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Calling Kalista a hypercarry is a heavy stretch. So is Tristana. Hypercarries, by definition, are able to output massive amounts of DPS and shred anyone they want, assuming they get the protection they need. Their defensive measures are fairly minimal as a result. Kalista is seen in the highest echelons of play almost purely as a utility carry with her ultimate, slow, objective power (in particular, seizing Dragon and Baron with Rend), and passive. She can peel by herself with the utility she has. She has a glaring weakness against the bruisers that have CC and gapclosers to close the distance, and her tankbusting requires dual focus between her and the support. Tristana is seen as a bursty assassin-esque ADC with her strong, resetting mid game. She has high damage, but it's in windows, and her very poor Attack Speed scaling make her struggle in the DPS department when her window closes. She has a big enough problem with tanks that hypercarries such as Vayne, Kog'Maw, and Twitch don't have. Also, the PROJECT post from last page has been updated with pictures of each skin! I'm debating putting videos of each one up when I get the time.

League of Legends and Surrender@20 pretty much lean on each other now. You'll see a lot more content previewed and revealed there than on the official site - they know this, and they've welcomed it. Nice change of pace compared to other game devs.

PBE update is out. The PROJECT skins are for Fiora, Master Yi, Zed, Lucian, and Leona. I'll update this post in a bit when pictures are more readily available. All skins are 1350 RP. EDIT: PROJECT: Yi is 1820 RP due to a new voiceover. EDIT 2: Pics of skins are here! PROJECT: Leona PROJECT: Zed PROJECT: Yi PROJECT: Lucian PROJECT: Fiora

And I'm with NasDav, as stated before. I'd say it's a buff, especially to his mid/late game. Oftentimes if he built a little damage like Black Cleaver or Infinity Edge, the tank stats he built in addition would often see him falling short of 150 bonus Armor and/or Magic Resist, even if he got to full build. Of course, 20% of that being 30, it's handy to have those now-guaranteed stats into the mid game and teamfighting phases. Decisive Strike nerfs suck, but the buffs elsewhere more than compensate.

There's unfortunately a lot here that I am in disagreement with, but the apparent notion that there are better champs to carry with than Lucian or Urgot is what bugs me the most. I'll apply Doj's argument that "everyone is viable" here because there's definitely truth to that. In Lucian's case, he is extremely mobile, almost to the point where some of the Attack range deficit can be forgiven. Urgot is just as capable of massive DPS as the next Marksman, and outranges all of them as well. Of course, Lucian has no CC, while Urgot lacks pushing power and waveclear. These discrepancies are what usually turn people off them, and for those reasons people choose other champs to cater to their strengths, weaknesses, preferences and overall needs of the team. Other quick notes: - Neither Ashe nor Sivir are lane bullies when referring to Marksmen; especially not Ashe. Their strengths lie outside of the laning phase. Sure, they can be a pain to deal with in the early game sometimes, but Sivir lacks the range to be a bully, while Ashe lacks the early game damage especially with the removal of her old passive. - Ezreal's late game is definitely better than MF's, Draven's, or Corki's. I can understand why he'd be seen that way, and it's that he has mixed damage and not much else to bring to the team. If he's itemIzed right he can poke like a monster and/or outDPS a lot of ADC's. Also, he isn't a lane bully either. He's considered to have a strong early game, but this is because of his relative safety. - I hesitate to call Tristana a hypercarry. After her relaunch she fits in better with the assassin-type group of champs, and is in fact probably the most Assassin-like ADC in the pool. Her mid game is batshit crazy, but her late game leaves something to be desired. She doesn't scale as well as Vayne by any means, and Attack Speed doesn't serve her that well - Explosive Charge, and her kit in general, promotes build Attack Damage-heavy builds, in a similar vein to what Graves and/or Draven would build. I'd write up a lot more on this, but I ran out of time...

You put enough time into Viktor, just keep playing him, lol. He's not getting nerfed to Miss Fortune-tier or anything like that, he's got a niche and he'll be good at it.

Most likely today, when PBE updates.

Boards and reddit are torn between Yi, Jax, and Xin Zhao. Could be Renekton too.

The PROJECT weapon diagrams have been posted on the LoL site. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/skins-project/ Seems the new skins are for Leona, Lucian, Zed, Fiora, and...one last character. Someone that wields a double-bladed weapon...could even be a spear. It is designed for multi-target combat, as the build suggests.

Fiora seems like a very high possibility, even above Diana - she doesn't have any available skins Outside of her release skins (Royal Guard and Nightraven) so this will be a welcome addition, especially since it's easy to make new Fiora's VFX and SFX really cool. i'd believe the theory about Yone, but I question it after the next champion's designer, RiotWrekz (Braum's designer) has said that the next champion is not an Assassin. (They aren't a Support either.) That's just me though. We'll find out tomorrow.

Hmm. So there are multiple PROJECT skins after all. Also, note that the first one says "TRACE LOST", but the picture on the promo is of a broad-shouldered figure with a plumed, multi-eyed helmet. That, in all likelihood, would heavily imply that the first PROJECT skin is for Jax, although people are saying it could be for Master Yi (I dunno about that).

Unlikely, but I wouldn't count it out. PROJECT skins most likely take a lot of work, so I doubt there being skins of this caliber for multiple champions. Might be a release skin for the forthcoming champ. Might actually be a champion, the one behind the PROJECT. Who knows.

The new PROJECT skin will be released this week (most likely later today), any guesses on the champion? Mine is for Shen.

TBH, I really wouldn't go by kill participation, and while I don't know much about the mastery system, I do know its ratings don't go by that either. In any sort of setting below about high gold, that statistic, even as Koggles, really doesn't mean much because you can't really expect the team to be together often enough until very late. NasDav just played that game really well. In other news, here's my get-out-of-tilt-free champ, doing shenanigans once more.

If you're trying to kill with throws as Sonic, you're doing it wrong. There was a day when he could kill almost as easily as Ness with his back throw, but those days are long past.

Hammond is a Fraud? lol. That guy is awesome.

Another big local tournament, Summit, just happened about a half hour's drive away from me. Sadly, I couldn't get to it, but here were the characters used by the top 16 finishers: 1. Mario / Captain Falcon 2. R.O.B. 3. Luigi 4. Sheik 5. Diddy Kong 5. Fox / Sheik 7. Ganondorf 7. Fox 9. Mario / Dark Pit 9. Palutena 9. Pikachu 9. Peach 13. Robin 13. Bowser Jr. 13. Donkey Kong 13. Villager The corresponding players are below in the spoiler: NOTE: Customs were banned for this tournament.

Alright, I'm online.

GGs to Omega. I'm down for some more tonight if anyone else is free...assuming I haven't fallen asleep by then.

I gotcha. Let's do this. The room's on me.

I'll be your opponent. My FC is 4511-0701-9758

There are people on both sides of the spectrum saying that the matchup is in so and so's favor. I personally subscribe to the theory that Rosa wins this matchup by playing passively and letting Luma do most of the killing.

I really don't know if MK is as strong as ZeRo says he is. He's alright against Sheik and some other high-tier picks, which I guess is reason enough to pick him, but everyone else that has respectable range will give him a hassle. Marth, Zero Suit, Shulk and Ike will all do considerably well vs MK.