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[League of Legends] No one is as good as they think they are (except me)

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  • SpectrumSpectrum Archer of Inferno Chaldea Rec RoomRegistered User regular
    Huh. 1699 on Dominion. That's significantly better than I thought.

    No wonder whenever I step into that mode casually I'm getting crushed

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  • Future BluesFuture Blues Registered User regular
    Arivia wrote:
    said fuck it to saving up for cass, just bought lux instead whee

    this was an ill-advised decision

    Yeah, you should have kept saving.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Arivia wrote:
    said fuck it to saving up for cass, just bought lux instead whee

    this was an ill-advised decision

    Yeah, you should have kept saving.

    For kog'maw

  • Soviet WaffleSoviet Waffle Registered User regular
    The only person I know that plays Lux well is Chu8, but I don't think he has a guide up. He goes mid with her though and does a TON of damage.

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  • DelphinidaesDelphinidaes FFXIV: Delphi Kisaragi Registered User regular
    The only person I know that plays Lux well is Chu8, but I don't think he has a guide up. He goes mid with her though and does a TON of damage.

    I like Lux, I think she is a fine mid, but you have to, HAVE to land her skillshots. If you can't do that you have no business playing her.

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  • Enigma435Enigma435 Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    Rami wrote:
    That doesn't really make much sense because E isn't a skillshot. Also you get a ms buff from landing the Q. You can try dropping W behind them to slow them as well. I mean if you land the Q at max range you might not be able to follow up quick enough but you shouldn't really be taking anything in return so it's still good.

    She's still free you should just keep trying because she is a boss.

    Edited for totally missing the point of the post.

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  • TalithTalith 変態という名の紳士 Miami, FLRegistered User regular
    Boots 5 on jungle riven owns holy shit

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    boots 5 on every character

    run so fast

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  • unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    Talith wrote:
    Boots 5 on jungle riven owns holy shit

    i'm tempted to do this every single game but then i get tabi or mercs like a wuss :(

  • CarnarvonCarnarvon Registered User regular
    do i play dominion normals so i can play poppy

    or do i play dominion drafts so i can have decently skilled people on my team

    choices

  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    Talith wrote:
    Boots 5 on jungle riven owns holy shit

    But then I don't have the CDR boots, and I needs those.

  • RamiRami Registered User regular
    poppy

    they never see it coming

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    Hullis wrote:
    Arivia wrote:
    said fuck it to saving up for cass, just bought lux instead whee

    this was an ill-advised decision

    Yeah, you should have kept saving.

    For kog'maw

    got him already, good at him already

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Arivia wrote:
    Hullis wrote:
    Arivia wrote:
    said fuck it to saving up for cass, just bought lux instead whee

    this was an ill-advised decision

    Yeah, you should have kept saving.

    For kog'maw

    got him already, good at him already

    so this means you are ap kog maw and exclusively use your r

  • DarisDaris Registered User regular
    The only person I know that plays Lux well is Chu8, but I don't think he has a guide up. He goes mid with her though and does a TON of damage.

    I like Lux, I think she is a fine mid, but you have to, HAVE to land her skillshots. If you can't do that you have no business playing her.

    I am ahuge advocate for Lux, and yeah. You can't miss with q or you're dead. You can't screw up with e or you're going to lose lane. You have to land your laser or spamming it will have no effect. Even her w is most useful when you can hit several targets, and not worth it when you only hit one.

  • TalithTalith 変態という名の紳士 Miami, FLRegistered User regular
    schuss wrote:
    Talith wrote:
    Boots 5 on jungle riven owns holy shit

    But then I don't have the CDR boots, and I needs those.

    That's why I go ghost blade + brutalizer :V

    You've got wards? Who cares! I'm 450 movespeed Riven :3

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    Daris wrote:
    The only person I know that plays Lux well is Chu8, but I don't think he has a guide up. He goes mid with her though and does a TON of damage.

    I like Lux, I think she is a fine mid, but you have to, HAVE to land her skillshots. If you can't do that you have no business playing her.

    I am ahuge advocate for Lux, and yeah. You can't miss with q or you're dead. You can't screw up with e or you're going to lose lane. You have to land your laser or spamming it will have no effect. Even her w is most useful when you can hit several targets, and not worth it when you only hit one.

    fine, teach me how to play her

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    That was such a bad game

    I don't even understand how you can be so bad

    2/12/2 annie was the worst, but not by a huge margin

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  • TrusTrus Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    Having played a couple more games against Ziggs and a game or two as him I think I can safely say they are going to nerf the ever loving shit out of his ultimate

    edit: also, am I the only person who can not remember what his name is? I keep wanting to call him Fizz

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  • ArikadoArikado Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2012
    Two ranked wins today as support Alistar and Janna. The luck finally swung my way and made the enemy team derp and not mine.

    EDIT: Also, AP Sion mid makes enemy Xerath have a really bad day.

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  • DarisDaris Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    Arivia wrote:
    Daris wrote:
    The only person I know that plays Lux well is Chu8, but I don't think he has a guide up. He goes mid with her though and does a TON of damage.

    I like Lux, I think she is a fine mid, but you have to, HAVE to land her skillshots. If you can't do that you have no business playing her.

    I am ahuge advocate for Lux, and yeah. You can't miss with q or you're dead. You can't screw up with e or you're going to lose lane. You have to land your laser or spamming it will have no effect. Even her w is most useful when you can hit several targets, and not worth it when you only hit one.

    fine, teach me how to play her

    Level her E first. It doesn't do the damage of other AOE spells. Still, it has amazing range and activates illumination. Also gives you vision, so never face check a bush. Combining her E with AA to activate illumination is a good way to last hit minions. There are a lot of different ways to go about it. Her E is also a great poke, able to hit many champions outside their range and on top of towers.

    Her Q is her primary escape or setup for a spell combination. It has a fairly long cooldown and is best saved in case you need it to escape. You can also save a team member with it. Some people level Q first to maximize Lux's ability to do damage. Some people level her shield over it to conserve mana. Lux has bad mana, and will run out quickly if you are using more than her E in lane. No matter what rank, her Q will still snare two targets for the same duration and apply illumination. Also, the cooldown reduction from leveling Q doesn't make a large difference if you have full CDR. On the other hand, higher base damage. *shrug*

    Her W doesn't shield a large portion of damage compared to others, but can refresh on the way back and can shield as many people as you can hit. If you level it first you'll be able to mitigate a lot more damage. It works well versus damage over time spells, and can be the difference in staying in lane or dying. During team fights, you want to try to make sure you throw it out at almost maximum range. That way you can hit a target and refresh the shield almost instantly. It makes it easier to land the initial and the refresh on more targets, and because it is a fairly small shield it will often get consumed almost instantly on targets taking damage. During later game team fights you can literally shield thousands of damage so don't forget it.

    Her R has a low as hell cooldown. Twenty four seconds with full CDR at max rank. The early ranks aren't that long either. Fire it all the time. Her ultimate is meant to be used as often as you can. Piss the other team off, nail their carry so they have to hang back. Be a first class bitch with the thing. Great for sniping runners and stealing buffs.

    The best thing to remember is that Lux is a ranged glass cannon. You never want to be up close and personal with the enemy, and you don't have to be. In team fights she works really well standing a good distance behind her team. To be honest her kit is really easy to use properly in team fights. Throw her shield out over your clustered team, snare enemies so they can't get away/catch allies, hit as many as you can with her AOE, and tag a carry the instant you can with her laser.

    Really, it's all pretty basic. I feel a bit silly telling you this, because it quickly becomes apparent when you play her.

    Edit: As far as summoner go, you can use a lot of them with good justification. Her mana is terrible, so you could run clarity, ugh. Flash is a good escape versus dps, but sometimes cleanse makes it easier for her to escape since it breaks her out of CC and lets her land her snare. Two people can land a stun on Lux and kill her, but you can cleanse out and snare them BOTH. I have honestly ran both on her. I also run teleport on her a lot. While her R has a huge range, it's not unlimited at all. Teleport can get you into some rather choice situations. Also, staying in lane and never leaving for more than a few seconds is great.

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  • TalithTalith 変態という名の紳士 Miami, FLRegistered User regular
    Allright boots 5 is now core on my jungle riven.

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  • SampsenSampsen Aggressive Berserker Registered User regular
    Trus wrote:
    Having played a couple more games against Ziggs and a game or two as him I think I can safely say they are going to nerf the ever loving shit out of his ultimate

    edit: also, am I the only person who can not remember what his name is? I keep wanting to call him Fizz

    I repeatedly call him "Figgs".

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    I was watching my friend play

    his team had a Fizz, Ziggs, and Xin

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    how do you feed bots? you be a lv10 playing lux

    miss miss miss

  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    also ziggs is so easy to lane against. what are people having trouble with exactly

  • TalithTalith 変態という名の紳士 Miami, FLRegistered User regular
    They are distracted by his charming smile and end up staying very still.

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  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    he can be a real nuisance with blue buff and proper knowledge of how to use his minefield

    and his ult is fuckin ridonks

  • WhiteSharkWhiteShark Registered User regular
    Short fuse is what gets me

    lalalala dodging bombs OW what the fuck just hit me for so much oh it was an auto attack

  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    yeah that's kinda stupid too

  • SampsenSampsen Aggressive Berserker Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T_2ZHev8dw
    Okay! Have enough positive reactions to post publicly now

    Here is the Reddit Thread on it

    Studio, that was great. I can't wait to see you do more of these and get more comfortable at it; I think you could create a great series of videos. Whenever I find a commentator/youtuber/video maker that I enjoy, I go and watch their first couple videos, and yeah, ouch. Yours was better than the majority of those.

    Good luck, and I would love to give you some content if you ever need it.

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    that's fine cait, dc and never come back

    support nidalee can transform into ap nidalee real easy and hold off volibear and cassiopeia FOREVER

    the only downside were absolutely useless spells. nope don't need cv at allll.

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    nunu jarvan #1 bot lane

    BOOK IT

  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    Jars wrote:
    nunu jarvan #1 bot lane

    BOOK 'EM, GAREN

    fixed for accuracy

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  • SpectrumSpectrum Archer of Inferno Chaldea Rec RoomRegistered User regular
    god, AD Sion is too funny late game

    nope, 1v2ing you, don't care, every swing gives me 3 bars back, try to kill me

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  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    Spectrum wrote:
    god, AD Sion is too funny late game

    nope, 1v2ing you, don't care, every swing gives me 3 bars back, try to kill me

    acquire red buff

    attack move backwards

    profit

  • SaldonasSaldonas See you space cowboy...Registered User regular
    What's good for Shyvana? Just bought her, have no idea what to do with her.

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  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    Saldonas wrote:
    What's good for Shyvana? Just bought her, have no idea what to do with her.

    wriggles, wits end, phage (into mallet if you want), randuins, warmogs, atmas, aegis if you're nasty

    typical tanky dps shit with a splash of attack speed.

  • DelphinidaesDelphinidaes FFXIV: Delphi Kisaragi Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    Daris wrote:
    Arivia wrote:
    Daris wrote:
    The only person I know that plays Lux well is Chu8, but I don't think he has a guide up. He goes mid with her though and does a TON of damage.

    I like Lux, I think she is a fine mid, but you have to, HAVE to land her skillshots. If you can't do that you have no business playing her.

    I am ahuge advocate for Lux, and yeah. You can't miss with q or you're dead. You can't screw up with e or you're going to lose lane. You have to land your laser or spamming it will have no effect. Even her w is most useful when you can hit several targets, and not worth it when you only hit one.

    fine, teach me how to play her
    Level her E first. It doesn't do the damage of other AOE spells. Still, it has amazing range and activates illumination. Also gives you vision, so never face check a bush. Combining her E with AA to activate illumination is a good way to last hit minions. There are a lot of different ways to go about it. Her E is also a great poke, able to hit many champions outside their range and on top of towers.

    Her Q is her primary escape or setup for a spell combination. It has a fairly long cooldown and is best saved in case you need it to escape. You can also save a team member with it. Some people level Q first to maximize Lux's ability to do damage. Some people level her shield over it to conserve mana. Lux has bad mana, and will run out quickly if you are using more than her E in lane. No matter what rank, her Q will still snare two targets for the same duration and apply illumination. Also, the cooldown reduction from leveling Q doesn't make a large difference if you have full CDR. On the other hand, higher base damage. *shrug*

    Her W doesn't shield a large portion of damage compared to others, but can refresh on the way back and can shield as many people as you can hit. If you level it first you'll be able to mitigate a lot more damage. It works well versus damage over time spells, and can be the difference in staying in lane or dying. During team fights, you want to try to make sure you throw it out at almost maximum range. That way you can hit a target and refresh the shield almost instantly. It makes it easier to land the initial and the refresh on more targets, and because it is a fairly small shield it will often get consumed almost instantly on targets taking damage. During later game team fights you can literally shield thousands of damage so don't forget it.

    Her R has a low as hell cooldown. Twenty four seconds with full CDR at max rank. The early ranks aren't that long either. Fire it all the time. Her ultimate is meant to be used as often as you can. Piss the other team off, nail their carry so they have to hang back. Be a first class bitch with the thing. Great for sniping runners and stealing buffs.

    The best thing to remember is that Lux is a ranged glass cannon. You never want to be up close and personal with the enemy, and you don't have to be. In team fights she works really well standing a good distance behind her team. To be honest her kit is really easy to use properly in team fights. Throw her shield out over your clustered team, snare enemies so they can't get away/catch allies, hit as many as you can with her AOE, and tag a carry the instant you can with her laser.

    Really, it's all pretty basic. I feel a bit silly telling you this, because it quickly becomes apparent when you play her.

    Edit: As far as summoner go, you can use a lot of them with good justification. Her mana is terrible, so you could run clarity, ugh. Flash is a good escape versus dps, but sometimes cleanse makes it easier for her to escape since it breaks her out of CC and lets her land her snare. Two people can land a stun on Lux and kill her, but you can cleanse out and snare them BOTH. I have honestly ran both on her. I also run teleport on her a lot. While her R has a huge range, it's not unlimited at all. Teleport can get you into some rather choice situations. Also, staying in lane and never leaving for more than a few seconds is great.

    That's all pretty much on point, I just wanted to note that personally I harass like crazy with her E. It has an absurd range, good damage, and isn't overly expensive. It also has a pretty large aoe range so you can nail people with it a lot. Then you follow up with an AA and the damage really adds up. I like going catalyst on her because the basic damage on her E plus her passive is usually sufficient to last into mid game. For Boots I almost also go for the Ionian boots and then a morello's later on. (Sometime i'll build into the morello's first depending on the matchup)

    The key is to stay the hell away from everything. You are going to be squishy, they are going to try and kill you. Stay away, use your Binding to help facilitate this and to protect your teammates in team fights. Use your shield liberally as well during team fights. Try and hit as many people as possible. It's especially great to use on people who have been ignited or have had other DoTs applied.

    Between Ionian Boots, Morello's and your masteries you should have CDR covered (I hardly ever get blue in mid so I tend not to rely on it) Use your Laser frequently, make them afraid of it. Use it before a teamfight, halfway through and to pick up runners.

    Final build is usually something like:

    Ionian Boots
    RoA
    Morello's Tome
    Deathcap
    Lichbane
    (Defensive Item of Choice)

    I really like Lichbane on her because of how amazing it works with her passive. During the lane try and mix in your AA with your abilities. If you land a binding, toss your Orb on them, AA them, explode the orb, AA them again, etc.

    Also your Laser will automatically use up and reapply illumination, so you can binding, toss Orb, Fire Laser, AA, pop orb and AA. With Lichbane that is an obscene amount of damage.

    Obviously that is in a perfect world but as you get better landing her skillshots you can pull of some pretty crazy stuff.

    *Edit* Also you can start Tear on her and build it into an Archangel's later. But I find that she is already squishy enough. I like the dependability of the Rod of Ages personally, but feel free to play her however feels best for you.

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    yeah, it's good to hear you guys recommend cdr, since I skipped it at first until I looked at how low her cds got with 5 ranks in things

    debating trying ionians on fox-chan for more ball throws, too

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