Grand Old Thread: League of Legends!

[Leacero]

Can someone define "blue build" for me? I thought it had to do with laners getting the Spirit jungle items but apparently Muramana Ashe qualifies now?

It's basically all the blue items, so things like: Muramana, Last Whisper, Frozen Fist, Elder items, Ionian boots, and BotRK (THOUGH IT'S PURPLE).

 

[MrEh]

Ionian Boots are actually red but most people don't notice. har har

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Ionian Boots are actually red but most people don't notice. har har

But it's blue around it!!!

 

[Niko45]

I think the luck factor in solo queue is less about whether or not you're getting good teammates but, patch to patch, are the champions that are incredibly strong in the game at the time the champions you are also good at playing.

You see this all the time even at high elo where one patch some guy looks like a god cause his main champ is op and then that gets nerfed and he's just getting wrecked every game trying to play other ****.

Then there is also the niche factor. If you're a kennen player, you have probably been ****** all season long, because kennen has been strong as **** all season long. He's only now getting a ton of attention (probably due to rumble and elise nerfs or something, idk). Wukong is another good example. Any champ who you can clearly see is effective and yet is never picked professionally because of whatever reason is money for farming elo. You can't commit heavily to being a khazix or Jayce player now, cause the nerf bat is out and watching them closely.

 

[Wave⁂]

People are getting Elder Lizard less often these days, especially after the nerfs

 

[JTB]

solo queue should be treated as training mode for 5s

now that im diamond 5, i can start mastering champs outside my safe picks without fear of dropping into plat

 

[Life]

It's basically all the blue items, so things like: Muramana, Last Whisper, Frozen Fist, Elder items, Ionian boots, and BotRK (THOUGH IT'S PURPLE).

.... I'm partially colorblind. This makes me sad. Riot pls nerf item icons

 

[john!]

solo queue has very little luck involved. there's a reason why wildturtle and xj9 are able to get account after account into challenger/diamond 1

but a lot of the "skills" necessary to get high elo in solo queue aren't actually good from a competitive perspective (such as hyper-aggressiveness, cheese tactics that rely on disorganization, and playing the hardest pubstomper you can)

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

While that can be the case John, people stll need to develop skills to get higher than they are at bronze or silver.

 

[Coney]

solo queue has very little luck involved. there's a reason why wildturtle and xj9 are able to get account after account into challenger/diamond 1

but a lot of the "skills" necessary to get high elo in solo queue aren't actually good from a competitive perspective (such as hyper-aggressiveness, cheese tactics that rely on disorganization, and playing the hardest pubstomper you can)

okay yeah this is 100% true, pushing someone in as much as possible is really really effective in solo

if ur the world's best, like...lissandra, sure maybe u can get into diamond, but u would be a LOT better in 5s

solo q also takes perseverance & serious leadership/management skills, if you're not trying to get there in >400 games you have to take charge a large majority of the time

also gotta be pretty ballsy bc to make plays you kinda have to do stupid **** and hope the team will follow your lead, sometimes you just have to do that 1v5 initiation when you're ahead and pray your team knows what they're doing

cant count how many times i've gone the "wrong way" in the jungle (aka the path we SHOULD be taking), forcing the team to follow me into a 3-for-5 ace

sometimes ya gotta yank the chain

EDIT - yeah i know this **** has been said 1000000x before but solo q is really interesting to me, this collection of 10 neurotic elements bisected into two teams and whoever cracks first usually loses, it's neat

 

[Plum]

tldr:
Play more Nunu jungle, cheese your way into free elo, everybody wins.

Seriously, NOBODY at lower elos knows how to stop Nunu cheese.

 

[Player-3]

tldr:
Play more Nunu jungle, cheese your way into free elo, everybody wins.

Seriously, NOBODY can stop Nunu in 3.8.

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[Soft Serve]

the fact that q out damages smite lvl 1 is sorta stupid. If nunu's base heath wasn't so large that he can easily run away from 2-3 people after he hits 2 off of the stolen buff, it wouldn't be so stupid. Soloing dragon at lvl 4 is also really really obnoxious.

Thankfully nunu can't carry games (unless he gets a fully charged ult on your whole team every team fight, in which case you should lose anyway). He does snowball lanes really well from his crazy dive potential.

 

[BSL]

Heh, snowball

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Even with the upcoming nerf to his q it still does more damage than smite.

Still it's 30 more than smite, compared to now when he has a bigger window of error.

Still I prefer this over any form if lane Nunu.

 

[Plum]

Been playing that Ghost + Flash + Distortion Boots Ashe.
Been going very well for me. More chances to make plays, and a summoner is up basically every fight.
In my last game even got a penta kill right before we marched into their base.

 

[Z'zgashi]

 

[Shaya]

So I'm going to get to diamond (or close to ) with Master Yi sometime soon. Probably after the 21st of July. Hopefully he won't be nerfed by then (is the Yi rework meant to be out next patch? )

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

So I'm going to get to diamond (or close to ) with Master Yi sometime soon. Probably after the 21st of July. Hopefully he won't be nerfed by then (is the Yi rework meant to be out next patch? )

I don't believe so, they said it's gonna go to the PBE for a while like Karma did before a full release.

 

[Asdioh]

PBE for a while like Karma

heh

 

[KuroganeHammer]

I wonder what the Oceanic skin will be.

 

[teluoborg]

Not even riot knows.

How about a second version of coral Maplhite ?

 

[Player-3]

OCEANIC NAUTILUS


!!!@######

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Oceanic Nami or Fizz imo.

 

[Soft Serve]

I'd insta buy any of those three.

 

[Ussi]

I want a water theme Zyra skin. Then there will be grass, fire, and water for her

 

[Sinister Slush]

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

I was wondering when RP purchasable icons would show up.

 

[Zero_Gamer]

Are people actually going to spend money on that?

Edit: Ack, who am I kidding. People looooooove having something that makes them different from others. Also, team allegiances and all that junk.

 

[Player-3]

zero gamer u are edgy!!!

 

[Asdioh]

Ha. That explains the recent PBE change to showing summoner icons on the loading screen.

 

[Leacero]

streaming dream team: www.twitch.tv/leacero

p3 sitting on sidelines for being the best

 

[Player-3]

proxy gp almost worked

 

[Shaya]

Proxy Nocturne.

 

[KuroganeHammer]

I did Proxy Brand the other day.

Only because I was feeding already.

Oceanic Nautilus sounds great, considering that his current (hue) skins are bad.

 

[BSL]

You mean to tell me Dump Truck Nautilus isn't the best?

 

[Ussi]

proxy amumu is where its at. Spam E every second and take no damages

 

[nicaboy]

Hey guys so I have been trying gp10 seals and quints on certain champions(mainly kat since she is really versitile with rune sets). Its been working farily well and of course I can get items sooner. Im curious to know what others think about a set up like that. I've also have had decent success with it on tryndamere but it may not be as safe to do on him than a mid laner.

 

[Leacero]

if the stats you miss out on would make you lose a creep or so per wave (i.e. through harass/poor trades), it's not worth it. gp10s would also do nothing for you in a fight.

 

[Z'zgashi]

I go gp 10 runes on a lot of my support/jungle pages, but aside from that i dont really use them.