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Ice and I had another kick-ass game like usual with us. We carried the team along with a Cait. Our Olaf and Garen were silly the whole game.

Cho, Nunu, and Cait! Woohoo
 
Played one last night with Sly and his friends. He decided to build a tank Anivia and go mid cause "She's OP". After dying twice to Mord and losing the first mid tower, he finally got to the point where he was too hard to kill, but pretty much useless other than that. Oh, and he leveled up wall first, and kept walling his teammates in with the other team. Basically just trolling the whole game. Meanwhile I go 15/4 and we are able to ace them like 3 times. Their Trynd kept trying to backdoor, but wasnt having much luck. We ended up winning even though most of them were playing like idiots just to screw around.
 
So I queued up for solo queue, i THOUGHT i did normal, but i ended up in ranked. I really did not want to try hard and just wanted to have fun.

Needless to say....this was the outcome :\




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*START RANT*

Well, that sucked... played a game with a guy off my list (Vald) and his friend (Olaf). I dont know wtf they were thinking... For starters one of them wanted mid as Vald, which i'm fine with. But his PC crashed at startup. So the solo bot decided to come cover mid, which leaves a 2 person lane open to push. Our jungler had no intention of covering a lane, and Olaf would not go bot because "He's almost back in".

So he finally gets back in, after bot took half the tower's health. I'm now stuck in top with Olaf, who hides behind me against a Karth and a Singed. I harass Singed because I cant reach Karth, but when I'd get him to like 40% health Olaf would go charging in and scare him off. Meanwhile Karth is killing him. I attack Karth to get him to run and end up saving Olaf and dying myself. Olaf had like 20% health left, Karth had a tiny bit left... so of course Olaf runs off to heal. Fine, whatever. I'm back in. Harass them both down to about half health. Olaf charges in instead of letting me get them down some more. So I gotta follow and try and keep him alive. We get Singed running with like a tiny bit left. Olaf's got like 30% left. Karth is about 40% gone but hitting me with everything. At this point, I'm gonna die, but I can take Singed with me and hurt Karth. I kill Singed, jump into Karth. I hit him a couple times before I die and he's about 10%. Easy kill for Ola... oh wait he recalled. Dick. Oh look, Karth is staying in the lane, Oh and he brought Cho with him! So our tower takes a huge beating but is still up. Vald should be hitting the mid tower since Cho's ignoring him and staying in our lane till Singed gets back... oh wait he's tower hugging when theres no MIAs.... cool.

So I come back and Cho goes back mid, Karth recalls, and Singed goes mid too. I go to help mid and start harrassing them and whoa hey... hi Olaf!... didnt wanna stay in that lonely top lane eh? Oh well thats nice of you to come help us while Karth takes our un-guarded tower! Know what? I'm gonna go try and stop him! You stay here and help Vald!

So I go top, and Karth has left. I start pushing the minions back and OH LOOK I HAVE COMPANY! Olaf... and Vald... you guys gonna come hang out with me eh? Well I guess thats a good idea, cause theres like 3 mid now and they're taking our tower! You dont wanna be involved with THAT mess! Know what though? I'm so crazy I'll just tele down there and try and stop them ok?

So I go mid, and everyone follows. We've got a 4v5 going in mid cause our 5 decided that bot tower is a pretty crappy tower, the other guys can have it. Singed goes ahead and takes it off our hands. Meanwhile in mid, we're doing pretty crappy. I'm able to wear them down low, but noone will really initiate cause that Karth is a scary skeleton man, and skeletons freak us the f*** out. So me, the squishy Kat, has to initiate. Shumpo, Ult, Ignite, BB. We have a dead (er?) Karth! And 2 more almost dead! Hey.. where is everyone?! Recalling after that? GREAT IDEA! I mean you all had like 80% health, better top it off. Glad I died for that one! Meanwhile one of you should totally make fun of the other team's MF cause she missed with her ULT. Yeah, do that instead of stopping Singed from getting the other Bot tower. Cause, ya know, that guy deserves that tower!

From there one things get crazy. My whole team killing neutral monsters until they see ANYONE on the map, then they descend like locusts upon them. Awesome! You guys can 4v1 a Cho... while 3 or 4 others take another tower! Time to split up and do more jungling! YAY! So the rest of the game was of the style of...
FIND ENEMY IN OUR JUNGLE
CHASE ENEMY: RUN INTO MORE ENEMIES
LOSE 3 or 4 TEAMMATES BUT MAYBE GET 1 OR 2 ENEMIES

I honestly was too dumbfounded to even tell them what they were doing wrong the whole game. Thank god they at least had the sense to surrender at 20

*END RANT*
 
Like seriously... I was doing EVERYTHING. Lane needed pushed, I'd try to do it, but we'd need D somewhere else, so I'd do that. They'd fail-gank someone and I'd have to save them from the counter gank. It would not have been so bad if people would have just stopped leaving lanes unguarded. It wasnt even like "Oh, I'll clear this wave that's hitting my tower then go" It was all "Minions hitting my tower! Oh well, I WANNA KILL WOLVES!"
 
Cool story bro. Hehe. U gotta play with me. I've been commanding my teammates into battle and where to go. They actually listen and we win. Gotta love those teams
 
Damn, glad Irelia was free this week, finally found a character to main.

Decent burst, true damage hits like a truck, and with her lifesteal that also means towers go down quite easily. Her ultimate is a lot of fun to use and pretty effective. Her passive is super mean in team fights since CC will barely effect you. You can start farming immediately early game with her dash which is not mana intensive at all, and it's super easy to maintain your lane for long periods of time. And her stun, holy god does it fuck with people.

She isn't a killing machine, but it's a well rounded character with a really fun play style. On a 6 game winning streak :applause:
 
Patch Preview is up. They didn't mention anything groundbreaking though they're taking their anger out on tanks (as usual) by giving towers 25% armor penetration.
 
Riot definitely hates them though. There are only 9 with the Tank attribute: Amumu, Alistar, Blitz, Galio, Morde, Maokai, Nunu, Rammus, Shen, and Taric. I would only consider Amumu, Alistar, Galio, Rammus, and Shen to be true tanks. Alistar is very difficult to play because he's so team dependent. Galio has been nerfed to hell and is at a huge disadvantage against a team with 3-5 AD champions. Taric and Nunu (maybe Maokai too even though I've not played him) are more tanky support casters and Blitz a tanky offensive caster.

That's why tanks are often banned in rank, there are so few that it has a greater impact of hurting the other team.

I'm sure we'll never see another champion with a taunt because Riot would rather another champion who can half-health anyone with their ult but god forbid they be taunted for 2-3 seconds.
 
Well I love Teemo. But I hate the fact everybody is using him. If I don't rush to the champion selection team, one of my teammates have already selected him. And then I get to fight a Teemo on the other side while I'm at it >_>.

Cho is remarkably fun though. And I generally dislike melee character. Easy to kill minions + restores HP. Easy to harass the other team. An impressive AoE knockup and silence and + HP for ult. I've been considering buy one of those old Nightmare Cho codes off of eBay. But I'd rather support Riot than some jerk who horded 30+ codes from a website sign up event.

Oh that note, has Riot revealed what character + skin they'll be handing out at the latest Pax East event?
 
Been playing Chogath and Teemo since they are free, even though I own them both lol.

I like both of them. I think I'm just a better Cho. I imagine he is best with a taunting tank so you can go offtank/AP. Then you can pop up anyone who is taunted which will be a guranteed kill in teamfights.
 
I've decided I hate Urgot now. Didnt mind him before, but I think I had just never played against a good one before. His place switch thing is a bit much. Its not just because he switches places with you, it's that you're stunned while it's going on, so well coordinated teams get in lots of free hits before it even finishes. By that point you're just screwed. The guy last night was good at the flash/ult combo, no real defense for that.
 
Of all the Cho games I played this weekend that Urgot is the only person who gave me trouble. Him and Heimer are such BS laners you generally cannot do anything about them.

Of course, we had that Vlad who laned against Morde and Tryn and acted like they were impossible to lane against. Which is odd because neither of them really can actually harrass Vlad. Morde you stay out of melee when he has his shield or there are friendly minions around. Hard stuff.
 
well, thats why blind pick sucks, you dont know who the enemies pick and the game can totally be lopsided

Sivir kicks Urgots ass in the lane cause sivir can spellshield his tracking grenade :D
 
[quote name='wakawakawa']Of course, we had that Vlad who laned against Morde and Tryn and acted like they were impossible to lane against. Which is odd because neither of them really can actually harrass Vlad. Morde you stay out of melee when he has his shield or there are friendly minions around. Hard stuff.[/QUOTE]

Maybe I'm a bad Vlad, but I was once mid against Morde. It actually is pretty tough b/c his shield makes him very hard to harass and his E is up pretty frequently that he can use it to harass you. He also clears minion waves very fast so you'll lose a lot of last hits to tower when you're force to hug. A lot of Mordes also start with Regrowth Pendant and build an early Force of Nature which makes him impossible to kill without some magic pen.
 
Theres a big poll going on the LoL boards about the Flash removal/reworks they may do. Granted it's an OLD post but it keeps getting Necro'd. I'm pretty sure Reds are still reading it.

"Flash is very controversial. Some of you love it, some of you just use it because you have to, and some of you hate it. My feeling is that it gives everyone a 'get out of fail' card that reduces skill differentiation in the game, and makes good play rewarded less, and bad play punished less. To some extent, this is beneficial because you get less ROFLstomped, but overall, I think it mostly hurts the game. We've done a bunch of playtests internally without flash, and fights feel a lot more dynamic, and your bloodlust gets sated a lot more. The only downsides are that some characters have difficulty with chain snaring in team fights, especially melee characters that lack strong mobility.

However, all that being said, I know a lot of players are attached to it, so I'm posting here to collect opinions.

If we removed Flash, here's what we were thinking of doing:

1) Replace it with an item like DotA blink dagger, except with LoL flash functionality. Would be ~ 90 second cooldown, pretty expensive, not with many or any stats, etc.

2) Add a new summoner spell, "Summoner Dash" which for 3 seconds makes you immune to slows and increases your speed by 30-50%. We feel this may be necessary for some characters that depend on flash especially strongly to initiate, while still not being a 'get out of fail' card.

3) Modify cleanse to be 65% cc reduction after you use it for one second longer than currently. Late game cc stacking will likely be too powerful without something like this to counter heavy CC teams.

4) Remove the team heal aspect of heal, and make it significantly better for self healing.

NOTE -- if we did these, we'd try on the PTR first, and we'd try it live for 2 weeks to see if it works well. If it was poor, we'd roll it back.

I've included a poll so we can track opinions. Please also post comments!

Regards,
Zileas


Slightly updated approach we were discussing:

- Remove flash
- Add blink dagger item that is ~1250 cost of proc, 120 sec cd? This will pop projectiles and can be used at any time. Stand-alone item listed under movement on shop.
- New cleanse – clears debuffs, and for 3 seconds after, immune to slows & roots, while stuns are turned into slows of the same duration at 35% slow. These stuns still interrupt spells though. No longer reduces CC durations -- except where immune.
- Add Summoner Dash – +35% speed + immune to slowing effects for 3 sec"


I actually dont have problems with Flash, it's annoying yes, but I dont think it needs removed. I'm actually more annoyed when it's used to initiate than to get-out-of-fail. Anyhow, I suggested an item that is consumable (1 time use) that costs like 300-500 gold. This way if it IS used as an escape, it at least puts them behind in gold. As an initiator, you still can use it to get that kill you want but you're not getting as much gold for it as usual. OR make an item that is re-usable but costs gold per use.

Also on the heal nerfs... HUH? Who even uses heal? And if they remove the AOE aspect, it's kinda useless to get. Now if they rework heal into a self-heal and give it a really low cooldown (40-60 secs) it might be cool cause it's basically a "I no longer need health pots anymore" so it saves gold in the place of having some other spell like Flash/Ghost/Tele
 
I like what they are trying to do, but nearly all of those alternatives sound worse. I would only be for the DotA dagger.

But flash really doesn't bother me that much either.
 
Even with the dota dagger, they had to limit who could use it. :(

I just hate getting gank/chased with multiple flashes behind you. Otherwise, whatever. If I play Annie, I can't do any escaping really without flash, so I'd have to hope that Summoner's Dash was worth it.
 
I like the Summoner Dash the most out of those options. Making it an item would be worse, IMO, because of the shorter CD. I'm surprised "Remove Randuin's Omen and Banshee's Veil" isn't one of their possible solutions.

I hate Flash because it's so annoying, but I just deal with it since it's necessary for some characters. Just like everything else that's annoying in the game.
 
then who would ever choose ghost again? ghost has it's uses but 90% of its appeal is that it's a tool to escape. a Summoner Dash trumps it as you really only need a couple seconds of boost to get away from someone (or catch up to, if you're running someone down) -- no CC effects just make it hugely more favorable over ghost.

at least you can CC someone who has flash and they'll still have the effects on them, so they are still pretty vulnerable. that's a major reason why I never pick it myself -- i'd rather have the versatility of ghost. But if Dash comes out then holy god will I be abusing that to no end.

Summoner Dash just sounds ridiculous. I just don't understand why the game even needs a skill to make up for the few flaws each character has. If it's hard for someone to initiate, then it's hard for them to initiate 0_o. The game is easy enough as it is.
 
ATTENTION PLEASE

WAUGHOO IS TROLLING US

Look at the post date Waughoo on the LOL boards.

U got trolled :p

TROLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOL

:)


xoxoxox :D

I hate when people bring up old threads like that, its annoying


Edit: Ok, you saw it was an old post and i didnt read your whole post. I just dont want these people thinking its changing :D I got trolled by your post!

SO MUCH TROLLING!!!

TROLLOLOOLOOLLL

hehehe

That post is a year old ok people? :D
 
[quote name='Morphx2']ATTENTION PLEASE

WAUGHOO IS TROLLING US

Look at the post date Waughoo on the LOL boards.

U got trolled :p

TROLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOL

:)


xoxoxox :D

I hate when people bring up old threads like that, its annoying


Edit: Ok, you saw it was an old post and i didnt read your whole post. I just dont want these people thinking its changing :D I got trolled by your post!

SO MUCH TROLLING!!!

TROLLOLOOLOOLLL

hehehe

That post is a year old ok people? :D[/QUOTE]


True it's old, but I think it's still something they are working on. They gave Flash a slight nerf, but I dont think they got everything how they want it.
 
[quote name='panzerfaust']then who would ever choose ghost again? ghost has it's uses but 90% of its appeal is that it's a tool to escape. a Summoner Dash trumps it as you really only need a couple seconds of boost to get away from someone (or catch up to, if you're running someone down) -- no CC effects just make it hugely more favorable over ghost.[/quote]
Ghost would be better for long distances while Dash for quickly closing a gap or escape. One is for a marathon, the other a sprint.

at least you can CC someone who has flash and they'll still have the effects on them, so they are still pretty vulnerable. that's a major reason why I never pick it myself -- i'd rather have the versatility of ghost. But if Dash comes out then holy god will I be abusing that to no end.
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But they can Flash away from your range or over terrain where you have no way of catching up.

I just don't understand why the game even needs a skill to make up for the few flaws each character has. If it's hard for someone to initiate, then it's hard for them to initiate 0_o. The game is easy enough as it is.
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I don't get it either. Characters should have weaknesses. Riot has too many characters that can do a lot while older ones are really limited.
 
Anyone know where I can purchase a Digital Collectors Pack code for $20? I can buy the full box and crap on Ebay or Amazon for $20 shipped, but then I'd have to wait for it to arrive. I looked on the in-game store and it costs 3900 RP which is like ~$25 which seems dumb to me.
 
The full box n stuff is available for $20 in most retail stores, Target and Best Buy in particular. Comes with the $10 in riot points too. Not too bad a deal.
 
[quote name='Salamando3000']The full box n stuff is available for $20 in most retail stores, Target and Best Buy in particular. Comes with the $10 in riot points too. Not too bad a deal.[/QUOTE]

Only problem is there isn't a Target or Best Buy in my town. We've got a Walmart and that's it. They sell it for $30.
 
You could try to Price Match at Walmart. If there's no Target or Best Buy in your area though, they could say it's outside of the trade territory and show you the door. But it's worth a shot. And chances are you have to run down to Walmart at least once every two weeks anyways. Might as well pick up your groceries before you try to PM it.

If you have a Gamestop in your area, you could always try PM them through Walmart.
 
[quote name='SEH']Only problem is there isn't a Target or Best Buy in my town. We've got a Walmart and that's it. They sell it for $30.[/QUOTE]

Check GameStop, I'm not sure but I think they sell it for $20 in store. You can try getting Walmart to price match the Best Buy online price.

I'd just get it on Amazon. A good amount of the champions that come in the bundle are often free. Only thing you'll miss is the RP but I only recommend using that on skins when they're on sale.
 
Yeah.. he definitely looks like the kind of champ that will slaughter ranged users. And has a decent flash-like jump.

Shame he won't be free until the champion bundle sales are over. I'd like to try to use him before purchasing.
 
They changed a lot of the portraits. Eve and Kat look very different. I was like how many new chars are there...

Also twitch.

First game has 2 Jarvans lets see how this goes.
 
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