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TheBritishBear
Banned
To be fair, saying 'ez' doesn't bother me as much anymore. What tilts me up the wall is when people argue or insult someone else for what they build, especially when that build is actually viable and preferred.
Had people insult a Kindred Jungle for going Warrior instead of Devourer and in one of my recent games, a Garen thrown and didn't want to teamfight because Vi built full tank after Warrior and Ezreal Mid went blue instead of AP.
Sad thing is, we won the teamfights when Garen actually cooperated with us. But most of the time, he tried to surrender and do poor calls.
AzureSkies
Member
pent
NO FUN ALLOWED nunu shuts down pentas like nobody's business
Stone Ocean
Member
Pretty much every bruiser is getting that thing these days, and now ADCs too.
I wish that item didn't exist.
Black-Wind
Member
I agree.
I hope they keep her passive as it's the most interesting part of her kit but besides the machine gun like Q there's not much to note about her kit.
Anyway, wow ... nothing like those late night Baron Throws :/
Even when you get baron or STEAL baron you can oh so easily throw the match by having it at the wrong time (or NOT using it and deciding to dance instead of pushing a lane when you're 1 of 2 people on the whole field who survived the Baron Steal like the POS troll JG from my last game ...).
I get .. both.
Am I not supposed to?
I just had a looooong 55min match against a Garen. He kills me and says "Oh, was that ult too much for you Jinx?". He tried to keep that up but I muted him with the quickness, not about to let someone tilt me (most of the time only my team mates who let me down get me tilted. Most games the enemy team doesn't even talk) .
We turned the tides and I bring home the win as the only person from my team in their base, forcing my way through minions and towers.
In the lobby I make sure he's in there and say "Oh sorry Garen ... was that too much DMG?".
I then have a sensible chuckle and whip right on outta there. I'm sure he was salty enough to report me but I don't give a fuck, I believe in tossing back what's thrown at you. I don't like poor sportsmanship and I'll even report people on the enemy team for harassing their own team mates in the lobby.
Stone Ocean
Member
You get Steak's as a defensive item vs burst on top of BT.
killatopak
Gold Member
so the new lunar skins are surprisingly available right now but I don't know if they'll take it down cause it might be mistake. I want to buy them now but I'm afraid that they'll have the new skin discount. Are they still gonna do that?
Stone Ocean
Member
New skins don't have discounts at launch anymore
They don't do release day discounts anymore usually (expect for the new champ bundles). Instead they discount new skins (including legendaries ect now) a few months down the line.
I don't quite understand how they are doing legacy skins though.
Black-Wind
Member
killatopak
Gold Member
Thanks guys!
Stone Ocean
Member
I know, but still fuck that item.
Oh yeah for sure. But I mean they are a one hit wonder company and their game isn't one you can make 2 sequels out of. If riot had that much money and a single player game , there would be:
1. sequels
2.dlc, cosmetic and not
3. spin-offs/different games.
But league keeps them quite busy as they need to support it. I may remember an article about a big project they had/have worked on (?)
Hmm, well I guess there's Mercurial, Death's dance, GA, Banshees to compete with if u need more defense
Only GA is comparable if you're getting bursted by a Rengar or a similar bursty AD assassin. Zed obviously does not count since QSS is great against him.
The dmg is ok, but not comparable to actual offensive items.
Stone Ocean
Member
It's an extra 25~(50~ when the shield is up) AD, it ain't bad but nothing to write home about.
NecromorphTX
Member
I made a typo, this is the video of the lunar revel story skins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1A_eb_oaSg
What is up with people in bronze and wanting to group up and push mid super early? I played 5-6 games last night and it was the same mentality in every single one of them. As soon as leaning phase was over it was just like, ok guys we need to group and push mid now for the next 30 minutes until either we win or the other team does. Concepts like splitpushing, objectives and rotations are completely non existent.
Pretty frustrating to play with although I guess if I was better at the game I'd be able to carry my way out of it.
Pretty frustrating to play with although I guess if I was better at the game I'd be able to carry my way out of it.
Stone Ocean
Member
People kinda don't know what to do once side lane towers are down so they just go fuck it let's push the closest tower.
That's how it works in the lower ranks. It's not uncommon to see people keep wanting to push mid even after they've taken an inhibitor and it would have been easier to push another lane.
They recognize that pushing is good at least.
As others have said, people go to mid whenever they have no idea what to do next. I've found that a pretty effective thing to do is just to start pinging towards something useful to actually do, like rotating for a turret or whatever, so that people can at least have an objective in mind. Then they are pretty likely to just come along.
Alternately, if everybody is mid, go mid and then walk down the river and splitpush yourself. There is a danger here that your team will engage because they aren't paying attention but hey, bronze life.
It is actually better in some ways when people are grouping mid because then they're not pinging Baron when everybody is alive.
This happens in gold too. I try not to participate in the random milling around midlane and usually spend that time farming, split pushing or warding but teams just love to fight and die 4v5 instead of wave clear or disengage. If the team doesn't up and die for the lack of a member, we usually end up ahead for it. The problem is engaging 4v5 or just plain getting dove 5v4 with a solid initiator. Sometimes you have to stick with the team. Or somehow convince them to give up the midlane tower to rally around a stronger one. While you create pressure elsewhere to force them to react.
Lower elo just loves fighting though. Hell, I think solo queue just loves it.
Orochinagis
Member
I am in that phase honestly, I dont know waht to do, keep pushing bot/top? what if the mid enemy decided to attack me in my lane because his/her tower is down.
What if the enemy with the mid tower down, gathers and focus on mid lane, I have to help then both steam got stuck on the middle of mid lane baiting until someone screws it
In bronze/silver if you have the mechanics, you can literally just 1v5.
NA?
It depends on the situation, obviously. A big thing to consider is wave management. If the wave is near your tower, you should go push it out. If the wave is near your enemy's tower, it is valuable to rotate towards the threatened tower and take it. Showing mid is actually okay if you are going to rotate for a tower.
Unless you are actually good at split pushing, you probably don't want to hang out in the lane by yourself and push it. You just want to clear some waves and maybe slow push (kill ranged minions, leave melee minions, but the minion pushing changes might screw that up) so that the wave will move by itself to where you want it over time.
Also, if you are worried about getting killed in the lane while you are rotating/pushing out a wave, you should fix that by keeping yellow trinket and warding up the approach points. With two wards you can usually cover both of the most important approach routes so that you will know in advance if the enemy is coming to get you.
Honestly I think just managing your waves and rotating towards threatened towers are enough to win games at low elo. I generally don't like to force fights at dragon but you can, it's less dangerous than baron. Just don't do baron unless the enemy is down two people (or one person but it's the jungler), but keep it warded because people make bad baron calls all the tie.
I think you should literally just walk away in this situation, unless the enemy is actually getting damage on your tower. Usually when I see people go aram there's not even a real siege, so think of it as everybody else in the game hitting pause and go do something before they unpause. Maybe ping caution a few times before you leave, and ping your destination.
KarneeKarnay
Member
First game in a long time where I thought the dmg was disgusting. I felt so bad for shen.
NA.
YouTube Mirrors:
[The New League of Legends: Revamped Game Client]
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIA88OsRsQo)
[The New League of Legends: Social Features]
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umA5P4rIqOU)
[The New League of Legends: Dynamic Queue]
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s1inXuI9FQ)
[The New League of Legends: Hextech Crafting]
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsaxwIQ4xh8)
[The New League of Legends: Jhin, The Virtuoso]
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3riVauCp05E)
Knowledge through disintegration.
I really like the management shift Riot has made in the past 18 months or so.
Really starting to buckle down on specific things and say "look, this is our goal, let's do this" instead of nebulous plans that are half-assed.
New client. They have a plan. Champion rollouts. Plan. Reworks. Plan.
Really starting to buckle down on specific things and say "look, this is our goal, let's do this" instead of nebulous plans that are half-assed.
New client. They have a plan. Champion rollouts. Plan. Reworks. Plan.
FallingEdge
Member
Was Gold 2 during the preseason. After going 6-4 in placements, ended in Silver 2. I think everyone just dropped a tier. No biggie. Will make my way back up to Plat. Should be "fun".
IGN?
Your clean untouched MMR (hidden match maker rating) is right around silver 2 if I recall. So you'll play with and against players in that vicinity during the early placements. If you lose you'll start to see the quality of players drop. If you win it'll go up. You get very big swings the first 50 or so ranked games.
Did you duo at all? Seems like a really big drop for 6-4. They almost definitely made it more steep this season. Last season I went 6-4 or 5-5 or something like that and was placed in gold 4, one division lower than the gold 3 I finished the previous season. This season seems like everyone is losing an entire tier at a minimum.
I think that sounds ok. I placed into Silver 5 in both seasons 4 and 5 after going 5-5 and 4-6, while finishing the seasons before those in Silver 1.
No, League of Legends. You're on the wrong thread.
Orochinagis
Member
Oh well, another bronze match, another people going opposite to his lane and blame previous troll for screwing his matches before.
I am at the very bottom of bronze V, again
I am at the very bottom of bronze V, again
For those who've tried a combination of Jungle/Top or Jungle/Mid in order to increase the likelihood of getting Jungle, has it worked? I've only done three dynamic queue normal draft matches and in two of the three I've been put as support. I actually like support, but I really need to practice my jungle picks.
Mostmanlyman
Member
Because it is hard to make plays and harder to call plays. Trying to shot call is impossible in most elos. Because of a few things, no voice chat,not working as team, not listening to teammates, not knowing of plays, not warding the prober plays.
CS drills m8
I normally queue Top/Mid and can get top pretty reliably.