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[zkylon]

I have been giving Lux a shot, and she's just as fun as Ashe, but I have to remind myself to shift gears when I use her, because it seems she's more about being a champion killer what with the double bind and Final Spark.

Lux kinda changes roles during the game, from burst one-combo-kills-anyone in early-to-mid (almost no one can survive your Q+AA+E+R+Ignite) to mostly being a utility/support champ in late game that deals sustained damage, throwing shields, snares and slows to help your team escape and secure kills, and using your slow and ult to whittle down clusters of enemy champions.

You should have in mind that the best usage for your ult is to fire it at the whole enemy team when they're bundled together, not against a single running champion. It's got a pretty low cooldown if you build CDR, so use it whenever you can to kill a lot of minions at once, to steal buffs and to fuck their whole team up.

Lux's awesome :3

edit: she's kinda punishing if you don't land your skillshots, but you live and you learn

 

[SouthernDragon]

Just get Max CDR and lots of AP and LASER all the time!

 

[vhfive]

that feel when you have a real bad game and you lose because you fed

 

[Wolf Akela]

Icathian Surprise!

if I'm on solo lane, I'd like to be pushing forward more than pulling back. She has R and Q for that, and E to help out against enemy jungling.

Tristana is in a similar role, but she can push harder and has two escapes in case the jungler comes.

 

[SephirothRK]

that feel when you have a real bad game and you lose because you fed

Happens to everyone. Just keep on learning from mistakes.

 

[Achtius]

that feel when you have a real bad game and you lose because you fed

What feeling? I just blame Kiunch for not carrying harder. If I feed, kiunch need to carry twice as hard.

 

[GhostWriter24]

I am lights out with Anivia.

 

[zkylon]

that feel when you have a real bad game and you lose because you fed

Cheer up, we all have shit days

Undoubtedly I have more than most

 

[SouthernDragon]

that feel when you can't even play one LoL game

 

[IsayFever]

A fool and his head are easily parted

 

[Wolf Akela]

That feeling when you lose on your Lv12 smurf...

... then you just console yourself by saying Soraka had 10 deaths by 15 mins, and he and another guy were spanish dudes who were just going jajajajajaja the whole match. =(

 

[mercviper]

Rengar Spotlight

 

[scy]

Rengar Spotlight

Guess I'll buy him tomorrow. But Diablo 3 patch...

 

[IsayFever]

That poor Karthus...

 

[Ken]

Rengar's skin is terrible.

BTW how do you fight Sion? He's one of those champions I don't see often but when I do he's always wrecking people while on the other team.

 

[Samyy]

Rengar's skin is terrible.

BTW how do you fight Sion? He's one of those champions I don't see often but when I do he's always wrecking people while on the other team.

ignite and don't let him afk farm.

 

[bjaelke]

Rengar's skin is terrible.

BTW how do you fight Sion? He's one of those champions I don't see often but when I do he's always wrecking people while on the other team.

AP Sion? Burst down his shield and zone him.
AD Sion? Laugh at him and zone him.

 

[AcridMeat]

Rengar's skin is terrible.

Not a fan of predator? I think it looks awesome.

 

[Ken]

Not a fan of predator? I think it looks awesome.

If he had the Predator helmet, sure. But he doesn't.

 

[kiunchbb]

Holy shit Rengar can jump infinitely as long as he is in a bush?

Hard counter nidalee escape =/

 

[zkylon]

Ugh, lost 5 matches in a row, even when playing alright and against shitty teams. I should stop playing with randoms altogether...

 

[LCGeek]

Ugh, lost 5 matches in a row, even when playing alright and against shitty teams. I should stop playing with randoms altogether...

Avoid them. At least with gaf inhouse if you're on mumble or people actually coordinate we tend to have good comebacks.

Randoms in this genre teach you bad habits that tend to screw you up up in higher level matches.

 

[Q8D3vil]

Rengar's skin is terrible.

BTW how do you fight Sion? He's one of those champions I don't see often but when I do he's always wrecking people while on the other team.

ignite him when he does his ultimate or what for it to run out.
he is the same as tryndamere, let him feed and he became a monster if you cant kite him but he get owned super hard in lane if you know how to abuse his shitty mobility.

 

[Ferga]

Rengar's skin is terrible.

BTW how do you fight Sion? He's one of those champions I don't see often but when I do he's always wrecking people while on the other team.

Go late game, break his shield with a few auto attacks and watch him run around helplessly as he waits for cooldowns.

That or he suicides by auto attacking.

Main reason why I don't play sion anymore

 

[Margalis]

To beat AP Sion you basically have to not lose early game and wait until he becomes a team fight liability.

It can be pretty hard to deal with him during the laning phase, however in teamfights he doesn't have much of a role other than running in and using his shield once. During laning you just want to avoid him quickly clearing waves, then running into other lanes, getting ganks, and putting your team hopelessly behind.

 

[Wolf Akela]

Don't let him get anywhere near you, and don't let him farm hard. He's a hypercarry. He just gets IE and stacks PDs and it's GG for you.

 

[Ken]

Here is a pro strategy from a 1100 ELO game against a team of Nidalee, Amumu, and Ez.

 

[Boken]

I don't get it corgi.

P. S. Buy an oracle

 

[lazorexplosion]

That feel when the last pick is supposed to take support and locks in Lee Sin.

 

[Ken]

I don't get it corgi.

P. S. Buy an oracle

Hide in bush and wait for someone to come in and melt them.

Problem was we already did it once so they would just poke every bush when we tried it again right after.

 

[Boken]

But you have Ashe

 

[Pancakes]

I love when the whole team decides to camp a bush. Playing normals with friends, we usually run an AOE composition. Thanks for the free ace!

 

[Wrekt]

Really though, I just play a lot of it because it was faster and I have a group of like 10-15 people I've met through Dominion games. The people I met through SR just aren't ... well, good.

Dominion is just easier to play so you don't notice the bads as much. It's pretty hard to look like an idiot when you don't have to worry about last hits, pushing, jungling or map awareness.

 

[garath]

That feel when the last pick is supposed to take support and locks in Lee Sin.

Or Olaf with smite.

I complained about this in GAF channel last night a bit lol. I played 2 games in a row where I was last pick and manned up and chose support. Then I'm finally not last pick and the last pick guy keeps calling roles and watching them get taken. When it gets to him he says "forget this, I'm not playing support". And locks in Olaf with smite.

Worst part is no one dodged, so I manned up and did that too. Jerks.

 

[scy]

Dominion is just easier to play so you don't notice the bads as much. It's pretty hard to look like an idiot when you don't have to worry about last hits, pushing, jungling or map awareness.

Map Awareness is pretty high in Dominion. It's a lot of teamfight fundamentals as well. But, that's basically it: Map awareness and team fights. And if you're not killing minions, you're not doing Dominion right.

Edit: Though I do agree it's an overall simpler game. It's basically what I was complaining about all last night as my last hitting went to shit after a month of no SR :| Was having trouble pushing 150cs/20m and was making dumb laning mistakes. It was a depressing series of games.

 

[SouthernDragon]

Map Awareness is pretty high in Dominion. It's a lot of teamfight fundamentals as well. But, that's basically it: Map awareness and team fights. And if you're not killing minions, you're not doing Dominion right.

I always chuckle when I amass a wave big enough to overwhelm their tower.

FREE CAPTURE POINT

 

[scy]

I always chuckle when I amass a wave big enough to overwhelm their tower.

FREE CAPTURE POINT

minions op

Edit: Seriously though, pushing waves in Dominion is pretty damn important. It's the easiest way to win, not this hyper aggressive "GUYS CAP FOURTH POINT" play that gets seen a lot or jungle pursuits. Kill minions and push lanes. Free pressure and it buys time.

 

[SouthernDragon]

minions op

Edit: Seriously though, pushing waves in Dominion is pretty damn important. It's the easiest way to win, not this hyper aggressive "GUYS CAP FOURTH POINT" play that gets seen a lot or jungle pursuits. Kill minions and push lanes. Free pressure and it buys time.

Not to mention that one wave is 120 gold while one champion is worth 100.

 

[scy]

Not to mention that one wave is 120 gold while one champion is worth 100.

Yup. It's great when you have easy wave clear too. I've had a lot of 180-200cs Dominion games which makes it so easy to get an advantage. Which is sad, now that I think about it ... I've cs'd better in Dominion than my recent SR games. :|

Though, 50-100, depending on the length of the game, is more the norm. Sadly, a lot of players end games with 0-20. If that.

 

[Mister Wilhelm]

Map Awareness is pretty high in Dominion. It's a lot of teamfight fundamentals as well. But, that's basically it: Map awareness and team fights. And if you're not killing minions, you're not doing Dominion right.

Edit: Though I do agree it's an overall simpler game. It's basically what I was complaining about all last night as my last hitting went to shit after a month of no SR :| Was having trouble pushing 150cs/20m and was making dumb laning mistakes. It was a depressing series of games.

So many simple points yet people even at 17-1800 ELO don't even get this.

 

[EXGN]

Map Awareness is pretty high in Dominion. It's a lot of teamfight fundamentals as well. But, that's basically it: Map awareness and team fights. And if you're not killing minions, you're not doing Dominion right.

Edit: Though I do agree it's an overall simpler game. It's basically what I was complaining about all last night as my last hitting went to shit after a month of no SR :| Was having trouble pushing 150cs/20m and was making dumb laning mistakes. It was a depressing series of games.

I wouldn't say that's bad CS lol. I bet 150 CS in 20 minutes is enough to go at least even in 80 percent of games.

Speaking of bad CS, I played jungle Mundo for the first time yesterday. My AD carry Draven had 60 CS at the 20 minute mark and only a Doran's Blade + boots. That was not a fun game.

 

[scy]

I wouldn't say that's bad CS lol. I bet 150 CS in 20 minutes is enough to go at least even in 80 percent of games.

Speaking of bad CS, I played jungle Mundo for the first time yesterday. My AD carry Draven had 60 CS at the 20 minute mark and only a Doran's Blade + boots. That was not a fun game.

One of the things I spent the first week or so of playing was getting myself to 180-200cs consistently for the 20m mark. I'm pretty hard on myself for things like this :x

Spoiler

forever tryhard etc

 

[Inskipp]

Feels good to be playing Skarner again, I'm having tons of fun with him.

 

[garath]

Faced off against the new garen last night as Riven. Ouch. He hurts. Didn't help that he had a lot of jungle support too. I can safely say he won the lane. Didn't win the game though. Tanky Riven was perfect for our team comp and they spent so much time trying to shut me down that our Ezreal got super fed.

I'll take that win.

 

[Wrekt]

And if you're not killing minions, you're not doing Dominion right.

Wave clearing and last hitting are two different things in my book. I think Dominion is terrible so I'm not up to date on the current strats, but I can't see a time when you'd want to freeze the lane and just last hit outside your tower.

 

[lazorexplosion]

Just had a really funny game; picks were all over the place and my teammates were only speaking chinese so I had no idea who was laning where. I picked Kog because I thought we needed an AD carry, but turns out Jayce was going to do that, so I ended up mid as AP kogmaw (never played AP kog before) because we needed magic damage but I still had AD runes. Soooo hybrid Kog gogo. Ended up with like gunblade and archangel's, it was super weird, but we still won and I ended up 8/3. Got a hilarious double kill from one max range R on a couple of low champions who thought they had escaped and were standing right next to each other.

I was like "I have no idea what I am doing" the whole game.

 

[scy]

Wave clearing and last hitting are two different things in my book. I think Dominion is terrible so I'm not up to date on the current strats, but I can't see a time when you'd want to freeze the lane and just last hit outside your tower.

That's true, they are. They're basically the opposite. One is to push the lane and the other is to keep it relatively neutral. I was just noting that killing minions is a fairly big part of Dominion. Probably the most important thing besides capping points and knowing how/when to engage.

 

[SouthernDragon]

Now I have graphics that go missing and FPS around 20 where I used to have 60.

At least the game is playable!

 

[Barrel Cannon]

Just won a game where my friends trolled with xin zhao mid and a caithlyn bot. They had a gragas mid who got shut down so hard by my friend.

 

[SouthernDragon]

Serious question.

How do I uninstall LoL? I need to reinstall it.