maben

amateur LCP analyst | captain levi fanboy #GAMTIME | challenger jungler udyr shyvana

[maben @mabenmaple1]

@VestionOCE @TeamAUS_Esports @whynotbefriends

[maben @mabenmaple1]

@MoleculeLOL idk is vietnam not also giga stacked altho hongq junjia prob just makes them better by default

[maben @mabenmaple1]

WHYNOT TO PARIS LOADING

[Team NZL Esports @TeamNZL_Esports]

Here you have it, New Zealand's League of Legends team for #ENC26 🤯🇳🇿

Main Roster:
▪️ @whynotbefriends
▪️ @ShokLeague
▪️ @Lost_adc
▪️ @ChippysOCE
▪️ Raes

Sub:
▪️@GetABetterName0

Coached by:
▪️ @Benvi_OCE
▪️@VestionOCE

The team is in Malaysia and the qualifier starts tomorrow. They're putting it all on the line, and we're right behind them.

Let's go team!!💪

@ENC_EN | @NZ_Esports_ | @eblacks_

[maben @mabenmaple1]

@MoleculeLOL @AuxCasts pta ivern support mandate rush tap in for elo glitch

[maben @mabenmaple1]

waiting for people to realise sion can also be flexed jg/adc pretty consistently

[maben @mabenmaple1]

faker once again 1v9ing t1 draft by realising that sion mid is fucking broken here and he can just let them counterpick zaahen and win the entire match

[maben @mabenmaple1]

THE CAUSE IS BEING TAKEN UP

[Momo @Agurinlol]

I have never seen this uneven distrubution of roles in challenger.
We have around
32 TOP
59 JG
94 MID
80 AD
35 SUP

[maben @mabenmaple1]

mel and shyvana TW THIS CHAMP IMMEDIATELY

[Spideraxe @Spideraxe30]

Alright here's Locke DNA team:
- Gameplay: Riot Emizery (Mel, Shyvana, Millio, Hwei)
- Concept Art: Riot Lonewingy (Irelia, Evelynn, Kayle, Morgana, Zaahen etc)
- Narrative: Riot Little Leaf (LoR Nidalee, Neeko, Vayne, Akshan, Nami)
- Narrative: Riot KneecapPhilly (Season Start cinematics, Xin Zhao, Eternal Aspect Leona)

[maben @mabenmaple1]

praying to the heavens above MSI patch has meaningful top changes and not just nerf xyz ranged top like mfs won’t just play ad neeko instead

[Matt Leung-Harrison @RiotPhroxzon]

Patch 26.12 Preview!

MSI is on Patch 26.13, so this is the penultimate patch before then.

There are a few things that we'll be monitoring on the 16.11 patch as we see how the 16.11 changes impact the Bot Lane meta, which is currently pretty heavily dominated by Enchanters and Ranged Supports.

Teleport
- Especially in Pro play recently, we've been seeing some usages of Teleport at very short ranges to prepare quite large shields for tactical usages in combats (such as objective fights)
- While this is a cool usage of the spell, it's a pretty unintuitive behavior and we want to skew its usage to be better to use for its cross-map and "joining fights" capabilities
- As a result, we're reducing the duration of the shield and increasing the shield amount by a bit to compensate

Yuumi
- Last patch, we had a change to Moonstone that fixed it being doubly impacted by either Grievous Wounds or Heal and Shield Power
- Yuumi is one of the few champions who has Heal Shield power baked into her kit and so she was disproportionately impacted
- As a result, we're compensation buffing her

Lee Sin
- On 26.10, we made some adjustments to Lee Sin that gave power back to some of the fun elements in his kit that lost a lot of power over the years (namely the amounts of dashes he has access to, etc.)
- This made Lee Sin a pretty strong champion in higher levels of play again and in a way that we think is fantasy aligned for him
- However, the magnitude is a bit too much, so we're pulling it back slightly
- We're happy with the shape of the changes and how it's affected his power curve though

Mid Meta
- For average play, AP Xin Zhao has been tearing up the rift with a lot of his power budget in healing, especially in the early lane creating some pretty uninteractive lane states
- We're tapping this down, as well as some of the top end healing in the later game
- Otherwise, a few adjustments to the champions who have a bit of room in Solo Queue like Hwei, Sylas, Syndra and nerfs to some of the top end like Cassio (who really benefited from Deathfire Touch being added) and Ryze and Ori who have been strong for pretty much the whole season

[maben @mabenmaple1]

lowkey top has always been a really counterpicked skewed lane but people finally realised you can just pick ranged tops and we are now in an arms race of flexing every champ with range in the game to top to try to psyche the other team out in draft

[maben @mabenmaple1]

noticed that the stats for high elo role distribution is so fucked, this is euw but its similar for pre much every other server (i think kr is highest with 14%) should riot not be looking into this???? literally just a sea of jayce/rumble

[maben @mabenmaple1]

@MoleculeLOL first strike dusk and dawn senna

[maben @mabenmaple1]

@MoleculeLOL rare noble mention??

[maben @mabenmaple1]

the real mistake is on the base timer before the clip even begins but i haven't seen anyone mention this?

[Griffin @GriffinHQ_]

Stop perma full clearing if you want to win games

Video below explaining it but i am providing a transcript for anyone that doesnt speak english to translate or maybe that are deaf

You are losing games by full clearing now. What I mean by this isn't that full clearing is inherently bad. What I mean is that lot of people get stuck thinking they just have to full clear the problem is once you get your first item, a lot of the time it's actually best to just not full clear. Because when you get your first item and especially when you're ahead, you should be looking to do things actively on the map. Because if you just full clear, you're giving the enemy essentially, breathing space. And if they're behind, they shouldn't have breathing space. If you're just full clearing and they're full clearing, you're giving They equal gold, which you never want to do when you're ahead, because any they get is going to be worth more than any gold you get, because of percentages.

so whenever you're strong like this, you want to look for ways you can impact the map instead of full clearing. Especially since, in this scenario here, I can see my entire top side is warded. So even if I do get invaded and lose my camps, I at least know it's getting invaded. and I can account for that and do something else here. So, my bot lane just came out of base, fresh items, so they're also strong. So they're also looking to fight. Here I need to wait for them to push one more way before dragon. So I'm just going to take my red buff, and then we're going to look to do the dragon. And the reason this is so important is because we're both spiking. We just came from base.

And the enemy has a very strong dragon fight. They have Lissandra, Rengar, and Ash Seraphine, which means Ash Seraphine should almost always have prio. So, if we don't take Dragon with this one timer, Ash Seraphine will always have prio, and then they have a strong 2v2 with the Slander Vengar. So, we have this one time to take it. If I was just to go full clear, my bot would never have prio ever again. This is our one window, and we're able to take the Dragon where my bot lane has prio. So instead of full clearing, I just go straight to the Dragon. And if there is a fight, I'm strong here because I'm on Item Spike, and so is my bot lane. So it's actually a decent fight.

And then I can fast forward. So then Rengar ends up ganking my bot lane. I kill him. And then I'm recalling again because I have a decent buy here of 1500 gold. And it's going to be the same thing essentially here. I'm not just going to full clear. There's no reason to just full clear, right? I'm very strong. I have full item. I just bought 1500 gold worth of items. And top's kind of overextending here. So I'm just going to sprint straight top. And we don't end up killing, but we do get his ult and his flash. That's pretty worth. Could have honestly killed him if I Thresh missed his hook. It's a bit unlucky. But the point is. The point is to just not folklore.

and I still get my camps guaranteed, and the most Rengar could take is just my raptors. I know he can't take my top side because I'm top side right. So the most I can lose is my raptors. And it's always worth it to just go for the kill top. If I lose my raptors now, it's earlier in the game, and it's a lot harder to break your full clear because you do get punished more. Because one, it's harder to kill people because have less items, less damage, less cooldown stuff like that. It's harder to farm it takes longer. So more camps, you're more your camps are sitting the longer it's going to take for you to clear them. And then, if you do lose camps early game, it snowballs way harder.

So I'd say once you get your upgraded Smite, like your Rainbow Smite, like your first upgraded Smite, that's when it's a little bit easier to skip camps. You basically don't really want to break your full clear aside from that. But once you get your first item, for sure, you want to be skipping camps to look for proactive plays. You don't have to go for plays just to go for plays, but you should be looking for that. So I hope that was pretty helpful. Any questions, you can just always DM me or comment below and I'll try to get back to you.

[maben @mabenmaple1]

CAPS TURNING BACK THE CLOCK TO 2019

[maben @mabenmaple1]

labrov has bron for all ive seen enough

[maben @mabenmaple1]

shyvana rework finally out goodbye my queen 🥲

[maben @mabenmaple1]

my beautiful oyster sons 🥲

[Sheep Esports @Sheep_Esports]

JunJia 🇹🇼 is the MVP of the series against Weibo Gaming 🇨🇳

The jungler sends his team to the LPL 🇨🇳 Split 1 Grand Final and to Brazil for #FST2026 🇧🇷

[maben @mabenmaple1]

c9 obv playing the game pre shit as of late but for a team with veigarv2 dom inero staff idk how their drafts can be so ass

[maben @mabenmaple1]

genuinely think this ground zero draft is one of the worst drafts ive ever seen in terms of pick reasoning as draft develops omfg