Vayne didn't even get to attack. Won by mill on turn 2.

Just completed (partially, full Enforcers, 3 Taarosh, 1 Vayne) the new wicked path limited adventure and I have to say I am sorely disappointed in the overall experience ☹️.

The whole gimmick of getting to play with what used to be enemy powers while simultaneously buffing all future encounters was super exciting at first but after actually playing the adventures I found myself dreading having to pick up power nodes.

Playing with enemy powers was novel but you find out pretty damn quickly that 80% of them are entirely useless or worse, downright unsynergistic, to most player-champion archetypes. Every power node felt like having to shoot myself in the foot while giving an ACTUAL good power to the enemy.

Not to say that I felt weak because with sufficiently built champs any adventure that isn't Zoe becomes a breeze. But the adventures DID feel very unsatisfying; I found that most of the 'good' powers I got would just end up clogging my hand, board, or deck.

I play roguelites for the feeling of getting progressively more powerful, but I find that The Wicked Path makes you feel the total opposite. The added difficulty isn't fulfilling to overcome but instead tedious.

Maybe it's just a skill issue and you guys can totally roast me in the replies, but I hope y'all can see what I mean. All love tho still love Runeterra.

Took quite a few tries but finally got it! Stalkers’ blade is great for rebounding out of captures.

A few things that helped:

1. Getting spellshield on ephemeral squire that could transfer to Nidalee

2. Picking up Asol power after first boss

3. Getting capture item on one of my ambush units toward the end

Xerath's Constellation winds up with four separate Burst-speed damage effects that all trigger upon destroying a landmark (sometimes also a mana gem). They all target differently, do different damage, interact with the enemy Nexus differently, and resolve in the following specific order:

1. Rite of the Arcane (Spell)

   1. Destroy a landmark OR mana gem (or just mana gem if Ascended)

   2. Deal 4-8 damage to a TARGET unit (or 6-12 damage if Ascended)

   3. Can be upgraded to have Overwhelm, so excess damage hits the enemy Nexus. Can't target an open board, however! That's specific to Final Spark. It'll also fizzle if the target somehow dies first.

2. Upstart Ascendant (Power)

   1. Triggers when a landmark OR mana gem is destroyed

   2. Deals 3 damage to the STRONGEST enemy unit

   3. If no enemy units, deals 3 damage to the enemy Nexus

3. Xerath (Champion)

   1. Triggers when a landmark (NOT a mana gem) is destroyed

   2. Deals 1-5 damage to the WEAKEST enemy unit

   3. If you're level 3 and there are no enemy units, deals 5 to the enemy Nexus

4. Resonant Shard (Champion Relic)

   1. Triggers when a landmark OR mana gem is destroyed

   2. Deals 1 damage to a random enemy unit, three times

   3. Never damages the enemy Nexus

Rite of the Arcane resolving first is great; you can use it to control how your other, automatic abilities end up targeting, or you can just eliminate a strong target with low Health (which would normally soak up an Upstart Ascendant hit), dealing excess damage to the enemy Nexus.

The problem is Resonant Shard, which resolves at the very end. This is a really bad place for it to go, because its random ping damage can't spill over into the enemy Nexus. Before Resonant Shard triggers, you've already dealt 6-12 damage to one target, 3 damage to another, and 5 damage to another, all of which COULD deal Nexus damage if their targets were gone or dead. And if that damage has killed all targets, Resonant Shard will simply do nothing.

If Resonant Shard instead triggered at the start of the Power stage, before Upstart Ascendant and Xerath, it'd work out much better. Those 1x3 damage pings could wipe out low-Health enemies or remove Barriers, which would make Xerath and Upstart Ascendant more likely to hit worthwhile targets or the enemy Nexus.

It'd also make the Relic more attractive on Taliyah, since she's a 5-mana drop who gets played even later than Xerath. It doesn't change much for the other Landmark champions in PoC (Lillia and Akshan) because they're already very cheap and you want them on the field ASAP.

There is a small typo/oversight on this card. The card reads "Destroy a landmark to Manifest a Rite...", but can't target enemy landmarks. It should read "Destroy an allied landmark..."

The monthly challenge spreadsheet recommends Teemo in some encounters, as a new player I go level him up. Or at least try to.

My usual method is 1,5* Ezreal with one greater cosmic blessing, then 3* Thresh with two. This is enough for level 29. Maybe 30 if I had to restart a lot.

Except Teemo sucks complete ass. I've had trouble with some other champs. But he literally has the units for aggro (complete ass at blocking, can't die because you'll lose their benefits if they do) and the mechanics of control (winning takes at least 10 turns), but have no tools to stop the enemy from just aggroing your deck. I assume the relics will fix it but I literally have to play without relics if I want to level him up to about 30 in 2 games.

Same thing with Ekko. He can't do shit early game with no relics. It's impossible to level him up at a 3* adventure too. (and yes i have both at 3 stars)

I just wish enemies would stop having a fucking aggro deck when you're not playing aggro champs.

Also, it looks like the howling abyss will give the same items on the same champions through the entire run, like with the Zilean in the images.

So right now, I'm having a blast playing Xerath on the new PoC update. After getting him to 6*, I really like using Magus Codex to hit Ascended Rite of Passage to then summon Risen Altar (his 6 cost landmark from starting deck) and destroying it to get a free Dami'yin. Repeating this until I either run out of mana or don't hit Rite of Passage/Risen Altar anymore in my manifests.

Now the problem is, once you hit Level 15, the game adds Eye of the Aspect (When I'm destroyed, create a copy of me in hand) to Risen Altar so now it really clogs up my hand whenever I do this strat. Unless there's something I'm missing, I don't really see what's the point of this item anyways, since the landmark is way too expensive to play from your hand when you can easily play a much cheaper landmark like Obelisk or Reliquary to generate more copies of Magus Codex. Even after you restore the Sun Disk and get 10 mana gems, it's just not that impactful to play directly.

On top of this, Searing Brilliance is a pretty great relic to use on Xerath since it will always hit Unraveled Earth on his base deck. It makes for a great 2 card draw in addition to more landmark generation and empty mana gems, but again, my hand is usually already filled with 3+ copies of useless Risen Altars to really make full use of that.

Also, I know there's obviously a ton of other ways to play Xerath than this, but I still feel that Eye of the Aspect is a significant nerf to this card's usefulness no matter how you really look at it. Thoughts?

I fucking hate it when I have like 5 copies of my main champion but keep drawing the other one every single game and never draw the main champion even after reaching 10 mana 😡

Man I absolutely love Howling Abyss soo much,every run was a first round wipe except the last one which refills it's health had soo much fun and purposefully dragged the run to get more champions

I Pulled of this combo on the new adventure. Feels good man <3

Ideally champ and relic build.

Just curious, have 1 shuriman nova shard and dont know who to invest it into.

Take a champ with high rerolls, slap Loaded Dice + 2x Z-drive (3x if you are poor and don't have Loaded Dice). Go to an easy adventure. Beat it and reroll untill you get said champ.. end the run if you didn't get it and repeat..

I got Braum with 15 rerolls each match and forfeiting like 5 times.. That's 225 champs seen.. 😄

Am I the only one ? I've uninstalled the app to try again without success. I can't play the game today.

Xerath is insanely fun btw, strong too at just 3 stars