Legends of Runeterra

This is awesome IDK why they didn't had this trailer worldwide, it's really nicely done specially the champion poros :D

also the music is catchy :D

She is almost useless. Even if you run three it is as if you only have one. The power you build up doesn't stay on the others and unless you have her in your opening hand she takes to long to power up. And even if she does level up there are normal none champion cards that could do her job but better with half the resources put into them.

I don’t play a lot of HS nowadays, mainly due to the insane lag on mobile. It came to a point I can’t even finish a game without exiting and re-entering the app, and most of my games are ruined.

Does this happen on LoR as well? If not, I might consider playing it instead of HS just for the ability to actually play the game.  

So I just recently started playing, and I stumbled across a deck build that I really enjoy, but I’m curious how effective it will be as I go up in the rankings?

The deck focuses on using units from the Shadow Isles and Ionia. I use a lot of low cost and ephemeral units, combined with cards like Phantom Prankster, Neverglade Collector, and Scuttlegeist. The result is a deck with the main focus of allying my units to die, so that the enemy takes unblock-able damage; as well as buffing units in my hand and deck. I also I have a lot of Evasive units and spells that deal damage to enemy units. 

My questions are:

How good is this kind of play style as you get higher in the ranking? What are good counters for this kind of deck, and how can you keep from being countered?

This feels like something of a perennial issue with Legends of Runeterra, seeming to emerge despite any/all balance patches through the beta, but there seems to be a real balance problem across the regions. (Note that I'm taking the https://lor.mobalytics.gg/meta-tier-list tier list as my source of truth here.)

On the surface, the games balance seems pretty reasonable - each region shows up in at least one S or A tier deck, and there's a decent array of archetypes available to players. But three regions dominate that tier list: Shadow Isles, Ionia, and Piltover & Zaun. Together, they show up in some 87.5% of meta decks. And it's not hard to see why - SI and P&Z have access to good card draw and damage based removal, SI and Ionia have access to healing, P&Z and Ionia have access to useful aggro tools with Elusives and Direct Nexus damage. This was true throughout the beta, and remains true today despite Rising Tides.

Every other region feels like it's just playing a supporting role to these three, which are doing all of the heavy lifting for defining the metagame. The result is a lot of less exciting deck-building choices, and ultimately less interesting match-ups because you end up running the same "SI Control" package to make any control deck, etc. Many champions (e.g. Lux) end up feeling like a worse version of some other "meta champion" (in this example, Heimerdinger) because of the added burden of being outside of one of those "meta regions."

https://www.game.tv/tournaments/Let's-LoR-The-world--26098fcb14f745acb6dd30dccf416b93

Simple question hopefully with a simple answer. I'm relatively new to the game as one might imagine and I'm just completely over burn decks at this point. I don't mind aggro, hell I don't even mind all the elusives I face, but the burn decks imparticular have just about turned me off playing because it's all I ever see.

Hoping someone more experienced here could help me make a deck or point me towards one that is good at countering the burn decks. I'm not trying to climb super fast or anything, I'm just tired of lulunavoidabledamage all day. It's not fun being on a hard timer from turn one >>. Thanks for the advice in advanced, I really appreciate it.

https://prnt.sc/sc0jbb

How to win against dumb shit like that?

It heavily favors aggro decks. I have a really good frostbite control deck that is fun to play and has a ridiculously high win rate. I have even pushed decks like Ezreal and Karma, Deep Monsters, and Yasuo Control to just running out of cards and losing to milling out. The decks not even made for that. Its just made to stall while throwing in chip damage here and their till you get the two finishers.

The problem comes in where I also have an aggro deck that is a net deck (Burn Aggro). It wins way less but gets more rewards. Like say I win 5 games in a row with the control deck and the aggro deck wins 3 out of 5. Well the control got more rewards right? Not when you factor in time. If the aggro deck can play 5 matches from beginning to end in the time that the control deck can maybe play 2 at most. Then the aggro wins out. So the aggro deck will get more rewards over time. Even through it wins less games.

So basically if you want to either climb the ranks or unlock rewards fast you will have to play an aggro deck.

I think the winner of a game that has gone on for a very long time in the form of rounds to complete the match should get more rewards than someone who just steamrolled the other guy in 4 or 5 rounds. Like for every round played you get more exp and rank progress for a win. Then balance it so if some aggro build wins 5 matches by the time the control build can win 2 they both will still earned around the same reward. It's just a question of if you want your rewards given in small but quick doses or large chunks that you really have to work for.

Hi all,

playing on iOS, and when I do a spell like rummage where I discard 2, if I accidentally hit it and dont want to do it anymore, I’m having trouble canceling out the spell.  I have to close out the app completely and log back in before my timer runs out.  Can anyone help me with how to cancel the spell?

for regular spells like Get Excited I can just drag the spell back to my deck, but I can’t seem to do that for the discard ones because my hand just magnifies and takes over a lot of the screen.  Thanks!

It happens a lot! I have had it many times where I mill like 3 cards and every single one of them comes back as the same card I milled. It's like the game is saying; "Oh you don't want those? Well, f**k you! You have been winning to much lately so now we have to screw you over somehow." >_<

\rant over.

Basically the idea is all her power is found in her level up and she will have a unique level up in the sense that she can also de-level. She will be a very weak 1/1 for 1 mana champion with no abilities. Her level up will work like a reverse Darius. If you have 10 health or less she levels up. But if you go back over 10 health she levels back down. This is because her level up is linked to her emotions. When you are lower than 10 health she thinks you need protecting and will summon her bear and if you gain more than 10 health Annie will de-level and the bear will vanish.

Now here is the interesting part. The bear is freaking massive! It's a 20/20 body that has a permanent bearer. So it can't be damaged in anyway and it can't be targeted by anyone with anything. It can only be blocked. That means even the player can't put something like elusive on it or some other ability out right. But it can be effected by area of effect spells or abilities. Like for example a buff that gives all allies overwhelm would work on the bear too. But remember that the bear is 100% linked to Annie. If the enemy kills Annie, they kill the Bear, and vise versa. If they return the bear or Annie to your hand the bear goes back into Annie and she goes into your hand. Also you have to be careful when he comes out. If he comes out and you don't have room for him he will instantly die and thus instantly kill Annie as well.

So its a bit of a juggling act. For one you want to remember to make sure to have room for her to level or risk losing them both. You also want to have some ways to heal yourself to keep yourself alive while the bear is putting in work. But you also don't want to over heal yourself and accidentally de-level Annie and lose the bear. Also you have to literally baby sit Annie and make sure she stays alive or you lose them both. Remember she is still just a 2/2 with no abilities when leveled up. But on the plus side the bear is a threat the enemy has to answer no matter what. Or else they will just keep losing unites to it and if you ever get a chance to buff it with something that will let it through their defense it will kill them in one hit.

Curious what everyone thinks of THIS as opposed to the typical Pilfered Goods combo. More specifically, using units dying to level up the Maokai as opposed to tossing cards which could effect your combo! 

If you don't know what I'm talking about, the full video for the deck is here.

Hi guys, I'm pretty new to the game, as I started playing on Saturday. I was searching for information about the game and what are the best ways to get cards and I found this article which is pretty awesome:

https://mobalytics.gg/blog/how-to-get-cards-legends-of-runeterra/

However, when I played my first expedition (I ended up getting 7 wins), I noticed that no champion was given. Insted of a champion capsule and 3500 shards as it says in that article I believe I got an epic capsule and 2000 shards. 

I just wanted to confirm, Is this correct? Is this the actual reward for getting 7 wins in expedition? Or did I do something wrong? I didn't play my second trial, after getting 7 wins on the first, I quited the expedition.

I would appreciate an answer to my questions. Thank you.

Expedition: round 7.
During the trade, this happened:

I didn't have the card in the deck and it offers me to change it for something else. What am i supposed to do?
I don't want the 8 spell, but at the same time i want the 5 mana minion (i have it already in my deck).

I will skip it, because i don't want to take a risk in trading MY 5 minion for the 8 spell (maybe they were placed in the wrong order)

EDIT: i clicked on the trade button, then click it again and now it shows me the correct placement: the real offer was MY 5 drop for the 8 spell. I noticed it because i wanted to accept the second offer, and i found out that it was bugged as well: the real offer was MY 6 mana spell for HIS 3 mana spell.

Moral of the story: pay attention during your expedition

EDIT EDIT: 7 wins :)

It seems that Legends of Runeterra has yet to have a win/loss or match history screen (at least for normals) and because of this, I guess I'll never know the outcome of this match. After a long start with a major brick hand, I stayed alive long enough to reach "deep" with my Naut/Maokai deck and right when I was able to deal the finishing blow my game freaked out. I mean, it's all fine and dandy since it's just a normal game, but I'm not completely sure whether my internet cut out or if the other guy decided to just rage quit. In game, there wasn't any button to continue to the next round and when the timer went off, a new timer would just appear only to repeat and do nothing. I would expect a surrender notice if they did just close the game but after 5 minutes of waiting I got a "disconnected from server" screen and it pulled me back to the main menu. It was super NOT poggers and left me salty but the real question now is closing out your game and whether or not it prevents a win for the other player.

TLDR : I do big move and they potentially rage quit preventing my victory. (or was it just my connection cutting off at the worst moment)

anyways, here is a screenshot right before I got kicked out of the game :

https://gyazo.com/97cf8d183bf920530688a5c1db122497

Before the new patch if you blocked with a unit and then it was bounced back to your hand the “ghost” of the unit would still block the attacker.

Now it seems like the attack can go through after blocker is declared.  Is this always the case now?

Just lost a couple games from this and would like clarification.

I haven't played LoR much... After my first ranked this win this season I got 200 + 800 bonus xp. Not 400+ daily bonus. Why?

I got daily quest for the first day but after completing them I haven't got another one for over a week.

I need some help about some interactions that i am not sure i know how they works:

1) nautilus will copy all the units that i have tossed (no spells) that cost 4+
If i use "lure of dephts", "the beast below" will be discounted to 3: will it be copied by nautilus?
An enemy "recalled" my 3 mana "te beast below" and it returned to my hand as a 4 cost, so i just wonder if nautilus do the same.

2) overgrown snapvine: why does it have so many attached cards? is it just a meme or is there a reason behind it?