused me a bit, like does it count as more dps if the damage per second is the same? Idk
@@lennzo9231 He definetely worded it weirdly. I guess you would technically do more dps every other quarter of a second, where usually no damage would've happened.
Good milio players hitting does Q are gonna solo win lanes, this is underestimating the buff, it is A LOT of dmg.
Fuck shaco support, that shit has no counterplay in a lot of matchups and makes 3 players unhappy about his presence in the game.
Shyvana top gets bodied by a sion that is not gonna get moved out of lane and is gonna outscale her anyway, i don't understand the nerfs, mayne she is too oppressive as a counterpick.
Hey LS its everyone !
Akali + Sylas buffs, Aatrox buffs. HLE will win words with Zeka and Kingen.
So they are nerfing Ap Shaco cause he is good vs champs he counters?!
Oh well, time to nerf Poppy next, I heard she is extremely good vs champs with dashes, time to nerf Rammus for being good vs ad champs, Galio for being good vs heavy magic dmg team comps, Master Yi for being good vs 0 hard cc team comps.
But on a serious note, how can they say he is overperforming when he has 1/3rd of Zyra's pick rate, while supporting 3% lower win rate than her, can't they just be honest and be like "We find him annoying, and it doesn't matter if we think he is balanced already, we want him so underpowered that nobody dares pick him"
What? No. They just don't want to see AP Shaco nor his lane variant. The fact AP Shaco only has a 3% lower winrate than Zyra, despite Zyra only really being viable support and as AP, just shows how busted Shaco is. Besides, you are trolling if you aren't playing him AD. His damage is absurd
@@faveology ap shaco has lowest win rate he has had in years.
They gave him less severe nerfs back when he was at 56%wr with 4 times larger pick rate(early s12).
Also ap shaco has always been viable, if anything it has gotten worse over the years not better, it is not like ap shaco is something new that riot sees as an unfortunate mistake.
@@faveology also I forgot to say, even after buffs last patch, ap shaco supp had larger win rate than ad shaco jungle cause even with buffs to his Q ad Shaco barely hit 50%wr, which is abysmal when you consider how simple the champ is and how low his pick rate is.
@@faveologyI'm just happy when ap shaco leaves arena.
Riot just trying to make sure Zeka is relevant again
leave shyvana alone ? XD
Where did you happen to get that Gengar plush?
is this a huge buff for cait?
I wish he would scream and cry more
I looked at Akali change and thought "hey I'd like to try that I really like playing Akali." Then I remembered. Silly me I have BG3 to play and league is like eating gravel compared to playing BG3
Wet gravel
Drututt Milio buff
no skin review
The shoutout to Saber lol
Bro, Saber already gets a lot of hate for quitting league. It would be very much appreciated if you could stop spreading it as well
@@BlahajGoesNom I have no idea what you talking about. And how is what I said hate?
Ekko and Akali worlds buffs? Where is Corki??? Real ones know
DWG Showmaker is Corki!!
Akali buffs for KDA Super Popstars all out 😳
I think shaco nerfs is fine, it's a toxic champion that you don't want on your team anyways because it's useless, and also annoying to play against, so nerfs to make less people pick it is good
No it isn't wtf
How can u nerf a champion that is "op" only in fking iron? Im shaco main and this champion literally sucks as a champion in high elo and has been never played in competetive. GOOD JOB RIOT. Nerf champions because noobs can't deal with it while it suck against players with brains? How is shaco support stronger than... Xerath? or every other champion that is played on support? How can Shaco compete even in jungle against maokai, sejuani etc if u nerf him? XD
Because girls that play league of legends main ADC and Support meaning they stay bot lane all day everyday and never leave lane or each other in low elo and wonder why they never win games so they complain about Shaco and here we are
faker's akali is back just in time for worlds
Pro play is a snooze fest.
Can vi get a buff for the same reason as wukong cope
yea!!!!!!!!
Nice patch! I always love the fact we will never experience new champs at worlds as Riot will just force the same 12 champs. Amazing to see Akali will be permapicked
Akali spam let's gooooooo
flyquest lel
any1 in NA wanna flex/clash with drafting in mind?
Is LS mispronouncing champion names on purpose? Like Aatrox, Shaco, and worst of all, Veigar. Or does he actually think that he's pronouncing them right?
No, LS pronounces the names right, except Aatrox because Aatrox
@@BlahajGoesNom oh, so you think that everyone, including the people in Riot who came up with Veigar, are mispronouncing his name? And LS is correct when he calls him Vaigar?
Brand buff is trash.... revert his passive nerf zzzz
I am banning kayn because of the prowler's buff
reworked SOON? bruh we havent even seen shit for skarner yet shyv rework aint comin for like 3 years blud
he doesnt mind caitlyn buffs cuz she is fun to watch but he minds akali buffs which is very fun as well maybe cuz he has some bad dreams from last year its ok bro ull get through it
Akali is only fun for Akali. For everyone else, especially if you are immobile as fuck, it's not fun at all
@@Elimbi1same for caitlyn honestly
a dollar every time LS was wrong coaching all those KR guys who were banned yet
bro they are forcing akali and other skill based champs cuz this is what people want to play and watch they dont want to see boring tanks and 0 skill mid laners like corki . if u dont like it then dont play them
No, it's just worlds, like every year.
@@kos4793 this patch doesn't affect worlds.
Grooming allegations?
bro you legit copied ls'es video
Please stop saying Aatrox like that lol
That's how Aatrox is pronounced..
I am the 4th person to comment, so I am now jhin
thx for the timestamps!