League of Legends (Old)

animorpherv1 · Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:29 pm

Jungle AD Fizz. I love it.

animorpherv1 · Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:11 pm

Quas.

animorpherv1 · Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:17 pm

In post 39707, JasonWazza wrote:Fuck that guy.

To be fair, he did so bad that no one would have picked it up because of him.

animorpherv1 · Mon Mar 02, 2015 9:38 am

Party Rewards are here!

animorpherv1 · Tue Mar 03, 2015 12:02 pm

My friend who plays Urgot says he can be.

animorpherv1 · Thu Mar 05, 2015 3:42 pm

If I had to suggest one champ per position...

Top: Renekton - Renekton is SO GOOD in lane. He very well may be the best melee laner is league of legends, honestly. You can obliterate virtually every top laner in existance with his kit as it is. On top of that, he can be built AD (I would only recommend this if ahead) and all of a sudden he's impossible to deal with as he heals for insane amounts and can one-shot practically everything. Tank renekton is a solid teamfighter and initiator, too!

Jungle: VI - Vi is essentially an easier (and less AOE) version of J4. Guaranteed engages coupled with a tri-force means you can practically solo a carry. She's also a great duelist.

Mid: Mordekaiser - Morde right now is in an AMAZING position. Due to the popularity of assassins in solo queue, and the buffs he recently got, he can build AP and wreck his laner. He also scales fantastically well and his ult can turn teamfights. Ult the enemy adc? 2 adcs. Ult the enemy ap? More damage for mordo. Tank? More health and something to tank towers amazingly with. He's one of the champions that struggles the hardest against disengage teams, however.

If you're looking for AD mids, Zed is great, but Talon is very underrated right now. I also really like Graves mid, as I've only lost once vs. standard mids with it. I also don't think that AD mids are really needed and are more luxury, however. It's totally fine to go triple AP and force the enemy team to rush all the MR so your adc can shred.

ADC: Graves - Graves wins a large majority of lanes (does well against EVERY ADC early save for Caitlyn, which can be worked around), his early and midgame are fantastic as well.

Support: Leona - Mostly because I noticed your lack of hard-engage supports (Thresh can do this, but Leona engages much better). Her presence is game is absurd and her passive is hidden OP. She's also extremely tanky, which means that not only are you on their squshies, but your team will struggle to kill you, giving your team a free teamfight.

animorpherv1 · Thu Mar 05, 2015 3:46 pm

Yeah, just noticed. Fixing that.

EDIT: Fixed.

animorpherv1 · Fri Mar 06, 2015 5:44 am

I'm so sick of Sona right now. Whatever you do,

please

don't play Sona into Leona by running up to her.

animorpherv1 · Fri Mar 06, 2015 10:24 am

If I see one more Ezreal:

Fail to finish a single item (read as: parts of items, and fail to finish them)
Lose lane and proceed to blame everyone but himself
BUILD A SHEEN THEN JUST SIT ON IT AND RUSH IE/BT
Ask for adc then instalock Ezreal

I will throw this computer out of a window. Seriously, I've never seen an Ezreal win lane or go even. EVER. Useless champion is useless! I'm seriously convinced Ezreal is league's only troll champion.

animorpherv1 · Fri Mar 06, 2015 10:31 am

In post 39790, Cabd wrote:Dunno man, my Tear-rushing jinx in ranked kinda matches that

I would take this over Ezreal.

animorpherv1 · Fri Mar 06, 2015 10:34 am

At least she'd be able to stay safe through chompers and zap plus 700 range.

animorpherv1 · Fri Mar 06, 2015 10:52 am

Then why play an adc that's so dependent on getting ahead.. and still being largely useless? I don't get it.

animorpherv1 · Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:22 am

In post 39797, Voidedmafia wrote:Very mobile; great synergy w/on-hit items/effects on Q; Q is good for poke, too; R is good for neutral snipes, and great for Teamfight damange if you get 2 or more hit by it (especially if you don't hit minions at all/until after champions.

ALL of this save "very mobile" is done by Jinx.

In post 39797, Voidedmafia wrote:From what I've gathered, though, Ezreal is amazing in either long teamfights (where he can Q for days and poke everyone down) or probably scattered teamfights (where he isn't being bum-rushed by everyone and their mother, and thus can focus down specific champions and use both his passive and on-hits to 1v1 his opponent down before the fight gets more centered (if it does; should Ez win while the fight goes south for his team, he can probably just E out).

If you don't like champs that need long teamfights to be effective, though, then I can see why you think he's useless.

... Jinx? Again? Rocket Q and W is great (and better) poke (you can't MISS an autoattack on 95% of champs), she does great in extended teamfights because of it, and scattered teamfights is AMAZING for Jinx because of her passive.

animorpherv1 · Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:25 am

In post 39799, Iecerint wrote:His damage is super strong when he gets TF.

He's safer than other champions who also get really strong with TF in the midgame (Kog, Corki).

I think he used to be crowded out by Corki, but I think the balance is better after Corki's W mana cost was changed.

Congratulations, you have an ADC that does LESS DAMAGE than EVERY OTHER MIDGAME ADC at midgame, and makes up for it with a dash that costs almost as much mana as Corki's W.

So we have an ADC that:

Does no damage for an ADC
VERY High skillcap
Low impact (Can steal dragon... so can most ADCs)
Is extremely mobile
Is mediocre at best in every phase

animorpherv1 · Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:49 am

It's not me trying to play Ezreal, it's every solo queue Ezreal every being utterly worthless.

animorpherv1 · Mon Mar 09, 2015 5:45 pm

So I think I just played against KOC? FWIW, he was amumu.

EDIT: Apparently I was wrong. Oh well. Still, humblebrag? I guess?

animorpherv1 · Tue Mar 10, 2015 7:09 pm

So, I want to learn Swain. I know that Iece (I think it's Iece...) plays him, at least. Probably more. What do I do?

animorpherv1 · Wed Mar 11, 2015 4:25 am

Thanks Iece! Those tips were super useful.

animorpherv1 · Wed Mar 11, 2015 5:50 pm

So Luden's Echo is a HUGE buff to Twisted Fate.

Hello!

animorpherv1 · Fri Mar 13, 2015 9:37 am

In post 39922, xRECKONERx wrote:I fucking hate Cho'Gath.

That champion has no counterplay potential. He's too tanky to dive on and burst down, he does surprising damage for a tanky character, and he has range/CC to keep you fucked hard when you're just trying to farm. There's actually no option to beat him.

AD Fizz (or anyone with %hp damage) wrecks him hard. Also dodging his spells are fairly easy for the most part.

animorpherv1 · Sun Mar 15, 2015 1:25 pm

In post 39939, Voidedmafia wrote:Urgot top lane? Why hasn't that been considered?

Because Urgot's been good for a while (and horrendously underplayed) as a lane bully in top.

animorpherv1 · Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:45 am

UGH. I've been 90+lp silver 1 several times. Every time I hit that someone feeds. FUCK SILVER SO MUCH.

WORST DIVISION EVER.

animorpherv1 · Tue Mar 17, 2015 2:18 pm

In post 39994, Oman wrote:
In post 39984, Klazam wrote:quick question- does Sion's voiceover change between skins? I just read all of his lines and i find them badass, so I'm wondering if its the same for Lumberjack Sion

Yep. Lumberjack is visual only.

I don't know about the rest.

My Sion main friend says they do not change.

animorpherv1 · Tue Mar 17, 2015 4:39 pm

In post 39997, Klazam wrote:you have a lot of X-main friends, animorpherv1

I have a friend who plays a lot of things, and cycles between them at times.

animorpherv1 · Wed Mar 18, 2015 1:13 am

In post 40001, Oman wrote:I'm having a mad struggle with league at the moment. I'm still enjoying it, but I'm watching some massive losses. Especially games where I don't too badly myself. Not sure if it's just a streak or what.

Same here! I may just play as much morde as I can, tbh - he counters the meta mids amazingly well (and to a lesser extent he does well AGAINST many meta champs) and I love playing him,

animorpherv1 · Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:25 am

Things to take note of in regards to league champs, for those who don't watch surrender @ 20

Spoiler: Spoilers?

animorpherv1 · Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:09 am

Legendary Teemo skin on the way.

animorpherv1 · Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:13 pm

The header bar even says Teemo in it?

EDIT - Not Header Bar,but if you look at any link from offsite (like on facebook), it says Teemo on the thing.

animorpherv1 · Fri Mar 27, 2015 2:05 am

That's also assuming you go back everytime your sightstone is empty to refill it - which may not always be possible.

animorpherv1 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 7:14 am

In post 40205, quadz08 wrote:
In post 40203, PJ. wrote:That's mostly a clear time nerf for sion where for sejuani it's a killing people nerf. And not one that is insignificant.

sej's ult nerf is maaaassiiiiive

How to get around sej ult nerf - HIT THE DAMN ULT. Also, she had a 56.68% winrate yesterday. Clearly it wasn't that big.

animorpherv1 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:06 am

GOLD PROMOS. FUCKNIG FINALLY.

animorpherv1 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 3:49 pm

YESSSS.

animorpherv1 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 5:08 pm

In post 40214, PJ. wrote:if i keep having to support, it's gonna be a while

Janna, Nami, Thresh. All you need.

animorpherv1 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 5:26 pm

In post 40216, PJ. wrote:mmm, what I need is not a guy taking Vayne into Leona graves.

Can't support that.

Play Janna and disengage leona every time she catches vayne. Or play Thresh and flay that bitch. Congratulations you just made leona useless and won the lane.

animorpherv1 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 5:49 pm

In post 40219, Ser Arthur Dayne wrote:I hate supporting vayne so bad

Nami/Vayne is ridiculous, so long as you can get it into not leona.

animorpherv1 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:52 pm

OK, a few things I feel that are worth noting, Cabd.

1) Cabd, you just hit 30 THIS SEASON. Not to be rude, but don't expect miracles. Especially going into ranked as soon as you hit 30 - that's bound to put you very low down on the list. I know people who have been playing for years and are still low bronze. You're a smart guy, with time you can climb out. Just don't expect miracles.
2) Supporting in low elo (coming from someone who's lowest division ever was silver 5) is awkward and can be very difficult.
3) What's your champion pool outside of support? I doubt it's big enough. IMO,

you should have 3 champs you can play in each role at least

. You can main a role, but at least being able to play multiple champs in every role ensures you don't get stuck in a lane you don't know how to play, or with a champ you barely know. I currently am able to play 16 top laners, 17 junglers, 17 mids, 9 adcs and 6 supports. Given, some of these are better than others and I can't play them all at the same level, but if I needed to pull them out, I could. Also, several of those are repeats (ex. I can play wukong top/jungle/mid).

Also, if you have questions, you are free to ask me via PM/league/skype/this thread.

animorpherv1 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 7:09 pm

Thanks Zito ^_^

animorpherv1 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 7:36 pm

Here's a few things (both meta and not-meta) that I think are worthwhile to learn for more "carry-oriented" playstyles.

Top - Ryze, Jarvan, Darius, Nasus
Jungle - Kha'Zix, Vi, Master Yi
Mid - Katarina, Twisted Fate, Orianna, Leblanc (honestly just learn a thing that does tons of damage mid and you're fine)
ADC - Graves, Sivir, Miss Fortune
Sup - Janna, Annie

Honorable Mentions - Galio, Mordekaiser, Volibear, Trundle

Sidenote - Lee Sin is only worth putting time into if you REALLY want what Lee Sin offers. Otherwise, I would recommend Jarvan and Pantheon a few hundred times more.

animorpherv1 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 7:56 pm

In post 40234, PJ. wrote:None of those top laners are really gonna carry. And ryze isn't good right now.

So you're telling me that Nasus and Darius cannot carry games in BRONZE. Also, Ryze is great now. He lost 20 base damage a while ago, and just gained 15 back. It's all he's gonna get I think, and at the very least he's viable.

I mean, there's always Hecarim and Irelia and whatnot, but I was trying to give

some

options that not EVERYONE plays and knows of.

animorpherv1 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:10 pm

In post 40233, PJ. wrote:Mmm. I doubt you can beat people of equal skill level with 64 different champs.

Solo laning is kinda hard to carry from. At least it is in top lane. Spent a whole season dominating silver top laners with Jayce when he came out with ridiculous scores and just couldn't win consistently.

As I said, several of these champions share positions (aka I play champs in more than one role), and I'm weaker on some champs than with others, but they're just champions I can pick if I need to. In the end, I think that I can play about 50 champions somewhere between "good enough to not feed with" (which is the bare minimum of what you need to be able to do in ranked) and "this is my best champion 100%".

In regards to carrying from top, you either get a lead and tpgank bot 50,000 times to get them ahead (and get more towers & drag), or you get behind and tpgank bottom for the 3v2 while the enemy top laner doesn't notice you tp'd and farms the lane like an idiot.

animorpherv1 · Sun Mar 29, 2015 4:36 am

In post 40240, PJ. wrote:Ryze has a 45% win percentage right now and just flat not strong anymore. The premier mage tops are vlad, swain, and rumble. All my nasus experience has been exactly as k scope said, " lots of stacks, team too far behind to kill anyone". I think jax gets stronger earlier than the other "late game" champs and he also is a kill threat in lane, like fiora. I love when my top laner takes teleport and doesn't use it to recover from me zoning/killing them. If you tp while I'm in lane to gank, I'm definitely taking at least a tower. Darius isn't a carry . He can carry but his scaling isn't great and he is the most kitable champ in the league. I lick my chops when I'm a long range adc against darius. In order to win in bronze/most of silver you need to effect the whole game, you need to kill your idiot laner, take tower, than go kill the idiot mid laner, than kill the dragon , than kill the idiot bot laners. Irelia, fiora, jax, wukong, whatever. Beat your man, beat his tower and use that money to go beat all the other mans.

Going to break these down by champion.

RYZE

If we're going by the "low winrate = bad champion", these champions are also bad.

Leblanc
Lee Sin
Ezreal
Rengar
Lissandra
Orianna
Jax
Trundle
Lucian
Zed
Jarvan
Fizz

All of those champions have an under 48% winrate RIGHT NOW and you ether told me is a good champion or are generally considered good champions. So much for Jax being good, eh? That's also leaving out champs here that I think others may disagree with - Olaf, Syndra, and Nocturne. Ryze can also get going with one and a half items (roa + tear), and has pretty decent spammable snares for tp ganks. Rumble, Swain, and Vlad bring slows, and Swain/Vlad don't even bring that much damage until a while later unless they're fed.

NASUS

I find one common misconception with Nasus - he's easy to shut out of lane. His passive is kind of crazy, so a good Nasus will just let you push him under turret and freefarm with Q or NOT CARE BECAUSE HE STARTED FLASK. Also, his first buy tends to be whatever defensive item counters your lane the most (spirit visage when vs. AP, randuin's or FH when vs. AD), so combine that with his passive and his ult and that means you do literally no damage to him unless you feel like huge amounts of armor pen (viable on some champs, not most). Most champions have until Nasus' first back to actually shut him down, because after that he will not care about your damage between his defensive items, ult, and passive.

We all know Nasus' stacking mechanic is INSANE. If he gets out of lane phase at all, prepare to be in one hell of a ride, because wither pretty much is a snare. Granted, a Nasus that is behind will not be useful, but a Nasus that gets ahead has really good tpganks (because you can max wither first on nasus if you want to).

DARIUS

First of all - kiting? In BRONZE? Good luck with that. Aside from that, Darius is literally everything you listed that a good toplaner needs to do ti win. Able to snowball VERY HARD off of an early lead, has massive amounts of kill pressure in lane, can help snowball other lanes decently well and can help take objectives because of the auto reset on his W.

---

Am I saying that the champs you listed are bad choices? HELL NO. Every champion, if played well enough, can win at any rating (if you told me a few weeks ago Keane would play Urgot against Bjergsen and not only win with it but make that champion competitively viable, then I'd call you a crazy liar). I also wanted to give some picks that weren't what everyone else would say.

animorpherv1 · Sun Mar 29, 2015 7:38 am

Just so we're keeping track here, Ryze's winrate over this patch is about 48%, just sites like lolking use multiple days of winrate to determine "actual winrate". What I'm just trying to state with Ryze is that winrate does not fully equal how good a champion is. Never has, never will. If that was the case Heimer would be league's 3rd best champion (is he good? sure. 3rd best? I'd stray far away from that). I also rate Ryze highly because I like to play him and tend to find success on him.

Regarding Nasus, I tend to see a lot of really good Nasus' who either take over or almost take over the game, and I'm sick of him, so yeah. I rate him very highly because of how hard he is to truly shut down and how terrifying he can be.

animorpherv1 · Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:58 am

quadz - any solo lane or support will do.

animorpherv1 · Tue Mar 31, 2015 7:54 am

Also. I swear to god gold v is worse than any division in silver. Currently sitting at -16lp from 3 dodges and 3 lost games in a row. I was at 57lp earlier in the day~

animorpherv1 · Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:48 am

In post 40311, zoraster wrote:your own dodges?

Yup. One of them was my bad (locking in a role that was already filled accidentally) but the others were bs like first time leblanc (into malz) who was planning on rushing roa.

animorpherv1 · Wed Apr 01, 2015 3:42 am

Ascension was best mode.

animorpherv1 · Thu Apr 02, 2015 3:37 pm

I'm sick of urf. If you don't play the op champs (which I don't own or can't play in urf) you lose. ALL THE TIME. I dont understand how being blown up every 2.5 seconds is fun.

animorpherv1 · Mon Apr 06, 2015 6:44 am

Just fucking lagged through an entire promos game, but not the game I played 5 minutes before.

Fuck this game right now.

EDIT - And game 3 is clarity/clairvoyance urgot stating he'll afk, and I have to dodge at the last second.

Fuck. this. rank.

animorpherv1 · Mon Apr 06, 2015 5:30 pm

This was a match.

So, I stole baron from nid/cho as lee sin, yay ^_^. That game was crazy and their poke was intense, but we made a huge comeback because we couldn't find a good fight at all until then.

animorpherv1 · Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:45 am

In post 40563, pickemgenius wrote:--->big comeback
--->only down 1.9k at most

mfw

We had no real way of engaging on them thanks to morg, and that lead was set to grow by a lot. They had just taken 2 turrets & an inhib thanks to their poke. Was it a big comeback? In the aspect that it stopped a team's win in it tracks, yes.

animorpherv1 · Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:49 am

In post 40566, zoraster wrote:
In post 40564, Klazam wrote:stole baron from cho? dat cho needs uninstalling

Also, the cho wasn't jungling, so cho would have to beat smite with feast... not smite vs. smite+feast. Even if Cho was 16 at the time (probably at 45?) he only had 130 AP, so his feast was doing 741 true damage. At level 16, smite does 900 damage.

They had 2 different executes & a smite for well over 2,000 damage.I'm not doing 2k damage with smite + q as Lee. Keep in mind I was also like 3 levels under Nidalee at that time.

animorpherv1 · Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:07 am

In post 40570, zoraster wrote:what was the other execute? unless you're on voice comms, the idea that you should be able to time different champions' executes along with smite is laughable.

Don't get me wrong, it's still amazing to steal a baron, etc. Just pointing out that it's not really cho's fault.

Nidalee Q.

animorpherv1 · Fri Apr 10, 2015 12:52 am

I think it could work with jarvan.

animorpherv1 · Fri Apr 10, 2015 2:12 am

In post 40650, PJ. wrote:He died level 1 to golems.

So, regular sion start?

animorpherv1 · Fri Apr 10, 2015 5:47 am

In post 40655, PJ. wrote:I don't think he got level 2 but he definitely started golem killed it and died, then tped to lane. Sounds not good but cause wasting tp right away.

If he didn't get 2 he didn't clear the entire camp, which should have happened.

animorpherv1 · Sat Apr 11, 2015 5:49 am

I have a friend who plays a lot of Nasus (70+ games iirc, 76% winrate and is gold), and he says that it's really hard to find a matchup that Nasus actually loses, and I tend to agree. His passive with either cloth + 5 or flask + 3 is kind of insane levels of sustain. Also, since Nasus tends to be under tower a lot WITH TELEPORT that means Nasus should be able to get out of lane more often than not. If you rush spirit visage vs. ap, mages can't hurt you at all. If you rush frozen heart or randuin's vs. AD, a large majority of bruisers cannot hurt you. If you're really far ahead somehow, triforce is kind of insane.

animorpherv1 · Sat Apr 11, 2015 5:49 pm

If you're looking for a Yasuo counter, Malzahar and Mordekaiser.

animorpherv1 · Sun Apr 12, 2015 4:01 am

In post 40701, KaleiÐoscøpe wrote:Stole dragon with a soraka q yesterday. Fun stuff

I stole baron with galio q a few days ago.

animorpherv1 · Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:08 am

In post 40771, Iecerint wrote:Ryze is a cute bearded CEO.

I actually have great hopes with the Ryze rework after a few buffs that are on the PBE. Can't wait to play it!

animorpherv1 · Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:27 am

... this was a match

WHY DO YOU DISCONNECT WHEN YOU HAVE A FED AS FUCK KASADIN ON YOUR TEAM. WHYYYYY. This game is just intent on having me lose whenever possible. I need help..

animorpherv1 · Sun Apr 19, 2015 12:10 pm

In post 40864, Voidedmafia wrote:I'm not sure what the difference is in Nightblade Irelia.

That's because there is none - old Nightblade Irelia was swapped for Chiense one in S4.

animorpherv1 · Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:54 pm

Jungle Zac?

animorpherv1 · Thu Apr 23, 2015 8:29 am

In post 40919, Oversoul wrote:Bard is a play maker. I think he is really good early on and has a few really good matchups.

Just don't pick him into a Leona.

No no no no no no and no. He either gets outpoked, out sustained, or out all-inned in every matchup

and

he has to leave lane to pick up chimes, forcing your adc to 1v2 for a time.

animorpherv1 · Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:20 am

In post 40923, Iecerint wrote:
In post 40922, Voidedmafia wrote:Ryze re-work in PBE

I think these would be pretty major buffs to Ryze if they go through. I mean,
30% c/d
on a rank 3 ult (assumed 10%/20%/30% per rank) means that you just need lucidity boots or one 10% c/d item and the rest can be mana/AP/mpen. It seems like it's all about rewarding you for constantly and consistently getting off his spells.

The issue is that the mana-tank items he likes to buy already give CDR.

Frozen Heart is still cost efficient on Ryze even if you overcap on CDR, I believe.

animorpherv1 · Fri Apr 24, 2015 3:49 am

May I suggest this, SAD?

animorpherv1 · Fri Apr 24, 2015 4:24 am

Also, I'm so sick of every god damnsoloq game I play having afks and trolls. I

wish

I was being sarcastic and the number was lower than that.

I legit cannot climb because my performance does not matter, and I have no idea what to do anymore.

animorpherv1 · Fri Apr 24, 2015 5:11 am

In post 40942, hitogoroshi wrote:the presence of someone doing worse than you doesn't mean your performance doesn't matter. I've won 4v5's as the 4 and lost them as the 5 in ranked games. that's just a pyschological dodge people like to do where they think "if I'm not the MOST responsible for this loss, I'm not responsible at all!". It's also dumb and wrong.

your warding is pretty bad. that's a good next step to work on.

The last game had

3

afks. The last non-group game before that had our top laner running into other lanes and giving away kills after he got ganked ONCE, feeding everyone.

Explain to me how I can win those.

animorpherv1 · Fri Apr 24, 2015 5:53 am

I challenge that thought entirely. My vision is fine and is quite frankly better than a decent chunk of the people I play with regularly (yes, I do have some games where my vision is horrendous - but don't we all? Also, SK Gaming got first place in the regular season despite their lack of vision). My lack of vision is not important if I ping missing like a madman and the other laners don't back off, giving off free kills, and when I do place wards that see the enemies, they still die anyways. If I was playing in higher elos I wouldn't be playing with teammates so bad it makes me feel like I'm in Bronze all the time, who call gg at first blood 3 minutes in, or feed everyone because they got ganked with no wards up. League, at it's current state, is a game where it is much easier for one person to mess up and lose the game for their team than it is to do the exact opposite and carry 4 feeders.

I just played a fair few practice 1v1s with a friend who's around equal (if not better) skill level as I last night, and I managed to win 2 of the 3 lanes by a decent amount (stomping the first and making some outplays to gain me a lead in the other) and managed to not get horrendously stomped in the 3rd. I've won lanes vs. platinum players on a fairly consistent basis on champions I practice with. I know which of my champions to play into which champions that give me the best chance at countering them. I know what to do with a lead and how to snowball it into a win on each champion I play consistently.

animorpherv1 · Fri Apr 24, 2015 7:07 am

In post 40950, hitogoroshi wrote:do you really think you deserve to be a single division higher than you are?

Yes, because vision is not the sole determinant of who wins games.

animorpherv1 · Fri Apr 24, 2015 8:51 am

In post 40956, Gendaberry wrote:Also, how do you expect to even climb in ranked when you barely play it? In the past 12 days, op.gg says you've played 9 ranked games. Most of the people in my tier play at least that many ranked games every 1-2 days. If you're busy and can't play ranked or you don't enjoy it thats fine, but you can't really complain about not being able to climb when you barely even play ranked.

The only thing I feel like addressing right now is this, I'll probably come back to the rest later. But suffice it to say that I've been largely avoiding ranked with the sole purpose to improve, but no matter what I try nothing that I've been trying to fix has been working.

I went several months doing largely ranked games to get from S2 to G4, and now I'm just frustrated.

animorpherv1 · Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:32 am

In post 40959, Voidedmafia wrote:I'd hire Hito as my League Life coach (actually if I could I'd link the replays of the five placement games I've had and ask some of you guys to critique me. I figure one part of it is having something like LoLReplay, but I don't think I have what I need to actually make the replays viewable to you guys or something.)

Btw, general question regarding mid: I'm fairly positive that the first item you should get is morello's/Athenes most of the time (because first-world mana problems), excluding mana-less champs like Kat, but should I almost always go for, like, Rabadon's next item unless I absolutely NEED to buy a defensive item (either because my opponent got fed or because someone else on their team is getting too huge to simply ignore them and go stragith damage)?

Second item is pretty flexible. Here are a few things I'd suggest for an AP character, assuming no need to build defensively and you're manaless:

Zhonya's (For those times where you're somewhat behind and don't know what to build)
Abyssal Scepter (great replacement for DFG. If you can be in range to use the passive)
Luden's Echo (the active on this item is crazy good early/midgame, really good at snowballing too)
Deathcap (Adds a ton of burst)
Lich Bane (Not a good first item, but works great with some AP. Great if you can get in autos)
Twin Shadows (Having problems landing skillshots?)
Void Staff (You do pretty much true damage with VS + MPen boots)

animorpherv1 · Fri Apr 24, 2015 11:19 am

In post 40978, zoraster wrote:I mean there's a reason why only top laners tend to take teleport right now.

And Master Yi.

animorpherv1 · Sat Apr 25, 2015 6:14 pm

So, I'm starting up a ranked team maybe with a friend of mine.

Using this form as a way to gauge interest and whatnot.

animorpherv1 · Mon Apr 27, 2015 12:52 pm

Spoiler: Critplank Q damage vs. Mageplank entire kit. WARNING, I DID MATH FOR THIS.

animorpherv1 · Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:22 pm

I'm so proud of this match.

animorpherv1 · Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:31 am

UGH. I HATE CAITLYN WITH EVER FIBER OF MY BEING. I swear her laning phase is so brain dead and so easy a kitten could do it right and still manage to win on her. It's impossible to get near her at all, she outranges you, and she does more damage than you.

So fucking sick of laning against Caitlyns. This champion needs to die a fiery death.

animorpherv1 · Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:37 am

Am I the only one who sees bc as a worse last whisper now? If I want to bust tank, lw will give me more pen to do that with, without having to stack it.

animorpherv1 · Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:43 am

Found a video about the Black Cleaver. Goes somewhat in-depth on the item and then proceeds to talk about its (probable) best users.

animorpherv1 · Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:12 am

I can safely safe BC is not complete crap.

animorpherv1 · Fri May 01, 2015 1:56 am

Only Bjergsen can get Last Whisper + Deathcap Varus to actually WORK.

animorpherv1 · Wed May 06, 2015 5:23 pm

In post 41253, PJ. wrote:Keep pushing out skins and ignoring known login bugs.

You

don't

want the skins team working on bugs. They have no or very little idea on how to code and would probably just make the game worse. It's comments like these that make me rage, because it shows how little people actually know about the industry as a whole.

animorpherv1 · Wed May 06, 2015 5:33 pm

In post 41256, Psyche wrote:
In post 41254, animorpherv1 wrote:
In post 41253, PJ. wrote:Keep pushing out skins and ignoring known login bugs.

You
don't
want the skins team working on bugs. They have no or very little idea on how to code and would probably just make the game worse. It's comments like these that make me rage, because it shows how little people actually know about the industry as a whole.

that's not really the claim

But you can only assume that the people that know how to fix bugs are trying their hardest. I mean it's in their best interest to do so. It has to go through their testing first, to make sure it doesn't break anything else. What's the point of fixing twitch ult if it somehow makes minions invulnerable?

animorpherv1 · Thu May 07, 2015 6:00 am

Lee Sin will never be bad unless his kit is gutted. He's still good, you just need to put the time into it.

animorpherv1 · Thu May 07, 2015 8:54 am

In post 41300, Ser Arthur Dayne wrote:And holy molly i hate ezreal sooooo much.

Like the champion does no damage and sucks even more vs this tank meta and Riot constantly continues to release skins for him so he continues to stay popular.

Pedit: Yeah :p

And he also has some of the lowest adc winrates! Plus all of his skins minus Pulsefire is 750..

animorpherv1 · Sun May 10, 2015 4:52 pm

In post 41413, Iecerint wrote:Some people are suggesting that it's the direction of the Urgot rework.

I fucking hope not.

It was confirmed not Urgot. They're not even

working

on Urgot right now.

animorpherv1 · Tue May 12, 2015 2:19 pm

You need to have at least 10 unowned skins for your champions, no champion requirements.

animorpherv1 · Tue May 12, 2015 4:09 pm

When I go up a tier/division, I somehow manage to get a huge MMR boost.

animorpherv1 · Wed May 13, 2015 8:35 am

In post 41530, quadz08 wrote:agreed

seems zed-ish in terms of mobility, with some cc built in

curious if support ekko would work. probably too squishy, but support zyra works so maybe not

Support zyra works because her damages are insane.

animorpherv1 · Wed May 13, 2015 9:09 am

In post 41539, Ser Arthur Dayne wrote:Support zyra doesn't even work at all in this meta.

It does work - she rushes liandries. And her plants proc it. She has more/better CC on her kit than vel'koz does, as well.

animorpherv1 · Wed May 13, 2015 10:18 am

"Wheel of champions, round it goes. Where it stops, nobody knows!

*Wheel stops*

Time to nerf Irelia."

animorpherv1 · Wed May 13, 2015 2:11 pm

I'm not! It looks good on morde.

animorpherv1 · Fri May 15, 2015 2:58 am

In post 41617, Oman wrote:Excluding Bard, I can't remember the last time a champion was released in any kind of balanced state.

Vel'Koz.

animorpherv1 · Fri May 15, 2015 4:01 am

In post 41621, animorpherv1 wrote:Vel'Koz.

animorpherv1 · Sat May 16, 2015 3:19 pm

I'm so fucking sick of losing every match and not being able to do anything about it. I just feel like I've gotten worse. I don't even know what to do anymore.

animorpherv1 · Sun May 17, 2015 5:39 am

In post 41687, zoraster wrote:
In post 41675, animorpherv1 wrote:I'm so fucking sick of losing every match and not being able to do anything about it. I just feel like I've gotten worse. I don't even know what to do anymore.

Man. You have had a rough time lately. Fortunately it hasn't been ranked?

Also, stop playing with JDamage. You've played 12 times with him and lost every single time.

First of all, if

JDmage

was on this forum (he hates forums for some reason) you'd already be torn to shreds. It's a bug of his so it's become a bug of mine over time.

i also do not have enough words that simulate "no" here, because he's my best friend. Even if he is D5.

animorpherv1 · Sun May 17, 2015 9:32 am

In post 41703, zoraster wrote:But I don't think it's unreasonable to point out that maybe playing a bunch with a Diamond guy who you have a 0-12 record playing with has something to do with it.

Going to post some recent games I played without him, then.

I almost singlehandedly threw this game 3 different times.
Ranked!
Volibear top
Mordekaiser!
Mordekaiser again!
Kassadin top

It's not me playing with diamonds.

animorpherv1 · Sun May 17, 2015 11:07 am

In post 41720, dramonic wrote:Game 3: Shyv's damage is actually pretty mixed and the rest of their team is mostly AP, you'd probably have gotten more out of Sunfire/Randuin than FH. Also it's always better to complete your Bracer item than to build a second one.
Game 4: Heal Ignite on a no mobility/no CC champ is not something I'd recommend. Jayce is also a fucking awful matchup for Morde, but Team Builder so yeah...

I only really want to comment on these two, and game 6.

Game 3 - I was ahead and started to get BORK (my one-item Volibear instawin damage item)- at this point, Shyv started out damaging me after being DOWN KILLS, CS, AND LANE PRESSURE. So I felt like the best item to counter shyvanna was frozen heart, as a lot of her damage comes through her autoatacks directly or the %hp from her e + autos. Also, I was building warmogs. That takes 2 bracers.

Game 4 - I was trying out a method of playing morde that works for a friend of mine. I do generally run flash/ignite.

Game 6 - I wanted an AP champ so we couldn't have everyone build armor and have us lose lategame, and I didn't know what to play that is a magic damage threat that beats trynd - I don't think it exists. So I picked for the team, and not lane.

That all said - my only point I'm making here is that it's not the fact that I only lose when I play with diamonds. Which is not true.

animorpherv1 · Sun May 17, 2015 11:21 am

Don't own, Don't play, Isn't a damage threat, Don't own, Isn't a damage threat, Didn't play at the time, Don't play, Don't own, Don't play.

animorpherv1 · Sun May 17, 2015 11:43 am

I wasn't sure what to expect out of the Elise - I've seen tank Elise and damage Elise, and I always expect tank Elise more. Maybe that was wrong of me.

animorpherv1 · Sun May 17, 2015 12:00 pm

In post 41705, zoraster wrote:Oh. That's pretty high up there on "petty things to care about."

So I just realized how ragey that actually looked. I didn't intend for it to look that way. I apologize.

animorpherv1 · Sun May 17, 2015 7:31 pm

In post 41739, Iecerint wrote:I would label him a Support/Marksman if I were in charge of his labels, since his major contribution is vision with his mushrooms.

I would label him as Mage/Marksman. A marksman is a person who deals consistent damage through autoattacks (see: Azir). An ADC is someone who does so while also building AD items.

animorpherv1 · Tue May 19, 2015 1:17 am

In post 41821, Iecerint wrote:My normal MMR is high gold and my ranked mmr is high silver.

It makes it really hard to practice things that aren't support.

If you do well with a champ in normals, then you should have no problems in ranked. Practice things until you're decent ith them in normals, and in ranked you'll look much better.

animorpherv1 · Tue May 19, 2015 1:38 am

In post 41823, Iecerint wrote: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.

If someone's complaining that you ruined their

normal game

for the sake of practice, there is something wrong with them. Normals is a great place to practice champs. Also, you won't get very far with ADC practice if you just spam Sona.

animorpherv1 · Wed May 20, 2015 5:56 am

I love Morde. That was with my D5 friend trying aatrox too.

animorpherv1 · Fri May 22, 2015 12:53 am

In post 41908, FakeGod wrote:Ok, just wrecked a riven top.

I think ren just shuts down all physical melee champions top.

His build path is so CDR friendly, that all my abilities are constantly off cd.

I'm little bit sad that brutalizer doesn't build into BCleaver any more.

Renekton's matcups in a nutshell:

Is it a champion? If so, the matchup is skill based at worst.

animorpherv1 · Fri May 22, 2015 5:08 am

In post 41910, PJ. wrote:Is that hyperbole or are you being a ridiculous crybaby again?

Teemo

Mostly hyperbole. I do dislike his trading combo of dash in -> stun -> dash out a lot, though.

animorpherv1 · Fri May 22, 2015 5:11 am

In post 41915, quadz08 wrote:Can you walk me through how that matchup is supposed to work as one of those guys? Am I just supposed to all-in and whale on him everytime he's out of minions?

Swain and Morde can also work.

Swain is simple - you can dot him while he's pooled and outdamage him early.

Morde is a bit tricker of a lane matchup. You really have to use abilities to cs + harass at the same time. Make him burn through his potions, because you out burst him.

animorpherv1 · Sat May 23, 2015 1:56 am

Don't forget Cho'Gath! Might not be the best "carry" per say, but oh my god can his passive make laning vs. him obnoxious.

animorpherv1 · Sat May 23, 2015 5:06 pm

In post 41976, FakeGod wrote:I got wrecked as ren vs nasus

qq

Nasus wins that past, like, level 4.

animorpherv1 · Tue May 26, 2015 7:20 am

I'm convinced now that random players are, for the most part, less intelligent than tablecloths.

animorpherv1 · Tue May 26, 2015 9:54 am

In post 42020, Psyche wrote:is that doable
if it's doable i'll do it

Technically, yes. If you do really well in placements and continue to do well. Far from achievable for a normal person, imo.

EDIT: Wait, I don't think your 30 yet. If you're not(and/or don't plan on spamming league like crazy), it isn't.

animorpherv1 · Wed May 27, 2015 9:53 am

In post 42054, RadiantCowbells wrote:How's the game right now? I hear it's a pretty hefty tank meta.

It's winding down a bit (partly due t damage nerfs on the tank jungle item, and somewhat due to upcoming nerfs on said junglers).

animorpherv1 · Thu May 28, 2015 7:44 pm

Since FG did it - in 229 ranked games I have played this season, I've played 40 different champs.

animorpherv1 · Sat May 30, 2015 2:53 pm

In post 42150, Elmo TeH AzN wrote:And back in S5.

The 5s of each ran are always really bad (B5, S5, G5, etc.) It largely consists of people who don't care about ranking up so they'll troll instead of play normals, people who got lucky in promos/provisional (for S5 and up), and just other kinds of really bad players.

G5 is probably the worst because of the people who boost accounts/get boosted, most of them want to go to gold, so they get boosted to G5 and stop. Then the people who can't play at that level play worse and drag their entire team down and have a hard time being demoted.

animorpherv1 · Sun May 31, 2015 2:47 am

Wooo G3 promos.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jun 02, 2015 7:01 am

So, what you JUST said is that in a class of champions who scale THE BEST into lategame, one of the safest (and best scaling IMO. Not a hypercarry but 650 range + net safety = damn good late) cannot carry a game.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jun 02, 2015 7:10 am

In post 42198, dramonic wrote:Caytlin is one of the worst scalers as far as adc goes...

I'd rather have Caitlyn lategame than Graves/Sivir/Ezreal/MF/Quinn/Kalista/Lucian. Considering that's half (if not more) of the current ADC roster, yeah.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jun 02, 2015 7:30 am

In post 42200, dramonic wrote:
In post 42199, animorpherv1 wrote:
In post 42198, dramonic wrote:Caytlin is one of the worst scalers as far as adc goes...
Sivir/Ezreal/Quinn/Kalista/Lucian.

Sivir/Kalista both have mediocre lategame dps for an adc in place of additional utlity. In a teamfight lategame, Caitlyn would win about 80% of the time, if not more.

Quinn is both buggy as shit and has problems using more than half her kit in a prolonged fight as she needs to get in melee range to use it.

I hate Ezreal because if he misses like 1 skillshot he's already useless. That's a bit of an exaggeration, but my point stands. He needs to hit all of his skillshots to do damage that's equal to or greater than most ADCs.

Lucian has struggles to get in range to do his damage. 500 range, yo. He has good lategame damage (Lucian's pretty good at everything), but 500 range means he can struggle to get in range against a lot of teams and not instantly die.

Also, save Jinx and Trist, I'd argue that Caitlyn has the best tower pushing of an ADC. Which is one of their main jobs.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jun 03, 2015 2:12 am

So, Graham NcNeill is Riot's new Senior Narrative Writer.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:19 am

Finally got my first level 5. And with morde ^_^

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 05, 2015 7:31 pm

Woo! Gold 3. That took way too long. I am now officially a tier above where I ended last season.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jun 06, 2015 5:35 am

In post 42256, zoraster wrote:His win rate at plat+ has improved by like 11% but that put him at a 51% win rate so not world beating

Generally, when your winrate increases by 11% in one patch, I'd consider it ban worthy.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jun 06, 2015 7:41 am

In post 42258, zoraster wrote:why?

Because people see "[X] champion went up in winrate by a lot! They MUST be op" and don't even bother to think about context, but blind pick that champion into any matchup for their first time and feed with it.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:59 am

I just don't want to risk my team picking it without knowing ho it works - happened once to me already with Ryze. And in my promos, too.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jun 06, 2015 10:22 am

In post 42268, JasonWazza wrote:The problem is, if they are willing to pick ryze, which they don't know, they are willing to pick ANYONE that they don't know.

Sucking is generally a player trait, not a champion one.

That's true. People will play anything that's deemed as "op" if they don't know how to play it - but Ryze is shiny and new still. Not only do I not trust people to play ryze at all right now (I stil have no idea how he builds after tear + roa), but he's just been deemed as op. I'm going to ban him until I feel like he's less new.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jun 06, 2015 4:50 pm

I don't understand. Why do I lose like every lane in existance. I just can't do it. I hate laning phase - it's always been what I'm worst at somehow. Like I cannot do anything in it.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jun 06, 2015 5:16 pm

In post 42280, Gendaberry wrote:
In post 42279, animorpherv1 wrote:I don't understand. Why do I lose like every lane in existance. I just can't do it. I hate laning phase - it's always been what I'm worst at somehow. Like I cannot do anything in it.

What role do you main? If you want I can spectate one of your games and see if I can help you out with your lanephase.

When I'm playing ranked I main support. Outside of ranked I play pretty much everything else.

@Jason: I wish I knew. I literally have no clue why I keep losing lanes I should win. I just think my knowledge of what to do in laning phase is shit.

animorpherv1 · Sun Jun 07, 2015 1:00 am

Chev, it's fine to play Co-Op vs. AI early. Especially when you have little understand of what's going on. Get the hang of the game, first. Then when you fee ready, you can move over! No one will rush you.

animorpherv1 · Sun Jun 07, 2015 1:57 am

In post 42291, Nexus wrote:
In post 42289, animorpherv1 wrote:Chev, it's fine to play Co-Op vs. AI early. Especially when you have little understand of what's going on. Get the hang of the game, first. Then when you fee ready, you can move over! No one will rush you.

To be fair, it's also fine to play Co-Op vs. AI forever. Diff'rent strokes

I mean, if you want. I won't judge.

animorpherv1 · Sun Jun 07, 2015 6:35 am

In post 42306, Cabd wrote:
In post 42305, quadz08 wrote:valking the wrong way.

Just claim to be a wildturtle fan.

This is the correct way to play ADC.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jun 10, 2015 5:51 am

Zor, that is a tad much imo. They won't even know who you are.

Also, would someone be willing to spectate a match I play and give me some ideas of wjat I'm not doing? I'd prefer mechanics tips, of possible. I understand mywarding is crap, thanks.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jun 10, 2015 5:01 pm

Jax is a good pick with an AD heavy team even if he's built standard because his kit has a lot of magic damage in it to begin with.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jun 11, 2015 5:02 am

Well, she could be disabled.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:50 am

In post 42366, AngryPidgeon wrote:
In post 42348, animorpherv1 wrote:Zor, that is a tad much imo. They won't even know who you are.

Also, would someone be willing to spectate a match I play and give me some ideas of wjat I'm not doing? I'd prefer mechanics tips, of possible. I understand mywarding is crap, thanks.

I would.

Im not mechanically great though, but I'd be willing to watch your game if you want.

Just send me a message on league when you want to, then. The reason I mention mechanics is because I know my warding and my csing is crap, I want to see everything else.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:25 am

In post 42369, FakeGod wrote:
In post 42359, Glork wrote:ricklessabandon on Twitter: "@ricklessabandon: the next pbe update may or may not have some elise changes."

YAAAAAAYYYYYY. Anything has to be better than what her current state is.

NOOOOOOOOO WHY

I just picked up Elise and I really like her as is!!!

To be fair, these mini-champ updates have yet to be BAD. Maokai, Sej, Karma, and Jayce all look better.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:30 am

In post 42372, FakeGod wrote:if it's just removing ranks on her R and making QWE levelable 6 times (just like Jayce) then I will not riot

They confirmed it's not.

But seriously, do you want Elise to be Jayce? I don't.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:39 am

Elise is a mage-assassin-tank who's TERRIBLE at all three of those jobs.

Elise fails when built full AP (mage/assassin) often because she has to jump into melee range to finish off targets, she's very squishy, and lacks a reliably escape (as rappel requires neutral camps to "escape" with). She goes in, kills one person (thanks to the dps her spiderlings put out), then dies. Meanwhile, leblanc can 100-0 squishies and get out, so she can participate later.

Elise fails when built full tank because a tank's job is to disrupt the enemy team through CC and be enough of a threat so they have to be focused. Elise cannot disrupt an enemy team and does not have enough base damage on her kit to be a threat without AP. Her lategame becomes "stun-bot which can miss her stun").

Elise fails when built a mix between the two because she proceeds to do all of the above in a mediorce way.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jun 11, 2015 11:10 am

In post 42391, FakeGod wrote:I only started Elise like 3 days ago, and I liked what I've been seeing.

That's great! Learning new champions is always amazing, and even if you don't keep them in your pool forever, you'll learn how to deal with them.

However

, don't go on a giant bitchfest like your favourite champion has just been gutted when

every single semi-rework has been AMAZING for the champion

. For that matter, don't go haywire period. It's fine to state why you dislike. However, shit like this:

FakeGod wrote:NOOOOOOOOO WHY

Just feels like entitlement and that Riot has to do what you want them to. I honestly think the last rework to completely fail on it's intended purpose was 4.2 Skarner. Everything else since I'd call at least a moderate success.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:42 pm

Sarcasm and whatnot is hard to understand over the net.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jun 11, 2015 2:03 pm

In post 42407, FakeGod wrote:I thought you guys played mafia!!!

I don't!

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 1:22 am

Spoiler: DEFENSIVE MASTERY TREE CHANGES (somewhat long?) STILL ON PBE

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 1:31 am

In post 42415, Klazam wrote:Grah. Time to change my stuff

It's all still on PBE yet.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:27 am

In post 42417, JasonWazza wrote:So wait, now 9 points in Defense = increased tenacity?

Possible, but tenacity is generally not a great stat for squishies because you die if you get cc'd at all anyways.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:29 am

In post 42419, JasonWazza wrote:Debatable, and it'd be for laning phases (EG. take against Annie.)

If you're laning against Annie I would recommend nine flat MR blues and an early null-magic, not tenacity.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:54 am

In post 42422, hitogoroshi wrote:new adaptive armor is horse manure

I disagree - I think there will be some fantastic uses for this, one of them being it'll be much easier to itemize against standard comps. I was having a problem against a triple ap comp last night because if I itemized armor I was bursted, and if I itemized MR, their adc killed me, and I think I ended up with more MR than armor because I wasn't really sure what to build.

In standard games, most tanks itemize for amror more than MR due to general lack of MR options. This'll help with that, too.

EDIT: Iece, it's already 4 tiers deep. You won't get it unless you're going 13 or more points in defense.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:36 am

In post 42426, zoraster wrote:Yeah? You get a randy ins and get 3 Mr? Hooray

Then why is legendary guardian looked at as such a good mastery in it's current form? It only gives 4 armor and 2 mr.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 6:45 am

In post 42436, PJ. wrote:So 1 reward? And it's the hardest one to get? Thanks riot.

I mean, sales. And pool party minions would be amazing.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 7:04 am

You're right on that end. The way I look at it, it's centered towards people who don't own every champ (most players), and it's quite easy to simply not care about the event, because it;s not requiring you to do anything.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 8:51 am

In post 42440, theelkspeaks wrote:Isn't there a mystery champ and a summoner icon reward in there? I own most champs, but one more would be nice!

I believe Panzer already owns all the champs.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 9:10 am

Totally biased, but pick up wukong. So good in top lane.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 9:21 am

In post 42444, theelkspeaks wrote:I'll probably get one after I get mysteried one, currently leaning Rek'sai but still deciding - is Wukong really that good right now?

I'd argue so. Wukong beats most bruisers (save Renekton and Darius), beats champs like Riven and Irelia. You can even play him as a counter to melee assassins. He does fine vs. tanks (can survive and may win), and scales very well thanks to his ulti. He's also very easy to pick up and be successful with.

I don't really wanna spam the thread with MORE wukong hype (I seem to do this often), so ask me on mschat or lol or something.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 9:55 am

Just FYI - Azir, Bard, Cass, and Kalista all have a pretty high skill floor, IMO. But it does pay off if you're willing to put in the time. Ekko is also free this week, so give him a chance.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 11:03 am

In post 42453, Glork wrote:TIL ani doesn't know what skill floor means.

Let me rephrase, then.

You're not going to do well on your first few games. You may not do well your first 10 games. It's also hard as fuck to be consistent on them.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 12, 2015 6:17 pm

Vlad only goes untargettable during pool, is why - the silence isn't targetted at vlad, so it will hit, is my best guess. I mean, Equalizer shits on vlad pool.

animorpherv1 · Sun Jun 14, 2015 7:32 am

/in for all of the above

animorpherv1 · Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:01 am

In post 42499, zoraster wrote:er why? fiddle doesn't want to spend much time Autoattacking

Fiddle also doesn't spend much time buying jungle enchants. Also, jungle Fizz, jungle Karma would both like this item.

animorpherv1 · Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:48 am

Let me rephrase. Fiddle players often buy T2 jungle item, leave it alone for a while, and rush zhonya's. Of course they fill it in with Magus

eventually

- it's the only source of CDR in fiddle's buildpath. But getting an enchant isn't mandatory on fiddlesticks by any means.

Also, just so we're keeping track, fiddle's winrate on champion.gg is

56.05%

. He'll be fine.

animorpherv1 · Mon Jun 15, 2015 11:13 am

In post 42510, notscience wrote:I still am unable to find a main.

What do you enjoy doing in a match?

animorpherv1 · Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:17 pm

I buy it on rengar for yomu's sometimes

animorpherv1 · Tue Jun 16, 2015 2:38 pm

In post 42565, Oman wrote:I've been trying to build a 100% crit jinx for funzies. I'm finding it hard to make it work without sacrificing too much.

10% crit runes, IE + double pd.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jun 16, 2015 2:53 pm

In post 42567, Oman wrote:Eh I feel like that's giving up a lot. I haven't really tried it starting with runes though (I'm embarassingly bad at rune setup).

double pd is a fairly standard lategame jinx setup, I believe.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jun 16, 2015 7:13 pm

Just started learning Gragas jungle. Holy fuck I love this champ.

animorpherv1 · Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:37 am

In post 42657, PJ. wrote:=( @ friend gated rewards

Also =( @ not getting the only real reward.

You'll get a mystery skin instead of the champ if you've attached your facebook account.

animorpherv1 · Sun Jun 21, 2015 1:41 pm

In post 42664, Maestro wrote:Also, Ani, unless you own all champions, you'll get a Mystery Champion, not a skin.

I'm aware. Also, the correct number is unless you own less than 10 champions.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jun 24, 2015 5:37 pm

Bilgewater event incoming!

animorpherv1 · Thu Jun 25, 2015 4:15 am

Flashy =/= cool.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:56 pm

I am so fucking sick of annie. Why can't they just nerf her into the ground. Her stun has no cd, her ult has no cd, you die if you're stronger, you die if you're weaker, THERE'S NOTHING I CAN FUCKING DO ABOUT THIS CHAMPION. SHE'S BUSTED AS FUCK.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:12 pm

In post 42811, FakeGod wrote:Yes. If Sivir, Ashe, KogMaw, Jinx, Draven, and Vayne are not available, then I would pick MF, no question.

Unfortunately, I have yet to see a game that met the above condition.

MF's laning phase is better than all of the above save Draven. And MF can still beat Draven. She snowballs better than every other ADC save Draven on that list as well, and a lead on MF can very easily be turned into a won game. She has a decent amount of mixed damage on her kit, as well.

She just has Kog syndrome where you need someone to peel for you, but if they do, you'll easily win teamfights between her ult + w alone.

EDIT: Corki? Really? Don't you max tumble on vayne first to literally avoid every skillshot corki sends out?

animorpherv1 · Sat Jun 27, 2015 3:03 pm

In post 42843, hiplop wrote:I want to try runeglaive kassadin. think that would be sweet lol

Not in lane it wouldn't be. Kassadin relies heavily on a roa rush, and doesn't even NEED lich bane to work properly. So, rushing challenging smite + runeglaive would actually fuck over your laning phase, as his first big spike is with catalyst + level 6.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jun 27, 2015 4:58 pm

In post 42847, hiplop wrote:
In post 42844, animorpherv1 wrote:
In post 42843, hiplop wrote:I want to try runeglaive kassadin. think that would be sweet lol

Not in lane it wouldn't be. Kassadin relies heavily on a roa rush, and doesn't even NEED lich bane to work properly. So, rushing challenging smite + runeglaive would actually fuck over your laning phase, as his first big spike is with catalyst + level 6.

i meant in jungle lol

I don't think kassadin can clear early, honestly. Way too squishy with not enough damage.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jun 27, 2015 8:15 pm

In post 42849, hiplop wrote:I
'm sure it'd be possible with pink smite? Definitely not viable but as least possible! Could do some hilarious ganks

He will die to the camps on his first clear, so no. It's not.

animorpherv1 · Sun Jun 28, 2015 12:51 am

Someone.explain why you'd pick Trist. I've yet to say "thank god we have trist.this game" since her rework, but a lot of people I know insist she's amazing and broken.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:49 pm

I'm

sick

of getting forced into adc when I play ranked, despite saying that I can't adc, only to go and feed really hard.

I can't bloody play this game anymore. I don't know why, I just think I've regressed.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jul 02, 2015 1:07 am

I got Aatrox as a mystery champ. Not bad.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jul 02, 2015 1:40 am

In post 42991, Oman wrote:Totally dope! He's fun!

Just tried him as a jungler - that was cool. At the VERY LEAST I enjoyed jumping on people and ulting for the hilarious burst + steroids.

Also, is Hydra or bork better on him?

animorpherv1 · Thu Jul 02, 2015 2:51 am

Go to player support is my guess.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:07 am

My quick thoughts re: Poppy & Kayle

Kayle's ult has hurt her a lot. She used to be a lanebully with fantastic scaling who could destroy people the instant she got Nashor's. Now she's just kinds mediocre at everything with an amazing ultimate. She pays a lot for it. As does Trynd for his.

Poppy's also not crap, she's just hard to get out of lane with. Trust me, I've seen Poppies get out of lane and

destroy

entire teams by themelves.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jul 02, 2015 7:57 pm

In post 43080, Psyche wrote:rengar
meh

Rengar is awesome.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jul 04, 2015 3:46 am

In post 43096, PJ. wrote:I don't think heimer counters exist.

Syndra.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jul 04, 2015 4:04 am

Syndra's the biggest one. I can list a few more, too.

Malzahar makes Heimer turrets disappear.
Ryze/Vladmir adores the free scaling into lategame, and can fight him in turrets after an item or two.
Annie doesn't bloody care about turrets.
Anivia can outpush Heimer at 6 and just farm until then.
Ziggs and Xerath are too far away from the turrets to care.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jul 04, 2015 12:11 pm

In post 43114, BROseidon wrote:
In post 43113, JasonWazza wrote:What top laners counter top lane wukong?

His one of the only top laners i actually struggle against on a regular basis.

All of them.

Wu's early trading is atrocious

You're high. Wukong's level 2 is one of THE BEST. When he hits 3, he can go invisible after his trade and trade FOR FREE.

Pick something tanky. He struggles to do much vs. tanks in lane.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jul 04, 2015 1:32 pm

Wukong sure is a bad laner.
No, he can't win lane at all.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jul 04, 2015 7:07 pm

In post 43126, zoraster wrote:
In post 43123, BROseidon wrote:Like, to be clear - if Wu's laning weren't shit, he'd be a top tier pick in pro play because his team fight is amazing.

Honestly, ani may have some blind spots but he knows what the eff he's talking about when it comes to the monkey.

Thank you.This means a lot.

In post 43127, zoraster wrote:
In post 43125, Ser Arthur Dayne wrote:The only non tank counter to Wukong is Tryndamere.

Darius and Fiona both seem to do well. But meta champs like gnar get wrecked.

From personal experience, you want to watch out specifically for Darius and Renekton. Those are the two hard counter matchups that will kill you again and again. Everything else you can play into and at least probably not die. Lee Sin is also a matchup you want to play VERY CAREFULLY with. You can win it, but it requires a lot of workaround.

As I said before, you fail to really dent tanks in a matter early enough for them to care. Avoid playing Wukong into Nasus for this reason.

Fiora's a champ I just rush thornmail against, no matter the champ, and watch as she kills herself on me.

Some champs Wukong counters (some of these are moreso mid matchups, but mid monkey works too):

Riven - Rush sunfire cape, you still outdamage her
Gnar - Mini Gnar's E is almost twice the cooldown of your E. Plus the amount of health he gets in Mega Gnar isn't enough early to deal with you.
Akali - You shit on this matchup all day. If she shrouds, you R. If she jumps on you, E+Q will at least trade even.
Zed - You can get the clone to tank Deathmark for you.

Every other squishy champ (and a fair amount of bruisers) who relies on burst

- Exception here is tryndamere, because his ult is broken as shit and he needs a complete rework.

animorpherv1 · Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:31 pm

@BRO: The reason wukong is not picked in pro play is because he's squishy and has no actual "escape", so he can be caught out and killed very fast, which can make your laning phase risky (not BAD, just risky). Also, they build him full tank. Which is not how it's done..

animorpherv1 · Mon Jul 06, 2015 1:22 am

1) Imo, no. The extra stats to not be blown up means a lot late. However, myko disagrees.

2) Always be aware of the enemy team. If you notice the fed rengar is missing, you're much less likely to overextend.

3a) You should be able to play every role. You can get away without maining everything, but being able to go even is important.

3b) Yes you can. I don't even own Braum or Leona.

4) Same timing as flash. Use it right before you'd die. Big thing is you cN.trynd ult while cc'd.

*phonepost* so lemme know if I need to explain.

animorpherv1 · Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:15 am

In post 43149, mykonian wrote:3. I really would not play top morde. Otherwise that seems solid, if a bit big. If you like to improve, spam something, learn it's matchups, get parts in your muscle memory.

Top morde can work. IMO, it's matchup/skill dependent. If you can do well in the matchup and not get camped, he has the same champion destroying properties.

animorpherv1 · Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:40 am

In post 43152, mykonian wrote:
In post 43151, animorpherv1 wrote:
In post 43149, mykonian wrote:3. I really would not play top morde. Otherwise that seems solid, if a bit big. If you like to improve, spam something, learn it's matchups, get parts in your muscle memory.

Top morde can work. IMO, it's matchup/skill dependent. If you can do well in the matchup and
not get camped
, he has the same champion destroying properties.

Bingo. This is the issue. The lane is too long, the coverage too bad, your jungler is usually far away for a countergank. It's a huge target for the opposing jungler. This, in perhaps the most snowbally lane in the game. You get behind, you get zoned harshly. Then, morde depends you stomping your opponents. He scales defensively off his offensive stats. More damage means more tankiness means you live longer means more damage which selfreinforces. You get behind, you become useless really quickly.

You can pull it off in low silver, but at some point the opposing jungler will realize that he can make it a 5v4 by showing top twice and collecting morde's scalp, since he's one of the more easily ganked champions anyway. It's not the direct opponent you worry about. He's rarely the problem.

I could also argue you can just buy wards and play smart, as well. But you're right. At the very least, you have to play very smart.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jul 07, 2015 6:13 am

So, THIS is a build.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jul 07, 2015 7:23 am

In post 43189, Cabd wrote:..Is that ADC thresh?

...Was M drunk off his ass again and on the other team?

No. ADC Thresh has always been a thing.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jul 07, 2015 5:52 pm

In post 43225, Maestro wrote:eady? Ok, now mash "UNDO" and watch as everyone disconnects from the game at once.
Check back in your client: "What do you mean you were in a game? There's no game here and there NEVER WAS."

Been disabled already.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jul 08, 2015 4:41 pm

You miss the whole point of Teleport, Panzer. Don't play top lane.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jul 08, 2015 4:54 pm

In post 43286, zoraster wrote:I don't think ani is a support main?

I play mostly support in ranked. That said, I can do just about any role to some kind of effectiveness.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jul 08, 2015 5:00 pm

You maybe a better mechanical player than I, but the reason I'm higher ranked than you (you're bottom of G5, I'm in G3 promos).

Something something scrub something something bad.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jul 08, 2015 5:21 pm

In post 43299, PJ. wrote:@Klazam: Also no, you should be be just smashing down the inhib while the other guy TPs into fights that he doesn't make a difference in because he's behind.

And then he picks up a doublekill. That tp surely didn't matter. Before you say it doesn't happen, just did to me.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jul 08, 2015 7:54 pm

In post 43318, Oman wrote:Thanks for the wukong advice guys, he's a blast.

No problem ^^

animorpherv1 · Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:40 pm

Woo. Back to gold 3.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:14 pm

Note to

everyone

, AP Twitch is bad. Don't play it.

I've seriously gotten it TWICE. And it's done NOTHING.

animorpherv1 · Sun Jul 12, 2015 3:31 pm

Go Iece!

animorpherv1 · Mon Jul 13, 2015 7:04 am

In post 43406, Iecerint wrote:
In post 43404, Oversoul wrote:I'm in Bronze 1 thank you very much

I have reck, dram, cojin, panzer, and some others.

I'm 2 ranks higher in the same league! *proceeds to wave from above*

animorpherv1 · Tue Jul 14, 2015 4:42 am

They did it for adcs as well Season Four.

Also, the reason mid ez is good with runeglaive is it makes q magic damage. Proccing luden's was a side benefit.