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[League of Legends] Here comes the Smolder

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    For the missions where I can play 5 games, what counts as matchmade and what doesn't? I have to either win a game as Lee Sin, play 3 games as Lee Sin, or just play 5 and playing 5 regular matches is gonna take at the very least about 2 and a half hours.

    Was hoping I could URF or ARAM it.

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  • SproutSprout Registered User regular
    URF, ARAM, and bot games all work. Hell, even TFT games count for "games played".

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    Match made games are just games that you use the matchmaker for, as opposed to custom games

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Sick, probably gonna do some ARAMs. Just lost a game where I got a triple kill off a jungle invade at 1:30 and still lost my lane. I was Ashe with Orianna support vs Thresh and MF.

    I had a BF sword by 3 minutes and still lost the lane. I'm so bad at this.

    I'm coming to realize it doesn't matter what game mode I play, I lose a vast majority of games.

    I will get better

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  • NiryaNirya Registered User regular
    RickRude wrote: »
    World's.

    This is why I don't believe in na. We are so far behind. Spring c9 was the closest we'll ever see yo a team that can compete at world's.
    TL was always going to be NA's best bet this go round, just due to the amount of experience on their team, and I think they can escape their group in 2nd if they play like we know they're capable of.

    Flyquest was unsurprising going against the prohibitive Worlds favorite. I think they could still surprise some teams in their group, but I also picked them to finish 4th (I also picked UoL to come 2nd in that group and, well, yeah).

    TSM was unsurprising in that they failed at draft, and their individual players (sans Bjergsen) are not good enough to overcome that level of draft differential. Selfmade being amazing on Eve has been a thing forever, and was even a thing as recently as the Chinese super server prior to Worlds, so letting him get that champ just seemed like TSM being way too overconfident coming off of NA playoffs. But bad drafting is also an NA trait in general, and the first NA team that actually figures that out would have a handle on running the region fairly easily.

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  • pyromaniac221pyromaniac221 this just might be an interestin YTRegistered User regular
    Seems like chalk so far, TES and Damwon are really good, the lesser Korean and Chinese teams are slugging it out, North America doesn't exist. European team has yet to play a real game but unless G2 had really put it together since the LEC finals (they very well could have), hard to think any of them will be relevant.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
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    Sometimes, this game is fun.

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  • PhasenPhasen Hell WorldRegistered User regular
    My brother and I went on a 6 win streak to both get into promos and we won! He's now gold 2 and I'm gold 3. Multiple s ranks as well. Probably our best night of league ever.

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    Annie is kind of insane in URF.

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  • NiryaNirya Registered User regular
    Worlds
    Right on cue, TL gets a bad draft (no initiators whatsoever) and plays amazingly passive, leads to getting rolled by Machi.

    Broxah deserves all the shit for that game. Was never in position to punish anything Gemini did, and worse played everything so passive that Machi was able to do whatever. The TL draft “plan” was to win landing phase hard, but if Broxah doesn’t provide any support then that strategy falls apart immediately, especially when the opposing team is getting jungle support.

    Before things finally went sideways (aka the kill trade where Machi got Tactical) TL only had two kills, and both were essentially 1v1/2v2. Meanwhile, Gemini had pulled off two ganks and a few tower dives/pressures. Just a ridiculously poor game from a player who theoretically should know better.

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    I think I'm gonna switch to mid/jungle for ranked. I think I'm gonna give up on playing ADC.

    What are some strong mid laners?

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  • PhasenPhasen Hell WorldRegistered User regular
    Stragint wrote: »
    I think I'm gonna switch to mid/jungle for ranked. I think I'm gonna give up on playing ADC.

    What are some strong mid laners?

    The beat advice I can give for someone wanting to climb ranks is play the same role and perfect it. Even better stick to a small pool of champions and perfect them as well.

    As far as mids I hate playing against: Yasou, Zed, and Kat. Mostly cause they are difficult to lock down.

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  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    PMAvers wrote: »

    I really like the shirt Kai'sa is wearing that just says CAT; in general this comic is such fluff but it's all very charming

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    Phasen wrote: »
    Stragint wrote: »
    I think I'm gonna switch to mid/jungle for ranked. I think I'm gonna give up on playing ADC.

    What are some strong mid laners?

    The beat advice I can give for someone wanting to climb ranks is play the same role and perfect it. Even better stick to a small pool of champions and perfect them as well.

    As far as mids I hate playing against: Yasou, Zed, and Kat. Mostly cause they are difficult to lock down.

    I was trying to stick out out with playing ADC and getting better but I'm now at -3 LP in silver 4 and I've lost the last 5 to 7 games, I played a lot of URF so I don't know what happened with my last games. My win rate is less than 30% now as well so I need to do something else.

    If I can't get to a win with a 3 minute BF sword on Ashe I don't think I should be playing the roll.

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Ashe doesn’t generally start bf, she wants bork for early game power.

    ER or IE rush builds aren’t particularly great on her.

    That said, if you’re learning mid, I cannot recommend Annie enough. She’s strong, easy to play, forgiving to cs with, decent roaming, huge burst, point and click or aoe stun, and super good at countering most of the ultra mobility assholes who live in mid. And nobody picks or bans her. You can concentrate almost entirely on learning the role instead of learning the champ.

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  • RickRudeRickRude Registered User regular
    Just saw the sickest play during world's.

    Fights around baron, support outs a control ward down on the blast cone, preventing the enemy mid from hitting the blast cone securing the kill. Was just a heads up play.

    Game info and timer of play
    G2 vs sn about 20 minutes in

  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Ashe doesn’t generally start bf, she wants bork for early game power.

    ER or IE rush builds aren’t particularly great on her.

    That said, if you’re learning mid, I cannot recommend Annie enough. She’s strong, easy to play, forgiving to cs with, decent roaming, huge burst, point and click or aoe stun, and super good at countering most of the ultra mobility assholes who live in mid. And nobody picks or bans her. You can concentrate almost entirely on learning the role instead of learning the champ.

    I always feel like I do really poorly on any ADC I rush bork on. Pretty much every ADC except for Ezreal I rush an IE.

    Annie is on my list of mids. At the moment it is Annie, Zed, Talon, Ziggs, Veigar, and Zoe though I'm not sure if I'll actually play Zoe since she is kind of difficult to play.

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  • RickRudeRickRude Registered User regular
    More world's. Need to catch up on games just now catching up.

    Sofm is sick. They were hyping up his tank lee sin before the groups started. Shit is legit.

  • RickRudeRickRude Registered User regular
    I'm not done with the game yet, but so far, if you watch one world's game, watch g2 vs sunni. This game is so close all the way through. Not even sure who's gonna win. Such a good game so far.

  • pyromaniac221pyromaniac221 this just might be an interestin YTRegistered User regular
    Stragint wrote: »
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Ashe doesn’t generally start bf, she wants bork for early game power.

    ER or IE rush builds aren’t particularly great on her.

    That said, if you’re learning mid, I cannot recommend Annie enough. She’s strong, easy to play, forgiving to cs with, decent roaming, huge burst, point and click or aoe stun, and super good at countering most of the ultra mobility assholes who live in mid. And nobody picks or bans her. You can concentrate almost entirely on learning the role instead of learning the champ.

    I always feel like I do really poorly on any ADC I rush bork on. Pretty much every ADC except for Ezreal I rush an IE.

    Annie is on my list of mids. At the moment it is Annie, Zed, Talon, Ziggs, Veigar, and Zoe though I'm not sure if I'll actually play Zoe since she is kind of difficult to play.
    Zed and talon occupy a pretty similar role, so in the interest of consolidating your champ pool, I’d pick whichever you enjoy more and discard the other. Maybe consider adding a tank/support champion for when your top/jungle/support all go glass cannon. Galio is simple to execute, and very effective.

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  • RickRudeRickRude Registered User regular
    Captain flowers is so good at play by play.

    I love sports. Huge nfl, nba, and nhl fan. Got hooked watching lol a few years ago. World's is my jam.

  • RickRudeRickRude Registered User regular
    RickRude wrote: »
    I'm not done with the game yet, but so far, if you watch one world's game, watch g2 vs sunni. This game is so close all the way through. Not even sure who's gonna win. Such a good game so far.

    Watch this game if you like watching lol.

  • RickRudeRickRude Registered User regular
    Stragint wrote: »
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Ashe doesn’t generally start bf, she wants bork for early game power.

    ER or IE rush builds aren’t particularly great on her.

    That said, if you’re learning mid, I cannot recommend Annie enough. She’s strong, easy to play, forgiving to cs with, decent roaming, huge burst, point and click or aoe stun, and super good at countering most of the ultra mobility assholes who live in mid. And nobody picks or bans her. You can concentrate almost entirely on learning the role instead of learning the champ.

    I always feel like I do really poorly on any ADC I rush bork on. Pretty much every ADC except for Ezreal I rush an IE.

    Annie is on my list of mids. At the moment it is Annie, Zed, Talon, Ziggs, Veigar, and Zoe though I'm not sure if I'll actually play Zoe since she is kind of difficult to play.
    Zed and talon occupy a pretty similar role, so in the interest of consolidating your champ pool, I’d pick whichever you enjoy more and discard the other. Maybe consider adding a tank/support champion for when your top/jungle/support all go glass cannon. Galio is simple to execute, and very effective.

    Veiger is really strong but hard to play well. He's a glass cannon and you have to be able to hit his e. He is deadly at team fights.

    I'm biased but check out karthus! It's so awesome to die in the middle of a teamfights and then get a pentakill. Speaking of pentakill, did you know he's the lead singer! Karthus is awesome.

    Assassin's are hard and seem fast or famine to me. A good zed crushes me, a bad one is just a bit though. Unless you're really, really mechanically good I'd recommend a team fighter over a snowball assassin.

    But then again I'm an old man and can't keep up with the kids.

  • TcheldorTcheldor Registered User regular
    Botrk ashe is worse than essence or ie rush.

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  • PhasenPhasen Hell WorldRegistered User regular
    https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/builds/ashe/adc

    Botrk seems fairly standard as a first item. In silver or gold I doubt we're really going to find that going ie or botrk first is going to be the make or break point in winning the lane.

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  • TcheldorTcheldor Registered User regular
    It's standard but not as good imo.

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Phasen wrote: »
    https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/builds/ashe/adc

    Botrk seems fairly standard as a first item. In silver or gold I doubt we're really going to find that going ie or botrk first is going to be the make or break point in winning the lane.

    Yea, a lot of guides say to build that first for a good chunk of ADCs and I was doing it before but I kept nothing doing well and that is entirely due to me not being very good. When I started going IE first I started doing better but I still have such a harsh loss rate that I might as well start bork and try to get good enough to actually make a difference early on.

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  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Stragint wrote: »
    Phasen wrote: »
    https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/builds/ashe/adc

    Botrk seems fairly standard as a first item. In silver or gold I doubt we're really going to find that going ie or botrk first is going to be the make or break point in winning the lane.

    Yea, a lot of guides say to build that first for a good chunk of ADCs and I was doing it before but I kept nothing doing well and that is entirely due to me not being very good. When I started going IE first I started doing better but I still have such a harsh loss rate that I might as well start bork and try to get good enough to actually make a difference early on.

    I've done both bork and ER/IE and I prefer the latter. You have a nice as steroid so flat AD feels quite nice, and the bork 'you are slow you are not allowed to walk away from this fight' is already applied by Ashe aas and volley. Pros tend to build the BF items first and while pro play isn't always applicable to non-pro playstyle, I think it is here.

    Let's see, also observations after day 1 worlds (still watching day 2)
    I like that people are playing early game teams and these aren't 0-0 games at 25 minutes, but damn most of these games just start 0-6 and never recover. GenG vs LGD at least was fun.

    Oh also I *loved* the Rogue play sending their botlane to kill mid twice in 4 minutes. That's the sort of creative macro that I think wins games on the world stage.

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  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Stragint wrote: »
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Ashe doesn’t generally start bf, she wants bork for early game power.

    ER or IE rush builds aren’t particularly great on her.

    That said, if you’re learning mid, I cannot recommend Annie enough. She’s strong, easy to play, forgiving to cs with, decent roaming, huge burst, point and click or aoe stun, and super good at countering most of the ultra mobility assholes who live in mid. And nobody picks or bans her. You can concentrate almost entirely on learning the role instead of learning the champ.

    I always feel like I do really poorly on any ADC I rush bork on. Pretty much every ADC except for Ezreal I rush an IE.

    Annie is on my list of mids. At the moment it is Annie, Zed, Talon, Ziggs, Veigar, and Zoe though I'm not sure if I'll actually play Zoe since she is kind of difficult to play.

    Narrow your champion pool if you are trying to climb on a short timeline, then expand it during preseason while you're trying to overall learn.

    1. artillery mage: Ziggs
    2. short range cc mage/assassin: choose either Veigar or Annie
    3. AD assassin: choose either Zed or Talon.

    Of all of these champions, Zed sees bans but no one else generally does.

    Zoe is challenging to play, so unless she really sticks with you I would not try to learn her in the month before the season ends.

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  • RickRudeRickRude Registered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    Stragint wrote: »
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Ashe doesn’t generally start bf, she wants bork for early game power.

    ER or IE rush builds aren’t particularly great on her.

    That said, if you’re learning mid, I cannot recommend Annie enough. She’s strong, easy to play, forgiving to cs with, decent roaming, huge burst, point and click or aoe stun, and super good at countering most of the ultra mobility assholes who live in mid. And nobody picks or bans her. You can concentrate almost entirely on learning the role instead of learning the champ.

    I always feel like I do really poorly on any ADC I rush bork on. Pretty much every ADC except for Ezreal I rush an IE.

    Annie is on my list of mids. At the moment it is Annie, Zed, Talon, Ziggs, Veigar, and Zoe though I'm not sure if I'll actually play Zoe since she is kind of difficult to play.

    Narrow your champion pool if you are trying to climb on a short timeline, then expand it during preseason while you're trying to overall learn.

    1. artillery mage: Ziggs
    2. short range cc mage/assassin: choose either Veigar or Annie
    3. AD assassin: choose either Zed or Talon.

    Of all of these champions, Zed sees bans but no one else generally does.

    Zoe is challenging to play, so unless she really sticks with you I would not try to learn her in the month before the season ends.

    I'm telling you All, karthus is the light. Lose lane, hit r, get 3 kills and an assist. Flash into a team fight with e on, die, hit r, get another triple kill. I've gotten pentas while dead and hitting r.

    Lansing phase hit q to farm, only to harass when it's easy. It's ok to get pushed to tower, use q to farm. Stay even in lane. Wait for a good back to to from, and at level 4 bust out wall + Q's to kill a mofo. Take exhaust instead of to against champs like zed, but try to to to other lanes to push the advantage. The wall is an actual good gank skill.

    Or stay in lane, farm, push it to tower and hit r.

    I'm biased as I'm a karthus main but he's a lot of fun and can turn lost games into won games in late game teamfights. You die, players start popping, you hit r, kill 3. What do you know, you have one player alive to push mid and kill the nexus

  • RickRudeRickRude Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Tcheldor wrote: »
    Botrk ashe is worse than essence or ie rush.

    I'd really think it matters on opposition honestly. If they have a front line that's going to be hp stacking bork is the way to go. I kind of hate ie just because of the way it works on ashe.

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Bork is the only way to get early sustain without taking bloodlines.

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  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Bork is the only way to get early sustain without taking bloodlines.

    Most people take bloodlines but it doesn't give a lot anyway. And you get your tiny sustain from doran's blade.

    Ashe is more of a poke giver than a poke taker so I never feel like I'm really suffering because I have lethal tempo instead of fleet footwork. I mean one also plays Lucian often with PTA instead of fleet footwork, building ER first, and it's also fine--you just buy pots if you want that.

    However if you in particular wanted to have fleet footwork on Ashe, nothing's stopping you! Take that and try out building ER. You don't have to build what's widely considered optimal if it doesn't really mesh with how you play.

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  • RickRudeRickRude Registered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Bork is the only way to get early sustain without taking bloodlines.

    Most people take bloodlines but it doesn't give a lot anyway. And you get your tiny sustain from doran's blade.

    Ashe is more of a poke giver than a poke taker so I never feel like I'm really suffering because I have lethal tempo instead of fleet footwork. I mean one also plays Lucian often with PTA instead of fleet footwork, building ER first, and it's also fine--you just buy pots if you want that.

    However if you in particular wanted to have fleet footwork on Ashe, nothing's stopping you! Take that and try out building ER. You don't have to build what's widely considered optimal if it doesn't really mesh with how you play.

    You also have ashes q, which honestly I have no clue how it interacts with on hit effects, but if it does, that's 3/4 bortk hits in one person for one q.

    And honestly I'm too dumb to figure out the efficiency of crit + IE on ashe. I know it's not bad, but you don't get bonus damage from crit and not sure how it scales.

    But a normal ashe build bortk seems normal to me. And I think it interacts with her q really well.


    Again, every game is different. If you're up against a bunch of squishies and won't be in a side lane bortk could be a waste. But I think it's really good on her?

  • RickRudeRickRude Registered User regular
    No spoiler needed. The latest group of world's went just as expected. Not one upset.

  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    edited October 2020
    I think I'll just do Annie, Talon, and Karthus. I used to really enjoy playing Karthus so I'm down for that.

    I'm gonna start queuing for Mid as primary and bot as secondary. I'll try sticking to the meta builds for ADC and try to stop being butts when I get tossed to bot lane like I'm sure most of the games will be.

    I'm also at -33 LP in silver 4. When does it throw me back into bronze where I belong?

    I feel like I need to stop banning Samira because Yasuo and Yone keep getting through and it is not a great time when they do.

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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    It'll give you a warning when you're getting close to being demoted.

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    edited October 2020
    So when the match I just won finished it was Bronze 1 87 LP and when I look at my profile I'm at -13 LP in Silver 4

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    ye olde silver 5

    just like i'm not silver 2 i'm diamond 14

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