u/Chizzle_Chazz

So I was talking to a friend about mayhem augments and came onto this topic. So many augments make things that there are already too much of in the game even more prevalent. For example Adc’s are already extremely oppressive being able to auto you from range. Giving them Scopiest weapons makes them more so. With all the haste and also the nature of Aram, CC is already too prevalent, we really don’t need more CC at all. So why does the polymorph augment exist? Stuff like this is an example of augments adding things that already exist in abundance. It’s like adding salt to instant noodles. That’s shits already mad salty.

If you take the first Scoped weapons example. I saw a viego with all 3 Scoped augments, and he got to play like an adc. That’s fundamentally changing champion gameplay. (I know the scoped augments are worse for ranged but still we don’t need to be giving adc’s more range.) Another example would be getting something like all for you and spirit bomb on Lee sin. You can build him full AP Heal and Shield power and with his ult and W you actually become a pretty good enchanter/ peel support.

I think enabling stuff like this that actually changes the game in a real way instead of most games devolving into a ranged, ability haste heavy, stat check, CC war would vastly improve mayhem a lot.

I’ve been playing a lot of mid lane because I feel like I have more control over the game mid. I played a lot of K’sante top so he’s kind of a comfort pick for me in mid lane.

I never really had problems with Sylas, I usually use K’sante as a counter to him. It was my understanding that my ult is a negative for Sylas since you lose health and resists and Sylas doesn’t really benefit from the armor pen on your ult. What I’m curious about is does anyone know if it actually works this way? Is there any benefit of him taking your ult besides a bit of omnivamp?

I just played a game as Darius and got High Roller first aug. There was a Naafiri in my game and each one of her dogs has a chance to drop a shard when you kill her. At one point in the game I killed her and it dropped 3 shards. By the end of the game when they FF’d I had 30 shards and it was only a 15 minute game. Safe to say my stats were overwhelming.

So I’ve been getting into this champ. I know First strike is usually better but in terms of sheer scaling, when you are full build which on actually does more damage? Has anyone compared the two runes to see at what threshold Dark harvest out damages First strike.

I just want to achieve the dopamine hit of full one-shotting a squishy with just Q.

How do you guys deal with this. Idk if it’s just in my games but almost every single time I lock in Zed and they pick a mage they build the most insecure items possible. Without fail no matter who it is they build ROA, Steel Caps, Arm Guard and I can’t do anything. If I trade with W they tank the damage and then just bully me off the wave. They out damage me in short trades and extended trades. They out push me so it’s not like I can just shove and roam.

Idk what it is but for the past couple months every mage builds these items and completely stonewalls me. At this point I’m considering giving up on this champ, it only ever feels good in super specific drafts.

Edit: I see everyone saying LDR. Itemization isn’t my problem with this play style. I usually go voltaic,eclipse, LDR. My problem is by the time second or third item I’m already so behind from lane I feel useless. Unless they have a really weak toplaner I can side lane into to get back in the game. Maybe I should rush I hydra item to maximize my wave clear when I get access to the wave idk.

I think it’s long overdue for tanks to have an item that gives them tenacity. Having to build mercy into 3 or 4 AD auto attackers just because they have a Leona or similar perma cc champs just feels so bad. Let me build my steel caps and get tenacity elsewhere.

So I’ve been experimenting with runes and I found my new favourite set up.

Instead of taking Resolve tree secondary, I go Sorcery with Celerity Nimbus Cloak and I take the move speed shard over adaptive force. This took my spacing to a whole other level. In toplane it felt like I was playing a ranged character and throughout the game it felt like I was so much harder to touch. The synergy with the move speed from E makes chasing or kiting for cooldowns way better and Nimbus cloak is so strong in early skirmishes if you run ignite or exhaust. Other wise you could swap it for Gathering Storm for some more scaling or even get techy with Axiom Archanist for more ult uptime. This page works even better if you’re allowed to run the Conqueror PD build I see tempest running all the time.

Am I saying this page is optimal? Yes I said it, but only in matchups you would be allowed to. Really oppressive range matchups you kind of need second wind. Try it out before you knock it I’m not lying when I say the champ felt significantly smoother.

I swear to god I only ever see this problem with adc players. To be clear I’m not complaining about alternative builds.

What I have seen in my last 10 games is the Adc’s on my team building like they have zero critical thinking skills whatsoever. They’ll somehow read the description for collector and build that shit every time. God forbid they build %pen or a serpents fang or anti-heal. All they know how to build is collector and IE and then 2 fucking zeal items for some unknown reason. Not to mention half the time they get %50-%75 free crit from augments and still build 4 crit items. Like damn how about some utility or defensive items.

Anyways, rant over. Moral of the story press tab and think before buying your shit collector item.

Cruelty + Void Rift + Executioner on Alistar bigger high roll than infernal conduit brand.

I went full squishy AP burst Alistar against a comp with 3 Giga tanks and out damaged my brand with Vulnerability and Infernal Conduit.

I high roller an omnivamp at the beginning of the game so I had some sustain in fights but the damage I was doing against these tanks was illegal. Their squishy jinx and ahri exploded to 1 W Q.

Chef’s Kiss

I’ve been seeing a lot of people complaining about Biggest snowball ever. Well yea I think it’s busted I discovered a glitch with Snowball Roulette today.

I had Snowball Roulette and Biggest Snowball Ever. When I would hit the snow ball it would cast the beneficial summoner from Snowball Roulette 5 times. If you’ve never played Zoe in a lobby with multiple ghosts you might not know the move speed from ghost can stack on itself multiple times. When I would land snowball and got ghost I would have 5 ghosts worth of move speed.