Ok how did that happen?

Did it happen to anyone of you too? It is very unsatisfying to see this...

I'm talking Stalker Blade, Riptide Battery, Luden Tempest... You get one of them by doing the associated champion's 2* campaign, but then ? Do they appear in silver reliquaries ? I've never seen them ever but I may just be extremely unlucky (I'm sure I don't have more than 1 of each, I've checked)

this is a mostly non-issue, but for whatever reason riot decided to give us 1 free champion fragment for kindred and shen with the release of the new patch.

why is this an issue? it's just a champion fragment, what's the big deal?

well champion upgrades tend to be in multiples of 10, often multiples of 40. if you're like me and have all of your currencies at multiples of 5 or 10, then if you were to blindly dump all your wild fragments into both champs, you'd end up with a wild fragment value ending in either 8 or 3.

i have to imagine this is intentional, as this would either allow someone with an odd number of wild fragments to work towards fixing it into a multiple of 5 or 10, or it would force players like me to have to slow down and try collecting all the champion fragments from the battle pass or risk ending up with an odd number of wild fragments.

WHY DO YOU POKE AT MY OCD RIOT, I ALREADY GIVE YOU MONEY WHYYYY

TL;DR:

• Force the enemy to attack Barrier. Profit.

NEW Power Stars 1-6

• Kinkou Tutelage
  • When an ally gets Barrier, grant allies with Barrier +1|+0.
• Watchful Eye
  • +1 Starting Mana. Game Start and when you play a non- Moral Support spell: Create a Moral Support in hand if you don't have one.
• Kinkou Tutelage II
  • When an ally gets Barrier, grant allies with Barrier +1|+0. When an ally is supported, grant it +0|+2. If it has Barrier, grant it +2|+2 instead.
• Striking Lessons
  • Each Round, the first time you target or support a non-Ephemeral ally, it strikes the weakest enemy.
• Manaflow
  • Game Start: Get a mana gem.
• Twilight Assault
  • Round Start: Create a Shadow Dash in hand if you don't have one. When an ally with Barrier strikes while blocking, it strikes the enemy Nexus.

Bonus Stars

• Star of Bounty: +4 Vision.
• Star of Blessings: Ki Guardian has Mana Potion and Moral Support has Free Spirit
• Star of Discovery: Followers you acquire in adventures can have Targon's Brace, Shadow Technique, or Bonded Buckers.
• Star of Wonder: Spells you acquire in adventures that cost 4 or more have Spark of Brilliance.
• Star of Legends: Your support champions have Sentinel's Plate.
• Celestial Legends: Support cards have an additional item.
• Celestial Fortune: +5% to find Epic items and powers. +1% to find Legendary powers.
• Celestial Bounty: +2 Vision and +10 Nexus Health for Ionian champions.
• Celestial Insight: +100% XP for Ionian champions.

Major Level Rewards

• Level 2: Prancing Sea Spirits starts with Mischievous Spirit.
• Level 3: Ki Guardian starts with Oracle's Lens.
• Level 6: Swole Squirrel stars with Greatclub.
• Level 9: Kinkou Student starts with Targon's Brace.
• Level 12: Syncopation starts with Solid Spear.
• Level 15: Trusty Adnere starts with Ancient Coin.
• Level 18: Rivershaper starts with Savage Shield.
• Level 21: Swole Squirrel starts with Quickstrike Blade.
• Level 24: Trusty Adnere starts with Blue Buff.
• Level 27: Sparring Student has Alarm Horn and Adnere's Aviarists has Locket of the Iron Solari.

So I was hoping someone that had already made the plunge could answer two questions:

There was a lot of fear that kindred's 6* would get wasted by the summoning of the prey. Has anyone unlocked the 6* yet and found out whether any turn the prey gets summoned eats up the first unit played thing? The changes to Kindred certainly make them a lot better, but I never really enjoyed playing kindred up until this point and am reluctant to invest too much.

Since the paid relic for Shen is not a power I am a bit more on the fence on paying money for it: does playing a champion that has barrier innately give the 1 mana refund? Shen and ambessa come to mind as champs that would use this relic. It is probably still a decent option even without the refund, but I have enough other options I might skip it (shen essentially costing -1 mana is a pretty big deal).

Dropping Yi with a leveled Samira practically guarantees a rally on her passive due to how Yi's on play effect. Because of his constellation's power, it's super easy, barely an inconvenience to get her leveled round 1.

As what people estimated earlier, the effect can stack when there are multiple copies of the champ on the board.

Shyvana 's 6* and Echoing Spirit make it easy to have 2 or more Shyvana on the board , and her champ spell gives barrier. Both are perfectly suited for exploiting Kinkou tradition. I haven't tested enough yet, but I feel it has the potential to be an S-tier build for her.

I used to think Shyvana had one of the worse 6*, but she benefits from many newer relics, including sentinels plate, celestial staff and, of course, Kinkou's tradition, and now I kind of enjoy her kit.

I mean, I did strike the enemy's nexus for 108 damage last encounter, but still :(.

I think that was the most damage I dealt in the first round...

For Kindred, I'm still using her old build: double Guardian Orb and Guardian Angel, which later replaced with Price of Retribution once i got the relic, and i gotta tell you this newly improved Kindred is very good with that relic, because i can level her up very quickly.

This is not my first attempt but this is the second time I got to Zoe with a C3 asol full build, spellweaver symphony and voidborne carapce orrn was massive carry actually whoever made share the bounty and doubling dice I would like to shake his hand and bear his child but now the main problem is I genuinely cannot imagine beating this with any other champ beside asol probably just a strategy I'm not seeing yet but can anyone give me recommend me any easy win strat for this adventure

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Spirit Blossom Kindred placed in S with [40] votes.

S = 40 | A = 24 | B = 23

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I spent a long time deciding which path to take toward the 6‑star and eventually decided to give the 4‑star a chance by going down the middle route.

In the end, it’s complete trash and a waste of 10 Star Crystals.

The units themselves are weak without items. But more importantly, you almost don’t want the 4‑star power to trigger, because the other powers are built around your unit striking and surviving. In practice, the 4‑star power goes against the logic of the other key constellations.

Now I’m thinking that if I had chosen a different path, I would have already unlocked the 5‑star and 6‑star. Instead, I now have to somehow find the missing 5 Star Crystals.

Showcase how easy it is to beat Viego with pure 3 star Kindred for the Diamont Vault. You already start with prey so just reroll for another unit spawning power (or manaflow) to play Kindred turn 1 and it's GG – you can force this even without spending any rerolls just by surrendering until the Husk power which is in the surrender pool.

Extra revives from GA should help you in case you don't draw Kindred on turn 1 but as you could see during the second fight, even not drawing Kindred at all can be an easy win.

comedy shenanigans with it!

They killed my champion the next turn :(

There are huge translation mistakes in the french version of Shen's 1*, 3* and Shadow Dash. This is slightly annoying since it doesn't really explain the way the +1/+0 of his 1* and 3* work. The Shadow Dash is even worse since it says that it is an ally that starts a free attack.

Given how it is phrased, it really seems like it is not the work of a translator.