[quote who="OMG_ZEX" reply="222" id="3478759"]I have always thought of her as more of a pick specialist with her Q or a go in 2nd type of champion with her ultimate. She is not reliable for starting fights. Flash+Ult+Zhonyas to start a fight is very unrealiable when compared to all the champions I listed (not to mention only possible late into the game).[/quote] I wasn't thinking of Flash+Ult as the initiate. I was thinking Binding + Irelia. Binding is v
[quote who="OMG_ZEX" reply="219" id="3478724"]We didn't have the forsight to see this problem but now it will be easier to catch in champ select. If Karl was on something like Malphite/j4/sejauni/amumu/hecarim/zac/wukong we could have started team fights from long range. [/quote] I can play Sej/Amumu whenever you want. But if you want pretty much any of the champions you list played (other than J4), you need to have Lee Sin banned, because if we play Sej/Amumu against a
[quote]I also dislike picks that force you into behaving a certain way - all really enforced by a champion pick.[/quote] Erm, Top Nidalee. Jungle Shaco. Jungle Tryndamere. Jungle superfarm FF Udyr. Pretty much all of your recent projects require that your team act/pick in really really specific ways. Thats all fine, but its odd for you to say that you dislike picks that require specific play styles, then pretty much exclusively de
People need to stop complaining about internal tier lists. Unless you are in high Diamond or something, you simply aren't good enough such that tier lists matter that much. A very well played tier 3 champion at least as good as a kind of well played tier 2 champion at our level of play. We just aren't good enough to consistently exploit somebody like Gangplank's weaknesses in the long term, so the game comes down to individual skill on champions just like it al
[quote who="Thundercles" reply="178" id="3478128"]Because you wouldn't be able to keep welching on your "Congratulate me when I get to Gold IV!" contest?[/quote] He's already Gold I. Just mouse over his name some time - it says so right there.
[quote who="pacov" reply="164" id="3477806"]Anyway, really nice fellas we met with the exception of the super talkative guy that wanted to be called mam or something that karl eventually pissed off enough to get them to leave the chat. hue. [/quote] That guy was fun. He died at level 3 (pure 1v1 with no jungle interference) and made some crappy comment about me not helping him in lane. I didn't bother saying anything even though I was playing WW, so I'm
Ah, more jungle changes. And of course, they make no fucking sense. Riot's stated goal is to help out tank junglers with pressure from people like Lee Sin, Pantheon, and Kha (all champions they listed). Then, they make insane Machete changes that just contradict that. The problem is that Machete is losing the 10% damage buff to monsters. Well, junglers like Lee Sin, Pantheon, and Kha will actually be getting that damage back because their skills will be h
Hrm, so apparently the inactivity warning thing bugged out on me. I got the 9 day warning for inactivity on Thursday of last week. I got demoted today. That is not 9 days. Yay Riot!
Oh, I don't have a problem with weak botlanes at all. In fact, I kind of like weak botlanes who sit at their tower since I like ganking bot now that its not warded all the time early on. So I don't have a problem with a weak lane - I just don't like having two weak lanes next to each other if the opponent goes with two strong lanes. That leads to problems since they can then choose to make a large number of plays that we simply can't defend (many of wh
I think that picking B vs A/S tier champions is no big deal. At our level of play, the difference between picking a B tier champion and picking a higher tier champion is pretty small (with one or two exceptions at both ends of the spectrum - don't start playing Urgot just to prove me wrong please). The bigger problem is team comps. Cow has already covered one way in which team comps can be bad. It's best to be somewhat unified in team idea and not scatte
[quote who="pacov" reply="73" id="3474446"]I'd be the 1st to admit I did not play well enough. But I disagree with hedgie's decision to not take dragon control from that team. Final comment on this - while I disagree with how hedgie decided to play things, it doesn't mean he's wrong - just that I would have done things differently with a gimmick lane. Completely possible that he did things great and I just played too smeh an adc - so hopefuly this doesn
[quote who="Thundercles" reply="72" id="3474436"] BotRK gives you all of this except for the crit chance, so it's an "inefficient build at best."? Silly.[/quote] The problem isn't the simple lack of crit chance. The problem is that BotRK sinks a lot of gold into a damage based passive that cannot interact with crits. IE sinks a lot of gold into a damage based passive that boosts crits. Thats a direct contradiction of gold spent, so the build must be inef
[quote who="Thundercles" reply="69" id="3474372"]According to Karl Logic[/quote] Hmm? Karl logic is at least vaguely valid. It also recognizes the differences between an existential quantifier and a universal quantifier, which is what you are missing here. Also, I already explicitly rejected what you are saying here in my second paragraph. I was objecting to (negating) the idea that it is always best to build BotRK after IE (universal quantifier). My
[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="64" id="3474353"]If you go IE, you should always go BotRK afterwards. IE > BotRK > LW is probably the highest raw-damage build, though like i said, building IE has its difficulties.[/quote] One of the main drawbacks of BotRK has always been that it doesn't fully interact with crits. You are dumping a lot of gold into the item's passive, and that passive doesn't interact with crits. But, if you buy an IE, you are spend
Well, I had the very exciting chat problem all of yesterday where I couldn't get the chat system to work. It was working for most people, but was broken for a substantial number of people, including me. Very fun.
[quote who="parrottmath" reply="20" id="3472737"] I would love to see the math on these equations. It would be a great to see exactly what parts he is looking at for the loophole. I find it completely, neat that we may find a way to create warp drive. I'm curious, if we create warp drive, would this also imply that we can get to a semblance of teleportation?[/quote] Well, this stuff is just an instance of an Alcubierre drive. If you want to see the math, the
[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="6" id="3472576"]Dont they need some kind of negative or exotic energy to do that? And that actually exist? How do you create one? [/quote] Exactly. This is just a version of an Alcubierre drive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive Now, the Gizmodo article was very misleading. There were A LOT of problems besides just the energy problem being discussed h
[quote who="pacov" reply="29" id="3472475"]It's my experience that ignite is much more useful for winning a lane than tp. The added dmg results in greater kill potential during solo laning. [/quote] Not really. Remember that winning a lane is not that same as killing. Getting towers and CS are also a big deal, and TP is a massive deal is both of those. If you want to play aggressively, you can push your opponent under tower, back, shop, TP, th
[quote who="pacov" reply="9" id="3471193"]So... hear me out here. 1st - congrats on going on a streak on twisted tree line and immediately hitting plat after 10 games. [/quote] We are gold I - we got placed in Gold II and you can't skip to plat. To be fair, after murdering a lot of teams to start with, we are playing a lot of harder matches now that our MMR has gone up (a lot of diamond players, and we played a team with 3v3 challenger players last night).
[quote who="Thundercles" reply="6" id="3471106"]I think one of the points of mine you guys may be missing is that there is actually a significant difference between Bronze V and Bronze V 400 MMR. [/quote] Well yes, but how does one get to 400 MMR if they don't consistently play at a bronze V level? It is essentially inconceivable that they that low by bad luck, so they have to be consistently playing at a (low) bronze V level for one reason or another (it could very well be
Let me say this about getting stuck in bronze: If you consistently play above a bronze level, it is virtually impossible to get stuck in bronze. This accounts for the presence of trolls. And yes, I did spend some time in bronze in season 1. The math is simple: there are more spots for leavers/trolls on the other team than on your team. So, if we assume that every bronze V game has 1 leaver/troll, and that you are not a leaver/troll, the leaver/troll will be o
I don't believe that duo queuing with somebody with somebody on a smurf is against codes of conduct. Riot is fine with smurfs and with duo queueing, and the ranked system is supposed to take care of the effects of smurfs and duo queues over time. I mean, you could temporarily inflate somebody's rank by creating a smurf, leveling it to 30, then playing with that person right when you start ranked, but thats a lot of effort just to temporarily boost somebody. I think
I'm not completely against split pushing even though I don't care to do it much myself. But it has to be done very carefully or you lose very quickly against a lot of teams. VERY quickly. If people go into the game with the attitude "I'm going to split push" and the game doesn't pan out in the right way to allow it, then really bad things can happen if they force it. On the flip side, switching to a split push can be a nice way of breaking stalemates.
I actually like Shaco as a jungler, although he is a specialist champion for Shaco enthusiasts only (as an aside - he would be nerfed if his playrate ever got too high regardless of what his power level is). With that being said, he requires very good decision making on split pushes. As you say, you can sometimes get carried away with split pushing, so I'm not entirely sure that Shaco is the best choice for ranked games right now. I've watched quite a few of y
