The LoL Patches thread

The Predator reference is strong in this one.

Ugh, Rengar's ult, so gud. Move a side, Warwick, there's a new janitor in the jungle.

I just took a look at the PBE changes. Besides the big/heavily discussed changes, one small change somewhat caught my eye:

Cho'Gath

Feast now deals 1000 (+0.7) true damage to minions, up from 1000. Now loses half of his stacks on death, compared to loses up to 3.

Oh boy. The addition of an AP ratio to the true damage nuke dealt to minions/monsters definitely increases Cho's objective control capabilities (in a team context)

I also liked the QoL change to his Feast (losing stacks when he dies).

Garen reworked.

[01:47:15] <+minwu> Q breaks slows
[01:47:21] <+minwu> w gives tenacity
[01:47:26] <+minwu> E is a pure damaging spell now

These changes make me happy in the pants! Okay, not really, but it's nice to see that the "Demacian Big Three Bruisers" (J4, Xin, Garen) are all equally viable now. Picking who will be a tough task now.

The W change nerfed the full damage Garen builds, but at least the tankier bruiser items (Atma's, Maw) actually scale now.

They also fixed the annoyance of his passive going away by getting sneezed on by minions.

I don't know anything about Garen, but everyone on the forums is whining about how they nerfed him instead of buffing...

Oh boy. The addition of an AP ratio to the true damage nuke dealt to minions/monsters definitely increases Cho's objective control capabilities (in a team context)

Good lawdy, AP Cho = instakill buffs. NEEDS TO BE DONE!!

not entirely viable

I don't know anything about Garen, but everyone on the forums is whining about how they nerfed him instead of buffing...

Aside from a few early-game tweaks, I don't see how Garen's getting nerfed.

By giving up:
-A shorter Q speed buff duration
-Q's silence now being 2.5 seconds only at rank 5
-Rank 1 ult longer CD
-Slight tweaks to W active's CD
-Longer base CD for his passive (10 seconds)

He's essentially getting:
-Higher base Q damage at rank 5
-His spin scales with total AD once again (A revert of the change making it scale off bonus AD)
-Rank 3 ult shorter CD
-30% tenacity on his W active
-20% Armor & MR scaling
-Spin does a bit more damage (75%, up from 50%) to minions/monsters now.
-Passive no longer breaks from minion damage, and scales with cooldown reduction.

[IMGSPOILER=Possible new UI]http://i.imgur.com/ZckQb.jpg[/IMGSPOILER]

The new UI looks fugly.
I tried Garen out and did pretty well. Teamfighting with him basically consists of hitting QWE and running into the enemy team yelling DEMACIA and silencing a carry. E still crits it looks like. Dunno if it still is bonus damage still or the whole thing.
Rammus skin is sexy.
From the limited amount I've seen of Rengar he seems pretty strong. I've only managed to get him once and someone dodged that time, lol.
However, he's not OP. His ult is certainly strong for ganks but a Vision Ward or two is pretty much a hard counter to the strategic value that offers, and it's useless except for the Ferocity regen once you hit lategame. He's pretty fucking scary though, and a fed Rengar does not seem like a good situation. Once he gets 18 trophies, I think it might just be game over since I don't THINK that the 5 Ferocity gain thing has a cooldown.

Once he gets 18 trophies, I think it might just be game over since I don't THINK that the 5 Ferocity gain thing has a cooldown.

I hope it has one. Or W W W W W W W W W W W W W.

[COLOR="#0000FF"]Well the most you can get is two W's off, and since the ferocity skills are separate skills, they have cd's too. So unless w's cd is 0.5 seconds, I doubt you can use ferocity w twice, or any other ferocity skill twice.
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E still crits it looks like. Dunno if it still is bonus damage still or the whole thing.

It's the bonus damage that can crit.

That is freaking ugly for a UI. I hope it never makes it's way here or is a custom made one.

The new UI looks fugly.
I tried Garen out and did pretty well. Teamfighting with him basically consists of hitting QWE and running into the enemy team yelling DEMACIA and silencing a carry. E still crits it looks like. Dunno if it still is bonus damage still or the whole thing.

a) you're doing it wrong
b) so Garen's playstyle is completely unchanged

a) you're doing it wrong
b) so Garen's playstyle is completely unchanged

Wait a second, that's how I always played Garen, with the FUS DO RAH included of course.

[COLOR="#0000FF"]Well the most you can get is two W's off, and since the ferocity skills are separate skills, they have cd's too. So unless w's cd is 0.5 seconds, I doubt you can use ferocity w twice, or any other ferocity skill twice.
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I thought that everytime the fury filled up, the cooldowns reseted?

No, they switch to a different set of skills, that's why they're off cd.

[IMGSPOILER=Possible new UI]http://i.imgur.com/ZckQb.jpg[/IMGSPOILER]

Wat

Totally fake, look at those hp and mp bars >_>.

The map looks aight, but the hp and skills... wdp?