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Shen - His harass was stupid, but manageable before. After the remake, not only did they buff his ability to trade damage, they buffed his ultimate, they buffed the sustain he has... Well, they buffed everything. Ki Strike is based on his attacks too now, his Q heal scales on his max health, his taunt is better, his shield is better. He's essentially a required ban now.

Ziggs - His laning phase is pretty decent, but what really shines is his late game. 1500 range 300 aoe poke on a cooldown of only a few seconds. Plus his ultimate has some major damage potential. just really annoying in general.

Vladimir - Still extremely good, but I think they might have managed to balance him somewhat.

LeBlanc - I'm slow like all the NA players, and I JUST realized that leblanc counters the majority of the top ap carries, including Casseopeia. ew.

Soraka - the Infuse nerf hit REALLY hard. Almost to the point where she isn't worth picking anymore.

Talon - just not tier 2 worthy right now.

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casseopeia - Insanity. Her lane phase is unmatched. Her teamfight is unmatched. Arguably the most baron damage from any ap carry. For some reason people don't see it yet. When people say "vladimir has no counter", or "mordekaiser has no hard counter"... well I might throw casseopeia into the conversation. She's getting nerfed. play her while you can.

Vladimir - Although I said Cass is a possible counter to him, I haven't actually tested it out. That being said, Vladimir is completely OP right now. Slap a WotA on him and he goes crazy. He wins trades with pretty much everyone, and his late game is insanity, next to maybe Cass.

Sona - I don't know how to play her, but from what I've seen, She destroys bot lane, and she has the best teamfight ulti of any supports.

Rammus - His ganks are stupid good. Even though you know he's in the jungle, and you know how good his ganks are, he always manages to get successful ganks and effectively **** over your lane. Plus his late game is really…
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Again, apologies for the inactivity. Partly because im lazy, and partly because Viktor wasnt worth an update, honestly. Sejuani was an actual patch.

I'm not sure about the other tier lists, because I actually havent gotten any updates since the last one i posted. Considering taking them down soon enough. We shall see.

Right. Here we begin.

Kennen - Hes just really freaking strong in lane AND didnt get a nerf. Plus his teamfighting and poke are really good. Mobility too.

Vayne - still of the strongest carries. Vayne Kog and Graves are definitely the strongest right now, but vayne's nerf seemed to hit her more than graves, which is why he didnt move.

Morgana - still awesome, just less awesome.

Maokai - had him slightly too high. still chu8 status.

Ahri - I feel like her skillset is too awkward, but apparently her ball is impossible to dodge, and her teamfight damage as an assassin is one of the best... Idk. But people consistently do well with her.

Skarner - major early gam…
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First of all, I apologize for being out of action for such a long period of time. My entire future kinda counted on the past few weeks and I figured wasting it on MOBAfire wasn't quite worth the decades of anguish and sorrow. Fortunately, I succeeded in finals week and will still be with you guys for at least another 5 months! Anyways, Lets get on to it. I noticed a lot of tier 1 / tier 2 switches. The only one to rise out of tier 3 was Jarvan. He makes an amazing non-sustain support, and his jungle isnt half bad either. On the other side, the only one to fall to tier 3 was renekton. I just don't find him good enough for tier 2 anymore.

Maokai - His ganks are terrifying, and anyone who disagrees should try playing against one. He has one of the longest range reliable CCs from the jungle, and he can follow it up with a pretty reliable combo as well. Plus, with the change to jungles making it harder to carry, it allows maokai to do his thing and quasi-support / carry much better.

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Xerath - finally saw some good xeraths, and his damage is insane.

Olaf - ask Duff.

Shaco - Still not tier 1 at this elo, but there are some good shacos out there.

Wukong - whatever riot did in that patch, really made wukong good. He is like Lee sin with an AMAZING ULT. That ult is a gamechanger. No joke. His Q is finally good, like it was originally supposed to be, and his stealth isn't ******ed anymore.

Skarner - After the buffs, hes basically Udyr's twin.

Nasus - overestimated him. Still good, but there are a lot of counters to him.

Akali - nerfs REALLY hurt her. We will see how she does with the changes.

Ryze - I just don't see the danger from a ryze. He is pretty much the same whether he is fed or not. Feels similar to vlad right now... he just doesn't do enough until late late game, but at that point everyone has MR already.

Pantheon - just... idk. meh.

Twitch - I literally saw a twitch sit at his tower and aa a tryn for 10 seconds straight, and the tryn lost ab…
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So I got tired of the inability to carry hard enough with typical solo top champs, because I just feel that you don't have enough effect on the late game to make up for your afk farming for the first 20 minutes of the game. So I switched to try out AD bot. It sounds kinda iffy, considering you are forced to lane with an unpredictable support that, for all you know, could be horrible -cough feeding alistars rampant-. But I found that even if you feed a bit early game, as long as you keep it under control and play relatively safe in lane, you WILL outcarry other champs in the game.

But I didn't want just any champ for hard balls to the wall carrying. I wanted the best. I didn't really like how Graves worked because I don't like relying purely on skills to do damage. That left me either Caitlyn, Vayne, Kog'maw, or Tristana as the hardest carries into late game. Tristana's skillset is a bit lackluster in teamfights, so I ruled her out. Caitlyn was great early game and great late game, but…
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Sigh. I caved. I admit it. The temptation was too strong. I had to give it a go.

Olaf is stupid OP. He has the damage to best any tanky dps, but has the tankiness to best any of them as well. ****, with wriggles and W alone, i was healing 220 on crits per hit. Once he gets wriggles its over. Turn W on and auto some creeps and you are back to full health while the other guy is sitting there wondering if he even did damage to you.

Atmogs is broken on him as well. Kinda like Triforce on Udyr, Atmogs completely abused by Olaf. It allows his passive to be far more effective, and his W gives him a stupid amount of damage. I was sitting at 281 AD with W on. Slap on a 1.5 AS and mash R and you will kill something.


I'm loving the Meta. Allowing all kinds of old champs to burst out of obscurity and wreak havoc on the metagame. Sion, Olaf, Nasus, Tryndamere. All is right in the world.

Thanks Duff. Thanks for making me an Oladdict.
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Welcome! To Taggrin's Blog! I'm not sure what I'm going to write about just yet, but count on at least ELO journeys and tier list updates to be here. I will probably end up writing about other stuff, probably even non-LoL stuff, but we shall see. For now, I will post one of my smurf games with some MOBA boys that I carried... Me and Winter challenged each other to a kill battle (note that this was AFTER champ select so he knew I was yi) and it was close till the very end when I just destroyed kids and vlad sat back and watched. Enjoy!

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