Legends of Runeterra

So here's the situation.

My opponent attacks with all his stuff, I block with 3 of my miinions. He plays [Hearthstone Card (Judgement) Not Found] on his [Hearthstone Card (Ancient Yeti) Not Found] which wipes my board. However, despite having a blocker on the yeti (which died) he still punched my face.

I thought blockers would remain as "phantom blocks" if killed by a spell before combat?

Or does Overwhelm beat through phantom blockers? (because I never encountered that before)

Just a little salty after playing against it almost every game

But I did a quick search in the collection manager including unowned cards.  The following is a few keywords, followed by a number of all existing cards that have it or interact with it, and a number of said cards existing in Ionia, and a few notable examples.  For most of these, Ionia has over half of the cards of a given keyword in their pool, and if not, most of the cards.


Elusive: 21 exist with the word in it.  11 Ionia.  Examples:  Greenglade Duo, Shadow Assassin, BADCARDNAME, Kinkou Lifeblade, Yusari, The Empyrean

Lifesteal: 7 total exist.  4 Ionia.  Herald of Spring, Emerald Awakener, Kinkou Lifeblade again, Spirit's Refuge

Recall: 10 Exist, 8 Ionia (11 / 9 if you include Zed's champ spell).  Yasuo, Will of Ionia, Minah Swiftfoot.  2 Fast spells forced to target ally, but can be used to save units.  1 Other card that buffs for each recall or stun.  Only 2 using recall as a "cost"

Stun: 10 Exist.  4 Ionia (the other 6 all in Noxus).  Yasuo, Fae Bladetwirler, Steel Tempest, Yone, Windchaser

Barrier: 12 Exist (if Heimerdinger counts),  5 Ionia (Sedond to Damacia which has 6 but only if you count Fiora's Champ Spell).  Shen, Greenglade Caretaker, Spirit's Refuge again, Ki Guardian, Stand United

Heal an / Heal your: 6 exist, 2 Ionia (tied with Freljord).  Health Potion, Ritual of Renewal

Ephemeral:  Now the problem here is how many Ionia has.  The problem here is they're the only ones that can give it to the opponent.  Death Mark, Shadow Flare, Ren Shadowblade

Ally in hand / Allies in hand (Hand buffs): 8 Exist, 5 Ionia. Inspiring Mentor, Ki Guardian, Jeweled Protector, Sown Seeds, Greenglade Elder

And honorable mentions:  Deny, Twin Disciplines



So do I have the right to be annoyed at this point?  Does anyone else share my feelings?  Anything that I missed?  Any opposite opinions?  Some other region that somehow has top spot or over half of 6 different annoying mechanics or mechanics other regions would love like... any... healing?

hmm I wonder if Frenzied Skitterer is good IDK guys

Edit: turns out that it's great but I play around stuff I shouldn't XD

Title says it all. If you can manage to defend yourself despite having your life total halved (perhaps more than once), you've earned the win. Having Commander Ledros deal lethal damage at 1 HP means that if you don't have something to meaningfully diffuse his effect (e.g. Mageseeker Investigator), or if you're not already way in the lead, you're screwed.

 so I started to play open play EXPS for the XP but i having such a  hard time against noxus agro decks  if i dont draw my early game i get crushed by   my OP  non blockers and legion mauraders katarina is so hard to deal, and i dont feel like my non SI decks have the healing to keep up, so lets make this thread the EXP  tips and tricks central , deck building and gameplay tips to survive agro, i need help but i sure other will appreciate it too.

Is there a patch tomorow, and will it contain any real ballance changes?

I just found i a bit strange that they havent said anything yet.

Sometimes they drop the changes a day before and was just wondering if anybody knows anything.

CardID or NameBADCARDNAMEAny friends to add in na region in lor

 I trying to make some demacia decks and since a get a detain from a chest i put it on all my decks but is it worth the slot? is the only removal that  my OP can  revive the unit, besides maybe i should use better removal like noxian guile or venge what you guys think , is it good? bad? one off or more?

So spider decks/shadow isles decks are definitely getting nerfed right? its such a non-interactive deck to go against. They puke spiders all over the board then buff their attacks and if you try to defend yourself they have cards like "3 mana if 3 followers died summon a 6/6 with fearsome" you literally get punished for defending yourself which restricts the kind of decks that you can play. or they flood the board with Noxian overwhelm followers. It's so boring.

I started playing runeterra for a couple of weeks and almost half the games i play are having connection issues. I already tested the internet several times to make sure it's not my problem and i wanted to know if you guys are having the same trouble. I really liked the game but it's impossible to enjoy it. I'm not going to play it anymore and if you are having the same problem i recommend sending a complaint because i'm sick of these triple A companies doing a half-ass job. If there is something i can about this, please come talk o me,

Well i played my frist ranked games today and id really like to know what you play against those decks.

in my rank which is assumably the lowest in ONLY play against this decks.

i mean i dont rant because people can play what they want. but what do i do against them when i dont want to play those decks?

the only reason why i dont want to is becuase im a little strange at games and i dont enjoy the stuff everyone plays .... so if there is on way around i might play elusive but id rather have another option

the deck i tried out is

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its a budget controll deck which i have from youtube (im not a good deck builder so far... ) and maybe its just this deck or the lack of drawing my kill spells but maybe someone has a hint for me

id apreciate it

thank you

This just happened when my opponent played The Harrowing against me:

Since three Chump Whumps where among the revived cards, they also got six Mushroom Clouds. At first I thought it was a bug, but after looking into it I found out it's supposed to happen since Chump Whump's card text says "when I'm summoned, create two mushroom cloud in hand" and not "play: create two mushroom cloud in hand". I decided to share it here since this is actually a really cool interaction with The Harrowing that a lot of players probably aren't aware of (It was also quite scary, since I had very few cards left in my deck when this happened).

Hello Guys. I have a deck to share with you.

If you have trouble against some aggro decks, elusives etc. and like to play ramp decks, You might want to check this Ionia/Freljord Karma/Anivia Control deck.

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Topic, but I'd like to expand on my mindset on why this is something I believe needs to be addressed.

So right now, we live in a meta where Elusive Aggro is dominant, and there's a limited amount of ways for some regions to counter that strategy. Demacia has a share of Challenger Minions that can snipe the stealthy guys, Shadow Isles has removal (in fact, Shadow Isles has even BETTER removal tools than Piltover, the region that seems to want to specialize in that sort of thing, but that's another show), Freljord is pretty much reliant on Avalanche and whatever your secondary region's tools to deal (maybe you can buff Braum, and maybe you can slam an Anivia, but neither of these are really practical solutions as you're reliant on getting a way to buff Braum, and against the really aggro decks, you're dead before you can get Anivia to clear the board) This isn't an Elusive hate thread, I'm just using it as an example because it's the clearest way to demonstrate my point here, there are strategies that are going to dominate any card game, and most of the time the strengths of these strategies play right into the weakness of other decks. It's just how these things work, sure, and it's always going to be that way as long as card games are a thing.

...But the question I'm trying to ask here, is what if we had a Neutral set that any region could use, to at least offset the various number of overwhelming strategies that may enter the game, just to give the decks weak to whatever's dominating the meta this month a fighting chance? I'm not saying every deck should have the tools to counter everything, just give them one or two cards to make things a little less lopsided. Some equivalents to stuff like Dragonmaw Poacher, or Galakka Crawler,  and other such things would be very healthy for the game in my opinion, and I think it could do a lot to address the current Elusive situation and other things that might spiral out of control down the line.

So, is a "Tech" set of weaker cards that any deck can utilize designed to address certain specific strategies the way to go, or is there a better approach to balance the game in the long term?

So I really wanted to play this game, but since I am unfortunately an owner of a Mac I had to install Windows through Boot Camp. Sometimes while I'm playing the game, the display will just freeze and I have to restart. So far I have never met anyone else who plays through Boot Camp and the support team said they couldn't help me either. So if anyone knows somethings I can try to fix this problem I'd appreciate it. Thanks in advanced.

I had a daily to attack with 20 minions form *insert region i forgott but i took the right one because quest is gone and it counted ot the progress"

when i finished my quest i had exactly the 1100 xp earned i needed to get the golden chest from my regional rewards.

the progression bar fills, the quest is over but i didnt get a reward.

Also when i go back to the regional reward it counts that im still missing about 1000 xp to that chest....

so i not only didnt get my chest, but also i didnt get the 1000 xp which is also something id love to have :)

can anyone help me or has anyone experienced something like that?

or am i just simply missing something?

thanks and have a beautiful saturday

So ... is this just very lucky or what the Bunnyrabit did just happen?

I like the Draft Variation in this game.

my first one was a 1/2 Run ... meh

second one was a loss in the finals but im pretty happy here :) 6 wins straight

the 3rd and the 4th were simmilar

i tried to draft Teemo and id just didnt work out...

the second one was really bad and i honeslty just surrendered after the first half of the game to save me the time

but i got a Vladimir Champion as a reward for that?

Was this just extremly lucky? or did i miss somethign here?

i certainly wont complain but ... is this a thing?

It seems i cant play any 2 matches without seeing a buffed elusive deck and idk about the community, but it feels extremely boring at this point. All i can see at plat is elusive decks and i feel pushed to play either the elusive deck itself or a counter. I know the meta builds itself and people play around what's best but can't at least some of the best decks just not be elusives? Elusive as a mechanic doesnt really feel too bad but the tons of buffs and them having deny feels unfair. But what should be nerfed? If any cards at all

So Riot has stated we're going to get our first real balance patch on Feb-18, and my question is: what do you think their policy will be do for nerfed cards?  E.g.: for Hearthstone, for 2 weeks after a patch that changes a particular card to have less power, players can refund that card for 100% of its crafting dust (roughly equivalent to converting it into LoR shards equivalent to its wildcard rarity).  Significantly, it's ONLY the cards that were changed--many times, a single card out of a multiple-card synergy will be nerfed leaving players angry that the other cards now have no place in the meta yet can only be dusted for the standard 25% refund.  I'm not as familiar with MtG:Arena, but I saw in the recent Oko/etc nerf that they banned the cards from the popular formats and everyone automatically received wildcards of equal quantity and rarity.

For the closed LoR betas Riot didn't do anything, but I'm discounting that because the collections weren't "real" then--all collections were planned to be reset and all coins were refunded.  Now, if you go and buy wildcards with cash to craft specific cards, that's effectively permanently spent.

My personal guess: they won't refund anything.  Unlike MtG, they can actively tweak cards after publishing and unlike Blizzard, Riot seems to be committed to balancing rather than just hindering cards until they cease to be relevant.  This seems to be their design philosophy with League of Legends: they want all champions to be relevant, so they will buff and nerf a particular champions over and over until they find equilibrium--and as such, they don't give refunds.  (At least not as far as I can tell; I'm not a big LoL player so please tell me if I'm wrong here.)  I could potentially see them giving out some shards in LoR just to placate players who are used to the other systems--especially if complaints get too vocal--but I don't think there will be any consequential.

What is your guess?