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You do a draft at the beginning of the season to distribute the players. There is a pool of leftover players that can be swapped onto your team at any point in time. Each week you start people on your team. If you are starting them, they get points based on what they do. The more points, the better. You also have bench spots, which are just players that you control, but don't give you points. They are just backups. Each week you are matched up
That mode could actually be fun. A good chance to try out creative builds anyway. I'm just going to troll by picking Teemo for the enemy team every game.
[quote who="Thundercles" reply="1024" id="3516319"] Yeah, looks like routes aren't going to change unless the jungle AI change makes some sort of difference... but maybe it's a little better for the jungler who gets invaded. You'll get 2 smites to get back into the game when you're trying to recover after getting killed or sent back to base by Blitz shenanigans. [/quote] I don't think so actually. This is kind of a weird change for Riot. &nb
[quote who="pacov" reply="1018" id="3516258"] I don't even know about this... anyone else know what karl's on about? [/quote] Smite charging is in this patch. Anyway, the problem isn't CS. The problem is most lane combos can deny XP on your ADC if they realize what is happening. So you will have both members of the bot lane down levels (and CS) even if you get a kill in jungle somehow. It might be marginally worth it
1) Most of this stuff isn't going to work that well as of 5.1 since junglers will have a second early smite, which greatly eases 1st buff pains I believe (not sure of exact mechanics). 2) This is mostly low ELO stuff probably. The cost/benefit analysis of the strategy is entirely dependent on how well bot lane notices a missing support. Good bot lanes will quickly notice a missing support (ESPECIALLY if its a blitz), ping like crazy to notify of possible
[quote who="OMG_ZEX" reply="1006" id="3516095"] The level of skill that the kat played at was on par with Dan's kat and imo Dan is absurdly good with her. [/quote] Hrm yes, looking her up, she is a 320+ win Plat V. Really the number of wins matters in things like this since there is a big difference between people who have to get up to someplace by grinding there over a million games and somebody who just doesn't play ranked much. That kat certainly didn&
I don't really watch high level streams, but my understanding is that one side is "supposed" to take doubles and the other side is supposed to take gromp. The jungler is supposed to start on the opposite side. Top is supposed to do something which is very dependant on which champion is picked, but can be as simple as just leashing for the jungler. [quote who="Thundercles" reply="996" id="3515571"] No texts from Cow about missing his flight back so I guess he
I thought that it was pretty common knowledge that both sides lanes are "supposed" to take jungle camps. My understanding is that bot is supposed to take 1 side camp and top is supposed to take some camps (depending on who is being played) then shop and TP (I don't know enough about top to know who is supposed to take what). This can really put junglers behind, but everybody screws the jungler. And the jungler kind of catches up a bit since most of them aren't handin
[quote who="pacov" reply="987" id="3514920"] Could you get that far with normal pete, though? [/quote] But we didn't convince him of anything. He stubbornly refused to listen to us about it, then only changed his mind after he outright fed two games in a row. Anyway, the Ali thing was because Peter didn't know how Ali ult worked. He thought it gave some moderate armor/mr and wasn't listened when we told him it gave damage reduct
I don't know about reasonable. I mean, it took us like 2 games to convince him that maybe the optimal Syndra strategy actually involves attempting to CS a little instead of just going for stuns on the enemy champion ("I stunned him but I do no damage!"). Peter is still convinced that CS doesn't really matter in Gold V ("The only thing that matters is killing the enemy a lot"), but it seems that he naturally does it on Malzahar, so it kind of works out. Also, while
Sorry pacov, I didn't see your comment last night about me not being flexible or having map awareness, so I'll address it here. To recap the game state: I had been invaded 3 times before the 3 minute mark. I had gotten no help initially from Boaz since he as waiting for an extra pot instead of helping or leashing for me. I came out ahead of Lee because I was better than him, but was behind the level curve due to no leash and having to constantly fight. &nbs
I'm pretty sure that Lissandra is going to get nerfed soon. If not this patch, then the next one. High solo queue winrate + high pro status is a nerfing pretty much every time.
Sejuani and Voli are completely different. Voli is very similar to Udyr. Sejuani is very similar to Amumu. So Voli does a lot of things better, and a lot of things worse because they fill completely different roles (bully fighter vs AoE AP tank). Voli is a fine champion, its just that Udyr is probably a bit better and they are pretty similar.
My understanding of the plot of the movie is that they check out some planets orbiting the black hole. Do you have any idea of what kind of properties those planets would have if the black hole that was being orbited had the mass that you would need? The stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of our own galaxy can get up to almost 2% the speed of light at a distance of 10s of lightyears. For this movie to be plausible, the planets would have to be much, muc
[quote who="DarthMelkor" reply="11" id="3508583"] Not really. It is possible to enter the ergosphere and the event horizon of a SUPERMASSIVE Kerr black hole without undergoing spaghettification. They mentioned it in the movie that the back hole was one such. That is accurate as well! [/quote] Yes, but no. Supermassive black holes still have the massive tidal forces that will rip things apart when they get near the singularity. The "supermassive" label doesn'
[quote who="DARCA1213" reply="27" id="3504418"] @krazikarl' And anyone else. Do you get the feeling galciv3 will have a buggy release? I don't, they seem to be doing a damn good job at listening and fixing issues. [/quote] I like LH:FE, but its still pretty buggy to me. It crashes like you wouldn't believe on my computer, and I have a pretty generic setup (I play a good amount of games, and nothing else crashes much). So I kind of suspect that there w
[quote who="pacov" reply="878" id="3508415"] so, in your opinion, its not worth taking a jungler with increased odds of securing dragon team objectives like baron/dragon - nunu/chogath good examples. And don't factor in cheesy level 3 dragons or attempts to solo dragon. Factor in increased odds of dragon control period (consume/feast). [/quote] Its a cost/benefit analysis. Simply saying "taking somebody who is good at securing dragons is good because
[quote who="pacov" reply="875" id="3508399"] heh... you think I'm overrating and I think you are underrating. Think about the timing and pacing. Right now, there are more than a few cheese strats to take an early dragon. But even if you go for a 5-10 min drag and get the 1st one, your team has that 1st stack earlier and has more dmg. I'm not as wowed by some of the other upgrades, but I think that 1st buff is very valuable to all lanes. But, same deal with
You are overrating dragons I think. As it is currently set up, the first one is valuable. The 5th one is incredibly valuable, but 2-4 aren't worth much. And basing a pick on getting to 5 dragons is probably risky at best. Or to put it another way, the first dragon is better than before, but dragons 2-4 are probably weaker than last season. I'd rather have the gold than 15% more damage to buildings. So I don't see a net skyrocket here.
Yes, 5th dragon buff works kind of like baron buffs where it lasts a somewhat reasonable amount of time then goes away on its own. It also goes away if you die. You can always get it back again by killing another dragon.
