Aatrox goes live, Darius finally gets his new skin, the jungle gets reworked and curse
gets off to a rough start in the LCS summer split.
Stick around, because all that and a riot point giveaway is happening right now, on
the league update.
Aatrox the darkin blade was released on the live server on thursday.
Maybe it's because of his passive, or maybe it's just because he's a demon but a lot of
people seem to think he's horribly overpowered.
And no one has explained why this isn't the case better than reign of gaming's very own
Hashinshin, in his article titled "The things that riot has to do to make mele carries good."
An excerpt...
"With Aatrox finally officially released I think we've all managed to figure out why
melee carries need to suck so hard: Everyone thinks they're OP if they're good.
"Aatrox isn't even good, he's average at BEST and likely subpar.
However the things Riot had to do to make him even somewhat playable pisses everyone
off.
He needed a gap closer, some way to keep people in range, harder scaling than ranged carries,
and a survivability tool.
Now while Aatrox's survivability tool is... odd... but just the fact that he has it annoys
so many people."
I couldn't agree more, in fact the "evasion versus mitigation" argument has been an overarching
issue with action RPGs since the genre was created back in 1996.
Melee characters are guaranteed to take damage, so they need a tool that is guaranteed to
mitigate that damage.
While ranged characters have a chance to avoid damage all together by staying far away from
the fight.
But if melee character closes the gap than the ranged character's evasion is completely
negated while melee characters passive damage mitigation tool is still there.
So then the ranged character cries on the forums, and the melee character is nerfed.
Blizzard couldn't fix it, and riot is certainly having a hell of a time trying.
But you know who can help?
You, tell me why Aatrox is or ISN'T overpowered and how riot can fix him or just stop people
from crying in the comments and you could win 2800 riot points.
The Waod King Darius skin has finally realeased... woo yay awesome, so keww ooo!!
In other news jungle spawn times have been slightly increased across the board to negate
the the advantage given to the blue side's bot lane from camp snatching wraiths and wolves.
While this a minute change for most players this means we should see purple's ADC and
support going back to bottom lane on the competitive side of things.
This change will also slightly increase the time it takes the jungler to be "gank ready".
So if you are a laner you can breathe easy for a few more seconds in the early game.
Finally, team curse got off to a rough start in the first week of the LCS summer split
and when I say rough I mean one win and four losses.
I caught up with saint to see what the H
was going on.
So basically, we have one of if not the best support players in the world but he just didn't
have any time to practice with the team before their first match.
Anyway i'd like to wish our boys the best of luck in the coming weeks of LCS.
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And enjoy the game.