[League of Legends]: It's something to do when Diablo 3 is down.

ChaosHat

League of Legends (popularly known as LoL) is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game. With lots of acronyms, in case you couldn't tell.

It is made by Riot games and brought to you by sexy lagomorphs.

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You play as a summoner that selects a Riven to battle with and against other summoners and their respective non bunny champions. During games, your champion will level up, get gold for better equipment and hopefully destroy the enemy nexus. Outside of games, your summoner level will rise. This will unlock new runes to enhance champion stats, bestow mastery points for further champion customization and goodies like avatars. At max level you can then compete in ranked matches and/or judge player behavior in what is called the tribunal.

New Player Guide

1. Make an account: NA EU (West) EU (Nordic & East)
It is worth noting that referring new players has perks, so I would ask for a referral link in the thread rather than a vanilla account.

2. Download the client: Right here
The official Mac client has been discontinued.

3. Play the tutorials! New User Guide
The game can be a bit overwhelming, and I highly suggest you play the tutorials OR find someone willing to do a few vs. AI games with you.

4. Join the "Penny Arcade" Chat Channel to find helpful people and people to escape solo queue with! Click the little double speech bubble looking thing at the bottom right of your screen. Click the + speech bubble right above it. Type in "Penny Arcade" and introduce yourself. Not everyone you see in the thread will be there, as not everyone plays on the same server. You can ask these people how to play champions, we pretty much have someone who plays each kind of Riven, whether it be bunny girl (broken tier), crimson elite (garbage tier) and every kind in between.

5. Play vs. People
Do it, damn you. As said above, the AI is not going to give you the legitimate LoL experience. You don't want to hit your 20s solely from bot matches.

6. Get yer free champs.
Subscribe to Riot's Youtube and get a free Alistar skin! Includes the champion! Free Tristana if you're into the Facebook thing. Promo skins always include the champion if you never bought it.

The Dos and Don'ts of LoL

Meta Stuff

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1. Don't buy champions randomly!
LoL has two currencies: Riot Points (RP), which are bought with real money, and Influence Points (IP) which are earned solely by playing games. Champions can be bought with both, but every week there will be ten free champions to play with. Play these champs instead. Get a feel for each type of champion and see which you find more fun. It's far better to do this as opposed to buying a champ randomly and ultimately being unhappy with it.

2. Don't buy Tier 2 Runes.
They are pretty much a waste of IP. Buy Tier 1 and save up for Tier 3.

3. Do queue with friends.
Playing with randoms is a crapshoot, and playing with a bunny or two can put the odds in your favor. Play complementary champs and request feedback on how you did in each game (even if you won).

4. Do learn the champions
When a new rotation occurs, it is wise to play a few games with each champ. Knowing what each champ is capable of will be useful even if you hate how they play and never intend on using them. For example, Karthus has a skill that does damage to every enemy champion, regardless of location! If you know this, then you can prepare for it and not be taken by surprise.

5. Do read guides.
There are multiple ways to play a champion. This combination of skills, runes, masteries and items is called a "build" and are the general strategies for any champion. The recommended items in the game store are not always accurate, and the order you level skills can have a big impact on how the early stages of the game play out. Sites like Mobafire and Solomid offer builds for just about every champion. It's cookie-cutter, but a great foundation for new people. Once you learn the ins and outs, you can tweak a build to better serve your playstyles or as a reaction to enemy or ally players.

6. Do be polite and do report
Sometimes people will suck or do shit wrong. It's a game, so try to keep that in mind when things get a little unhinged. If you insult or yell at people, even if they DID do something wrong, you're likely going to get that person defensive and things break down. Instead of focusing on the game, you focus on hurling insults at each. Stay calm, and politely offer advice when needed. And yet, people are jerks. It happens. Simply /mute them and quietly report them after the game. Taking their bait is probably what they want you to do. Do not give them the satisfaction! Keep your cool.

7. Buy skins
Having a skin for a character is a great way to say "Hey I'm fucking awesome with this champion so get the fuck out of my way." If your team is using more skins than your enemy team, you basically have already won. If you're playing as a Battle Bunny, you've won the awesome award.

8. Please watch Community thursday nights at 8 on NBC. It's like the best show.

Game Stuff

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1. Do not be aggressive
There will be a serious urge to want to kill enemy champs. Resist! Death is an all-around loss: your opponents get more cash and experience, you miss out on experience and your lane risks getting pushed. If you set-up a kill and fail, do not continue chasing. In many cases, you will just die to a tower or get ganked. While later on you will learn when to take risks, early in your career it's best to be less aggressive and just let the other guy get away.

2. Do not focus on KDR
Your kill-death-ratio is not the end-all of your value. It is possible to lose despite having a serious kill advantage over the enemy team! Certain champions, once getting the right items, can be unstoppable murder machines. Even if you do kill them a lot, if they reach this threshold, it's possible for a dramatic reversal to occur. It is far more important to support your team's objectives: push towers, protect your own towers from being pushed and keep your team informed of enemy activity. It is far better to have a modest KDR and win, than be the team killer and lose.

3. Do watch the minimap and your enemy
Enemy locations are important! In your low-level games you will likely have two champs tops lane, one mid and two bottom (in later level games, one from top will be off "jungling," so top will have just one champ). If a player in YOUR lane is missing, let the team know. The player might just be heading back to base to buy items, or they could be trying to jump your friend in another lane. And mention when they came back to your lane! But this doesn't mean you should rely wholly on team recon. Watch the minimap yourself for enemy locations in other lanes whenever you can. People aren't perfect, and sometimes that warning comes a bit too late. Another set of eyes is always useful.

4. Do buy wards.
Wards are items that grant you vision of an area for 180 seconds. They are, without a doubt, one of the best purchases you will make. You can plop them along the river and have advance warning of ganks. They'll grant you vision of the brush. They'll alert you of enemy attempts on big-reward neutral monsters like the dragon or baron. If you attack them in the middle of something like that, you could mob up their entire team. Or maybe you are aware of a gank attempt on you. You could alert a nearby friend, bait the ganker in and turn the tables. Buy wards. BUY. WARDS.

5. Do buy wards.
Wards are items that grant you vision of an area for 180 seconds. They are, without a doubt, one of the best purchases you will make. You can plop them along the river and have advance warning of ganks. They'll grant you vision of the brush. They'll alert you of enemy attempts on big reward neutral monsters like the dragon or baron. If you attack them in the middle of something like that, you could mob up their entire team. Or maybe you are aware of a gank attempt on you. You could alert a nearby friend, bait the ganker in and turn the tables. Buy wards. BUY. WARDS. Yes, I posted this twice. It is that important.

6. Do something.
So you just wiped the enemy team out. Hooray! But...what are you doing now? Did you just go back to your respective lanes and farm? Incorrect! You now have precious map control, and should be taking advantage of it. Gather up as a team and take out a tower. Head to the dragon and get a clean kill. Steal enemy creeps (especially their blue and red buffs). You can always check the status of both teams by pressing tab. If multiple enemies are waiting on respawn, then you need to press that advantage.

7. Don't just wait around all day when you're in a position to win.


Meet the Team

Like any group activity, stuff is usually broken down into roles. It's worth noting that champions don't always fit neatly in categories. A champion's role in the team may depend on what build has been chosen, and sometimes you may fill several roles depending on the group composition. When picking champions, it's a good idea to see what people are doing and fill in any holes.

1. The Carry: If your team is a car, then the carry is the engine. It's what makes the team function. The carry, when doing its job, will be able to easily destroy the whole team. But, just like an engine is useless without any other parts of your car, the carry relies on its team to get the gold necessary to buy the items needed to kill swathes of enemies. Early on, carries tend to be more vulnerable and weaker than other champs. LOTS of people pick carry in random, because it's the star character that generally gets all the kills. One of the reasons Riven is so great is that she can carry a team since her damage ratios are amazing and she can easily carry and dominate fools.

2. The Tank: Following the car metaphor, the tank is your steering. It'll guide the team into battle, and in many cases will be the one starting the fights. Tanks are there to absorb damage and lock down the most dangerous champions on the enemy team so you can position yourselves to win the fight. Some tanks do this with CC, whereas other tanks have some damage and will soften up the enemy team instead. Tanks still tend to need the rest of their team to back them up. You could build Riven like this, I'm not sure I would recommend it.

3. The Support: I guess support are your tires or something? Maybe the AC. Either, support help the team out with buffs and generally shields or healing. Healers tend to assist the carry by allowing the carry to stay in the lane longer through said healing or shields. Unlike, well, just about everyone else, Support don't rely so much on gear and thus will purposefully AVOID getting last hits so that their lane partner can farm gold faster. Because of their reduced need of gold, support should also be buying and placing wards when needed. It's worth noting that EVERYONE should generally buy wards, but as a support you can afford to take the financial hit. FEW people pick support in random due to how hard it is to influence games. You have to be very proactive to make up for bad teammates as a carry. Riven commonly supports the enemy team to their graves.

4. The Jungler: Jungling is a more advanced concept, and you won't see it until higher summoner levels. This is due to runes and masteries allowing for more efficient jungling. It is still possible on a few champs, even at Summoner Level 1, but very uncommon. As the name implies, the jungler sits in the jungle and kills neutral creeps. This benefits your team by creating a second solo lane (top lane), resulting in more experience and gold for your team as a whole. Once the jungler hits a certain gear/level point, they look for opportunities to gank enemies. This is generally done via strong CC abilities, such as Warwick's ultimate or Nunu's slow coupled with his speed buff. Skills such as these will enable the jungler's teammate in that lane to easily assist with the kill. When not ganking, the jungler will return to the jungle regularly to keep up in terms of gold and experience. Due to their roaming, the jungler has plenty of opportunities to place wards for its teammates. Riven can do this and she's amazing.

This is a very simple guide! There are other roles in teams, but this is a rough outline of the basics. Roles can easily overlap, and a champion can fill more than one role! Experiment and see what works and what doesn't.

Thursday Night Painhouse!

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Useful Stuff

Websites!

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http://www.solomid.net/ - A more advanced and polished version of Mobafire. Solomid offers intricate guides on champs that've been tried and tested by the community. Best for more advanced players of lvl 20+
http://www.leagueoflegends.com - The standard LoL website! Info on the game can be found here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qggKB98It0Q - The basics of laning and last hitting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kxGQ3gWdrM - Shurelya's guide on zoning!

Stuff You Should Know
-Yes, a promo skin will unlock that champion for free.
-Promo skin codes generally work once on each region. If you have used a code for yourself, don't toss it out! Make a post here and give it away or swap it for another skin.
-Buy Wards
-Buy Wards
-When in doubt, take Flash

A useful list of terms used in game, courtesy of Cantido.

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Thing heard in game or apply to things in game

b = back, fall back, they're coming for you
back = fall back, they're coming for you
care = be careful, they may be coming for you
oom = out of mana
focus = To target a player. Meaning that as a team you all will all focus on a specified hero to kill first.
top, mid, bottom = the lanes in LoL. With the flip camera option, the top and bottom may be switched for some people.
lane = the road like expanses that contain towers and lead to and from the bases
river = The river which cuts across the map diagonally
jungle = The mass of trees and paths that exist between the lanes
neutrals = The creep-enemies who live in the jungle
bp, pill, pilling = blue pilling, going back to base
base, basing = blue pilling, going back to base
shop,buy = To go back to base to go shopping
brush/grass = The large grass in LoL which causes your hero to be hidden to people outside of the brush
sigils = Temporary buffs granted to a player by defeating the Golem and the Elder Lizard. These buffs transfer to the killer in the event that the hero dies with the sigil.
buff = Typically a temporary increase to some stat(s)
passive = An ability which is not activated but helps a character. For example, Morgana's passive allows her to heal a small % of the damage her spells inflict. Passives usually apply only to the hero who has them.
aura = A 'passive' which applies not only to the hero who has it, but also to heroes within the given range for the aura. A shareable passive.
dd = direct damage ability. Typically DDs are unavoidable: Click ability, click target, profit. For example: Annie's Q fireball.
skillshot = an ability that fires a projectile that can be dodged. For example: Morgana's cage, Ashe's ultimate arrow
aoe = area of effect
pbaoe = point blank area of affect. The area of effect is centered around the caster such as Nunu's Ultimate or any aura.
backdoor= To attack the enemies towers and base without the cover of your creeps there
ult = ultimate ability. The R Ability.
unique = In LoL certain auras/passive are unique, meaning they do not stack.
last hit = Getting the very last hit, or killing blow.
AP = Ability Power. The stat which boosts the effectiveness of abilities.
miss, mia = Missing, missing in action. Commonly used to describe when a hero is missing from a lane and may indicate to the team that a gank may happen.
juke, juking = When being chased, juking is to fool your pursuers. Typically this happens in the jungle. A successful juke could range from eluding the enemy by exploiting line of sight, or could simply cause the enemy to mistarget a spell.
feed = A player who dies constantly feeds the other team (via the gold reward for killing someone). Being called a feeder is not a compliment. A player who is fed has a lot of kills.
gg = good game.
gj = good job.
ms = movement speed
Riven = the best character ever who is also an adorable bunny.
baron, nashor, worm = the big worm like boss that gives a noticeable buff to the whole team when killed.
gl hf - good luck, have fun, usually an encouraging sportsmanlike phrase said before a game, sometimes sarcastically used "gl solo baron"
push - to gather up a creep wave and attempt to destroy an enemy tower "I'm going to push bottom"
d, defend - to sit at a tower and/or inhibitor and attempt to avoid confrontation while stopping the enemy from killing the objective "I'm gonna d mid"
gank - to go (often with more than one player) to try and kill an enemy, often by surprise "lets gank bottom"
tp - summoner spell telleport used to traverse the map "Ill tp back in"
heal - either the summoner spell, a champion ability, or the act of returning to base to regenerate HP and mana "you should heal"
harass - to annoy the enemy with small bursts of non lethal damage, often forcing them to go heal or be set up for a gang.
bait - to deliberately appear in a position to be easily ganged so as to lure 1 or more players to be gangked by your team "go bait them in to the jungle"
Disable = A Disable is a debuff that usually prevents some kind of action on the player. Stuns, roots, silences are all examples of disables
Stun = A debuff which prevents any action by a champion (summoner spells excluded)
Root = A debuff which prevents any movement by a champion (summoner spells excluded)
Silence = A debuff which prevents any abilities being used by a champion (summoner spells excluded)
Farm = Farming involves the amassing of gold for player. This is usually best done by killing a lot of creeps and killing them very quickly. Certain Heroes like Ashe and Tristana are great farmers: The first has a +gold passive, and the latter has an AOE passive.
leash/pull - when someone other than the jungler attacks a jungle creep so that it comes towards them while the jungler attacks it; the leasher leaves the range so the jungle creep returns to the jungler; allowing several free hits/spells on the creep for the jungler.

Things heard outside of the game or apply to outside of the game

vent = Ventrilo. It is voice communication software used to coordinate as a team. LoL has its own vent server: See the sticky in the beta general for more information.
build = how a champion and its summoner is built. For champions this may includes the items one buys on a champion, and the order one gets a champion's skills. For summoners, this refers to their masteries and rune selections.
carry = A character who, if played properly, wins late game fights for a team. Typically these heroes are weak early game and require a lot of farming.
tank = Character with a lot of HP and likely armor/resistance. Whose job is to initiate battles with the enemy players/turrets as to draw damage onto himself.
dps = Damage per second. Also referes to characters who job it is to deal damage (As opposed to support and tanks)
burst = A large volume of damage done quickly and typically then very little sustained follow up damage.
support = Characters who job it is to support other characters: Healers, buffers, etc
runes = Refers to LoL's rune system, however this term is overloaded and some players also refer to sigils as runes
talents = A non-canon term for masteries
mastery, masteries = The talent-tree system of LoL
DotA = Defense of the the Ancients. A mod for War3 that virtually launched the moba genre
HoN = Heroes of Newerth. Another moba game that is in direct competition with LoL.
moba = multiplayer online battle arena
elo = The score a person has in the Ranking system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
leave, leaver = To quit a game before it is over.
raqequit = To quit a game in anger (Being killed, losing)
disc, dc = disconnect from a game.
adjudicator = Either an older beta tester, or a beta tester whose skill in game or feedback out of game have been noted.
skin = Items that give a Champion a new look (Costumes, clothes, etc)
champion = The particular character that you as the summoner control
hero = non-canon name for a champion
summoner = Your representation in the game. Essentially you are the puppet master of your selected Champion and you have your own summoner abilities along with the champion's abilities.
deny, denies= Basically last hitting your own creep. This mechanic does not exist in LoL. In DotA, this would prevent the other from earning the gold and experience for killing the creep.

Previous thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/156016/league-of-legends-fiora-french-fencing-femme-fatale-frequently-fights-fools-for-fun/p1

ChaosHat

Have you scored a penta?

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Delphinidaes

@initiatefailure

Do EWQQ, or EWQW to end at 80-100% health. You don't really need more than 1 point in E until you have to since you will get better returns from Q, W, and R.

Madpoet

Boots 3 or an extra Tiamat?

Custom Special

So who is buying Megadeth Galio to be a super cool guy in the video game?

initiatefailure

Delphinidaes wrote: »

@initiatefailure

Do EWQQ, or EWQW to end at 80-100% health. You don't really need more than 1 point in E until you have to since you will get better returns from Q, W, and R.

ok cool, i'll try that out. i was just thinking e was my main jungling tool and leveling affected cooldown.

shalmelo

Custom Special wrote: »

So who is buying Megadeth Galio to be a super cool guy in the video game?

Man, that $20 skin ain't got nothing on Commando Galio.




DEAL WITH IT

Custom Special

I've got Cool Blue Galio, because it looks awesome plus it was super cheap on sale at the time.
But Megadeth Galio does look pretty awesome (not sure ~$17 awesome, though).

Goumindong

Feel free to let us all know what the proper way of using cait's traps is

There are a couple of things you can do with them

In laning:

1)Use them for brush control and vision

One of the things Cait can do is to build harass by shooting from the bush [headshot more often]. To do this effectively means that you either a) need to have your support in the other brush or b) need to be able to know when/if they're in the other brush to harass.

Placing wards in the brush and then letting your support wander in and amongst your creeps means that you can use the traps to create free harass opportunities for you while getting the most out of your supports ability to not care about last hitting when harassing the enemy carry.

In Fights:

1) Use them to control/create choke points in battle,

That is, often in a fight you want to be able to restrict enemy positioning by either limiting means of egress or entrance. Traps will let you do this by preemptively placing them where you don't want the enemy to go. Or don't want an enemy to come from. Since they last so long either the enemy has to carefully path around them, or burn flash/some other dash ability.

2) Use them as targeted roots

Smartcast them on a fleeing enemy or set someone up for a hook by smartcasting onto someone you want to yank.

This is one of the reasons why a Blitz/cait lane is so redonk. If, at any point an enemy gets outside of the creep line [so that blitz can make a grab] cait can simply stick a trap down right on their location which will give blitz enough time to grab.

You can do this in team fights too if you're OK with getting to within 850 or so of an enemy [800 placement range +135 trap range]

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Looking at her stats again i feel like maxing her traps first is the best idea. They gain 50 damage/level [compared to 40 damage/level for her q] and the CD reduction is really large, letting you use them repeatedly in fights.

Since the cost doesn't increase as you level this means you should be able to effectively use them as targeted harass [800 range targeted harass!] which does a lot of damage [80+50/level, so 180 damage when you're level 5 and 280 when you're level 9 which is more damage than any non-scaling ability for a ranged AD at that range.] and sets up headshots and is super cheap.

Auralynx

Goumindong wrote: »

2) Use them as targeted roots

Smartcast them on a fleeing enemy or set someone up for a hook by smartcasting onto someone you want to yank.

This is one of the reasons why a Blitz/cait lane is so redonk. If, at any point an enemy gets outside of the creep line [so that blitz can make a grab] cait can simply stick a trap down right on their location which will give blitz enough time to grab.

You can do this in team fights too if you're OK with getting to within 850 or so of an enemy [800 placement range +135 trap range]
.

Per Guppies' lane with me last Thursday, Taric can dazzle you with his manliness and Caitlyn can throw them at your feet. It's a pretty great use of the skill, honestly. You could PROBABLY use the window from Lulu's slow to hit them, too.

Oh, and mark me a "maybe" on Galio.

Delphinidaes

initiatefailure wrote: »

Delphinidaes wrote: »

@initiatefailure

Do EWQQ, or EWQW to end at 80-100% health. You don't really need more than 1 point in E until you have to since you will get better returns from Q, W, and R.

ok cool, i'll try that out. i was just thinking e was my main jungling tool and leveling affected cooldown.

You really only need it for your first pass and since it doesn't give more protection and is still on a longish cooldown, you only want 1 point. Once you hit 6 your R passive eliminates all jungle problems and once you finish wriggles the jungle becomes a source of health. However Q and W are your tools for dealing with enemies and those go up in damage and down in cooldown with more ranks so you want them maxed as soon as possible.

programjunkie

I just sorakaed so hard the 0/6/0 (together) bottom rage quit. Holy fuck I love infuse harass. Best part was I got all of the kills! :

ChaosHat

ALL YORDLES!

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Talith

Following my support philosophy. :^: They can't mess with your carriy's minion farming when they're dead. Let him get that fat assist gold.

Madpoet

Y-O-R-D-L-E-POWER!

Talith

Morello you god damn tease.

Morello wrote:

No new update - it was not slated for this patch for the reasons I mentioned previously. We're making it, and it won't be an eon before it launches

Basically, I'll stick my neck out because I'm so confident here; if you don't think this skin is amazing and worth the wait, you're incapable of joy.

It's better than you even think it is

Morello wrote:

I don't have any doubts that will worth the wait, but... See, 5 months have passed since the Bloodlord Vladimir skin, and now Galio earned his Legendary one. That means it will take another 5 months to Pulsefire Ez come out? Or are you guys willing to release Pulsefire ASAP after the conclusion of the skin?

This is what concerns me... :c

It's taken awhile for a few reasons that will be apparent when it launches, but it's not that far

ChaosHat

Talith wrote: »

Morello you god damn tease.

Morello wrote:

No new update - it was not slated for this patch for the reasons I mentioned previously. We're making it, and it won't be an eon before it launches

Basically, I'll stick my neck out because I'm so confident here; if you don't think this skin is amazing and worth the wait, you're incapable of joy.

It's better than you even think it is

Morello wrote:

I don't have any doubts that will worth the wait, but... See, 5 months have passed since the Bloodlord Vladimir skin, and now Galio earned his Legendary one. That means it will take another 5 months to Pulsefire Ez come out? Or are you guys willing to release Pulsefire ASAP after the conclusion of the skin?

This is what concerns me... :c

It's taken awhile for a few reasons that will be apparent when it launches, but it's not that far

I hope the reason is it took them a long time to get the licensing to use Nyan Cat for his ult animation. The entire map darkens (Nocturne style) and is populated with stars as the raging Nyan Cat rockets across Summoner's Rift, and for a moment all sounds are drowned out for the music.

interrobang

ChaosHat wrote: »

Talith wrote: »

Morello you god damn tease.

Morello wrote:

No new update - it was not slated for this patch for the reasons I mentioned previously. We're making it, and it won't be an eon before it launches

Basically, I'll stick my neck out because I'm so confident here; if you don't think this skin is amazing and worth the wait, you're incapable of joy.

It's better than you even think it is

Morello wrote:

I don't have any doubts that will worth the wait, but... See, 5 months have passed since the Bloodlord Vladimir skin, and now Galio earned his Legendary one. That means it will take another 5 months to Pulsefire Ez come out? Or are you guys willing to release Pulsefire ASAP after the conclusion of the skin?

This is what concerns me... :c

It's taken awhile for a few reasons that will be apparent when it launches, but it's not that far

I hope the reason is it took them a long time to get the licensing to use Nyan Cat for his ult animation. The entire map darkens (Nocturne style) and is populated with stars as the raging Nyan Cat rockets across Summoner's Rift, and for a moment all sounds are drowned out for the music.

PMAvers

ChaosHat wrote: »

Talith wrote: »

Morello you god damn tease.

Morello wrote:

No new update - it was not slated for this patch for the reasons I mentioned previously. We're making it, and it won't be an eon before it launches

Basically, I'll stick my neck out because I'm so confident here; if you don't think this skin is amazing and worth the wait, you're incapable of joy.

It's better than you even think it is

Morello wrote:

I don't have any doubts that will worth the wait, but... See, 5 months have passed since the Bloodlord Vladimir skin, and now Galio earned his Legendary one. That means it will take another 5 months to Pulsefire Ez come out? Or are you guys willing to release Pulsefire ASAP after the conclusion of the skin?

This is what concerns me... :c

It's taken awhile for a few reasons that will be apparent when it launches, but it's not that far

I hope the reason is it took them a long time to get the licensing to use Nyan Cat for his ult animation. The entire map darkens (Nocturne style) and is populated with stars as the raging Nyan Cat rockets across Summoner's Rift, and for a moment all sounds are drowned out for the music.

Sold!

Arivia

Man it is really tempting to just max hawkshot first as ashe and rake in all of the gold.

Rami

That's what I did.

Big ol' farmer. Especially if they have a lot of sustain/Soraka.

Future Blues

Yeah on Ashe I max W first with a point in Q, then max that hawkshot out to get a little extra gold before the laning phase ends.

ChaosHat

Five mans streamings.

twitch.tv/chaoshat

Delphinidaes

ChaosHat wrote: »

Five mans streamings.

twitch.tv/chaoshat

Same here but different five man. Jungle Jax ho! http://www.justin.tv/delphinidaes

ChaosHat

Fuck you Delph stop stealing my thunder.

Rius

Just ran a Leona/Renekton bot lane against an Ashe/Soraka. Many murderings were had.

Draygo

Arivia wrote: »

Man it is really tempting to just max hawkshot first as ashe and rake in all of the gold.

But maxing hawkshot first is what you are supposed to do.

Ashe doesnt have the mana to use volley on cd anyway, and it has a 1:1 ad ratio so not important
Beyond 1 isnt that much benifit in Q either, so point in q point in w max that hawkshot.

Rius

New skins in latest PBE build;



I think the Pantheon and Renekton skins look a little... not cool. That Morgana skin is fantastic and I want to see the animations. That Irelia skin... as someone who loves to play Irelia, I want to see the particle animations and such. But it's a shorter-haired Irelia with cool looking blades, so I'm intrigued.

This

New item in next patch:

Athenes Unholy Grail
80 Ability Power
40 Magic Resist
15 Mana Regen per 5 seconds
15% Cooldown Reduction
Passive: Restores 12% of your max Mana on Kill or Assist.
UNIQUE Passive: Increases your Mana Regen by 1% per 1% Mana you are missing
Does not stack with Chalice of Harmony

Builds from Fiendish Codex, Amplifying Tome, Chalice of Harmony. Total cost: 2950

Delphinidaes

ChaosHat wrote: »

Fuck you Delph stop stealing my thunder.

Sorry you inspired me with your jungle jax!

Speaking of which that started out slow but at the end once I got my Triforce they were foolish to not focus me. I was blowing up Olaf, Graves, and Anivia every fight.

thwap-thwap-thwap-thwap cardboard tubes make the best sound.

ChaosHat

Delphinidaes wrote: »

ChaosHat wrote: »

Fuck you Delph stop stealing my thunder.

Sorry you inspired me with your jungle jax!

Speaking of which that started out slow but at the end once I got my Triforce they were foolish to not focus me. I was blowing up Olaf, Graves, and Anivia every fight.

thwap-thwap-thwap-thwap cardboard tubes make the best sound.

Jax is kind of an inevitable force. Once he puts together a triforce he's really hard to stop since he's innately so tanky. It's hard to get him away from your sensitive carries since he's pretty mobile and he just crushes people. He's one of the easiest characters to carry out of the jungle with due to his ridiculous innate steroids.

Saldonas

This wrote: »

New item in next patch:

Athenes Unholy Grail
80 Ability Power
40 Magic Resist
15 Mana Regen per 5 seconds 15% Cooldown Reduction
Passive: Restores 12% of your max Mana on Kill or Assist.
UNIQUE Passive: Increases your Mana Regen by 1% per 1% Mana you are missing
Does not stack with Chalice of Harmony

After a legendary Galio skin? What were the chances!

Kruite

Sold on the Pantheon Skin. It looks like he's supposed to be some Norse Mythology warrior (the wolves design and all). Been waiting for one since they gave me Perseus for free.

interrobang

morgana is the spookiest tree of all

JAEF

1700s is a lot like the lower ELOs but with significantly less trolls, ragers and all around stupid people. I like.

I also haven't seen anyone Irelia top in ages. Those nerfs right after I bought her sadden me. Anyone had success?

Mahnmut

Bad night for me. Slowly lost a Soraka game, pretty much threw an Ali game (didn't feed, but contributed very very little due to baaaaaad Ali aiming), then had like 45 minutes of queue dodgers before winning a Teemo game but only because the enemy Akali quit at 5m.

Talith

Saldonas wrote: »

This wrote: »

New item in next patch:

Athenes Unholy Grail
80 Ability Power
40 Magic Resist
15 Mana Regen per 5 seconds 15% Cooldown Reduction
Passive: Restores 12% of your max Mana on Kill or Assist.
UNIQUE Passive: Increases your Mana Regen by 1% per 1% Mana you are missing
Does not stack with Chalice of Harmony

After a legendary Galio skin? What were the chances!

Seems legit to me. :3

Spectrum

Late response, can't quote from last thread due to lock:
1) It depends on the top, but a melee top that is behind literally just goes in and dies. A carry that is a little behind can still catch up in midgame.

2) Bot tower also has a defender there still after a gank who may or may not be able to clear the wave safely. It is comp dependent.

3) No, if you can't do something about the enemy mid roaming you are a bad mid or are otherwise losing. If the enemy mid roams and you don't take the free tower, you're doing it wrong. Concerns about the jungler aren't important because if they're threatening mid, it's not a 4-man dive on bottom.

Talith

They did secretly nerf Galio by taking 10 damage off of resolute smite. Also, an indirect nerf with the nerf to MR runes.

interrobang

Talith wrote: »

They did secretly nerf Galio by taking 10 damage off of resolute smite. Also, an indirect nerf with the nerf to MR runes.

the resolute smite nerf was an accident that they fixed, iirc

ChaosHat

All item changes in Varus patch on PBE.