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the thing is, it's kind of out of riot's hands when you have a feeder in your team. the feeder needs to actively feed to be punished so there's really nothing they can do (i mean, outside of banning them etc)
but ppl threatening stuff in champ select haven't caused any damage yet. they're just trying to get you to dodge and they have all the power cos your options are always shitty. you either lose 5 lp and a few minutes or 15 lp
and if you take the smaller hit then you get super pissed cos these people 100% got away with it and there was nothing you can do
and like, it was super easy for riot to add an option when you reconnect after dodging that says "why did you dodge?" and you're given a few options like a regular report that get fed into the tribunal or whatever
so at least you say ok maybe this guy that's forcing ppl to dodge is eventually gonna get a temp ban or whatever
it's pretty pathetic that there hasn't been a solution to this shit yet
I didn't even think about this.
Vincent Alexander
Member
Looking for a new champ to play in a support role. Have some fun with. Pondering Zyra or Malphite?
In theory support is a good role for carrying, but in practice you need a will of iron so you don't tilt when you have virtually unwinnable games. Unlike other roles, if you're playing a pure support and people are incompetent, there may be very little you can do at times.
Zyra is great because even if you lose, you can still point out that you did most damage in the game, so psychologically you feel superior about the loss and don't tilt.
This and take breaks between games. Try to do a load of laundry or take out the trash or do something to get away from the computer for a minute between games. It's definitely an addictive game especially if you're super competitive you just gotta try to ha e some self control
You could try ez support if you're OK with having 0 utility
Man, being addicted to the feeling of winning at League of Legends sounds awful. At least with drugs you can just, like, go buy them. You have to do a ton of work AND get lucky to win at League!
I have a better appreciation for why toxic players are toxic having read this post. That said, they should probably still get banned as part of their intervention process.
Vincent Alexander
Member
All I know is that I'm tired of playing either Blitzcrank or Blitzcrank every game as support. Sometimes Vel'Koz.
Specifically what sort of experience are you looking for? What supports do you currently play? Do you want a support that's different than what you currently play, or something similar?
Thresh is another hook-focused support that has a bunch of utility instead of Blitzcrank's laser focus on "things to do immediately after you hook a guy."
Braum is pretty different, but is tanky and a target-picker and initiator like Blitz. More teamfight focus.
If you want to get away from tanky but keep some skillshot threat, Morg or Nami are good.
If you just want to piss people off it's time to pick up Soraka. She just got reworked, it's the perfect chance.
yea i think this is kind of the worst meta in a while
honestly i think all of season 6 has been pretty sucky, i'm not sure there's been anything about this season i've felt has been an improvement. masteries are like whatever at best, game breaking at worst, lots of broken champions like udyr and graves, league of zztops, splitpushing meta in general is like the most unfun uninteractive thing ever, generally playing against zed in a non-zhonyas world, blue trinkets and lack of warding didn't really have much of a positive effect in the game and i often miss the days where i could just ward shit myself instead of relying on my jungler to have like 2 braincells and buy a pink ward, games suddenly ending off a single skirmish, league of fqc being the most obnoxious thing ever and generally mage itemization being unbalanced and unsatisfying, etc.
mage rework better come soon
meanwhile have an aurelion sol
his fanart hasn't been great but he feels kind of boring for fanart
honestly i think all of season 6 has been pretty sucky, i'm not sure there's been anything about this season i've felt has been an improvement. masteries are like whatever at best, game breaking at worst, lots of broken champions like udyr and graves, league of zztops, splitpushing meta in general is like the most unfun uninteractive thing ever, generally playing against zed in a non-zhonyas world, blue trinkets and lack of warding didn't really have much of a positive effect in the game and i often miss the days where i could just ward shit myself instead of relying on my jungler to have like 2 braincells and buy a pink ward, games suddenly ending off a single skirmish, league of fqc being the most obnoxious thing ever and generally mage itemization being unbalanced and unsatisfying, etc.
mage rework better come soon
meanwhile have an aurelion sol
his fanart hasn't been great but he feels kind of boring for fanart
Can't be that surprising that people get addicted to League. Surely you've heard of people who spent days at a time on WoW or died because they threw a blood clot from playing games so much. It's no different here. In fact League has the added draw of raw competition without a pve component plus the iphone grind which some people actually enjoy for some reason. I was maybe not addicted when I first started playing but definitely spent a lot more of my free time playing because it gives you the same rush that playing competitive sports do and can be accessed quickly at any time of the day without fatigue really being a factor. I got over that pretty quick but some people don't.
I don't think the meta is that bad outside of a few devourer junglers. Kinda seems like you can play whatever class you want rather than must play assassin or must play ziggs or must play oppressive jungler
Top lane is a wasteland of tank dps true tho but nothing new there
I'm not surprised that people get addicted to playing the game. I hadn't really thought about the actual experience of being addicted to winning the game when you have really limited capacity to get that experience for yourself.
oh also this happened to me just now
really weird, me and zed were both like wtf just happened
i guess adcs and ad assassins got their items now but it hasn't been worth the absolute disaster that keystones have been
really weird, me and zed were both like wtf just happened
that was pretty much every season, except in other seasons there's been actual progress for the game (like support itemization rework, dragon and baron reworks) so it felt nice
i guess adcs and ad assassins got their items now but it hasn't been worth the absolute disaster that keystones have been
Huh, I guess there's a range limit on how far zed can be when he reappears?
others have kinda mentioned it, but you don't need to uninstall just play in moderation, especially when losing 2-3 in a row. At that point, just stop playing (at least ranked), go play a normal or aram, get the flow back, relax a little. You also seem to get angry a lot, this doesn't help cause when you're tilted you make dumber decisions yourself regardless of what your team is doing. After each death it helps your mindset to try and think, "Ok what could I have done better, and what can we do from here."
These videos I've found to be pretty good to have watch if you tend to get angry or tilt.
What is tilt (part 1)
Tips to avoid tilt (part 2)
I guess I can see that. Hopefully the mage updates help
In regards to the bolded though don't you dare try to take away my free 300 hp in the jungle
I tried a third game. What could go wrong this time!Next ranked game...instead of a drinking support, this time our mid laner left at level 7!
Luck must turn soon right?
...the enemy jungler went 13/1/13, and the enemy top laner went 13/1/14. And the game lasted 49 minutes.
On the plus side, I proved my Zyra theory right. Even with such a lopsided damage, I outdamaged the 16-kill enemy mid laner by doing 52.8k damage.
yeah but you'd think he would at least teleport to some spot in the middle or something, not just do that weird slide then get stuck in place for a bit
i don't even take damage for the ult and it does go on cooldown
eh, i just hate keystones as a concept and even more as an implementation
you still use the same mastery page that's optimized for ur champion every game and play exactly the same as you did before except now the meta is very much tied to the op keystones
new masteries feel like riot throwing a wrench at their own game balance for absolutely zero benefit
Yeah i think the hopes that keystone could be matchups specific or make you more versatile or whatever were squashed pretty quick. Grasp and fervor are probably the best because they can actually change the way you think about your trades. Some matchups can be made interesting like an adc with fervor vs one with thunderlords where one wants quick trades where the other favors all ins. As a whole though yeah theyre mostly pretty lame
Well I guess that would explain why my teams are hemorrhaging objectives for no reason. And teamfighting super poorly. And picking comps with no wave clear. And diving in completely inappropriate situations while also hemorrhaging objectives. And asking why you're not being an idiot with them.
Guess I'll go back to taking a break from ranked.
After all those losses, I went back to ye olde devourer Nautilus. I 1v1'd Master Yi twice, though both times he only died because of tower/minion help. I don't think I've ever got this combination from one game:
*edit* I don't think they realized I did "/mute all" at the start of the game.
*edit* I don't think they realized I did "/mute all" at the start of the game.
killatopak
Member
my fps went to shit after patching to 6.5. Are there any known issues as to why or is it just anecdotal?
Troubled Bat
Member
I actually just had that randomly happen to me. It dropped to 16fps.
Thanks for advice and will watch the links
Lol i love that that's happening to Dom of all people that stream must be gold
killatopak
Member
Karthus jungle on my team. Am I fucked or is this new meta shit?
It depends on the player if they can carry low elo games like that I feel. Like I used to watch this guy called Yusui who used to often do unranked-whatever accounts and he wouldn't lose a single game until low-mid diamond. Was pretty insane to watch how he'd carry games.
OH I get ya. Yeah that would be much appreciated
There, I had a decent support Zyra game. This is the sort of damage comparison I was joking about:
That's some serious AP Carry right there.
yeah Riot's concept art looks quite a bit better but thats a good effort
Hydrophobic
Member
The ghost of Azingy lives in every server.
It's not new, but I don't think it's ever been very popular.
If he knows what he's doing and the opponent won't invade and kill him he might be fine.
Most likely he's not. I'd check op.gg on his history with Karthus.
killatopak
Member
We won lol.
I was like 0-4 in the beginning cause somehow their jungler and support is 70% of the time coming to my lane.
I was like fuck it Imma go full tank and bought Visage and Omen with no damage items except that CDR hammer. They keep on going for me but luckily it meant dragon, top and bot was free.
Had an awesome teamfight and it kept snowballing in the end. That Karthus is sick. He died 4v1 in the dragon pit and proceeded to kill 3 of them.
^ Nice to see Riven. Yeah Karhus jungle worked it seems
And man omg I cannot get into a match right now (queuing for Top/Support in Normals). Figured I'd have a lazy day and take the day off from work and maybe get in 1-2 games
Finally a match found but had to queue support....
And man omg I cannot get into a match right now (queuing for Top/Support in Normals). Figured I'd have a lazy day and take the day off from work and maybe get in 1-2 games
Finally a match found but had to queue support....
Things I never want to read.
thing is, champions had those patterns already, they didn't need a mastery to tell them that they're "quick trades type" or "poke type" or "all in type". like the difference between how corki and vayne trade are pretty apparent in their kits already, adding thunderlord and fervor doesn't really change anything and it's not like you can go fervor on corki and now he plays completely different (and is that something we want in the game, anyways?)
Orochinagis
Member
Feels sad when my friend gets all the invitation to join the enemy team and I (support with more than 30 assists) nothing
NihonTiger90
Member
Ended up playing two normal games last night to get myself out of my funk.
First game, Renekton dominated top lane, I held bot lane and Ahri was getting beat up by Syndra mid, but I rotated there to help her once their bot tower went down. Poor Lee is a Silver 4 and he just got crapped on all game. I ended up building ER and Runaan instead of Shiv, which worked even better in team fights than I expected.
Second game was more back and forth. No surprise, the two assassins were the carries. Kat got a Penta during one of the fights and we won as soon as we started isolating Diana out. J4 lost top lane but he made up for it in the fights by hitting two five-man ults and a third while we were Fnatic bushing near Baron. I didn't farm as much but I tore through them during team fights from the back line.
First game, Renekton dominated top lane, I held bot lane and Ahri was getting beat up by Syndra mid, but I rotated there to help her once their bot tower went down. Poor Lee is a Silver 4 and he just got crapped on all game. I ended up building ER and Runaan instead of Shiv, which worked even better in team fights than I expected.
Second game was more back and forth. No surprise, the two assassins were the carries. Kat got a Penta during one of the fights and we won as soon as we started isolating Diana out. J4 lost top lane but he made up for it in the fights by hitting two five-man ults and a third while we were Fnatic bushing near Baron. I didn't farm as much but I tore through them during team fights from the back line.