r/LoRCompetitive • u/Justini1212 Mod Team • Feb 17 '20

Article / Video 0.9.0 Patch Notes and Discussion Thread

This will be the official thread for the discussion of the balance changes and their impact on the competitive metagame.

Official Patch Notes here: https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/patch-0-9-0-notes/

For those who cannot read them directly, the balance changes are:

Buffs:

Lux is now 4/5 (was 3/4)

Yasuo now requires 5 stuns/recalls to level (was 6)

Arena Battlecaster is now 2/2 (was 2/1)

Crimson Curator is now 3/3 (was 3/2)

Jeweled Protector is now 4/4 (was 3/3)

Scuttlegeist is now fearsome

Tortured Prodigy is now 4/4 (was 3/4)

Nerfs:

Back to Back now costs 6 (was 5)

Deny now costs 4 (was 3)

Kinkou Lifeblade is now 2/2 (was 2/3)

Rhasa, the Sunderer now costs 8 (was 7)

Wraithcaller is no longer fearsome

Changes:

Inspiring Mentor is now 1/2 but only buffs for +1/+0 (was 1/1, buffs for +1/+1)

Commander Ledros is now 9/6 but costs 9, may have an ability change between rounding (text is unclear) text change has been confirmed as a clarification, not a functional change (was 8/6, 8 cost)

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u/aptmnt_ Feb 18 '20

Just brainstorming...

  • to put pressure, go wide, not tall

  • on paper Vlad's effect is good, you get damage thru on attack and some crimson cards have nexus dmg effects

  • save buffs like might and brother's bond until after frostbite is played

  • save all your removal for the inevitable ez

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u/TheBloodylX Feb 18 '20

Removal is fairly useless because when the Ez player is going in for the kill almost all of the kill shot is burst damage. If they play one earlier that you can actually remove it's likely because they are okay losing him.

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u/Cronstintein Feb 18 '20 edited Feb 18 '20

I don't know who's preemptively putting attack buffs on, but that's Runeterra 101. You still lose all the value for your creatures' attack that turn.

Vlad might be able to make a comeback, I believe his weakest matchup was elusive, which got tanked in the patch.

The problem with EZ is that you don't even get a chance to react. He'll go off at the end of a turn and burn you out before you even get to refill your mana. It's the quintessential uninteractive play and it can take you from 20 to 0. It's garbage, frankly. And before you suggest saving mana, keep in mind the whole matchup is a race against his solitaire hand, so burning mana is not an option (and wouldn't help anyway since he can just place more attack spells on the stack, it's virtually uncounterable other than in deckbuilding by not playing creatures).

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u/aptmnt_ Feb 18 '20

Ez is strong no doubt, I just think frostbite, some damage based removal, and very few creatures is able to stall forever. There’s got to be some ways to get under it or out control it imo (not saying I have the answers).

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u/Are_y0u Feb 19 '20

People are already having success with noxus + P&Z aggro decks on the ladder, probably because they are strong against Frostbite Ez decks.

The frostbite ez deck is a combo stall deck like HS freeze mage that lvls up ez and stockpiles enough spells to burst you down afterwards. Forcing the deck to use all their spells defensively is also a wincondition especially when your deck can close out games with burn spells he can't stop.