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League of Legends |OT9| Stealing Abilities From Inferior MOBAs since 2009
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I miswrote, I didn't mean to imply that Giant's belt by itself gives him +40 damage on AAs, etc. but rather than buying one makes his brings his total bonus damage to that level. I definitely see the confusion going by my text, my bad.
My general point still stands, that investing in health with Tahm is tremendously cost effective.
SteveWinwood
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he's just using the riot approved practice method to try new thingsomg, someone on my team claims hes gonna run Garen mid. Another loss incoming I can feel it
And I already dodged out of a lobby earlier. dont want to dodge again hehe
there's many reasons why china and korea is better, bo3 is just one of them
That's fair enough, and maybe you can use W and Q (even with the 90 mana W cost) to poke some early game, but the damage thing I was thinking about was for teamfights.
Maybe a full / nearly full HP build Tahm does enough damage that a team will have to peel him, but otherwise I feel like he can sort of be ignored. I guess we'll see.
Lots do. Quas just played a shit ton of Tahm and tried all sorts of stuff on him (for the record he thinks Tahm is awful). It just depends on the streamer.
It might not be to the same extent, but pro players suffer the same sort of pressures every player does trying to go against the grain, even when they know a particular champion is good.
Just as an example, I remember in January watching a replay of Dyrus vs. Hecarim top. Dyrus went on and on about how much of a bully Hecarim top is, how much damage he outputs, his roaming potential, etc. all these benefits. And he spoke from experience as well, it wasn't his first time facing Hecarim. I don't know if he tried him, but he never brought him out in an official match. It took several more months before Hecarim saw pro play and he exploded, like every single pro knew what was up but they all waited for someone else to have the balls to pull him out in a competitive match.
Players I see with good success on Tahm do things lots of other players don't. More liberal use of the AoE portion of W levels 1-3, greater frequency of using the fishy proc to stun instead of devour (which I've noticed seems to have a higher success rate for ganks), using the ult as clean-up tool come late game...By himself he's actually moderately threatening (his damage as top and support but him in the rough ballpark of comparable champions, role wise) despite perceptions. But it's when he's with others that he shines, Devour+Righteous Glory to deliver a fed Irelia, Nasus, etc. right into the opposing team (think of this combo with Sterak's =) ) than backing off to peel for the carries is very dangerous.
I'm probably blinded by how much I love his visuals and general style, but I think the way the kit comes together is fantastic, just a matter of getting the numbers right.
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hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
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bring the lulu avatar back pls
Are there any particular players / streamers that you've seen have good success with him?
Vincent Alexander
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I'm last pick in Ranked game.
Me: Hey, I prefer mid or support. I can jungle too. ADC if I have to. God awful at top.
-Team leaves me Top-
Fast Forward 30 minutes
Team: Kayle Sucks! Report! REPORT! -FOAMING AT MOUTH ANGER-
Me: . . . .
Me: Hey, I prefer mid or support. I can jungle too. ADC if I have to. God awful at top.
-Team leaves me Top-
Fast Forward 30 minutes
Team: Kayle Sucks! Report! REPORT! -FOAMING AT MOUTH ANGER-
Me: . . . .
Surely it's an idea so silly it'll work miracles. I have faith.omg, someone on my team claims hes gonna run Garen mid. Another loss incoming I can feel it
And I already dodged out of a lobby earlier. dont want to dodge again hehe
BreezyLimbo
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Is not viable >_> Sometimes weird picks can work. Sometimes.
NCR Redslayer
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Tell that to kha mid vs brand.
Not any specific player unfortunately. Quas played him a ton if you want to hunt down his saved twitch streams. Quas doesn't much care for him even though he won something like ~65% of his games. I personally used leagueofgraphs to download Tahm replays from various Diamond+ players and just notice that trends pop up in games. This one game I viewed had Tahm rush a Frozen Mallet. It's hard to really figure out how much it was the item vs. the player since he was winning already, but that Tahm made Renekton's life a living hell.
Speaking of the devil, player my 2nd game as Tahm today, support again. 4/2/8, but still didn't feel confident in my play. There's times where I probably should have gone more aggressive during laning phase but it was outside my comfort zone. Had about ~8 or so key Devourer saves. A real good one happened when our Amumu tower dived for help us net a double kill bot. And ended tanking the shot that would have killed him. Really nice example of the cool stuff Tahm can do. Had another moment where I used my ult to cut off a retreat, ended up securing three kills for the ace.
Still need to put more time in, and after a few more games I gotta bring him top since I'm more interested in Tahm top than support.
phew just had the most exhausting ranked teams game
playing viky vs xerath is not much fun but made up for it by one shotting lucy every time he dashed forward from minute 30 onwards
our adc carried me and jungler stole baron
it was a 4k lead for them that we came back from but holy shit i'm exhausted after that
playing viky vs xerath is not much fun but made up for it by one shotting lucy every time he dashed forward from minute 30 onwards
our adc carried me and jungler stole baron
it was a 4k lead for them that we came back from but holy shit i'm exhausted after that
Which one?
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the slurping one.
Yeah I think our opponents were a bit scrubby. I know in my lane Miss Fortune fed us all night. she went like 1/12/1 or something. I think she just died on purpose honestly it was that bad
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Which one?
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Drinking soda lulu was the best
soda u should open up a patreon
edit: apparently' dead man's plate is straight up coming to sr
i never used it so w/e for me but for ppl that didn't play bmb it's
sounds like offensive version of randuins? makes sense since randuins is going more utility with the tank itemization changes
cool
edit: apparently' dead man's plate is straight up coming to sr
i never used it so w/e for me but for ppl that didn't play bmb it's
sounds like offensive version of randuins? makes sense since randuins is going more utility with the tank itemization changes
cool
BreezyLimbo
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BRUISER ITEM
Dude in eu challenger series def got 2 upgrades in a reasonable amount of time and maybe got the 3rd one? Idk i didn't watch the whole game
BreezyLimbo
Banned
i duno why i said offensive version of randuins, for some reason i thought i'd seen warden's mail in its build path
it's just a tanky bruiser item overall, nothing to do with randuins
also i feel like the build path might be a little annoying? 1000g for the upgrade is rough
for the bonuses it provides, 60 ms, up to 100 bonus damage and 75% slow with melee, 1000 gold is a bargain
Edit-Btw if youw ant an example of the aggression that Koreans can do, tune in to the LCK right now. Like, 25 minutes in it's already 14/7, and both teams aren't afraid to jump in and get into a fight.
I got Gangplank the second bot game but someone dodged. I then got him the third game and got 500 serpents in I think under 20 minutes. I haven't gotten much past that though in almost 25 minutes.
BreezyLimbo
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And then Gnar just goes 1v4 and gets two kills and stops baron!
NA has no chance. They would've given away baron.
And apparently triforce Yasuo is a thing in Korea
NA has no chance. They would've given away baron.
And apparently triforce Yasuo is a thing in Korea
Yeah your first game probably ended right around the time you would have been one shotting waves and stuff. Plus with it being so short your lanimg phase was probably jacked
With the new yas changes the ranged triforce/shiv procs on 3rd q probably hurt
um, i never said koreans weren't aggressive?
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I love it! Despite Samsung being behind, they're not afraid and initiate again and again an keep wiping the enemy team, that they've closed the gap of about a 10k gold deficit.
This is how NA should be dammit.
I never accused you of saying they weren't aggressive?
This is how NA should be dammit.
I never accused you of saying they weren't aggressive?
BreezyLimbo
Banned
lol
Royal Guacamole
Member
Rampancy. Breezy overload fried the circuits.
Defensive 24/7.
Defensive 24/7.
killatopak
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Neko is a great Irelia player right? I would love some tips regarding her match ups with Rumble, Gnar and Maokai.
Pretty please.
Pretty please.
I think you can play in AI too.
Tizoc
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The feel of winning 4v5, and the ensuing salt
We chased them til Baron where lucian got a double kill but died, we managed to take out Lee. Rene was still alive with like 1/4 health left but he's tanky.
So he tries to steal baron but I ult his ass in the last second, we kill him, get baron and then top gets pushed. Lucian revives I help push mid and then we got the win.
I played 2 games in AI and still no skin :/
We chased them til Baron where lucian got a double kill but died, we managed to take out Lee. Rene was still alive with like 1/4 health left but he's tanky.
So he tries to steal baron but I ult his ass in the last second, we kill him, get baron and then top gets pushed. Lucian revives I help push mid and then we got the win.
I played 2 games in AI and still no skin :/
I thought it wasn't supposed to unlock until after the event. Has anyone gotten it yet?
Tizoc
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killatopak
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The feel of winning 4v5, and the ensuing salt
We chased them til Baron where lucian got a double kill but died, we managed to take out Lee. Rene was still alive with like 1/4 health left but he's tanky.
So he tries to steal baron but I ult his ass in the last second, we kill him, get baron and then top gets pushed. Lucian revives I help push mid and then we got the win.
I played 2 games in AI and still no skin :/
You get the skin after aug 10.
Tizoc
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Thanks for clearing it up. TO be on the safe side I'll play a regular match as GP.
Wolf Akela
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Do you have to win to get the skin?
Stone Ocean
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No, just play
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