Forget Karma; why won't they buff Shen?
Shen has been getting reworks for a month or two now. They just haven't gone live yet.
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Shen has been getting reworks for a month or two now. They just haven't gone live yet.
Wait, 1300+ is considered ELO hell? I thought 1200 was supposed to be average/normal/starting ELO. You should come on down to my level at like, -800.
I've experienced elo hell from 1300-1600 range. There's no escaping it!
He's a great jungler. It's just when it comes to team fights, he really has no way of escaping. If you get focused, peace out xin.
wilder.Boy
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Hmm... I'm getting the point. Then it seems that the other team was really just to stupid to shut me down. But what about Skarner who is considered as one of the top junglers these days, isn't he lacking of an escape too (or even Shyvana as well)?
Edit: Thinking of this it comes to my mind that Shyv or Skarner maybe fit more into the Tank role, and dont need to build AD as Xin, no?
Everywhere is ELO HELL.
In addition to the Ziggs games, I tried Sejuani one bot game last night. She feels like Shyvana or Mundo with the AOE circle damage, except like, not as fun, powerful, or useful as either of them. The ult is good but that's about it. If I wanted to use a charge attack I'd play volibear so I could at least flip someone with it.
Okay, my games were nothing like that. It was all ad except for me. Everyone running around with Thornmail and stacking ad items.
You got the right idea. Shyv also does consistent dmg to the entire team, her ult is a good initiator and she can escape with it. Skarner's ult leaves him relatively safe in team fights and is an awesome initiator, plus he has that ms! Lee Sin can initiate from afar and retreat quickly with w.
There's two ways to play Xin: Commando style or clean up. You either initiate knowing you will be focused and try to ult everyone. Or you have to wait until you know they will focus hopefully your tank and not switch the focus on you and then clean up on everything.
Then there's always this way of playing him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-6vYobie4&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SPDBE6C3B642E93EEF
I keep lying to myself and saying there's an end in sight.
Mister Wilhelm
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This is common, actually.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
I love Dominion troll comps like Karthus, Gangplank, Ziggs, Pantheon, Twisted Fate
SouthernDragon
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Oh god, now I want to play Jungle Xin while blasting Mulan in the background.
That said, Commando Xin can be pretty heroic. Had a game recently where a Xin dived in 1v5 near Baron (us Blue), and scared the shit out of them so they blew their ults on him. We swooped in immediately after and aced them.
What a man.
That said, Commando Xin can be pretty heroic. Had a game recently where a Xin dived in 1v5 near Baron (us Blue), and scared the shit out of them so they blew their ults on him. We swooped in immediately after and aced them.
What a man.
I know that was meant as a joke, but wow he was bad. He was like 2 creep kills away from his next level before he used the skill point from his last level.
The barrage of "STFU FAGGOT" is why I report, after calling him bad. And well deserved I hope he gets banned.
Edit: Another Legendary game. Said they were going to feed before the game started...
Why do I get players like this?!
Wickd running the strangest GP build ever: Spirit Visage, Aegis and Hexdrinker.
You've made the correct choice.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
MOBA's are weird.
Valve's is way too complicated for new people and Blizzard's looks like it will be too casual/accessible.
You need to place the skill ceiling and knowledge burden low enough for new people to get into them, but high enough that it doesn't turn them off completely.
Valve's is way too complicated for new people and Blizzard's looks like it will be too casual/accessible.
You need to place the skill ceiling and knowledge burden low enough for new people to get into them, but high enough that it doesn't turn them off completely.
zerokoolpsx
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Just got my invite to Dota 2 as well. Played a game, then all 4 team mates disconnected after playing terrible. One of them was 0/5/0. Way to feed them. Oh well, back to LoL.
SouthernDragon
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I did the same thing with DotA 2.
I'll wait until there's enough of a player base that there will be good matchmaking, and for part of the LoL-GAF community to play with me.
I'll wait until there's enough of a player base that there will be good matchmaking, and for part of the LoL-GAF community to play with me.
Mister Wilhelm
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HotshotGG running support nidalee with no gp5 items the entire game.
There were many before you and there will be many after you that do the same.
Dota 2 has nice in-game spectating, I'll give it that.
I was trying to avoid derailing this thread too much but I'll throw my bit to the pile -- I tried it, and some things about it seemed decent, but figuring out the user interface/store/item etc. stuff was probably the most confusing to me. I also hated that it was so hard to try to get a humans versus bots game with random people going. If there was a way to get matched with noobs and beat down bot teams so I could become more comfortable with the controls and items, that would be great, and it'll probably happen eventually.
Overall my feeling was basically always "meh", whereas with LoL, even if I never enjoyed it much, I masochistically kept playing it more and more. XD
I got my Dota invite a couple of months ago. One of my friends is really into it.
It just wasn't fun. The champions all seem fairly boring with no personality and the rules seem like they don't encourage fun gameplay. Losing money upon dying is really rough. Yeah, it makes dying a bigger issue and probably teaches people to be more aware and play safer, but that's something I like about LoL. I can have fun and screw around and still pull off a win. You can take risks that add enjoyment to the gameplay without worrying about screwing over your entire team for the rest of the game.
Meh.
Refuse to Lose
Mister Wilhelm
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DOTA2 is so...BORING...
really? I find summoners rift to be excruciatingly boring
dominion is the best parts of LoL (lategame spell spam, skirmishes) in a short period of time
which is why its so much more fun
SouthernDragon
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If that's the only part you enjoy, sure.
DotA 2 reminded me of an extended farming/laning period.
DotA 2 reminded me of an extended farming/laning period.
GhostWriter24
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Started playing Anivia, pretty cool character.
FutureZombie
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I won't be switching MOBAs, no matter how popular DOTA2 becomes. My only complaint about LoL is the terrible community, and I imagine DOTA2's will likely be even worse.
You must be playing a different game than me. :huh
I only played bot games last night, so today I dived into my first Ziggs PVP game, featuring my friend the Super Teemo.
I'm not as pro as I'd like to be, but at least my team carried me. =D
Cool build
I am insane, and yet playing him as Explosive Teemo is too amusing to ignore. >_> I tried a more AD-oriented build with bots and was getting crits over 800 damage, and that may not be counting the bonus attack damage crit. The problem is, without crazy mana regen and/or cooldown reduction, you won't be able to use abilities often enough for the autoattack damage boost to happen very often.Cool build
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