Well I won't be on at all for pretty much another week. Have a date tonight and then traveling for the holiday. See you guys in December :/

I like that Riot's balance team just gets drunk sometimes and nerfs random champions.  So they are deciding that they need to nerf Brand, Hecarim, Anivia, and Swain next patch.  Some of them with big time nerfs that will result in substantial winrate drops.

Really?  Was anybody banning Swain?  I get that some of those champions had high winrates on players with lots of experience on them, but thats a sign of a decent champion that nobody knows how to play against because its unpopular, not something with massive inherent strengths.  I mean, how many people are really practice in playing against Swain right now?

If you nerf unpopular champions into the ground, that means that like half the roster never gets played because they were never popular in the first place AND they suck.

Some info on the crafting system in a roundabout way..

http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/24/9793694/league-of-legends-crafting-loot-system-toxic-players-hextech-2016-update

One thing I'm annoyed about with masteries is that they aren't making any changes to some of the shite ones.  

One that stands out to me the most just bothers me because its so god awful clunky.

Strength of ages - "Large monsters and siege minions that you or nearby allies kill grant you 20 and 10 permanent Health respectively (300 max). After reaching the max bonus further siege minion kills restore 100 Health."

Maybe its an ocd thing, but this drives me a little nuts.  So its a mastery that is OK for tanky junglers, but they get pretty much nothing out of the siege minion kills get you 100 health (unless you are someone getting those... as the tanky junglers typically do during ganks or mid/late...).  But then its also kind of crap on top laners as by the time you'd be able to max it out primarily on siege minions for the health stack, you really don't get much benefit from the 100 hp heal. 

Anyway, what gets me is that the second component (100 health heal) is straight up garbage as you very, very likely can't use it on any champ that would want to take the mastery over something else.  So, on the jungle, that is completely useless (unless you get the team to let you last hit creeps for the health... which they won't unless they know its like a 1k HP heal... which it isn't.  On top, it could be nice on a split pusher, but again... it takes a LONG time to get stacked on siege minions.  

screwing around - i have a 6,719 hp sej atm at lv 17

Go big or go sejauni

Did I imagine they nerfed the healing mastery (keystone)?

Hope everyone had/is having a good holiday.

I did pretty poorly against that Nasus Top the other day cause I didn't take Teleport but aside from that I've been doing pretty well with Swain.  He's extremely anti AD so in the Lucian Mid, Lucian Bot, Graves In The Fucking Jungle??? Marksmen Fucking Everywhere Meta he's been pretty useful when I've had to go Mid.

Hopefully they don't take him down too hard but honestly a one point wonder AOE two second snare is not fun to play against.  Deathfire and the AD Meta is a lot of his OPness but he did get some Mastery buffs that help him CS so I'm hopeful they're just adjusting for that and realize that it's also a very favorable meta for him.

PBE changes only.  I don't know what they mean.  Happy Thanksgiving!

• [Damage changed]
• Base Damage changed to [8 + 50% bonus AD & 20% AP over 4 seconds] from [6 + 50% bonus AD & 20% AP over 3 seconds]
• [Duration changed]
• Burn Duration for Single target increased to 4 seconds from 3 seconds.
• Burn Duration for AoE increased to 2 seconds from 1.5 seconds
• Burn Duration for damage over time decreased to 1 second from  1.5 seconds.

So I've been playing around a bit with the %hp runes.  I think you can actually legitimately get away with running them on sej.  Our resident sej main is really digging the setup.  

When theory crafting, it starts with the hmmm dumb number stats- in her case a max of around 6.8k.  Not a practical IG number, but its out there.  Strength of ages feels incredibly good.  It's instant sustain of 20 HP per camp, so it helps a bunch on early clear hp.  She can clear without any problem and then reclear/gank easily.  

Sub par ganks?  There are definitely better single target gankers, but she's top shelf for bot lane.  You have to flash to avoid dying unless someone pooches their skill shot.  They either back up to avoid getting snared, and still get slowed, or they got snared to begin with, in either case, your ultimate dropping in will absolutely ruin a 3v2.  Her biggest problem really is people going on tilt because you picked her.  I rarely bother with it myself, even though I almost always win.  It's just too likely someone will queue dodge first.

She's super hard too, so they'll all suck.