So, anyone playing League of Legends?

[Azael]

New R on Kha is damned strong.

 

[Azael]

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/champions-skins/skin-preview/hero-fallen-city

New Rumble skin. The end is nigh.

 

[Ulminati]

New patch notes: http://www.surrenderat20.net/2014/03/patch-44-notes.html#more

Kassadin got raped.
No silence on Q + slight damage reduction
W no longer passively gives mana on AA (although its active does for one attack)
E saw a flat damage reduction
R changed to scale with mana instead of AP. Instead of +100 mana per riftwalk stack, it doubles the mana cost (ouch!)

Is it enough to not permaban him? Not sure...

Annie got ap scaling buffs on Q, W and R, and Q got a kill/assist CD reduction. I'm not sure she really needed that.

Nerfs to Elises early game. Less damage on Q, WAY less max damage on Q for monsters, stun dureation on rank 1 E lowered, spiderlings are squishier.


Lich bane got ruined. Instead of doing 50+.75AP magic damage on hit, it does .75AD + .5AP :<

Weird change to teleport -> Teleporting to an allied turret reduces the cooldown of Teleport by 100 seconds (total 200 second cooldown. 300 seconds if Teleport is used on an object.).

 

[Renegen]

Best part is Fiora's ult bug was fixed, I can finally become the Fiora main I've always wanted to be!

And because they also fixed a bug on Yorick's ult, he's on their "watchlist" now in case of higher win rates, yikes. I'll have to lay low with him for the next couple weeks. He's surprisingly a really fun champ to play, quickly becoming one of my mains. Made a Tryndamere ragequit last game with him.

 

[Darth Roxor]

New patch notes

gahaha

enjoy your popamoles

WTF HAVE THEY DONE TO HEIMER

 

[Azael]

That looks like shit. GG.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Kassadin, Syndra, whatever, so what's going on with those rumored GP changes? Not a high priority it seems because they're now talking about a Darius rework. Lol.

EDIT : Heimer buffs tho, well that's something I could give a shit about. And the AV rework is fine, what the hell, nothing of value was lost.

 

[Azael]

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/eune/24363590

http://www.lolskill.net/summoner-EUNE-Azaelbro

Looking for feedback, advice and stuffies I guess.

 

[Markman]

What advice? You went up 300 elo in a month, from bronze to Silver 1. Compare mine 10 last games and yours and you should be giving me advice. lol
Btw, all I get is zeroes on lolskill when looking at your profile. Mebbe you need to play more games.

 

[Renegen]

You play a lot of support, support is easiest role in the game, gg. You probably win lane every game and then transition well into teamfights. You also play a bunch of Nami, she's really underrated IMO and a very strong support. I see her as a better Sona, althought she doesn't have that amazing ult, she's more consistent in lane in how much aggression she can put out and a short cd bubble can be just as good as Sona's ult. And her heal hurts people, wtf? I can see why people don't play her though, a very traditional support that looks like a fish and without the trolling qualities of a Soraka/Janna.

 

[Azael]

What advice? You went up 300 elo in a month, from bronze to Silver 1. Compare mine 10 last games and yours and you should be giving me advice. lol
Btw, all I get is zeroes on lolskill when looking at your profile. Mebbe you need to play more games.

Hmm, that is weird. I used to have my stats show up when I had even fewer games played. Maybe they changed things or something.

Things have been going pretty good lately, especially when I get to play bot in either role. Decent jungler, but could be better.

 

[Azael]

Nami is awesome. Not sure why I haven't played her more really. Her utility is insane with some AP. I agree about support being a fairly easy role, especially now that you have gold and isn't just a ward bot (though I envoyed supporting back then too).

 

[Ulminati]

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/eune/24363590

http://www.lolskill.net/summoner-EUNE-Azaelbro

Looking for feedback, advice and stuffies I guess.

The best advice I can give to a silver is take objectives. The main difference I see in silver matches and gold/plat matches is that once a gold/plat team wins a fight, they look for towers, dragons or buffs to claim. The Silvers go "I haz money" and bluepill.

 

[Azael]

Very true. I think badgering my team to focus on objectives over chasing kills or going back to shop is one of the reasons for my pretty good winrate at the moment.

 

[Markman]

Didnt touch LoL in a week, gonna derp a game or two now. Come carry me, Azael

 

[Erzherzog]

So I haven't played LoL since the week before Yasuo's release. How's Velkoz? Is he a fun mid? Any changes to Urgot, Zilean or Viktor recently?

Actually aren't we in the timeframe where Riot has the "technology" to improve Viktor?

And Vel'koz is a decent mid, harasses well in lane fights great in teamfights.

 

[Renegen]

Just had a really interesting game with Aatrox top lane. This season I find that adc and top are the roles no one wants and it's so much better when I stop begging for my fav role and instead just fill. So I end up last pick and having to face a Zac top, oh God that's even more boring and frustrating than facing a Nasus. I decide to dust off the Aatrox, I figure that Zac should never be able to kill me and I'll outscale him late game, a safe matchup with an upside. The game turned out to be anything but boring. It turns out that if you have a good early game, none of these sustain champions can do shit against you. I bullied Zac really hard and only his Elise prevented me from being more aggressive. The Elise was really good, but I got the feeling I was her #1 worry, I got camped so hard every time I was picking some momentum and ready to snowball she came for the gank, every single time. And when it wasn't Elise it was Yasuo mid. Then at one point after getting a kill on Zac, he flat out stopped laning! Double buff Elise and her kit designed to fuck me came to lane. It only lasted until they ambushed me again and my tower was down, but the help top didn't stop.

Although the game was really close in terms of kills and I didn't snowball, I was able to be very useful in teamfights and build pretty much full damage. Aatrox really is something, 2 attacks per second, his mechanics become quite difficult and it's a little bit like playing a Vayne except you're melee, everyone focuses you and you get kited more easily. Nothing but chaos when you pick him up and I ended with the 2nd highest damage on my team. I was really surprised, I haven't had this type of Aatrox game since pre-nerfs, he's a really unique champion that when even with the enemy doesn't really do that much, he has to snowball. One big experiment that even Riot admits ended a bit in a failure as they really nerfed his ability to snowball, when you play with him you always play on the edge. And the funniest part was that I wasn't really ahead of the Zac.

I didn't think Aatrox was capable of this post nerf, he's still pretty good but only situationally. With the jungle changes in S4 and the recent nerf to Nocturne, my jungle pool has really been decimated but somehow I've stumbled into a great top lane pool, Nidalee when blind picking, Yorick against carries and Aatrox against tanks. There is no one that I'm afraid of, well except maybe a Yasuo top, haven't figured his bullshit out. Just my last Yorick game I made a Tryndamere ragequit and my last Nidalee game I went a weird AP build against a Riven and was way more useful than her in teamfights. Maybe Season 4 will be top lane season.

 

[Azael]

I've been wanting to try Aatrox top again, although my last game with him in the jungle was a catastrophe. How do you build him, runes, masteries, etc. Been wondering if going full retard sustain with both BotRK and Hydra is good.

 

[Renegen]

No, I'm pretty sure that getting 2 damage items on Aatrox or any bruisers doesn't work, you're going to be useless when teamfights start and in late game. But there's a few exceptions. If you get so snowballed that the enemy has no damage of their own or you have extra levels for tankyness or the enemy team comp has low damage (which is what I think happened last game), then you can rush two damage items. There was this interesting game last week in the NA LCS where Quas played Trundle. He had BOTRK and then bought a Zephyr, split pushed really great with it but when it came to late game he sold his Zephyr for a Thornmail I think. Therefore the goal of every bruiser ever is to get so big you can afford 2 damage items. There's also a few items that you can get away with more easily as your 2nd damage item, namely Hexdrinker, Triforce, Iceborn and Black Cleaver. BOTRK is really a fantastic item for the would be bruiser because early game it gives you good all-in potential for more kills, has cc and it scales late game. After that it's the usual tanky stats.

Now Aatrox and the double lifesteal is interesting. Riot considers it toxic for someone to have so much lifesteal they stay at full health for the whole fight (see Warwick rework) but if you snowball hell yeah you can get away with BOTRK and Hydra on Aatrox. And it's why they nerfed him, he reached that toxic state too easily, it's also why I suspect they removed lifesteal from the Wriggles (the Feral Flame will be very interesting). What I do is get 6% lifesteal from runes, it allows me to only buy 1 item but almost gives me the same potential.

My successes with Aatrox jungle post-nerf have been mixed, I never took over the game the same way as I did before. But I had a couple good games by rushing damage, he has great burst. That's why I was surprised top Aatrox seems to reach that state more reliably.

 

[Ulminati]

Teams get real heavy around 50-75LP in gold I. The mixture of tryhards wanting to get their placement matches and pladdies who goof around/got boosted makes for a volatile mixture. I may have to take up jungling again, since noone seems to have an idea how to secure objectives and counterjungle.

Also, this is my new favourite emote:

Took a while to get rid of the background on the original image.

 

[Ulminati]

RIOT FFS.
This is horrible D:

 

[Erzherzog]

There's like a dozen great skin ideas floating around for Rumble, they went with that?

 

[Darth Roxor]

wow, riot being retarded again, whodathunkit

 

[Azael]

FFSRiot

 

[Azael]

Those Pantheon nerfs on PBE... Guess it's time for him to fulfill his dreams of becoming a baker.