I wouldn't, Khan seems like he's doing okay for himself.
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League of Legends |OT13| Diamond is Unreachable
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I wouldn't, Khan seems like he's doing okay for himself.
Kotetsu534
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Morde is one of the few top lane opponents that I genuinely fear as Rumble, assuming equal skill. His early damage is absolutely nuts and he's basically impervious to harass with his shield and pushing power. Of course, the jungler hard counters him... but in solo queue you never know what your jungle will prioritise. Later in the game he might be kitable but you need the right champions for it (Mordes probably ban Janna every game on this patch) and his dragon is a very powerful pushing tool and can snowball the game off one teamfight.
seeing the viktor skin again, it's kind of alright but it feels a bit weak considering how long it took for him to get one. like compare it to archlight yorick or something, it just doesn't look super great
to be honest this gloomy skin group doesn't look super great in general, i like the zed skin but the katarina design is pretty lame and the three of them are so samey and drab looking
zed and viktor are fine, kat is kind of a mess imio. not riot's finest work
edit: i feel this thread is relevant, tho i'm cool with not celebrating real life events, specially religious ones like christmas, despite how awesome elf tracer is. i think rito needs to be more creative about events or just don't do them at all. sometimes it feels like they just do it because they have to, and that's lame
also this is neat
don't mess with lulu
Probably 12/18/0 with Thunderlord's or Stormraider.
im so noob i cant choose where to put every single point...can you give me a link to a page where i can see them? thanks!
https://lolalytics.com/ranked/worldwide/platinum/plus/champion/Evelynn/
Just look at her current masteries, it's probably going to be the exact same ones.
thanks!
Stone Ocean
Member
Yeah, the Shadow Isles color scheme is so fucking overused. Usually Riot adds some variation to the Halloween skins but this year we're only getting spooky blue blobs.
Viktor gets a pass since he hasn't gotten a skin in forever, but Zed looks pretty lame and I think Kat is one of the worst looking skins in years. The hair looks ok and I like how it floats around plus the spooky arm, but overall it just looks like they took one of her other skins and vomited neon all over it.
Hydrophobic
Member
Maybe she'll get a christmas skin where instead of tentacles it's the top half of reindeers sticking out of the ground. :^)
Stone Ocean
Member
Maybe we'll get another Lee Sin skin instead
Lee Santa inc
OH MY FUCKING GOD
Great, now I have to pick one (two?) of Ekko, Elise, Eve, Rek'Sai and Kha'Zix for junglers to my pool...
Ekko
Pros: versatile, good damage, can scale jungle walls
Cons: Is human, early clear possibly iffy even with buff
Elise
Pros: solid single target damage, can create picks late game, strong early game ganker, is half spider
Cons: is half human
Evelynn
Pros: good damage, camouflage post 6, is succubus, can create picks late game
Cons: is human...maybe??
Rek'Sai
Pros: good damage, good ganker, traverse jungle easily, is monster
Cons: *click click click* screeches rawr *click click click*, not particular interesting late game
Kha'Zix:
Pros: great single target damage, jumps around, is bug
Cons: ...fuck does he do when behind?
i like zed, his autos look pretty rad. viktor is also ok
they're just pretty bland all things considered
i was gonna post this for you yesterday but i forgot
SenorArdilla
Member
That's why most people get to gold and then stop. Though most people also don't play ranked.
it's such a bummer you have to pay for emotes, 350 rp isn't so bad but still
i actually think most people play ranked instead of normals (it's just that normals is way more liberal with matchmaking and also has no role selection so it finds ppl super fast), but we're both probably talking out of our asses as far as hard data goes hehe
SenorArdilla
Member
Can you get emotes through honor capsules?
Peanut Butter
Member
Get easy pick on squishes who aren't grouped =)
afaik emotes are buy-only for the moment and they're planning on making them drop thru lootboxes
which means we're (VERY) slowly rolling into overwatch territory of 90% of the lootbox content is garbage, but since i can just buy whatever skin i want i don't find it so offensive. also league is free, so there's that
Yeah but I can do that with Elise or Eve...like, is Kha'Zix basically assassinate moar come late, with respect to the other two assassins I'm looking at?
League has 100 million unique monthly active users. We don't know League's churn but when I did have information on it I had heard it was pretty low. If we assume literally 0 churn for simplification purposes, that means League has 100 million unique users a year.
op.gg's ranked breakdown suggests that there are about 2 million ranked players over an entire season in NA. Similar number in EU, about double that in KR.
There's 11 regions, so if we assume there are about 2 million per region that's 22 million unique ranked players a year. Bump that up a little for Korea, you can get to maybe 25 million.
These are all napkin calculations but I would be very surprised if even a third of League of Legends players had ever played ranked.
Kha'Zix is way better than Elise at assassinating stuff later in the game. Elise is good at that early, but she really falls off later. That's partially because her build often includes a few half-tanky items if she doesn't want to get instantly blown to bits.
The estimate holds up, but EUW has very close to twice the number of ranked players as NA. According to op.gg, in NA there are 1,721,767 ranked players while there are 3,461,645 on EUW. Korea actually has less at 3,274,169. Sure, there's less in most region so your estimate should hold up and probably be a bit generous for most regions, but China is a bit of a special case since they have like 11 servers by themselves and I don't know if we can get data from that.
I agree with the conclusion that the majority of players are probably just playing normals.
Sure, but I'm more interested in being able to bring something to the table late, so prob no Kha'Zix then...
Or I could just playing Ekko again once that buff comes through. Ah man I need to test it when I get home.
Good criticisms. I shouldn't have said EU when I meant EUNE, which I chose pretty much at random. I also forgot about China having separate servers entirely, although it's very hard to get any information about them. But I still think the conclusion likely holds up, yeah.
Peanut Butter
Member
When you're playing Kha'Zix, your main concern should be snowballing and making them ff @ 20-25 instead of late game stuff. If late game arrives, and you're not significantly behind, he still offers some good damage, and he has some of the best cleanup with his E resets.
Coming from a tank/support mostly depending on going ham by myself isn't really my style. I love ending games quickly, sure, but I've never like "traditionally" carrying. If he can still delete squishies late then cool, I just don't to be stuck being able to contribute nothing in case "Plan A - close game in 20 mins" fails
I'll give him a good go anyways, never know. In the least he seems mechanically simple compared to other champions so my old man fingers might be able to cope.
yeah that actually makes sense, not sure why i felt otherwise
Brewster123
Neo Member
Yeah the the emotes are pretty great. I especially like the Vel'Koz emote.
Just so cute (Though it doesn't fit him at all lol)...
Anyways, I've been trying to get used to using Jarvan-IV in the top lane; I'm trying to use him as a bruiser (I mainly like him for his raw damage output and initiate). I'm putting 18 in cunning (Thunderlord's) and I'm putitng the rest in Resolve to keep his tankiness up. My items are fairly normal; I rush Cleaver to try and build up his damage and health. However, the biggest question I'm running into is whether to run Titanic or Ravenous Hydra. Any advice? I still think my build has a ways to go.
Just so cute (Though it doesn't fit him at all lol)...
Anyways, I've been trying to get used to using Jarvan-IV in the top lane; I'm trying to use him as a bruiser (I mainly like him for his raw damage output and initiate). I'm putting 18 in cunning (Thunderlord's) and I'm putitng the rest in Resolve to keep his tankiness up. My items are fairly normal; I rush Cleaver to try and build up his damage and health. However, the biggest question I'm running into is whether to run Titanic or Ravenous Hydra. Any advice? I still think my build has a ways to go.
it's kind of lame you get just one free emote to start things off
like, i think 450 rp is kind of excessive for a jpg that flashes on top of your head, but they're good quality and it's normal to pay for emotes in games, so i don't feel that's super dumb (like paying for avatars...)
this is a new system that you basically can't use unless you pay money and that's a shame, they could've thrown at least 3 or 4 generic emotes for you to use so that you can do something other than a thumbs up and if you want to get the super cool emotes like lux or whatever then just pay some money
they'll drop through lootboxes so that's kinda nice i guess but it still feels awfully little to start with three empty slots
like, i think 450 rp is kind of excessive for a jpg that flashes on top of your head, but they're good quality and it's normal to pay for emotes in games, so i don't feel that's super dumb (like paying for avatars...)
this is a new system that you basically can't use unless you pay money and that's a shame, they could've thrown at least 3 or 4 generic emotes for you to use so that you can do something other than a thumbs up and if you want to get the super cool emotes like lux or whatever then just pay some money
they'll drop through lootboxes so that's kinda nice i guess but it still feels awfully little to start with three empty slots
Oh we get one free? I'll have to log in to claim it.
Aw, it's just the thumbs up. I thought we got like a token to choose one.
SenorArdilla
Member
Just a lame Thumbs Up.
sorry, didn't mean to mislead
yeah you get the thumbs up, which makes sense since wouldn't be nice if riot gave some BM emote to everyone as their one free emote lol
i do think the thumbs up is kinda fun to use ironically tho haha
SenorArdilla
Member
I would love to pick an individual emote from the store for free.
i think that'd be just too much, but i do think they should've done some like helmet bro generic emotes that they gave out to everyone
took me like 35 seconds from opening the game to accepting i was gonna buy that lux emote
it's so good !
Yeah the Lux one is fantasstic. I got that one and the Blitzcrank one. They are both super good for BM purposes, but the Lux emote can also be used for good plays. It's perfect.
Stone Ocean
Member
I need to buy the fedora penguin emote
Hydrophobic
Member
Worth every bit of RP. I have it in all of my emote slots. Also this is a reminder to me to change my keybinds because the new emotes are in the same slot as my trinket so every time I try to emote early game I drop a ward lol
I outplayed a gank in game 1 of the day and I got to spam that M'Pingu emote though. Feels good.
yeah at this point i feel like i don't really know which key to bind to shit anymore
They gave the thumbs up emote to everyone.