Legends of Runeterra

It is a highly frustrating mechanic. You can do whatever you want with no counter play if it is burst which is BS and inherently makes any card that isn't burst speed tremendously worse.

I get. Its a way to have a different type of counter play outside of having a bunch of counter spell type cards. But the difference is that playing another card to counter a spell feels good. Like you out played them. But playing a bust spell just feels cheesy overall. One the other person can't counter it and for the caster it requires no forethought as to what the other player may do to counter it and have to ask themselves how do I counter their counter.

Burst is a completely brainless mechanic that is frustrating for the enemy player and encourages brainless play from the caster.

There are still other BS cards that need adressing, mainly:

- Unyielding spirit -> it shouldn't be able to target champions
- Atrocity -> it shouldn't be able to target nexus, you might reduce cost to compensate

I think it's bad design in any card game, when you can make a deck where the whole winning condition depends on 1 card, and 1 card alone and a strategy which is virtually uncounterable. No card should be THAT powerful. 

Current Patch

PATCH 1.10

Patch Schedule

Starting with Patch 1.2, Legends of Runeterra will follow the schedule below to ensure that PC and mobile users are seeing changes at roughly the same time.

• Tuesday (previously Mondays), ~10 AM PT
  • Patch notes article goes live (unchanged). 
• Tuesday, ~9:30-10:30 AM PT
  • We’ll deploy the new client to PC and the app stores. Players will be able to immediately update on PC, while mobile may take several hours based on your location.
  • This deployment will now be client-only, with no visible changes—think of it as the foundation for the new patch. You’ll be able to play afterwards as normal (though matchmaking will be separated by version), but functionally it’ll feel like you’re playing on the previous patch (in almost all cases).
• Wednesday, ~9:30-10:30 AM PT
  • We’ll push a data-only update that enables the new changes. You’ll briefly bounce to the Ashe loading screen if you’re in-client but won’t have to re-log (and games won’t be interrupted). We'll also force-update everyone to the new version—if you haven’t updated, you won’t be able to queue until you download the new version from your app store or re-log on PC.

Upcoming Patches

• Patch 1.11 - September 29 (balance update focused on Targon)

Hi.

I believe that I am not the only one that has tons of Common and Rare wildcards but just a few Epic and Champion wildcards. I guess that it will always be like this, that the two most rare types of cards will be bottleneck for deck building. Considering that I can craft Epics and Champions also for shards, does it make sense to use all my Rare and Common wildcards for something that I do not have? After that, when I will open the Common/Rare that I already have, I will get a shard refund, right? I do not want to end up with hundreds of useless wildcards while still missing Epics and Champions.

Or is there any better way how to approach this in the long term?

Thanks.

In Legends of Runeterra, Ephemeral units have the problem of being great on offense, but only playable on defense to prevent an Attack. In order to make them better on Defense and more interesting to play with and against, the Keyword Ephemeral could be changed to:

"This unit dies when it strikes. When the round ends, recall it"

This would open up a lot of new lines of play, since you could play something like the 5/5 Lifesteal Ephemeral on defense and then your opponent is forced to choose between giving you card advantage by not attacking or board advantage by attacking and having one of their units trade with an Ephemeral. Also, as the player playing Ephemeral units you would also have to think more about whether or not to block or attack with them. This change would be mostly a buff, but it would also make it so that on-death triggers wouldn't happen with ephemeral units unless you attack or block with them, which makes combos with cards like Phantom Prankster or Neverglade Collector require attacks. 

Really? -_-

They said its on their watch list. Just make it fast or it can't target champions. Its not that hard.

https://youtu.be/r_bndGWa_lM

My rework of Vi would be to change her text to "I have +2|+0 for each Fleeting card you've played this game (max +8|+0)."

This would make her good in a deck built specifically around her, while making her weak without support cards. There would still be many ways to use her, such as with Bilgewater or Ionia or cards like Mechanist Zevi, but she could no longer be slotted into decks like Bannerman or Corina control that use her a just a big challenger unit. 

Here's mine:

• Boomcrew Rookie from 1/4 to 1/3
• Used Cask Salesman from 3/2 to 2/2
• Loyal Badgerbear from 4/4 to 4/3
• Unyielding Spirit increases from 8 mana to 9 mana
• L1 Vi from 2+/5 with tough to either 2+/4 or no tough.
• L1 Jinx from 4/3 to 4/4
• L1 Shen from 2/5 to 2/7
• Chief Mechanist Zevi decreased from 6 mana to 5 mana (5/6)
• Unscarred Reaver gains tough (1 mana 0+/3)
• Ember Maiden from 3/2 to 3/3
• Aurora Porealis from 7 mana to 6 mana
• The Syren's passive bonus loses the stipulation of attacking

So I was playing earlier today, and I thought it would be interesting to make a deck that uses all the Spider cards. So I did that, and I have to say it’s a super fun deck to play. 

What do you guys think about Spider Decks?

Freljord is my fav. Not because I win with it most of the time. I actually don't. I just like the cards interactions and their lore. I like the whole bit with one person (Ashe) trying to bring about peace and another (Sejoani) who is hard headed and stuck in the old ways who thinks peace breeds weakness and war makes them strong. Which to be fair, she's not wrong, but war does more harm than good in the long run and Ashe sees this where she doesn't.

My fizz was recalledby my opponent, and later hit with the 2 damage piltover spell, even though I cast a spell and gave him elusive. Is this the same bug twice in a match? Are rito actually to stupid to word his description? Just need to know.

LoR, 2000+ Attack fluff of poro! https://imgur.com/gallery/GoSl05T

Zilean: 3 Mana ,1 Strength, 3 Health, 'create a Time Bomb when I survive damage',

Level up: 'I get summoned a second time' -> 1 Strength 5 Health, 'create a time bomb when I survive damage', 'create a Time Warp after casting 2 spells this round'

Time Bomb: 3 Mana, Fast, 'Deal 5 damage to an enemy at the start of next round' (This shouldnt be a card that you can put in your deck)

Time Warp: 5 Mana, Slow, 'End the round immediately, End of Round effects dont trigger'

You like these? You have some adjustments in your mind?

You aren’t actually good if you win games.  Good luck climbing when it’s nerfed and you actually need to think.  

:)

I know I've seen it played in at least two of my games but I cannot find it anywhere, in my collection or on this site. 

I realized that one of the most satisfying thing in a card game is finding that one combo that wins the game or turns the table. Your deck lines up, your mana is full, your eyes are wide. You lay down that specific set of cards you thought about when you set the deck together and it just feels like you're the protag of a book you wrote. Self indulgent and nobody likes it but you. So...

What're your favorites? Personally my recent discovery of Fiora and Judgement for instant win has been tickling my giddy gland. 

I've been at Runeterra for a while now and I was wondering if my feelings about Shadow Isles cards were similar to anybody else. I never see anybody talking about them so I was wondering if I was an isolated incident. So, without divulging what I think, what do you guys think about the spells, units, and champions of the Shadow Isles?

I was goofing around playing some Poro decks, and noticed that when a buffed Poro gets recalled, they lose their Poro Snax buffs. At some level, this makes sense - recall typically removes buffs. But the Poro Snax buff applies "everywhere" and gets applied to any randomly generated Poro even after the Poro Snax are played.

Not sure if this is technically a bug, but it's not terribly intuitive - the Poros I have can lose the buff, but the Poros that don't yet exist have it.

Well title says all, allegiance legends of Runeterra not working all the time, i know how to trigger it.

But it wont summon 2 , 1 cost units, when i draw the same region card . is it a bug? or i am doing something wrong?

Both cards are BS separately and shouldn't exist in the game, but combined they make the cheapest, most boring, skilless, frustrating, unfun, unfair, and overwall bulls--t combo in all card game history.

It is a 2 card combo that has 0 counters and can single handely win you game, you don't need to play ANY other card, just those 2 and you win the game.  Seriously, how are you supposed to deal with it? How is that fair?