Starting in game 4 I started experimenting with Youmuu's Ghostblade, since lethality items are much less nerfed than crit items right now. Here's my thoughts for now: - Seems decent. Overall not as strong as IE, but close enough that in games where you just can never seem to base on BF Sword, I think it could be worth to just give in and go for Youmuu's components instead. - I didn't get round to trying it but I realized during this testing that Serpent's Fang is only 2500 gold (wtf) and has very similar cost efficiency to Youmuu's. It could situationally be an extremely good rush against shield supports, particularly in this Barrier meta, and especially if there are other shield champs on the enemy team. Like, the best case scenario for Serpent's Fang is much better than the best case scenario for Youmuu's or IE. At least in theory. Didn't get round to trying it, but I imagine it's quite strong. *Maybe* it could also just straight up always be better than Youmuu's too since it's similar damage for 300 gold cheaper (and basically everyone runs Barrier), but that's more debatable. Might test it at some point. - I only tried Youmuu's -> IE, but Youmuu's -> LDR would also be good, potentially better. Definitely better if enemies are actually stacking armor. Eventually I'll get round to running some numbers in practice tool to see if it's only situationally better, or always better. - It leans heavily into burst and low DPS due to the lack of crit. Don't run this into tanks. Side note: Aphelios mid with BT rush against mages/poke champs is probably not too bad, if game 3 is anything to go by! That Syndra's playstyle of perma QEW while never entering my range was annoying AF but somehow we still ended up getting ahead in lane, even though I couldn't touch her and couldn't stop losing HP.
I really like watching your videos from time to time, it still feels like I can learn a lot (have alresdy half milion mastery on Aphelios xD i was playing him casually but im thinking of bringing him on rankeds)
The rank is displayed on the bottom left. It says unranked because I was doing placements but the placement rank was Emerald, and I was playing vs previous season Masters/Diamonds. And the games that don't have the rank on the screen are normals or flex queue.
That team game 2 was insufferable. Lulu ksing and feeding, Kass just bming the whole time and actively pinging during a fight (after feeding), and Jarvan not shutting their mouth and playing the game. At a certain point of being camped/cheese killed, ADCs struggle to come back into the game and your team didn't make it any easier.
My evening is saved :0 Btw, do u think about getting the edg skin? You already have it? Dont like it? Or dont want to spend money? Just askin, i got him on as a BD gift to myself and i absolutely love the skin, but it prob would look more badass on your aphelios, lol. Thank you for testing Youmuus, i wanted to do aswell, but i didnt found any time for playing yet x) You Sound a lil like u catched a cold, hope ure alr xD
I love the EDG splash art but IIRC I couldn't stand the in-game sounds, so I used it just once and haven't used it again since. And yeah I did have a cold lol, already feeling better though.
@@VaporaDark Kinda agree on the sounds, especially the Crescendum xD, heartsteel is the better one Sound wise, but edg's blue [my fav color] and has white hair [wich is Hot asf, idk i love white hair] and the dragon theme on this skin lmao [dragons are cool ig] Glad u feel better tho ^^
