Grand Old Thread: League of Legends!

[#HBC | ZoZo]

hint: when playing thresh and your adc doesnt follow up on a hook dont press q a second time

jus sayin u mightve had leesyndrome without realizing it

a polished turd is still a turd

 

[Sinister Slush]

No not leesyndrome tbh.
Mostly me walking up and autoing them for the extra damage from E and maybe even flay but they either run away or continue farming when minions full hp.

Besides, I'm like 1-2 or 1-3 with thresh. I just prefer not to support at all though.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

oh goodness me you have to play a farm lane

if only thresh was good at tha-

oh wait he is.

 

[Sinister Slush]

lol ur silly

 

[Player-3]

me when i read this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XbnkpjjhSY

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

lol ur silly

 

[Espy Rose]

me when i read this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XbnkpjjhSY

f,asndfneljfnjakfldjklsdnf

God I remember this song.

 

[Sinister Slush]

I was hoping for reading rainbow for some reason.

 

[Espy Rose]

So this Master Tier...

 

[Sinister Slush]

Now Diamond tier quite literally doesn't matter anymore. Now it'll be "unless you're challenger, I'm telling myself you're wrong"

 

[Asdioh]

Entire GAME won't matter once smash 4 comes out
calling it now, people will leave in droves

 

[Shaya]

And then Splatoon will finish it.

 

[Player-3]

shaya wana be on my mlg splatoon platoon

 

[john!]

SLUSH THE SWAIN TRAIN IS A WlLD RIDE THAT YOU WILL NEVER WANT TO GET OFF

 

[Zano]

shaya wana be on my mlg splatoon platoon

why not just make an all marth splatoon platoon while you're at it, we're weaboo enough to appreciate how cute squid girls can be.

 

[Player-3]

me shaya zano nike the black american dream i dont actually know what the team numbers are but that sounds like an ACE SQUADRON

 

[teluoborg]

Yeah that's team of four people. And splatoon is fun to play but I really hope they fix how the camera is handled before release. Because half the camera on the right stick and the other half by moving the gamepad around ? That's silly.

The rest of the game is crazy good tho.

 

[Sinister Slush]

SLUSH THE SWAIN TRAIN IS A WlLD RIDE THAT YOU WILL NEVER WANT TO GET OFF

I stopped playing swain two years ago because last hitting with him is abysmal and slow, while he's just kinda boring to play. Only went 3-0 with him in ranked previously because "I think swain is freelo right now unless the enemy team somehow goes 20-0 before 15 minutes

 

[Shaya]

because "I think X is freelo right now unless the enemy team somehow goes 20-0 before 15 minutes

Welcome to the higher level of league thinking.
(I think you can almost achieve anything with this mindset in solo queue)

 

[Player-3]

literally every single champion is viable in solo q at every level

 

[Sinister Slush]

Not shore if that's insulting me or not but either way will agree with one thing lol.

I might play Yasuo finally because the skin that should've been his skin from release is coming out. Sam from MGR.
>D2
>playing top tiers to get into the top tiers
Maybe I'm a tier ***** for league but never will be for Smash unless Yoshi is somehow high tier in Smash 4.

 

[Shaya]

Not shore if that's insulting me or not but either way will agree with one thing lol.

Believe in Swain who believes in you.

 

[Zano]

Is he really getting a Sam skin? I might have to play only yasuo forever now

 

[Sinister Slush]

Is he really getting a Sam skin? I might have to play only yasuo forever now

Yes.

And I told myself I wouldn't spend anymore money on lug
hah

 

[Shaya]

Honestly up until Yasuo's release I had the samurai idea in my mind and funnily enough certain aspects aligned (well I think a dashing aoe ult slash type thing was guaranteed).

But this is more of what I wanted and yearned for recognition (in a skin or some nicely audible GRUNTS or badass lines)

 

[Asdioh]

So I was pretty hype for Veigar getting a sweet skin, but then I heard the voice and the awful references and uh...never mind. Even the particles aren't all that impressive, especially for this legendary price.

the cake is a lie guys, somebody set up us the BOMB XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32qfkhNLmvM

edit: actually the Agahnim orb thing is pretty cool, but some of those quotes kill it for me. It's not the same voice actor, is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYCiDwhfDqs

 

[Zano]

I was really hoping master hand was gonna be the new champ based on the pic, oh well

 

[Sinister Slush]

Christmas Veigar > Final Boss Veigar.
If it didn't have the lel so fahnny maymays and christmas skin wasn't a thing, I would've gotten this skin.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Final Boss Veigar is gonna compete with my Christmas skin...grrr this will be tough.

 

[Sinister Slush]

Redeemed itself a little because he says

But still too many memes.

 

[Shaya]

Shooting rainbows on Leprechaun Veigar also seems a lot better than everything shown about FB Veigar too. I hope that isn't the final version, the sounds are horrendous and imo the graphics aren't that special.

 

[teluoborg]

The majority of his lines make the skin obnoxious, I had not seen so many internet references in a single place since I watched the yu gi oh abridged series.

 

[KuroganeHammer]

Maybe I'm a tier ***** for league but never will be for Smash unless Yoshi is somehow high tier in Smash 4.

Can jump OoS so will be high tier if his moveset is similar or better than Brawl's.

Or at least VERY annoying to deal with.

Also Raiden Yasuo is best Yasuo.

And Veigar's new skin looks cool, but his voice is terrible. Not sure if want.

 

[Dre89]

So what are the first impressions of Gnar? OP/balanced/UP?

I like him thematically, but I'd probably only play him if you can manage his rage so that you have a fairly good degree of control on the transformation.

 

[Ussi]

Gnar looks like a perfect on hit bruiser champ. Kite with botrk and tankish with wits end. Then when rage full, get all the HP you need to be a bruiser and engage.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

I've played him a few times to get a feel for him... he seems a bit ridiculous but he has clear cut weaknesses.

For one, while against Vayne you can sit out the W proc and avoid losing trades that way, the boomerang + stacks on multiple targets doesn't allow that against Gnar. Gnar will pretty much always get a best case scenario in terms of the damage he deals to you in short, medium, and long trades. Best thing is, after the trade you can judge if you want to press further or let it be with the Hyper! movespeed.
It's noticable that people's inexperience makes playing against Gnar harder. The transformation is so hella telegraphed that you will never get an optimal Mega Gnar combo with Hop Crunch against good opponents. I would recommend abusing bushes because it seems to make it harder to keep track of his rage.

Later on you will probably not engage much outside of flanks (which are strong if jungle creeps are around to manage rage) and by joining the midline, however, you still have a permaslow in the backline. His teamfighting seems to be difficult. Keeping track of W stacks, catching Q, positioning (400-500 range...), AND your rage is hectic, but not optimizing it is not the worst. That said, I can imagine optimizing it will make you even stronger in teamfights. I think you're a backliner generally with /some/ flexibility, mainly because your ranged form can shred tanks and melee form is a cc bot.

Weakness? I played against an Akali and she pretty much one shot me in mini Gnar, and sat out a lot of mega Gnar in shroud. I can imagine most assassins/Irelia (whom is kinda also an Assassin so whatever) destroy him (with some exceptions ofc), because mini Gnar is probably squishier than Sona. Yes you have a jump, but CD is still high and if they get some burst off before that, you're still left at like 30% HP without a lot of innate sustain. (you can count mega Gnar but that still opens you up.

Build I used:
Brut > Ionian > Bork > Randuins > Triforce/Youmuus/Visage (in whatever order) > Flex spot.

 

[Dre89]

The two weaknesses I see with him are his awkward itemisation and his team synergy. Sometimes he's a marksmen and sometimes he's a tank so you need to make sure that you have some form of frontline when he's mini.

I think I'm gonna quit jungling in soloque. The thing about jungling is that you're penalised for your teammate's shortcomings moreso than any other role. It's really hard to make an impact when all your lanes are feeding hard, and you suffer consequently because they start roaming into your jungle to take your buffs and control dragon.

It's an awesome role for ranked 5s though.

 

[Ussi]

Team's shortcoming can always be your downfall... Regardless of role. If anything, jungler is best role at patching short comings, or amplifying the best person on your team.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Damn it riot why Riot Nasus as well when you're releasing Gnar and Arcade miss fortune...arg.

 

[adumbrodeus]

The majority of his lines make the skin obnoxious, I had not seen so many internet references in a single place since I watched the yu gi oh abridged series.

Cause the internet games. Also kefka makes me happy

Edit:

Gnar, feel bruiser for him, his beast form packs a massive amount of utility and really high bases but don't have instant control so you can't really catch, you can only follow up if you have enough time to finish the transformation so he seems to work better as disruption or followup dive then a mainline tank. You're also forced to use mini in extended teamfights so he needs to be able to do functional damage in that form too.