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I too will get an opportunity to play the game, as Nintendo is at the Canadian National Exhibition along with Microsoft and Riot. You can't expect me to not relive my Melee days and spam the hell out of Mario, but I'll try as many characters as I can.

Essentially what Sarcus said. You could also look into getting Mandibuzz for your team somewhere. The 'buzz is a pain in the ass being one of the best stallers out there, and it would help alleviate a small weakness on your team to Ground. Just a thought.

I don't believe they expire. I've yet to play a game as her however. EDIT: A lot of people were saddened by the side-boob nerf in the splash art (myself included to an extent), especially since said cleavage became such a part of Akali's identity. Likely wasn't intended by Riot to become such though.

With the amount of Attack Speed you get from Nashor's, it's still well worth it with the 90% attack speed it gives you. The "optimal" first rush from what I've played with and seen is Athene's; on the PBE, I've used my usual mage masteries, with the Cooldown Reduction swapped out in favor of Attack Speed (I usually max it out with Athene's rush and a later Nashor's anyway). If this was a legit Crystal Scar VU, they would have said so, and well ahead of time at that. The maps team will be dedicating themselves to Summoner's Rift for the next while. EDIT: And the splash art sweepstakes for 4.16 go to... Also, mini Cassiopeia relaunch on the PBE to accompany her redone VO. http://www.surrenderat20.net/2014/08/827-pbe-update.html#more EDIT 2: Moobeat, you clever son of a gun http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=4816248

Hadn't been on the PBE yet when the patch notes came out. What are you talking about? There's no typo. :kappa:

Contrary Serperior is legal, as are all Pokemon with unreleased Hidden Abilities. if there even any others left

Rune Wars, Pool Party and Scorched Earth will probably not receive texture overhauls. They're newer skins. Why would they?

Also, should be noted that Cassiopeia's new VO lines (done by Karen Strassman) are a completely new voiceover (like Anivia / Ashe in 3.6). Renekton (Patrick Seitz) and Sivir (uncredited) just seem to be getting add-ons to their current VOs.

There were some posts either yesterday or today where Riot expressed their disappointment when they couldn't make a sand mage concept work...all of a sudden, SURPRISE MUTHAFUCKA Also, Ascension actually sounds pretty cool. A completely out of the norm game mode. Will have to try. In the meantime, a patch! 4.15 goes out tonight, and it may be the patch that Worlds is played on given the many (bug) fixes. For those of you too lazy to look at the site, here's what's happening. Good stuff to know This patch will carry little fixes that should see an FPS improvement of up to 10% for all players. Skins These are hitting live this patch: Final Boss Veigar - 1820 RP PROJECT: Yasuo - 1350 RP Headhunter Caitlyn - 975 RP (for real this time!) Champions - splash art updates These champions obviously are - wait, why aren't you simply scrolling up the page to look at them? Man, that's some laziness... Champions - General Alistar can no longer autoattack an enemy that he's sent flying from Headbutt (if he Pulverizes them with the combo, he can still land the attack). Azir? No, he's not in the patch, relax. Gnar got buffs to his Boomerang/Boulder Toss, as well as some small buffs to his ult (it's got an AP ratio, AP Gnar OP). He also now has extra Health Regen. Sivir's Boomerang Blade now deals damage when when enemies touch the blade's edge, rather than the center. This is a small buff. of course. Urgot buffs? Is this real? Anyway, his Acid Hunter now refunds half the mana cost when it kills something, and his ult's mana cost and cooldown were both reduced. Urgot also now temporarily ignores unit collision when he casts it. Champions - Insignificant Stuff These champions got bug fixes or other small changes: Caitlyn Fiddlesticks Graves Gnar Katarina Lee Sin Nocturne Pantheon Rengar Rumble Shyvana Twisted Fate Xerath Zed Champions - Twisted Treeline / Crystal Scar (TT) Cassiopeia's Miasma base damage has been hit. (CS/TT) Leona's Solar Flare cooldown has been increased at higher ranks. (CS/TT) Jarvan IV's Martial Cadence "cooldown" has been increased while the Armor shred on his Dragon Strike has been nerfed at later ranks. Items Essence Reaver's recipe cost has been slashed by 200, bringing the total cost down to 3200 (like the old bloodthirster). Ichor of Illumination grants less Cooldown Reduction. Respecting the dead If you're dead, players can not see the items you buy while dead by looking at your corpse. They have to wait until they see you again to see what you have.Twisted Treeline The map-wide Mana Regeneration buff has been halved. Patcher and landing page New patcher and landing page incoming. Very little of interfaces elsewhere in the client have been touched.Not sure if this will affect anyone here The Master Tier (along with new Challenger) will hit live servers after its testing across numerous regions.That's it! Not looking back, but looking forward - Ascension...Azir...rumors surrounding Renekton...is a Shurima event on the horizon? It's been hinted at by the lore team since last year, so I can't help but think such a possibility. EDIT: Holy fuck, I might be right. http://www.surrenderat20.net/2014/08/826-pbe-azir.html#more

WHOA NEW CHAMPION OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/champion-reveal/azir-emperor-of-the-sands

I'm going to take a stab and say it'll be an ADC. Most likely candidates as have been discussed on the forums are Lucian, Kog'Maw and Corki.

Probably higher than most of us think, but don't crush Wolf's dreams :kappa:

Dragon Ball (to the best of my knowledge) has absolutely no prior association with Nintendo aside from frequently finding itself on TV sets immediately after Pokemon. Claims of Goku's possible presence are ridiculous.

So, some important end-of-season stuff was announced. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/competitive/end-season-rewards-and-new-master-tier First off, the new Master Tier. They've tested this in all sorts of different regions and it'll be coming to EUW as well soon. Dafuq is this? Master Tier is the tier above Diamond I, serving kinda the same purpose as Challenger has but without a player limit. The 200 players with the most LP in Master will be in the exclusive Challenger tier (this refreshes every 24 hours), with players losing LP falling out of Challenger. For clarity, Master and Challenger share an LP ladder. TL;DR Challenger is the top 200 players in the Master Tier. Now, the ranked rewards. These are given out the end of the season: All Bronze players will receive the obligatory summoner icon. All Silver players will receive their own icon, their own banner trim on their profile, and their own loading screen. All Gold and above players receive that plus the Victorious Morgana skin. Guess it's time for me to win my promos already... EDIT: The season ends in November.

inb4 revealed next week But in all seriousness I still have plenty of faith in Wario's return. Patience...

Just looking at the logs from earlier today and the inevitable punishment of those involved, we will lose Rupe for five weeks for sure. Will need to double check but I believe we could lose Kamina for said duration as well. That's on top of our mostly inactive roster. These are going to be some trying times, hope you all are up to the task. EDIT: Kamina is not banned.

I also question said punishments due to the "collateral damage", but punishments are punishments. Secundum nailed it when she said "Stupidity is a harsh mistress."

EV training is a rather complicated thing that's basically summarized with "slowly gaining stats upon defeating certain Pokémon". Someone will probably have a better explanation on the Reborn chat, unless they'd like to here. anyway, hello there! Hope you enjoy it here.

Easy killer. Ya don't wanna be saying that about a poll that's been (for the most part) tied the whole way through.