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Okiedoke, I will need to work on my farming and consider warmogs.
I tried another bot game with Nidalee for the win of the day. I need to try intermediate bots and then an actual PVP game, but she's fun to play! I'm still getting the hang of remembering which cougar attack does which ability though. =P Does anyone have general tips about when you should use cougar attacks and when to use human attacks?
I tried another bot game with Nidalee for the win of the day. I need to try intermediate bots and then an actual PVP game, but she's fun to play! I'm still getting the hang of remembering which cougar attack does which ability though. =P Does anyone have general tips about when you should use cougar attacks and when to use human attacks?
Blizzard said:
Nidalee - Max out your heal if your solo top. Auto attack enemies whenever you can. when you get to 6 its usually a certain kill but i usually get a kill before that.
Use cougar form whenever you're fighting. Focus down squishies unless they flash away. If they reappear, pounce to them and get a kill. When you get low, pounce away twice, use heal, throw a spear back, cougar, pounce away some more. If your spear completely demolishes their health then chase back with cougar form.
Its always good to have the brush filled with your traps so if they try flashing and running away, you have sight of them. Just keep chasing if they're low and running away from your brush cause you are going to catch them even if they ghost/flash. If you can't catch them for some reason then chase until your almost in turret range, change to human and throw a spear to predict their movements. As you play nidalee more, you'll get use to where they run after you chase them.
I usually start with dorans ring unless top is against two or against a strong caster like ryze or swain. I get boots and pots if that happens. After the first b, I get boots of lucidity and a ward with some pots.
Second b i usually have enough for a large rod. Get a rabadons. Get lichbane. (get some armour/mr if you're getting raped though)
I get GA after this so i pretty much never die.
The key to nidalee is stay in cougar form all game after level 6 unless you're putting traps for some sight,healing or trying to spear people as they b at their turrets.
I know there are stronger nidalee builds but this one works for me so well
Tank plank is the only plank. Don't let others tell you otherwise. Most melee characters have to build up tanky regardless. Strongest ones always seem to be ones that can keep up damage while doing so. Xin, Jax(Though it comes nature with normal items), Noc, Sin, and Gang.
2nd, Farm is far more important than initially let on to be. Kills grant around 300g, minions are 20 a piece on average. 3 waves cleared > than a kill. I think once you start viewing kills as more opportunities for dragon control, denying their farm, clearing towers, collapsing lanes. Rather than just a gold boost, you'll start to understand it more.
2nd, Farm is far more important than initially let on to be. Kills grant around 300g, minions are 20 a piece on average. 3 waves cleared > than a kill. I think once you start viewing kills as more opportunities for dragon control, denying their farm, clearing towers, collapsing lanes. Rather than just a gold boost, you'll start to understand it more.
SouthernDragon
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First time Gangplank.
Also, Tek is putting us through a marathon.
Also, Tek is putting us through a marathon.
Melhisedek
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Guys is there a EU list of LoL gaffers?
This is yet another of those mixed advice cases. I used a really high-rated guide and tried to rush Sheen -> Triforce in most games, only to have (so I seem to recall) people repeatedly tell me that sheen/triforce is meh, to get other items first, to build tanky instead of normal, to jungle instead of laning, etc.Cheeto said:
So I don't really know who to trust. =p
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I'm not sure it is a matter of trust, but more so which items match your play style better. Then once you figure that out you start going with items that match up against the other team or with your team better.
Item selection won't make or break you, but it can really affect your margin for error.
I like my GP to control the lane and the best way I find to do that is great poke damage. Some people think getting crit % allows that, but I don't agree. Sheen/Triforce gives higher consistent damage on your parlays. If you consider the amount of damage you'll do over multiple parlays as you try to harass your lane opponent away from CS, the damage is higher than the occasional crit you get if you rush the critplank build. Once you build triforce you're getting ridiculous stats in other areas too, don't forget that. Its the most expensive item for a reason. There is a case for tankplank and jungleplank, but if you're playing damage I don't think there is a solid case other items before triforce.Blizzard said:
My solo top gangplank build generally starts with boots and 3 pots. I focus only on CS, only parlaying champs if they try to bully me. If they push or hold back, you can still use parlay to last hit. I generally stay in lane a long time, maybe too long...but who knows. When I go back for the first time I like to have over 2k gold and I get a sheen and a philo stone... and now I can be the bully with my level advantage and the damage from sheen. Even then, I still focus on farm saving my ult to support other lanes when I can and I keep their top tower alive as long as possible while holding ours. After triforce I might get IE, BT, Atmas, its all situational... but I find that once I get that triforce things start to snowball real fast as you can farm and escape, bully, push etc all you want.
Maybe you should be benchmarking how much CS you can rack up at certain points in the game, watch some pro replays and compare if you have to. It might be a fault of the game, and it boring as fuck to watch as a spectator, but CS is usually the most important stat of the game. So that might be holding you back from succeeding
Mister Wilhelm
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I've played against Xerath in a few dominion games and one SR and I'm not that impressed.
lol I still remember the death threats and queue dodges I'd get in pre-game chat when I played Orianna 24/7 when she first came out. Gragas too, and I have a special place in my memories for one guy that was really pissed when I picked gragas. I had a really 'ON' game and I just couldn't be stopped. It was just one of those great games you have every 1 in 10 games... the same guy was like, well I'll never look at gragas the same way again.unifin said:
Annie is presumably that way, and possibly Ryze and Veigar as well, right? They don't have escape/speedup spells (besides veigar's stun wall). They have 2-3 damaging spells, and if you're near someone you dump them all on them, hopefully stun and obliterate at least one person, and then run away while your teammates help until your spells are up again.Ark said:
It sounds like Xerath can do that burst from a longer distance than the other champions, though.
Jazzy Network
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I think I've literally lost like 1 game when I go solo top with Rumble. He's so good.
SouthernDragon
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Stick with Tier 1 runes until you hit 30.
And then stick with them for a good long while anyways.
And then stick with them for a good long while anyways.
XeroSauce said:
I'd pick up a set of T1 armor pen/magic pen runes before dropping several thousand IP on the T3 ones. They'll be about half as effective as a full set of T3's, but definitely worth it in the meanwhile.
Certain champs benefit a LOT from runes, and you'll have a pretty nice advantage over other players.
SouthernDragon
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I find that Cait lives or dies on her flat ArmPen and ManaRegen runes.
0 CS? Surrendered right at 20? Damn, that is clean. I don't think I could get 0 CS while playing, it is so easy to kill a few creeps if you shatter on the enemy, but maybe I am too aggressive.Archie said:
Gems. Gems are truly outrageous. They are truly, truly, truly outrageous.
Achtius said:Summons is level 30 with a lot of empty slots
Between level 1 to 19, tier 1 runes can help a lot (it is the most cost effective).
Once you hit 20, get tier 3 runes as they give the best stats.
like other people say tier 2 is a waste of ip.
shintoki said:
"a lot of empty slots" = I have 18/30 filled. I just bought maybe 3 new ones in the last few days.FlightOfHeaven said:
I have 4 tier 1 yellows, 1 tier 1 quint, and 13 tier 3 runes. So 13/18 are tier 3. In addition, I have +8.3 armor pen.
Now, people would surely tell me I should be buying different runes, but considering people can't agree on even basic item/role stuff, I figure I'd go insane trying to listen to different people's advice about runes.
CrazedProfessional
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What the fuck, the servers just shat themselves and brought a game I was winning in to a sudden "defeat screen" where I lost elo. Why.
Riven joins the ranks of Nidalee as "champions that are fun to play". Riven seems harder to do well with than Nidalee though. Also, Nidalee seems to be good most of the game, but weak endgame after her build is finished. I think I had 600 AP or so and wasn't doing much damage aside from spears.
NemesisPrime
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unifin said:
Played a game against him yesterday... a very cheap hero IMHO. This guy was just sitting hidden in the jungle all teh time firing long range shots at our turret while his teammates where swarming our turret (so we were a bit stuck around the tower most of the time). The slowly burned down our towers like this but lost the fight once our Yi got his farming quota and started to slaughter everybody
Still I thought the new guy was pretty cheap and a bit boring. A rather cowardly hero IMHO.
I find that he is easy to counter by the likes of Cho'gath and Kassadin. Also high mobility champions seems to be a good pick from my experience. He doesn't have the high burst of Annie or Brand, so anyone that can get close to him should be able to secure a kill. I even saw a Rammus take on Xerath earlier today with great success.
Ferga said:
I think his counter is just getting in his face.
From what I've played against him, I don't think he's that great. Sure he does really good in laning, but once laning breaks he's kinda shitty. Any AD with good mobility can just pounce and run circles on him. Doesn't seem like he can do much then since his skills are so narrow and he's squishy.
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