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[MOBA DOBA] League of Legends. use skill close eyes play hard
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Instead of rushing to Thornmail/Randuin, just stack triple hearts of gold. It'll give you a decent amount of income as well as health and armor. Then from there build what the other team has. Physical? THornmail/Sunfire. Magical? Banshees/Force O nature.
And don't forget to build your boots based on what the enemy team is. Which most of the time means Merc Treads.
What do you want to do with him - lane control/tower pushes or initiate teamfights? Regardless, you need more MR IMO, and you don't really have any HP regen in there (spirit visage earlier might help both of those, plus give you cooldown), and I'd switch to merc treads. I play Mumu/malphite though, so be aware I could be wrong. Sunfire is also never a bad choice with a tank, especially since it will stack with tremors nicely.
I usually build something like:
Then Thornmail if there's heavy physical dps, or Guardian's Angel if there's lots o' magic being thrown about.
George R. R. Martin is not your bitch. ~ Neil Gaiman
So it crits
and hurts a lot
this is not true in any way. it is totally random. i've had the lowest elo/lvl as captain before.
George R. R. Martin is not your bitch. ~ Neil Gaiman
This is probably the funniest shit I've ever seen.
Top 5 at least.
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okie dokie thanks for the heads up
but nisi is know all feldorn.
like the matrix.
I swore I read this somewhere, but I can't locate it now. Even if I did though they may have changed it, or I am misremembering. I've only solo ranked twice
I was under this impression as well. Maybe they changed it before it went live? *shrug*
George R. R. Martin is not your bitch. ~ Neil Gaiman
lul what?
Makes me feel less comfy playing solo ranked. Though since the rating is seperate and hopefully as you gain in wins you get less idiots, shouldn't be too bad.
Hurrah.
To make it less about me, and more about you, should I be going tank or damage? or is that largely dependant on enemy team makeup?
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An ineffable tragedy of the human spirit that still resonates, even today.
Just saw that. Kind of makes my weekend grind to 20 futile.
there was a character from a WC3 MOBA map that was a blood mage, and the blood mage had an ability called Tides of Blood... the map was called Tides of Blood
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that is retarded.
MooMan
(currently MIA)
my experience with 9 or 10 games of solo is that it is totally random. i've check who the captain is and i've had higher rating than the captains a few times.
Well, that would explain those two captains I had who had banned either Amumu or Ryze.
George R. R. Martin is not your bitch. ~ Neil Gaiman
No, it's not. They have very solid data to back up the following facts:
- Players who are not level 30 are far more likely to leave games.
- Players who are not level 30 are far more likely to lose games.
Given those facts, it's better for the general player population to limit the ranked games to those who are level 30 and up. You won't get placed with non-30s and your overall experience with the solo ranked queue will improve accordingly.
Ya'll should read the original post by Riot explaining the decision before complaining about it:
The only folks it negatively effects are the decent sub-30s who are excluded. But at least they can look forward to a better experience in solo queue once they actually hit 30.
Sorry Melk. You'll have to truck on without me!
On another note. I played Kassadin last night. And being a generally good Puck player from DotA (and whatever the post-release turtle guy is in HoN), I have found the LoL analogue. I cannot describe how many times I escaped death when I, by all things right in the world, should have been dead.
And thanks for whoever brought up the fact that you can jump over walls bigger than the Riftwalk range. That was a good thing to know going into playing him. I think the algorithm basically takes your target point, then finds the closest point Kassadin will fit into and puts him there. At one point fighting Golem, I tried to blink behind him but there wasn't enough room and I ended up on the other side of the trees. Thankfully I got back before he started regenerating health.
Also, I had so much fun against Heimer. Even though we lost the game because he basically solo-countered every push attempt we made. Nothing like seeing him in a nest, and jumping on him with a 4-stack Riftwalk.
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Let me know you are from PA, otherwise I will likely ignore you.
riot's explanation leads me to believe it's a problem with the matchmaker, not the players.
MooMan
why can't it look a player's leaves?
MooMan
For leavers, I think you should be allowed 1 leave a week (for system issues etc.), then be put into a separate queue that's only leavers. This would segregate the douchebag population and midgame leavers so they could only play with each other. Everyone would be happy. As it stands, it will probably take me months to get to 30, which is sad because I won't be able to play with most PA'ers.
Damnit, I didn't know you weren't level 30.
The world is cruel.
Yep, I love having to play a certain amount of time before I can play without the overpowered pieces of shit heroes.
while i can respect the desire to make a simple solution, it still seems like a cop-out
though, maybe the pre-30 population is lower than i think; but, i gotta assume there's a good chunk of people out there sub-30 that would like to play.
MooMan
well, just because a person has a leave doesn't mean they will leave in this particular game. you never know how a person will act in that game unless they have like a ridiculous amount of leaves. it is all dependent on what happens during the game. what would they do if they calculated a person's leave chance was high? pair him with other leavers?
I can't speak for others, but I prefer to only participate in ranked 5v5 when:
1. I'm playing with people who I know are highly skilled players
2. I'm playing a champion I'm very comfortable with
3. I'm in the mood for a highly competitive game
Seeing as how oftentimes those criteria aren't met, I've only played like 8 ranked 5v5 games since last week, and have played a couple dozen normal games.
You'll likely get to play with lots of PAers, including me. We'll just continue to do "normal" games.
This will definitely not encourage everyone to play a carry and completely screw their team at every opportunity, as long as it helps their K-D ratio.
Nope, definitely not.
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If someone has leaves they should just get thrown into a sort of 'bitch queue' with other players that have accumulated leaves. It wouldn't be hard to query the frequency that a player is leaving matchs and if they frequently or are on a streak of leaving then they get screwed accordingly. Not being able to play ranked games until 30 only hurts people that don't have a ton of time to play.