I'm trying to play some mid normals, but I don't feel like I'm getting anything out of it. To be fair, though, the first and third games I played had either d/c's or REALLY fucktarded connection, but I can't play Vlad at all, it seems.
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And voided, if you practice midlane it shouldnt really matter that much if you have a dc unless its your opposing mid. Get accustomed to the laning phase first
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Wondering if I should just do a lot of Normals while shuffling around all the mid laners I have, or just practice Xerath and Vlad until I think I can carry myself to Silver on them.
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So, I just had a fairly decent game on Vlad ("decent" being "I didn't get rolfstomped in lane and didn't go massively under"), But we surrendered because Lee went deep into the enemy for some reason right after they got baron (literally right after), and then everyone surrendered after that. I really want to understand why the fuck he did that because the obvious plan should've been to push out top, back, then ready mid.
Anyways, question to Hito if/once he sees the game. I went boots/pots at start, then immediately into Cowl and Sorcs because of Cass. I then went Zhonyas because of Kalista and Gnar, but I felt like I wasn't sure if I should've gone Zhonyas as I did or gone on my original track of rylais then maybe Zhonyas, complete Visage, Liandry's, and then Cap.
...And it jus thappened again, only this time it was Irelia chasing a goddamn Udyr. Seriously?
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cowl/sorc was the correct opener there so good job on that score
and yeah, liandrys + rylais + visage + zhoynas + cap + boots was your goal. That kite does a lot vs TK and Voli and these disrespectful kids aren't meriting a void staff. So item order was pretty good, you just didn't get enough farm to pull it off. Maybe your 14:02 buy should have had a rod in it - remember you get 84 hp from rod so it's less glass cannony to naked rush and it seems like the active would help a lot against that team. But Guise may have been the correct choice, it's hard to judge just watching postgame. Guise is better if you're getting to roam and scrap but if it was a lot of pussyfooting around the map waiting for someone to fuck up (which the cs numbers seems to indicate) zhoyna's active does more for you in 5v5 than guise does. a glib way to think of it - vlad is super good in teamfights because pool is a shield that scales with the amount of incoming damage, and most of his shit is AoE. Zhoynas works the same way, and lets you get another round of Tides off.
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Plus I don't think Vlad benefits from Warmog's passive even though he can reach 3k health with items and his passive. If you're playing him right he should be able to top off without it. Warmog's should be for tanks that don't have a way to innately sustain or benefit from better sustain
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Post #44749 (ISO) » Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:03 am
Postby hitogoroshi »
ya I did mean needlessly large and not roa, and also I don't think warmogs is good on vlad
in my eyes the tankiest vlad build you should do is zhonyas, visage, rylais, liandries, cap, boots. three items with both ap and hp (vlad passive value!) and the cap amplification, resists for both types of damage. I guess in extreme team comps (they all have one type of damage and are slacking on whispers/voids) you could do resist boots and maybe swap visage -> thornmail or zhonyas -> banshees but those should be pretty rare games.
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