AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I don't really think Heimy needs a rework, he just has a weird niche he fills I guess.

My friend and I have an unstoppable combo of a Dr. Mundo and Heimy lane.

He's countered by high burst damage and rush down, something a lot of champs, especially newer ones, are incredibly good at, even more so in midlane,
and he's ironically most vulnerable where he should be strongest, pushing a lane. Because his turrets are braindead and won't target champs unless there's no minions or you're already half dead, which bugs me because they've fixed this exact issue for malz, who already had a pet that would focus whatever enemy had his dot.
The usefulness of his grenade has been dwindling with the prevalence of dashes making the stun almost never a factor, and is almost useless in mid, where autoattacks are usually not the threat.
He has no escape, and is (i think) the weakest in defense in regards to health and armor.
his passive is practically worthless other than a small amount of sustain early game and the main part of his ult is entirely dependent on his short range turrets with a considerable cooldowns, that again, will likely not focus the person you want unless it's a 1 on 1 scenario.

The only things he really has going for him is his poke with his rockets, which is fantastic because it can pretty much ignore positioning if you time it right or use it with your ult.
And really good sustained damage if you can goad the enemy into standing in your turrets the entire fight, and survive. But this rely's on them being stupid, and having no burst.
And that he farm a lane without actually being in it, when going back or going to gank, you'll still get exp and gold from anything your turrets kill, assuming the enemy isn't smart enough to kill them.

So I played with a rioter today, davin.

He's a user researcher, dunno what that does lol.

We played an ARAM game and got our buts handed to us by a darius, blitz, and nasus

He only offered to play with you, so he could study you!

caitlyn is my eternal ranged ad waifu

After having watched the champion spotlights for the revisited Evelynn and Twitch, I actually kind of want to play them, especially Twitch.

Riot patch notes wrote:Fixed several issues that occur when reconnecting, including ghost minions, invisible champions, untargetable towers, and strange store behavior

Fucking yes, finally! I hate having to disconnect and reconnect whenever I get a bad lag spike

I can't help but feel that Evelynn's new ult is a bit too strong. 25% max health damage, and 300 health shield for each champion hit? Especially considering that the percentage gets increased with as little as 50 AP=1%

Also I tried two easy beginner bot Dominion games since I finally wanted to know what's up with it. I'm still a little bit confused, but it does seem nice. I'm going to play more today and see if I'd try an actual PvP match.

The patch is out now? Alright, time to practice my Xin Zhao.

So I tried real Dominion matches earlier today. It is pretty neat, I think I'll stick to this for a while. N-no it's not because I'm walking over everyone as Alistar again, I t-totally don't know what you're talking about

And in other news
Oh god Evelynns
So many Evelynns
Hide yo skins, hide yo runes, they are everywhere

I play a lot on the PBE now tbh. It has a more toxic environment by far, but it's just nicer there than actual game servers.

Also late on the topic, probably elsewhere, but I hate how so many champions have finishing moves that deal bodaciously no damage unless you're finishing the person. It's like I don't want to auto attack you in front of me, but instead I'll use my R which does that for me.

Also stacking Crystal Scepters does surprisingly good on most AP champs. I consider this better than building other items because most of the time no matter how tanky I am if they decide to focus me I'm not going to be much of a problem anyways.

On the eveylnn topic, I hate her passive with a passion. They need to fix the stealthiness of her because she bodaciously does not work. In lane she has to hide in a bush just so people can't see her, and any champion can do that anyways, so there's not really a point. Sure, it's fun to walk away and gank people, but unlike before where hitting her Q and you have no idea if she's there or not, her stealth isn't a really strong mechanic (unless people are dumb, and bodaciously buy no PANK wards at all.)

Kersakof, a few things:
1. People on PBE play with their feet and they are much meaner for some reason.
2. Finishers are definitely annoying, but each one can be mitigated, for Lee get some armor, Garen get some MR or banshee's, for Darius stack health. Still though fuck Darius execute, so goddam annoying.
3. Stacking any item except pots is a bad idea, roa + ryali's is usually what AP mids get for durability, and if they are getting focused they get a zhonya's to stop the focusing. Also they should try to stay behind the tank.
4. I agree fully with evelynn's passive being borked, 8 seconds before restealthing is too long, and being revealed by basic sight is annoying as all hell. Thankfully green wards don't reveal you, so you can easily gank a warded lane as long as your teammates initiate.

I'm not trying to be offensive on the third point, so sorry if it comes off as that.

Usually stacking items would be against my play style, but honestly, stacking scepters gives me 1.1k AP. I can do a lot more with that then 600 AP, still getting focused, and dealing out no damage. Seriously, I will be focused if I do bodaciously no damage. They run past everyone and kill me, then kill everyone else. It's annoying as hell.

If you have 600 ap and dealing no damage you're doing something horrendously wrong.
who are you playing?