League of Legends

L|ama

janna's generally too far away for auras to be useful I think? buff ones maaaybe, but not debuffs

SuMa.Lustre

janna is great with team aura items, usually she gets aegis at the least

my last game with her lasted 1 hour, I had 11K gold earned, was 2/5/23

ended game with merc treads, aegis, soul shroud, and a ruby crystal

the rest went to wards and oracles

L|ama

things i have learned from pubs in recent days:

-the game is actually only about kills, and towers/inhibs don't really matter
-i was a fool for not initiating against a morde and mf who were trying to kite me through our jungle with 4 of us around when we couldn't see the rest of their team

Antimatter

I still don't have any of the supposed free riot points

I tried buying several things, nothing

e: what should i do?

Naphtali

I just got my points after playing a game (& the store came back up from being down)

Antimatter

Naphtali wrote: »

I just got my points after playing a game (& the store came back up from being down)

thanks

Hacksaw

Antimatter wrote: »

Naphtali wrote: »

I just got my points after playing a game (& the store came back up from being down)

thanks

Same.

Antimatter

just played a match, nothing

oh well, it's not like I could have bought anything I wanted with that amount of points anyway

Isoldae

There are posts on their forums saying they are still giving points out.

So you can still get them.

Baicon

I try to be excellent to everyone on this game but some people just wont have it. I get first blood and go from mid to top and their Lee Sin is recalling at no hp. I get the kill and for the next 40 minutes it's just constant bitching about how I'm terrible and should uninstall.

Along the same note, I picked up Akali and bought almost all new runes to match last week and am doing amazing.

initiatefailure

So team buffs are good but i probably should try to stay too far away for debuff auras to work?

Also that Janna game was the first time I took Clarity. I never realized how useful that was especially with a split push on our team when enemies disappear.

Baicon

initiatefailure wrote: »

So team buffs are good but i probably should try to stay too far away for debuff auras to work?

Also that Janna game was the first time I took Clarity. I never realized how useful that was especially with a split push on our team when enemies disappear.

Debuff items work well. You should normally in the middle or off to the side so you can still support your team. Well within range for them to be effective. Also did you mean Clairvoyance instead of Clarity?

unintentional

clarity is not that useful and clairvoyance owns, so probably

Jars

I find myself taking flash/cv on janna because I always manage to sneak at least 1 kill in with flash early on. she's a pretty good tower diver. clarity/cv isn't uncommon though

initiatefailure

Baicon wrote: »

initiatefailure wrote: »

So team buffs are good but i probably should try to stay too far away for debuff auras to work?

Also that Janna game was the first time I took Clarity. I never realized how useful that was especially with a split push on our team when enemies disappear.

Debuff items work well. You should normally in the middle or off to the side so you can still support your team. Well within range for them to be effective. Also did you mean Clairvoyance instead of Clarity?

Oh right yeah. I think I've mixed up those names before. Clairvoyance seems really good especially with an enemy jungler or MIA plus early game I just dropped it on our bottom lane constantly because they kept going MIA or hiding in bushes and our team dominated them down there, possibly with the added sight or possibly because they were really aggressive.

unintentional

every team should have a clairvyoance, a smite, and a couple of ignites and exhausts in blind pick forever

PiptheFair

unintentional wrote: »

every team should have a clairvyoance, a smite, and a couple of ignites and exhausts in blind pick forever

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nealcm

every team should also have one pun-capable player, though it is tougher in blind pick not knowing who you are going to be punning til the loading screen

unintentional

also a couple teleports is nice but not as vital

Baicon

Even having 2 or more Clairvoyances can lead to hilarious games where the enemy can never get off a gank.

nealcm

yeah puns are more important than teleport

Charles Kinbote

so I impulse bought trundle

he is a lot of fun and good at ganks and he doesn't have any abilities that get me in trouble with myself

smack smack smack smack smack

jungling gives me the "ugh I have to do all this again" syndrome way worse than laning, though

Charles Kinbote

boy I haven't eaten in 22 hours

unintentional

yes hello

HellaJeff

I wish I was better at jungling, I like it way better than laning

but hoo boy I am bad

Jars

I catch flak for running teleport over ignite on vlad. why would vlad ever want ignite he isn't a burst caster in the least.

unintentional

but it gives him burst so he can actually get kills in lane
like, hemoplague + transfusion + ignite at level seven is about 450-500 damage I think
and people with 450-500 health might not think they have to base yet

nealcm

cause you can get some surprise kills with ignite + hemoplague

Charles Kinbote

I like jungling but I wish I could just fast-forward to when I have a wriggles

HellaJeff

I don't really like face checking, or going for first blood so I don't mind the pre wriggles 10 minutes

Baicon

I hate jungling but that's probably because I only jungle with the worst junglers and end up doing horribly.

TracerBullet

So, um, if anyone knows who our vent-server-troll is for the G&T vent, can they kindly ask that person to go fuck the devil in hell?

Charles Kinbote

I also am not being maximally efficient with Trundle jungling but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong

I end up finishing red at around 4:30, I think, which is the last step in my rotation

then I kill wolves and b because I have zero health left and I can afford a madred's then

but I end red at pretty low health, and I am under the impression that that is the first time I ought to gank if a lane is pushed?? but I don't have anywhere near the health to do that

unintentional

runes/masteries/starting item?

Wimble

don't clear the entire jungle then gank with trundle. Clear all except red, base, come back for red and then gank

that way it lasts longer and you are less "not alive"

Charles Kinbote

I've been doing what wimble told me for masteries

21/0/9

arpen reds, armor yellows, health quints and mr blues

cloth armor + five pots

that is way good advice wimble

Charles Kinbote

except wait

madreds speeds up my jungling so much and makes it so much safer

when would I go back for that if I don't have the madred's gold (like, do I wait to clear the entire jungle again, or b when I have the cash? It seems like the jungle would end up clear at about the same time either way)? do I buy boots or a long sword on that first b?

Wimble

I believe all you can afford is boots at that point and yeah that is correct

if the lanes are completely ungankable and your team mates don't need you to come scare or anything whatsoever then I suppose you can go for razor's right away, but almost always just get the boots, take red and do some gankin'

Jars

I'm kind of surprised warwick is never banned while rammus and malphite are.

Wimble

anyone still banning malphite is living in the past!