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[League of Legends] Our Final Boss is not the biggest bad

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    I should try vi out again, I didn't do well with her when I tried before. Could one of you fine folks give me a tl;dr of her? Like, skill order/general build?

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  • WhiteSharkWhiteShark Registered User regular
    Raslin wrote: »
    I should try vi out again, I didn't do well with her when I tried before. Could one of you fine folks give me a tl;dr of her? Like, skill order/general build?

    levels 1-3 you go E W Q, then you max it in reverse of that (Q W E)

    build a spirit of the elder lizard then either tank or brut/triforce if you're super fed (like, suuuper fed)

    you probs want mobies or merc treads

  • SpectrumSpectrum Archer of Inferno Chaldea Rec RoomRegistered User regular
    Raslin wrote: »
    I should try vi out again, I didn't do well with her when I tried before. Could one of you fine folks give me a tl;dr of her? Like, skill order/general build?
    WhiteShark wrote: »
    Raslin wrote: »
    I should try vi out again, I didn't do well with her when I tried before. Could one of you fine folks give me a tl;dr of her? Like, skill order/general build?

    levels 1-3 you go E W Q, then you max it in reverse of that (Q W E)

    build a spirit of the elder lizard then either tank or brut/triforce if you're super fed (like, suuuper fed)

    you probs want mobies or merc treads
    If you get a good leash do WE instead for level 1-2, you'll clear it faster. If you have to solo it or you're going to get a bad leash, do EW. After that, I do R > Q > E > W. Getting the base cooldown on E from 14->8 leveling it second gives you a better shot at getting more charges off across a fight and increases your burst as well.

    Items wise, 100% agree with WhiteShark. Spirit of the Elder Lizard, Merc's, then decision time.

    If fed, Triforce. If still fed, consider Hexdrinker. Then get your tank.
    If not fed, get your tank. Randuin's+Locket+BV is a pretty good combo on her IME.
    If in between, Hexdrinker then tank is a reasonable compromise.

    Vi will fall off a little bit come late game if you're not retardo fed still, so parlay your early strength by just crushing people in mid game and take objectives. If you did go full tank, though, it gives you safety to initiate for your team, just make sure not to go too deep where they can't support you, even if you are really tanky.

    The main things about her are abusing alternate gank paths by going through the Dragon/Baron walls during laning, being able to hit full charge Vaultbreakers for that megadamage, and knowing in what situations to ult (ult immediately vs hold it for after their disengages and how to ult to catch multiple people with the secondary damage and so on).

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    Thank you guys!

    Also, I remain convinced that lulu top is still the easiest champion to be carried on. Do well? Kill everyone. Do poorly? Be a support with lots of gold :p

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  • GoumindongGoumindong Registered User regular
    I played Vel'koz for the first time tonight. Support, ranked.

    I maxed w then e because I was going for team fight damage and utility and built cdr and pen. It probably caused my harass to be a bit weaker than it should have. I picked into what I thought was an Ali top lane (ended up being support)

    An early eve gank (entirely my fault I did not see her leave mid after she was covering for akali and we (Ashe velkoz) were super pushed against Ali/vayne.

    After that Ali just demolished Ashe and we died a good bit. But in team fights oh my god did our team turn things around (also our udyr solo'd dragon twice while we all died).

    Big skirmish mid, we each get one kill and they try to turn it into a teamfight. We are kiting back and I get a 4 man e. Two seconds later my ult comes up. Oh my god so much power. It just feels so right.

    We won off of picks I created (and our Nid being great). Felt super good. Ended 7/4/12

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  • Moridin889Moridin889 Registered User regular
    I just tried playing Alistar top. Triforce shiv, Sunfire etc

    Fuck that guy. Seriously

    Most damage on team, most damage taken, I just pushed towers like nothing, and that headbutt -> auto bit is silly.

    As much as I don't want it to happen, there are probably nerfs incoming.

  • LilleDjevelLilleDjevel Registered User regular
    Goumindong wrote: »
    I played Vel'koz for the first time tonight. Support, ranked.

    I maxed w then e because I was going for team fight damage and utility and built cdr and pen. It probably caused my harass to be a bit weaker than it should have. I picked into what I thought was an Ali top lane (ended up being support)

    An early eve gank (entirely my fault I did not see her leave mid after she was covering for akali and we (Ashe velkoz) were super pushed against Ali/vayne.

    After that Ali just demolished Ashe and we died a good bit. But in team fights oh my god did our team turn things around (also our udyr solo'd dragon twice while we all died).

    Big skirmish mid, we each get one kill and they try to turn it into a teamfight. We are kiting back and I get a 4 man e. Two seconds later my ult comes up. Oh my god so much power. It just feels so right.

    We won off of picks I created (and our Nid being great). Felt super good. Ended 7/4/12

    If you get good on landing his Qs and max QE you can give your adc a free lane since you can pritty much kill everything yourself.

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    'til there's Fire in the Sky...

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  • Vic_HazardVic_Hazard Registered User regular
    edited August 2014
    I just started ranked again and it really is a game of who breaks first. Objectives don't really matter as much as the minds of the players, every single pub game comes down to which team tilts first.

    Like an inflammatory comment aimed at someone who lost their lane is more damaging to the team then losing dragon or 3 deaths.

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  • PenumbraPenumbra Registered User regular
    I picked up Renekton over the weekend. Despite my very first game with him in team builder going in with my AP setup, every other game has been fun. I think I've found my go-to top laner.

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  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    Vic_Hazard wrote: »
    I just started ranked again and it really is a game of who breaks first. Objectives don't really matter as much as the minds of the players, every single pub game comes down to which team tilts first.

    Like an inflammatory comment aimed at someone who lost their lane is more damaging to the team then losing dragon or 3 deaths.

    It doesn't help that the community seems a whole lot worse now that summer's here. At least the last dozen pub games I've been in have all had at least one abusive player on my team.

  • dasnoobdasnoob ArkansasRegistered User regular
    We almost won a 3v5. I was trist and ended the game 21-7-something. We had 10 or so more kills than the other team when the game ended at 55 minutes. Just couldn't overcome the numbers. :(

  • RozRoz Boss of InternetRegistered User regular
    I've never had this happen to me before.

    Last night I was playing jax and carrying hard for my team.

    Then my teammates deliberately stole not one, but TWO penta kills from me in the same game. Like, I'm beating on a guy and have the last hit coming in for the penta and Syndra ults the guy.

    It's ok Syndra, I forgive you.

    Then 5 minutes later. We're doing baron, they come to contest, I get the quadra and there's morg just running away. I flash her binding and I start to wail on her, then Jinx rocket ult into her for the kill.

    I've never left a ranked game in my life, and I shamefully admit I was sorely tempted this game. We obviously went on to win, but man was I salty. (Not in game to my teammates, just in my head).

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  • SpectrumSpectrum Archer of Inferno Chaldea Rec RoomRegistered User regular
    Roz wrote: »
    I've never had this happen to me before.

    Last night I was playing jax and carrying hard for my team.

    Then my teammates deliberately stole not one, but TWO penta kills from me in the same game. Like, I'm beating on a guy and have the last hit coming in for the penta and Syndra ults the guy.

    It's ok Syndra, I forgive you.

    Then 5 minutes later. We're doing baron, they come to contest, I get the quadra and there's morg just running away. I flash her binding and I start to wail on her, then Jinx rocket ult into her for the kill.

    I've never left a ranked game in my life, and I shamefully admit I was sorely tempted this game. We obviously went on to win, but man was I salty. (Not in game to my teammates, just in my head).
    If it makes you feel any better, I've literally never had a penta and quadras are extraordinarily rare.

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  • pawa24pawa24 Registered User regular
    My only penta came from Yi on ARAM. However I have a lot of Triples on 3s.
    Does that count? Lol

  • lazegamerlazegamer Registered User regular
    Kill stealing (or pentakill stealing in this case) doesn't bother me in the slightest. It's individual recognition for what was a team effort anyway.

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Goumindong wrote: »
    I am actually morello i just never told anyone till now

    get him

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  • surrealitychecksurrealitycheck lonely, but not unloved dreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered User regular
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  • Joe KJoe K Registered User regular
    Roz wrote: »
    I've never had this happen to me before.

    Last night I was playing jax and carrying hard for my team.

    Then my teammates deliberately stole not one, but TWO penta kills from me in the same game. Like, I'm beating on a guy and have the last hit coming in for the penta and Syndra ults the guy.

    It's ok Syndra, I forgive you.

    Then 5 minutes later. We're doing baron, they come to contest, I get the quadra and there's morg just running away. I flash her binding and I start to wail on her, then Jinx rocket ult into her for the kill.

    I've never left a ranked game in my life, and I shamefully admit I was sorely tempted this game. We obviously went on to win, but man was I salty. (Not in game to my teammates, just in my head).

    The only pentakills I have are Zombie Pentas, and they dont count since dieing technically breaks teh streak

  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    lazegamer wrote: »
    Kill stealing (or pentakill stealing in this case) doesn't bother me in the slightest. It's individual recognition for what was a team effort anyway.

    Yeah, unless you had zero assists on all 5 it really means nothing. I say this with the haughty authority of someone who got their only penta by crowstorming into the end of a teamfight.

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  • RendRend Registered User regular
    I got one penta in ARAM as AP Yi and one penta as caitlyn in maybe the only game I've ever done well in as an ADC.

    I'm not sure if I deserved the cait one so much as the enemy deserved to get penta'd by me, because I really am a god-awful ADC. But I got it, and I was very happy.

    When I got my Yi penta I was shouting over voice "IT'S ALL SKILL" over and over and over.

  • TalithTalith 変態という名の紳士 Miami, FLRegistered User regular
    Rend wrote: »
    the enemy deserved to get penta'd

    This right here rings true way too often. "What the hell was that engagement?" is what I'll end up thinking after someone gets caught out and then their team streams into the grinder instead of cutting their losses and defending something easier to hold.

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  • RozRoz Boss of InternetRegistered User regular
    It not about deserved or not deserved. It's about people deliberately being dicks and preventing a teammate who was carrying them from getting an awesome personal AND team achievement.

    Of course penta kills are a team effort, I totally pump the fist every time I can help deliver a Penta kill for a teammate. But having two teammates deliberately troll me was the point of that story.

    Maybe I should have included this part of the chat.

    "Jinx :("

    "Fuck Jax"

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  • LoserForHireXLoserForHireX Philosopher King The AcademyRegistered User regular
    Roz wrote: »
    It not about deserved or not deserved. It's about people deliberately being dicks and preventing a teammate who was carrying them from getting an awesome personal AND team achievement.

    Of course penta kills are a team effort, I totally pump the fist every time I can help deliver a Penta kill for a teammate. But having two teammates deliberately troll me was the point of that story.

    Maybe I should have included this part of the chat.

    "Jinx :("

    "Fuck Jax"

    Well, I mean, she has a point

    Fuck Jax.

    But not Roz.

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  • RozRoz Boss of InternetRegistered User regular
    edited August 2014
    My general line of thought is not to troll my teammates. It is especially true when they are carrying my feeding ass and I desperately need them to win the game.

    I can't wait till the summer is over, this shit gets so tired game after game. I mean that was basically a giant "Fuck you for playing a hero I don't like."

    Which blows my mind.

    Roz on
  • AuralynxAuralynx Darkness is a perspective Watching the ego workRegistered User regular
    I was so close to going an entire game without dying as Xerath. Not that I can really complain otherwise.

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    not gonna lie if someone quit a game i was in for not getting a penta i would think they were the biggest loser

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  • DemonStaceyDemonStacey TTODewback's Daughter In love with the TaySwayRegistered User regular
    People getting pentas stolen makes me laugh every time.

    Every damn time.

    Mr Fuzzbutt
  • RozRoz Boss of InternetRegistered User regular
    not gonna lie if someone quit a game i was in for not getting a penta i would think they were the biggest loser

    I'm pretty sure you wouldn't do what this jinx did, and then basically say "Fuck you for picking that hero"

    You're better than that.

  • CyrenicCyrenic Registered User regular
    If someone is about to get a penta on my team I will dive tower or fountain to try and help them get it.

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    My only penta I was semi afk hitting an inhibitor with Morde and the ghost did all the work I guess all I know is I heard "Pentakill!" and saw it was me that got it.

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  • GoumindongGoumindong Registered User regular
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    My only penta I was semi afk hitting an inhibitor with Morde and the ghost did all the work I guess all I know is I heard "Pentakill!" and saw it was me that got it.

    I feel like, if morse gets a ghost pentakill it really should award it to the other teams ADC. They did all the farming work, and the getting caught by a short range no CC champion.

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  • TalithTalith 変態という名の紳士 Miami, FLRegistered User regular
    Goumindong wrote: »
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    My only penta I was semi afk hitting an inhibitor with Morde and the ghost did all the work I guess all I know is I heard "Pentakill!" and saw it was me that got it.

    I feel like, if morse gets a ghost pentakill it really should award it to the other teams ADC. They did all the farming work, and the getting caught by a short range no CC champion.

    That would be such a painful insult to the marksman.

    Perhaps they get shared credit, I mean Morde had to put in some effort getting into deathfire + ult range.

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  • MrGrimoireMrGrimoire Pixflare Registered User regular
    Holy shit, top lane 4 Doran's Blade into full AD Rengar is absolutely bullshit. Gonna ride this freelo train, CHU CHU!

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    So what are we building jungle WW these days? I've been building tanky life steal to try to make up for the glass cannon teams in being put on. Is a full out ad/as build any good?

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  • GoumindongGoumindong Registered User regular
    Tanky life steal is ideal for ww on any team.

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  • imdointhisimdointhis I should actually stop doin' this. Registered User regular
    MrGrimoire wrote: »
    Holy shit, top lane 4 Doran's Blade into full AD Rengar is absolutely bullshit. Gonna ride this freelo train, CHU CHU!

    uh. tell me more.

  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    imdointhis wrote: »
    MrGrimoire wrote: »
    Holy shit, top lane 4 Doran's Blade into full AD Rengar is absolutely bullshit. Gonna ride this freelo train, CHU CHU!

    uh. tell me more.

    here's the official guide
    http://www.solomid.net/guide/view/126536-rengar-build-guide-fighter-by-ryanchoi

    also kuchera wrote a pretty even-handed article about lol's monetization model
    http://www.polygon.com/2014/8/11/5991115/league-of-legends-riot-monetization

  • Joe KJoe K Registered User regular
    Goumindong wrote: »
    Tanky life steal is ideal for ww on any team.

    seems like ardent censer might be perfect for ww.

  • LilleDjevelLilleDjevel Registered User regular
    WW now? FF and bork for main damage, and then just go the tank items you need the most.

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  • Mr FuzzbuttMr Fuzzbutt Registered User regular
    Gotta earn those pentas.

    If it gets stolen then you didn't earn it.

    Yes I stole someone's penta last night, what of it?

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