Another day, another expansion launch. Magic Misadventures will be going live today, December 8th, and our Runeterra community has been tinkering with the four new champions; here are some of their best ideas for each!
Kennen
Riot teased theorycrafters by revealing Kennen much earlier than the obvious synergy champion, Ahri, so the initial theorycrafts tried to find someone else to pair Kennen with. Since the level up requirement wants to see you summon the same unit over and over again, LoRatel97 was quick to find something to fulfill that from Ionia - Irelia's Blades.
Other theorycrafts explored Zed, Lee Sin, or mono-Kennen options.
Want to find more Kennen decks? Go here!
Pantheon
The second revealed champion, Pantheon, opened up a lot of options since many regions have access to cheap buff spells to get his level up going. KSTRxLKSHOT has made multiple theorycrafts around this particular champion, like pairing him with Zoe or Shyvana, but perhaps the most obvious synergy is with Riven and her blade fragments.
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Others have explored Akshan, Viktor, or Sejuani as Pantheon's possible sidekicks.
Want to find more Pantheon decks? Go here!
Rumble
While Yordle Explorer stole a good chunk of the spotlight during Rumble's reveal, the champion itself offers some obvious and some not-as-evident directions for deckbuilding. Gfdbobthe3 noticed that the dual-region Mecha-Yordles created by Rumble and his followers will greatly benefit Tristana and paired the two together with this Bandle-heavy list.
Draven and Sion were unsurprisingly among the theorycrafted champion pairs, as was the soon-nerfed Yordle menace Poppy.
Want to find more Rumble decks? Go here!
Ahri
Riot didn't give too much time to tinker around with Ahri, but for most the direction was quite clear: Kennen should be included in one way or another. This is the list that javahuji came up with, choosing the old landmark Monastery of Hirana ahead of the new God-Willow Seedling.
Other explorations have included Yasuo, Zed, and even Katarina, among others.
Want to find more Ahri decks? Go here!
What decks are you planning to try for launch? Did you enjoy this type of deck spotlight? Let us know in the comments below!
Comments
If your gonna build an allegiance deck, make sure to not have more than 6 cards from the secondary region, otherwise you will be missing allegiance more than the papaya lord himself.
Not sure what's is going on with my client/the euw servers but I wasn't able to connect to the server and play pvp.
That said I played a lot of ai games to test interactions/builds and some of those ai opponents aren't complete garbage.
My thoughts on my own Zed Ahri build is:
it kinda does what it is meant to do but I feel like the build will work way better with Poppy than it does with Zed.
Also Yordle Captain is a unit that works very well in this build
In general Ahri looks very flashy. Currently I am experiementing with Ahri played in Targon (recalling and playing Solari Sunhawk multiple times really slows down the opponent well while The Serpent is a nice way to give Ahri challenger and have a unit that you can recall without losing mana.
forget about what I said about Ahri being good. You kill or stun the unit next to her and she just dies
the broken champion of this expansion is without a doubt Kennen who singlehandedly combines aggro supression, free spellshield procs and in combination with Ezreal a ton of burn damage for free ... as a 1 drop
This rumble and tristana deck is trash, dont even waste your time