Who all is on the jv group and how do I get into games with them? I have bad timing; every time I hop on ventrilo everyone is already paired off into 5-man groups.
would be nice if riot made this a little more intuitive
like, the only way you can tell is in the after-death kill recap (which is half the time inaccurate anyways) and you get some winners like kog'ma's artillery listed as "Damage"
the current system for determining such a vital aspect of the game is just stupid and broken.
I dunno, the rest of us seem to get by based solely on knowledge that this is x damage.
Isn't THAT hard to take a second to read up on a character's abilities.
does it even lay it out in the description of the character abilities? AFAIK it sometimes does and sometimes doesn't and it's often counterintuitive. It seems like a pretty central concept of the game to require players to do homework on fansites and rely on memorization.
Who all is on the jv group and how do I get into games with them? I have bad timing; every time I hop on ventrilo everyone is already paired off into 5-man groups.
Me, Organichu, Rent, Kakos, ElementBrian, Medopine, PsychoInternetHawk, Ryadic, emnmnme, are a few of them. some of us are 30s now, but have only been playing the game for a few months as opposed to many of the other guys who have been playing since beta or launch.
but yeah hop into the channel and introduce yourself and try to find a game. add me to your friends list (i'm irondwill) and I'll try to get you in.
No. It gets a bonus from AD, the damage type of the ability itself did not change.
Which would be a good thing to bring up just in case people were not aware.
Abilities often get bonuses applied from AD or AP, however each move has a certain damage type associated with it that is visible in the tooltip.
This is why people get confused when they go against people like Katarina. Her moves scale with both AD and AP but they always do MAGIC damage. It is important to understand what damage type your enemy is bringing to the table, to do this it is important to understand what damage their abilities do.
would be nice if riot made this a little more intuitive
like, the only way you can tell is in the after-death kill recap (which is half the time inaccurate anyways) and you get some winners like kog'ma's artillery listed as "Damage"
the current system for determining such a vital aspect of the game is just stupid and broken.
The current system is basically getting to know each champion. Which is why I recommend that as one of the easiest ways you can improve your gameplay. A good thing they could probably implement is to show the abilities of your opponent when you click on them, that way you could mouse over their abilities and get the same info.
The after-death recap is only inaccurate if there was a lull in the damage you took. It really only records the last few seconds of damage you took. The biggest trap that people fall into is taking note of what the enemy is building and using that as an indicator of what damage type they are. Add that to champions who are hybrids (akali for example) and it can get confusing pretty quick.
In general it's not a BAD way to get a general idea of the damage types because most of the time the type of damage they are building will correspond with the type of damage they output. But it really benefits the player to do some research on the champions so they know what they are up against.
Which, if they want to improve, they should be doing anyways.
*Edit* Most of the time the damage type is not included on the character screen info, really the best way to learn about a champ is to play that champion.
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Lol, they're going to tweak that Evelynn splash page. Apparently they weren't pleased with the way it turned out either.
Good, it really is pretty bad. The others looks very nice though. I like that they are actually putting some time into those. If they keep it up I may even switch back from using the chinese ones
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Tristana doesn't have any real issues curbstomping him
One of us can burst the other down from 80% HP... the other... cannot. So all that trading blows? You might have thought you were coming out ahead in harassment, Teemo, but in reality...
Teemo doesn't really have any burst damage. You get his attack speed stupid high, his AP as high as you can, and AB to make the poison be pure evil.
Now, you let him do that a lot... you've got problems.
he's not amazing against AP characters or even ranged carries
but he's brutal against melee carries or bruisers. like, you just shouldn't lane a melee character against teemo is the lesson i've learned.
not really. blinding dart only works on auto shot which isn't a big deal early on. you can trade double ups/volleys with blinding dart easily.
Tristana doesn't have any real issues curbstomping him
One of us can burst the other down from 80% HP... the other... cannot. So all that trading blows? You might have thought you were coming out ahead in harassment, Teemo, but in reality...
Teemo doesn't really have any burst damage. You get his attack speed stupid high, his AP as high as you can, and AB to make the poison be pure evil.
Now, you let him do that a lot... you've got problems.
he's not amazing against AP characters or even ranged carries
but he's brutal against melee carries or bruisers. like, you just shouldn't lane a melee character against teemo is the lesson i've learned.
not really. blinding dart only works on auto shot which isn't a big deal early on. you can trade double ups/volleys with blinding dart easily.
Pretty sure Double Up and Volley are both on AD ranged carries. It think the point he was trying to make is that you shouldn't lane melee carries or bruisers against Teemo, which is a very true and valid point.
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I am very excited about the Ezreal ult buff. Considering he has not even soft cc, the ult is a skillshot and how squishy he can be, I really think the buff was a good call. I stopped playing him the last two weeks. Ran into so many games where opposing team had 3-4 tanks. I think all the shoot and run run run was tiring me out.
What is up with the Coop vs AI???? I am getting really tired of seeing it mentioned when choosing a game and on all the end game result screens. It will be a nice thing to sit back and relax to, but seriously stop taunting me with it if you are going to keep it locked away.
Man... I was having such a great run with ryze in games lasting <40 minutes, then a game goes to 70 minutes and I felt like my damage was shit in team fights. I was maxed out item wise, and besides probably needing a magic pen item besides boots, I was really quite maxed...
So I was trying to figure out some or most of the Noxian champions:
Singed, Warwick, Sion, Swain, Katarina... I think Twitch.
Singed is from Zaun , which is pretty much always allied with Noxus. Same with Mundo Warwick Blitz and Twitch. Urgot and LeBlanc are from Noxus and im sure im forgetting
some.
Edit Now that I think about it even though Blitz and Janna are from zaun it doesnt really ever mention they represent it/noxus anywhere. Maybe they are for hire ?
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You did good though, the feeding Karthus was a big problem for us. Try finding a champ you like and sticking to him for a while.
Tryin now. Tried Taric... didn't like him. I played mostly ranged magey types in my short journey from 1 to 6. I might pick up ryze and focus on him. Gonna play the rest of the free characters first... maybe order the box from amazon.
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You did good though, the feeding Karthus was a big problem for us. Try finding a champ you like and sticking to him for a while.
Tryin now. Tried Taric... didn't like him. I played mostly ranged magey types in my short journey from 1 to 6. I might pick up ryze and focus on him. Gonna play the rest of the free characters first... maybe order the box from amazon.
Ryze would be a good choice if you want to main a mage for a while.
Being really good at a specific character can get you really far early on.
Trying to convince my friend and his brother that Garen/XZ/Jarvan all commando all the time on TT is the best thing to do. For some reason his brother is not instantly convinced that I am totally right.
edit: oh shit so thats who Dyvion is! Sorry man, I just saw the invite and never knew who you were or what was going on.
Set out to play a few ranked games today. In the second game, I second pick Trist, nobody says anything as it gets down to 10s or so, so I lock in.
Our third pick, who never says anything the entire champ select, instalocks MF. After the game starts, he calls mid. We tell him to go bottom, so he says "Fine, two mid".
He uses a combination of Double Up and Make It Rain to take the majority of the last hits in lane, never helps me attack the Lux we're laning against once, never shows up in teamfights or ganks, or basically does anything the entire game. As a result, ends up with lowest deaths/best KDA on the team while saying "#1 Trist" every time I die (at this point I have about 40% of the CS I should have and I'm four levels underleveled).
So predictably we lose.
I queue up for a third game, probably a bad idea, but fuck it. Fortunately, the guy isn't on my team again. Yay. He's on the enemy team. I crush his MF mid with my Trist and carry my team 12/1 highest CS in game with some near-maxed build.
Of course, he blames his team for the loss :winky:
TL;DR: Got matched with an idiot troll in ranked who ran mid with me and made us lose the game. Got matched against him in the next game and curbstomped him.
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Set out to play a few ranked games today. In the second game, I second pick Trist, nobody says anything as it gets down to 10s or so, so I lock in.
Our third pick, who never says anything the entire champ select, instalocks MF. After the game starts, he calls mid. We tell him to go bottom, so he says "Fine, two mid".
He uses a combination of Double Up and Make It Rain to take the majority of the last hits in lane, never helps me attack the Lux we're laning against once, never shows up in teamfights or ganks, or basically does anything the entire game. As a result, ends up with lowest deaths/best KDA on the team while saying "#1 Trist" every time I die (at this point I have about 40% of the CS I should have and I'm four levels underleveled).
So predictably we lose.
I queue up for a third game, probably a bad idea, but fuck it. Fortunately, the guy isn't on my team again. Yay. He's on the enemy team. I crush his MF mid with my Trist and carry my team 12/1 highest CS in game with some near-maxed build.
Of course, he blames his team for the loss :winky:
TL;DR: Got matched with an idiot troll in ranked who ran mid with me and made us lose the game. Got matched against him in the next game and curbstomped him.
Demacia Bros buddy cop adventures is the best. Our follow-up attempt 'Girls of Demacia Gone Wild' was a complete failure. Who knew that sona/lux/poppy wouldn't be an instant stomp?
TL;DR: Got matched with an idiot troll in ranked who ran mid with me and made us lose the game. Got matched against him in the next game and curbstomped him.
Cool story (no really). Those are the best games.
The one time we had some jerk insist on mid we just had our bottom support go mid and i just solo'd bottom lane.
almost hourlong game with so much positioning tension
it really sucks not to have a ranged champ to push towers with, all pushes just turn into dives
oh my goodness this game
this game
the positioning, every fight a baron bait/fight
i was THAT KASSADIN
the only times i died was when i TRULY managed to get chain CC'd, i was spamming smartcasted riftwalk as fast as i could to get out of the CC train asap
the way we won? teamfight at baron while they had two inhibitors down and pushing their nexus towers, and i was riftwalking and forcepulsing to kite them as long as i could while our shen and malphite pushed their nexus (the fight got REALLY split up). i almost got away with 100 health when, simultaneous with their nexus being destroyed, their shen shadow dashed over a wall i riftwalked over and killed me
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does it even lay it out in the description of the character abilities? AFAIK it sometimes does and sometimes doesn't and it's often counterintuitive. It seems like a pretty central concept of the game to require players to do homework on fansites and rely on memorization.
Me, Organichu, Rent, Kakos, ElementBrian, Medopine, PsychoInternetHawk, Ryadic, emnmnme, are a few of them. some of us are 30s now, but have only been playing the game for a few months as opposed to many of the other guys who have been playing since beta or launch.
but yeah hop into the channel and introduce yourself and try to find a game. add me to your friends list (i'm irondwill) and I'll try to get you in.
The current system is basically getting to know each champion. Which is why I recommend that as one of the easiest ways you can improve your gameplay. A good thing they could probably implement is to show the abilities of your opponent when you click on them, that way you could mouse over their abilities and get the same info.
The after-death recap is only inaccurate if there was a lull in the damage you took. It really only records the last few seconds of damage you took. The biggest trap that people fall into is taking note of what the enemy is building and using that as an indicator of what damage type they are. Add that to champions who are hybrids (akali for example) and it can get confusing pretty quick.
In general it's not a BAD way to get a general idea of the damage types because most of the time the type of damage they are building will correspond with the type of damage they output. But it really benefits the player to do some research on the champions so they know what they are up against.
Which, if they want to improve, they should be doing anyways.
*Edit* Most of the time the damage type is not included on the character screen info, really the best way to learn about a champ is to play that champion.
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Pretty sure getting tag teamed by Urgot and Mundo would be pretty traumatizing.
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Good, it really is pretty bad. The others looks very nice though. I like that they are actually putting some time into those. If they keep it up I may even switch back from using the chinese ones
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not really. blinding dart only works on auto shot which isn't a big deal early on. you can trade double ups/volleys with blinding dart easily.
Pretty sure Double Up and Volley are both on AD ranged carries. It think the point he was trying to make is that you shouldn't lane melee carries or bruisers against Teemo, which is a very true and valid point.
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I'm def going, got my badge a couple weeks ago.
I thought Rak was going last time I checked. Never confirmed if he bough he badge. He does live in the area though.
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What is up with the Coop vs AI???? I am getting really tired of seeing it mentioned when choosing a game and on all the end game result screens. It will be a nice thing to sit back and relax to, but seriously stop taunting me with it if you are going to keep it locked away.
I'm coming back to you, baby.
Garen II : The Re-DEEEEEEEMACIAing
or
Garen II : Live Free or Sunfire Hard
I'm so terribad at these games, but I had alot of fun!
Singed, Warwick, Sion, Swain, Katarina... I think Twitch.
MWO: Adamski
It's true. Fuck heimerdinger with a dinger in his heimer.
Yes, but he is now allied with the Noxians to find some way to make more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I mean, Skaven, I mean, Rat People.
MWO: Adamski
Heimer is Zhaun if I remember.
cass and kat are sisters as i recall from the lore. but i could be wrong.
This is correct.
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Singed is from Zaun , which is pretty much always allied with Noxus. Same with Mundo Warwick Blitz and Twitch. Urgot and LeBlanc are from Noxus and im sure im forgetting
some.
Edit Now that I think about it even though Blitz and Janna are from zaun it doesnt really ever mention they represent it/noxus anywhere. Maybe they are for hire ?
Tryin now. Tried Taric... didn't like him. I played mostly ranged magey types in my short journey from 1 to 6. I might pick up ryze and focus on him. Gonna play the rest of the free characters first... maybe order the box from amazon.
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
Ryze would be a good choice if you want to main a mage for a while.
Being really good at a specific character can get you really far early on.
edit: oh shit so thats who Dyvion is! Sorry man, I just saw the invite and never knew who you were or what was going on.
Noxus:
Mordekaiser
Sion
Swain
Urgot
Vladimir
Katarina
Cassiopeia
LeBlanc
Zuan:
Blitzcrank
Warwick (Allied with Noxus)
Singed (Allied with Noxus)
Mundo (Allied with Noxus)
Twitch
Set out to play a few ranked games today. In the second game, I second pick Trist, nobody says anything as it gets down to 10s or so, so I lock in.
Our third pick, who never says anything the entire champ select, instalocks MF. After the game starts, he calls mid. We tell him to go bottom, so he says "Fine, two mid".
He uses a combination of Double Up and Make It Rain to take the majority of the last hits in lane, never helps me attack the Lux we're laning against once, never shows up in teamfights or ganks, or basically does anything the entire game. As a result, ends up with lowest deaths/best KDA on the team while saying "#1 Trist" every time I die (at this point I have about 40% of the CS I should have and I'm four levels underleveled).
So predictably we lose.
I queue up for a third game, probably a bad idea, but fuck it. Fortunately, the guy isn't on my team again. Yay. He's on the enemy team. I crush his MF mid with my Trist and carry my team 12/1 highest CS in game with some near-maxed build.
Of course, he blames his team for the loss :winky:
TL;DR: Got matched with an idiot troll in ranked who ran mid with me and made us lose the game. Got matched against him in the next game and curbstomped him.
sigh
come at my saplings bro
you wont
they suck toes son
That is a great story. It wasn't TL, so I did R
Cool story (no really). Those are the best games.
The one time we had some jerk insist on mid we just had our bottom support go mid and i just solo'd bottom lane.
And yeah sending your support or tank mid on those guys is always hilarious if you can organize it.
oh my goodness this game
this game
the positioning, every fight a baron bait/fight
i was THAT KASSADIN
the only times i died was when i TRULY managed to get chain CC'd, i was spamming smartcasted riftwalk as fast as i could to get out of the CC train asap
the way we won? teamfight at baron while they had two inhibitors down and pushing their nexus towers, and i was riftwalking and forcepulsing to kite them as long as i could while our shen and malphite pushed their nexus (the fight got REALLY split up). i almost got away with 100 health when, simultaneous with their nexus being destroyed, their shen shadow dashed over a wall i riftwalked over and killed me