The bugfix on Rend not resetting was actually just as major as the buffs IMO. She's in a great place. Or so it feels. I'm still in Silver so it's hard to judge. Sometimes my Supports are autofilled and sometimes the enemies are so that makes it harder as well. When Riot nerfed her before they only ruined her for lower skilled players like myself and for SoloQ so she stayed OP in competitive before they completely gutted her. Now they've
The link just goes to the sign in page Cow. Look forward to checking mine out but guess you can't really share unfortunately. Just sent my supposedly repaired laptop back to actually get repaired. If and when I get a working computer again, let's play some 3's. I was having a really good time with that mode with some people I had met during the short time I was playing League again. Edit: Nevermind. Got it to work after signing in. Doi
So the most random thing happened today. I was getting some easy LP by queueing up with Booster Buddy Bryff and our Support asks if we know Game Of Throws. So that was a bit of a trip. He says he went to school with you Cow? Know anyone who goes by the name Whatsasightstone?
[quote who="pacov" reply="2977" id="3644529"] Bryff carried like a boss. [/quote] I got some of that Bryff freelo the other night. I got dumpstered by a Riven cause I forgot that some of them are actually really dangerous. Specially the ones with the hoodie skin. But Bryff didn't care. He just put me on his back by getting a Pentakill with Vayne. Of course he did have a lot of help from me. Not with like damage or anything cause I di
[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="2965" id="3643275"] I'm going to be gone for the weekend, but we should play some ranked 5's next week if people are around since that is back. [/quote] I'm down. Hopefully the new champ select process hasn't killed our flexibility to the point where we can't fill out a team. Being put into roles we're no longer good at is frustrating for the person playing outside of their comfort zone and the people watching
Re: 2v1 Lanes I'd agree with Pacov's reasoning. Going from a lane with 0 or maybe 1 ranged opponents to a lane with at least 1 but probably 2 does not make for long lasting barrels. Gangplank also needs both levels and gold to be effective so getting frozen out of XP range is not good. That's one of the reasons most GP OTP's prefer mid. You can farm chickens and are never zoned from XP at least along with having less nightmare matchups. Pre-Re
[quote who="pacov" reply="2953" id="3641805"]I think I'll use the mana regen setup as training wheels briefly. [/quote] Yeah, I don't think they're bad at all. Just going to be good in some circumstances and not good in others so just keep that in mind if you ever struggle against a Panth or something. Moving on even though I know you love when I talk about rune setups. [quote who="pacov" reply="2953" id="3641805"]Working on th
Re: GP Coaching - I'd advise not using the mana regen runes. There is only one high level GP that I've seen who uses them still. Out of ALL the people who play GP from Korea to West EU, only one. The coach himself has moved away from them as well now that he's not smurfing 100 games to Diamond videos and is actually playing on his high level accounts again. - Barrel on the dome defense is great and harassing lane bullies with Q is great but
[quote who="Koskee" reply="2893" id="3635032"]However, you're appear to be on the serious end of the spectrum.[/quote] Karl takes Ranked games seriously yes but he doesn't get toxic about people's errors. He points out situations and mistakes that I take in more of an FYI attitude. He does get a little doomy n' gloomy sometimes and has been wrong about 'this game' being 'over' but that's usually cause he's just underestimated how bad
[quote who="pacov" reply="2867" id="3634038"]so we'll be seeing raka again at least. [/quote] Doubtful. They're nerfing her this patch and reverting Grievous Wounds back to a reduction on all healing.
[quote who="pacov" reply="2793" id="3627357"]if you had ranked anxiety, this likely helped [/quote] It helped a little too much. I kept playing when I was losing a lot because I really only cared about my rank in Solo Queue. I was actually a little stoked to get demoted cause I'm able to play with my friend Beer without hopping on an alternate account. Nah, the reasons I struggled this season were: Gave up Kalista cause they keep bal
Uh oh. Maybe I should have taken my Dynamic Queue games a little more seriously instead of as a warm up for Pure Solo Queue... Dopey me! "Riot Socrates 2016-03-22T20:11:28.027+0000 Hey guys, we know there are a lot of players who are really passionate about solo queue. We're not trying to be dishonest or dodge this topic. Radio silence on this the past couple months has been painful, we know. We hoped to come out with a direct answer to this, but working through the pr
[quote who="OMG_ZEX" reply="2752" id="3623948"] Don't cut yourself short. Go for diamond and join the big D club. Maybe it will inspire some of our other friends to sack up and grind some elo if yee ol' pacov can do it. [/quote] No, I'm sorry but he's not a Diamond player. He's only a Platinum I 87 LP caliber player. I keed I keed! He should definitely try for Diamond this season but I don't know about inspiring people to play more
[quote who="pacov" reply="2736" id="3622086"]That whole new queue thing (which rito mentioned like once and has since STFU about... bad sign, boys?) really put things a bit more in perspective. Let the solo queue be try hard that maters. Let dynamic queue be try hard if my pals are try hard. [/quote] I've been trying to keep up on updates on Solo Queue. Last official one was where Lyte responded on Reddit three weeks ago: "The initial launch of new Champ S
Yeah, definitely a bunch of 'crappers' right now lowering the win rates of certain champions. I think also even folks that are good with the champions are trying to rush Duskblade too soon and maybe doing badly cause they're playing around the passive too much or getting overconfident after buying it. Can just picture bad Riven players not weaving in autos cause they don't want to put the passive on too soon or something.
Someone on Reddit posted a list of potential Duskblade users winrate differences between patches. Definition of irony: When people are freaking out that AD Assassins are going to be OP but it turns out that they're all apparently fine after Duskblade's introduction and their natural prey (Kog) became ban worthy after the patch. All Stats are from Champion.gg Champion Play Rate 6.2 (%) Play Rate 6.3 (%) WR 6.2 (
Yeah, I was going to mention that. He's obscenely good right now and in my opinion a must pick/ban every game. Was watching a Challenger ADC main play him last night and it was really scary. Kog jungle currently has a 50% win in Diamond and the percentage gets better as you go lower in elo. So that Kog jungle you were talking about maybe wasn't trolling you when he was keeping the other team from getting the most OP champ that's in the game?
As far as I'm concerned, the actual Ranked season hasn't started yet and won't until they set up the Solo Queue. If they want to try do something that makes things worse for the short term so that things are better in the long term then right now is the time to do it. The passive isn't refreshed on kill/assist unless the passive does zero damage. The item might end up OP at first and it might turn Zed into more of an obnoxious must ban turd than he's ev
[quote who="OMG_ZEX" reply="2675" id="3618062"]Well anyway I will be staying away from ranked when the new AD item comes out next patch. Its absurdly broken and will take over ranked games. [/quote] " We understand that AD assassins offer low counterplay and significant frustration playing against and, by working on them, we risk exacerbating that in the short term. We feel this work is important because it puts us in a better position to address those pain points as well."<
[quote who="pacov" reply="2652" id="3616586"] Anyway, playing zyra mid is impacting my support zyra game - a bit in a negative way. Mana usage and harass vary quite a bit.[/quote] A long time ago when I decided for 5 minutes to be a Zyra main, I would use the Spooky Zyra skin for Support and Lava Zyra for Mid to try and keep the styles of play and my capabilities separate in my mind. It helped a little. Maybe.
[quote who="pacov" reply="2648" id="3616300"] 3rd game mixed results - tend to lean towards we had dummos on team. Loss. [/quote] Was that the game you went against Vlad? I watched some of that before dinner and hope you don't mind some suggestions. Runes - The Master Tier guy who wrote the guide I linked likes to use flat Health runes while you went with the standard mid choice which are scaling. I think he likes the flat ones because Zyra has
[quote who="pacov" reply="2642" id="3616255"]I think i'm leaning support/mid now. Really glad the new champ select is back.[/quote] Good choice for you. Some of your Support Mages are really strong Mids right now so you shouldn't have any problem when you end up there. Which I'm thinking will be rare since your Primary will be probably the least popular role and your Secondary will be the most popular. For your watching/reading pleasure:
