Wednesday, August 24, 2011

League of Legends Talon Champion Spotlight

He looks really fun to play, assassin type character... Lets just hope hes balanced...


and here is the Talon spotlight.


TALON PATCH NOTES HERE:
PVP.net Store
  • Added a Purchases tab that contains a history of all your purchases
  • Champions tab redesigned to feature full art splashes
  • Home page layout graphics updated
  • Home page now features a progress indicator for content being loaded
  • Filtering and search redesigned to be more visually appealing and compact
  • Made several fixes and tweaks to padding/alignments/font issues throughout the store

PVP.net v1.42.34
  • New landing page design
    • Now displays YouTube videos (Champion spotlight/Community Spotlight, etc). These videos can be expanded to full screen
    • Top news articles from LeagueOfLegends.com are displayed in the lower left
    • Featured and sale items from the store are now displayed in the top right
    • Redesigned the banner scroller to make it smoother
  • New art and layout for the End of Game screen
  • Improved messages for game invites to include game type
  • Updated the design for map/game selection
  • Summoner's Rift Autumn map is now directly selectable from the custom game screen

League of Legends v1.0.0.124
Talon, the Blade's Shadow
  • Noxian Diplomacy: Talon viciously stabs his enemy, dealing heavy physical damage and causing them to leave a blood trail that Talon can use to track them.
  • Rake: Talon fans out three blades in front of him that quickly return to him, dealing damage and slowing any target hit in either direction.
  • Cutthroat: Talon leaps behind his target and silences them for a short duration, amplifying the damage of any of his follow up attacks and abilities.
  • Shadow Assault (Ultimate): Talon enters stealth for a short duration, gaining a movement speed boost and sending blades that deal damage to all enemies in their path flying in every direction. Once the blades reach a certain distance, they pause and form a circle. When Talon reappears from stealth, the blades return to him, once again dealing damage to any opponent they pass through.
  • Mercy (Passive): Talon's auto-attacks deal additional damage to a target that is under the influence of any crowd control effect.

Alistar
  • Unbreakable Will
    • Duration adjusted to 7 seconds at all ranks from 6/7/8 seconds
    • Physical and Magical Damage reduction reduced to 50/60/70% from 75% at all ranks

Jax
  • Leap Strike damage reduced to 20/45/70/95/120 from 35/60/85/110/135
  • Empower
    • Damage reduced to 60/95/130/165/200 from 75/110/135/180/215
    • Empower now breaks spell shields

Kayle
  • Attack damage per level increased to 2.8 from 2.5
  • Attack speed per level increased to 2.5 from 2
  • Reckoning
    • Now scales with bonus attack damage at a 1.0 ratio in addition to a 1.0 ability power ratio
    • Damage amplification increased to 6/7/8/9/10% from 5% at all levels

Lee Sin
  • Resonating Strike will now only automatically attempt to attack champions rather than all enemies

Nidalee
  • Javelin Toss
    • Mana Cost reduced to 50/60/70/80/90 from 60/70/80/90/100
    • Cooldown reduced to 6 seconds from 7 seconds
  • Pounce
    • May now be affected by Cooldown Reduction
    • Cooldown increased to 4 seconds from 3 seconds
  • Primal Surge
    • Mana cost adjusted to 60/80/100/120/140 from 65/70/75/80/85
    • Base heal adjusted to 50/85/120/155/190 from 60/90/120/150/180
    • Ability power ratio reduced to 0.7 from 1.25
  • Swipe ability power ratio increased to 0.4 from 0.2
  • Aspect of the Cougar now grants 10/15/20 armor and magic resistance instead of 10% Dodge
  • Fixed several tooltip errors (especially those in Cougar form)

Orianna
  • Command: Dissonance base damage reduced to 70/115/160/205/250 from 70/120/170/220/270
  • Command: Protect shield ability power ratio reduced to .4 from .6
  • Fixed a bug with Command: Shockwave dealing extra damage at ranks 11 and 16

Sona
  • Aria of Perseverance
    • Base heal reduced to 25/50/75/100/125 from 35/70/105/140/175
    • Ability power ratio reduced to .25 from .35
    • Now grants double her passive aura bonus to her heal target and herself for 3 seconds
  • Reduced the lockout time while casting Sona's songs to make them more responsive
  • Fixed a bug where Hymn of Valor and Aria of Perseverance caused her to deal 20% reduced damage

Soraka
  • Recommended Items updated
  • Base health increased to 446 from 426
  • Base health per level increased to 71 from 67
  • Starcall
    • Cooldown reduced to 2.5 seconds from 3 seconds
    • Base damage reduced to 60/85/110/135/160 from 60/90/120/150/180
    • Ability power ratio increased to .4 from .25
    • Mana cost reduced to 35/40/45/50/55 from 40/50/60/70/80
    • Shred increased to 8/9/10/11/12 from 8 at all levels
    • Maximum stacks reduced to 10 from 20
    • Range increased by 30
  • Astral Blessing
    • Ability power ratio reduced to .45 from .9
    • Cooldown increased to 20 seconds from 10 seconds
    • Base Heal increased to 70/140/210/280/350 from 60/120/180/240/300
    • Armor buff increased to 25/50/75/100/125 from 20/35/50/65/80
    • Armor buff duration increased to 5 seconds from 4 seconds
    • Cast range increased to 750 from 650
  • Infuse
    • Ability power ratio increased to .75 from .6
    • Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds from 15 seconds
    • Silence duration adjusted to 1.5/1.75/2/2.25/2.5 from 1/1.5/2/2.5/3
    • No longer grants double Mana when casting on yourself
  • Wish
    • Ability power ratio reduced to .7 from 1.3
    • Mana cost reduced to 100/175/250 from 200/275/350

Taric
  • Base attack speed increased to .625 from .613
  • Imbue
    • Ability power ratio reduced to .6 from 1.1
    • Cooldown increased to 20/19/18/17/16 seconds from 16/15/14/13/12 seconds
    • Basic attacks now reduce Imbue?s cooldown by 1 second (from 2) but the reduction now increases to 3 seconds when attacking an enemy champion

Udyr
  • Turtle Stance
    • Heal reduced to 10/12/14/16/18% from 12/14/16/18/20%
    • Mana return reduced to 5/6/7/8/9% from 9/10.5/12/13.5/15%
  • Fixed a bug with Phoenix Stance where the activation damage was counting as single target spell damage for Spell Vamp or Rylai's

Xin'Zhao
  • Three Talon Strike knock up duration slightly reduced
  • Audacious Charge slow duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 1.75 seconds

General
  • UI Improvements
    • New scoreboard with new art!
    • Removed upper left redundant champion info
    • Floating text is now prioritized to show important events such as being stunned or silenced much more quickly
    • Kills are now displayed as "Kill Callouts" along the right hand side of the screen and show assists
  • Added a new ping functionality: You can now ping to signal your teammates to fall back
  • You are now able to mute players from the scoreboard
  • Improved prioritization for selection of units around towers
  • Made improvements to loadtimes and frame rates for Summoner's Rift, Twisted Treeline, and Tutorials
  • Toggle spells no longer cancel channeling when turned off
  • Made improvements to camera panning to make it smoother
  • Made improvements to how Fog of War interacts with the environment to enhance the visual display (does not affect the gameplay aspect of Fog of War)
  • Fixed a bug where Champions could be pulled across the map while teleporting
  • Fixed several issues where character animations would sometimes freeze
  • Fixed several bugs associated with reconnecting to a game
  • Fixed several bugs associated with load time crashes
  • Fixed a rare bug that caused in-game crashes

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

New Skins in the Talon Patch ( 1.0.0.124 )

These are new skins to be released in the near future, Art and In game model are both included.

Reverse Annie skin




Victorious Jarvan IV (Season 2 Plat/Gold Reward Skin)



Demolisher Nunu



Pax Sivir (PAX only skin just as the others)



Dragonslayer Vayne



Talon ( Classic )



Renegade Talon



Crimson Elite Talon





Pentakill Karthas



Personally I LOVE the Vayne Skin, will be definitely spending my last RP on it.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Talon Art Spotlight

League of Legends Talon's Art.

This will be used for the new upcoming champion Talon the Shadow's Blade

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Talon, The Blade's Shadow mechanics

They provided information on what talon's abilities will be like, looks like he'll be fun, most of this reminds me of a jacked version of Shaco but cooler.


"Today we wanted to bring you a peek into the mechanics behind Talon, the Blade's Shadow, the new assassin that's joining the League!

Talon, the Blade's Shadow, is a physical damage assassin who specializes in high-mobility, high-risk, high-reward gameplay. Our goal with Talon was to create a powerful but fragile melee character with specialized tools to make him both deadly and evasive. As a result, what Talon lacks in durability and sustain, he dishes out in mobility and power.

The driving force behind Talon's gameplay is the way that he engages and disengages from combat using his four abilities:

Cutthroat: An ability that allows Talon to catch his enemies by surprise. Talon leaps behind his target and silences them for a short duration, amplifying the damage of any of his follow up attacks and abilities.

Noxian Diplomacy: Talon viciously stabs his enemy, dealing heavy physical damage and causing them to leave a blood trail that Talon can use to track them.

Rake: Talon fans out three blades in front of him that quickly return to him, dealing damage and slowing any target hit in either direction.

Shadow Assault (Ultimate): Talon enters stealth for a short duration, gaining a movement speed boost and sending blades that deal damage to all enemies in their path flying in every direction. Once the blades reach a certain distance, they pause and form a circle. When Talon reappears from stealth, the blades return to him, once again dealing damage to any opponent they pass through.

Mercy (Passive): Talon's auto-attacks deal additional damage to a target that is under the influence of any crowd control effect.

Playing Talon effectively is all about reading the situation and reacting strategically to your target. Shadow Assault can be either your saving grace or your deadliest advance. Using it to disappear can sting your target and leave them chasing ghosts. But if it's a fight you want, using it to initiate in conjuction with Cutthroat, Noxian Diplomacy, and Mercy can deal significant burst damage.

To sum up, Talon's a mean, shadowy, vicious assassin... and we're excited to see him join the League soon. And as a side note, his mobility and elusiveness makes him a very good pick on Dominion!"

Monday, August 15, 2011

League of Legends Season 2 Tournament rewards

Summoners!

With League of Legends fans setting viewership records in the Western world for the League of Legends Season One Championship, we're as excited as you are to kick Season Two off in style. As you've helped us become one of the most popular online titles to date, we thought it was only appropriate that League of Legends Season Two should boast the largest prize pool in eSports.

The League of Legends Season Two prize pool will feature a record setting $5 million prize pool!

The thriving eSports community surrounding League of Legends continues to grow at an incredible pace, and it?s the enthusiasm of competitors from across the globe that has engendered this special opportunity. And with League of Legends featured as an official title in such landmark eSports organizations as Major League Gaming, Electronic Sports League, and the World Cyber Games, this substantially increased prize pool is just the first glimpse into what we have planned for the upcoming season.

The money will be funding prizing for local, national and international tournaments to foster and grow the League of Legends eSports scene. For starters, the new season will feature weekly livestreams of our ongoing regional tournaments in North America, and across both European enviornments, so stay tuned for more information on these broadcasts and to see a lot more of League of Legends enthusiasts like Phreak, Rivington III and Nikasaur.

League of Legends Season Two is coming this fall, summoners! And with $5 million on the line this time around, the League of Legends eSports scene just got even more exciting!

-Ryze, CEO


Looks like a response to DoTA 2 and its 1 million prize pool

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Champion Sneak Peek: Talon, The Shadow's Blade

It takes a truly resourceful gentleman to seamlessly combine function and style, particularly on the battlefield. It should come as no surprise, then, that the upcoming champion of the League is a man of both utility and flair.

Allow me to introduce Talon, The Shadow's Blade. In addition to looking every bit the part of the cloaked and cowled assassin that he is, Talon's cloak of blades makes him a dangerous and terrifying presence on the battlefield. It's probably best to steer clear of this this cloaked and dangerous champion on the Field of Justice, or he won't be the only one pulling a disappearing act.



Looks like a pretty interesting champs, assassins are always fun to play :3

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

New Skins for Skarner Patch

Patch 1.0.0.123 (Skarner Patch)

Bloodstone Taric
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhoXDcsIbnw


Unchained Alistar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2XYkSTZUM


Judgement Kayle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEM5IS58Igg



Obsidian Malphite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hmz4yPfbsw



Rugged Garen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGl4TLgy81k



Arctic Warfare Caitlyn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64dyW-zDAcM



personally going to be getting the bloodstone Taric, and arctic warfare Caitlyn skins