After watching a lot of PBE games from a high diamond player

Ahristocats··8 votes·986 views

let me give you a foretaste of season 7

-plants aren't that bad, except that you have to think about using them. if you're against a ranged you can say goodbye about using them. -Edge of the knight is fine, however combined with item 3111 item 3155 you get 130 mr at 20 min, if you're a mage prepare yourself to deal half of the damage you're used to deal except if you rush void staff. which is a good thing considering how mages are broken right now and that assassin's burst are going to be nerfed. Katarina seems to be overpowered Akali played full tank+gunblade, essentially a skirmisher now Talon if played full ad, can kill you in 1 second (not less). Essentially never played full ad, getting item 3142 item 3155 +edge of the knight+item 3748 +2 other tanky items, that way he can abuse the hydra active and become less squishy to abuse his E. speaking of his E, it's bugged AF, don't except anything from this spell. Khazix late game can no longer kill you in 0.5 seconds. Midgame can remove nearly 50% of your hp in 0.75 seconds with W+Q+passive. can't be played full ad, or you're going to die before killing anyone. you have to get at least 2 tanky items like item 3053 item 3742 . Shaco trash early game, play him full ap, else you're going to be so fucking useless. Zed didn't change at all Ekko didn't change at all except that tank ekko has been massively nerfed, or i should say removed from the game. at this point, riot has no idea on how making ap ekko working. Fizz there were multiple version of pbe. the one i saw fizz R did 70% of the entire enemy team. his assassination patern changed heavily, he's one of the only assassins that can go full glasscanon because he can wait 2 seconds safely with his E to use W and deals massive damage. Leblanc item 3116 item 3027 item 3165 item 3001 , can't be played full ap. still does a lot of damage but has to wait so much time, the leblanc that appeared from nowhere and dealt 70% of your hp in 0.4 sec is no longer here. what remained? a weird designed champ with that R that most leblanc use to get a second chain, at least i can safely say that you should not pick her into adc that have mobility/self-defense. Rengar full ad rengar, can one-shot in some conditions JarvanIV is incredibly overpowered, can kill nearly any non-durable champ in 0.5 seconds. tired of Vayne ? pick JarvanIV get edge of the knight so she can't use E, use it and run into vayne with item 3142 press Q (most vayne won't use R to dodge it if don't use E) press R+one AA and she's dead. his R also removes 1/2 of the enemy team hp

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CrazyBear19872 votes

The Jarvan IV tip came out of nowhere XD was there anything mentioned about Jarvan changes?

Ahristocats1 votes

at the moment j4 can already kill in like 0.75 sec just when he arrives on you (hydra+ulti+passive)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8hw9qm0ew4 pbe made it so you have even less chance of surviving since he has edge of the knight active so he doesn't need E+Q dash to success to kill ou unless you're Lucian or some high mobility champ, and riot buffed him a month ago making his ulti doing AOE damage.

and don't forget lethality.

Penns1 votes

JarvanIV is incredibly overpowered, can kill nearly any non-durable champ in 0.5 seconds. tired

So nothing changed about that lul

Craft Zeppelin1 votes

like seriously, J4 assassin mid is always granted to mind-fok people like nocturne mid.

LankPants1 votes

Akali played full tank+gunblade, essentially a skirmisher now

That's kinda how she was best already in the first place. The only other thing I could see being good is Duskblade>Tank abusing the DB passive from stealth.

Wolfram Oxford1 votes

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That's kinda how she was best already in the first place. The only other thing I could see being good is Duskblade>Tank abusing the DB passive from stealth.

Hmm, perhaps Duskblade could be used on a full assassin build, I don't know about tank.

LankPants1 votes

Why not? If you just went Duskblade and Edge of Night with pen runes you have enough pen to make the item deal substantial damage. From there the best thing you can build is tank. Maybe lategame you'd want a Gunblade, but you need to be tanky so you can proc the Duskblade over and over.

Wolfram Oxford1 votes

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Why not? If you just went Duskblade and Edge of Night with pen runes you have enough pen to make the item deal substantial damage. From there the best thing you can build is tank.

item 3146 item 3147 item 3742 item 3068 item 3001 Maybe this could work

LankPants1 votes

Why the Abyssal? If you're building into Duskblade you're doing as much physical damage as magic. I also don't like the DMP, you're specing a ton of armour with very little MR on what is essentially a skirmisher build, meaning you're vulnerable to burst.

I'd look at a build like item 3147 > EoN or item 3065 and item 3068 > item 3026 and item 3146

Hyperiön1 votes

Your analysis of Kha'zix is wrong. He can still delete you with 1 AD item. It doesn't deal the bonus damage like it did, but the cooldown is refunded if isolated, so its going to close to the same damage. Someone did the match, and its only like a 10% decrease in damage. But with all of the utility he just got, thats the least of your worries.

I have played it on the PBE myself, because of my love for him.

Rush Duskblade, get Triforce. If you are ahead at this point (and you should be) either go into tank, or grab a Deaths Dance and Cleaver.

His play style is exactly the same now, except now he is so much more slippery. Duskblade procs for days in the jungle or in ganks in top/bot.

EcchiOtakuTM1 votes

Honeyfruit are toxic and unhealthy, tf you smoking o.o

Kat is well gated tbh, the more you play the more you can do but it doesn't feel frustrating so far.

Akali, meh the placeholder changes until her rework anyways.

Hydra is clunky to use with talon kinda cause his Q auto resets already and getting another AA off with it ruins his combo often

Kha is better gated, but there isn't really issues of taking someone out and getting out from what I've done.

Shaco still debatable, having no issues doing his burst as AD just can't build the same.

Zed was actually buffed his new AD steal means you can even do something when behind, not to mention late game you actually gain more AD cause it's total AD stolen and 400 AD targets grant far more than live zed's. It's only a nerf to zed vs on-hit type adcs.

Ekko should just be a skirmisher tbh, reliable or non-ulti hard CC shouldn't be on an assassin but the removal of his passive was pretty good cause ekko really didn't need the extra slow he can get get in and deal damage.(It's kinda like when LB has her silence removed, the damage was still there).

Fizz was finally fixed, properly gated and doesn't feel frustrating when you die cause you can understand his power.

LB feels like the cook time should be lowered at higher levels but overall pretty fun :D

Rengar needs bonetooth removed, that crap ALWAYS breaks him, ffs I'm still disappointed they couldn't just do a rengar version of kha's evolve. That STILL envisions that he's a hunter because hunters don't just do trophies but also adapt their skills for future use. But nope let's just give him free AD....

A lot of off-meta AD assassins did get buffed due to lethality changes.

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