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Really? But if she does nothing, then she falls into a more "damsel in distress" role which doesn't work at all considering she's the main character. I never really ever considered her a Mary Sue. The story isn't about action or fighting, it's about the story itself and the intrigue of the setting, so I don't really see her showing them that she deserves to be the medium and deserves to be respected is a bad thing.

Granted, it would one-up Ysengrin, which would be bad because his character is that of protector/enforcer but he hasn't really succeeded at that yet. I guess it's more important that Ysengrin does something significant and Antimony backs him up and shows them that she's legit and is someone to be respected for herself and not just according to Coyote's whims.

Or while Ysengrin is fighting a bunch of them, some of them try to go behind him and get to her and she protects herself. That would work, too.

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Statikk is the real guy to talk about this, but here's what I've gleaned from talking him to about this:

Draven's laning phase is stupid OP, but his late game is pretty rough. Spinning Axe is really fun and awesome and we always want that to feel good. However, the extra damage he's getting from the bleed is fairly underappreciated and doesn't really scale all that great into the lategame. We looked at the numbers and said two things:

1. We don't want to touch Spinning Axe.
2. It's hard to find numbers on the bleed that look even remotely good for Draven players while simultaneously having a meaningful impact on his early laning.

So we want with a fun mini-game where Draven farms up stacks and then has to cash them in by executing someone. We want the overall changes to be a net nerf (he's OP), but not much. There is a lot of power lost by simply ripping the passive out. We want this passive to be meaningful and have impact for Draven.

For example numbers, Statikk got Adoration up to 100 in just 5 minutes of laning from last hitting and Spinning Axe catches, and he's not even an expert Draven. This number is going to get high.

This is before the passive was changed, not in response to the current patch notes. I agree with the logic there, personally.

Yeah, my impression of Eureka 7 for the longest time was "... Okay... this is... okay...". In the second half of the series, it changes to "... I don't get it." to "... I DON'T GET IT" to "WHAT IS EVEN WHY WHAT IS THIS I DON'T GET IT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN WHY IS THIS HAPPENING WHAT WHY". It felt similar to NGE in that regard (except I understood way more of NGE than Eureka 7 the first time around for either show). I think it's a show that simultaneously benefits and hurts from being watched on a weekly episodic basis: you take a week off from watching it to forget most of your misgivings so you stick with it longer, but you also lack the constant immersion necessary to puzzle out what happens towards the end. I have friends that really liked it, but personally I find that it's just... okay. It's not terrible, there are definitely redeeming qualities, but it's not something that I would readily recommend to just anyone.

AD Malzahar Pentakill. Your arguments are invalid.

Yeah, AS on-hit is not for every champ. In fact, I've only seen two actually pull it off well: Kog'Maw and Teemo. I don't know why Teemo was good with it, since I've never played Teemo, but I think his poison attacks might stack or something? /shrug

AS is really useful, but AS on-hit builds for pretty much anyone else is not more viable than building straight up AD with a side of AS. This is especially true since Madred's and Malady were removed and AD carries just get BotRK anyway.

But if anime is for Nerds, and all those Nerds look like the colors of the rainbow, and there is a pony named Rainbow Dash in My Little Pony who creates rainbows as she flies, then My Little Pony must be anime. But it's not, so therefore anime is not for Nerds.

Don't look at me like that. There's no logical fallacies in that. Don't you trust me?

The looks an awful lot like a torch.

It's actually a very confused volcano.

I think the "Enemy Within" deal is going to be about the development of technology running rampant due to humanity's exposure to the invaders and the willingness behind that to do whatever might be felt as necessary, losing whatever moral standards humanity had in the process. That was the entire thing in Enemy Unknown, with the scientist and engineer continuously commenting on how scary the tech was becoming, hoping it was worth it and that it wouldn't bite them in the ass later and if only it could have been developed for peace.

It's either that or the world is becoming splintered due to that or other factors. For example, in Enemy Unknown, countries could drop support of XCOM, but what was the point? They had no hope of doing anything themselves. Perhaps Enemy Within will show the efforts of unaffiliated countries and organizations.