hiplop and sleepy invited me to a game like they've done probably a dozen times before. We're just hanging out in voice chat talking and whatever. It's not until 20 minutes in that I realize they've queued me up for a ranked game and my "lemme try TF for one of the first times" didn't really work so well.
shaziro and beckyyy have been invited. ConebreadIH hasn't played in 18 days, so I'm happy to invite him if he becomes active again. Still waiting on tatetothetot, clumsyninja23 and HolySpiritTurtle.
I don't think everyone who's a pro or in challenger is smart in a broad way, but almost all have better decisionmaking than the vast majority of players. I don't tune into league players to figure out their thoughts on Proust, but the ability to quickly analyze a situation, decide what to do, and (in the case of pro play) communicate it to your teammates is definitely a kind of intelligence that I don't take lightly.
Much of that comes from time in, but when we're talking about the very, very tail end of the skill curve, we're not talking about just hard work.
In post 443, lil g wrote:Hiphop doesn't have gold disease, he's got kicked dog disease.
Someone said something to him last night during a rageblade vayne fiasco and we got an actual laundry list of excuses, I think doing laundry might actually have been one of the excuses. Poor guy needs to focus when he plays cause when he stops paying attention, he drops 3 tiers.
Oh wait, I know someone else who has that exact same problem but it's usually phone related...
Hiplop's great. But I suspect I was as forgiving as Jess would have been were she in my shoes.
In post 443, lil g wrote:Hiphop doesn't have gold disease, he's got kicked dog disease.
Someone said something to him last night during a rageblade vayne fiasco and we got an actual laundry list of excuses, I think doing laundry might actually have been one of the excuses. Poor guy needs to focus when he plays cause when he stops paying attention, he drops 3 tiers.
Oh wait, I know someone else who has that exact same problem but it's usually phone related...
Hiplop's great. But I suspect I was as forgiving as Jess would have been were she in my shoes.
I did have a horrible allergy attack like an hour before the game! I didn't wanna play but I had nothing else to do.
Realized it was a mistake pre quick in
Do you use nasacort or flonase? It's not a quick-fix thing as it takes a couple of weeks of daily usage to start working really well, but it helped a TON with my fairly bad allergies when I was in Texas and Rome. And both are now over the counter at least in the US. Also you can take Zyrtec with it for really bad days.
Number of dragons aren't that important now. Particularly if they're of the cloud variety or ocean if you aren't playing with/against a poke comp. They did have to fight an elder, but that only lasts 2 minutes and I've played in a lot of mismanaged elder dragon games. Often people want to recall after taking elder and that's a good 20 seconds of effective elder dragon time.
I still can't imagine that ever being worth it unless you're building AP Ez. Ezreal is super mobile and long range, so is one of the adcs that can use zhonya's active least (most of the time it's just likely to let the enemy close the gap on him).
I think they created a vicious circle. By not "capping" the chance of getting your secondary role, they created a system where the least picked role (support) was more likely than your primary role to pop. And because of that, even if you wanted to play no more than HALF your games as support, you're forced to not pick support.
Personally, I'd pick Mid, Support if I knew support didn't have more than a 50/50 shot of being my position. But I know I'm probably getting no more than 20% of games as mid that way.
But because of that, they made it even HARDER to find a support. And unless you're truly churning games, having a slightly longer wait time is basically a non-factor. Who cares if I have to wait 10 minutes? vs. 2 when the games last 30-70 minutes (including draft and load)?
I don't think it's because supports have no effect, even at lower levels. A good support is going to be able to climb. But if you're talking about influence % of each role, Supports are less important. You can look at the challenger ladder to see that. You have to go 31 places down to find your first support.
I don't know how you eliminate the support role. No matter what you do, there's only 3 lanes of gold. Maybe you could make the jungle more fruitful for double jungling?
So I just won a ranked game where my ADC tristana had 3.1k damage to champions, which was 2.6x lower than either of the supports in the game. Curious, I looked at this guys past games. Despite playing nidalee jungle and graves jungle/top for the previous 5 games, he managed to out damage his support only
twice
and even in those he did the lowest amount of damage to champions.
But the thing is... he won every single one. And so far as I can tell he wasn't duoing or anything.
In post 900, PJ. wrote:Looks awful. Can't wait to ban him every game for the next 4 months to make everyone cry. I like how his gameplay videos highlighted how good other champions are.
For champions that I've played more than 5 times, my highest ranked win rate is currently on Teemo. So now two of my champions that myko hates are my highest win rate champions.
Yeah. Exactly. Morg isn't great because she does a lot of amazing burst damage, obviously (though Q>W>Ult Proc 1>Ult Proc 2 is kind of a lot of damage).
To be fair, I don't actually use that teemo build in ranked games. I think of the 7 games, 6 have been some form of AP and 1 was a bruiserish mix with a frozen heart (but not hurricane). Teemo is kind of wonderful because whatever way you build him you can kinda justify.
In post 956, zoraster wrote:what is your build with tristana? Wits End? Is that a thing?
it's not a thing, I needed attack speed and I needed MR. By the end of it I didn't immediately die to lux or veigar so that was pretty lit.
You're way better off with banshees veil in that situation and something like a rapid fire cannon instead of the next drinker. I think the difference is only 5 MR but with the banshees passive.
I don't think it's usually what you'd choose to do it if you could plan your team comp, but it's probably a reasonable response if you're a late pick.
The difficulty is that assassins like Talon aren't that much about assassinating their lane opponent. They're about roaming and killing other lanes. As a tank, you may have somewhat limited ways to respond effectively to that.
1. Follow the roam
2. Roam opposite side
3. Push into turret, frantically ping missing, deny CS, do damage to the turret, hope your other laners don't die.
Zac probably actually can help counterroam given his long distance CC. I don't think his wave clear will be enough to push super effectively.
And here's how close I was to a penta. That damage registering is from the end tick of my ult. The stun is as well. 76 health.... not really upset that graves took the kill or anything, just so close!
I was so excited to play Galio top against: Rumble top, Fiddle Jungle, Zilean Mid, Blitz support. All we needed was the Jinx not to get fed. So you can imagine what happened.... Apparently this guy's smurf: http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=jeem
Oh I'm sure he did. I was Galio, it doesn't exactly take a genius to know what I want to do. But at high silver/low gold the reaction timing was basically instantaneous.
No, I've watched it repeatedly and his move is still awesome, whether (and he should have been) expecting me or not. At .25 speed it seems like something I might be able to do. At full speed there is literally no chance.
For the record, the clip isn't anything special. I'm dead even if I get my ult off (Blitz has his knockup on) and it's not like I played it well.
The clip has .25 speed first and then full speed next. Take note of the chompers as well.
And as I said, I don't think he was scripting. But at the time, assuming he was just some Silver Jinx, it did make me wonder.
Oh! okay! I didn't realize you were spectating. Yeah, I didn't have much interaction with Jinx until that moment and then she was 6-0 so most of it was just "Fed jinx pushing out super rockets for triple/quadra kills."
We know, Dwlee. PZ is saying that he thought he was scripting until he realized he was a Challenger smurf.
When I talked to him after the game, he said he didn't really get it... he got put into Bronze when he went 9-1 in placements, and as far as I can tell that's probably not a lie.
My personal guess is that he acquired the smurf from someone else (the account was in bronze in S5 and S4) that had a really really low MMR.
He's literally 51-7 this season, and 39-3 as Jinx/Vayne.
The thing I find out of place is that Jeem has 0 games on Jinx. While they do share Vayne, I'd expect to see at least a smattering of Jinx games. But then again, it's not exactly surprising someone would play different champions at the Silver level than they do at the Challenger.
