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[@Snnuy]

Lowkey the only reason I get excited for Runeterra expansions is because I can do these videos with Rarran

[@robomaster1895]

Appreciate you giving my favorite card a shoutout :)

[@kianbrusselbach6106]

Awww

[@marcoluciani4790]

You should maybe try giving Rarran some followers and spells again instead of just doing the champions every new expansion, don't you think so too, Snnuy? For this expansion in particular where every champion has been underwhelming but their packages have been insane, I feel that it would have been a better choice, personally. That said, as a wise Ionian lady once said, sometimes you're the fish, sometimes you're the bait. Happy late birthday btw!

[@elvenatheart982]

Awe

[@konosnota5835]

That's the video I have been asking for :)

[@jcraa91]

Rarran as a struggling uni student, your content kicks ass and always lifts my mood

[@Rarran]

You got this, study hard!

[@liamFTW101]

I read this as "Raran is a struggling uni student"

[@matijavracaric4143]

@@liamFTW101 samee 🤣

[@badwulff]

@@liamFTW101 Impossible, he's still a kindergartener

[@aberrantreptile]

Rarran was spot on for Norra. She’s found her place in an incredibly strong deck now

[@Pedropaulopoloni]

This video was probably recorded a couple weeks ago or so. Jax is struggling to remain relevant and Norra has found a couple decks where she gets to shine, making her the best champion of the expansion so far.

[@ThefamousMrcroissant]

Concurrent Jax is still a top tier deck though, and you regularly encounter it in masters.

[@Neofoxie]

@@ThefamousMrcroissant I mean... Ezreal Kennen is scarry for Jax decks so I have to say that I definitely do not see them as top tier rn... To a point where I see more duskfalls

[@N12015]

@@Neofoxie Ezreal Kennen is scary and a losing matchup for every non-Miss Fortune or mirror deck, and very similar for Pirate Aggro.

[@Neofoxie]

@@N12015 not exactly there's also two and a half more archetype that are played rn just to get a shot agains't this deck Duskfalls and Gwen Kata Elise are performing well agains't this deck just because it doesn't really have tools to play agains't a full board of fearsome units and just like pirates the deck can get pressured heavily in its early turns. And for the second archetype it's one that is quite new but that is getting very good results because it plays so many good spells while generating a ton of value passively, Heimer Norra, I encounter it a lot in master and the decks has been found like 3 or 4 days ago and spreads really fast (to a point I may drop Kennen Ezreal for some times on the ladder)

[@icefelicis8746]

Your collabs with Sunny are always great! Hope there will be more in the future :)

[@FeelNFine]

Next Runeterra Special: Rarran plays 100 games trying to prove Snnuy wrong about Nora.

[@Rosario0X]

Flow is triggered if you played 2+ spells or skills *LAST* round, not same round.

[@Snnuy]

oops yeah I clarified this a minute later whene we recorded because I was wrong but I don't think it made it into the video

[@maximedurante7574]

@@Snnuy Rarran did say "you have to wait for a whole turn after you played Yi" at some point so it's all good

[@amiroolbahri7061]

@@maximedurante7574 but thats because of Yi's Round start. but yeah, that mistake still doesn't change the fact that Yi sucks right now

[@controlcon]

@@amiroolbahri7061 shame because I do think yi is super cool thematically in lor and I really hope he gets support or buffs in the future (people are saying possibly seraphine next expansion might be his support)

[@Andothalas]

Rarran making that grade A content that keeps Hearthstone spicy and relevant and shining light on other TCG games and their respective content creators

[@ShynyMagikarp]

Damn Rarran killing it. Those 100 games of Runeterra paying off

[@Wesed35]

I love Norra! I think she's great. There's been this Norra Heimerdinger deck going around that's honestly super good. It's been tearing up high elo.

[@yobywon]

I don't play Hearthstone but I do play LoR religiously and yet I discovered Snnuy through Rarran. Sometimes KZbin algorithm does something good.

[@travis4256]

it’s funny how so many cards in this expansion are really good and made new and unique decks… except for the actual champs

[@dieptrieu6564]

It's actually a good thing in a way. We don't want another kaisa's case. And these new cards allow older cards to shine again. Like the meme concurent timeline can actually be decent now

[@malsocio]

@@dieptrieu6564 decent? timelines is broken right now lol. will 100% get hit

[@Numberfoxify]

Another aspect of why Ornn is underwhelming is that Freljord has no good cheap equipment to start forging with. It limits what he can use as a second region since he wants early equipment to buff as well as protection.

[@N12015]

And no, he doesn't work well in Demacia.

[@webbowser8834]

@@N12015 I have had some pretty solid success with Ornn Noxus though. Darkin Ballista and Hookmaster has been really good for me.

[@anghainguyen9951]

Nah it just he it to slow to work since you can easy get equipment form the weaponmaster + regional weapon. The noxus one, Shurima are quite good + Darkin weapon. I think his problem that he is to slow for what he do. 6 mana the ornn will playable for sure.

[@shai310]

Yep, you're pretty much forced to play him with Jax because the improvise units give you cheap equipments to forge very early. But even then, Ornn just comes in too late and he only poses as a threat if he is leveled up. The good thing about him is that he doesn't have to see your unit strike for 10+ damage which makes it a lot easier to lvl him up.

[@electricVGC]

Really love seeing you talk through games I can barely comprehend in reasonable Hearthstone words

[@МартинДимитров-т2г]

Without even seeing what Jax does, he is broken because he actually has a real weapon

[@RuneGrey]

Honestly it feels like some of these champions are designed to work more in the Path of Champions mode than the actual PvP side of things. Jax is extremely fun in PoC, while not all that useful in PvP. On the other hand, poor Ornn is just not great in either mode, and probably needs some sort of buff.

[@ItsNotXhad]

Jax currently has my vote for "most harmed by being a Runeterran champ rather than being in a real region." For instance, Jax Vi Timelines is the most successful Jax deck but it seems like those players are better off just playing a normal Timelines deck and putting their in-region Improvise cards in it. Ionian Hookmaster and to a lesser extent Fireth are popping up in their respective regions too. The big problem is that he's a 2-drop that's appropriately costed as a two-drop so it's not clear what you're getting for what you're giving up, especially considering that Improvise has diminishing returns anyway (in that if you improvise too many weapons you won't be able to cast and equip them all)

[@anghainguyen9951]

I do t think ornn it that bad, he just too slow to be work. He should be at 6 mana like his sister.

[@Ellebeeby]

Ornn can be great fun with the right relics and powers.

[@kayjay3852]

"Jax has the best win rate in the game right now"... Man this didn't age well, did it

[@khdo12346]

Is there any new champion that turned out good?

[@mingruili3429]

@@khdo12346 Kaisa and Bard maybe?

[@Ranumie5]

@@khdo12346 i think gnar was meta as well on releasd

[@khdo12346]

No, I'm talking about the lastest expansion specifically. It feels like the card packages are all better than the champions. Which I'm all for honestly

[@ItssLevii]

@@khdo12346 nah the theme of this set was all the champions suck but all the units are overpowered as hell

[@soul-5]

so as an ulterior response to your question of what we want to see, this is my favorite content of yours :)

[@christopherholfeld8137]

Norra is actually so good that she’s carrying a control deck that plays 12 total units in the deck

[@jasonyang6150]

Imagine playing timelines and seeing a void blaster fully evolved to be a 6/6 with forged stats and overwhelm with scout.........

[@wolfVFV]

I think for all These Champs Context cards where Missing. Maybe add 1 Card to each Champ that synergizes with him the Most. F.e. for norra the spell that ads Portals/shrooms etc for each Allie.

[@Monjijii]

Dont think it would change that much

[@prismaticc_abyss]

Thank you for the video Rarran and LoR Rarran

[@SloppyWalrusX]

0:58 what the hell was that sound Rarran LOL

[@chincrimson3970]

Poffor Bomba 🗿💀

[@AFestiveDude]

You should do PvZ Heroes with Fry ‘em Up. It’s the Plants vs Zombies card game, and it’s *_way_* more rng than Hearthstone is. Plus, the card designs and puns are fun.

[@AFestiveDude]

@Omegamog Yeah. It stopped getting expansions because of EA. You can find games pretty easily, however, and people like Fry still make content about it.

[@nandanthony]

Most of the cards dont do cool stuff like in hearthstone tho. They are just stats+ an effect like bounce or splash, and the unique ones are good because of the synergies which are fairly obvious. Like its been awhile since ive played but, are there any BAD creative cards? Like ignoring the stats if they do something it has its place. Maybe tree sapling but zamn

[@owenliao]

idk if everyone will agree fry’s opinions tho 😬😬😬 i know the pvzh community definitely doesn’t lol (hard removal, valkster, etc)

[@AFestiveDude]

@@owenliao Yeah. I know, but is there really anyone else prominent that's still making PvZ Heroes content nowadays? I stopped playing in 2018.

[@etheron1235]

If I'm correct, PvZ heroes made a similar keyword to Formidable before LoR implement that keyword to that game

[@florianfercsak5186]

19:29 He got the Kai'Sa flashbacks

[@fesgaming3718]

Love the Runeterra content! Just got into it a few weeks back, and the meta stuff helps a lot

[@daltonblaze]

I love the collabs I hope to see more

[@rjabaquita9063]

The radiata stories ost took me by surprise. Great vid.

[@samaelfromstein1503]

The bellow breath works amazing in a scar grounds deck with kayn

[@eagernotion3684]

Omg Ornn is so good and broken. All his units can buff an item so fast and level ornn up. He doesnt even have to be in the game. So many times round 8 I have summoned an ornn with 15 or 16 damage and equally crazy health + the ram with overwhelm. In addition to other buffs from freljord he can be unstopable.

[@Naugur]

I can't believe it took youtube a month to recommend this video to me, but now I'm here for it!

[@charliegpnjrl]

WOW that norra being bad aged like milk! She has a lot of meta decks now (three I think), norra heimer shadow isles being at the top

[@charstar2808]

Rarran getting redemption for nora earlier than expected.

[@frog6712]

What's the background music that's playing during Norra's segment (around 11:00)? Sounds really familiar

[@iVAD17]

Oh god, I've experimented so much with Concurrent Timelines when it got released. So glad to hear that this card see play rn, think I'm gonna hop on LoR because of this vid lmao

[@fourth4q118]

Not only seen play. IT'S EVERYWHERE.

[@Siluriiformes]

every match is 4 mana 7/7 + equipment. concurrent timelines is so cancer.

[@shai310]

Yep, when it was released it was more of a meme card because it didn't have a deck it functioned well in. Now because of improvise units it's really fucking strong.

[@aaroner5324]

Love the collabs as always

[@BoxBoy_99]

Kayn is insane in the Path of Champions (Adventure mode they currently are supporting). Ranking him up once (to one star) gives ALL units "kill an enemy: gain +1/+1 and heal 2" It works with skills too. Plus cultist package and you can auto draw him with cultist mechanic, insane package for solo dolo vs AI who mess up by not prioritizing his removal ASAP

[@biggiechee5e2000]

Man I just want my boy fiddlesticks

[@scrappygandalf6024]

For runaterran champs it might be good to show off one or two cards that are part of that package, otherwise it’s hard to visualize what they even do.

[@epser5842]

Rarran predicts the meta better than the actual LoR players

[@GumshoeClassic]

I'm very glad they stuck with Jax' theme of using stupid shit to slap people, when they turned his old lantern into this old artefact I was kinda bummed out but it's good to see the old tavern-brawler spirit is still there.

[@hi-i-am-atan]

i mean it's very much still just a lantern, it's just lit magically. it's, like, an old artifact in the _non-fantasy_ sense - sure, it _is_ an ancient, magical artifact, but ... it's a lantern. it's the same kind of ancient magical artifact as, like, a sundial that doesn't require the sun's light to tell the time, something only a step above the pots and carvings that make up artifacts in real life it just so happens that the fire that icathia lit its streets with is effective at burning voidborn, so it's slightly less silly that this super old dude is whacking them with a lightpost that's probably even older than he is

[@GumshoeClassic]

@@hi-i-am-atan I just really liked the appeal of him simply picking up random garbage to style on people. The lantern not being special in any way whatsoever is what made it special to me.

[@hi-i-am-atan]

@@GumshoeClassic to be fair, if you fight with a magical lamppost because its fire is good for burning a particular kind of monster, you are still basically fighting with a shabby ol' lamppost against everyone else hell, if that icathian fire _is_ just a really effective magical enchantment against basically everything, dude's gonna need some random garbage to spar with so he doesn't end up incinerating the peeps he trains for his anti-void fighting force. or just anyone he gets into a brawl with. lotta contexts where he prob still doesn't have a real weapon in any sense of the word, we just haven't seen much of that as of late

[@МартинДимитров-т2г]

0:23 Rarran how dare you say the name of "she who shouldn't be named"

[@soultanobie]

BEEN WAITING FOR THIS CONTENT

[@MyManMako]

It took so long for LoR to introduce librams...

[@user-ux4gu2lh8c]

People are really sleeping on Kayn and Master yi

[@TheLastAatroxMain]

Now I’m scared they gonna make Aatrox 💩 like he is in league.

[@N12015]

0:22 DON'T DARE YOU TO SAY HER NAME! PS: He's kinda lying to you with Jax and Norra. Jax has roughly the same WR as Ornn AKA also very bad by himself; the best timelines decks use Trundle and 3 copies of either Caitlyn or Vi (can mix numbers but i do not recommend 3 of Vi), not Jax nor Ornn. Norra has improved A LOT in the last week; she's so weird that people needed weeks to adapt to her gameplan, and now she has 2 genuinely good decks: a very obnoxious shellfolk deck and a weird spider deck who summons tons of spiderlings to level her up. The numbers look low because it's played by a lot of memers with Bard, just like with Priest.

[@Giraplatina]

Probably just recorded before the meta started settling, so the judgements were a bit off

[@N12015]

@@Giraplatina You can't really be off with Jax since there was next to no thing to discover. I'm sure is the frustration bias what's talking for Snnuy because timelines + improvise is very toxic, even if inconsistent.

[@luminous3558]

I knew that b*tch was broken the moment I saw her. I don't get why Runeterra is so obsessed with printing gross RNG cards, at least hearthstone printed knife juggler in classic and not its 5th or 6th set. Norra is on so many layers of BS rng.

[@Wakkiau]

TBF i think Norra's winrate is currently being boosted by the Heimerdinger/Norra deck that is made solely to counter Ez/Kennen infestation. I think other Norra deck is decent at best.

[@currently_In_stealth_behind_u]

when was this recorded norra is a fine card with the right deck i see her a lot + jax timelines is just a worse version of trundle timelines

[@Rarran]

We recorded this on Thursday

[@N12015]

@@Rarran Yeah, the Shellfolk and spider deck improved her A LOT. She was before played on an awful lulu deck where she didn't fit.

[@axellion9951]

Also small thing, he does gain a copy of the strongest equipment in hand, it’s not just that he equips it himself, not sure if that was fully understood or not

[@HelloHero08]

I didn't even play HS anymore and purely plays LoR but damn Rarran's content is great for the CGG community

[@kasaix_yt]

7 months later and yeah he was right Norra only got better and better for control decks.

[@AshBlossomWorshiper]

Oooo this is taped after his 100 game challenge. This is gonna be interesting

[@TheJadeFist]

I know i'm 10 months late to this party, but Jax's origin is actually pretty amazing on it's own to just have jax in your deck to have access to those weapon masters, and those weapon masters are all dual region cards, which kinda makes him synergize with Tristanna and the Bandle Tree arch type. (tree optional). A very strong by very niche champion that never sees play, and honestly maybe out rotation by now, I haven't really kept track of rotation, and I don't like it.

[@schnader]

"just like in League you always pick the Darkin form 'cos it's much better" Feels like Rhaast hasn't seen play in like two years in League, perhaps now he's decent again after the durability patch.

[@firecat4529]

Btw, do you know about the Eternal Card Game? It's a bit similar to MTG and I thought since you like trying new card games, you might enjoy trying this one sometime. It's also really free-2-paly friendly. You could maybe also do your "guess how good the cards are" videos with one of the streamers who play that game. 0:30 Equipments like that also exist in the Eternal CCG, but equipments don't return to hand after the unit died.

[@dinogabric8054]

yes, second that

[@0kaiKai]

Is Eternal still alive? Haven't heard about it for years

[@pete5516]

@@0kaiKai card game players are a special breed, they stay loyal to their game longer than anyone else

[@0kaiKai]

@@pete5516 card games also special breed, they tend to close servers faster than anyone else. But it seems like Eternal is still there.

[@firecat4529]

@@0kaiKai The games gets constantly new expansions and updates and events, like Hearthstone for example. It's just not as popular as the other card games so you don't hear about it as much.

[@djay9843]

Update: Norra/Heimer has the highest win rate while jax sees almost no play

[@xaius4348]

I think yi is pretty under-rated honestly. I reccomend playing him in freljord with lee sin. You get consistent value for all of his effects.

[@UndeadAlv]

This videos are so entertaining, if LoR videos were more recommended this would have more views lol

[@etheron1235]

I need to see more of this type of videos but I do want to review the followers, spells, landmarks, and equipments

[@silva81]

Thank you Rarran, that is a gift for me

[@dancingimmortal448]

Raran if sharaphine is the next champ released i will curse you man. Unless they give her a desighn that actualy fits the game.

[@gizel4376]

i never lost to the timeline version with my fated Jax

[@joako8329]

My favorite ship, I mean duo

[@Happy-md4zy]

cant wait for the next runeterra video Rarran

[@cfv7461]

Is it weird that i am kind of ok with all the new champs being not good? Literally the only thing messing up is the shurima equipment (because shurima)

[@alejandrotti10]

Minor correction: You go Rhaast because it's better, unless you play Kayn in pink region elusive recall.

[@eosrose6126]

I really like these kind of videos... I just wished they would be a little bit longer 😋

[@helium3137]

Norra is meta now, good prediction by Rarran!

[@mattmanlooloo]

Yo I really want you to make the switch into being a LoR content creator. We need another memer

[@Lyganesh]

I learned in this video that Runeterra and Shadowverse are two different games...

[@fropdafrog1712]

So Rarran says that they haven’t released seraphine in this video… and how she was just meta breaking

[@krejz1078]

Tbh Norra is pretty good in bandle tree deck+ jax package can win games on turns7/8 if enemy won't destroy ur landmark

[@bluemanblue2316]

You gotta try guessing Inscryption cards! I bet it'll be a little tricky.

[@Rarran]

I have played the game

[@bluemanblue2316]

@@Rarran then make someone else guess them

[@joelvaldesjr.7404]

I play Ornn as agressive as I can. Ornn + Udyr to give them regeneratio. and somebody to grant spell shield

[@TheMrBonzz]

Jax, Yi and Ornn suffer from the same problems that also exist in most card games, over investing in single cards/units is a bad idea because you would lose a lot if they removed them.

[@DrKosmosis]

Hey Rarran love the videos but double check audio balance next time. Had to keep raising and lowering the volume, you are much louder than Snnuy

[@grit1]

Says Runeteera in the description, caught you slackin

[@thijsrietberg8764]

Just curious, is ssnuy from The Netherlands? His accent sound a little bit Dutch.

[@rinkujoka232]

Well good news... Evelynn became good with veigo (the ultimate simp)

[@JS-kr7zy]

I've been playing lor for 3 weeks. How'd I know what flow is and you don't?

[@Krulfar]

Rarran was right about Norra at last xD

[@NDRA.P]

Well, Norra's deck is top 1 rn, Rarran was very spot on Norra afterall

[@JazzCabbagE7]

Two of my fave creators

[@Green_Slimey]

sunny : norra is pretty bad rn a few days later : (the highest wr deck atm ) Bonjour

[@Taylor-bw4zg]

"There's no Seraphine yet?" well if the way she released in league is any indicator of how her release would be recieved in LoR it makes sense lol

[@N12015]

Would be even worse because LoR tend to attract lore nerds, and those in general despise her due to being a nothing character, a design who contradicts the aesthetic of Piltover and Zaun, the whole hypocrisy of her release story and that's not even mentioning her scummy marketing who ruined her base design or the "Sona 2.0" she was designed as.

[@LDDeath]

Where is video from new expansion?? I wait it for so long...

[@Rarran]

It’s coming tomorrow

[@StarChargerStudios]

Not the misspelled champions in the time stamps 😭😭😭

[@231alexx]

Kayn is the strongest right now in runeterra. He and pantheon make a good pair.

[@gertistamherd]

where is snnuys low end audio data? we neeed the basss

[@simpleevan3583]

Rarran pls take a look at the darkin weapons and their follower form

[@TomDoedelzak]

Ayy, another Snnuy vid

[@jalengaskin8450]

He’s learning

[@anthony-vd8hm]

unleashing a load of text for the algorithm

[@OmegaIL]

Horus Heresy Legions is next, 100%

[@rageofsweets]

mister yi unmasked 😳

[@blushy9215]

YU GI OH WHEN

[@yogran1]

Yi is so underwhelming. I pretty much only play path of champions so I don't know how bad he is in constructed, but he is soo slow when you play him on curve without any banked spell mana

[@aarongutierrez7705]

PoC? Ew

[@steelemind5433]

I don't know why but I want to snnuy and rarran Duke it out in a best of three in ruinterra then best of three in hearthstone then give there true ideas and respond to the state of each game from novices view points.. But the dust cost and the shard cost would be a lot and a lot of money.

[@pnda595]

I just started to ff when someone has a Nora

[@michaeld8705]

After all these guessing videos Rarran has learned to read the other person’s reaction to get the right answer. Very impressive for a 6 year old