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League of Legends |OT4| No Country for Old Karma
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Sigismundo
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Hey, hey, there are genuinely people in the world that think someone like Twitch and Urgot are the best for new players.
Just trying to help.
It won't be quite as bad. When the Koreans took over NA WCS, Riot made it clear that LCS had more barriers in place to prevent that from happening (mainly, having to be residents in the region your competing in). So that would bar organizations like Axiom and LG-IM from sending their teams to NA.
Obviously, though, a U.S. organization like Quantic would be able to sign Korean players to compete in the LCS since they could sponsor residency. I'm sure the fact that Locodoco has been a resident before helps as well.
At any rate, I would love to have a few Korean teams come to NA and bring some more competition, so long as they aren't all Korean.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
I should save my rp for skins but I also want a new rune page
Consider that you have 1000 hp and 100 armor. You then have 2000 EHP against physical damage. If you buy 1000 more hp you will get 4000 EHP, while if you buy 100 more armor you will get 3000 EHP. It's always important to get both health and resistances, but resistances are cheaper than health since they aren't "as good" against everything, so to speak.
Getting loads of armor works great though, just don't forget to buy some hp as well.
I might start playing more ranked Sejuani jungle, it actually worked pretty well, and I felt like a team that had a rough start and a super toxic top laner still managed to come back. I had a horrifying vision of yet another loss with 1-2 enemy inhibs down, but thankfully I managed to coax everyone into following the boar lady around.
I mean, the Vayne would type "zzz" "challenger strat", but at least people semi-followed long enough for me to get both lanes pushing into the base so we could take the inhibitors with minion pressure.
Oh and the game ended after I ulted 3-4 people under their nexus tower. I AM HELPING.
I mean, the Vayne would type "zzz" "challenger strat", but at least people semi-followed long enough for me to get both lanes pushing into the base so we could take the inhibitors with minion pressure.
Oh and the game ended after I ulted 3-4 people under their nexus tower. I AM HELPING.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
Man people rage hard in this game.
Good find.
Here's the "making of" video.
The steampunk theme/floating camera might suggest it's got nothing to do with LOL.
Whenever a bruiser tries to jump you, imo.
Link them to the teamwork is op video
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
I warded the shit out of our bushes, and Teemo got mad when Xin and I immediately found him and killed him.
Only people with pure hatred play teemo.
Diprosalic
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still mad worlds begins on sunday. so inconsiderate.
yeah im not exactly sure why they would do dis
I'm going to be watching vods all day at work.
Sigismundo
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En masse firing of employees skipping work to go to Worlds during the week. Riot and companies working together.
"Teamwork OP"
"Teamwork OP"
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
Veigar is a hilarious amount of fun if you learn to 1 shot.
Hasphat'sAnts
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Eh, none of these guys are top tier Korean talent, and they haven't played on a top team in a long time. I hope they're good cuz that'll raise the level of play in NA in general, but I doubt it'll be like the WCS.
ilinfinityil
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first gaf post ever
i've been having the worst losing streak recently. i keep getting matched up with afk'ers or people who do stuff like play lucian AP. can't catch a break (5's btw)
i've been having the worst losing streak recently. i keep getting matched up with afk'ers or people who do stuff like play lucian AP. can't catch a break (5's btw)
PROGRAM_IX
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Lucian AP sounds almost legit...Nashor's Tooth, Lich Bane, max W? I must try this against bots.
It sucks when trolls do that in real games though. :/
Diprosalic
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bronze? it's a shit hole. always funny when a diamond player gets a bronze account and levels it to gold easily.
i have a much higher win rate in silver.
ilinfinityil
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only his w and ult scale with ap. his w isn't really useful unless you're kiting or in laning phase imo and his ult scales much better with ad+asp late game (think BT\BORK+PD+IE). all opinion though
here's the thing. i wouldve placed out of bronze, but during 2 of my first 10 ranked games, one guy on our team either dc'd or afk'd. and we were winning! like, at the inhibitors winning, compared to the other team who wasn't even at the inner turrets yet. but we ended up losing those games, so that was 2 losses that shouldn't have happened and now i'm stuck in bronze 1 (would've won 8 of my ranked placements instead of 6).
nah, norms. im not good enough for ranked - have too much school work to do to focus on bettering myself in a ranked sense. and i should expect nothing be taken seriously in norms but idk its just annoying that i only have time to play a norm or 2 a day and people just throw games
so can someone explain to me the end of seasons and the transition to the next season, and why being higher gold increases your chances of placing in gold immediately next season?
(I reached gold V and haven't touched ranked, just played stress free normal, practicing my top champions)
(I reached gold V and haven't touched ranked, just played stress free normal, practicing my top champions)
Well what I heard is that they don't fully reset your MMR. It's a soft reset that brings everyone a bit closer, but that's it. So if you have a Gold V level mmr right now, it will be easier to get gold next season.
ilinfinityil
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eh. i think he's good. my adc mains though are cait and varus
PhillipCostigan
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Lucian's pretty good actually.
PROGRAM_IX
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I find him grand, but you're more into ADCs than me. I assume you typoed in the second sentence?
I need to play him more and get comfortable. Still having a ton of fun with Quinn though, even though every good game with her ends up being a loss lately.
Mister Wilhelm
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Lucian is just slightly underpowered.
Honestly, Lucian's kit in a whole looks really good. He only has a few major issues that hold him down A LOT. His Q is probably the strongest q any ADC has, better than Draven's even, but that's only if you can land it. It's a targeted skillshot, that has a delay on it, that can only be used at autoattack range. This means a few things:I find him grand, but you're more into ADCs than me. I assume you typoed in the second sentence?
I need to play him more and get comfortable. Still having a ton of fun with Quinn though, even though every good game with her ends up being a loss lately.
1. If you're playing a poke ADC such as Ezreal or Caitlyn you're not going to win in terms of poke, since if you try to bank the shot off a minion they can simply side step it. You can try to maybe lead your shot but that sounds extremely inconsistent to me because it depends on your opponent running in a specific direction.
2. All-in ADCs such as Draven and Twitch are pretty much guaranteed to get damage on you, and if you miss your Q you're screwed because you lose the passive proc too.
3. The q has a pretty high mana cost, and he's very dependent on that ability.
His ult is also very lackluster. It's a channel that kinda of lacks the benefit that usual channel abilities give you. I realize it's main use is to get damage in while running away, but that gets outclassed by most ADCs who don't have that situational restriction.
His E is a really good ability, but it's kind of a trade off for having 0 cc.
Edit: Also that wasn't a typo, I'm pretty much saying that if you want to win a ranked game Lucian is a bad choice.
Lucian's Q is a little wonky. It needs to fire just a little faster if they want to keep the line attack on a target it has now.
His E has the same issue that many people with short dashes have. It's really hard to use effectively in getting over walls.
His ult is almost useless against any champion with a blink/dash/teleport/flash. It's just too narrow.
I really like him, but I just have some issues with his kit. But I think that's just me only having played him ten or so times.
His E has the same issue that many people with short dashes have. It's really hard to use effectively in getting over walls.
His ult is almost useless against any champion with a blink/dash/teleport/flash. It's just too narrow.
I really like him, but I just have some issues with his kit. But I think that's just me only having played him ten or so times.
The rune page bundle is a good value. I bought it and don't regret it. I actually want more pages now.
Newt pretty much covered it. What they did last season was a "soft" reset where they shift your MMR toward the base "1200" but it's not a completely wipe where everyone goes back to nothing. So when you do your placements you'll be placed with similar MMR people and when you complete your placements you'll be placed accordingly. If you're high gold now you'll have a better chance of being placed right into gold immediately because your MMR will start higher. Just don't tank those placements
Gold V will have a small edge but probably not much of one. I bet you'd have to finish 7-3 or better to get back to Gold. Maaaybe even 8-2.
Though they may change it all for S4. Never know. I'm almost certain they are going to change the way you can keep a tier forever despite your MMR.
You're really overselling how hard it is to land. You target someone and click. Or you target a minion in the line of fire and click. It has a .35s windup time but no travel time. Ezreal Q has a ~.05s cast time with a missile speed of 2000 so it takes roughly .5s to travel to max range. It could be a bit faster (~.25s) but, honestly, it's not as bad as people are making it out to be.
Edit: Granted, it's harder than Ezreal Q since the leading is based off a target as opposed to Ezreal Q having no restriction.
It's like Lissandra's Q shards. Her Q default range isn't that long (~725) but she gets it to nearly 900 with the shards. Line up the shot through minions and use it. It takes practice and is different but not really that hard.
Casting his Q gives you the passive proc, not landing it.
They'll probably limit just how far you can drop down. Something "reasonable" (e.g., Keep Gold V until you drop to Silver III range?) but at least make people need to keep their V placement.
PhillipCostigan
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How does his ult lose the benefits of other channel spells? It's better than other channel spells because it allows you to move. No other channel spell does that. :/
His Q's not hard to hit and you don't have to hit it to get the passive proc, just using it gives you the proc.
Only characters like Vayne and possibly Graves/Ezreal can avoid the Q by sidestepping. You need a very quick dash since it only has a 0.35 second cast time.
Lucians Q is harder to dodge if he uses a minion to hit you with it. Angular velocity an all that jazz
Need some help - I just discovered crystallise by Lindsey Stirling and it sounds really familiar to me - anybody have any idea why? Has it been intermission music for a lol tournament?
Need some help - I just discovered crystallise by Lindsey Stirling and it sounds really familiar to me - anybody have any idea why? Has it been intermission music for a lol tournament?
Mostly because it's one of the fastest spells from cast animation to damage trigger. I think that keeps getting ignored due to the whole cast time and targeting restriction. It's like, really fast guys. And leading it is really easy with typical anti-harass patterns being to place minions between the two ADCs which makes landing it fairly straightforward.
I don't think Crystallize was used itself but there's a lot of similar dubstep-y tracks used. Probably just that. Also, Lindsey's been my go-to recent "make me hate things less" playlist.
At Level 6, and it's getting buffed currently. At Level 11 and 16, it's a damage spike when used properly. And win rate isn't really that relevant of a number, especially before anyone has truly learned a champion. I mean, Draven had a low win rate for a long time.
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