When I play a new champion, I usually get a fairly modest score. Sometimes, I even end up feeding. Brand however, is a different story altogether.
My first few games on Brand.
So the games went rather well. I always thought Brand was stupid overpowered. Now I know. I am quite proud of my recent kill ratio, which is why I present them to you.
What I enjoy about our fire throwing friend is how easy it is to land his spells. Whilst laning in mid your opponent really has to work to avoid your circle, allowing for you to last hit without any issues.
He's pretty viable in terms of ranked as well, bringing a lot of ability power to the table- with some area damage and a stun. But I feel Brand has his best moments early game. He can dominate his lane against a lot of champions and his ganking utility is unbelievable. Spam a couple of spells on the sidelane and toss in an ultimate and you've probably got a double kill on your hands.
I would suggest Brand as a new champion for anyone to buy, if you have the 6300 IP it requires. He's fairly noob friendly and a good player will absolutely devastate the enemy team. Boy, melting faces never gets old.
So, the whole Lee Sin April fool joke just annoyed me to be honest. They delayed the release of Lee for what, a bad video which was obviously a joke.
Here's a link:
Has anyone else noticed the huge influx of teemo players? He's flavor of the month so expect nerfs on our cute little friend. I love to play him, but a despise going against him.
Although I'd love to complain a little more, today I decided it would be a good time to take a look at the recent patch notes from the past couple of weeks.
Here are the changes, directly from the League website:
Caitlyn
Attack speed per level increased to 3 from 2.6
Yordle Snap Trap max trap count increased to 3 from 2
Dr. Mundo
Fixed a bug where Infected Cleaver was slowing targets additively instead of multiplicatively
Ezreal
Fixed a bug where Ezreal's Arcane Shot could target unseen minions such as wards
Galio
Idol of Durand area of effect increased to 550 from 500
Garen
Base movement speed increased to 320 from 315
Courage damage reduction increased to 20/24/28/32/36 from 10/15/20/25/30
Jax
Leap Strike now prefers to target enemies over allies when your cursor overlaps both
Karma
Fixed a bug where the Mantra version of Heavenly Wave was not granting assists for healing allies
Spirit Bond's leash range has been increased by a small amount
Mantra now scales with level on a 30/25/20 second cooldown at levels 1/7/13 respectively instead of on 25 second cooldown at all levels
Katarina
Shunpo now prefers to target enemies over allies when your cursor overlaps both
LeBlanc
Fixed a bug where Distortion and Mimicked Distortion would break the target's spell shield and still deal damage
Maokai
Fixed a bug where Vengeful Maelstrom was reducing true damage
Nocturne
Made Shroud of Darkness shield brighter and easier to see
Pantheon
Fixed a bug where Aegis Protection triggered after every 4 attacks, but every 5 spell casts (reduced casts required to 4)
Poppy
Updated the shield texture on Paragon of Demacia
Fixed several unintended interactions between Heroic Charge and spell shields. Notably, Poppy won't push herself past the target anymore.
Shen
Updated Feint's tooltips to properly match the functionality and adjusted Shen's playing tips referencing Feint
Ki Strike can now be cancelled mid-attack (and will not say 'Cannot Move While Casting')
Fixed a bug where Ki Strike could kill a target and not trigger Vorpal Blade's heal effect
Fixed a bug where Shadow Dash could move a shorter distance than intended if Shen was greatly slowed
Sivir
Fixed a bug where some of her tooltips referred to 'Spiral Blade' instead of 'Boomerang Blade'
Soraka
Infuse now prefers to target enemies over allies
Urgot
Base health reduced to 526 from 546
Acid Hunter base damage reduced to 10/40/70/100/130 from 15/45/75/105/135
Fixed a bug where Terror Capacitor's slow was stacking
Fixed a bug where Zaun-Touched Bolt Augmenter was reducing true damage.
So we have some small buffs here, unwarranted, but the most of the patch is bug fixes. Since the new patch is on the horizon, I rushed this post out so I can stay up to date. Sorry folks.
Brand should be out tomorrow, and his skills look really damn good. Check back for a post about him (fo sho).
