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I guess you and I just play Mundo differently. When I jungle him, I max W without a doubt for clearing speed and it muders everything in range as a byproduct. When I lane him, I build pretty much pure mpen so I don't care much for physical damage.

I love facing against some Mundo's in top lane, they seem to think that just because he is Mundo he can stay in lane for a long time but early on that is not true, he really needs health items when levelling up his abilities so if he stays in lane and doesn't go back and hits lvl 6 he might think he is strong but without getting more health items he can actually kill himself faster then an opponent even if the opponent hasn't gone back to base either. Of course once Mundo has Spirit Visage and Warmog's he can pretty much do what he wants.

E on Mundo is great though for pushing down towers as well as clearing camps especially as the smaller monsters are weaker and bigger monsters are stronger so need more hits to take and less focus on AoE clearing.

I love Singed but it's too easy to counter him now. The tenacity debuff on his ult really hurt him but he was still ok but then the reworked spirit visage and banshees veil has made mag res pretty good choices for lots of people so it's pretty easy for his laning opponent to rush spirit visage and that can pretty much ruin Singed's damage.

Not saying that he is useless but against the popular top picks he does have a tough time while you can go Mundo or Zac top who can still suffer with same problem of enemy buying spirit visage but not having to worry about mana means you don't have to worry as much. I don't know why people think Mundo is so op but don't think Zac is, grab a Warmogs on Zac and you have similar health regen and much more CC and damage. Although Mundo is fun once you have so much health regen that you can just leave your flames on all permanently.

I think the adc-support bot lane meta is dying, it's actually super strong to have an AP carry as support who ends up with lots of kills and gold or actually just having an AP laner with a Tanky/CC support like Leona or a kill lane like J4 and Xin. The J4 and Xin combo lane is so ridiculously strong because of the amount of CC and armour reduction and with dual relic shield they can both push very quickly but I also like the Malzahar/Leona lane because that also does a ridiculous amount of damage.

EDIT: Although Lucian is still good as a powerful lane bully and Jinx is super strong late game with her AoE damage

especially considering TSM won against what is basically an amateur team.

If it were only bragging rights - be my guest, stupid points system all the way, but with an actual cashmoney prize tacked on - nope.

Meh.

The tournament was a bit silly because although it used the results from Season 3 LCS Summer many of the teams changed, Alliance inherited Evil Genius spot as EG moved to NA and LemonDogs had a completely different roster, team composition wise it would have made more sense to have LemonDogs be replaced by NIP. So yeah TSM had the easiest games for easy cash, but well played to C9 for beating Fnatic.

I think Fnatic need to do some rework to get used to season 4.

IIRC you don't need an account, I could check by logging out but I'm far too lazy to do that and then have to log back in again.

Wow, the Evil Geniuses vs Determined games were great to watch. Watching it also showed me the counter to Thresh's lantern which is pile as much shit on top of the lantern so no-one can click on it!

I feel the casters and analysts were a bit mean on Determined though in post-match, even though they didn't ban the Ziggs I felt they tried to build their team around champs which can chase Ziggs easily, Lissandra can slow and stun Ziggs twice and Akali has great chase, unfortunately for them that was one of the best Ziggs I have ever seen and EG just played so well as a team.

Even for some of the bigger games it's nice if the developers don't have to rely on publishers/investors as they can have a lot of sway in how the game is developed, mainly by rushing it or trying to provide their own artists or other assets which might not be the best for the game, of course on the other hand some publishers can make games better then their original plan with their experience.

Funnily enough UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-COM 1) has the latter and X-COM Apocalypse (XCOM 3) has the former.

I already have them but meh free is free