League of Legends: RIP Sunfire Garen, 12-14-2010. You will be missed.

Dac Vin

EspantaPajaro wrote: »

Since Morgana is free I gave her a shot and seemed real fun. Any advice for skill order and items?

I know Spectrum is gonna post too with something similar but anyway:

Runes: Mpen reds, MP5/lvl yellows, flat cooldown Blues, HP quints. This is the standard caster runes so there shouldn't be any worries here.

Masteries: 9/0/21. Once again standard caster masteries.

Summoner Spells: Flash/Ghost. Flash is awesome on Morgana, and Ghost is awesome overall.

Skill order: QWWEWR, then R > Q > W > E. More detailed: you want three points in Tormented Soil at lvl6, which allows you to nearly clear a lane by itself with some good last hits, but also isn't too costly in mana; a point in Black Shield to prevent harass, when you get it is situational (I get it at lvl2 when my lane opponent is zilean for example); A point in Dark Binding to harass with early on. A thing to know with Morgana is she is a complete mana hog: resource management is a crucial skill on her.

Items: Start with a Doran's Ring. It's way too good for you to not get it, and gives you a ton of things Morgana utterly LOVES - extra HP to survive in a lane, AP to harass with, and mana regen.

First trip back: evaluate your situation and what you got. If you are getting rocked, Boots + a second Doran's Ring can work.

Then you might want to build for a rod of Ages, right?

Wrong.

You're gonna build a Zhonya's Ring. Rod of Ages will be the second item you will build - since it gets better more quickly now you can sneak in another item before you get to building.

After these two and ungraded boots (Swiftness if you need speed, Sorcerer's if you need more power, Merc treads otherwise), it's situational. Build your defense item, then adapt to what the enemy got.

Playing: Take a side lane. Morgana is very good in all the positions in a sidelane: solo side, 1v2, 2v2, babysitter, and so on. Do not take mid with Morgana.

In a teamfight, you want to be the second one to enter the fray with your ult, but if you're the first, the way is: Black Shield on you > Flash > Soul Shackles > Zhonya active when your shield runs out > Hope your team is good.

OremLK

So did they give us any particular reason why servers are down right before frickin' prime hours?

If it is for replays, all will be forgiven.

Spoiler:

It's not for replays.

Barbaric_Monkey

Lichbane states that it doesn't stack with Sheen, and Triforce doesn't mention either Sheen or Lichbane, so I wasn't sure. I was swimming in oodles of cash and figured I'd sell my Void Staff for the Triforce.

Dac Vin

So I'm trying to exit the fucking program and

Connection Error wrote:

Connection Failure: Unable to connect to the PVP.NET server.

All together guys:

~best online technical

Pacificstar

Guys wtf is "Drupal"?

Organichu

EspantaPajaro wrote: »

Since Morgana is free I gave her a shot and seemed real fun. Any advice for skill order and items?

rod of ages is nice. if you're farming well you may be better off rushing zhonya's for its active (which works with your ult). early catalyst, boots, get good with her snare. don't be specious with BS; the cooldown is long.

übergeek

Typically things get patched on a Tuesday....maybe something imploded in the PvP.net part when they were updating?

EDIT ~best online technical

Nerdgasmic

isn't that Noxus v. Ionia stuff today? How's that been?

OtakuD00D

Go Ionia!

Sagaxus

Pacificstar wrote: »

Guys wtf is "Drupal"?

Lookit dis scrub what don't know what a drupal is

god what a drupal.

Squidget0

Noxians...I hate those guys!

UrQuanLord88

Ew no MOBA DOBA

unintentional

I love lane trundle
I've been going
-doran's shield
-merc treads (adjust as necessary)
-negatron cloak and chain mail (later build into atmas and banshees)
-sheen
-triforce
-finish the atmas and banshees

but I haven't had a fight go that long

EspantaPajaro

Dac Vin wrote: »

EspantaPajaro wrote: »

Since Morgana is free I gave her a shot and seemed real fun. Any advice for skill order and items?

I know Spectrum is gonna post too with something similar but anyway:

Runes: Mpen reds, MP5/lvl yellows, flat cooldown Blues, HP quints. This is the standard caster runes so there shouldn't be any worries here.

Masteries: 9/0/21. Once again standard caster masteries.

Summoner Spells: Flash/Ghost. Flash is awesome on Morgana, and Ghost is awesome overall.

Skill order: QWWEWR, then R > Q > W > E. More detailed: you want three points in Tormented Soil at lvl6, which allows you to nearly clear a lane by itself with some good last hits, but also isn't too costly in mana; a point in Black Shield to prevent harass, when you get it is situational (I get it at lvl2 when my lane opponent is zilean for example); A point in Dark Binding to harass with early on. A thing to know with Morgana is she is a complete mana hog: resource management is a crucial skill on her.

Items: Start with a Doran's Ring. It's way too good for you to not get it, and gives you a ton of things Morgana utterly LOVES - extra HP to survive in a lane, AP to harass with, and mana regen.

First trip back: evaluate your situation and what you got. If you are getting rocked, Boots + a second Doran's Ring can work.

Then you might want to build for a rod of Ages, right?

Wrong.

You're gonna build a Zhonya's Ring. Rod of Ages will be the second item you will build - since it gets better more quickly now you can sneak in another item before you get to building.

After these two and ungraded boots (Swiftness if you need speed, Sorcerer's if you need more power, Merc treads otherwise), it's situational. Build your defense item, then adapt to what the enemy got.

Playing: Take a side lane. Morgana is very good in all the positions in a sidelane: solo side, 1v2, 2v2, babysitter, and so on. Do not take mid with Morgana.

In a teamfight, you want to be the second one to enter the fray with your ult, but if you're the first, the way is: Black Shield on you > Flash > Soul Shackles > Zhonya active when your shield runs out > Hope your team is good.

Got it . Thanks for the advice guys I will try to practice all of this when the server stops being dead.

nealcm

morgana is kind of fun

when you don't hit zhonya's and your ultimate out of order

:oops:

it was actually really, really funny when it happened

we were initiating on THEM and somehow i got scared and hit zhonya's

Falstaff

Offline? But... now is my Gragas time.

This

Well I had been saving up for Trundle. But I was playing as Gragas since he was free, and it turns out that he is crazy fun. So Trundle may not be in the cards after all. Instead it might be Beerman.

Jars

why is morgana bad in mid. most people expect me to take it and usually I can get a kill with QW

Nerdgasmic

well, she is really slow

but that's what teleport is for

Dac Vin

Jars wrote: »

why is morgana bad in mid. most people expect me to take it and usually I can get a kill with QW

I don't like Morgana in mid not because she's bad at it but because she's so much better on the sides.

Zen Vulgarity

Because you shouldn't be able to get a kill with a Q and a W

Jars

well I'm just that good

Zen Vulgarity

For being cocky you've condemned yourself to lose for several days straight

OremLK

Dac Vin wrote: »

Jars wrote: »

why is morgana bad in mid. most people expect me to take it and usually I can get a kill with QW

I don't like Morgana in mid not because she's bad at it but because she's so much better on the sides.

Exactly. The reason she's so much better on the sides by the way is you have much better brush cover and much more room to get around creeps and hit your opponents with your Q. It's not that Morgana can't win mid, it's just much harder to hit her skillshots there.

Also she is pretty hard to gank with black shield and flash so she has no problem extending pretty far on the side lanes.

Fellhand

Mordekaiser is still the best yordle.

The Mordle Yordle.

Jars

Zen Vulgarity wrote: »

For being cocky you've condemned yourself to lose for several days straight

nope

cause morgana is op

WhiteShark

server's back up

Dac Vin

Jars wrote: »

Zen Vulgarity wrote: »

For being cocky you've condemned yourself to lose for several days straight

nope

cause morgana is op

How it feels to be in September of 2010?

FuriousJodo

Oh, I also played a few games as Ashe last night, and I have got to say that she is pretty damn fun to play and arrowing bitches is sweet.

Jars

september was not that long ago.

Rikushix

is there anyone here who has played every single champion?

This

Rikushix wrote: »

is there anyone here who has played every single champion?

I think I've played everyone except Trundle at least once.

Jars

still getting blocked by the launch. someone carry me to my first win of the day I will play taric

Slicer

Jars wrote: »

september was not that long ago.

And I guess with the logic presented, we're still in September.

Are we in a time paradox?

Nerdgasmic

taric is the best character

OremLK

Champions I haven't played at all:
Kassadin
Malzahar
Trundle
Xin Zhao

I think I've at least played a botmatch with all the others to test/memorize their abilities, if that counts.

Nerdgasmic

coincidentally those are are all awesome characters

OremLK

Yeah I really want to try Kassadin but I'm pretty sure he hasn't been free since I started playing (could be wrong).

Nerdgasmic

when did you start playing?

he was free the first week I started playing, which was back at the beginning of october

Jars

you stun people with your fabulous bling. what is not to like about taric