Are they undead though...? Last I checked they were wandering forest spirits who marked *others* for death

I’m sorry, I can’t do that Bandit King Z.

Teemo’s shroom duration nerf (10 minutes —> 5 minutes) was sufficient to make him less toxic. Now he isn’t that bad at all, especially with the other changes they made to him to make him more useful in team fights.

Beep boop.

Right. There’s nothing tasteful or important about this being in the game, presented in such an awkward and graphic fashion. It’s just pornography — for the sake of pornography — presented in robotic, wonky form.

This headline

What is this from?

Indeed! (Also at a desk job ;p)

And yet here you are on kotaku ;)

Looks like a great game for space camp kiddies.

Even in their DOTA 1 form, Techies have always been a toxic, broken champion that:
1.) acts as a global aggro with limited counterplay that makes Teemo look non-toxic, and
2.) renders the rest of your team feeling like they’re playing 4v5.

LoL and Hearthstone, what else

inb4 highschoolers everywhere using it, and lawyers everywhere firing off cease and desist letters for their clients left and right

Riot did it first

If it’s reason #3, I am sure Valve does care quite a bit. Particularly since its biggest rival, League of Legends, appears to be gaining steam if anything—though that too is hard to tell, since Riot does not reveal its play data as regularly as Valve

My money is on this being the primary reason for the drop:

Cosmic Reaver Kassadin’s attack animations really remind me of Algalon the Observer from WoW’s Ulduar raid

Some really great background / lore / story-boarding discussion behind the piece here:

It was never a login; it’s fan-made ...which makes it even radder.

Wrong Reddit link, Yannick. Though the one you accidentally link to (about the LoL arcade cabinet) is equally as badass