So, anyone playing League of Legends?

[1451]

Darius doesn't have one

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

If you max say R-W-E-Q you won't lose out much on Q damage compared to R-W-Q-E, but gain a lot of AA damage and your team buff increases in value a lot. I haven't yet done this because usually laning takes so long, but 40 AD and 20% MSpeed + 20 and 10% to your team is nothing to sneeze at.

 

[Renegen]

I build him R-W-E-Q as a support. I think his kit is perfect for it. Congrats on the GP win streak, he's a lot better than people give him credit for. What makes him really nice is he's an assist machine. His ult gives assists, his E gives assists. He will be even richer in S4. Too bad I heard somewhere Riot wants to rework him, you know his passive and E are getting gutted.

 

[Hellraiser]

Hopefully that will take them another year or two to actually finish, like with eve, twitch or heimer.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Yeah I can imagine. "E is a lot of invisible power! His passive doesn't feel rewarding, and a lot of his power budget is in his global ultimate. We're switching shit around, new passive, that W heal too strong in the new kit, now it's like 100 + some % of how much you don't have also that undodgable Q harass is lacking counterplay so now it's shit, presto, new and shiny Gangplank that nobody asked for and his playerbase is gonna hate."

If he needs anything, which I'm not so sure about, it'd be better if it was slight number buffs on shit like stat gain, cd:s, mana costs, whatever. A popular demand is to remove his cast times, but I don't like the idea of eveybody being like Zed, and I feel like removing his cast times would also remove any decisionmaking in using the skills, you'd simply always cast Q if you were in range, always cast E when running away because there was no risk...

 

[Hellraiser]

So apparently I missed the news that riot wants to make it possible to queue for a role and match you with other laners to form a coherent team. Seems like a good idea.

 

[1451]

Depends, good for blind pick as it helps to avoid fighting. Bad for draft since it cancels counter picking and overall team compositions.

 

[Hellraiser]

Miss-clicked, entered queue for TT blind instead of SR, realized it only after seeing there's just three of us in the lobby. Not worth waiting the dodging penalty, better play Garen:



DEMACIA-AAA-AAA!

To be honest they kind of fucked themselves by picking three champions reliant on burst who I fuck over with Q, but that's just blinds being blinds. I just roamed, pushed and killed shit without knowing what to do to be honest, pretty fun game. Boots+moran shield start too strong.

 

[Renegen]

Yeah I can't see the Team Builder replacing Draft, counterpicking is pretty core to the game.

So I've acquired 12k IP, it's time for my next big purchase to get ready for S4. I thought it was way more IP than I needed but the interesting champions just keep on coming. I've narrowed it down to 5 that I really want, who should I pick: Rengar, Kha'Zix, Hecarim, Brand or Leblanc?

 

[1451]

I'd pick someone between Rengar and Hecarim. Kha has been nerfed if I'm not mistaken, Lb is good for assassination and that's it, Brand is strong but I don't know. It seems to me that other mages fill his role adequately for example the snake woman.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Rengar is the most fun mechanically (also kills), but he's gonna get reworked. He's a weak laner, supposedly, but good late, weak jungler too supposedly but I have had mostly fun with him, his ganks are amazing and he's a tricky fighter in the jungle. Also cracking towers really fast is always valuable in solo Q. But yeah. Rework. S4 seems to have less bush on map too, so IDK how Rengar survives that.

Khazix on the other hand is entirely based on kill stealing so you can run away more. When he was good he was bullshit, now he's mostly annoying to his team the same way AP Yi used to be. Maybe he's really high skill cap or something, I don't know, didn't you already have Zed, I bet you're going to be disappointed on the Zerg after the Shredder.

Hecarim needs a lot of gold to do dick, so you take kills and farm from your teammates, of course when he has gold he does horse dick. In other words he's good if you're an asshole jungler like me. Giving kills to ADC? Yeah my Nocturne assassination build isn't going to buy itself so suck it, yeah you go on ahead shooting towers that don't fight back while the real men go about the killing business.

Brand is pretty damn good in my opinion, you can build Rylais and Liandrys, use one spell and watch their health burn away, also they're slowed forever. Or you can just build pure AP and watch things go boom. He can bully lane, farm safely, win teamfights, roam adequately, duel, 100-0, he has a lot of good stuff, but no mobility or utility. He's not like for example Lux who is always safe due to massive range, CC and op shield, nor like Cassiopeia who has this complicated kiting pattern and DPS, Brand is pretty much AOE murder burst in a blink of an eye and that's it. What I like most about him is that he has great ranges and cast times so you almost always get to cast everything.

LB has an interesting playstyle but I feel like they've gutted her damage at some point, she's not like Jizz who just 100-0's you on reflex. Her spells are interesting, but she's not a lane bully anymore and I actually think she has a pretty difficult laning phase now.

I just found out something odd, Skarner with Triforce, Gunblade and sunfire apparently can duel and kill a fed ass full build Darius, this just happened on TT. Like what the hell? Full healths, possibly I had ignite and he didn't but C'mon. I had forgot how fun Skarner is when you're at the point when he completely stops dying to anything.

 

[Markman]

Only Heca worth it, rest are too situational.
Brand can be good too in lots of matchups.

 

[Mystary!]

I've started playing Trundle a bit (4W/0L) he works really well with the ever increasing number of Nidalee players. People try to counter poke teams with hard engagers like Leona, Amumu, Hecarim, Nocturne etc, but you just pop the pillar behind them and noone in their team can follow up so you can stand there pointing and laughing at them while you rape their isolated team mate.

 

[Markman]

I've started playing Trundle a bit (4W/0L) he works really well with the ever increasing number of Nidalee players. People try to counter poke teams with hard engagers like Leona, Amumu, Hecarim, Nocturne etc, but you just pop the pillar behind them and noone in their team can follow up so you can stand there pointing and laughing at them while you rape their isolated team mate.

Nice you discovered the awsomness of the troll. Still needs a somewhat decent team to win the game tho, thats why I dont play him that much anymore, I rage too much for constant derping and they rage at me for "stealing" all the kills.

 

[Mystary!]

Luckily even retards make decent Nidalees. All they need to do is throw spears in general direction of the enemy and theyre bound to hit something sometime, and one spear is often enough to force a squishy champion to run back and heal while you take a free turret. If the enemy tries anything funny you pillar them. Combo too stronk!

 

[Renegen]

I think Kha'Zix is going to become secret OP in S4, he's one of the few junglers that uses Elder Lizard and that item is getting buffed like crazy. I too previously thought he sucked after having tried him but he definitively has a good skill cap. While they gutted his W, you can still do jump + Q and there's no counterplay to that, they can even flash and the damage still goes off. I wish I played him more last week when he was available but I had a game just now on the PBE and finished like 17-3. He snowballs really hard.
Compared to Zed as an assassin jungler, he has better early ganks, better sustain and better dueling potential but worse late game. He's one of the few assassin junglers that has some presence before he hits lvl 6. I should still give Zed a try and master him, but honestly going afk for 7 minutes to farm tends to wear you out. Plus I just saw a well known Diamond 1 player destroy Nasus with Kha'Zix top.

Rengar is the most fun and it's pretty much the only reason I've included him. He builds identical to Kha'Zix and melts towers 3x as fast which is huge, but it's not clear if the rework will keep that. And his jungle presence relies too much on a stealth that will get "reworked".

Carry jungling is the only style I play. I had my "support jungling" phase but that ended when they nerfed Aatrox. If you see me in your game you know I won't be coming to help you unless there's 3 people diving you or kills to be stolen. Riot actually lowered the exp in the jungle in S4! It will be great fun developing my taxing skills to take things to the next level.

Brand is used a lot in Diamond 1 and Challenger and he's pretty much under the radar and very versatile. I became interested when I realized many actually use him as a top laner. He's a pretty safe pick to be OP and untouched by Riot.

Skarner's awesome, I will be keeping an eye on him after his rework. Lol, hybrid Skarner?

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

My what-the-fuck-am-I-doing LeBlanc beats somebody's platinum 2 Nidalee. Yay. I was mistaken, she can be a bully still if the enemy doesn't have an easy way to hit you when you attack them and her combos are pretty chunky even if some of them are hard to pull off due to her skill shot snare. Her skill cap might be too much for me, but pulling off kills from huge range with double dash Q E or something is pretty funny especially when you return like over a screen away. Zed can't do that.

I still have no clue why I have the silver rage duo while they have two platinum players, even less idea why we win, matchmaking is so weird right now. Maybe everyone's trolling because they don't think they'll get to diamond. I had a Kha'Zix complain that he can't do anything to Veigar, heh.

 

[PlanHex]

Her skill cap might be too much for me, but pulling off kills from huge range with double dash Q E or something is pretty funny especially when you return like over a screen away. Zed can't do that.

Zed can do something more fun:

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Lols. That's nothing compared to the darius TP pull though, pull 5 guys into fountain, level 1 penta for Darius. OP.

Apparently Tryndamere can't duel tankplank, and when he's running away with his ult you follow him and shoot him in the back. MONEY!

Unlike Jax who autowins even if he's a few kills behind. Dat freedamage.

 

[Markman]

God damn the grind. Managed to sneak in yesterday to Gold 1 and i get 6 LP per win. 4 wins, 1 loss = 20 LP. Now I need a 15 game win streak to get to 100 hohoho.
Malph is still my best jungler with 44 W-24 L. Dat ult is so good it fits with any comp. Also Naut the stunbot is close second.

 

[Markman]

Oh ye. Gonna do a little 9 hour LoL marathon now, ultra tryhard mode, lets see how far it gets me.
Im counting on being demoted,lol. Never a good sign when Im the first pick in my first game.
Anyone wanna duo ranked just message me in game.

 

[Renegen]

So you may have heard that the 5x v 5y mode is back and it's called "One for All" and available for a limited time, well it's actually available right now on the PBE! If anyone has an account and wants to play together, let's get a group together. The best part is of course all champs are available.

 

[Markman]

Meh. 3 losses in a row, one more and demoted i think. OMG lemme play carry. OMG why doesnt jungler carries me. OMG you steal all the kills. Our Renektons first item vs Nasus? Thornmail. No regen, no lifesteal, just thornmail.
Platinum OP. Now not sure if I wanna go there.
6 moar hours to go

 

[Jim Cojones]

I'd gladly play some 'one for all' games but the issue with invisible particles I (and many other PBE users) experience still hasn't been fixed. I don't mind the lag I have on American server but playing while not seeing spells and attacks is a bit too much for me. I played one such game today and it was really frustrating.

 

[Hellraiser]

Darth Roxor how do I Quinn? I bought her, so I am interested in your expert opinion on building stuff on her and general tactics.