[quote who="pacov" reply="3842" id="3386008"] Also... now is the time to abuse the crap out of spirit visage. Take any top champ that gets a nice benefit from it and profit. Someone on reddit broke out what you get for the money: So Riot added these stats to Spirit Visage for 425 cost increase: 200 health = 526 gold 20 Hp regen per 5 (wtih it's own passive it is 24) = 846 gold 10 Magic Resistance = 200 gold <br
I now have 2 promotion wins in 13 series. I love the system this season. It is really fun to do stupid crap like making a statistically insignificant number of games be the only criteria for promotion.
Diamond playing jungle Karma in LCS against Fanatic. This should be something.
[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="3765" id="3384063"]Then Karl said something about defending blade of the ruined king.[/quote] I actually said the opposite - I said that BotRK shouldn't be built with Tiger Udyr that much. Now, that may sound hypocritical since I build it a lot when I jungle (tiger) Udyr. But they key is when I build it. Tiger Udyr scales VERY well with AD. He scales very poorly with AS (thats what Phoenix Udyr wants). BotRK h
[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="3765" id="3384063"]. And if you want a lot of resources from the team, be sure to pay it back later (eg, that one time i was frustrated because we had the ability to get an inhibitor but you ended up getting top tower instead).[/quote] This is a point I would like to expand upon. Everybody loses their lane sometimes. I surely do quite a bit when I play in lanes. The question is what to do about it. Pacov's line of r
[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="3760" id="3383947"]And we had two people who build Bulwark reasonably well (WW and Udyr). [/quote] Yeah, I had multiple pieces of Aegis when Pacov bought it straight out. But anyway, Udyr has a number of matchup problems. That means, if you first pick him, you are going to get screwed sometimes. And if you do get counterpicked, the rest of your team probably doesn't want to hear about it a whole lot. &nb
[quote who="pacov" reply="3735" id="3382687"]very interesting graph imo - take a look. [/quote] I don't believe anything in the plot. Clearly supports do not earn SUBSTANTIALLY more gold on average than solo lanes in challenger tier. I don't believe the competitive part either. You are telling me that ADCs only earn a few percent more of the team's gold than supports? I don't believe that. Those ADCs are really good at farming, and the
There is no reason to ban Udyr - he has a lot of counter picks. Trust me, its not fun playing Udyr into Anivia, or blue Ez (shudder), or Janna...
[quote who="pacov" reply="3723" id="3382256"] I was just a bit pissed about the 1st very freaking free dragon... which full mana fid choose not to take with his mid/adc/support so he could slowly work on blue buff. Giving up a free (yes, free) dragon because you are obsessed with your blue (which you could also pick up right after drag) is crap jungling. [/quote] That dragon was not even close to being free. Simply having 3 people near the dragon in the early game doesn't me
I only watched the first game. A lot of the stuff you were saying in chat was not correct. First off, the fiddles. I'm not saying he was great, but he wasn't as terrible as you want him to be either. I mean, his early build and buff control was terrible, but he didn't get punished for it. The moment that sticks out is when you were really bitching at him while he was setting up his ult for a play to your bottom tower. Eventually he pulls off y
Regarding complaints about me hanging up the Skype call: I didn't find obscene, personal insults directed at myself very useful at that point in time. I was busy trying to win the game. You might want to be aware that if your calls devolve into you yelling personal insults at people, you are probably going to get hung up on. I am pretty tolerant in terms of having discussions on specific decisions, but screaming personal taunts is something a bit different. I d
[quote who="pacov" reply="3675" id="3380364"]spirit visage just got a HUGE buff on pbe[/quote] It depends on what the new recipe is (I think there has to be some sort of recipe change since the recipe cost went down by 330, but the total cost went up by 300). If you exclude the health regen, you are basically getting 530 more gold's worth of stats for 300 more gold. Thats a very nice but not huge buff since most completed items are pretty gold efficient when it comes
[quote who="pacov" reply="3666" id="3380195"]Please don't spend more than 10 seconds complaining about a mia call. Must have spent 5-8 minutes talking about that stupid thing. [/quote] If there had been agreement on the subject, I would have. But since you were basically telling me that you weren't going to be calling that MIA promptly, there was an issue that had to be discussed. I'm playing aggressive Udyr. I'm going to be spending time in their j
[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="3661" id="3380098"]This was kinda another case of that mob mentality because someone said something (omg, we lost that fight because Vayne did no damage). Even though that statement wasn't accurate. [/quote] Was this referring to something tonight? Because I don't remember complaints about that - the complaint was that we started a fight top (after announcing I was going to wander through their jungle looking for a fight), and t
As I've been saying, this entire idea that climate change has plateaued is controversial at best: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23590626/un-says-1st-decade-shows-accelerated-warming-trend?source=rss [Quote] Global warming accelerated since the 1970s and broke more countries' temperature records than ever before in the fir
I'm not really talking about an initial level 2 or level 3 invade. There should be ganks available (hopefully) at that point. I'm talking more about later in the game (maybe starting when buffs respawn). If the ganks aren't there, just try and steal blue at 7:10 and wander around his red side a bit later. You can try and kill Amumu if you see him, or just gimp all his camps and gank from a weird angle if you don't see him.
[quote who="pacov" reply="3622" id="3377897"] I'm running ghost on voli... and I'm against a kennen, a nidalee, an amumu, a janna, and some adc. Everyone is doing their warding, so ganks are a pain in the ass + the champs have natural abilities to disengage or get folks out. [/quote] Counterjungle the Amumu. You will murder him 1v1 and as long as minions are down, he doesn't have an easy escape. In cases like that you aren't really looking to just steal buf
A few general comments: Pacov generally likes to try and come up with hard and fast rules or plans. This often means sticking to the rules no matter what. But jungle doesn't really work that way - there might be some general principles, but there are lots of exceptions to everything. Basically, its about flexible thinking, rather than dogmatic thinking. When it comes to "abandoning" a lane, this generally means that I won't go for garden variety gan
Holy crap, that curse vs tsm game was crazy. Curse had lost a nexus (with the other nexus tower at half) and TSM was up 5 dragons and 8-2 in towers. And somehow Curse turned it around. Funny as hell.
[quote who="pacov" reply="3592" id="3376380"]Rubbish. Well, your implication is anyway.[/quote] I'm saying that you judge the performance of players and builds by their kill/death ratio (and maybe sometimes their k/d/a ratio). I think that we all know that after many of your games, you say "well, lets see how everybody did" and then read off their scores. You also justify your own performances repeatedly by citing kill/death ratios. I'm also saying that thi
Global Warming is more correctly referred to as "climate change" because some people can't deal with any moderately nuanced argument when they have massive biases. Climate change has a number of effects that have been predicted for decades. For example, it predicts that BOTH the mean and the variance of temperatures will increase. Due to the increase in the variance of temperatures, there will actually be more extreme cold spells. There will also be more extreme
If you are talking about jungler builds, can you please develop some team builds, instead of a bunch of variations of glass cannon builds that generate good kill numbers for you, but hurt your team? If you are going to jungle, you must be able to tank. I'm not talking about going in and killing one person before instantly dying. I'm talking about actual front line pressure where you are able to initiate, survive for a while if targeted, and provide team utility.&nb
[quote who="Ekko_Tek" reply="117" id="3375954"]Because a consensus like that is not arrived at easily - it's not like a political party - we're talking about scientists from countries all over the planet from all sorts of institutions.[/quote] Yes, this is a good point. Anybody who has spent much time around academic scientists knows that they don't easily agree on things and love to argue about stuff. But you still get these consensus because the data are ther
[quote who="Daiwa" reply="114" id="3375931"]The problem is you do know the 'answer' ahead of time. And the AGW hypothesis explicitly predicts future states.[/quote] But the model doesn't know the answer ahead of time - it only knows initial conditions. Thats the whole point. Let's say that I create a model where I supply the exact state of the atmosphere in 1880. I then provide the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere each year and run the
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="96" id="3375791"]Ok, then why wasn't this predicted in the 1990s or in the IPCC report? If there's another decade of stable temperatures, do you have another rationale ready to retroactively use?[/quote] Both the depth of solar cycles and year to year weather events are chaotic processes. Chaotic processes are, by definition, difficult to impossible to predict. Short term, impossible to predict, effects like this happen. That'