Our second ranked TT was one of the best I have ever played.
Picture my poor Blitzcrank getting first blooded under my tower. I get a revenge kill but it still stings. The enemy team's Shaco is jungling everywhere and popping out. He has gold, lots of gold. Our corpses litter the lanes, poisonous daggers stuck in rusted hinges. We start to fall back, losing tower after tower as we panic and scramble for a plan.
Our best hope lies with Karthus. He has the destructive power necessary to incinerate Shaco. But Shaco knows this and he has Karthus's number. Every fight results in a swift crumpling of robes. Shaco is always 3 steps ahead of us in more ways than one, and starts to bulk up. Every precious second that is wasted firing upon his robust clones leads to more and more deaths. With Shen and Morgana keeping off the heat it appears to be a futile endeavour to kill the beast.
We retreat to our one remaining tower, a bastion of hope still standing thanks to a constant protective storm. Scorched earth, tornadoes and bolts of lightning keep the monsters at bay. They dared not stray too close, for a swift grab to our orbital laser ensured a quick death. We weathered the barrage with no real hope of pulling through.
After what seemed like days had passed but was actually merely an hour, something miraculous, something incredible happened. It seemed I had underestimated my champion. Not content with being merely hard to kill, Blitzcrank's fists now hit with his full weight behind them. His rage at being bested by these miserable humans burst forth into unimaginable fury. No force could stop him, he had become Godlike. They had no choice but to die.
Here is a screenshot.
The game lasted 62 minutes. I was simply amazed at how I could suddenly take on their team and simply not give a fuck. Uppercuts hitting for 800 damage on a 3 second cooldown were pretty damn amazing. I have been having good games with Blitz lately but I wasn't sure of his viability. I'm now convinced he is a really solid underrated champ.
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BethrynUnhappiness is MandatoryRegistered Userregular
Tree was definitely a little influenced by Day 9 in the way he casts, he even has some of the same mannerisms, ways he points out correct and incorrect moves. I mean if you aren't watching Tree for his commentary than you probably should watch hotshot on mute.
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Liquid GhostDO YOU HEAR THE VOICES, TOO?!Registered Userregular
edited January 2011
Sorry for coming in and idling in Vent for ages. I tried getting this other microphone to work, then gave up after about thirty minutes. I muted my sound, forgetting that I was even in the chat, and cranked some Amon Amarth through my new subwoofer while trying out Singed. My thunderous footsteps shook the ground like drums of war and I claimed the spines of my enemies as trophies to buy my passage into Valhalla.
I had so much gold that I could have stacked each coin on top of one another and climbed my way to the fucking moon.
Picture my poor Blitzcrank getting first blooded under my tower. I get a revenge kill but it still stings. The enemy team's Shaco is jungling everywhere and popping out. He has gold, lots of gold. Our corpses litter the lanes, poisonous daggers stuck in rusted hinges. We start to fall back, losing tower after tower as we panic and scramble for a plan.
Our best hope lies with Karthus. He has the destructive power necessary to incinerate Shaco. But Shaco knows this and he has Karthus's number. Every fight results in a swift crumpling of robes. Shaco is always 3 steps ahead of us in more ways than one, and starts to bulk up. Every precious second that is wasted firing upon his robust clones leads to more and more deaths. With Shen and Morgana keeping off the heat it appears to be a futile endeavour to kill the beast.
We retreat to our one remaining tower, a bastion of hope still standing thanks to a constant protective storm. Scorched earth, tornadoes and bolts of lightning keep the monsters at bay. They dared not stray too close, for a swift grab to our orbital laser ensured a quick death. We weathered the barrage with no real hope of pulling through.
After what seemed like days had passed but was actually merely an hour, something miraculous, something incredible happened. It seemed I had underestimated my champion. Not content with being merely hard to kill, Blitzcrank's fists now hit with his full weight behind them. His rage at being bested by these miserable humans burst forth into unimaginable fury. No force could stop him, he had become Godlike. They had no choice but to die.
Blitz has arguably the highest rapidly repeatable burst damage in the game.
From the look of things, you'd have won a lot sooner if your Karthus had let you get a minion kill occasionally. :P
and your ult? holy shit get 40% cdr and you have a semi spammable mega nuke/silence
Yup. DFG/Lichbane/AP is just beautiful. Grab someone, DFG them, and Power Fist them for the rest of their health.
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Liquid GhostDO YOU HEAR THE VOICES, TOO?!Registered Userregular
edited January 2011
They were remarkably tough to crack at their base. It took us ages to break through, but we eventually just grabbed the Baron buff, formed up at the final lane turret in mid, and proceeded to go buck fucking wild on anything that moved. I was suplexing people like a stomping mad Steve Williams. Blood and gore splattered the ground and I ripped Katarina's ass clear off of her body for later use.
Scientific use.
EDIT: I barely even read what I was replying to and even then, I failed to quote the post that I didn't understand.
It's time to put down LoL and relax with some delicious orange juice.
SpectrumArcher of InfernoChaldea Rec RoomRegistered Userregular
edited January 2011
I should note that the Janna build I suggested is somewhat gimmicky
It works best in a constant pressure/push team, take Flash for safety and Clarity for constant tornadoes destroying waves and plink towers down
Farm AP to stay ahead of creep HP
That said, if you want a real/actually more generally useful Janna build, level her shield to max instead, build Nashor's and Malady and hybrid carry. Get your cooldown max with Nashor's and that way you can give it away half the time and still keep close to 100% uptime on yourself to deeps.
Ugh.. I hate the "you're not fucusing X hero! That's why we lost!" argument. Dude. Fiddles isn't actually IN the fight. It's not like he leads the charge. He waits until the fight already started and then he ults in, mass silences, and fears. What the fuck do you want us to do, walk past their entire team hoping to run into fiddle?
I sometimes feel Blitz is OP, and I worry he'll get nerfed
i know.
In the right hands...holy crap can he carry a game. I main nasus and he is basically the one champ that makes me shudder with fear during the lane phase. Anyone else I can handle, but with blitz you just never know when he'll get a hook off, burst you, and his lane buddy will go to town.
In other news, I just can't break my losing streak as of late, keep getting stuck with shitty pug teams. Even though I'm playing pretty well, it's simply not enough to win games. Had a game tonight with a ryze lane buddy, he keeps getting boned by a Sion/Lux double stun combo and yells at me for playing too conservative. Issues a surrender when the game starts to go south, it doesn't pass, so he decides to feed. Spends the rest of the game announcing his trips up mid lane, spawns, runs up the middle as far as he can and dies...every time. Spams chat with shit talk in the interim. His final build was 6 oracles elixers. We all reported him...but it was probably just a smurf account anyway. I have to wonder if Riot actually even bans idiots like that?
I should note that the Janna build I suggested is somewhat gimmicky
It works best in a constant pressure/push team, take Flash for safety and Clarity for constant tornadoes destroying waves and plink towers down
Farm AP to stay ahead of creep HP
That said, if you want a real/actually more generally useful Janna build, level her shield to max instead, build Nashor's and Malady and hybrid carry. Get your cooldown max with Nashor's and that way you can give it away half the time and still keep close to 100% uptime on yourself to deeps.
Pushing the lane hard is really, really, REALLY bad in the current metagame. You will get ganked and die and/or cause your lane partner to die.
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SpectrumArcher of InfernoChaldea Rec RoomRegistered Userregular
I should note that the Janna build I suggested is somewhat gimmicky
It works best in a constant pressure/push team, take Flash for safety and Clarity for constant tornadoes destroying waves and plink towers down
Farm AP to stay ahead of creep HP
That said, if you want a real/actually more generally useful Janna build, level her shield to max instead, build Nashor's and Malady and hybrid carry. Get your cooldown max with Nashor's and that way you can give it away half the time and still keep close to 100% uptime on yourself to deeps.
Pushing the lane hard is really, really, REALLY bad in the current metagame. You will get ganked and die and/or cause your lane partner to die.
Solo mid Janna
It is the bestest
Took Pantheon's tower even with an Eve in the game
and your ult? holy shit get 40% cdr and you have a semi spammable mega nuke/silence
this game
this game
i pick blitzcrank and lock in and tell my friend "don't give a fuck playing AP blitzcrank" despite an ashe and cassiopeia already having locked in
i tell him "do you really care about winning?" as he switches between shen and miss fortune. he finally settles on miss fortune! woo not giving fucks
get into the game, we both go bottom but ashe is a bit ahead of us. we start telling her to go top and shes like "nope too bad, i'm already halfway there" and i am too busy being in not giving a fuck mode and go "oh man this is gonna be HILARIOUS"
MEGA SUPER 3 BOTTOM TWO SOLO LANES STRAT IS A GO. the enemy team is like "3 bot???" and i'm just like "IT IS ALL PART OF THE PLAN!"
irelia solos top and, hilariously, we are laned against double melee while having two ranged AND a melee! ashe, miss fortune, and blitzcrank actually outzone and beat jax and malphite, who'd have thunk it
within 15 minutes we have first blood and a tower in our lane and irelia isn't doing so bad soloing top, she quickly becomes our surrogate tank after her frozen mallet and guardian angel rush, and actually did a pretty good job of it despite having the most deaths
edit: forgot to add that not only is ulting for 900+ damage on 5 people the most fun thing ever, but that malphite was one of THOSE malphites who goes "SOMETHING SCALES WITH ARMOR? BETTER STACK NOTHING BUT" and i would grab him, deathfire him, punch him with lich bane for 400+twice my base damage then ult him and he'd die
Just gotta ward the shit outta your jungle so you don't give the enemy a double jungle
And go forth and rape
their jungling fiddles really didn't do as much as he should have
he should have rushed to crowstorm our asses
what was weird was we somehow managed to keep up with the jax and malphite, probably through zoning them from experience
but fuck we were underleveled compared to the solo lanes, really had to wait a while before we were able to do much
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SpectrumArcher of InfernoChaldea Rec RoomRegistered Userregular
edited January 2011
You can make up for it by sending one guy periodically to do the camps on that side of the jungle and also by getting a gold advantage by getting last hits on everything in the wave for your carry.
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OtakuD00DCan I hit the exploding rocks?San DiegoRegistered Userregular
edited January 2011
So I was bored. Solo queued and played AP Pantheon. Went better than I could've ever imagined.
Endgame stats below. Second spoiler is a quick example of how much power I was packing into my Grand Skyfall.
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Zen VulgarityWhat a lovely day for teaSecret British ThreadRegistered Userregular
I should note that the Janna build I suggested is somewhat gimmicky
It works best in a constant pressure/push team, take Flash for safety and Clarity for constant tornadoes destroying waves and plink towers down
Farm AP to stay ahead of creep HP
That said, if you want a real/actually more generally useful Janna build, level her shield to max instead, build Nashor's and Malady and hybrid carry. Get your cooldown max with Nashor's and that way you can give it away half the time and still keep close to 100% uptime on yourself to deeps.
Pushing the lane hard is really, really, REALLY bad in the current metagame. You will get ganked and die and/or cause your lane partner to die.
Solo mid Janna
It is the bestest
Took Pantheon's tower even with an Eve in the game
Just farmin' erryday
Ah well if you're solo mid I guess it's different
I was envisioning the typical duo lane janna nado creeps all day thing which gets me killed and makes me rage
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So. There really are people who get carried into the mid 1450s. That's for damn sure. I had a Kassadin who took top vs an Anivia. Died once to her and then left the lane to run around and feed other champions for a few minutes. Our Sivir was trash talking the whole time. I politely asked him to shut his trap because it was unhelpful to the team. After losing 2 Tier 2 towers, I asked the Kass if it was his first time. He told me he was just bad at the game. *facepalm*
Good thing tho, because I was being nice and wasn't yelling at him, I got him to listen to me. I told him to stop diving. I told him to protect the Sivir and get a Banshee's Veil. I gave him specific orders to protect the Sivir; stop diving; silence the Nunu or Anivia. He miraculously stopped feeding. He even netted some kills. He was like 1/8/? before this point. Thank goodness our Sivir went Warmog's/Atma's this game. They focused me sooo hard because of the diving and damage I was doing to Anivia and Corki. I ran away. Sivir is just auto attacking away like no one cares.
One of the best Shaco I've ever seen in this game. A tad crazy and got himself killed roaming their jungle. But mostly very good about exiting a fight and not dying. I did my job and fought 3 people on their team while the rest of my team fought 2. Overall, terrible and awesome game. I'm totally stressed out.
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Picture my poor Blitzcrank getting first blooded under my tower. I get a revenge kill but it still stings. The enemy team's Shaco is jungling everywhere and popping out. He has gold, lots of gold. Our corpses litter the lanes, poisonous daggers stuck in rusted hinges. We start to fall back, losing tower after tower as we panic and scramble for a plan.
Our best hope lies with Karthus. He has the destructive power necessary to incinerate Shaco. But Shaco knows this and he has Karthus's number. Every fight results in a swift crumpling of robes. Shaco is always 3 steps ahead of us in more ways than one, and starts to bulk up. Every precious second that is wasted firing upon his robust clones leads to more and more deaths. With Shen and Morgana keeping off the heat it appears to be a futile endeavour to kill the beast.
We retreat to our one remaining tower, a bastion of hope still standing thanks to a constant protective storm. Scorched earth, tornadoes and bolts of lightning keep the monsters at bay. They dared not stray too close, for a swift grab to our orbital laser ensured a quick death. We weathered the barrage with no real hope of pulling through.
After what seemed like days had passed but was actually merely an hour, something miraculous, something incredible happened. It seemed I had underestimated my champion. Not content with being merely hard to kill, Blitzcrank's fists now hit with his full weight behind them. His rage at being bested by these miserable humans burst forth into unimaginable fury. No force could stop him, he had become Godlike. They had no choice but to die.
Here is a screenshot.
He's quite reminiscent of day[9] actually, especially when he's pointing out what he likes.
dogg you don't even know, one time i had 800,000,000 mana
I had so much gold that I could have stacked each coin on top of one another and climbed my way to the fucking moon.
Blitz has arguably the highest rapidly repeatable burst damage in the game.
From the look of things, you'd have won a lot sooner if your Karthus had let you get a minion kill occasionally. :P
also, jungle rammus win to jungle udyr stomp.
ap blitz
seriously good
your hook becomes a nuke
and your ult? holy shit get 40% cdr and you have a semi spammable mega nuke/silence
Scientific use.
EDIT: I barely even read what I was replying to and even then, I failed to quote the post that I didn't understand.
It's time to put down LoL and relax with some delicious orange juice.
I may have a 25-40 win/loss ratio in all of my games, but at least the opposite team is laughing at something I said while they remove my sex organs.
It works best in a constant pressure/push team, take Flash for safety and Clarity for constant tornadoes destroying waves and plink towers down
Farm AP to stay ahead of creep HP
That said, if you want a real/actually more generally useful Janna build, level her shield to max instead, build Nashor's and Malady and hybrid carry. Get your cooldown max with Nashor's and that way you can give it away half the time and still keep close to 100% uptime on yourself to deeps.
i know.
In the right hands...holy crap can he carry a game. I main nasus and he is basically the one champ that makes me shudder with fear during the lane phase. Anyone else I can handle, but with blitz you just never know when he'll get a hook off, burst you, and his lane buddy will go to town.
In other news, I just can't break my losing streak as of late, keep getting stuck with shitty pug teams. Even though I'm playing pretty well, it's simply not enough to win games. Had a game tonight with a ryze lane buddy, he keeps getting boned by a Sion/Lux double stun combo and yells at me for playing too conservative. Issues a surrender when the game starts to go south, it doesn't pass, so he decides to feed. Spends the rest of the game announcing his trips up mid lane, spawns, runs up the middle as far as he can and dies...every time. Spams chat with shit talk in the interim. His final build was 6 oracles elixers. We all reported him...but it was probably just a smurf account anyway. I have to wonder if Riot actually even bans idiots like that?
Pushing the lane hard is really, really, REALLY bad in the current metagame. You will get ganked and die and/or cause your lane partner to die.
It is the bestest
Took Pantheon's tower even with an Eve in the game
Just farmin' erryday
this game
this game
i pick blitzcrank and lock in and tell my friend "don't give a fuck playing AP blitzcrank" despite an ashe and cassiopeia already having locked in
i tell him "do you really care about winning?" as he switches between shen and miss fortune. he finally settles on miss fortune! woo not giving fucks
get into the game, we both go bottom but ashe is a bit ahead of us. we start telling her to go top and shes like "nope too bad, i'm already halfway there" and i am too busy being in not giving a fuck mode and go "oh man this is gonna be HILARIOUS"
MEGA SUPER 3 BOTTOM TWO SOLO LANES STRAT IS A GO. the enemy team is like "3 bot???" and i'm just like "IT IS ALL PART OF THE PLAN!"
irelia solos top and, hilariously, we are laned against double melee while having two ranged AND a melee! ashe, miss fortune, and blitzcrank actually outzone and beat jax and malphite, who'd have thunk it
within 15 minutes we have first blood and a tower in our lane and irelia isn't doing so bad soloing top, she quickly becomes our surrogate tank after her frozen mallet and guardian angel rush, and actually did a pretty good job of it despite having the most deaths
edit: forgot to add that not only is ulting for 900+ damage on 5 people the most fun thing ever, but that malphite was one of THOSE malphites who goes "SOMETHING SCALES WITH ARMOR? BETTER STACK NOTHING BUT" and i would grab him, deathfire him, punch him with lich bane for 400+twice my base damage then ult him and he'd die
Just gotta ward the shit outta your jungle so you don't give the enemy a double jungle
And go forth and rape
their jungling fiddles really didn't do as much as he should have
he should have rushed to crowstorm our asses
what was weird was we somehow managed to keep up with the jax and malphite, probably through zoning them from experience
but fuck we were underleveled compared to the solo lanes, really had to wait a while before we were able to do much
Endgame stats below. Second spoiler is a quick example of how much power I was packing into my Grand Skyfall.
If it "crits"
Does less damage than if it didn't crit
Wooooops
Ah well if you're solo mid I guess it's different
I was envisioning the typical duo lane janna nado creeps all day thing which gets me killed and makes me rage
Good thing tho, because I was being nice and wasn't yelling at him, I got him to listen to me. I told him to stop diving. I told him to protect the Sivir and get a Banshee's Veil. I gave him specific orders to protect the Sivir; stop diving; silence the Nunu or Anivia. He miraculously stopped feeding. He even netted some kills. He was like 1/8/? before this point. Thank goodness our Sivir went Warmog's/Atma's this game. They focused me sooo hard because of the diving and damage I was doing to Anivia and Corki. I ran away. Sivir is just auto attacking away like no one cares.
One of the best Shaco I've ever seen in this game. A tad crazy and got himself killed roaming their jungle. But mostly very good about exiting a fight and not dying. I did my job and fought 3 people on their team while the rest of my team fought 2. Overall, terrible and awesome game. I'm totally stressed out.
You will run into people having awful games and doing baffling things in every Elo bracket. It just happens less the higher up you get in rating.
Ye gods that was an efficient, machine-like game from Roku.
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welp
And so much more fun when I'm going 7/0 and carrying my team
Kassadin just owns in general!
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