[quote who="pacov" reply="2223" id="3597598"] Anyway, last thoughts then sleep - any of you that play with me, you can expect my best currently, but my best might be poop. [/quote] It wasn't really the mid TF. It was more of the fact that you talked Boaz into playing a champion that he had never played before. And he literally didn't know what all the keys did on that champion. I don't mind people trying out new things, but I'd generally lik
Man, Riot has time to make a lot of big changes when they don't have to rework Jungle in the preseason like they normally do. Less vision sounds good for me. Stupid laning pansies and their wards.
Welp, now I remember why I don't play solo queue at Gold ELO. It is incredibly unpleasant. So I got screwed in my promos. Last season I go 8-2 and go from Gold 1 to Plat 1. This season I go 8-2 and get demoted from Plat 1 to Gold III. So that makes sense (its because only the first ~3 games in your promos really matter - the last games just move you up or down a total of a few divisions, but the first few games are MASSIVE). But jungling in Gold doe
Teambuilder games are a complete joke. Every time I'm in there I see joke games - high ELO people might play it, but you can tell that they generally don't try. Play it if you want, but you really shouldn't trick yourself into thinking that the results of teambuilder games mean anything - you are in games with a bunch of people who are just screwing around.
[quote who="izDanyo" reply="2185" id="3596586"] Curious as to why Zac jungle fell out of the meta, just decided to play him on a whim last night and he's pretty solid. He will probably be one of my go-tos when I get pigeon holed to jungle in ranked games and what not. I usually prefer it the least to support but it's pretty enjoyable. [/quote] When tanks were popular, Sej and Gragas were just better. Now Sej sucks, but tanks aren't so popular. Pl
So my whole point earlier was that support roams require precision lane control. That is, you can't just roam off whenever you want because you saw it on a Challenger stream or whatever. High elo players have really good lane control. You can roam when the lane is near your own tower so the ADC isn't completely screwed. But if you go off on Thresh's magical journey when the lane is pushed...yeah. You might not even break even if you get the gank. &n
Let me answer why this roam and gank stuff isn't going to work as well in games with the people we play with with a question: Why do I play Hecarim in almost all of our ranked games? (Hint: I don't really like Hecarim THAT much) They key is to look at the map and not do things blindly just because you watched some video of some high ELO guy doing something. You have to make a good decision based on what is actually happening in the current game, and that
[quote who="pacov" reply="2090" id="3591997"] I think I need a video break down (which I know you can't provide). Trying to think of times where I clearly should be getting the money vs others. Need to weed out the good from the bad. [/quote] The point is that junglers and (non mage) supports should be erring on the side of teamwork, not grabbing gold for themselves. Carries may err the other way if desired. But if you play s
The point is that you overrotate to that gold. If you rotate to the gold, a carry almost certainly can't. Teams generally can't afford to 2v0 a lane. So because the support went to go grab a lane's gold, now our mid/adc can't. Bad. You just zoned out our carries from that gold. High ELO supports see the same thing, but they don't take the gold from the carries. Basically, we have to avoid situations where carries have to race t
OK, I'll chime in here. The big issue is that pacov implements strategies without considering the big picture. The macroscopic picture in this case is that the game is balanced around the fact that supports scale very poorly with gold (except for mages who just randomly go support like Lux/Annie/Brand), while other roles scale much better with gold. Therefore, systematically shifting gold from other roles onto the support is a bad strategy assuming that everybod
I have discovered that Skarner is not good at carrying bads. Game 1 was...special. Our top lane went top Vi. With ignite. I don't really mind off meta picks, so I wasn't too nervous because I figured that it was just a Vi expert or something. It was not. Vi goes 0/9/0 to an Irelia, which is bad as it turns out. Everybody else actually did ok, but you can't stop super fed Irelia when your top doesn't finish a single item in a 33
[quote who="Stuie_" reply="10" id="3580523"] How so? If I need a single card for MtG, I can buy that card. If I need a single card in Hearthstone, I have to buy packs and hope for the best, or grind. [/quote] Or you can just craft it, a mechanic that doesn't exist in MtG and is really nice. It gives value to all the commons (which have essentially no value in MtG) since you can dust them, and the crafting cost for non legendaries isn't very hi
Its really not that bad - Hearthstone is quite a bit better than say MtG. You have constructed and limited formats (limited being Arena in Hearthstone). The bad cards that you are complaining about have a purpose - "limited filler" as they are called. That is, you don't use them in a constructed deck, but you do use them in limited formats. I happen to be mostly a limited player and like the lower power curve of Arena over constructed. Now there are som
Well, I am real close to Chicago and I get 65-70 ping currently, so I would expect west coast pings after the move to be ~70. I'd be surprised if it was over 80 since I never had ping that high. It will be interesting to see what happens with LCS. Pros won't practice at that ping. But are they going to move LCS studios to Chicago? They could be really hurting the NALCS even more since those kind of pings actually do matter for pros (I dont think 70 ping
Lol, I was just checking out new stuff on Steam and saw that one of my most played games ever suddenly appeared: http://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/ I was playing that game in 1996. Surprised its still around, although it seems like all the remaining people are in the stupid newbie zones. http://store.steampowered.com/app/35270http://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/
These forums allow us to see the edit history of posts if we want (there is a little button for it under posts). So it doesn't need to be reposted if you don't feel it was necessary.
[quote who="pacov" reply="1887" id="3567697"] Now, if you do die, unless your lane opponent is a dringus and sets you up for a free kill by staying in lane, etc, you absolutely must switch over to a less optimal, more passive playstyle. etc [/quote] Not really, but kind of. This is just a simple version of what I've been yelling at you about in all lanes, including bot. If you aren't going to win trades, don't try and trade. If yo
[quote who="RavenX" reply="9" id="3563612"] I do think some exceptions should be made though when it comes to discoveries like new exoplanets or comets or asteroids. The idea may be antiquated, but there was a certain fairness to it. [/quote] Who gets credit for the discovery? The person who funded the discovery, the person who made the observation, the person who reduced the data, the person who analyzed the data, or the person who oversaw the whole operation? H
But that's the point. There is no process for naming exoplanets beyond the number-letter process unless you simply petition the IAU to get a popular name. I don't believe that any exoplanets have received non number letter names although I think that the IAU announced that some would in the near future. Just because you discovered a planet as part of a giant survey doesn't mean that you get to name it (for one, the funding and observational work was from elsewh
