Gathering Storm

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• "So if you're playing against like a really hard matchup it's very common to go like bone plating right? But if it's an easy matchup then you might look for like uh a scaling angle for sorcery. you might go gathering storm or you might go for uh transcendence, right? So the the last rune is the one that's the most adaptable when you're looking at runes. so I think we start with the keystone identity issue, right?" (03:13)
• "Um, in the sorcery tree, scorch is a very early game focused rune, right? And then there's clear late game focused runes like gathering storm, right? So, this you will get based on matchup more than anything. The sound's a little messed up, so let me just kind of fix that really quick. Sorry for Oh, so the the runes will be based on early game and late game. So your rune choices will change like should I take gathering storm or should I take scorch? This is like a very common uh issue for mages." (09:02)
• "Even if you're a scaling champion, by the way, it doesn't mean, oh, I'm playing a scaling champion. I'm going to gathering storm, right? A lot of the times you want to go scorch so you can have a better laning phase so you can get to your late game, right?" (09:45)
• "And I do think there's a big argument to be made for sorcery on junglers too, by the way. Uh to get gathering storm. I think absolute focus is really good on junglers because you're always high HP when you when you fight and hex flash for more creative gank pathing." (01:23:20)
• "This is the best late game rune. Um, probably not in the game because there's like gathering storm, but one of the best late game runes, especially for resolve. Every for every two enemy minions or one monster killed permanently gain three max health." (01:37:46)
• "Usually you'll get 300 by late game, which means that that's two ruby crystals worth of stats, right? So that's a,000 gold worth of stats on a minor rune, which is unbelievably insane, right? like gathering storm needs like 50 AP to reach the same thing as overgrowth. So overgrowth is insanely OP in terms of gold stats." (01:38:26)
• "Even though I think most of the time, do people go sorcer? No, they go domination for the most part. and they go they go gathering storm, but I think you should replace this with um cuz they go for like the zombie ward and they want to get both zombie war and sign impact. But I think you can replace gathering storm with with absolute focus. I think it'll be better for most most of the time until the super super late game, right?" (01:49:00)
• "You pop ghost and then you just sprint right out of Yeah, I talked about hex flash countering J4. Uh then we have gathering storm, right? Starting at 6 minutes into the game, you gain 280 or 4 AP and then every 3 minutes it kind of increase." (01:50:32)
• "At 21 you're going to get 52, but 21 minutes the game should be over in like 90% of cases or the winner has already been decided and that 12 AP won't make a big difference. So I'm not a big believer in Gathering Storm because it's kind of u I I feel like in most cases Scorch will actually be better for most laners. However, for junglers obviously where you're not really proing scorch, gathering storm is the answer. But on Ziggs, for example, or like even on Oriana or other champs, I might go sorcery on, I think Scorch might be more beneficial nowadays. However, if you're playing for the scaling and you have an easy matchup, you're playing against like a Morgana or something that's kind of like an AFK matchup, then gathering storm can be useful. This something I talk about at the beginning of the uh, you play based on the matchup, too. If you're playing some Morana, which is just straight up AFK matchup, she uses her W on the wave, she kills the wave, you don't really interact, then Gathering Storm is obviously the way to go on pretty much every champion because you don't care about poking her in lane. You care about scaling at that point, Uh, and then Extali Sajar as the last rune." (01:51:23)
• "So you don't need the additional ejar. It can help with the vision granted but the value you get from this rune will never be as high as scorch, nimbus cloak or gathering storm. So it can be okay for some champions don't really care about the other three runes, but I think Excel seedure after Sweet Tooth was changed to Pollenist has no real place uh as a rune unfortunately." (01:53:18)