Considering only marks, I think the equation is maximized at 4 crit damage marks and 5 crit chance runes. This gives 35% AD bonus damage; other combinations give less than this. A different combination might be better once you take into account that crit damage is harder to itemize for (just IE), but I figure that's a little too late-gamey.
AD marks give 8.55 AD. This mean the crit runes above are better than the AD runes once 35% of AD without 8.55 AD is more than 10% of AD with 8.55 AD.
At level 1, Ashe has 51 base AD, 4.55 from masteries, and 7 from Doran's blade, which should be 62.55 AD assuming AS quints. 35% of that is about 22, which is more than 8.55. This suggests that crit damage/chance marks are stronger than AD marks for Ashe at level 1 provided that the target has been affected by her passive.
If you directly compare frosted targets, I think it comes to 84 damage vs. 78 damage after the first auto-attack at level 1. Of course, this comparison ignores that the first hit deals more damage with flat AD, so it's a stretch that they're "better" as early as level 1, but the difference only increases.
Please correct if it there's an error.
It looks like crit marks are better than AD marks against frosted targets as early as level 1 (by 6 damage), and the difference increases from there.
1. Use his Q as an autoattack reset.
2. Use blind at a time that minimizes enemy damage. Fight enemies who rely on autoattacks to exploit this.
3. Use the attack speed burst from your passive (I'm really bad at this on Teemo).
4. If someone tries to chase you, make them follow you into your mushrooms, after which they should be slowed well enough for you to kite them.
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Post #41635 (isolation #1215) » Fri May 15, 2015 4:33 pm
Postby Iecerint »
If I did the math correctly, crit damage runes are worse than crit chance runes until you have 100% crit chance. It's really pretty disappointing.
Like, since they scale with each other, you'd expect that some combination of the rune types should be ideal given that you want to go that route. But it's sadly not the case.
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Post #41649 (isolation #1218) » Sat May 16, 2015 2:25 am
Postby Iecerint »
Black Cleaver is almost as good for her personal aa damage as Last Whisper if you manage her Focus passive well, and it gives 400 HP, 20% CDR, and benefits teammates. ^_^
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Post #41690 (isolation #1224) » Sat May 16, 2015 4:40 pm
Postby Iecerint »
In post 41685, JasonWazza wrote:Also is it just me or does her Q focusy thing not seem to crit? (this could be to do with their new number showing system for all i actually know)
The crit passive stacks with it multiplicatively according to her wiki.
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Post #41735 (isolation #1229) » Sun May 17, 2015 5:15 pm
Postby Iecerint »
(It's only OP on Sona if you have a team that autoattacks, but you wouldn't pick Sona unless you had one of those, anyway, because of how her Q aura works.)
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Post #41737 (isolation #1230) » Sun May 17, 2015 6:45 pm
Postby Iecerint »
He's a marksman in that he uses his autoattack to deal damage, but he's not an ADC. That's what he means. He doesn't have any AD scaling in his kit, and his range is too short to rely just on late-game scaling with 5 items that improve his autoattack.
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Post #41739 (isolation #1231) » Sun May 17, 2015 7:11 pm
Postby Iecerint »
ADC means attack damage carry. It's the champion who will build items that are focused on making their autoattacks frequent and strong who almost always go botlane with a support.
AD means attack damage. Some champions are said to "have AD scaling," meaning that building AD items make their abilities stronger. Sivir is like this -- building AD makes her boomerang stronger.
Some ADC champions (well, no one these days really, but previously Tristana before her rework) build as ADCs even though they don't have any AD scaling on their abilities. In those cases, it works because their autoattack range is so long late-game that they can focus on items that make their autoattacks strong and just abuse that. Caitlyn works similarly, though she does have some AD scaling.
Teemo has mostly AP scaling, meaning that his abilities get stronger as you build AP. That's why you normally build stuff on him that increases his AP or magic penetration. He's a "marksman," but only in the sense that Azir is a "marksman."
I would label him a Support/Marksman if I were in charge of his labels, since his major contribution is vision with his mushrooms.
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Post #41769 (isolation #1238) » Mon May 18, 2015 7:46 am
Postby Iecerint »
In post 41751, Reubus Swagrid wrote:I can't escape bronze, no matter how hard I try I'll always do very decent and the when it comes to promos riot will match me with all the feeders they can find. I'm not sure what bronze is like on other servers but on OCE it really makes you wonder how bad one can be a lol. Eh where's the magic button at? Might just start spamming veigar or something. Has anyone gotten out of bronze solo queuing with a certain champ? I've tried riven but alas, someone will always be more fed. Anivia is also pretty strong I find but I don't know how far spamming her will get me.
Also, who is a better buy Kat or Akali? Kat seems to always get banned and while stomping norms is fun she almost always gets banned
If you fail just your promos disproportionately, you'll eventually jump 2 divisions, so I wouldn't worry. Just treat every game as its own thing.
I'd get Diana before Akali. She can fit into most teams pretty well (she can assassinate, but also kinda poke or tank if necessary, you can play her jungle if there's champ select drama, she's never banned), and she's stronger at levels 1-5 than Katarina or Akali. She also completely dominates Katarina in lane, which I imagine is nice to have on-hand if Kat is ubiquitous. Kat would be OK if you can play around the enemy cc.
In general I think I started out trying to pick champions for the lane match-up, then graduated to picking champs I knew that fit well with my allies, and then graduated to picking champs that I knew worked well against enemies that weren't my lane opponent.
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Post #41771 (isolation #1239) » Mon May 18, 2015 7:58 am
Postby Iecerint »
In post 41770, PJ. wrote:Matchups don't matter. Teammates don't matter. Pick your best champion and take over the game. That's the only advice for bronze.
This is good advice if you're actually a gold+ player in bronze, but it may not work for someone who's playing near his real elo.
I mean. The pick might be as simple as "has hard cc" so that you can single-handedly stop Katarina from carrying every team fight.
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Post #41800 (isolation #1245) » Mon May 18, 2015 1:17 pm
Postby Iecerint »
In post 41799, zoraster wrote:Iecrint: joins a premade game. Sees a name he doesn't know. Asks who it is, IMMEDIATELY leaves, then queues up elsewhere.
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Post #41823 (isolation #1250) » Tue May 19, 2015 1:34 am
Postby Iecerint »
If I practice ADCing with high gold/low plat players, people get angry when it's apparent that I'm outclassed. It's not fun to feel like you ruined others' game.
On the other hand, I can play Sona and win lane against mid-gold supports.
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Post #41850 (isolation #1254) » Tue May 19, 2015 9:44 am
Postby Iecerint »
In post 41848, JasonWazza wrote:So question, on my malz mid, is it more worth having Magic pen Red's or AD Reds?
I've changed my Mid AP page to have AD reds because my champions in the lane (Nidalee, Malz and Annie) generally get enough benefit off the AD as the slight increase in magic pen. (not so much annie since the patch.)
I dunno just kinda want to know what you guys think.
Malzahar has HP-scaling damage, so magic penetration is disproportionately good on him.
If you really want to get more mileage out of harassment from Malzahar's autoattacks at levels 1-3, hybrid penetration is a reasonable option. There's normally a disadvantage here of not being able to benefit from the AD for last-hitting, but Malzahar doesn't really need to use AD to last-hit, anyway, so the disadvantage is pretty marginal.
I would just run magic penetration, though. I feel like Malzahar is slow and has a slow enough aa animation that you should get punished for relying on it too much, and penetration is generically really strong on him.
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Post #41881 (isolation #1255) » Wed May 20, 2015 5:46 pm
Postby Iecerint »
The worst toxicity I encountered was when my normal MMR was low. I think the problem was that no one really knew what was going on, so everyone had a different idea about how the team should play. That, and toxic banned players making alts.
It gets better around Silver, where everyone agrees on the same meta strategy (take your tower, then slam against mid turret as a team until you win or lose).
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Post #41883 (isolation #1256) » Wed May 20, 2015 6:16 pm
Postby Iecerint »
In post 41882, zoraster wrote:A guy flamed me the other day after the game for not building BOTRK on Jinx. Not that building one is ridiculous, but caring that I built a BT over a BOTRK enough to yell at me after the game for it was weird.
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