[League of Legends] Xerath preview up. Kog'maw looking into lawyers.

Bethryn

Kay wrote:

Sometimes, I get shit for picking Skarner.

I got abused for going Rabadon's on Soraka. This is after playing the standard boring lane support with philokage. This Morgana was just screaming at me about how I should build defensively or I would die in teamfights.

In the entire game I died twice, once because I was typing to her to stop trying to interrupt a 5 man dragon solo while we were 1 man dead and 1 man farming top, and once at the very end of the game.

Do people like getting heals that are worth nothing?

Mr Obersmith

I have discovered Poppy...

Sterica

Rabadon's on Soraka is even better in this death Starfall environment.

Kay

Bethryn we should team up because you are on the EU servers and I feel I would improve just by teaming with you.

Xagar

It's much better for your mental health to instantly mute anyone that complains about your build.

King_Terminal

Xagar wrote:

It's much better for your mental health to instantly mute anyone that complains about your build.

Aww, don't do that, how am I going to help you get better if you cant listen to me be angry at you!

Bigminimus

HexDex wrote:

First post! I come bearing gifts! Or, some small gifts. EU skin codes!

These should work on the EU servers still, enjoy.

PAX Sivir - NAW6X9DHWQYK
K-9 Nasus - FQYEY7CWDTED
PAX Jax - J8H34FVYZHLJ97MM
PAX Jax - JZR2QARWNR5ZC2S5

Depressingly everyone beat me to these codes I've been waiting for a pax jax for ages.

surrealitycheck

i have modified the science of shaco so it now includes stealing enemy wraiths as well as killing them in their bush

science

nosmiteobvs

nealcm

oh my god you'd hit 2 wouldn't you

genius

Grundlestiltskin

I've been on a Teemo kick lately and feel like I've been doing reasonably well. It may be my imagination, but I feel like the physical damage quints I have in my AD page for Lee Sin have really boosted Teemo's early game harass. I was an absolute terror to the Poppy and Sion I was laning against last night, especially since they kept deciding to focus my Blitzcrank partner for some reason.

Captain Teemo, poising ur HPs and running away screaming.

surrealitycheck

oh my god you'd hit 2 wouldn't you

genius

well after the kill yes

I tried minigolems but you can't set up fast enough in the bush to get 3-4 boxes in the bush between mid and wraiths

wraiths themselves only get you to about 3/4 through one

Powerpuppies

Bethryn wrote: »

Kay wrote:

Sometimes, I get shit for picking Skarner.

I got abused for going Rabadon's on Soraka. This is after playing the standard boring lane support with philokage. This Morgana was just screaming at me about how I should build defensively or I would die in teamfights.

In the entire game I died twice, once because I was typing to her to stop trying to interrupt a 5 man dragon solo while we were 1 man dead and 1 man farming top, and once at the very end of the game.

Do people like getting heals that are worth nothing?

Tank soraka with worthless heals is viable because you stay alive long enough to spam your Q a bunch, which makes any other magic damage allies do basically true damage.

She has so much utility from her nearly permasilence and her aoe 100 MR shred that completely foregoing her heals is as viable as building AP

with the huge caveat that your team is halfway decent and will take advantage of it

and that you don't suck and overextend in laning like i sometimes do

crimsoncoyote

I hate laning against Soraka. Even in custom games... so annoying.

A-Puck

Ok, so how the heck to do you beat Xin Zhao in lane (or Twisted Treeline)?

Grundlestiltskin

A-Puck wrote:

Ok, so how the heck to do you beat Xin Zhao in lane (or Twisted Treeline)?

I had a great time with Veigar against Xin the other day as he repeatedly jumped over my stun circle entirely to murder me.

And by great time I mean I wanted to smash my face into my keyboard.

Pacificstar

I have discovered jungle Amumu. It's the only jungle I'm not totally horrible at (so far). Mummy is such a fucking boss. Why did it take me so long to learn this?

Talith

Statikk, QA Analyst wrote:

We are increasing Sona's heal significantly at rank 1 in the upcoming patch (to make the numbers work out nicely we had to reduce the rank 5 very very slightly I believe).

This should allow her W to be a better 1-point wonder and hopefully open up offensive Sona builds a bit more.

Xagar

I have a great idea, let's all chase Singed and ignore the godlike Kat and GP!

Talith

Man Singed is going to be stupid on Dominion. Just running around, poisoning, sitting on his capture point and never letting anyone take it while never leaving either.

nealcm

vayne with the lightbringer thing

try and hide in the bushes now, punks

Maddoc

Talith wrote:

Man Singed is going to be stupid on Dominion. Just running around, poisoning, sitting on his capture point and never letting anyone take it while never leaving either.

Looking forward to this so much.

Running around farting all over capture points and then using Odyn's Veil to explode every so often.

Want Dominion nooooow.

Talith

Hextech sweeper and lightbringer. They decided hiding in bushes is for cowards and want people to fight like men in the ring of honor.

surrealitycheck

can't see ap shaco working that well

or maybe it would

i suppose with that much movement lots of opportunity for box traps

on the plus side no wards

Maddoc

There seem to be some "key lanes" through the center that might be good for box ambushes

Bethryn

Talith wrote:

Man Singed is going to be stupid on Dominion. Just running around, poisoning, sitting on his capture point and never letting anyone take it while never leaving either.

Yeah, been saying as much for a while. Tanky mobile deeps. Singed, Jarvan, and Rumble in particular.

surrealitycheck

yeah but dudes don't die for very long

you need about 3 boxes for a proper ambush, and that's minimum 20 secs setup time for a 20 sec death timer

idk

also all those aoe moves that hit stealthed boxes are BS BROS

kog ult doesn't mark them, but it hits them
gragas barrels
orianna's EVERYTHING (fuk u orianna u a ho)

also those bushes that boxes can't see out of are real annoying

i show u demonstration

think this has sum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f3288mPRAM

Winky

Hold me closer phantom dancer

Aegis

Please tell me Trynd sold his items in a fit of rage and didn't play the entire game without buying anything.

AhiMahi

Against that team, only thing Ram needed is thorn and do nothing but /d during team fights to win the game.

mr_mich

Man, Singed is good fun. I'm still not great with him, because he's fairly squishy early on. But holy crap, fling is the most fun I've ever had in this game.

Bigminimus

Aegis wrote:

Please tell me Trynd sold his items in a fit of rage and didn't play the entire game without buying anything.

Maybe he used undying rage

Winky

Aegis wrote:

Please tell me Trynd sold his items in a fit of rage and didn't play the entire game without buying anything.

Now that you mention it, I'm not sure.

But I'm assuming that, yes, he had items at some point.

Also, that thornmail bit is true, most of the deaths involved them killing themselves on me.

milski

Nasus is probably going to suck on Dominion. No Q farm = no champ farm. Which is sad, because Nasus is great fun otherwise.

Houn

milski wrote:

Nasus is probably going to suck on Dominion. No Q farm = no champ farm. Which is sad, because Nasus is great fun otherwise.

Same goes for Veigar.

milski

Veigar was kind of terrible anyway so I don't consider it a huge loss, but Nasus was actually pretty viable. Veigar always seemed tremendously unfun to play, but different strokes I guess.

Rius

In Ranked play, is it impossible to have the same Champion on both teams?

unintentional

no, draft pick doesn't allow mirror matches

also what the hell, dude, i have tons of fun playing veigar and nasus is boring as heck

milski

Yes.

Grundlestiltskin

milski wrote:

Veigar was kind of terrible anyway so I don't consider it a huge loss, but Nasus was actually pretty viable. Veigar always seemed tremendously unfun to play, but different strokes I guess.

As unfun as one shotting AP carries can be, I guess.

unintentional

veigar's like "oh boy oh boy oh boy" as you anticipate 100-0ing someone
and then after twenty minutes it's like "OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY" as you 100-0 someone every minute for the rest of the game