League of Legends

[masterhickle]

Re: League of Legends

Based entirely off of normal games (according to that calculator) I'm at 1701 elo. Getting leavers / afk'ers 5 games in a row in ranked games (at the cost of 50 elo a pop) really murdered my elo, and I've just about given up on ranked matches. I still enjoy my normal drafts.

For the record, I don't think I'm worth 1700, at least in my own eyes. 1500s or so maybe?

[itsmeraph]

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For any karthus players, what item builds have you noticed to work?

So far I've been starting with sapphire+2 hp pots, then basic boots/tear of the goddess, CDR boots, archangel, deathcap, then lichbane or zhonya's depending on enemy team, and then deathfire grasp if I ever get there. Does that seem decent? Also, any good tips? I'm liking him as a character so far, but not sure how he plays against more experienced players (only lv16 atm)

[rsr2]

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Woah, I won 2 ranked solo queue's in a row. 0.0 what is going on?

[-paexaea-]

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what up bruh

[The5thMoon]

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Lol that Riven's build wtf?

[xferrarix]

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I played with a Trinity Force on Riven the other night. Jesus that 150% autoattack add for her is ridiculous, your broken wing combo ends up doing around 600 to 800 in a burst

[FFR4EVA_00]

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only in dominion can rammus be expected to carry

[hi19hi19]

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Lol that Riven's build wtf?

Going for the patented "stack doubleswords" build.

Because it synergizes with going fast!



(If you don't know what this is a reference to you're missing out on a hilarious video...)

[DarkZtar]

Re: League of Legends

For any karthus players, what item builds have you noticed to work?

So far I've been starting with sapphire+2 hp pots, then basic boots/tear of the goddess, CDR boots, archangel, deathcap, then lichbane or zhonya's depending on enemy team, and then deathfire grasp if I ever get there. Does that seem decent? Also, any good tips? I'm liking him as a character so far, but not sure how he plays against more experienced players (only lv16 atm)

Sorc boots, void staff, 3x archangel, deathcap. teleport/revive for summoners.
Watch phant0mlord's stream, he's the #1 karthus atm.

[Kibblre]

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Going for the patented "stack doubleswords" build.

Because it synergizes with going fast!



(If you don't know what this is a reference to you're missing out on a hilarious video...)

Nooblord.

[xferrarix]

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Can you post a link to phant0mlord's Karthus? I want to watch his livestream and see how he plays him

[DarkZtar]

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Can you post a link to phant0mlord's Karthus? I want to watch his livestream and see how he plays him

http://www.own3d.tv/live/142545/AL_PhantomL0rd

That's his stream, but he doesn't stream all that often.

http://www.youtube.com/user/JVPhantomLord

His youtube, but he only has 3 vids of 1 match, and its back from when he was in v8.

[stargroup100]

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LoL reminds me of poker in a lot of ways.

It's a game of luck in that you can't control all of the variables in the game. Some of them are random and out of your hands. In the case of LoL, it's primarily the people you're matched with.

However, it's a game of skill in that you can control all of the actions you decide to make. As such, your actions should revolve around maximizing your chances of winning based on the information you have.

Even if you play optimally, you won't always win. There's nothing you can do about that. But if you're maximizing your chances of winning and playing optimally, you'll win more than you lose, and your ELO will slowly climb.

The reason being, if you play a statistically large enough sample of games, and the matchmaking system is doing it's job, the average strength of your opponents and your team mates relative to your ELO will be the same. That is, luck becomes a relatively insignificant factor, and the only remaining variable influencing your win ratio is your personal performance.

If you sit around and chalk it all up to luck, you won't get anywhere. Sure, variance happens. I lost 10 dominion games in a row a few weeks ago, mostly due to bad luck. I'm like, 65-40 now though. Bullshit that was happening to me constantly started happening to the other team, and things evened out.

I like the poker analogy

unfortunately, dominion balance is so bad that if it ever got a ranked mode, THAT would real elo hell

no matter how well you play, there are so many champions that are god-mode on that map and some strategies are just really really stupid to deal with no matter what

I found this fun little calculator recently: http://lolcave.com/ec/

Seems reasonable, assuming you've played a good chunk of games and your ELO isn't unusually high or unusually low.

1580 SR and 1590 Dom, but I really need to play some more SR. Studying for finals right now is killing me though and hour long games are just...unacceptable >_>

too bad this isn't even remotely accurate lol

only after playing about 1000 games by yourself will the difference between calculated elo and estimated elo most likely be less than 100

and if even a substantial fraction of your games are games where you queue with friends, this number could be completely wrong, easily at least a difference of 300 points

normal queue elo is useless to calculate anyways, because you don't know how many people play these normal games, so you can't gauge your elo relative to others. for all we know, if there are a million players with ratings, top elo could be around 2700, so the distribution would be totally different

so normal elo isn't even worth figuring out. unless you're playing ranked, don't even worry about rating

[xferrarix]

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So lately I do believe getting out of Elo hell is possible

I was in around 800 (don't ask me how) and I kept duo queueing. Had a few straight wins now, and I'm at 1002 now. I want to get back at a elo above 1200 before I even attempt to solo queue again

[stargroup100]

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it's always possible