League of Legends: The New Thread

[RayFrost]

yeah but what about kleptomancy lucian for maximum quicktrade gold value

[JasonWazza]

If your going to use kleptomancy, you may as well be Ezreal.

[animorpherv1]

I believe you mean ADC $ona.

[PJ.]

Klepto Ez is very fun, especially when you have like 3 elixirs on you. And sometimes you get a 110 gold just for landing q. It's nice. Bankplank is probably great fun too. I honestly expect klepto to get taken down several notches.

[Psyche]

gp isnt doing much better this patch but ezreal has soared thanks to klepto

[PJ.]

Fair enough. I didn't look at the stats on plank, just the hype and the how often I've seen it.

[PJ.]

Some of Ezreals punch is coming from the other keystones that make him strong as well though, press and harvest

[Psyche]

meh the stats right now are terrible so take it with a grain of salt

speaking of which, for some reason teemo support is up on both champ.gg and op.gg, higher playrate and higher winrate
i wonder if his w interacts with summon aery to make his trades more favorable or something, or if the squish meta is behind the phenomenon (it seems that a lot the damage supports are significantly up in winrate)

[JasonWazza]

i wonder if his w interacts with summon aery to make his trades more favorable or something, or if the squish meta is behind the phenomenon (it seems that a lot the damage supports are significantly up in winrate)

His W (move speed boost) wouldn't But Aery can be used on any champions auto attacks.

I take it on Ahri and get loads of harass off early with it nearly every game.

[Psyche]

in general does self-cast cause aerie to shield you?

[PJ.]

Surprised brand isn't up seeing as I'd assume the reasons all the others are up is the same reason sona is: every carry lost 13 MR and Summon:Aery is strong.

[JasonWazza]

Having just tried in the practice tool, the W doesn't give Teemo Aery shielding.

Tried Ivern as well, Aery doesn't shield him, but it will shield allies.

So i would guess that no self cast ability manages to get Aery to shield you.

EDIT: And as an aside, a thing to note for Aery, is that until you have more AP then AD, Aery does Physical Damage.

[Psyche]

i honestly cant understand how teemo supp can be very effective from my play with him
maybe in some situational picks?

[PJ.]

Oh, apparently Quinn is in the ADC ranks for the first time in like two years. I thought press seemed stronger than tempo when reading but not this much. Tempo is basically ashe only

[JasonWazza]

I would have thought tempo would be kog'maw?

[PJ.]

Yeah, sure. Twitch, kog, and like the boring trio of cait/ashe/jinx.

[Kise]

It seems like lethal got hyped because of gimmick videos where people were in practice mode. Practice mode gimmicks arent practical though

[pickemgenius]

the strongest ive felt on an adc was lethal tempo mf.


krey.
gasm.

ult would still do big deeps. my autos actually did damage. feltsogoodman.

[animorpherv1]

Am I the only one who is completely fucking underwhelmed by Press The Attack? Like everyone I know says it's amazing and the only real choice for anyone in the tree but IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING.

[pickemgenius]

Am I the only one who is completely fucking underwhelmed by Press The Attack? Like everyone I know says it's amazing and the only real choice for anyone in the tree but IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING.

I've felt super underwhelmed playing with it the few times ive run with it.

[Maestro]

I run Press The Attack / Resolve Tahm Kench and it is really something to behold

[Psyche]

midpatch updates are up
buffs for ivern, nunu, orn (surprising!),
substantial nerf for sona,
bugfixes i dont care about

they're blaming ivern's state on the new runes, but that seems to forget that he was already knocked down close to his current winrate after the ardent nerf

[animorpherv1]

Riot seems to want Ornn to be the single best champion in all of league of legends. He's already silly strong as it is.

[Maestro]

The login screen music sounds like the soundtrack to a Marvel movie

[Psyche]

ive been building mobility boots on lissandra and a few other control mages and it's not been a bad experience
thanks to her e and extensive CC (as well as my definitely excessively safe playstyle), i'm able to successfully escape most fights despite the reduced MS that comes with being in combat, leaving me to reap the benefits of the having item, including freed up gold to spend on whatever and 70 greater MS out of combat than most of my enemies

this enables me to outpace my opposing laner for objectives or skirmishes around the map, set up ganks in my own lane (ie by speedily approaching enemy with my ult or even just w/q ready), chase down enemies who've just finished fights i missed, make picks throughout the midgame, and even initiate teamfights
lissandra's kit and her role in fights makes her in-combat movement speed not too important (compared to others who might have the item) after the initial CC. She gets through her whole rotation before an enemy can move, and as the game goes on can further keep enemies around with the slow of her Q. More importantly, she doesn't (or should I say, I don't?) usually have much more to do in a fight than provide that initial lockdown/damage from her initial rotation so others can follow up.

I really like the smooth feeling of moving so quickly with her, so I hope the item works out. We'll see.