Anybody here willing to ranked duo queue? I'm only only bronze 3 but I'm looking to mitigate the amount of jerkstores I have to play with. IGN is Waldenator.
I too am bronze iii and wanting to duo q with someone...after work tonight.
That swap was fluid as fuck and I was really proud of it. Got a blue and shroomed the mid area so much...
That game went well. I made some errors as usual ( never finished my boots!) but we had a couple of great engages, including one at dragon that was awesome and a complex super fun one to take their last top tower, where guardian angel actually saved me for the first time ever.
Not even joking, this Lux spent the last 10 minutes of this game claiming I was KSing her. She got a double kill at the very end but she was 2/7 at the time of said complaining when I already had 15 kills on Jinx. Honestly, I'm not sure the last time I heard someone complain about KSing in silver 1-gold 3 MMR. Lol.
Jinx is so funny. I never expect to win lanes with a Janna support, just go even at best, and we just crushed them.
Been on a mostly unstoppable winning streak with Vi. 9-1 in recent games.
The -1 really made me look forward to Season 4, however. Our Support (not a bad player but not great) wasn't interested in playing "vision war baby command" and built actual items. The other support built basically nothing except vision wards and oracles.
As you might guess, this meant our team had no map control and lost towers and dragons constantly.
Now the support didn't cost us the game, per se (I didn't do particularly well, top was un-savable garbage, mid somehow managed to lose lane as Fizz v. Lux even with my ganks, and bot wasn't able to win lane despite "half-support half-damage" Zyra), but not having a 100% ward monkey meant the game went from "rough, but maybe salvageable" to "completely unwinnable."
And what should I say? "Hey, you, Support who is doing an OK job in fights and building items and generally trying to CC for your ADC, STOP DOING THAT AT ONCE AND JUST BUILD A SHITLOAD OF WARDS!" In retrospect, I should've taken that mantle myself, but that's a waste of itemization for a jungler and also not very entertaining for me.
Yeah, that's good advice for winning the game, but I sure as hell don't want my entire game experience to be "sightstone, wards, maybe boots if really fed." I appreciate when other people play that role, but I don't feel fair forcing it on them. Season 4 can't come fast enough.
Regardless, other games all went super well. Good Leona support makes jungle Vi an absolute pleasure. "Why, yes, Leona, I would be delighted if the enemy ADC stood still for 2-4 seconds. What's that? They flashed away from your Zenith Blade? That's fine, with all your effort you still deserve to hit your Q, let me give you a hand fist with that."
Forced into mid for one game (what fucking world am I in where I'm forced out of jungle and in to mid?) Surprised more people don't play Cho. Is he hard-countered by something I'm not familiar with? He doesn't dive super well, but one good Q can shut down a dive, and one good Q and a good W can turn a dive into an embarassing mistake. He also giggles at assassins. Why is he so rare, what am I missing?
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Not even joking, this Lux spent the last 10 minutes of this game claiming I was KSing her. She got a double kill at the very end but she was 2/7 at the time of said complaining when I already had 15 kills on Jinx. Honestly, I'm not sure the last time I heard someone complain about KSing in silver 1-gold 3 MMR. Lol.
Jinx is so funny. I never expect to win lanes with a Janna support, just go even at best, and we just crushed them.
Sometimes I feel a little bad as Vi if I flash + E on an early gank to guarantee a kill. Will that last tick of ignite kill them? Not sure, but not going to risk it, dead is dead.
Even then, I only feel bad in the sense that I might have wasted resources. Dead is dead, I'll gladly feed kills to the ADC if I can, but anyone who bitches about "killstealing" better be talking about a flash WW / Garen ult onto a 5% health Teemo (who has no escape spells up and is AFK and does no damage). I've seen far too many champions escape certain death with 5-50 HP to give up anything except a completely certain, 100% guaranteed, no possible escape kill.
Complaining about an ADC stealing kills though? WTF Lux.
B3 is such a crap shoot. I feel like the only way to move up is to put a team together. There's just so much trolling and raging. I'm just sitting here doing my thing, playing smart, while some clown shoe is off feeding Fizz. Ugh.
I can't recommend duo-queuing enough.
Firstly, it means that the percentage of your team who could be a rager/afker/asshole just dropped by 20%.
Secondly, you have someone to trade advice with. I main ADC and my duoQ partner mains Jungle so if he goes for a gank and I'm too slow to react, he can say "you need to move faster on that next time". Likewise, I can tell him "you chased too far for the kill there; everyone was missing" without either of us dealing with "omg noob uninstall wtf 9x".
Thirdly, if someone DOES start raging etc, you have two people to say "it's ok, we can win this. We just need to stay together/splitpush/defend and farm" (delete as appropriate).
Unless the person you're playing with is straight-up terrible, or a rager themself, I can think of no reason to not do it.
Having someone spectate you or watch a vod with you is so much better.
I hate duo queues. When you duo queue matchmaking will compensate by inflating your combined elo, placing you in a game slightly out of your league and therefore placing a performance burden on your pubbies, or giving you pubbies out of their league and making you have to carry them.
There is nothing more frustrating than getting that duo queue that are clearly out of their league but think since they duo queued they are hot shit and then blame everyone else for their not knowing how to play the game god damn I was getting this all day today fffggfhhhsjdbdbguoobbrccjwkbbhb
Ahh, so that's you won't Duo queue with me
No Roz, I worry you will steal my honey reserves. Bearscrimination.
Don't get me wrong, I love the aphro and i'd love to see ahpro in the LCS. However as an ADC. I wish CLG would stop picking up 'players with potential' and just start picking players who main their fucking roles. You're a TSM fan anyways, WHY DO YOU CARE.
Don't get me wrong, I love the aphro and i'd love to see ahpro in the LCS. However as an ADC. I wish CLG would stop picking up 'players with potential' and just start picking players who main their fucking roles. You're a TSM fan anyways, WHY DO YOU CARE.
Not even joking, this Lux spent the last 10 minutes of this game claiming I was KSing her. She got a double kill at the very end but she was 2/7 at the time of said complaining when I already had 15 kills on Jinx. Honestly, I'm not sure the last time I heard someone complain about KSing in silver 1-gold 3 MMR. Lol.
Jinx is so funny. I never expect to win lanes with a Janna support, just go even at best, and we just crushed them.
Sometimes I feel a little bad as Vi if I flash + E on an early gank to guarantee a kill. Will that last tick of ignite kill them? Not sure, but not going to risk it, dead is dead.
Even then, I only feel bad in the sense that I might have wasted resources. Dead is dead, I'll gladly feed kills to the ADC if I can, but anyone who bitches about "killstealing" better be talking about a flash WW / Garen ult onto a 5% health Teemo (who has no escape spells up and is AFK and does no damage). I've seen far too many champions escape certain death with 5-50 HP to give up anything except a completely certain, 100% guaranteed, no possible escape kill.
Complaining about an ADC stealing kills though? WTF Lux.
Since it was ranked and I didn't want him/her to afk, I was like "Lux, I'm really not trying to steal anything, I'm just very fed and my auto attacks hit very hard so I can't keep from killing people." =P It was a bit of that DST in action.
Is that how you would build a carry Leona? I often get her in ARAM (I have a tiny champion pool) and then wonder what to build if I feel like going damage (usually I do the right thing and tank for my team. But not always).
Something with sheen, obviously, but maybe Triforce+Iceborne Gauntlet? And then something else with CDR? But then you have two sheens and I don't know how they interact. Why would Wit's End be good?
I guess I don't even know whether to build AP or AD on her. So confused.
She is decent with AP because she actually has a 2.0 full combo AP ratio and decent base damages*. But generally you're going to want Hydra and Triforce. Trifroce for burst , hydra to abuse her W bonus stats.
Tanky AP/Pen and Tanky Triforce also work.
E.G. Lux combo damage is at level 16+
1000 + 2.05 AP + Auto attack procs
Leona Combo Damage is
930+1.9 AP [990 at level 19] plus bonus ally damage.
Season 4 for me is going to be Lich Bane Sona in every single game
It's going to be great
I love love LOVE getting Sona on ARAM just for that. Start with a chalice, and boots. By the time I've finish the Pimp Ensemble (hat, cane, & cup), she is a floating poke / sustain machine.
Why would you build Hat and Cup on Sona?
You start Tear, then get Seraphs, Lichbane, -> Full Penetration
Final build is
Seraphs, Lichbane, Sorc, Guise, Void, THEN you buy deathcap.
Is that how you would build a carry Leona? I often get her in ARAM (I have a tiny champion pool) and then wonder what to build if I feel like going damage (usually I do the right thing and tank for my team. But not always).
Something with sheen, obviously, but maybe Triforce+Iceborne Gauntlet? And then something else with CDR? But then you have two sheens and I don't know how they interact. Why would Wit's End be good?
I guess I don't even know whether to build AP or AD on her. So confused.
She is decent with AP because she actually has a 2.0 full combo AP ratio and decent base damages*. But generally you're going to want Hydra and Triforce. Trifroce for burst , hydra to abuse her W bonus stats.
Tanky AP/Pen and Tanky Triforce also work.
E.G. Lux combo damage is at level 16+
1000 + 2.05 AP + Auto attack procs
Leona Combo Damage is
930+1.9 AP [990 at level 19] plus bonus ally damage.
Season 4 for me is going to be Lich Bane Sona in every single game
It's going to be great
I love love LOVE getting Sona on ARAM just for that. Start with a chalice, and boots. By the time I've finish the Pimp Ensemble (hat, cane, & cup), she is a floating poke / sustain machine.
Why would you build Hat and Cup on Sona?
You start Tear, then get Seraphs, Lichbane, -> Full Penetration
Final build is
Seraphs, Lichbane, Sorc, Guise, Void, THEN you buy deathcap.
Mostly because my understanding of item goals is my weakest part of understanding of LoL. I have an incredibly limited understanding of what items are good and when they're good. Until very recently, I was buying a philo stone on AP Janna, despite never upgrading to the item it builds to.
Some of the new items being talked about sound interesting
Martyr's Call:
+300 health
+10 health regen per 5
Unique Active: Consume 20% of your current health to give 10% of your max health as a shield to target ally.
I can buy Philosopher's Pebble, a 375 gold support starting item that gives gold when an ally kills a minion, upgrade it into Philosopher's Stone (850g total) and finally transform it into Shurelia's Reverie.
However, if I own Philosopher's Pebble, I can't buy Executioner's Emblem or Spellthief's Blade.
Once you pick up Shurelia's Reverie (which now grants passive gp/5 and the bonus gold on minion death) you cannot start a Spellthief's Blade.
We originally did not have this limit. Then Madlife and H4ckerv2 came to the office and broke the game by having more gold than any other champion in the game by min-maxing the support items.
Twin Shadows no longer builds out of Kage's Pick. As a result it has had its price adjusted (slightly reduced I think, but I won't promise that remains if it remains strong)
Philosopher's Stone, Kage's Pick and Emblem of Valor have been removed as a component from all items in the game that do not grant alternate gold income. We've replaced those components with ones we felt was appropriate. E.g. Will of the Ancients now builds from a Blasting Wand + Hextech Revolver.
So, Tear of the Goddess on Pantheon or just build anything with "AD" on it and don't give a fuck?
Because I assume tanky Pantheon is not a thing?
Tanky Pantheon CAN be a thing, but it's not a thing you necessarily see a lot. As a tank, he has CC, and his abilities scale well with AD and he gets free crit on low targets. So it's not like it's horrible. However, if you rush full tank you're nothing but a stun bot. Need to have some damage first.
B3 is such a crap shoot. I feel like the only way to move up is to put a team together. There's just so much trolling and raging. I'm just sitting here doing my thing, playing smart, while some clown shoe is off feeding Fizz. Ugh.
I can't recommend duo-queuing enough.
Firstly, it means that the percentage of your team who could be a rager/afker/asshole just dropped by 20%.
Secondly, you have someone to trade advice with. I main ADC and my duoQ partner mains Jungle so if he goes for a gank and I'm too slow to react, he can say "you need to move faster on that next time". Likewise, I can tell him "you chased too far for the kill there; everyone was missing" without either of us dealing with "omg noob uninstall wtf 9x".
Thirdly, if someone DOES start raging etc, you have two people to say "it's ok, we can win this. We just need to stay together/splitpush/defend and farm" (delete as appropriate).
Unless the person you're playing with is straight-up terrible, or a rager themself, I can think of no reason to not do it.
Having someone spectate you or watch a vod with you is so much better.
I hate duo queues. When you duo queue matchmaking will compensate by inflating your combined elo, placing you in a game slightly out of your league and therefore placing a performance burden on your pubbies, or giving you pubbies out of their league and making you have to carry them.
There is nothing more frustrating than getting that duo queue that are clearly out of their league but think since they duo queued they are hot shit and then blame everyone else for their not knowing how to play the game god damn I was getting this all day today fffggfhhhsjdbdbguoobbrccjwkbbhb
Ahh, so that's you won't Duo queue with me
No Roz, I worry you will steal my honey reserves. Bearscrimination.
BTW
GIS bearscrimination and you get this:
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A simple change makes the image even better.
This is not awesome
wtf you guys?!
fak u roz no one has a spray bottle behind glass for u
Not even joking, this Lux spent the last 10 minutes of this game claiming I was KSing her. She got a double kill at the very end but she was 2/7 at the time of said complaining when I already had 15 kills on Jinx. Honestly, I'm not sure the last time I heard someone complain about KSing in silver 1-gold 3 MMR. Lol.
Jinx is so funny. I never expect to win lanes with a Janna support, just go even at best, and we just crushed them.
I actually heard this a couple of times while playing the last few nights. Both times my ADC was complaining about having a Janna support. Claiming "She doesn't do anything". Even after the second time I got a clutch shield and ult to save the over aggressive Jinx. She still bitched at me for choosing Janna.
I mean, I get that Janna isn't Leona, going all in ery' day. But damn.
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Yep. Nasus, Graves, basically all the yordles, gragas, janna, nid, shaco, taric, udyr and zil.
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That swap was fluid as fuck and I was really proud of it. Got a blue and shroomed the mid area so much...
That game went well. I made some errors as usual ( never finished my boots!) but we had a couple of great engages, including one at dragon that was awesome and a complex super fun one to take their last top tower, where guardian angel actually saved me for the first time ever.
Not even joking, this Lux spent the last 10 minutes of this game claiming I was KSing her. She got a double kill at the very end but she was 2/7 at the time of said complaining when I already had 15 kills on Jinx. Honestly, I'm not sure the last time I heard someone complain about KSing in silver 1-gold 3 MMR. Lol.
Jinx is so funny. I never expect to win lanes with a Janna support, just go even at best, and we just crushed them.
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Lux is a Disney princess she is high on life.
Brolaf smokes sometimes but he prefers the kegstand.
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The -1 really made me look forward to Season 4, however. Our Support (not a bad player but not great) wasn't interested in playing "vision war baby command" and built actual items. The other support built basically nothing except vision wards and oracles.
As you might guess, this meant our team had no map control and lost towers and dragons constantly.
Now the support didn't cost us the game, per se (I didn't do particularly well, top was un-savable garbage, mid somehow managed to lose lane as Fizz v. Lux even with my ganks, and bot wasn't able to win lane despite "half-support half-damage" Zyra), but not having a 100% ward monkey meant the game went from "rough, but maybe salvageable" to "completely unwinnable."
And what should I say? "Hey, you, Support who is doing an OK job in fights and building items and generally trying to CC for your ADC, STOP DOING THAT AT ONCE AND JUST BUILD A SHITLOAD OF WARDS!" In retrospect, I should've taken that mantle myself, but that's a waste of itemization for a jungler and also not very entertaining for me.
Yeah, that's good advice for winning the game, but I sure as hell don't want my entire game experience to be "sightstone, wards, maybe boots if really fed." I appreciate when other people play that role, but I don't feel fair forcing it on them. Season 4 can't come fast enough.
Regardless, other games all went super well. Good Leona support makes jungle Vi an absolute pleasure. "Why, yes, Leona, I would be delighted if the enemy ADC stood still for 2-4 seconds. What's that? They flashed away from your Zenith Blade? That's fine, with all your effort you still deserve to hit your Q, let me give you a hand fist with that."
Forced into mid for one game (what fucking world am I in where I'm forced out of jungle and in to mid?) Surprised more people don't play Cho. Is he hard-countered by something I'm not familiar with? He doesn't dive super well, but one good Q can shut down a dive, and one good Q and a good W can turn a dive into an embarassing mistake. He also giggles at assassins. Why is he so rare, what am I missing?
Sometimes I feel a little bad as Vi if I flash + E on an early gank to guarantee a kill. Will that last tick of ignite kill them? Not sure, but not going to risk it, dead is dead.
Even then, I only feel bad in the sense that I might have wasted resources. Dead is dead, I'll gladly feed kills to the ADC if I can, but anyone who bitches about "killstealing" better be talking about a flash WW / Garen ult onto a 5% health Teemo (who has no escape spells up and is AFK and does no damage). I've seen far too many champions escape certain death with 5-50 HP to give up anything except a completely certain, 100% guaranteed, no possible escape kill.
Complaining about an ADC stealing kills though? WTF Lux.
So do a lot of LCS players.
This is not awesome
wtf you guys?!
Don't get me wrong, I love the aphro and i'd love to see ahpro in the LCS. However as an ADC. I wish CLG would stop picking up 'players with potential' and just start picking players who main their fucking roles. You're a TSM fan anyways, WHY DO YOU CARE.
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CLG Krepo EG plz
oh, b1 promos. i hear 5th times a charm
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Since it was ranked and I didn't want him/her to afk, I was like "Lux, I'm really not trying to steal anything, I'm just very fed and my auto attacks hit very hard so I can't keep from killing people." =P It was a bit of that DST in action.
She is decent with AP because she actually has a 2.0 full combo AP ratio and decent base damages*. But generally you're going to want Hydra and Triforce. Trifroce for burst , hydra to abuse her W bonus stats.
Tanky AP/Pen and Tanky Triforce also work.
E.G. Lux combo damage is at level 16+
1000 + 2.05 AP + Auto attack procs
Leona Combo Damage is
930+1.9 AP [990 at level 19] plus bonus ally damage.
Why would you build Hat and Cup on Sona?
You start Tear, then get Seraphs, Lichbane, -> Full Penetration
Final build is
Seraphs, Lichbane, Sorc, Guise, Void, THEN you buy deathcap.
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Mostly because my understanding of item goals is my weakest part of understanding of LoL. I have an incredibly limited understanding of what items are good and when they're good. Until very recently, I was buying a philo stone on AP Janna, despite never upgrading to the item it builds to.
LEE SIN SUPPORT WILL BE A THING
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST
Because I assume tanky Pantheon is not a thing?
It's already a thing and it's fucking obnoxious
Lee Sin support poops on Blitzcrank.
Kind of niche good against Twitch.
Overall pretty bad but when it works....
Tanky Pantheon CAN be a thing, but it's not a thing you necessarily see a lot. As a tank, he has CC, and his abilities scale well with AD and he gets free crit on low targets. So it's not like it's horrible. However, if you rush full tank you're nothing but a stun bot. Need to have some damage first.
fak u roz no one has a spray bottle behind glass for u
u dont know tru pain
if it's going right, they murder you a lot before 6
if it's going wrong, he farts around and does nothing and then you have a squishy weak lee sin to pick on the rest of the game
I actually heard this a couple of times while playing the last few nights. Both times my ADC was complaining about having a Janna support. Claiming "She doesn't do anything". Even after the second time I got a clutch shield and ult to save the over aggressive Jinx. She still bitched at me for choosing Janna.
I mean, I get that Janna isn't Leona, going all in ery' day. But damn.
Translation: Janna doesn't heal me often enough when I make mistakes in lane