Legends of Runeterra

A new Common Shurima Unit, Soothsayer, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Shurima Spell, Scrying Sands, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Shurima Spell, Chronoshift, has been revealed!

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A new Champion Shurima Unit, Zilean, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Shurima Unit, The Clock Hand, has been revealed!

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A new Common Shurima Spell, Time in a Bottle, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Shurima Spell, Imagined Possibilities, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Shurima Unit, Preservationist, has been revealed!

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A new Common Targon Unit, Chip, has been revealed!

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A new Common Shurima Unit, Clockwork Curator, has been revealed!

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Symptomatic of LOR's mini set release schedule, is a general lack of long term viability.

For example Shurima needs something like two more mini sets before its actually interesting beyond the archetypes that are quite well known at this point. (Renekton overwhelm, Nassus slay, Azir swarm, landmark Thalyiah)

Nobody really cares about Sivir with her feeling a bit like a worse Zoe, it doesn't help that reputation in Shurima isn't a thing yet.

Soooo to pass the time I've been playing genshin impact. It's pretty fun but it's designed to absolutely destroy your wallet on a massive scale...don't say I didn't warn you

From https://www.pcgamer.com/legends-of-runeterra-has-quietly-become-the-best-multiplayer-card-game/ :

League of Legends spin-off Legends of Runeterra was already a great card game when I first reviewed it last year. It borrows enough from Magic: The Gathering to be familiar, while also innovating with fantastic ideas like mana that can be banked for later turns and powerful Champion cards with unique abilities that also level up as a reward for playing to a specific strategy. But, hoo boy, has it changed a lot in the year since—and all for the better. It's gotten fantastic new game modes, hundreds of new cards with unique abilities, and a progression system that still is ridiculously generous. I just want to shout it from the rooftops: Legends of Runeterra is the best multiplayer card game. Flat out. 

So I am currently completing all Lab of Legends quests and it´s a lot of fun.

However, there is one thing that annoys me a little. At the start, you choose the first buff which usually will be an epic one because obviously they give the biggest value in the majority of games. Since they don´t occur as often, you have no choice but to perma spam forfeit and start again, until you get the buff you want. 

Now I am wondering why Rito isn´t just letting people choose the first buff, because you end of rerolling 100x anyway, for what you need. That would save a lot of time and makes more sense, in my opinion. 

What do you think?

So I just opened a level 13 vault but it didn't contain a champion wildcard for some reason and I also didn't get a random champion in its place (vaults of level 5-9 should contain a random champion, vaults of level 10 or higher should contain a champion wildcard instead).

Did anyone else experience the same thing?

First, what are those red currency things?

Also, what are hero levels and why should I care?

What are those new boxes?

Also what are those things that look like Expedition tokens?

THx.

I had her in a deck she didn’t belong in before the nerf and got wins with her because of her health pool while not really having the cards to protect her. 

I took her out when they lowered her health to 2 just didn’t feel I could keep her alive without building around her. I feel that is how it should be. Any Fiora mains floating around here?

I was curious how they felt after the balance patch?

she doesn’t t worry me because I run 3 hush and a moonlight for good measure 

Hello everyone,

I am sure that a fair amount of you is playing the Lab of Legends and that a good amount of the LoL likes a challenge and plays on higher difficulty.

I personally find it quite challlenging  to beat legendary difficulty and I have to admit that I only managed to beat legendary on Riven.

This post is about sharing Impressions of the format, own stats and strategies for different champions that help to succed on legendary tier. 

So what have you encoutered? Do think the new challenge modes are hard enough? What is your favourite LoL Champion with what build?... and how tf you carry Azir in legendary Mode?!

Those that know me know that I love legends of Runterra.

But I'm also a big proponent of taking breaks now and then when the meta gets stale.

On that note I've been giving magic legends a shot a deck building mmo diablo style game.

It's alright for a free beta, although it runs like butt.

Give it a shot if you're bored, afterall we still have no formal announcement on when were getting that hotfix

Also we don't know if it's going to be comprehensive and game changing or tiny, and unimpactful.

If anyone's given this game a chance shout out in the comments.

So here is a bigger list of changes I thought about targetting not only the meta but also the underplayed cards to make them better, have a read.

Twisted Fate:

• Change his lvl up requirement to "I've seen you draw more than 1 card in 4 different rounds".

• Add a perk where the first time TF slays an enemy unit each round, you draw 1 (removed on lvl 2).

The main problem with him is that he's too easy to level up for the value he provides afterward, but without a lvl up he's basically useless and easy to remove, changing his lvl up requirement so that it's no longer possible to lvl him up in a single round makes it so that the enemy actually has time to play around him. Adding a perk that forces TF into combat also makes him extra vulnerable to removal, but extra rewarding when done right. Now players get to choose whether they stick to having a lot of safe card draw, or use TF in combat to remove enemy units and draw cards on top. With this change, TF's quick attack will actually become useful, and since you essentially need to draw 1 extra card each turn after the round you play him for the lvl up requirement to count, it opens up synergies with regions with any sort of card draw, OR combat potential, so P&Z is not the only option for lvl ups anymore. The exact numbers are up to debate and need playtesting, but I think the idea of changing his lvl up requirement to "I've seen you X in different rounds" is the way to go in general.

Aphelios:

• Increase the card cost from 3 to 4.

• The phase progression no longer resets upon leveling up.

Not much more to say here, moon weapons themselves are pretty much balanced by being slow speed and the unit itself does not engage in combat before leveling up anyway. Increasing the cost prevents players from curving from him on turn 3, to TF on turn 4 as well, which is important. If there was anything else, I'd say make it so that moon weapons themselves no longer count towards phasing a new weapon, but if that was to go through then I'm not sure if the cost should be increased, either way, it needs playtesting.

Viktor:

• Rework Hex core upgrade:

  • When cast, the player will get to choose 1 of 3 randomly selected keywords they can afford.

  • Different keywords will have varying cost, for example, Tough will cost 1, but Elusive will cost 4.

  • Card cost now depends on the keyword chosen.

• Lvl up requirement changed to "I've seen you play 5 created cards".

• At lvl 2 the created cards will cost 3 less instead of 1.

To put it simply, the hex core upgrade card will no longer have a set cost, instead, its cost will depend on the keyword chosen by the player so that applying elusive is more expensive than something like fury, for example, it will be a similar mechanic to invoking, where the randomness is still a thing, but the player has much more control, and thus can pick different ways to play depending on the situation and strategy. For the lvl up, I think he should have a more difficult requirement but a better reward, numbers are up to debate, but remember since Viktor will have to see you play created cards, removing him resets the progress.

Nocturne:

• Change the lvl up requirement to "You've attacked with 5+ Fearsome allies." OR "You've struck the enemy Nexus with a Fearsome ally 3+ times" OR "You've dealt X damage with Fearsome allies" OR literary anything that does not require nightfall as a part of a lvl up requirement.

For as good as Nocturne is in theory, his lvl up requirement basically forces you to play with Targon to have access to enough nightfall units, and replacing that with Fearsome will actually let Nocturne be useful in more than like 1 or 2 decks. I think we all can agree that after leveling up, Nocturne works as a win condition, but it's just so unnecessarily hard to do so. Changing his requirement to SOMETHING that revolves around Fearsome units instead of nightfall will make him much better and still fit the theme.

Fiora:

• The kill counter resets upon leveling up.

This will simply make it so that once she levels up, she will have to kill 4 more units instead of 2, bringing up the total number of kills to 6. Since she literary auto-wins the game the requirement MUST be hard, I still think that a rework is better to remove the auto-win completely, but I don't have the exact idea how so a simple nerf will work too.

Vladimir:

• Allies can only be damaged by his ability once, every other time they will be "struck for 0 damage".

• ??? Add lifesteal at lvl 2 and Regeneration at lvl 1 maybe?

The first part simply means that once an ally was damaged by his ability, they won't be damaged again at any point even if they are affected by it again, this will perhaps let Vlad be useful in decks without Scargrounds as he won't be killing his allies as much. Note that even though allies won't take damage more than once, they will still get their "when I survive the damage" perk activated, as they are technically struck. Giving him lifesteal is questionable considering his stats especially that he already drains at lvl 2, but I'd like to see it playtested regardless.

Jarvan IV:

• Give him Tough.

• ??? Reduce the lvl up requirement to 3 allies instead of 4 maybe?

So Jarvan in general is pretty underwhelming and incredibly difficult to level up, despite him having a barrier he is pretty fragile with just 3 health, considering all this armor a Tough keyword could work for him, as well as making him easier to level up but I'm not entirely sure if just reducing the number is a good idea, perhaps rewriting it completely could work, as now the fact that 0 power blockers don't count is pretty annoying.

Also rework LeBlanc maybe so that she actually feels like ya know, LeBlanc?

Other cards:

Soul Sheperd:

• Instead of granting, she will give the bonus stats while on the board, so when removed or silenced, the buffs will be gone.

Just to add more counterplay to the aggro ephemeral strats which became more popular now with Azir, possibly reducing her health to 2 or changing the buff she provides to +2|+0 or +1|+0 could work too.

Iterative Improvement:

• Change from Burst to Slow speed.

This will quite simply make it so that it's not as annoying when duping the burblefishes, people will no longer be able to summon a copied follower without passing over the initiative to the opponent.

Wiggly Burblefish:

• Minimum cost set to 2.

A simple change that will stop the burblefishe's cost from dropping below 2, another way to limit elusive spam.

Hush and Starshaping:

• Change their speed from Burst to Fast.

The most loved 2 Targonian cards both could use the same change, making them both fast really opens up for a lot of potential counters and removes a lot of frustration about the cards. For the hush itself, perhaps even increasing the cost to 4 could be justified.

Atrocity:

• Can no longer target Champions.

• Cost reduced to 5.

So Atrocity only works on followers but is cheaper, this will force players to be more creative than just beefing up Nasus and killing him to win the game, there is so much creative potential for him and other champions which is completely wasted because of this card, cuz why to bother being creative when you can 1 shot the nexus with a single spell. This change will also open up space for Riot to safely make champions with a lot of power without having to worry about this one spell. Also, remember They Who Endure? That archetype was basically replaced by Nasus, but with this change, both of them will have the potential to see play as Nasus is strong enough to be viable without Atrocity, and TWE will have a flat buff to the strat. In general, I think it's much healthier for the game for this spell to only be able to target followers.

Ravenous Flock:

• Damage reduced from 4 to 3 OR increase a mana cost from 1 to 2.

As a 1 cost spell with a pretty big impact, it's pretty easy to enable in the right deck, I think it could use a damage nerf OR a cost increase instead, but it's not as important as the previous changes.

Aaaand that's it from my suggested changes, of course, it's not a whole balance patch, but it's a nice fruit for thought. Remember to treat things here more as an idea, aka "a direction towards which balancing could go but does not have to be exactly the way I described", I'm curious what yall think about my ideas and if they are any good, feedback appreciated! x)

I feel bad for Maokai  players.

I think the watcher needs an adjustment. If it had the same effect as Maokai  it would be ok. As it stands though it’s win condition is just unmatched IMO. 

What is everyone else thinking?