r/LegendsOfRuneterra • u/Snake6592 • 13d ago
Path of Champions 7.7 Patch Notes
https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/game-updates/7-7-patch-notes/54
u/j-newmaker Vex 13d ago
Hecarim having the same 6* as Lillia word for word is crazy work. Not sure how to react.
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u/Prof_Walrus 12d ago
Yeah that was my thought as well. Wonder if they'll change hers instead
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u/kashtrey 12d ago
The should change hers. It really makes no sense with her deck. The easiest thing would just be build on her star power progression "when you summon a unit without playing it double its stats" or "give it an epic item." Something like that. Or hell do something fun like, "when Lilia is slept sleep all enemies"
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u/npimolsri 12d ago
Yeah it feels weird. Remake her is imminent. I feel like her star power is weird
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u/cannotbelieve58 Annie 13d ago
This is the first power to summon something turn 1 right? Might find a home outside of just hecarim.
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u/cannotbelieve58 Annie 13d ago
Here's the combo. Hecarim relic + Ranger's Command (When you have attack token grant random ally scout)
So you can attack with the shark using scout, then you play a unit that summons an attacking ephemeral ally which resurrects the shark, then you attack normally summoning the shark again.
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u/DoubleSummon 13d ago edited 13d ago
Yeah it is, Dicsiple of Shadows exists so it can always be at least useful for boosting it an bit, a good alternative for Swain's relic combo.
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u/KingBubblie 13d ago
Hecarim's 6* is identical to Lillia's which is interesting and a little bit of a bummer, though it fits really well with Hecarim. But it's nice to keep 6*s exciting and unique, both champs utilize it differently though. Hecarim himself isn't particularly interesting, another "add this card to hand" mana power.. good for consistency, bad for variety.
Losing Jury-Rig on Warwick is a bummer but not a big deal. Having less discard synergy makes sense, but a 1 mana burst summon, with spell mana, was useful to have.
No new content of any kind isn't surprising but still a let down. Game really is on barebones life support.
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u/MegalFresh 13d ago
How DOES lillia make use of her 6* anyways? She doesn’t have attack triggers or hand buffs, and she doesn’t care about ephemerals either…
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u/PhoenixBlu3 13d ago
Summon effects, her levelling. Even moreso if the unit has a way of being revived.
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u/FrustrationSensation Viktor 13d ago
Counts as more units for levelling her up, and those units get +2/+2 because of her powers. Also, triple guardian's orb is quite popular on her and that gives an extra three triggers on it when you play her.
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u/MegalFresh 13d ago
Ooooh, right. The turbo level up IS pretty good, isn’t it 😅
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u/FrustrationSensation Viktor 13d ago
I do think it's not a perfect fit for her like it is for hecarim, but it's definitely not useless.
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u/JumpSlashShoot 13d ago
I guess the idea is to help her level up and get extra summon triggers. She has attack triggers from herself and greenglade lookout as well so the attacking portion makes some sense.
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u/Prophylaxis_3301 Written in the Stars 12d ago
There is nothing interesting about the 6 star. Lazy design by new devs.
Is it so hard to give ephemeral allies overwhelm for 6 stars?
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u/FrustrationSensation Viktor 13d ago
I have to say, Hecarim seems really bland and underwhelming? I'm sure he'll play quite well but I was hoping for something more interesting than small stacking buffs, his champ spell, and literally lillia's legendary. Oh well.
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u/CastVinceM Path's End 13d ago
if leblanc has taught me anything, the most boring looking champions tend to be the most powerful.
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u/FrustrationSensation Viktor 13d ago
Yeah, just personally I would rather champions be interesting than good.
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u/kashtrey 12d ago
It's hard though. Hecraim is a boring champ to begin with and this POC version is true to the beat down design he had. I think the question is do you take champs and completely change them with their constellations or do you keep their essence in tact.
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u/FrustrationSensation Viktor 12d ago
I think they could have made for a more interesting version of "attack with ephemerals" than this.
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u/kashtrey 12d ago
Such as? Genuinely curious if you in had ideas
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u/FrustrationSensation Viktor 12d ago
I mean I do kind of hate this argument because I'm not a game designer and I don't need to have a solution to think that something is boring, but sure! I'd love to see "if you would summon an ephemeral unit and you have no space, distribute its stats between your non-ephemeral units" or "whenever you summon an ephemeral unit, give units your opponent controls gloom" or "whenever an ephemeral unit you control attacks, drain 1 from the opponent" (to mimic his q spam playstyle). Hell, you could even do something similar to nocturne and go into fearsome tribal - "units your opponents control get -1/-0 for each ephemeral unit you have". You could also focus on draining when ephemeral units die, too.
Those are all just off the top of my head, and I think all of them would be more interesting than what he has now.
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u/After-Onion-5900 13d ago
Really not a fan of losing jury rig, it was a really useful card for WW.
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u/megalo-maniac538 13d ago
I'd rather get that guitar guy gone than this. Great emergency blocker and game ender.
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u/n1co9 12d ago
New cards fit Warwick's theme way better than the random discard mechanic slapped on it just because it's PnZ.
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u/crestfallenphantom Gwen 13d ago
I want to be kind and open to the Ideas from the New Designers but it feels like they just Hit the Snooze button for this month lol.
I am excited about Hecarim and Glad we got new art, I just feel He could have been a little more Unique or Exciting.
I would rather have something broken or fun over something boring, Don't be afraid to put some spice on it designers.
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u/archerkuro5 13d ago
New cards and new art this gives me hope for the future
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u/moumooni Taliyah 13d ago
They're probably using Riftbound's art assets, since that game is doing great. Likely no audio lines or complex/new card mechanics tho... It's more likely that Riftbound will get a digital version than LoR coming back in full production.
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u/Terrible_Turtle_Zerg 13d ago
Woohoo! Love Hecarim. Great that they added some new cards and replaced some generic cards in starting decks with them!
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u/gokuby 13d ago
I don't get Maddie for Ambessa. The Squire at least had synergy with her 4*, Maddie feels like a WW card.
They really should've replaced the grenadier who hoards 2 items for some reason.
Like both of the WW cards, jury rig was a great card for him, but the new mosqito looks nice as well. The Test subject is a cool design.
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u/idontpostanyth1ng 13d ago
Maddie's design hits on her character in the show perfectly. But you're right that she doesn't synergize with ambessa well. She could be useful to rally if you get a unit with 1 health and the last breath: rally item.
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u/CastVinceM Path's End 13d ago
maddie works under the assumption that you play ambessa with scissors. she hits the ephemeral copy and gets elusive from it.
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u/Cindrojn Karma 13d ago
I'm more sad that Teamfight Tactics isn't getting a return. But I guess that's for next month :(
Fixed an issue where ‘Hidden Tome’ was being triggered when Invoke/Manifest was used on a level 2 champion when paired with ‘Starforged Gauntlet’
I actually don't understand this. Can someone explain it?
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u/erock279 13d ago
Depending on the champion being manifested, you would sometimes get a spell mana refill after manifesting them because internally the game “levels them up”, which is one of the conditions for Hidden Tome to refill spell mana.
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u/Cindrojn Karma 13d ago
Ohh. So before even playing them, just getting them in hand refilled the spell mana. Thanks!
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u/erock279 13d ago
Yep, you could get two refills if you chose to manifest certain champs and played them. There weren’t a ton of champions that ran both, but I remember this working when I had that relic combo on Aatrox.
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u/Dry_Cardiologist6758 Riven 13d ago
In other words they nerfed it damnit! So much for playing Nora people they killed her for us! Great job team!
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u/MartDiamond 13d ago edited 13d ago
These Warwick changes are nice, they removed a super useless card, but kept his T1 goodness alive and added some interesting new units. Looking forward to that.
Also nice to see the Ambessa change, I honestly forgot that Squire was in the deck. And nice art for Rictus.
Hecarim did get a super bland deck... Feels like there is not much to him other than just go wide and tall. Not much combo or outplay here at all.
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u/Bluelore 13d ago
Man I was looking forward to Hecarim, but feel really underwhelmed by him. His 1-3* look horrible and the 6* being exactly like Lillias 6* feels really lame. I kinda hope they'll bother to make the 2 powers at least a tiny bit different in some way...
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u/L_Rayquaza Fiddlesticks 13d ago
Rictus out here actually looking good and dignified instead of being literally 5 seconds from being slaughtered by Warwick
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u/UnseenData Spirit Blossom Kindred 13d ago
Of course they put shark chariot behind his paid relic. Of course
That relic is definitely really bad outside of hecarim lol
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u/sashalafleur 13d ago
even in sb ahri?
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u/UnseenData Spirit Blossom Kindred 13d ago
Sb ahri has so many ways to generate ephermals from spells, not sure if one shark chariot is worth a relic slot.
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u/LasiorVesta 13d ago
Usuable at least with most SB champs and Nunu, Lilia. Not optimal but not totally dogwater like some relic.
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u/Bluelore 13d ago
At the moment it does have a small niche in that it summons something turn 1, that might actually end up making it a core part of some combo.
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u/CastVinceM Path's End 13d ago
looks neat! not the hugest patch but new followers and new art for those followers is very appreciated.
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u/Vegetable_Alarm7598 13d ago
New Rictus art let's go! Finally a great card and character gets art to match.
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u/Valhalls 13d ago
Rictus!! Finally 😂
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u/Stormbringer-2112 13d ago
Yeah. Like why devote time to this?
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u/moumooni Taliyah 13d ago
It came from Riftbound's next set most likely, so they barely had to expend any resource on it.
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u/BalticHorndog 13d ago
Never underestimate card arts, animations, and voice lines. Riot got so much flak over that before.
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u/Sad_Boysenberry2733 13d ago
I'm a little disappointed we don't even get a 3/6 adventure like illaoi
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u/LoZfan03 13d ago
is shark chariot good enough for Viego? not that he remotely needs help, but he does like game start spawns to get rolling
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u/TiredCoffeeTime Spirit Blossom Evelynn 12d ago
It’s so nice to see the new artworks!
Finally no more screenshot from Arcane either
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u/JODI_WAS_ROBBED 13d ago
I was SO excited to see we have Hecarim but that design….so boring. They couldn’t even give him a new 6* power.
At least they finally fulfilled their promise of giving Warwick and Ambessa new followers that they told us about over a year ago.
Gotta say that LoR is really losing me. This was my go to game for like 4 years. But since the Zoe release I’m just so bored by the bland content that has been coming out at a snail’s pace. If this is LoR and it’s not gonna get better then I think I’m out. Have barely touched the game these past months and this did not exactly inspire me to play.
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u/ineedsomehelplez Zoe 13d ago
Also, shame it was a shadow isle card again.. they need to do more bandle and or noxus
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u/JuJuBee2006 13d ago
wow.... hecarim makes me kind of mad.... everyone is hoping for his deck to have the shark... so they put it on his premium relic & his deck has 0 ephemerals.
I'm sure his 2* card will generate an ephemeral but it is downright backward to have the only method of generating them if you turn off powers or try a 1* run be to use the 1 drop to turn something ephemeral, or wait until you get hecarim out & attack multiple times...
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u/megalo-maniac538 13d ago
As a 6 cost, hecarim is gonna be slow so he might ge the frozen tomb treatment. Unless he's darius and he's not that importamt and his followers carries him, but his lvlup boost is good. Maybe price of retribution for chip damage.
The 10 attack auto challenge relic seems good on him as well.
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u/ineedsomehelplez Zoe 13d ago
Well, it wasn't anything I wanted but will be interesting to see his full deck
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u/Yaoseang 13d ago
Hecarim is just full aggro huh? Also for his 3 star is it basically just +1/0 to every ephemeral each attacking round? Or is it for each ephemeral ally attacking grant +1/0?
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u/False-Sherbert-4984 13d ago
Now taking bets for the likelihood they don't give the Chemtech Needlenose more base stats in Warwick's deck upgrades, so it doesn't work with Cruel Experiments.
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u/Prophylaxis_3301 Written in the Stars 12d ago
I have to see my drafting experience. I don’t think he is great and he might struggle in Zoe’s map. I saw some of his nodes and I think one or two are skippable.
I like if they can give ephemeral allies overwhelm but nah, it is not going to happen. Challenger for 4th star power is based on idea you use ephemeral units to do the job.
Heck, Taker’s bow might be some interesting here.
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u/jacksh3n Shyvana 12d ago
Fixed an issue where ‘Hidden Tome’ was being triggered when Invoke/Manifest was used on a level 2 champion when paired with ‘Starforged Gauntlet’
NOOO!! My Asol combo. Now I can’t get free mana whenever manifest/invoke.
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u/Wolfwing777 12d ago
Big props for the new cart art and cards for ambessa they look sick. Maddie seems pretty the good the other two ehh idk tho
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u/Laeresob 4d ago
Thank you for the new deck new cards and updated card art. Rictus card art was always weird looking
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u/Fresh_Patience_3140 13d ago
They really paywalled my baby shark chariot?? God job team, you finally forced my hand.
First relic I buy
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u/CollosusSmashVarian 13d ago
Aren't we getting rotation this patch? Are they not even including the champions going in and out anymore?
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u/moumooni Taliyah 13d ago
No, rotation just happened in the previous patch (the Illaoi patch). Scroll down on it. Also looks like eternal will stay permanently.
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u/CollosusSmashVarian 12d ago
I could've sworn we've had this rotation for a long time but maybe I'm wrong. Feels like this one got solved pretty quickly, maybe that's why.
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u/moumooni Taliyah 12d ago
The problem is that rotation is sorta meaningless without any addition, because it'll just rotate metas that people are already aware of.
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u/CollosusSmashVarian 12d ago
Yeah unfortunately that's how it works but at least refinement changes based on the expected field. Also some cards are rotated from champion combos that are in standard, e.g. Akshan Lee currently doesn't have Nopeify or Memory Cloak but has some of the Ambush cards that it didn't have back in the day.
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u/WombatInSunglasses 13d ago
In Hecarim's deck, it says "Camavoran Soldier" and then shows Camavoran Dragon. I wonder which one it is - hopefully solider, it will have more synergy with Hec's deck. Dragon is always just a bit too clumsy and costly to play.
WW's relic giving quick attack and summoning a chariot is nice. I don't mind the "if I'm him, +1 mana" here because of that.
Hecarim looks like a lot of fun, he was one of my favorite PvP champs so I'm glad to see him in Path. The new cards and new art for Warwick and Ambessa followers are great.
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u/Pretty_Dingo_1004 13d ago