League of Legends

[All_That_Chaz]

Re: League of Legends

I'm having a hard time staying away from this game. I started playing tanks and it's less disagreeable, although not by much.

I enjoy playing Leona but I have to wonder if she's just not worth buying because she doesn't have great crowd control, as in her ult is her only CC (well, I suppose shield of daybreak stun counts, but eh). I've played some Rammus and he's fun enough, just hard to get any minion kills in early game. Should I try to learn Alistar too?

[Reach]

Re: League of Legends

I'm having a hard time staying away from this game. I started playing tanks and it's less disagreeable, although not by much.

I enjoy playing Leona but I have to wonder if she's just not worth buying because she doesn't have great crowd control, as in her ult is her only CC (well, I suppose shield of daybreak stun counts, but eh). I've played some Rammus and he's fun enough, just hard to get any minion kills in early game. Should I try to learn Alistar too?

Alistar is one of my favorites, and I try to play him as much as possible. His ult makes him very tanky, he has some of the best CC in the game (very easy ganks in other lanes) and he is great support. Can't beat it! You'll crush lanes all day with this cow with a decent team mate (Ideally you don't farm much with Alistar. You'll be giving most of it to your laning partner, ideally a carry, though farming him in some lane combinations is an option.)

Not so much crushing with a bad lane partner though. Low level Alistar is painful. Nothing worse than Flash -> Pulverize -> Headbutt into your teammate and they just sit there, let you die and forfeit the free kill. You question them about it and their response is 'you picked a bad time to attack' (I had this happen once. Right after I blue pilled some minutes later they decided to dive the enemy 1v2, and died. Apparently when I set up a free kill on an overextended carry it's a badly timed attack, but tower diving two champs when I'm pilling is great)


Oh, and learn Singed. If you build him tanky, he's virtually impossible to kill come mid-late game. And if you put a Deathcap on his him net DPS is massive.

[hi19hi19]

Re: League of Legends

IEM is kind of fun to watch. Stream's up right now http://www.own3d.tv/live/27904/Intel...gue_of_Legends

[Reach]

Re: League of Legends

IEM is kind of fun to watch. Stream's up right now http://www.own3d.tv/live/27904/Intel...gue_of_Legends

Some awesome games in this tourney. Phenomenal play from TSM vs Fnatic. Looking forward to the finals vs CLG.

Mostly standard bans, but not banning GP was a massive mistake. I mean, Singed instead? D: GP was only going to snowball in that game after Trinity Force; they stood no chance. Also, farmed Jax initiation FTW.

[Wineandbread]

Re: League of Legends

@Reach: you tend to ban characters that people are good with as oppose to general bans in high end play

i.e. People banning Nidalee and Cho'gath when HotshotGG is playing; people banning Singed when someone like Dyrus is playing; people started banning Gragas when Shushei is on the other team when he was doing amazing with him during Dreamhack.

[Reach]

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@Reach: you tend to ban characters that people are good with as oppose to general bans in high end play

i.e. People banning Nidalee and Cho'gath when HotshotGG is playing; people banning Singed when someone like Dyrus is playing; people started banning Gragas when Shushei is on the other team when he was doing amazing with him during Dreamhack.

I'm aware of that.

I'm guessing they have a good Singed player on TSM. Rainman? But still, I would have rather dealt with Singed there than GP. GP is a good general purpose ban for any team and most teams had been banning him in this tourney.

Otherwise, he's been picked every game and is a real nuisance to deal with, since he scales so nicely (he's deadly in pretty much every portion of the game).

I'll admit, I love playing Gangplank and build him pretty much like Oddone did with Wriggles + Triforce first Jungle, and then straight into IE, Phantom dancer, Bloodthirster and Last Whisper. Good luck dealing with him then, especially if he got fed during jungle.



Watching TSM vs CLG now. GP was of course, banned.

This will be good

TSM has the better team I think. I expect them to win. Galio...is just...I don't like it. Hopefully CLG win though so there's a 3rd game.

Edit: Surprising.

3rd game

[rsr2]

Re: League of Legends

my favorite champions:

3. Morgana

That's my favorite champ to play. I also enjoy playing Brand, Gragas (So Much fun) and Morde.

[Coolboyrulez0]

Re: League of Legends

My favorites, just because:

1) Xin Zhao
2) AD Garen
3) Jax (haven't bought, but played extensively during free week(s))
4) Tanky Garen
5) Ashe / Cait
6) Fiddle

[FFR4EVA_00]

Re: League of Legends

MY FAVE CHAMPIONS

RAMMUS
MAOKAI
SONA
GALIO
FIDDLE

not necessarily ones that i am good at (my top 2 are rammus and sona tho) but they are fun to me
also apparently skarner's base stats are really terrible?

edit: so riot's final solution to supporting is nerfing healing amounts and/or cds even more, but upping bonus effects on the heals and damage output
in other words hotshotnidaleegg might have gotten buffed again

[Reach]

Re: League of Legends

My favs:

Ashe
Alistar
Singed
Vladimir
Gangplank


My favorite part about LoL:

Getting called an idiot, a ******, a gay noob, a shit ashe, a *** ashe

Etc (you get the point)

When I'm running the best K/D and twice the CS of anyone on my team, also winning middle lane (2/0 with 2x CS), because, ostensibly 'Omg Ashe WTF why you run' (only one that survives team fight) 'omg ashe why didn't you defend tower' (1v5 after team fight, with a blitzcrank amongst other CC and 3 tanks)

Of course then, my requests to not do baron go unheard and we're subsequently aced, etc

Of course then, once I'm maxed we come from behind and we ace them, for the first time in the game, thanks to me and a perfect arrow. I score the quadra kill.

We win, gg, bg ashe 'worst ashe ever'


;D like a bause. Some things are priceless. For everything else, there's noobs with heal and revive.

[Hurleyisgod]

Re: League of Legends

AP Tristana. Combo does 4000 damage, nuff said.

[_Stepdude_]

Re: League of Legends

AP Tristana. Combo does 4000 damage, nuff said.

I've noticed that a hybrid Trist is way more stable. Sure, AP trist hurts like ****, but with shitton of attspd and atdmg she reaaally can have that sustained high dmg.

[stargroup100]

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When I'm running the best K/D

technically you're the carry so you should have the best k/d

but yeah that stuff is hilarious. always love it when the enemy team or allies taunt me and then I end up carrying

a very, very strange game with Heimer where I went with a build I've never had to use before:

http://www.cosmovibe.com/files/lolreplay/FireHead123_heimerOo.lrf

I was lucky enough to get the enemy team where I wanted them to be, making the win very very easy, but I don't think they couldn't done much even if they played smart

[Reach]

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technically you're the carry so you should have the best k/d

but yeah that stuff is hilarious. always love it when the enemy team or allies taunt me and then I end up carrying

a very, very strange game with Heimer where I went with a build I've never had to use before:

http://www.cosmovibe.com/files/lolreplay/FireHead123_heimerOo.lrf

I was lucky enough to get the enemy team where I wanted them to be, making the win very very easy, but I don't think they couldn't done much even if they played smart

It should depend on a few variables though. Ashe is pretty squishy, most reasonable teams will burst me down first before I can kill anyone unless I can catch them with a really good arrow. I have more success staying back and mostly volleying, waiting for either 1. low hp targets to burst down or 2. someone out of position to focus, but a lot of the times this means I get assists instead of kills. Really just depends on how the action is going down.

I dunno man, people say Ashe is easy to play but I find her one of the hardest champs to play (well), at least out of ones that I've played a lot. She's retardedly CS dependent (Bad CS = Bad Ashe, unless miraculously fed, though she's one of the harder champions to feed), isn't strong until later on, is very squishy + dead if caught out of position and has a skill shot that can make or break a team fight.


Oh, and how do you watch these replays?

[stargroup100]

Re: League of Legends

google lolreplay

and yes ashe is extremely hard to play. I have no idea why people all say she's easy because she's not. in terms of pure damage output, she has one of the lowest of all carries, and she has no escape. the only thing that makes up for it is her kit of infinite slow and her arrow. basically it's like do or die