Spirit Blossom 2020 centers around the Ionian Spirit Blossom skins which are canon in League of Legends’ lore. After a brief tease during this year’s Anime Expo Lite stream, the skins were slowly revealed and culminated with a teaser video last week previewing Spirit Blossom’s themes. While veteran players should be familiar with the reward structure, there are several different elements compared to past eve
He also lacks a key thing many currently popular junglers have: smite/ability steal capabilities. With the increasing importance Riot places on Dragon and Rift Herald, a jungler with no real way to cause or prevent enemy team objective theft has no place on the R
Once again, if we view the overall theme of 7.26 as an effort by Valve to slow down gameplay, many of the changes to heroes make perfect sense. For starters, Alchemist has seen Greedevil’s Greed cap reduced from 20/24/28/32 to 18/22/26/30, and the base gold bonus reduced from 4 to 3. This means that Alchemist is far less effective at farming in the new patch, but still in line with most other heroes of the same t
In today’s meta, Udyr languishes since he has movement speed, but no gap close. He has lots of build diversity, but Riot has enforced very specific jungle builds in the last few patches. He is also, essentially, a 1.0 version of Sett who is so OP, it makes no sense to play Udyr
It is because of this transformation that Gnar would be a prime candidate for an Ultimate Skin, because if they give him a real dinosaur/prehistoric themed skin, he can swap between animals in a way that makes his ult truly uni
But in the new meta of every League of Legends champion has mobility, tick or on-hit damage, and an array of crowd control effects, Cho’Gath’s immobility is a bridge too far for most players. He’s on Riot’s list of champions to rework, so maybe players will see one for him in 2
So far, there does not seem to be much of a change in which items players prioritize in MOBA game items, however the price difference has meant that matches see a longer delay before they can be purchased, or they are forgone entirely in favor of saving up for another, more expensive item a little earlier. Overall, the price changes seem healthy as before it was too simple to stock up on key items too quic
Yone’s Q is also remarkably similar to that of his brother Yasuo. This ability, like Yasuo’s «Steel Tempest,» is a straight-line skillshot that deals instant damage based on Yone’s attack damage and functions much like a buffed up auto-attack. The differences between the two character’s abilities lie in the third consecutive strikes. Unlike Yasuo, Yone’s third use of his Q is a knock-up attached to a dash. This means that Yone’s ability to chase enemies down is much more reliable than his counterpart. An additional bonus is that Yone can freely dash over walls to chase or escape from an en
After all, it requires perfect timing and/or lots of team communication. In solo queue ranked play or even in normals, that kind of thing just isn’t likely to happen. Like Galio and Volibear, Pantheon also reveals how Riot prioritizes competitive play over average fan/player experience. The visual rework also gave him that «shiny» look, removing the weathered and worn warrior aesthetic he previously
Other heroes have seen reductions in the movement speed of their base kit or of certain abilities, which is in line with the changes made the movement speed items listed above. Batrider’s Firefly speed bonus, Bloodseeker’s Thirst, Broothmother’s Spin Web, and Death Prophet are all heroes or abilities that have seen such movement speed reducti
Though players referred to old Sion as a «feast or famine» champion in that players either got super ahead or very behind, many older players miss his previous kit a great deal. Sion was a champion players could do almost anything with originally. Want to build AP Sion and destroy top lane until reaching the inhibitor at 15 minutes? Boom. Want to go full lifesteal, attack speed, and crit? Do it. There’s no risk of death at
Much like Cho’Gath, Kha’Zix hails from the void, but he is by no means a tank. This giant praying mantis is an assassin who stalks the jungle, and he does this by jumping around and turning invisible for a t
While the complexity of Spirit Blossom 2020 may be initially confusing, Spirit Bonds are just slightly renamed missions with a similar progression system. And there seems to be more to this Ionian festival and summer event than described so far, as several Spirit Blossom skins are releasing at a later date along with Yone, the presumed masked man from the teas
The next League of Legends event is finally arriving after Pulsefire 2020 previously ended over a month ago. From July 22nd to August 24th, Spirit Blossom 2020 is a summer celebration that brings back missions, prizes, and the Nexus Blitz game mode for participating play
