Look I can describe ranked play in a really simple analogy
So you want to eat a cake, right, but you only have eggs. So you have to find four other people who have milk, sugar, a blender, and chocolate. But you show up, and the blender guy throws his blender to the ground and screams EGGS OR I FEED, and then the other three people start yelling at you to give up your eggs. Then you have to piece together the broken blender, and it's not really working properly, but you found some tape so it's working. Except the beaters are kind of wibbly wobbly now, so it isn't mixing the batter very well. The other four players start to scream at you for not blending the cake well enough, since that's your job, and then the milk guy has to go leave for 15 minutes because his mom just made dinner.
Are you understanding this so far? Ok good
So any ways once milk guy is back you have the cake, and its time to put it in the oven. The problem is that there are professional baking teams who just played a world baking tournament, so everyone wants to bake a cake like theirs. Even though your cake is chocolate, they want to cover it with icing meant for a vanilla cake, because that's what the Asian cake bakers do. You try to insist that your cake would be much better with chocolate icing, but they tell you to commit suicide. Finally, your shitty cake monstrosity comes out of the oven and it isnt even edible because of the whole process, and apparently cakes need more ingredients than just eggs and milk and chocolate.
Then you go into the post cake lobby and everyone unaminously agrees its your fault
Then you immediately hit the 'bake again' button and pray that this time you can just ADD THE GOD DAMN EGGS
Good analogy, but you get a "Bro?" for trying to make cakes without flour.
My must buy items on Vi (particularly for Vi top) are Triforce (starting with Phage obviously) Black Cleaver, and Ravenous Hydra. I also very much like Maw of Malmortius for the spellshield/MR, and I build around that core.
Triforce is great on Vi. Expensive, but great. Early phage probably ideal in most builds, synergy with Q -->E is too strong to pass up.
BC is strong, but I'm not sure how the math on BC vs. BorK works out. Will need to work on that a bit, both are good.
Hydra is fun. Probably not actually a really good use of gold (Vi's waveclear is already super strong, and I'm guessing other AD items give better bang-for-your-buck). That said, Q, E, R, E into a team, use active, get paid.
Not sure about Maw, kind of a niche item anyways and Vi has enough free damage with W and bonus HP with her passive that I'd rather get a real MR item (BV, SV) instead.
I'll need to napkin math AS v. AD v. ArP some time. Bleh.
What we really need to make it great is a minion heavy champ. Heimer or Zyra would be cool, but basically I want it to be equally as clusterfuckish as this:
Posts
omg
Good analogy, but you get a "Bro?" for trying to make cakes without flour.
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Cass don't you know Lily. I remember you saying something about it, but maybe I am misremembering.
This one was really good too:
(referencing supports)
"Seriously, if you eat even one crumb, even if it accidentally falls in your mouth, I'm going to add so much salt to this cake you have no idea
Triforce is great on Vi. Expensive, but great. Early phage probably ideal in most builds, synergy with Q -->E is too strong to pass up.
BC is strong, but I'm not sure how the math on BC vs. BorK works out. Will need to work on that a bit, both are good.
Hydra is fun. Probably not actually a really good use of gold (Vi's waveclear is already super strong, and I'm guessing other AD items give better bang-for-your-buck). That said, Q, E, R, E into a team, use active, get paid.
Not sure about Maw, kind of a niche item anyways and Vi has enough free damage with W and bonus HP with her passive that I'd rather get a real MR item (BV, SV) instead.
I'll need to napkin math AS v. AD v. ArP some time. Bleh.
Also they mentioned that they'll be shutting it down shortly until they can officially launch it.
oh god the possibilities... 5Eve's vs. 5 Eve's. 10 SHACOS!
Joe's Stream.
Oh man 20 shacos at level 6, it would be glorious.
so trundle 2 ults trundle 1, gets 40% of armor/mr
trundle 3 ults trundle 2, gets 40% of trundle 2's armor/mr + 40% of the bonus from trundle 1
and so on until trundle 10 is a god among trolls
LET US DO IT TONIGHT
I was like 'naut? wait no that'd be hilarious
mmm
shen? wait no ten shields
.. j4? haha so many demacias
FUCK"
Except Janna. Holy shit that game would never end.
Straight from the comments:
"It's sad how accurate this is"
I think 5v5 AP Sona that start Chalice of Harmony wouldn't be fun.
Oh you did damage to someone at some point?
10 Sorakas would be the kind of brutal slog that would make WWI-era trench warfare look humane and chivalrous.
what is wrong with people?
haha
"LIVE"
Janna would just be 'lol tornado clear'.
Besides guys. 10 Leona's.
What they should really introduce with this feature is theme games like Smite does, that'd be great.
one person on your team applies frost, the other 4 drop Es all day
10x Yorick/Taric/Nunu. Ugh.
Slice like a god damn hammer. LoL: Rafflesia / BNet: Talonflame#11979
The term "rotation" bugs me because it's already being overused by commentators. So far I've heard it used to describe
1. Converging on a point of the map as a team.
2. Lane swapping.
3. Cycling of skills, especially in the context of teamfights
Better terminology, riot plz
In fairness to that guy, the accompanying posts were overly brutal towards him. Amusing...but brutal....
make a line back to your fountain
move enemy into laser one pull/headbutt at a time
It's Reddit, man.
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Can't even log in.
EDIT: Posting that immediately fixed it. Riot can clearly hear my internet frustration.
ahahahaha yessssss
10 Yoricks would be stupid unfun.