Legends of Runeterra

I don't know why all I wrote was deleted but lets try again then^^

So for those who don't know what the Jungle lab is about: both players have a jungle monster on their side of the field which is vulnerable and immobile. Killing it grants you very powerful Spells- the buffs.

The problem with Spell Thief here is that you can steal Jungle buffs that your opponent played  and paying 1 mana to steal a 0 mana jungle buff that is worth about 5-12 mana is pretty unfair and basically punishes your opponent for playing the game.

Therefore I think Riot should eighter block the steal of buffs or remove spellthief from the game mode simply because it is way too powerful for 1 mana 

Ive been playing LoR for about a couple of weeks now and generally i didnt even look towards or try LoR, simply because i thought that Riot will also end up creating a annoyingly boring meta where a certain card(s) or deck(s) are overpowered and everybody plays those same cards, decks. This basically always happened in Hearthstone and in Gwent. Im not a long time player so i cant really speak all that much for LoR but what im about to write is something that seriously pissed me off with LoR.

Ill start by explaing why i hated HS and Gwent.

I hated Hearthstone due to the fact that there is no way a free to play player that didnt start day one or during the earlier period when Hearthstone released could properly play without getting absolutely destroyed by round 5 or 6 due to how few and useless cards the new player has. The game is way too grindy and there is no actual reward system whatsoever that would reward the player for completing dailies, quests etc. Even when the achievements finally came out, i still heard that they were absolutely useless and i just felt joy that i didnt even want to bother with HS.

I hated Gwent due to how much CDPR tried to make it like Hearthstone implementing a ton of new mechanics even though in the Witcher 3 Gwent was simple, amazing and fun. I loved that simple and fun Gwent. However and i bet people who have played Gwent can feel me on this one, having a Nilfgaard deck or "player" completely roll you by locking your cards, your hero power and refreshing his own hero power (hero power in Gwent can play a very big factor in actually winning a round or eventually winning the game) then yeah it wasnt fun, ESPECIALLY since there are cards in Gwent that literally let you just choose a card of your choice from your deck, basically a "win condition" and just blatantly win a round or the game. That seriously just pissed me off.

HOWEVER i HATE LoR CAUSE I CANT EVEN FUDGING PLAY THE GAME FOR THE 3RD DAY IN A ROW DUE TO "MATCHMAKING FAILED OPPONENT FAILED TO CONNECT".

Seriously wtf is even happening at or with their servers that this shitshow is still happening for the 3rd day in a row. I cant play it on PC or on Android and i literally just started to like the game, made a deck that rly seemed fun for me and wanted to try it out BUT OH WELL i guess i can only hope.

"200 years experience" indeed, cap. More like i will have to wait 200 fcking years just to finally play a game, jesus christ.

Howdy, I'm Taka. Been playing MtG since Lorwyn, YGO for a little bit longer, League since Xin Zhao's release, and Legends of Runeterra for about three days. I know I have a lot of room to get better at any of these games, but I believe my observations here still apply based on my previous experience in other games.

Anyhow, let's talk Shadow Isles, or the equivalent of MtG's Black if it decided to take steroids and throw any sense of opportunity cost out the window. Last breath, death bonuses, sacrificial combat tricks, hard removal, a hard sweeper, a fling, good aggro with Fearsome, drain on removal, and, probably the most annoying currently, Go Hard that turns into a one-sided sweeper and win-con. Not saying it doesnt have answers: Im sure it does. But it is overloaded with so much good stuff right now.

As for Elusive, this is more of an issue with the lack of answers available and how much value certain units with Elusive have. Sure, it is the equivalent of MtG's Flying, but at least Flying in MtG is either available to every color or can at least be answered by those where it isnt. Most of Noxus removal does nothing without an ally on board or without the elusive unit in question already being damaged, and Freljord has Frostbite which is less of answer and more of a stall tactic.

Apologies if this is inappropriate or unfounded; just been having a lot of frustration dealing with these two aspects of this game.

Greetings, all! I wanted to share a little bit about what we're looking to do for Runeterra content for the new year.

• New weekly series, Wednesday Deck Spotlights, which go in-depth to a specific deck including mulligan guides, card substitutions, etc
• More deck roundup articles that cover specific topics -- e.g., "Viktor decks"
• A complete set of beginner guides for new players. I realize these guides will be beneath everyone who's reading this forum post right now, but I think it's really important for OoC to have a solid knowledge base to help introduce new players to the game and lure them to our site
• More content for Labs and Gauntlets
• More engagement/recognition for community decks. Specifically, I'm thinking about something like a new monthly series that highlights some of the LoR decks submitted during that month.

Is there anything in particular you'd like to see more of? Meta decks? Off-meta decks? Please let us know in this thread.

Enjoy.

Looking to get back into Runeterra.  Played heavily during the launch.  Had a decent collection (and 60K crafting materials).  Don't mind crafting/using wilds on new cards.  But don't want to spend much on pricey Champions.

So yeah, I am looking for deck suggestions.  New decks with mostly older cards.  I will of coarse read them over and see if any click with me.  

Hey everyone, 

to those who don't really play expeditions frequently proably won't be able to relate to this post so I am not sure if that post will be for you.

For those who do play expeditions frequently I would like to know if it is normal for expeditions that decks are that close to contructed level on low win counts that most of them have a cheesy way to end games without many ways to interact as the opponent, with cards that pretty much close the game once they hit the field and where your best bet is spray and pray that they don't hit their wincondition earlier than you can beat them. 

What kind of decks am I talking about? I talk about The Grand Plaza decks Lee Sin deck s Fiora decks with Unyielding Spirit (actually also) Teemo shroom decks with tons of the "both-player-draw" cards and removal (the classic) elusive spam perfect curve daybreak or all in noxus, decks that are so extreme at what they do that you have no way beating them at their game and where you have to find ways around them with your own kind of cheese. 

It feels kinda terrible to play that kind of expeditions where your deck needs to be crazy good to survive even the early rounds because the deck quality feels to be through the roof. 

I mean there are plenty explanations to me for this which are:

-only hardcore limited players are playing expeditions anymore

- there are 3rd party programms used  widely that assist with deck creation 

- powerlevel of cosmic creations is just busted in limited

- consistancy of draft themes is too high

- me being unlucky with the matchups (which is unlikely since then it would not have been that frequent)

Proably it is a mix of all of these factors. I just can say that play expeditions like this feels extremely hard to compete in and are just miles away from the experience i had the last times playing expeditions. 

I don't know if that is possible but i feel like riot should reduce the theme consistancy of decks so that cheesy onetrick decks are less a thing but who am I to judge...

What have you experienced yourselves? Have you been to expeditions since cosmic creations? If so: how has it felt to play in it? Did you experienced the cheesy onetrick issue aswell? Do you know a solution other than doing the same?

I don't enjoy a semi constructed limited where both players try to outcheese each other with their strats and removal is so rare and weak that you can't stop the cheese...

Hi,

I am looking for advice to make this deck better (more consistent or more resilient would be great)

Also what is a good game plan when *any* combo deck fails to draw the combo pieces...(electrorig + wayfinder in this case)?

The problems I see in this deck is that there is just way too many counters that will kill the win condition on top of actually trying to draw into them.

EDIT: Updated the deck, I realized I can just run elusives as an 'alternate' win con then shrooms just become scaling decimates.

Regardless, some other ideas would be nice.

Go Hard

This card is absolutely nuts and I have no idea why wasnt it nerfed when even pros shit talk the card and hate it's very existence.

It's 1 mana drain 1, that's already good BUT it also creates many copies of itself in deck AND it's a win condition by itself because it evolves into 1 mana ruination+it damages nexus.

There shouldnt exist a 1 mana win condition that can be prevented only if you have nopeify in your starting hand.

Under some of the new pets it just says "reward" and I can't find anything else out. How do I get one as a reward?

So I have been lurking abit on reddit and found a thread being glad we now don't have spoilers it's time to speculate.

Looking at the map of runeterra: https://map.leagueoflegends.com/en_US

We can see 10 regions( 8 in game ones + Ixtal and Shirima) , zooming in a bit we also see Bandle city and The void,

Bandle city won't be included since the most key character- Teemo is already in P&Z also lulu is in Ionia..

Now I read on reddit Riot confirmed that there will only be 10 regions but we have 11 bigs ones Shurima is gonna stand alone most likely since it's big, now the question is the void vs Ixtal...

The void has more champions but a lot of them are not geografically there..

that's why I think Ixtal (a 6 champion region in universe) is gonna be the last one.. then it leaves according to the region spread

8 Void champions,5 Yordles and 14 Runeterra champions that do not have any main region so we have them as "travelers".

I discounted those that already have a place btw.

Void:

Bandle city except Veigar and Yuumi all into P&Z, Veigar is probably in Noxus cause of Mordekaiser, and Yuumi is spirit like she would fit Ionia.

Runeterra: Obvious ones:

The rest are less obvious at least for me:

So what do you think? do you think the last region will be Ixtal.. or I am wrong and the void will be a region by itself? do you think you can find of a good placement for the 7 none obvious "runeterran" champions what about Cho'gath and Vel'koz?

j/k but for real it needs a nerf. It needs to be either 2 mana, have its copy effect not happen if you killed off it's target, or have it not trigger if it doesn't kill the target.

Hi guys, i want to play more runeterra. Can you guys plz tell me the best (and cheap) decks to make?

I Really like Demacia and Freljord. And my fav champs are Garen and Braum.

These new event cards make the game take so much longer than it needs to - not in terms of time limit, but the turns take forever because we have to watch popstar ahri because a spell that blows up the field for barely any cost at all is played, then they play more of those cards and make more of those cards, so that eventually we're basically just watching a shitty superbowl half time show as some n64 graphics ahri dances on the screen. 

 I thought it'd be cool to pick up a card game where I wasnt already so far behind in terms of deck essentials.  I was enjoying it at first but soon realized... there really isn't much thought to this game.  Buy best cards/deck then wait until you get your prize card, or an event card that you play for free with no cost other than its mana lol.  Unenjoyable.  Uninstalling.  Not sure if anyone that has any investment in the game will read or care.  Not a pity party or salty flaming, just stating my observation.  

The bug cost me a game. Fix it! I used a Progress Day! and he didn't make a turret for it.

I hit my 260/260 hearts today to finish my K/DA rewards. Honestly, I was a little worried at first, but it ended up being not even close -- I have over a week to go and I'm only 9:9 on the epic quest and still had some of the diva-specific 2:2 quests when I completed. I didn't do much to "grind" beyond playing daily for a minimum of 3 games/day and picking certain decks based on my active quests -- not much different from my normal schedule to be honest.

How is everyone else fairing? Anyone worried they won't complete as much as they want by Nov 24?

Hi there,

i had a weird interaction in a recent game that i don't understand.

Unscarred Reaver on the board. Brightsteel Protector gets played and grants the Unscarred Reaver Barrier.

Enemy attacks with Reckless Trifarian and Unscarred Reaver blocks the attack, knowing that the Barrier will keep the unit alive.

Attack resolves and Unscarred Reaver triggers it's effect, gaining +3 attack.

Barrier reads "Negates the next damage the unit would take.", which i interpret as "the unit does not take any damage at all during an attack without any other effects triggered or spells used."

Unscarred Reaver reads "When I survive damage, grant me +3|+0.", which i interpret as "my effect triggers if i lose hp without dying."

Since Barrier has been active, Unscarred Reaver didn't took any dmg. Why did her effect trigger?

For those who either couldn't complete the event or couldn't play it for some reason. If there is no way then its not fair for those people because at least one of them has become meta already.

Since I did a similar thread for the Spirit Blossom event I figured I'd do one now as well. Hopefully someone will find it useful.

List of regular Runeterra daily quests can be found here.

Repeatable Quest (3 Hearts)

• Wear the Crown
  • Win matchmade games (0/3)  OR
  • Win games vs AI (0/5)

Event Questline (7 Hearts each)

1. Mic Check
   • Warm up by winning games (0/4)
2. Turn It Up
   • Bring the heat by spending 6 mana in the first 3 turns (0/4)  OR
   • Spend mana in cards from Piltover & Zaun or Freljord (0/500)
3. On the Beat
   • Keep tempo by playing a 1 mana, 2 mana, and 3 mana card in sequence (0/8)  OR
   • Block or get blocked (0/120)
4. Simply Stunning
   • Stun or Recall units (0/60)  OR
   • Spend mana on cards from Noxus or Ionia (0/550)
5. Reach the Top
   • Celebrate with style by winning games after you've reached 10 mana (0/5)  OR
   • Draw cards (0/200)
6. Call Security
   • Attack with units with Barrier or SpellShield (0/60)  OR
   • Spend mana on cards from Targon or Demacia (0/550)
7. Rush the Stage
   • Summon 3 or more allies in a single round (0/24)  OR
   • Deal Nexus damage (0/250)
8. Rock the Boat
   • Drop the bass by going Deep (0/10)  OR
   • Spend mana on cards from Bilgewater or Shadow Isles (0/600)
9. The Show Goes On
   • Revive your units to continue the show (0/60)  OR
   • Target enemies (0/100)

Epic Quests (4 or 10 Hearts)

These quests seem to be unlocked by gaining the K/DA spells of the champion in question, i.e. by reaching 20, 60, 100, 150, and 190 Hearts. Each 10 Heart quest also rewards a special icon for the champion.

• Solo... (Ahri 1/2)  4 Hearts
  • Play spells that cost 5 or more (0/45)  OR
  • Play Expedition games (Wins count triple) (0/21)
• ...Encore (Ahri 2/2)  10 Hearts
  • Spend mana on spells (0/375)
• The Guest List... (Akali 1/2)  4 Hearts
  • Play cards with reduced cost (0/45)  OR
  • Play Lab games (Wins count triple) (0/30)
• ...for the Party (Akali 2/2)  10 Hearts
  • Summon units (0/200)
• No Gain... (Evelynn 1/2)  4 Hearts
  • Play spells that cost 2 or less (0/60)  OR
  • Play Ranked or Gauntlet games (Wins count triple) (0/30)
• ...No Pain (Evelynn 2/2) 10 Hearts
  • Deal non-combat damage (0/200)
• For Our Fans... (Kai'Sa 1/2) 4 Hearts
  • Target allies (0/75)  OR
  • Play rounds (0/150)
• ...A Magical Performance (Kai'Sa 2/2) 10 Hearts
  • Spend spell mana (0/200)
• United We... (Seraphine 1/2) 4 Hearts
  • Raise the power of allies in play (0/60)  OR
  • Level up Champions (0/25)
• ...Win (Seraphine 2/2) 10 Hearts
  • Win matchmade games (0/10)

Can anyone see a reason to not run three of these in their deck? Landmark removal or a wounded  unit killer as a fast spell. It’s an absolutely fantastic card I guess Nox was hurting. I don’t think they were but this fabulous card should be really helpful to balancing things out. It’s just like crumble as a landmark removal except it’s fast. It cost less mana and it doesn’t require you to burn a unit to use it but just like crumble.