I think it sent Urgot back into being a niche Zed counter.

Urgot's old build was pretty eloquent.  Rush Tear/Manamune then Brutalizer.  Then you could go into FH/Cleaver in whatever order was appropriate.  That Muramana/Frozen/Cleaver 1.0 powerspike was insane since you became a tanky tank killer.  Who also still killed the squishies you had been bullying earlier.

Now?  Cleaver 2.0 isn't anything Urgot wants until it's completed.   If you just tack the new Cleaver onto the old build, you pay for a lot of health that you don't want and 15 CDR that you can't use.  All to take much longer and pay more to do exactly what you did before.

So Urgot Mid and Top are probably done until the Koreans figure out how to build him.  Maybe IBG instead of FH so you don't have too much excess CDR?  

Urgot ADC...  Cleaver 2.0 might actually make him a bit better if you go similar to the old Genji style of leaving the 'Blue' out of the build.  

My bard mechanics were on point last night though

sounds like riot pushed out a hot fix last night - assuming its morg/bard fixes at least.  (morg was black shield prob and bard couldn't self cast his heals). 

My Urgot Thesis Update:

Yeah, looks like the Koreans are just leaving Brutalizer out of the ADC build and the best NA Urgot player favors leaving out FH.

I'm looking at Urgot as a possible backup to playing Kalista since she's getting more popular as a pick or ban.  However, I'm under the impression that some folks in my usual playing group might consider him a crappy pick.

Just so it's clear I think Urgot ADC is going to be very good with these Cleaver changes and I'm planning on using him in Ranked if it goes well in Normal games.  I might be running him in our Normal games if I'm our ADC and just want to make it clear right now that I'm not trying to troll you guys for picking champions that I don't like or to goof off with.

Happy to play another role or practice on my own if everyone isn't on board with it.

I don't think I'm opposed to urgot if you have a decent skill cap - seems like you have been doing fine so far.  To me, its more of a specific pick though that works with your team instead of an I'm urgot sort of thing.  I'm actually a bit more comfortable with him as a mid than an adc (which I think is weird, but is how i feel), but he seems to have the majority of his play out of the adc roll.  I don't really know what the requirements are for a comp to have urgot as an adc.  The build usually sucks a bit at taking turrets which is what adcs are good at.  I wonder if it needs jung help a bit or what - don't really know.  

so... urgot leona, urgot naut?  

I kind of dig the new thresh skin recall

and

prob the best/luckiest juke I've seen

oh and champion mastery has apparently been live in brazil for abit.  Prob hitting NA next week (...few days from now)

well I had just an absolutely horrible day of league. Lost 5 ranked matches in a row and I am sure my LP is back to shit levels. I was finally starting to even out at about 18 per win and 22 per loss. Now I am sure it will be 10-11 on a win and back to -30 on a loss. FUCK THIS STUPID GAME. 

Good faux ama re: tribunal with Lyte - worth a read if you are interested in such things:  https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/34szvq/riot_lyte_tribunal_qa/

Here's a sample

• Q: How do you monitor banning intentional feeders/trolls?

• A: We've begun testing a system capable of identifying gameplay toxicity like intentional feeders/trolls. In North America, for example, hundreds of intentional feeders are insta-banned after 2 games. We're slowly going to ramp up the system until it can detect more nuanced intentional feeding but right now, you rarely see intentional feeding like the old days with 5 Zeals and 0-20 scores.

I'm kind of looking forward to champion mastery.  I like that you get rewards and its cool in that is also promotes playing more champs (double edged sword there, but still). 

champion mastery to hit live soonish... http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/features/champion-mastery-coming-live-soon

Best Case:  More clutter on the loading screen.

Worst Case:  Another reason to rage at teammates for their picks in Ranked.  "No mastery badge on our Vayne player?!  GG ff at 20."

i dunno, i think it'd be cool to have Velkoz, Anivia and Gnar badges

Not to mention mastery badges "might" be one of the best ways to make your teammates relax when you do stuff like Quinn top or Shaco jungle.

Maybe for you.  I actually enjoy grinding out levels, etc, so this is kind of fun for me at any rate.  

yah - mostly happy thoughts from me as well.  Today anyway..

OH - don't forget to get your 1 IP 2015 MSI summoner icon.  In the store now.

Excellent point!  Guess I was looking at the glass as half empty.

Still not going to be looking forward to 'P' during Pacov's upcoming A-Z Champion Mastery Collection games.

pantheon should be fine anyway... lollipoppy though...

kids on reddit are getting excited about ping again.  Saying riot servers are poo and that's why MSI is on LAN servers.  

Ping on NA for me anyway is always better on LAN, but the difference is much smaller now.  30-40 ping on LAN for me.  60-80 ping on NA.  Much better than it was before anyway..