League of Legends (Old)

zoraster · Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:19 am

veigar is hilarious.

zoraster · Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:13 pm

i kind of want to do a shoutcasting of that, but not sure if i have time as my wife is actually home this week. what do people think?

zoraster · Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:06 pm

...why is dram rooting for the team that ani is not on and focusing on their team like it's the one we're rooting for?

zoraster · Tue Dec 16, 2014 11:55 am

I actually like that it's not random, but that's about the only thing that is good about it.

zoraster · Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:02 pm

do you like ARAM? Yes? maybe it'll be interesting. Do you hate, like all good people do, ARAM? If so, it is only marginally better/worse.

zoraster · Wed Dec 17, 2014 2:54 am

Because they are incredibly boring and I spend most of my time wishing the game would just be over. Also, a game mode where the featured idea is that you have no control over whether your team composition is going to be incredibly awesome or terrible does not appeal to me. I understand the appeal of being forced to play champions I don't play a lot of in an environment where that is true for many people, but I don't feel like ARAM really gives me a solid idea of how to play those champions anyway.

zoraster · Wed Dec 17, 2014 3:24 am

It seems like a very specialized type of team fighting though, and honestly (keeping in mind that I haven't played that many because I don't like ARAMs) I feel like despite it being a perma 5v5 there's very little attention paid to actual team fighting so much as a feeling of a pickup game.

I understand why people like ARAM though. I'm just saying that I think it's super boring, and that's why I tend to decline people's ARAM invitations.

zoraster · Wed Dec 17, 2014 3:27 am

are you sure you aren't better than you think? Also, is this sort of a humblebrag?

zoraster · Wed Dec 17, 2014 8:54 am

all right! about to play against a rek'sai support.

zoraster · Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:19 am

Yeah, it's not the low resolution that got me, it was the squareness.

zoraster · Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:32 am

put a hand on each side of the monitor and slowly but firmly pull.

zoraster · Wed Dec 17, 2014 12:07 pm

aww i know that feeling

zoraster · Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:23 am

I suppose I shouldn't complain, but what is this MMR? In a ranked game no less.

zoraster · Sun Dec 21, 2014 6:27 am

panzer is often disagreeable and what not, but I think you guys are reading some malice that doesn't exist into his posts.

zoraster · Sun Dec 28, 2014 9:15 am

she still has the lowest win rate, so clearly some people are having trouble with her.

zoraster · Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:38 am

does anyone know who Rektliss is?

zoraster · Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:20 am

came back from 12.1k down for my last game in my promotion series. also I have a 100% win rate with graves

zoraster · Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:34 am

yeah i've also played him into good matchups for me. Although this last time was ADC Kennen and I kind of got destroyed in lane

zoraster · Mon Jan 05, 2015 1:12 pm

got a survey from riot, probably like everyone. The questions seemed to indicate that they're considering revamping the early levels or letting you spend RP to buy a level 30 account. Would be interesting. It'd actually be a good thing because then they could keep tabs on accounts better so if they banned one account they could deal with the alt accounts too.

zoraster · Mon Jan 05, 2015 1:32 pm

Woot! Life goal accomplished

zoraster · Mon Jan 05, 2015 2:36 pm

In post 38507, JasonWazza wrote:You get things for riot surveys?

Hope

zoraster · Tue Jan 06, 2015 4:40 am

if you were a good boy Santa Riot is giving a mystery skin.

zoraster · Tue Jan 06, 2015 3:29 pm

did you get it yourself or did someone else boost you to it?

zoraster · Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:07 am

I played with it for a few games and was so confused how i was picking up turret aggro.

zoraster · Thu Jan 08, 2015 10:54 am

i can't figure out how it happens, but sometimes when I'm playing I'll press a button and it'll send a message to my team that says Zorasterful: ;afk

and then i'll have to explain how I'm not afk but my computer made me say that. is there a way to stop this?

zoraster · Thu Jan 08, 2015 10:56 am

worst macro ever!

zoraster · Fri Jan 09, 2015 5:58 am

Feel like the above underestimates the importance of AAs on Graves. For one thing, one of his major abilities (his dash) is an AA speed buff much like Tristanas (basically Tristana's Rapid Fire at level 3 is Graves' Quickdraw at max level, though Rapidfire lasts a second longer but has a much longer CD)

zoraster · Fri Jan 09, 2015 7:09 am

In post 38582, MrZepher wrote:So you're not going to want to cast spells when they're available?

I didn't say this. I said that "auto-attacks for them basically just exist as something to do between cooldowns" underestimates the importance of autoattacks for Graves. If that's not what you really meant, fair enough. Just didn't think as stated it seemed correct. Anywy, continue. The Varus build seems interesting.

zoraster · Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:41 am

Spoiler: ^

Also nothing yet for me. It'll be my second skin.

zoraster · Sat Jan 10, 2015 8:10 am

but you have to allow it to post things for you on twitter...

zoraster · Sun Jan 11, 2015 3:41 am

@#!@# Blast Zone Heimer. I've played Heimer once.

zoraster · Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:29 am

Just going to remind you all that we'll be doing LCS Fantasy: http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=92&t=60426

zoraster · Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:00 am

MS Fantasy LCS: http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=92&t=60426

zoraster · Tue Jan 13, 2015 7:59 am

Last call for LCS Fantasy: http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... 4#p6523754 Last call!

zoraster · Tue Jan 13, 2015 9:58 am

I have locked the Final S4 Divisions for people as I believe the reset comes this weekend or next week. When you are placed, please feel free to update your new ranking in the Season 5 Division column.

zoraster · Fri Jan 16, 2015 2:27 pm

for what it's worth as i've gotten better i've actually started using caitlyn's ult MORE not less

zoraster · Mon Jan 19, 2015 4:20 pm

Blitz rank is obviously definitely not blitzcrank.

zoraster · Tue Jan 20, 2015 8:59 am

The reset happens tomorrow. When you've been placed, please update the spreadsheet (if you're active, it doesn't hurt to put "unranked" because the "active" list is based on who enters a value in that cell

zoraster · Tue Jan 20, 2015 9:36 am

did you achieve it before the end of the season or just between seasons?I think we decided the end date would be on the day rewards went out

zoraster · Tue Jan 20, 2015 9:54 am

pre-season began when the rewards were given out?

zoraster · Wed Jan 21, 2015 2:21 am

Don't sweat it too much Oman. I think it's designed to place people lower than where the system thinks they "should" be.

Also, everyone don't forget to edit in your rank. If you want to be included on the active list, at least put "unranked" in the box

zoraster · Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:57 am

you totally want to play with the first people who queue up in the season. I'm sure they're going to be very reasonable, kind people.

zoraster · Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:07 am

i'm totally getting to challenger this year.

zoraster · Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:36 am

i think if I played with only graves I might do better than if I tried to use a traditional top laner.

zoraster · Wed Jan 21, 2015 1:46 pm

why is relic shield on thresh standard? I kind of hate it. I'm pretty sure he attacks as ranged now, so he doesn't get the easy final kill blow, so instead sits there whacking at my minions making it harder to last hit. bah humbug.

zoraster · Wed Jan 21, 2015 2:31 pm

higher elo players are probably much better at determining when to last hit. relic shield is maybe my favorite item, but on leona, blitz and braum because they can use its execute.

zoraster · Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:21 am

people tend to say they're duo to try to lock down the two spots, regardless of where they are in pick order.

zoraster · Fri Jan 23, 2015 5:30 am

By my calculations level 1 Janna's shield at rank 1 is 80, lulu's Q is 80. Janna's AA is 52, plus shield bonus of 14 for 66 damage. Lulu's AA is 46. so if played perfectly that puts Janna up by 20 damage.

Spellthief only makes it worse for Lulu since her AP ratio is 50% and janna's on shield is 70%.

Armor and MR changes that a little, but both have the same armor and MR, and I think that only serves to help Janna in the end (since the shield absorbs more of the AA).

That said, Lulu has a lot more health than Janna (66 health more), and Janna has a ton more Mana. Their spells use 21% and 17% of their mana pools respectively.

zoraster · Fri Jan 23, 2015 6:03 am

I don't mind zyra support. I mind what Zyra support SUGGESTS -- particularly if you're one of the last picks. If I'm in soloqueue, I don't know you, but I'm going to assume you're picking her because you don't really want to play support and want to basically be another mid-laner. I assume you'll do things like not get a sightstone, go balls to the wall in lane even when it makes sense to be passive, etc.

Very similar to how I feel about Brand support (which I had in the ranked game I played yesterday).

I'm not going to flame anyone over their pick, particularly not my support who I'm hoping to be able to work with well. But if in my head I'm just thinking it, I assume other people are going to say it (and loudly)

zoraster · Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:58 am

i don't know. i find getting the shield timed right on a consistent basis is pretty hard.

zoraster · Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:48 am

does anyone have a problem where it typically takes multiple attempts to log in? this has been going on for the past month or so and none of the suggested fixes from riot seem to do anything. I'll type in my password it'll load for a little then it'll give me an error message.

zoraster · Sun Jan 25, 2015 8:43 am

kills can get you objectives and in lane can earn you more CS versus your lane opponent I guess.

zoraster · Tue Jan 27, 2015 12:55 pm

i'm excited for a featured game mode for once. I think Nemesis Dract (i.e. you draft your opponent's champs) will offer fun and a little depth (though probably a limited longevity of interest). I think the natural thing to do is to pick really squishy characters of a certain damage type.

zoraster · Tue Jan 27, 2015 2:26 pm

stream it?

zoraster · Tue Jan 27, 2015 2:33 pm

http://www.twitch.tv/bronze2silver/

anyone who wants to shoutcast it be my guest. I can skype or mumble you in.

zoraster · Tue Jan 27, 2015 2:59 pm

hey, does dodging in placements count as a loss?

zoraster · Tue Jan 27, 2015 3:50 pm

It is now time for hito to go under the "lens of truth": http://www.twitch.tv/bronze2silver/

zoraster · Wed Jan 28, 2015 6:49 am

not getting sightstone first back is fine, but surely you want the sightstone eventually? Even if it's staying mostly in lane, in bot lane you want to start to establish control of the river for dragon, and obviously later game you want to keep 3 wards down as much as possible (plus a pink).

I actually think Leona and Blitz are two that can go sightstone particularly early. Both want to tank a bit, and the extra health is helpful. Vs. a ranged caster like Sona where the health is nice, sure, but your poke is from distance and extra damage/healing can be helpful. Both Blitz and Leona are about setting up plays. Damage is helpful, but isn't really the "point."

zoraster · Wed Jan 28, 2015 6:53 am

I hate that LoL makes you agree to new terms every patch. It's one thing to expect people to read over terms the first time (yeah, right...) but another to expect them to do so every few weeks. At some point they're going to slip in something about your first born.

zoraster · Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:14 am

I very much enjoy the jokes and what not. The numbers aren't hard to find.

zoraster · Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:24 am

what if you want to play wukong?

zoraster · Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:18 pm

you pick your champs by side?

zoraster · Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:27 pm

I didn't say it wasn't real, I absolutely think it exists. I just wouldn't know where to begin in how to pick to account for it.

zoraster · Fri Jan 30, 2015 4:57 pm

7-3 put into bronze I. yikes. kind of frustrating that a .700 record is good for only bronze when I was already in Silver before. Something feels off about that match making algorithm if that's the case. Put me in placements with other silver type people and if I go .500 put me where I was before. If I go .300 put me in Bronze, if I go .700 put me in Silver II or I. Or even if you do want to ratchet it back, it doesn't seem like .700 should downgrade me? anyway. frustrated with that result.

zoraster · Fri Jan 30, 2015 5:11 pm

I sure hope so. Not looking forward to that 5 game series. ugh.

zoraster · Fri Jan 30, 2015 5:18 pm

Mario Karters? I had 122 games last season

zoraster · Fri Jan 30, 2015 6:07 pm

Seriously, what does Mario karters mean?

zoraster · Sat Jan 31, 2015 9:19 am

I understand that, but make that demotion 5-5 not 7-3.

zoraster · Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:27 pm

as the adc, i almost always go blue orb

zoraster · Mon Feb 02, 2015 3:33 am

i should specify that I switch from yellow trinket, not go straight blue. The reason is two-fold, and I'm not sure all the reasons they do it in LCS, but I suspect they aren't the same reasons I like it. First, it allows me to check underwarded major objectives in a way that my single yellow trinket wouldn't allow. I find that is particularly important on Blue side for checking Baron because you can't just drop a ward over the side, and you potentially have to facecheck bushes to get there. It's proved very valuable a number of times in the past. Yesterday it led to an Ace when we were down. Second, it's allowed me a little bit to push/farm in side lanes and then get back to the team without face-checking a bush.

zoraster · Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:39 am

I find it easier as support to focus on red trinketing. My priorities are already vision, so it comes more naturally

zoraster · Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:35 am

all right. in promos from bronze to silver.

zoraster · Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:46 am

so i'm 1-1 in promos. dram is going to cast the rest of the promos tonight at 8.

Dram, if you wouldn't mind turning your voice up and your game sound down. you kind of mumble, so it's pretty hard to hear any commentary.

zoraster · Mon Feb 02, 2015 2:56 pm

i'm not streaming myself. not a good start though! played really poorly.

zoraster · Mon Feb 02, 2015 2:59 pm

zoraster · Mon Feb 02, 2015 3:00 pm

you don't need the login to stream. you just need the stream key.

zoraster · Mon Feb 02, 2015 4:02 pm

oh man that was painful. some truly awful, awful ults too on my part.

zoraster · Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:25 am

you mean placements?

anyway, back to promos. not sure if i'll have it streamed or not. might just want to get it out of the way, and sequels are never as good.

zoraster · Tue Feb 03, 2015 6:49 am

yeah she's getting nerfed. the move speed boost to her Q is pretty awesome

zoraster · Tue Feb 03, 2015 7:09 am

I doubt phreak is very indicative either way to what riot is going to do.

zoraster · Tue Feb 03, 2015 7:43 am

haven't had a troll game this hard since just about ever. a duo of them too. revive should just be removed from the game.

zoraster · Tue Feb 03, 2015 8:28 am

i swear promos are just a series of unwinnable vs. unlosable matches. Had my first pentakill to earn promotion. So I'm silver again. yay.

zoraster · Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:39 am

wait. is it really saying that each team will get one gay woman and no more? Like you have to have four heterosexual ones? Or is it saying that you can have one gay male?

zoraster · Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:52 am

wow. i think i like that even more

zoraster · Fri Feb 06, 2015 11:51 am

looks like a quadra to me?

zoraster · Sat Feb 07, 2015 4:01 am

probably a good point. I apologize.

zoraster · Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:17 am

just played a ranked game with a naut support who fed, so I'm not super into him right now.

zoraster · Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:39 am

does anyone ever get a bug where you select ranked and end up playing in a normal? Just spent 60 minutes climbing back from a 10k gold deficit to win what I thought was my first promo game, but it turned out to be a normal. I'm pretty sure it wasn't user error because when I click play, it shows the selected option as ranked

zoraster · Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:58 am

apparently it's done it again. I swear it has ranked selected.

zoraster · Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:27 am

so I played Leona in a game where the other team went all physical damage. I wasn't sure what to go with for my sixth item. I had: Face of the Mountain, Frozen Heart, Ruby Sightstone, mobiboots, thornmail, and then I finished off with randuin's. Is there a better option? Should I have gone warmogs or something?

zoraster · Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:31 am

I kind of like the mobi boots to position. I already had over 300 armor

zoraster · Sun Feb 08, 2015 11:00 am

wards are for jerks. I just use my ruby sightstone for health.

zoraster · Sun Feb 08, 2015 12:54 pm

Well given no magic damage to speak of, I can pretty much make health vs. armor a mathematical question (see below) but I'm really speaking about passives and what not. Is the health regen better than the extra AA slow. Worth noting is that the extra armor increases value of Thornmail.

270 Armor from items + 80 from stats = 350 Armor (22% damage reduction, not considering armor pen)
400 Health (ruby sightstone) + 500 Health (Randuins) + 500 Health (Face of Mountain) + 2055 stats = 3455 Health (15,704 raw physical damage)

vs.

200 Armor from items + 80 from stats = 280 Armor (26% damage, not considering pen)
Same as above except 300 more health (from Warmog's vs. Randuin's): 3755 Health (14,442 raw physical damage)

Worth noting is that Leona's W scales on armor (and MR), so theoretically that makes this a little better for more armor.

I think that's right anyway. So armor is the "right" choice in an all AD environment, but I think the difference in amounts is fairly inconsequential compared to how the actives and passives of the items interact.

zoraster · Mon Feb 09, 2015 2:26 am

In post 39316, JasonWazza wrote:
In post 39313, zoraster wrote:Well given no magic damage to speak of

Just as a note, i did check the game in question, and there was actually magic damage (Malph, Nami, even though they did shit all) and a decent amount of %Pen with a lack of a BotRK, so honestly health was your go in that game most likely over.

Remember when people are building Percentage Pen (Cleaver/LW or even just flat out Vi/Jarvan existing) you generally start losing armor effectiveness at a higher rate, and health is a decent place to go unless they have a vayne, or their damage dealer's actually have BotRK (which can cause problems to high health, but isn't all that bad)

i didn't think malph was doing magic damage, but i guess that makes sense. Good point about the penetration!

zoraster · Mon Feb 09, 2015 4:24 pm

just lost a game where we got 5 dragons to their 0, had baron, and i went 12/3 and we lost. Kind of frustrating, but they did have katarina.

zoraster · Wed Feb 11, 2015 1:21 pm

so uh i did a normal for fun with a stupid build: caitlyn starting with sword of the occult into hurricane. Got super fed. The opposing nidalee kept complaining that I was critting too much. Does caitlyn's passive build with hurricane's extra shots?

zoraster · Wed Feb 11, 2015 1:24 pm

cool. I guess that explains it! Build seems pretty viable, providing you get fed quickly and don't die. You know. So totally something I can count on.

zoraster · Wed Feb 11, 2015 1:32 pm

i mean 70% attack speed helps

zoraster · Sat Feb 14, 2015 6:14 am

http://www.goldper10.com/article/881-ne ... lysis.html

Obviously if you can figure out a team comp that works that's best, but i think this helps in at least showing some really bad picks. Don't pick Aatrox for the other team. Don't pick Poppy. For the love of all that is good and right in the world, do not beat Heimer or Gankplank. Elise is a great pick.

zoraster · Sat Feb 14, 2015 3:38 pm

re: cait+runaan's build: It's not ideal, and has some serious weaknesses, but it is fun and it is "viable" in the sense that you can carry a game with it, win with it, etc. Almost certainly you'd do so with a better build anyway, but the idea is to do something different. It's fun to see people tilt their head in confusion.

The weakness is that Runaan's (among others) depends on AD, which isn't a stat that you get FROM it. That stands in contrast to IE that synergizes AD and IE's critting. Building AD increases the increased crit damage as well as being good in and of itself. Building Runaans as a first item means you fire a lot of really crappy bolts.

My solution in casual games is to use lifesteal quint runes (instead of my norm of AS, runaans will get AS quickly anyway), start longsword and get an early sword of the occult. This is a stupid gamble, but it's one that if it pays off allows runaan's to remain viable as the game progresses. And because cait can stay safer than many ADCs, it's a little bit less stupid. Also, Sword of the Occult + Runaans (once you get it) allows for a lot of stack building assists. Building BF first is probably a better, safer option building into either BT or IE, but that means you can't build it out of a longsword and that delays getting the damage item+runaan's.

I think BT is probably a better option than IE, for what it's worth. You still need AD, and the lifesteal procs on the bolts (possibly doubling the lifesteal of BT). The 25% increase on crit damage isn't that great.

PD and Statikk Shiv are awful in this build for what's it's worth because the increased passive rate means that the increased crit rate from PD/Stiv is made irrelevant on more shots.

zoraster · Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:12 am

so i've decided to try to figure out top and mid a little more so i'm not so one dimensional (bot or feed). I've started using Lissandra because I think she fits both roles well, and I like her a lot -- CC and mobility. Does anyone play her much or have thoughts on how to build her? I've tried a couple different routes. The last one seemed to offer survivability but still have enough power to be dangerous: rod of ages, sorc shoes, zhonyas, lisandry's. But I really don't know what's optimal on her.

zoraster · Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:04 am

In post 39474, xRECKONERx wrote:i have ONLY played drunk games on this acct in rankedthis year so lets go for it i guess tho

Copycat

zoraster · Sat Feb 21, 2015 12:38 pm

Why not kiss top?

zoraster · Sat Feb 21, 2015 4:21 pm

What champs do you have for ads and support?

zoraster · Sun Feb 22, 2015 2:37 am

i don't get the mf love personally. I love graves: his burst is surprising, and in lane he can play around blitz and thresh hooks effectively. Don't pick into Caitlyn, otherwise I don't feel like there are matchups he outright loses given his passive. I find he synergies well with initiating supports at low elo in part because the ability to reposition when your support surprises you with a hook, stun, etc. allows for follow up.

zoraster · Mon Feb 23, 2015 4:46 am

hito: what roles/champs are you comfortable blind picking into a lane? I gather you'll pick vlad first pick, but beyond that?

zoraster · Mon Feb 23, 2015 5:05 am

Personally I like Sona more than Nami in that trio, but either works. Leona has the all-in engage, Janna has the disengage, Sona offers lane bully poke that is pretty unrivaled in a true support. In the Sona for Nami trade you give up the Bubble and a little bit of healing power.

Sona can also, if the game calls for it, go more carry-ish than most supports without giving up her utility (As her abilities, Auras and power cords all become more effective with AP). That can be pretty helpful at lower elos, though it's obviously pretty situational (often when you get kills from using the absurdly long Q range).

zoraster · Mon Feb 23, 2015 8:41 am

I have literally no experience playing Galio and I've only played against him in a little, and maybe only a handful of times in lane (most frequently as support galio so...). But just spitballing...

Galio seems like a very solid arrow to have in the quiver for the games with multiple AP champions, but it's not just that it's not exactly in the meta (my quick assumption driven calculations show you have a roughly 25% chance of wandering into an AP top/AP mid composition), it's that you need to both be late pick (fourth or fifth probably) AND your opponent has lots of magic damage AND you get mid. Given that mid is often an early pick, the chances of all those things occurring together seems somewhat limited.

zoraster · Mon Feb 23, 2015 8:56 am

Just looking at the top 10 isn't a good way to arrive at the % played, particularly since 4 out of the next 5 for top are AP I think.

zoraster · Mon Feb 23, 2015 9:54 am

liss is played at least as much top as mid, hito (53.44% top, 44.15% mid according to champions.gg)

zoraster · Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:53 am

testing...

zoraster · Mon Feb 23, 2015 12:19 pm

No it should not. Mine doesn't because I have to click to enable things. thanks for bringing that up, may have to disable this.

zoraster · Mon Feb 23, 2015 12:37 pm

bc we're talking about it here: does anyone know the string to turn off autoplay for embeds? right now it looks like:

<iframe src="http://www.twitch.tv/<username>/embed" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" height="378" width="620"></iframe>

I can't let there be a function that autoplays. Autoplay is the devil.

zoraster · Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:41 am

Surprise Bear!

also to be fair, he did secure you 7 dragons!

zoraster · Tue Feb 24, 2015 7:16 am

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends. ... 0/37691907

zoraster · Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:27 am

my friend from high school did the design work on the bard, looks interesting.

zoraster · Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:50 am

No, that is not my friend's name. I have no idea his official capacity on the project in it except that his facebook page has lots of posts with congratulations from other riot people (not something that has happened for the other releases) and that his title for the past year is designer after being an "engineer" for the previous 5 years.

zoraster · Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:52 am

When I visited Riot, it was all S&M, but I couldn't talk about it because NDA.

zoraster · Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:00 am

In post 39586, mykonian wrote:
In post 39579, BROseidon wrote:Wait you went to high school with... Jordan? I think that's his name

Is he still with Susan, or has she finally left him? Last time I met her she wasn't entirely satisfied with just that relationship.

What? you're clearly not in the loop. After they played godparents at my son's baptism, Susan admitted they had an open marriage and she had been seeing Tim.

zoraster · Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:01 pm

that janna nerf is actually kind of big, no?

also, kassadin's nerf seems HUGE.

zoraster · Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:09 pm

oh hey! they finally removed revive.

zoraster · Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:49 pm

revive is being removed. Can we do a 5 man with all revives to send it off in style?

zoraster · Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:59 pm

oh nice! yeah, definitely him then

zoraster · Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:28 pm

it's 3 LP the first time every 16 hours (i think) and 10 thereafter.

zoraster · Tue Feb 24, 2015 6:30 pm

I don't think Win Ratio is probably of any consequence, at most it just means that your MMR was off to begin with -- you were better than your early MMR if you have a good win ratio. Players at the very top and very bottom of the ladder will have meaningful Win Ratios, but the vast majority MMR should keep things roughly even.

zoraster · Tue Feb 24, 2015 6:37 pm

i think we're having two conversations. the dodging isn't related to the win ratio one.

If you can sustain 61% win rate overall you'll eventually get promoted.

zoraster · Wed Feb 25, 2015 8:40 am

If anyone is interested, DJ Sona: http://www.twitch.tv/zorasterful

zoraster · Wed Feb 25, 2015 8:45 am

actually... my ping is above 400 trying to stream, so i think that's out of the question.

zoraster · Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:38 am

I suspect most players would have trouble fighting 5v1

zoraster · Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:44 am

Said the pot to the kettle.

zoraster · Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:21 am

Just a reminder to update your ranked information on the spreadsheet!

zoraster · Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:50 pm

ranked or normal?

zoraster · Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:04 pm

also, do you really want to deal with people flaming you before you even start?

zoraster · Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:18 am

Malzahar would be a great pick up if you're looking for a lesser used champion. At low elos people (read: me) have no idea how to deal with his combination of Damage over Time and stupid skuttle crab.

Honestly, at low elos I think any real ADC is fine as long as you play it a lot and know how to use them in your muscle memory. Also there's something to be said at low elos for giving an opponent something they aren't familiar with even if overall it has a low win rate. If your main role isn't ADC, I'd pick a champion with a natural escape though.

zoraster · Mon Mar 09, 2015 3:40 am

zoraster · Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:42 am

you know you've had a long game when you not only replace boots with zephyr but replace your guardian angel with another guardian angel.

zoraster · Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:48 am

yeah, i realized that after i did it. still had 2k gold.

zoraster · Mon Mar 09, 2015 11:15 am

no armor though. and didn't really fit with their team comp. zz'rot could have worked!

zoraster · Tue Mar 10, 2015 5:39 pm

so at iec's prodding i bought urgot finally. kind of fun to play, but apparently on-hit effects don't apply to his Q?

zoraster · Tue Mar 10, 2015 6:03 pm

I did get a quadra kill with my Manamune, Infinity Edge, Vamp Scepter build. So obviously that's the superior way to build him.

zoraster · Wed Mar 11, 2015 5:47 pm

So this happened.

zoraster · Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:18 am

about to play a game with bard. this can only end poorly

zoraster · Thu Mar 12, 2015 7:02 am

so it was bard vs. bard. my bard literally just placed shrines and didn't roam and placed 10 wards the whole game.

zoraster · Thu Mar 12, 2015 7:09 am

Yes. He was like a less effective Soraka.

zoraster · Thu Mar 12, 2015 2:09 pm

In post 39889, mykonian wrote:
I am so happy.

This is exactly the opposite of what playing the mummy should make you feel.

zoraster · Fri Mar 13, 2015 3:51 am

What were you doing?

zoraster · Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:13 am

does he live in europe? ping is a humongous factor.

zoraster · Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:23 am

Man one of those games...

Thresh support to my graves adc constantly hitting minions not under turret (no relic shield either). I ask him to stop and he says, "we have to push lane. you must be low elo or you'd know that tris/morgana is a late game composition." So he pushes the lane, then we predictably die to a gank. Of course that's my fault for "not pushing fast enough." Better yet, despite his fascination with pushing, he refuses to buy a single ward the whole game. Or a sightstone. Or even an upgraded trinket.

We won, but my lord.

EDIT: Wait. I apologize. He did buy one stealth ward with his starting purchases.

zoraster · Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:20 pm

Nice! That's worthy of a march report

zoraster · Wed Mar 18, 2015 12:32 pm

If anything it seems to me less snowbally than it used to be.

zoraster · Wed Mar 18, 2015 7:43 pm

that seems an unreasonable and unsustainable standard in a 5 person team based game.

zoraster · Thu Mar 19, 2015 2:37 am

In post 40029, Glork wrote:As far as relic champs go? Thresh and Braum always good.

I despise when Thresh goes relic at low elo. The people at my level are largely incapable of last hitting minions with a low AD and I'm not good enough to self-correct. The worst part is that inevitably it'll be like instant *Thresh Misses Cannon/Last Caster Minion Bolt arrives.* Also because people at Bronze/Silver are kind of unpredictable with their relic shield usage (sometimes getting a caster instead of waiting for the cannon) and the last hits have to come so early, it's basically a choice of either trying to guess whether Thresh will go for the minion (and thus miss it if he does not) or take away the CS that thresh is about to try for.

zoraster · Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:52 am

In post 40105, animorpherv1 wrote:Legendary Teemo skin on the way.

no. please no.

wait. that sounds not like teemo.

zoraster · Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:48 pm

I think they need to speed the Q up for bard to work. It's iust too slow.

zoraster · Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:06 pm

except it's easy to miss. so it's not point and click

zoraster · Thu Mar 26, 2015 4:02 pm

I mean you placed 16 wards in 33 minutes. I'd say the 19/3 kassadin probably didn't hurt.

zoraster · Thu Mar 26, 2015 4:06 pm

well he's kassadin, so post-6 he kind of has a built in flash.

I still think that placing an average of half a ward a minute throughout the game is probably not sufficient.

zoraster · Fri Mar 27, 2015 1:49 am

yeah i think that's probably right, probably a little less than 1 given you don't get sightstone until a bit into the game.

zoraster · Sat Mar 28, 2015 4:21 am

they are buffing the crap out of bard on the PBE, as they should be... but still i think that Q is just too slow moving, regardless of the damage.

Attack range increased to 550 from 500
Base damage increased to 52 from 46
Damager per level growth increased to 3.5 from 3
Base armor increased to 25 from 21
Travel's Call (Passive) Meeps: A new meep appears every 10 down from 12
Traveler's Call (Passive) Chimes: mana restore changed to 12% max mana from (8% missing mana + 15)

Cosmic Binding (Q) damage increased to 80/125/170/215/260 from 80/120/160/200/240
Cosmic Binding (Q) AP ratio increased to .65 from .5
Magical Journey (E) mana cost reduced to 0 at all ranks from 30

zoraster · Sun Mar 29, 2015 2:23 pm

i don't play against great nasus players, but most of those who have success seem to mostly be split pushing.

zoraster · Sun Mar 29, 2015 6:27 pm

i just had a talon who went "support" despite not buying anything supporty, then when we swapped things around he followed me (the adc) from lane to lane doing absolutely nothing except occasionally throwing out his claws. then he trash talked us.

It wasn't even like he really wanted mid or anything. We gave him mid. He was just trolling I guess

zoraster · Mon Mar 30, 2015 5:15 am

zoraster · Mon Mar 30, 2015 5:32 am

that seems very troubling unless you're a 9-year-old.

zoraster · Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:03 am

that sounds like the most amazing game mode that i will only want to play once.

zoraster · Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:47 am

i'm really hoping it's not just a joke that they don't implement. because i really want to play slow league. because i'm old.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:15 am

In post 40294, Ser Arthur Dayne wrote:So I queue sniped Destiny while he was streaming (since we are about same mmr). He went mid morg and I ended up destroying him haha. Fun game.

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends. ... b=overview

http://www.twitch.tv/destiny/v/3968534
found your game at ~6:48

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:18 am

btw why do streamers seem to LOVE Eminem? I basically never hear him anywhere anymore EXCEPT constantly on people's streams.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:38 am

your own dodges?

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:25 am

Probably a good idea to wait 16 hours if you dodge once and care about your LP.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:57 am

anyone want to do a latenight NURF game? it comes out at 1am EDT

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:03 am

Teleport seems like a pretty good spell in it given that it'll take forever to cross the map, but the cooldown is like 8 minutes.

I'm also not sure what the crit part means: does it mean you ONLY do 50% of base damage on a crit, or that's how much is added to your normal auto attack?

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:20 am

I'm thinking boots start is probably best because it's a flat addition to move speed, which will increase your speed dramatically over other people. 335 is a typical base move speed -225 is 110 move speed, so boots of speed increase movement speed by 23%, whereas normally they only increase it by 7.5%. Movement quints aren't very good either because they are (sadly) % based.

Boots of Mobility or Boots of Swiftness are probably strong buys. Alacrity probably the strongest enchant and worth getting earlier because it increases move speed by a flat amount rather than a %. Captain's boots, furor and homeguards are particularly bad, but Distortion may be worth getting for cutting down cooldown waits by twice as much as before.

High mobility champs get a buff because the movement speed reduction is flat, so Master Yi and Pantheon instead of being 9% faster than the slowest champs (Jinx, Corki, Oriana, etc.) is now 30% faster than those characters. Pantheon also has a global teleport, further increasing his value.

Summoner's Insight should be twice as good as it was before and will cut a full minute off your flash time. Flash is interesting. At 10 minute cooldown it'll be used only a few times, but unless someone flashes for you, it's basically a sure escape from most things.

I'd have to think about it, but it seems like skill shots that are balanced by being very difficult to hit but otherwise high damage, low mana, low cooldowns should be powerful.

On the other hand, I'm not sure that CC is very powerful. They didnt' change the length of CC, so freezing someone who was already super slow moving won't matter that much.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:34 am

In NURF if you have boots of swiftness on pantheon (fastest base movement in the game along with yi), you will travel more distance with Alacrity than Homeguards after only 38 seconds. With slow champions like Ashe (325 movement speed base) it only takes 32 seconds for Alacrity to be better. Given that you're traveling far less (38 seconds likely will just get you out of base in NURF), that makes homeguards really pretty iffy.

Honestly, you'd have to be in combat a whole heck of a lot to not want mobility boots.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:34 am

In post 40324, Nikanor wrote:Depending on how they code it, Master Yi may be immune to NURF's slow while Highlandering. Which would be a pretty big oversight if true, but still!

I seriously don't think so. He'll just get a % increase to movement speed. People aren't SLOWED, they're just slow.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:39 am

oh. also, yasuo will be hilariously bad.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:47 am

Ashe is terrible. Permaslow is probably worse than normal, her arrow CC worse, and her passive grants 100% crits which now do less damage rather than more (if that's correct). Also one of the low Movement Speed characters doesn't help.

Mundo is probably excellent.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:51 am

2-1-2 is probably a good idea, though cinderhulk should be really, really good (as should sunfire cape). Coin probably works really well too given that GP10 will be even more useful, so that works with 2-1-2

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:52 am

Heimer should be awesome, yes. Only 40 mana to place a turret too, which is relatively a steal. I assume the recharge time will be increased to 48 seconds at rank 1, though.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:54 am

i don't think so. These are the changes:

+100% mana and energy cost on all abilities
+200% cooldown inflation on abilities, items and summoner spells
+225 movement speed reduction
+200% delay between basic attacks
Critical strikes deal 50% of base AD
Units critically strike on 150% of attacks

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:08 am

log in and find out! you'll only regret your decision for the 80 minutes of the game you're playing.

minion management seems even more important than normal.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:38 am

also crit chance is a useless stat to get. BOTRK better than PD or especially shiv as second ADC item. zephyr would also work i guess.

Hunaan's might be good?

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:48 am

i was thinking BT first item was automatic? maybe even essence reaver.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:53 am

that's a good point.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 1:04 pm

I really think we've missed something if we've come to the conclusion that AD items don't add AD. Like... I know this is a joke, but something is missing.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:36 pm

Moms of LCS, new ranked 5s name, I called it.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:00 pm

In post 40368, Maestro wrote:I'm /in on whatever is happening btw

PEdit: lol c'mon guys you really thought NURF was happening...? all your MS/AS math but from where I'm sitting it was really obvious that it was probably either not gonna happen or just be URF again

and yet you came in only now. I call bullshit. You probably thought there was a good chance, as did everyone else, it was a joke. Good job.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:03 pm

coming on now.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:04 pm

queue to log in is over a minute

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:06 pm

taking forever to log in. give me a few.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:07 pm

got 14k people in front of me...

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:10 pm

In post 40380, Maestro wrote:
In post 40372, zoraster wrote:
In post 40368, Maestro wrote:I'm /in on whatever is happening btw

PEdit: lol c'mon guys you really thought NURF was happening...? all your MS/AS math but from where I'm sitting it was really obvious that it was probably either not gonna happen or just be URF again

and yet you came in only now. I call bullshit. You probably thought there was a good chance, as did everyone else, it was a joke. Good job.

I feel like this was kinda rude...? idk

I don't ever check this thread so that's why I'm "coming in" now

Yeah, sorry. Just seemed awfully... smug for no real reason. Like you somehow saw that it was a joke and those who didn't were idiots.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:10 pm

a very good question, but it was bugging out. it didn't show me in the team room.

zoraster · Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:12 pm

now it's showing 21 minutes for me. forget it. i'm going to bed. have fun, guys.

zoraster · Wed Apr 01, 2015 4:57 am

I didn't like Ascension. I do like URF. Though I'm sad no NURF

zoraster · Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:32 am

just pick sona. just spam your buttons. don't pick auto attack based champions.

zoraster · Thu Apr 02, 2015 3:21 am

i really liked AD Malz in URF. Pretty much can't leave him alone in lane or he'll split push down all your turrets in a matter of moments.

That said while I've had fun with URF, I think I'm done... my wrists start to hurt pretty bad after playing from all the spamming.

zoraster · Fri Apr 03, 2015 2:54 am

Plus they have all that time in the gray screen!

zoraster · Fri Apr 03, 2015 8:21 am

In post 40491, The Bulge wrote:Ugh. These level 1 bot friend requests are getting ridiculous. I just logged on and got 7 at once.

If you download LSI in addition to all its other stuff, there's an option to turn off level 1 account invites.

zoraster · Sun Apr 05, 2015 3:46 am

as someone who primarily plays ADC (though by no means well), it's not the APM that's particularly tricky as you kind of need that kind of thing to play ADCs effectively, kalista or not. For me it's the lack of action canceling that makes her hard. Normally when laning and farming I can click to attack a minion and I have a fraction of a second to decide whether to let that attack go through (because it'll last hit) or cancel it because I would mess up my last hit.

zoraster · Sun Apr 05, 2015 10:32 am

uh when was this? because keane is currently playing in LCS...