[quote who="OMG_ZEX" reply="2640" id="3616231"]Hoping for higher this year.[/quote] Right on man! Glad you didn't drop too low. Was worried about the reset after reading too many of the Reddit Chicken Little's crying. The New Champ Select is back online but I'm probably not going to do my placements right away. I'm thinking I'm going to go Mid as my Secondary choice just so I will get to play Marksman more but I'm not really confident
Anyone been hearing any chatter about this season's reset? Reddit is going a little nuts with people complaining about how low they've dropped after having decent promos. A new friend of mine was in Plat and went 6-4 to place him in Silver. Seems a little more drastic than last season but I'm not sure. From what I can gather is they've done a soft reset on your MMR but a hard reset on the LP. So you might be dropped in League level quite a bit b
[quote who="pacov" reply="2623" id="3615294"]If you are alone, wouldn't you generally prefer to play the true solo queue instead of the dynamic queue? I tend to think that's what I'd do anyway.[/quote] I think Riot is betting on WAY more people playing Ranked because of the changes. There will be Solo Ranked where you have your own LP that doesn't get affected by playing Dynamic Ranked with friends. So casual groups like ours will probably play Dyna
[quote who="pacov" reply="2620" id="3614785"]Fuggers dodge at the LAST moment as well each time... after taking close to max time to lock in champs. [/quote] LOL I totally did that first game I queued up for. Was with cool people who were all stoked on our teamcomp and I got my primary choice and the champion I wanted to play. Then I'm like "Wonder what this little up arrow does..." Apparently it was a dodge button. Edit: Dopey me. &n
[quote who="OMG_Shiro" reply="2619" id="3614783"] In the hundreds of games I played teambuilder, at least I never got matched up against an enemy master 1 tier player. I hate blind pick more than draft [/quote] Dynamic queue matchmaking is screwed up right now. Hopefully they'll fix it soon. Blind Pick isn't going to be around in it's current form. They're going to have a version of New Champion Select that doesn't have bans an
[quote who="OMG_Shiro" reply="2617" id="3614768"]Getting first pick as top or mid and you may as well accept you are going to be counterpicked with 0 way to stop it, considering you don't get a single ban anymore[/quote] Yeah, it's pretty lame that they didn't take this opportunity to reverse their sillyness and give five bans each team. I was kinda shaking my head at first as to why the first two picks who would most need to protect against counter picks don't g
[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="2609" id="3614573"] IS THAT A FIRST PICK SUPPORT POPPY BY FNATIC? WHY WOULD YOU PLAY ANYTHING ELSE? [/quote] Playing anything else makes you a pansy. That's science and that's a fact. Tried out the new champ select this morning and I love it. Very crisp, well designed. I love having a ban choice as one of the last picks but I'm not sure that it makes it feel good being one of the first t
[quote who="pacov" reply="2592" id="3613530"]Everyone could still just blow off this step and we'd keep the status quo where folks all select fill.[/quote] Status quo has been fine with me. I just think it's kinda silly when we have a game of champ select chicken going on and we all could of decided roles before queuing as five. With five seconds to pick: "You can pick first buddy." "No buddy, you pick what you want." I don't know if this Be
Re: New Champ Select It's going to replace Teambuilder and will replace Draft eventually but it's essentially a new queue. I imagine whatever way they figured out your MMR when Current Teambuilder launched will be how they decide what your MMR will be when New Champ Select launches. Or maybe they'll just use your Normal Draft or Current Teambuilder's MMR? It's not a big deal, it'll stabilize eventually. Or do you mean the MMR Adjustmen
[quote who="pacov" reply="2587" id="3613435"] yeah - new champ select Jan 13 - replacing team builder 1st. [/quote] Not sure who's going to still be playing Blind Pick or Normal Draft when this goes live. Even when we have five in a group it solves the issue of: "Where's everyone going? I'll fill." "Don't care." "Wherever." "Don't matter." "Look at my name."
[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="2584" id="3613235"] The problem with putting everything into E is that you can't use it too much offensively. That is, if you are just throwing out E's all over the place, you screw yourself against a decent opponent if you miss one - Zyra with E down means the opponent gets to own lane for 12 seconds. So you have to hold it quite a lot. But Q is a harass tool that you can afford to miss sometimes. Your ADC doesn't ge
[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="2581" id="3613204"] I didn't see any E rushes off hand by support Zyra.[/quote] It's good when you're invading and getting invaded. And any team dumb enough to get invaded in The Trinket Era is probably somewhat careless. And any team that decides to invade against a champion who has a Sona ult level 1 is probably somewhat stupid. So my guess is that people see the stats that say leveling E first is best cause you win more
[quote who="pacov" reply="2577" id="3613185"]I don't think that was the case last night though. Good point, though.[/quote] Was trying to give you advice on playing Zyra for your Ranked climb this season, not critiquing her as your choice of Support last night. I've played her as Support quite a bit over the years and will continue to. She's fun and effective and sometimes actually solves teamcomp issues when you need more AP. But she's not a ta
[quote who="pacov" reply="2574" id="3613155"]I definitely feel like she's a weaker mid laner in most match ups and is a better fit support.[/quote] The chatter among high elo players is that she's underrated in Mid and her win rate would seem to back that up. Of course all that might change because she's very vulnerable to changes in the meta. If her lane counters become popular or the dark days of League Of Assassins come back, I wouldn't recommend her mi
[quote who="pacov" reply="2572" id="3612998"] I'm mostly just trying to come up with some picks where I can carry or at least develop some addition depth in exactly 2 lanes. [/quote] Become a Zyra OTP? She has a very high win rate in mid lane as well as Support. You could stay practiced with her mechanics when playing both roles. She's got glaring weaknesses as an AP Mid but they're much the same as when playing her Support, but without
No interest in Champion Mastery for me. My issues: 1. Not enough levels/time to get one of the two mastery levels. I'd be more interested if there were many more and much higher reward levels to differentiate between those who specialize in certain champions and those that dabble. And rewards! You should be able to only buy an icon for your champ after reaching a certain champion level. Now that would be pretty cool and worth dedicating some tim
[quote who="pacov" reply="2559" id="3611995"]This also means that if that jungler does that, the goofs that got caught will lean heavily towards tilt because they have a shitty mord jungle. If the enemy jungler is successful, he can start the snowball going before you begin to come on line. 2 - better junglers. Objective control is swell. You can make this work and true, the drake buffs do provide a nice team advantage including extra gold from getting an extra tower m
[quote who="pacov" reply="2546" id="3610928"] That night where Peter tilted and started insulting Boaz and his children. [/quote] Will you be putting that on the voice pack?
[quote who="pacov" reply="2542" id="3610651"]I can see why someone maining that would consider this build if they are extremely experienced, but that's currently my take - the fall off is brutal if you dont keep rolling.[/quote] There's a high elo Wukong main that people always reference. In his guide he advises to always keep up the pure AD build no matter how badly you're doing in lane. Don't ever give up and go tanky. Unfortunately I don't see the
[quote who="pacov" reply="2539" id="3610635"] mayhaps I need some learnin. So, aside from having a higher standard move speed with those boots, I'm trying to understand why it would be valued over the tenacity provided by merc treads. I wonder if its over kill, needed to get to squishies on his build including ghostblade or what... ghostblade with merc gives a pretty decent boost in and of itself... and idk.. tenacity > gimping slow reductio
[quote who="pacov" reply="2537" id="3610596"]He also runs swift boots for some reason His team fighting methodology is to destroy a carry. [/quote] If you're talking about Romanium, then you answered your own question. Swift Boots help the big gator stay on the carry due to the slow reduction.
[quote who="pacov" reply="2525" id="3610295"] So, thoughts on optimal utilization? [/quote] Probably waiting until The Rift Herald's base damage and starting level are weakened next patch before focusing on it too hard as an objective? [quote who="pacov" reply="2525" id="3610295"] Now, I've been watching solo top renekton on current videos. He typically gets the rift herald 1-2 times during the laning phase. [/quote
