Grand Old Thread: League of Legends!

[Mogwai]

lol.. yeah. but this was much better when CC didn't interrupt TP. these days, who doesn't have CC to stop this? wouldn't summoner spell exhaust interrupt TP <_<

I think only displacment abilities (headbutt, fling, exploding cask, etc) and stuns stop summoner teleport. Silences stop some too (grand skyfall), but it's weird, cuz I definitely saw a TF finish gating after Garen decisive striked him last night. *shrugs*

 

[Cia]

I think only displacment abilities (headbutt, fling, exploding cask, etc) and stuns stop summoner teleport. Silences stop some too (grand skyfall), but it's weird, cuz I definitely saw a TF finish gating after Garen decisive striked him last night. *shrugs*

i've been stopped too many times to remember.. suppression, stun, silence, airborne, snare, etc. That's a lot..

BTW, any idea when this new Evelynn is coming? Also help with my current build. I like it a lot, but it's usually hard to farm for it <_<

Doran's Ring + Potion -or- Boots of Speed + Sight Ward + Potion (if there's a jungler)
Sheen
Boots of Mobiliy
Guinsoo's Rageblade
Lich Bane
Zhonya's Ring
Madred's Bloodrazor's
Rylai's Crystal Scepter

If I get first blood, i'll usually get Mejai's Soulstealer, otherwise. Random Blue and Red elixirs. I also spend a ton on wards to drop in the opposing jungle. In a 30 min game i'll only make it to Lich Bane. Any ideas on how I can improve this?

 

[Sethlon]

Speaking of jungling though... I got my runes for Akali! Gonna start jungling with her this week.

I actually just started jungling with her too last week (although free champ weekend was too much of a novel experience to mess around with it the last couple of days). What runes/masteries/path are you running, out of curiousity?

 

[Mogwai]

the only eves I know of jungle and do weird tanking **** like HoG -> Sheen -> Omen/Sunfire/Banshee's/whatever -> Lich Bane or something with Mejai's in there every once in awhile. But I see them so very rarely these days that I don't really feel like I can give you any solid advice on her. I just know that they feel like they immediately become a top priority to the opposing team when they come out of stealth, so they like building tanky so that they can actually soak up damage when they get focused.

 

[Dekar173]

Who else absolutely loves 3s?

Also, Cho is the fastest jungler, god do I love me some Derp'Gath.

 

[Mogwai]

I like 3s more than I let on. But I still kinda hate them because my regular teammates are horrible at TT.

 

[Dekar173]

Well, I'm on currently if you want to do some 3s

 

[Mogwai]

leaving work soon, maybe I'll be up for one in 30 mins or so.

 

[_kSo_]

Who else absolutely loves 3s?

Also, Cho is the fastest jungler, god do I love me some Derp'Gath.

what's ur build for jungle cho? i kinda wanna try it out lol

 

[Dekar173]

Arranged:

move speed quints
flat armor seals
MR glyphs
attack speed marks

Solo queue/normal games:

armor seals
attack speed everything else

1/14/15

and you're winner!

 

[DanGR]

Sooo, I came to the sudden realization that Shaco sucks. There's pretty much no reason to have him on your team as opposed to any other "squishy killer" or better jungler.

True story.

That or I'm doing something terribly wrong.

 

[Vyke]

He's fun.

If that counts for anything.

He has a fancy trick of pulling off an extremely quick 15 minute baron with a coordinated team.

 

[M3D]

Sorry for being AFK to start that 3s game Dekar! My daughter woke up during the loading screen so I ran and got her real fast and then sat down to play with her in my lap. We still stomped them once we got rolling though! We should def play more 3s. None of my other amigos like it but I love donging on kids with Nunu. :D

 

[Turazrok]

That's super cute, no lie.

 

[M3D]

It was actually super awkward, she fell right back asleep so I was playing kinda half-laying down and could barely tough my ability keys. I still went 1-1-6, with my only death being a misclick that took me into the bushes where I KNEW the enemies were... but I was not exactly playing at my best. Still though, you can't sleep on Nunu in 3s.

Really fun in-house matches tonight! First one lasted like 50 minutes and the deciding factor was probably DanGR stealing baron late game. Second game was ARAM and the winning team got mad lucky on the champ selections.

 

[Virgilijus]

Mad lucky doesn't describe how bad that was. Not only that, but Ceos quit, then Keith quit, then Ceos came back just to watch us die. Was a horrible, horrible match.

After that, DanGr, myself and a few others played against Tom. We had a DC before the match started and was 4v5 the whole game and we almost won; aced them twice with only one on our team dying. But alas, Yi just backdoored at the end. Not a good night of LoL for me even though I was playing really well that last game

 

[Sinz]

What punishment is there for leaving? Is there an extra loss of ELO? Addition to a leaver point system? just curiuos because HoN's anti leaver system(5% or less leaves in a no leaver game) doesn't work.

 

[M3D]

Depends on the mode...

In ranked, if you leave you get a loss on your record, a leave on your record and an extra ding to your ELO than if you had stayed and lost the game normally. In unranked games, you just get a leave on your record and lose some ELO, although that's transparent in normal matches anyways so most people don't care. Supposedly if you leave enough games they perma-ban you, but I've seen people with over 150 leaves on their record still playing matches, so Riot fails hard at that one.

The other "penalty" for leaving is that you can't do anything else in the client if you leave a match until that match is over. Even if you log off and reconnect, you still only have the option to reconnect or log back off. So that means you can't join a game, leave, join another game, leave, etc. People get around this my having multiple accounts, but it does help, since you aren't likely to have three accounts with a lot of content unlocked on each. Overall, the system isn't perfect, but it does help.

 

[Mogwai]

it needs work pretty badly IMO.

they also need their ****ing terrible player system to improve. I have no idea how some people get to the elos they do with the ****ty play they show. I had back to back games with the same 3 people last night and both games all 3 of them fed twitch and we got ***** sideways. uhg, it's just so infuriating.

I've also decided that I love Zilean and wish I could always play with a good zil. had a 16/0/9 game with Jungle panth to let me go to bed on a good note last night and I played like a handgrenade (rawr, jump in, blow up 2 or 3 people) and every time, I was time warped so they couldn't escape and chronoshifted so that I could just respawn and kill the rest of them.

 

[Turazrok]

How do play Sona?

Also M3D it's still super cute.

 

[DMG]

Playing Sona:

Run around with team, buff them, use Ult for Party Time

that's about it frankly lol.

 

[M3D]

You can basically just roll your face across the keyboard with Sona and be good with her. Start with Q to harass, W to heal, pick up one point in E and then focus RQWE for skill order. Then just spam abilities. You can harass for free because her Q prioritizes champs. You heal yourself and a teammate every few seconds. You can speed boost you both out of trouble or into a fight. Then wait for the enemy team to group up and pop your ult.

Quick note... your ult is not really for initiation. It's to freeze the enemies once the fight has begun. It interrupts all their combos and throws them into chaos. Don't use it to start fights unless you want the people in the back to avoid it all together and the people in the front to get caught before they blow their CC, so they can recover and still win the fight.

 

[Mogwai]

there's no clear rules for Sona's ult... it's just like any high CD AoE stun, use it whenever, it just better **** well make a big impact on the game.

I still think Sona's just another version of Janna, with stronger laning presence and weaker teamfighting presence. Janna just seems better to me because monsoon is so ****ing absurd.

 

[Wobbles]

Laning Ashe+Janna is still ridiculous, by the way. I'm almost inclined to say that sending 2 top (assuming double junglers) with Ashe/Janna seems like a really strong play, if only because of the initial burst and shut-out potential they have. Shield -> volley -> crit hits so hard at level 1 it's ridiculous.

 

[Mogwai]

yea, any combination of red pot Ashe, red pot Ezreal, red pot Pantheon, and Janna in 2v1 is ****ing brutal. Even worse though is a strong laner + Pirate. Nothing like getting shut out of the ENTIRE game by Pirate pulling the wave and daring you to pick a 1v2 fight at level 1 to get anywhere near experience range. I actually think this is best as Pirate + Pantheon because Pantheon is such a bully in the first 5 levels and packs great counter harassment too.

 

[Scamp]

What's worse than laning against an Ashe and a Janna?

Laning against a MF and a Janna.

Ugh.

In other news I'm back above 1300 and I'm not gonna stop climbing now that I've taken my limiter off!

 

[Cyan_]

Sooo, I came to the sudden realization that Shaco sucks. There's pretty much no reason to have him on your team as opposed to any other "squishy killer" or better jungler.

True story.

That or I'm doing something terribly wrong.

Wow, my friend's LoL name is DanRG (with those caps) and he plays Shaco too.

If anyone wants to play with a noob, feel free to add me. Only level 6 atm, but I have friends are pretty good.

IGN: LOLStephen

 

[Leacero]

I've also decided that I love Zilean and wish I could always play with a good zil. had a 16/0/9 game with Jungle panth to let me go to bed on a good note last night and I played like a handgrenade (rawr, jump in, blow up 2 or 3 people) and every time, I was time warped so they couldn't escape and chronoshifted so that I could just respawn and kill the rest of them.

Let's do this dawg.

 

[Virgilijus]

yea, any combination of red pot Ashe, red pot Ezreal, red pot Pantheon, and Janna in 2v1 is ****ing brutal. Even worse though is a strong laner + Pirate. Nothing like getting shut out of the ENTIRE game by Pirate pulling the wave and daring you to pick a 1v2 fight at level 1 to get anywhere near experience range. I actually think this is best as Pirate + Pantheon because Pantheon is such a bully in the first 5 levels and packs great counter harassment too.

I just watched a game where TreeEskimo went GP solomid against a Twitch and denied him to the point he reached level 8 when Twitch was 5. At the end of the game, Twitch was the second lowest level of everyone in the game. Was brutal.

Also, SP: what do you think of Manamune on GP? TreeEskimo says he loves it and I know your opinion on it (at least until the last patch) was rather dour.

 

[ook]

One of these things is not like the others...
One of these things just doesn't belong...

 

[DanGR]

Is it Garen?

 

[Leacero]

LOL who banned Garen?

NOOBS!!!1!1

 

[Zolga Owns]

One of these things is not like the others...
One of these things just doesn't belong...

Made my day.

 

[DMG]

It was the Professor

In the Kitchen

With the Rope!

 

[AshuRawRun]

Is Alistar that bad in your minds? I mean he's just a tank like any other "normal" (this meaning singed/ramus and other old school tanks so before shen's release) tank no?
I think Alistar is underrated even if he doesn't diserve a ban at all.

 

[_kSo_]

still think singed is awesome...you can just run around and then get random kills with poison just because.

 

[DMG]

Alistar's main problem IMO is that, while he is among the gods at purely soaking up damage and not dying, he lacks compared to other tanks around him at initiating. Every tank (and even "offtanks) commonly ranked above him all have some kind of initiation that doesn't require physically trying to run in from afar. He definitely has a much harder time dealing with kiting than Mumu, Shen, Rammus, etc and this greatly hurts him.

Now, past that you have dealing with his laning phase. A lot of tanks above him can simple forgo regular laning and jungle (again, mumu shen Ram) and multi task for the team where as Alistar will be sent babysitting whoever in the duo lane. Then you have general utility for the team that he lacks. Shen Global Ult/taunt saves, Mumu AoE ****, Rammus super fast powerball mode/free migitation, etc. Then you have the fact that other tanks can do a surprising amount of damage with little effort. Mumu obv with his AoE Health % drain, Ram with his ult and extra damage taken from taunt, etc. Alistar can disable people and soak up damage like a sponge, but he's also not real threatening damage wise. Something bad like Tank Mundo probably does a LOT more damage than Alistar would be expected to do. Because he doesn't do that much damage, after he blows his combo he's frankly pretty ignorable for the rest of the fight til his CD's come back up. With other tanks, even after Mumu does Bandage to Ult, you STILL have to worry about him running around melting your HP in an AoE. Or after Rammus dives in with powerball and taunt, you still have his ult to worry about. Alistar doesn't have anything like that after his combo, which is a shame.


Alistar is just outshined in a lot of areas for the tank role. His ability to soak up damage probably better than anyone else in the game is definitely overshadowed by his flaws. That's my take on him anyways.

 

[EC_Joey]

Sooo, I came to the sudden realization that Shaco sucks. There's pretty much no reason to have him on your team as opposed to any other "squishy killer" or better jungler.

True story.

That or I'm doing something terribly wrong.

Haha fun game yesterday with KevinM. Pretty hilarious stuff.

 

[Cia]

What's worse than laning against an Ashe and a Janna?

Laning against a MF and a Janna.

Ugh.

In other news I'm back above 1300 and I'm not gonna stop climbing now that I've taken my limiter off!

I've been playing a ton of Janna lately (prolly my best atm) but i prefer to solo mid with her. Howling Gale clears entire minion waves by level 5 and Monsoon lets me stay in lane much longer than my opponent. Zephyr is also amazing for harassment. In any of the side lanes, i tend to get focused <_<

BTW, I think Soraka mid is pretty underrated. She'll NEVER die making it so that the other team's carry won't be fed. And she can global heal while everyone else is still Lv 3-4. I've gotten tons of Assists from this. And her Z. ring comes quicker so she can burst heal for significantly north of 1000 at a time.

If anyone gets the time, try it and let me know what you think.

 

[Leacero]

I've been playing a ton of Janna lately (prolly my best atm) but i prefer to solo mid with her. Howling Gale clears entire minion waves by level 5 and Monsoon lets me stay in lane much longer than my opponent. Zephyr is also amazing for harassment. In any of the side lanes, i tend to get focused <_<

BTW, I think Soraka mid is pretty underrated. She'll NEVER die making it so that the other team's carry won't be fed. And she can global heal while everyone else is still Lv 3-4. I've gotten tons of Assists from this. And her Z. ring comes quicker so she can burst heal for significantly north of 1000 at a time.

If anyone gets the time, try it and let me know what you think.

What's stopping their mid from pounding your tower to kingdom come?