Bard ADC, Fizz supp, no Mundo ban, and whatever the hell Tryndamere was doing. hahaha
Going Mid/Jungle or Jungle/Mid always gets me Jungle.
Going Mid/Jungle or Jungle/Mid always gets me Jungle.
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Jungle/mid is the only reliable combo I've tried so far. I have not tried top or support as a secondary but from neko's posts I'd say that mid is more popular than top and a better secondary to force jungle.
If I choose bot as a secondary I get it 9 out of 10 times. I really really wish they did more to prioritize primary selection. I get games in less than 10 seconds. I'd happily wait longer to get primary.
With mid as a secondary I get jungle 75% of the time best guess.
I queue top/jungle and I get about 50/50 at my relatively poor elo.
I really don't think it's a good idea to fake your second pick to try to get your first pick more often. People really want to try to game around the system but I doubt it has positive EV.
Want out of bronze? My suggestion is specialize in one or two hard carry champs. Spam them every single game. Best if it's a role you are good at and someone that can literally steamroll a whole team. Get very very good at those champs and just start putting the team on your back. It's how the high elo guys do it. They just have a bigger champ pool. Us normal players with less than 40 hours a week of playtime need to shrink that champ pool.
If it were me (and it may be after I do placements) I would jungle khazix and ekko every single game and just plan on killing absolutely everyone to win the game. If I got another role, I'd probably dodge and go right back to jungle next game. I'd rather lose the LP than the MMR and game time.
Like if you are a top laner, go renekton or irelia or fiora. Carry the whole game starting by crushing your own lane then take that presence to the rest of the map through TP or roams.
TheBritishBear
Banned
Ah Silver, where the enemy laner complained he got camped and saying I was a bad Fiora. I'm not a great Fiora, but if I can beat you and deny you minions, then you're a worse Rumble.
But alas, you proceed to complain at me for picking Fiora and say I picked a broken champion. I responded with "Well, pick Malphite, Renekton or Poppy. They can counter Poppy easily" and to be fair, I picked Fiora before him, so a counter would have been easy.
Sadly, no one wants to admit someone fucked up.
Instead, they complain that being camped is unfair.
But alas, you proceed to complain at me for picking Fiora and say I picked a broken champion. I responded with "Well, pick Malphite, Renekton or Poppy. They can counter Poppy easily" and to be fair, I picked Fiora before him, so a counter would have been easy.
Sadly, no one wants to admit someone fucked up.
Instead, they complain that being camped is unfair.
Dyrus was saying on his stream the other night that he is *only* playing 5 hours a day and that's why he isn't a top tier player anymore. Really put in perspective that for the players at the top of the ladder this game is a full time job and you need to devote a lot of time to become really good at it.
yeah, i like that they've done stuff like saying "we like thunderlords, it's op but we're gonna use it as the anchor to balance other things around and also to communicate to players that this is the kind of thing we like and are gonna try and make more of"
u know, like i said a billion years ago they should've done. here's tf, here's ori, here's caitlyn, or whatever, these are champions that are cool and unique and have interesting gameplay with pros and cons and whatnot and we want to make more of.
Mostmanlyman
Member
Yeah and you really have to want to win. Like you have to play best champs and always stay up on the meta. Like scarra is only master and he usually doesnt that well because he will play off meta champs and try to have fun with it not just play the best possible pick every time.
The next big thing i want in league is voice chat. With it being such a competive game it would make it so much easy, if you had normal teammates.
FallingEdge
Member
Yeah, me and a friend duo'd all 10 games. We expected that to happen so no biggie. He was Plat last season and ended at Gold. All of the people who I knew played the game ended a tier lower this season when compared to last.
Yeah. It's really staggering how deep the game is mechanically and analytically. To be very good at it you have to master it on so many levels. I.e. to be a top tier player you need more than just mechanical skill. You need to know all the champs, the matchups, the items, how champs interact with items vs your own, best ways to build in each scenario, how to manage minions, etc etc. It goes on and on.
But the lower you go, the better chance you have of climbing just with some of that. I.e. getting out of bronze can be accomplished by just being better at your champ than the enemy is at theirs. With 100s of games on khazix you can stop thinking about how to respond to a situation and just do it. Jump in, kill their carry, jump out. Something happen? Oops, you automatically press your ult and move out of danage. No thinking involved. It starts to get automatic and you get better at managing your power spikes and matchups with a smaller timeframe. Even a bronze team is likely to win if you constantly create 5v4s or 5v3s with their biggest damage source dead.
The challenger level guys literally just play all day. I kind of wish I was younger when this game came out. I used to be ultra competitive and I could have devoted a lot more time in college than I can now. That time went to ultima online and everquest though lol.
Holy crap. That's likely a big buff to khazix. But dammit, do they know how long it took to train my fingers to stop trying to W in the air? Now I have to relearn that and they'll probably just take it away again. Lol
I can't wait to try new shen and jhin in the jungle!
The nunu buff makes me cry though. that is a huge huge buff. Wtf. With the amount of cdr around he's going to be a perma slow machine.
I knew there would be a new Ori skin today, I just knew it.
Also just finished a game where I felt oh so good. Playing Ori, team goes to Baron, but instead I wait in the small bush and put the ball in the curved bush near the enemy's blue (fortunately we were right-side team), as soon as nearly all the enemy champs enter the bush to contest (ignoring my ball) ult burst. Team follows up for an ace and we just push to win.
Mm, so satisfying.
Mostmanlyman
Member
Sona skin who gives a shit. BUT THE ORI SKIN GIVE ME THAT.
Stone Ocean
Member
Ori skin is 1350, neat
Heartseeker Orianna - 1350RP
Sweetheart Sona - 975RP
Harpseeker Ward
Summoner Icons
http://www.surrenderat20.net/2016/01/127-pbe-update.html#more
Sweetheart Sona - 975RP
Harpseeker Ward
Summoner Icons
http://www.surrenderat20.net/2016/01/127-pbe-update.html#more
Mostmanlyman
Member
YESSSSSSSSS
TheBritishBear
Banned
More interested in how the new item performs, but this ties back to my previous argument about my gripes with how cheap and easy it is to get movement speed. It's becoming unhealthy now.
On the flip side, I like the Sunfire Cape buffs.
On the flip side, I like the Sunfire Cape buffs.
Stone Ocean
Member
Duskblade sounds fucking stupid, more flat arpen and extra burst for people that have no trouble bursting someone down? Are you serious?
TheBritishBear
Banned
Apparently, assassins were really struggling according to Riot, so this is a band aid until they rework the assassin class. I'm more pissed about the movement speed stat that has become so easy to acquire in recent patches.
tired of playing with bad teams.
First let me tell you about our Rene top who didn't have a damage item till 20 mins in, our yas mid who ended up 3/15, and how the enemy team had a 16/1 malphite.
"TheFlow why are you upset?" Let me tell you why, because for 40 mins my team fought a Leo, Vlad, and fed malphite and not one yep not one built a item with armor pen, health steal, or a ruin king. Plus we had no ap champs.
Learned my lesson in bronze, stop playing support and just go Adc/mid/jungle. Gotta carry myself out this cesspool
First let me tell you about our Rene top who didn't have a damage item till 20 mins in, our yas mid who ended up 3/15, and how the enemy team had a 16/1 malphite.
"TheFlow why are you upset?" Let me tell you why, because for 40 mins my team fought a Leo, Vlad, and fed malphite and not one yep not one built a item with armor pen, health steal, or a ruin king. Plus we had no ap champs.
Learned my lesson in bronze, stop playing support and just go Adc/mid/jungle. Gotta carry myself out this cesspool
The fuck? Was Ghostblade and Malmortius not enough? As if Talon wasn't EZ enough
Stone Ocean
Member
The only AD assassin that is struggling now is possibly Talon and even then I can't say for sure because no one plays him.
Can't wait till I get hit by a Rengar/Zed/Panth/Riven/Fiora/Yi using this fucking thing, fucking hell.
I've been seeing talon in almost every other game lately lol.
Black-Wind
Member
Was hoping they would make a HeartSeeker Jinx.
Blowing someone away with a rocket from across the map that explodes into a pretty HEART? That's like .... a built in taunt.
I know Ashe has the ult but it's harder to grab a kill with that imo, better used for stunning.
Blowing someone away with a rocket from across the map that explodes into a pretty HEART? That's like .... a built in taunt.
I know Ashe has the ult but it's harder to grab a kill with that imo, better used for stunning.
I am actually pretty interested in the change to wall collision detection. It seems like it should make flashing over stuff generally easier in exchange for eliminating the "sweet spots" that high level players have probably learned and mastered and are going to miss.
I like the new ward debris updates. We'll see if it ends up being useful data.
I like the new ward debris updates. We'll see if it ends up being useful data.
Ghost is Bad
Banned
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
TheBritishBear
Banned
I don't even know why she is getting more skins considering she's a weak champion that desperately need buffs or a rework in my opinion.
Terrible as a support unless you're in low elo. Terrible as a mid laner. Frustrates me that she's getting another skin. I fucking hate Sona so much.
She's actually pretty strong I think, but as always with Sona, the problem is that people don't realize how much work she's doing.
She's not strong either. She's just a counterpick to a bunch of things right now.
You don't have to fork over 1100 for the serrated blade. It builds off of two long swords. It has a decent build path.
TheBritishBear
Banned
Why would I want a support that has a kit that gives weak movement speed buff (that can be provided by Nami), a heal with a shield (which again, without the shield, can be provided by Nami or Soraka), a poke/attack damage buff (which again, there are so many other supports that can poke better or have Janna for extra AD) and her only form of CC being her ult, which can be cleansed by CC?
And don't get me started on how item dependent she is. "Build Lich Bane" they say. "Sona is really good with Lich Bane".
If a fucking support needs damage items to unlock her true potential on a support income, then no, I'm sorry. That's utterly worthless and a detriment to the team.
Fuck Sona. Fuck her as a champion.
