No lethal tempo is all I care about. Good bye to 1000 gold value lvl 1 for yasou/yone.

the wildest plot twist of this video is finding out that Vars has tried his hand at Yone. like on the one hand, you’re becoming the very thing you swore to destroy, but on the other hand - know thy enemy, you know?

I still think shieldbow should be reworked into a physical version of maw

Honestly im kinda sad that corki isnt a magic dmg adc anymore, because i think the concept of "crit marksman but does magic dmg instead" is pretty interesting. Obviously he was pretty much just a pokemage in recent years but still. I think id prefer it if they doubled down on the original concept and changed him so that he is a viable magic dmg option for bot when your team picked full ad

ah yes. every other champion is suffering for the sins of Ionian brothers except them. AGAIN

I liked anathemas chains when 1 person on the enemy team was ultra fed carrying their whole team

with the amount of point and click CC and ridiculous CC chains, losing access to tenacity is extremely rough. tenacity was a necessary evil to counter point and click CC and or chain CC. even with 50% tenacity i still find myself getting CC'ed to death a lot of the times. we're moving into a season of getting cc'ed to death without counterplay is my main fear.

what i find hilarious is that they removed demonic embrace and reverted liandrys to its old form, but now we just have liandrys with blackfire torch which is gonna be WAY more broken. Liandrys stacking %damage, with blackfire torchs' percent ap buff??? i love it when riot removes "problematic" items and then replaces them with items that are way more broken XD

smite removed boots in an amazing way, it integrated them into every character through level ups. the move speed at least, this was to make everyone build 6 items when they can.

Not a fan of the reduction of early tenacity and locked behind finished items. Even the green jg item no longer has tenacity as one of its stats.

Bro, Swifties losing slow resist is actually going to hurt my Yorick so much. Slows are the thing that kill me more than full on fights do.

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They deleted too much defense from a game that needed a durability patch, and replaced it with pure damage... Also the new masteries

Yun Tal gonna be one of those items that gets abused by like Jhin and no one else then get removed

Corkis package was the one thing that made him slightly unique and wasn’t the issue with him They completely undid his rework and now hes back to being a sheen proc spam bot

This patch is an official conversion of all adc kogmaw mains into ap kog mains

Man these changes look pretty good "Corrupting potion is deleted" nvm ig

Ahh yes, lets just add more true damage to champs. Thats exactly what we need, more damage. I also think in regards to burn damage, they just need to bring back adaptive helm. If burn damage deserves to be in the meta then so too does its counterpart. Tank metas are the most fun anyways, significantly more interesting and fun than the "oops you walked slightly too far forward, your dead" meta.

Shieldbow could be deleted and it would be the same. Other than maybe nilah and MAYBE samira, i see none using it

warmogs soraka is gonna be more of a threat now, she is tankier + it will now give a lot of the bonus HP that you need for warmogs passive

Riot should just consider adding more items to create versatile sub categories like we have AD + Crit items then Just AD + Effect for ADCs that don't want crit, and we get so attack speed + crit and counterpart for them again for ADCs that doesn't want crit then on-hit + crit and situational + crit and their counterparts the items could be little under performing, but we will have many options to choose from if we will have 6 of each it will create 252 unique 5 item combinations if 12 then 364 it's a lot of items to ask for, but it will be like once you add all those items, and then you can only adjust their power etc. (End of Thinking Capacity)

I just feel like corki is gonna be a hidden beast in botlane with him becoming an auto attack carry with a 15% true damage on every single auto AND a crit chance scaling cd refund on ult with the new crit chance from items buff.

hey Vars next time is it possible to do the video on Dark mode the white screen made it unwatchable for me , i did treat it like a podcast but i like to read along with you next time , thanks for video

Cant wait to see people still complain when they die to the windshitters without lethal tempo

Wildarrows will definitely be removed. Phreak claimed it was an item to compete with IE but acknowledged IE was better... so why does it even exist.

I think they didn't think about how much they gutted some champs, gp lost 3 major items, singed got demoted to a minion (minishcap a well know otp literally made 40 min video explaining it), etc. and ADCs no matter their role got significantly buffed (like vayne top). There needs to be another year of balance updates to just bring things back to normal.

They are sending marksman back in time, but in a game that works completely different than what it was. I can see this more like a nerf in the damage. I love the 25% crit chance, but im not so sure about everything else

If they don't decrease damage, the loss of tenacity is going to make the a lot more punishing when it comes to CC Come on riot, reduce all damage ratios

how many reworks do we need to accept that exponential scaling is stupid?

I like to call it a PHREAKY rework

Where did you find the sheet of changes? Did you make it yourself because this reads a lot better then riot patch notes.

Overheal was a neat rune idea, it never worked tbh but I’m gonna miss the idea being there

When can I catch those Vars live streams?

i feel the upgraded berserkers so that adc have a little bit more scaling than other champions, as they are the ones that build it primarly, except for a few odds champs

19:45 Cash Back is more spending power than Future's Market. Future's Market lets you go into debt up to a max of 100 + 8x gold, with x = minutes. That means at 10 minutes, you can go 180g into debt. But, you get charged 50 gold for leaving fountain in debt, meaning you get punished on a future purchase being 50g more expensive. Cash Back makes completed items 6% cheaper, which means a 3000g item is actually 180 gold cheaper. A 3200g item will be 192 gold cheaper. FM lets you hit first item power spike earlier, CB makes every item past first item feel way cheaper to buy. If you're not sure about Cash Back, let me put it like this, you get 192 gold for completing an item, which means you're getting more than an assist's worth of gold for doing nothing. This is definitely OP and will get nerfed, if not on PBE, then definitely in a future patch. Edit: Jack of All Trades is obviously only going to consider each unique stat once. So if you have two items that give HP and armor, you'll still have one stack for HP and one stack for armor. The name and description of the rune make this super obvious I feel. This rune is dogshit. For you to get the additional 25 adaptive force, you would need to index into 10 stats. HP, mana, AP, haste, movement speed, magic pen, armor. That's 7 stats for a typical mage build with boots giving the movement speed. Each of those stats gives 1 stack, which equals 1 haste per stack, so 7 haste. You also have 5 or more stacks, so get a bonus 10 adaptive force. By indexing into 7 unique stats, you gained 7 haste and 10 adaptive force. As a marksman, you'll index into Attack Speed, AD, life steal, movement speed, armor pen, crit chance, crit damage, haste, maybe HP and a defensive stat. That's 10 unique stats, but you had to index into an HP item, which doesn't bode well for build quality (it means your build is shit), just to get 10 haste (10 unique stats) and 25 adaptive force. Pretty much only bruisers could run this rune and reasonably get to 10 unique stats without compromising their build. HP, armor, MR, movement speed, haste, tenacity, health regen, AD, Attack Speed, and Life Steal. That's 10 unique stats in 6 items. By the way, Jack of All Trades rune sucks because you could only realistically get to 10 stacks at full build, which means you'll be at 5 bonus haste and 10 adaptive force for most of the game. And just to clarify, one point of adaptive force grants 0.6 AD, or 1 AP. That means 25 adaptive force grants 14 AD. Long Sword grants 10 AD. So the most diverse build would reward you with 10 haste (that's not a lot) and barely more than a Long Sword in extra stats.

i think an underrated change in the tank items is Abyssal mask getting cheaper, a bigger aoe and shredding 20% pen. TWENTY PERCENT aoe mr shred for 2300 gold is disgusting and im not sure i can be convinced otherwise. It honestly might be the item that gives tanks and their team the largest damage increase out of all of the tank items.

time warp is useless now, used it on Poppy with Corrupting Potions + Biscuits and now you can't even Refill + Biscuits, anyone who would even consider timewarp could just take biscuits for more healing

Blackfire torch was the Twisted Treeline equivalent of DFG

There is double audio when you mention Liandrys and Baron pit. :D I was hoping you would have mentioned the ranked changes (although that might have only been in the background and not mentioned in the patch notes). I might be nuts, but it feels like everybody got shoved down a bunch of rank levels.

It's basically going back to some seasons ago, the items, passives and corki are just the same, kinda hyped ngl

Does the Zephyr boot upgrade count as an additional "tier" for boots? What I am on about is Kalista (martial poise) since I wonder whether it will have an impact on her dash distance

My guess on the tenacity nerfs is that their ultimate goal would be to turn tanks back into actual tanks, who don't do a lot of damage but are the best at CC, effectively slowing the game down, which is something I think everyone agrees needs to be done since it's become ridiculous how fast the game is nowadays. My realistic take is that they won't nerf tanks' damage at all because they don't know what they're doing, so they'll still destroy any other class but they'll also be able to CC the fuck out of you even better than before, effectively furthering their complete dominance over the game.

PTA Change I think works really well on Renekton. You proc it easily with empowered W, and then you have a hefty damage buff that you can abuse against everyone

Man you are right about time warp tonic, but overall I'm looking forward to the changes

can't wait for fighting boots of swiftness, slingshot, fleet footwork range top. very Fun

Its a mix between "hey we kind of listened", "fuck it, let's see if it works" and "nerf/buff ____ , it'll be funny" in my eyes

I play Oorn, ik gross, but I find it funny how almost every other tank is like "YES! Tenacity be gone! I can stun people forever!", and Im just like: "First time?" 😂

please link the patchnotes somewhere on your videos in the future

the removal of basically all tenacity the last few years has been egregious and im scared of this patch now LOL

0 bruiser chanches tank nerfs so toplane is gone from impact once again also idk why just berserks get tier 3 upgrade ik phreak said they want to do more upgrades if zephyr gets a lot of play rate but that doesnt make sense they are basicly letting the champs who buy these boots scale better with 100% purpose also they put terminus and bortk into bruiser items for no reason 100% that phreak can say on his patch rundown look we also chanched a lot for bruisers i think a good idea would be if ingenious hunter gets replaced not just removed give back ravenous hunter and tenacity nerfs we dont eaven talk about that because league has wayyyyyyy to much cc on dont forget ghost is getting giganerfed too also for meele champs without a compensation like the reset on kill so its a nerf as well for champs like darius hecarim mundo..... this patch is so terrbile its insanity oh and i forgot another chanche WHY TF SUPPORT MS CREEP ESPECIALLY FOR MARKSMEN

I honestly think that Lethal Tempo being removed is a mistake. It gave a lot of auto champs viability but without it we’re just going back to bursting comps. That and tanks are gonna be super annoying this patch.

I've already lost hope with riot's balance team when they decided to remove zzrot, just to add hullbreaker later...

Warmogs also got an additional passive. It will give ms when out of combat and also while regenerating after taking dmg like its 10% ms i think? It also have a 12% ms as its stat

What is that background music? its so calming

I feel like the overall reduction of Tenacity will be a great change to the game. For the longest time tanks haven't seen a lot of play because bruisers & juggernauts did what they're meant to do but more consistantly while also being a threat. Nerfing tenacity means tanks should actually be able to keep bruisers away instead of them ignoring the tank and rushing at the backline with 600ms. Also it should punish certain divers more as well so diving isn't as free as it currently is. Obviously I mainly play bot/support so I am biased, but making cc relevant again should hopefully result in more interesting teamcomps instead of 3 players on each team buying Sundered Sky & Eclipse and just walking over everyone while being immortal. Diversity in buildpaths for the adc role hasn't existed since they turbonerfed crit many seasons ago, so I'm hopeful this will make crit a more appealing option.

Just brainstorming some crazy team comps for the next patch : vayne top, twich jungler, tristana mid, kalista adc and caitlyn support

“Few balance changes here, we don’t have to worry about them” The balance changes in question: literally reducing the windshitters’ crit by 20%

No lethal tempo for the abnomition is yone and yasuo any more . Most adc can go with press the attack and fleet instead - which is fine anyway

7:51 14.10 Essence reaver is nerfed heavily and costs more. Season 14.9 : Unique - Spellblade: After using an ability, your next basic attack on-hit within 10 seconds deals 140% base AD (+ 20% bonus AD) bonus physical damage and restores mana equal to「 40% of that amount 」「 56% base AD (+ 8% bonus AD) 」

I…don’t know what Riot’s doing with these ADC item changes. Like, what even is Yuntal? Why are most crit items completely losing AD? Why is shieldbow even getting nerfed like this? I don’t even like the “extra” 5% crit, partly because several items are losing ALL crit, but mainly because it makes IE and such more poachable and doesn’t do much for actual ADCs. It’s nice, but it ironically means a lot more to someone who has no intention of going more than 1-2 items. Ultimately, I think this rework addresses zero ADC issues, actually makes them worse, and then introduces new ones. ADC itself was fine, the items were fine, and they didn’t even need buffs (which this most definitely isn’t). There’s just way too much damage literally everywhere for a pure dps class to be actually useful. And it’s not just burst damage, although that is still WILDLY out of band.

I love ur channel so much, im very happy u released this video! i didnt quite like this new changes and love to hear ur take

14:46 V: "True damage is not quite as common" Fiora, Darius, Gangplank, Master Yi, etc: "Am I a joke to you?"

9:27 i feel liek we need way more items like Merc Scimitar, we don't need 5 items with same stats and different passives, i personally want lots of niche items because for example merc scim is gonna be built by champs that want Lifesteal, are mobile and versing Magic dmg champions, so Riven Fiora things like that, if we didn't have all the items similar and all broken we'd have a way better item system, yes it would make the game even harder for newer player but whatever, deal with it it would be a good upgrade

They are approaching WR boots territory

So, we going back to zeal + bf sword start on adcs?

Have to keep in mind that yun tal bleed stacks. So twitch will be hyper op with his r, reksai can also apply the bleed every tick of her e with just the item.

12:12 He plays YONE! Let's kill him! It's like that old saying "If you can't beat them,, join them"

The adc and rune changes are scary, and the tenacity and boot changes are frustrating, but I am really glad as a Morg jungle enjoyer that she doesn't need to build tear or some other item she doesn't want for Mana anymore. Liandrys getting reverted to it's old state pre mythic items definitely hit Morg jungle hard and the new torch item brings her way back up to speed and this pleases me. Also it means Karthus and a ton of other champions like him will have to choose between Malignance and Blackfire, which is good, even though I think Malignance should be looked at instead.

They're returning ADC items back to when I really enjoyed ADC items so I'm HYPED

Voice reminds me of the smartbored days good times man hope all is well

I think cash back is actually pretty great. As a support your used to having to cash out asap to get your items like the rest, but you more than anyone are usually responsible for buying red wards. Now you can ensure you can get both after a big buy.

15:57 I love finding these kinds of moments in videoss lollll

Cash Back seems to easily give enough gold to get a Legendary + potion or control ward. Doesn't seem too bad. There are many situations where it could even give you enough to get started with another component as well. The Time Warp Tonic I think might be getting slept on. I know most people don't buy potions past a certain point, but I think that's more systemic of the player-base deciding it isn't worth it rather than any hard data proving otherwise. I've seen several coaches and Challenger's actually suggest buying one with leftover change (hello, Cash Back!) to help swing upcoming fights or high probability 1v1s. Overheal was honestly slept on. I know people swear it never did anything but every single game I took it into while I could never visually see it doing work, the stats after the game would always show it blocking 1500-2000 (sometimes 3000) damage throughout the match. Definitely an out of sight out of mind contribution and one you're likely not to notice over Triumph if you play a lot of divers and such.

Hearing about dota 2 embracing cc and seeing a Xin Zhao tank 4 hard cc abilities and moving .2 secs later because they couldn't be staggered since none of the abilities mattered has me intrigued in tenacity nerfs. Hopefully dmg goes down too.

Twich gonna be a problem in the next 14.10 since he can apply bleed using Yun Tal on Ult as well. He will oneshot the entire team.

i would like to see more podcast style videos dont mind if its on vars2

the torch item is a Zyra's wet dream XD they used to run Lyandries + Rylais, when it needed to slow to deal more dmg, then Lyandries and Demonic, now this

Warmogs is a great anti split item for tanks. Most splitters will outsustain and shred tanks. With warmogs you can match the splitters sustain. Its good that they reduced the regen since its a redundant stat on the warmogs since the passive completely blasts the regen. With more base hp instead you are able to reach the threshold to proc the passive at a reasonable timing. They should however completely remove the rejuv bead from the build path. Even tho 100% is less redunant than 200% its still 300 gold wasted for a stat does nothing compared to the passive of the completed warmogs. They should remove the bead and reduve price by 300. Suddenly tanks have a really good anti split item. It basically does what anathemas was meant to do.

Anathema's, I've only ever seen, EVER, in like 4 games. Warmog's is an item that I ONLY build SOMETIMES in ARAM. You don't wanna rush it first item because the passive wont work yet, and by the time you got the second item, it's usually time to group anyways, so I've not found it not super useful. Yea man! Legend Tenacity was kinda invaluable in alot of games 😅 I feel like, if they're gonna just straight up get rid of that rune, they should compensate for it somewhere else.. not TAKE AWAY MORE from somewhere else (merc's) 😅

15:57 So hypothetically if you're fighting in Baron or Dragon pit

I can see a sejuani build with warmhogs/heartsteel + bloodmail + titanic hydra and just one tapping squishy people in 1 rotation. She scales hard with HP.

Preesh the Sett E Quality. ☺️

What I hate about this is the fact that its basically "less tankiness, more ablity haste, less tenacity, more damage" We just, like JUST had several seasons like this and it sucked. Why are we going back to that?

Rip smolder all his items got changed into things he doesnt want

Another massive problem we are going to have this patch is the katana bros... 2 items for 100% crit chance. Used to be 80%, so you had to make a sacrifice. But now they're going to absolutely dominate.

i always love old corkis passive, but its gonna suck that ap corki is gone

Speaking of giving boots upgrades, how do you feel about Wild Rift's system of boot enchants, and I guess their boots in general compared to PC? You can put QSS, Zhonyas, Protobelt, Righteous Glory, Redemption, and a few others + new ones that make Boots worth keeping aside from movement speed and free stats. Not to mention giving Protobelt or Zhonyas to non AP champions like Darius or Jhin, imagine that.

I wish they'd removed the Armor Pen unique tag from Cleaver. Being able to buy Cleaver 5th item and sacrifice 100% crit for survivability and consistency felt great, would've felt amazing with these changes allowing 100% crit at 4 items.

Torch is gonna be a very decent item for Fidlesticks. You Ult enemy team and get +20% AP for all ticks of ult after initial + burn on top.

i first started playing league of legends in season 5 or 6... the game was so much fun such a great concept after coming from starcraft II especially... i played the game for a good while enjoying it, only for characters i loved to be completely reworked into something entirely different... when i thought it couldnt get any worse, the game every year, since ive started playing, has changed the game making it less and less fun. i want a game that doesnt constantly change. constant change doesnt make games better in fact it has made them far far worse. devs need to release a game that is FINISHED... not something that needs constant balance changes

they need to just make time warp tonic work on elixers. you finish a legendary item? here have an elixir, it also gives 10% mroe stats or something

Oh look all that Tenacity is gone....and now there is very little left (watches Morgana, Veigar, Senna, Lux, Xerath, Brand, and any other champ with a fairly long CC or CC chains rub their hands together and grin) Uuggghhhhhh...I play ARAM over SR...this is gonna sssuuucccckkk. But even in SR that gonna suck cause now even longer time pinned in place to get blown to pieces...just why...

I love anathemas and build it when vs teams that had like full AD champs and one Veigar ao instead of 300HP for everyone and 40MR against that Veigar I get 600HP, 20AH for everyone and 30% damage reduction against that Veigar which is a much better deal

The fact that black fire is in the game now will help a lot Seraphine, playing her full ap with the current items feels a little odd (at least for me) With this I’ll be so much fun with her team fighting

my replays are corrupted after this patch

honey wake up, Vars droped a new vid!!

The main issue fpr adcs atm is that any type of armor makes you deal 0 dmg unless you get ldr, kraken does nothing atm as it doesnt do true dmg.

Hate the removal of lethal tempo, it is LITERALLY the most fun rune in the game. Remove fleet foot work or something, its practically usless.

I am still kinda on the fence with this update. I don't trust Riot "We don't want bruisers to build lethality so let's nerf bruiser items (TWICE)" Balancing Team, but let's see how this one goes in 2 weeks ig

Can you maybe do a video about if conventional ADCs are dying? Or actually now that I think about it if league should revert to classic role identities?