Alright Riot you took out a lot of the iconic memes in the game already

Akali is SO HOT··210 votes·6,267 views

No more Brutalizer that costs 1337 gold. No more Wit's End doing 42 on hit magic damage. So can we at least make ignite do a measly 10 more damage at level 18 for a total of 420? It would literally be 420 Blaze It.

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sir d wreck34 votes

They made Trinity combine cost 333g once again.. there is at least that.

IGotScuttleCrabs10 votes

Use to just be 3

ChaoticPinecone48 votes

Three 3's are trinity-ier than 1 three.

Cmon bro. Use Logic.

Votable Jester1 votes

Then what if the combine cost was 3^3^3 3s?

Mistress Madoka1 votes

So you'd want the combine cost to be 7625597480000 3s? (Just over 7 and a half Trillion)

Yeah no one could ever buy triforce :P

MonkeyMadness23 votes

BUT THIS WILL THROW OFF THE ENTIRE BALANCE OF THE GAME. DO YOU EVEN REALIZE HOW OVERPOWERED THIS WILL MAKE CERTAIN CHAMPS??? RIGHT NOW EVERYTHING IS PERFECTLY BALANCED, ESPECIALLY YASUO, IF WE DO THIS IT MIGHT MAKE HIM UNDERWHELMING SOMEHOW!!!

-every balance team member at Rito, apparently...

Dabrick012 votes

There are a few tips that people already know about facing a Yasuo; poke his shield off with autos, he's weakest right after his tornado is gone, and he's weak to ganks. I'd like to go into more detail.

The key to beating a Yasuo in lane is proper minion management, and proper management is different depending on whether you're a ranged or melee champion. As a ranged champion, you want to keep the wave in 1 of 2 places depending on Yasuo's health relative to yours. If Yasuo is ahead or even, you want to keep the wave frozen a bit outside of your own tower, so that he has to go into tower range to order to hit you. You can basically do whatever you want to him if the wave is in this spot because you can simply retreat into tower range if he tries to go onto you. However, if you're ahead of him in health, you want to start a slow push, so you can poke him whenever he tries to CS and you'll have a buffer of minion support if he tries to all in you. In this case, he can't do much either.

For a melee champion, you want to slow push pretty much all the time. Yasuo is extremely vulnerable to being all inned by melee champions when he's trying to CS, and a good Yasuo will try to do a slow push of his own to discourage his opponent from attacking him. One important thing to understand is that while enemy minions are oftentimes Yasuo's best friends since he uses them to dash, they are also one of his biggest weaknesses since he's required to tank them in order to trade. If you can bait him into tanking a lot of minions with some kind of defensive ability like an ori shield, you can very easily come out ahead in trades, provided you don't panic, keep autoing, and hit some extra free damage on him when he tries to get out.

Generally speaking, a Yasuo will always want the wave in 1 of 2 places. He either wants a slight minion advantage on his side so he can get free opportunities to poke with Q, but not so many more minions that the wave gets frozen outside the enemy tower. A good Yasuo will bait you into hitting minions with AOE abilities to push the wave back towards him if it starts to get too close to tower, allowing him to be aggressive again. The other position is for when Yasuo has a lead on his opponent; he will want to freeze outside of his tower, leaving a long trail of minions to dash through so he can all in you if you try to walk up to CS. The key to beating Yasuo is to keep the wave where you want it to be rather than the way he wants it to be, or there's not a whole lot you can do as a lot of champions.

Other general tips for beating Yasuo include: Ask for ganks, an aggressive Yasuo player is very easy to bait and kill if he isn't strong enough to 1v2 already. Take exhaust as a combat summoner if your kill pressure on him is low, it’s a great way to neutralize his aggression in lane as well as neuter him in teamfights. If Yasuo misses his tornado, that is the time to be aggressive. His Q is on CD, he has no CC for a while, and his ult, by extension, is unavailable. And if Yasuo gets too aggressive in lane and messes up when trying to trade, all in him right then and there. If you get a lead against Yasuo, most champions will be able to zone him out heavily since he's a squishy melee only champion with no escape and no natural sustain.

Dabrick013 votes

That would have sucked if it hit me.

  1. That Joke was going very fast and would have probably killed me if it hit me.

  2. If that didn't work, then I'd be ripped apart by the gravity from this moon I have going around me.

  3. I got the joke, I just have this essay on my desktop that i copy and paste anywhere I can. Super fun, I know.

Potatofaktman1 votes

I spent far too much time staring at that :|

MonkeyMadness2 votes

ikr

TheShashi1 votes

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BUT THIS WILL THROW OFF THE ENTIRE BALANCE OF THE GAME. DO YOU EVEN REALIZE HOW OVERPOWERED THIS WILL MAKE CERTAIN CHAMPS??? RIGHT NOW EVERYTHING IS PERFECTLY BALANCED, ESPECIALLY YASUO, IF WE DO THIS IT MIGHT MAKE HIM UNDERWHELMING SOMEHOW!!!

-every balance team member at Rito, apparently...

+1 for omniscence

SwiftKitten8817 votes

1337 is "LEET" 42 is a reference to "a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy"

but what is 420 a reference to? or is it just an extra zero on 42?

Knalxz4 votes

Ok, not gonna lie. I thought that said 420 was made for the consumption of cannibals. Talk about righting fire with fire.

B1naryB0t1 votes

"Cannabis Culture"

General Esdeath 6 votes

How do you know the first 2 but not 420? Wat?

Gary B Enkelis1 votes

If I had a penny for every answer I get wrong on Jeopardy....

Pierce The Veal1 votes

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If I had a penny for every answer I get wrong on Jeopardy....

I would be the richest man on Earth no joke.

AmetDeCrypt26 votes

it's the police call number used in marijuana seizures in suspected homes. people took to using it as protest to smoke anyway and then the internet ruined a kind of tragically beautiful thing as they do quite often.

kile1479 votes

#420BLAZEITYOLO360NOSCOPE

Thunderspam1 votes

You forgot to add HARAMBE to the end of it

dapositiveviking5 votes

it isnt the police call number, it's from a high school in cali

Hyelin2 votes

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it isnt the police call number, it's from a high school in cali

420 is the police code for Marijuana

AmetDeCrypt2 votes

yeah that one. I'm not sure the specific jargon.

dapositiveviking2 votes

neither thespecific jargon nor the non specific jargon use 420 unless its an individual officer coining his own slang

Sneakos5 votes

"tragically beautiful"

That's one way to put it...

AmetDeCrypt7 votes

what can I say? I'm a poet at kidney.

TBakes2 votes

Why did so many people downvote this? The guy is asking a question lol

SwiftKitten882 votes

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Why did so many people downvote this? The guy is asking a question lol

ok so i googled it

apparently it does relate to smoking pot...

as for why so many downvotes.. idk they were probably high or something.

not all of us are drug addicts...

TBakes1 votes

Glad you figured out. There is controversy over where the association comes from. I always thought it was Bob Marley's birthday or the day he died or something related to that, but I don't know. i just thought it was weird you were getting downvoted for asking a question. It's not like you can agree or disagree with a question XD

SpecterVonBaren17 votes

Vel'Koz still gets Pi attack damage per level though!

Gary B Enkelis16 votes

WTF 5 AP

Keevalroy12 votes

Noob Zed 5 AP Kappa

LatetotheRace13 votes

Nope, sorry. Tencent is strictly against thems dank may mays.

Reikken1 votes

that was a long time ago too

DeathToEcchi1 votes

Except he's still the most knowledgeable caster, even if he has cut back on the puns.

Gelmous7 votes

why is this in gameplay

Witch of Babylon2 votes

Sadly if you post it in Memes &a Games Riot will think it's a gameplay post and delete it :(

TeCoolMage2 votes

I once made a post in leet speak about how Anivia's egg form should let her say emotes and laugh in an echoey voice.

In Meme's & Games.

I regret my choice

rtbf2256182416 votes

I think there have been too many "Not even close bb" moments with Ignite that this would have made the majority of them not exist.

dapositiveviking7 votes

good

jama6552 votes

old side boob akali was pretty hot

Lady Hammerlock1 votes

It should only be activated only for normals and normal draft pick though as to not hurt any possible ranked balance

HeadHonchkrow11 votes

dude. 10 damage.

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