you have to kill dragon 5 times before you get a significant buff out of it (and even on live, +5000 gold is huge). Which means you don't get it until 40 minutes. Then it's nearly a permanent baron buff... The first two buffs aren't even really useful for anyone other than mages midlane or mana-hungry junglers. Supports, i guess. Remember that HP5/MP5 items are now a % mulitplier with your current base MP5 + Dragon buffs. So in order to get much out of the first two buffs
[quote] Now that I think of it... its actually pretty difficult to classify supports like this because it really depends on overall team composition and what you need at the time. Does my team need a support that can disengage or force an engagement? Do we need a support that can get to the back row? [/quote] Keeping in mind, again, my conclusion did not have much support statistical evidence... One of the premises for my conclusion was that you have only a
i think that there is a bit of miscommunication in exactly what is happening here and why those videos don't really mean much (for us - maybe they mean a lot to you because it allows you to gain some insight on your play): i don't think anyone here is trying to convince you that you shouldn't play Shaco ever . We are all saying: You won't see the results that you could more easily obtain on another, more conventional support for a wide variety of reaso
[quote]MASTER TIER[/quote] "One trick ponies" often have thousands of games just this season. Thousands! On one champ! Annie Bot (Master - Annie): 2200 games on Annie just in the past 11 months. Mister Oink (currently Diamond II, formerly Master - AP Sejani mid): 1050 games on Sejani this season. Lily Lancer (Master, Shaco support): 950 of shaco this season on just ONE of his FIVE accounts Now, part of playing the game is having fun. i th
TBH, that's actually not really the situation - or maybe it was one of the situations and there were actual multiple times pacov split top against a massive wave. The actual situation (in which Rammus called you out - after already asking you to group a few times) was this: 1. The enemy had just gotten dragon, not your team 2. Your team was fresh from base, the enemy was not, having just tanked baron and presumably wanting to shop. 3. You walk top, to get
yeah, this was the only way to ever de-power early game gankers. 3 minute double buff ganks are impossible. On the other hand, level 2 duelists are going to be 100% critical. "Anyone" can't jungle because if you do a "late" invade @ 1:50 or somethin, you can ward the buff then wait at the other buff. Whatever buff they do end up going to, you kill them.
[quote] Prove It [/quote] Usually the burden of proof is on the person who is making the conjecture, not the person who disagrees with it. Changing your platform to a bunch of generally-truisms wasn't what you were originally arguing before. Everyone is going to agree that PBW champs are typically stronger than normal, and it's always good to get on top of the bandwagon a few weeks before everyone else does. That's just common sense. We were contesting your
TBH, Thornmail is actually really really good right now - far stronger than its been historically. Not against true-damage feral-flare Yi but... Thornmail is really good against non-BT ADCs. ADCs that like to build BotRK (Kog, Twitch, Vayne) like to usually really stack up the attack speed (Phantom Dancers, Ghostblade, Stattik Shiv), and Last Whisper is often a negative DPS item on them against typical teamcomps. Unfortunately, you have to go LW against a TM or else you end up killing
[quote] Anyway, my bad for how I presented the yasuo specific data. This is much more accurate. Again, NA only, ranked solo queue on SR. You can see that he shines quite a bit at lower skill level's and is fairly well countered at higher levels of play. [/quote] Well, you're also forgetting one important statistic: P/B/W of the World Champs. Obviously the WCS are a whole different meta (Zilean is a 96% PB), play-style and entirely different planning
Nah you don't one-shot the wave. That's usually not good if you're behind because it lets them freeze it on you. If you catch the boomerang everytime, with just the CDR of Brutalizer, you're able to last-hit every minion as it dies from safety.
yeah i suck a bit less. There's a lot of intricacies about top lane that i'm not aware of. But i've certainly lost lane and been able to transition much better than someone like Quinn or Teemo, even putting out reasonable KDA by the end of the game. Brutalizer + 2x Dorans means that you can usually get 4-5 CS a wave just with your boomerang, so he's very difficult to zone. i think that he also has a lot of trouble against Ranged Tops, similar to Teemo (Ryze, Liss, Quinn, Rumbl
pretty sure the Akali shroud change is tended to be a nerf. (maybe the actual numbers are too high and it ends up being a buff, but think it's supposed to be a nerf). Right now Akali is surprisingly resilient while in her shroud. It's a huge teamfight defensive buff, even against a pinkward, because it's so much defensive stats on a champion who gets Spellvamp as a passive. If the enemy doesn't bring a pink and instead brings a lot of AoE, the shroud is one of her tool
i think you are underestimating the silence of the E. You E a mobile champ like Lucian, Vayne or Trist and they are stuck. In theory, mobile champs do less damage than immobile ADCs like Kog/Twitch. (ha - ha - ha). If they try to stutter-step their way out of the void zone, your ADC gets a lot of damage on them. If they stay there, they get snared. It isn't as straightforward or impactful as a Thresh hook, Braum Q or Leona E. But it's also AoE and it's reasonably
i'm a pretty large proponent of the "S" key. It really does make it a lot easier to last hit when you're in low-pressure situations. It's especially nice in midlane with people like Anivia who have long range but low AD. Unfortunately, you can't really hit "S" much after level 4 or so in midlane or else you just get hit by CC and die. Which is where bluebuff comes into play ;)
i dunno. i'll agree with a few of the points: 1- CS is one of the mechanics that is easiest to practice (you can spend 15 minutes a day in a zero-stress environment). 2- CS is the easiest way to get money 3- There is a correlation between the ability to get high CS and your ability to play at higher levels On the other hand, LoL really isn't a 40 minute farm fest like it was in Season 2, where midlaners just farmed wraiths and wol
he is pretty squishy - thank god. When you have long range, consistent dps, escapes, CC and shields you better blow up when your shits down and you get caught
No... the only season that had the "best ranking you've had this season" was Season 2 after they weird half-reset thing with Elo. Beta/Season 1 it was the threshold of whatever Elo points you were at Season 2 was going to be as Season 1, but then they did a weird half-reset about halfway thru the season and made it so that whatever your highest Elo was the rewards you got (to minimize end-of-season rank anxiety). Season 3 you had to actually have Plat at the end of
He was pretty OP on the first release onto PBE. He could kill a tower without creep waves with fog of war in about 30 seconds with a Nashor's Tooth. (He could spawn soldiers over walls and autoattack towers and just spam them). They bugfixed that (i think). There was also his ability to teleport to enemy dead towers and instantly proc the passive. Which i think got fixed as well. He's going to be really strong though. Champions who are able to create void zones at range with r
i can probably make Sunday nights. i'm moving (again) this Saturday. Hopefully internet will be setup and stable soon and then i'll be able to invest more time into league as other-life obligations start to settle down.
[quote]Also, where you been, hedgie? Haven't seen you in a bit. Will you be joining us for a game soon?[/quote] Spent the first half of the year grinding for diamond IRL. Second half has been pretty busy with work and been too sleepy to play LoL most of the time so turn to Hearthstone or Netflix.
It's not "your" LP. You only deserve the amount of LP that you play. And it's not like you're getting "anything" in teambuilder or normals. What you do "win" is a more relaxed game and the chance to play whatever/whoever you want. Which is fine. But it also makes you a "filty casual". Because you're playing for a good time, not to challenge yourself and see what you're capable of. Many of us here are "filty casuals". The only ones here who aren't would
Ryze will beat the crap out of him. Slightly shorter range overall (besides boomerage). Single-root shuts down any W initaition and helps setup ganks. Outscales. Irelia will also do well since she tends to be one of the best melees against ranged champs (she was the one who shut down Kennen back when everyone played him, and she's still been a big pick with the mage-top meta with lulu and stuff). i expect Bryff to interject here and claim that Irelia just gets wrecked by every ran
[quote] I really think offensive sieging will be rough for him in a lot of instances because you are quite likely going to be forced to engage at a certain time instead of waiting for the best possible moment to engage. You might need a dive comp to get around that. [/quote] Riot can tweak the bonus stats on Mega Gnar if that turns out to be an issue. Imagine, for a moment, Mega Gnar gave 2000 bonus hp. With that much defenses, pretty much "any" moment he had his
