Author: Jeff Morgan (Page 62 of 260)

Yorick, the Gravedigger sneak peek

The latest champion sneak peek popped up last night, bringing us news of Yorick, the Gravedigger. It remains unclear what type of champion Yorick will be, but I like the direction his art is headed. I’m curious how much of his playstyle relies on minions. If too much of his damage comes from minions, I’m worried that we’ll be looking at another tanky DPS champ.

Here’s the blurb from the sneak peek:

The true sign of a master is when you’re able to impress everyone with your execution of a skill that might otherwise be considered mundane. So it’s probably quite safe to say that in order to dazzle anyone with your skillful shoveling, you’re going to have to be rather good at it.

With this in mind, allow me to introduce Yorick, the Gravedigger. In addition to being more adept in the art of entombment than any who have come before him, he makes a point of keeping good company… or at least ravenous undead company. One of those two.

As I mentioned, I like Yorick’s art direction. I’m looking forward to learning more about him this weekend.

I’m being trolled by a health bar bug

League of Legends.

Before I started writing this post, I did a quick search for just about every combination of “league of legends health bar bug” that I could. I figured my own problem would be at the top of the heap, but it seems a lot of people have a lot of strange bugs regarding health bars in League of Legends.

I’ve seen the bug that makes an ally health bar stretch across the screen, but other than that I’ve been bug free…until now. I’ve been having a bug since (as far as I remember) the Vayne patch that causes enemy health bars to not update with their health count. It only happens on occasion, but when it does it’s extremely frustrating. The bug is simply that the health bar over an enemy player’s head sometimes does not update to accurately reflect the amount of health a player has. This is extremely problematic in the early game, when players sometimes don’t buy early health items. I roll in thinking the player has 7-800 health, when in reality they’ll have 12-1300. Big difference. I’m starting to catch on, but the health bar system is so ingrained in my playstyle now that I’m having trouble remembering not to fight certain targets. The bug also happens infrequently enough that I forget about it, but only until I get smoked by someone I was sure I would be able to kill.

Anyone else suffering from the same bug?

Blood Moon Akali and Shen now live

If you played Shen or Akali this past week, you probably noticed some incredible skins in the skin selection screen for each champion. Both Shen and Akali got Blood Moon skins, which are now available from the store.

That Shen skin is definitely one of the best skins I’ve seen in this game, to the point that I hope Riot can find a way to balance him so that I see him in the game more often. I don’t really think he’s OP, but he does seem to get banned an awful lot and I can’t stand his global ult.

I like the Akali skin, though I wish she was actually wearing the mask. I’ve actually been playing Akali quite a bit, to the point that I might have snagged that skin at full price with a full mask cover.

Champ of the Week: Nasus

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At the request of SpectralTime, this week’s champ of the week will be Nasus. The big egyptian dog was one of the first champions I had a truly stellar game with. I can still remember getting 30+ kills in one of my early games with him. In fact, if I remember correctly, he might have been the first champion I spent IP on.

I was visiting my parents for the holidays shortly after I picked up the game and thought Nasus looked cool. I was terrible with him in most cases, though I think his recommended item build at the time (which, as a total noob I followed to a T) was all damage. Still, I managed a good game with him, and I’ve always loved his design and his voice overs.

I’ve spent a decent amount of time in the jungle with Nasus so I think I’ll be focusing on the lane – setting up kills and maintaining a strong zone. Nasus can be utterly ridiculous if left to farm a lane. He can be a capable offtank, an amazing source of DPS, and is pretty much any attack speed champion’s worst enemy. The Wither/Merc Treads issue will likely still be frustrating, but perhaps Tenacity has given people the confidence to buy different boots early. Check back later in the week for more on the Nasus Champ of the Week.

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