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MrNuclearPumpkin·Aug 27, 2019·4 votes·1,189 views

And look at the massive wall of posts saying how absolutely toxic and unfun glacial is to play against.

Seriously, I've had games where I had literally the best luck I've ever had. Hitting several level 3s and getting full comps and fully stacked champions, beating every single person down, nobles, blademasters ETC... then I play against glacials and just go, "I hope my champion can actually auto attack once before being stunned forever."

Then of course, my team of level 3s and stacked items are torn apart by level 1s and level 2s. As ahem... The Ashe/Volibear/Braum/Lissandra/Sej/Anivia perma stun my tanks with auto attacks, then anivia ults on my backline, rendering my auto attacks practically worthless, Sejuani ults my entire team, Braum puts up his shield to block what little damage my backline shoots out, Liss ults someone (most likely my backline) and volibear applies AOE freezing with his freaking electric nonsense.

Oh and fun fact, even if you're running 6 yordles? EVEN IF YOU DODGE THE AUTO ATTACKS, THE GLACIAL STUN STILL PROCS ANYWAY.

Note the last guy had like 7 health left and I was at about 50.

He had 6 glacials, 2 rangers, and 2 guardians.

I had 6 Yordles, 3 Sorcerers, 2 gunslingers, and 2 knights. With a fully stacked Level 3 Trist, Fully stacked level 2 jinx, a leve 3 Gnar, a Darius and Poppy with Warmogs and literally every item on every champion.

I lost every single fight vs that guy, simply because my units were perma-frozen to death.

I know I've made several posts about glacial, hoping that someone on Riot's team would see it, but it's not just me. Since the freaking PBE beta, people have been saying how busted Glacial is. They said it on the PBE, then said it when it released on live severs back in JUNE. And they're still saying it now.

It's almost September, with several patches and literally not one single patch has touched Glacials AT ALL. And I don't mean the champions, I mean the glacial auto attack stun nonsense.

This is going to be my last post about glacials. I'm just not gonna play TFT anymore. If the next patch leaves glacials completely untouched, I'm just.... done. I love TFT a lot. I adore it. But glacials literally drains all the fun out of it for me. Keep nobles, keep Pyke with Spear of Shojin, keep Draven ridiculously powerful, keep it all. But glacials? No more. ._.

7 Comments

IllabetheAug 27, 20193 votes

Sorry..... I stomp Glacial with Noble :)

Here's a hint: Build Sword Breaker and have at least 2 Gunslingers. Front line Glacial won't even get the chance to attack, and Ashe alone can't CC a team.

Turtle LuvinAug 27, 20192 votes

Im not sure what games you are playing, im currently Gold 2 in TFT and 0 people are running glaciers. Ive seen nothing but veigar and Lucian comps for the past couple days

Garen is adoptedAug 27, 20192 votes

glacials and brawlers are the most unfun to play against. Gunslayers probably are on third place once you get a lot of on-hit cc items.

RagsalotAug 27, 20192 votes

I've preached about the B.S. of glacial as well. I typically run sorcerer build, and I put my 3* morgana up front with thornmail and GA. I use her as a sacrifice to let my other champs gain up mana to just stomp their team. Then by the time the GA pops she is full mana and she hits em with the double AoE dmg and stun and I'd say 80% of the time I whip their sissy ass glacial comp.

RagsalotAug 27, 20192 votes

And if items and champs permit it, put a max * kennen with Yuumi just behind the most and watch them disappear in a cloud of hurt.

ZephyrDrakeAug 28, 20191 votes

People still complain about glacial? When glacials actually do something meaningful like actually win come and complain about them.

MrNuclearPumpkinAug 29, 20191 votes

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People still complain about glacial? When glacials actually do something meaningful like actually win come and complain about them.

You see it's not a matter of glacials being too strong or OP. It's not that they're top tier at all. What I'm saying, and what a lot of people are saying, is that the very win condition of glacials is cancerous, and toxic.

It's like having gunslingers with 2-3 cursed blades. Is it the top notch game crushing strat as Draven? No. But the very idea behind it is to prevent the other person from having fun.

If you spend the time looking for a level 3, only for you to be HARD punished by that level 3 being turned into a level 0 in the first 4 seconds of the fight because they got cursed blade stacked on, it's just a horribly and aggravating thing to experience, because there's NOTHING you can do about it. You just have to hope your team kills them before they get RNG'd to level 0 and die.

At least with something like a Draven, you 'can' somewhat try and think of a way to beat it, maybe position a blitzcrank to grab the Draven or something.

But with Glacials? If you're losing to glacial, it's not because they were placed in a super strategic manner. It wasn't because they had superior numbers. It's because your units were frozen spammed to death.

And that's why Glacials is hated. Because the very idea behind their win condition is absolutely the most toxic thing in TFT. Even Demon's got their traits nerfed by not completely draining ALL your mana like they did before. But they're still strong.

Glacials? A full glacial comp with Ashe shooting out her arrows to apply more stuns, lissandra adding more stuns, braum blocking all the damage and being unkillable, Sejuani applying AOE stuns with Anivia slowing your backline's auto attacks to ridiculously slow levels, on TOP of Volibear also applying AOE stuns, it's just a matter of, "Did your champions kill them before they get perma-stunned? No? Then you lose."

And even when you're 'playing' glacials, you're just hoping that you get lucky enough to stun them before they run you over. "Did you stun in the first auto attack? No? Well you lose."

It's not fun to play glacials if you're losing to them, and it's not fun to play glacials if RNG screws you over and no one is stunned at all.

It relies on RNG to win and RNG to lose and that's why it's not fun and why it needs a change.