Matt Wasson

Another item from the wild balancing days of season 3 & 4 is the Sword of the Divine . Giving the user 45% attack speed, one of the highest base attack speed stats on an item. Along with the stat, its active would grant the users next 3 auto's to be 100% attack speed and Crit. The active gives reliable burst windows every 60 seconds, and champion kills refund half of its cooldown. Marksmen and assassin champions can kill a squishy opponent in a matter of seconds with this i

The first former World Champion on the list, Ruler comes into the tournament as the best AD Carry in the world, and there’s very little debate. In a meta so dependent on dragon control, the importance of bot lane priority can not be understated. Ruler leads all AD Carries at the tournament with a 13 CS differential at 15 minutes. Finding flaws in his game is near impossible as he is virtually the perfect AD Ca

The best individual laner in the world, Chovy takes any and every opponent to his lane kingdom. He averages 13.5 CS over enemy mid laners at 15 minutes, the highest amongst all qualified mid laners. DRX depends on Chovy, sometimes overly so, to dominate the lane early in order to gain advantages on other parts of the map. Luckily, he delivers. Chovy single-handedly carried an inconsistent and underperforming DRX roster to the LCK finals and, subsequently, Worlds qualification. May the church of Chovy bless the r

That said, there are tons of ways Pokémon Unite can avoid this. At the least, having multiple maps could help encourage more creativity than League of Legends' primary map Summoner’s Rift, and having a large roster early on can help give players diverse team options. So long as it’s balanced properly, there’s no reason a Pokémon MOBA Game esports has to be as firm as League of Legen

Speaking of Death Prophet, players may be frustrated to hear that the character has received another round of nerfs following changes only recently. Apart from his starting speed reduced from 315 to 310, Exorcism now provides a movement speed bonus of 16/18/20%, down from 20% at all times, and the mana cost at all levels is now 50 more than before. The character will likely continue to see play, but mostly by diehard fans, and we hope this is the last round of nerfs the character is subjected to rece

Ahead of the 2020 Spring Split, Counter Logic Gaming acquired former world champion Lee "Crown" Min-ho. After a 1-7 start, Crown was benched for veteran Eugene "Pobelter" Park. "When [Pobelter] first joined, the team was kinda off the rails in a way," Stixxay said while laughing. "We forgot about a lot of the fundamentals and basics of the game cause we’d just been losing so mu

Mad Lions are in first place, but they've lost to G2 Esports. G2 may have beaten Mad Lions, but they've lost to Origen, SK Gaming and Vitality. Origen may have beaten G2, but they lost to Mad Lions, Misfits and SK. Misfits may have beaten Origen, but they've lost to Fnatic, Rouge and SK. Fnatic may have beaten Misfits, but they've lost to G2, Mad Lions, Origen and Rouge. Rouge may have beaten Fnatic, but they've lost to G2 and Mad Li

There’s a massive list of things you can spend money on in League of Legends , but none of it affects your in-game stats or performance. There are tons of character skins, experience boosts, and emotes, but otherwise nearly everything related to gameplay is obtainable through in-game curre

In some player's eyes, the current Black Cleaver is a shadow of what the original item once was. In early season 3, Black Cleaver has armor penetration as a base stat and shreds past 40 armor on full sta

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

Still a part of CLG in 2020, Stixxay and his teammates finished dead last in the Spring Split, four games behind ninth-place Team Liquid. However, the team has gotten off to a 3-1 start in summer, already matching their win total from spr

No one is doubting how much damage Aphelios can output, but many teams are finally starting to see the weaknesses surrounding the champion. Aphelios can wreak havoc on an enemy team at any given moment, but playing around his damage, and killing him when he has the wrong guns out given the situation seems to be the way to win against

That variety is a lot of what helps League of Legends remain so entertaining to players years later. Everyone plays differently enough amidst fairly identical core mechanics, so playing a character you haven’t tried before always feels new. Having several options is valuable to this genre, and Pokémon Unite can easily carry that o