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At a recent NN, we had a hypothetical discussion regarding Kennen, specifically Miracle Kennen, and were discussing the strongest parts of his kit. The most common answer was the presence of BOTH Stacked Deck and Lightning Rush, the latter of which accomplishes both deck cycling and trash management. A few players also mentioned Fizz’s addition to the overall strength of the deck, but I’ve also seen Fizz run as a 2x of and it doesn’t always target the Stacked Decks/Lightning Rush.

The debate is; would this deck still function/be at all playable if Stacked Deck (or Fizz, to a lesser extent) was banned (or at the very least, limited, which also prompted a discussion about the health of a TCG that needs cards to be limited)? What other decks would suffer greatly with a Stacked Deck ban (Diana comes to mind first for me).

I play Promising Future and choose a second Promising Future from my five cards
Opponent picks Ride the Wind to try and score on my turn
Does my second Promising Future (and the two cards chosen from it) resolve before their Ride the Wind giving me a chance to kill the unit?
Does Ride the Wind resolve, then the second Promising Future and then the staged showdown?

I was wondering which of the current tier 1 (master yi, kennen, irelia, kaisa) and tier 2 decks (rengar, nasus, diana, azir, reksai, draven).

Tiers are based on the tier list from riftbound.gg

I created myself a diana deck which seems to teach really good fundamentals, but I also get punished quite a lot, so I was wondering if should switch to an easier deck.

What are the easiest of them listed above?

This has come up multiple times today on RiftAtlas, so I thought I would share it here so everyone is aware. It is particularly important for games involving Akali.

https://preview.redd.it/6m1rhgiqw9kh1.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=afdf32939b146283b08fe6751e1f47c450304767

In this scenario, I had scored both Battlefields this turn. Just before the image above, I had attacked Hall of Legends with Twilight Reveler, which was defended by Tideturner. I used Twilight Reveler to ready Stellacorn Herder, who was at Abandoned Hall, and then moved them home. This meant that I now no longer controlled Abandoned Hall.

Afterwards, I moved Jhin into Abandoned Hall. Because I now no longer controlled it, a showdown should have occurred, which would then allow me to do Akali shenanigans (e.g. run Jhin home ready etc). EDIT: I'm just adding that I am very aware that you do not score/conquer a second time. It just creates a showdown, which is the important part.

It is an unusual interaction, but it is a really important one to be aware of when piloting Akali. Unfortunately, OLIGEH here didn't know that, claimed they were a judge and I was wasting their time, and decided to leave before getting 2-0d comfortably.

As I said, this has come up multiple times today, so thought I would share this here so that people are aware of a useful trick and also so if I play against one of you later online, you are aware of it and don't decide to yell at me and leave the game. :P

Played against 4 Auroras in 3 Events in a row, 2 Nexus Nights and one skirmish.

Two were even the same person. I don’t even know what I’m suppose to takeaway from playing against one. Like there’s just no interaction at all. They even said, either I draw the nuts or I don’t and lose.

Is it really just side in 3 Ravenbloom Prefects and hope you get her before they get the nuts?

The funniest thing about this whole thing is I’ll be done with my match while my friends are still in their first game of the match.

I’ve played a bunch of other games and I’ve never felt something this polarizing. Not even first rework Skarner in league felt that uninteresting. The best way to describe this feeling is like discovering fire for the first time, but it burns you terrible.

I know Body is just not that great of a domain but how was this allowed to go on for months; it’s like if in League, Kassadin was never nerfed and was instead buffed. That’s what Jayce Aurora feels like. And then the argument for it is, “well you should have been first pick or ban it” full stop.

Don’t even get me started on with Lux infinites. Cause at this point, I don’t know which is worse.

Heyo!

I was so set on playing fiora for barcelona at first, until I decided to try Kennen hook on stream. I instantly fell in love with the swarmy Kennen hook with a couple of sneaky combat tricks like starr crossed, fizz and the good old GRAND STRATEGEM!!

Let me know what you think of the list, the addition of star crossed + fizz combos with matron just opened so many different and insanely strong lines. Not only can you take xin zhaos which go to 6 might from your legend, you can matron in to fizz in to up from the deep/star crossed.

Here is the link for the Kennen deck I am currently running, if you have some improvement tips, let me know before Barcelona 👀

https://piltoverarchive.com/decks/view/7db19590-63f8-42f6-9f05-943be1129668

For context here is my Hook Fiora right now:

https://piltoverarchive.com/decks/view/a79c758d-bfbd-432f-b534-3aeccc8da177

Should I go for the best of Fiora, or just try for top 64 with this Kennen?

And if you are interested in some Barcelona RQ practise games with the decks, I just posted 45 minutes of my POV games with commentary!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUwkpw2V-vM

Hi all, trying to enter the world of riftbound. For what I saw the game looks really fun and more skill based than other tcgs (i play magic and pokemon) so wanted to know any advice on a starting deck. In magic I play more spells and control games than units, was thinking of something like Leblanc or viktor for what the reviews I saw, (ik Vic is horrible rn, is it true?).

I am missing any champ that you would recommend? Are there any preconstructed deck? Any playing tip is welcome.

Thanks!