[MAY 28] Meanwhile in Top Lane...
Hey guys, welcome to this week’s 'Meanwhile in Top Lane...' post, with hawt banner courtesy of Crazy Boris.
A lot happens in a week - interesting discussions constantly pop up throughout the League ecosystem only to be replaced by the newest hotness and fall out of visibility. Hot topics of discussion don’t always stay that way for very long, so unless you’re on top of it all day every day (and who has time for that when there’s a ranked ladder to climb?), it’s easy to miss a lot.
As we mentioned in our test post, with this in mind we'd like to try out a weekly post featuring some interesting conversations you may have missed as well as upcoming discussion opportunities.
Let us know what you think!
I’ll show you mine if you show me yours
Shortly after the release of the new automatic reform system, a bunch of players shared their “friend’s” (wink) reform cards to see just how effective the new system is.
Riot posts on the sub
For those who’ve always pined for a subreddit equivalent of the Red Tracker, u/codersanchez created a subreddit that answers your pleas.
TIL Pobelter played Neopets
TSM Dyrus and CLG Pobelter each conducted an AMA over on the subreddit.
Surrender at 20 Forfeit at 10
Occams Raiser proposed a feature to deal with a teammate failing to connect, which prompted debate about why it would or wouldn’t work.
Derp, our bad..
After folks were caught off guard by Team Builder being locked until level 25, Lyte jumped in with some context and discussed our plan to unlock it once we’ve addressed the problems it presents for newer players.
Fun for the whole family
Frustrated with supporting solo queue Vaynes? Redditor u/kingcobweb created a game to help ease the pain: Vaynespotting.
Narrrrrratiiiiiive, come out to plaaaayyyyhaaaayyyyy (thanks Siggó)
Eyrgos expressed some frustration with the narrative team for not joining lore discussions, and Jaredan jumped in to address some misperceptions and share a bit of context around the team’s absence on the boards.
Diversify your spellfolio
Squeaky101 shared an infographic showing the lack of diversity in spell popularity, prompting discussion of why certain spells are unpopular and tweaks that could be made to them to fix that.
Serpents: love 'em or hate 'em
Canastus started an interesting debate about the Cassiopeia nerfs by theorizing about how they may impact her laning phase.
The roffles
For your double-dose of fun: Some lighthearted banter about which skillshot is the hardest to land, and folks sharing the best legit excuses they’ve heard for going afk (“My dog ate my router” didn’t make the cut).
You may have missed...
Couple announcements from us this week: We’re leveling up community tournament support, Hexakill is live on Twisted Treeline, and all login screens have been added to our YouTube channel.
Thanks for tuning in, and feel free to point out any great conversations we may have missed!
: Lower cooldown to 65 seconds, passively gives 10% CDR (Fits the spam style of the people who would use this, they need mana but CDR would push them towards using this.)
: This spell should give you a boost of 100% movement speed for 0.5 seconds. It should be used mainly to kite and disengage and 0.5 seconds may not seem like a lot, but it would definitely benefit the users (who are often AP, as Mercurial Scimitar covers it up for AD.) who need it to stay out of a Leona stun and dodge the follow up stuns/roots/whatever else.
: Not very popular and not a whole lot of reason to choose it over Heal until you start getting to mid - late game. Even then the only reason is about +100 on the shield and Ignite can't counter it, but by mid - late game ignite is really only used for duels or tagging people. I would say passively give it the ability to block Auto Attacks. So if you're up against someone like Zed, you can block a few more damage from his auto attacks. It won't mean you auto win lane because he won't do any damage with his auto attacks but it will definitely help out. I could even see this useful on ADCs. "Do I wanna take Barrier to provide myself more cover, or do I wanna take heal for both me and my support but risk taking more damage and Ignite.".
I'm shocked the cooldown isn't relatively low for this, I think they should at least change it to 45% Movement Speed for 3 seconds and removes all Slows/Roots (Doesn't remove stuns) from you, after you use it you can still be Slowed or Rooted though.
players found certain uses for it.
and 
every game gets boring
Support, or Clarity on 
. In the end I found that the Spells were a lot more viable than other people thought, I will not say they certainly challenge the current spells but I think with a few tweaks they would be awesome.
and more be able to use the spell pretty efficiently.
