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Hi everyone.

I just wanted to note for those of you that play Nasus, his Siphoning Strike bug that has plagued him for about 8 months now appears to be fixed. This is a truly welcomed change after such a long time being broken so feel free to go test it out in patch 3.9.

Unfortunately the bug fix also came with a fairly large nerf. There is a buff counter on Nasus that displays how much damage he has farmed up. While it's supposively "fair" to the enemy to know how much damage Nasus can do, I feel this change puts Nasus in a bad spot that other champs don't have to deal with. It's never completely evident how much damage an enemy champion will do to you with items, so why make it so obvious with Nasus?

Bad call Riot...

With the new changes coming with the 3.9 patch Shyvanna has received some serious buffs that could put her back into a high tier jungler. I want to know what are your opinions and why? I mean she isn't going to be a highly contested pick but her late game has been altered severely and I think it will put her back into at least an option.

I said i'd give throat some competition and I was kinda bored and did this in champselect/queue/load screen while solo queueing. This isn't necessarily restricted to competitive play or solo queue, just who I think is the best in their respective roles atm. If someone is missing, it means don't play them, or I forgot :P. You can leave a comment below for clarification. Someone being ahead of someone in a tier DOES mean I think they are better or at least equal. An asterisk means they were changed in 3.9 and I'm a bit unsure of their placement.

JUNGLE:
Tier 1: Nunu*, Jarvan IV, Lee Sin

Tier 2: Zac, Elise, Nautilus, Evelynn, Sejuani, Hecarim*, Nocturne, Nasus

Tier 3: Udyr, Amumu, Cho'gath, Xin Zhao, Maokai, Trundle

Tier 4: Fiddlesticks, Volibear, Vi, Shen, Dr. Mundo, Kayle, Zed, Kha'Zix, Shaco, Pantheon, Olaf, Skarner, Rammus, Jax, Master Yi, Warwick

Tier 5: Rengar, Shyvana, Malphite

TOP:

Tier 1: Renekton, Kennen*, Elise, Rumble

Tier 2: Shen, Rengar, Lee Sin, Singed, Tryndamere, …

I took the plunge and played my first PvP game tonight, Summoners Rift, Classic, Normal. Our team won after about 45 minutes and I managed to get 6 kills, 2 deaths and 7 assists. I also grabbed the blue buff twice. I spent most of my time solo top and quite often against two enemy champs. Got some nice Absolute Zero kills, although I was getting focussed hard and my team mates finished them off at times.

There was no abuse flung around in chat, only team observations and some requests. I enjoyed it lots and I'm really liking Nunu right now, even if his damage was toned down in today's patch.

I'm thinking about hosting a for fun low-tier champ tournament. There are some low tier marvel tourneys I've participated in, and I thought it would translate well to league. Could you imagine playing support, but not being able to play; Thresh, Blitzcrank, Janna, Sona, Lulu, Leona, or Zyra? Champs like Jayce banned for top mid and adc and zac banned top and jungle?

I can see this being fun and exciting, and it may give you a chance to show off your ziggs or urgot or poppy!~

If you would be interested in this idea, let me know in the comments below and I'll post a full banlist. It will be very extensive going role by role, with probably 40% of champs that can do a role would be banned.

Servers going down now to patch.

Time to go shower =u= Aaaaaaand possibly go over what I'm learning in chem today if they're still patching when I get out. Yesterday was enthalpy and colligative properties.

I purchased PAX Sivir last night and input it this morning. Prices went up from $25 to $30-$40. Code worked, checked in a custom game. Now all that needs to happen is the VU.

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So, changes on Patch 3.9? None of my champions received a hit from the nerf gun or boffer sword. Mostly just bug fixes for my champions. Though I'm kinda happy they're dropping the MP costs on Corki; I agreed on the whole "he runs out of mana waaaaaay too fast" thing, and his abysmal range doesn't give him options OTHER than skillspam. I also like the Draven passive XD My partner is happy with the

So iv'e recently watched a ranked game where Vayne was played as a solo top Adc. She was up against a Renekton, and completely dominated! Even when their jungler, no less, a

There are a large amount of new guides that come out each day, with a larger amount of people who post on them daily. Is it even beneficial for me to come on each day and downvote 90% of the guides and say why? Most of the guides are just brand new people who want to share their strategy with a complete lack of coding and no general knowledge of the community. So should I even stay on to do the same things others have been doing for months? I just feel like I'm playing a broken record every time I comment.

After playing some custom bot matches and experimenting with a few champions, I plonked down some IP and RP to get Annie and Nunu, having much better luck with the latter. So feeling apprehensive I joined a Co-OP vs Bot match which lasted about 46 minutes with me at 12 kills, 1 death and 6 assists, which I was really pleased with. Comms in game was minimal even when I wasn't sure what a blue buff was and why I should get it.

It was great fun and I think I played Nunu to his strengths, making sure to stick Blood Boil on Ashe whenever we were in the same lane together. I ran top for most of the game but moved to some other lanes when I saw the enemy champs trying to gank. With my ultimate I managed to bag a couple double kills as well. I could see the benefit of Ashe being close by to finish off runners.

A few days later I went to join another Co-op vs Bot only to have someone else pick Nunu before me. I didn't feel comfortable taking another champ into the game, so left and quickly le…

I picked up Cube World this morning due to the DOS issues their servers have been facing. So far, I like it!

For those who want to check it out:
https://picroma.com/cubeworld



Some of my recommendations for characters:
Water mages (spirit mage → skills → water) are a great starting class, as you don't have to worry (as much) about your out-of-combat HP. Though it also applies in-combat, I think Guardians (Warrior) are better for in-combat HP. I've tried Rogue (Ninja), but it requires a lot of patience to do it correctly.

You should get your first two basic skills before you get your first utility skill. (i.e. for mages this is an improved attack and mana shield). Utility skills are Riding, Hang Gliding, and Boating. Choose according to your environment (if you don't have a pet, I'd recommend Hang Gliding unless you're in an Oceanic biome, where boating is clearly the better choice). After that, get your third basic skill.

Dwarves and Goblins can climb through windows an…