Grand Old Thread: League of Legends!

[Sinister Slush]

No longer clamped, thankfully getting 18-22 points every win again, but play 14 or 16 games yesterday and only progress is lose 2 points. (40 to 38) Teammates...

 

[Z'zgashi]

http://www.twitch.tv/hoidsa/b/464947298 I just want to cry at how hard it is to reach Plat 1

edit: So I started the day being in promos to plat 1, and started off with a 4v5. After a bunch of wins and losses today, I'm back in promos, this'll be my 4th time reaching these promos, 0-2 in all of them after going 2-0 for all my other plat promos.

If it makes you feel any better, Ive failed the same promotion 6 times in a row now and 3 times have gone from promotion back to almost 0 LP and back due to huge loss streaks that always seem to happen RIGHT when I get into my promos lol. Im currently at like 94 LP or something, hopefully I cant make it through this time lol.

 

[Asdioh]

Yeah, I kept getting ALMOST to plat 1 promos, and then the bad luck hit. At one point I fell to plat 4, then climbed my way back up to upper Plat2 with like, a 90% winrate at least. It was pretty gross how easy the games suddenly got.
Then yesterday I did promos again, first game had enemy Teemo/Heimerdinger trolls with Revive/TP, then second game was just an easy win. So yay plat 1! Now I'm afraid to play more because it'll probably take like 20 wins in a row to reach diamond ._.

 

[Espy Rose]

What can you possibly be afraid of?
What could seriously be in this game that is literally intimidating you into avoiding ranked?

At the point you're at, there's virtually zero excuse not to play now that you've bothered to get that far. Just do it you wimp.

 

[Sinister Slush]

I had a sona ez bot that lost to heimer support yesterday I think. Was upset.
I also lost three today despite doing good, some "diamond" smurf kept **** talking everyone (mostly me) and eventually left after her third death against tryn top.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Yeah, I kept getting ALMOST to plat 1 promos, and then the bad luck hit. At one point I fell to plat 4, then climbed my way back up to upper Plat2 with like, a 90% winrate at least. It was pretty gross how easy the games suddenly got.
Then yesterday I did promos again, first game had enemy Teemo/Heimerdinger trolls with Revive/TP, then second game was just an easy win. So yay plat 1! Now I'm afraid to play more because it'll probably take like 20 wins in a row to reach diamond ._.

Gonna side with Espy here.

You gotta approach Ranked at some point to get better/higher, so go do it.

 

[Sinister Slush]

when you enter a new division, you play till you win to see how many points you get. if 14 or above, keep playing ******. If under 14, stop right there and just stay in whatever tier/division you're in.

Thankfully for me the three losses in a row I got turned into 3 wins in a row, but now I gained 10 points and at 58. Kinda feel like riot is behind this, "Let's give him another chance" they say then after 20 attempts for promos he's actually below 50! "oh well back to clamping him"

Funny enough I was actually above 70 points before it made my point value drop back down to the 7-10 phase.

 

[Z'zgashi]

Ive decided Im just going to keep playing Corki and Ez cuz Tri Force too stronk; currently 9-2 with Corki and 2-0 with Ez since Tri Force buffs, so imma ride that train as far as I can lmao.

 

[Asdioh]

oh of course i'm gonna try for diamond, i'm just taking a break because plat 2 was a nightmare. Bought Anivia recently and played her in a normal for the first time, I dominated pretty well (though my normal elo is much, much lower) and I wonder why she doesn't see more play. Only real weakness I felt was that like, if she uses all her spells on someone and can't burst them down, then she just sits there like "well crap."
Her passive's so op. Apparently Warmogs is better than GA to synergize with that passive?

 

[john!]

asdioh i just realized that you main malzahar. if you hit diamond then you are my hero. malz is criminally underplayed.

do you ever use teleport on malz?

 

[Soft Serve]

Xin is still really easy to snowball games with. I picked him up after the nerf a while back, i wish i could have abused that **** before.

Any recomendations on what roles to play/who to play to carry yourself up? right now I've been focusing on getting mid or jungle because those are my two best roles, Focusing on a roam centric play where i help my other lanes as much as possible. I've taken on the mentality that the opposing laner is always better than me, and i asume i'll get out played/out deeped. I just push and ward really deep in the jungle and roam. People seem to play better when they realize that the mid laner is activingly seeking to gain map control and help out their own lane. I Also always take tele when i'm mid, but thats just my playstyle. Currently i'm playing a lot of ori/cass mid, those two are pretty much my comfort champs right now that i know i can fall back on even in bad matchups. Oddly even though I love to roam I hate TF. I've been jungling j4(who doesnt?), Naut, Xin, and when the enemy team is bruiser heavy with no assassins I'll go Trundle because a bruiser comp has litterally no options against a trundle mid-late game. What other Mid laners have really strong roaming potential with good teamfight presence? And what junglers are strong right now besides Elise( I just cant play her for my life). Is shen jungle still viable? How good is Mao right now?


Ranked threes is really easy to climb up in, me and my team have lost only like 3 games in the last 3 nights and we're hoping to see if we can skip a division when we win our next promos. How common is that? We climbed from bronze 2 to silver 5, 97 lp in like 15 games tops.

 

[Asdioh]

asdioh i just realized that you main malzahar. if you hit diamond then you are my hero. malz is criminally underplayed.

do you ever use teleport on malz?

I haven't taken TP on him in a long time, too often I end up needing the ignite to get kills. I think Teleport jungle Rammus is the main reason I've been able to climb after upper Gold elo. You don't need flash to catch people, they can flash away and it's still not enough to run. TP ganks are also op, and the map presence/coming back into fights after low hp or dying lategame is super op.

Any recomendations on what roles to play/who to play to carry yourself up? right now I've been focusing on getting mid or jungle because those are my two best roles, Focusing on a roam centric play where i help my other lanes as much as possible.

I try to play mid/jungle whenever possible. Best roles for helping other lanes/getting objectives early on.

What other Mid laners have really strong roaming potential with good teamfight presence? And what junglers are strong right now besides Elise( I just cant play her for my life). Is shen jungle still viable? How good is Mao right now?

Ahrilol. Swain's also surprisingly good.. he's not mobile but his ult is "always up" so he's set to roam absolutely any time. Like I said I've been abusing Rammus, with Mobis (and maybe homeguard) he has the ability to pressure everywhere on the map on really short notice, and that's super important in solo queue.
I used to jungle Naut/Xin/Voli, but now I pretty much pick Rammus every single time. Only problem jungler I've faced is Trundle, because he's such an antitank :/
Also the fact that I take TP makes me vulnerable to early ganks, so I try to get my team to invade every game. I start with Powerball and gottagofast my way to their blue, usually catch people (even in plat) for an easy first blood and/or buff steal. Half the time people are like "wtf why not take Taunt?" and that's because they're dumb, Taunt is absolute garbage level 1. Taunt's a 1 second CC, if you manage to catch the person. It's also completely useless for Rammus' already super slow clear. Powerball on the other hand has 100 base damage, a speedboost, and essentially is more CC than a rank 1 Taunt. I feel like it's just as good for clearing jungle level 1 as his W is.

tl;dr Rammus op learn to play him

 

[AP Renekton]

thank you based game

 

[Asdioh]

http://i.imgur.com/FABybNp.png it begins!
Spooky Ghost engage for the win was really satisfying.

 

[Sinister Slush]

You're honestly not getting to diamond anytime soon unless you grind 10 games a day.

 

[Player-3]

not with that attitude

 

[Sinister Slush]

That's why I said unless he really grinds for it with like 10 or so games a day.

 

[JTB]

I got to diamond playing only a few games a day

Sdo, remember what I told you about talking about your solo q experiences? Don't do ittttt

 

[Sinister Slush]

Well unless you were getting more than 4-7 points asdioh will most likely be getting every win. I'm sure it was easier for you.

 

[Plum]

I have now experienced the joy of playing a snowballed six item Riven.
Three Bloodthirsters, Hydra, Last Whisper and Mercs. Pop ult and have over 650 AD. Ult slash dealing up to 1500 damage. Passive deals over 300 bonus damage. 700 health shields from E.
Oh god the horror.

 

[Kuro~]

getting to gold in 3s is easy. Platinum 3-4 and on are where it starts to be tough(er) cuz u start running into the diamonds and challengers consistently.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Well I got my goal of gold so I am happy about that.

Next season Platnium.

 

[teluoborg]

Sdo, remember what I told you about talking about your solo q experiences? Don't do ittttt

But this Nasus name tho, I thought this kind of nicknames were taken by people who stop playing the game at level 5.

 

[Espy Rose]

http://i.imgur.com/FABybNp.png it begins!
Spooky Ghost engage for the win was really satisfying.

Only five points?
Enjoy your climb.

 

[Plum]

So I had the urge to play Warwick today for some ungodly reason.
Didn't bother to take him into the jungle because he's just a weak jungler, but I figured Lanewick could still work out similar to Vlad. Assuming you can truck it through the first few levels your sustain just becomes too much.
Went AP Lanewick, Lichbane and Nashors being the core. Kind of funny to watch your ult oneshot squishies. 660 base damage at level 18 with a 1.75 AP ration between the Lichbane proc, Nashors, and Spellblade mastery.

 

[Ussi]

AP Warwick has a strong late game


you just have to survive till then

 

[PhantomX]

One series away from Gold... Zac top 8-0 in solo queue, even after nerfs (though it's so much more difficult now, haha).

 

[Hot_ArmS]

when does the season officially end

 

[Sinister Slush]

October 31st. 32 days left.

 

[Player-3]

tfw u go 11/2 in a role you dont play against the korean overlords...

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Also you duo to silver people, talk to me anytime during today, tomarrow and Wednesday.

I'm can duo during these days.

 

[Sinister Slush]

tfw u go 11/2 in a role you dont play against the korean overlords...

Zamphira our lord and savior.

 

[Espy Rose]

I just kept my camera on Zamp. I didn't even recognize you P3. Sry. ; ;

 

[Plum]

I got to say, it's been delightful to have the Koreans playing on the NA servers during worlds, fun to see them on our streams.
Won't get many other chances to just watch Faker's Leblanc oneshot Dyrus again and again.
"Faker's Leblanc isn't falling off at all! You guys lied!"
I died.

 

[Asdioh]

so does nobody take exhaust at the highest of elo?

 

[Player-3]

if theres a reason to, only point to take exhaust is vs like jax or an assassin like fizz or something that u can feasibly get in range of to exhaust before your dude gets oneshot

 

[Ussi]

I only take exhaust for assassins or late game. Ignite really makes a supports burst quite dangerous early and mid game.



I don't know how Zamphira does it with Lulu ;-; he's my hero

 

[Sinister Slush]

Zamph is the Beautiful Korean of Lulu. Knows his things.

 

[Asdioh]

yes, got +6 instead of +5, and last game i even got +7!
I'm at 30 points!

 

[JTB]

i haven't been following streamers for a while and I'm just getting back into it. what are some good support streamers besides xpecial that stream frequently?