hey does anyone remember that guy who was convinced they nerfed the distance lux's lazer traveled and would not listen to anyone who suggested otherwise
that just sprang the memory of that guy back in my mind and that was funny
Some time spent on ascension playing skillshot champs will sort that right out.
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Hey uh...
Is support Gangplank a thing?
I just had a game involving a guy who announced his intention to troll at champ select, 3 junglers kind of game. I had 0 LP having just been promoted, and didn't want to eat a timer, so I said fuck it, what's to lose, thinking they'd dodge before the timer. They didn't.
...We almost won? I was playing support Gangplank with smite and rushed a shiv? Cait and I won our lane fairly decisively vs. Lucian/Kayle?
Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
I just had a game involving a guy who announced his intention to troll at champ select, 3 junglers kind of game. I had 0 LP having just been promoted, and didn't want to eat a timer, so I said fuck it, what's to lose, thinking they'd dodge before the timer. They didn't.
...We almost won? I was playing support Gangplank with smite and rushed a shiv? Cait and I won our lane fairly decisively vs. Lucian/Kayle?
He has fair amount of soft utility, but he's so gold-hungry. And an aggressive duo should be able to smash him up early.
I just had a game involving a guy who announced his intention to troll at champ select, 3 junglers kind of game. I had 0 LP having just been promoted, and didn't want to eat a timer, so I said fuck it, what's to lose, thinking they'd dodge before the timer. They didn't.
...We almost won? I was playing support Gangplank with smite and rushed a shiv? Cait and I won our lane fairly decisively vs. Lucian/Kayle?
He has fair amount of soft utility, but he's so gold-hungry. And an aggressive duo should be able to smash him up early.
I'm thinking Pickpocket+Spellthief and go to town. I want to say Parley should proc Pickpocket?
I've played a lot of support Gangplank in previous seasons. He works, and in certain circumstances he works very well.
His Q harass is the main thing he's got going for him. Unless the enemy support has a lot of healing power, he can very easily force the enemy marksman out of lane by himself. His W is incredible for bodyblocking CC. His E's nice enough for utility and his R gives him global presence to get his assist streak up. His main problems are a lack of hard CC and no real way to protect his own marksman.
I usually built him tanky with a Zeke's Herald, Shiv's expensive for a support.
We made videos! Art assets! A whole game mode! Retconned several champions! Spent 2 minutes in-between tequila shots to write the epilogue on a cocktail napkin!
You jest, but it's all too true.
I would have written some shit like that back when I was in 9th grade the night before the assignment was due because "lol, not important enough to actually spend time on in the month I had the assignment".
I could most assuredly pad it out some more and make it read better with details added, but it still wouldn't be on par with what some of the other truly gifted scribes in this forum could write, but we all seem to have an eye for what is good and not goodpaltry garbage that you wouldn't even shove in a Mr. Fusion.
What's really stupid about it is that it's a summary not an epilogue.
Here's a shitty epilogue for the event.
The shining city stood again, new after a thousand years. No citizens walked its streets, just shades of sand. Azir looked towards the horizon. His city would live again, his empire would stretch across the continent once more. The sun would never set upon his kingdom again.
Sivir left the city behind, sparing a single glance back, "Better to die rich than rule as a pauper."
The fix that Riot needs to implement is in how they matchmake teams.
I would kill to see them sort out climbing players from the promo series players.
If Riot can boast such high numbers and claim that nobody plays their other modes, then people in a promo series should only be queued up with other players in a promo series, but only taken from the same division that person is in or the division directly above or below them. So, S3 in promo for S2 will only get queued with S2, S3, or S4 players also in a promo series to go up a division.
When you're in a promo series, there's more pressure to win the best-of series. When people aren't in a promo series, there's less stress on winning because the lost LP doesn't set you back much other than having to win it back, but people in a promo series (assuming they lost it) have to fight back into the promo series and then fight through the best-of again.
I'm happy to hear an angle I hadn't thought of, but nothing is coming to mind that would clearly inhibit the success of dividing it up.
Ah, another ranked game in which everything, including every misplay, is my fault because I'm the support and I'm not spending 100% of my income being everyone else's bitch.
The best part is, against a team whose CC is almost all short duration, Mikael's is somehow an appropriate buy. In gold. It would be one thing if they had long CC, but when tenacity will bring everything <1 sec, Mikaels is going to be a waste of gold. But apparently the Ezreal adc (who never really poked at all, despite that being the sole fucking reason to take Ezreal to lane, and resulted in me dying because my entire income was predicated on him playing like an Ezreal instead of passive farming from max range to where even if I landed a bubble it broke before he could do anything) thinks it's a must buy in every team comp ever.
I'm sorry, but you are not an LCS player and you are not going to slip out with Arcane Shift (which, FYI, has a fucking cast time and you will eat another CC and come out of it stunned) off a clutch Mikaels in between a 5-stun combo from half the enemy team.
You are not god's gift to the game, and the sooner you stop acting like it the sooner you might realize that there is more to laning adc than last hitting, and that there is more to support than being your personal bitch.
I am ashamed. The joke initially flew right over my head and I only figured it out like 15 minutes later while playing a different game.
I still don't get it...sort of embarrassed to ask but can someone explain?
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I would be very surprised if trist didn't see nerfs after this tournament. I could see nami getting a love tap as well as a decent hit to syndra's ultimate.
I am ashamed. The joke initially flew right over my head and I only figured it out like 15 minutes later while playing a different game.
I still don't get it...sort of embarrassed to ask but can someone explain?
One of Lulu's lines on moving is "Tastes like purple!" - she apparently has synesthesia and enjoys it.
Ohhhhh yeah since I play a lot of Lulu that really should have occurred to me.
Have you tried skipping?
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It's not a statistical sample, but my current league has 5 people in promos out of 80. That's 1/16... that might be enough to derail matchmaking some.
And remember that there are several different titled divisions. There's more than one Silver 2, more than one Bronze 4, more than one Gold 1. There are different champion-titled divisions, and that makes for a lot of different places to match up people for division promos. My words fail me, and I don't know how else to classify the champion-themed divisions, but I was meaning to have all people of a numbered metal (regardless of champion divide) in a promo series be matched with other players also in promos in either the same numbered metal, one above, or one below.
Alternatively, depending on how much you take at face value, saving face during HSGG's housecleaning.
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I dunno the guy got a better job elsewhere and will still be working with CLG.
If the organization was going through a restructuring, I feel like they wouldn't start at the manager and also would not give a shit about covering up what they were doing given their recent struggles.
It's not a statistical sample, but my current league has 5 people in promos out of 80. That's 1/16... that might be enough to derail matchmaking some.
And remember that there are several different titled divisions. There's more than one Silver 2, more than one Bronze 4, more than one Gold 1. There are different champion-titled divisions, and that makes for a lot of different places to match up people for division promos. My words fail me, and I don't know how else to classify the champion-themed divisions, but I was meaning to have all people of a numbered metal (regardless of champion divide) in a promo series be matched with other players also in promos in either the same numbered metal, one above, or one below.
I think his point was that only 1/16 of the people in his division are up for promos. If that were representational, that would mean the potential pool of people you could be playing against is somewhere around 6% what it was before. Even less actually, since you only want it to be people within a division of you. This might not be a huge problem in the high pop divisions (Bronze through low Gold) but above that (and in non-peak hours) you would have, like, high-level-Dominion-ish queue times. And nobody deserves that.
Besides a queue full of people on edge because they're all in promos is exactly the last thing I would have any interest in playing through.
It's not a statistical sample, but my current league has 5 people in promos out of 80. That's 1/16... that might be enough to derail matchmaking some.
And remember that there are several different titled divisions. There's more than one Silver 2, more than one Bronze 4, more than one Gold 1. There are different champion-titled divisions, and that makes for a lot of different places to match up people for division promos. My words fail me, and I don't know how else to classify the champion-themed divisions, but I was meaning to have all people of a numbered metal (regardless of champion divide) in a promo series be matched with other players also in promos in either the same numbered metal, one above, or one below.
I think his point was that only 1/16 of the people in his division are up for promos. If that were representational, that would mean the potential pool of people you could be playing against is somewhere around 6% what it was before. Even less actually, since you only want it to be people within a division of you. This might not be a huge problem in the high pop divisions (Bronze through low Gold) but above that (and in non-peak hours) you would have, like, high-level-Dominion-ish queue times. And nobody deserves that.
Besides a queue full of people on edge because they're all in promos is exactly the last thing I would have any interest in playing through.
On the flip side, I don't want to be queued up with somebody not in promos who doesn't care about trying to win because they aren't in promos and will just regain any lost LP in their next match while I get put in a tighter vice to win the rest of my series. You're guaranteed one of these people every other game, and when a person is in promos, that's frequent enough to keep them from progressing to where their skill should be truly valued.
It's one thing to learn from your mistakes, but after placements, Riot is going to make you continue playing with people who are making the mistakes you learned not to make, and your skill assessment (elo) won't truly reflect your advancement because the rest of your team is holding you back.
It doesn't always happen, but it's a problem enough to make the current system not work as well as it could if they used proper resources to make their own system. Riot put less time into creating a ranked system than they did for everything Dominion-related.
Wait.. Harg, are you arguing that your teams are holding you back and stopping you from winning?
That's a very, very bad attitude to take, and it's holding you back, not your teammates. You need to play better and earn a better division, it isn't owed to you because you think you are better than everyone else in the game. Go prove it.
For me personally, the way I've gone from B1 at the start of the season to S2 as of tonight, is making sure I'm not the problem.
Getting out of Bronze was as simple as not losing my lane, and not dying enough to feed. Going through silver I've been focusing on not being toxic, and playing to mitigate the poor play of those around me.
To measure my own success and improve personally I've been watching my kill participation, checking where I died when I did, and making sure that I'm always placing more wards than my opposite member. I tend to play support so I try to out ward the enemy support, but when I'm ADC or another position I still try to buy more pinks and use my trinkets more often than the enemy ADC.
Being in promotion games is still a zero sum effect on your chance of winning, as the try-hards and feeders are going to be on both sides randomly. I got carried one of my latest promo games, and tried to be as helpful as I could to expedite the carry (an insane Anivia mid who crushed lane and roamed hard). The next game all my lanes lost and I wasn't able to find a way to win late game. Both things happen, but as long as I'm not the problem the system works in my favor.
When I'm the problem or having a bad game roughly 20% of the time, it usually means I'm at the right elo, even if it means someone else on my team is having a bad game every time I'm not.
Its only when I've improved enough to not be the problem 100% of the time that I start advancing.
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I don't remember it being changed, but there are quite a few undocumented and "tooltip fixes" these days...
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hey does anyone remember that guy who was convinced they nerfed the distance lux's lazer traveled and would not listen to anyone who suggested otherwise
that just sprang the memory of that guy back in my mind and that was funny
Is support Gangplank a thing?
I just had a game involving a guy who announced his intention to troll at champ select, 3 junglers kind of game. I had 0 LP having just been promoted, and didn't want to eat a timer, so I said fuck it, what's to lose, thinking they'd dodge before the timer. They didn't.
...We almost won? I was playing support Gangplank with smite and rushed a shiv? Cait and I won our lane fairly decisively vs. Lucian/Kayle?
I assume you two went Nelson Muntz on the lane.
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Flash and The Other One?
He has fair amount of soft utility, but he's so gold-hungry. And an aggressive duo should be able to smash him up early.
I'm thinking Pickpocket+Spellthief and go to town. I want to say Parley should proc Pickpocket?
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I've played a lot of support Gangplank in previous seasons. He works, and in certain circumstances he works very well.
His Q harass is the main thing he's got going for him. Unless the enemy support has a lot of healing power, he can very easily force the enemy marksman out of lane by himself. His W is incredible for bodyblocking CC. His E's nice enough for utility and his R gives him global presence to get his assist streak up. His main problems are a lack of hard CC and no real way to protect his own marksman.
I usually built him tanky with a Zeke's Herald, Shiv's expensive for a support.
What's really stupid about it is that it's a summary not an epilogue.
Here's a shitty epilogue for the event.
I would kill to see them sort out climbing players from the promo series players.
If Riot can boast such high numbers and claim that nobody plays their other modes, then people in a promo series should only be queued up with other players in a promo series, but only taken from the same division that person is in or the division directly above or below them. So, S3 in promo for S2 will only get queued with S2, S3, or S4 players also in a promo series to go up a division.
When you're in a promo series, there's more pressure to win the best-of series. When people aren't in a promo series, there's less stress on winning because the lost LP doesn't set you back much other than having to win it back, but people in a promo series (assuming they lost it) have to fight back into the promo series and then fight through the best-of again.
I'm happy to hear an angle I hadn't thought of, but nothing is coming to mind that would clearly inhibit the success of dividing it up.
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I love League of Legends, but seriously...screw you, Teemo.
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5v5 at our nexus and we lose 2 but kill 3
Our Ezreal is chasing Synda, both with like 1/4 hp
Now would be a good time to push mid, take the open inhib!
Chat:
stop chasing
stop chasing
stop chasing
STOP CHASING
Syndra turns around and one-shots him.
THAT'S WHY YOU STOP FUCKING CHASING
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The best part is, against a team whose CC is almost all short duration, Mikael's is somehow an appropriate buy. In gold. It would be one thing if they had long CC, but when tenacity will bring everything <1 sec, Mikaels is going to be a waste of gold. But apparently the Ezreal adc (who never really poked at all, despite that being the sole fucking reason to take Ezreal to lane, and resulted in me dying because my entire income was predicated on him playing like an Ezreal instead of passive farming from max range to where even if I landed a bubble it broke before he could do anything) thinks it's a must buy in every team comp ever.
I'm sorry, but you are not an LCS player and you are not going to slip out with Arcane Shift (which, FYI, has a fucking cast time and you will eat another CC and come out of it stunned) off a clutch Mikaels in between a 5-stun combo from half the enemy team.
You are not god's gift to the game, and the sooner you stop acting like it the sooner you might realize that there is more to laning adc than last hitting, and that there is more to support than being your personal bitch.
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I still don't get it...sort of embarrassed to ask but can someone explain?
If they nerf zed again I will be devastated.
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Ohhhhh yeah since I play a lot of Lulu that really should have occurred to me.
Have you tried skipping?
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
And remember that there are several different titled divisions. There's more than one Silver 2, more than one Bronze 4, more than one Gold 1. There are different champion-titled divisions, and that makes for a lot of different places to match up people for division promos. My words fail me, and I don't know how else to classify the champion-themed divisions, but I was meaning to have all people of a numbered metal (regardless of champion divide) in a promo series be matched with other players also in promos in either the same numbered metal, one above, or one below.
Yelling at butts will never NOT be funny. Thanks, Psy!
Also, Abby is awesome. Keep up with TLH because it's the tits!
I love League of Legends, but seriously...screw you, Teemo.
Just don't stare a tulip in the eye.
Yelling at butts will never NOT be funny. Thanks, Psy!
Also, Abby is awesome. Keep up with TLH because it's the tits!
I love League of Legends, but seriously...screw you, Teemo.
http://blog.ibuypower.com/blog/2014/09/22/kelbys-personal-statement-leaving-clg-joining-goodgame/
Kelby stepping down as CLG's General Manager
Alternatively, depending on how much you take at face value, saving face during HSGG's housecleaning.
If the organization was going through a restructuring, I feel like they wouldn't start at the manager and also would not give a shit about covering up what they were doing given their recent struggles.
I think his point was that only 1/16 of the people in his division are up for promos. If that were representational, that would mean the potential pool of people you could be playing against is somewhere around 6% what it was before. Even less actually, since you only want it to be people within a division of you. This might not be a huge problem in the high pop divisions (Bronze through low Gold) but above that (and in non-peak hours) you would have, like, high-level-Dominion-ish queue times. And nobody deserves that.
Besides a queue full of people on edge because they're all in promos is exactly the last thing I would have any interest in playing through.
On the flip side, I don't want to be queued up with somebody not in promos who doesn't care about trying to win because they aren't in promos and will just regain any lost LP in their next match while I get put in a tighter vice to win the rest of my series. You're guaranteed one of these people every other game, and when a person is in promos, that's frequent enough to keep them from progressing to where their skill should be truly valued.
It's one thing to learn from your mistakes, but after placements, Riot is going to make you continue playing with people who are making the mistakes you learned not to make, and your skill assessment (elo) won't truly reflect your advancement because the rest of your team is holding you back.
It doesn't always happen, but it's a problem enough to make the current system not work as well as it could if they used proper resources to make their own system. Riot put less time into creating a ranked system than they did for everything Dominion-related.
Yelling at butts will never NOT be funny. Thanks, Psy!
Also, Abby is awesome. Keep up with TLH because it's the tits!
I love League of Legends, but seriously...screw you, Teemo.
That's a very, very bad attitude to take, and it's holding you back, not your teammates. You need to play better and earn a better division, it isn't owed to you because you think you are better than everyone else in the game. Go prove it.
Getting out of Bronze was as simple as not losing my lane, and not dying enough to feed. Going through silver I've been focusing on not being toxic, and playing to mitigate the poor play of those around me.
To measure my own success and improve personally I've been watching my kill participation, checking where I died when I did, and making sure that I'm always placing more wards than my opposite member. I tend to play support so I try to out ward the enemy support, but when I'm ADC or another position I still try to buy more pinks and use my trinkets more often than the enemy ADC.
Being in promotion games is still a zero sum effect on your chance of winning, as the try-hards and feeders are going to be on both sides randomly. I got carried one of my latest promo games, and tried to be as helpful as I could to expedite the carry (an insane Anivia mid who crushed lane and roamed hard). The next game all my lanes lost and I wasn't able to find a way to win late game. Both things happen, but as long as I'm not the problem the system works in my favor.
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