Krazikarl

[quote who="pacov" reply="4651" id="3438442"] k - so support is still open on my team. we COULD morph that into jungle position. It will start as support, though. Karl - interested? Bryff - interested? Going to make a big overture to madcast folks. Keep in mind that you will need to become a candidate in madcast4 to play on this team, but you can give it a try without doing that. [/quote] Pass.

[quote who="pacov" reply="4645" id="3437724"]HEY KARL - PLAY 1 MORE GAME OF YOUR PLACEMENT MATCHES YOU BUM![/quote] Fine, I'm now 2-0 with an Amumu win.

Well, you gave up your team's inhib with a terrible engage. You watched your Wu whiff on his ult, then still chose to engage about 10 seconds later (the play is at about 36 minutes). You just can't do a 5v5 with one of your team's big ults down when their team has all their big ults up, especially when your team isn't grouped properly. That lead to an ugly lost teamfight and a lost inhib. You guys were coming back and had a Nasus, so I think you may h

Well, Warwick is a placename in England that does indeed have the second w silent. But nobody cares how the British pronounce their stupid placenames, so whatever.

Midwick really isn't that bad...

Well, I am now 1-0 as mid in ranked this season. Yeah Midwick. Luckily the guy who insisted on jungling managed one single gank attempt that game. Just the one in all lanes combined. Which kind of meant that we exited the laning phase down 10 kills since they had a jungler who actually did things other than farming jungle. But we were a better teamfighting team so we won in about 50 minutes.

I agree with the central idea that improved computer resources, especially the jump to 64 bit and more cores, will benefit computer games in a lot of ways. But I just don't see it benefitting "traditional" RTS's that much. At least not by just adding MOAR UNITS. Sure, you have the technical capability to deal with more units. But is that really more fun? I don't know about you, but I generally can't manage that many units and it just turns into a

[quote who="pacov" reply="4608" id="3435232"] Where did you end up placing, cow? Looks like plat V from lol king. Anyway, at least you stayed in plat. I'm thinking I need to crush it to stay in plat as I was just plat IV.[/quote] I think that it is unlikely you would stay in Plat now even if you won out unless you had something really funny going on with your MMR. As reference, Hunny went from Gold I to Silver I at 7-3 in quals, so I think you would b

The big question is when to play placement matches. I'm not sure if its smart to wait for the first wave of people to get placed or not.

Exactly. Previously they had a system that would clamp you hardcore when you got close to jumping up a tier, but wouldn't do much otherwise. I think that the big change is that the clamping is just going to be more spread out - instead of it being applied all at once when you get close to moving up, it will be applied in smaller amounts, but spread out over a larger range. So if you add up all the clamping, it will be about the same as it was last season.

Hrm, the big change to jungle items is going through next patch - Spirit Stone plus its upgrades get health/mana steal from minions (not just Spectral Wraith). Thats pretty big. The easy availability of bigtime sustain from jungle very early from the obvious item path might open up new junglers.

[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="1917" id="3432455"]It's a good thing scientists were right on the money with cholesterol... http://www.pittsburghquarterly.com/index.php/Innovation/the-cholesterol-conundrum.html http://www.zoeharcombe.com/the-knowledge/we-have-got-cholesterol-completely-wrong/[/quote] Yes, it was a good thing that scientists did a good job with cholesterol! If they hadn't, millions of people would have unnecessarily died. &nbsp

[quote who="Jafo" reply="1906" id="3432363"]In fact it's a pretty safe bet everyone here is a rank amateur armchair expert...on either side of the debate.[/quote] I think I'd be pretty careful with that. I'm fairly certain that there are some people in this thread with some decent scientific expertise in areas related to climatologists (even if there are no actual climatologists).

I don't meet the eligibility requirements as I am neither a member of Madcast nor an applicant.

Mouse of your Q to see how much damage it does, click on the monster to see how much health it has, only press Q when monster health is less than your Q damage. I had to do this when I used to play jungle Nasus because I was not a Nasus expert, but it meant that I had a lot more stacks than you did at the end of games. An extra 80 damage per Q matters at the end of the game.

I'm watching that last game right now... 6 stacks on Nasus at 4:15 after you get 3 buffs? WTF. How?

[quote who="Thundercles" reply="4562" id="3430248"]I think you just don't like admitting when you're wrong Karl.[/quote] No, I'm rejecting your reasoning that looking at ~30 games from a completely non representative subset of high ELO players tells you anything about the overall quality of a champion. I mean, your links don't mean anything other than that a few very small number of people are kind of screwing around with him since you can't reasonably extrac

[quote who="Thundercles" reply="4560" id="3430232"]I'll sum it up for you: Lots of wins in the jungle by different top players, not a lot of wins in the lane.[/quote] Eh? On the first page, over half the games are by one guy (Elementz) who isn't even known as a jungler and isn't even very highly ranked for a former pro player.

[quote who="Thundercles" reply="4558" id="3430190"]I don't feel this is the case at all. Kha'Zix is a great jungler with the right team comp and a quick visit to ProBuilds backs me up. [/quote] Um, your link backs up my case exactly. You are linking to a game where they played a jungle Kha with the single tankiest top in the game and the best combo of intiating CC/tank/frontline support in the game. Thats the exact NICHE that I said that Kha can be pla

[quote who="pacov" reply="4553" id="3430139"]I'd be complaining a bit if I was you as well as we did force you to bot.[/quote] I don't have a problem playing bot. Like I said, I didn't have a problem playing bot the first two games. And I really didn't even have a problem going bot the last game. My problem was with the last game where you decided you wanted to practice Kha. I had to go bot, which was fine. Due to team comp, I was essent

[quote who="Thundercles" reply="4552" id="3430117"]At the moment I'm writing this, there is a Challenger I player named Nightblue3 using Kha'zix jungle, so I think that in high level play some people find him a little better than decent.[/quote] The fact that one high level player mains some champion doesn't make them great or anything. In seasons past we had top 100 players who mained things like lane AP Mao and Teemo. That doesn't mean that lane AP M

[quote who="Thundercles" reply="4550" id="3430088"]Nobody chooses Elise thinking "I like playing her cause she has such a variety of build options!"[/quote] Um, yes, junglers do pick champions like Elise and Lee for this reason. Both can be played for damage or as front line bruisers/initiator types. Thats one of the reasons they work as early picks that go in any lineup. Junglers in solo queue get stuck in a swiss army knife type of role where they have to fill wh

[quote who="Thundercles" reply="4547" id="3430053"] , Lee, and Elise are some of the top picks and bans in high level play right now which means they are probably playable far more often than when you have a Rene top and Leona bot.[/quote] What? Lee and Elise have lots of front line presence and initiates, and Elise has CC, so they fit into like every team comp. Thats why they get pick and banned so much at every level. They work in pretty much every team comp.<

[quote who="pacov" reply="4543" id="3429751"]Anywho - guess what? I learned something. I learned how to delete players as kha'zix. I'll share what I consider the "correct" setup for him. r > q > e > w. Level your upgraded ult q/e/r. Running cdr blue, amr pent/ad (quint/red)/armor yellow. 21/9 masteries. Build playstyle - isolate and kill. Jungle kha, btw. You can have a crappy start and be weak, but

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