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IsayFever
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The Ursine will one day be feared.
He doesn't want his wife to see him RP as an armored bear.
Leona is so much fun. Too bad she's 6300 IP...
I feel I dunno what to do with her for the first 15 minutes though. It's basically looking at the enemy support just freely harass us until someone decides to gank and I go all in. I also find it kinda weird to build her regular support. I might roll the same item build I do for Malph with her.
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By the way, how good GW2 actually is? I liked what I saw of its character creator and it seems alright but I haven't played an MMO since Lineage II and I dunno how I feel about it...
I feel I dunno what to do with her for the first 15 minutes though. It's basically looking at the enemy support just freely harass us until someone decides to gank and I go all in. I also find it kinda weird to build her regular support. I might roll the same item build I do for Malph with her.
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By the way, how good GW2 actually is? I liked what I saw of its character creator and it seems alright but I haven't played an MMO since Lineage II and I dunno how I feel about it...
Pick Leona along with an AD who has a lot of burst like Corki, Ez or Graves. Activate shield, E to them, wait a second, Q them, shield explodes. At that point you either get out without taking much damage since your shield is still up or you and your AD carry get a kill.
Basically you have to kill them, chunk them down low enough so that they have to go back or get zoned out, or just put the fear of God into them from the start.
If they don't fear your Leona / AD combo you're in trouble since Leona is melee and has no real support abilities.
Basically you have to kill them, chunk them down low enough so that they have to go back or get zoned out, or just put the fear of God into them from the start.
If they don't fear your Leona / AD combo you're in trouble since Leona is melee and has no real support abilities.
i miss you guys
come play gw2 with me T_T
I level too slowly
I like the scenery too much
I spent over 3-4hours in the grove just walking around and taking screenshots
Mister Wilhelm
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It was Sona.
I need to try her during the free week. She seems good and fun, but I've never played her before.
I tried GW2. I signed in, created a character, logged in and ran out of the starting town and found a quest asking me to collect X eggs and kill Y bird nests, logged out and played LoL. Had enough mindless MMO grinding with WoW, don't need that ever again.
I might try GW2 eventually. Just ... so burned out on MMOs.
I've recently been practicing my ADC and Leona's low levels to me are basically:
1: lolfreekill
2: Alright, be a little hesitant.
3+: fml, we gonna die
She has some of the better positional harass, though perhaps some of that is just me being overly cautious. And I say this with usually a Taric support that starts off with that kind of engage potential. Leona hits her stride early and the kill lane potential she offers is just so good.
I guess she doesn't damage harass as well as some other support options but she can just engage and force fights so well.
I've recently been practicing my ADC and Leona's low levels to me are basically:
1: lolfreekill
2: Alright, be a little hesitant.
3+: fml, we gonna die
She has some of the better positional harass, though perhaps some of that is just me being overly cautious. And I say this with usually a Taric support that starts off with that kind of engage potential. Leona hits her stride early and the kill lane potential she offers is just so good.
I guess she doesn't damage harass as well as some other support options but she can just engage and force fights so well.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Why don't I ever see you in guild chat?
I level too slowly
I like the scenery too much
I spent over 3-4hours in the grove just walking around and taking screenshots
I spend my time getting 100% exploration in lower level areas and cities. So when I get to an area that's actually my level, I start getting xp like crazy.
I'm not in the guild yet.
Really fun. Just wander around and you get exp, craft you get exp, go do jumping puzzles... get exp. Get tired of all that go WvWvW.... get exp (and drops!).
Very fun game, seems even if you get bored with one aspect of it there's something else to occupy your time.
Wish my thief was more exciting
Typically speaking, I tend to go all-in with these games. I don't necessarily care about how easy it is to grind or the amount of "fun" to be had. I'll just go all-in on it and I'd rather not, that's all :x
Besides, I'm too busy going all-in with LoL and I don't need the two competing for attention!
I still need pro advice on how to defeat Xin Zhao mid lane. =( He builds magic resist, heals with lifesteal, and doesn't afraid of anything.
Barrel Cannon
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Just don't stick to the meta so closely
Choose a better counter pick/use a champ that can build AD. But if you want to play an AP caster I would say the safest pick against him would be Ahri
How do you know he's going mid though? He could be picked as a counterpick to your mid champion, or he could be picked along with Morgana (which happened in my game) but then Morgana went bottom lane with the support (and got fed 5+ kills early game). I could try changing lanes, but in my experience changing lanes just means you lose out on experience by switching, and the other team switches every time you switch.
I haven't faced that yet but I'd do a combo of farming passively, get early magic pen and armor. Probably a chain vest to build into Zhonya's or a cloth just to sell later. He's pretty strong though. It'll be a tough lane. Just punish him early with range and try not to let him snowball.
Yeah, someone on a previous team was practically demanding to use him mid and I figured it was just a troll, since they seemed to be acting like a jerk (and someone else had mentioned on practically the same day that they had never met a Xin Zhao player who wasn't a jerk
). I will have to add him to the list along with Talon and maaaaybe Pantheon as unusual mid-lane AD picks.For solo queue, you really can't expect to know during picks. I mean, things are sort of done that you don't really know if people are playing something strange like an AD mid or just "TOP OR FEED I PICK THIS ANYWAY" kind of things.
That said, Xin is a top lane bruiser so counter him like you'd counter any top laner: Get him ganked. Xin has a fairly meh escape since he needs his E to gap close and his R knockaway only does so much for letting him get out of a gank. Frozen Heart does well for trying to stop his damage. Besides that, play the lane relatively passively and farm as best you can under turret.
Only time I played against a Xin Zhao mid was on a new account and I just harassed him out with TF :/
Yeah, someone on a previous team was practically demanding to use him mid and I figured it was just a troll, since they seemed to be acting like a jerk (and someone else had mentioned on practically the same day that they had never met a Xin Zhao player who wasn't a jerk
Talon and Pantheon are pretty much your typical AD mids (and, honestly, the only time you ever see a Talon anyway). Riven and Xin are pretty solid mids too just due to how well they do vs most APs.
Yeah, someone on a previous team was practically demanding to use him mid and I figured it was just a troll, since they seemed to be acting like a jerk (and someone else had mentioned on practically the same day that they had never met a Xin Zhao player who wasn't a jerk
jerk character list:
1-tryndamere/yi
2-darius
3-jax
4-mordekaiser
5-fizz
That's...... pretty accurate lol.
Finn of Ooo
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I'd add lee sin to that list
Are we talking about champions who get played by players who act like jerks? Or just champions that are jerks to deal with? Or both?
She would have to have a player base first.
Yeah, someone on a previous team was practically demanding to use him mid and I figured it was just a troll, since they seemed to be acting like a jerk (and someone else had mentioned on practically the same day that they had never met a Xin Zhao player who wasn't a jerk
Talon is the usual AD mid.
Just pick someone who can push a wave like Mordekaiser because Xin Zhao can't push.
Having a champion with an escape and a jungler camping mid is handy too because after burning Flash and his E, Xin Zhao has no escapes.
They're definitely there and the jerk concentration is fairly high. I reckon Tibbers appeals to the Russian audience or somewhere where Cyrillic is common.
Too high elo.
I think you have the wrong person.
Also: ESL is on, and M5 is busting out Rengar. http://www.twitch.tv/esltv_lol/popout
Someone post how the Rengar works out after the game, please.
He's vs Vlad and that's not the best of match ups (that and the Vlad is up 5/3/0 vs 1/3/1 Rengar). That said, they're not showing top that often so I can't comment on how well the Rengar is playing. :/ Pretty typical Brutalizer start which says to me that he's E harassing.
Only notable thing shown was an obviously bad dive followed by yet another bad dive. It's an awkward lane.
Edit: ~13 minutes in so far, that is.
Buffing everything on Eve, perhaps partly because they refuse to just give her the same stealth everyone else has. ;(
I wonder if we will start seeing more bruisers and mages in the bottom lane instead of AD carries if they continue nerfing supports and ranged AD champions.
And Katarina got...nerfed? I guess it's because everyone else was winning near 50% with her while I was losing most of my games...like 60-70% losses since the remake. Passive is better, and shunpo is slightly better, but W was really needed for farming (now worse) and Q was your main damage and harass (now worse). Why would they do that?
*edit*
This is one of the changes from the patch I'm happy about.
And I wonder why they still haven't added a Diana icon for when her slash is going to activate? I think it kind of makes her model glow white but it doesn't seem obvious enough to me.
I wonder if we will start seeing more bruisers and mages in the bottom lane instead of AD carries if they continue nerfing supports and ranged AD champions.
And Katarina got...nerfed? I guess it's because everyone else was winning near 50% with her while I was losing most of my games...like 60-70% losses since the remake.
Passive is better, and shunpo is slightly better, but W was really needed for farming (now worse) and Q was your main damage and harass (now worse). Why would they do that?*edit*
This is one of the changes from the patch I'm happy about.
And I wonder why they still haven't added a Diana icon for when her slash is going to activate? I think it kind of makes her model glow white but it doesn't seem obvious enough to me.
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