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League of Legends |OT7| She Ezreal To Me, Dammit!
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Ghost is Bad
Banned
this isnt even my final form.
Orochinagis
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So thats why she can spam that annoying R.....
Kotetsu534
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Unless you are playing in challenger (i.e. with teams full of pros on each side) any champion can be effective if played correctly. But some champions require learning play patterns that are essentially unique (e.g. Shaco, Sion, Poppy, Yi), so to master them requires a lot more effort than becoming competent with, say, Corki, when you're already a strong Lucian. It also requires doing things that might annoy your teammates (e.g. playing a farm and splitpush-centric style as Jungle Yi) and possibly making your team lack things they would expect someone in your position to provide.
Guys, please don't play Katarina and get her more popular and draw her a nerf. Ok, thanks.
Katarina is hands down the most fun champ to play, but she's a true glass cannon. You have to make every single engage with care, otherwise you'll just get cc'd and rendered irrelevant in fights. I don't know how to give good tips, as I feel so much of what you do with Katarina is based on instinct and a lot of learned reaction. I can think of a few very basic tips though.
- Max Q first, E last
- Use her E to help you CS more safely. You don't have the easiest time getting CS with Kat, so you have to do a lot of Q, W, auto, and escape out with E combos.
- Bait stuff out. More than any other champ I can think of, you really have to bait out the stuns, slows, and interrupts before engaging.
- Get mobile. I think the best start for Katarina is Boots and 4 health pots. Being mobile really helps you to CS better early on. Upgrade her boots early so you can get a nice power spike and roam.
- If you're noticeably ahead on farm, start with DFG, kill your lane, and roam. If you're behind or struggling with CS, consider Haunting Guise first to make CS a lot easier.
- As tempting as it is, you need to wait to jump in on team fights until the CC has been burnt. You'll clean up if you can wait. Also, right after popping your ult, use Zhonya's. Your team should get a kill or two, giving you an assist to give you resets. You can either continue the engage or get out easily with her E.
- DON'T FORGET THAT YOU CAN E TO WARDS, INCLUDING THE TRINKET
- If you do nothing else, just blow up their ADC or mage in the team fight. If you're going to die when you go in, take one of them with you and your team will benefit hugely from it.
- Get a Guardian Angel late game and between the initial engage, Zhonya's, and then GA, you'll probably get to ult twice per team fight.
Oh, and you should never chase through the jungle, but Katarina is actually pretty good at it. But still, don't do it.
Katarina is hands down the most fun champ to play, but she's a true glass cannon. You have to make every single engage with care, otherwise you'll just get cc'd and rendered irrelevant in fights. I don't know how to give good tips, as I feel so much of what you do with Katarina is based on instinct and a lot of learned reaction. I can think of a few very basic tips though.
- Max Q first, E last
- Use her E to help you CS more safely. You don't have the easiest time getting CS with Kat, so you have to do a lot of Q, W, auto, and escape out with E combos.
- Bait stuff out. More than any other champ I can think of, you really have to bait out the stuns, slows, and interrupts before engaging.
- Get mobile. I think the best start for Katarina is Boots and 4 health pots. Being mobile really helps you to CS better early on. Upgrade her boots early so you can get a nice power spike and roam.
- If you're noticeably ahead on farm, start with DFG, kill your lane, and roam. If you're behind or struggling with CS, consider Haunting Guise first to make CS a lot easier.
- As tempting as it is, you need to wait to jump in on team fights until the CC has been burnt. You'll clean up if you can wait. Also, right after popping your ult, use Zhonya's. Your team should get a kill or two, giving you an assist to give you resets. You can either continue the engage or get out easily with her E.
- DON'T FORGET THAT YOU CAN E TO WARDS, INCLUDING THE TRINKET
- If you do nothing else, just blow up their ADC or mage in the team fight. If you're going to die when you go in, take one of them with you and your team will benefit hugely from it.
- Get a Guardian Angel late game and between the initial engage, Zhonya's, and then GA, you'll probably get to ult twice per team fight.
Oh, and you should never chase through the jungle, but Katarina is actually pretty good at it. But still, don't do it.
Corki is basically the same as Lucian?
Rude :/
Schmattakopf
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I promise he is literally the only one who does anything even remotely close to that.
I haven't mentioned anything because I didn't want to Jinx my Ryze, but I'm Silver 2. Just promoted on Saturday. Didn't play yesterday, but should be back on it tonight, hoping to get to Silver 1 soon. The dream for Gold is real, but I'm sure I'll hit some terrible wall at Silver 1 and have to slog through it for a while.
Still better than 0 communication though :/.
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
Are the gaf group games randomly happen or do we have like a specific time where we play together?
I'd like to join the fun that is ghostisbad.
I'd like to join the fun that is ghostisbad.
Stone Ocean
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I'm scared to know how bad my Veigar is
I started spectateing late but you got event horizon level 1 gg
You probably got it to save newt
Lone_Prodigy
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I read somewhere that maxing W first is better on Kat because you get the faster movement speed for mobility, but Q is definitely a safer farming skill.
Every Kat game for me goes one of two ways:
1. I get a few early kills, they start focusing me in every fight and I become irrelevant.
2. I start slow and don't do much, they ignore me and I wreck late-game. If the game isn't over by then see #1.
Every Kat game for me goes one of two ways:
1. I get a few early kills, they start focusing me in every fight and I become irrelevant.
2. I start slow and don't do much, they ignore me and I wreck late-game. If the game isn't over by then see #1.
Stone Ocean
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We were going to invade, it was supposed to stunlock whoever got Blitz'd
Wolf Akela
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3 pinks. I'm in Elo heaven.
He has push to talk.
In case #1, you should get that DFG and Zhonya's. Try to jump into the fight late. Either they'll be holding onto their CC while your team hits them with theirs or they'll burn it and you can clean up late. The Zhonya's buys time for your team to hit them while they wait out the active. It's just about timing your engages.
In case #2, get the Haunting Guise ahead of DFG and catch up on CS or roam and help the other lanes snowball.
If Katarina is in a match, either she should be snowballing hard or the other two lanes should, because she's a monster when she roams. You can also really help your jungler by catching out the enemy jungler when they try to take buffs.
Edit: Don't max Q first. If you're worried about leaving it behind, alternate Q and W. I used to do that, and it's pretty decent, but I think you get way better CS by making Q first.
3 pinks. I'm in Elo heaven.
That's the best part about worlds. Everyone starts to ward in solo queue.
Actually, tbh I've been playing a lot better over the last week. I think it has a lot to do with watching 6 straight hours of matches each day.
Dreams-Visions
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Hate leads to anger... anger leads to suffering... suffering leads to... uh, I dunno, but I think ghost was mad
After he went 0-4, fiddle told us that it was his first time playing fiddle ever... so he tries it out in ranked.
............oh.
I have to agree with that, also I kinda force myself to look at the map while on their matches, which enforces the habit of doing it every couple of seconds!
Yea absolutely. I noticed my positioning in teamfights being better as well.
Hate leads to anger... anger leads to suffering... suffering leads to... uh, I dunno, but I think ghost was mad
After he went 0-4, fiddle told us that it was his first time playing fiddle ever... so he tries it out in ranked.
111 cs at 24 minutes? gg
hue
Mid Swain is fine. Do you mean he didn't tank in the sense of initiating or in the sense of building tank? Swain should build Rod/Zhonya's/maybe Scepter, but he still needs a lot of AP to do his job. He's a mage, after all.
Tizoc
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He built Rabadon and Hextech Revolver.
This were his items when we lost. Even I know you tank with swain and I don't even use him.
Schmattakopf
Member
I don't think negative communication is better than no communication. And not just screaming like a toddler, but there's that passive-aggressive thing that people do and it's like, why even say anything. Vent your frustration off-mic.
Ugh, that sounds terrible (though I have wanted to screw around with hybrid Swain).
In most cases, I go Rod of Ages, Zhonya's, Sorc Shoes, Rylai's, Liandry's and either Spirit Visage or Void Staff depending on the other team. Even with just ~400 AP, the full combo will melt the other carries while still being able to soak up a bunch of damage.
Eh, I'm sure this is all cherry picked for high comedy. I never rage at people while playing, but I doubt that Ghost is going 100% RAGE 100% of the time.
SteveWinwood
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man im so glad that league doesnt have in game voice chat
the players are just so toxic
the players are just so toxic
Orochinagis
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Our zed went crazy about how he was killing the enemy team, then pushed too far on his line and got wrecked several times feeding the enemy tristana and mid so of course our Zed tried to push his line again and again. making the enemy tristana overcome him and destroy all the lines
Wait.. league voice chat or League of Legends |OT7| She Ezreal To Me, Dammit!
I still have it. I don't use it much now, but I used to find ppl every game to chat with.
Word, playing more normals with random people has made me really dislike this game again. Destiny ruined everything.
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Tizoc
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AND IN THIS FOURTH GAME I GET A FUCKING ANNIE WHO DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO PLAY FOR SHIT!
Messed up our Vayne and my jungling. Didn't help that we had a mid Trista against a Morgana, I tred to swerve around her make her miss her 1 year stun (nerf that ish rito), but even that didn't help.
I neded up with feral flare, Magic resist boots and was just building randuin.
Our Nasus did OK up til he got illed by Lucian again and again :V
Eff this I'm hittin' up aram and regular matches, then jumping into FF4 @3@
I seem to be 600 IP shy of getting Swain, I'll just eff it and get him.
Messed up our Vayne and my jungling. Didn't help that we had a mid Trista against a Morgana, I tred to swerve around her make her miss her 1 year stun (nerf that ish rito), but even that didn't help.
I neded up with feral flare, Magic resist boots and was just building randuin.
Our Nasus did OK up til he got illed by Lucian again and again :V
Eff this I'm hittin' up aram and regular matches, then jumping into FF4 @3@
I seem to be 600 IP shy of getting Swain, I'll just eff it and get him.
Ghost is Bad
Banned
Saying "Why?" puts people on insta-tilt in my experience.
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
That, for some reason, makes players just throw the game out the window in my experience in league.
Also never respond to why? From an ally for your item builds. It will just piss them off more.
Good choice. A lot of people play him top but I always go mid with him. Easier to get fed and roam off a squishy caster. He's a great pick against assassins too. IMO a fed Swain is the strongest champ in the entire game, at least in lower elo. You can easily 1v3 or 1v4. So easy to roam, too.
Yep. I used to get mad at teammates but I'm all about encouragement now.
Schmattakopf
Member
Ghost is Bad
Banned
its hard always being the positive "hey guys we can win with our team comp just let X farm for the next 10 minutes and give up some objs."
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