You're vastly over estimating plat players. People struggle with playing from behind in diamond.
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You're vastly over estimating plat players. People struggle with playing from behind in diamond.
You're over thinking things. Those comps are more likely to win because they give more time for their damage dealers to deal damage. A dead carry deals no damage. That's probably what's happening in your games. You're getting well ahead in lane but because you're picking Jayce into comps with no tanks you're an easy target. That tank you were dominating but can't kill by yourself anymore is amplifying the power of his team in a way you aren't.
The tanks you listed aren't even outputting tons of damage, for the record. Every single one is in the bottom third for damage dealt in their positions, save Wu who's middle of the pack and, well, not a tank. Even during the peak of the assassin heavy meta in S3 teams were still regularly putting tanks top.
Yes, but there's a fast difference in the ability to play from behind between plat and silver.
Sure there's a difference, but there's also a large difference in every other area; mechanics, csing, decision making in general, placing focus on objectives, etc. The statement "plat players know that they should take towers, that's the main difference between them and silver players" would not be less accurate. I don't see it reasonable to single out "playing from behind" as the one main difference.
Dreams-Visions
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Well it's actually a bit of both in my experiences.
Take Tahm for example. You can run him top, get 1 damage item and 4 tank items and do ridiculous amount of damage while tanking enough that the enemy team can't ignore you. Same situation with Cho. You can't ignore him late game, but you also can't focus him because as you correctly identify: others are dealing equal of more damage while being able to use him as a meat shield. Same with Sejuani pre-nerf and the same to a large extent with Garen, Darius and anyone else who likes Jugg items. They really do a ton of damage...AND they buy time and space for their AP and AD carries to do whatever they want to do. That is the advantage that top Jayce could not and cannot provide, no matter how much damage I would deal (leading the team in no less than 90% of the matches). It's just how things worked out this season.
Again, this is why I look forward to those new ADC/tank busting items. The playing field should feel more level.
My brother just went 9/0/4 in a Ranked match as Mid Kindred, had second-most CS in the game (falling only 7 under enemy Tristana), and the round ended at 20min from surrender.
Rank was S.
How was that not an S+, I'm dumbfounded.
Edit: oh and his team had 18 kills in total, so he had half of them.
Rank was S.
How was that not an S+, I'm dumbfounded.
Edit: oh and his team had 18 kills in total, so he had half of them.
Stone Ocean
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Lulu will probably be as contested as she is now, specially with shit like Graves and Kog going about
Wolf Akela
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I had a weird dream mixing Avatar (the good cartoon), League and LOLGAF. I dreamt that they replaced Braum W with a skill where he puts a solid wall in front of him (Ala earthbending) and he can also push it and it stays indefinitely. I have no idea why I thought that was genius and joked to Lezard that it would be great for closing the tri bush at bot.
I miss playing League.
I miss playing League.
Ghost is Bad
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fuck dude ur just gonna make newt do that dumb avatar joke again.
NCR Redslayer
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Man i forgot how much harass Cho'gath deals.
Also I'm thinking about buying lucian.
Mostmanlyman
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Yeah it is crazy also the passive healing and mana when killing minions is super good.
He's definitely easy to play, but he's also super easy to fuck up. Then again he's also really easy to climb back up if you've lost your way by just getting some dunks in a row and laughing.
yeah i was able to chain my ult for 3 kills in a row to clear out the enemy's base and get the victory, that ability is niiice
killatopak
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They're showing the World Championship on our local TV. This is so awesome.
Mostmanlyman
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I said i was going to stop playing ranked but for some reason i did tonight.
and im happy that i did, i finally won and got 25 lp from it. Ashe might now might be my go to adc for the rest of this season.
Also i started playing osu i suck at it but it is fun. Nice to play between games, or went it is loading.
and im happy that i did, i finally won and got 25 lp from it. Ashe might now might be my go to adc for the rest of this season.
Also i started playing osu i suck at it but it is fun. Nice to play between games, or went it is loading.
BreezyLimbo
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3-4 AM PST I believe.
It's 8 AM in Germany right now, and they start these things at like 12 PM? So in 4-5 hours.
killatopak
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3 hours from now.
killatopak
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Yeah, I guess that's the start. I don't think they posted the actual start of the match so maybe add an hour to that.
Wolf Akela
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It starts at 12MN for me (4 hours away), which blows.
Stone Ocean
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I wish Riot would come out and say what is going to be tested on the 3rd, I'm ultra curious
Play passive as hell in the early and focus on CSing. Cleavers makes his CSing very manageable even when being zoned out and his clear under tower is good as well with W. Depending on the matchup, if your able to land your cleavers on the enemy champion in a safe way do it as it does a good chunk of health.
Level 6 and a defensive item is when you'll be able to actually trade in lane so ask/wait for a gank and go in with everything at that point. Otherwise just continue farming, use ult too sustain and make good TP plays.
killatopak
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probably just gonna play my comfort picks in preseason until I can fully understand the new mastery system or until phreak decides to make another runes and masteries video.
Stone Ocean
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I dunno if increasing late game death timers is necessary, specially with ADCs hitting power spikes earlier.
Early timers could use some increasing though
Early timers could use some increasing though
mcz117chief
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It seems another scam is floating about "htp://harrowingtreasures.com/". Just a heads up to let you guys know. A classic, send links for free skin and RP scam.
Mostmanlyman
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That is amazing.
bardcat
Stone Ocean
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Quinn feels frickin' good
Where? Did she get buffed on PBE?
Stone Ocean
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Yes
Stone Ocean
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Costy you need to tell your bosses to fix the damn mirroring on Corsair Quinn loading screen art, this shit drives me insane
we usually link them here but if u can u can check the latest pbe patchnotes for urself at http://www.surrenderat20.net/
Definitely Poppy.
That line about getting lucky leads me to believe she'll have a survivability passive, just not the super overpowered one she has now. Something that increases her armor/MR the lower her HP is.
Stone Ocean
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"I got lucky, you'll get me next time"
Oh cool, Poppy is keeping her passive
Oh cool, Poppy is keeping her passive
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