Orochinagis
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Yokai/Oni Ahri would be nuts for the next Lunar event but Ahri is already on japanese folkore no?
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League of Legends |OT13| Diamond is Unreachable
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Yokai/Oni Ahri would be nuts for the next Lunar event but Ahri is already on japanese folkore no?
Lunar revel is an event for the Chinese new year, and has nothing to do with Japanese culture, actually (they don't celebrate it themselves, even). Then again, kumiho is the Korean name given to mythological nine-tailed foxes, which are indeed seen in Japanese folklore (and probably Chinese as well), so you could say that Ahri belongs to chinese folklore anyway. Her clothes are Korean AFAIK though, so they could always release a more Chinese-looking skin for her, I guess.
Next year's going to be the year of the dog though, so I bet we'll be getting Lunar Revel Nasus as the main skin.
god my UI was so fucked up there, all the champion stats when you tabbed were stacked on top of each other, had to get my gf to tab so I could see the stats and items.
My health bar at the bottom was permanently empty and would flash red whenever I took damage
the timers at the top of tabbing was missing completely
So annoying
My health bar at the bottom was permanently empty and would flash red whenever I took damage
the timers at the top of tabbing was missing completely
So annoying
Neither does ranked MMR for pretty much everyone in here.
killatopak
Gold Member
this akuma chun li ahri thing just looks fucking cool
and i love pixelart so
really cool shit
Is there a riven pixel art? I'd make that my avatar.
Peanut Butter
Member
"Hey, Vegeta, what does the scouter say about Naota's ping?"
What do you mean? Ranked MMR just ranks you against people at your level. I don't get your point.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
he's saying everyone sucks
not from this artist but i'm sure u can find good stuff if u look for it
i really like these last few
edit: oh man look at this fan made ori skin made pixelart
fanart is the best
Peanut Butter
Member
That pixel Nocturne looks like it could be a Pokemon
killatopak
Gold Member
TY Zky. I'd be making that my avatar in the near future.
pretty stupid to build armor items in a predominantly ap team.
pretty stupid to build armor items in a predominantly ap team.
To be honest, frozen heart wasn't that bad of a buy. Around 1/3 of Kayle's damage is AD, and our Kennen was completely useless that game. Blitz was mostly being focused by Rengar and I.
Peanut Butter
Member
Did you win?
Stone Ocean
Member
Because unless you're like diamond where MMR can make matchmaking really fucky there's no use worrying about it beyond LP gains.
How valuable is an MMR rating that isn't mid/high diamond? How bad can someone bomb their MMR just by playing roles they don't main? Buying smurfs just supports account theft...
PhillipCostigan
Member
Buying a smurf is dumb. You open yourself to account security issues and it's likely to just get banned at some point anyway.
If you want a smurf for some reason don't be lazy and just level it.
If you want a smurf for some reason don't be lazy and just level it.
I would if it didn't make me want to put a bullet through my brain.
buying clean leveled accounts isn't really morally wrong since those are just bot leveled so no one was harmed in the process (low level ppl can't even tell and it was always bot wars in 3v3s and dominion anyways lol) and the account security/risk of ban stuff doesn't matter since that account is meant to be disposable. don't buy an account that's already ranked since that is possibly stolen and you definitely don't want that
i think generally buying an account for smurfing is really dumb since rito now basically handled you an easy way to smurf in the form of flex queue, so why bother. only time i think it's smart to buy a clean leveled account is when you're playing in another server, which is a shitty thing to have to do but it's the only option riot leaves you with because of their terrible region locking stuff
it's not a matter of being lazy, league is not an mmo, grinding is not part of this game and grinding in league is specially terrible since u can't even zone out like you would in an mmo. that's definitely on riot for not having a solution to people playing in different regions and until they do you gotta make do with what you have, so account share and buy all you want as long as you don't harm anyone, i say
edit: i would much rather give that money to riot but the way they treat region changing is just unacceptable
solution would be to just allow cross region play, period, but still make it so u have a main server which is where u can buy shit and play ranked. when u log in to other servers with ur old account you have all ur champions, skins and whatnot, but u can only play normals and customs (and maybe flex kek). if you want to play ranked you have to transfer your account like you do today. the server separation also still exists, so it's not like you're gonna be constantly matched to people from other regions. also friends should be shared across regions
there's issues to a system like this (like there's two dudes with accounts named "narutoDave999" in both na and kr and now one of them has to change it), but imo it's worth the trouble
lemme know if u need help
i hope new galio is still a mage
i think generally buying an account for smurfing is really dumb since rito now basically handled you an easy way to smurf in the form of flex queue, so why bother. only time i think it's smart to buy a clean leveled account is when you're playing in another server, which is a shitty thing to have to do but it's the only option riot leaves you with because of their terrible region locking stuff
it's not a matter of being lazy, league is not an mmo, grinding is not part of this game and grinding in league is specially terrible since u can't even zone out like you would in an mmo. that's definitely on riot for not having a solution to people playing in different regions and until they do you gotta make do with what you have, so account share and buy all you want as long as you don't harm anyone, i say
edit: i would much rather give that money to riot but the way they treat region changing is just unacceptable
solution would be to just allow cross region play, period, but still make it so u have a main server which is where u can buy shit and play ranked. when u log in to other servers with ur old account you have all ur champions, skins and whatnot, but u can only play normals and customs (and maybe flex kek). if you want to play ranked you have to transfer your account like you do today. the server separation also still exists, so it's not like you're gonna be constantly matched to people from other regions. also friends should be shared across regions
there's issues to a system like this (like there's two dudes with accounts named "narutoDave999" in both na and kr and now one of them has to change it), but imo it's worth the trouble
nice
lemme know if u need help
voice sounds like it's gonna be a good galio but that's not the igor i know and love -___-
i hope new galio is still a mage
I still hold out faith that Riot will release an actual time (mid laner) champion. That would be sexy as hell.
Stone Ocean
Member
Zilean
If Riot ever does anything further with that, chances are it'll be a Zilean VGU.
Zed is basically non-time Dio, though. He'd probably be an absurdly easy model swap for that one LoL rip-off that had Shrek in it:
- Q throws knives instead of shurikens
- W sends out The World, and he can swap places with it because ZA WARUDO
- E does a silly spin (probably with a MUDAMUDA voice clip)
- R has him use The World to teleport behind opponents, he hits them a lot, and then when his mark procs you hear "now time moves again"
See? it's perfect (besides his E)! Even his passive of preying upon the weak works thematically for Dio.
Zed should be chained up, though.
Probably just plays enough to keep the name to torture you.
Oh god Zky reminded me of the guy on EUW who has the name "Talents" yet never fucking plays. JUST GIVE ME THE NAME HE HASN'T PLAYED SINCE 2015 AND EVEN THEN HE ONLY PLAYED 2 GAMES SINCE 2014 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Probably just plays enough to keep the name to torture you.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Costy why doesnt rito just give away fully levelled accounts
They do it for pros
PhillipCostigan
Member
Sorry but that's absolutely false. Botted accounts do cause harm, and playing with or against a bot is a shitty experience. Especially for new players. I've had many new players complain about bots to me. It's people sacrificing the experience of others in the game just so they can make a quick buck by doing something against ToS.
New players aren't gonna have much fun against Diamond+ players stomping them every game either though, which from my experience is what happens when I level on the NA server.
Played today's match and was paired by the dumbest adc I've seen in my life. My Miss Fortune didn't understand when I told her to "not push", and then tried simplifying it to "please only last-hit, because that way we'll be harder to gank while Yi's ganks will become better", and yet she failed to do that. She was also 30-something cs when the enemy Ez was almost 80, and not because of lane harass (she just sucked hard at csing). It was a good thing our Garen and Veigar snowballed and carried us, with some decent plays by Yi as well. Still, we were 0/4 early on in botlane, so I was fearing the worst.
And this is another example of my awful map awareness, because I was expecting our team to lose due to awful performance in lane, but I didn't take into account that much of the enemy team's score was in botlane, while our other lanes got fed and went on to win the game.
Edit: Regarding account levelling, I'd agree that it's a real pain. Having to play hundreds of games to level up to 30 isn't much of a learning experience, and it gives you subpar builds by default because you can't equip all rune slots or assign all mastery points. Talking with Zky we agreed that buying champs with IP is still a pain, but by comparison it plus the free champion rotation means newer players can slowly get accustomed to the game by often playing normals against whatever's available at the time.
Having to play from thirty to sixty normal games (or a multiplying that by five if you play against AIs) to get most champs does feel like quite a grind, but the worst part IMO are runes, since you can only get the most basic tier three ones for "cheap" and more specific ones that might be more optimal for particular champions can cost you over 6K IP per set. By comparison, runes feel like a waste, since while purchasing a new champ gives you access to a cool new toy, runes "merely" affect your build in terms of raw numbers, which are a lot less exciting (ie: getting 0.33% more movement speed when you upgrade a quint from tier 2 to 3 is as unexciting as watching paint dry, even though it does make quite a difference in-game).
And this is another example of my awful map awareness, because I was expecting our team to lose due to awful performance in lane, but I didn't take into account that much of the enemy team's score was in botlane, while our other lanes got fed and went on to win the game.
Edit: Regarding account levelling, I'd agree that it's a real pain. Having to play hundreds of games to level up to 30 isn't much of a learning experience, and it gives you subpar builds by default because you can't equip all rune slots or assign all mastery points. Talking with Zky we agreed that buying champs with IP is still a pain, but by comparison it plus the free champion rotation means newer players can slowly get accustomed to the game by often playing normals against whatever's available at the time.
Having to play from thirty to sixty normal games (or a multiplying that by five if you play against AIs) to get most champs does feel like quite a grind, but the worst part IMO are runes, since you can only get the most basic tier three ones for "cheap" and more specific ones that might be more optimal for particular champions can cost you over 6K IP per set. By comparison, runes feel like a waste, since while purchasing a new champ gives you access to a cool new toy, runes "merely" affect your build in terms of raw numbers, which are a lot less exciting (ie: getting 0.33% more movement speed when you upgrade a quint from tier 2 to 3 is as unexciting as watching paint dry, even though it does make quite a difference in-game).
I always thought it would be neat if Riot sold lvl 30 accounts granted you linked it to an account you already had that played over a certain number of games/ranked games. Having 2-3 accounts with the same content would have been nice but it's quite obvious why they would never do it.
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Deleted member 77995
Unconfirmed Member
There is nothing you can say during a game to fix anyone else's mistakes and it's not only unproductive and rude to try and micro them but you're lowering your own focus and taking away from the things you could be doing better. Go into a higher level game and try to tell people what to do and they'll tell you rightfully to fuck off. The only time you should be typing that much is to flame them in the post game lobby.
PhillipCostigan
Member
We have smurf detection. The system knows withing two or three games if you're a smurf and around what level you're at and will place you with other smurfs or high levelled players.
Doesn't feel like that when I play normals in NA.
The thing is I had a very similar game were I asked my adc to freeze lane, they asked for clarification and then succesfully started slow-pushing, which gave us a great advantage. I get that being too pushy might end up tilting people rather than helping them realize what they're doing wrong, but many times I've found myself making mistakes that I've corrected when someone pointed them out to me (such as a Jhin telling me I should use Nami's ult defensively instead of offensively against a CC-heavy enemy team a couple days ago).
On the other hand, ignoring the issues and flaming people in post-game lobby sounds even more pointless and toxic. It's almost like making a drive-thru hate post in here and being happy with yourself for a job well done. While some people might be put off by others telling them what they could be doing better, they should at the very least get it as long as you aren't looking down on them. Nagging them over and over is always a bad idea, but who knows, they might learn something they didn't know (ie: build qss against their malz).
Also, comparing low bronze with a "higher level game" makes no sense, since down here many of us still suck at the basics of the game (csing, itemization, trades, roaming, wave control, objectives, map awareness) that it's likely that your teammate doing things wrong merely knows no better rather than obstinately clinging onto a suboptimal way of playing just for the heck of it.
Hydrophobic
Member
Honestly? You could just be playing against Bronze players who are leveling a smurf because they think they're stuck in Bronze due to teams/low LP gains instead of just being a bronze player.
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Deleted member 77995
Unconfirmed Member
These skills are absolutely necessary to develop as a league player. Bronze players giving out advice to each other during game is like a fat person giving out advice while failing his diet. You might be right but you're not in the right and most people are gonna give you a bit of side-eye. If you really wanna improve then coaching/replay analysis while being teachable will yield a significantly larger gain over a short amount of time. You could be out of bronze within a couple of weeks easily.
Again, talking down to them might be the case, but who says we can't see flaws in others despite being flawed ourselves (damn, that almost sounds too deep to be a post about LoL)? Like, I'm not an S-tier support by any means, but having watched some videos and playing top got me to understand some basics about lane management, to the point I can notice when my adc could do things differently to eke out a small advantage. Should I shut up about that and only go "gg adc, go lookup 'wave control' in youtube. plzkthnkx" in post-game chat? IMO, all that does is make you look like a jerk, and if you're looking to maximize your chances of winning, it's a better idea to try and get a failing teammate to improve during your game than afterwards (since who knows if you'll ever get to play him again, anyway).
Expecting everyone to be assholes that reply "leave me alone" upon any sort of suggestion is akin to viewing all your teammates as obstinate and toxic players, which is more likely to lead to losses than suggesting something. I insist, it isn't about copy-pasting stuff or pinging them repeatedly to "try and get them in line" (which is a laughable course of action), but rather a friendly recommendation like when you tell people laning against Teemo to get sweeper lens to fight back against his mushroom spam.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Go fuck yourself riot.
Hydrophobic
Member
I like the design of the 'Dragon Slayer' skins (even though I think that's just Pantheon and now Xin'zhao)
Hydrophobic
Member
It's not upsetting to people in the generic sense, it's upsetting to Breezy.