I played a few games of nemesis draft last night after not playing for a month or so, felt like an old timer, you damn kids, etc etc. My thoughts on coming back after a month:
The midbase wall is amazing, even though I found it by autopathing mistake chasing down someone who flashed over it. I feel like it's going to really, really help with early game base sieges, although if that's happening to you you're probably boned anyway. I was totally shocked because I thought the game glitched, but I killed the guy who flashed it so clearly he didn't know about it either.
Almost shit my pants because I was playing vs a fed velkoz and enormous purple tentacles reached out for me in the enemy jungle while I was on an adventure. Surprise, new baron animation.
People have no idea how to play as/against unpopular champions, even four years later. That's super scary. Why does everyone playing Nemesis want to hand over Yorick? He's going to crush whatever awful melee non-damage champ you get given, in any lane, and make two of his best teammate. Same thing with Alistar, the king of the 1v2 FB for retards. I thought he was a big time popular pick a little while ago, seems like nobody remembers the tower headbutt unless they play botlane. Oh I fell victim to this too when I gave an all tanks team Mundo and the son of a bitch did the good doctor M.Pendo build that everyone was eating my lunch for 2 years ago. Told you it was good :p
The first people who stack up 5 in a lane still win easily in low level solo queue. There's no way to defend a turret or hold it or push them back or tp in or whatever the fuck you think you're doing vs 5 people pushing down a lane. You have to go to the lane. The only exception is a fed waveclear champ and even then you're going to lose one.
If you're in a position where you can't defend your base because people are dead, you still have to push. Yes, it's a low percentage play. Yes, they are probably going to take your base. Guess what? You can't do anything about it so you might as well take an inhib and hope your team pulls out a miracle. (They are all going to scream at you while dead, just deal with it).
Full AP Nidalee from the jungle, huh? Would like to give it a shot but that's gonna hamstring you lategame when you explode on engage. Seems like reverse curve lee sin where you sacrifice lategame survivability for early game damage. Not sure how new AP Nid stays alive in the endgame and/or does any dmg. Nid is totally dependent on kittycombo for damage, yeah you do more dmg with a LB then TF but I usually only build 2 offensive items (TF LW) and do just fine on dmg, possibly adding or subbing a BORK if things are going exceedingly well (or badly). I play a decent nidalee, and I just don't see it. But of course last week on...
Oh, right. This ain't LCS folks. Doesn't matter who played what when where or that I haven't seen it, because I don't care. Pro play hasn't impacted low level play since they took ashe out of midlane.
All in all I enjoyed some low stakes gimmick games with nice people. The game definitely does change at a rapid pace, even if you only miss a couple patch notes things are wildly different. If only league had a pause button or didn't take an hour to play and then suck you in for the entire rest of the night.
Oh one last thing, since "shitter" has been entirely assimilated (sorry peg), I'm going back to fucko. Stay off it.
