League of Legends (Old)

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:11 am

I am somewhat worried that I won't be able to play Wukong jungle, because the difficulty of the jungle is gonna go up apparently and wukong's first clear is very bad, health-wise. I may have to stick to wukong top.

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:56 am

It's not like I can't bring him top - I've beaten ranged champions before with the monkey (just handily beat swain several days ago), and I've got a 100% win rate vs. Jax with wukong as well.

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 08, 2014 5:14 am

I never got that much. I always did fine maxing W or E first, cleared pretty well (auto-e-auto for the attack speed and %hp damage) and never lacked cc for ganks.

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 08, 2014 10:39 am

In post 36071, Voidedmafia wrote:
In post 36070, theelkspeaks wrote:ut but but Minuteman Gangplank??

Is that a Legendary skin or just your wishlist? (that would be cool, though).

Those charts are funny as hell, too

No, that's an actual skin.

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 09, 2014 10:37 am

Anyone got to try new Sion yet?

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:16 pm

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

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:20 pm

Also, this marks two games in a row where I play aac and the support d/c's partway through laning phase. Why do I even bother?

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 09, 2014 2:44 pm

In post 36127, Iecerint wrote:
In post 36123, animorpherv1 wrote:Am I the only one to think new Soraka's really bullshit and needs toning down? The Q seems way too easy to hit, even at mid range. Which means free (and infinite) healing for everyone.

Needs hard engage.

So does Janna, but she's top tier.

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 09, 2014 3:10 pm

Soraka's job has

always

been to keep her carries healthy. Not to engage or disengage, really. What she does she's clearly best-at-class in by a very large scale. Add on spammable poke that doubles as a self-heal and I don't really see a way of getting past Soraka. Also she completely shuts down carries such as Graves, Corki, Varus, Lucian, and Ezreal, who need to be casting spells to be useful.

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 09, 2014 3:16 pm

In post 36134, Maestro wrote:
In post 36130, animorpherv1 wrote:she completely shuts down carries such as
Graves

NOW I see why Ani's whining

That too. My favourite ADCs are pretty much all on that list. (Varus is also one of my top 3 ADCs).

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 09, 2014 6:59 pm

God, Draven is hilarious. Also, that Nami was so good.

EDIT: You know botlane is fed when the support has more gold than the midlaner.

animorpherv1 · Fri Oct 10, 2014 3:07 am

I really like the wolf bonus for smiting, as a side note. Will be great for defending against invades. (Do wolves before you start blue to gaurantee no invades).

animorpherv1 · Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:07 am

Voided, this is what happens at the beginning of

every

season. Huge chances come into play between each season to spice things up.

animorpherv1 · Sat Oct 11, 2014 5:12 am

RIP Ryze next patch. He's losing his mana scaling on W + E

animorpherv1 · Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:53 am

OK, how the hell do you beat Maokai in lane. He heals up every fucking half a second.

animorpherv1 · Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:59 am

I don't own lulu.

animorpherv1 · Sat Oct 11, 2014 7:02 am

None of this is actually helping me. Why do these champs beat Maokai?

animorpherv1 · Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:10 pm

Do Baron at 15, win game.

animorpherv1 · Sat Oct 11, 2014 7:45 pm

Unrelatedly; Varus is the most underrated ADC in league. Period. His only major weakness being mobile assassins/lack of mobility.

animorpherv1 · Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:25 am

In post 36261, Voidedmafia wrote:
In post 36255, chamber wrote:
In post 36254, animorpherv1 wrote:lack of mobility

Not having an escape is a pretty huge weakness. I like Varus mind you, I just don't think you can write it off as 'oh, he -only- lacks mobility'.

That's also why Ashe doesn't really work in this meta, either, although she's a bit more of a burst ADC than Varus is.

I don't Varus counts as a hypercarry, though, so it's not like he's a second Kog'Maw. (why wouldn't he, though, out of curiosity?)

He's pretty close, but not quite. The ideal combo is 3 autos -> ult -> 3 autos -> q -> 3 autos -> w, which shreds just about anything, but that takes time.

animorpherv1 · Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:15 pm

As someone is learning j4, who is also not BRO:

21/9/0, AD reds, armor yellows, mix of MR/level and MR blues, AD quints. Bot side buff -> wolves -> top side buff.

animorpherv1 · Mon Oct 13, 2014 8:25 am

Dunkmaster Darius available. Looks like I'm not playing toplane for a bit.

animorpherv1 · Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:29 am

Best new splash, I'm sorry. I also love Wukong's. Kayle's is the worst.

animorpherv1 · Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:36 pm

In post 36337, Chevre wrote:Is there always a small swath of champions that go for 450 IP or should I be taking advantage of this?

Yes, and buy Annie, Garen, Nunu, and Ryze.

animorpherv1 · Mon Oct 13, 2014 2:10 pm

Wukong's riding a cloud (his Nimbus, iirc. He IS based off of Sun Wukong), and ulting. That shit eating grin is amazing.

animorpherv1 · Mon Oct 13, 2014 3:20 pm

Voidedmafia, www.surrenderat20.net

animorpherv1 · Mon Oct 13, 2014 6:04 pm

Notes to self:

1) I still hate playing with Ezreals. I can't see him as anything other than a bad generalist
2) Yasuo has very little counterplay and is still ban-worthy. He will continue to be ban worthy until they remove his w and either remove his crit chance or his % armor pen on ult.

animorpherv1 · Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:56 am

many wallpapers:

http://imgur.com/a/JVA9X

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:24 am

I have a serious problem - my teambuilder mmr is way too high and I'm playing against diamonds and plats. WTF. For record, I am silver 3.

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:29 am

I did go 9/6/2 on TF despite being hard camped by MR. Diamond Lee Sin himself.

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:07 am

Not quite

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 16, 2014 5:46 am

People juke into skillshots at every elo. I sometimes juke

myself

into skillshots.

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:11 am

So, yesterday there was smoke. Today they messed with several champ splashes and the smoke is still there.

What.

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:47 am

Quadz, go to TF's champion page on the main site.

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 16, 2014 5:09 pm

In post 36478, Maestro wrote:You think it's just a reddit meme? I dunno... the person deleted their account over it and apparently they posted about Gnar, URF, and Yasuo pre-release... http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en ... ows-spears

Fellow armsmen, I ask you,
Will you follow me tonight to break their spine,
And reclaim what once was mine?
Those cravens.

Backstabbed me, deceived me,
Never shall I tolerate their crimes again,
Now let the hunt begin.

7000 souls, scared and daunted, such tale of woe,
Not too long ago, this village was a golden
scene of hope.

Pentakill confirmed!

animorpherv1 · Fri Oct 17, 2014 6:59 pm

So, AP Ezreal's w does half your health and is way harder to miss than it should be. This is fair.

animorpherv1 · Fri Oct 17, 2014 7:21 pm

Not a support main; but I throw it on myself or another champion who autos a lot (aka ADCs, Xin Zhao, Yasuo, etc.).

animorpherv1 · Sat Oct 18, 2014 6:45 am

In post 36596, Glork wrote:I don't think bubble (even on your own feet) gets you to lane faster because of cast time. Haven't actually timed it though.

Your E has no cast time.

animorpherv1 · Sat Oct 18, 2014 12:45 pm

I always start boots/4 on ryze.

animorpherv1 · Sat Oct 18, 2014 6:44 pm

In post 36632, Glork wrote:You would still LOSE 20 units of distance by Qing yourself as you head back to lane. You would need 150 AP in order to break even, which won't happen unless you are well into the game (at which point, you'd have boots and actually lose even MORE distance), or you're fed and snowballing hard, in which case it probably doesn't matter that you get back to lane a tenth of a second faster.

This is why you E yourself back to lane. It has no cast time.

animorpherv1 · Sat Oct 18, 2014 10:25 pm

Whoever's telling you to Q back into lane is stupid. You E back to lane.

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:22 am

This is how Fiora becomes viable:

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:33 pm

I was

kind of

joking and I wanted to show off the hilarious video I found.

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:49 pm

In post 36752, Cabd wrote:Ok saki watching earlier got me interested. How do lux mid?

First 3 levels:

E -> Q -> W. Max E, as it's your best waveclear and harass. From there, buy as a standard AP mage(chalice/grail, sorc boots, zhonya's, Dcap, void staff as your first items. If you're safe, lich bane, otherwise a GA or something.).

Combo is Q -> (auto if safe) -> E (both procs) -> R. You won't really 100-0 things if not fed, but you can burst them out pretty well. You can also do E (first proc)-> Q -> (auto) -> E (second proc) -> R, as the slow on E makes Q easier to hit. After your ult, if you can get an auto off safely, do so.

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 23, 2014 5:31 am

Shen needs damage on his E. probably %hp damage.

animorpherv1 · Fri Oct 24, 2014 1:59 am

Yay, spooky monkey! Now, is this staying in the store or is it a limited skin?

animorpherv1 · Fri Oct 24, 2014 3:40 am

In post 36805, dramonic wrote:New voli sounds overpowered as fuck

... wait, what? New Voli?

animorpherv1 · Fri Oct 24, 2014 4:31 am

In post 36808, dramonic wrote:Q and E changes are pretty absurd.
Grab + knockback + fear is basically Ali level of disruption with more damage.

I still have no idea where you saw the changes? Also, currently, t doesn't fear champs. Just slows.

EDIT: Oh yeah. That.

animorpherv1 · Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:00 am

Yeah, i realized that, hahaha.

animorpherv1 · Sat Oct 25, 2014 11:45 am

I'm in S3 and I just played against two gold 5s. Our nami hadn't connected until late, and we still won.

3/1/10 j4

animorpherv1 · Mon Oct 27, 2014 1:48 am

I've really been enjoying my AD Jungle Fizz (which still does more magic than physical damage on my build), but I can't seem to get my laners out of laning phase ahead despite multiple ganks that results in kills. Also, it takes a huge ass time to scale, from what I find (my build is flare -> boots -> bork -> triforce -> tank).

Also, question about Fiora as Fizz - you can e to stop her ulting you if she is mid-ult, yes?

animorpherv1 · Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:10 pm

I'm in! It's a miracle!

animorpherv1 · Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:03 am

In post 37003, dramonic wrote:This is also the reason why junglers who take blue buff away from their mid because "they`re losing lane" are idiots and should be hung by the balls.

There's being behind, and dieing nonstop. I'll generally give blue over if they're not dieing nonstop.

animorpherv1 · Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:20 am

One on blue, one in lane.

animorpherv1 · Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:11 pm

Senpai is SAD that you didn't notice him!

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 29, 2014 7:45 am

Summoners Rift Updated headed to live soon!

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 29, 2014 7:48 am

In post 37040, xRECKONERx wrote:
In post 37039, animorpherv1 wrote:Summoners Rift Updated headed to live soon!

source?

Surrender @ 20, also main site.

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:01 pm

In post 37064, Saki wrote:oh yeah and regarding Diana
NEVER EVER GET MANA ITEMS
NO TEAR NO CHALICE NO WHATEVER THE FUCK ELSE

2x Dorans + Flask if you really really need it is all you'll ever need
i swear to god if i see another diana building athenes

No Lich Bane?

animorpherv1 · Wed Oct 29, 2014 6:28 pm

In post 37071, Ankamius wrote:Being able to farm under turret in the early game is a pretty handy skill to have as an ADC, though. If there are no friendly minions around, melee minions take 2 turret hits and 1 auto attack (it WILL take two for the first few levels unless you have a Janna) while ranged minions take a single tower hit and two auto attacks. I never memorized it with cannon minions since it's usually easier to just eyeball it for me.

This is one of the reasons why I love ADCs with waveclear. My last-hitting under turret is pretty mediocre if I'm not focusing solely on that, and minion aggro makes it hard sometimes too. So I'll just waveclear most of it to 1 hit and auto everything, so the turret can't kill most of it.

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 30, 2014 6:31 am

If I'm behind in lane (and sometimes when I'm ahead and am worried about my midgame against certain champs), I'll rush a defensive item (ex. banshee's vs. lulu, sunfire or frozen heart vs. irelia), followed by my offensive item(s) when i feel like I can survive long enough in fights.

As ADC, I just rush damage anyways. The class is useless with more than one (or two if REALLY needed) defensive options.

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 30, 2014 11:39 am

animorpherv1 · Thu Oct 30, 2014 11:47 am

In post 37111, Iecerint wrote:That one's an improvement. His face doesn't look so "off" anymore.

Not sure what they changed about Singed.

The bottle and some shading on the torso.

animorpherv1 · Fri Oct 31, 2014 2:58 am

In post 37107, mykonian wrote:praying for next year then. This years halloween skins were shit

I really enjoy spooky monkey. What are you on about.

animorpherv1 · Fri Oct 31, 2014 3:48 am

The recall animation is amazing. On top of that, the filter gives it a spooky, SI-like vibe ^_^

animorpherv1 · Fri Oct 31, 2014 2:11 pm

In post 37129, quadz08 wrote:Gonna be streamin' some BRONZE ADVENTURES in a couple minutes, at twitch.tv/quadz08

Hey quadz! Check this out.

animorpherv1 · Fri Oct 31, 2014 2:22 pm

Yes. Well, 10 days and a few hours.

animorpherv1 · Tue Nov 04, 2014 6:21 am

In post 37306, Ser Arthur Dayne wrote:VAYNE
IS A LOT OF FUN
EXTREMELY OVERRATED

animorpherv1 · Tue Nov 04, 2014 10:53 am

In post 37350, FakeGod wrote:RYZE Q NERF

LB CLONE BUFF

SINGED BUFF

JANNA
SHIELD
SLOW NERF

animorpherv1 · Tue Nov 04, 2014 7:24 pm

Going back to Kalista quickly, here. She has:

1) A dash on no cooldown (chase/kite queen here)
2) FREE VISION (on a supposedly short cooldown)
3) The ability to initiate

No, that's not broken.

animorpherv1 · Wed Nov 05, 2014 6:35 am

Kalista targets those who betrayed, decieved, and whatnot. All of the misted champs are betrayers or something similar.

animorpherv1 · Wed Nov 05, 2014 6:58 am

In post 37385, PJ. wrote:The day you write something worth reading in thise thread is the day you can criticize me. I've definitely contribute more positive posts to this thread than most the people who complain about me.

If your definition of "positive" is "harass everyone who disagrees with you even slightly", then yes. You are extremely positive.

animorpherv1 · Wed Nov 05, 2014 1:32 pm

Duelist Graves. SO GOOD.

Too bad ww d/c'd.

animorpherv1 · Wed Nov 05, 2014 7:42 pm

In post 37445, DeathNote wrote:ARRGGHHH seriously who's dick do I have to suck to get promoted!?!?!? Holy shit... at least I won one of them this time.

You won't win them like that.

animorpherv1 · Thu Nov 06, 2014 6:00 am

In post 37453, chamber wrote:When did annie make masters?

... I made Masters?

animorpherv1 · Sun Nov 09, 2014 7:20 pm

I approve of the champion pick.

animorpherv1 · Mon Nov 10, 2014 3:37 am

Jarvan is an

amazing

pick, near (if not) top-tier, and has amazing ganking/dueling/invading/counterganking potential. And he jumps if you can hit skillshots!

animorpherv1 · Mon Nov 10, 2014 4:12 am

The only things you have to learn about j4 is how much burst he does (a lot) and landing the E->Q combo, which is pretty easy by the end of your first match (you can also practice on the camps, which can help you clear them).

First three levels is E -> Q -> W. The only hard rule on j4's levelling order is max Q. W and E are both situational 2ndary levels (W for better followup on your ganks and better sustain, E for faster clears and more autos), and sometimes I just put an extra point in one of the two and max the other.

animorpherv1 · Mon Nov 10, 2014 4:27 am

In post 37560, Elmo TeH AzN wrote:I dunno I like maxing my e on j4. Before q

Q is

kind of your main damage tool

. Also 26% armor shred on top of a 10% current HP auto makes crazy burst.

animorpherv1 · Mon Nov 10, 2014 8:42 am

so um, apparently I have PBE access. Yay! Gonna download the client later today when I'm home.

animorpherv1 · Mon Nov 10, 2014 9:04 am

In post 37565, Maestro wrote:YEEEEES

This is why i check the pbe signup page from time to time - I never got an e-mail about it, haha.

animorpherv1 · Mon Nov 10, 2014 3:19 pm

Doing a league stream with a group of friends for Extra Life. Please donate?

Also I don't really know where that goes so don't hate me ^^

animorpherv1 · Tue Nov 11, 2014 5:18 am

I say when divisions reset.

animorpherv1 · Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:00 am

OK, I need help on something really stupid.

I can't lane against Vayne. I can lane against every other ADC fine, but I've not found a way that works for me to lane against Vayne and shut her down. I don't want to push her into tower, but can't kill her/force her back when she's not pushed into tower either because PERCENTAGE HP TRUE DAMAGE IS FAIR AND BALANCED.

animorpherv1 · Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:04 am

In post 37585, zoraster wrote:who do you typically play against her?

Generally Graves, because I tend to pick Graves when I'm not sure what to pick. However I have this problem with Jinx as well, which is the adc I tend to pick

into Vayne

.

animorpherv1 · Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:05 am

In post 37587, Iecerint wrote:Miss Fortune totally poops on her.

I have no clue how MF builds anymore, and my MF is pretty mediocre at best.

animorpherv1 · Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:08 am

I'm not asking for tips on what ADC to play, I'm asking for tips on how to lane against Vayne. And

please

don't say "don't sit near walls". I don't. I just find that during laning I can at no point either get close enought to the Vayne to kill her or she'll outdamage me when I do get near her.

animorpherv1 · Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:23 am

In post 37598, zoraster wrote:fwiw the wikia says that vayne outranges graves, 550 to 525. of course graves has buckshot.

The problem with Graves vs. Vayne (for me, at least) is that you have to GO IN ON THE VAYNE (like get close) to get the max damage out of your Q. At which point the vayne can just tumble, condemn, and beat the everliving shit out of you. Also super-lategame scalers really shouldn't have hard cc in their kit. It makes them obnoxious.

Jinx I can do much better than Graves into Vayne.

animorpherv1 · Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:01 pm

HOLY SHIT NEW SR SO GOOD.

ALSO VIKTOR.

animorpherv1 · Fri Nov 14, 2014 10:05 am

Panzer - No.

Wazza - You nisinterpreted. You keep S4's rank, but you can continue to climb for S5, because a higher MMR will get you a higher placement in S5, which means less climbing.

animorpherv1 · Sat Nov 15, 2014 12:28 pm

They're going to also give out more rewards later in the year.

animorpherv1 · Tue Nov 18, 2014 4:48 pm

In post 37751, PJ. wrote:Big
patch
NA only server maintenance tonight

FTFY

animorpherv1 · Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:45 pm

Warwick my be a TAD broken...

animorpherv1 · Wed Nov 19, 2014 8:41 pm

In post 37788, Klazam wrote:You know the new jungle? if so thats awesome. I have a decent understanding of the old jungle too but the new one is different.

I helped him with this, btw. I've only played one game in the new jungle but I gave a brief overview of everything I could really think of.

animorpherv1 · Thu Nov 20, 2014 5:07 am

In post 37794, PJ. wrote:
In post 37786, animorpherv1 wrote:Warwick my be a TAD broken...

Warwick was already OP. He's just more OP cause the jungle kills everyone else. I must say, I love smiting people though. Played j4 and malph last night. Malph doesn't clear the jungle

Well, yes. But it was hilarious 1v3'ing and getting out alive ^_^

animorpherv1 · Mon Nov 24, 2014 9:51 am

In post 37914, Klazam wrote:Tried WW

hes ok, but it didn't help that their sona and lucian was 8/2 and 7/3 respectively.

Yeah, wick's not very good with early pressure. Get skirmisher's and devourer and FARM FOR DAYS or GANK FOR DAYS.

animorpherv1 · Tue Nov 25, 2014 10:13 am

Get Rekt.

animorpherv1 · Mon Dec 01, 2014 4:38 am

Yay oman!

animorpherv1 · Mon Dec 01, 2014 5:44 am

They

can

get demoted if they're that shitty now, but it's pretty hard. Also, gj oman!

animorpherv1 · Tue Dec 02, 2014 6:34 am

Name all League Champs by their W ability in 15 minutes!

I got 96 of 123.

animorpherv1 · Tue Dec 09, 2014 8:50 pm

Silver 2. Yay Me.

animorpherv1 · Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:07 am

So I just realized that despite having a 49% winrate in ranked, my ranked MMR is low gold. WHAT. I don't even win half my games apparently. That would explain why i get 20+ lp per win.

animorpherv1 · Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:44 pm

In post 38129, FakeGod wrote:had no trouble before patch, lagging after patch

anyone else having this issue?

No, but if you have lolrecorder or some such program, try turning it off.

animorpherv1 · Thu Dec 11, 2014 5:35 am

In post 38141, Iecerint wrote:A friend bought me Irelia recently and I've been having fun with her.

I bought leblanc lately and have loved it.

animorpherv1 · Sat Dec 13, 2014 4:51 pm

I. hate. promos.

EVERY PROMOS GAME IS GAMES FILLED WITH FEEDERS. I CANT CARRY THAT SHIT.

animorpherv1 · Sat Dec 13, 2014 7:27 pm

So, in case this wasn't my signature champion BEFORE...

Hot damn. That KDA.

animorpherv1 · Sun Dec 14, 2014 6:28 am

In post 38189, Oman wrote:
In post 38186, animorpherv1 wrote:p

Wukong seems super strong. I should prob learn him. I always always struggle against him.

Spoiler: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WUKONG

General

Wukong's my blue side jungler pick unless there is synergy on red side - why? Simple. You can start red buff on blue side, get a good leash from bot, and bypass wukong's big weakness. His first clear. Red -> wolves -> Blue -> Crab is my start.
Skill order for first three levels is E-Q-W, max order is R-E-Q-W. The reason why you max E first is because there's more base damage in that than in Q when maxxed. Q also scales better with AD/Armor Pen
Wukong has a number of synergies, item-wise. AD, Armor Pen, CDR, and Health are the big ones. I'll go over all of them:
- AD - Melee Carry, all of his important damaging skills have an AD scaling. His ult is 1.1 AD, too.
- Armor Pen - Synergy with Q. If you stack pen, you'll also be doing pretty much true damage thanks to your ult + Q.
- CDR - Get that ult on as low of a cooldown as possible. Have it up for whenever you need it.
- Health - With Wukong's passive, a full blown teamfight gives you an extra chain vest and negatron cloak at level 13. Because of this, you can get away with less defensive items, but you still need health to not be instapopped.
You can use decoy to tank camps for you once you hit level 3. It also deals a lot of damage to camps early.
BE CAREFUL WHEN USING DECOY
. If you're running and use decoy, it'll look weird. That said, there are a number of champions this will still work on for the most part. Udyr is a big one that comes to mind.
On the same aspect, if you clone while being chased, run in a different, random direction (preferably completely opposite from the direction you would normally run). The clone will either be hit or you'll get away around 85% of the time.
The clone can be hit by skillshots. It's especially great against blitz, because he full combos your clone.

ITEMS

As a jungler, grab Trailblazer with warrior. SYNERGY IS INSANE.
Black Cleaver is core. With Q + ult, you shred everyone's armor.
I wuold only recommend Hydra when ahead. The item is kinda costly for a jungler right now, plus you don't NEED the hydra active on wukong anyways.
I love Ohmwrecker. Health, CDR, and THAT ACTIVE MAKES DIVES SO EASY.
Sunfire and Randuin's are both great choice on wukong. Sunfire gives you more AOE (and extra magic damage), but Randuin's keeps everyone in the ult for longer.
For a more damage oriented wukong (assassin monkey), Buy Trailblazer + Warrior,Black Cleaver, Hydra, and Last Whisper with mobi boots and GA. You'll one-shot things but you're super squishy.
For a bruiser build, Trailblazer + Warrior, Black Cleaver, [Hydra OR LW], with mercs or tabi and defensive items. I recommend this build path, as you do lots of damage and can't be focused easily.
Tanky monkey is Trailblazer + Juggernaut, Black Cleaver, into full tank. This is more of a supportive build path then a carry build path.

RUNES AND MASTERIES

RUNES - AD reds, Armor yellows, 3x Magic Resist blues, 6x CDR blues, AD quints. Wukong already has an attack speed steroid, so grabbing some AD for early clears is what I'd recommend.
MASTERIES - 21/9/0. I grab tough skin and bladed armor to help with early clears, and skip block and unyielding. I also get spell & blade weaving because wukong can use both relatively effectively, at the expense of two points in warlord.

If you want to know about wukong top, I can help with that too.

animorpherv1 · Sun Dec 14, 2014 8:18 am

In post 38192, dramonic wrote:Don't play wukong top. Down that path lies terrible experiences.

You do realize that wukong beats Gnar handily, right? Your level 2 powerspike is also pretty big (bigger than most champs), and you can win lane at 2 if you try.

Is it the best around? No. Is it unplayable? Hardly.

animorpherv1 · Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:23 am

In post 38195, dramonic wrote:He has no sustain, and his poke is an all-in. I dun like it ._.

Flask is a fun thing that you should always start. Q doesn't need to mean all-in.

animorpherv1 · Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:54 am

In post 38198, Knight of Cydonia wrote:
In post 38191, animorpherv1 wrote:If you want to know about wukong top, I can help with that too.

Pls o pls, tired of getting bullied out of lane by some turbonerd Irelia.

Decoy her stun, win all the fights as you outdamage her early, and with an early game advantage you can snowball the lane.

animorpherv1 · Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:58 am

typos are hard

animorpherv1 · Sun Dec 14, 2014 5:47 pm

Their first ban was wukong, then they first picked jarvan. I decided the Vi worked pretty well with the comp

animorpherv1 · Sun Dec 14, 2014 7:29 pm

Yeah, I just camped bot and killed Thresh a lot - Kat roamed as a Kat should, and after bot was fed I ganked the Jarvan who was wining vs. Teemo. Then all the lanes got fed and we snowballed super hard.

animorpherv1 · Mon Dec 15, 2014 1:09 pm

So um. Gold 5 promos. Who wants to watch?

animorpherv1 · Mon Dec 15, 2014 3:07 pm

Well I've already started.

EDIT: I'm 1-1 and whatnot. Still an interesting series!

animorpherv1 · Mon Dec 15, 2014 3:13 pm

In post 38240, Ser Arthur Dayne wrote:THE SUSPENSE IS HIGH

WILL ANI BE PICKING WUKONG OR WUKONG NEXT GAME? :p

If I get jungle on blue I pick wukong. As I said before.

animorpherv1 · Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:52 pm

ONE. MORE. GAME.

ONE. MORE. GAME.

animorpherv1 · Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:40 pm

I hate Leblanc. She needs to be gutted.

Oh well. One more shot.

animorpherv1 · Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:38 pm

animorpherv1 · Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:44 pm

In post 38252, dramonic wrote:That.

Like, in game 2 I was legit rooting against ani so we could get a game 3, but game 3`s comp...

Yeah, that was a comp. Riven and Lee both wanted to go top. I was also trying FOREVER to get us to group.

animorpherv1 · Wed Dec 17, 2014 4:11 am

I know exactly what kscope means, has happened to me. And no, it's not.

animorpherv1 · Wed Dec 17, 2014 7:30 am

... THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR CLIMBING.

FEEDERS. NOTHING BUT FEEDERS. WHY.

animorpherv1 · Thu Dec 18, 2014 6:27 pm

It's nice to see Zed has no counterplay aside from two items.

It's impossible to hit him with any cc because shadows and targeted CC doesn't really exist anymore in this game. Like, he's impossible to stop and so fucking broken. WHY. I HATE ZED SO MUCH. HE'S MORE CANCEROUS THAN FIZZ WILL EVER BE.

animorpherv1 · Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:11 am

I was talking about his pre-zhonya's laning phase. My bad for not mentioning.

animorpherv1 · Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:14 pm

In post 38334, Glork wrote:Also did Klaz get hit for being boosted? Because tbh that'd be maximum lol.

No, klaz got hit the same way you got hit. He's missing a bunch of skins that Maestro gave him.

animorpherv1 · Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:40 pm

Why you don't pick wukong against me.

animorpherv1 · Sun Dec 21, 2014 4:55 am

I am not chesskid, thank you.

animorpherv1 · Sun Dec 21, 2014 6:25 am

Panzer, what right do you have to tell Maestro that he

HAS

to tell you why? He clearly didn't want to, or he would have said already.

Piss off.

animorpherv1 · Sun Dec 21, 2014 6:29 am

In post 38360, zoraster wrote:panzer is often disagreeable and what not, but I think you guys are reading some malice that doesn't exist into his posts.

The fact remains that if Maestro wanted to say why, he would have said it. Continuing to poke and prod at him is a total bullshit thing to do.

animorpherv1 · Mon Dec 22, 2014 5:01 am

In post 38379, Klazam wrote:http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends. ... b=overview

rek is just crazy op

does anyone else say that?

My friend is a rek'sai main at this point. The things he can do with her are crazy.

animorpherv1 · Mon Dec 22, 2014 7:30 am

In post 38382, Klazam wrote:Could you talk me through the rationale for your wukong jungle pathing?

The only reason I'd start krugs if I was a heavy auto-attack based champion(ex. xin zhao, warwick). The stun, while nice to have, still leave you on lower health then starting red buff with a leash would. Smiting red buff allows you bonus HP when smited, the red buff true damage on auto, and the HP regen that red buff also provides now. This camp will get you to level 2, allowing you do to wolves/birds and blue buff and get to 3.

The next decision is between wolves and raptors/chickens/birds/etc. Simply put, wolves do less damage. Blue buff doesn't pose too much of a problem at this point, because I generally have both pots left. I use one here, then grab the crab afterwrads for even more HP.

I don't use this route for just wukong. I use it for everyone. If you're playing J4 or some such early game ganking champ, you can gank immediately and have no problems. If you're playing a farm champ like wukong, you can clear without problem.

animorpherv1 · Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:13 am

Currently the go-to mana regen for mids is double morellonomicons. 40% CDR and 200% mana regen or whatever for really cheap.

animorpherv1 · Tue Dec 30, 2014 11:11 am

In post 38461, Maestro wrote:^ Can't tell if serious.

I am indeed serious.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:58 am

At this rate I just want to win a soloq match (all of my wins in my match history right now are when I play with a group of friends). I swear to god every game I get ahead and lose.

EVERY. ONE. NO EXCEPTIONS.

animorpherv1 · Mon Jan 05, 2015 5:40 pm

In post 38474, animorpherv1 wrote:At this rate I just want to win a soloq match (all of my wins in my match history right now are when I play with a group of friends). I swear to god every game I get ahead and lose.

EVERY. ONE. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Seriously. I've tried EVERYTHING. Or at least everything I can think of.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jan 06, 2015 6:47 pm

Quadz, read this.

ALSO I WON A GAME!

animorpherv1 · Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:47 am

This just in, Kalista's sentinel stops MF passive.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jan 08, 2015 6:22 pm

So, with the new season, I feel like most of my picks became pretty trash.

Suggest 3 picks for every lane, please.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jan 09, 2015 6:10 am

Regarding Varus, I would love for his abilities to cost less than they do right now by like 20 mana. His Q & E are long cooldown (for a spammy champ) and cost so much. His mana pool cannot take it. I'd argue that'd be all he needs to be good again. Or it'd help a lot.

Regarding Graves, duelist Graves is fun and hilarious (Bork into PD, IE, LW). Try it some time xD

animorpherv1 · Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:30 am

Still waiting.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:48 am

In post 38604, zoraster wrote:
Spoiler: ^

Ok, that was good. Nice choice.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jan 10, 2015 6:16 am

Kalista is straight up cancer because it's an adc that cannot be cc'd because she'll never take cc (and not be in range to be targetted long enough), so it's free damage. I expect her the be played. Rek'sai is super strong because overtuned, so she'll be seeing play for now.

In regards to Sion, I doubt he'll see pro play - he's just not that reliable.

animorpherv1 · Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:40 am

I think I found my new main... xD

I chose this matchup because facing azir is hell. I have much better KDAs (and farm), but they're all better matchups.

animorpherv1 · Sun Jan 11, 2015 3:33 pm

I got Snowmerdinger.

animorpherv1 · Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:24 am

Here's the thing.

I already have Piltover Customs - and I don't even play heimer. Free skin though, so yay?

animorpherv1 · Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:25 am

I recently saw a no-smite jungle udyr as well. Is this a thing?

animorpherv1 · Tue Jan 13, 2015 5:07 am

So, for anyone who liked Digimon:

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 14, 2015 5:45 am

In post 38720, JasonWazza wrote:
In post 38719, mykonian wrote:He's sitting at 46% winrate, for quite a while now and accross the board.

He's a bad champion now

And he's the most picked champion still.

Winrate doesn't make him a bad champion, that is just people who can't play him playing him and being bad.

#Bringbackurgot

Seriously though, wazza is right. He's just picked a lot by people who think he's OP and don't know how he works

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:56 pm

In post 38723, mykonian wrote:
In post 38721, animorpherv1 wrote:He's just picked a lot by people who think he's OP and don't know how he works

He been one of the most popular champions since forever.

You think people would have figured it out by now

Or he's actually bad in this jungle because it's hard to pull off an early gank when the jungle itself is so hard.

Thresh has a 47% win rate - is he also a bad champion? Him and lee sin are seen as "consistent OP"s by a lot of bronzies, so they purchase them and play them in ranked because "they're OP", and have no idea how to play them. So they suck/feed/etc.

And by the same virtue, Heimerdinger and Cass both have a 54% winrate. I've not seen anyone call them broken yet.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:06 pm

You never answered my question.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:49 pm

In post 38741, mykonian wrote:Pretty sure I just did.

They made him worse, his winrate dropped from top 3 supports to well below 50%.

I asked if he's bad - not if he got worse.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 14, 2015 7:29 pm

In post 38754, FakeGod wrote:I already heard Trist's

Dram said item quotes have been a thing for awhile now

where can I find them for other champions?

Braum, Karthus. Maybe Heimer?

animorpherv1 · Sat Jan 17, 2015 9:34 pm

I am

so happy

that eve is viable again right now.

animorpherv1 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 6:55 pm

Aatrox: Mecha
Ahri: Challenger
Akali: Crimson
Alistar: Base
Amumu: Emumu
-
Anivia: Blackfrost
Annie: Frostfire
Ashe: Amethyst
Azir: Base
Blitzcrank: iBlitzcrank
-
Brand: Frostcore
Braum: El Tigre
Caitlyn: Base
Cass: Jade Fang
Cho: Gentleman
-

Now,for some of my personal favourite champs:

Wukong - Underworld
Mordekaiser - Pentakill
Darius - Dunkmaster
Graves - Riot
Talon - Dragonblade
Draven - Primetime

animorpherv1 · Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:33 am

I'm convinced that Zed has no weaknessess aside from QSS/Zhonya's and cannot lose games and matches.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:54 am

In post 38806, Ser Arthur Dayne wrote:
In post 38805, animorpherv1 wrote:I'm convinced that Zed has no weaknessess aside from QSS/Zhonya's and cannot lose games and matches.

Hecarim mid.

I don't own Hecarim, and that wouldn't help even if I did.

I don't feel like Zed has counterplay because all he does is poke you until you're at about 75% hp then all-ins you and kills you. You can't beat him in anall-in with ANYTHING.

His earlygame is complete bullshit, his midgame is bullshit, his towerkilling is bullshit, his assassinating is bullshit, his waveclear is bullshit, etc. And to top it off it's impossible to cc him because shadows need to be on a 1 minute cooldown at least with the bonus AD it has.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jan 20, 2015 9:24 am

hey Zor, I forgot to change my league to Gold V, could you do that for me?

animorpherv1 · Tue Jan 20, 2015 9:52 am

In post 38827, zoraster wrote: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

After rewards were given out, but before preseason.

edit: I may have been slightly off with my timing, but december 15th.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jan 20, 2015 9:58 am

In post 38830, Iecerint wrote:I think he means before the first pre-season patch.

Pretty much this,

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:37 am

I thought the reset was supposed to be today? I'm surprised that when I logged in I was still G5.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:45 am

Since I just checked, ranked reset is in about 15 minutes for NA (9 am riot time).

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:20 am

I'm going to make double-challenger.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 21, 2015 1:49 pm

E passive (which you should have at level 1) makes last-hitting easy on thresh.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:38 pm

I'm currently 5-3 in my promos. I'd won 5 of 6 games I've jungled in. Surprise? Not at all.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:54 pm

6-4, silver 2. Not bad, I'll take it.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:10 am

Given, that's 10% of all duo bots that say their duo - when I do duo (which is VERY RARELY), I prefer to not call duo and we wreck face more often than not.

animorpherv1 · Thu Jan 22, 2015 4:26 pm

6-4 the dream!

animorpherv1 · Sun Jan 25, 2015 11:18 am

If it helps elk, my roster looks like this.

Top - Shen, Darius, Volibear (J4, Wukong as backups). I'll purchase Fiora eventually. Shen can play fairly agressive in (most) matchups, too.
Jungle - Jarvan, Evelynn, Wukong, Vi, Xin, Lee
Mid - Mordekaiser, Azir (Orianna, Leblanc, Talon as backups)
ADC - Miss Fortune, Draven, Graves, Corki, Jinx, Varus
Support - Nami, Thresh, Karma

animorpherv1 · Sun Jan 25, 2015 11:28 am

Kind of forgot voli's in my champ pool. If you want at a point later today (or other time), I can try facing you with some of those matchups.

animorpherv1 · Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:51 pm

With the exception of volibear and "any ranged", they can't touch a shen with chain vest assuming they're equal goldwise.

animorpherv1 · Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:10 pm

In post 39014, chesskid3 wrote:
In post 39012, animorpherv1 wrote:With the exception of volibear and "any ranged", they can't touch a shen with chain vest assuming they're equal goldwis

With the exception of volibear and "any ranged", they can't touch a shen with chain vest assuming they're equal goldwis

you played shen against me top once. I didn't play volibear or a ranged.

You lost horribly.

Because I'm clearly the best laner on mafiascum... [/sarcasm]

animorpherv1 · Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:41 am

It's amazing (re: amumu song).

animorpherv1 · Mon Jan 26, 2015 3:44 pm

So I've been practicing Azir while he's been freeweek. This was HILARIOUS.

I was top, btw.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:50 am

In post 39047, PJ. wrote:I still have no idea what Azir does but apparently he's a priority ban and is very good?

I consider him like Caitlyn but with a better mid and lategame. And with the ability to instantly disengage any fight, force you to fight under turret, and engage/insec.

animorpherv1 · Tue Jan 27, 2015 1:26 pm

In post 39052, dramonic wrote:Some of the new skins are terrifying.
Heartseeker Varus with Original voice? TERROR ON THE RIFT!

It's getting new SFX, I believe. Maybe a VO?

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 28, 2015 5:22 am

This just in, Oman doesn't buy sightstone :p

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:23 am

In post 39119, theelkspeaks wrote:Into my 8th placement, playing Voli jungle because my teammates didn't want Vi or J4.

Call them crazy and pick Vi or J4 anyways. THERE'S NO REASON TO NOT PICK J4 EVER.

animorpherv1 · Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:26 am

In post 39121, zoraster wrote:what if you want to play wukong?

Wukong jungle keeps getting stealth nerfed, and J4 provides all the wombo that wukong does with better clears and better ganks.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jan 30, 2015 1:07 pm

OK, so I'm kind of stuck in a rut here. I keep losing ranked matches and I'm never really sure what I could be improving on. I'm willing if there is someone (preferably those who were like G2+ last season) who would be willing to spectate my games on occasion and tell me what I'm doing or not doing.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jan 30, 2015 1:13 pm

In post 39154, Papa Zito wrote:what do you main ani

At the moment I'm a fill guy - I just tend to play whatever's available at the time. Assuming everything is open, I'm going Azir mid, otherwise probably jungle.

animorpherv1 · Fri Jan 30, 2015 1:26 pm

In post 39156, KaleiÐoscøpe wrote:That may be your problem. You really need a main role that you wanna play if possible. And then have around 2/3 champs you're comfortable with in that role.

I don't see why that's a problem. I have 2-3 (or more) comfort champs on every role, so yeah.

animorpherv1 · Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:20 am

In post 39176, Jahudo wrote:
In post 39162, zoraster wrote: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.
I just skipped a division in my first promos so that seems a likely trade-off from being reset so low compared to w/l record.

I'm pretty sure that's partially MMR-based or just the fact that you may have won all of your games in that tier?

animorpherv1 · Wed Feb 04, 2015 8:13 pm

Sometimes it feels good to play Trundle and never die.

animorpherv1 · Thu Feb 05, 2015 4:52 pm

In post 39274, theelkspeaks wrote:So can someone talk about building fighters like Irelia, Darius, Fiora, and so on? If I build sunfire/randuins, my damage is low, but if I build Tiamat first and then build into tankiness, I don't have enough survivability.

That's three different categories of champions, right there.

Irelia is Triforce (and bork if you're doing well/not behind) into tank. Triforce is her core because she procs sheen very efficiently and uses every stat on the item well. Triforce also turns her into an effective assassin that's near impossible to peel.

Darius is Tiamat into Sunfire/Banshee's or Triforce into probably tank. Tiamat allows him to animation cancel his W, adding to his insane burst, with the survivability to be a frontline in teamfights.

Fiora is Hydra into as much attack damage/CDR you can buy, with a GA at the end. You're a splitpusher, duelist, and assassin through and through. You jump on a carry, use your cds, and ult when you're in trouble so you can both lifesteal and get your cds back.

animorpherv1 · Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:29 am

Ninja Tabi., but the rest looks fine.

Also, I love to be able to steal every dragon ever.

animorpherv1 · Sun Feb 08, 2015 9:42 pm

+25 lp for playing support? I should play more support.

animorpherv1 · Mon Feb 09, 2015 9:28 pm

So I just bought Kassadin a few hours ago - played him top, didn't like it. Then I played him mid.

MY GOD WHY WOULD YOU PLAY THIS CHAMP ANYWHERE ELSE.

animorpherv1 · Thu Feb 12, 2015 2:58 pm

Support mains will love this.

animorpherv1 · Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:33 pm

So I had a pretty awesome 1v4 triple kill in this game.

I noted the enemy team was likely to start a 4 person baron as I was running, so I ran to the other end of the baron the long way around(from behind), letting them think I was running away. After slowly going around, I E'd the baron, killing their low HP Jax, and proceeded to focus down the Orianna - this prompted Jinx and Vi to bolt from the baron, but I was able to kill Jinx before they got away.

animorpherv1 · Wed Feb 18, 2015 6:59 am

Argh, silver is impossible to climb out of now unless you're plat or higher. I hate it.

animorpherv1 · Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:48 am

In post 39419, hitogoroshi wrote:(a random tip from looking at your match history - you should be upgrading your trinket way more than you are. Both because it's good, but also that it suggests bad item ordering. You should be trying to minimize the gold in your pocket walking out of fountain most of the time - so never cashing in that 250g residual for improved yellow trinket, for example, suggests that you're ALSO not buying pinks when you have a spare 100 and no pink down or greens if you have no sight stone and etc. Riot doesn't store "money in pocket each time left from base" so I can't know this for sure, but you should be aiming for an average of <100g.)

This is a thing I'm aware of, but am bad at doing.

animorpherv1 · Wed Feb 18, 2015 12:27 pm

In post 39424, Iecerint wrote:
In post 39423, dramonic wrote:Aren't you gold 5 ani?

That's ranked 3s.

Trudat.

animorpherv1 · Thu Feb 19, 2015 8:17 am

Champion Preview:The Wonder Above!

animorpherv1 · Fri Feb 20, 2015 5:44 am

In post 39444, FakeGod wrote:Why is Ao Shin taking so long?

I'm pretty sure it's partly visuals, partly kit stuff.

animorpherv1 · Fri Feb 20, 2015 7:35 am

Jarvan is so OP xD

animorpherv1 · Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:57 pm

In post 39462, JasonWazza wrote:I might have to pick up the bear if his a decent jungler, i have no jungle potental since new jungle, and simply avoid it where possible. (if i'm last pick in ranked i call "anything but jungle")

S5 fucked my jungling up and i just never found a rhythm for it.

animorpherv1 · Sat Feb 21, 2015 4:16 pm

My suggestions:

Wukong

- Can be played in top or mid also rather easily (and as a REALLY gimmicky support. Don't do it.) His jungle clears are very bad early, but he makes up for it with his post-6 ganks, which are DEADLY when done even moderately right. He's also very effective at counterganking pre-6. He brings with him fantastic juke potential as well as hard engage, and his passive allows him to build a bit more offensively than most junglers.

As a laner, he counters melee assassins (big examples being akali, fizz, katarina, yasuo), and has a relatively easy time with most ranged opponents (gnar is a huge one), and his level 2 power spike with E + Q is HUGE. Has problems vs. big lane bullies (ex. renekton, riven), tanks, and sustain if you don't start flask.

Graves

- One of the best lane bullies. Has an easy time in lane vs. most ADCs (one of the best ADCs to pick into Draven imo, as Graves can go toe to toe with Draven early, and doesn't have to worry about poking out Draven), brings with him lots of burst and can snowball the lane REALLY HARD with just one kill. His passive is really good and can mitigate a lot of harass and turns trades in your favour as well.

He can also be played mid with success (I've done it very well against a multitude of standard mids), if needed. His main weakness is being short ranged and falling off late game - Caitlyn can also be a huge problem if you don't engage on her and kill her a lot during laning.

Corki

- Has potentially the best one-item powerspike as an ADC, and provides a ton of mixed damage (physical/magic/true), allowing him to be played with full AD comps and save the day. His pre-6 is not bad by any means, but his post-6 is AMAZING, especially with sheen. getting an ult rocket + sheen proc is absurd poke, and can force trades that go in your favour automatically.

He can be played as AD or AP (I know people who love AP corki, so I decided to mention it), and can play mid effectively as well. His main weaknessess are his mana costs - he cant keep poking forever, especially if you want enough mana to use your escape. Also, corki is arguably the adc that scales the worst.

Leona

- The definition of hard engage. Leona's done best when she's picked with an adc that can either provide great followup damage (Draven, Graves), or even more CC so they cannot leave (Ashe, Varus). Her job is essentially to be a frontline engage tank, but if she needs to, she can peel fairly effectively with her q (which is also an auto reset - good for killing wards!) and ult (aoe stuns for multiple engagers!). Her passive also provides a ton of extra damage if it can be procced, which can be very underrated and is one of the reason why twitch or corki + leona is AMAZING.

Leona's main weaknesses are, hilariously enough, cc. If you can stop her from finishing her zenith blade dash, she can't really do much in a fight. Likewise, poke destroys her, as she has very little sustain outside of targon's procs. If her or her team are behind, it makes it hard for Leona to really engage a fight, as she'll just die before she can do much. Also, Morgana exists.

Lee Sin

- Aside from arguing how high his skill cap is, jungling with him is now much harder than it used to be - as you need to fully use your passive early in order to effectively clear. I don't think it needs to be said how good lee's early ganks are, and how amazing they get after he hits 6. His bases are VERY high, and he has a lot in his kit (gapcloser + execute, sustain, shield, movespeed slow, knockback), so a good lee (or even a half decent one, really) can snowball every lane out of control easily. Lee can be played top lane (or even mid if you really want) to success with more of an AD-focused assassin build path, if wanted.

Lee does however have drawbacks. Lee falls off VERY HARD if he doesn't build damage, and if he builds damage, he's very squishy. Also, you won't always be able to snowball the lanes you want, and that's partially due to the fact that in soloq, people like to push waves and deny enemies cs under tower. If you don't get snowballing early, you become a mediocre peelbot for your adc, which isn't the worst job, but it's also not the best. Also, while the basics of lee are not that difficult, it can take a lot of time to become more nuanced with him, and it's totally possible to outright fail your first few lee games.

animorpherv1 · Mon Feb 23, 2015 7:07 am

I feel like the difference between Nami and Sona is small but noticable. Sona's a lane bully-poke support, with an AOE engage tool, where as Nami's a lane bully support that has AMAZING 2v2 potential, with top tier disengage and counter-engage.

Sona works better with poke-style ADCs (ex. Corki, Ez) or champs that wombo off her ult (MF), while Nami works better with adcs that can duel effectively (ex. Draven, Vayne, Graves).

animorpherv1 · Mon Feb 23, 2015 8:59 am

What hito and BRO said are right. If you're skilled enough to beat hard counters with your champion, then you can pick it pretty much blind regardless of comp. It's always better to play something you're good at in ranked, regardless of counters and teamcomps.

That said, Galio also does both disengage (q slow, e MS boost) and engage (flash/ult) fairly well, and serves amazingly in wombo comps. Pair him with an Amumu or a MF and bam. A skilled Galio player can also build more AP-magey and still be fine - building MR is obviously BETTER, but if you pick him early and they don't get much AP damage, you can go magey. Or more of a tank build.

animorpherv1 · Mon Feb 23, 2015 12:07 pm

OK that's cool.

animorpherv1 · Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:25 am

Bard Revealed!

...dat ult.