It is, especially when you consider locked-camera players, which are most impacted.
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League of Legends |OT6| My AP Mid Can't Be This Cute
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I'd rather go the TT/Dom route and have the map played left-right but that'll never happen because the corners would look ugly as balls (although the VU seemed like as good a time as any to take a look into that)
PhillipCostigan
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so how did you come to whatever conclusion you did?
The game's nowhere near as snowbally as it used to be.
In fact, the top team in Europe right now is a team that tends to be below average in lanes but wins through superior team fights and map rotations, and with lane swaps the game is far more about mid game than early game.
Watch the Korean games. Everything is about map rotations and tactics.
Your appraisal of the current meta is simply incorrect.
hmm then i'm confused as to why can't it all be solved with a camera fix in the sr vu :/
they're already redoing everything on the vu dood :/
Stone Ocean
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Because Summoner's Rift's assets are made to be seen only in the current camera angle.
Changing the camera would mean having to redo everything so they could be seen isometricaly.
Ah, you mean for the current VU. Probably because it would've taken far, far longer for this? I assume this has been in works for a long, long time.
yea i know, just saying what i guess everyone's thinking/hoping/expecting
i don't really start up games on purple saying "oh fuck imma lose" but i def feel like my chances are lower even if i've always played with an unlocked camera what with my obsession with skillshot champions and stuff
i don't really start up games on purple saying "oh fuck imma lose" but i def feel like my chances are lower even if i've always played with an unlocked camera what with my obsession with skillshot champions and stuff
Stone Ocean
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All I can think of in purple side is "thank God for no back ganks"
http://community.pbe.leagueoflegend...ures-feedback/n3dPnAaM-duo-queue-restrictions
from 4.10 on you can only queue with people one tier up or down (so like gold with silver and plat, etc.)
weird that they would use tiers and not mmr but i guess it's ok
yea i play mid dood, it's always back ganks all the fucking time
and side ganks
and lane ganks
:|
from 4.10 on you can only queue with people one tier up or down (so like gold with silver and plat, etc.)
weird that they would use tiers and not mmr but i guess it's ok
yea i play mid dood, it's always back ganks all the fucking time
and side ganks
and lane ganks
:|
Wtf, that's such a stupid idea. Need to get dimb to plat asap.
Euro scene is the worst.
Stone Ocean
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Fuck you plat players bringing bronze players into my games
Fuck all of you
PhillipCostigan
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also that's the challenger series, not the actual LCS
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hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Hurry Newt, carry me!
Get in line!
SteveWinwood
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It's relative. Compared to dota it could be more snowbally. Even if it's less than it used to be, it could still be snowbally, and compounding the issue of the map vision.
Snowballing as a term has a bad rap. If you have an advantage you should be able to use it and get more ahead. If it always hinged on a team fight we'd just play fighting games.
Stone Ocean
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MMR is abusable, or at least was. And it isn't that important anymore now that people can fall divisions.
MMR is also hidden, so using it for duos would force Riot to show it, which is something they obviously refuse.
Why does it make sense to discuss normal winrates and professional games at the same time in regards to the camera angle...?
The higher winrates of blue is symptomatic of something in solo queue yes, but in pro play, the fact that a team that has a choice of side often picks red shows that the 'camera angle' is much less of a factor than other side concerns.
And to see the dota players disagree on how snowbally league is and at the same time Haly saying that winning is purely numerical superiority doing yourself a huge intellectual disservice when you admit ignorance of the game.
The higher winrates of blue is symptomatic of something in solo queue yes, but in pro play, the fact that a team that has a choice of side often picks red shows that the 'camera angle' is much less of a factor than other side concerns.
And to see the dota players disagree on how snowbally league is and at the same time Haly saying that winning is purely numerical superiority doing yourself a huge intellectual disservice when you admit ignorance of the game.
Nah, it's fine as long as the duo has a synergy so that they gain something from duoing. If they do not they decrease their own chances of winning.
I hope this change doesn't encourage smurfing. I mean, it will, but I hope it's pretty rare.
I haven't paid attention to the competitive scene since Worlds, but unless there's been a dramatic change Blue/Purple win/loss ratios were even more lopsided than in solo queue.
SZGF said:
I haven't paid attention to the competitive scene since Worlds, but unless there's been a dramatic change Blue/Purple win/loss ratios were even more lopsided than in solo queue.
Win rates may seem lopsided if you view small sample spaces for any side
The fact that teams are willing to pick red side should speak enough of what they consider as factors for competitive play.
If you have two duos on a team, who does the other person duo with? Are 6-person or 4-person teams the answer?
Dreams-Visions
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no, it's too wide.
Worst feeling. I pretty much lose all hope when top is fed double buffs.
Dreams-Visions
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:333
Legato.Reborn-
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New SR looks great, can't wait.
Unrelated to the map itself, I wish Baron could do the spider TT web pull.
Unrelated to the map itself, I wish Baron could do the spider TT web pull.
Stone Ocean
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Legato.Reborn-
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the new ability stuff is in the dev blog:
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/features/dev-blog-updating-summoners-rift
SteveWinwood
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will the new map have a turtle tho
PhillipCostigan
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so what if I told you guys I'm a fan of the new Nidalee
Do you build her with flat AD?
Stone Ocean
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Welcome to the cancer club
PhillipCostigan
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no, a lot of raw AP and magic pen.
Her new gameplay loop is really fun and far more interactive than before.
Although despite the big round of nerfs she got today, she's still super strong.
That 700 range pounce on Hunted targets is insane.
Legato.Reborn-
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Thank you, I did not see this
If Baron can do the Spider pull I would be so happy
So so happy
Jokes, dude.
PhillipCostigan
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I know, I chose to ignore it.
Yup, much worse than mid IMO.
I love jayce, but Jesus Christ I want to gouge my eyes out going vs him. Same with Kayle >:|
Stone Ocean
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There's nothing worse than a double buff adc bot lane
Nothing
Nothing
PhillipCostigan
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man, the thread was going so well.
We got 3...ish decent pages this time!
We got 3...ish decent pages this time!
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