So, anyone playing League of Legends?

[Azael]

Caitlyns who use any skills, except perhaps E to reposition, during duels should be shot. All her skills has such long wind-ups that you lose a lot of DPS.

Speaking of unfamiliar picks causing losses, I derped like a motherfucker with jungle Aatrox yesterday. Hadn't played him for ages, so bad start from there. In fact, hadn't played him in the jungle since his nerfs and was frankly shocked by how slow he felt. Then a long line of derps followed. I might not have thrown the game single handedly, but not far from it.

Second game the enemies pick a very AD heavy comp with jungle Yi and monkey top, so I go Malph with 0/21/9 masteries, taking points in mana regen and the cookie. Start Cloth+5 and proceed to make life hell for the simian. Next time I end up in that kind of match-up I figure I might as well go with AP runes to make the early harass hurt even more.

 

[Ulminati]

I had the weirdest ADC on my team in ranked today

 

[Markman]

LoL. Did he carry atleast?

 

[Ulminati]

He was 'k. Whined a lot.
The Leona he got stuck with was godawful though. Kept starting idiotic engages when they were outnumbered. I wanted to help them, but our nasus/yasuo top requied 24/7 babysitting to keep nasus from feeding.

 

[Renegen]

Apparently Riot is tinkering with the idea of destroying Lee Sin. I've only read a bit because I don't want to pop a vein but it's all over the community websites and everyone's going crazy. They're nerfing his AD ratios, base damages and mobility. Now this is one champion that definitively doesn't need this, especially in today's jungle where early game isn't as decisive anymore and there's other big scary guys out there like Elise, KhaZix and Pantheon. And of course top/mid Lee should be pretty much extinct. I was even learning how to play him, he's super fun.

When you think about what they're doing to Lee Sin, there have been other... casualties. Eve was destroyed, Twisted Fate was destroyed, Skarner was destroyed, Zac was destroyed, Diana was destroyed and all that pretty recently. Then Morello has publicly admitted they screwed up with Aatrox a very recent release and that he just can't be viable in his current form (despite some EU LCS picks...). Even the Jinx/Lucian/Sivir release instantly made half of bot lane obsolete. Frankly I wouldn't mind the old days of Rengar/Jayce/Elise hilariously broken champs on release, it's not like the slower more methodical Riot is making any better decisions.

 

[Ulminati]

Morello is the spawn of Satan. News at 11.

He's methodically destroying everything that's mildly interesting, because the only thing that isn't "toxic" in what passes for his mind is %hp damage.

 

[Renegen]

The funniest part is that people don't even consider Lee Sin toxic or OP. How he is enemy #1 and not Wukong with his 480% AD Ratio aoe CC ultimate that he gets for doing absolutely nothing is a mystery.

 

[Hellraiser]

Deathray Cthulhu is fun. Well unless you end up panic ulting with an awkward facing.

 

[Ulminati]

Is it just me or did everyone else get worse at this game while I was away for 6 months? I already skipped a division during my first series, and the plat IVs and IIIs I'm up against look like headless chickens most of the time. I don't even have to show up for most of the fights. Practically every game has been free barons, dragons and undefended turrets.

 

[Markman]

Plat is the new bronze. Bad plays galore and the fact that people think they do nothing wrong when picking a champ for the first time against a player that has like 200 ranked games on his champ. That could never go wrong.

Vi, Elise and Lulu are pretty good picks tho, its not like youre gimping your team by picking them.

 

[Azael]

Lulu really is amazingly fun. Played her mid vs. Fizz today and could really bully him early. At six it became a bit more intense, but was still smooth sailing. Lost the game though since our Blitz kept saving the enemy the trouble of engaging and would just grab their Amumu or Leona.

 

[Renegen]

Tried out Team Builder, dodged every game with Yasuo adc and other weird nonsense (oh hey Tryndamere jungle with ignite, yeah that must be a high elo player in my game) and ended up with a "troll" teamcomp which was comprised of... Velkoz support. So troll. All the trolling the enemy could muster was Master Yi top which I just afk farmed against. The best part however was how bad the matchmaking was, I'm not sure there even is a match mmr because I was matched with certains elo brackets that I never see anymore. My jungle Vi first ganks when I have 10 cs at my tower, and the second time again when I have a huge wave but she also makes sure to show on the map she's lvl 4 at 7 minutes. She lost both of her buffs. But the enemy team's support was a fresh lvl 30 and fed nonstop to the point their Draven gave up and started trolling. He then started to rage at his team in all chat and their mid afked the last teamfight for good measure.

10/10, this new tool really changed the nature of soloque.

 

[Azael]

Let's hope they make something better out of it. The concept of a teambuilder tool is sound, but based in early impressions they've fucked things up badly in how it's implemented.

How is Ryze these days? Haven't played him in a while, but his recent buffs and the changes to tear should make him more viable top again, no?

 

[bloodlover]

He's been played a bit top by pro's but he's not really a priority pick for 99% of the time.

Maybe Athene will switch to top lane from mid now :D

 

[Azael]

Well, Renekton is picked so damn often and Ryze can't do much versus him. The gator is up for some rebalancing (nerfs) though. As for Athene, who gives a shit?

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Ryze is pretty boss because mobility faggotry is still so popular, targeted everything and 2 second snare mess up them zergs and ninjas nicely and due to his constant damage and excellent build he can deal with the supertanks all right too. Though I haven't used him top really, prefer Singed in most scenarios.

I for one am amused if they're truly going to fuck Lee/KSdin. Maybe I get to finally play Kass if he won't be based around bullshit this time, and Lee, well fuck him but his kit is still going to be the same even if they move his numbers around so meh.

 

[HanoverF]

Ryze seems to be in a better spot because games go longer and full build Ryze is still a scary son of a bitch, but almost every popular mid still craps on him.

So yeah, top or support is the way to go


His autoattack is a lot better now too.

 

[Azael]

Lately, I seem to win games I deserve to lose and vice versa. Except the pantless jungle game I played earlier today, that was one well deserved win after I snowballed both myself and both solo lanes. Landing good mandrops is one of the more satisfying things in this game, IMO.

 

[bloodlover]

Seems Elise will be nerfed really bad as well. Are they messing with every early game jungler?

 

[Markman]

While Lee, Vi and Elise have a higher skill level to learn I think its gonna be more of a damage nerf where they wont be able to put out massive amounts of damage at lower-mid levels.
Elise combos people at lv4 for same damage as some junglers do at lv8. And then you got repel+flash to gtfo while the cooldowns refresh. Lee is just insane in mobility and damage early and Vi is too tanky for the amount of damage she can burst out. Nerf away if you ask me.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Well, there's a bunch of early game junglers that aren't played because Lee, Elise and Vi exist. At this point I can have a better game with Lee than Xin even though I mained the other and this mobility trickery bullshit isn't my cup of tea and I only hit like 1/20 Lee Q's or something. Don't have to because all the other abilities are broken too.

 

[Renegen]

Not a fan of nerfing early game junglers IMO, then all we'll see is Wukongs or Pantheons. The S4 jungle heavily rewards ganking because you can never fall behind in exp, so that's what people do, gank. If they nerf the early game snowballing gankers that suck late game, we'll just be left with the gankers with scaling that have no weaknesses.

 

[Azael]

I think the problem is just that some champs, like Lee Sin, Elise or Jayce just got a little too much of everything in their kits. Certainly fun champs too play, but a bit problematic to keep balanced.

 

[Erzherzog]

Ha, I was saying literally the same thing to Renegen in the game client yesterday. It's plenty evident and it's also the same reason why CertainlyT is kind of an awful designer. Just throws way to much stuff on his creations (Thresh, Yasuo)

 

[bloodlover]

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