Time for BKT to sweep.  Kids been playing possum - I'm sure of it.

BY sweep, I might have meant they have to stay behind and clean up after everyone leaves... 

Sweep complete!

1st 2 games were boring af today.  On the bright side, I did get to watch a very useless eve.

Cow - is there a pic you could send to dyrus to cheer him up? #SS

Good news - I'm currently beating qtpie in pick 'ems.  Guess which one of us was probably trying..

watching the vods to catch up... cloud 9 having a rough day...

adc kennen is a thing today it would appear

rip    

god bless reddit

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5.20 patch notes out

http://eune.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-520-notes

kindred is out now.

So, my least favorite comp to deal with is that zilean/raka comp nonsense.  We crush it early/mid and suffer against it late.  Obv counters would be ending early or having huge burst and or cc like veigar.  So freaking annoying to deal with.

Some things I've been thinking about - morgana.  I really don't like how she's being utilized currently as support.  Generally speaking, the days are gone of using her for an engage with zhonyas.  She absolutely can't survive being used for a team engager w/o it, so you lose that power from her completely - and it was a pretty freaking useful power spike to be able to engage for your team like that - eg game changing.  Now, you can just use her for q picks (against misplays) or chain cc in proper comps.  You essentially become a black shield bot with the zekes bump and decent cc.  But her ult just isn't all that useful in most cases as support.

It's kind of a crappy trade off - you generally have to choose between zekes/zhonya/aegis as far as build order.  The zhonya engage is valuable whenever its up with your ult, but I think its potential is > mid game.  Kind of rough though as if you rush it - but I think it might be worth it... but most pros and most folks playing her as a support seem to disagree.

Any thoughts?  I'm not really talking about super late, lets get a zhonya as the game is 50 min long - I'm talking about trying to have it no later than 20 min or so - and the sooner the better.  This makes her not just a black shield bot with a decent q - it gives her that flash engage back, which can be pretty huge and creates a very large zone of influence.  I'm leaning towards wanting to get that zhonya back in the mix, but I don't know...

I would think that depends entirely on team composition.  If you have a Malphite, you should be following him in, and wont even need one to get it off, if the enemy team has Malphite, you're probably going to want to be counter engage, which means not being the guy Malphite goes in on to start with, so it's probably not critical then either.

I'd say Zhonya's, and accompanying magic resist and general tankiness, is necessity when your team lacks some form of engagement, or when you just have the perfect setup for ass kickery with chain aoe cc on your team through other champs that can't really engage well either.

If you're paired with Kalista of course, Zhonya's would be really nice.

Zeke's in particular gives you reason not to build one to start with though.  You're already boosting 30 armor, general durability has been achieved, so unless you really need to tank the whole enemy team it's a bit superfluous.  You gain huge damage from a Liandry's as a low AP support, Twin Shadows and Rylai's give you additional slows, and a Banner would give a nice resist buff to the team, whereas Zhonya's is only going to make you tougher and give you a similar boost to damage.  You're already up to four items with Zeke's, and unless you take merc treads, your magic resistance is so low that you have to take at least one heavy survival item for AP or you can't engage because you'll be burst down against most comps regardless of having a Zhonya's.

I don't really like the idea of taking Zeke's on her anyway, Ardent Censor would give your adc a more reliable boost off your shield, and work better in combination with Zhonya's thanks to having a speed boost, and not duplicating the role of boosting your armor.  If you throw in a Ludens Echo or Liandry's on top of that, you've accomplished boosting your harass damage up pretty high, and can either tank up for the last item to be a good engage, or do something else and be counter engage/poke.  Her shield makes her a natural counter engage, since she can greatly aid in the survival of whoever is engaged on, and the range on that root is more than long enough to safely harass most teams even if you can't survive engaging.

Ardent is still too silly imo.  It's a sounds good on paper sort of item, but not really in practice - at least on morg.  Gold efficiency of zekes is stupid and I think that's a major reason the zhonya's build went by the way side (zekes is, imo, like what they did with mord - throw so much crap at it so its adopted).  Honestly, zekes needs toned down to make other paths more desirable.  I actually don't really like zekes on  with vayne or kali, but its still kind of a no brainer to get it even if they are substantially less crit reliant.  At least until there's some sort of nerf that drops the gold efficiency below like 300% with the active running.  Stuff like that makes the other support items less doable

You can't control it though, if you're on the defensive, it's only potentially useful.  If you force an engage when it comes up, and get crushed anyway, it's burning a hole in your wallet for no reason.  It's an "I'm already winning the lane anyway" item, which is probably why it's got such a high win rate and such a low pick rate.  Ardent does not require lane control, has the same CD, better mana supply thanks to 100% regen instead of a flat 250, and almost as much base AP.  Whether you're in control of the lane or on the defensive, you pop the shield off on your carry and away he goes with 30 on hit damage and 15% AS.  Most ADC's don't benefit from the AP much at all, and 50% critical strike is likely only going to be a similar damage gain to that AS boost, particularly if it's a champ that starts BOTRK instead of IE or BT.

Dependability is a plus.  Things that might help a lot versus things that will always help, Gnar is a great example of this, horribly broken power levels that just destroy teams, but he's below a 50% win rate because he gets crushed by the unreliability of his mechanics.  His percent health damage is epic, but takes three consecutive hits, and his base stats are so horrid that even building full tank, he's not particularly tanky until he changes.