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I am still not seeing the whole landmark thing working. The question is: "How does it beat aggro?" and currently it doesn't. Even with the advance stuff things like the Rockbears are clunky to play, so there has to be landmarks that gives tempo or clears the board like Blighted Ravine.
Is it really that bad against aggro? It's in Targon which is a huge difference from Shurima. It has some early tools, such as Ancient Preparations, which could allow you to curve into Chip or vice versa. You're probably just better off not playing some of the bad landmarks and slot in Targon cards instead like Solari Sunforger. You also don't have to level Malphite on turn 7 because you might not get good value from Unstoppable Force right away even if you do.
Time will show but we haven't seen Targon rise during the aggressive metas LoR has seen lately, and you have to have a certain amount of landmarks in your deck to level up Malphite. Thus, you are prone to drawing some really slow cards. Spending 3-4 mana on a landmark while your opponent develops 1 or 2 minions seem like a bad trade off.
And if you are playing Targon you might just play Asol/Zoe, so you aren't forced to have a bunch of slow cards. I might be wrong here and it depends on the landmarks. I just haven't seen anything that can prevent you from dying on t5-t6.
so if you play 3 blue buffs (and they die) you get 6 mana of landmarks, you need more.. maybe Ionia gets better landmarks with Irelia and we finally get the dream of Yasuo + Malphite, there is no better known combo in league (mainly cause 20% of the player base main Yasuo/Yone).
My boy ,my BIG boy is here.
Love him ,don't care if op or bla bla bla ...
The reveal ,music and art is just 10/10 for me.Can't wait to try him out and have some fun .
Rock solid card for landmarks now they need to print a partner for him other then yasuo.
Taliyah say hello.
It's not great, but I think it does give Landmark decks something valuable. Now they can just be Targon+Shurima with stall tools and just enough Landmarks to level up Malphite (probably cutting Taliyah for Zilean unless there's more synergy). Malphite seems like crazy enough of a win condition to make that deck work, and Targon has enough heal cards to survive until round seven (it would run Starshaping and Solari Sunforger). I'm kind of disappointed that it's just another Targon stall deck using Malphite instead of Celestials, but at least it could lead to some of the Shurima Landmarks seeing play.
Honestly as it stands I'd rather play Zilean/Malphite than Taliyah/Malphite. Paying 5 Mana for a 2|4 is so awful that it needs insane payoff to be worthwhile, and right now there still aren't any great Landmarks to copy.
I didn't say that she was great just that the two have synergy together.
Wanted to add her but what landmark from the new ones you want to copy for her ability to be good?
And when you lv her up she is not a win con like the others.
Like let's say lissandra and trundle.
Here :The big guy is the ''muscle'' but you got to have the ''brain''(win con) champ and i can't see her .
Malphite is the win con with overwhelm but you get one spell like that from a land mark and is slow .
Taliyah is great but she need something or someone else with landmarks .
and even yasou is not perfect for him but is ok for now.
Taliyah is not a great champion but at least they got landmark synergy but Yasuo? How do you make that work? You only have two stun cards and one requires you to level up Malphite.
Call me crazy but with yasuo maybe the ionia land mark that lets you bounce some cards back in hand like the spell that gives you a 3/2 dude,yone ,9 mana chick. From targon 3 mana spell stun 2 , aphelios with the stun gun and the follower that stunes those can stun 2 times followers and malph card that also stunes so you can lv up yasuo not fast but can do it...dont know but i will experiment
Your Yasuo/Malphite deck doesn't look so crazy with the cards revealed today.
ok now its official my big boy is going to be so fun to play.
''One is a wandering powerfull guy and the other is a guy with a sword and together they will bring the house down ''
wait malphite is not from targon?
In the lore he was created in Ixtal but he travel to many places in Runeterra including Targon and Ionia.
Malphite in LoR: Giant rock monster the size of a building
Malphite in LoL: Rejected Toy Story extra
Not entirely excited about how Malphite was integrated, but I guess Landmark synergy is cool?
I really like the art on these cards. But I don't think this is was landmark need to be viable.
Malphite + Leona + Yasuo, maybe? I can dream lol. Targon needs more Stuns outside of champions to convince Yasuo to part with Noxus.