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Fandangox

Fandangox

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I have actually never played League either, I just assumed most of you did.

#HBC | Joker said:
*raises hand*

I've never played it, though I probably would at least try it if I had a computer that could run it.
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This is my situation.

#HBC | Gorf said:
never have never will.
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Listen up Gorf, If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go.
 
#HBC | Red Ryu

#HBC | Red Ryu

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I feel like I betrayed Nabe, but at the same time seeing this movie for the third time with three different people can't hold it back anymore.

#HBC | Acrostic said:
So yeah, I'm still a pre-30 looking for advice.

My dominant game play so far has been to play Lux mid and push around 4-5 and to start seriously engaging around 6 when my ult kicks in with ridiculous range to finish them off from within their own tower defense. My rune page contains full sets of tier 2: magic penetration, armor, and static AP with my quintessence also being an AP booster.

I initially run a dorian ring/free ward setup with 1 health potion and 1 mana potion. I never ever use the potions though because when I die I'm too preoccupied with escaping from a stun at pre-6 and I'm usually done for because I had overextended. Usually I'm fairly dominant in lane with having a ridiculous range on my "e" resulting in the enemy getting harassed and constantly backing off. When I sense that I'm lane dominant I buy a second dorian and utilize my "q" and "e" for harassing and at level 6 I pursue for the kill.

I'm relatively aggressive (compared to the people I play against) around the end of laning phase and try to get my opponent's tower down by early mid-game so I can assist other lanes (if they are falling behind) by going through the jungle and snaring enemies from the bush (mostly moving to bot since the support is a squishy).

As a mid, what minimal conditions do you feel must be fulfilled in your lane before you assist other lanes i.e. top and bot assuming mostly neutral early game conditions? As a general thumb of thumb, should you at least destroy your enemy's primary tower before assisting other champions in helping to finish off their opponent's primary tower? How are health and mana pots best utilized and do you feel that I should still purchase them on a champ that has built-in stun/slow in their tool-kit to kill/run away from opposing champs?

As a Lux-mid am I right in pushing during mid-game to push objectives? I'm aware that many champs have scaling AP resistance and I've read/noticed that the effect of my gold dominance on the other team maximizes around level 14-15 and tapers off drastically afterwards so I want to end the game relatively early while I'm at my peak as a champion. However, who do you feel should control the pacing of the game? Is it purely situational i.e. the person with the greatest skill/ability in influencing champ crowd-fights or should champions pursue the optimal level of play they can accomplish according to their own champ's build?

Also just putting it out there, but I don't really see Lux as a 'support.' Her tool-kit is again incredibly versatile as she has SNARE and SLOW with the slow being an open-option initiation attack on bubble burst followed with ray of light. And also she provides a shield. However, her tools still feel incomplete as a support player with other supports performing the same functions but doing it much more effectively i.e. Morgana/Thresh is able to snare + pull in champions with Leona having a much more effective stun and tankier build.

In late game I feel like I have to play second support. If I try to push objectively independently I'm more often than not punished if I don't go in with a full tool-kit. I always journey with someone and start engaging teamfights by shielding my party from back lane and then moving forward to assist in killing with my "e" and then move to the front when retreating by snaring/slowing the advance of the enemy while trying to stay alive at the same time. At this point I'm mostly built primarily on stacks of AP and magic penetration with Zhonya's as a last ditch decoy/defense/time waster but mostly insufficient as a valid defense and get ripped to shreds within two attacks.

I want to understand though if this is 'appropriate' for my champion and that I'm utilizing her optimally.
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Gonna help ya with this when I got some comp time.
 
#HBC | Mac

#HBC | Mac

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i would definitely tap princess ruto so hard

(the adult version of her, i'm not some weird pedo freak!)

*goes off to watch darunia x princess ruto porn*
 
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Ashemu

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but lets talk about good vicdeo games, like shovel knight, which is a good video game.
 
#HBC | Joker

#HBC | Joker

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I recently finished the Mass Effect series. Anyone else think Mass Effect was kinda only ok, and kind of over hyped? Dragon Age is like, the same thing but better in almost every way.
 
Shun Goku Satsu Rake

Shun Goku Satsu Rake

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#HBC | Joker said:
I recently finished the Mass Effect series. Anyone else think Mass Effect was kinda only ok, and kind of over hyped? Dragon Age is like, the same thing but better in almost every way.
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3rd one yes. First one more original obviously, second one was pretty damn good though imo
 
Circus

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#HBC | Joker said:
I recently finished the Mass Effect series. Anyone else think Mass Effect was kinda only ok, and kind of over hyped? Dragon Age is like, the same thing but better in almost every way.
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Haven't played Dragon Age, but Mass Effect was one of my favorite series of last gen. I think a big element of how much you like it by the end has to do with how well it caters to your personal choices (easy example: Mass Effect 3's romance subplot feels a lot more substantial if your love interest is, say, Liara, than if it's someone like Jack). I played through the series twice, and I can say that one of my playthroughs was decidedly more satisfying than the other, just based on the way certain relationships went and the way certain characters' arcs ended. Though I would suspect that Dragon Age is similar in this way. As a third-person action game, I'd say it's solid. As a space opera, I'd say it's great, even if the execution of the ending is a little clumsy. And of course it suffers from what is frequently the case with trilogies—it neither begins nor ends on its best note (ME2 5ever).

Any particular reasons you would give for how Dragon Age is better? Genuinely curious, being very unfamiliar with the franchise.
 
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