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League of Legends |OT| Free to play Dota clone (PC)
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It's not really for that, the idea is to ban characters that make some teams too strong. Dota, hon and now lol have this system in place for tournaments and ranked games.Kyoufu said:
And I think perfect balance is something impossible in this game, something will always be op and it will change over time, so the only way to deal with that is with constant small updates.
Mr_Guillotine
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Are the servers down for some people? It's fine for me, anyone want to start a game?
Mr_Guillotine
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Yeah, game won't even start a match now. Figures this would happen with the update.eznark said:
Mr_Guillotine
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okay it finally let me on, just let the launch sit in the back and log in. You'll get in eventually.
The idea is that you'll be able to plan a team comp with your team, and then ban any champs that counter it especially well, or to ban a champ that you know your opponents build their team around. For instance, take an aoe dmg team, it would probably consist of something like Amumu to hold people in place, Morgana and Fiddle and Annie to come in and blow people up, and probably an Ashe or something for dps. They'd probably want to ban Janna because Janna's ult can really counter their aoe burst well, and can otherwise disrupt it well with her tornadoes. Or, if you're the other team, you'll probably end up banning Amumu and/or Morg to prevent them from being able to set up the aoe in the first place.Kyoufu said:
Of course in solo queues people will just ban whatever the most annoying champ is. But the banning is not to balance characters, that's what the patches are for (see the recent Heimer, Pantheon, Ezreal, etc nerfs).
And unless you're in a high level tournament, individual skill has a much bigger impact than whether or not you're using an 'overpowered' or 'underpowered' champion. If you're good you can still do fine with champs like Akali. Watch some livestreams of some top ~500-1000 level players, they're always doing random crap like AP Alistar or AP Trynd and still dominating.
Mr_Guillotine
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A few of us just started a game but whats your summoner name so we can get one going after.JoeFu said:
That isn't the point behind banning drafts. Watch a HoN or DotA competitive game's picking phase to see. Banning Draft is to done to put a damper on your opponent team synergy, and possibly remove some counters to what you are planning to pick.Kyoufu said:
Right now in LoL, it's working differently, because Riot has never taken the opportunity to balance for competitive play, but once they start balancing based on Ranked results, the strategy behind picking phase will become more interesting.
blitz64
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EviLore said:
3 million accounts. Source
http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=163821
I like their new forum look.
thestopsign
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Tired of soloing, if anyone wants to add me, I'm Chronos. Looking to setup a full 5v5 team.
StormyTheRabbit
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Never got into DOTA, the veteran players made it impossible to try to learn the game and I didn't have any friends to teach me locally.
But considering how good this game looks and being that its free, I'm downloading it now. I remember taking part in the beta a while back but I don't remember much of it.
But considering how good this game looks and being that its free, I'm downloading it now. I remember taking part in the beta a while back but I don't remember much of it.
Jazzy Network
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Fuck Ez I inv you but you rejected me. WTF.
DarkAngelYuna
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Ya.. this game has a lot of nice users but more jackasses that I've seen in the past 28 years :lol <3 LOLStormyTheRabbit said:
thestopsign
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DarkAngelYuna said:
You haven't played HoN, have you?
Jazzy Network
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Fuck I wanna try my new Kass build and the servers are down. Why can't we have an offline practice mode?
DarkAngelYuna
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If I had HoN I doubt I'd be here.. but from what I've been reading its not as bad as its used to be. I really love this game but I just wanna play Katarina and now that I can't this week I have nothing to do =\ I was just starting to learn the game and they take away my little whore.thestopsign said:
DarkAngelYuna
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Oh I will. I was just nerd raging after spending an entire week trying to learn the game, using only her and still sucking to just have her stolen awayLeezard said:
<3 this game. Its more addicting than wow..Mr_Guillotine
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Any gaf games up a level 12 can join?
DarkAngelYuna
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Actually been using cho'gath tonight since he's free for keeps. I think he's fun and interesting, just gotta work on not running out of mana.
davidpdong
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It would be boss if we could get all get on a vent for future gaf games. The game is so much better over a chat.
-if you are new to the game or don't have a dota background the easiest thing to learn that will improve your game dramatically is learning to last hit (aka the art of waiting till a creep is at low enough hp to die in one hit before swooping in for the $$)
During laning you want to last hit. You will get MORE creep kills ( and more gold) than if you just bashed at the creeps. You will also be relatively safe from ganks because you won't be overextended. It also frees you up to harass them if you can. If you opponents are too aggressive then this will open THEM up for ganks.
Now if you're worried about pushing, most heroes cannot push effectively lvl 1-6 unless you score a double kill. So it's not an issue. Once a gank happens and your lane is clear you will be able to push much more effectively.
Ranged heroes will always have an easier time than melee but give it a try in your next game!
-if you are new to the game or don't have a dota background the easiest thing to learn that will improve your game dramatically is learning to last hit (aka the art of waiting till a creep is at low enough hp to die in one hit before swooping in for the $$)
During laning you want to last hit. You will get MORE creep kills ( and more gold) than if you just bashed at the creeps. You will also be relatively safe from ganks because you won't be overextended. It also frees you up to harass them if you can. If you opponents are too aggressive then this will open THEM up for ganks.
Now if you're worried about pushing, most heroes cannot push effectively lvl 1-6 unless you score a double kill. So it's not an issue. Once a gank happens and your lane is clear you will be able to push much more effectively.
Ranged heroes will always have an easier time than melee but give it a try in your next game!
DarkAngelYuna said:
Use his passive to regain mana. One of the things I like about Cho is putting more points into his vorpal blades(?) skill. This way, when he farms, it is easier to kill minions for last hits and it restores both his HP and mana. Cho is one of the only champs who can stay in lane for a long time.
Son of Godzilla
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Pretty much. If for some reason the other team doesn't stack disablers... oh my goodness poppy gets out of control.NeoCross said:
She needs to have a Mappy skin.
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