PhillipCostigan
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I said I was going for a walk like 25 minutes ago but I got caught up by Riot's money loving antics and Opiate's evil version antics
god dammit
god dammit
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League of Legends |OT7| She Ezreal To Me, Dammit!
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Stone Ocean
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Well that's what you get for playing Dominion
Thanks all for your replies!
I got to try Ahri once, with some friends on 3v3 (we were 6 of us), and it felt quite some fun! My problem with last hitting as mage is that I want to be conservative on abilities and just use autos. I was trying to practice using this guide that I found on reddit (which helped enough on CSing as ADC and Thresh). Just sometimes I get worked over missing CS @_@.
I have never tried it but seems fairly easy? Idk, I just find her really ugly. .__.
I guess I'll start saving for Riven/Ahri! I got to try Katarina when it was free on the last rotation, and I really sucked at her on a couple of ARAMs (a friend told me I was interrupting the ult, as well!). I'm actually eager to try other lanes, but I'm kinda scared that I will feed or something. ._. I guess having leveled 1 to 29 almost only as support wasn't that great of an idea!
I got to try Ahri once, with some friends on 3v3 (we were 6 of us), and it felt quite some fun! My problem with last hitting as mage is that I want to be conservative on abilities and just use autos. I was trying to practice using this guide that I found on reddit (which helped enough on CSing as ADC and Thresh). Just sometimes I get worked over missing CS @_@.
I have never tried it but seems fairly easy? Idk, I just find her really ugly. .__.
I guess I'll start saving for Riven/Ahri! I got to try Katarina when it was free on the last rotation, and I really sucked at her on a couple of ARAMs (a friend told me I was interrupting the ult, as well!). I'm actually eager to try other lanes, but I'm kinda scared that I will feed or something. ._. I guess having leveled 1 to 29 almost only as support wasn't that great of an idea!
Don't be afraid to try new things in normal games. That's what they are there for. Mute is your friend.
Akali with the bloodmoon skin is the best Akali.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rRZH8-_zOE
If you get riven, expect to put a lot of time in on her. One of the most difficult champs to play well, and severally punishing if you don't.
So I just got an interesting email from "email.riotgames.com", which appears legit enough. Apparently they are introducing a new ranked tier alongside some changes to Challenger. Essentially, Challenger stays to be the best tier, and Masters will be a bit below Challenger but above Diamond 1.
yea i know what you mean, i get kind of frustrated on those games you seem to miss every fucking cs
about abilities, idk, to me if i have a full mana bar and ready cooldowns i feel like i'm wasting it, so i'll try to get some harass on or just push the lane so that i'm doing something to annoy the other player.
it's all practice, maybe don't jump from someone like ahri to fizz or you'll get your timings messed up but it's just timing you autos with minions and getting used to how much damage you deal (very little, around 10-15% minion hp) and just learning to prepare waves with spells/for spells.
but like if you're sitting on a full mana bar you're wasting stats, trade your mana for the other champion's and then last hit better so that you get mana back that they don't cos they're missing cs under turret like fools. a killing combo doesn't take 75% of your mana anyways
also i dunno why you would want to practice csing as thresh :I
i used to really like akali and then not anymore
like if you enjoy having a miserable laning experience until lvl 6 go ahead but there are many other champions i'd rather play than akali
This has nothing to do with queue times at all since only mmr, not position, affects it.
it just means challenger tier will be mostly pros since no one else actually plays competitively every day
i like the idea, specially since it'll take diamonds down a peg hehe
I'm just reading between the lines.
This is a lot of entirely cosmetic e-peen stuff that will simply have the net effect of encouraging people at that rank to grind games, which conveniently solves the problem of ridiculous queue times at Diamond/Challenger.
Pretty much this.
Orochinagis
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Welp Muse sona is tempting did that skin have something different?.
On paper it's trying to create a league that encourages people playing constantly at the top end. That they're constantly making progress. In addition, it removes the failsafes so you want to be constantly playing to keep the spot instead of grabbing it when needed at the end.
It will either promote a ton of play constantly to stay competitive (since the ladder can never be fully out of reach) or it'll stagnate as people wait it out and grind when it matters (which is unlikely, honestly, with how many people are involved and that it's a team game). We'll have to see how it pans out with the players though.
It will either promote a ton of play constantly to stay competitive (since the ladder can never be fully out of reach) or it'll stagnate as people wait it out and grind when it matters (which is unlikely, honestly, with how many people are involved and that it's a team game). We'll have to see how it pans out with the players though.
With this new system, if my understanding is correct, if you want to stay in Challenger, you need to keep grinding because everyone's MMR will be increasing at the same time. Since "Top 200" is relative it doesn't really matter how many people are "high mmr", or how good they are. If HotshotGG or your streamer-of-choice stopped playing after achieving Challenger, they're going to fall out eventually as weaker pub players push them out from the top by grinding more LP.
This is mostly conjecture based on how DOTA2's leaderboards panned out.
What actually happened there was:
1) Some pros aimed for the leaderboards, especially the ones with streams, because it's good PR
2) Most pros continued to scrim against other pros because ranked is meaningless for a lot of them
3) People at higher levels played more games in general, and played it in the most brutally efficient way possible in a bid to get to the top
I'm confident this same situation will reoccur in League, and will be significantly magnified because of the gigantic player base and only 200 spots to fight for. So, net result is just more games and lower queue times for the bracket that needed it the most.
Right, I get what you mean! Generally when I've had to deal with mid lane (and I tend to use Annie or Morgana in those cases), it's been versus ranked (silver or gold) due to my friends being at those elos as well, and it's been a terrible experience.
Practicing CS on Thresh was because with the Relic Shield I don't get the execute, and because of that, there's a chance to miss CS, and then ADC might get violent, particularly if I miss the cannon! @_@
I can see how could that happen! I've been watching some vids from BoxBox. It's pretty cool to see someone do crazy things with Riven!
Don't be afraid to try new things in normal games. That's what they are there for. Mute is your friend.
Akali with the bloodmoon skin is the best Akali.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rRZH8-_zOE
True of course! But I have lost already so many Normals, don't wanna sink down more haha. That skin looks cool actually.
Ok, Master Tier looks pretty cool. No player caps and keeps pros on the top tiers.
Also Kingpin Twitch <3
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Also Kingpin Twitch <3
Now you will know true horror
Stone Ocean
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All I'm getting is leopard Nid
ok not bitter about bonus rp thing anymore since apparently they recently did a pretty decent rework of rp prices and basically you get 6150 rp for 32usd which is pretty decent
they also had a bonus rp promo a while ago but i didn't go for it cos you know, there was nothing to buy with it at the time.
really wish we just had the sales and ip boosts things at the same time as the rest of the world, it's kinda annoying
don't let yourself get pushed to turret, if you see enemy mid autoing minions start doing it as well so that wave's all nice even and reset in the middle.
they also had a bonus rp promo a while ago but i didn't go for it cos you know, there was nothing to buy with it at the time.
really wish we just had the sales and ip boosts things at the same time as the rest of the world, it's kinda annoying
this is how challenger works right now, tho it's not everyday so that might be it and you may be onto something
just make sure that cs > harass so like don't go for poking with autos or spells if it'll cost you cs (unless you're in a position of sending other mid back or whatever). just be cool and farm and watch your own minions so you can harass when they last hit or you can get a good lux e that kills a couple caster minions and also hits other mid
don't let yourself get pushed to turret, if you see enemy mid autoing minions start doing it as well so that wave's all nice even and reset in the middle.
i need a ping for "you should go facecheck that bush"
i've been wanting the gingerbread ward for SO LONG
Pretty much. Last year people "saved" their promos for challenger to get in and let the season end during their immunity from demotion.
why don't you just lay down your weapons now
strange you mention that, i've seen a recent resurgence of leona. she was in at least 3 of the 6 games panda and i played last night iirc when it's usually been nothing but morgana/nami
actually i almost never see thresh now that i think about it.
not seeing leona for such a long time makes you forget just how safe you have to play in lane against her in some matchups
Oh, these are very good tips
np
poor threshie
he deserves better
Nah. Screw Thresh.
Stone Ocean
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Rip bot
rip :<
Still seeing him in plenty of high elo streams. Still an amazing kit.
I've been banning Leona and Thresh virtually every time I get first pick in ranked, for months.
They may be terrible bans, but it is a little funny when it makes people scramble for alternate supports, and basically I ban them because I don't want to play against either of them, and I'm a rebel darnit. The other team often bans Braum to complete the mix.
They may be terrible bans, but it is a little funny when it makes people scramble for alternate supports, and basically I ban them because I don't want to play against either of them, and I'm a rebel darnit. The other team often bans Braum to complete the mix.
I don't ban Jax because the other team almost always bans him, and even if they don't, I almost always play top so I'll be playing against him if he's in game. Not to mention, since he's always banned, if the other team picks him, they probably haven't had much experience practicing Jax.
I'm sure there will be 1 out of every 50 games or so where I run into a Jax AND they're a good player, but so far that's been the least of my problems.
I'm sure there will be 1 out of every 50 games or so where I run into a Jax AND they're a good player, but so far that's been the least of my problems.
i dunno sounds to me like you're setting them up for a free win
yeah i know
i think the last batch of nerfs was a bit brutal and unneeded tbh. like i agree that utility should be the number one thing specially for threshie but they took out a lot of damage and a lot of shields in one go
like always i prefer measured rito when it comes to champion nerfs and buffs and crazy rito on items and general game balance
You play Halo??
Orochinagis
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i dunno sounds to me like you're setting them up for a free win
Water rabbit
These are the worst bans.
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