Grand Old Thread: League of Legends!

[Frolossus]

so shaya going to wcg? O:

 

[SamuraiPanda]

I like Skarner. He's kinda bad in a lot of ways, but his kit is fun.

EDIT: Holy balls, Shaya you're the man. Well played, sir. Good luck at the WCG qualifier :D

 

[Jazriel]

so basically everyone ignore jazriel please ty.

i see having double ap as a good strat if u plan on winning midgame really hard and getting every dragon and first towers. just because all of your games go to 50 minutes cause your whole team needs to farm their atmogs doesnt mean a strategy is bad.

"double ap" isnt "countered" so much as: most ap champions have weak lanes or people who can outsustain them.

and if you arent winning your lane, you cant get that godlike midgame where your solo casters kill everyone and your bot lane just tries not to die.

just because a lot of ap champs lose top lane doesnt mean double ap is bad. jazriel u are stupid as *** no offense.. i will just go rumble and **** you 2ez. or morde or cho or singed or jax. i could probably go ap rammus and beat u top buuuuut whatever

Every single post you've made here, is stupid. I'm going to make a bit of a leap but since everything you say is stupid, I'll equate that to you being stupid.

You think you can beat me top? The bravado associated with victory in a 1v1 is usually a direct correlation to not only your lack of skill, but lack of maturity. Not to mention that since you're stupid, you probably think things like cs and kills are the only standards by which a victorious lane is measured.

You're not even close to being on my level, try again. Double AP is a dumb idea in the current meta. They lose lanes and have nothing to get them to their good midgame, which even then is debatable. You go double AP and a jungler who isn't noct, my entire team runs MRes Blues. GG.

 

[Shaya]

not sure how many teams get to go to wcg from aus but if our team wins the national qualifier i'd say with near absolute confidence i would be. Even though we came from the losers bracket after the early hiccup we strongly won our games thereafter. I'll post more soon

 

[fkacyan]

Low ELO: The place where sometimes, you actually get to play Gangplank and Mordekaiser.

 

[Shaya]

IMO - playing LoL at a lan tournament makes you better... faster... like... stupendously quick.
if you want to get (seemingly) uber better in a day, find a 5 man team and go to a tournament. ^_^
Playing support is actually fun with competent teams.

Once I stopped playing taric we facerolled.
I swear... taric is a really really bad character.
Or maybe its because he's melee range.
like
what the **** is that.
make him a hammer bros or something because taric is really ****ty and i hate playing him.

 

[DarkDragoon]

:|
I don't care if gold means nothing now because its 1500 ELO. I want a Jarvan skin. LOL

Also, good **** Shaya!
LoL LAN Tournaments are fun.
Too bad Spife ****ed up the only one I got to play in.
-DD

 

[Rad]

Ended up with 9 Razer crit damage reds, 3 Razer movespeed quints, an MR / lvl blue, a CDR / lvl blue, a physical damage red, and a regular movespeed quint after a bit of f5 action throughout the day (16400 IP?). I half expect them to be taken away because I'm a selfish *******, but whatever. That won't bother me. EU people might be able to get these to work.

CUZXNU2FZ
A6FLZZTYH
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DUFRJZ6VH
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[PhantomX]

The Razer crit reds are so tiny looking, lol.

BTW. They confirmed surprise party Fiddlesticks at PAX. Awesome. Now they need Judge Trundle.

 

[JTB]

Congrats Shaya!

Also, I never minded the low quality stream from MLG until seeing league played on it

 

[-Vocal-]

Make it rain is an exceptional skill. 310 AoE damage with a 40% slow, what the **** world is that a weak skill in?

Since when will anyone ever get hit by the full duration? In many of my games it barely takes half the health of a minion wave. Also, the slow only lasts for 1 second after they exit the radius. I'll admit that slow helps her burst harder due to allowing more auto attacks, but it could still use an improvement. Perhaps the same damage but over a shorter duration.

Man, server instability screwed up my night of LoL. Two games in a row last night, we had repeated disconnects in games we could have easily won.

At least you get to play. I've been internet-less since Sunday and Portal 2 has been the only thing keeping me from going through massive withdrawal.

I just finished it last night

I've been playing as only soraka since the patch yesterday and I think I'm in love with her remake:

She still supports ridiculously well, it's just, her support in lane has shifted more towards an agressive zoning style rather than an eternal sustaining style. And the plus is that she's arguably MORE potent late game since her Astral blessing turns frail champions into tanks with a huge boost of health and +125 armour (!!!) for a few seconds.

Plus, unlike before she actually has FOUR useful abilities endgame instead of 3.

If she doesn't get killed, and you stay front lines against a team with soraka for more than 20 seconds or so, you'll have a HUGE chunk of your magic resist removed.

Starcall actually gets golem at a respectable pace now, and she can farm creep waves rediculously fast late game and for virtually no mana cost.

Seriously, I take back everything I've said about the soraka remake. I've played only 5 games since the patch, all of them as soraka and ALL of them we won at least partly due to soraka's ridiculous harass.

I really wish I could play right now.

Can you avoid Cait's ult if you flash just as it's about to hit?

Also I've decided to ween myself off Clarity and use Teleport instead.

I think using clarity just makes you lazy and bad at mana management.

Teleport is so handy for getting back in lane quickly after you recall too, or for helping someone in another lane when they are in trouble.

You could if this was 2010. R.I.P. projectile popping. One of my favorite LoL memories was popping a Tristana ult just as she fired it

Also, here's a quote from Stonewall's blog:
"Clarity – I noticed no higher elo players use this spell and it was just weaker players.
They weren’t only weak players by numbers – they showed lack of ability in
game. Even with clarity and even with mana regeneration items they would be out
of mana quickly usually spamming abilities and pushing lanes or failing
harassment. These players would easily be crushed in lanes unless being
babysat. Truly this is the spell for noobs."

So good for you in choosing to move on

cass is pretty strong imo.

She's been strong for a while. She's basically the caster version of Kog'Maw - extremely high damage output but not great survivability (aside from her ult which can be hit or miss).

Waaaay ahead of you on this. I'm callin it now. Soraka's getting a hotfix nerf. She's outrageous right now. I've been doing something along the lines of Rylai's > Abyssal. One game I was against a Veigar so I built a Leviathan.. ..

I got 20 stacks <.<

that first match is just proof that some teams CANNOT be carried. If anyone wants to see what I did, I have the matches saved in .lrf format. I could send them via AIM file transfer

I want to play so bad x'C

Just recently switched everything to always be smart cast just to get a feel for it. Definitely feels awkward and I tend to miss shots aiming straight left (I heard that it aims slightly above the mouse in that direction?)

I like it though, it seems to remove that issue where they JUST get out of range because you had to click twice.

If it's a skill shot, you probably want to keep it on normal cast. I smart cast a lot of targeted spells though. Zilean bombs and haste/slow, Orianna shield, stuff like that. It does make your game smoother once you get used to it.

is smartcasting really that important? i've always wondered if its worth the time to recondition myself if its not going to elevate me at all, or that it'll only help in one specific circumstance in one of 50 games or something

if you play someone like cass or something its mandatory, so i don't so i won't

Just do it for specific skills. It's not hard to change your keybindings at the start of a game; just set the secondary Smarcast binding to the normal keys (IE, if I'm playing Orianna then I'll set E to the secondary smart cast for spell 3 [her shield]).

how is this waaaaay ahead of me? I said that yesterday and you did that **** last night/today, .

but yea, soraka is bonkers, the items I said are **** on her, with getting a really fast deathcap frequently making a lot of sense instead of rylais. She's also one of the best blue buff users in the game these days.

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I WANT TO PLAY SO BADDDDDDD

LOL, you convinced them to give you Gentleman Cho? That's such a better deal than Chad got, haha.

BTW... just found out today that if you sit in a bush long enough as Skarner, he will actually say "Ska Ska Skarner!" like a Pokemon. Random easter eggs.

Ha, yea, I saw a video of this a little while back.

Forum Poster: Is Tryndamere (Mark Merill) married?
President Tryndamere: Yup and my wife's name is Ashley.
Forum Poster #2: If you have a wife, why is your right arm stronger than your left arm?

Lol

Btw thought you actually mean Forum Poster at first

WE WON

WE WON

WE WON

WE WON

WE WON WE WONW

WEO:WAmkdfkads;lsakd;ds dfsafasfgasfa

we won we won we won we won? Forgive me virg.

Congrats man, enjoy it

So what does winning get you?

vvvvvvvvvvvv

We won loser's final.

We're now in winner's final and won the first match. Winner of the next match wins the tournament.

First match:
Amumu / Tristana / Fiddle / Cait bans

Janna, Orianna, Nocturne, Warwick, Ashe v
Udyr, Miss Fortune, Taric, Anivia and Gangplank.

:D

If we win this, its $2000 in prizes and all expenses paid trip to the Australia WCG qualifier final.

Looks like Dan didn't pass reading comprehension in high school

BTW. They confirmed surprise party Fiddlesticks at PAX. Awesome. Now they need Judge Trundle.

OMFG YES. I DON'T EVEN PLAY FIDDLESTICKS BUT I WILL LEARN HIM JUST TO USE THAT SKIN

 

[Zolga Owns]

Time to learn Fiddlesticks.

 

[-Vocal-]

Time to learn Fiddlesticks.

That's what I'm sayin man. Right now it'd be hard to say which is the flat out best skin in the game, but once that gets released it'll be no contest. GG, Surprise Party Fiddle OP

 

[PhantomX]

Depends on how much effort they put into it. It has the potential to at least equal Gentleman Cho... but will it, is the question?

 

[Ignatius]

Wait, does the season end Tuesday or a week from this Tuesday?

 

[_Dice]

Heh i only use heal or flash for two champs

karma when i'm playing pure support i pick heal/clarity and just rely on great positioning to keep me alive while i make sure my partner never needs to go back for any reason other than shopping

veigar i pick flash/clarity solely so i can farm my Q in lane until lvl 6 clarity in these games.

 

[Wobbles]

This just in: Annie is boring.

Trying to learn current AP carries so that I have a consistent role for when I get back to AZ and start playing with a group of friends regularly. The lane mostly consists of waiting to charge stun, then last hitting while I walk towards the other guy and pretend I want to kill him when really I just want him to miss last hits, because you must be rather stupid to stand near Annie while her stun is up. Then I go back and waste the stun on a creep to kill it so that they will come towards me and not let the lane get completely pushed to their tower.

And also, one rank in E so that you can land a surprise bear at 6 when you've got 4 stun charges up, by casting E -> flash -> R.

Fighting = two or more people standing next to each other? Tibbers, W, Q the squishier one, and fall back, then loop around when your cooldowns are up and go pick on someone else.

Do I basically have it right?

(Also, the brick noise you get when dropping Tibbers is rather satisfying)

 

[Frolossus]

This just in: Annie is boring.

Trying to learn current AP carries so that I have a consistent role for when I get back to AZ and start playing with a group of friends regularly. The lane mostly consists of waiting to charge stun, then last hitting while I walk towards the other guy and pretend I want to kill him when really I just want him to miss last hits, because you must be rather stupid to stand near Annie while her stun is up. Then I go back and waste the stun on a creep to kill it so that they will come towards me and not let the lane get completely pushed to their tower.

And also, one rank in E so that you can land a surprise bear at 6 when you've got 4 stun charges up, by casting E -> flash -> R.

Fighting = two or more people standing next to each other? Tibbers, W, Q the squishier one, and fall back, then loop around when your cooldowns are up and go pick on someone else.

Do I basically have it right?

(Also, the brick noise you get when dropping Tibbers is rather satisfying)

pretty much
but generally if you want to kill the enemy solo its safer to Q them first cause you can flash out of tibbers range

 

[Wobbles]

pretty much
but generally if you want to kill the enemy solo its safer to Q them first cause you can flash out of tibbers range

Yeah, that is an issue I guess. Your DPS is hella dropped though because you don't get two full seconds of Tibber attacks + his built in sunfire, so they have to be a bit lower for it to kill them. That time having him teabag them with his burning bearsack adds a LOT of damage.

 

[john!]

if you q instead of tibbers they can flash away, meaning you have to walk towards them and maybe not get tibbers in time

just depends on how confident you are about ensuring bear is correctly placed

 

[Shaya]

isn't it standard to max e first?

 

[Wobbles]

Shaya: obviously yes if you're playing Tank Annie. We're sick of discussing bull**** OP FOTM builds in here though so can we please talk about more fun alternative ones?

Also john!: burning their flash while your bear is still up DRASTICALLY reduces their laning presence. So if you just get a blind Q and they flash away to dodge the bear, you're still good.

If you flash into Q though, then that sucks.

 

[UTDZac]

Mission Accomplished:

 

[Angbad]

Congrats! ^

 

[straight8]

Every single post you've made here, is stupid. I'm going to make a bit of a leap but since everything you say is stupid, I'll equate that to you being stupid.

this opinion is about as accurate as all you other opinions. this is pretty default 12 year old defense mechanism for being wrong, ad hominem attacks so good

You think you can beat me top? The bravado associated with victory in a 1v1 is usually a direct correlation to not only your lack of skill, but lack of maturity. Not to mention that since you're stupid, you probably think things like cs and kills are the only standards by which a victorious lane is measured.

i think beating you top would take no effort and no skill, and probably 1200 players can do it just fine. i say it not as something i wish to prove or as if i cared about it as a measuring point of skill or w/e that means.

i think youre bad cause of what you post. i know i can beat you cause you are bad. pretty straightforward reasoning

You're not even close to being on my level, try again. Double AP is a dumb idea in the current meta. They lose lanes and have nothing to get them to their good midgame, which even then is debatable. You go double AP and a jungler who isn't noct, my entire team runs MRes Blues. GG.

i think i would have to get hit in the head several thousand times before id be on your level, so i agree.

18 magic resist at level 18 definitely will make all the difference in the world
btw have u heard of void staff.

i also have feeling your entire team is bad

edit: sorry to detract from more important stuff, i just cant miss an opportunity to make jazriel look really bad

 

[Jazriel]

this opinion is about as accurate as all you other opinions. this is pretty default 12 year old defense mechanism for being wrong, ad hominem attacks so good

1) You just argued about the validity of an opinion.
2) I didn't perform an Ad Hominem fallacy. I suggest you refresh yourself on what it means.
3) By insinuating that I am 12 years old, you are performing an Ad Hominen attack against me.

i think beating you top would take no effort and no skill, and probably 1200 players can do it just fine. i say it not as something i wish to prove or as if i cared about it as a measuring point of skill or w/e that means.

Except that by vocalizing it, you infer that you do in fact care. If it doesn't matter, why bring it up? Also, no one cares about your opinion. Or is is the hypocrisy from your first statement lost on you already.

i think youre bad cause of what you post. i know i can beat you cause you are bad. pretty straightforward reasoning

This is the same reasoning that you critiqued me for. This is like the liar who doesn't know he lies. Too easy.

i think i would have to get hit in the head several thousand times before id be on your level, so i agree.

18 magic resist at level 18 definitely will make all the difference in the world
btw have u heard of void staff.

1) Where did I say anything about scaling MRes blues?
2) A team running entirely flat MRes blues will in fact make a huge difference when facing an AP heavy team.
3) Void staff is only effective against heavy MRes. If I can make enemy casters waste 2k gold, in an inefficient manner, for absolutely free (Runes don't cost any in-game gold), then I'm winning even more.
4) It's 24 MRes on Scaling Blues. Or are you so dumb you don't even know anything about good runes?

i also have feeling your entire team is bad

Your opinion matters when? Two people on my team are pretty bad, but they're most likely better than you considering the things you've said in this thread.

edit: sorry to detract from more important stuff, i just cant miss an opportunity to make jazriel look really bad

Again, you're not sorry. If you didn't care, you wouldn't bring it up. This ties back to your immature and niave look of the world, you know, the part where you challenged me to a 1v1 solo top as AP Rammus.


Too easy. I'm bored right now, please keep it up.

 

[Turazrok]

I have found the noobs in ranked.

Save me jebus

 

[Sephiroths Masamune]

Supposedly 5 active mods in this thread, where are you guys?

 

[john!]

i'd call jaz bad too, but i was his elo at one point, so i'd be a hypocrite because there's a (very slim) chance that he's as good as i am and is also stuck in elo hell.

 

[straight8]

nothing to do with elo LOL

everything to do with intelligence and execution

 

[Deleted member]

spell ranges are obnoxiously broken

gragas barrels, kogmaws R, chogaths rupture all seem to barely hit people who would normally be out of range

i don't mind though

 

[straight8]

spell ranges are obnoxiously broken

gragas barrels, kogmaws R, chogaths rupture all seem to barely hit people who would normally be out of range

i don't mind though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAyXzqr__nk&t=0m19s

 

[PhantomX]

spell ranges are obnoxiously broken

gragas barrels, kogmaws R, chogaths rupture all seem to barely hit people who would normally be out of range

i don't mind though

Skillshot autocorrect, or something like that. It's one of the options in LoL that you can enable. It's designed to help people with high latency land skillshots, but causes what you just described for everyone else with good ping.

Like the game registers the opponent as being a few milliseconds prior to where he actually is, so everything hits.

 

[F8AL]

Jazriel and straight8, knock it off with the flaming. Infractions issued.

 

[Jazriel]

Jazriel and straight8, knock it off with the flaming. Infractions issued.

He started it.

 

[F8AL]

He started it.

And I ended it. Now get back on topic.

 

[Deleted member]

Skillshot autocorrect, or something like that. It's one of the options in LoL that you can enable. It's designed to help people with high latency land skillshots, but causes what you just described for everyone else with good ping.

Like the game registers the opponent as being a few milliseconds prior to where he actually is, so everything hits.

hmm i've had like 10 ping for a while and starting this patch people just started getting hit when they shouldn't lol

idk maybe i just ****

 

[jpak]

Ure the best dude

 

[Zolga Owns]

I have found the noobs in ranked.

Save me jebus

I've decided that we just need to carry harder.

Vayne/Janna bot all day. No excuses.

 

[Shaya]

That or Janna / Cait.
lololol 650 range + a reasonably strong escape + brush affinity (very very strong) + a team that keeps others away from 600 range.