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Dude wtf Caitlyn rushing Mallet is pro.

And how does one go negative as Kat? Hold up...how does one not get a kill with Kat? Just troll by continually KSing with Shunpo back to back....PENTAKILL.

P.S. I may add u.
 
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/forum/champion-and-item-ideas

Just posting to bump this thread and say that Create-A-Champion has come a long ways and we'd really appreciate more votes on it! Just like CAP, it only needs one comment for a vote, as both polls currently open are bold vote.


On an on-topic note, I've been learning a lot of Corki and I LOVE his ability to farm so well, kill so well, and just his general playstyle. His early game is so flexible and it's extremely difficult to kill him.
 
Hi everybody. I started playing LoL thanks to this thread like a month ago and I'm lvl 15 now so I'm pretty into the game :P I'm saving up for malzahar atm cause on the week he was free I LOVED playing as him and was actually pretty good. I've tried p much every character type: nukers, ad carries, tanks, assasins, and i'm decent with them all except for assasins since i've only played noc and only a little. I like Amumu a lot, bought him, also i used to like teemo but he started seeming too weak and squishy for an ad carry, and i don't like playing him as ap. Also the week Maokai was free i did pretty good with him as an ap/tank hybrid so im buying him after Malzahar. And I just started trying Galio out since he's free and i'm having a lot of fun with him.

I just got a question: why ever since like last night, when i play a co-op vs ai game i get a -25% ip/xq penalty? and it went up to -100% for 2 games in a row last night =/ it says something about some reward time and reset time but i have no idea why it showed up all of a sudden, how i got it and what it does other than nullify my xp/ip gain o.O any help??
 
^ first of all the game penalizes you for playing AI games or custom game against bots (-25%ip/exp) and further more you can only get so much ip/exp from the AI games. IIRC there's a timer on how long AI games give you ip/exp which eventually reaches 0 for the -100%. It resets daily i think.

Basically it's a HUGE incentive to try and get you to play more pvp games.
 
oooooooh xD i see... anyway just got into 2 pretty cool games with galio! what builds do you recommend for him? i'm doing an mres with some armor build, which goes chalice of harmony>merc treads>bv>guardian angel>aegis of the legion but i think there are better options. suggestions anyone?
 
Philo Stone is so strong nowadays that I would recommend starting with one of its components (2 Faerie Charm+health pots/ward is very strong now) and rushing that Philo Stone for the GP10 and lane survivability, while still farming up like crazy. Chalice is amazing on Galio but with how powerful the GP10 metagame is right now, I don't think you can afford to NOT buy GP10 as a bottom laner.

Your core should probably be something like Merc Treads, BV, GA, with situational items being something like Abyssal Scepter, Randuin's, Aegis, etc.
 
lol me and isy played this crazy 5v5v inter bots game yesterday, this garen on our team went 34/1/12 All towers were destroyed except our inner turrets, inhiibtor battles back and forth eventually win with a good push.
5/8/20 with heimerdinger :D if only his turrets stayed after you died! i do want a new rotation though ._. hes the only one i like out of these
 
Philo Stone is so strong nowadays that I would recommend starting with one of its components (2 Faerie Charm+health pots/ward is very strong now) and rushing that Philo Stone for the GP10 and lane survivability, while still farming up like crazy. Chalice is amazing on Galio but with how powerful the GP10 metagame is right now, I don't think you can afford to NOT buy GP10 as a bottom laner.
I've been buying 2 Philo Stones and 2 Hearts of Gold as Rammus and so far it hasn't failed me.

I've been thinking of buying 3 Philo Stones and using the sole Heart of Gold to upgrade into a Randuin's like normal, though, since I'm not sure if I need the extra HP from the second HoG.
 

Caitlyn has 63 cs in 35 minutes...mega fail. Also why does it say you won none when we won one together?

On another note, I got banned from the forums for posting a troll thread arguing that aAa was going to intentionally throw games at Dreamhack...because they were French, and thus would surrender at 20.
 
i don't see how that's a troll thread OLOLOLOLOLOLO

also servers died during the game. it showed up in the ranked stats but not in the after game carnage report
 
On another note, I got banned from the forums for posting a troll thread arguing that aAa was going to intentionally throw games at Dreamhack...because they were French, and thus would surrender at 20.

leblanc doesn't have nearly enough escape mechanisms to be french

pfffhahahahaha

I am hearing rumours that GP10 is getting nerfed this patch. Riot's really starting to close those tricky things.

inb4 unique tiamats
 
GP10 needs a nerf.

In other news, Vlad is getting nerfed and Tryndamere's Bloodlust is being changed to a Fury system to be easier to keep track of.
 
Vlad needs the nerf a little bit... You can only inconvenience him in the lane, and the once he hits level 9 he can do whatever he pleases. There's never a moment where a good Vlad can be singled out and made useless, or in other words, there's no way for a good Vlad to be stopped.




I lol'd at Elementz tier list update. He put Nidalee in tier 1 because she was banned in every match of the tournament he played in. Hey Elementz, in case you didn't know... you have the greatest Nidalee player in the game on your team, who consistently uses her to smash face at will.
 
Played Evelyn for the first time, seeing as they were never going to make her free to play I just caved and bought her. She's fun, very underrated. Thing is, even if the opponent takes a financial hit to fight stealth, she's still a melee dps who can chase like crazy with a 2 second stun.
 
Played Evelyn for the first time, seeing as they were never going to make her free to play I just caved and bought her. She's fun, very underrated. Thing is, even if the opponent takes a financial hit to fight stealth, she's still a melee dps who can chase like crazy with a 2 second stun.

Yeah, I have a smurf account so I can play with my other friends newer to the game and I've come across 3 or so Evelyns on the opposing team (I was summoner level 5-10) and they always completely dominate us. The newer players don't seem to grasp the concept of vision warding yet alone characters with stealth abilities+long stuns

edit: also I think the Vladimir nerf is completely justified for the reasons Valkyries posted. He only gets inconvenienced, he always gradually recovers and wittles you down until you end up having to b a few more times or buying more health pots than needed
 
won a solo ranked game
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basically i got fed very early through some nice ganks. despite my team giving first blood and bot lane basically failing, we managed to keep all our towers alive. heimer took down top tower after a gank by me and blitz, i was soloing every dragon, and we skirmished the enemy team for control of their jungle. after a pick on tryndamere, we got baron, split push and aced them at their nexus to win.

good moments:
- heimer 1v1ing irelia and winning
- blitzcrank grabbing tryndamere who was attacking a 200 health karthus
- me ulting into the enemy team to initiate a fight, popping omen and flashing away as they tried to chase me and then were promptly cut down by my team
- the enemy team having no jungle or good initiator n_n
- heimer selling all his items before the nexus push and getting an autoattack kill on lux

bad moments:
- me trying to defend a tower 1v4 and paying for it
- me walking around at 50 health and being ulted by lux (luckily my banshee's came up literally a second before it hit)
- karthus following me around the entire game trying to steal my farm because he died five times in lane to a shaco/irelia combo >:(

bans were amumu, alistar, jax (wtf) and evelynn. i was second pick so i jumped at the opportunity to play an unbanned nocturne

decided to build like olaf because my team didn't have a dedicated initiator and i needed some survivability to stop a tryndamere/shaco onslaught every fight
 
So day one at Dreamhack is over. I caught the first two matches of the day late last night, then caught all of group B's matches this morning after some sleep.

I've got to say, EG looks like the team to beat right now, and I don't see many contenders that can face them. CLG has the better Team KD for the tournament (70/37 to EG's 66/39), but they are royally messed up by a few well placed bans. The latter symptom is even worse for TSM, who gets destroyed simply by banning Vayne and Alistar. Alistar is their Tank and Support, and by getting rid of him you force them to waste two players on a role that one player could fulfill, which is a role that they thoroughly abuse. I caught only aAa's match with EG, and fNatic against Pacific, and I'm not sure they can pull it off against EG either. Looking forward to see how this will all play out.


Team I'm most impressed with though, was Xan. They facerolled TSM with a good Brand assisted by a powerfully farmed Mordekaiser as Babysitter. I mean, Brand finish 10/0/4 with Morde going 3/0/9, and I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's got to be pretty hard to outright deny this calibur of skill from at least getting one kill on something that fed. Not to mention they had a close match against gamed!de and held their own against CLG with some interesting Lee Sin play. Sadly though, since they were eliminated by TSM, there will be no Xantheon.

P.S. Pacific sucked.
 
Just posting to say that it was THIS thread that got a whole group of my friends into this game. I've been playing for a bit over a week now. Great tastes, Smogon!

I'm only summoner level 12 currently, and I too play Nocturne. I loved him so much when he was free I decided Riot deserved my $10 for a game that was otherwise free. I tend to get a little greedy (especially when chasing using Paranoia; it's led to several mutual kills but it feels so nice to kill that opponent who's being a douche sometimes) with my ganks, but overall I wind up with a very high kill-death ratio, usually over 15 kills.

What makes me sad is how impatient and just unpleasant the community can be; it just shows how much I appreciate Smogon's community (and to a lesser extent, WoW's, but only because Smogon is a lot friendlier). In addition to that, the tribunal system seems a bit ridiculous, putting players at the mercy of other players. Doesn't work out to well when the community is full of trolls, ya?

I recently bought Vladimir using IP. No PvP yet, just trying him out on bots. From reading Jebus McAzn's post, I'm assuming I'm playing him wrong so far. His early game is indeed weak, but he dominates mid-late game. A singly 2 move combo of 4 stacks ToB+Transfusion can does ~50% of one enemy's health, and that does seem a tad ridiculous. His scaling is just too good.

Thanks again for this thread guys. Any tips for the noob in general?
 
Thorns said:
some basic tips that seperate bad players from good players that is not a complete list and should be added to by other players

- play every free champion you can in a coop vs ai game before playing them in a normal queue
- buy ashe, nunu, warwick, janna, shen, ryze, amumu, teemo, taric, alistar, annie, tristana (get her for free off facebook) and cho'gath and get good at all 13 of them - they teach you the basic skills
- run where the enemy will go when you're chasing rather than directly to them
- when you come in for a gank run with them not at them
- if someone is helping to gank your lane then don't suddenly go aggressive if you were defensive and vice versa
- actually aim to always be aggressive in lane, lane domination works psychologically and physically
- don't pull the 'let's wait for them to push up' shtick, if they're ungankable then don't bother unless you're level 6 warwick or nocturne or something else ridiculous
- you're being baited when the guy in front of you will lose to you in a 1v1 situation and half the team is mia
- when you place wards place them to maximise their efficiency, don't just stick them on the primary objective
- when laning last hit only
- know when you're beat, ask for a lane switch
- know the abilities of every champion
- notice the small things, like if their warwick built a spirit visage save ignite for him
- chain your cc, don't throw it all on immediately
- don't cc the first person that comes in on a team fight. the moment someone comes in you hunt for the primary target
- if there's a good player on your team follow his example
- if there's a bad player on your team lead by example
- click enemy champions and check their defensive stats. if their shen is raping you but he only has 40 mres nuke him down
- don't understimate the usefulness of elixirs, if you anticipate a team fight coming up you might as well buy one
- learn the paths of junglers as well as their clear times so you can anticipate ganks
- ward. ward the river when laning, ward buffs and dragon midgame, ward baron when everybody is level 14 at least and keep it warded.
- jungle creeps spawn every 100 seconds. buffs spawn every 5 minutes. dragon spawns every 6 minutes. baron spawns every 7 minutes.
- when doing buffs or dragon lead the monsters away so you're in a position to escape if you're interrupted
- doran's items help you when you're behind, but realise you have to make up for the deficit
- boots and 3 health potions are good starting items when you have no idea what to do
- solomid.net if you're still stuck
- don't overextend if they have a nocturne
- give up on chasing for too long if they have a shen
- if you're top and 4 of them are bot then push that tower down
- dragon is worth 2-3 kills
- baron is worth 5 kills
- DON'T AUTOATTACK RAMMUS

would like to note that currently, these champions are very powerful: vladimir, rumble, vayne, amumu - but as is riot protocol, powerful champions are always nerfed, so i wouldn't jump at the opportunity to buy all of them.

i caught every main stream game from fanatic vs epik gaming to counter logic gaming vs gamed!de. very nice games, i loved, loved LOVED westrice's akali - i don't see why people don't ban akali against EG...

salce was dominant with vladimir too - he has 46 wins and 1 loss as vladimir in ranked solo, so i don't really understand why they didn't ban vlad against EG.
 
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