League of Legends Thread XIII: http://www.twitch.tv/saltyteemo

[Suikama]

what just happened


so now dig > c9 > fnatic

but alliance > dig, eu > alliance, and fnatic > eu

so alliance > dig > c9 > fnatic > eu > alliance

WE'VE GONE FULL CIRCLE


oh god Krepolife pls have mercy

[Garlyle]

dat Leblanc Damage(tm)

[Raikaria]

what just happened


so now dig > c9 > fnatic

but alliance > dig, eu > alliance, and fnatic > eu

so alliance > dig > c9 > fnatic > eu > alliance

WE'VE GONE FULL CIRCLE


oh god Krepolife pls have mercy

Or just everyone except Allience got better since last month.

[hyorinryu]

what just happened

This did.

[Aba Matindesu!]

Gonna do placements. IT BEGINS

Game 1:
Karma/Caitlyn vs Leona/Vayne, 1/7/21, loss. Can't really comment on this one because everything's a blur. Every lane lost, then we started winning teamfights and took an inhibitor because our teamcomp had a decent midgame. However, because Trynd and Vayne are just unfair, we lost the last teamfight and got pushed all the way to nexus.

Game 2:
Miss Fortune/Nami vs Ezreal/Thresh, 20/10/20, win. Didn't learn much because laning phase was a stompfest. I only died as many times as I did because we'd initiate teamfights in the weirdest of positions. Definitely have room to improve myself there.

Game 3:
Karma vs Nidalee, 11/3/14, win. Laning was a stomp because Nidalee would use her spears to farm instead of poking. Our support Lux dc'd for the first 10 minutes but managed to catch up. Only the enemy Vayne ever got fed (vs Ashe). Some room to improve in terms of mantra usage.

Game 4:
Karma/Caitlyn vs Sona/Jinx, 1/5/12, win. Harassed like mad and almost overextended, but things were fine in the end because the enemy Volibear was too busy babysitting top and only ganked once while our Udyr ganked (read: towerdove) about thrice in laning phase.

Game 5:
Lulu/Jinx vs Leona/Ez, 2/9/13, loss. We won lane hard, but everyone else was counterpicked into oblivion (LB vs Gragas, Rengar vs Cho). Might have won otherwise, considering how long we stalled.

I really wish I could analyze my games better. Time to install LoLreplay?

[Think Komachi with a Rifle]

Gonna do placements. IT BEGINS

I really wish I could analyze my games better. Time to install LoLreplay?

it's a good idea, not sure it can replay games on current patch yet.

My current strat is pick Sona, max  Q or W depending on matchup/ how the lane is going.
Try to poke/ zone as hard as I humanly can.

Going almost full AP, only taking a sightstone to ward.
so coin + pink+ totem (my current favourite support start, just defensively pink your own jungle)-> better coin-> sightstone + lens-> athenes-> sorcs-> lichbane-> deathcap (insert talisman somewhere, depending when the big  fights start, and ruby sightstone if I need more tank)

[Ryuu]

whatever they did to matchmaker when ranked reset has completely demolished my ability to play with my friends at all

riot pls

[Aba Matindesu!]

6-4, Bronze 2, thanks obama.

[Raikaria]

I've had nothing but silly games today. With not one proper botlane on my team once.

But this one takes the cake because I bust out the toplane Hecarim because I'd had enough of the AP Shacos Botlane and the support Nidalees.



You have no idea what this teamcomp is; do you?

Nasus Mid
Hecarim Top
Yorick Jungle
Vladimir 'Carry'
Leona Support

Somehow I got a solokill on the Tryndamere. In fact I kicked his rear around the lane and only died in lane to a towerdive where I killed their jungle Kah'Zix and almost took Tryndamere with me as well. [The other death was LeBlanc blasting me in a teamfight before I had MR]

But the particually funny moments happened when I teleported.

Usually; the giveaway for a teleport is that the ward appears; right?

So what happens when you teleport to a ward that is revealed by a Sweeping Lens and is 1 hit away from death? Tristana and Kah'Zix run around confused for a few moments before they realise the increaseing swirl. Then they run for their lives and get murdered because Hecarim with Homeguard; E and R came out of nowhere.

The particually hilarious moment happened near the end of the game; where the team was doing Baron; and I was waiting at base. Leona throws a ward over baron wall; and Kah'Zix is there. He immediately uses his Sweeping Lens.

And I start to teleport before he even hits it.

He instantly knew what was up and leapt away evidently thinking 'NOT THIS AGAIN' but he still got murdered. So did the Tryndamere waiting in the brush near the red buff to back him up.

Then LeBlanc showed up and tried to finish me; but I did the most glorious juke ever.

Purple Side Red buff; that multi-path section leading down towards red; up towards Doublegolems and towards that weird little brush heading to purple base.

I press E and run towards the little brush; before flashing over the corner to Double Golems and running away.

Juking a Le Blanc has a feeling of poetic justice.

[Ryuu]

ugh i hope i win enough placements to be put into gold

going through silver takes so much time

[theshirn]

dignitas :3

[Widermelonz]

I was 4-1 in placements against golds yesterday. Now i'm 5-5 and in silver. My teammates were terrible, my enemies were terrible, I was terrible, this game is terrible. I hate this game.

[Cadmas]

dignitas :3

"I hate this fucking game."

Imaqtpie is my hero.

[Schezo]

lmao. I love dig

[Aba Matindesu!]

dig is what mineski would be if they qualify for next worlds and win something

[Think Komachi with a Rifle]

6w-3l-1lf
Bronze V (again), I was in Bronze IV.
Time to get learning some more snowbally champs.

[Ryuu]

honestly if you're in bronze v, you'd be better off hardcore learning general things about the game--good cs, good trading mechanics, general decision making--rather than learning new champions

[Think Komachi with a Rifle]

honestly if you're in bronze v, you'd be better off hardcore learning general things about the game--good cs, good trading mechanics, general decision making--rather than learning new champions

No I have all of that, I just lack  adcs and jungles I "click" with.
 "Elo hell" defiantly exists down here 2-3 afkers in a single game isn't unusual.
 Winning lane is fine, but if your jungler then goes solo into the lane you won and feeds them it's fairly hard to deal with.
Hard to deal with the no one ever building tank or to counter the enemies comp problem too.

also bronzies can't teamfight, they always perfer to go for 5v5s when they are behind (rather than try to get picks, about half don't understand what splitpushing is and will flame the one guy actually getting objectives  while they engage a 4v5 instead of just giving up an already lost tower/ dragon.

[Ryuu]

i've played in bronze v, as ad carry(easily my worst role by far) and solo carried games

i've carried games as support soraka

i don't mean to be insulting, but if you are in bronze v you are definitely missing at least one but probably many core game skills

[Schezo]

Damn playing Nasus is a fucking curse.  Every time I get him it's a 4v5 on my team.  I only pick him so I don't have to fuck with the other team having one not shut down but doesn't matter when I got the ol' numbers disadvantage.

[Raikaria]

honestly if you're in bronze v, you'd be better off hardcore learning general things about the game--good cs, good trading mechanics, general decision making--rather than learning new champions

But when I was Bronze I got out after I learnt Maokai :/

That said; I wasn't like Bronze V levels of Bronze. My lowest ELO was like; 995.

From my time I Bronze my advice is this:

The biggest power is Bronze is the ability to feed other idiots. Because when it's idiots v idiots the ones who have snowballed thanks to you force-feeding them are going to win.

Even the biggest idiot can capitalize on a Maokai jumping on someone and then knocking them back + slow. Any moron can deal damage; not anyone can enable the damage to happen.

This includes fight initiation; which is why Amumu/Malphite are Bronze bans!

Learn to Jungle or Support. The amount of people even decent at either in Bronze is far lower than all the kids who cry for mid and top wanting to carry. Yet Supports and Junglers are the ones who GET OTHER PEOPLE FED; and start the fights in most cases; which simply is something Bronze players completely lack. [90% of Bronzies will KS whenever possible because they think only they can carry.]

That and the map awareness you build from both roles can easily serve you into Silver. There's a reason I rose from Bronze to Gold basically only playing Maokai Jungle and Supports. [It's also the reason I stalled at Gold; because my other roles were not up to the skill level and I wouldn't always get junngle/support; especially since at Gold other people can actually play those roles too]

[Think Komachi with a Rifle]

i've played in bronze v, as ad carry(easily my worst role by far) and solo carried games

i've carried games as support soraka

i don't mean to be insulting, but if you are in bronze v you are definitely missing at least one but probably many core game skills

getting over 30 lp for wins, so it thinks I'm too low.
I play engage supports mostly, still annoying when your 5 man sona Ulti is met by your 4 dudes just standing there, then going in 1 by one after it wears off and dying.

[Ryuu]

if you're a support main, play like annie and build ap/support and just carry on your own

enabling only works to a degree

[Think Komachi with a Rifle]

if you're a support main, play like annie and build ap/support and just carry on your own

enabling only works to a degree

Sona works as she can be used as a sustain support or a poke support. So she can adapt to how the lane is going, Annie pigeon holes you.

[Ryuu]

solo queue pigeon holes you

[Think Komachi with a Rifle]

solo queue pigeon holes you

not in Bronze V, normal meta contains a tank, my last game had a jungle sion who was going full AD carry.

[Garlyle]

not in Bronze V, normal meta contains a tank, my last game had a jungle sion who was going full AD carry.

so clearly the answer is to build yourself as a tank no matter what role you were starting in

I play too many ARAMs yes this is legitimate answer in ARAMs

[Mr. Sacchi]

This reminds me of my last ARAM, 5-man premade against 4 ADCs, 3 of them were hypercarries (Vayne/Kog'maw/Tristana) and the last one was Ezreal, the final member of their team was alistar, I believe.

We got stomped to hell and back for the entire game, we literally lost all towers and inhibitor before we got a single hit in theirs,

Spoiler:

we only won because of my miracle luck hooks as Thresh and building pretty much entirely aura items

.

This was back in October, though, I kinda want to ARAM again.

[Raikaria]

> Is firstpick Purple
> Enemy firstpicks Vi
> Wanted Vi
> Goes Nocturne

> Vi didn't take Smite
> Steals Baron
> Wins game because of that + Vi initiating a '4v4' while teleportless mundo was on the other side of the map and I had my R so just ulted in. [Well we didn't win from that fight but we outscaled them after that because we had Nasus and Kog'Maw]

THAT'LL TEACH YA NOT TO TAKE WHO I WANNA JUNGLE WITH.

Also + 27 LP. That's more than I used to get~

I don;t Nocturne much; but if I recall I've only lost like 1 Nocturne game in ranked ever...

And despite having 3.6k HP; ~150 MR and Armor; and there being a Kog'Maw on the enemy team; me diving Ashe kept forcing Vi to ulti me; and the enemy team to focus me. The final fight I was the only one on my team to die. [That said I did have Omen; Lizard Elder; BotRK and Mallet; so Ashe was basically useless while I was on her and she had no way of stopping my E.]

What is it that makes me always the focus D:

[Aba Matindesu!]

Made it to Bronze 1 the other day and I'm now preparing myself for #theclimb from 38 LP (three losses in a row from 71LP).

The last game before I called it quits for the night (more like mornight; it was 2AM) I got my teeth kicked in as Riven vs Aatrox. Not that the game could've been salvaged between our Vayne raging at our support Lux 5 minutes in, the jungle Fiddykun trying and failing to calm them down, and the mid Galio (who was doing well until everyone and their mother ganked mid thrice) ragequit.

In that respect, I think I should master a new toplane champion just in case I don't get mid or support. Karma works, but it's only a matter of time before the sheep catch on. So the question is, who do I get (with 4800 IP)? Renekton (incoming nerfs), Kennen (marks nerfed into oblivion), Swain, Trundle (who I can't play to save my life), Jarvan (<), Irelia (<), or Vayne?