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Do you think Schalke will ever get to Worlds?

Let's just start with summer 2020, I think "ever," is a bit too hard for me to predict.

This is hands down the best split for any EU team to make it to worlds. The extra seed is a big deal. But as mentioned in the podcast FNC and G2 are basically locked in for worlds short of a total disaster, OG seem likely for one of the remaining seeds. So now you've got one spot and MAD/MSF/RGE/S04 fighting for it. (Obviously XL VIT and SK could surprise but let's take it one step at a time)

With that competition, we will need to see huge growth from S04 if they want to make it to worlds. You can call them a dark horse but it would take a lot of big upsets for them to make it.

Elymmen

what is your opinion on schalke's 10 man roster and do you think it is fair that lck and lcs have the same amount of seeds?

In the west I think 10 man rosters are purely lip service until proven otherwise.

MyTeaSpatula

Hey /u/RiotDrakos, how come Frosk gets the Alienware m5 and you're having to rep what I think it a Latitude? With those LECtronic paychecks I'd expect you to have an m5 too!

That's my work laptop lol. We only had one Alienware on hand today. Hopefully I get one next week. :)

huntersniper007

with the tendency of fnatic and g2 to int in the first matches of the split, i feel like all the matchups on the first day of play this week can go both ways. would you agree?

No way I can say with any confidence that SK have a shot at beating OG in game 3. Outside of that I think its pretty fair to say that day 1 games especially are a bit of a toss up.

Biggest questions for me are SK and VIT. Do they level up this split? Or are they just punching bags like spring.

envisat_

What do you think about the latest changes to the elemental rift with the seemingly unlimited amount of blast cones with infernal drake? Seems pretty over the top from what I've seen so far.

I don't think the plant spawns will impact strategy in any meaningful way. If it was earlier in the game it would be a big deal but coming in on a rift change means I don't think it will do much.

I'm just hoping it leads to some wild blastcone outplays.

I wanna be in the band

We went pretty quickly through each of the teams this week so if you have any questions at all feel free to shoot em my way. I'm prepping today so happy to answer whatever.

kjedlor

The studio looks sexy but it seems kinda small, it seems like the are in a cublicle.

Edit: Frosk you dont need to dance around the TSM drama, we all know they messed up badly, hell, Leena didnt even apologize to Dardoch personaly.

Much better for sound overall, this episode had some technical difficulties but hopefully you notice the difference in future episodes!

Also its way more comfortable lol.

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Thanks! I'll look into it

sephrinx

Why is it intentional that not having sight of someone completely negates your rune choice? Sight or not, you should get the movespeed toward them.

Minor runes should generally be fairly low mindshare and if gameplay on AV is Ashe fishing over walls with W and checking her MS to see if someone's there its pretty weird gameplay. Theres also some consistency rules with stuff working when you see them and not when you don't.

Also a lot of cc reveals, tho certainly not all.

All that being said, it's a tossup because if you hit your morg bind while they dip into a bush you should feel good about it and benefit from your choices.

Blue_Lucian_Chroma

Do you know if it’s intentional that AV doesn’t work if you’d CC’ed them while they’re out of vision? Tbh I don’t remember if it did before but there’s a pretty recent thread highlighting that and how it increases time spent hasted while you’re dead, leading to a misleading level of usefulness

Out of vision is intentional, the time spent dead one is a bit wack for tracking but I could look into just making it check to make sure you're alive

I think I found and fixed this bug while updating Approach Velocity to its newer version

PoolPartyTaliyah

But both Pantheon (pre-rework) and Mord were top laners, maybe a bot or mid is better.

If we had one that was as high priority sure, we currently don't have any bot or mids that are as high priority as Mundo. All the champs I put on the last voting poll where high priority and 4 were junglers with only Mundo being Top

raphelmadeira

Hey Reav3, can we expect a rework thinking Dr. Mundo in two lanes?

With Fiddle's rework, we lost him as support. Going from tier S+ (3% pick rate) to less than 1% pick rate due to changes. Can we dream with Dr. Mundo viable as support (like Maokai for example)?

Or are there 0% chances and he only be defined as top lane? Thanks!

I think we will likely be able to make him work in both top and jng (It was much harder to make Fiddle work in Jng and support) Though we would be looking at top primary, and jng secondary if we can make it work

Spideraxe30

Are you aiming Mundo to be a broad/popular champ or would you be alright if he remained relatively niche

We are targeting him to stay niche, we mostly want to increase his depth by rather then his breadth

fnaticfanboy121

Will volibear be avaiiable in the first week of the LEC?

He's enabled yeah!

Zoli_Ben

Do you think Mundo will remain as a juggernaut?

We don't plan on changing his identity as a tank/juggernaut hybrid.

Spideraxe30

Was there any reason why Mundo was chosen over other potential candidates as the non poll VGU, since most of the champs you noted are showing their age as much as Mundo

Largely because we just finished 2 junglers with Fiddlesticks and Volibear and wanted to do a VGU on a different class (Top lane) to add better role diversity to our VGU line up. I mentioned it in the VGU Poll as well that we wouldn't necessarily VGU the champs in the order of most votes.

Zoli_Ben

Very nice blog indeed, but the question is still unanswered; will his title stay Madman of Zaun? I dunno what I need to bribe you for it. :P

Possibly, we don't usually finalize the title until much later in the process, It will really depend on if the title still makes sense with his updated direction or not

Spideraxe30

/u/Reav3 will Mundo still be able to go where he pleases

Of course! No one tells Mundo where he should go but Mundo