Grand Old Thread: League of Legends!

[Wave⁂]

I don't really have fun playing SR unless it's against bots, to be honest.

 

[DallasPhat]

Well.. what aspect are you not enjoying about the game? Also.. are you losing every game? (Games tend to suck if you're not very good at them)

 

[UTDZac]

I don't really have fun playing SR unless it's against bots, to be honest.

Mind if I ask why?

 

[Wave⁂]

I don't usually play AD carries, so early game is either terrible as I try to last hit with Anivia without my ult (I can get most last hits, but I hate having to spend so much effort trying to do something so boring) or I play a supporty guy like Mao or Soraka and do nothing except maybe help with a kill once every 5 minutes.

Against bots, I can play crazy aggressive, never die, and get 34 kills as Annie. In Dominion, farming has little impact, and there's virtually always action.

 

[PhantomX]

Probably because they aren't that good at the game yet/are losing a lot, so it gets frustrating and starts being dumb.

Or a combination of that and playing w/ random people that don't know what is going on.

P.S. TKbro so heavy.

 

[-Vocal-]

can anyone explain why this game isn't fun? every time i play i expect to have fun and i never can.

only time that has ever been fun was with tom&pals

Because you having fun is dependent on other people not having fun, and theirs is dependent on you not having fun. There's only so much fun to go around so you have to fight for it.

When things stop being fun just go play an ARAM

I don't really have fun playing SR unless it's against bots, to be honest.

It takes a long time to reach the skill level you need to have fun on SR. It's a hard battle, and if it's not your cup of tea then there's nothing wrong with it.

I don't usually play AD carries, so early game is either terrible as I try to last hit with Anivia without my ult (I can get most last hits, but I hate having to spend so much effort trying to do something so boring) or I play a supporty guy like Mao or Soraka and do nothing except maybe help with a kill once every 5 minutes.

Against bots, I can play crazy aggressive, never die, and get 34 kills as Annie. In Dominion, farming has little impact, and there's virtually always action.

You could try experimenting with other roles, if you haven't already. Try learning a jungler or two. Pick up a sustainable top laner. You can even take a shot at lesser played champs like Gragas or Heimerdinger. Play a lot of champs and eventually you'll find where fun is for you

 

[Wave⁂]

I would try jungling, but the best jungler I actually own is Mao, and I know for a fact I don't have the runes to jungle with him. I have Yi, but I don't play him, even less have the skill to get my passive up every time I go gank. I play all the free week champions, and I buy those who I like. But even then, I still don't really have much fun.

 

[Tom]

dice log onto vent more often to look for games with us!

I still like Teemo's hidden passive the most. "AOE Global Taunt" pretty OP. Opponent's just can't resist tasty Yordles, especially those that have oracles active

Master Yi has that passive too, if you think about it. MASTER YI OH SNAP EXHAUST EXHAUST STUN RUN WALL ****

 

[MacD]

CAN'T BE SLOWED CAN'T BE SLOWED CAN'T BE SLOWED CAN'T BE SLOWED

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

i love seeing it when he's running on like singed's goo or something

 

[_Dice]

Well.. what aspect are you not enjoying about the game? Also.. are you losing every game? (Games tend to suck if you're not very good at them)

i lose 30-60% of games depending on the day (and whether or not i am playing champs i am familiar with or trying new ones).

and i don't really have fun in almost all of the games i play win or lose. i dunno it seems super monotonous every time i play. maybe i should start playing karma again. i had so much fun when i played her but since i switched to "good" champions things have been really boring and unfun.

i do have fun jungling. but i really don't like to jungle in games that matter since i'm not too good at spotting weaknesses in lanes to exploit.

mostly though i don't like playing carries or anti carries or anything i have fun jungling (but am mediocre at it) and playing support, but when you play support with randoms things get unfun very quickly.

 

[smash brawl player 99021]

Fiddles is pretty boss.

Only good one other than Kog'Maw who's free this week.

 

[Z'zgashi]

How dare you call my darling Riven bad >:/

But really, Nid, Vayne, and Morgana. You forget them.

 

[Wave⁂]

Who's better, Trist or Vayne?

 

[DallasPhat]

Vayne IMHO she can play more aggressive at an earlier level.

 

[Deleted member]

I suggest playing the easiest ad derp champion of all time which is kogmaw. I'm pretty horrid at the ad carry role but simply attack moving and melting people no matter who u hit is pretty hilarious.

In general, champs that **** are fun, so are the playmakers

Champs like Gragas are pretty sick just cause your ultimate can easily influence the course of a fight. He's also really easy to steal baron with just by using both barrels at once

TBH, though, easily the most fun to be had in this game is good coordinated 5s although vs decent teams they tend to make some lanes stalemate farmoffs which is lame and boring gameplay

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if you want long term fun with a single champ, I suggest not picking OP flavor of the month champs because they are doomed to get nerfed. Jarvan was pretty sick but he got anally penetrated by like 6-7 patches in a row

Champs like Gragas, Cho Gath

 

[KevinM]

Looking to play arranged 5's again tonight, will be getting on vent around 10, 10:30.

 

[DMG]

I will get on vent just to motivate you with **** talk @ whoever is ****ing up atm

Drama Gank failed? OH HELL NO

 

[DarkDragoon]

There a difference between relying and trusting. You can trust your teammates but that doesn't mean you should rely on them to ALWAYS make the right decision. My mentality is prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Also DD amumu is a very poor jungler, he can be easily tampered/invaded on since his jungling route is so concrete. Whenever I see an enemy amumu I think of free wraiths and small golems after I finish blue. And an amumu invasion isn't that scary since he's usually low after completeing both blue and wolves. ALSO if you do start at blue I recommend you to finish your wolves first, if you're not doing that, that mean you just wasted 14 seconds. I always ask the support to CV junglers at blue (if I know they're starting there) and see if they did wolves first, if they didn't that mean after I'm done with blue I got plenty of time to steal there other half of their jungle.

I know amumu as a jungler is bad, but doing the jungle as him was easy. I'm slowly buying all the champs anyways, so I'll learn when I get there, I guess.

Looking to play arranged 5's again tonight, will be getting on vent around 10, 10:30.

Yayyyyyyy.
-DD

 

[Frolossus]

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/xerath-patch-notes
patch notes

 

[Scamp]

If anyone is recording the IEM finals tonight, please send them to me via PM. I won't be around to watch them, and it makes me sad.

 

[MacD]

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/xerath-patch-notes
patch notes

lol, just what we needed, another new cait skin

i love how she gets 2 skins in like under a month, and some old champs still have 2-3

 

[NeverKnowsBest]

Thank you everyone for the advice. I am definitely taking it into consideration. I will keep trying to get better and knowledgeable of the game.

Also, Malcolm doesn't play this game, quit lying to me.

LOL! PX I'd never lie to you. Played with him again tonight. He is SOOOO FUN TO PLAY WITH!

Malcolm <3's mah doooood.

 

[Wave⁂]

Lee Sin was basically not nerfed, wow

Taric buff looks delicious.

 

[PhantomX]

Lee Sin will still be strong, but people have been learning to deal with him and he's not seeing insta-ban/pick in tournament anymore. He's still very very strong, though.

Taric will be SUPER strong with this ult buff now (particularly for objectives)

 

[john!]

> brand gets a new skin
> caitlyn gets ANOTHER new skin
> swain and cassiopeia still haven't gotten any new skins

RIOTTTTTTTT

 

[Angbad]

Don't target bans against vfx, their captain, let him play whatever he wants. You should just feed off this guy really. They like vayne taric or taric + something. Easy to counter when you know its coming. Cho is a bannable champ against this team as Bruiseleet plays a really good Cho. You can ban some junglers too, if you're comfortable, I would leave Lee Sin open.

As for roaming, it's good against teams that haven't played against it before aka all non-NA top teams that were around when roaming was popular (CLG TSM Crs). It's also good if your team has unfavourable lane matchups. It really is a gamble, if it fails the roamer has cost you the game.

How would you suggest countering a vayne/taric lane? I was thinking a sivir withhh? and maybe cleanse?

 

[tarmacker]

Dphat on TheRainMan's stream.

 

[PhantomX]

Would have liked to see it from his PoV. We both seem to be coming into our own as junglers, haha.

Rolling solo queue with Nocturne all day.

 

[DallasPhat]

Hell yeah, free wins . DESTROYED THEM 8-0-2 dphat 2good.

 

[Omni]

Vayne is nasty.

 

[DarkDragoon]

How would you suggest countering a vayne/taric lane? I was thinking a sivir withhh? and maybe cleanse?

I was playing as Soraka in this lane last night in ranked 5s with Kevin and co., and Kevin basically explained it to me as keeping bush control by warding up the bushes so Taric can't just hide in them.

I think Alistar would work better for dealing with the lane, as knocking them up and back away from your AD carry would keep damage off nicely...but Soraka's Armor Buff and epic healz really helped to, so I dunno.

-DD

 

[Shaya]

A zombie...
wtf?

 

[BSL]

I assume it refers to yorick's ult, morde's ult, kog'maw after death, and karthus after death.

Logical?

 

[_Dice]

I think it's specifically yoricks ultimate.

 

[Dekar173]

http://www.own3d.tv/thatonebad

We're streaming ranked 5s come watch us get handled :D

 

[Geoberos]

Thought Zombie refers to the "Zombie State" in which a character has just died
Hence Infinite Duress no longer has a target and now properly stops channeling if target dies mid-channel.

 

[Z'zgashi]

Im surprised they didnt fix the Turret glitch in Dominion where the turrets would gets moved off the center of their little platform areas. If you can glitch through a turret and stand directly in the middle of it, then get hit by a move like Poppy's Heroic Charge or Alistar's Headbutt, it'll move the turret a bit too.

 

[@TKbreezy]

**** you phantomx

i have had the worse luck today.

after that horrible teemo game i just didnt get back into the swing of thingss....4 game losing streak...

 

[-Vocal-]

Taric seems really strong offensively now. Just me speculatin though, I don't know which supports are most popular right now

 

[Angbad]

Winning lane 1/0/1 against malz on anivia

Oh wait 0/7 singed top and 0/4 jungle riven and 0/6 bot lane

Unwinnable games