As some of our more discerning lore-hounds may have anticipated, Sejauni, the Winter’s Wrath, is charging in as our next upcoming champion. We wanted to take a moment to talk to you about her gameplay, and what you can expect to see.

Hailing from the Freljord, Sejuani combines raw, physical might with the chilling ice of her homeland. After slowing enemies with her Frost passive on auto-attacks, she can activate her Permafrost ability to drastically increase the slow and inflict damage. This allows her to continuously disrupt enemy movements and create a threatening presence – a necessity of any primary tank.

Sejuani’s initiation ability comes from two sources: the powerful skillshot charge from her boar and her Glacial Prison ultimate. The former tramples enemies and applies Frost, while the latter flings a giant ice shard from her flail, stunning anything it hits by encasing it in ice. Enemies near that target get stunned for a shorter durartion. This makes accurate skillshots important, as Sejuani needs move into the right position to maximize the stun duration on her intended target. If used correctly, this ability can change the outcome of a teamfight. If used on a sub-optimal target, however, it will be partially wasted on a tank or lower-value target.

This being our first mounted champion, we’re happy to release not only an epic barbarian woman on a giant boar, but also a tank who can use continuous soft disruption with bursts of big, ultimate initiation!

 

Abilities:

• Frost (Passive) - Sejuani’s basic attacks apply Frost, reducing enemy Movement Speed by 10% for 3 seconds.
• Arctic Assault - Sejuani charges forward to deal magic damage and apply Frost to enemies. Sejuani stops upon colliding with an enemy champion.
• Northern Winds - Sejuani summons an arctic storm around her which deals magic damage to nearby enemies every second. Damage is increased against enemies affected by Frost or Permafrost.
• Permafrost - Sejuani converts Frost on nearby enemies to Permafrost, dealing magic damage and increasing the Movement Speed reduction dramatically.
• Glacial Prison (Ultimate) - Sejuani throws her weapon, stunning the first enemy champion hit. Nearby enemies are stunned for a shorter duration. All targets take magic damage and are affected by Frost.

   

  Lore:

  When Sejuani was born, the mystics of her tribe foretold that she would be the one to unite and lead the divided territories of Freljord. Her people had suffered for centuries, as a losing war on the frozen tundra pushed them farther and farther from Freljord’s limited food supplies. Sejuani grew up surrounded by this misery, and it fueled her desire to fulfill her destiny. She pushed herself to extremes, walking out into blizzards without food or furs and training while frigid winds raked her flesh. She sparred with the strongest warriors of her tribe, one after another, until her legs would give out beneath her. She sustained injuries that would have killed any other member of the tribe, but she would only rise again, driven by sheer force of will and what her tribe took to calling her “heart of the blizzard.”

  On her twentieth birthday, Sejuani declared that she would lead her people out of their remote isolation to conquer the lands of their enemies. She had completed her training and she was ready to face the leaders of the opposing tribes. Her feats had already become legend and soldiers in her company were inspired to new heights of strength and resolve. However, before she struck out on her campaign, Ashe began campaigning for peace in Freljord, joining the League of Legends to demonstrate how the people could be spared violence. To Sejuani, this was a violation of tradition – a coward’s ruse to hoard Freljord’s precious few resources. She saw the confidence of her people wane as it seemed they would never be delivered from their plight. She decided that to truly prove herself as the rightful ruler of Freljord, she must defeat Ashe completely and unquestionably on the world’s stage in the League of Legends.

  “Freljord provides for the few. For the others, ‘peace’ means only death.” – Sejuani

Sometimes, coming up with the quality artwork for a champion can be a challenging process. But after several attempts at trying to come up with the perfect artwork for Sejuani, we started to think that we might be more likely to see pigs fly. Luckily for us, our artist Kienan Lafferty was ready to dig his heels in and lead the charge on this one!

Please enjoy this high-speed rendition of Kienan Lafferty taking you along for the ride while he creates the splash art for Sejuani!

First off, let me introduce myself. My name is [n/a]. I am from [n/a], [n/a]. Unlike most people that live in [n/a], my family doesn’t have the most money in the world, to put it in simplest terms. I usually make some money from various odd jobs, such as building computers for friends and what not; I take meager payments, and will most likely do it for a favor, for the most part. Along with that, my friend and I host a multi-gaming clan that focuses on free-to-play and open source games (It’s perfectly okay if what you just read sounded like complete gibberish. It does to most, anyways); we run ads on our website and often split the money 50-50. To be completely honest, I am the biggest computer geek I know; though, I enjoy expressing it. Lastly, I like to consider myself right-winged, despite what my family’s financial state may be.

I imagine that you get a large amount of these every now and then. And I am almost positive that you either do not get the chance to read these letters or you are annoyed entirely because of them. If you do get a chance to read this, please take some of my points into consideration.

I understand what congress is trying to do with SOPA and PIPA. I know I am writing this to several people, two of which being senators; whether it be SOPA or PIPA you may be voting on, my argument remains the same on both. In my opinion, it’s a wonderful idea. I’m against piracy myself, up to the point of the redistribution of content that is either illegal, or violates copyright agreements. Content including music, movies, etc. I’m sure you catch my drift by this point.

Let’s get down to the point: you know this will become more than what it has been intended to become. Granted, laws are made to protect the people, but certain laws and acts, if bent correctly, have the ability to go as far to violate certain rights, presented mainly in the Fourth Amendment.

I enjoy my privacy, probably greater than most people. From what I understand, if these acts pass, legislation will allow law enforcement to force ISPs (Internet Service Providers) to reveal the traffic of specific users. I like to think of this analogous to a police officer coming into my house at night, and putting cameras up all over my home, in order to see what I do every day. I feel that what I do at home is my own business. Knowing that someone may be watching what I do online would invade my privacy beyond my imagination.

Also, don’t forget about businesses. Many technology giants, such as Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are already geared up for a potential blackout. These acts very well have the potential to put many businesses in danger. Remember, gentlemen, we live in a capitalistic society.

In conclusion, I feel that if these laws were to pass, it would be a major violation of privacy for millions of Americans. Please, if you will, take into consideration some of the points I have made in this letter. Thank you for taking my statements into consideration.

~~[n/a]

P.S. I’m sure you are probably not allowed to talk to me via email, nor do you have the time, but if you feel as if you want to discuss some points with me, I’d be more than happy to hear from you. You can email me at [n/a]

Economy is by far the safest way to go, when it comes to expanding and being able to grow in population. With a stable economy, you are guaranteed a constant resource income that you are able to use at your disposal. Economy is a good route for the casual Travian player, and is also a good way to go if you’re still trying to become familiar with Travian. Though, there are still some drawbacks to being based on economy. There will always be someone, most likely a Teuton, that decides to raid you for all of your resources. Depending on how many resources were robbed of you, this can set you back from as little as an hour to a day. This happens all the time, and it will continue to happen whether you want it to or not. When choosing economy, you have to protect your resources as much as possible from people like this. Always remember to cranny up and, especially before an attack, to spend down your resources as much as possible.

Military is usually a good route for a player that has experience with Travian; though, no one ever said a newcomer can’t choose this either. Military has it’s pros and cons as much as economy does. This is a more assertive path to go down, as you are able to establish yourself within your general area, and possibly gain more respect. Military usually does not give a stable income of resources, unless you are constantly farming someone who has no way of protecting themselves. This path gives you more of a chance to focus on your village infrastructure, since you don’t need to spend any resources on resource tiles. Teutons have the cheapest troops out of any race, thus making it easy to build up a large army in order to raid. Military is very risky, in that your army has the chance of dying in literally an instant if you try to raid the wrong person. Before raiding someone, it’s a good idea to send some scouts to check if either they have resources available for stealing, or if they have an army to defend themselves with.

10. The PC has no red ring of death – if your computer breaks, you can go fix it yourself
9. Game developers on the PC don’t pay the premiums that Xbox developers pay Microsoft – thus cheaper games.
8. There are more games on the PC. Older games are availiable dirt cheap on sites like Good Old Games, and new games are on site like Steam. And even if your hard drive crashes, or your mom decides to throw your PC out the window for whatever reason, Steam saves all of your game purchases, so you can retrieve all of your games.
7. Download on demand games on the PC make it easy for indie games and the big hitters to compete – thus, sudden price drops are not uncommon for even the most expensive big-hitter games.
6. The PC maxes out at 60 fps – two times more fluid images than the Xbox.
5. The PC has free to play games and open source games available for anyone on any budget on any computer.
4. For the most part, there are no disks. Come on, no one likes disks and you know it.
3. The PC has more responsive controls and control schemes. It’s not called “modding” on the PC, it’s called changing your controls and adding macros. Being more efficient is not cheating.
2. The PC is yours. It can be and WILL do whatever you want it to do. There is no company to tell you what it is supposed to do or what it can do, unless Windows decides to restart while you’re in-game (true story). The PC is limited only by your imagination.
1. The PC community is much more mature than the Xbox community. It has very few people who just go into voice chat to be vulgar, and the community for PC games are larger and more dedicated than those for Xbox games.

Viktor is a ranged mage with a mix of single target spells, area-of-effect crowd control, vector-targeting, and re-positional damage. This versatility is further augmented by his unique passive: a permanent item with different upgrade paths providing Viktor with both increased stats and bonus effects on one of his abilities. This high-skill cap mage is the perfect choice for those who wish to gain the advantage via their strategic decision making.

Abilities:

• Passive: Evolving Technology Viktor starts with a Hex Core that provides him with stats and can be upgraded in the store to augment one of his abilities. The Hex Core can only be upgraded once, and cannot be sold back to the store.
• Power Transfer – Viktor blasts an enemy unit dealing magic damage, returning a portion of the damage dealt as a shield.
  • Ability Augment: Increases Viktor’s Movement Speed by 30% for 3 seconds
• Gravity Field – Viktor conjures a heavy gravitational field, slowing all enemies and stacking a debuff every 0.5 seconds. At 3 stacks enemies inside are stunned for 1.5 seconds.
  • Ability Augment: Gravity Field has an additional 30% cast range.
• Death Ray – Viktor uses his robotic arm to fire a chaos beam that cuts across the field in a line, dealing damage to any opponents struck in its path.
  • Ability Augment: Death Ray sets fire to enemies, dealing 30% additional magic damage over 4 seconds.
• Chaos Storm (Ultimate) – Viktor conjures a singularity on the field which deals magic damage and briefly silences enemies. The singularity then does magic damage to all nearby enemies every second. Viktor can redirect the singularity.

Lore:

Early in life, Viktor discovered his passion for science and invention, particularly in the field of mechanical automation. He attended Zaun’s prestigious College of Techmaturgy and led the team that constructed Blitzcrank – a scientific breakthrough that he expected to vault him to the top of his profession. Unfortunately his triumph was usurped by Professor Stanwick, who stole credit for developing Blitzcrank’s sentience and later used Viktor’s research to revive Urgot. Viktor’s appeals for justice fell on deaf ears, and he sank into a deep depression. He withdrew from the College and barricaded himself in his private laboratory, cutting all human ties. There, in secret, he conceived a project for which nobody else could claim credit. Desiring both to revolutionize his field and to eliminate the jealous human emotions which festered inside him, he engineered parts to replace and improve his own body. When Viktor re-emerged, almost no trace of the original man remained.

Not only had he supplanted the majority of his anatomy, but his personality had changed. His previous hope to better society was replaced by an obsession with what he called ”the glorious evolution.” He saw himself as the patron and pioneer of Valoran’s future – a future in which man would renounce his flesh in favor of superior hextech augmentations. Though Viktor’s initial appeals were met with heavy skepticism, scientists were confounded by the sophistication of his machinery. By integrating his mind with techmaturgical devices, he had been able to drastically accelerate the progress of his research. His transformation had stripped him of what he perceived as his emotional weaknesses, but there was some lingering residue of resentment against the Professor. Viktor joined the League of Legends to pit his inventions against the greatest opponents Valoran could offer, and to correct any weaknesses or inefficiencies that remained.

”In one’s hand, techmaturgy is a tool. As one’s hand, it is liberation.” -Viktor

  

It keeps the pack-of-indie-game-at-dirt-cheap-prices that we all love from the Humble Indie Bundle, but adds a twist: the minimum price goes up as people pay at that price, and goes down if people pay more than it.

The Indie Royale Bundle is also, as I said, for profit and not charity. As such, there is little incentive to pay a lot for the bundle besides to help the indie developers. As much as a deserving cause it is, it isn’t quite as much of a pull to pay extra as the Humble Indie Bundle.

The Indie Royale Bundle also seems to have “worse” games, or games not valued as much as those on the Humbie Indie Bundle, and typically has only three or four games at a time. But, still, I got Sanctum and all the weapon DLC for four bucks. I’m happy.

So, in summary, keep an eye on this bundle for good cheap games in the future. Despite it’s flaws now, the Humble Indie Bundle went through the same thing. There’s no reason to to register for the Indie Royale’s email list and glance at the future bundles~

For those of you not in the know, the Humble Indie Bundle puts up a pack of games every month or so for anyone and everyone to pay what they want for them. Sometimes, if you pay more than the average person, you get extra games. Cool, right?

This bundle consists of the following games:

• Jamestown
• Bit.Trip Runner
• Super Meat Boy
• Shank
• Nightsky HD

And if you pay more than the average (which is 5.34 at the time of writing) you get:

• Gratuitous Space Battles
• Cave Story+

That’s over $100 worth of games for a little over 5 bucks! So head over and get your Bundle now to help indie devs and charities!

The Humble Indie Bundle #4 is up and running as I type this, and it’s amazing. I’ve already given my fair share for the 5 awesome base games and 2 extra beat-the-average-price games, and had a nice bout of Super Meat Boy last night.
For those of you not in the know, the Humble Indie Bundle puts up a pack of games every month or so for anyone and everyone to pay what they want for them. Sometimes, if you pay more than the average person, you get extra games. Cool, right?
This bundle consists of the following games:-Jamestown-Bit.Trip Runner-Super Meat Boy-Shank-Nightsky HD
And if you pay more than the average (which is 5.34 at the time of writing) you get:-Gratuitous Space Battles-Cave Story+
That’s over $100 worth of games for a little over 5 bucks! So head over and get your Bundle now to help indie devs and charities!

Welcome to the Ahri Champion Spotlight, summoners! This brand-new mobile mage assassin is ready to prey on her unsuspecting foes. This girl has a tale to tell, so if you’d like to know more, take a look at the Ahri Champion Spotlight!

Greeting Summoners!

Back in the end of september, we announced The Nine Tails Fox much to the excitment of our community. Well the time has finally come and after much anticipation, we wanted to reveal the gameplay style for Ahri, the Nine-Tailed Fox.

Ahri’s gameplay style revolves around mobility and managing position to aim her spells. When played properly, Ahri darts around teamfights, picking off wounded stragglers and harrying soft enemies.

This is largely accomplished through her ultimate, which allows her to dash multiple times before going on cooldown. Ahri can either use all three quickly to chase, burst, or escape, or she can spread out their uses to keep enemies guessing and juke around the battlefield. Combining this with her high magic damage and her Seduction ability to lock enemies down, she can strike from unexpected angles or bait enemies into overcommitting to disadvantageous situations.

Ahri’s major gameplay decisions are based on her assessment of risk/reward. Her burst is high, but must be in short range to maximize it. This creates a dynamic that requires her to endanger herself to reach full potential. Play it safe and have more light damage, or commit and go for the kill? Use your dash for damage, or save it for escape? The choices are constant with these opposed strengths and weaknesses.

Her kit is really designed to appeal towards opportunistic players who prefer characters with a lot of action, and especially players that like to lull enemies into overconfidence, only to capitalize and punish them. Ahri’s dangerous, seductive nature is something we’re happy to deliver for players who like to toy with their enemies before destroying them.