June 2-8 This Week On The Rift

Hello everyone and welcome to This Week on The Rift

The major talking points I want to cover this week are patch 4.9 / summoners rift visual updates / upcoming Buffs and nerfs as suggested on the PBE.

4.9 Patch notes can be found here http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-49-notes

Champion changes

Karthus - got some visual updates

Braum - passive no longs stuns people with spell shields. Damage on his Q was nerfed. Resistances on his W were nerfed. Big fix on his E which now block certain effects that previously weren't blocked.

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Kassadin - lowered movement speed. Nerfed the damage on his W.

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Kha'zix - nerfed the damage on his Q, but made evolved Q do more damage to isolated targets. Buffed his W and the evolved version giving bonus damage to monsters. Evolved W got a slow buff and now grants vision of the enemy. His R was nerfed and no longer gives damage reduction in stealth.

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Pantheon - his R now pops projectiles coming at him. He is now untargetable from when he jumps until he lands.

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Rengar - can no longer attack mid jump. The bonus damage on his Q can no longer crit.

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Rumble - his Q no longer does less does less damage on purple side or over extended periods of time.

Soraka - buff to her Q makes her W cooldown lower.

Jungle Changes

Jungle monsters no longer give bonus xp based on their level.

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Ranked Team rewards / ward skins

Summoners now have more incentive to play as a part of ranked teams with wins giving points towards unlocking unique season 2014 ward skins and summoner icons.

Trinket wards are now affected by ward skins. In order to determine trinkets from regular wards trinkets have a yellow ring visual while regular wards have a green ring.

Skins

Pentakill mordekaiser and sona received visual updates this week as well as Woad Scout Quinn being announced.


Summoners Rift Visual Update

You can read about the summoners rift visual update in more detail here: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/features/dev-blog-updating-summoners-rift

Summoners rift is getting a visual update so that summoners can more clearly see what is going on in teamfights. The new rift will feature a darker color in order for champions to contrast with their surroundings. Jungle camps will be getting awesome new spawn animations as well as new graphics, dragon and baron getting some new abilities and even new monsters! The VU is said to be more CPU intensive right now however it has 1/8 the polygons of the current rift and players should experience the same or higher FPS than on the current rift after launch.

The new rift also features a slightly different camera angle which allows for skillshots to be more accurate as they reach the corners of the screen. There will also be slightly more camera space at the bottom of the screen.

The last thing that I want to talk about are the upcoming changes in patch 4.10 which can be found here: http://community.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/champions-gameplay-feedback/621miiU8-planned-410-item-changes-attack-damage-attack-speed-wardens-mail-support-itemization

There are a lot of changes possible so I highly recommend reading that but here are the highlights.

There will be tiers to AD items the highest being 80. Example being 60/80/120 AP tiers.
Summoner spell Heal will be nerfed.
Items that previously had different effect durations for ranged and melee champions will be equal.
Low cost attack speed items will grant more attack speed so that you don't have to sink 3k to get some AS.
Dorans blade stats will be lowered and passive removed but it will gain a little lifesteal to compensate
Other low cost lifesteal items will be nerfed to allow for different itemization.
BotRK life steal and active will be nerfed but the passive will be buffed.
Bloodthirster stats will be buffed but the passive is deleted. A new passive will grant a shield but the price goes up.
Two new items one being useful for AD casters that grants AD / LS / CDR with a passive that restores mana and the other being a support item that grants AP/Mp5/CDR/MS with a passive that gives your teammate an attack speed buff when you heal / shield them. (doesn't work on yourself)
Mikael's crucible will give more Mp5 as well as some CDR but the price rises.
Athene's unholy grail MR and Mp5 are nerfed but the passive mana on kill/assist is buffed.
Morellonomicon AP is buffed but the Mp5 is nerfed.
Forbidden idol cost goes down.
Locket of the iron solari will use the recipients champion level to determine shield strength now.
Warden's mail and randuin's omen attack speed slow will be nerfed and randuin's loses the movement speed slow.

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What are your thoughts? Share below!

With 4.10 patch this will be an ADC's game and it will be interesting to see how that plays out.

Ms. Santa wrote:With 4.10 patch this will be an ADC's game and it will be interesting to see how that plays out.

how do you figure that?

Hidden wrote:

Ms. Santa wrote:With 4.10 patch this will be an ADC's game and it will be interesting to see how that plays out.

how do you figure that?

Bruisers/tanks won't be able to touch ADCs because of movement speed reduction nerf on randuin's + shield on bloodthirster. ADCs also will get more attack speed and life steal early so they will be harder to shut down early game making their late game come that much faster

Personally I can't wait for the changes to bork as thats essentially going to be an indirect buff to zed.

Still waiting on jax nerfs...

mypet tr0ll wrote:Still waiting on jax nerfs...

Funny part is jax has been nerfed pretty hard before.

His W base damage is down 25% at all ranks and his ult passive use to go 100/200/300 instead of 100/160/220. Jax is in line but, there's still kayle, leblanc, and further braum nerfs to come before the next jax nerf.

KMV wrote:

mypet tr0ll wrote:Still waiting on jax nerfs...

Funny part is jax has been nerfed pretty hard before.

His W base damage is down 25% at all ranks and his ult passive use to go 100/200/300 instead of 100/160/220. Jax is in line but, there's still kayle, leblanc, and further braum nerfs to come before the next jax nerf.

Back in 2012, lol, the game is in an entire different state from back in 2012.

Did you know why the nerfed him back in 2012? Because it used to be double bruiser bot in late season 1, and jax was picked every game along with xin(at his release) causing the community to complain about his OPness, which led to jax getting nerfed.

the game is entirely different now.

he needs a nerf.


EDIT: His base values are too high, his health is the 3rd highest in the game at lvl 1, causing him to have no trouble against champs that are supposed to shut him down early. Its too easy to get to a stage where you can duel anyone.