Mordekaiser has a whole Domain Expansion, and Aurora has a simple domain

@japudin4797

11 күн бұрын

"Are you the strongest because you're Mordekaiser or are you Mordekaiser because you're the strongest?"

@alphaxedtw9357

11 күн бұрын

Fair lmao

@frozenburrito2.087

10 күн бұрын

@@japudin4797 Throughout Heaven and Earth, I alone am the Iron Revenant

@TheFi3nd

9 күн бұрын

Nah mordekaiser has a reality marble

@taxevasion7370

9 күн бұрын

Brazil diff

MY favorite part about Aurora has to be the amount of cooking that has been happening with people trying to figure out the right builds. She can build bursty with stuff like Luden's, can take AP bruiser items like RoA and Liandry's, and all the while having a kit that supports Lich Bane and/or Nashor's Tooth as reasonable purchases. I fear for her numbers cause riot games, but she's actually a really cool mage design. Feels almost like a mage/skirmisher hybrid as opposed to battle mages generally leaning more towards mage/juggernaut.

@cynt4416

11 күн бұрын

I bet she can build full adc

@amandaslough125

11 күн бұрын

​@@cynt4416I fully intend to main her in any lane. Fully happy to do classic crit, except maybe on hit focus for Nashors access.

@magnov983

10 күн бұрын

Does she do Runaan’s

@Blu_Moon_Owl

10 күн бұрын

@@cynt4416 probably if you have Nashor and Rageblade for some AP and then go on-hit/AS to proc her passive through mainly auto attacks

@iandegiovani4703

10 күн бұрын

Riot hates mages, unfortunately

I can just smell the on hit builds that will be spawned

I think that even though Aurora has 2 damaging abilities, her Q has a very high damage ceiling. Her Q can only hit once on the initial cast, but if you hit an ADC point blank with her Q while also having a bunch of enemies behind them and then recast, you have the potential to absolutely melt health bars with all the repeated hits from her returning Q and passive. I think that's where the true power of her ult lies. If you can land a Q on a bunch of enemies, how can you use your ult to reposition so that you're hitting a squishy target for massive damage?

@alexandrubucurica1709

10 күн бұрын

well yes but usually adc is behind the frontline. unless you are flanking, the situation should happen rather rare

@Gorecatto

10 күн бұрын

​@@alexandrubucurica1709Should, but this is league, only three things can happen -They have no frontline in the first place -The frontline is splitting -The adc gets caught out

@DerangedDurain

10 күн бұрын

@@alexandrubucurica1709 Which is where Aurora's ult comes in. If you put down her ult and warp to the back lines to flank and kill the ADC, then you can use her W to slip out of immediate danger.

@ogvalke5246

10 күн бұрын

@@Gorecatto Low elo problem

@Ceracio

9 күн бұрын

@@ogvalke5246 Define low-elo. Because I've seen all three of these situations in High-Emerald to Low-Diamond elo.

"I just hate those hit and run playstyles" *Sad lillia noises*

@OmarAhme-w3h

11 күн бұрын

lillia eep, as lillia main, in addition to 10 others, I will say there is nothing more enjoyable than running in circles around your opponent at 140%+ move speed and healing a lot with 30% max hp dmg ever 3 second, then you put them to sleep and then wake them up by hitting them on the head (using w ) with 1400+ damage and they cannot do anything, a feeling that I will never forget

@frozenburrito2.087

11 күн бұрын

Frick Lillia players

@xiaoxaxo

11 күн бұрын

stay cringe buddy

@SimplyCozy3

11 күн бұрын

Yes❤

@ldalexandrite

10 күн бұрын

@@OmarAhme-w3h ever since people started building her full dmg it has been really fun to oneshot her out of nowhere too

Mordekaiser's ult : I'll take you to Brazil Aurora's ult : I'll bring you to Brazil

@javelinmaster2

11 күн бұрын

Sylas: in soviet russia, BRAZIL COMES TO YOU! Skarner: I AM BRAZIL!

@erichong4786

11 күн бұрын

Aurora brings the Brazil to you.

@manuelbonelli3690

11 күн бұрын

​@@javelinmaster2ksante: trip around the world

@cladoselache8766

11 күн бұрын

Not the Diego Barrios pfp😭😭😭

@oOAlexUwUOo

11 күн бұрын

Change your pfp omg im about to go feral 🥵

as someone who mains control mages (Ryze, cassio, anivia, lissandra, and vlad), she does not feel like a control/battle mage. maybe it's just me, but I feel like having tons of invisibility and mobility takes away from the power budget of doing DPS and having sustainability, which are the two most important parts of a battle mage, with cc coming in if they don't have as much DPS. invisibility and multiple dashes are very weird for a battle/control mage and it will lead to poor balancing.

@PhailRaptor

11 күн бұрын

My fear is she's going to be more like Akali once people figure out the combo. Which ultimately means that on paper she's going to be balanced, but in the hands of someone who's brain just works that way she will absolutely 1v5 after 2 items.

@RafaelGarcia022

11 күн бұрын

Well, she's not a control mage. That's a hardly defined category as it is, and not one of Riot's own. She's definitely a battle mage - her focus is sustained combat, focuses on magic damage, and has healing in her kit. She is likely intended to build hp and ap, and she's probably gonna be a good RoA+Lyandri's+Riftmaker user. Her lack of CC is made up for in movement, which is not the worst thing ever

@fishrepairs6400

10 күн бұрын

vlad a control mage??

@FrostRend25

10 күн бұрын

Just btw I use control and battle pretty synonymously when referring to this type of mage.

@LuxminosityBoy

10 күн бұрын

@@FrostRend25 the way I see it is: Battlemage: Vlad, Cassio, Anivia, Lillia, Ryze, Viktor... In essence, low range and low cd abilities with ways to kite Whereas Control mages would be: Orianna, Syndra, Anivia, Azir (kinda), Lux (kinda), Hwei, Seraphine, Ziggs (kinda). The main reason why riot does not consider this one of the main sub-divisions of mages is mostly due to overlap with other classes, as some of these are already battlemages or even poke champs, however, I believe people tend to use the Control mage tag on champions that are really good at map control, choke points and zoning enemies off. They urge enemies to make a decision whether to continue foreward or look for another angle, as no one wants to go through an Ori ball, anivia ult/wall, lux E, Ziggs W/E, Hwei E+w and Q+E etc.

I would much rather have this then another vladmir or extremely high speed mobility assassin like leblanc or ahri. Shes an AP skirmisher, like Lillia.

@dylanhelvetios2300

11 күн бұрын

She have as much mobility than Akali

@azurabbit12

11 күн бұрын

​@@dylanhelvetios2300 she has a bit of movement speed from her passive, one short dash that resets upon a takedown and an E that pushes her back a bit, then her ult lets her teleport back and forth in a zone for a short period of time, if that's the same mobility as the champion with 4 dashes (3 of them being pretty long range) to you I don't know what to tell you

@Klaas_F0X

11 күн бұрын

Fuck no, not another Lillia. I would take S3 Kass over that

@munchiemunchie5226

11 күн бұрын

​@@Klaas_F0XI thought i was the only one who hates Lillia.

@somedude8728

11 күн бұрын

@@munchiemunchie5226 also hate Lilia but I find that her sleep is the real thing that makes me dislike her, since aurora seems to have nothing similar to it, I don't think she'll be able to reach anywhere near the same level of "You can't hit me but I can stop you from playing the game" that lillia often has when ahead

Video idea: What makes a champion 'good'?. Somethings make a champion bad (Tryndamir R), some champions are strong (Lux i think), but what is a good champion? (love the vids, keep it up

@EliTheGleason

11 күн бұрын

You should make the vid! Be the change you wanna see

@cloudynguyen6527

10 күн бұрын

I think "good" is very broad. You should ask "what makes a champion timeless", basically they are so perfectly designed and balanced that their numbers are rarely touched or altered. I can think of Anivia and Zilean on the top of my head.

@tomkycze2620

4 күн бұрын

@@cloudynguyen6527 I would say Zoe, the only change I know about is that they cant yoink your balloons anymore when you are around.

@aspookyscaryskeleton5238

Күн бұрын

Anything that can Perform no matter how the numbers are. Gragas for example sloppywarus has been playing him for a while now and you can clearly see that 1: It can outplay as a champion 2:It can "carry" or actually work despite its nature as a champion. Etc. One of many examples of "you can play me if you're skilled enough"

@Jimples

Күн бұрын

@@aspookyscaryskeleton5238 Gragas is exactly the wrong example. That dude always turns up to dominate a meta for a while before catching weak nerfs that push him down to just top 5 flex picks before catching more nerfs and never being played again until he gets random bullshit buffs that brings us back to dominating a meta. Gragas has been a balance nightmare in all forms. Look at the gargantuan patch note history he has, his numbers are consistently what differs from his extremely strong kit being playable.

Besides becoming invisible which could be problematic, she seems perfectly fine to me. Big damage with no hard CC with some sustain.

@magnov983

10 күн бұрын

Ult is CC

@Blu_Moon_Owl

10 күн бұрын

@@magnov983 I guess but you can still function normally as if you’re not in the ult so I didn’t really considered it as CC.

@OdysseyNaafiri

10 күн бұрын

Problematic or fun?

@Blu_Moon_Owl

10 күн бұрын

@@OdysseyNaafiri bit of both really more towards fun. The invisible I feel will work out fine

she is just an AP vayne for toplane

@ShiiWhitecap

11 күн бұрын

she is a midlaner

@FeiFongWang

11 күн бұрын

​@@ShiiWhitecapShe is a solo laner

@tupacshakur5868

11 күн бұрын

@@ShiiWhitecap and vayne is a botlaner, whats your point

@mirramig

11 күн бұрын

She has zero hard cc aside from ult which is conditional hard cc

@1lik3Fir33mbl3m

11 күн бұрын

@@mirramig Not every champion used Toplane has hard cc in their kit

great vid, i love how you break down different classes and their sub-roles in the game, teaching people this is iimportant. This is my first video of yours, you deserve a +1 like and a sub! i'm going to check your videos to see your Hwei one, i hope you have one :D

Ayyyy! It's Pekin! Don't often see people use his footage as B-roll, nice!

I think Aurora is gonna be one of those underestimated champs. She’s gonna be fairly weak early, but after a couple items, she’s gonna come online and during a teamfight, will proceed to 1v3. Another thing not touched on much is that attacks also count for her passive, which along with the bonus ms from her passive, her w dash/invis/ms, and her e self-knockback kiting, will be able to keep that online for quite a while unless expressly targeted by an assassin. She has potential but will also take quite a bit to learn her combos and how to properly keep her uptime consistent.

I fear for a tank echo sort of deal here, also happened with Neeko that the on hit build was really good, I can see how she can build nashors and then full tank and just proc the passive over and over to be annoying and deal Max health damage which will keep her relevant always

Interesting. Aurora seems to be a fair champion which is going to be underpowered at release. Now, let's see how she is doing in a certain 'rule' site.

@cerealmama3879

11 күн бұрын

316 post 😐 Probably most of them are just ia generated, so true post are way more less, or not... but i not gonna be the guy who confirm that.

@GengUpinIpin

11 күн бұрын

​@@cerealmama3879 there are more real ones

@kurooaisu

11 күн бұрын

@@GengUpinIpin That's a great information, then. I don't want sites like 'that certain rule' to be overrun by AI. It's great that by doing certain policies, you can keep things in place.

@ZedCoal-ul6qm

11 күн бұрын

​@@kurooaisu It seems 167 of them are non-AI

@namuyu7154

11 күн бұрын

@@cerealmama3879 there was a 3d one within the day The op made a 3D model upon her release like wtf

if aurora will go on hit wont this make her same as zeri on release? stacking ms with 3 sec duration is enough to refreshed it with other iteams

She has 150% scaling and an execute on her Q. She's not a battle mage, she's a burst mage disguised as an ap skirmisher.

Are you planning on making any videos on toxic heart steel meta, and metas in general? Like katarina having everything viable on her, or tank diana

What I like most about Aurora is how her kit is really lending itself to build variety. You can choose to go full burst, on hit attack speed, or damage over time with her, and I think it's actually quite wonderful in that regard since you got build and playstyle variety with her. Fighting against a mage with the same range as her? Any of those 3 play styles could work. Against a champion with a lot of dashes? Well if you are not feeling confident in your skill shots then go either damage over time or better yet AS on hit. Fighting against someone with more range than you? Go damage over time to wittle their hp down. It's really nice and refreshing to see a champion that allows you to experiment and not pidgeonhole itself into a niche.

I'm about to play this champ like a ranged Gwen, tbh. That three hit auto is begging for nashor's and riftmaker

Her insane combo is gonna be marking as many people as possible, ulting them, and using the teleport to line up the big hit. I think she will be fairly high skill cap

As a Gnar main, I find it interesting the way you described the playstyle of some champions as being annoying because they encourage a playstyle without much interaction like Hit and Run, Since Gnar is a considerably old champion, I would like to know how you would think about a Rework for him for a more interactive gameplay.

very fitting maplestory bgm

i had thought that playing against her would be miserable and was waiting to experience it myself i can now confirm that it is indeed miserable

i can't wait to see if i can stun aurora with fiora by using slide parrying into the wall like with veigar cage or cait trap, it would be a neat little interraction (super hard to land though given her mobility in ult, the size of fiora w hitbox and the fact that she has .75 seconds to get out

0:22 By uncontrollable playstyle, he means Briar was able to attack and kill allies

If they combined this champion with something similar to Diana for a go in and out melee spell sword I would fall in love with league again

Ngl shes given me lillia vibes and since I started maining her near the start or the season Im super excited to force Aurora into the jungle :D. I think she feels more AP fightery than pure battlemage since her passive really incetivises always be going in and hitting someone and she has a ton of shot range dashes perfect for dodging skillshots up close.

Top Laner: "Wehh a ranged champ"

She reminds me of a teemo kind of play style where she is very hit and run and annoying. I could totally see her building grasp and zoning in lane, capitalizing on people's mistakes... Especially with the ultimate.

You missed that she is an AP Vayne. Shr wukk be going Nashor into Guinsoo

I think youre maybe underestimating her ulti a bit as a tool to get to the backline (r -> w backwards -> blow up squishies). But she doesnt seem too unfair imo

Aurora punishes grouping together and assuming that you get away with it.

12:34 Vars casually plugging his 3rd channel

So far it looks like on-hit att speed Aurora is pretty strong. We'll see if Rito is gonna shut that down or if they'll allow her to have multiple playstyles.

Mr. Woof mentioned!

It's a full-on "200 years" moment.

@davidk7439

9 күн бұрын

You're kidding yourself, otherwise you're genuinely ignorant.

A new Clowns video: 13:42 minutes of "Gobble Gobble Riot Gobble Gobble".

these r my favourite videos from you, sadly we have to wait so long coz how inconsistent league characters releases r

She remembers me ryze, jumping insted of walking

Bro thanks he is smart 😢

I have the feeling after no seeing the r ability she is an ap assassin. And maybe she becomes the new Eve?

I think her passive stacks only for movement speed and not for the healing

The invisibility feels completely uncalled for.

Yeah the vibe I get is more just annoying but not overbearing. Though the thing about her ult has me...concerned since it's more just a movement or escape tool. Not OP though, might still play her just because I like the character and design. I personally like evasive types but then again that's what I play in fighting games. Axl is my main in GG so nuff said.

Im gonna be honest the new champ designs being overturned and not overloaded makes me a bit sad. They should get more creative with their designs, don't give hybrid, true, cc, damage, etc. Just do some unique stuff we haven't seen before, crazy mechanics and gimmicky characters. So many statchecks and auto attackers :(

@bonic7217

11 күн бұрын

So like aurelion sol with his orbiting star mechanic that rewards good positioning. It was really fun , unfortunetly pepole don't want to learn a unique playstyle for a champion and would rather get a duble kill by holding q.

@LegionOfDefiance420

11 күн бұрын

​@bonic7217 I would say a new cc then, but people don't much like Renata or Rell, so I have no idea.

@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz

11 күн бұрын

@@LegionOfDefiance420 we'd like rell if she was a toplaner LIKE SHE'S OBVIOUSLY MEANT TO BE instead of being stuck in support. not salty or anything e.e

@LegionOfDefiance420

11 күн бұрын

@@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz You have a point, I would love to lock in Rell against Malphite and just beat the rock at his own game.

@JuristPugilist

11 күн бұрын

League champs were at their most creative during beta when most of them were blatant ripoffs of dots heroes. And then overtime riot realized it doesn’t have what it takes to balance unique and diverse kits. So everything became bland and uninspired for the sake of making the game easier to balance.

Anyone knows the first background theme's name?

the question is for me: can she flash out of her own ult and leave it up?

finally a champ that looks like me

Bruh, your voice is too deep and soothing. I can’t hear you when literally anything else is happening no matter how much I turn up the volume

balanced or not, i want our fluffy coat aurora back :(

Hey Vars would you make a video on 200 years champs that actually turned out okay balance wise while keeping their identity? I feel like certain champs after the initial way of insanity integrated quite nicely. Viego being an example.

@lillyie

11 күн бұрын

i remember when if you got a penta with viego people would call you out for using a 200 years no skill op champ. nowadays he's not even that powerful compared to the new toys riot gave us

Aurora is very safe laner, getting ganked? W. bad trade? you have sustain on passive. And in top lane she's also ranged, so poke galore. She's like a less annoying/powerful Vladimir or Akali

you only need aurora's passive, q and r and you can fill the entire video's screen with text

I feel like her area of effect is probably the smallest among battle mages, since other than her ult, her skill shots are kind of narrow

I miss the 200 years champions. People are so incredibly annoying about anything new in recent years. I just want people to loose they're mind over something, actually broken

Smolder wasnt really an issue until riot buffer his numbers to high heaven and destroyed half of a pro season, and I expect Aurora to be the same. Shes going to be doing twice of vaynes damage and have twice the mobility before Riot had enough skin sales and gut her

My guy. Smolder wasn't tuned. Smolder was buried, lol.

200 years for sure

i appreciate hit and run style over braindead stand there and tank while you regen without any skill so ill try her out

Cool. Now I'll bring her to the top lane because she looks fun to play there. She has enough regen and evasiveness to match fighters up there. Saying this as a Yorick main.

I really like this champ

She might become the first true AP marksman.

aurora's design making me feel ways...if you catch my drift

@garou9914

11 күн бұрын

Dumbs? That you?

@Lmafaooo

11 күн бұрын

She's mid, weeb

@azirious666

11 күн бұрын

So don't get under her skin

@FeiFongWang

11 күн бұрын

Yeah, she was made to appeal to the broadest audience of coomers imaginable, her design isn't unique at all.

@renzbolado153

11 күн бұрын

[attractive woman] HEAR ME OUT, GUYS

As someone who has mained Ahri, Xayah and Lillia. This champ was made for me!

hopefully they havent forgotten about sylas :)

I like how you do those first impresions where you try and reason why each part of a champion's kit exists but later you start hating them. Remember ksante?

I think she's one of those champs that will be op in the right situation/meta but can easily and quickly be fixed by losing some numbers

I think they're tipping their hand again about stealth. Her stealth isn't meant to trick you much, just give ambiguity for landing skill shots and complete immunity to anything on target, plus an ekko sylus mini dash. And in a game where a 2 second stun means death, 2 seconds of immunity matters alot. The rest of her kit is inoffensive. Her ult is a slightly bigger Veigar E with damage on it. Her Q is an ahri xayah q, fitting of them all being vastaha I suppose. She has a small xereth Q with a caitlyn push back. The stacking movespeed is questionable, being a mix of zeri and lillia, but the slower stack speed and more strict uptime requirement seems like a good counter weight. I know I'ma have fun with her kit. Long fights with lots of evasion is my comfort zone. But I don't see her blowing up the game in any major way. She's not Ryze busted, just mild and inoffensive

i think the concept of Q is intresting. what i dont like about it, its that when you hit Q. you always hit Q2. there is nothing, you can do about it at that point.

She seems simple and generally pretty balanced. People lose their minds over her ultimate, but it does so little for herself besides just being a survivability tool, that I don't think her base kit has enough damage to be a threat. She just feels like a battle mage that focuses on survivability more than anything else by just staying invisible to wait for her cooldowns.

"smolder just needed to be fine tuned" the champ is almost unplayable and playrate has plummeted, how is this fine tuning? Keeping champions intentionally weak does not mean good game design, by that logic, yuumi is fine because she isnt permad in pro play when she is also unplayable.

@thejestor9378

11 күн бұрын

??? How is yuumi unplayable?? Is it cause you can’t build heal on her and be reliable, or cause you refuse to build into what her kit now focused on?

@csgotrainingbot2160

11 күн бұрын

@@thejestor9378 because any act of playing yuumi directly harms your teams chances of winning in a severe and notable way. If you think i am overstating it, feel free to watch phreaks video from last year after the rework where they openly stated that they will keep yuumi in a terrible state so she does not become a problem. I suppose you can take the literal meaning of unplayable and say that anything that does not break the game(ie bugged release viego or poppy exploit) is still playable, but i am going with a more colloquial definition where unplayable means serving as a significant detriment to ones team compared to all alternatives.

@thejestor9378

11 күн бұрын

@@csgotrainingbot2160 Yeah, sounds like people who refused to build into her new kit.

@csgotrainingbot2160

11 күн бұрын

@@thejestor9378 well apparently that includes every single pro play team as yuumi has gone from a 20% presence with over 1500 games of pick or ban to .3% totaling 18 games pick or ban with a 20% winrate, so you are welcome to explain to me how yuumi is a viable champion this year.

@Slurpdako

11 күн бұрын

Those two deserved it ❤

Just a quick reminder, Sylas's kit was meant for Aurora, yea it could have been worse for all of us

still wondering why viktor does not have %hp dmg

My new main

Three abilities can dash. Aurora and Akali probably similar gameplay pattern and counterplay

You're greatly underestimating her ult by calling it mostly an escape tool. It's a huge aoe nuke that locks the enemy team in, and yes in theory all 5 of them can flash out of it (after taking damage most likely, since u dont have that much time to see where it lands before it is set, and if you are not by the edge already you can be out of flash range and just flash and hit the wall). It's also great for taking out 1/2 people and even for tower diving if played well. Skill expression is going to be the name of the game, but even the most amateur aurora can simply use it as an aoe nuke/slow/team fight enabler without much thought, even if she somehow misses all of her abilities in the 3-4 seconds while its open, or keeps bouncing back to back 3x. If you are with another person, you've basically secured a kill or gotten a summoner spell/item guaranteed, and its CD is not insane with AH, which she likes in many of her builds. Escape tool is a bonus. Similarly, the spirit stacking is basically only going to be useful top lane into AD tops who cant do anything against you, but will be meh in Mid lane because she is outranged by most mages and is very squishy without building like ROA/Liandry types of builds (which she can do)

Not sure i'm buying the whole "the recent champs have been fairly tame" pitch but ok

My only problem with is when Sylas steel her ult. Other than that she seem really reasonable.

For me at least, she is like a reinvent of Teemo, and I love it. We need more ap champs base on at, but not like ekko or Katarina, like real champs base on basics and not like deleting everything bc u have a fucking on hit champ with ridiculous numbers. I like her. I know that she will never be a meta champ, she’s made for psyched ones

Fuck hypermobility, it makes it impossible to balance, because either the hyper mobile champion is overpowered or doesn't do damage and non hyper mobile champions need even more raw damage to compensate for the lacking mobility, especially when the damage i on a skill shot, and while hyper mobile champions can dodge skill shots so the high damage isn't that noticeable, immobile champions can't so you need to give them tank stats, that's why mages who are often immobile have 3.5k+ hp to make up for the lack of mobility.

She seems like Lillia with a machine gun

We need a new champion release Bingo sheet. 3-hit, max % damage, heal, move speed, dash/blink, etc etc.

@ThPFreitas

7 күн бұрын

She doesn't feel that strong.

Another "rule" of battle mage is that you should have AT LEAST one single target ability, Voctor's Q, Anivia's E, Vlad's Q, Ryze's normal Q and W, Swain's Q (to some extent)... Now look at the new champ, all her abilities, apart from the dash are AoE. Also battle mages should have a somewhat weak early game and really good neutral game, this new character just breaks the mould by having lots of damage up front and early like %health damage, kinda like the bork rush strat. Her "scaling" is about regeneration and speed, not raw power like other battle mages. She's nothing short of 200yrs design. I'm not speaking of hate for the new member of the battle mage roster, but as a battle mage main (Anivia and Vlad), the new character just deviates so much from the core concept of what it means to be a battle mage.

She will most likely end up being a pro pick only like Lillia. They are both tempo based battlemages. and their defenses are both based one movement.

i feel like she doesn't even correctly fit the battle mage archetype all that well, more of like a lane Lillia with conditional movespeed and healing if ur constantly hitting champs and using that movespeed to out maneuver skillshots

Honestly, was pretty disappointed about Aurora's gameplay. I was super excited for her, since I loved her design, her lore and her story with Ornn (and the cool minigame too!). But when her abilities came out... She doesn't really seem like my playstyle. But worse than that, her kit seems to be very generic (ofc it's another 3 hit passive) while also being overloaded (max health damage, 3 dashes that go over walls, invis, reset mechanic). She also has the same problem like Samira or Akshan where her kit is basically a few other abilities from other champions clumped up together (Ahri q + Xayah e on her q, nerfed Shaco q on her w, mini Graves ult on her e). And from what I've seen of her being played on pbe, she seems to be understatted on top of all of that? It was a first impressions video, so the person playing her might've been just bad, but her stats seemed very low compared to other champs (even her q seemed to have trouble one-shotting the backwave like f.e. Ahri q). She just has every problem possible. And as if that wasn't enough, I think the official riot statement about this champ is that she is supposed to be a midlaner who's also available top. Yes. She's gonna be a dedicated toplane champ and riot will be balancing Aurora to make her available top. It's not gonna be a case of champion not meant to be played top but one that people play top anyway, because you can bully the enemy (like Vane). I know you are a top lane main Vars, and that you hate playing against this kind of picks (but again, who doesn't?). So yes, you had every right to worry about her being annoying. It might be a new dark era of toplane if they buff her enough 😨 Bewaaaaareeee the bunny!

@amandaslough125

11 күн бұрын

You make it sound like they should power creep every new release.

@strongerthanever2039

11 күн бұрын

@@amandaslough125 What? No I don't!

You are wrong about the utility of her ult. That ult is a more instant Camille ult that can jail more than one champion who doesnt have a blink or cc cleanse. In teamfights an ult like that is huge specially if you catch an entire team with it. Its like Irelia landing a 5 man ult. Even if she dies and doesnt manage to deal any dps if she does land a 5 man ult the amount of *instant* cc that is causes the whole team can alone win a team fight.

@chrissymomo

11 күн бұрын

Landing a 5 man ult with her is much too comp dependent to flat out say it will win the team fight. There are enough champs with cc disruption/spellshields or team comps that want to fight within close quarters too make that claim. For team comps that want you to get close to them so they can get on top of you, her ult is probably a major bait and shouldn't be used to engage.

2 dashes + R, invis, 2 or 3 slows. absurd self healing, % max hp damage. I see absolutely nothing that could go wrong here.

Is Aurora an infinite stacking champion? She looks like mage version of Vayne.

imo she feels more like a mix between Ahri and Viktor than a battlemage her CDs are kinda long so she doesn't have that kind of costant damage,nor she's particularly tanky just very mobile looking at her numbers she seems pretty weak especially midlane where 90% of the roaster will outrange and outburst her,i just hope she doesn't becone a cheesy toplane pick edit: actually thinking about it she seems extremely underpowered something you never addressed in the video is that she effectively doesn't have any hard CC which is a massive deal for a mage,so even her supposed safety isn't as much as it seems like like she can run a bit faster but compare that to Syndra having a fuck-off button

I think she’s gonna be under powered until either people figure her out or she gets massive buffs from RIOT but once either of those happen she will feel very OP in the same way release Zeri was through sheer kite and sustained dps. Hopefully RIOT will get her under control at that point relatively quickly. TBH, has there ever been a kite champ with movement on their abilities who hasn’t at one point or another been massively OP? Genuinely curious because the only ones who come to mind are Zeri and Kalista and they’re purposely kept week because of how easily they get out of hand. I guess Lucian is normally in an ok spot as far as I can remember… How is it that I manage to ramble on forever even in text?

As a leblanc main ive been waiting for a long time to main another. Aurora could be it

Isn’t Lillia the last battle mage to come out? I coulda sworn she was

Aurora 5 man ults your team, you turn to kill her, she uses zhonya, her team jumps you, now you gotta flash/blink/tp out her ult or die🤷 On that note ryze seems to be a good matchup against her, has point click cc so her movement is hindered and if he predicts she’s gonna ult his team he can use r since it’s a tp

@magnov983

10 күн бұрын

She could Zhonya’s similar to Ori/Liss, playmaking midlaner

@h2o848

10 күн бұрын

her ult is like a wide-range orianna ult, forcing enemies to group up combo with fiddlesticks or anivia could go wild

@kauanjos3199

10 күн бұрын

You literally described fiddle

I personally find no problem with Aurora getting invisibility. You say it's basically duskblade, but the reason that was a problematic item was because it was just that. An item that could be purchased by anyone. Aurora's invis is moreso about getting away or buying time. Not so much ambush and surprise. You essentially use it to get a more advantageous position when you otherwise wouldn't get anything. Overall I think Aurora is a good champ design and a very neat idea for a battle mage. When was the last time we got a caster that could build lich bane and nashors tooth?

@dresean3725

10 күн бұрын

Duskblade was also instant. Aurora needs to wait for her hop animation to go invisible and then you also get to see where she landed

@tranngockha6562

10 күн бұрын

​@@dresean3725 Agree, the "get to see where she land" is the best part of this. A fair counterplay perk. It give her a good tool for survival and positioning without being too powerful.

Riot actually releasing a balanced new champion for once

Isn't she a Magical Vayne?

Aurora is a Vainglory character