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Carnarvon

That's one thing for level 30 where you're just playing for fun/ip.

Level 1-29, you should be actively trying to win.

Daris

That is the absolute truth. I can't count the number of times I looked at team comp and thought we would have an easy win. Then it turns out my team is incapable of doing their selected roles. Being a partner with Riven bottom lane as Janna, and explaining to Riven exactly how Janna's kit works.

Shield, Riven runs off. Shield expires, Riven charges in. *Facepalm*

Or running solo top lane as Lux while Shaco jungles. While Shaco jungles. While Shaco jungles. Meanwhile they attempt ganks on me every other minute and eventually bring a 3v1 to force me out of lane. While Shaco jungles. Cue Shaco getting raped by those same three in our jungle while I laugh.

Being a Jungler doesn't mean spending twenty-five minutes in the jungle and only leaving... well he didn't really leave for team fights. He would leave to kind of backstab a team fight survivor and then run back to jungle...

Ugh...

Then there are tanks that won't engage. I shielded you... doesn't engage. I shielded you, and snared Singed & Annie... I also lasered them both... again. Okay, I'll just harass with laser every twenty four seconds, let me know when you... oh there you go. You were just waiting for every skill i have to be on absolute cooldown. Thanks.

Draygo

Carn thats wrong

1-29 its all about fun because silly builds like 5 ad carries tend to work even more often then level 30.

Neaden

A good comp is different before 30 though. You are probably not going to have a junglerer so you won't get a solo top. I think going support + ad carry bot is a mistake before 30 as well because you can't trust the carry to actually just last hit and get CS. Then there is the fact that a lot of the time people can't fill multiple roles very well. I would rather have 5 people playing champs they know well then have 1 or 2 people playing a champ for the first time just because they think it will fill a role.
Edit: Also Surprise party fiddlesticks + party rock anthem on loop for Dominion is my new go to for a quick game.

Draygo

And then the fact that it is level 1-29 and you should be experimenting with the free week champions even if you cant play them very well. Even post 30 you should continue to experiment.

Carnarvon

sometimes i forget that you're all a bunch of dirty autolockers

Arikado

Normal instalocking whatever you want also makes for some interesting combos. Like I did Karma supporting AP Gragas and we destroyed a Euro lane.

Rend

Arikado wrote:

Normal instalocking whatever you want also makes for some interesting combos. Like I did Karma supporting AP Gragas and we destroyed a Euro lane.

Doesn't karma destroy almost every lane?

Dac Vin

I play normals because ranked will always have one silly goose asking us to get a role that doesn't exist in this game.

GooseyGoose

What is the etiquette on 4th / 5th pick in ranked? I'm really only competent with a handful of champs. Couple of junglers, couple of AD carries, couple of AP carries. Support and Tank aren't really in my repertoire. There is something about my viability being directly correlated with my team's ability that scares me a little bit. So what is the proper play if we need a tank / support to fill the typical team comp and I'm in the bottom two picks? Do I grit my teeth, pick a tank / support, and give it my best? Or do I pick a champion I know I'm at least semi competitive with and get endlessly bitched at for the first 20 minutes of the game?

Sampsen

Draygo wrote:

And then the fact that it is level 1-29 and you should be experimenting with the free week champions even if you cant play them very well. Even post 30 you should continue to experiment.

I'm bad for experimenting with champs. I found Olaf and don't really want to play anything else, his play style is just so 'me'. Had some fun with Graves, but it's really hit-or-miss and I don't know if I'll be any good with him after his nerfs.

More experimenting!

Infidel

If you can play a champ well that fits the team well, groovy. Play one of those.

If not, play a champ that you can play well.

Rami

I like when my whole team picks AD so I pick Annie or Veiger, because if we're only going to have 1 AP they better be damn strong at it. Then entire enemy team proceeds to build 0 MR the entire game. Every team fight is just free kills.

Daris

I like filling that slot with Lux. Laser spam forces them to build magic resistance anyway, or suffer CONSTANTLY. Twenty four seconds, at least one person loses a giant chunk of their life bar. Squishy carries beware!

Edit: Although when the other team builds four veils it makes me kind of sad. Until I remember her laser has a shorter cooldown than the passive! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

Tommatt

I've come to the conclusion any time I want to win I'm going to just play brand. Everybody always wants to go AD anyways. He just seemed to click with me, and as long as I have someone to initiate the damage output is insane. And if I lose, well he's fun.

Even just won a game where I played mid chicken. Somehow it worked.

Team was cait, brand (me and her played mid chicken) teemo (went solo top) and rammus + talon bottom.

They had jax (solo top) amumu (jungle) aniva (mid who rage quit halfway through possibly because of our cait who I reported for language ) and I can't really remember their other 2.

She was talking so much shit (cait) I put her on ignore and said fuck this, I'm taking mid. Led to a very early downed tower, cait then roaming, me mostly farming mid, and thanks to an awesome rammus and a shroom warding teemo, it was like easy mode.

Think I ended 12/4/6

The cait was 6/4/6 I think. No right to be talking smack.

Took a long time to get that FWoTD though. (summoner lvl 21)

Echo

The best Gragas kills are having someone at 5% health chase you... and then you turn around and body slam him to death.

Talith

Custom Special wrote:

Talith wrote:

I need to unlock Yorick so I can play him as a support. AD reds and quints, flat mana regen yellows and blues and just run the enemy lane out of town.

Let's play tomorrow talith, I can make this happen.
You Ez, I Yorick?

Sounds good to me. I'll be on in the evening.

M.D.

Sampsen wrote:

Carnarvon wrote:

but i don't want to have fun, i want to win

But if you instalock, I assume you don't care about winning. I will then play whatever the heck I want to..

If you discuss what you want to do first, or soft lock, we can work it out and I'll play a role more suited to the current meta team comp.

this is my take, eevery game i get into it's insta lock teemo or some such character with like all ad's and i just insta lock ap soraka for the funs

galrog

Just had a weird game where it was me as poppy v. Galio mid. He got a lucky first blood with creeps assassinating me but then I got 3 early kills off bottom lane and rolled to 12 3. Was weird seein those 2 champs against each other mid though.

Best part was, I was supposed to be on the other teams team before there was a queue dodge and they were whining about poppy not being able to mid, then I got to destroy them, felt good. Especially after they gave me shit after the first death.

Jars

Echo wrote:

The best Gragas kills are having someone at 5% health chase you... and then you turn around and body slam him to death.

the best gragas kills are whens someone at 1/3 hp thinks they are safe recalling under their tower and you walk up throw your 900 damage ult and hit a 3 pointer

galrog

Jars wrote:

Echo wrote:

The best Gragas kills are having someone at 5% health chase you... and then you turn around and body slam him to death.

the best gragas kills are whens someone at 1/3 hp thinks they are safe recalling under their tower and you walk up throw your 900 damage ult and hit a 3 pointer

silky smooth jumper

Custom Special

Talith wrote:

Custom Special wrote:

Talith wrote:

I need to unlock Yorick so I can play him as a support. AD reds and quints, flat mana regen yellows and blues and just run the enemy lane out of town.

Let's play tomorrow talith, I can make this happen.
You Ez, I Yorick?

Sounds good to me. I'll be on in the evening.

Bah. Halloween party tomorrow night, but I'll be on during the day.
I might be able to get a game in tonight. What time you on?

initiatefailure

So I found my pax jax code. I know the singed one didn't work on EU but it's possible this one does if someone would like to jax while he paxes?

Talith

Custom Special wrote:

Talith wrote:

Custom Special wrote:

Talith wrote:

I need to unlock Yorick so I can play him as a support. AD reds and quints, flat mana regen yellows and blues and just run the enemy lane out of town.

Let's play tomorrow talith, I can make this happen.
You Ez, I Yorick?

Sounds good to me. I'll be on in the evening.

Bah. Halloween party tomorrow night, but I'll be on during the day.
I might be able to get a game in tonight. What time you on?

Same deal, I'll be on in the evening. Probably in about 2 hours.

I needed a name to post.

jesus, i can't get a team where all 5 people stay connected all game to save my life today

Custom Special

Talith wrote:

Custom Special wrote:

Talith wrote:

Custom Special wrote:

Talith wrote:

I need to unlock Yorick so I can play him as a support. AD reds and quints, flat mana regen yellows and blues and just run the enemy lane out of town.

Let's play tomorrow talith, I can make this happen.
You Ez, I Yorick?

Sounds good to me. I'll be on in the evening.

Bah. Halloween party tomorrow night, but I'll be on during the day.
I might be able to get a game in tonight. What time you on?

Same deal, I'll be on in the evening. Probably in about 2 hours.

Sweet. I should be home in a little under 3 hours.
THEN WE SHALL EURO.

Grundlestiltskin

Soft "locking" is fine, it's what I usually do. Generally speaking I'm the first person to pick a champ and just wait to see what other people are doing. I'm always amused when I'm the first person to select a champ and then end up having to switch for team balance anyway.

Instalocking just gets me because it basically says to me "I don't give a shit what you think, I'm going to play what I want to play and expect you to pick around me." And more often than not, the instalockers are the first people to bitch that we need a tank or support.

Edit: When I think about it, having 1 or 2 instalockers probably isn't the end of the world. It limits the amount of people who need to discuss what roles they're going to play, easier to discuss with 3 people than 5. That said, it still annoys me when the least flexible people are the most vocally demanding.

nealcm

only way to instalock is to instalock whatever you want shrink the client and not care about team comp but CARRY ANYWAY

Ledneh

I'm coming back because Surprise Party Fiddlesticks

Does he make a better jungler, solo lane, or duo lane nowadays?

Rami

Bitches don't know about AP Teemo.

It's so great poking away in lane with little bits of damage. And then I B and come back with a needlessly large rod and now my blind + aa has removed 60% of their hp and you can see them start to panic and flee to their tower. But I have exhaust so.

Jars

everyone should instalock always

Dac Vin

fuck you team im instalocking because none of you can be trusted

master of my own destiny, play twitch every day

Carnarvon

Rami wrote:

Bitches don't know about AP Teemo.

It's so great poking away in lane with little bits of damage. And then I B and come back with a needlessly large rod and now my blind + aa has removed 60% of their hp and you can see them start to panic and flee to their tower. But I have exhaust so.

Everyone knows about AP Teemo. I can count the number of AD Teemos I've seen on one finger.

You should check that Singed scoreboard I posted, that Teemo was pretty bro doing bot with Taric.

initiatefailure

Does any EU want a possibly working pax jax code?

No strings, especially because I'm not 100% it works.

Jars

hey dudes can you check http://www.ustream.tv/channel/test-lol-channel for me and let me know if it's working properly. Just going to be playing a game of dominion to see how much it lags me

Sampsen

Jars wrote:

hey dudes can you check http://www.ustream.tv/channel/test-lol-channel for me and let me know if it's working properly. Just going to be playing a game of dominion to see how much it lags me

Hey Jars, I'm watching your stream right now. I'm getting a lot of white noise.

Houn

So, I just had my first game as Jungle Warwick.

Ashe mid, Akali bot, Irelia top. Rammus AFKed for the first 5 minutes. Both top and bot face checked to their peril. Rammus comes back, goes TOP. Akali starts yelling about how she can't hold a lane because she's melee. Team refuses to surrender three times, finally they do it before the nexus goes down.

I went 3/8/11; the only one on the enemy team that could beat me was the super-fed Yi, and he ALWAYS showed up when I was setting up a gank. ALWAYS.

Moral of the Story: Jungling is not for Soloqueue.

Grundlestiltskin

Houn wrote:

So, I just had my first game as Jungle Warwick.

Ashe mid, Akali bot, Irelia top. Rammus AFKed for the first 5 minutes. Both top and bot face checked to their peril. Rammus comes back, goes TOP. Akali starts yelling about how she can't hold a lane because she's melee. Team refuses to surrender three times, finally they do it before the nexus goes down.

I went 3/8/11; the only one on the enemy team that could beat me was the super-fed Yi, and he ALWAYS showed up when I was setting up a gank. ALWAYS.

Moral of the Story: Jungling is not for Soloqueue.

I like that the only AP on your team is Akali. The other team was probably thrilled, armor all up ins.

Tommatt

Houn wrote:

So, I just had my first game as Jungle Warwick.

Ashe mid, Akali bot, Irelia top. Rammus AFKed for the first 5 minutes. Both top and bot face checked to their peril. Rammus comes back, goes TOP. Akali starts yelling about how she can't hold a lane because she's melee. Team refuses to surrender three times, finally they do it before the nexus goes down.

I went 3/8/11; the only one on the enemy team that could beat me was the super-fed Yi, and he ALWAYS showed up when I was setting up a gank. ALWAYS.

Moral of the Story: Jungling is not for Soloqueue.

I gotta disagree here. Your team was shit regardless. But a good jungle can really help the idiots with some timely ganks allowing them to AA the lane like they are since they have no opposition, deny enemy farm and xp, and get you fed so you can carry. You were losing this game regardless. But a strong jungle can help a team full of idiots quite a bit.

Jars

Sampsen wrote:

Jars wrote:

hey dudes can you check http://www.ustream.tv/channel/test-lol-channel for me and let me know if it's working properly. Just going to be playing a game of dominion to see how much it lags me

Hey Jars, I'm watching your stream right now. I'm getting a lot of white noise.

was there any other sound?