Premier league matchday 4 highlights

Mixer-ing it up with rewards The final announcements Harris shared were related to the partnership with Mixer. Hi-Rez partnered with Microsoft’s platform for livestreaming last year. For this next year, the 2019 SMITE pro league and console league games will all be exclusively shown on Mixer. Additionally, the Paladins premier league will also be exclusively shown on Mixer as well. Harris noted viewers will benefit because Microsoft has been investing much into its livestreaming, and soon exclusive Mixer rewards will be available for viewers. Who wouldn’t want to win cool loot just for watching their favorite teams compete? It’s happening next season, so look forward to getting goodies while cheering. … [Read more...] about Hi-Rez Expo: Esports adds college varsity national championships and high school leagues

While the joke about Riot Games actually just makes 1 game has been around for some time, rumors of a new IP has been swirling around since Greg Street joined the company from Blizzard’s World of Warcraft team. Recently, a new tweet giving the biggest hint of a new project surfaced, with Riot Games looking to fill up several art positions. The tweet came from Katie Chironis, a Senior Narrative Designer at the League of Legends developer. … [Read more...] about – League of Legends studio is hiring for new “cool game”

Yes, Nate Nanzer officially announced last week that he’ll be leaving the Overwatch League for what has been confirmed to be a position to help with competitive Fortnite according to a statement from Epic Games. Pete Vlastelica, President and CEO of Activision Blizzard Esports Leagues, has stepped in as Nanzer’s replacement. … [Read more...] about Overwatch League commissioner jumps ship for Fortnite esports

I’m not going to focus on every single change that’s in the notes, because it’s 18 pages. Instead, I want to look at some of the most impactful/interesting to me as a player. However, every single Marksman had adjustments across the board to their base stats. All Marksman saw a 4 damage nerf and pushed that damage into their growth stat, but what this means that even the aggressive, non-marksmen champions won’t be chipped down by Marksmen attacks as quickly, giving those other champions more of a time to have their presence known in the lane. Hunter’s Machete also saw a base attack damage decrease, and a bonus attack speed increase at level 1, for those fun, happy jungler types. There’s also a new item in this update, the “Stormrazer”. It’s definitely built with the Marksman and damage Jungler in mind (hell, I could see it on melee mid/top laners too, it’s pretty damn strong). … [Read more...] about League of Legends: 8.11 Patch Notes Highlights

But let’s talk some more positivity! Leona, my dear sweet Leona saw a slight upgrade, with Eclipse having a Cooldown Reduction at higher ranks. I max Eclipse early anyway, so this is beautiful (14 seconds ⇒ 14/13/13/11/10 seconds). Sion has an interesting change, with his Soul Furnace giving a little more health now. The Maximum Health gained from enemies goes from 3 to 4, and larger enemies now go from 10 to 15 health gained. Nautilus‘ Titan’s Wrath changed a little as well. The overall base shield was reduced at early levels (65/70/75/80/85 ⇒ 60/70/80/90/100), and the Shield Scaling also got lowered just a little (9/11/13/15/17% maximum health ⇒ 9/10/11/12/13% maximum health). These were already incredibly strong in the early game if you ask me. While the duration went down to 6 seconds (from 10), the insane 18-second cooldown also lowered (down to 12). With the 18 second cooldown, it’s necessary for it to … [Read more...] about League of Legends – 8.16 Patch Notes Discussion