Tuesday night league was really fun! I should have gone ad Janna really : D
Yayyyyy
Yeah last night was a bit on the lower skill level side for games? Depending on who shows up there are a few more gold-ish players and carry threats. Probably you will never get to play support unless we're doing a game where we deliberately put stronger players on support and weaker players on a learning role elsewhere--this is a problem for Darsh (my coworker who was playing Jhin) and me as well, since he mains support, and while I didn't main supprot this season, it's probably my strongest role. But Tuesday night League will probably just never see the support Zyra carry because of how player experience and preferences work out.
I played like utter garbage the first game but somehow enjoyed myself quite a bit anyway. I'll blame my lack of judgement on lack of calories cause partway through I realized I was literally shaking (which is why I ended up dodging out of champ select by mistake at the beginning). Then I ate some food and did better for the next game, then went back to feeding vs randos
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so I tried my main karma with new runes and it felt pretty good. The guardian rune netted me a few thousand extra shields by the end. I also went ultimate hat with her since she can cast her ult at level 1, and got the maxed out ult cdr reduction really quickly
next I'll probably try and work out something for swain.
If you want my pro Zyra rune tips from 2 games at gold 5ish (1-1, S rank on both and total lane dominance on both, Vayne/Zyra into Kog/Leona, Varus/Zyra into Lucian/Leona, yes I pretty much singlehandedly wrecked a Lucian/Leona lane starting at lvl 1):
Main branch SORCERY:
Arcane Comet (significant bonus dmg on ability cast)
Manaflow Band (mana regen)
Transcendence (10% CDR lvl 10)
Scorch (additional periodic bonus dmg)
Second branch PRECISION:
Triumph (dangerous game)
Coup De Grace (more dmg to low HP champions)
Obviously since you are full dmg Zyra you max Q, as you did last season as well
I can envision taking the %HP Precision mastery instead of Coup De Grace if they have a lot of tanks and you're thinking about your teamfight AoE but I think the lane dominance aspect is too important
Plant autos do not apply scorch or comet, I think, so you have to step up a little, but you've basically had to do that anyway since they fixed the way that Zyra's plants target who she autos or spell damages
Game in general feels amazing so lethal and fresh and fast
I am so hype for the season! I genuinely love this game
Playing solo queue again cause I don't care if I get demoted
yayayayay
By the time the game was over after a good team fight I was hitting for 1k with a charged Q. Which would generally kill the person
Which charged me up again.
It's like playing Nasus, but with every jungler.
Who were you playing? Trying to think of junglers with a potentially charged Q... Ezreal, maybe?
I tried to hard carry as Nautilus jungle last night and grabbed an S+, but it wasn't enough. My other games were flailing around with champions who are kind of new to me (Ivern) or just kinda bad (Aatrox top).
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By the time the game was over after a good team fight I was hitting for 1k with a charged Q. Which would generally kill the person
Which charged me up again.
It's like playing Nasus, but with every jungler.
Who were you playing? Trying to think of junglers with a potentially charged Q... Ezreal, maybe?
I tried to hard carry as Nautilus jungle last night and grabbed an S+, but it wasn't enough. My other games were flailing around with champions who are kind of new to me (Ivern) or just kinda bad (Aatrox top).
I was running Trinity and warrior Warwick. Ended up going full damage due to stomping the team hard. Dark harvest, eyeball Hunter, the speed bounty (I'm not sure if I liked this one) and then ult reduction
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Not bad, got my free Mystery Skins from the missions, and it wasn't a bad haul. Dreadnova Gangplank, SKT Syndra, PROJECT Lucian, and Warring Kingdoms Xin Zhao. And 55k Blue Essence.
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Played Master Yi top with it and had elixirs running all the time. Free biscuits and boots and I never had to leave
But you could take lethal tempo and attack forever at the speed of light!
I tried lethal tempo on Irelia last night in a custom game. I'm guessing it scales with level, since at level 1 I barely noticed the difference with it active. It wasn't really overwhelming or underwhelming though. I was just whelmed.
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there hasn't been enough love for the predator boot enchant, which is hilarious and amazing on WW. He's a wolf built on speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.
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Kleptomancy Gangplank is the only thing worth playing in this dark and terrible world. The fact that you can just randomly get bags of gold is RIDICULOUS. This video is once again relevant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-SfsRFf7Vw
First game as MF in this new world... and I almost get a Penta. Almost got it, but the last man flashed away to safety at the last second, but it was enough for us to end up taking the game. Running around making PEWPEWPEW noises because it was so hype.
Been rolling with Sorcery/Precision, picking up Arcane Comet on the former and Bloodline on the latter for the free lifesteal. Coup de Grace seems decent as well to help finish people off with the ult.
Is there any good sources of character builds with the new systems yet, or are people still figuring things out?
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Played Master Yi top with it and had elixirs running all the time. Free biscuits and boots and I never had to leave
But you could take lethal tempo and attack forever at the speed of light!
I tried lethal tempo on Irelia last night in a custom game. I'm guessing it scales with level, since at level 1 I barely noticed the difference with it active. It wasn't really overwhelming or underwhelming though. I was just whelmed.
30-80% IAS based on level.
After having played it a bit I definitely despise the setup page for runes. If they basically just copied the masteries page it would have been better.
Kleptomancy I think is definitely going to get nerfed to either give less gold or most likely just have a cooldown. It's really annoying on Gangplank and Ezreal, as everyone's probably aware of now, because they just get shitloads of free gold and items on a very low cooldown. Maybe giving up that much offensive capability balances out but it didn't seem like it, you still get free stats constantly due to elixirs. Some of the tank masteries feel really good. Hard CC giving resists and makes you explode ended up giving me a considerable amount of damage on the one support Nautilus game I did and demolitionist winds up being a massive chunk to turrets. Moving Bond of Stone off of Keystone and onto a basic tier also feels really nice playing tanks since it means no longer giving up something based on hard crowd control to get. Mundo and Cho for example would both also want Grasp of the Undying but they can just get both and heal allies for a large amount of health over the duration of the game.
I haven't played too much but I wanna try the new Stormraider's on Tahm Kench, just eat someone and take off with them in my belly. Press the Attack or whatever it's called on Renekton is probably really good but I haven't gotten around to trying that. Nothing really strikes me as too absurd other than how annoying Kleptomancy is on edge cases. I wanna see what Hecarim looks like with the movement speed to AD/AP mastery, it's probably not as good as I hope but still not a bad thing on him.
Not having free MR just feels bad now and makes mages a lot scarier but AD mids also benefit from mages not receiving any armor and lethality receiving a slight bump to match Sorcerer's gaining a slight bump as well.
So I just lost like 5 ARAM games in a row so I decided to check what’s up
Apparently my ARAM MMR is >1600
For the record I am a terrible player and I don’t normally play solo at all
What the fuck
I guess I can never play ARAM again
Where do you find your ARAM mmr?
There are like a bajillion sites that will estimate mmr for a given lol queue. Some of those can do ARAM
This shouldn't work. MMR estimation checks based on the ranks of who you play with on the assumption that you should be relatively centered against those people.
But there is no ranking system to average in ARAM
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So I just lost like 5 ARAM games in a row so I decided to check what’s up
Apparently my ARAM MMR is >1600
For the record I am a terrible player and I don’t normally play solo at all
What the fuck
I guess I can never play ARAM again
Where do you find your ARAM mmr?
There are like a bajillion sites that will estimate mmr for a given lol queue. Some of those can do ARAM
This shouldn't work. MMR estimation checks based on the ranks of who you play with on the assumption that you should be relatively centered against those people.
But there is no ranking system to average in ARAM
You can still create your own Elo system though. That's what sites like destinytracker do since there's no in game Elo.
Just start everyone off at 1200 or whatever and run every match through the Elo formula.
Whatever site people are checking though definitely seems pretty off.
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Oh man. Scarra linked a post on twitter about people stacking black cleavers again thanks to transcendence. Iirc Zed had nearly 4K hp, max cdr and a ~500 AD.
First game as MF in this new world... and I almost get a Penta. Almost got it, but the last man flashed away to safety at the last second, but it was enough for us to end up taking the game. Running around making PEWPEWPEW noises because it was so hype.
Been rolling with Sorcery/Precision, picking up Arcane Comet on the former and Bloodline on the latter for the free lifesteal. Coup de Grace seems decent as well to help finish people off with the ult.
Is there any good sources of character builds with the new systems yet, or are people still figuring things out?
I found a site runeforgers.com (at least I think it’s that. I saved the url at home and can double check later).
Man, I forgot how great it felt just locking down someone with Leona. She seems... pretty good early-game right now. The extra damage off the passive really packs some punch now. Feels good just wrangling some guys and keeping their attention on me while my team mops up theirs. Ended up turning a game around due to it.
Not sure if I want to go Unflinching or Font of Life in Resolve, though. Unflinching seems good, but with how much snares I throw around, being able to mark the enemy team and have us heal off *my* max HP seems like it could be better. Especially since I don't have a normal heal to throw around, and since if I read it right everyone who gets hit by the ult would get marked.
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Yeah, support ranks definitely seem to be buggered. Especially if you're playing tanky supports that don't do a lot of damage. You might die a lot, soaking up damage! But you'd think it'd be worth it and the right play if it ends up wiping the enemy team and protecting your allies.
It took me forever to get one Mastery 7 token for Sona, I havn't seen another in ages.
I *did* get a A+ playing Rakan for the literal first time tonight. With Lee Sin, Katarina, Camille, and MF on the team, it was kind of crazy with all the jumping and dashes.
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Yeah last night was a bit on the lower skill level side for games? Depending on who shows up there are a few more gold-ish players and carry threats. Probably you will never get to play support unless we're doing a game where we deliberately put stronger players on support and weaker players on a learning role elsewhere--this is a problem for Darsh (my coworker who was playing Jhin) and me as well, since he mains support, and while I didn't main supprot this season, it's probably my strongest role. But Tuesday night League will probably just never see the support Zyra carry because of how player experience and preferences work out.
I played like utter garbage the first game but somehow enjoyed myself quite a bit anyway. I'll blame my lack of judgement on lack of calories cause partway through I realized I was literally shaking (which is why I ended up dodging out of champ select by mistake at the beginning). Then I ate some food and did better for the next game, then went back to feeding vs randos
it's p adorable.
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next I'll probably try and work out something for swain.
Holy shit. My ARAM MMR is 2103.
Mine is being estimated at 2070...which equates to Diamond V in ranked queues. What.
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Update:
Teemo still broken when he gets free double kills from your mid and jungle twice.
Holy shit
If you want my pro Zyra rune tips from 2 games at gold 5ish (1-1, S rank on both and total lane dominance on both, Vayne/Zyra into Kog/Leona, Varus/Zyra into Lucian/Leona, yes I pretty much singlehandedly wrecked a Lucian/Leona lane starting at lvl 1):
Main branch SORCERY:
Arcane Comet (significant bonus dmg on ability cast)
Manaflow Band (mana regen)
Transcendence (10% CDR lvl 10)
Scorch (additional periodic bonus dmg)
Second branch PRECISION:
Triumph (dangerous game)
Coup De Grace (more dmg to low HP champions)
Obviously since you are full dmg Zyra you max Q, as you did last season as well
I can envision taking the %HP Precision mastery instead of Coup De Grace if they have a lot of tanks and you're thinking about your teamfight AoE but I think the lane dominance aspect is too important
Plant autos do not apply scorch or comet, I think, so you have to step up a little, but you've basically had to do that anyway since they fixed the way that Zyra's plants target who she autos or spell damages
Game in general feels amazing so lethal and fresh and fast
I am so hype for the season! I genuinely love this game
Playing solo queue again cause I don't care if I get demoted
yayayayay
By the time the game was over after a good team fight I was hitting for 1k with a charged Q. Which would generally kill the person
Which charged me up again.
It's like playing Nasus, but with every jungler.
The new rune system is going to take a lot to figure out. The changes seem pretty good for the most part. It looks like assassins are on the rise.
Season is ended, but ranked will affect your MMR for next season.
Who were you playing? Trying to think of junglers with a potentially charged Q... Ezreal, maybe?
I tried to hard carry as Nautilus jungle last night and grabbed an S+, but it wasn't enough. My other games were flailing around with champions who are kind of new to me (Ivern) or just kinda bad (Aatrox top).
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League of Legends: Doctor Ivellius
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I was running Trinity and warrior Warwick. Ended up going full damage due to stomping the team hard. Dark harvest, eyeball Hunter, the speed bounty (I'm not sure if I liked this one) and then ult reduction
Played Master Yi top with it and had elixirs running all the time. Free biscuits and boots and I never had to leave
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I tried lethal tempo on Irelia last night in a custom game. I'm guessing it scales with level, since at level 1 I barely noticed the difference with it active. It wasn't really overwhelming or underwhelming though. I was just whelmed.
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Been rolling with Sorcery/Precision, picking up Arcane Comet on the former and Bloodline on the latter for the free lifesteal. Coup de Grace seems decent as well to help finish people off with the ult.
Is there any good sources of character builds with the new systems yet, or are people still figuring things out?
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After having played it a bit I definitely despise the setup page for runes. If they basically just copied the masteries page it would have been better.
Kleptomancy I think is definitely going to get nerfed to either give less gold or most likely just have a cooldown. It's really annoying on Gangplank and Ezreal, as everyone's probably aware of now, because they just get shitloads of free gold and items on a very low cooldown. Maybe giving up that much offensive capability balances out but it didn't seem like it, you still get free stats constantly due to elixirs. Some of the tank masteries feel really good. Hard CC giving resists and makes you explode ended up giving me a considerable amount of damage on the one support Nautilus game I did and demolitionist winds up being a massive chunk to turrets. Moving Bond of Stone off of Keystone and onto a basic tier also feels really nice playing tanks since it means no longer giving up something based on hard crowd control to get. Mundo and Cho for example would both also want Grasp of the Undying but they can just get both and heal allies for a large amount of health over the duration of the game.
I haven't played too much but I wanna try the new Stormraider's on Tahm Kench, just eat someone and take off with them in my belly. Press the Attack or whatever it's called on Renekton is probably really good but I haven't gotten around to trying that. Nothing really strikes me as too absurd other than how annoying Kleptomancy is on edge cases. I wanna see what Hecarim looks like with the movement speed to AD/AP mastery, it's probably not as good as I hope but still not a bad thing on him.
Not having free MR just feels bad now and makes mages a lot scarier but AD mids also benefit from mages not receiving any armor and lethality receiving a slight bump to match Sorcerer's gaining a slight bump as well.
This shouldn't work. MMR estimation checks based on the ranks of who you play with on the assumption that you should be relatively centered against those people.
But there is no ranking system to average in ARAM
You can still create your own Elo system though. That's what sites like destinytracker do since there's no in game Elo.
Just start everyone off at 1200 or whatever and run every match through the Elo formula.
Whatever site people are checking though definitely seems pretty off.
I found a site runeforgers.com (at least I think it’s that. I saved the url at home and can double check later).
Anyone have any input for say Akali or a kiting ADC Jungle?
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All junglers with an On hit ability like Ez/Trundle/WW should run Dark Harvest.
But the mountain of gold I have can be used on attack speed.
Not sure if I want to go Unflinching or Font of Life in Resolve, though. Unflinching seems good, but with how much snares I throw around, being able to mark the enemy team and have us heal off *my* max HP seems like it could be better. Especially since I don't have a normal heal to throw around, and since if I read it right everyone who gets hit by the ult would get marked.
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Fuck all things.
Apparently going 7/2/16 as support is only A+
But an ADC that goes 7/2/8 gets an S+
S ranks are literally impossible as jungle and support.
Fucking
Fuck
EDIT: And just to be clear, that was the ADC I supported that got the S+. Just to rub salt in the wound.
It took me forever to get one Mastery 7 token for Sona, I havn't seen another in ages.
I *did* get a A+ playing Rakan for the literal first time tonight. With Lee Sin, Katarina, Camille, and MF on the team, it was kind of crazy with all the jumping and dashes.
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