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zkylon

zkylewd
so my mousepad has become like a disgusting zone of filth and gross so imma buy a new one

anyone knows a site that sells+ships cool looking mousepads, like of lol shit and stuff?

would be nice to get one with megaman lux in it or at least a cool lol pic (ie not teemo)
 

bjaelke

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so my mousepad has become like a disgusting zone of filth and gross so imma buy a new one

anyone knows a site that sells+ships cool looking mousepads, like of lol shit and stuff?

would be nice to get one with megaman lux in it or at least a cool lol pic (ie not teemo)

clg mousepad

lol
 
just bought khazix and went like 12/11/4 in my first SR game with him. He's so much fun to play. I was way too eager to just jump in though. Half of my deaths couldve been prevented if I wasn't so hungry for kills.
 
what is wit's end?

oh, you mean the item that steals magic resist? A buff for a champion that has one magic damage ability, yeah? That now costs 200 extra gold?

Or are you talking about the fucking WHOPPING 2% attack speed increase?

Please, oh enlightened Soda Cop, tell me the secrets of the Wit's End buff for Irelia?

Even with Wit's End's passive damage, it's insignificant.
 

Delodax

Member
They should give her back her full heal on her W

sustain is ok

The thing is, there is nothing especially wrong with Irelia. She is still strong, very strong. Just not popular anymore.

The upcoming patch taking so long time makes me excited. Hope there'll be a ton of balance tweaks.
 

Boken

Banned
As a long time irelia player I can say that shes not strong anymore

just ok


her damage options are too few

botrk is nice if youre pretty ahead, but irelia doesnt want a whole lot of AD anyway, so the lifesteal and the AD on it are pretty useless

and TForce still is pretty nerfed

that and resistances are pretty weak compared to before


i mean it is nice that she isnt crappy like say heimerdonger tho


ps. athene vs alex ich is on if anybody cares
 
Kass with the bad build of the week. Actually probably the crappiest Kass setup I've seen. I couldn't help but cringe.
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The Athene vs. Alex Ich thing was kinda sucky. I know he only trolled with that stupid police pre-recorded thing when he knew he had lost, but still. Meh.
 

dimb

Bjergsen is the greatest midlane in the world
Please, oh enlightened Soda Cop, tell me the secrets of the Wit's End buff for Irelia?

Even with Wit's End's passive damage, it's insignificant.
yo relax. I just said one champion was potentially getting stronger while the other seems to constantly be getting nerfed. if you can't see the value of a 25 mr burn i don't know what to say. good for your team, more viable item paths for attack speed champs that desperately need options. it is a bigger deal that you are making it out to be. it will also give more magic resist, and it isn't more expensive, it's cheaper on the pbe. the cost doesn't matter, it's still in flux. you are getting way more for your gold either way.

your indignation is unbearable.
 
7-3 in my placement matches, Silver II.

My 9th match was a great comeback. Their Draven and Diana had big streaks going early but we slowly fought back by winning almost every team fight. It also helped that they had a Lulu top and a Shaco.
 

garath

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7-3 in my placement matches, Silver II.

My 9th match was a great comeback. Their Draven and Diana had big streaks going early but we slowly fought back by winning almost every team fight. It also helped that they had a Lulu top and a Shaco.

Exactly how my placements went too. 7-3 silver II. Did you play some ranked last season?
 

Edwardo

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7-3 in my placement matches, Silver II.

My 9th match was a great comeback. Their Draven and Diana had big streaks going early but we slowly fought back by winning almost every team fight. It also helped that they had a Lulu top and a Shaco.

Nice! I was 7-3 as well and ended up Silver 5.
 
yo relax. I just said one champion was potentially getting stronger while the other seems to constantly be getting nerfed. if you can't see the value of a 25 mr burn i don't know what to say. good for your team, more viable item paths for attack speed champs that desperately need options. it is a bigger deal that you are making it out to be. it will also give more magic resist, and it isn't more expensive, it's cheaper on the pbe. the cost doesn't matter, it's still in flux. you are getting way more for your gold either way.

your indignation is unbearable.

you gave me a snarky reply, what did you expect? And my point was not that it's not a buff to the item, it was that it's not a significant buff to Irelia as a champion. The team might benefit from it, but she doesn't benefit from the changes all that much at all. And it is more expensive. It's now 2300, up from 2200. You're paying 100 extra gold for 2% extra attack speed and 5 MR. My point was that Irelia isn't going to use the shred part of the steal much at all.

Your condescending tone is equally unbearable, and you're condescending far more often than I'm indignant.
 

Tomas

Banned
Well... There is still hope, maybe I can reclaim my Diamond IV status this month. I had 0 points yesterday :) That last Shyvana game was kind of unsuccessful...
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brian!

Member
ayo im gonna blog dis documentary at you guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VhWMFADkXVo

ep. 1
like whereas tsm is on some meta reality tv shit, clg goes full on bro intellectual sundance channel documentary
i actually don't have much to say about this episode, like they are trying to create this history but they kinda move on really quick. actually, compared to game cribs where you can kinda jump in even if you don't know much about this game (lots of tedious and selective recapping for example), this documentary kinda assumes some background knowledge from the viewer i think

this seems more stereotypically "sporty" so far, slow motion hugz etc.

oh and there is a shit ton of product placement but not in a hammy way like tsm does it

actually, instead of expecting knowledge from the viewer it might be that clg just wants to craft a story, something that doesn't include saint or xhazzard or kobe in a significant way
like obviously there is a big difference between a serialized "reality tv" show and an episodic documentary
i dunno now I watch ep. 2
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ep.2
the closeups of voyboy + "voyboy <3 so cute", pretty gud
actually I've always been interested in what went down in korea. for me there wasn't a lot to go on really. I mean I wasn't really following this stuff back then and I was hardly playing the game, what I mean is that it wasn't like casually accessible

when they came back, as far as I remember, they were kinda tight lipped. in public forums like reddit or chau ama there would be, like for MONTHS, questions like "do you think you wasted your time in korea" or "weren't you guys supposed to blow away NA when you came back" stuff like that and they would never get answered in a satisfactory manner. no one wants to say they wasted their time and money for nothing, that's mainly what I got out of it, but there was also this little burgeoning notion that they definitely learned something meaningful and just hadn't found a way to implement it in NA or something. da clg mystique tho. I kinda still view them that way, even though like objectively they have been doing consistently poorly.

i mean its really interesting how this clg vs. tsm thing endures even though they are really different teams now

but, as kinda foreshadowed by the previous episode, there wasn't any secret information in this korea episode. chauster admits that they wasted their time, but everyone kinda knew that already. its kinda interesting that I want or expect there to be more

kelby keeps appearing and master narrating but they don't really tell us who he is and why he is stalking all of them
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ep.3: iz hard 2 even speak on this team

hory shit dis shit got dark

so this episode is kinda what I was looking for, it starts getting good when kelby says "they're just doing this for the money" and there is this image of hotshot google image searching some watches

this whole section is really good, especially when kelby says "missed out" and you see hotshot zonked out in bed by himself. it also gives more insight about how shitty the korea decision was. like I don't know shit about own3d contracts so im making dat assumption that if clg hadn't left na, hadn't given all that na popularity to TSM (who now regularly pull 10k viewers through oddone dyrus and wild turtle), that clg would be much better off now both mentally and financially. I don't really remember what the numbers were like when own3d was around though, I was either not watching or not paying attention at the time.

serious discussion in da arcade, pretty funny like it kind of sums up e-sports for me. I still have a really really hard time taking the idea of video game sports seriously, but I know a lot of people into this game don't. anyway, its kinda fun that hotshot makes an excellent point so the team does the opposite, and I really like this whole dbl + chauster vs. the rest of clg thing brewing; doublelift really really worships chauster (and himself) and chauster worships himself. there is actually this idea throughout na that if you can only win if you think you are the best, like you can clearly see that dbl and chauster hardly ever talk about bettering themselves and like public opinion seems to kinda sway around on this environment they created. so dbl will have these really great plays and it'll be all "look he was right all along" or he'll play badly and people call him arrogant. na is definitely changing though, like dyrus is often called "consistent" because he just started playing smarter and a lot of the immovableness from these players is missing now.
it's not even that they aren't hyphy for the drama, it's that the memory of the hyphyness lingers, like the drama is intensified because it looks like they are maturing

doublelift says that jiji not living at the house is a big problem, but chauster consistently says that its not a problem at all in amas and stuff. jiji is living there now, g00dbye kitties and gf :(

dis explosions in the sky ive come to a realization stuff is so cheesy though, i dunno what my stance on that is because I really like cheesy hokey shit, but this might be too much. i guess I should also mention the plethora of dubsteb frag vids in this documentary, but I don't really have anything to say about these things right now I just notice them

they give doe eyed aphromoo and chimpy link the "next time on clg docu" space, something they didnt really give voy or saint or kobe. I kinda wonder about the lack of a single voyboy or saint interview. like when they said that the documentary was made inhouse I didn't know they meant actually inside the house without leaving the house.

where da fuk is loco (mebbe clg just wanted to avoid the child porn lawsuit possibility)
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ep.4

calling the last episode "a new hope" fits in the sense that, at least from what I've seen, the lol esports scene's longevity kinda depends on this active constant remaking. for me NA will always be in the spotlight, it's just more accessible and more interesting. I want to say things like I can get at NA league drama more easily than korea league, or that the NA players are easier to characterize but I mean I'm in NA. I do wonder what it's like to experience this kind of thing in korea or in eu or whatever, but whatever this is what I have and I like it a lot. it's incredibly predictable that the documentary wins with a victory promise, like it makes me think that through all these changes nothing has changed, but part of clg's appeal at the moment is their tendency to make all these major changes to little effect, and this feeling that maybe one of these changes will stick maybe they found the secret ingredient, etc.

fans of doublelift's signature vacant stare will like the scene that starts ~7 min

nientonsoh and jiji muted, signifying that communication errors will continue

i didnt realize nientonsoh was basically seth rogen

OMFG THESE BLOOPERS BASICALLY SAY THAT THE WHOLE THING WAS LIE, AMAZING
like truly tsm level meta shit, they dropped da bomb on me with hotshot pretending to be in bed
maybe I'm putting too much on this because I pointed out the juxtaposition of zonked out hotshot before
but it really elevated the whole thing for me, I mean episode 3 was pretty good but a lot of the documentary was cheesy high peaks low valleys stuff.

I mean that's not necessarily a bad thing and it contrasts well with the content TSM puts out (cuz u kno, TSM and CLG are black and white but they are part of the same cookie)

music was not done by kelby as bind conjectured, but that idea made watching the whole thing really funny
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in conclusion:
this was a pretty good addition to the crazy spectacle that league/esports is becoming and has become. that's always how I have taken all of this, I am witnessing this hot mess little birdy coming out of egg burgeoning wtf real life shit and it's crazy and new and good. like tsm is #1 for me precisely because of their eagerness to kinda dive into that idea (and it's really suitable that clg puts something out after tsm does, w/ this whole narrative of tsm always managing to be a little ahead of clg). but i dunno I guess I feel like the trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCMv24Z_9tQ) promised more. I guess that's what trailers do though, but I wonder about all that other footage.

part of my excitement about all this is like the importance of diy shit in making this stuff exist, like obviously tsm and clg have partnered with corporations on their respective things (the documentary was made by 16 people, sponsored(?) by machinima; but I mean TSM and CLG are companies now anyway), but league has spawned a lot of people creating their own content. and then it's made followable because they all mostly in conversation with each other, like halo frag video are NOT in conversation with each other but something can happen "in" league and it's talked about and responded to.

and now I realize how cool it is that a lot of voices are cut out from the documentary because clg is always shouting and arguing over each other, and that the main voices are the loudest, Hotshot, Doublelift, and Chauster. some real ouroboros shit
 

zkylon

zkylewd
ayo im gonna blog dis documentary at you guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VhWMFADkXVo

ep. 1
like whereas tsm is on some meta reality tv shit, clg goes full on bro intellectual sundance channel documentary
i actually don't have much to say about this episode, like they are trying to create this history but they kinda move on really quick. actually, compared to game cribs where you can kinda jump in even if you don't know much about this game (lots of tedious and selective recapping for example), this documentary kinda assumes some background knowledge from the viewer i think

this seems more stereotypically "sporty" so far, slow motion hugz etc.

oh and there is a shit ton of product placement but not in a hammy way like tsm does it

actually, instead of expecting knowledge from the viewer it might be that clg just wants to craft a story, something that doesn't include saint or xhazzard or kobe in a significant way
like obviously there is a big difference between a serialized "reality tv" show and an episodic documentary
i dunno now I watch ep. 2

ep.2
the closeups of voyboy + "voyboy <3 so cute", pretty gud
actually I've always been interested in what went down in korea. for me there wasn't a lot to go on really. I mean I wasn't really following this stuff back then and I was hardly playing the game, what I mean is that it wasn't like casually accessible

when they came back, as far as I remember, they were kinda tight lipped. in public forums like reddit or chau ama there would be, like for MONTHS, questions like "do you think you wasted your time in korea" or "weren't you guys supposed to blow away NA when you came back" stuff like that and they would never get answered in a satisfactory manner. no one wants to say they wasted their time and money for nothing, that's mainly what I got out of it, but there was also this little burgeoning notion that they definitely learned something meaningful and just hadn't found a way to implement it in NA or something. da clg mystique tho. I kinda still view them that way, even though like objectively they have been doing consistently poorly.

i mean its really interesting how this clg vs. tsm thing endures even though they are really different teams now

but, as kinda foreshadowed by the previous episode, there wasn't any secret information in this korea episode. chauster admits that they wasted their time, but everyone kinda knew that already. its kinda interesting that I want or expect there to be more

kelby keeps appearing and master narrating but they don't really tell us who he is and why he is stalking all of them
I wish I hadn't beaten dust and kr0 already and had something to play instead of watching this...
 

zkylon

zkylewd
well miss smurfeando wasn't really challenger material (at least she was nice but really couldn't even win her lane against a lux and didn't even have a skin wtf) and we lost because rammus kept engaging in the deepest end of the enemy jungle while bitching about everyone being noobs. I messed up a couple times in mid-late game but it was such a throw, we just had gotten bot, drag and 3 kills bot, we had it...

got dumped in silver 3. I dunno how pankaks does it, I can't carry shit from support, nobody ever listens to me...

anywho, highest I've ever been :)

also excerpt from the match (translation in bold):
NiMH Bi0S (Katarina): gente dudes
Gatonito (Wukong): wea gay wn random chilean stuff about being gay I suppose?
NiMH Bi0S (Katarina): estoy muy drogado perdon DRUGGGSSSSSSSSSSS
SuperChalito (Rammus): yo vivo drogado DRUGGGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSSS
latam south is all corgi land
 
So...
when I used to play at this hour in NA, I got really good matches... it seems in LAN this is "troll time", or may it be because is weekend?

I said it because I just played a game with Ahri, everything was fine, everybody got their lane, and the game started, some trash-talk from both sides in all chat since our Twitch played with some of the other team in his previous game, suddenly they got first blood, killing our Twitch, he complains a bit, and tell what to do to our Alistar, but he said he was going to do what he wanted and went to cover top, since btw our Darious was afk (I didn't pay attetion to him, he got level 3 without farming, I don't know what he was doing, except that he was afk), so our Twitch said in all chat "noob team, gg, bye" and leaves. Then Xin helps me with a gank and I killed the enemy Diana, he went top to help Alistar, both of them died, Alistar complains and leaves, then Darius leave, and lastly our Xin who was crossing mid to go for our wraiths said in all chat "gg" and leaves.

Effectively, leaving me in a 5v1 situation.

I did what I could, since it was very early in the game, so I knew the towers would resist a bit, I poked Diana, and got another kill on her, (she had blue buff) I went and 'ganked' bot, got a double kill because they tried to 'tank' the tower so they were half their health (a Lulu and Vayne). Recalled, and the game continued, I got homeguard, so I was able to take care of mid, and when they were trying to get another tower in bot, I recalled (I had homeguard) killed them, recalled, went mid. And repeated the process. Eventually I lost top, and bot, and mid, even although I was able to kill them almost always, they splitpushed and when I took care of bot they took the top-inhibitor, until they got the three inhibitors, they tried to do a last push, I stayed under tower, and somehow killed 2 of them, 2 ran away, and the udyr chased me into my fountain lol.

I already knew I had already lost when they took my last inhibitor, since as Ahri is quite difficult to kill super-minions... and exactly that was how I lost.

So, yeah. Minions op.

I just told a friend about this game, and he said "Of course you were going to lose, you were playing against that Hecarim, a TSM player."
 

zkylon

zkylewd
rofl what the hell

and you got 19 kills?

that's hilarious

edit:
conformate con lo obvio de culoroto que tiene el equipo contrario

edit2: vayne with hurricane... dear lord please remove that item from the game

edit3: also just played a similar aram thing, all my teammates were lagging. it was pretty ridiculous
 
rofl what the hell

and you got 19 kills?

that's hilarious

edit:
conformate con lo obvio de culoroto que tiene el equipo contrario

edit2: vayne with hurricane... dear lord please remove that item from the game

edit3: also just played a similar aram thing, all my teammates were lagging. it was pretty ridiculous

Unlike my team, I didn't say a thing in all chat. So they thought my team was just afk, since they were "talking" with my team, and waiting for them to come back. For a while they didn't know I was the only one playing... until they noticed every time they tried to take a tower I pushed mid and recalled.

They were a bit cocky since I was the only one, Vayne tried to 1v1 me, and since I was like 6 levels ahead, I was able to burst her down, then Lulu, and so on. Their mistake was going alone. Or going in pairs and tower-diving me, or when it was all the team, only 1-2 were attacking me and the rest were destroying the tower, etc. They also gave me blue buff like 2 times.

And lol to that Vayne, she said in all chat that "she was sorry but unluckily for me she wasn't a noob, so she was going to push and win".
 
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