God I wish I would've realized sooner that Fiora mid is the truth. Just destroyed a Diana in the worst way, ended up 9/1. Double dash, huge AS steroid, parry if they wanna AA harass you, and an ult that lets you tower dive easily? Yeaaaaaaah. Plus she really plays like a fencer, dashing in, putting on the hurt and disengaging. So fun. I played her a few times out of the jungle and that's cool too, but mid is even better.
This time my build went Bruta->Bloodthirster->BC and I liked it better. My level 11 ult with stacked BT and just bruta did like 40% of the enemy MF health in the first tick.
It'd be hilarious if the by mid way through the season all the AP mids moved top so the assassins could fight it out mid, then by the end of the season we wound up back where we are now.
I maxed Q first, and I think that's best by far. I think a first point in W for lvl 1 AA harass punishing is cool plus it gives you 90+ AD for super easy last hitting, but then I maxed Q instantly. It adds quite a bit of dmg to your lunges, and more importantly cuts the CD of lunge down to half at max rank. When lunge is on CD you can't jump on them, so any extra points in W wouldn't be doing anything passively anyway. For my money, Q first is definitely the best.
God I wish I would've realized sooner that Fiora mid is the truth. Just destroyed a Diana in the worst way, ended up 9/1. Double dash, huge AS steroid, parry if they wanna AA harass you, and an ult that lets you tower dive easily? Yeaaaaaaah. Plus she really plays like a fencer, dashing in, putting on the hurt and disengaging. So fun. I played her a few times out of the jungle and that's cool too, but mid is even better.
This time my build went Bruta->Bloodthirster->BC and I liked it better. My level 11 ult with stacked BT and just bruta did like 40% of the enemy MF health in the first tick.
It'd be hilarious if the by mid way through the season all the AP mids moved top so the assassins could fight it out mid, then by the end of the season we wound up back where we are now.
The only real problem with that is that blue side AP top has a pretty big advantage in that scenario since they're by their blue buff and the purple side top laner would have to go bot side to get it after a B. Honestly, people just have to realize if they're going to choose an AP mid first they better be ready to get counter picked, and if they see someone who can go AD mid on the other side like Fiora, Kha'zix, etc. they better either pick Cho'gath mid or something else they can win the lane with or at least not feed.
Picking most AP mids in S3 is basically like picking Fiora top in S2(or S3). You have a chance to be a big impact, but most likely you're losing your lane hard.
Also, unrelated side note but I suck so hard at Renekton. I played him top into an Elise earlier to try out the matchup, and boy oh boy that was not fun. It'd be better if her much needed Q mana nerf was in the game already, but she just went Giant's belt first and beat me to sunfire and basically just decided I no longer got to CS. I basically cost my team the game because she carried them hard she was so far ahead of the whole map. I like Renekton on paper, but the 2 or 3 times(not enough to know anything I know) I just haven't been able to make him work.
Renekton has three different modes in laning phase. The first is "I deal half your health bar in one combo and heal for more damage than you deal", the second the same as the first, but they're playing someone who can avoid getting combo'd, and the third is basically what you've described.
Renekton is a perfectly fine champ, he's just match-up based. His damage falling off late-game is greatly exaggerated.
Also, unrelated side note but I suck so hard at Renekton. I played him top into an Elise earlier to try out the matchup, and boy oh boy that was not fun. It'd be better if her much needed Q mana nerf was in the game already, but she just went Giant's belt first and beat me to sunfire and basically just decided I no longer got to CS. I basically cost my team the game because she carried them hard she was so far ahead of the whole map. I like Renekton on paper, but the 2 or 3 times(not enough to know anything I know) I just haven't been able to make him work.
This is because Elise is insane against a lot of top laners. Especially people who aren't super mobile and don't have ranged poke.
I remember when Wukong was announced, I was so hype because monkeys are MY FAVORITE ANIMAL OF ALL TIME, and all these wonderful ideas and concepts in my mind about what his skill set would entail and how he would play, all trickstery with strength to back it up and such right?? He was talked about and promoted, it was gonna be awesome. I would have a new favorite champion to rival Swain, and a different role too
Somehow, they found a way to make a tricky monkey with a magical staff based on cool mythology have the most boring move set in the entire fucking game. Even back then with the older champions. Fact: I hated Irelia, hate Irelia, and always will hate Irelia and will never ever purchase her because she has a boring fucking moveset while being really good. Wukongs, somehow, is more boring -- and back then, he was simply mediocre. At the time of his release, he was a terrible jungler. How can you make a solo top character that is A TRICKY MONKEY bad at being in the FUCKIN JUNGLE. Currently, the champion that I am supposed to be in love with the most is the one I hate the most. He is Irelia. He is boring, he is amazing. HE DOESN'T EVEN REALLY MAKE MONKEY NOISES
His passive is more armor and magic resistance. His Q is an auto attack reset with armor pen. He's got an E dash gap closer that cleaves and gives an auto attack steroid. His W, the most interesting thing about him, is no where near as cool as most other abilities in the game used to juke or drop target. His R is Garenspin augmented by a Janna Tornado. With that in mind, watch this video released a while back shortly before he came out:
Why are dudes at IEM wearing three sets of headphones?
Most players wear ear buds for the game sounds/voice comms, then cover them with noise cancelling headphones. The headset around the neck is just a convenient way to support the microphone. I'm actually surprised nobody has made a noise cancelling headset yet. I suppose that wouldn't be practical outside of a competitive environment though.
I maxed Q first, and I think that's best by far. I think a first point in W for lvl 1 AA harass punishing is cool plus it gives you 90+ AD for super easy last hitting, but then I maxed Q instantly. It adds quite a bit of dmg to your lunges, and more importantly cuts the CD of lunge down to half at max rank. When lunge is on CD you can't jump on them, so any extra points in W wouldn't be doing anything passively anyway. For my money, Q first is definitely the best.
God I wish I would've realized sooner that Fiora mid is the truth. Just destroyed a Diana in the worst way, ended up 9/1. Double dash, huge AS steroid, parry if they wanna AA harass you, and an ult that lets you tower dive easily? Yeaaaaaaah. Plus she really plays like a fencer, dashing in, putting on the hurt and disengaging. So fun. I played her a few times out of the jungle and that's cool too, but mid is even better.
This time my build went Bruta->Bloodthirster->BC and I liked it better. My level 11 ult with stacked BT and just bruta did like 40% of the enemy MF health in the first tick.
It'd be hilarious if the by mid way through the season all the AP mids moved top so the assassins could fight it out mid, then by the end of the season we wound up back where we are now.
The only real problem with that is that blue side AP top has a pretty big advantage in that scenario since they're by their blue buff and the purple side top laner would have to go bot side to get it after a B. Honestly, people just have to realize if they're going to choose an AP mid first they better be ready to get counter picked, and if they see someone who can go AD mid on the other side like Fiora, Kha'zix, etc. they better either pick Cho'gath mid or something else they can win the lane with or at least not feed.
Picking most AP mids in S3 is basically like picking Fiora top in S2(or S3). You have a chance to be a big impact, but most likely you're losing your lane hard.
Also, unrelated side note but I suck so hard at Renekton. I played him top into an Elise earlier to try out the matchup, and boy oh boy that was not fun. It'd be better if her much needed Q mana nerf was in the game already, but she just went Giant's belt first and beat me to sunfire and basically just decided I no longer got to CS. I basically cost my team the game because she carried them hard she was so far ahead of the whole map. I like Renekton on paper, but the 2 or 3 times(not enough to know anything I know) I just haven't been able to make him work.
Hey, a bear can dream. I think the game would be hilarious if it was established that you had to have an assassin on each team and the best place for them was mid.
Mid would become murder bridge and both heroes would just smash into each other from level 1 onward.
I remember when Wukong was announced, I was so hype because monkeys are MY FAVORITE ANIMAL OF ALL TIME, and all these wonderful ideas and concepts in my mind about what his skill set would entail and how he would play, all trickstery with strength to back it up and such right?? He was talked about and promoted, it was gonna be awesome. I would have a new favorite champion to rival Swain, and a different role too
Somehow, they found a way to make a tricky monkey with a magical staff based on cool mythology have the most boring move set in the entire fucking game. Even back then with the older champions. Fact: I hated Irelia, hate Irelia, and always will hate Irelia and will never ever purchase her because she has a boring fucking moveset while being really good. Wukongs, somehow, is more boring -- and back then, he was simply mediocre. At the time of his release, he was a terrible jungler. How can you make a solo top character that is A TRICKY MONKEY bad at being in the FUCKIN JUNGLE. Currently, the champion that I am supposed to be in love with the most is the one I hate the most. He is Irelia. He is boring, he is amazing. HE DOESN'T EVEN REALLY MAKE MONKEY NOISES
His passive is more armor and magic resistance. His Q is an auto attack reset with armor pen. He's got an E dash gap closer that cleaves and gives an auto attack steroid. His W, the most interesting thing about him, is no where near as cool as most other abilities in the game used to juke or drop target. His R is Garenspin augmented by a Janna Tornado. With that in mind, watch this video released a while back shortly before he came out:
The man in this video should be punched in the nuts every day of his miserable life.
Fuck Wukong forever.
I feel you. I really wanted Vollibear to be a reckoning of death and destruction, but alas, he is merely a hungry and tired bear. At least his Ws hurt.
Having said that with this new habit of lane-swapping bot and top to shove and kill towers couldn't blue team (who have blue close to top) swap into having a wave clearing AP like Lux top?
So the meta could be:
Top: Blue Ap, purple duo lane
Mid: murder bridge
bot: blue duo lane, purple AP
Jungle: whoever people think is good jungling right now.
Though I doubt that'd stick too long because:
a) AP's that can wave clear, farm under tower and do so from a range that's safe against an aggressive duo lane might be pretty limited
b) the reason people swap is to get a gold advantage before swapping back down. Having wave clear top would defeat the purpose.
c) if you guess wrong some top champions could have your AP for breakfast).
Why are dudes at IEM wearing three sets of headphones?
Most players wear ear buds for the game sounds/voice comms, then cover them with noise cancelling headphones. The headset around the neck is just a convenient way to support the microphone. I'm actually surprised nobody has made a noise cancelling headset yet. I suppose that wouldn't be practical outside of a competitive environment though.
Well that makes sense, thanks. All that shit on my head would drive me crazy though.
Should wear a couple hats, some glasses and a balaclava for good measure!
so you are like an anti-hero instead of a true villain. I can appreciate it
on that note, zed and thresh are two champions that I've recently picked up since I've started playing again -- I stopped around the time Nautilus was released -- and they are basically my "ideal" sort of champions. Abilities that can be used in more than one way, with a lot of cool tricks you can do and a lot of ways to fuck it up. they are both really fuckin fun.
I've decided I need to change the way I play. I thought I just was better at Support and ADC, but I've realized I'm better at those because I only play 1-2 champs for them, versus the other roles where I switch champs around a lot. Like after 5-6 games straight in a row with Jungle Udyr, my jungling is waaaaaaaay better than it used to me. I'm actually enjoying it now. And after playing a lot of TF in mid, I started loving mid. Then I tried Kat mid and failed teribly. I think I really just need to settle on 1-2 champs for each role and really just learn the shit out of them instead of switching around and trying new combinations, or trying to counter play too much. I can easily get 1 per role, I'm still working on the second
I think I'm settling on something like:
Top: Jax or ?(Lee Sin or Xin Zhao maybe?)
Mid: TF or ?(Annie maybe?... Morde? DIana?)
ADC: Ez or Sivir(Sivir may change since I've wanted to get Graves and just can't afford him. Also I do like Corki)
Support: TARIC OR TARIC(or Janna)
Jungle: Udyr or Cho
I've decided I need to change the way I play. I thought I just was better at Support and ADC, but I've realized I'm better at those because I only play 1-2 champs for them, versus the other roles where I switch champs around a lot. Like after 5-6 games straight in a row with Jungle Udyr, my jungling is waaaaaaaay better than it used to me. I'm actually enjoying it now. And after playing a lot of TF in mid, I started loving mid. Then I tried Kat mid and failed teribly. I think I really just need to settle on 1-2 champs for each role and really just learn the shit out of them instead of switching around and trying new combinations, or trying to counter play too much. I can easily get 1 per role, I'm still working on the second
I think I'm settling on something like:
Top: Jax or ?(Lee Sin or Xin Zhao maybe?)
Mid: TF or ?(Annie maybe?... Morde? DIana?)
ADC: Ez or Sivir(Sivir may change since I've wanted to get Graves and just can't afford him. Also I do like Corki)
Support: TARIC OR TARIC(or Janna)
Jungle: Udyr or Cho
Yeah it's waaaay better to just concentrate on a couple per role if you want to get better and be more versatile to fill out team spots. you'll understand more about their weaknesses and strengths. also lets you deal with bans better.
the idea that "omg they picked x ap mid, y ap mid counters him so hard and even though i've literally never played them INSTANT PICK LOCK IN VICTORY" is a terrible one
I've decided I need to change the way I play. I thought I just was better at Support and ADC, but I've realized I'm better at those because I only play 1-2 champs for them, versus the other roles where I switch champs around a lot. Like after 5-6 games straight in a row with Jungle Udyr, my jungling is waaaaaaaay better than it used to me. I'm actually enjoying it now. And after playing a lot of TF in mid, I started loving mid. Then I tried Kat mid and failed teribly. I think I really just need to settle on 1-2 champs for each role and really just learn the shit out of them instead of switching around and trying new combinations, or trying to counter play too much. I can easily get 1 per role, I'm still working on the second
I think I'm settling on something like:
Top: Jax or ?(Lee Sin or Xin Zhao maybe?)
Mid: TF or ?(Annie maybe?... Morde? DIana?)
ADC: Ez or Sivir(Sivir may change since I've wanted to get Graves and just can't afford him. Also I do like Corki)
Support: TARIC OR TARIC(or Janna)
Jungle: Udyr or Cho
Yeah it's waaaay better to just concentrate on a couple per role if you want to get better and be more versatile to fill out team spots. you'll understand more about their weaknesses and strengths. also lets you deal with bans better.
the idea that "omg they picked x ap mid, y ap mid counters him so hard and even though i've literally never played them INSTANT PICK LOCK IN VICTORY" is a terrible one
Kat tanky top Voyboy style is so fun. I just stomped an AD Kayle top in ranked with it. First item Sunfire cape. Second item Warmog's. My base damage is still high. GG. I got sorcs, guise, and abyssal for pen, then a deathcap when I was hella fed.
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So after a long time struggling in ranked jungle I think I've somewhat learned a formula that will overcome some issues.
1) Play Nocturne - He's tanky, he can initiate, he can carry, he does good damage to the enemy and provides CC. He's a great ganker.
2) Shit all over one lane - I think many of my failings come from assuming that "Hey, I gave that person a kill, first blood, they should be able to win that lane now" and then they just don't. Just murder the fuck out of one lane. It gets one of their people way behind, and gets you and that laner way up. The hard part is just knowing which lane.
I mean, it's too hard or unreliable to attempt to carry your way out of the jungle with someone like Riven who just brings that one thing to the table. Or similarly, as Maokai, who brings some great stuff to the table but only if your team is capable of realizing "oh I should kill that AD Carry while the Maokai is CCing him."
I wish Amumu or Malphite weren't also permabanned. They both do a surprising amount of damage while being tanky. Malphite actually doesn't do that much damage, he's more just like an enormous rocky DoT. You can't escape and he'll just keep smacking you upside the head until you die. But it works.
Edit: I am also very serious about what I said last night about learning Shaco.
Every time they release a champ, the oldest 6300 drops to 4800; every third release a 4800 or lower champ will be dropped into a lower IP price.
Like Thresh's release lowered Yorick and Udyr's price, next release Leona goes to 4800.
You my fine fellow, just saved me 1500ip. I was going to buy Leona, but now that I know it's only a few weeks ill maybe pick up lee sin and wait for the price drop.
So after a long time struggling in ranked jungle I think I've somewhat learned a formula that will overcome some issues.
1) Play Nocturne - He's tanky, he can initiate, he can carry, he does good damage to the enemy and provides CC. He's a great ganker.
2) Shit all over one lane - I think many of my failings come from assuming that "Hey, I gave that person a kill, first blood, they should be able to win that lane now" and then they just don't. Just murder the fuck out of one lane. It gets one of their people way behind, and gets you and that laner way up. The hard part is just knowing which lane.
I mean, it's too hard or unreliable to attempt to carry your way out of the jungle with someone like Riven who just brings that one thing to the table. Or similarly, as Maokai, who brings some great stuff to the table but only if your team is capable of realizing "oh I should kill that AD Carry while the Maokai is CCing him."
I wish Amumu or Malphite weren't also permabanned. They both do a surprising amount of damage while being tanky. Malphite actually doesn't do that much damage, he's more just like an enormous rocky DoT. You can't escape and he'll just keep smacking you upside the head until you die. But it works.
Edit: I am also very serious about what I said last night about learning Shaco.
good luck getting malph thru bans, though you should be able to get mummy through, it's just that he's so damn susceptible to counter-jungling that you really need to know how to prepare for it.
I've come to agree with @Varega that the biggest problem most people have is paying attention to what's going on. It drives me crazy when I'm rolling Taric, stun someone, go in and explode and my ADC is hanging out failing at last hitting the large minion instead of the should-be-dead stunee. If you root someone as Mao, you have to pray that someone is going to follow up on your initiation. There are a lot of champs that you may be good with, very viable champs, but just don't work in soloq. I like to play Galio, but to expect everyone to drop their cooldowns on the people in my ult is too big of a gamble in soloq. SHit, they have trouble following the dotted line and pink fuzzy booted guy running at the person they need to click on.
If you're comfortable with Nocturne as Jungler, roll him as much as you can. With the currently stupidly broken build on AP Kayle, she's a fantastic jungler for the current state of the game (apparently stuff is patching right NOW), gives you a heal to help yourself and others sustain, has an amazing Ult that generally let's you save someone who got themselves into a very uncomfortable place, like the back of a Volkswagon. Did I mention the stupidly broken build? Yeh, learn that and mangle people before they fix it (and it does need fixing).
As for rolling a lane, I've taken to trying to figure out who the bads are on both teams, ruthlessly exploit theirs and try to minimize damage from yours.
I just first picked Singed in a normal since ranked was disabled. My team is raging on me because the other guy counter picks with Teemo. I tell them "If he doesn't know how to play Teemo it won't matter."
Fast forward, and I utterly dominate top lane. One of those games where they try to 5 man gank me top just because they know they'd have to to get me. This Teemo spent the first few levels running from me and letting me CS for free instead of winning the part of the laning phase Teemo must win to beat Singed, which is levels 1-5. Singed is just so fun to play. Once you hit 4500 HP and what not you're just like oh it's a team fight, I'll tower dive past 2 or 3 towers to flip you again, np.
You need to laugh as you are diving turrets. Really drive it home that nothing they do matters.
Also, even the 'counters' to Singed mean jack and shit, you just shove the lane as hard and as fast as you can and go back if you have to. Do not sit and get poked, just farm and gtfo if you have to.
I was up against a Vlad the other day and aggressively pushed from level 2 onwards. He could put a ton of hurt on me, but I just wouldn't stick around.
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It'd be hilarious if the by mid way through the season all the AP mids moved top so the assassins could fight it out mid, then by the end of the season we wound up back where we are now.
Yes I finally see the light!
I need to play more Annie jungle.
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The only real problem with that is that blue side AP top has a pretty big advantage in that scenario since they're by their blue buff and the purple side top laner would have to go bot side to get it after a B. Honestly, people just have to realize if they're going to choose an AP mid first they better be ready to get counter picked, and if they see someone who can go AD mid on the other side like Fiora, Kha'zix, etc. they better either pick Cho'gath mid or something else they can win the lane with or at least not feed.
Picking most AP mids in S3 is basically like picking Fiora top in S2(or S3). You have a chance to be a big impact, but most likely you're losing your lane hard.
Also, unrelated side note but I suck so hard at Renekton. I played him top into an Elise earlier to try out the matchup, and boy oh boy that was not fun. It'd be better if her much needed Q mana nerf was in the game already, but she just went Giant's belt first and beat me to sunfire and basically just decided I no longer got to CS. I basically cost my team the game because she carried them hard she was so far ahead of the whole map. I like Renekton on paper, but the 2 or 3 times(not enough to know anything I know) I just haven't been able to make him work.
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Renekton is a perfectly fine champ, he's just match-up based. His damage falling off late-game is greatly exaggerated.
This is because Elise is insane against a lot of top laners. Especially people who aren't super mobile and don't have ranged poke.
ughhh my soul
Prepare for rage mode.
I remember when Wukong was announced, I was so hype because monkeys are MY FAVORITE ANIMAL OF ALL TIME, and all these wonderful ideas and concepts in my mind about what his skill set would entail and how he would play, all trickstery with strength to back it up and such right?? He was talked about and promoted, it was gonna be awesome. I would have a new favorite champion to rival Swain, and a different role too
Somehow, they found a way to make a tricky monkey with a magical staff based on cool mythology have the most boring move set in the entire fucking game. Even back then with the older champions. Fact: I hated Irelia, hate Irelia, and always will hate Irelia and will never ever purchase her because she has a boring fucking moveset while being really good. Wukongs, somehow, is more boring -- and back then, he was simply mediocre. At the time of his release, he was a terrible jungler. How can you make a solo top character that is A TRICKY MONKEY bad at being in the FUCKIN JUNGLE. Currently, the champion that I am supposed to be in love with the most is the one I hate the most. He is Irelia. He is boring, he is amazing. HE DOESN'T EVEN REALLY MAKE MONKEY NOISES
His passive is more armor and magic resistance. His Q is an auto attack reset with armor pen. He's got an E dash gap closer that cleaves and gives an auto attack steroid. His W, the most interesting thing about him, is no where near as cool as most other abilities in the game used to juke or drop target. His R is Garenspin augmented by a Janna Tornado. With that in mind, watch this video released a while back shortly before he came out:
The man in this video should be punched in the nuts every day of his miserable life.
Fuck Wukong forever.
It's like I'm really in Season 1!
Most players wear ear buds for the game sounds/voice comms, then cover them with noise cancelling headphones. The headset around the neck is just a convenient way to support the microphone. I'm actually surprised nobody has made a noise cancelling headset yet. I suppose that wouldn't be practical outside of a competitive environment though.
Hey, a bear can dream. I think the game would be hilarious if it was established that you had to have an assassin on each team and the best place for them was mid.
Mid would become murder bridge and both heroes would just smash into each other from level 1 onward.
I feel you. I really wanted Vollibear to be a reckoning of death and destruction, but alas, he is merely a hungry and tired bear. At least his Ws hurt.
Having said that with this new habit of lane-swapping bot and top to shove and kill towers couldn't blue team (who have blue close to top) swap into having a wave clearing AP like Lux top?
So the meta could be:
Top: Blue Ap, purple duo lane
Mid: murder bridge
bot: blue duo lane, purple AP
Jungle: whoever people think is good jungling right now.
Though I doubt that'd stick too long because:
a) AP's that can wave clear, farm under tower and do so from a range that's safe against an aggressive duo lane might be pretty limited
b) the reason people swap is to get a gold advantage before swapping back down. Having wave clear top would defeat the purpose.
c) if you guess wrong some top champions could have your AP for breakfast).
Well that makes sense, thanks. All that shit on my head would drive me crazy though.
Should wear a couple hats, some glasses and a balaclava for good measure!
Because not all of them have the neck set.
day 1 still play him always play him
Sampsen's mom plays Irelia.
on that note, zed and thresh are two champions that I've recently picked up since I've started playing again -- I stopped around the time Nautilus was released -- and they are basically my "ideal" sort of champions. Abilities that can be used in more than one way, with a lot of cool tricks you can do and a lot of ways to fuck it up. they are both really fuckin fun.
(fuck wukong)
I agree Geth. It's creepy.
so literal hitler
I think I'm settling on something like:
Mid: TF or ?(Annie maybe?... Morde? DIana?)
ADC: Ez or Sivir(Sivir may change since I've wanted to get Graves and just can't afford him. Also I do like Corki)
Support: TARIC OR TARIC(or Janna)
Jungle: Udyr or Cho
Yeah it's waaaay better to just concentrate on a couple per role if you want to get better and be more versatile to fill out team spots. you'll understand more about their weaknesses and strengths. also lets you deal with bans better.
the idea that "omg they picked x ap mid, y ap mid counters him so hard and even though i've literally never played them INSTANT PICK LOCK IN VICTORY" is a terrible one
lux actually beats everyone though, so,
I will not master Thresh myself though
A support player is not entitled to the sweat of his brow
You should check out some of the pro supports on their streams. They love him and there have already been some sick plays in action
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1) Play Nocturne - He's tanky, he can initiate, he can carry, he does good damage to the enemy and provides CC. He's a great ganker.
2) Shit all over one lane - I think many of my failings come from assuming that "Hey, I gave that person a kill, first blood, they should be able to win that lane now" and then they just don't. Just murder the fuck out of one lane. It gets one of their people way behind, and gets you and that laner way up. The hard part is just knowing which lane.
I mean, it's too hard or unreliable to attempt to carry your way out of the jungle with someone like Riven who just brings that one thing to the table. Or similarly, as Maokai, who brings some great stuff to the table but only if your team is capable of realizing "oh I should kill that AD Carry while the Maokai is CCing him."
I wish Amumu or Malphite weren't also permabanned. They both do a surprising amount of damage while being tanky. Malphite actually doesn't do that much damage, he's more just like an enormous rocky DoT. You can't escape and he'll just keep smacking you upside the head until you die. But it works.
Edit: I am also very serious about what I said last night about learning Shaco.
You my fine fellow, just saved me 1500ip. I was going to buy Leona, but now that I know it's only a few weeks ill maybe pick up lee sin and wait for the price drop.
good luck getting malph thru bans, though you should be able to get mummy through, it's just that he's so damn susceptible to counter-jungling that you really need to know how to prepare for it.
I've come to agree with @Varega that the biggest problem most people have is paying attention to what's going on. It drives me crazy when I'm rolling Taric, stun someone, go in and explode and my ADC is hanging out failing at last hitting the large minion instead of the should-be-dead stunee. If you root someone as Mao, you have to pray that someone is going to follow up on your initiation. There are a lot of champs that you may be good with, very viable champs, but just don't work in soloq. I like to play Galio, but to expect everyone to drop their cooldowns on the people in my ult is too big of a gamble in soloq. SHit, they have trouble following the dotted line and pink fuzzy booted guy running at the person they need to click on.
If you're comfortable with Nocturne as Jungler, roll him as much as you can. With the currently stupidly broken build on AP Kayle, she's a fantastic jungler for the current state of the game (apparently stuff is patching right NOW), gives you a heal to help yourself and others sustain, has an amazing Ult that generally let's you save someone who got themselves into a very uncomfortable place, like the back of a Volkswagon. Did I mention the stupidly broken build? Yeh, learn that and mangle people before they fix it (and it does need fixing).
As for rolling a lane, I've taken to trying to figure out who the bads are on both teams, ruthlessly exploit theirs and try to minimize damage from yours.
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Fast forward, and I utterly dominate top lane. One of those games where they try to 5 man gank me top just because they know they'd have to to get me. This Teemo spent the first few levels running from me and letting me CS for free instead of winning the part of the laning phase Teemo must win to beat Singed, which is levels 1-5. Singed is just so fun to play. Once you hit 4500 HP and what not you're just like oh it's a team fight, I'll tower dive past 2 or 3 towers to flip you again, np.
Also, even the 'counters' to Singed mean jack and shit, you just shove the lane as hard and as fast as you can and go back if you have to. Do not sit and get poked, just farm and gtfo if you have to.
I was up against a Vlad the other day and aggressively pushed from level 2 onwards. He could put a ton of hurt on me, but I just wouldn't stick around.