ICYMI: Last week in esports June 17 edition
Your weekly roundup from the world of esports.
In this week’s ICYMI: Mordekaiser gets nerfed, Keanu shows up at E3, and some insane plays from the Taipei Major.
Reworked Mordekaiser gets nerfed
After just two days on live servers, thereworked Mordekaiserhas been hit by the nerf hammer.Both his base stats and his passive were affected.
Just finalized our Mordekaiser Micropatch list (image below). He was a real strong metal man. Now it’s in the hands of@RiotKingCobraand our engineers to get it out to players.pic.twitter.com/2gqb0nMgub
Mordekaiser had been dominating the top lane since his rework went live in Patch 9.12.
He had the highest win rate of any champion, winning a ridiculous 55% of games he appeared in, and had a 13.6% pick rate, which also made him the top-picked champion, according to data available onop.gg.
Valve and Riot make official Auto Chess games
Auto Chess is taking the world by storm with both Valve and Riot releasing official versions of the auto-battler genre.
Valve’s version is calledDota Underlords, while Riot’s version is calledTeam-Fight Tactics. Both games let you strategize against seven other people using familiar Dota 2 and League of Legends heroes as chess pieces. The last person standing is the winner.
A free open beta for Dota 2 Underlords will be available on June 20 for PC, iOS, and Android. The open beta for Team-Fight Tactics is coming later this month.
Drodo Studio’s originalAuto Chess gamewill also be making its way to PC later this year, exclusively on the Epic Games store. The new game is a port of Auto Chess mobile, and will not feature Dota 2’s heroes and abilities.
Keanu makes an appearance at E3
CD Projekt Red’s upcoming open-world RPG shooter,Cyberpunk 2077, looks fantastic in this new cinematic trailer revealed at Microsoft’s E3 press conference, which included a surprise appearance by Keanu Reeves.
The trailer focuses on “Samurai,” a criminal with multiple body modifications who takes a job that ends up going sideways. Shot and left for dead, he’s eventually found by Reeves’ character.
After the trailer,Reeves himself took to the stagewhere he announced that the game will be released on April 16th, 2020.
The new Marvel Avengers game looks like a blast
Crystal Dynamics unveiled its newMarvel Avengers game at E3.
You’ll be taking on the role of Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Black Widow, and Thor in a new original story that sees our heroes battling a “horrific evil.”
Here’s everything we know about it so far:
The new Marvel Avengers game can be played solo or in 4-player squads, and will release on June 23, 2025!
Insane plays from the Taipei Major
Fujimura “Fujimura” Atsushi proved to the Street Fighter V community that Ibuki is a force to be reckoned with by goingundefeated at the Taipei Major, defeating Keita “Fuudo” Ai’s Birdie in the grand finals.
The two-day event was filled with amazing highlights from the likes of Fujimura, Kun “Xian” Ho, and Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi. Check out some of the best plays here:
The best fights and moments from the Taipei Major 2019 SFV event ????
