Orochinagis
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League of Legends |OT12| No more Lyte, just darkness.
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SenorArdilla
Member
Flex Queue: Your opponents are Challenger and your teammates are Wood V
Ghost is Bad
Banned
normal draft has ranked matchmaking and flex queue has blind pick matchmaking
rip
rip
Orochinagis
Member
Being paired with people who throw the game at the first minutes , then go AFK for 10 mins then go trolling still surprises me, how anyone could waste their time doing that. We managed to win 4vs5 still
tried new talon, he's better but still not my style
should maybe try kat but eh
khazix and rengar continue imo to be terrible champions that you'll never ever be like "this khazix outplayed me" because all their counterplay is in not being alone, as if that's excuse for them being absolute bullshit. sadly if they nerf these champions they'll just go back to being useless, so i'm really bummed out that those two reworks fixed absolutely nothing about their shitty designs
played some more leblanc, slowly getting the hang of her (as in forgetting all i've played all these years) but i still think she's a lot less fun to play than before
the thing i like the best of this new season is plants believe it or not
they just seem like they have the right amount of impactfulness that's not meta warping in the slightest but that also makes for one or two cool moments every game. like fucking over rengar with the blue plant or escaping with satchel plant is pretty fun
should maybe try kat but eh
khazix and rengar continue imo to be terrible champions that you'll never ever be like "this khazix outplayed me" because all their counterplay is in not being alone, as if that's excuse for them being absolute bullshit. sadly if they nerf these champions they'll just go back to being useless, so i'm really bummed out that those two reworks fixed absolutely nothing about their shitty designs
played some more leblanc, slowly getting the hang of her (as in forgetting all i've played all these years) but i still think she's a lot less fun to play than before
the thing i like the best of this new season is plants believe it or not
they just seem like they have the right amount of impactfulness that's not meta warping in the slightest but that also makes for one or two cool moments every game. like fucking over rengar with the blue plant or escaping with satchel plant is pretty fun
SenorArdilla
Member
Farmer Top or Circle of Death Mid?
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Nasus exists because I will it
not even Costy can take him away from me
not even Costy can take him away from me
Dreams-Visions
Member
power
BreezyLimbo
Banned
they will lose everything
0/5/0 nasus who can spam wither every 3 seconds meaning qss is useless and 2 shot half the team because stacks :^) fantastic design~
BreezyLimbo
Banned
everything
Orochinagis
Member
I love Nasus, I can run 20% CDR runes and eat like 3/4ths the enemy jungler's attention and still have like 300-400 stacks in no time at all. Then get the free win because my team's bot lane is smashing and we got every dragon, and I four shot towers.
That's literally all I do in ranked anymore. Play the most passive champ in the game and just laugh myself to the bank because I'm too garbage now, so I'll never reach a level where this is a true liability. Huehuehue. Also the amount of speed he picks up with storm raider's surge when you conk someone on the head is hilarious.
That's literally all I do in ranked anymore. Play the most passive champ in the game and just laugh myself to the bank because I'm too garbage now, so I'll never reach a level where this is a true liability. Huehuehue. Also the amount of speed he picks up with storm raider's surge when you conk someone on the head is hilarious.
So ranked is sloley Flex Que, right?
I can tell that if we are losing by min. 2. I have played 3 games so far, 2 of them was easy wins, and the 3rd one was a top raging after 2 min, jungler who ever ganked and ended up 1/1/4, and an ADC who flamed all game.
And our opponents played like golds.
Have Riot actually fixed the matchmaking, or am I having placebo where I keep thinking about the opponents ranks when I lose?
I can tell that if we are losing by min. 2. I have played 3 games so far, 2 of them was easy wins, and the 3rd one was a top raging after 2 min, jungler who ever ganked and ended up 1/1/4, and an ADC who flamed all game.
And our opponents played like golds.
Have Riot actually fixed the matchmaking, or am I having placebo where I keep thinking about the opponents ranks when I lose?
killatopak
Gold Member
I got influenced by Breezy and watched Jojo.
damn. I really need a stand champion riot.
ZA WARUDO!!
damn. I really need a stand champion riot.
ZA WARUDO!!
Jojo is great. How much have you watched?
At least Kalista ult is somewhat stand-y.
killatopak
Gold Member
Only Phantom Blood and Stardust Crusaders. Read part 1 on manga and watched stardust anime.
I read part 1 a long time ago and I got kinda bored from ripples but when I found out about stands I got hyped big time. It's also on a lot of memes so I just kinda went ahead and watched it. There's tons of people saying mudamudamudamduadmaudamu and oraoraroaoraoraoraorao on youtube comments as well as the "to be continued" meme.
Man, you're missing out if you skipped part 2! Give it a try some time, even if it doesn't have stands it has much more interesting battles and story than anything in part 1. You'll get to see Joseph Joestar is his prime.
I'm glad you're enjoying part 3 though, that's a classic I'm surprised didn't get a proper anime until recently.
Stone Ocean
Member
Don't you dare skip Battle Tendency
Hydrophobic
Member
This must be the work of an enemy stand.
PhillipCostigan
Member
alright how do I start Jojo
where should I start watching and what order should I go etc.
where should I start watching and what order should I go etc.
Start at the beginning no matter what
Yeah, just start with the new(ish) anime, go with the first one first. Part 1 can be a little slow and tropey but it's just 9 episodes, and part 2 is amazing and the show as a whole is stronger than part 1. How people rank the specific parts depends on their tastes though.
Stone Ocean
Member
Chronological order since everything is connected in one - well, technically two - timeline
Phantom Blood > Battle Tendency > Stardust Crusaders > Diamond is Unbreakable > Vento Aureo > Stone Ocean > Steel Ball Run > Jojolion
First season of the anime covers Part 1 and 2, seasons 2 and 3 covers part 3, anime is at Diamond is Unbrekable right now.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Crunchyroll has all parts up
Im proud of this thread today
Im proud of this thread today
Stone Ocean
Member
Here's hoping we don't have to wait too long for Vento Aureo. I need to become a GANG STAR
Dobkeratops
OT Hard Carry
About time you started watching some good animes and/or reading good manga. Anime's 99.99% faithful to the manga, legit as heck.
Needs to be in order, no skipping. There's continuity between the parts.
5 is the weakest, 2 and 3 are legendary, 4 has a lot of charm and a top tier villain as well. This is fact.
Dreams-Visions
Member
coming back to this as I didn't notice it earlier.
You are very much correct here. But as they say, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Under such a system, it is very unlikely that champs like Yas would be banned as much as he is even currently. Only having 2 bans to start with is quite the stressful situation with so many important bans!
League is unlikely to do any less than 30 seconds per ban, so you're going to get an elongated draft with 10 bans and 10 picks whether you like it or not, zky. League will be able to skip the extra 130 time allotment in pubs and maybe add a reduced version of Dota's 130 second "overtime" pick period for competitive/pros, but the draft is going to get longer regardless of how you feel about it. I assume it will be a max of 5 minutes for League + time to declare your pick + time to set your runes and skins and whatnot. So about 6 minutes. About 2 minutes shorter than Dota 2 captain's draft. It should feel alright with the benefit being a marked increase to the strategic nature of League drafts. I think it would be really cool.
That said, I'm sure that however Riot decides to do it at first will probably not be how it is configured in the end. I (and most people) think doing 10 bans up front would be disastrous. 2-2-1 is is a tried and true method to get interesting, strategic and diverse drafts. It's the method that not only Dota 2 but SMITE also uses for its competitive play and you know what? It just works. Even casual-as-fuck HoTS has a similar 2-round ban method for competitive. Now, if Riot's thousand heads can come up with another method that also provides a similar level of diversity, that will be fine too. Nothing wrong with that. But again, it would feel like resources being committed to reinventing a wheel that we already have a good, working version of.
$0.02 as usual.
You are very much correct here. But as they say, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Under such a system, it is very unlikely that champs like Yas would be banned as much as he is even currently. Only having 2 bans to start with is quite the stressful situation with so many important bans!
Strictly speaking, because it is. If you have an alternative that you believe is better than Dota 2's, which has been tested, revised, tested and revised again for the last decade, by all means propose it. We're all ears. I see no reason to reinvent the wheel.
Oh, so your "tedious" concern is really simply about the amount of time. Well why didn't you say so? That wasn't because of the draft format; that was because of the amount of time alotted. Dota 2 allots an extra 130 seconds in addition to the 30 seconds per pick/ban. Plus additional time to load into the game. It's there to give teams time to talk about strategies because Dota 2 has significantly more strategic flexibility than League of Legends has presently.
League is unlikely to do any less than 30 seconds per ban, so you're going to get an elongated draft with 10 bans and 10 picks whether you like it or not, zky. League will be able to skip the extra 130 time allotment in pubs and maybe add a reduced version of Dota's 130 second "overtime" pick period for competitive/pros, but the draft is going to get longer regardless of how you feel about it. I assume it will be a max of 5 minutes for League + time to declare your pick + time to set your runes and skins and whatnot. So about 6 minutes. About 2 minutes shorter than Dota 2 captain's draft. It should feel alright with the benefit being a marked increase to the strategic nature of League drafts. I think it would be really cool.
That said, I'm sure that however Riot decides to do it at first will probably not be how it is configured in the end. I (and most people) think doing 10 bans up front would be disastrous. 2-2-1 is is a tried and true method to get interesting, strategic and diverse drafts. It's the method that not only Dota 2 but SMITE also uses for its competitive play and you know what? It just works. Even casual-as-fuck HoTS has a similar 2-round ban method for competitive. Now, if Riot's thousand heads can come up with another method that also provides a similar level of diversity, that will be fine too. Nothing wrong with that. But again, it would feel like resources being committed to reinventing a wheel that we already have a good, working version of.
$0.02 as usual.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I love the draft ban system, especially in hots.
It really is great being able to talk to my duo queue buddy or team about what to ban or pick depending on the opponents bans/picks. There is a feeling of gratification when you ban out their likely pick and they end up with a lower tier pick/one that doesnt fit their comp.
Granted theres only 4 bans so far in hots because the roster is smaller.
It really is great being able to talk to my duo queue buddy or team about what to ban or pick depending on the opponents bans/picks. There is a feeling of gratification when you ban out their likely pick and they end up with a lower tier pick/one that doesnt fit their comp.
Granted theres only 4 bans so far in hots because the roster is smaller.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Agreed. Either way can be cool.
Troubled Bat
Member
JoJo talk in a League thread? What a time to be alive.
Dreams-Visions
Member
this is your weekly reminder that you have the best avatar.
Wolf Akela
Member
I just can't not see Lin Beifong in Camille, especially with the Hook Shot.
PhillipCostigan
Member
You have no idea how hard it was for me to keep calm when everyone was complaining about Karma not getting a good skin a few months ago when I knew this one was coming
Stone Ocean
Member
Camille's kit looks fucking amazing, I just don't really understand how her second Q works, I'm assuming you have a few seconds to do another auto reset but if you wait a bit within said seconds you get a super auto modifier?
But Sexy Santa Braum is on another level
That skin is gorgeous
But Sexy Santa Braum is on another level
Stone Ocean
Member
Don't really see her jungling or going mid, honestly. Half of her kit is useless while clearing and no walls in mid lane severely impact how good her E can be which is basically the only way she's getting anywhere near any mages.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Thats not Swain or Yorick
PhillipCostigan
Member
The Q is basically the same ability twice, an auto reset that does extra damage. However if you wait 1.5 seconds after the first to recast the second Q does a lot more damage. You can still auto while you wait. If you cast second Q immediately after the first it's the same as the first.