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Not yet. Oh, I see now. I thought it was still going to work like her old ult for some reason. Passive makes sense to me now too.

Fiora's new-ish ult is confusing me a lot... The passive too....

You gotta find what works for you. People build differently based off of what they're comfortable with. There's no such thing as a "best build." There are multiple optimal builds with different build paths. No one build is going to work perfectly for every person playing that champion. I was simply stating that I feel as if Bork is an optimal rush for me and that people should give it a try as well to see if they like it. Also, another thing to consider, is how passive the early game tends to be for the ADC's in LCS. They're not making crazy duo kills with their support early. They're just farming up for big items like IE or BT. On the contrary, in a lower ELO in solo queue, you're gonna be looking for duo and solo kills a lot in lane, so a bit-by-bit build path to bork guarantees you're getting stronger with each back considering all items that build into bork are rather cheap. In the C9 vs. CLG game, you'll notice Sneaky had 0 kill participation until after BT was finished. TL vs. NME showed Piglet with a really nice early game, but he picked up a lot of these kills with only a Vamp Scepter and Greaves. This build could have easily gone into Bork considering Vamp goes into BT and Bork, so either way, the pieces of Bork still can do you well.

? If you guys were aware of the number discrepancy, why didn't you just go with that?

That would be because they haven't used the current patch until this week I think? Bt hurricane was always my standard rush but it's just not as effective in my opinion with the nerfs.

Starting to realize Kalista nerfs didn't actually hit her that bad. Rushing blade of the ruined king seems to be an optimal start now. Attack speed is always good on Kalista, not to mention you get that percentage health damage to help with your rather poor basic attack damage at the time. Life steal also gives decent sustain in lane. Every time I've played Kalista, I've come back into lane with Bork and 1v1'd the enemy ADC without them even leaving a scratch.

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Kalista nerfs? What?

The development team is choosing what they want to continue on, and I ask that you respect their priorities.

Most people forget that Primetime Draven is a Legendary Skin that only costs 975. It meets every qualification for a 1820, but Riot decided to sell it for less.

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Good stuff good stuff. Just a recommendation, if that team wasn't so... poor, I'd recommend picking up a Quicksilver Sash into Mercurial Scimitar instead of the Guardian Angel considering they have game changing CC, like Malz Ult, Gnar W and Ult, Jinx E, etc.

I'd say it's rather symmetrical. Considering the build I'm under the assumption it was more of a tiger stance udyr, but even the phoenix gives some magic damage, the ap oriented Nunu support, the AP Tahm Kench, and then Vayne and Riven for the AD.

There's the fact that Akali is unique with her hybrid damage, great sustain, stealth, high damage mark ability, an ultimate gap closer with three charges that resets upon kill or assist and doesn't rely upon a skillshot to reset, and zero mana issues as opposed to Diana. That's a pretty big difference in my opinion. Sure she is better top, but that's only because it's easier for her to survive lane up there and farm up until six. She still can carry and snowball just as well as everyone else. I haven't seen one good argument as to how she's suboptimal aside from "that's just how the meta is." Not to be harsh, it just doesn't make sense to me.

Not sure what you mean about Akali being bad? I've picked her up recently and snowballed hard as hell every time, being able to 1v2/3 almost immediately after getting 6. People complain about how her ult passes through people now, making her risky near towers or whatever. But honestly, that has allowed me to dodge Riven ults and Leblanc distortions to easily win a 1v2. She still has insane damage, her e has such a low cooldown now that it's basically free wave clear and activates Lich Bane, she's got insane sustain after getting Hextech Gunblade, and can even reposition in a duel easily by just placing down her shroud, finding a better position, restoring some energy, and jumping back in. She's still incredibly good right now in my opinion.

I mean, I'll admit I did some stupid things that game. In fact, every one of those deaths came from me diving into a 1v4/5 in an attempt to take out Sivir or Lux. I probably should have built tankier too. Instead of Bork, I should have just went for a Thornmail. Would have helped a lot against Sivir, Shyvana, and Yasuo (not like Yasuo was really much of a threat though. I completely dumpstered him).

Here's a reminder that champion mastery 5 doesn't mean you're good at the champ, just that you play a lot.

They're not even moving for it to be in every lane. They're going the wrong way with balancing the jungle items in my opinion by just making each one more powerful. These effects like the bonus health and AOE Lich Bane tend to synergize well with other champions who can replace it with other items that aren't 100% core on them. They basically made cinderhulk a powerful force and decided, instead of nerfing it so it wasn't such a dominant item, they'd make every single jungle item a lot stronger so junglers are suddenly the strongest members of every team.

It's in general a weak item on both. The attack speed and crit is extremely outshined by phantom dancer and statikk shiv. The ap isn't really necessary on either, considering their AD scaling will work just fine. You're not going to be casting spells enough for the sheen passive to be really worth it either. The phage passive is useful, but not entirely necessary. You shouldn't be trying to chase things down really. Additionally, the attack damage and health don't make a huge impact anyway. Most AD champs who buy triforce will buy it mostly for the sheen passive (Corki, Kog, Ezreal) because they're constantly using their spells to dish out damage. Tristana and Twitch are more basic attack-based and don't really need it. Plus, every other item they usually build is rather core and necessary and shouldn't be replaced with something that is generally mediocre in comparison.

My point in general is that she most definitely has counterplay in the farm of targeted CC. One Nautilus ult and the whole enemy team can collapse on her if she doesn't have QSS. She's meant to be a teamfight menace because she can hop around the battlefield, dodging skillshots and dealing damage. But if she's hopping around and doing nothing, then there's no point at all.

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One could easily say the same about Katarina and how easily she hops from enemy to enemy, bursting them down instantly. But just like Kalista, she's really weak to CC, especially targeted CC.

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Kalista nerfs hit her a lot harder than I expected. I feel like I do no damage with my auto attacks and I get blown up easily because I can't life steal nearly as much. Also, it's of note that Kalista now has the lowest win rate of any ADC.