Unrelated - Played my first game as Teemo last night, and while I enjoyed it in theory it was also an incredible exercise in frustration. I was in bot with a Cho'goth against a Nocturne and Eve and ended up getting absolutely manhandled in lane. By the time I even got mushrooms the enemy team had like a 2-3 level advantage on me and I spent a whole lot of time going squish. I died about 15 times, super frustrating. Also, I don't understand if Teemo is AP or AD driven, because I've seen guides for both saying the other is terrible. Please advise.
Teemo is best played as... NONE OF THE ABOVE.
Build AS/on-hit effects, and you're golden. Madred's Razor -> Wiggles is useful when you're getting used to him to tear through minions and get some lifesteal, things like Malady and Wit's End beef up your attack speed and give bonuses to your attack when it hits, that's all good stuff. Attack speed buffs up your passive poison bonus damage by making you apply it more often way more effectively than bumping AD for raw damage or AP for bonus damage. AS/On-hit for the win.
There are actually some really neat champs that cost very little, in either RP or IP, so...! We just need to find the ones you'd have fun with.
This isn't about me. I know you want to help, but I'm not raising the point because I feel entitled to some characters. I have too much money and I'll spend stupid amounts on RP, that's for sure. In the long run, at least. It's really more about me seeing something (and not being alone) and seeing an opportunity for improvement. But apparently, I'm the only here who sees that problem.
...You're kinda missing my point. I was trying to find out what you enjoy playing, to suggest a champion or two for you to try out that'll be easy to pick up with IP so you don't need to invest any money, as you seem opposed to the system. I understand what you're saying, but I'm not going to talk about the merits or flaws in the microtransaction system, as I'd rather talk about the game itself. In this case, I'm trying to find out what a new player enjoys in a champion, so some champion suggestions can be made!
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There are actually some really neat champs that cost very little, in either RP or IP, so...! We just need to find the ones you'd have fun with.
To get some help for myself, now, Leona and Malzahar were both champions I liked from my first free week. I'm getting the Collector's Box or whatever today or tomorrow and getting the other half of the first 40 champs. Probably gonna spend lots and lots of money on riot points because I have way too much money. (I still think the individual price point is too high, but the bundles are totally worth it.)
Not sure what kind of playstyle interests me the most, but I liked Malzahar and Leona because I felt useful in a fight and they weren't too complicated once I got the hang of them.
Also, I'm not against the microtransaction system, I think it's great. I'm not against anything. I just think that Riot Games would benefit from lowering the price point.
What I'm trying to argue is that it'd be good for them because some people might just refuse to spend money on RP right now, but might change their minds if RPs were worth more.
Unfortunately the current system banks on the anchoring effect. Even sale price champs are technically too expensive for what you get (if you paid real money for every single item, would LoL cost as much as a normal, get-all-content-for-one-purchase game? Hell no, it'd cost far more), but making everything expensive and then going "look! Sale prices are HALF OFF!" results in people snapping them up, just because suddenly they perceive that price as cheap.
Personally, I spent 5 pounds on two skins and I doubt I'll spend any more for a good while. Got 3 champs I enjoy unlocked, content to play them for a good while still, occasionally picking up new ones as IPs pile up.
Also, I'm not against the microtransaction system, I think it's great. I'm not against anything. I just think that Riot Games would benefit from lowering the price point.
Maybe they would, maybe they wouldn't. Just consider that your proposed pricing strategy is based on your gut instinct, and theirs is probably based on actual transaction data. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit, but I'm sure they've done analysis on this sort of thing and if they didn't think that the initial $7 price point was maximizing their profit opportunity, the champ would be cheaper.
And the nice thing about digital assets is when they stop selling, you can drop the price. Hooray sales!
Edit: And yeah, what Glal said, though I'm sure it's not the only reason.
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On a very, very basic level, Malzahar's an AP Carry sort with burst damage and strong CC in his Ultimate and his silence gates, while Leona is very much a tank and initiator.
Annie is an easy to play AP Carry, easier than Malzahar I'd say, and very powerful. Some people would say borderline OP. Her passive makes every 5th spell she casts stun the enemy, and if that fifth spell is an AoE, it's an AoE stun. Annie could be a possible champion to play, and I believe she's in the main champion pack!
Leona's a little harder to find similar champs to, because she's pretty much unique I think. However, Malphite is also in the champ pack, and he has a great initiation power, with a nice passive that makes him very, very hard to harass early on. It's a shield based on a percentage of his base HP, which refreshes every 8 seconds. His ultimate is a combination of Flash and crowd-control (it knocks every target around the area up into the air for a while), he has a passive that causes his attacks to splash to nearby enemies that can be activated for a self-armor and attack speed buff (which is similar to Leona's Eclipse, while not being quite the same), and has a good harass/chase ability that can substitute for her dash attack in Seismic Shard, which damages the target, lowers their movespeed, and buffs your own.
So, a couple of suggestions there based on the assumption that you're buying a value-champ pack, which you seem to be okay with!
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What I'm trying to argue is that it'd be good for them because some people might just refuse to spend money on RP right now, but might change their minds if RPs were worth more.
Unfortunately the current system banks on the anchoring effect. Even sale price champs are technically too expensive for what you get (if you paid real money for every single item, would LoL cost as much as a normal, get-all-content-for-one-purchase game? Hell no, it'd cost far more), but making everything expensive and then going "look! Sale prices are HALF OFF!" results in people snapping them up, just because suddenly they perceive that price as cheap.
Personally, I spent 5 pounds on two skins and I doubt I'll spend any more for a good while. Got 3 champs I enjoy unlocked, content to play them for a good while still, occasionally picking up new ones as IPs pile up.
At this point, I really would need to have their financial info and sales and such to make a judgement.
I'm ending this derail, but I still think Lower RP Price Points -> More Sales -> More money. Keeping the weekly sales will also lead to more sales -> more money.
Or maybe more bundles. Those would be cool.
Edit: @Grundlestiltskin, it's more than just "some guy's gut instinct" since I do have bases in business. I know a fair bit about setting price points. I'm not an expert, but I have bases. But yeah, I would need to have a look at their financial information for it to be more than a guess, but it's not just "a gut instinct", I did compare it to other products it competes with.
You know what's awesome? A singed player who does nothing but yell and bitch at his team, the whole game. For KSing him.
Wait no, that isn't awesome at all.
Haha, what?
At least he gets kills. It's not like a Singed who refuses to extend, run around or do any crazy gambits. Or a singed who decides to fight the other team's singed and keeps getting killed.
singed is an assist whore... i think that i had like 19 in a game last night.
Why hasn't anyone metnioned the Maplhite Buffs? They're - delicious.
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They had a bundle recently for Master Yi and all his skins, and they generally release the new champions with a bunch of skills at 'reduced RP cost'.
I do think you pay a little too much for what you get, but they're a business and need to make money, so I don't worry too much about it. It's possible that they've done a lot of market research before setting their prices, but that's not talking about the game LET'S TALK ABOUT THE GAME!
(I have bought on-sale skins and champion packs. Oh well!)
The bundles and things like that make the game reasonable cost efficient. However the one thing we're all forgetting with this game vs many others is that it's constantly being upgraded and tweaked. So consider that along with the free to play nature and the fact that owning every single in game thing would cost more than buying a PS3 game starts to make sense.
It's one of those "paying for the experience" sort of deals. For every user who buys a ton of stuff you can be certain there are two who haven't given riot a dime.
Really with just the basic champ pack there is no real reason to ever have to pay money for anything. The basic champ pack gives you a good mix of carries/support/tanks many of which are very commonly used even at high ranked play.
Paying money is just for cosmetic upgrades or if you just cannot wait to build up the IP. Its a pretty decent model enough incentive for people to spend money but really not required to enjoy it although I always recommend getting at least the basic champ pack if they find they enjoy the game.
They fixed Wukong's biggest bug, and gave him a bit of a ratio buff, yay! Now I'll be able to get my monkey on with a bit more effectiveness, at least after this free week is done.
You know what's awesome? A singed player who does nothing but yell and bitch at his team, the whole game. For KSing him.
Wait no, that isn't awesome at all.
Haha, what?
At least he gets kills. It's not like a Singed who refuses to extend, run around or do any crazy gambits. Or a singed who decides to fight the other team's singed and keeps getting killed.
singed is an assist whore... i think that i had like 19 in a game last night.
Why hasn't anyone metnioned the Maplhite Buffs? They're - delicious.
Singed is a kill whore, I usually am second in kills on the team and sometimes first.
Carry Singed! Get a solo and be a dick before they get caught up to win games.
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I was picking bans for a ranked game last night and they had last pick. I banned I think Amumu and Alistar, and a teammate was "why didn't you ban annie? "
The enemy didn't either and then I lock in Annie in Wonderland. 8-) "Ohhh that's why."
Went 0/1/0 at level 3 to a lucky Kennen crit (@#$%@#$%) and then got a gank on him with help from jungle WW. Proceeded to roam and stomp to 11/1/3 and force a surrender.
Felt gooood man.
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Leona's a little harder to find similar champs to, because she's pretty much unique I think. However, Malphite is also in the champ pack, and he has a great initiation power, with a nice passive that makes him very, very hard to harass early on. It's a shield based on a percentage of his base HP, which refreshes every 8 seconds. His ultimate is a combination of Flash and crowd-control (it knocks every target around the area up into the air for a while), he has a passive that causes his attacks to splash to nearby enemies that can be activated for a self-armor and attack speed buff (which is similar to Leona's Eclipse, while not being quite the same), and has a good harass/chase ability that can substitute for her dash attack in Seismic Shard, which damages the target, lowers their movespeed, and buffs your own.
I'd say the two champs most similar to Leona are Amumu and Taric. Taric has a shield that's very similar to Leona's along with a stun (plus a heal and a boost/heal as an ultimate), whereas Amumu has an ability that's very similar to Leona's Q + E combo and his ult is an area semi-stun (it prevents movements but doesn't prevent action).
Oh and I agree that Riot charges too much for things. If all champs were $2 and skins were $1, I would not be opposed to spending some money, but $7 champs and similarly priced skins? Yeah, I'll just stick with IP and won't pay a cent of actual money.
I don't really understand getting up in arms about microtransaction prices. You can play the game perfectly well with the free champs, unlocking champs with IP when you want, or pay some money for new champs. A lot of people don't seem to have a problem paying $15 a month to do the same stuff over and over again in WoW, but here a new champ debuts for $7 in their free game and we get annoyed? They're a business, they should be trying to make money.
I like the freemium/microtransaction model because I can pay as much or as little as I want to. If I want more flexibility I'll pay for it (I actually just shelled out $20 for the collector's pack so I could unlock some more champs quicker), but I was enjoying the game quite a bit when I was freeloading. If I seem a bit terse on this subject it's because I got into an argument who refused to play LoL because of microtransactions, because the company was trying to "trick" users into spending lots of money, and because he'd have some compulsion to unlock every single champ despite the fact that he would never have the time to play all of them. It's a new(ish) business model and while many players will probably end up spending more than the traditional $40 price point, a whole lot of players will also pay a lot less. If the overall revenue balances out and the game population is higher as a result, everybody wins (community arguments aside).
Unrelated - Played my first game as Teemo last night, and while I enjoyed it in theory it was also an incredible exercise in frustration. I was in bot with a Cho'goth against a Nocturne and Eve and ended up getting absolutely manhandled in lane. By the time I even got mushrooms the enemy team had like a 2-3 level advantage on me and I spent a whole lot of time going squish. I died about 15 times, super frustrating. Also, I don't understand if Teemo is AP or AD driven, because I've seen guides for both saying the other is terrible. Please advise.
Teemo is a different animal.
First, decide if you're going for AP nuke teemo, or AS (with a side of wither AD or AP) teemo. AP Teemo prioritizes R>Q>E>W. AS prioritizes R>E>W>Q, with either your first or second point going to Q with its blind for auto-attackers. You need next to no mana with this build, and you have to get used to hitting S to trigger your passive, and use the 40% AS gain liberally. AP Teemo is all about the blinding darts and mushroom traps. Well, either teemo uses the mushrooms or it gets the hose. His AP ratios are really not that bad, while it looks not so great on the surface. 0.1/AP for E, except that it applies 5 times. Q and R are fine on ratios.
I usually play AS teemo, and start with a dagger and pots, and between that and my runes, I start with an AS over 1. Once I'm over 1.5 AS I start adding in AP and some AD items, multiple hit effects, Madred's, Nashor's, Phantom Dancers, Sword of the Divine, Youumuus....
Leona's a little harder to find similar champs to, because she's pretty much unique I think. However, Malphite is also in the champ pack, and he has a great initiation power, with a nice passive that makes him very, very hard to harass early on. It's a shield based on a percentage of his base HP, which refreshes every 8 seconds. His ultimate is a combination of Flash and crowd-control (it knocks every target around the area up into the air for a while), he has a passive that causes his attacks to splash to nearby enemies that can be activated for a self-armor and attack speed buff (which is similar to Leona's Eclipse, while not being quite the same), and has a good harass/chase ability that can substitute for her dash attack in Seismic Shard, which damages the target, lowers their movespeed, and buffs your own.
I'd say the two champs most similar to Leona are Amumu and Taric. Taric has a shield that's very similar to Leona's along with a stun (plus a heal and a boost/heal as an ultimate), whereas Amumu has an ability that's very similar to Leona's Q + E combo and his ult is an area semi-stun (it prevents movements but doesn't prevent action).
Oh and I agree that Riot charges too much for things. If all champs were $2 and skins were $1, I would not be opposed to spending some money, but $7 champs and similarly priced skins? Yeah, I'll just stick with IP and won't pay a cent of actual money.
I like Amumu, but Taric, I could not properly get the hang of him. But Malphite sounds pretty good, I'll have to try him.
I like Amumu most of all because I am a sad mummy IRL.
Leona's a little harder to find similar champs to, because she's pretty much unique I think. However, Malphite is also in the champ pack, and he has a great initiation power, with a nice passive that makes him very, very hard to harass early on. It's a shield based on a percentage of his base HP, which refreshes every 8 seconds. His ultimate is a combination of Flash and crowd-control (it knocks every target around the area up into the air for a while), he has a passive that causes his attacks to splash to nearby enemies that can be activated for a self-armor and attack speed buff (which is similar to Leona's Eclipse, while not being quite the same), and has a good harass/chase ability that can substitute for her dash attack in Seismic Shard, which damages the target, lowers their movespeed, and buffs your own.
I'd say the two champs most similar to Leona are Amumu and Taric. Taric has a shield that's very similar to Leona's along with a stun (plus a heal and a boost/heal as an ultimate), whereas Amumu has an ability that's very similar to Leona's Q + E combo and his ult is an area semi-stun (it prevents movements but doesn't prevent action).
Oh and I agree that Riot charges too much for things. If all champs were $2 and skins were $1, I would not be opposed to spending some money, but $7 champs and similarly priced skins? Yeah, I'll just stick with IP and won't pay a cent of actual money.
I like Amumu, but Taric, I could not properly get the hang of him. But Malphite sounds pretty good, I'll have to try him.
I like Amumu most of all because I am a sad mummy IRL.
You know what's awesome? A singed player who does nothing but yell and bitch at his team, the whole game. For KSing him.
Wait no, that isn't awesome at all.
Haha, what?
At least he gets kills. It's not like a Singed who refuses to extend, run around or do any crazy gambits. Or a singed who decides to fight the other team's singed and keeps getting killed.
singed is an assist whore... i think that i had like 19 in a game last night.
Why hasn't anyone metnioned the Maplhite Buffs? They're - delicious.
Singed is a kill whore, I usually am second in kills on the team and sometimes first.
Carry Singed! Get a solo and be a dick before they get caught up to win games.
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I was picking bans for a ranked game last night and they had last pick. I banned I think Amumu and Alistar, and a teammate was "why didn't you ban annie? "
The enemy didn't either and then I lock in Annie in Wonderland. 8-) "Ohhh that's why."
Went 0/1/0 at level 3 to a lucky Kennen crit (@#$%@#$%) and then got a gank on him with help from jungle WW. Proceeded to roam and stomp to 11/1/3 and force a surrender.
Felt gooood man.
Annie is still a beast.. a squishy beast, but a beast. and when you feel like you need to practice CS, she and a couple others really help.
As for carry singed. Last night was the first time that I beasted with him. I had like over 500 AP on him, so his fling was doing 980-ish and gas was 200/second.
Do you get fling first, or gas? CS with gas is so much easier. I think that I autoattacked under 10 times total. It was all about the fling, and the gas.
And when the hell should you use his ult? I'm just... confused. Its not as tower-diving as Alistars, I'm just not really understanding proper time to pop it....
You know what's awesome? A singed player who does nothing but yell and bitch at his team, the whole game. For KSing him.
Wait no, that isn't awesome at all.
Haha, what?
At least he gets kills. It's not like a Singed who refuses to extend, run around or do any crazy gambits. Or a singed who decides to fight the other team's singed and keeps getting killed.
singed is an assist whore... i think that i had like 19 in a game last night.
Why hasn't anyone metnioned the Maplhite Buffs? They're - delicious.
Singed is a kill whore, I usually am second in kills on the team and sometimes first.
Carry Singed! Get a solo and be a dick before they get caught up to win games.
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I was picking bans for a ranked game last night and they had last pick. I banned I think Amumu and Alistar, and a teammate was "why didn't you ban annie? "
The enemy didn't either and then I lock in Annie in Wonderland. 8-) "Ohhh that's why."
Went 0/1/0 at level 3 to a lucky Kennen crit (@#$%@#$%) and then got a gank on him with help from jungle WW. Proceeded to roam and stomp to 11/1/3 and force a surrender.
Felt gooood man.
Annie is still a beast.. a squishy beast, but a beast. and when you feel like you need to practice CS, he and a couple others really help.
As for carry singed. Last night was the first time that I beasted with him. I had like over 500 AP on him, so his fling was doing 980-ish and gas was 200/second.
Do you get fling first, or gas? CS with gas is so much easier. I think that I autoattacked under 10 times total. It was all about the fling, and the gas.
And when the hell should you use his ult? I'm just... confused. Its not as tower-diving as Alistars, I'm just not really understanding proper time to pop it....
I get fling/gas/gas/goo and then keep prioritizing gas. A good way to get CS without getting harassed is to throw out your goo and start running forward with your gas on, most people will step back and then you just stop and turn back through the creeps.
Your ultimate you should be popping anytime shit goes down. Enemy making a move on an ally? Pop that ult and get in there. Ganking? Pop that ult. Team fighting? Pop that ult.
It lasts a long while and is quick to come back, I hit it just before I think something is going down where I'll either be taking damage or needing to discourage them from trying to damage me, either way.
Also, if you're at a tower alone, pop ult to take it down quick.
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Annie is still a beast.. a squishy beast, but a beast. and when you feel like you need to practice CS, she and a couple others really help.
As for carry singed. Last night was the first time that I beasted with him. I had like over 500 AP on him, so his fling was doing 980-ish and gas was 200/second.
Do you get fling first, or gas? CS with gas is so much easier. I think that I autoattacked under 10 times total. It was all about the fling, and the gas.
And when the hell should you use his ult? I'm just... confused. Its not as tower-diving as Alistars, I'm just not really understanding proper time to pop it....
Use his ult when you're low on mana/Health, when you're chasing someone, when you need to run circles around someone or whenever you can, really.
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it felt like they were saying there were going to be multiple price points and then haha fooled you
i felt insulted
Teemo is best played as... NONE OF THE ABOVE.
Build AS/on-hit effects, and you're golden. Madred's Razor -> Wiggles is useful when you're getting used to him to tear through minions and get some lifesteal, things like Malady and Wit's End beef up your attack speed and give bonuses to your attack when it hits, that's all good stuff. Attack speed buffs up your passive poison bonus damage by making you apply it more often way more effectively than bumping AD for raw damage or AP for bonus damage. AS/On-hit for the win.
...You're kinda missing my point. I was trying to find out what you enjoy playing, to suggest a champion or two for you to try out that'll be easy to pick up with IP so you don't need to invest any money, as you seem opposed to the system. I understand what you're saying, but I'm not going to talk about the merits or flaws in the microtransaction system, as I'd rather talk about the game itself. In this case, I'm trying to find out what a new player enjoys in a champion, so some champion suggestions can be made!
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To get some help for myself, now, Leona and Malzahar were both champions I liked from my first free week. I'm getting the Collector's Box or whatever today or tomorrow and getting the other half of the first 40 champs. Probably gonna spend lots and lots of money on riot points because I have way too much money. (I still think the individual price point is too high, but the bundles are totally worth it.)
Not sure what kind of playstyle interests me the most, but I liked Malzahar and Leona because I felt useful in a fight and they weren't too complicated once I got the hang of them.
Also, I'm not against the microtransaction system, I think it's great. I'm not against anything. I just think that Riot Games would benefit from lowering the price point.
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buy me some RP plz.
I'll do once I have every champ.
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Personally, I spent 5 pounds on two skins and I doubt I'll spend any more for a good while. Got 3 champs I enjoy unlocked, content to play them for a good while still, occasionally picking up new ones as IPs pile up.
Alright well if i'm ever playing against you I will feed the hell out of your team so you can get that delicious IP.
(i am kidding. i won't feed. can't feed. feels too dirty.)
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Maybe they would, maybe they wouldn't. Just consider that your proposed pricing strategy is based on your gut instinct, and theirs is probably based on actual transaction data. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit, but I'm sure they've done analysis on this sort of thing and if they didn't think that the initial $7 price point was maximizing their profit opportunity, the champ would be cheaper.
And the nice thing about digital assets is when they stop selling, you can drop the price. Hooray sales!
Edit: And yeah, what Glal said, though I'm sure it's not the only reason.
Annie is an easy to play AP Carry, easier than Malzahar I'd say, and very powerful. Some people would say borderline OP. Her passive makes every 5th spell she casts stun the enemy, and if that fifth spell is an AoE, it's an AoE stun. Annie could be a possible champion to play, and I believe she's in the main champion pack!
Leona's a little harder to find similar champs to, because she's pretty much unique I think. However, Malphite is also in the champ pack, and he has a great initiation power, with a nice passive that makes him very, very hard to harass early on. It's a shield based on a percentage of his base HP, which refreshes every 8 seconds. His ultimate is a combination of Flash and crowd-control (it knocks every target around the area up into the air for a while), he has a passive that causes his attacks to splash to nearby enemies that can be activated for a self-armor and attack speed buff (which is similar to Leona's Eclipse, while not being quite the same), and has a good harass/chase ability that can substitute for her dash attack in Seismic Shard, which damages the target, lowers their movespeed, and buffs your own.
So, a couple of suggestions there based on the assumption that you're buying a value-champ pack, which you seem to be okay with!
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At this point, I really would need to have their financial info and sales and such to make a judgement.
I'm ending this derail, but I still think Lower RP Price Points -> More Sales -> More money. Keeping the weekly sales will also lead to more sales -> more money.
Or maybe more bundles. Those would be cool.
Edit: @Grundlestiltskin, it's more than just "some guy's gut instinct" since I do have bases in business. I know a fair bit about setting price points. I'm not an expert, but I have bases. But yeah, I would need to have a look at their financial information for it to be more than a guess, but it's not just "a gut instinct", I did compare it to other products it competes with.
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singed is an assist whore... i think that i had like 19 in a game last night.
Why hasn't anyone metnioned the Maplhite Buffs? They're - delicious.
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I do think you pay a little too much for what you get, but they're a business and need to make money, so I don't worry too much about it. It's possible that they've done a lot of market research before setting their prices, but that's not talking about the game LET'S TALK ABOUT THE GAME!
(I have bought on-sale skins and champion packs. Oh well!)
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It's one of those "paying for the experience" sort of deals. For every user who buys a ton of stuff you can be certain there are two who haven't given riot a dime.
Paying money is just for cosmetic upgrades or if you just cannot wait to build up the IP. Its a pretty decent model enough incentive for people to spend money but really not required to enjoy it although I always recommend getting at least the basic champ pack if they find they enjoy the game.
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oh dear. . .
Singed is a kill whore, I usually am second in kills on the team and sometimes first.
Carry Singed! Get a solo and be a dick before they get caught up to win games.
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I was picking bans for a ranked game last night and they had last pick. I banned I think Amumu and Alistar, and a teammate was "why didn't you ban annie?
The enemy didn't either and then I lock in Annie in Wonderland. 8-) "Ohhh that's why."
Went 0/1/0 at level 3 to a lucky Kennen crit (@#$%@#$%) and then got a gank on him with help from jungle WW. Proceeded to roam and stomp to 11/1/3 and force a surrender.
Felt gooood man.
Yeah, sorry, it's fixed now. Spank the monkey King. Sorry for the double entendre, it was not meant to be.
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I'd say the two champs most similar to Leona are Amumu and Taric. Taric has a shield that's very similar to Leona's along with a stun (plus a heal and a boost/heal as an ultimate), whereas Amumu has an ability that's very similar to Leona's Q + E combo and his ult is an area semi-stun (it prevents movements but doesn't prevent action).
Oh and I agree that Riot charges too much for things. If all champs were $2 and skins were $1, I would not be opposed to spending some money, but $7 champs and similarly priced skins? Yeah, I'll just stick with IP and won't pay a cent of actual money.
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I think that you're talking like $35 for 40 champs, plus one tier 3 ward and a little RP left over
Teemo is a different animal.
First, decide if you're going for AP nuke teemo, or AS (with a side of wither AD or AP) teemo. AP Teemo prioritizes R>Q>E>W. AS prioritizes R>E>W>Q, with either your first or second point going to Q with its blind for auto-attackers. You need next to no mana with this build, and you have to get used to hitting S to trigger your passive, and use the 40% AS gain liberally. AP Teemo is all about the blinding darts and mushroom traps. Well, either teemo uses the mushrooms or it gets the hose. His AP ratios are really not that bad, while it looks not so great on the surface. 0.1/AP for E, except that it applies 5 times. Q and R are fine on ratios.
I usually play AS teemo, and start with a dagger and pots, and between that and my runes, I start with an AS over 1. Once I'm over 1.5 AS I start adding in AP and some AD items, multiple hit effects, Madred's, Nashor's, Phantom Dancers, Sword of the Divine, Youumuus....
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oh okay i was drawing a le blanc when i tried to figure out what you meant.
I like Amumu, but Taric, I could not properly get the hang of him. But Malphite sounds pretty good, I'll have to try him.
I like Amumu most of all because I am a sad mummy IRL.
You can drop the "a", "Le" sorta is the same as "the".
You were drawing le blanc...
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Yes, I just have to remember them, and stop overextending. There's a reason that Warmog's is one of my favorite tanky items...
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Reported for pun feeding.
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But then I think you're drawing a picture of le blanc. Let's not press our lux any further. We're entering dangerous territory.
Annie is still a beast.. a squishy beast, but a beast. and when you feel like you need to practice CS, she and a couple others really help.
As for carry singed. Last night was the first time that I beasted with him. I had like over 500 AP on him, so his fling was doing 980-ish and gas was 200/second.
Do you get fling first, or gas? CS with gas is so much easier. I think that I autoattacked under 10 times total. It was all about the fling, and the gas.
And when the hell should you use his ult? I'm just... confused. Its not as tower-diving as Alistars, I'm just not really understanding proper time to pop it....
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I get fling/gas/gas/goo and then keep prioritizing gas. A good way to get CS without getting harassed is to throw out your goo and start running forward with your gas on, most people will step back and then you just stop and turn back through the creeps.
Your ultimate you should be popping anytime shit goes down. Enemy making a move on an ally? Pop that ult and get in there. Ganking? Pop that ult. Team fighting? Pop that ult.
It lasts a long while and is quick to come back, I hit it just before I think something is going down where I'll either be taking damage or needing to discourage them from trying to damage me, either way.
Also, if you're at a tower alone, pop ult to take it down quick.
Use his ult when you're low on mana/Health, when you're chasing someone, when you need to run circles around someone or whenever you can, really.
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Creep Score. Npc minion kills basically.
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