uhh... yeah, i stole the character screen thing from the SF4 thread.
Okay, League of Legends is a [vidurl="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXKd7uuehlw"]DotA-style game[/vidurl] and it's FREE. The community is known to be a little less harsh than the standard DotA/HoN ones; but, you will still run across a fair amount of mouth-breathing silly geese. If you hang out with the PAers, though, we're usually pretty damn inviting (and so fucking cool, especially MooMan). AND IT'S FREE!!! Well... mostly. Here's the skinny: They have 10 free rotating champions that you can choose from, if you want to 'buy' champions permanently you can do that with Riot Points (RP) or Influence Points (IP). You get RP with real cash dollars, and RP prices are usually lower than IP prices. You gain IP for just playing game, when you finish a game you'll get IP points based on how well you did in the game. You can also purchase Ruins. Ruins and Masteries are applied before the game and make your champions stronger, this is referred to as the Summoner meta-game. You gain levels as you play as well which opens up the ability to put more runes and masteries to work for you. That's the quick and dirty of the game. If you're completely new to this style of game,
check out the new player stuff on the Riot site.
Here's your standard, wiki-stolen background:
Two main designers for the popular Warcraft III custom map, Defense of the Ancients: Allstars (commonly abbreviated as DotA), Steve "Guinsoo" Feak and Steve “Pendragon” Mescon are involved with Riot Games in the making of League Of Legends: Clash of Fates[6]. Guinsoo created DotA: Allstars from the original DotA, created by Eul, by adding his own mix of content, including over 40 heroes, numerous items, and various gameplay changes. Guinsoo then passed DotA: Allstars on to its current developer, Icefrog. Pendragon, who is the Director of Community Relations for Riot Games, helped create the DotA: Allstars website along with its forums, and is still currently working on League of Legends: Clash of Fates.
SIGN UP HEREHANG OUT IN THE PENNY-ARCADE VENT TO GET GAMES!!! It's the easiest way to get going with us, just show up and ask if anyone is looking.
If you can't find any there check out the LoL vent (
https://beta.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=6) and you can probably scrounge up a pre-made.
MooMan is known for listening to some bangin' tunes, so he's been nice enough to provide some music for you to listen to while you read up on the champions below.
People that are playing, and that you might also want to play with:
PM me if you want to be added to the list, I'm probably not going to be able to pick up every in-thread request.
TyrantCow : MooMan
FightTest : FightTest
fadingathedges : fadingathedges
undeinpirat : undeinpirat
zanmatto : ParanoidDroid
Zombiemambo : EssGee
Cohsae : Cohsae
Nisi : Nisi
Sirson : Sirson
Originate : Originate
DebaserZbs : DebaserZbs
Endomatic : Barnabus
I needed a name to post : Pterodactyl Man
Zek : Zeyk
klok : fastpaced
ParisInFlames : skoot
Stolls : Karlinn
fmz65 : SensAZNal
UrQuanLord88 : urquan
TheSuperWoot : MelancholyMark
Lehman : Draggan
CharlesVI : CharlesVI
Bendery It Like Beckham : Bendery
DustedForLife : DustedAgain
Zoelef : Zoelef
soggychicken : soggychicken
Peas : jyajin
Custom Special : F4ll0ut
alset85 : alseT
king awesome : kingawesome
Mightyhog : Agreedo
Houn : Houn
In Starscream We Trust : In Starscream We Trust
TriadFate : TriadFate
Drakmathus : Drakmathus
Bardi : Bardi
MinionOfCthulhu : MinionOfCthulhu
Hrage : friedriceyum
Esc.Hatch : Hatch
distracted : Distracted
Feldorn : Mortenya
Adus : Adus
BaronVonNub : BaronVonNub
Zero-Control : ZeroControl
RawrBear : RawrBear
hiigaran : hiigaran
Thrawn200 : Mitthrawnuruodo
Seran : Seran
Colt : TheDeathJester
PolloDiablo : PolloDiablo
Slicer : Srice
Fiaryn : Fiaryn
Dracil : Dracil
Zalin : Zalin
Camui : Sogedan
Chubbly : Chubbly
Mugaaz : Mugaaz
Pyromaniac221 : abstrakt11
Shade : Hardcannon
nome : xcletus
Arch : Zinnar
Pmoney : Pmoney
Fleck0 : flecko
Saphier : errant
Thor1590 : Aphrodesizach19
PJStelford : PJStelford
Reagan : Reagan
programjunkie: Wicked Demiurge
Niqle : Niqle
nealcm : Alvarian
Tiger Burning : Tiger Burning
facetious : Bonhomie
Verr : verr
cutfang : Dancing Bagel
cwapfobrains : infobrains
Manetherenwolf : Manetherenwolf
Banana-Man : SaintAugustine
Evil Weevil : Evil Weevil
Karnius : Karnius
Nanaki : Nanaki
Last thread we tried to get an idea of the amount of people who would be interested in a PA Tournament. The turnout was poor, I am disappointed with you all.
Also, here's a picture of BigWah's adorable kid that he may or may not have had considerable disagreements with in the past:
Long live the Bearcock!
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can anyone confirm or deny this rumor?
Gamertag: Cunning Hekate // League of Legends: FeroxPA
I want to punch a baby when that happens. Especially when I die because of it, and then they come back mere seconds after I die, having softened up that which was making them shit their pants, and then they kill it.
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"How did that taste?"
probably because you never asked me to.
there.
I actually don't mind that as much as I mind the inverse: players bitching at me because I ran from a 4v2 next to their innermost tower, and so that guy died.
No, you silly goose, you died because it was a 4v2 with an easy retreat back past their tower for them, and I lived because I ran the fuck away.
Gamertag: Cunning Hekate // League of Legends: FeroxPA
Also, I like the new OP. The last one sucked bearcock.
I think I'm going to start playing more Taric, because 'truly, truly, truly, truly, truly, truly' etc.
edit: Fight, save for Kennen, because he sounds awesome. But I am confused, because the character art makes me think girl, but the lore on the character says 'he.' Whatever, he still looks pgood.
Totally dominated this team.... 20 kills to their 3.
The ashe was tower hugging at full heath on the north side of the top tower.
So I ping everyone to come around to the back alley. We make it to the grass unnoticed, I edge as close as I can for what is still a beyond max distance arm pull.
Zoink! Ashe arrives, is popped up, and dies promptly
[All] Ashe: gtfo!
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1:01: MooMan has been slain by Nisi
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and yet, 2 bad pugs far
You can't afford to let me live. You can't afford to kill me, hahahahhaha
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Dude spent the whole game trashtalking the enemy team and then stopped pushing after we got both inhibitors down because he wanted to "build him"
He spends the next 5-10 minutes jungling and then when we try to push their nexus the enemy team aces us twice because he's too busy trying to pad his kill stat on enemies that can walk two steps to get healed instead of trying to burn down the last tower
freaking TT, it's treated me well generally but sometimes I get the WORST
Gamertag: Cunning Hekate // League of Legends: FeroxPA
but we lost because I fed them
with 1 more death than either of them.
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MIX MIX SWIRL MIX
the best blitzcrank pulls are the ones that outright kill people without them being pulled because they had low health
i did this to a ryze who was porting back, and he didn't really panic because he didn't think i could get him, and truthfully i didn't think i'd hit him either
since blitz's range is so OP (and you can grab people outside your radius) i took the chance and when he was a little outside of my blue circle i went for the grab
[all] Me: SLAPKILL
the best part was i turned around in the river and saw an ezreal with low health and tried to grab him about 15 seconds later
[all] Me: THE DOUBLE SLAPKILL
[robot voice] BITCH UNIT. WHERE IS MY MONEY? [/robot voice]
this got me
man did this get me
that was hilarious
Every day, I come home. Full of anticipation.
Anticipation to see what joys the internet will bring to me today.
I am rarely disappointed . . .
It never was even close. Excluding for their Ez they were all pretty good. Except that any time they got below half health, tower or no tower, I destroyed them. Cho was beefy but baiting him far enough from the tower meant I had a long time to whittle him down to a bloody pulp.
Meanwhile, with the exception of our Malph my team was basically worthless.
I concur.
Incidentally, I'm still devouring faces with your build. I was doing very well when playing the with guys on vent, getting matched up with 30s (I just hit 24 in my game that just ended*) - since I've been playing more solo queue the last couple days since I went back to work after my vacation for PAX and I don't want to be talking while the family sleeps when I get home from work, I've been utterly annihilating. Almost all my games have been wins in under 35 minutes with me ending up with carry ratios.
*7/2/10, 33 minute nexus destruction.
Though to be fair, I'm sure my elo hasn't recovered from when I first started playing. This was my first MOBA, so it was a... learning experience. (I just finally surpassed a 1:1 w/l ratio. And I'm still a fair bit behind that for k/d as Singed, though my assists trump both, of course.)
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
we were team AOE, karthus, mordekaiser, sion shield, me as AP ezreal (pretty much my only use was lining up a trueshot barrage to hit all 5 of them so they were almost dead for a requiem) and morgana
he had more than one quadra kill
he went 19/0/15
Breaking 1:1 KD as a tank isn't easy - especially if you're mostly solo queuing and it's a champion you've done a lot of learning with. I didn't manage it on Singed until about a week after hitting 30, mostly because the first half of my LoL career was spent racking up retarded deaths while trying to start team fights against max level tryhards.
Mad Scientist solidarity.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
I hate being nice.
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For a tank with high KB potential try Blitzcrank. Q + R + E = destruction. Very few good reliable counters... and best of all he can be quite a force without any sort of AP focus.
I build him straight resists and HP and have gone 7-10 kills.
I personally don't understand Singe. He seems like a finesse character, and I have no patience for that!
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Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Silly pubbers. Mord is a great focus target with 0 metal and no shield spell, and terrible under the opposite conditions.
Edit: Also, 12/1/6 with Shen gets you a lot of friend requests. And I love that damn Zil. He had at least 3 clutch ults. Heroes who make you immune to death are good.
Went home for easter though, so only LoL I've played was a practice game on my laptop as Ezrael. I like him, something about hitting skillshots is very satisfying.
LoL Summoner: infobrains | XBL: cwap4brains | PSN: infobrains
I'm the closest thing my team has to a tank as Mundo but they will never, ever follow me as I feebly initiate. I end up going 2/10/something. It was terrible.
BUT. One time they actually back me up in a teamfight and we ace the other team and I just megatank the second bottom tower, the inner tower, and both nexus towers and we drop their Nexus just as they start respawning.
So basically get fucked all game long but have the tanking/damage to burn down 6 buildings in the course of an ace to win an otherwise pretty bad game.
It's like orgasm.
No wait.. it IS orgasm.
I played a series of 8 TT games as Singed tonight. Not a single loss. It's so easy that it's not even fun anymore.