How This ONE Thing Single-Handedly Ruined Competitive League of Legends

[@Exil22]

Oops I accidently said Banner had 200 Magic Resist instead of 20. LOL. Everyone is welcome to join the club! Join here to compete qlub.gg/#/main/clubs/detailed/5d28fe7e6b919d0011ed0dd1?referrer=1

[@whaleclouds]

Banner command was my go to before players abused it because i preferred items that was rarely seen and expose my singed style

[@nemanjamarkovic2444]

15:55 fierik xdddddd wtf italian stremer wold clip wher did u get that xd

[@chgaming5037]

In 21:07 you mentioned a forum about riot seeking out ideas for a split pushing item. You mind linking us the forum as it's not in the description currently Thanks

[@phillipandersen7063]

You also said 300 seconds cooldown, suppose you meant 3 minutes. Nice video, keep it up :))

[@unistudenthrefna9086]

Will there be a duskblade video? The item which literally causes assassins to be balanced around it making them the worst class in the game without them. Such a unfun item to build and makes all assassin builds linear. However Ap assassins don't get balanced around this item to they seem to deal more damage then a zed or a talon. How leblanc and Diana can one shot without being able to counter while Ad assassins NEED duskblade to work.

[@jobbette2950]

"70% damage reduction to EVERYTHING instead. Sounds okay in theory, right?" I don't know in what universe that would ever sound okay "in theory"

[@zedantXiang]

Still wondering why they didnt just make it take normal dmg instead..

[@lampisfun1139]

I think he meant in comparison to full immunity to magic damage

[@sanjayw9878]

Lol people like you always find 1 thing to pick at, he had a much bigger point going on

[@chaos3088]

They should just put 50% of all damage n this would be case close, which idiot set to 100% damage? It's immortal already

[@somehowviable7696]

Could of just made it 25%

[@Gurehige]

Here before this monstrosity is reincarnated as “ Hullbreaker”

[@yoshiyoshi9496]

*maniacal laughter*

[@louisa4725]

For having tried it, it is a pretty decent item but not op at all

[@vleos9325]

@@louisa4725 use on the Tower Obliterator Yorick, you gonna love it

[@louisa4725]

@@vleos9325 i used it with nasus

[@lebreizhblond]

Nah. Hullbreaker is even more OP than the Banner. Which is worse lol.

[@Mikkeru]

Make a vid on how pro play balancing has ruined League for solo q

[@Exil22]

not a bad idea

[@amrismail7336]

Agree :D

[@an0nsaiko890]

pro play balancing ? I think you misspelled Ryze's balancing.

[@amrismail7336]

@@an0nsaiko890 ryze .. azir .. akali .. irelia .. aatrox .. urgot .. sejuane ... Everytime they say they want a stable meta then they make 50 changes in 3 patches XD

[@nuwanda2702]

Balance team btw, Imagine if they remove ryze because they can't balance him anymore like their items.

[@fisher00769]

"You don't want Caitlyn to be constantly proccing Demolish" *stares in Grasp Cait*

[@rodrigokuszek]

Yesss

[@duchi882]

*Riot banned the Banner of Command* because Kled should be the only one in Command

[@KhriZippy]

"CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

[@mannywong8508]

AXE AXE AXE AAAXE!

[@sweater9026]

VICIOUS

[@badgoy1573]

"TAAAKE NO PRISONEEEEEEEERS!"

[@cedarsapling]

kled was still years off the radar tho

[@totallymady42069]

I would love a "commander" champion based around mechanics like banner and zz'rot

[@alansalas1880]

I know that isnt what you are asking , but azir is basically him commanding his soldiers.

[@skullcrusade3436]

Summoner roles in most RPG games are rarely played, so champs like Azir and Malzahar are also rarely played. I won't lie, I love Summoner type characters, and I do want another jungler like Ivern but controls the Monsters instead.

[@darkmistico]

Malhazar: Im a joke to you?

[@ThisIsMattsLife]

Yorick

[@kenrichards1032]

[Laughs in heimerdinger]

[@balazsfoldes4700]

*No one builds banner* Riot: Buff it *No one builds banner* Riot: Buff it *No one builds banner* Riot: Buff it *Banner breaks the game* Riot(with surpised Pikachu face): We can't balance it, it's gone

[@JDReC100]

They reworked it again and again. Then forgot about the other changes to the game when they fixed that last bug....

[@alveolate]

yea, rito reverted leblanc and kogmaw, but couldn't just revert banner.

[@tysontronowicz3731]

Honestly, real issue was baron buff change from a stat gain to a minion buff.

[@Caipi2070]

so stupid to throw so much work and experience away just because of one failed nerf attempt.

[@NerdyPro]

I built it but then again I played Zilean when banner had AP

[@baval5]

"mage supports should love this item. they didnt, in fact no one did" >laughs in heimerdinger

[@SimoneTaroni123]

INDEED A WISE CHOICE

[@GeninGeo]

this was a staple for supports for years when it around. second 3 e supports built it alot despite him not saying so and fighters built it for pushing too. the main problem of the item lay in its long cooldown so it was hard to use it multiple times for a push and most people playing the game even in high elo cant manage waves. they know how to bounce waves but they dont know how to slow push waves. and further is that you have to push another lane the same time the banner minion hits a tower which you can do but its really hard to get your allies to commit at any time.

[@ChucktheSpicyChicken]

I remember heim blocking minion waves...

[@NiraSader]

Banner zzrot Malzahar: “Come forth my armies!”

[@mariobrand2257]

Yorick: Am I a joke to you?

[@astrofan8775]

@@mariobrand2257 Well, to me he isn't. Not after seeing the Commander Yorick video. Yorick with ZZro, Banner, Ghoulds, Maiden, and Herald. You can imagine why he isn't a joke to me, and will remain the commander of a real army forever.

[@_Sami_H]

@@astrofan8775 just go on summon 12 ghouls /meiden and Zzrot portal across the map while a teamfight is going in the midlane... RiP 3 towers right there.. or the game... You pick the sceinro..

[@MASTEROFSAND]

Yessssss

[@lionelkeijzer8008]

@@mariobrand2257 at the time yorick was a joke tho XD

[@RETRACFPS]

"Why not just play Ashe" Ashe arrow flies by

[@swine13]

Omg I miss Ashe. I miss when AP Ashe was kinda ok even though it was always shit. SNIPER ASHE!!

[@pongsazaaa]

and missed

[@JustSamYT]

lmao yeah i saw that

[@chewie4418]

Riot in 2021: Welcome back old friend

[@zat1245]

It’s looking a lot better. Finger crossed that it’s good enough to buy.

[@blitzan2363]

@@zat1245 i hope you are being sarcastic

[@zat1245]

@@blitzan2363 No, I seriously hope it’s good enough.

[@blitzan2363]

@@zat1245 ok I'm taking you are like bronze at the game so i wont demolish your wording.... "hope its good enough"

[@zat1245]

@@blitzan2363 Well, we won’t know if it’ll actually be useful till it releases. Anyone who thinks they know beforehand is just arrogant. But I really like this more leveled “Banner of Command” for those who would like speck into it for more split pushing power. But the stats from the passive could be hit or miss or not worth losing the space for a different item so we’ll have to see how it performs.

[@Aogami20]

"they tell us they're looking for a healthy way to introduce a tower pushing item" b- ... but ... Ohm Wrecker ...

[@MuhammedGemci]

Ohhhhh boi, that item was fun. Will always remember those epic plays on Rakan with Ohmwrecker...

[@acecun6202]

That wasn't a tower pushing tool that was a dive tool. The whole goal of a push tool is to push in and take tower. Ohmwrecker essentially zhonya'd the tower.

[@lokikeltie3567]

@@acecun6202 It was an excellent dive tool BUT I still allowed the turret to take damage making it very hard for the person defending the turret to keep it alive while the demolish tank its probably being used by is crushing the tower with 3 autos.

[@tonylopez6585]

Now they have volibears R as ohmwrecker LOL

[@PixelAspen]

I know it wasn't balanced but men... Building that item with bard was so much fun.

[@Exil22]

love banner of command even though it ruined everything

[@SimonHodne]

Same dude. It was my core item on bard support for two years, and then they just removed it :(

[@IamnotfromUSA]

Buiding that item in midlane was so much fun my team won the game because me and my duoQ partner built that Item it was so funny that I won every game just because of that Item.

[@stefanomartinelli7344]

#FreeBannerOne

[@marcelohomenxmacaco2557]

#BRINGBANNERBACK I loved make heimerdinger top whit banner, it was an item that give a reason 4 two people come top just to stop a brainded yordle.

[@nightwing09x]

6:14 Chat Log, my favorite part of this vid.

[@zbri7727]

"They made it better for mages" > footage of a Renekton using said item

[@Noobie2k7]

I loved playing Banner of Command + Zzrot Portal Heimerdinger toplane. The god of the split push.

[@faizkid5555]

Vietnam Flashbacks

[@Yamisaru]

U may have beat me 0 5 in lane, however.......I still win with persistence period. Please send your whole team. For I, heimer, have the split push of 4 champs. Pick your loss reason.

[@jlam9788]

Don’t forget talisman too for extra speed.

[@Noobie2k7]

The build was BoC, ZZrot and Rylai's was the core of the build. then you'd usually build a Zhonya's. What i loved most was when you take TP and send your Promoted minion mid and put the ZZrot down in the botlane tribrush and push all 3 lanes at once.

[@_Sami_H]

Yorick main: am i a joke to you?

[@stefanfilipov7254]

I remember back in the days when LoL was just released,there was a strategy that allowed your team to kill Baron Nashor at lvl 9.Pretty sure it involved Soraka and Banner summoner spell

[@besio4881]

Exil is like Animal Planet of League of Legends - good content, good quality, and hella knowledge.

[@YaredKokeb]

And orgasmic voice

[@yoshomasa9336]

And deserves to have way more subs honestly

[@TheOneTrueNothing]

Except his narration is riddled with mistakes like "two hundred magic resist"

[@robinfin237]

12:10 I think that 200 magic resist would be actually pretty op :DD

[@minecraftjord02]

God I miss going zzrot, banner, and a bunch of AP on singed and just proxying while my minions did everything for me

[@GreatFairyWitch]

Jordan Jordan RIP banner.

[@bane9951]

I dont miss it at all shit like that was cancer

[@phsycresconquest6636]

Don’t forget it’s acceptable on singed because well he is Toxic (also he’s EUW mascot)

[@SeeWhyAt]

The nostalgia of seeing all of the summoners is amazing. 10 years later I’m still playing but for a short time I can remember what it was like to enjoy playing.

[@sandromaspindzelashvili5767]

If you don't like it find a new game

[@pantsu5224]

Riot: *reworks Banner of Command* Players: I think that's bit overpower item now Riot: Oh Riot: *removes Banner of Command* Players: ???

[@rurunosep]

You left out the 10 iterations it went through before that, starting as a summoner spell in alpha. They tried for *years* to make it work until they finally decided that it couldn't be done and removed it.

[@Eherostudios]

Anyone else notice at 6:20 everyone spamming "RAPE" in the all chat? Glad to see the community was still the same back then as it is now lol

[@jackperrin3852]

Yeah I saw that too...

[@ProkerKusaka]

Good old days

[@nonoun9619]

@@jackperrin3852 why the suspension marks? It was back when the game was lighthearted and didn't ban you for everything

[@spjr99]

@@nonoun9619 because spamming the word rape isnt lightherated or fun its just toxic nd gross grow up kid

[@burglemyhead6838]

@@nonoun9619 back when u could banter with ur adc about his farm sucking an he merely laugh and pick up on why u suck WITHOUT ANY ANGER I miss that

[@katoshuu]

I missed Banner of Command :( People used to ping me and asked why I bought it, "Dude, I"m facing a mage" I won my lane and helped take others, and they all said "Banner OP" Like, no. you could've switch your AP top with AD mid, but you didn't

[@Jackdiddly1]

It was the only way to really fight ap tops. Just go banner and just stop their shove

[@PotatoRed148]

I miss it so much :(

[@TheSnoodPenguin]

Loved the WoW music in the background such good ambience

[@FirefulXD]

I HEARD RUNESCAPE ELF MUSIC TOO

[@emilgilger8129]

and the first music was jirayas theme from naruto

[@ChodeMaster]

What expansion? I dont recognize it

[@brdon2099]

What’s the music playing at 1:34

[@duganrocks100]

@@brdon2099 its a lofi remix, pretty sure like above guy said, a remake of jaraiya theme.

[@marcharrold5565]

Ur voice sounds familiar Ur like the guy talking at proguides.

[@Exil22]

I do the voice at proguides too!

[@marcharrold5565]

@@Exil22 i love watching proguides

[@vargas1222]

Lol yes he definitely sounds like Phreak from riot 😁 honestly should be a cater

[@someonesomething1600]

Hullbreaker, baby. Its just banner of command but with a pirate hat. 100% better

[@thisguy8597]

not rly

[@nagarake]

Promote, you want a 2 week vacation, BISH!

[@kurtisaiascasas3497]

hahahahaha

[@kensuke018]

You forgot to mention the time when Soraka could heal those empowered cannons, she could split push by herself with only one minion left, using Banner of Command. RIP Soraka.

[@vagri2829]

18:00 , damn dat Elwynn forest music got me nostalgic

[@Maddinhpws]

3:10 1. Ashe's E at the time was to give you bonus gold with every minion kill. Not hawk shot. 2. Clairvoyance gave you vision for a lot longer and in a bigger radius than the blue trinket. It also worked globally. 3. Clairvoyance gave you true sight and it even gave you sight for a few seconds on every you hit with the clairvoyance. So you would see enemies even after it was out. This was op in Team Fights, as you could get rid of any bushplay and similar.

[@faveology]

It was OP against junglers as well. Junglers basically just farmed and counterjungled all game(unless it was Nocturne)

[@Zazs31]

I have a group of 5 people in my friends list years later where we all went Smite Promote. We all lost lane, but destroyed the jungle, deleted every objective, and just pushed mid with promote and smite for the big minion waves. One of my favorite memories of playing League of Legends early.

[@waxa3869]

So basically Rito gave up and said "Well I guess no one can have it then" and commited thanos snap instead of making reasonable changes

[@cypherial]

not even 200 years could balance this item. or this game.

[@thetechygamer1513]

I hear 2 Week Vacation I died

[@x0xpoetx0x]

#freenubrac

[@memesgobrr867]

#laughingmyfuckingassoff

[@MangoMotors]

One of my favorite builds when I started league in Season 5 was Sion with ZZ'rot and Banner of Command, with what could be considered the OG int sion build.

[@bagoftricks6985]

Exil are you lowkey telling us how hyped you are for classic WoW with these background music bangers?

[@seanmyers4926]

BagOfTricks that’s what I’m sayin man. I about flipped out when I heard the Elwynn Forest song in the background

[@SandStorm253]

They seriously removed the item for that? All they had to do was remove the capability to promote baron empowered minions, reduce the champion damage reduction to around 35% and add minion damage reduction to the promoted unit or buff per minion kill. This way if the player ignores the promoted minions they will be punished by losing objectives or turrets but it's easy to kill if you just use skills on it. What the hell riot? Use your facking brain.

[@zandromex8985]

The problem with that is that the Baron buff is applied on an AOE, so there would reach a point in which Banner´s active would literally be unusable, making it only a lackluster tank item that no one would build because other items would have more or less the same stats and actives/slash passives that didn´t become unusable at a certain point. Hope I made myself clear.

[@RealRinka]

@@zandromex8985 Did you know that there are times where your team hasn't just killed baron

[@mauer1]

I think it would be better if the gold generation wouldnt be random. So it could be some sort of aura in which this minion collects gold for you. If you can reduce the cost of that Item while getting pressure It wouldnt need that much stats on the empowered minion.

[@rurunosep]

Did you miss the entire video? They didn't remove it because it was OP at the end. They removed it because it was either OP or useless *forever, since alpha*. That last version was just the final attempt after years of working on it before they decided it was never gonna work and removed it. If they did what you said, it would just become useless again. What's the point of going back and forth for literal years. It did not and would not ever work as an ability. So they finally got rid of it.

[@Brakiros]

Riot has a history of questionable decisions, remember Aatrox? Reworked him then just completely erased it.

[@luvalon6721]

"Promote got a two week vacation" is that a nightblue reference I detect

[@yoruichixx6951]

W A S T H I S A N I G H T B L U E R E F E R E N C E ?

[@alejandropetit6573]

Insert roaming teemo support gameplay here

[@zehdarian81]

You forgot that the 15% minion damage worked on Heimerdinger's Turrets. It was my core item when i started playing League and mained the Donger.

[@truefiasco2637]

completely forgot about that.

[@Shanshan12988]

ngl, watching streamers using banner of command in season 8 was fucking hilarious. I enjoyed it while it lasted

[@cottage3106]

I remember the imaqtpie game when legit every single person bought it, 5 banners vs 5 banners

[@nahravky3885]

Watching this now, makes me amazed on how much have you improved your editing skills. Good job and keep up the good work!

[@mattisholm9167]

i love that you are using world of warcraft background music from elwynn forest

[@builder5008]

WoW Classic soundtracks

[@Dantodlc]

omg you are such a really good director and guionist. I can't imagine how much time of research it took you to pull out this video and not only this one, but every video about League's history, liked and subscribed.

[@danikalike882]

Actually Removing the magic immunity would have fixed it :D Or maybe 25% instead of 75% damage reduction.

[@mauer1]

they hotfixed nerf the damage reduction from 70 to 40 before they removed it, also they nerfed the damage stacking from the baron buff

[@Nadbadass]

As someone that's been playing League on and off since launch, these videos are a lot of fun. It's so easy to forget that some of these things actually existed in the game. Thanks for putting these together.

[@38svenson]

The nostalgia in this is insane^^ Reminds me of one game i had back in season 2 or sth like that against 5 tanks with TP / Fortify. Most disgusting thing i had to witness til this day

[@raJlabaJloM]

Yeah talking about tanks, i remember when tanks and warmogs was super meta, and we had one game against 5 tanks that got fed, literally nobody could kill them, they just trolled our team for like 15 to 20 min

[@truckwarrior5944]

Still miss this item. It was a solid item in lower elos and a good build for toplaners falling behind. Such a shame it started to interact the way it did with Baron Buff after riot patched the baronbuff. Obvious solution would have been to just patch the baronbuff again or just write a single line of code saying that promoted minions can not gain the baron buff... but no they had to take the whole item.

[@bahwash2307]

2022: *belveth released* A Zz'rot as champion itself

[@MementoLoL]

Hey thats me! 18:21 I remember that game, it was brutal to watch enemy team completely helpless against one powerful minion, great video btw

[@rikerterronez543]

Nobody: 5:37 Nb3: YO PROMOTE. YOU WANT 2 WEEK VACATION?

[@jopesanvieira]

Loved the video. I remember Banner of Command so vividly. I wonder if you're going to hit this itens: Leviathan Sword of Occultist Philosofer's Stone Heart of Gold Pick of Destiny Force of Nature (I miss this one so much) Innervating Locket (Go Guardsmanbob!) Zhonnya's Ring Madred's Bloodrazor Milady Void Staff Keep up with the good work, I think it's amazing to see this type of content. It's refreshing, but also nostalgic.

[@brodyharrison1539]

Unpopular Opinion: Rito should bring back Surge and debatably Promote to bring back different play styles

[@just_yuumi]

True, but they are more likely to remove some more items, like it was, for example, with a sightstone or shielding support item

[@owdado8319]

This would most likely create some cheese strats that would only ever be played below gold elo

[@Darduel]

@@owdado8319 I don`t get why thats an issue, huge % of players (in fact I think most of them) are gold elo and lower anyway so it is still a huge part of the game.. there`s like only 1% that are actually pro/grandmaster+ players in the game so why only balance around that.. same reasons they reworked so many niche champs just because they were too out of meta even though many people actully enjoyed playing these weird champs and got really good at them

[@owdado8319]

@@Darduel true, then I guess it'd just be a matter of Riot thinking too many cheese options is annoying for the players. And about the niche champs, I guess they want to make more champs more viable and sell more skins(? I do miss old Swain a lot. They prob could´ve kept old or legacy versions of each hero and few would complain.

[@Cabbbbbbb]

Riot should watch this video before releasing that new item with the minion buff. Because apparently they forgot about Banner of Command and ZZ'rot and what WONDERFUL additions to the game those were.

[@brandaccountname9833]

I remember when I just started playing I always rushed aegis into face of the mountain into banner of command , good times

[@sugarkrisp5199]

3:15 "less than one percent of you have even seen this image" but you put it in the video, a minute before that. so its like 100% lol

[@converser]

this video made me realized that a lot of aura items have been since deleted or removed (rip iron locket of solari)

[@dddmemaybe]

Those items are inherently unbalanced design and once purchased, would be as strong how many champions you have within the radius. Considering the size of the map in League they don't want aura items whirlpooling the game down to 5v5 bubblewraps.

[@beezlebubsantos428]

RIP bulwark

[@myfirsttea]

I think ZzRot is chill but they removing that too I guess Edit: yo , guess what I just thought about, so instead of ZzRot being a portal you place down, make it a item where you charge it up like the current Herald then after 3 second it blows up like a Shaco clone and 3 ZzRot appears. Have the Rot do turret damage based on the ZzRot Current Health (Don't make it scale with Champion items, leave it at a fixed rate). So you can either CC the charge up time to burn it's Cool down or if you can't then hit the ZzRot so it doesn't reach your turret or lessen it's health to deal less damage to turret. And since it doesn't scale with Champion states then support can build the item too and it's a good splitpush item for Tanks and *cough* supports.

[@VFStudios266]

"...Chances are less than 1% of you have ever seen this or know what this is" I hope that was a joke statistic

[@38svenson]

Maybe not less than 1% but im pretty sure its less than 10%, since league wasnt nearly as known back then and many people have stopped playing since.

[@dweep9546]

I doubt a lot of people have been playing from season 3, and are currently watching Exil's videos.

[@cheato1163]

@@dweep9546 Some of us are getting shown vids from league youtubers now that tft is released and people are playing it like hearthstone youtubers, played back in season 1 till something like 4 or 5 and stopped, now playing tft and watching some league stuff.

[@utente442]

been playimg for almost 2 years, never heardo fi t

[@ThoseTesTis]

I think it was a joke about all the clock bait ads "LESS THAN 1% OF PEOPLE CAN PASS THIS LEVEL"

[@truckwarrior5944]

So the item was ok and balanced until Riot fixed a bug and it became game breaking… Isn’t the solution obvious then? It’s not a bug, it’s a feature for balanced banner!

[@magicien233]

Sure it wasn't balanced but it was such a fun item

[@Exil22]

i agree it was fun

[@zat1245]

2021 Update! Hullbreaker seems to be their new take on the “Banner of Command” concept. It looks fantastic. Fingers crossed!

[@AlosmanCZ]

:)

[@matthewblu5725]

Season 3 was my baby and look how they have massacred it. Not really but I do miss s3 it was so fun and I had so much more time to play

[@nnmacameraman92]

So much more time to do everything.

[@aceshadow2701]

So what rank are you then and now?

[@arigatameiwaku]

Ace Shadow why did you bring rank here?The games are made for fun,so he was having a lot of fun with it

[@majones117]

They literally just had to reduce damage taken from AoE abilities.

[@ChikaJihyo]

Honestly you have some of the highest quality league vids on youtube keep it up!!!

[@Exil22]

Im glad thank you!!

[@ethribin4188]

This just shows how mych more fine tuned, but more restrictive, league is compaired to dota. Dota has an item like that, and its not at all broken. Mainly cause people figured out ways to deal with it, and the power level of items and heros are much higher. Dota operates on a "if everything is op, nothing is" model. While league operates on a "everything must be perfectly balanced" model. Mastering league is perfecting how you play how the devs intend for you to play. Mastering Dota is figuring out how to deal with every situation, no matter what it is. Which makes league easyer to get into and learn, but ultimatively just a 'copy the pros' in terms of mastering it. And makes Dota the better game for me as it needs some brainpower and thinking. Not straight up copying.

[@CandaEH]

I'd play DotA if it didn't give me headaches due to the shitty graphics, contrast, and the screen being fucking zoomed in. Guess I could always go back to DotA 1....

[@MolochDE]

I would love dota if the game wasn't intentionally hostile to players to keep it gritty enough for the old folks...Smart casting in lol feels just good, not having to deal with turning speed or learning orb walking. I would love all the aspects of big brain moves in dota or theory crafting a counter to my opponents on the spot if the execution wouldn't feel like someone trying to break my fingers with a hammer

[@ianmcdonald9233]

*looks at thumbnail* BROTHER MAN, BANNER OF COMMAND WAS AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE BEST ITEM OF ALL TIME

[@brandaccountname9833]

Ian McDonald when did they remove I took like a year break and came back and suddenly my favorite item was gone

[@tyrantseye2754]

Brand account name somewhere around June 2018 in patch 8.12

[@twolfblue5695]

Move banner of command to the runes and act like overgrowth. Every time you kill a minion your minions health and resistances increase. This stacks up to a maximum of 12 stacks and has a 20s cooldown. The effect only works around your champion. This could be a viable tank or fighter rune to replace overgrowth.

[@MetalClown0]

And 1 year later the minion buffing part is back again with a vengeance

[@Dario_Gaming]

Nostalgic WoW music + Old league problems 😪😪 You got my sub.

[@aioibin]

here after hull breaker?

[@marc789]

Let’s also not forget about the item that when used disabled turret for 3 to 5 second.

[@thepois88]

didnt know this channel. nice narrative and good content. subscribed!

[@Exil22]

Thank you man

[@truckwarrior5944]

I loved the item. I still miss it. It was such a good item and if you ask me it would have been quite easy to balance. They did not even try.

[@haroldsoriano9197]

Banner of command, zzrot portal in bard or nunu was so much fun. (sorry for bad english)

[@cube130]

imo they coulda make BOC active replace minion with a buffed unit that cannot be rebuff with baron buff. The main problem of its removal is due to the range increase on the baron buff... the item itself, even with the magic immunity isn't "broken" when the cannon minion walks inside of the tower range and marksman can actually do something and tanks can cc it.

[@aubertmassondiane5621]

I don't know why but I regret the old triforce that was giving crit chance

[@MysticalCake29]

I lowkey still sometimes forget that it doesn't have crit anymore

[@szymonlewandowski9690]

you mean "miss the old triforce"?

[@Yamisaru]

Or the ap. Oh man I miss sheen's ap

[@Rncko]

Probably Banner just gonna end up with description that says "Promote : Weakened Baron buff" You still get tower pushing without utter demolishing the balance while avoiding Baron double stack.

[@masterxitra]

This channel is just like a league of legends History Channel i love it. Now only a matter of time till you upload late at night about some werid league of legends conspiracy theories. like how all champions are just failed ryze reworks turned into new champions so no one will notice. its why some champs have the same skills. it all leads to aliens.

[@lazee1386]

and now we have the menace to society item that is hullbreaker

[@justanotherLunny]

Oh my God I fogot entirely Promote was a summoner spell! God the memories!

[@belle4857]

And now with the latest ''plz Riot'' video Riot posted we can expect Banner, or at least a variation of it to return in s11 at some point. From what they were saying it seems we're getting a Banner/Zz'Riot type item for tanky supports to help them push and counter pushes. Looking forward to it.

[@LemoneTheGreat]

I hope to see these. Great news! I also hope it’s busted for a patch or two. Just for fun ;)

[@kassadin8942]

The quality of your videos is amazing

[@user-uq9se1nx9q]

14:15 yeah, now its kinda wierd seend Zed not-oneshotting Kog-maw and dying on a towerdive

[@John-if9ig]

I think the 70% damage reduction was a step in the right direction had they just adjusted the numbers to say like 40 or 30% i think it would of been a good item not to strong but not to weak at the same time

[@timanlam7504]

I really love the concept of promote, empowering minions. There are no other items or skills could do that in nowadays.

[@000Reka]

That Elwynn Forest & Stormwind music in the background tho.

[@CryingShayme]

What if the buffed minion (and to a lesser extent, minions around it) simply gained heavy damage reduction against other minions and turrets, but it can still be cleared fairly easily by champions. Drop it in a side lane when you predict a 5v5 elsewhere, and you are almost guaranteed to take a tower, but there is obvious counter play. make it so that the buff aura that the target minion grants to others doesn't stack, so your whole team COULD buy banner and drop it on one wave, but it would be a waste of a lot of stats. It would be more effective to have two people promote two consecutive waves in one lane or two simultaneous waves in different lanes. To balance it, you would just have to tune tankiness and damage. You could increase or decrease both, or trade one for the other so it doesn't survive as long but deals more damage, or so it will last a long time if unattended, slowly chipping away at the turrets.

[@MrFreakinHair]

5:37 "Promote got a 2 week vacation" Did TF Blade call his friend at riot? EDIT: I meant Nightblue3 not tf blade

[@phillipeveilleux3135]

Dave poj tf blade ???

[@AHFAN11]

as a jungle main, I distinctly remember having to make the hard choice of "do I smite dragon, or do I save it for banner minion" and sometimes I would get flamed for smiting dragon instead of saving it for banner minion. It was not a good time for junglers.

[@sleepy-gogo]

And now it's actually back, as the Hullbreaker, nice

[@noelperland8883]

Almost 5 years later and this is stillmy favorite Exil video

[@benyseus6325]

They should remove Ohm Wrecker. Like I never even see Nasuses buy that item.

[@cottage3106]

I have played this game for about 7 years and I can’t honestly remember seing it in soloQ more than 5 times. Lol.

[@mspectrum]

@@cottage3106 5 is too much lol

[@xerxsesbreak8455]

As I recall, the reason it still exists is that it was introduced as part of a referral program. I do think they could change the active to something less shit, though.

[@nemooceansoul1137]

when i first started league it was just before banner was turned from a summoner spell into an item. and me being kinda new at the time and pretty bad at CS id take the spell as itd give me cs from the buffed minion. i played annie mid. id almost always target a cannon minion and it helped me win lane pretty easily. but yah...

[@xxgoku7774]

I had strategy in season 6 that always worked I built the banner with soraka and also built the buffed warmog I could split push and throw a turret so fast in the mid game Generally enemy did not expect that and just though i was trolling by leaving the adc alone (having a kamikaze adc on the other side of the map really helped me to get the enemy team distracted and wondering if I was, indeed, trolling) The interaction was that soraka w does not put you in combat so you could buff a cannon minion let it tank the turret and you could heal it every two seconds (pre nerf soraka) without losing any health for it It was not the best thing like it had been with the adcs banner meta but i had so much fun with it I also built (old) zz rot if i was winning or just build as a support if not

[@GeekedOutNeckbeard]

Man these videos are a trip down memory lane for League. I didn't start playing until Udyr was released, but saw it passing from time to time. I remember taking the promote summoner spell and thinking I could use it on myself lol. I don't know why I thought that at the time but man.. I was dumb. As time went on I would use it with Malzahar, buffing a minion and pushing with his E until I realized Ignite is a far superior spell that chains into his combo to secure kills. I miss banner, when they brought it as an Ap item I built it on Heimer.. Shit was mad busted. Couldn't stop the devastation of his pushing powers. I wish league would become more colorful again the old map is and will always be outdated, but man it had thick, and rich colors. The updated map seems to have become desaturated and kinda greyish overall. Losing a LOT of vibrancy and richness in the colors. Season 11 I hope they return to form. Stop making stupid shit decisions among the good ones they do and finally focus on gameplay mechanics and not just the pro-players and trying to force them into new metas.

[@chadzelda1]

Man, will of the ancients, that brings back memories, I remember when that was a 100% must on Mord without it he was trash.

[@dj_koen1265]

that was my favourite item when i just got into the game, rip my nostalgia

[@faveology]

The Kennen and Vlad comps where you went double WOTA. They would destroy team fights and neither would ever die. They just had to use one ability if they got poked out and they would heal back to full lol

[@DanielGuerrinha1]

A lot of work has been made for this video. A masterpiece was created, a like you deserve. Congrats

[@efaesfefse9236]

6:23 that guy typing in all chat would have gotten 2 weeks vacation by today's standards XD

[@MoreInsane96]

Love you videos dude! No clickbait, lots of in depth explanation and so much intresting