Grand Old Thread: League of Legends!

[Shaya]

Shaya's Try Hards vs Tom and Pals

BANS: Ashe, Malzahar, Nidalee, Jarvan, Nunu, Anivia

Shaya's:
Shen
Taric
Shaco
Ezreal
Annie

Tom's:
Nocturne
Cho'Gath
Ryze
Xin Zhao
Warwick

 

[Virgilijus]

Go Tom's Tryhards!

You got this!

 

[PhantomX]

There are no Tom's Tryhards, it's Tom and Pals >: (

 

[Zolga Owns]

 

[Tom]

gg

omg i got ***** in the jungle

was fun to play with everyone tho

shaya had a very strong early game getting 6 kills (but not on phantomx who did a good job laning vs him) in maybe 15mins. i did a bad job in the jungle vs shaco.

 

[Wobbles]

So I tried this really stupid Kayle setup to attempt to maximize early game dominance and it turned out to be pretty funny actually.

AD Marks, AP Quints, Armor Seals and MRes glyphs. 19 in offense to get as much feasible starting game AP/AD as I could. Summoners were teleport+ignite, with ignite mastery. Use ignite early to get bonus AP/AD.

Bought a Dring at level 1 because that's what you do, I guess; had 72 AD and I think 50-something AP at level 1. I used my ignite and bumped that up to around 74 AD 60 AP, so early game I hit REALLY HARD. Used that to earn some early kills and get myself an early blasting wand + boots, since people don't really stay in range to eat Righteous Fury swings but they will usually let themselves get hit by Q.

My next step with this build is to try adding flat AD seals and flat AP glyphs, then sit in spawn for 25 seconds and buy both red and blue pots to start with like 85 AD and 60 AP before the ignite, and try to cheese people hard and start snowballing right away. I also feel like an early Malady over Rageblade would be better but I'm not sure.

 

[Frolossus]

GG guys, though I do feel that the teams were slightly stacked in our favor

 

[Tom]

Its okay. As a Tom, I learned a lot about what Tom and Pals. #1 lesson is that when we play we should be sure to play our designated roles... I shouldn't take the jungle over Evan who is very good at it, I should play off-tanky AP like Singed/Sion who I am used to playing. :]

Tom and Pals will do better next time. REAL.

 

[Evanms]

Ranked 5's swf too good!

 

[DanGR]

As a Tom

redundancy at its best.

 

[M3D]

M3D? More like M3Tree, amirite?

 

[Juno McGrath]

Hey is the smasher vent still going? im going to start playing a lot again soon.

 

[DanGR]

Hey is the smasher vent still going? im going to start playing a lot again soon.

yuppppp oxygen.typefrag.com 38458

 

[Juno McGrath]

good dan, i need some nid tips from you :D

 

[Evanms]

M3D? More like M3Tree, amirite?

In all honesty best tree I've seen hands down.

@tom, yea playing against shaco can be very difficult. If you are serious about learning to deal with him ask me on vent. Right after the inhouse we got queued against a shaco who I destroyed.

I love running jarvan nunu. Such good synergy.

Still undefeated as nunu in ranked. Also I broke 1400 tonight. Yeah for swf 5's

 

[PhantomX]

That last game was a disaster though. I'll still play again but only if it's actual tryharding in ranked :\ Don't say play tryhard ranks and then make silly character choices/build decisions... tanking for that kind of stuff is pretty irritating. Just do that in normals.

 

[Tom]

revive panth karth tf

im demodocus btw

 

[UTDZac]

This keeps happening to me lol. 8th occurrence XD

 

[Tom]

ur interfamous

 

[DMG]

Same thing with Atomsk. We found JJ Wolf and some other Wolf player in 1 game.

 

[Tom]

@tom, yea playing against shaco can be very difficult. If you are serious about learning to deal with him ask me on vent. Right after the inhouse we got queued against a shaco who I destroyed.

Still undefeated as nunu in ranked. Also I broke 1400 tonight. Yeah for swf 5's

congrats on 1400 and yes please on learning on vent

 

[Dastrn]

Today, we are doing ranked 5s before dastrn goes to bed, mmmkay?

 

[DMG]

WHAT

Doctorwhodunit

 

[Dastrn]

jpak, i could urgot for you guys if you ever need me. I'm going to be working on my ashe and nocturne this week as well. Also, my corki isn't bad.

might learn twisted again soon too. he's too fun.

 

[Shaya]

finally lost a ranked game with nocturne...

got him first pick...

Then I get some guy who's like "IM FEELING SHACO" and ****ing locks in SHACO with SMITE and we also got a lee sin...
Lee Sin CONTINUALLY USED HIS ULT TO HIT PEOPLE I HAD LOCKED ON WITH MY ULT.
Shaco was just stupidddddddddddddddddddddd -.-
Anivia got absolutely destroyed in mid against Karthus....

Nocturne, Amumu, Lee Sin, Shaco, Anivia (who was terrible ;\)
against
Karthus, Xin, Malphite, Rammus, Lux (who dc'd and hence it was a 4v5 for like the first 20 minutes of the game...)

You'd think at 1600-1700 elo people wouldn't troll ranked games THAT HARD.

 

[M3D]

In all honesty best tree I've seen hands down.

You are too kind, sir! I got in a good rhythm that game for a couple key reasons. First, with a roaming Janna I could get a lot of farm and levels in what was essentially a solo bot lane. That let me get boots/HoG/RoA before the 21 minute mark. Second, bot lane didn't do a very good job harassing me so my farm just kept rolling. Third, our comp really synergized with my ult. With Jarvan's ult locking their team into a specific area and Ezreal being able to kite them into our team, they were often forced to fight right in my ult. Tree is pretty bad if his team gets kited, since it makes his ult almost useless.

I did have some good initiates though and my ult placement was usually pretty good. That ace at the end when I initiated on Ezreal was pretty sweet. He tried to blink away but I had popped twisted advance already, so I jumped double its normal distance and still rooted him.

That last game was a disaster though. I'll still play again but only if it's actual tryharding in ranked :\ Don't say play tryhard ranks and then make silly character choices/build decisions... tanking for that kind of stuff is pretty irritating. Just do that in normals.

Agreed. We made some silly decisions that game, the first being that we even played ranked when Shaya said he wanted to play AP Ezreal. We should have just played a normal if that was how we were going to roll. Then I didn't take a solo with Teemo and got underfarmed, when I could have been in mid soaking up farm and harassing Ashe off her farm with blinds/poison. We sacrificed Teemo's map control to give Shaya a chance to farm, which was completely unnecessary. We didn't play the game poorly, we just played the picks poorly. Next time its super-tryhard in ranked 5s or play normals.

 

[Shaya]

You guys are right though, my bad. BRUTAL MISTAKE. Even broke my own rules.

However AP Ezreal is frikken LEGITly viable and we needed to man up.

 

[Jazriel]

I want in on some SWF MAN-ACTION. What time are you guys playing?

 

[Zolga Owns]

Catch us on vent sometime.

 

[Frolossus]

pray that dota 2 won't have server issues ever

 

[jpak]

PX and anyone else looking for something to watch,
Go4LoL Weekly Final EU
http://www.own3d.tv/video/100564/Fnatic_vs_aAa_GO4LoL_31_Finals__Commentated_by_Wickd_
A good match except for one or two sloppy mistakes.

 

[Evanms]

Im still bitter about the nunu ban. Would have been fun: fro's shaco vs my nunu.

@Px dude you did work against that xin top. I thought xin was pretty dominant in lane? How did you end up owning him?

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

I kinda chuckled at ap ez being viable

 

[Frolossus]

Im still bitter about the nunu ban. Would have been fun: fro's shaco vs my nunu.

haha
i wanna try this

 

[Evanms]

Oh was the Ashe ban solely for Iggy, or did you not want us to have a strong ranged carry against your team comp?

 

[PhantomX]

Xin Zhao is dominant but I had that red buff, remember? I just hit him down at level 2 instead of waiting til he had more burst, and then from then on I had lane control. We both have a popup but I have armor shred and then I had red buff on top of it (buff is what got me the kill, it would have been very close otherwise).

@Shaya - AP Ez might still be viable, but as you implied, he kind of needs a team worked around him, and we don't really have the picks in our group for that.

 

[Ignatius]

Oh was the Ashe ban solely for Iggy, or did you not want us to have a strong ranged carry against your team comp?

Ashe is always banned in inhouses I'm in, you just can't sweat the other team banning smartly.

 

[Evanms]

^you are just that good iggy. They could allways counter pick tryndamere though!
"I DONT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!"

 

[M3D]

Iggy hit level 30 playing almost nothing but Ashe and still plays her in like 80% of his non-smurf matches. And Iggy is a good player. We have no reason to leave her in the game and risk getting wrecked by a fed Iggles in the late game. Same reason we banned Jarvan, so that PX couldn't shut down one of our solo'ers with him. His Xin is still good but has way less utility than Jarvan so it was a decent swap.

Iggy reminds me of a good thing too. We played a tryhard in house and no one got pissed or ragequit or acted like a jerk afterwards. Thanks for being awesome last night guys. It's way more fun when we all agree to tryhard and don't get mad when that actually happens. I think our crew keeps getting better and being able to handle criticism well is a huge part of that.

EDIT: still gotta ask jpak. why did you keep asking if we were in queue/who was being picked/etc. Did you think you were queue'd up against us?

 

[PhantomX]

I think Xin is stronger as an anti-carry/semi-carry, but I agree that Jarvan brings infinitely more utility while being good at those roles.

It's always interesting to see how often Gragas gets chosen in EU.