Grand Old Thread: League of Legends!

[Dekar173]

No you heard me talking to Dan, aka blitzcat who definitely needs me to come over and whoop his *** for speaking out of turn.

 

[Espy Rose]

You have massive presence because you're Rammus. It never really feels like you need much more than that.
Homeguard helps out I imagine, but I just don't think it's worth the gold for that kind of cheese.

I'm not saying Ancient Golem is a bad item either. I'd just rather get my mogs/+1/2 major items before I get it because it just seems silly otherwise.

 

[Shaya]

I feel homeguard is pretty fantastic on every jungler.

Some junglers may get more out of the support one (maokai?) or the flash one (udyr/maokai/everyone? lol). But I think the assassin class junglers or everyone who takes damage at all wub the ever loving crap out of homeguard.

 

[Dekar173]

Also, forgot to thank you guys for the tips on fixing my PC issues, I'll have to try them out but ya it seems like it would have to be video card, otherwise it'd be ****ting out constantly instead of JUST when I stream ~.~

Very frustrating when I die because of it LOL

 

[KuroganeHammer]

I feel homeguard is pretty fantastic on every jungler.

Some junglers may get more out of the support one (maokai?) or the flash one (udyr/maokai/everyone? lol). But I think the assassin class junglers or everyone who takes damage at all wub the ever loving crap out of homeguard.

Really now?

I feel it's useless unless you're pretty much late game and totally pushed to your inhibitors.

Is Riot aware that some/most of their Chinese splash arts are simply amazing? Why don't they use them more?

 

[Vyke]

While a lot of the chinese splash arts are pretty to look at from a technical standpoint, I feel a lot of them don't actually convey the character well. Like the Little Knight Amumu chinese splash art.

 

[KuroganeHammer]

Well, I guess so. Some of them are really bad and ugly (most of Amumu's are), but like most are about 10 times better than the ones we have.

Example, this:

http://leaguepedia.com/images/a/ae/Akali_Splash_0.jpg

versus this:

http://leaguepedia.com/images/6/60/Chinese_Akali_Splash_0.jpg

 

[Niko45]

Been playing lots of nocturne jungle. Guy is such a good pubstomper. I like furor enchantment on him for the extra stick.

 

[Asdioh]

Chinese Akali would accidentally chop off her hair though
also won promotion matches 2-1 with Rammus only, got back up to silver 1 yay >_>!

 

[Turazrok]

Close to promotion but silver is that weird area where every game has at least one lucky ******* in it.

 

[Leacero]

Today is a day that a bear becomes so lucky that he gets 7/7/7 with 7.7k gold with 77 cs.

 

[PhantomX]

Not lucky enough to win, though.

 

[Ussi]

Luck doesn't beat leet

 

[Asdioh]

^ this is true, Mr. 13/3/7 Twitch.

 

[Dekar173]

1/33/7 is better.

 

[Espy Rose]

7/7/7 is harder to get tho.

 

[JC Shine Studios]

If your teammates know what wards are, it's generally helpful. Not only is it good for ganks early game, but lategame teleport is extremely useful for split pushing

The only thing is you can't rely on your team for wards. As well if you rely on a summoner with a 4+ minute CD plus your teammates wards plus going back to base prior to the gank for homeguard. It just doesn't work enough to make it viable.

The thing is that ancient golem has perfect stats, and is really gold efficient. The tenacity is essentially free, and that's a good thing since I don't want merc treads.

I kind of disagree, the item for just its Health and Armor makes it not very effective for the cost most of the time. The tenacity is nice but if you need that specifically you're better off getting treads. and getting madreds or just not upgrading the machete at all will benefit you more than going all out for the golem.

 

[Shaya]

7/7/7, 77xx G, 77cs

 

[jpak]

thresh is really good and is better than blitz. also counters him

 

[Pikaville]

Why can't I carry games hard enough even though I go like 13-2 and tell my team mates who to focus.

 

[Okuser]

this new ranking system is so infuriating.

The whole idea of these "promotion series" is inherently flawed. In order to advance to the next division you have to have a 66% winrate, IN A SAMPLE SIZE OF ONLY 3 GAMES. this means that winning a promotion series is COMPLETE luck. random CHANCE. because, the way that elo works, is that over time, over a period of X games, your true win % will emerge.

and X is sure as **** not 3 games and sure as **** not 5 games.

I've never been more unbelievably mad at solo queue than before these "promotion series"

been through 3 ****ing promotion series in div 3 platinum, it's the same thing every time. win a bunch of games and then when I finally get to promo series: d/c'd teammate....trolll...other team had 4 diamonds and I had a bunch of golds etc

the other stupid thing is that my "hidden rating" is the same or higher than most people in division 1.

so that means I'm getting queued with people playing games about to get diamond while I'm in division 3 lol.

 

[Asdioh]

Isn't it possible in this system to have like a 60%+ win ratio, but not advance in division/tiers if you keep getting unlucky in promotion matches?

 

[JC Shine Studios]

Isn't it possible in this system to have like a 60%+ win ratio, but not advance in division/tiers if you keep getting unlucky in promotion matches?

Thats exactly what happens, and its total ****ing bs

 

[Sinister Slush]

For my division it's being 10 or less points away for promotion but then I get things like Teemo support and Olaf finding ways to feed the other team. (how do you do bad with cancer of the month?)

 

[Niko45]

new ranked system just seems so beyond bad idk what they were thinking

 

[Espy Rose]

I just had the best possible team in my last ranked game.
It felt like ELO Heaven.

Everyone was nice, everyone warded all the time, everyone made big plays, and everyone gave each other compliments or congrats on their moves. I want more of that.

 

[Shaya]

Can you imagine how Espy it would've been on the other team?

 

[Pikaville]

Why can't my team be like that instead of support GP who steals all my farm and feeds mercilessly.

 

[Espy Rose]

Can you imagine how Espy it would've been on the other team?

I'd probably have killed myself.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

thresh is really good and is better than blitz. also counters him

Gonna agree with this man.

Also Sivir, why did I ever dis you? You feel so good with that Q and spellshield. Even with that 500 AA range, you feel solid.

I can see why people would have the division stuff with passing out, meh just saw it as a best game mode situation and kinda fun to work it out.

 

[BSL]

this new ranking system is so infuriating.

The whole idea of these "promotion series" is inherently flawed. In order to advance to the next division you have to have a 66% winrate, IN A SAMPLE SIZE OF ONLY 3 GAMES. this means that winning a promotion series is COMPLETE luck. random CHANCE. because, the way that elo works, is that over time, over a period of X games, your true win % will emerge.

and X is sure as **** not 3 games and sure as **** not 5 games.

I've never been more unbelievably mad at solo queue than before these "promotion series"

been through 3 ****ing promotion series in div 3 platinum, it's the same thing every time. win a bunch of games and then when I finally get to promo series: d/c'd teammate....trolll...other team had 4 diamonds and I had a bunch of golds etc

the other stupid thing is that my "hidden rating" is the same or higher than most people in division 1.

so that means I'm getting queued with people playing games about to get diamond while I'm in division 3 lol.

please cry a little harder. it makes me feel just that much better.

 

[Deleted member]

this new ranking system is so infuriating.

The whole idea of these "promotion series" is inherently flawed. In order to advance to the next division you have to have a 66% winrate, IN A SAMPLE SIZE OF ONLY 3 GAMES. this means that winning a promotion series is COMPLETE luck. random CHANCE. because, the way that elo works, is that over time, over a period of X games, your true win % will emerge.

and X is sure as **** not 3 games and sure as **** not 5 games.

I've never been more unbelievably mad at solo queue than before these "promotion series"

been through 3 ****ing promotion series in div 3 platinum, it's the same thing every time. win a bunch of games and then when I finally get to promo series: d/c'd teammate....trolll...other team had 4 diamonds and I had a bunch of golds etc

the other stupid thing is that my "hidden rating" is the same or higher than most people in division 1.

so that means I'm getting queued with people playing games about to get diamond while I'm in division 3 lol.

You sound like you are in elo hell or something.

 

[Boofy!]

Thoughts on Avarice blade as an early buy on adc's? Was kinda on the fence about it for awhile but the little buff it's getting is making me consider it.

 

[SuperBowser]

i love this new ranking system.

i always gain more league points from a win than i can ever lose. it's sooooooo good.

 

[Raziek]

Okuser your winrate rant is inherently flawed, because your 66% rate is a meaningless number in this scenario.

More accurate is to think of it as being able to win two in a row.

Say you play 4 games.

Loss. Win. Win. Loss.

If the first three are your promotion series, you're out, even though your winrate is 50%.

I don't disagree that there is some luck involved, but statistically if you're managing 50% win rate, playing 2 series will get you out if the division. (WLL, WLW)

For a tier promotion it'd be the same idea. If you're pulling 50% you're gonna win 2/4 and lose 2/4 and its a coin toss on the 5th.

Luck is involved, but your 66% number is provably false.

Sounds to me like you could be getting tilted in your play because you get frustrated by a loss/bad luck in your promotion series.

 

[Okuser]

please cry a little harder. it makes me feel just that much better.

Y4 bl0w.

 

[Player-3]

wait okuser ur only in plat 3?

 

[ToferTheHuman]

Is it just me, or does he sound like John?

 

[Okuser]

You sound like you are in elo hell or something.

no not at all, the promotion series is essentially the embodiment of elo hell, though, if you actually think about what "elo hell" is.

i love this new ranking system.

i always gain more league points from a win than i can ever lose. it's sooooooo good.

yea I've been getting more points than losses for a while now,

Okuser your winrate rant is inherently flawed, because your 66% rate is a meaningless number in this scenario.

More accurate is to think of it as being able to win two in a row.

Say you play 4 games.

Loss. Win. Win. Loss.

If the first three are your promotion series, you're out, even though your winrate is 50%.

I don't disagree that there is some luck involved, but statistically if you're managing 50% win rate, playing 2 series will get you out if the division. (WLL, WLW)

For a tier promotion it'd be the same idea. If you're pulling 50% you're gonna win 2/4 and lose 2/4 and its a coin toss on the 5th.

Luck is involved, but your 66% number is provably false.

Sounds to me like you could be getting tilted in your play because you get frustrated by a loss/bad luck in your promotion series.

you would win your series with l-w-w-l (you said first 3 games? and that's 2/3 wins soooo) but besides that, you can have well over a 50% winrate and still never advance divisions. and about the 66% figure. if you isolate your promotion series games, 3 games, you have to have a MINIMUM flat win% of 66.6 or you lose the series.

wait okuser ur only in plat 3?

yes.

 

[Raziek]

Quoted with no response, color me ALL the confused.