Legends of Runeterra

There was a ton of hype around this little card around expansion launch and I haven't seen a single player experiment with it.

I think this a result of nerf mentality that Noxious allegiance lists got hit and it was just baby out with the bath water.

Well I'm here to tell you that Darius is good, and that there is a deck out there for this great card.

Give it a shot and let me know what you guys think.

What is the meaning of the sentence

"pick a unit in your hand to reveal" ? (sorry no mother language)

tks

Now that the expansion has been out for a couple days players have gotten over their initial impressions of the set and we can talk about honest to god counters to Targon as a region.

I wanted to lay out a few of the findings I have found personally.

1. Lulu and Taric aren't very good against decks with high levels of interactivity.

- The essential weakness of support as a playstyle is that it requires that you develop into your board.

- For example you play this into a 1 drop and you get hit by make it rain, vile feast, or static shock

2. Slow Rampy Targon lists and card advantage lists get beat out by nab and Ionia

- Let's say you're playing dragons, Ionia isn't going to care because they can stun and recall your whole board, and Bilgewater will steal your stuff

3. Day and Night Decks aren't very good...without support that is

- Let's take day man as an example Leona needs dayman and if they can't get one to stick they can't go off.

- But what if instead we had a backup plan in case dayman dies, what if we jammed a wtf lethianthan with Swain

- Or we ran Frejord just to ensure day man had elixir of iron

4. The point is that Targon is a support region in the sense that it needs to compliment the more straight forward power present in other colors.

- The days of just jamming hush into an existing list and pretending it's better are over

- consider grabbing faster celestial plays, jamming huge dude's isn't going to cut it anymore

- Remember that everything has a counter figure out what you need to be playing around.

That's it guys let me know what counters you guys have found for Targon

Topic.

As someone who climbed on his main account high enough i thought it would be a good idea to create a new account in LoR and try some unranked to master within  14 days starting from no collection challenge  and what did i experience? Players in iron 4 ALREADY play 80% streamer decks in ranked.

While i still do fine with the spider starter deck I can only imagine how actually new players got to feel when they come to runeterra and run into the same netdecks over and over that they don't stand a cahnce against if they are as clueless as their opponent. 

I expected a lot of the starter decks, being played or some suboptimal jank that actual new players come around with. But 80% uninspired copypaste from "pros"? That is really shocking to me and it makes me really sad to see.

It's now only on ephemeral but they really should add some way to distinguish an ephemeral card in hand.. 

I mean. I'm not the game designer. And I have nothing against control decks. I like playing them. 

But has anyone considered that giving control  blockers that replace themselves could be problematic? I would have expected a few of them either would have 0 power, or couldn't block. But getting chumps that can potentially kill on block, and also replace themselves with a good spell is a bit much.

When I looked at the Targon cards. All I saw was a boost to control. I did see the synergy with Noxus, but those decks will be easier to deal with than the control ones. The 4/5 is a pretty good roadblock for something that gives you a card.

And if I ever See a Taric next to a karma. I'll probably just concede.

I'm assuming that would be why an 8 defense guy would die to 6 damage.

But it's very counter intuitive since daybreak is not a static ability.

(Also, is there a way I can see celestial cards in cards menu?)

I've been playing the game for just 3 months. I missed the launch of Bilgewater. So, the question is: is it normal for the meta to be this completely saturated by a single deck right after an expansion? I'm seeing Trundle/Sol like 3 games out of 5, and some other Sol deck most of the rest of the time.

Fortunately, I'm very comfortable with aggro decks, and I think I can manage a positive winrate against the deck, but still - there is an absolutely massive percentage of the player base on one single deck right now, and I find that fairly un-fun overall.

Edit - I will add that I've never seen the meta this completely saturated by a single deck, even after balance changes.

Edit #2 - it may have been a bit of a flash in the pan. A day later, I'm seeing it a lot less.

So while I love celestials, I think cosmic inspiration is just too good. Not only it affects future celestials but your other allies in deck, hand, play too. My suggestion is simple, make cosmic inspiration buff only celestials. I mostly play expeditions and I feel like the first that gets a cosmic inspiration wins and there's nothing else you can do because +2/2 just allows you much better trades.

With these types of posts I like to phrase things as a question, without pretending to have all the answers.

Discover was largely considered to be an overpowered r and g heavy style of card design in Hearthstones history.

We are seeing Legends fall into a similar category, where for the cost of playing an understated 3 drop you get an overstated whatever you want.

This means amazing removal, top tier creatures, and even niche answers like stuns and silences. 

Then you can conceivable invoke as many times as you want after that.

Grinding the opponent down with card advantage and superior plays.

So far we are seeing Targon outperform in every list.

How does deep for instance beat out dragon boy

You can even cheat this out early with ramp or Thresh.

It's like an invincible Karma on steroids.

Let me know how you guys have been finding the invoke mechanic overall.

Take care

And I got to put my two fav sisters in the same deck. Oddly enough Vi is really the one going for the killing blow most of the time. Rather than being a defender for Jinx. Which is why I originally put her in the deck for.

(See my last comment for the updated list before giving advice. Thanks.)

Buff Unyielding Spirit back to burst speed. Not now. But later down the line once all regions have at least some form of an obliterate option. Since obliterate ignores US.

Day One, I've opened Lulu and Diana, and 3 singular wills.

Does anyone know what I'm supposed to run this in?

It's so expensive...

I guess the majority of you hasn't been playing a taric deck yet and the majority hasn't been playing with arbiter yet.

The thing about this card is: once it's cost gets reduced by at least 1 mana he becomes invisible in your hand. That means you still get to see him when hovering over him and you still can play him as a card but its very confusing when you notice that your hand has "hole" that is created by the "invisible one" and it can ruin your game in case you should have an arbiter on the left side of your hand, and forget that you have one over the cause of the game.

I just hope that riot fixes that bug because its not 1 time thing but occours ALLWAYS

I don't even play Runeterra anymore just making this because I generally like card games.

The idea is to use LuLu to buff cheap low-statted elusives in 4/4's and burst down the enemy.

(Yeah yeah elusives are braindead is probably what you will say)

I'm not sure if this is something I'm experiencing because I took a break from the game, or if it's just the nature of F2P in Legends of Runeterra, but it's a bit of a struggle to actually get cards on day 1.

It's a bit odd - LoR is generally one of the most F2P friendly CCGs out there, but specifically in the context of expansions, and because you can't bank EXP, it feels like you're always going to be stuck starting from zero with new cards.

Does anyone else feel this way, or is it just me? I like the fact that they ensured Labs meant everyone got to try new cards, but I want to make my own decks with the new cards but don't have the resources yet.

New expansion is not showing when I play on android. Anyone else who has the same issue? 

As stated in the caption this treat is about (permanent) Spellshield and Hush not targon in general.

Lets start with spellshield. 

Why is spellshield in my oppinion a problem while barrier is perfectly fine?

1. It is permanent

2. there is not a single deck that can afford trading 2 spells for 1 unit (and keep in mind that most LoR spells arent even leathal for units)

3. it protects from global spell effects like ruination 

4. spellshield units are hardly more expansive than non spellshield units

Meanwhile hush is devestating for:

most of the champions

the majority of elusive decks

the majority of buff decks

for frostbite

and in general synergy driven decks

Tell me guys: who enjoys this massive swing from an interactive synergy driven game to a game that is just about denying the opponent the opportunity to play the game?

Edit: i changed the title of this article to make it more clear what it is about