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[MOBA DOBA] League of Legends, the seasoning it is beginning.
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I never found the extra HP all that needed if you play defensively/smart
I found the 8% dodge you get from seals is very useful and will save you all game
The 18 armor pen makes carrying easy
The mana regen seals make playing mana draining heroes so much easier, etc
Health quints to me are the last piece, not the first
Yes but see, I play like 5 different champs a night. So if I got say armor pen or magic pen, it wouldn't do much of anything for like half the champs I play that day.
edit: though I may get dodge instead of health
That's why you have more than one rune page. Tier 1 runes are dirt cheap. You could fill most of a page from a single win.
But not buying any makes no sense at all. Instead of having runes that help half your champs, you are helping none of your champs.
If it'll reduce the number of leavers (and hopefully AFKers are correlated strongly w/ level as well) by as gigantic a percentage as the numbers suggest, I'm in favor of it. I wish it was only for solo queue though, since a full 5 man premade gets the team they deserve by definition.
I've got like 1400 games played and I still don't have health quints.
Move speed baby.
Yeah, most of the time the only difference between my two rune pages is a magic vs. armor pen. Yellows are dodge, and blues are cooldown. Quints are either 2 hp, 1 movement speed or 3 hp.
He's also completely fucking overpowered. Which is a shame because I like the idea behind his play style, but I'd feel guilty playing him.
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I have a mage setup that is 3 5ap quints with ap per level in both yellow and blue. It's how I play nidalee - spear spec.
Why per level?
I have one set of magic and physical damage resist runes for all my champions because I'm a cheapskate and too lazy to change runes between them. :P
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
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There are a lot of per level runes that give better returns by levels 4-6 compared to the flat runes
While this is true, I like to save my IP to buy champs. That is the main reason I haven't bought runes.
I just started and haven't had too many people be really mean when I do something stupid or play poorly... having levels really helps a lot with this, I think... you can't expect too much from someone who's played 5 games... but it is competitive, and nobody likes to lose, so I have seen some people complain about how bad players are and get a bit nasty. But I've seen that in any game where you're playing with/against randoms... there are definitely much worse communities out there.
In my early matches almost everybody is using free characters or the ones you can unlock at 450 IP (you can earn this very quickly). When you get to ranked matches I imagine this is very different.
It's like people don't understand keeping a creep between you and him or that is he always looking to pull you.
You sure about this? The ones I remember looking at (CD reduction for example) all started to break even around level 10ish.
Also, thats why dodge % is so popular for a rune choice because it scales throughout the whole game, and isn't just an early game advantage.
In my last ranked match our captain banned Corki. Warwick is nothing compared to that.
I only yell at Cognisseur.
I'm nice to everyone else.
I do make fun of Rak every now and then for fighting with the camera more than the enemy.
Ick, I'd really advise against getting mp5 runes. I find that Doran's ring + chalice/other mp5 item is all the mp5 I need on most champs, and its stuff I'd build anyway for the +health and ap (in the case of Doran's ring), chalice for the great mp5 and magic resist, or the other mp5 item, that builds into something else.
I think I'm done till then. I'm positive I'm not an uber pro at this game but I was approaching being ~20 wins up over my losses and finally getting some balanced and fun games in on normal where (aside from leavers) teammates were pretty competent (For the record, I am summoner level 30 and have 270 wins or so.). Then I go to ranked play where it's just a diceroll to see which team has the fewest number of incompetent people on it.
What is most frustrating is that people start at 1200 ranking. And since if you get a few leavers/complete retards in your matches, your rating quickly goes down to 1000 or so. Then you slowly start climbing up, you start feeling good about yourself again, and then BAM! Oh hai now you get to play games again with people that are queueing for their first ranked match. I don't understand it. I mean, I keep thinking I should just hold off and the terribads will sink to the bottom, except I can't, because there are always going to be new terribads getting to level 20 and starting at a rank that is (currently) higher than mine!
It is really easy to check, just pull up calculator and punch in numbers. Also there is more to why dodge is a popular choice I think, there aren't a lot of items that provide that stat for one.
Although the whole only 5% leavers thing is throwing me off. Ive played 12 solo ranked games (6-6) and had 11 leavers...
Actually I think it's already live. The announcement was yesterday.
Confirmed. I just looked at the play menu and it says level 30 minimum.
I was playing so well last night, staying in lane, last hitting, keeping near my tower. I'd wait to strike when the opponent made a mistake instead of trying to overextend or tower dive and get killed by summoner spells / taunt / etc. I had a couple of nice games were we discussed champ selections in the picking phase, people called out mias, etc. And then on my 3rd game in it was just atrocious.
I can understand and accept if I'm not a 1700 elo player or whatever and maybe 1100-1200 is where my skill is at......but I honestly don't think that is the case when 1-3/5 players every match are making mistakes that I've learned to correct over 100 matches ago.
PS: every time someone queue dodges now I laugh. Why are they even playing ranked? Do they know that it counts as a loss for them when they do that? Those people have to be dropping in ratings like a rock.
What's the point of these ranked games, again? Other than not having to tolerate Shaco because he gets banned every game.
Which is unfortunate because ranked games on the whole tend to be less frustrating.
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LONG LIVE THE THREAD
gettin' too old for this shit.