So far the reveal season is little scuffed but i'm (and my editor Marshall) trying to make the most out of it. The Nidalee video was released at 5PM CET and full set of cards were released at 8PM CET on official websites so it's a bit of a puzzle to fit everything together in a video... so thank you all for sticking with me! and let me know what you think about the cards revealed so far in the comments
Do you think it matters much that the spell-stopping ambusher does it at burst speed, meaning that your opponent can't use their own spell-stopping cards to protect their play?
Okay okay, hear me out. What will REALLY add to ambush especially for you is that three other champs that focus on Ambushing in League are Kha’zix, Rengar, and FIDDLESTICKS!!! Fiddlesticks + Ambush????
The redesign…the music…the effects…I WANT TO SCREAM I LOVE *_(almost)_* EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS! Before yesterday i barely cared about Nidalee and now i can’t get her out of my head i love her so much 😭 Common LoR dev team W
The only part about the redesign I don't like is that some people are complaining about it and being how you'd expect people who like the original design to be
You summon the 3 mana deny as the shadow in the brush, and if you need to, you just defend or attack with it as a 2 mana 2/2, with a possible deny, if necessary
that's a good point yeah, i guess i give too much thought to the "you cant make another brush because of this" but you can just get rid of it in combat. good call!
@@nicolinrucker5181 hmmm, interesting question. Though i doubt it'd be the case, since that would be pretty op to lose the original card and still transform the next shadow into the first one you killed
the problem is that if you do that you cant summon any other ambush cards as shadow in the brush... and there are far more valuable cards than basically rite which you dont know if you will ever need.
@@foxinabox5103 Well in that situation you'd be losing the unit if you don't counter and thus the ability to counter something more important later either way, hence the middle finger lol. But ya you're not wrong.
Hear me out...Nidalee/Evelynn, all of Eves followers are a basically 2 summons because of the Husks meaning Nidalee could level faster of them and the Husks can give the Shadows in the Bush addional safety and enable crazy plays like the Pakaa Cub getting its nexus strike off because of a pink Husk or protecting the Blimp-Pack Poacher with spellshield to keep the captured unit
Wait using the husks is actually big brain. The question is just whether or not that provides more strength than nidalee’s intended pairing with nakotak/neeko
The guy that captures is insano with the spell that obliterate an ally to create a weapon with it's stats. The spell is fast speed i believe, very nice interaction and animation
you can also condense your own tycoon to play him for manifest + the passive on turn 8 in case they try to remove on turn 7, play brush, play 1/1 tycoon, ambush and win off of that combo I think nidalle will be pretty good with BC for the early pressure or frel for protecting nida + buffing her for finisher, she also has overwhelm
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One big bonus in Facecheck's favor IMO is that since it can manifest Avenging Vastaya a good chunk of the time, every time you play what it makes your opponent has to respect the Deny.
16:10 you are wrong, before it was like you said with Everywhere buff.(Kahiri Timelines worked because everywhere buff could be transferred). Since Ekko expansion, they had to change the interaction due to a bug and only "card buffs" remains. Prowl can be transferred while ambushing but iceborn legacy won't. Edit: Kahiri Timelines is my most favourite deck in its respective release.
Shine On reminds me of the time LoL used to have custom login screens with original soundstracks on new champion releases... I just love it! So hyped for the expension!
I think Avenging Vastaya is strong in non-nidalee decks; I agree it feels a bit off when you want to keep the transformations rolling but it's a significantly better version of RoN (less mana and no additional cost) - in decks where you aren't punished for sitting on an ambush, it's really strong, especially if you can abuse the prowl effectiveness to draw out more spells.
@@nihal5125true but it can allow you to pay that cost across two rounds plus RoN requires a loss of tempo through unit or mana sacrifice. I’m not saying it’s Better per se but it is an interesting take on countermagic at least.
If you summon a Card as brush will you be able to use the ambush cards onto other brushes? That could make the Negation-ambush a LOT better in my opinion
I know what i mean is you keep the ambush spell and If you Play another brush you have two different units you can summon with the brush Edit: If the First Brush dies
I think Avenging Vastaya deserves more thought, the way I see her, you summon her as a bush, and then you can shutdown any burn archetype that rely on skill damage, in any case, I don't feel she is a deny you safe, its a deny you activate on site at anything you wouldn't normally deny
Tycoon is closer to the leviathan(Swain's ship) than to Albus Ferros. Albus doesn't need to be present to get his own ability buffed. The Leviatan stuns 2 units if leveled up Swain is present. I think is going to be good.
If I had to guess on how ro play Vastaya, your main objective is to set a board up as best as you can then play Vastaya to add protection to your board, overall its mainly just a card for protecting wide boards adding safety as lets say you go all out and level Nidalee and have a very strong board then you plop this card down to lock your board waiting to end game next turn. My overall thought process is that these cards will be used to confuse your opponent and eventually go wide and play reactive cards as anchors to anchor your board if needed and maybe there will be ways to rebush units for reusable effects, if so I can see these reactive units being used a lot as ways to anchor winning boards and maybe in the future if this ambush archtype needs buffing they might allow for 2 bushes to be playable e.g: Nidalee lvl= "if I'm on the board add a 2nd bush slot" ect.
I saw someone saying ambush would be like champions, where you play an bush and then every ambusher unit in your hand become its spell version. But after seeing it in practice, im doubting it will be that strong of a mechanic even after seeing the leaks, being limited to only one bush at the time can be bad for that deck
tbf, there was a card yesterday that gives you a random ambush card. so if your reactive ambush card doesn't look like it'll get any play, you can try your luck for a more useful ambush
I think the Vastaya is a flexible deny for midrange decks. If you play midrange, you want to spend your mana efficiently and you won't really have a lot of spell mana banked to use Rite. However, you can take the Vastaya, play it as a 3/3 if you're against aggro, or save it to play it as brush if you're against a deck like FTR (I know it's Eternal, it's the mode I've been playing the most recently so it's the first thing that came to mind 🤣). The other thing I like about the ambush mechanic as a mid-rangey deck is that you get more flexibility. Mid-range decks are basically play on curve, but these give you the chance to react against the enemy deck while still leaving a body on board. And also you get to play control and slap all the reactive cards, with Nidalee as more of a control unit because of the javelin 🤔
Man, they absolute nailed this!! I was concerned about the ambush mechanic, but now that i see it's probably gonna be broken for a patch but it's well done and really interesting, i consider that "Darkin Expansion: Finale" is peak LoR, but this may surpass it, I'm really excited for this
That Landmark isn't bad persay, but it's going to kill your mana curve if you play it early, and if you play later you don't get alot of value out of it. The effect is actually good, but it's taking space on board and when are you going to play it instead of simply playing another unit or banking the spell mana. If it were a creature, it would be way better, because that would be good effect to have on your board, but you're giving up a blocker or an attacker to do it.
Snnuy probably has access to all the champs in this expansion in advance (like he did on the previous ones) I think that misspoken rengar wasn't just a missspoke. I think he maybe momentarily forgot rengar wasn't revealed yet
Vastaya seems very much like a card you might play one of, just because the threat of it existing is more valuable than actually playing it since they wont know
Edit: nvm 3/5 is fair I think avenging vastaya is as a 1 or even 2-off (meta dependant) better than you give it credit for. 1. you dont have to play shurima deny (doesnt really fit the deck anyway) plus its a body 2. It's fairly easy predict Big spells FTR, Ruination, buried, targon BS. -> swarm before that -> opponent has to gamble between getting blown out or find different win con -> you can still play to your win con 3. the nightmare of spell based controll (deny while swarming) Not saying it's amazing but fairly versatile for a tech card
My question if it would work with the demacia landmark that does "When I'm summoned, draw a unit. When you summon an ally, grow its stats equal to its cost." it doesnt say what cost do u play it, it says grow it to its cost so can you make +6/+6 shadow in the brush?
So i realized something if you play the 6/5 overwhelm on turn 3 , then on turn 4 with 2 mana left over you can use the 1 mana +2/+2 on the bush and transform the bush to the 6/5 and have a 8/7 overwhelm on turn 4
I feel like the deny ambush card is less to define what ambush is and more to make your opponent second guess themselves and hesitate. Because now you KNOW there's a good chance of that deny
Play with Recall with Ambush is gonna be scary, especially with that Vastaya that negates spell. How does SitB work with duplication? Like with Black Flame or Dawn n Dusk.
avengin vastaya seems insane. I think what ends up happening if you get to run 4-6 rites of negation effectively. And just snap them off on basically anything you don't just sit and wait for the perfect opportunity because you know you're running more rites of negation then anyone else. its like playing fish / tempo control in MtG
i think you are looking at the rite ambush wrong i see it being really good once you have 3 to 4 units on board and offers some protection and once at that point you can get away by summoning normally since it would be 6 to 7 mana at that point
I think something missed about Nidalee at least in the video is her ease of level up. Every Ambush Card played as a brush counts for two towards her Level Up since her text specifies “Summon or transform”. Your 2|2 brush comes down +1 to Nidalee level up, 2|2 brush flips, another +1 to Nidalee. Turn 3 she comes down Turn 5 playing on curve she levels. If you have 2 of the 3|1’s in hand she levels on Turn 4. Is that every game? No. Something to consider? Absolutely. I’d give her 4/5. Attack Token on turn 4 swing a 6|4 Quick attack overwhelm and 2 3|1’s, against vulnerable blockers. Then if your 6|4 hits nexus remove an enemy unit for free or burn nexus for 4. Ideal scenario you clear their board and deal ~ 10 damage to nexus on turn 4. Also higher tier because Ambush is highly flexible and creates a level of confusion for enemies. Card games are all about the information at hand, and Ambush flips that on its head, as we saw with Morph in MTG (even moreso because EVERY ambush card in LoR comes down for 2 mana so you can’t even guess what card it is based off of cost, whereas MTG morph you could try).
I’m calling it, ambushed is going to get changed to either focus or fast speed (probably the latter so you can still react in battle) in the 2nd patch after this.
Snnuy when the bush dies and you summon another bush won’t you have two spells to transform the bush into? Meaning there’s two ways to use ambush, just straight surprise them or let them kill the bush and keep summoning more to have more transform options open in the back. So you summon the avenging guy. Let the bush die. Summon another bush and just keep the spell in hand forever cause you always have the bush being summoned.
I'm curious, if you play a card as Shadow in the Bush and it dies, do you still keep the ambush spell in hand? Couldn't you just play the ambush spell later on any Shadow in the Bush you have? IE: the Nidalee you play died as a bush, but you just play another card as a bush next turn and transform it into Nidalee instead?
Here's a question. After she leveled, does that mean all other Nidalee copy is getting leveled and then deleveled and if after she dies and then she summoned as Brush she use the Ambush card does that mean she always transform into her Lv 2, Or only when after she dies as leveled and then her ambush become Lv 2 ambush?
im dying to see rengar in LOR atleast i play little bit nidalee too when rengar got ban back in the day and im huge fans of transform archetype, 100 percent will play her
Even without any cross support, I can see Ambush cards as some decent Discard fodder. Your deck is full of 2/2s that generate an extra card on summon and act as removal bait. If the 2/2 eats removal, then it's just more discard fodder.
when you play nidalee in the brush its gonna give you its own ambush spell right? so when brush dies is the spell is stil viable so when you play another unit in the brush can you transform the brush into nidalee? it would change everything.
@@smartalex22 I mean, they kind of just turned her into a cat girl with the same slim body and pretty face 90% of the girl champs already have. This is a jungle woman raised by wild cats, I was hoping for something a little more rugged. Everything else is a huge improvement, outfit especially, but they could've gone a little more out there with her face and body type in my opinion
27:31 i dont see how that can be possible when there is literally a card that can give you any ambush spell without having an brushes on the field. no you have to be able to print brushes and then mainfest an ambush spell to use on it.
also it'd make more sense to me if the ambush spell bricks in your hand if the bush dies. or even transforms the ambush card into its corresponding unit as if it was a champ spell. but it sound like you have knowledge from a leak that that is how it works, which is lame.
So far the reveal season is little scuffed but i'm (and my editor Marshall) trying to make the most out of it. The Nidalee video was released at 5PM CET and full set of cards were released at 8PM CET on official websites so it's a bit of a puzzle to fit everything together in a video... so thank you all for sticking with me! and let me know what you think about the cards revealed so far in the comments
Do you think it matters much that the spell-stopping ambusher does it at burst speed, meaning that your opponent can't use their own spell-stopping cards to protect their play?
@@princequincy5421 that's not how it works, the spell goes on the stack
@Snnuy oop, thaaat's my bad, think I mostly agree with your take on it then
Okay okay, hear me out. What will REALLY add to ambush especially for you is that three other champs that focus on Ambushing in League are Kha’zix, Rengar, and FIDDLESTICKS!!! Fiddlesticks + Ambush????
Imagine being able to give Ambush to other cards. The mind games!
Ambush is such an interesting mechanic
its morph from MTG, very beloved but also very broken mechanic
@@frezz9083 ambush honestly doesnt seem that broken, because it appears only one ambush affect can be activated once per round
No its boring. The last interesting keyword was formidable
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@@heavyadrelingblogs5630formidable is the opposite of interesting lol
The redesign…the music…the effects…I WANT TO SCREAM I LOVE *_(almost)_* EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS!
Before yesterday i barely cared about Nidalee and now i can’t get her out of my head i love her so much 😭
Common LoR dev team W
The only part about the redesign I don't like is that some people are complaining about it and being how you'd expect people who like the original design to be
@@Boon.Oreo6042 Yeah that old design needed to go like 💀
You summon the 3 mana deny as the shadow in the brush, and if you need to, you just defend or attack with it as a 2 mana 2/2, with a possible deny, if necessary
that's a good point yeah, i guess i give too much thought to the "you cant make another brush because of this" but you can just get rid of it in combat. good call!
@@Snnuy if you get rid of it in combat... do you still have the transform spell in hand?
@@nicolinrucker5181 hmmm, interesting question. Though i doubt it'd be the case, since that would be pretty op to lose the original card and still transform the next shadow into the first one you killed
the problem is that if you do that you cant summon any other ambush cards as shadow in the brush... and there are far more valuable cards than basically rite which you dont know if you will ever need.
@@nicolinrucker5181If the brush dies, its Ambush card gets obliterated
The Brush Negation is honestly just great as a Shurima card alone to add into non-Ambush strats
I mean even if they go to mystic shot it, you could just counter their mystic shot to give the middle finger.
@@TheJadeFisti mean, the fact that your opp is using a spell into your supposedly anti spell unit should have net you a positive.
@@foxinabox5103 Well in that situation you'd be losing the unit if you don't counter and thus the ability to counter something more important later either way, hence the middle finger lol. But ya you're not wrong.
@@foxinabox5103 Plus if you do unmorph it, you'd be left with a spell shield unit on board with that shield intact.
Hear me out...Nidalee/Evelynn, all of Eves followers are a basically 2 summons because of the Husks meaning Nidalee could level faster of them and the Husks can give the Shadows in the Bush addional safety and enable crazy plays like the Pakaa Cub getting its nexus strike off because of a pink Husk or protecting the Blimp-Pack Poacher with spellshield to keep the captured unit
Plus Evelynn transforming back and forth levels Nidalee repeatedly... Think you might be into something.
Wait... you might be onto something
Wait using the husks is actually big brain. The question is just whether or not that provides more strength than nidalee’s intended pairing with nakotak/neeko
Hold on, let this guy cook...
Snnuy, hear this guy out...
The guy that captures is insano with the spell that obliterate an ally to create a weapon with it's stats. The spell is fast speed i believe, very nice interaction and animation
Captured units are freed when the captor leaves play, even via obliterate.
@@tinfoilslacks3750nooooooo 😭
silence will remove captured units though
you can also condense your own tycoon to play him for manifest + the passive on turn 8 in case they try to remove on turn 7, play brush, play 1/1 tycoon, ambush and win off of that combo
I think nidalle will be pretty good with BC for the early pressure or frel for protecting nida + buffing her for finisher, she also has overwhelm
yeah right now i think Nidalee BC is 100% the deck
Gosh, I always thought Rengar and Kha would probabbly be a new kind of LURK, but now they can be Ambush, and it actually fits both of them better.
Would it be broken if they have both mechanics??
I do hope Khazix will have elusive and Rengar too, I think it's too iconic for them not to have it.
I LOVE this set. The mind games of "Do I block and get captured" or "Do I let this hit nexus and give up vslue"
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LMAO thank you and solid advice
One big bonus in Facecheck's favor IMO is that since it can manifest Avenging Vastaya a good chunk of the time, every time you play what it makes your opponent has to respect the Deny.
16:10 you are wrong, before it was like you said with Everywhere buff.(Kahiri Timelines worked because everywhere buff could be transferred).
Since Ekko expansion, they had to change the interaction due to a bug and only "card buffs" remains.
Prowl can be transferred while ambushing but iceborn legacy won't.
Edit: Kahiri Timelines is my most favourite deck in its respective release.
Shine On reminds me of the time LoL used to have custom login screens with original soundstracks on new champion releases... I just love it! So hyped for the expension!
I think with the brush, you can turn the brush into any of the transforms as long as you have the units as spells. Right?
The spells get obliberated when their brush dies, so no
Ah ok
I think Avenging Vastaya is strong in non-nidalee decks; I agree it feels a bit off when you want to keep the transformations rolling but it's a significantly better version of RoN (less mana and no additional cost) - in decks where you aren't punished for sitting on an ambush, it's really strong, especially if you can abuse the prowl effectiveness to draw out more spells.
Its one mana more than RoN since the bush cost 2 and the transform 3.
@@nihal5125true but it can allow you to pay that cost across two rounds plus RoN requires a loss of tempo through unit or mana sacrifice. I’m not saying it’s Better per se but it is an interesting take on countermagic at least.
If you summon a Card as brush will you be able to use the ambush cards onto other brushes? That could make the Negation-ambush a LOT better in my opinion
You can only have 1 brush in play at a time.
I know what i mean is you keep the ambush spell and If you Play another brush you have two different units you can summon with the brush
Edit: If the First Brush dies
@@SalbeiInc Some people have said that the ambush spell gets obliterated if the brush dies, so I guess you would lose that unit from the spell.
@@itzmikeyangelo o sad
And i thought i had a good Idea 😑
I think Avenging Vastaya deserves more thought, the way I see her, you summon her as a bush, and then you can shutdown any burn archetype that rely on skill damage, in any case, I don't feel she is a deny you safe, its a deny you activate on site at anything you wouldn't normally deny
1:57 this shit gave me chills ngl
I was waiting for your reaction
Tycoon is closer to the leviathan(Swain's ship) than to Albus Ferros. Albus doesn't need to be present to get his own ability buffed. The Leviatan stuns 2 units if leveled up Swain is present. I think is going to be good.
If I had to guess on how ro play Vastaya, your main objective is to set a board up as best as you can then play Vastaya to add protection to your board, overall its mainly just a card for protecting wide boards adding safety as lets say you go all out and level Nidalee and have a very strong board then you plop this card down to lock your board waiting to end game next turn.
My overall thought process is that these cards will be used to confuse your opponent and eventually go wide and play reactive cards as anchors to anchor your board if needed and maybe there will be ways to rebush units for reusable effects, if so I can see these reactive units being used a lot as ways to anchor winning boards and maybe in the future if this ambush archtype needs buffing they might allow for 2 bushes to be playable e.g: Nidalee lvl= "if I'm on the board add a 2nd bush slot" ect.
If you bounce a Shadow in the Brush and find a way to print either the Brush or the Ambush you could end up with a board full of Nidalee's.
I saw someone saying ambush would be like champions, where you play an bush and then every ambusher unit in your hand become its spell version. But after seeing it in practice, im doubting it will be that strong of a mechanic even after seeing the leaks, being limited to only one bush at the time can be bad for that deck
the level up animation reminds me of when we first saw Renekton's level up
tbf, there was a card yesterday that gives you a random ambush card. so if your reactive ambush card doesn't look like it'll get any play, you can try your luck for a more useful ambush
nvm, it gies a card with ambush, not a random ambush spell, mb
stony suppressor decks will be much more popular now because of ambush. the transform cards for the ambush are all spells.
Ambush is about to be my favorite deck
First ATSV's Calling and now this. We hearing good tonight!
I can’t wait to try out this new deck when it comes out and seeing how much my opponent can sike themselves out
I think the Vastaya is a flexible deny for midrange decks. If you play midrange, you want to spend your mana efficiently and you won't really have a lot of spell mana banked to use Rite. However, you can take the Vastaya, play it as a 3/3 if you're against aggro, or save it to play it as brush if you're against a deck like FTR (I know it's Eternal, it's the mode I've been playing the most recently so it's the first thing that came to mind 🤣).
The other thing I like about the ambush mechanic as a mid-rangey deck is that you get more flexibility. Mid-range decks are basically play on curve, but these give you the chance to react against the enemy deck while still leaving a body on board. And also you get to play control and slap all the reactive cards, with Nidalee as more of a control unit because of the javelin 🤔
38:36 got that Pocahontas vibe, lvoe the art
Man, they absolute nailed this!! I was concerned about the ambush mechanic, but now that i see it's probably gonna be broken for a patch but it's well done and really interesting, i consider that "Darkin Expansion: Finale" is peak LoR, but this may surpass it, I'm really excited for this
The ost for this expansion is so bop
That Landmark isn't bad persay, but it's going to kill your mana curve if you play it early, and if you play later you don't get alot of value out of it. The effect is actually good, but it's taking space on board and when are you going to play it instead of simply playing another unit or banking the spell mana. If it were a creature, it would be way better, because that would be good effect to have on your board, but you're giving up a blocker or an attacker to do it.
Fun fact: Big Game Tycoon works on all champions levelling up, so it makes sense that he's in Shurima, the champion-centric region.
Snnuy probably has access to all the champs in this expansion in advance (like he did on the previous ones) I think that misspoken rengar wasn't just a missspoke. I think he maybe momentarily forgot rengar wasn't revealed yet
Looking foward for the Rarran Snnuy content to come >:^)
Vastaya seems very much like a card you might play one of, just because the threat of it existing is more valuable than actually playing it since they wont know
I'm definitely making a deck revolving around Nidalee and Gnar
Great thing about ambush is now you can play mind game with your opponent
Edit: nvm 3/5 is fair
I think avenging vastaya is as a 1 or even 2-off (meta dependant) better than you give it credit for.
1. you dont have to play shurima deny (doesnt really fit the deck anyway) plus its a body
2. It's fairly easy predict Big spells FTR, Ruination, buried, targon BS.
-> swarm before that -> opponent has to gamble between getting blown out or find different win con -> you can still play to your win con
3. the nightmare of spell based controll (deny while swarming)
Not saying it's amazing but fairly versatile for a tech card
My question if it would work with the demacia landmark that does "When I'm summoned, draw a unit. When you summon an ally, grow its stats equal to its cost." it doesnt say what cost do u play it, it says grow it to its cost so can you make +6/+6 shadow in the brush?
So i realized something if you play the 6/5 overwhelm on turn 3 , then on turn 4 with 2 mana left over you can use the 1 mana +2/+2 on the bush and transform the bush to the 6/5 and have a 8/7 overwhelm on turn 4
No
i hope you will make a rating video with rarran about this expansion. you make it so good ^^
That landmark would be insane in undying decks.
I was just watching the Twitch VOD when thought "maybe the YT video is up already" and here we are
I feel like the deny ambush card is less to define what ambush is and more to make your opponent second guess themselves and hesitate. Because now you KNOW there's a good chance of that deny
the music is remixed Neeko theme. I need the full track this shit slaps
Edit: They uploaded the track
Just lost 4 times in a row to ekko jinx. Looking forward to new cards shaking things up a bit, loss- streaking be very painful.
The death phrase of "Big Game Tycoon" dying to Nidalee made me smile. A very good easter egg
you can use any ambush card, let the bush die and keep the ambush spell to have options when u use another ambush card.
It makes so much more sense for her to be a vastayan now
Play with Recall with Ambush is gonna be scary, especially with that Vastaya that negates spell. How does SitB work with duplication? Like with Black Flame or Dawn n Dusk.
gnar Ren is going to be killer with that landmark
I feel like the avenging vastaya is best for bluffing against some 8+ mana spells when you don't have an avenging vastaya
What if when you have a bush, all you ambush cards become their ambush spells? How broken would that be
avengin vastaya seems insane. I think what ends up happening if you get to run 4-6 rites of negation effectively. And just snap them off on basically anything you don't just sit and wait for the perfect opportunity because you know you're running more rites of negation then anyone else. its like playing fish / tempo control in MtG
Yeah, exactly what I think, while wasting a Rite on burn skills feels bad, with the avenging vastaya it's game winning and you don't loose anything
Surely the expansion with a mechanic called “Ambush” will include a Fiddlesticks reveal
i think you are looking at the rite ambush wrong i see it being really good once you have 3 to 4 units on board and offers some protection and once at that point you can get away by summoning normally since it would be 6 to 7 mana at that point
No matter what level up Swains level up goes hard af
36:59 Omg this actually scared me 💀
Avenging vastaya is that kind of unit you want to play as a 1 of in your deck just to threaten a rite effect whenever you have a bush
I think something missed about Nidalee at least in the video is her ease of level up. Every Ambush Card played as a brush counts for two towards her Level Up since her text specifies “Summon or transform”. Your 2|2 brush comes down +1 to Nidalee level up, 2|2 brush flips, another +1 to Nidalee. Turn 3 she comes down Turn 5 playing on curve she levels. If you have 2 of the 3|1’s in hand she levels on Turn 4. Is that every game? No. Something to consider? Absolutely. I’d give her 4/5.
Attack Token on turn 4 swing a 6|4 Quick attack overwhelm and 2 3|1’s, against vulnerable blockers. Then if your 6|4 hits nexus remove an enemy unit for free or burn nexus for 4. Ideal scenario you clear their board and deal ~ 10 damage to nexus on turn 4.
Also higher tier because Ambush is highly flexible and creates a level of confusion for enemies. Card games are all about the information at hand, and Ambush flips that on its head, as we saw with Morph in MTG (even moreso because EVERY ambush card in LoR comes down for 2 mana so you can’t even guess what card it is based off of cost, whereas MTG morph you could try).
I’m calling it, ambushed is going to get changed to either focus or fast speed (probably the latter so you can still react in battle) in the 2nd patch after this.
It would become unplayable immediately.
That would destroy the archetype
I'm about to put the deny unit in my mono shurima deck to protect my stuff better
Snnuy when the bush dies and you summon another bush won’t you have two spells to transform the bush into?
Meaning there’s two ways to use ambush, just straight surprise them or let them kill the bush and keep summoning more to have more transform options open in the back.
So you summon the avenging guy. Let the bush die. Summon another bush and just keep the spell in hand forever cause you always have the bush being summoned.
Also, the tycoon doubles nidalee's (and any champ for that matter) stats when they level up, which matters to finish up games
I'm curious, if you play a card as Shadow in the Bush and it dies, do you still keep the ambush spell in hand? Couldn't you just play the ambush spell later on any Shadow in the Bush you have? IE: the Nidalee you play died as a bush, but you just play another card as a bush next turn and transform it into Nidalee instead?
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I see some potential for pakaa cub, attacking on turn 2 with fearsome seems almost unblockable for most decks
0 profit game and they still gave us banger music and awesome arts
Here's a question. After she leveled, does that mean all other Nidalee copy is getting leveled and then deleveled and if after she dies and then she summoned as Brush she use the Ambush card does that mean she always transform into her Lv 2,
Or only when after she dies as leveled and then her ambush become Lv 2 ambush?
I think you could say ambush is Runterra’s version of stealth from Hearthstone.
How is being forced to use Prowl on brush for full effect is a "minor downside"?
maybe we get neeko with her own region like camouflager or something that will make nidalee decks more playable
So... what happens if you recall an ambush unit? Do you keep or lose the burst transform?
if the bush leaves the board, the spell gets obliterated, even if its shuffled to the deck
If you lucky turn 4 else, it is later. The Ambush 0 + two 1 cost units and she levels
what if we use "Mist Call" after the brush dead? Does the brush can still be transformed or not?
Does absolver grant +4/+2 and oberwhelm to the transform unit like husks?
What if you make copies of nidalees ambush in your deck and have another card as brush and play the ambush
As a person who loves morph in mtg, I am extremely excited for Ambush.
What happen if the dead brush is revived? Like mist call, does it tie to the original spells that it is created for?
Freljord/Shurima
Nidalee with gnar, my next season deck
im dying to see rengar in LOR
atleast i play little bit nidalee too when rengar got ban back in the day
and im huge fans of transform archetype, 100 percent will play her
Now all we need is ivern for creating bushes lmao
goddamn i'm gonna redownload this game again
Was that Graves in the lvl animation?
Finally a new champ who's win con isn't just play a million fast/burst spells and kill you in one turn
Even without any cross support, I can see Ambush cards as some decent Discard fodder.
Your deck is full of 2/2s that generate an extra card on summon and act as removal bait.
If the 2/2 eats removal, then it's just more discard fodder.
I think Neeko will be runeterra and be "add any animals type cards to my deck"
when you play nidalee in the brush its gonna give you its own ambush spell right? so when brush dies is the spell is stil viable so when you play another unit in the brush can you transform the brush into nidalee? it would change everything.
I have not seen a single game where the enemy hasn’t played a spell past turn 4. I don’t think Brush of Negation will be horrible.
What if nidalee levels when in brush, does her ambush spell changes as well?
what do you guys think about blackk flame the bush??
Nidalee needed a redesign, but I'm not sure about this one. They somehow made her look even more like every other league girl
I don't see it. But at least it's an upgrade from her previous look
How so, if you don't mind me asking?
@@smartalex22 I mean, they kind of just turned her into a cat girl with the same slim body and pretty face 90% of the girl champs already have. This is a jungle woman raised by wild cats, I was hoping for something a little more rugged. Everything else is a huge improvement, outfit especially, but they could've gone a little more out there with her face and body type in my opinion
If Nidalee is hidden, does she "see" summons and transforms for her level up? If so, can the opponent see the level up progress animation?
5 secs ago i was thinking, "hmmm, when is Snnuy gonna release his reaction to this" XD
If the bush is dead, what you do with the burst spell tho
27:31 i dont see how that can be possible when there is literally a card that can give you any ambush spell without having an brushes on the field. no you have to be able to print brushes and then mainfest an ambush spell to use on it.
also it'd make more sense to me if the ambush spell bricks in your hand if the bush dies. or even transforms the ambush card into its corresponding unit as if it was a champ spell. but it sound like you have knowledge from a leak that that is how it works, which is lame.
wait, nvm big game tycoon manifests a card with ambush not an ambush spell, mb