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Grand Old Thread: League of Legends!

Vyke

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I think people really misunderstand Riot's intention in regards to Metagame in general. Several reds in their Ask threads have already stated that they don't intend to 'fix' a metagame, but shift it to a different one or guide them so the game keeps a unique flavor. Poke/Heal has happened before, so this isn't anything new. Tanky DPS was out like a few weeks ago for the Top ELO eitherway, it's all about AoE ults from what I've been seeing.

It just goes to show how many good characters are in the game. I never thought I'd see Twitch being banned, but man did that change fast. Same with Mummy when Season 1 first started.

People are just sheep, and the top players the shepherds. Nothing really changes there until somebody else tries.
 

Sinz

The only true DR vet.
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Hey are there any other videos for competitive LoL that I could watch? I still want to see what its like in the competitive scene. I'm sure that one game was just a bad example because of the excessive turtling.
 

N64

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been playing LoL for a while, should probably put my name up here.
LoL Tag: Shfflbair
LoL Mains: soul searching atm, but generally: AP Yi, Alistar, Sona, Jungle Nunu
 

Mogwai

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I want to expect better of you, but I know not to
this patch is far too massive. bleh, I'm sure they've screwed something up making this many changes at once, but W/E, I guess I'm over it since I see they still haven't addressed the duo queue MM issue and thus I will continue to never play this stupid ****ing game solo.

EDIT: Additionally, please switch to the lower cased chat room everyone! I dunno what happened with 'SWF' but it seems to be bugged for a bunch of people, so let's just relocate our meeting place to 'swf'.
 

M3D

In the Game of Thrones, You Morph or You Die
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Patch is taking forever to download. Hopefully it's stable on the Mac client.
 

DMG

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DMG#931
patch was pretty fast for me

Why are health potions ****ty candy corn? I mean the Mana Potions get to be "Mana Infused Pumpkins", and Health Potions get to be ****ty old candy corn.
 

DanGR

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So what's the best AD rune the use now? The previous flat AD runes were buffed by +200%. (x3) And arpen got a 15% nerf.
 

DMG

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DMG#931
Candy Corn is basically the biggest and best Halloween trolling anyone has ever pulled off. Someone convinced the nation that little clumps of bad tasting sugar that look more like miniature traffic cones than corn kernels, should be passed out to the masses instead of actual candy. They aren't even much (if any) healthier for you than the other candies you could pass out.


I will say though I've had some candy corn that wasn't half bad. It was supposed to be a more "gourmet" take (I say that because, well in the end it's still candy corn lol), and it was chocolate/raspberry. Besides that, no thank you lol
 

M3D

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Will try to get on for a few games late tonight, assuming the servers are working.

I'm annoyed that they are nerfing runes. I paid for runes based on certain benefits and if they are going to nerf them, I should be able to sell them back. I guess ArPen will still be best, but if they get into the habit of making these changes, I'm going to feel really unsafe spending my IP on runes.
 

ruin`

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U don't feel safe spending 0 cost items? rofl.

btw, love the new tryndamere buffs. The buff is huge exponentially.
 

M3D

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Runes cost IP, which is earned through TIME. My time is not cheap and I'm not a fan of wasting my time on crummy items.

Does anyone know how to get the special Halloween runes or what they do? I don't see any of them in the store and Riot hasn't shared any information about them in their announcements.
 

Frolossus

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Runes cost IP, which is earned through TIME. My time is not cheap and I'm not a fan of wasting my time on crummy items.

Does anyone know how to get the special Halloween runes or what they do? I don't see any of them in the store and Riot hasn't shared any information about them in their announcements.
they are T2 quints
they are basically cheaper t3's with slightly less stat gain
like health quints have a pumpkin and give 30 health each
 

Zolga Owns

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Lux. Is. Amazing.
She's not OP imo from first use with her but if you master her passive chaining into her ult...Ohhh goddddd. She can escape surprisingly well with light binding combo into your sheild(throw it infront of you so you get both hits like Shurelia did)
Her ult while not global has some pretty impressive range and you can't really dodge it unless you predict her.
Her draw backs are her cooldowns, semi-squishyness, slow movespeed, and she can't do much on her own. (I didn't go full Ability Power though so...that might be wrong)
 

DMG

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Unless you want to show them off to people, I wouldn't buy them. Like yeah they are cool, but I already got flat HP quints that are better and I already got Armor Pen that's better, etc. I wouldn't waste a ton of IP to get a tricked out limited edition rune if I don't even get the same benefits
 

Frolossus

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Lux. Is. Amazing.
She's not OP imo from first use with her but if you master her passive chaining into her ult...Ohhh goddddd. She can escape surprisingly well with light binding combo into your sheild(throw it infront of you so you get both hits like Shurelia did)
Her ult while not global has some pretty impressive range and you can't really dodge it unless you predict her.
Her draw backs are her cooldowns, semi-squishyness, slow movespeed, and she can't do much on her own. (I didn't go full Ability Power though so...that might be wrong)
been wondering about the viability of lich bane on her because of her passive, tried it in a practice game but thats it
 

DanGR

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Lux. Is. Amazing.
She's not OP imo from first use with her but if you master her passive chaining into her ult...Ohhh goddddd. She can escape surprisingly well with light binding combo into your sheild(throw it infront of you so you get both hits like Shurelia did)
Her ult while not global has some pretty impressive range and you can't really dodge it unless you predict her.
Her draw backs are her cooldowns, semi-squishyness, slow movespeed, and she can't do much on her own. (I didn't go full Ability Power though so...that might be wrong)
I've decided she's pretty crummy, myself, if only because there's little reason to pick her over Morg/Janna/Sona.

Then again, this is day 1. We'll see.
 

Mogwai

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I tilted mad hard tonight and trolled back to back to back ranked games with manamune tiamat gangplank -> malady Eve -> Triforce Alistar. Funny thing is that I led my team in kills in every single one of those games (the alistar one included a twitch on my team, ALSO A GALIO AND SHEN, SO NO ****ING AoE DISABLE JOHNS). Then I went Udyr (never played him before) and crushed some poor team with like 7/1/12 or something.
 

DMG

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They nearly took Samurai Panda's suggested buffs for Gragas word for word lol. Except now his BS is on a longer CD (gay) and his Ult now is just AoE displacement no debuffs at all on it. They should probably make his Q and Ult faster in exchange for like -.1 on their AP ratios.
 

Wobbles

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Singed buffs are fantastic. Understated so he doesn't drift into OP but just enough to make him beautiful to play again. The RoA buff, AFAIC, counts as a direct buff given that it's basically a required item for him.

Urgot nerf in the form of no longer permitting lock-ons to invisible objects makes me sad. Now I can't go ward hunting as effectively as I used to.
 
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