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Oh I thought it was phage + brutalizer and the flat pen transformed into the armor shred.

Quinn? Try Gnar. Has all the stats he wants for both of his forms. And he already goes Brutalized in 1v1 AD lanes. Will probably be enough to push him back to 50% in soloq. Surely will help Quinn too though. Which is exciting for me at least. Item will probably be needed tho :( UNLESS Riot intends to balance AD Casters against Cinderhulk with this item and allow Smite top to stick around for certain champs.

LOL. i'm in.

Part of the "problem" you're going to have is what one guy dubbed the "Quint Quotient". ( http://www.reignofgaming.net/blogs/a-different-view/oldmaneyebrows/21256-building-rune-pages-through-the-use-of-a-qq-quint ). You already know some of this, so this might be useless rambling but... that is mostly what i do anyway :) What makes AP or AS

[quote] Ok fine, there might be some niche situations with ideal matchups where it might be worth a shot. But you would have to know the other 3/4 of the 2v2 matchup. [/quote] Morg isn't a niche pick - you can always use "Krepo" runes/masteries and change them to GMD once you see both teams entirely.

[quote] Or, lets look at it another way. Let's all imagine that pacov was playing ADC in SoloQ and his support said to him before the game: "Hey, I'm going to play a really greedy build that has a decent chance of causing you to lose out early because we can't 2v2 under any circumstance early on. But don't worry, the support will be getting more gold over the course of the game". Do you think that pacov would have a positive reaction to that

[quote] Is the adc at a disadvantage due to GDM in fights during laning? Nope. You are morgana - as long as you aren't being a jack arse and skimping on wards, you still have excellent peel and engage. If you die because of a small hp difference, you are not doing it right. She ain't leona - she shouldn't be chilling in melee range needlessly (pre 6 anyway). [/quote]</

[quote] Well, that's interesting [/quote] Well, like i said, it's only a handful. Typically The only time it, really truly, has an impact is when you die only barely (< 50 hp) and health or armor quints would have saved you. Suddenly, there's a 300 gold swing, your ADC gets zoned (or dies in

To be fair, there IS a huge difference between a Morg who has Zhonyas and one who doesn't. Morg can also be played in a very safe manner (similar to Janna), against single-target CC lanes. Blitz probably being the biggest one, and actually being one of his opponents last night and he WAS able to get a pretty early NLR. So there is some method to his madness (even if it is "situational" madness - which is the best kind of madness). i agree that GP10 is "often" not going to

i wasn't referring to last night's game. Mostly just my own observations (usually in-game, and sometimes flawed by emotions or incomplete information). And, when i wrote the quoted post, i did actually forgot that was an Alistar top (? - Cow mentioned he had a Trinity Force), which makes him a much more respectable threat than a support, so preserving your own skin is a lot more important.

Righteous Glory is pretty absurd atm in combination with Cinderhulk... It also has a mega-short cooldown, unlike "Ye Olde Shrelias" which had a very meaningful CD. i certainly feel that there is a strong justification for having 2 Righteous Glories per team (though not always). Supports and Junglers saves ~350 gold compared to Randuins, which is nice, and it has a pretty forgiving path as well. Starting Coin is a good way for the Support to lose botlane, and it's nice to g

To a certain extent: "you gotta be brave" People with point-and-click 3-second CC will always pose a unavoidable threat to carries. Something that i have noticed is that you (pacov) will tend to "over-respect" those type of threats, regardless of other factors. Often, you will position in such a way that they just do a hard target switch to another squishy, and you're now too far back to contribute while they are distracted. To a certain extent, if y

That was why i asked if we could play together on Friday night while i was on, since you can Mystery Gift after a game, rather than waiting 2 weeks.

and the chase potential is amazing! Even better than Vaynes when ahead, imo.

[quote]He hasn't gotten on much lately but I think he is coming over to my house tonight so I can get him set up with friend request if he does.[/quote] An even easier way to do that would be for us to play a Normals together - i believe you can do a post-match Mystery Gift right? -- also my quote feature is broken on my browser even though i know

i've sent friend requests already but he hasn't accepted \:

pretty sure Karl finds that insulting :P

Sion was HUGE last patch as a jungler . . . Sure, he was even better top, but he was also one of the best junglers. Which just shows good he is :P

[quote] lol nerfing tank junglers before we even know if they are good? Thanks riot. [/quote] umm... pretty sure we know that they are good (even if it was mostly only Sejuani who was truly oppressive). In any case, the jungle is similar in difficulty to Season 2 starting with the second clear if you go Trailblazer, but it's got a much higher gold income.

what if he rejects our friend requests :P

He uses "high skill cap" meaning "high skill capacity". That is, high skill floor, high skill ceiling. Think of it as a really big cup... It can hold a lot of water, but it's kind of dumb to use a huge 32 ounce cup to drink shots. Likewise, "low skill cap" is "low skill capacity". Low skill floor, low skill ceiling. A lot of champs in LoL generally have this "high, high" or "low, low" pattern. Eg, nearly every tank is "low, low", Assassins (when they aren't OP) general

not to mention ALL the tanks just got pretty massive buffs. i feel like playing Sejuani or Volibear would be a lot stronger atm... and the win rates + pick rates clearly indicate that

you know that the -10% CDR reduction doesn't actually help your clear speeds since the Smite Rework. It only reduces the ICD from 15 seconds to 13.5. It doesn't make you recharge faster. That said, i do know that Riot wants to change it to recharge faster in the future (maybe this patch with all the tank changes?)

Vi knocks up people en-route to her "R" target. It's just as "multitarget" as a J4's EQ combo. (in fact, a 4-man CC from a Vi ult in a chokepoint was one of the reasons we lost one of our ranked games). Anyway, i think we both agree that Gnar + Jarven is a lot better than Gnar + Vi. i think that Vi has some very strong synergy with Assassins in the midlane (particularly in the assassins versus assassin matchup, since J4 might have a hard time hitting EQ against the more slippe

[quote] the utility in his kit and ease of use still makes me think he's top tier/must pick ban. [/quote] Wouldn't Vi's be even easier though?