Cleansing emerald vs storm Pros Doesn't cleanse enemies Cleanses for multiple rounds Can contest fonts Unaffected by spell counters Is a Nora gem for crystals Cons Not global No heal Costs 5 mora Nora and has 1 turn CD Doesn't proc adaptive.
wait what? they gave the best gem to gem faction =O can someone point me to the exit of the twilight zone? to be honest i agree that most decks would never use it but their are a lot of decks that can and should especially gems. all that said I'm a bit surprised, since sp has been using that forever, I'm not sure exactly how they will react to that.
FFS make it KF/FS already not like ST need anymore spot cleanse... FS has none... What is the FS council member doing in times like these... If he even exists..
let's push for the first ever quad faction rune! is/st/kf/sp ! alternatively it could be the first universal rune, which honestly I've thought pox should of had for awhile now.
Prepare to see Terraced Slag and Hyaenid Witchdoctor become SP's new cookie-cutter runes. I'm not really sure why the change to Cleansing Emerald. Now SP gets Impairing Sapphire? One of the worst relics currently? I'll have to wait to see what else changed I guess. @Sokolov FOOLS, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!? YOU HAVE THROWN YOURSELF TO THE WOLVES!
In all seriousness, losing cleansing emerald is one of the biggest nerfs to SP I can even remember, right on par with the faction bonus change. Like I am literally in awe right now that that change went through
I've already switched Emerald out for Bunny Slug. Time to go see how it runs. Maybe we'll get some other awesomeness? In all honesty, something like Cleanse, if it's going to be in a faction at all, needs to be decently spread out. I expect to see cookie-cutter bg's just switch the Emerald out for our two champs that have Cleanse (probably Witchdoctor). It's too important of an ability to be ignored in the meta.
How is swap and pounce being consolidated? One did damage and the other was an exchange of places with another champ. The two effects are very different. I can see swoop and pounce?
My feeling on this one is that SP became collateral damage as a way of eroding arguments for cleanse in UD. With the removal of dispel from protectorate sources it looks like Sok is trying to make steps toward establishing flavor/playstyle differences between wrath and protectorate.
swoop isn't anything like swap....not that I care any time I see swap on a champion I tend to wish it was another ability anyway.... or are you saying swoop and pounce are becoming the same ability....though pounce targets location while swoops targets units which makes pounce better most of the time
It's pretty unlikely that this would ever happen, the giving tree/angel/harbinger/owl/doombringer route is much more lucrative.
