Man, every time I try to get back into this game (~ lvl 20), I'm reminded why I left in the first place...queuing up solo sucks. In the past five games I've had, my team was stricken with some kind of handicap...such as a Morde incapable of killing anything (including a Jax with <100 hp), a Tyrn who left after dying twice in the first five minutes, or a Miss Fortune whose battle strategy rhymes with Jamikaze (had ~15 deaths at the end). Is a team with no feeders or leavers too much to ask?

Vlad was making me mad a few days ago.

I was Blitz and was doing perfect pulling and knocking him in the air, then he just pooled and ran away like a baby x1000


I usually solo queue when my wife is home cause i cant play good when she keeps bothering me :P

Yesterday I went for a straight Karthas AP build and just DOMINATED. I was bottom lane against a Sivir and an Ashe. Total domination over them. I think they really stunk too and didnt know how to play, but it was just amazing, never had anything like it. Some silly Olaf on their team was almost dead and hanging by his tower...pop my ultimate and say sorry for him dying :P I <3 Karthas ultimate. It is so fun The bad part with Karthas full AP was that I didnt have much mana. They surrendered too, but I ended up with 16-1-1. Was about to make my Zhonya's Ring :( Kartha's 'q' skill is so damn fast and you can just keep spamming it if ya got the mana

Im gonna be on tonight, add me. FlipprDolphin i think is my name on there. Wife is working so I will have time to really play.


Nidalee seems like fun, I was enjoying her in practice games farming for some ip.
I was interested in Udyr, but watching some gameplay video of him it seemed kinda boring.

Originally Posted by Waughoo At lower levels you dont really NEED a good team composition since your enemies probably are not going to be coordinating that well (neither is your team for that matter). For Blitz tanking is his role, but you can also use him for ganks. Get the hang of his pull, then use it to yank enemies into turrets or a group of your teammates. If you're defending by your base wall you can pull enemies over it so now they are stuck behind your turrets. Same for offense, pull an enemy over their own wall and they suddenly are all alone against your whole team. Bare in mind I never really play Blitz, but these are some of the things I've seen good Blitz players do.

I played against 1 really good Blitz player who was pulling people over walls. My team sorta sucked anyhow, but he definitely was a key asset on their team.

A lot of times it's hard for me to recognize who the good players on my team are. In one game we had a Sivir who wound up with 35 kills, but I didn't realized how powerful she was (she had like 3 infinity edges at the end). We would have won 15 minutes earlier if I stuck by her and supported her.

Originally Posted by wakawakawa A lot of times it's hard for me to recognize who the good players on my team are. In one game we had a Sivir who wound up with 35 kills, but I didn't realized how powerful she was (she had like 3 infinity edges at the end). We would have won 15 minutes earlier if I stuck by her and supported her.

If you see someone stacking IE, you know they're bad. The other team must've been so much worse, wow.

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I read guides and made a Word document with the builds that I read for the characters I like to use so I have quick access to it..im such a dork :P

So how is Shaco? He seems like an interesting character, but I read he should jungle at the start.

Originally Posted by Morphx2 Vlad was making me mad a few days ago. I was Blitz and was doing perfect pulling and knocking him in the air, then he just pooled and ran away like a baby x1000 I usually solo queue when my wife is home cause i cant play good when she keeps bothering me :P Yesterday I went for a straight Karthas AP build and just DOMINATED. I was bottom lane against a Sivir and an Ashe. Total domination over them. I think they really stunk too and didnt know how to play, but it was just amazing, never had anything like it. Some silly Olaf on their team was almost dead and hanging by his tower...pop my ultimate and say sorry for him dying :P I <3 Karthas ultimate. It is so fun The bad part with Karthas full AP was that I didnt have much mana. They surrendered too, but I ended up with 16-1-1. Was about to make my Zhonya's Ring :( Kartha's 'q' skill is so damn fast and you can just keep spamming it if ya got the mana Im gonna be on tonight, add me. FlipprDolphin i think is my name on there. Wife is working so I will have time to really play. Nidalee seems like fun, I was enjoying her in practice games farming for some ip. I was interested in Udyr, but watching some gameplay video of him it seemed kinda boring.

I'll add you now, but I'm not sure if I'll get to be on tonight or not. Got my brothers-in-laws (yes plural, adopted twins) birthday today.

I've been popping in probably once a night or so lately, and might do 1 solo queue if there isnt a group playing. I highly recommend that if you CAN get a group together, get on Vent or Xfire for chatting during the game. Makes everything SO much better.

I play it, but most of my games have been really bad >< (USER name: loltonytony )

Cool, hopefully I can play with some of you tonight. If not, Saturday night + Sunday for me.

Originally Posted by Morphx2 So how is Shaco? He seems like an interesting character, but I read he should jungle at the start.

Shaco should jungle because he's a good ganker, but his early jungle can get disrupted rather easily. He's been nerfed to hell, though; way less useful than he used to be.

Originally Posted by kilm If you see someone stacking IE, you know they're bad. The other team must've been so much worse, wow.

I think I'm like lvl 14 now, but generally I find the people I play with are bad-okay with a good player now and then. The thing is, when someone is fed they are overpowered, so it's hard to tell who the good players are, who the good champions are, and what the good builds are. Obviously a Sivir with 30+ kills should destroy anyone no matter how you build her.

I just look at who my teammates are picking then pick someone to complement them who I like to play. It's funny when I get the "LOCK IN!!!!" in text when I'm actually spending the time trying to pick a character to best help the team.

Originally Posted by wakawakawa I think I'm like lvl 14 now, but generally I find the people I play with are bad-okay with a good player now and then.

It doesn't really get better

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EDIT: All gone!

I left a game because it was so bad in the first 4 minutes

Our Taric went into their bush at the start, saw them, didnt move. He died way before minions spawned.

We had one person speaking some non-existant language in all caps

We had an Ashe that did not want to go mid.

I was stuck in a lane (Katarina) fighting against Nunu and Sona since our Taric was crap.

The Teemo didnt want to switch with me (hes ranged and im not, would of made it easier), so he stayed in mid lane.

Worst teamwork EVER


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In other news, im enjoying the heck out of Katarina!! At first I went AD and thought she was horrible, then I went AP and enjoying it tons better. Tons of kills and assists; its great!! But if my team has bad teamwork, then i can not do much.

Next person on my list to try out: Tristana!

It can be pretty hilarious to see how far south a lack of teamwork can go.

In one fairly rememberable game...started out as a 5v5, but our team had a leaver right off the bat. That wasn't too big of an issue, since it was right from the start, meaning we could gain levels faster and hopefully feed off our opponents. From the start though, there were two characters battling for control of mid...a Heimer and a Twitch. Neither wanted to leave, as each wanted their boosted xp. Bear in mind, since we only had four, that left myself and the other guy in lanes by ourselves. If they had listened to us, each one could've had their own lane (as myself and the other guy could group up), but each was deadset on getting mid.

They hated each other so much that they spent the rest game telling the other team where the other was. "Twitch is hiding in the bushes to your left"..."Dinger is pushing top" and so on. Needless to say, we lost.

I've noticed that the person who does the worse during the game is usually the one who thinks everyone else sucks. I once had a guy play Nasus and lane with my Kat. I did everything I could to keep the enemy's health down, but Nasus wouldnt do anything but kill minions. Then he would get down to about half health and decide to tower dive the enemies. He wouldnt even get a hit in on them, and die. Of course this was MY fault for not "supporting him". When he came back, he'd get in the middle of the enemy minions who would eat all his health. When the enemies would try to kill him, I'd have to jump in and waste my Ult just to keep them off him so he didnt die. He tower dives them again, dies, blames me for "never using his ult". I told him my ult was always on cooldown because I kept having to use it to keep him from dying. He goes to another lane, dies some more and blames our noob team (who is winning still despite his feeding thus far). Then he decides to push mid, which is a good idea, accept he does it alone. He dies, then starts yelling about us for not supporting him. We actually didnt even HAVE a support character, so we tell him that. He gets mad and starts yelling at us about how he is the only one that 'knows his role'. We say all he's doing is tower diving and feeding. He says "I'm a TANK, thats what I'm supposed to do but you guys are not supporting me". We meantion that he's running off by himself so we CANT help him, but once again we all just suck. We ended up having to defend alot, and he would run off by himself while we defended our towers. He'd get ganked, and it was our fault. We lost, he went something like 1/13/2 and the rest of us were like around 5/2/6, I think I was like 8/2/7 or something. In chat afterwards the other team started thanking him for feeding, which he replied was our fault again.
I think some people just cant admit to themselves that they are bad.

I also hate the one guy on my team (happens a lot) who thinks he is the BEST and makes excuses if he dies or something and trash talks the other team all the time

I think a lot of subpar players and kids like big team games because they live a lot longer. Often being able to gank someone is much more important than winning as a team. If they were such awesome players they would prefer 3v3 where their win percentage would be much higher.

In one recent game I had a back seat driver player as Ryze, telling me how to play Taric. Essentially, I needed to melee their 2 ranged champions. I am very proud because after him telling me "You need to charge more", I straight up charged down the lane without attacking. He then ragequit. Lol. My other teammates were good enough and we had a decent shot at winning if we had a different 5th player.

I've been playing Taric and Rammus a lot. On a good team they are a lot of fun. On a weak team, you are essentially worthless.

I like Warwick also, although he becomes fairly weak when everyone is 18 and grouped up. I do a 50/50 jungle which seems to work well and help cover lanes and gank. I have seen a few (like 1-2) good 100% junglers, but most of them are terrible. They wind up being like 5-6 levels behind your highest player.

Cool to see that we got a decent following for LoL here. I've just been playing for about 2 months now, and I like it. I rotate a lot with Xin at the moment, Akali, and just started playing my Gangplank again, went 20/0 in my first game with him after a hiatus for a few weeks.

I'll add whoever I see posted their user name around here in the thread, and for me it's
::Bravosnake

I will try to be on tonight as long as my wife doesnt bother me while she studies for school (oh, help me help me, blah blah blah blah)

Many thanks to Doctorfaustus for offering up the skins