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Can't wait to see what the "buffed" Shen is
Expected Sona/Soraka nerfs.
Didn't expect the Vlad early game nerfs. Tourneys contributed to this?

Natilus's abilities reeks of tanking

Staggering Blow (Passive) – Nautilus’ first basic attack against a target deals bonus physical damage and immobilizes the opponent briefly. Staggering Blow cannot trigger on the same target more than once every 12 seconds.

I wanted Nautilus' anchor to feel heavy and weighty, even if the player didn't build heavy attack damage items. Staggering Blow delivers a heavy hit to Nautilus’ first attack against an enemy in a fight.

Since Staggering Blow's cooldown is on a per-unit basis, Nautilus can last-hit with greater ease and adds a bit of target selection gameplay while jungling or in a crowded team fight. Generally, melee doesn’t have the luxury of choosing who it gets to targets in a fight. Staggering Blow gives additional incentives for the Nautilus player to try to reach and focus on other targets that may be harassing his team rather the closest target on him – as it guarantees that he has a minor crowd control effect up at all times.

Dredge Line - Nautilus throws his anchor forward. If he hits an enemy, he'll drag himself to his target and his target to him. If he hits terrain, he'll drag himself to the terrain and the cooldown is reduced.

Nautilus' Dredge Line is his primary initiation mechanic. Up close, it can be used to reset the position of various enemies. From afar, it can be used as a powerful movement ability or escape.

During the development of hookshot-style abilities, it rapidly became clear that the slower a champion is, the better hookshot would feel as a movement mechanic. For a tank, a delayed movement effect is ideal as the goal is to create an opening for the tank when two parties are at a standoff – rather than the required guaranteed movement a fighter has to have to close into the far back row of enemy champions to target squishy high-priority targets.

When two teams are at a standoff, the best initiators constantly probe at the enemy team, searching for vulnerable openings. Similar to Dark Binding and Bandage Toss, Dredge Line is intended to fulfill that purpose in a team stand-off

Titan’s Wrath - Nautilus places a shield on himself that absorbs additional damage based on his maximum health. While the shield is active, Nautilus' attacks deal damage over time to units around him.

Wrath is soft-taunt mechanic for Nautilus. If Nautilus is the focus of enemy attacks, Wrath will defend him from incoming damage. However, if he's left alone, Nautilus can contribute heavy damage to the enemy team. Because it's a damage over time effect, Nautilus doesn't need attack speed to get the most benefit out of Titan’s Wrath. Simply building any defensive item will contribute to Titan’s Wrath's uptime, as armor and magic resist will reduce incoming damage to the shield, and raw health will amplify the raw shield strength.

One of the strongest downsides to a self-only shield is that it is effectively ignorable by the enemy team. Unless you are threatening enough so that you must be killed on sight, defensive shielded targets are generally ignored as there isn’t a point to attacking him. Wrath allows Nautilus players to take advantage of this and punish enemy players for thinking he’s ignorable. Over the course of a fight, Nautilus won’t kill you quickly, but the damage will rapidly pile up the more time you give him.

Riptide - Nautilus slams the ground, causing the earth to ripple out in waves. Each wave deals damage and slows the targets hit. This slow decays over time. Multiple waves that hit the same target deal reduced damage.

Riptide grants Nautilus a strong area control effect. Because the rippling waves are delayed, Riptidecan act as a deterrent to enemies walking towards Nautilus. Using Riptide after Dredge Line can be a powerful soft-initiate. Enemies attempting to run away from Nautilus will run straight into the rapidly expanding waves, taking additional damage and refreshing the slow duration on them.

Many players know that the tank’s fundamental role is to create openings for your team to attack. Intuitively, however, many players also understand that a tank is also there to prevent fighters/assassins from running into your squishy back-row and killing high priority targets. Riptide is designed to help hold the enemy front-line back or punishing them with more damage and slow if they choose to push forward.

Depth Charge (ultimate) – Nautilus launches a depth charge towards a target that picks up speed as it travels. This charge knocks up all enemies it encounters while traveling and explodes on impact, stunning the target and launching them into the air.

Depth Charge is Nautilus' fight-starter. Casting Depth Charge on back row targets will give them time to run, but will cause a great deal of chaos as the depth charge rips through the enemy team. Depth Charge can set up a guaranteed Dredge Line, ensuring Nautilus can charge into a battle with a clear shot and a stationary target.

Every tank benefits from having a fundamental initiation ability. Reliable initiation is one of the defining aspects that a tank needs to create opportunities for your team to engage and destroy the enemy. Depth Charge, combined with Dredge Line and Riptide can set up a trio of powerful effects that effectively force a fight to begin on your terms. Nautilus can put out a tremendous amount of raw disruption by chaining Depth Charge into Dredge Line into Riptide, forcing the enemy to respond or abandon the hapless enemies that have been stunned or slowed around Nautilus.

Janna blows hard in lane, but is probably the most amazing support in team fights. The thing is Janna is she's actually fun to play for me. So much clutch ass-saving. So much. Clutch ass. Saving. Sona is outrageously boring and I don't even want to play Soraka.

Playing akali again. So many funs.

<< Am sad panda about the soraka nerfs, they went overboard by a mile.

I think it would have been more useful to cut how much mana infuse gives and make it single target so you have to use on soraka or her lanemate but not both.

<< Am sad panda about the soraka nerfs, they went overboard by a mile.

I think it would have been more useful to cut how much mana infuse gives and make it single target so you have to use on soraka or her lanemate but not both.

That's how it used to work. I rather like that she can't mana herself anymore, fixes her ridiculous sustainability without nerfing much else about her in the process.

Also, nerfs very deserved tbh, I don't really see it as overboard.

[COLOR="#cc8899"]I wonder if they'll remember to alter the Soraka bot's behavior, or if it'll keep acting like it has infinite sustain and just sit there when it spams Q too much?

At any rate, I like the idea, hate the execution. I like that it'll be possible to push her out of the lane now, but I think they way they went about it will push her out of games entirely.

Still hoping to eventually see something dealing with Fiddlesticks in normal queues - most of the time there's not much that can be done about him if none of your laners have hard CC, or the teams are just not communicating enough to keep track of him. Or worse, they consistently feed him and he steamrolls everyone. He's not OP, he's fairly well balanced, but it's not as easy to answer him as it is in drafts.[/COLOR]

Well I feel like running mana regen seals with mana regen masteries coupled with philo stone and an early chalice of harmony will keep her viable.

Can't wait to see what the "buffed" Shen is
Expected Sona/Soraka nerfs.
Didn't expect the Vlad early game nerfs. Tourneys contributed to this?

Buffed Shen is still going to be iffy since he doesn't have a "safe" heal he can last hit with unlike a lot of other people that would solo top. Can't support since he needs farm to tank, so I guess he'd be either a solo top or a jungle.

Vlad early game nerfs were talked about since the day after he was buffed. Tides sustain with any spell vamp is really strong.

Can't wait to see what the "buffed" Shen is
Expected Sona/Soraka nerfs.
Didn't expect the Vlad early game nerfs. Tourneys contributed to this?

Buffed Shen is still going to be iffy since he doesn't have a "safe" heal he can last hit with unlike a lot of other people that would solo top. Can't support since he needs farm to tank, so I guess he'd be either a solo top or a jungle.

Vlad early game nerfs were talked about since the day after he was buffed. Tides sustain with any spell vamp is really strong.

Well I feel like running mana regen seals with mana regen masteries coupled with philo stone and an early chalice of harmony will keep her viable.

Wasn't the whole point of her viability that she didn't NEED any of those things to stay in lane almost 100% of the time?

Staying in a lane 100% of the time is already a problematic thing.

Staying in a lane 100% of the time is already a problematic thing.

qft

And her heals/poke will keep her viable, though she's probably lost ground against Sona unless the number tweaks for her this patch are really, really drastic. Either way, I'd still consider Soraka in the top two or three supports in the game.

New champ definitely seems like one I'd like. Prob going to get him, but have to wait for the champion spotlight to be sure.

Also,
[video=youtube;FrsTE1vpoXM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrsTE1vpoXM&hd=1[/video]

New champ definitely seems like one I'd like. Prob going to get him, but have to wait for the champion spotlight to be sure.

Also,
[video=youtube;FrsTE1vpoXM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrsTE1vpoXM&hd=1[/video]

Seems more like a case of bad opponents, honestly. Some of that looked like people just ignoring her and then acting surprised when they started dying.

 CAITLYN ON KARMA : gg Karma sucks

More gold than anyone on the other team (apparently by "supporting my already fed team" gee wonder how they got fed and why you got zero kills with your ult cait, more wards than anyone on the other team, and one more cool Flash over a wall that saved my pants than anyone on the other team.

 CAITLYN ON KARMA : gg Karma sucks

More gold than anyone on the other team (apparently by "supporting my already fed team" gee wonder how they got fed and why you got zero kills with your ult cait, more wards than anyone on the other team, and one more cool Flash over a wall that saved my pants than anyone on the other team.

Cait is just mad that he thinks you hacked a new champion into the game because he never saw Karma before.

New champ definitely seems like one I'd like. Prob going to get him, but have to wait for the champion spotlight to be sure.

Also,
[video=youtube;FrsTE1vpoXM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrsTE1vpoXM&hd=1[/video]

I remember this video
I made me buy janna
About a year ago >: D

dat valentines vayne

dat valentines vayne

Wut the