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That MF splash is...shameless.
It represents the male bias of female gamers!


Also, new Sona's E needs a bigger radius.

I hate how slower it is to build up Sona's passive :s (from the general CD nerf) now I can't spam power chord as much. Also sad Q doesn't help take down turrets faster now :/

New Heal + shield is awesome though. I don't how much work Q is doing but laning Sona is worse but teamfights are better.
 
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It represents the male bias of female gamers!


Also, new Sona's E needs a bigger radius.

I hate how slower it is to build up Sona's passive :s (from the general CD nerf) now I can't spam power chord as much. Also sad Q doesn't help take down turrets faster now :/

New Heal + shield is awesome though. I don't how much work Q is doing but laning Sona is worse but teamfights are better.
Really? From the three games I've played with her so far, her Q seems to make trading in lane much more effective once you hit level two because you can just bounce from the bonus Q damage into the sheild and not really lose anything in the trade (whereas you'd lose the bonus ad/ap after switching from Q to W with old Sona), plus once you hit three you have a movement speed buff that can kind of work as an escape/engage whenever you really need it. She's still poke forever, except now you don't have to wait until you get power chord to do good damage if your adc is on board, so you're saving a lot more mana in the long run imo.

That's just my opinion anyways. ;_;
 
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Oh dear god. I kinda want the skin but this is somewhat 2lewd, even for Riot. I'm just surprised her spine isn't broken in this splash.


Also why are there pages of pointless arguing. Yes, Lee's kit is the definition of overloaded. Riot's balancing is abysmal. The guy has 7 abilities and is manaless.
And look up what Gnar does before asking pointless questions, everything you can wonder about him is currently answered on RoG/S@20/Youtube. I think he actually doesn't look overpowered yet, although of course they're making yet another manaless 7 ability champion for who knows what reason. It looks to be balanced for once because the transformation is forced, which if anything would be more frustrating for the Gnar player than for the enemy.
(of course he get a good mobility spell though, because this is 2014)
 

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Also why are there pages of pointless arguing. Yes, Lee's kit is the definition of overloaded. Riot's balancing is abysmal. The guy has 7 abilities and is manaless.
Because Dre NEVER gives up, I understand where shaya is coming from, though i disagree,I think his raw utility is enough to hyper scale him even without being able to make usage of his passive reliably in teamfights, at the same time building him bruiser does generally allow him to.
 

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Arguing with Dre is basically Sonic vs Ganondorf on spear pillar

I really love MF's arcade skin, really contemplating buying it.
 
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can you rephrase this in a way that the melee master race can understand?
Basically circle camping us by running away

Spear Pillar is a stage you could permanently run away from someone slow like Ganondorf from, so it's impossible to win (as Ganondorf)

Similarly arguing with dre is him reposting large amounts of text and running away from main points so you can't argue with him
 

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Being obliviously stubborn must be one way to get the debate icon, I suppose. :applejack:
This debater icon is a curse really. I've noticed that people who normally result to ad hominem insults when I disagree with them will mention the icon. It's as if when people see the debater icon they expect the debater to agree with everything they say because they think they're never wrong.

Adumbrodeous- That's all well and good about Lee Sin. What I don't understand is that you said that Naut's ganks aren't good and only work at lower elos, but as soon as I gave you examples of them working in high level play you ignored them and reverted the discussion back to Lee Sin. It seemed as if you didn't want to acknowledge my point that Naut can actually gank early in high elo.
 

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Dre, this has always been about about lee sin and the dominant bruiser junglers, not that naut's gank never work early, but that they're extremely ineffective relative to elise/lee sin/eve's low leveled ganks (though eve also lacks the burst strength, but again her strength comes from her ability to get behind anyone) for the reasons I stated and what they can do to you to put you behind relative to the laners makes it much harder and the current meta makes their ganks that much more ineffective.

It's all been part of the same point, tank junglers' reletive weakness, not that they CAN'T do something, and you're also entirely ignoring that all-stars 2013 was a completely different meta, one that advantaged tank junglers a lot more.


edit: I'm honestly confused where you think it diverted to saying "in the aether naut is a terrible ganker", the intent was always contrast and I tried to make it clear at every point, but nobody is terrible in the aether. It's always a matter of comparison versus potential substitutes. The tangent about nautilus was brought there by the initial discussion in order to answer an objection, it never was THE discussion, or at least not the one I was talking about.
 
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I understand that people here like resorting to insults when someone disagrees with them, but for not thinking Lee is cancerous? Really? Like, not only do millions of people share this view with me, but plenty of pros do too. Would you guys insult pro players for refusing to accept that Lee is cancerous too?

Ya, it works for you, at your level of play but this isn't aimed at your level of play and frankly not mine either. It's aimed primarily at competitive play and secondarily at the ultratop top tiers of solo queue play. I can give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you regularly manage to pull ganks off on high diamond/challenger players with naut and they're not sandbagging with high diamond/challenger Lee sins on their team that are also not sandbagging, but the fact is that you're able to work is not a reflection on the general populace at top levels of play, because small sample size.

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This is what I'm talking about. Here you're saying that you won't accept that Naut can gank at higher elos because of my small sample size, but I gave you an example from All-Stars, which is literally the second highest level of play there is. I also noted that I've seen high elo players gank successfully early tons of times in soloque. You just ignored this and went back to Lee. Yes I understand that the larger point was about Lee's dominance, but it's still disingenuous of you to either not accept that he can gank, or to provide a rebuttal. By not responding to it, it comes across that you have no rebuttal but didn't want to admit that I was right.

Lee's probably the best jungler in the game, I just don't think he's cancerous. It's not like you don't have a good chance at winning with a tank if you know what you're doing. They have certain advantages over him than can be realised if you play it properly/things go right for you. The obvious one would probably be outscaling him in tankiness due to a defensive steroid, and also providing more utility through either harder or more abundant CC.
 

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I dont think you understand the fact that youre actually completely wrong. Especially this part:
It's not like you don't have a good chance at winning with a tank if you know what you're doing.
If the Lee knows what hes doing, he should have a good chance at winning every singe match up in the jungle. And 99% of the time its more like a better chance rather than a good chance. He has so much dueling potential, so much clear speed, so much gank potential, so much damage, so much utility, so much mobility, so much pressure, so much presence, etc. Like, your champion might be better than Lee at one or two things, but the Lee should have the advantage in so many other areas that if he presses those advantages he does have correctly, Lee should rarely not come out on top.

The reason he's cancer is because he just straight up excels at everything to the point of not having ANY weaknesses he cant overcome by just abusing his other strengths that are more prominent in the current match up. There is no besting a Lee Sin because Lee Sin will always have options that are stupidly strong; even if you nullify 3 of his normal strong points, he has 7 more that he can abuse instead. Hes ridiculous.
 
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I understand that people here like resorting to insults when someone disagrees with them, but for not thinking Lee is cancerous? Really? Like, not only do millions of people share this view with me, but plenty of pros do too. Would you guys insult pro players for refusing to accept that Lee is cancerous too?
Irrelevant because everyone knows how powerful and suffocating lee is in the pros :p

But people get annoyed with you because of your attitude rather then your opinions.


This is what I'm talking about. Here you're saying that you won't accept that Naut can gank at higher elos because of my small sample size, but I gave you an example from All-Stars, which is literally the second highest level of play there is. I also noted that I've seen high elo players gank successfully early tons of times in soloque. You just ignored this and went back to Lee.
Yes I understand that the larger point was about Lee's dominance, but it's still disingenuous of you to either not accept that he can gank, or to provide a rebuttal. By not responding to it, it comes across that you have no rebuttal but didn't want to admit that I was right.

Lee's probably the best jungler in the game, I just don't think he's cancerous. It's not like you don't have a good chance at winning with a tank if you know what you're doing. They have certain advantages over him than can be realised if you play it properly/things go right for you. The obvious one would probably be outscaling him in tankiness due to a defensive steroid, and also providing more utility through either harder or more abundant CC.
I did respond to it >_>, I said that allstars 2013 was a different meta which advantaged tank junglers a lot more early and your sample size in this meta is small, that I wasn't trying arguing that it was impossible merely that the power of his low leveled ganks was much lower. "Can't" is a rhetorical exaggeration, not a suggestion that it will NEVER happen because that's silly. Successful pre-6 red buff warwick ganks happen, it's just they're incredibly weak and unreliable so they're rare. In this meta however, the vast majority of the time it doesn't work pre-6. You bringing in all-stars 2013 is frankly disingenuous because it was a different meta and one which advantaged early tank junglers ganks a lot more.

What this comes across is you attempting to eek out a semantic victory in spite of being conceptually weaker.


And no, naut didn't scale better then lee >_>, do you know how jealous lee's ult makes naut?

And no, you don't have a good chance unless lee is playing poorly, as a jungler Lee's kit counters tank junglers.
 
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Why does meta matter. Dre only mentioned the effectiveness of Naut's ganks, not whether he's a good pick, etc.
Blah blah blah, yeah we all get it that Lee is good, and especially currently.
Is it that hard to compartmentalise different thoughts in a disccusion..
 
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I'm sorry but what does the meta have to do with how good Naut's ganks are? The jungle meta simply affects the junglers he's versing, not his ganks. If anything it would've been harder to gank back then because they were more mobile assassins as opposed to the dash-less mages you see more of nowadays.

Also Lee outscales Naut in terms of utility? Lee outscales the champion with a huge defensive steroid and literally the most CC in the game?


Irrelevant because everyone knows how powerful and suffocating lee is in the pros :p

But people get annoyed with you because of your attitude rather then your opinions.
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I've never once resorted to insulting people and I've always tried to be civil in my approach, so it's probably that I disagree with people, then continue the argument. Normally that frustrates people if they disagree with the argument, because they perceive it as irrational.
 
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And alas, my post goes ignored and the random introduction of Nautilus becomes the new topic when it was originally entirely about Lee Sin. G ****in g.
 

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So as of this patch (I believe) there's a bug with Quinn where it gives an allchat message whenever she uses Vault, in the same manner Pantheon's ult had a bug like that some patches ago. Riot has been so infuriating lately.
 

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So as of this patch (I believe) there's a bug with Quinn where it gives an allchat message whenever she uses Vault, in the same manner Pantheon's ult had a bug like that some patches ago. Riot has been so infuriating lately.
It doesn't influence your gameplay, why care.
 

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It can though. If the enemy team has no vision of you but then they see the ALLCHAT message, they know you just used it on a jungle monster (small camps, dragon, baron, whatever.) That means you're not in base.

"But then just don't use Vault!"
But it increases my dps. So therefore it does influence my gameplay.
Sit down Ramses :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))):^)
 

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I'm sorry but what does the meta have to do with how good Naut's ganks are? The jungle meta simply affects the junglers he's versing, not his ganks. If anything it would've been harder to gank back then because they were more mobile assassins as opposed to the dash-less mages you see more of nowadays.
1 word, trinkets. The increased availability of vison in this meta both increased the ganking power of junglers with alternative gank paths and increased the ganking power of bursty junglers. Lee is both and naut is neither therefore his ganks are substantially weaker then in allstars pre-6.
Also Lee outscales Naut in terms of utility? Lee outscales the champion with a huge defensive steroid and literally the most CC in the game?
Why is that so surprising? Just look at how many things Lee's kit has, his slow's stronger, lasts longer, affected AS as well, and while it's got lower range (both for the tempest and the cripple application), it doesn't have travel time. His ult is just ridiculous as an engage, disengage, catch tool, Lee can protect other people on his team, lee has execute damage making him amazing at securing neutral objectives, and lee's still got decent damage against the backline lategame even when built tank. Yep naut's tankier, but really all he does better then lee is contribute more lockdown on a caught target and survive better, Lee just contributed more. Hell, he probably still contributes more.

Honestly, a lot of it has to do with the fact that it's a lot easier to react to what naut does because a lot of his stuff is so slow. Granted when lee Q's in you have a fair amount of reaction time (remember he decides whether or not to resonating strike) but he has so many setups and ways to get inside given the versitility of both safegard and resonating strike as movement abilities, not to mention the fact that he can ult somebody in the tankline forward for the aoe knockup. Also 1200 range is sort of insane, compensating for lee coming in to knock a squishy 1200 forward isn't anywhere near as practical as compensating for a slow projectile coming at you that's just a 3 second effective stun unless you're substantially stronger then your opponents and they're far from base in which case it's a hard engage.

Of course a 3 second effective stun is amazing lockup which is where Naut shines.

I've never once resorted to insulting people and I've always tried to be civil in my approach, so it's probably that I disagree with people, then continue the argument. Normally that frustrates people if they disagree with the argument, because they perceive it as irrational.
I'm sure for some that's the case, but honestly the way you debate topics has been a frustration in literally every place it's come up. I mean this was literally exactly the discussion that came up in the debate hall about letting you in. You're extremely intelligent, which was why I supported you but your insane stubbornness makes discussion with you extremely trying.
 
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adumbrodeus, do you understand the difference between assessing Nautilus gank potential independent of other junglers, and comparing the effectiveness of his ganks relative to other junglers..?
 
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adumbrodeus, do you understand the difference between assessing Nautilus gank potential independent of other junglers, and comparing the effectiveness of his ganks relative to other junglers..?
Glad to know that you think choosing to deal with the former means I don't understand the difference between the former and the latter :)
 

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I get that people disagree with one another here, and I agree that Lee Sin deserved the nerfs he got, but I don't think insulting others etc. is not how to go about this.

I would appropriate others be nicer about this so I don't need to infract for this.
 

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As a super mod he's forced to do his dooooooty so he can continue being able to post in the drunk thread, otherwise he loses prolly 90% of the reason for him to post on this site.

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
 

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@ #HBC | Red Ryu #HBC | Red Ryu To be fair, if dre wasn't so frustrating to argue with no one would be mean to him, so he sort of brings it on himself

Also PBE stuff again, Ori now has 38 AD.
 
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