League of Legends (Old)

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Morgana makes sense because of the leak on the PBE awhile ago that had some particles for an unnamed Morgana skin. I told AP I thought it was Morgana when I visited him awhile ago.

The only problem was that she already has plenty of skins. I also don't think she matches the hints that Morello gave, but whatever.

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Ah, that explains it.

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I think you just play a lot of ranked when you're not drunk.

In Bronze abusing danger pings and giving everyone an objective to take after every pick or won team fight will go a long way I think.

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Sounds tough!

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If someone wants to drop really quickly, the best strategy is to duo with someone in Bronze V and lose those games.

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Though I guess Brandi can't do that anymore, so she'd have to duo with someone in Plat V instead.

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They've let Morgana be pretty dominant all season. It wouldn't surprise me if that was related.

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Yeah, Lucian would make a lot of sense, especially because we already have Victorious Janna and Judgment Kayle (who's the closest thing to a Season 1 Victorious skin).

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Maybe it's Taric.

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Opals for harmony.

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Sugar rush started.

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Check the list here before you buy any limited skins. They'll all be 50% off on one of the coming days.

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Wow Azir seems like an ideal boyfriend.

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I wonder how you activate his passive...I don't know of other passives that are actives....

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Ah, you just have to misclick.

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It looks like on the PBE some of the Shurima-associated champions have new VO with one another.

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Does anyone know what makes Cassiopeia betray Sivir in Shurima? It looks like that's something that happens in the lore from the VO stuff.

The VO is pretty good, too.

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Swain top though.

I guess Anivia or Azir is support for Quinn. Maybe Azir's E can set up kills. It's hard to say without knowing how durable he'd be.

I wonder if you can use E while Azir is Qing. I could imagine putting a soldier behind the enemy, moving it behind them, and then E-ing into the enemy for the knock-up and shield. Ideal to just hit them of course but.

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those cass pbe changes hnnng

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If you guys hadn't noticed yet,

the double IP weekend started

. ^^

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He was supposed to be free this week, but then he was not due to a bug. I guess they fixed the bug.

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Jason made it pretty clear that he knew that part already.

The question was whether Rito said "lol glitch fixed."

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Grats

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Opinions on how strong Maokai top and Maokai jungle are after the recent nerfs? I mostly stick to mid/supp/adc, so I'm not really sure if he's still worth picking.

They didn't really affect anything. They and the LCS were/are 4.14 right now.

He does slightly less damage and his ult has slightly more counterplay. You were not picking him for damage and the counterplay was a good change.

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I'm always happy when I'm jungling and I have a Fiora because I know that the Fiora knows Fiora and will kill the map if I gank for them once.

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The stacking rate doubles once you get AAs, if you didn't know. It's +4 vs. +8 per spell cast.

Tear -> RoA -> AA to maximize your ramp-up rate. Get a glacial thing along the way if you need the armor for your match-up, though.

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No, it doubles from +4 to +8 on SR/ARAM. In Dominion, it instead goes from +5 to +10.

AA stacking on autos doesn't change afaik either....

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You can replace boots with Zephyr if the game goes on that long for a little extra damage and not much MS loss if you want. You can also invest in elixirs for a little more stats.

Most games will not go as long as that game, though. Probably something you could work on is taking objectives whenever you kill an opponent. Use pings to get your team to focus a tower or take baron.

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I like playing as Tristana. It's fun to spam her joke.

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PD is better at endgame. The reason trist rushes shiv sometimes is that it lets her accelerate her farming and hit her power spike sooner, even if it's a slighter spike.

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PD has 10% AS and 10% crit at the cost of the waveclear passive and 300g.

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So playing Tris bottom

I'm gong to call you out on FOTM abusing. There's no one on earth who can say they honestly like playing tristana - she's not fun to play as, with,or against.

i honestly enjoy playing tristana.

Tristana is the only adc in the game that I have played and enjoyed.

And I played her and enjoyed her in all of the previous seasons.

Liar, I know you like Vayne. :p

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I figured you liked her because you played her in the game with Cabd awhile ago.

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The reddit is actually a pretty nice community. I like reading it. ^^

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I think he's talking about LCS.

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What are people's thoughts about TF on MF? The 3s CD on her Q works nice with it, she has AP ratios to use the AP bits of it, and the mobility should be handy on an escape-challenged ADC. But it's never really built on her.

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Why not both?

The CDR fits well into a TF build, anyway.

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What if your Fiora is fed?

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It was fun. ^^

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I just don't like Curse Voice. I don't even have it installed.

I'll do Skype with you sometime if you want.

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It never worked properly when I had it. I mostly just used it for the jungle and ult buffs when they were still a thing.

Skype I often have open anyway so it's not annoying to use it.

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Rivington is so cute and dumb.

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My favorite moment was when Zion picked Olaf.

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There are painful losses, and then there's this loss. In my promo series no less .

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends. ... 0/50095874

I don't get it.

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Brandi should stream and make hundreds of dollars.

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(I am watching Kaceytron.)

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Whoa I wonder if Brandi is Kaceytron irl.

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OMG.

It was really unfair when they dodged when you were about to play Sivir. :[

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It was nice that your teammate tried to bully Lux into going support so that you could mid cassio tho.

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Vel'Koz, Varus, and Cass are all really fun ARAM champions. Cass is getting a mini-rework next patch that might make her really strong idk.

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It seems dumb. They can add to the universe instead of continuously retconning it.

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They should have had a "world event" that destabilized the league/institute and ended the league as a system for resolving international conflicts. Then they could carry on and promote trading card games or comics or whatever else in Runeterra. The gameplay would simply all take place prior to that world event.

This would have the same effect without the need for a retcon.

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Maybe be less obnoxious?

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Nono, I meant that Siveure should be less obnoxious.

Sometimes I play with people who use pings so obnoxiously that I dream of defying them and dying just to make them cry.

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If you ping so obnoxiously that you make Maokai suicide to spite you, you may have a problem.

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If you're already winning lane, you can just rush IE, though. The idea is that it helps get you to her 2 item power-spike as quickly as possible.

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...Thresh :3

Fuck thresh and the hooks he rode in on. (I actually totally forgot about him but I was hoping to learn a slightly tankier support character, as opposed to a grabber like him or blitzcrank)

Braum, Leona, or Taric would fit the bill. Braum is a tanky disengage (like Janna, but tankier and less slippery), Leona is a tanky engage, and Taric is an aura tank whose aura is relevant mostly against teams that have disproportionate physical damage.

You also might want to pick exactly 1-2 top/jungle/mid champions to experiment with so you can start to learn those match-ups. If you like supporting, you might want to try learning a support-oriented character in those positions. Orianna/Lulu/Kayle might serve this purpose in solo lanes while a tanky jungler might serve this purpose in the jungle. I've had a lot of success with jungle Maokai despite the meta putting him in top lane right now, and you can use some of the same peeling patterns in team fights that you've learned from playing support.

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I guess you could also just play Morgana mid, though.

I've never seen Dan do solo lane Nami.

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Meteos played a bunch of Morgana jungle in solo queue awhile ago, I think.

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I run into the issue what I am good with a champion for a while and then I go through a bad streak with them and move on to someone else

is that weird

I do this too. That's why my champ pool is so small.

Also I should do Nami top/mid more though last time I was against a fizz in which I won the lane... but that's all I could do.

That sounds like a terrible match-up for her.

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I guess that was your point, though.

Danny so skilled.

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She's pretty good as mage junglers go from what I understand. Her E is kinda wasted, though.

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Or sublimate your hatred into lust. ^^

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I was Ascended as lategame Sona and it was amazing. Even with the healing debuff, basically unkillable with enough AP. We came back from a 40 points deficit and almost won. ;;

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The only deal with Caitlyn is that I think you really have a responsibility to do more than just farm if you pick Caitlyn. You need to bully really aggressively, too.

If you want a champion who

just

farms safely for 20 minutes, I think Tristana is probably the simplest pick.

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I think the way you play Cait is by right-clicking the enemy ADC into oblivion during laning phase. Her long range also lets her poke towers down during sieges relatively easily, so she is nice with objective-taking if your team isn't way behind after laning phase (i.e., and Cait is a champion who will on average win her lane during laning phase, so that's also more common if you have her on your team).

She's not the strongest team-fighter, though she has the advantage that she has lots of escapes, so that may amount to a stronger team-fight if you otherwise can't rely on any peel.

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if you're offended by other people being insulted you're more than welcome to leave or ya know.... ignore it since it's not directed at you.

I am thrilled that people finally received temporary bans for the bile in this thread.

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As in this thread, the vitrol in-game is mainly associated with a small number of extremely vocal players. I think it would probably be OK.

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Ascended Swain is the most glorious thing ever.

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It's boring until you become a god.

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That Janna staff is amazing.

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Chevre if you play LoL

I promise not to yell at you while I'm sober

Dram promises not to yell at you unless he's sick.

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And it'll be more like a smirk.

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I like how her new E is a Swain W that deals damage immediately and silences.

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That's my birthday weekend too!

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For some reason I always get Ascension'd as Swain, even though it's DoT instead of burst.

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I harbor no love for this mode.

#Bring back URF.

I feel like I have to slave away until I get the Perfect Ascension icon, though. :[

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Yeah, that was a month or so ago. He was nerfed a bit subsequent to that, but he's still picked some.

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Yayyy I got the icon. ^^

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Make sure you're logged in?

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What the hell they killed off sivir

Maybe she finds some kind of relic that keeps her from dying? Something that will provide lore for her E or something?

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Do it for Voyboy.

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I think she has a pretty high winrate even in Diamond tho.

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Could be. I read "this" in the last paragraph as "playing Akali."

I do not play or own Akali, but I hear lots of people say that she is only strong at low MMR, so I inferred that he was expressing the same sentiment.

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would there be a reason I couldn't play ranked? I have way more than 16 champions unlocked. Is there a new place to choose it than Game Type under Summoner's Rift? All I see are Normal Team Builder, Normal Blind Pick, and Normal Draft Pick. I haven't played ranked since Season 3, just wondering.

Ranked is down right now. Check the teal exclamation mark near the top-left.

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This is all of why she doesn't work as much at high elo.

See? This is a good example of what I was just talking about.

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They just increased Sona's Q range to 825.

Holy Jesus.

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Her Q has been bugged since the rework to be shorter-ranged than previous/intended. My guess is that the 825 number is fixing the bug and implementing the whole "middle of champion instead of edge" thing.

I wish they'd let her ult damage minions. :[

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Swain is so much fun.

Farming is so painful early on, but I feel like he'll feel very rewarding if I can get more comfortable with it.

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IIRC the Shadow Isles event was around the revamp of the Twisted Treeline. Lots of Twisted Treeline champions got new lore, the treeline itself was retconned to have a different backstory, and so on.

The Freljord event was around the release of the Howling Abyss and saw some of those champions' lore get fleshed out, especially Lissandra.

If you go to the LOL wiki and click on backstory for the champions, all old lore is readable if applicable.

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That awkward moment when you just go along with your jungler's build suggestions and suddenly you have more gold than either solo laner because you keep accidentally killing people with Q-AA?

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends. ... 9/50095874

your jungler is nuts

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Oh, I, uh, didn't notice the manamune. Dunno what's up with that.

Sheen Sona OP tho.

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I run 15% scaling CDR glyphs on Vladimir, since you don't get get/need Blue much and you normally have 25% from items and masteries (Visage + WoTA + Sorcery). I guess you could take Ionian for similar effect, but I like going Sorc's.

I should probably scale it back to 5% and take the elixir, though.

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I think it's more efficient to play a lot of normals first and then climb less far.

Encourage him to duo with you or anyone else who's better than him so that he improves more quickly.

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Greater Stealth Totem lets you have out 2 at a time on its own.

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If you're playing in an elo where most people don't have wards out, having 2 wards out is much more important, especially presuming the jungler and support have sweepers.

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okay. is that like being relieved that you have a illness because at least you know what it is even if it's not treatable?

Maybe plug in your computer.

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Harder to ignite by accident.

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IMLS made a tier list awhile ago that left out Janna altogether and then put her in the D tier when he was asked about it later. I was annoyed. That may be what TES is referring to.

I am happy that he is eating his words. ^^

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I couldn't imagine not having a gaming mouse in this game

active items...how do people use them on time without a gaming mouse?

Also Should i pick up Nami or Braum as a support? (My current pool is Annie, Janna, Thresh, Morgana and on the rare occasion of a full AD enemy team Taric)

Both probably have a niche that's unfilled (Nami for when you want an Annie with sustain and more disengage; Braum for when you need a support tank, but the enemy team-comp doesn't favor Taric).

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Chamber wants the OP.

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Just so you guys know, you don't have to stick your name in alphabetical order yourself. The display tab will sort it for you.

I am skeptical, seeing that several people are at the bottom of the list when I view it.

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Oh, you're saying that the non-editable page sorts it.

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Thx bb. You were the hero we needed.

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You need to hit some small ones, too.

You can save one charge for the next cannon wave to make sure you ALSO get the big ones, though.

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EDIT: ACTUALLY now that I think about it, they trade damage for mobility in the EXACT same way. Both of their "escape" spells are temporary trap-esque spells, which provide zoning and punish enemies continuing to chase them but offer no inherent mobility on their own. Maybe that's just the thing I dig with; I love playing them so much.

Try out Swain; his escape works the same way, and then you get a free kill. ^^

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Regarding GW, they did that in response to player feedback that Grievous Wounds made her ultimate feel really bad because a "good" ult that occurs when everyone has low health ends up having very low impact if the enemy simply builds Morello's. A designer said he thought that GW was a bad mechanic and will likely be reworked in the future.

Trist/Varus/MF should maybe find something to be happy about during lane.

They should really take the GW away from Tristana IMO. She has plenty of power without it.

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You should probably share your wisdom so that it can be scrutinized if you want to criticize someone else.

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Yeah, they posted his abilities, too. ^^

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I think he's just starting, so it's all the patches.

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Add me = Iecerint.

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ZILEAN is more popular than TARIC? wtf happened to ranked while I was gone.

Faker

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Taric's still worth it if it's your pick and their top and mid are already both AD (or their jungler and solo laner are both non-tank AD). This happens more than you might think. Stacking armor and giving everyone on your team 40% bonus eHP is ridiculous, even if no one will thank you for it.

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You just have to survive lane in the circumstance where their damage is all AD. Taric's good at that.

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Yay it worked!

I played through the first tutorial, so I at least understand what I'm doing. I mean, I know it's going to be more complex than that was, but I can do the basics. :/

You can right-click like a champion.

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It looks like you're not Chevre. What's your summoner name?

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Pantheon top is something that you pick for his extremely strong laning. If you lane against him, your goal is to stay alive, not fall too far behind in cs, and ping missing after level 6. These steps make the panth pick useless.

I like Swaining into him pretty well. Just W yourself when he jumps on you and it's a free full combo, especially if he tries to run away instead of getting his entire combo off. You're squishier than him, so you have to be careful, but that plus one trade somewhere will usually get you an easy kill.

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If you don't die to bots much, you'll probably be able to win your first PvP matches unless you get matched up with a smurf (in which case, just survive and hope your team's smurf carries harder).

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I think it's useful to get to know champions though. I don't want to detriment anyone else's games until I actually understand what I'm doing. Like when champion pick is going on I have to slowly look at what everyone else has picked so far and determine what is needed because I'm not familiar with the champions in the slightest.

And yeah I see the reduced returns thing, but you have to play a certain amount of minutes which is quite a few games for me, and the Intro AI benefits don't reduce until you reach level 10.

I think ARAM is a good tool for learning a lot of champs. It forces you to play champions you aren't comfortable with, which is the easiest way to learn when they're vulnerable and so on. It's also a decent transition to PvP because no one cares if you do poorly in ARAM. Not sure what level that unlocks.

In general it's better to know a champion well than to pick champions specifically to "counter" your opponent.

I wish you were ever online at the same time as me.

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GA's never really a bad choice, but you usually build 3-4 items that let you delete opponents first.

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In general, if you're playing an ADC like Ashe, it's helpful if your first item is a damage ("attack damage" or "AD") item. This is because damage makes last-hitting much easier and your abilities tend to scale with AD rather than attack speed ("AS").

You might also want to invest in a lifesteal item early if you're not comfortable with being able to "win lane" (i.e., last-hit more minions than your opponent and/or kill them a few times). This is because it heals you a little when you shoot things, which lets you hang around even if you take some damage.

And totally take the old tutorial lady's advice about having difficulties -- don't be discouraged!

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Don't feel discouraged! You will definitely get better. With some practice, beginner bots will feel trivial, and then intermediate bots will feel trivial. You will definitely feel the progression.

If you're playing an ADC ("attack damage carry") like Ashe, your autoattack (i.e., your right-click attack) is a significant portion of your damage. You build items that increase your AD, which increases the power of your autoattack. You are totally correct that Ashe probably felt weak (and WAS weak). This is because ADCs, more than probably any other role, require items to be powerful. This is part of why they are usually paired with a support early on in the game -- they need the protection both early on and throughout the game, but if you can farm well and get some kills with help from your support, you become capable of 1v5ing (well, maybe 2v5ing, as you still need some protection!) the enemy team.

If you want to feel strong as a new player (meaning, as a player who's not great at last-hitting and getting gold as a result), I suggest you check out some support champions. Support champions are designed to be pretty powerful even without any gold, so you can come closer to their potential even without farming well.

With Lux, a lot of her power is in her passive. If you hit an enemy with your Q or E, they have a debuff that you can "detonate" by using either an autoattack or your ultimate. A really satisfying combo with her is to snare an enemy with Q and then ult them to deal tons of damage. If you're playing against her, the object is probably to dodge her skillshots and attack her when her cooldowns are up.

If you're playing as Ashe against bots, a good strategy is to right-click and W the enemy champions and ONLY attack minions if you're last-hitting them for the gold. This is a good strategy in general, really.

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The people you're playing with are (mostly) just like you -- they don't know much about the game yet. That Garen might be an exception.

If you joined PvP now, people would probably start to call top/mid/adc/support, though you don't tend to see a jungler till level 20 or so unless someone is feeling adventurous.

Roles can be a helpful concept because it can help to keep the items straight. Even though there are tons of items, certain items are built together much more frequently than others, so you can end up remembering 5-10 sets of items (with elaborations) instead of trying to memorize them all.

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If you want to get a sense of how the game is played at a high level, check out the professional LCS stream sometime. It's surprisingly entertaining (I watched some youtube videos on a whim once and got totally addicted and now follow it weekly), though the next game isn't for 3-4 days.

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Take smite for maximum mobility.

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Also I played as Ashe, whose abilities I still don't really get.

Oh man, I missed a great opportunity.

Ashe is the best adc. You should start with 21/9/0 full ad runes and a dorans blade then run to the junglers buff. Place a trinket over the wall and use a critical shot to take the buff and volley to level up to level 2 from the small minions. From there run to the mid lane bush and wait for the champions to start fighting. Run out of the bush and ignite critical shot volley and frost shot for an easy first blood. With the changes it makes it easy to get first blood and the junglers first buff and snowball to victory.

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FWIW, "cs" stands from "creep score," which is a holdover from Warcraft III, where neutral minions were colloquially called "creeps" for some reason or other.

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Chevre get on and play with me plz.

I won't even pester you to use voip.

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CHEVREEEE

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Elise's winrate was low even before she was nerfed, but yeah, she got nerfed several patches ago. Gragas the patch before that one, I think -- they gave his sustain a mana cost.

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Rappel is handy for tower-diving, good objective control with % health, cocoon.

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1. Frozen Heart

2. Stun and destroy

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Well, Thornmail if you want to get real silly but.

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someone tell me how to league

ARE YOU STARTING

STAERT

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I think he did some kind of weird on-hit thing. Maybe she has funky recommended items.

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Do you mean spellthief or frostfang?

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Holy fuck i just played swain and my god what is that power.

The amount of times i zhonya's in the middle of a teamfight with like 200 health, and got back to almost full was so fucked up.

He's really really really strong if you can get even just one level ahead of the enemy. WEQignite will kill anything and you are unkillable unless they spend everything on you and ignite you, in which case you've done your job, anyway.

However, because he requires aggressive positioning to do his job, he's really really useless if you don't get that lead somehow, so I only pick him into a favorable match-up.

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Regarding nice Swain match-ups, he's favored in lane against basically every melee champion in the game -- especially ones with no gap-closer (so they can't dash out of your W) or who rely on a MS boost to engage (because you can counter this with your Q and laugh as they take terrible damage). All you have to do is E+aa them at level 1 and you have won the lane unless they manage to rush level 2 and flash-combo-ignite and you don't catch it or whatever.

Swain is countered by gap-close mobility (because it makes it harder to land W until you notice how they like to use their gap-close) and by strong waveclear pre-6. His waveclear is low without his ult, and his tower-farming is really uncomfortable, and he will run out of mana quickly if he can't consistently last-hit (i.e., his passive refunds mana for it). Last-hitting is also disproportionately difficult with Swain I think, because his DoTs on QE aren't great for securing last-hits, and his W has a delay before the damage is applied, so it can be hard to time correctly. Even his ult damage is in small bursts early on, so it's easy to miss minions if you're not careful.

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A meta-disadvantage to Swain top is that Swain really likes ignite because his E amplifies the ignite true damage.

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Well as a very experienced player who has played ryze once, you need something with range. Even if you're pretty strong melee-wise, his w can bind you and that allows him to get away.

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Chevre, LCS starts in 45 minutes! :D

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Chevreeeeeeeeeeee

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You can stack Flare more quickly.

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The Q nerf was back in January.

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My point is that the Q nerfs didn't stop her randomly becoming OP back in June or whenever. :p

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That's not what I mean.

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Disregard choices, acquire Swain.

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There is no reason not to know Galio. He's like a tanky Orianna. Chalice nerfs hit him hard though.

He got MR per level in the same patch. I'm not sure how much he has by 18, but I think he ends up in a slightly better place than before.

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You can only do "solo queue" with at max one other person.

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Oh, I missed that the uo was duo. Sorry.

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My Taric win rate is 100%.

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It's 4.

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My largest sample size for any champion is 8 (Maokai at 66%), so.

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Sorry, 13 games, 8 wins.*

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You should narrow your champion pool then

I haven't played very many ranked games.

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You mean so few...? I only have 3 champions who meet that criterion (Maokai, Sona, Morgana).

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so... are people actually 5x5 team ranked for the rewards? iec sold me lies about doing so and then hasn't followed through.

I'll probably make a new one with DRK soon. I'll invite you to that one. ^^

The issue is that ranked teams have a max of 9 members, so you have to kick a less active person off the island if you want to add more people, unfortunately.

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Ya DRK is so great. Playing with friendly people who are laid-back is a lot of fun. I wish ETL still played a lot.

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Asdf fuck you iecrint. I was wondering why the fuck i wasnt on M's 5s ranked team

I'm not on a ranked team with Maestro, so I do not know what you are talking about.

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I feel like all of my posts seem so confrontational with Maestro's avatar. ^^;

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I want to be Soraka with Maestro again. ^^

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My friends, Silver III / Silver II / Plat V / Plat V / Plat III won all five placements and got Bronze II.

Amazing.

(and I took a 5 hour power nap)

Bronze II is where it's at.

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Does anyone here use LOL Connect? I discovered it today and it seems sketchy, but it seems it's existed for over a year without incident.

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I want to be Soraka with Maestro again. ^^

What happened during this...? I don't remember. I have a shit memory...

We were drunk and I pressed W a lot and we fed a lot but we won because RayFrost had like 8 Wukong kills at the end of laning phase.

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Btw Soraka v Karthus sucks now.

Soraka healhealhealhealheal mwahaha time to back with 1 HP -> Karthus ult.

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CHEVRE PLZ

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That's why you hae to play more!

ETL can tutor you.

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The Poppy stuff makes me so excited for UoL next season. ^^

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It's probably ideal to fall as hard as possible at the start if you just want to maximize the number of wins you will get per game played (i.e., the mechanism for unlocking ranked team rewards). So just look on the bright side.

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Your performance in your earliest matches have the largest effect on your MMR, so losing more early to tank your MMR should allow you to have a higher winrate overall.

This only applies if you're on a team with people who don't yet have an established ranked 5s MMR, though, which doesn't fully apply to us.

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It was only at the very end.

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Am I the only one to think new Soraka's really bullshit and needs toning down? The Q seems way too easy to hit, even at mid range. Which means free (and infinite) healing for everyone.

Needs hard engage.

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Am I the only one to think new Soraka's really bullshit and needs toning down? The Q seems way too easy to hit, even at mid range. Which means free (and infinite) healing for everyone.

Needs hard engage.

So does Janna, but she's top tier.

I am saying that you need to hard engage against her.

Soraka Q only heals if it ends an enemy champion, which is why it's nice bot lane. She's apparently nice against people like Kat whom she can insta-silence (whereas other silences have travel time).

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I just played against Sion support. Poor Sion.

The last player on the other team picked Zac, so I assume he did it just because of the trolly jungler.

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Wow, those PBE changes.

It's rumored the season ends on November 11 FWIW.

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Am I the only one to think new Soraka's really bullshit and needs toning down? The Q seems way too easy to hit, even at mid range. Which means free (and infinite) healing for everyone.

I don't feel this way about Soraka at all.

Also, if redmercy's PBE play of Soraka is any indication, the Q moves a lot slower as you reach its max range (not sure if this stayed in the live release).

It does -- it's easier to hit if you're riskier with it.

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Tierce Tierciel Silver III <-- Who added this to the doc?

Tierciel is someone I know IRL, They aren't a scummer. Whoever you are that added them, they are 100% not tierce. I'm assuming you added them when they played with me and got confused?

Yeah, I take responsibility. I went through and added everyone active on my MS list in LOL. I think I probably played with you, added them, and then later assumed it was Tierce.

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I've been getting more "Attempting to Reconnects" than usual today.

I mean that means 3 that lasted about 5 seconds apiece over 2 games, but still. Annoying.

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Also those changes to baron and turrets o_o

So splitpushing is no longer a valid strategy unless your team has baron

Some of the item changes also facilitate it, but it looks like they want you to really commit to it.

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I can play ya.

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MF + Blitzcrank is a really scary lane.

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Stand behind minions to avoid Blitz -> Double Up.

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I am not saying that it is complicated to avoid Double-Up. I am saying that the strategy to avoid Double-Up exposes you to Blitz grabs if she's paired with him.

Or at least it certainly exposed Caitlyn to Blitz grabs. qq.

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His R needs a projectile width buff.

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Viktor is really fun.

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The new PBE splashes are pretty. ^^

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The only splash update I've kinda disliked so far as been Koggles's. It's crisp-looking, but a big cuteness nerf.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdGvCuikMZQ

The dunk prophecies are true.

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(I personally wish they didn't change Lee Sin's, and put Sona's back to her old one. That red shading on her face is just terrible.)

Yeah, Lee Sin's is pretty bad, too. He looks like he has to poop.

Do you mean Janna...?

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Is there always a small swath of champions that go for 450 IP or should I be taking advantage of this?

Two things to consider before you buy champions:

1. There is a feature called Mystery Gifting where you get a random skin for a champion you own. You can game the system by only owning champions with skins that interest you. So, probably always wait to test out a champion before you buy them, especially if that champion has lots of dumb skins.

2. Some champions are stronger in ARAM than others. If you err on the side of buying champions who are strong in ARAM, ARAM will be a more fun game mode for you.

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The IP prices of champions are static, so you don't have to worry about that. Whenever a champion is released, 1 champion's price point is lowered 1 tier, but that's all and that's infrequent.

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I hadn't actually noticed Kayle's boob armor. It's indeed dumb. I always thought her splash's side-stepping of the boob armor gimmick was really cool.

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Lol. The boob poking up like that is silly.

Boob armor in general annoys me because real armor for women would not be boob armor. They can accentuate the hips to make it gendered in a less silly way.

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Is that from Reddit, or is that your own creation? I agree that it looks better.

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You can also just kill her before it explodes.

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why are they all facing left now

The mirrored Cass's, but I think it's only because she looked exactly like old-Wukong.

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You can still smartcast it, but turn on the option where holding it down lets you normal-cast it.

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Someone on reddit posted something about a new champion called Kalista. I don't know if that's a reddit meme or a real thing.

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Someone on reddit posted something about a new champion called Kalista. I don't know if that's a reddit meme or a real thing.

It's looking like it was this IMO.