Wolf Akela
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I don't think I'd want any more Hecarim skins. Headless Hecarim is already freaking great. One of my most favorite non-joke skins.
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League of Legends |OT7| She Ezreal To Me, Dammit!
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Wouldn't be the first time *coughUDYRcough*
Nah, you found the solution
PhillipCostigan
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Kotetsu534
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I expect the Ultimate skin to be a mage (probably Lux) since they already did a jungler-bruiser and an AD carry. I think they would want to appeal to a different part of the playerbase with it.
There are some games that it's just worth dodging and not risking the MMR. I'd rather lose 3 LP than MMR.
Tizoc
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How can u check if a player on ur team is silver or bronze?
Lolking, op.gg, etc.
Rank isn't as important to me in champ select as attitude is. If the team is already infighting or someone is blatantly trolling, it's worth the time penalty and LP to dodge. The MMR matchmaking for ranked is pretty good.
Kotetsu534
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You can also have an MMR that's significantly higher (or lower) than your rank. When I was in high Silver I was frequently being placed with mid Golds and would occasionally get "that guy" who raged in champ select at me for being lower ranked. The queue is based on MMR, not your divisions.
Yes, that is true, the one exception being duos (low bronze + mid silver for example). Personally, I never look up leagues/divisions in champ select anymore.
EU LCS Summer Split Playoffs - Quarterfinals
(4) SK Gaming vs (5) Millenium
Best of 5 Series
Followed by:
EU Challenger Series Summer Playoffs - FINALS
H2K Gaming vs SK Gaming Prime
Best of 5 Series
Approx:
Please use the LCS thread for further discussion. Let's keep this thread spoiler free.
(4) SK Gaming vs (5) Millenium
Best of 5 Series
Followed by:
EU Challenger Series Summer Playoffs - FINALS
H2K Gaming vs SK Gaming Prime
Best of 5 Series
Approx:
Please use the LCS thread for further discussion. Let's keep this thread spoiler free.
Do you get less IP if either side surrenders or is it purely time based? I feel like whenever one team surrenders I get almost no IP, but it also seems to randomly get huge boosts independent of the daily first win bonus. Like sometimes I get 50, others more like 200/300, and I can't figure out why.
Also has anyone tried Strife? It sounds like its somewhere between league and dota (I don't enjoy dots but not sure why...) which could be cool, and i dig the art style.
Also has anyone tried Strife? It sounds like its somewhere between league and dota (I don't enjoy dots but not sure why...) which could be cool, and i dig the art style.
Strife is probably my favorite of the alt-MOBAs. I want to give Dawngate a try as well. I have it installed but no gaming time.
Tizoc
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Just lost a game where I was Top Quinn.
Our Twitch Built Statik Shiv and apparently was building towards R. Hurricane, by then we lost our Nexus.
I played a prior game as Quinn which I won thanks to our Jungler Vi helping me out, plus our Zed helped me carry when our Draven was...trashy.
Our Twitch Built Statik Shiv and apparently was building towards R. Hurricane, by then we lost our Nexus.
I played a prior game as Quinn which I won thanks to our Jungler Vi helping me out, plus our Zed helped me carry when our Draven was...trashy.
cool, i'll give it a try later I think, theres a few thousand keys on their reddit page so I grabbed one.
Lots of people are struggling with her right now. It's tough to deal with the damage output in lane. Luckily she's not picked too often in games I play, but yeah, she's sort of a handful.
Whifflebat
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I just started playing LoL this past week or so. I'm at level 7 and really enjoying it. I dabbled a little in DOTA2, but found it too overwealming. LoL seems to be a better fit for me. I bought Garen, Ashe and Soraka to have a variety in types of Champions and am starting to get a good feel for things. I think I have most of the beginner tips under control: stay behind minions, ward, spend gold, etc. I'm usually not sure what lane or role I should play when a game starts. I assume this will come with experience with knowing all the champions and playing to those strengths and weaknesses. Any post-beginner tips and/or Champion recommendations?
Just keep at it. Sounds like you are on the right track and well on your way. The lanes and roles will come over time as you level up. Work on your last hitting to get the most gold possible.
Don't buy tier 2 runes. Only buy tier 1 runes if you want but start saving your IP around level 10-15 so when you hit 20 you can start getting Tier 3 runes. It'll give you quite the leg up.
Whifflebat
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Awesome, thx! Should I not buy anymore Champions with IP then and save it all for runes? I reckon I can fit in any team between Garen, Ashe and Soraka?
You will someday want a mid laner and a more focused jungler, but in normals you can play free champions. I'd recommend taking a few games every week to play champs out of the free rotation and see which ones you enjoy/are good with. Then you can pick those up over time and build up a stable.
I saved up about 15k IP for when I hit 20 and spent basically all of it immediately to get two full rune pages. Neither is perfect for every situation, but they are good enough to cover me for basically any character I want to play.
Ghost is Bad
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2nd lowest win rate in the game.Whyyyy did Riot buff Alistar
The Starter Pack is a good value, even though you already have Garen and Ashe. It's still an awesome deal and will cover all the roles for you and give you a few champs to experiment with. It's $5, and it's well worth it. You can buy it on the online store or you can get the cards to redeem codes at Walmart.
Still doesn't make him any less annoying to go against.
Leblanc was annoying to go against and also had a low winrate, look what happened to her.
I've asked this before and I think only one or two people ever responded -- what champions ARE fun to play against if you're losing? I realize you may not have been losing, but a lot of times people are unhappy when they're losing.
I like winning, and when I'm locked into something for 40 minutes, I'm probably not going to have much fun if I'm getting stomped, no matter who the champion is.
Blitzcrank is one of the few champions that I think is kind of funny (he's a robot that goes BEEP BEEP in his car mode and grabs people) such that even if he grabs you and you lose, you're entertained.
The nerfs hurt him a lot. Without free sustain he can't build AP as freely, and if he goes for mana regen or tankiness he doesn't do very much. If you look at emerging top laners the ones that go all as heavy duelists (like Nidalee) will crush him, and the ones looking to scale late like Ryze will just easily farm out the lane and do more than Gragas late. Then you have heavy sustain champs like Irelia and Maokai who also outscale Gragas and sustain better than him in lane.
Tizoc
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I belive ur talking about going into stealth while being damaged? Cuz it used to b 3 seconds, but i agree twitch dies in less than 5 seconds :v
It's never fun to be getting stomped in lane, but some champs just feel cheesy when it happens. If you lose to a Cho'Gath, it's pretty easy to feel like you just got outplayed because nothing in his kit is hugely table turning. Compare that with someone like Yasuo, where you can be significantly ahead, but he can run you right out of lane with a stupid dash, slash, tornado, and ult combo or you can stomp him in lane, but because he gets lucky and catches 2-3 people with his ult in a team fight he gets fed hard immediately and is a problem.
Other champs feel like if you get behind, just a bit, that the door to comeback is slammed shut. If Leblanc gets ahead of you, you're in big trouble. Tristana too. Going back to Yasuo, he's a lot like this. If he gets too much ahead, forget it, you're done. Now imagine if you're ahead, but he gets a lucky combo off on you or some teammates and crosses that "oh crap, he's ahead" line and snowballs. It's maddening. I hate easily winning a lane against a Tristana and then she starts catching some people out and next thing you know you can't fight her with any hope of winning.
Now, I'm not calling any of that exactly problematic, but it's annoying. You feel like at some point a flaw in the balance shuts you down. Yeah, all those things are avoidable, but at these lower ELOs, so much gets taken out of your hands because you have one or two guys that just love to face check bushes or wander off alone.
Ah yeah, I forgot about the Drunken Rage nerf. Pretty hard slap they gave him.
No te preocupes. Yo lo entiendo.
His Q only doing 70% damage to minions is pretty shitty, probably just as or even more harsh than putting a mana cost on his W. Getting another Doran's Ring and a Mana Crystal (Catalyst if you waited or did really well in early game) on your first back should make the rest of the laning phase a little more manageable. Obviously, you won't be spamming Q's but using them to harass here or there or get a couple caster minions. Because of the Q nerf, pushing out a lane is a lot harder and just a waste of mana.
I don't see his 'normal' build changing at all. RoA, Lich, Deathcap/Void (if needed) will still be his build.
Here's a wiki excerpt on IP gains
Edit: on the topic of champs who are fun when you're against them, I feel like Ahri is fun to play against. She's dependent on her Charm landing to burst you which can easily be dodged. Other champs like Lux who are dependent on their skillshot CC to burst you are pretty fun too.
Rod of Ages, survive early when he's weak in lane, and wreck face late.
I dunno. Ahri, brand, irelia, trundle, jax, etc.
Row/archangels/FH/sorcs/void staff/situational.
i played this game yesterday
it's like a chimera of all dem awful champions together
and yea easy-to-outplay skillshot champions like lux you can deal with pretty ok even when losing. i wouldn't really say ahri since she'll just spirit rush into point blank range and get charms every time and 100-0 you with dfg. dfg nerf helped tho
As harsh as it is, I think it's fine. Riot wants him to be an AP bruiser, and him getting to safely farm with his Q kinda counters that. That's why they also put a mana cost on his W. There was nothing from preventing Gragas to W and Q from safety.
If you're going against a bully champ (ranged/Renekton/someone with a lot of poke), I would start with a Doran's Shield (MAYBE cloth armor and pots). If it's a relatively safer lane, someone you can kite back with your snare, I would get mana crystal and pots. On your first back, you want to get a Tear and start building towards your RoA (Catalyst first). From there, get Visage if you're up against a lot of AP champs, Frozen Heart against AD champs, just depends on who's doing most of the damage on the enemy team. If you need to carry for your team, get a Void Staff third item.
You want to stack your Tear as quickly as possible and if you get the chance to get free harass on your opponent, do it. Just try not to lose any CS in the process.
Also, getting the Biscuit mastery is pretty much a must for an easier time in lane. I think it's like 0/16/14 or 17/13 but get your biscuits, and put the rest in Defense.
For runes, you can go pretty defensive if you're against a lane bully, or else maybe get a couple mana quints, a movement speed quint, scaling health yellows, mana blues (MR blues if against ap bullies), and magic pen reds.
prodystopian
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Wow, I had no idea how low Shyv's win rate was.
I'm disappointed NLB finals won't have any English commentary. I'd love to watch that match in English.
I'm disappointed NLB finals won't have any English commentary. I'd love to watch that match in English.
Ghost is Bad
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skt t1k hype.
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