GA, seriously?

ShadWooo·Sep 19, 2019·4 votes·3,672 views

I had a break from lol and TFT and so I missed a lot of changes.

Now when I finally got to the top two after like twelve games where I always ended 8th or 7th (because I was trying to build comps that worked months ago + doing whatever missions want me to do), I encountered something that seemed extremely broken.

It is GA on Swain.

I had 6 assassins + 3 void comp. I battled this guy 12 times. I lost every single time and the level2 Swain with GA wiped floor with me everytime. It didn't matter how I positioned my champions, what items I used. After he revived he instantly cast his ult even though he had 0 mana when dying (because I positioned my kassadin with assassin spatula to jump on him). Even when he died mid ult, he revived and got second ult. Despite I didn't lost a single champion to rest of his team, despite Swain himself went down in first 2 seconds, after he revived he killed 7 champions within 2 seconds while massively healing. Also Dragon Claw has no effect against his ult. my level 2 Chogath with Dragon Claw and Locket went down just as fast as others.

Seriously, GA on Swain is broken as hell.

And Neeko's Help? Failed item, serves only to get level2 on strongest champions in game - not for what it was meant to do.

7 Comments

ZtokaSep 19, 20193 votes

Neekos help is great imo. Ever sat there waiting to make that 3 star champ and just cant roll the last 1 star to make it happen? Shut, even having 2, T5 champs, using a neeko is super sweet to get a 2 star t5 champ. I have only gotten 2 of them so far but each time I have, my only issue was deciding which champ to use it on.

You need to build red buff against swain.. It helps a ton.

ShadWoooSep 19, 20191 votes

So basically you sit on it for whole game to use it in very late. Whether you use it to get level3 gold3-4 champ or level2 gold5 champ doesn't matter. And using it for gold 1-2 champs is probably pointless - most of them is not viable right now anyway it seems.

ZtokaSep 19, 20191 votes

I haven't gotten enough of them to justify on T1-t3 (maybe on ashe/shiv if one never comes up and I need that 3rd unit). But ya, normally sit on them til mid game. Last night i had 2 sej and couldn't roll a 3rd. Used neeko to complete it. Really though, have seen 2 in probably 20-30 games.. So for me, it's super rare.. When rng is treating you right, it doesn't even matter. Last night I rolled 4 kayles in 2 rolls. Most games, I'm lucky to see one.. RNG is a funny/sadistic thing..

ShadWoooSep 19, 20191 votes

Either way you are right about red buff. Unfortunately I didn't though of it early - was trying to complete core items on my strongest champions like Akali. And when this guy got that swain it was too late. I was sitting on 1 part which was not belt nor chain armor and even if it was, after some changes you get only full items in late carousels and dragon/herald/elder now. And I wasn't that lucky to get red buff or morello there.

But yeah, if I was my opponent could be posting here about how is red buff unfair. I think that it is just stupidly designed both ways. Single item will completely decide the outcome of the battle and if you don't have specific item you cannot do anything against it.

ZtokaSep 19, 20191 votes

Ya, it can be frustrating for sure.. All I can say is regardless of what comp I am going for, red buff/morello always gets built.. Learned the hard way too many times :( So much about this mode is massively broken though. Draven/Jinx can be unkillable. Braum w/ 2x warmogs and thronmail can pretty much outlast anything and you watch your units suicide attacking him. Sorc Sej w mana item can constantly ult.. Graves w/ RFC, Red buff and pretty much get a mini miss fortune ult and hit a huge group w/ red buff at once. Lots more to list but I won't... lol.

Heroboy10Sep 20, 20191 votes

It's a foolish to say that you need an item to combat a specific enemy unit. Nobody combine an item to combat a specific opponent. Everybody is looking for the best items for their synergies and units.