Riot's NEW Survival League of Legends Game - Full Review of Swarm Game Mode

do you like League do you like vampire survivors do you want to burn your eyeballs well look no further because there's a new mode coming out for League of Legends called swarm and naturally for this video I no liked it I unlocked all the playable Champions minmax some builds and beat the extreme difficulty so is it worth your time should you reinstall League of Legends just for this this is a review guide and discussion over the new mode any further questions that you might have feel free to check out my stream as when this video goes live I'll be playing some more swarm now we all love to play video games because they are fun fast-paced and great time Killers to stimulate our ADHD brains but what isn't very fun is working grinding through tutorials and reading user manuals and unfortunately in the past that was always the best way to learn something but today I have something very cool for you this sponsor boot dodev has the solution for you boot dodev is a game-like setting where 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earn you new unlocks upgrades and champions you absolutely do not start with the full Suite of content to play with you have to earn it it's a smart system that rewards players for the grind in doing more than simply just one tricking a champion the entire time which adds some replayability speaking of replayability there are four maps and a few nice gimmicks and mechanics and this is one of the things that surprised me the most you move with WD which for League of Legends I know is completely weird but it works out all right you have two abilities per Champion one basic ability on E and your ultimate is on R and the objective is simple survive for 15 minutes until the big boss spawns as you go along there will be mini bosses events powerups and upgrades the system of augments has been reused again here from TFT and Arena and Riot has done an excellent job of continuously finding ways to reuse this code the pop-ups for upgrades are pulled straight from their other modes I think what adds some of the fun for me is that you get to use the new skins because the new skins are some of the best in recent times I mean seriously they're sick after those initial rounds that are a little bit challenging once you get some baseline levels and upgrades it will become substantially easier even though it is a bullet hell it's a lot less of that and more strategy build understanding teamwork and grinding mechanics are important in any video game especially one that does have you dodging like this but it's nowhere near as hard as it seems a large part of the learning curve is just understanding what to do and how to build out your Champion so let me help you with that here is a quick guide on how to play Warehouse district is the first map and there's a Yumi in the middle that can help heal your team it does have a cooldown so you'll want to use it at the right time all of the maps have boxes and crates that are scattered around that have additional gold healing packs and sometimes even explosive bombs that help wave clear the outskirts has a cannon that needs fuel cells to power up so your healing is drastically reduced compared to the previous map but you'll have a bit more Firepower at your disposal the Subterranean lab has two Frost cores that will crowd control the enemy after a short Channel but keep in mind these also have a cool down the idea is that you should be kiting in between the machines and when things get overwhelming you freeze the herd and clean them up the beach head is the final map and there's a friendly Misfortune Ally that moves around you can move with her as she acts as sort of a half a teammate but she doesn't die though and if you want to ignore her you can she will always roam around the western part of the map but on the beach there's an automatic cannon that will help you clear some Champions like Riven with all of her Mobility will love to play on the Eastern side and on the beach on these Maps there are three types of major objectives that can spawn Misfortune Buffs Yumi quests and belth trials misfortune's Buffs are simple pickups that will massively help you out it could be a huge Shield or Earth mode or even invulnerability cars these are clutch and can save your whole run Yumi quests are a bit more interesting they will give you a task and if you complete it you'll get a choice of augments but what makes it fascinating is that some of the time these augments are not purely positive some of the augments have no downside whatsoever but most of them do require you to give something up in return for power so you need to Choose Wisely when it comes to Yumi quests on some runs I've actually ignored the Yumi Quest since it is a bit of a risk reward but it's fun to go for finally the Bell death trials are additional bosses and combat challenges and these are a must if you want to win you can choose to ignore them as some of them are hard but completing belth challenges will reward you with the most golden experience in the whole game mode you have two types of upgrades that you can make stat upgrades and weapons the way that the stat upgrades work is that you have slots and once you pick one that occupies a whole slot for the rest of the round the same thing goes for the weapons some weapons that are amazing for Jinx and Yasuo are not going to be nearly as good for bruisers like Brier and Riven since you do have a limited number of slots don't just take random weapons these weapons and stats can be individually upgraded multiple times to a tier five so you can upgrade your maximum health to a tier five your ability haste up to a tier five along with the rest of the stats however the weapons can actually be evolved to a tier six so long as you have the correct stat bonus the ice blast armor is able to evolve to a tier six if you scaled any armor but if your inventory is full of other stats you won't be able to evolve it this is a great time to then explain what each Champion does and what kind of build you're looking for I'll go through the Champions individually and then in the end I'll rank them on a tier list based on my testing for Jinx your best build will be using stats like ability haste damage movement speed projectiles armor and Max Health now you can choose to Greed and not use any max health or armor but the reason that I found it to be good for Jinx is because she is very squishy and has no defensive tools whatsoever like a shield also the static sword weapon does evolve with Max health so the weapons that are good for her are things like ooo Blaster static Sword and the blade ring on Jinx though you can be a little bit more flexible I've seen some jinxes run defensive stuff just to survive and tippers isn't bad either for all Champions as he's just an addition additional unit in teammate helping regardless of what Champion you're playing seraphine is all about projectiles as her passive has a chance to multiply them and you'll want to fully spec into this with projectile count duration ability haste damage movement speed health regen stuff like that take any weapon that has projectiles like the blade arang Gatling bunny gun and lionist lament lonus will probably be your best in slot because it evolves with haste seraphine is very strong because she has a lot of Team utility with her huge shield and movement speed buff and the amount of of times that we were able to get out of a bad situation just because seraphine was Shield spamming is insane now Leona is by far the tankiest champion and takes basically no damage if you look at Armor health health regeneration ability haste and duration pickup size is also not too bad on Leona because you're so tanky that you can run straight through the waves and collect gold and XP for your team the high rooll for Leona is radiant field with ice blast armor being a close second tippers is also decent too because his evolve is with duration in the combination of duration and ability haste makes it so that Leona's Shield is the most broken spell in the game allawi will spawn tentacles close by to where she is and her passive gives healing based on how many tentacles are close so for her play style it's a little bit more stationary and is not so much about kiing you want to control an area of the map the main stats that you want are duration haste armor max health and damage with the others being pretty flexible I don't currently know if projectile count does increase the amount of tentacles I tried it and it didn't seem to work but if it ends up working correctly when the game goes live then projectiles would also be quite good duration and haste are your most important stats on aloi because you are the most ultimate Reliant champion in the game and the duration is what your tentacles scale with Tibbers also evolves with duration and radiant field evolves with Max Health but you can substitute some tankiness for damage if you want Brier is really fun to play in this mode you have so much healing and you're constantly testing limits getting down to one HP and then boom you're healed to full prior really likes Max Health haste duration health regen damage movement speed stuff like that the first thing that you'll want to upgrade is your basic weapon as she has the strongest Autos in the game and you'll be spamming e the entire time your ultimate is quite similar to the Summoner Rift one it's a mega powerful version of your self taunt use the ultimate when you're low and you'll rock it back up to full HP Yasuo is insane in this mode he arguably has the best Ultimate in the game as it has a very low cooldown and high utility the wind wall can completely save your teammates and your runs but he's not just useful because of the wind wall he also has great mobility and top tier survivability you want to look at crit chance movement speed damage Health regeneration haste and armor projectile count is also very good Riven is all about staying mobile you should never stop moving as this Champion movement speed is your best stat and will scale your entire kit followed by haste Max Health damage grit chance and armor there will be other stats that work well for Riven like health regen and area size also being good interestingly Riven is the only Champion that doesn't need to use the cursor because in order to deal damage all you have to do is run into them with WD she is by far the fastest and most mobile champion in this mode which is hilariously fun to mess around with Aurora is League of Legends newest champion and is quite unique in this mode as well and I found her play style to be pretty enjoyable your main stat that you want is experience because this is what levels up your basic weapon as well as your passive every eight levels you will gain some power through your spirits the other stats that are good are haste Health regeneration duration and projectiles but similar to Brier Aurora can be built in a lot of different ways her gameplay pattern is about kiing back and forth through the same paths the first part of your attack hexes the Target and the second part procs big damage so you want to stay around your targets and hit them twice by kiting in circles and dodging all game with your stealth Z is all about pickup radius as her passive extends this by default and damages enemies whenever you pick up gold and XP her basic feathers will also be evolved by this the other stats you like are haste damage crit chance and movement speed unlike I don't think you need to spec into defense as much since you do have a shield once you evolve your basic weapon now the game has three difficulty settings story mode hard and extreme the way that I went about determining a Champion's power is that I beat the final map in the atrox boss with all nine of the Champions on the hard difficulty by myself that was kind of my control if I were to rank them on a tier list I would say that Aurora is the weakest followed by seraphine Jinx and Zia and then Yasuo Riven alawi and Brier are all interchange changeably s tier I felt that they were all around the same power level and then finally Leona has to be Exodia tier you'll notice though that I didn't rank anything below a tier you see there are no bad Champs because the game is not hard the only reason the beginning rounds are hard is just because you don't have your stat upgrades after just a couple of rounds you begin snowballing very hard and the game loses almost all of its strategy and becomes more about scaling through the unlocks you can reach a point after a couple hours of play where you can stat check the game and you know what's unfortunate is that as of right now there's no real way for them to make the game any harder all that making this game more difficult would do is make it much more frustrating to play as the amount of projectiles on the screen is way too much this is where we reach my biggest criticism of the mode it is a bullet held that has no true mechanics because the visual clutter doesn't allow for it when playing multiplayer if you run a team of seraphine and two Yasuo even with just three players you will reach a point where you can no longer see what is happening so much of the footage in this video has been a little bit grainy because that's the only footage I could capture for the game the visual clutter is so high that the game is nearly unplayable wait till I tell you that you could also add an allow to your Force deack so with the added in tentacles it is completely GG for any gameplay because the entire screen will be a mess also weapons like Tibbers and radiant are entirely too big and Visually busy now before you get mad at me and type your comment idiot YouTuber never heard of a bullet hell game complains that it's a bullet hell XD listen up I have no issue with these games okay I love Realm of the Mad God good and I beat many of the maps on jaab on the hardcore difficulty the problem here is that this Rexy boss that we are fighting currently on the screen has One Singular attack pattern and one move so not only is the boss not that impressive it doesn't really matter anyway if it was because you cannot see or discern a single attack that it does the movement and abilities that a boss does is almost entirely irrelevant especially in multiplayer the reason that the game is beatable is not because I am skilled or good it's because Leona just doesn't take any damage there is no skill no dodging and barely even a thought is going into the gameplay and beating extreme difficulty my Champion is just too op imagine if the enemy actually did damage me it would be entirely unfair because how am I supposed to see what's happening the core combat system as it stands does not work because the visual clutter is far too much and the difficulty has to be artificial this is where I need to clarify though that I don't think the game is bad and I don't think the concept is completely broken I played a around that was rather enjoyable it was when I was playing solo as Aurora against the tier 2 difficulty map with the Brier boss at this point in time I was not a max level character yet and it was fun to beat it it took me several attempts to actually accomplish it and because there was far less visual clutter and because Brier I think is the most wellth thought out boss it was fun to dodge and learn in this instance I could actually see what the boss is doing and what her move set was and I found it fascinating comparing that to the co-op runs on max level characters the Clutter removes all of the gameplay and as I said I think two of the bosses rexi and belth barely even do anything comparatively to Brier and atrox who are at least somewhat interesting so what could be done about this is there an actual solution first of all I think we just need to reduce the amount of particles instead of shooting six particles that do 10 damage how about we shoot three particles that do 20 damage the values would come out to be the same but let's just turn down the amount in a game like Realm of the Mad God you can turn down teammates opacity which massively reduces multiplayer clutter if I am not personally playing the Yasuo I don't gain a lot as a player from seeing my teammate Yasuo throw out 5 million tornadoes aside from just the visuals it's still on PBE right now for a reason and I have encountered a substantial amount of bugs many of which are gamebreaking on Riven and Brier there is a bug where you cannot upgrade your basic attack Brier has a bug that destroys some of her inventory items and makes copies of them bosses and enemies can get creep blocked you can't always level up in the menus and you're supposed to be able to get six inventory slots for your stats but as of right now I could only get five to work even after completing all of the quests and one last thing this isn't a bug but because Riven doesn't have a cursor and she's supposed to never stop moving she would greatly benefit from an auto run feature that you could toggle on and off it's pretty tough on your hands to never stop inputting W ASD whereas all of the other Champions can take a break sometimes this game is far from a finished product we know that given the fact that it's still on PBE but even when it does go live I feel that it will still have some big problems to me swarm feels like 90% of the fun is just because it's mindless and slightly entertaining to play your Champion the other 10% comes from the strategy the build the augments and fighting the enemies it's brain off fast and Visually stimulating it's also casual friendly and fulfills a lot of the ADHD time killer parts of many popular mobile games I know that there's a demographic of players out there who do not play Summoners Rift anymore they don't queue up for rank because they don't want to get into arguments with random weirdos and internet keyboard Warriors they have quit the game because of the toxic community and modes like Arena and aim are the things that keep them coming back arena is now better than ever but it's because Riot didn't give up on it Riot put in the time to fix it with three different iterations of its launch after the first run through everyone gathered all of the feedback made huge sweeping changes and released it once again after working on it for a while the idea of a League of Legends PVE mode vampire survivors bullet hell is a good idea there is a potential legitimate video game here with the target audience of a PVE casual Co-op or solo challenge Runner imagine if the game was balanced enough to the point where you could attempt to no hit it or minimize damage or imagine if the enemies in bosses were a little bit more interesting and fleshed out that way it would be cool and impressive to beat the extreme mode what if you could reset your stats completely that way you could play as a low-level character for challenge runs continuing on that train of thought what if there were a hardcore or endurance mode where you have to defeat all of the maps in a row or you go full Rog like or Realm of the Mad God where you get one life you can upgrade as many of the stats as possible but on death you lose everything players can put in hundreds of hours into cuphead JB Elden ring because it's actually interesting to perfect it but as it stands right now the visuals and particle effects that have been turned up to the plon temperature make that impossible we need to turn it down to like a low boil a simmer if you will anyway I hope you enjoyed this video let me know your thoughts and comments down below and check out my twitch stream where I'll be streaming more of this mode to discuss it further with you guys thanks so much and I'll see you next time

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Keywords: league, of, legends

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Length: 19min 1sec (1141 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 28 2024