I'm having Karl Season 3 luck in my promo series to Gold III. First one I was 1-1 and we had the third in the bag with an 11/0 Corki but then our support DC'd. Last one I was 1-1 again in the series and our ADC got FB. Yay! Then decided he was a god among men and dashed into the enemy inside their creepwave away from his support. The enemy team made fun of him when he decided he'd go duo mid after that ("Big girls don't cry Graves!" "Where&#
[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="1406" id="3527756"] This varies hugely be champion. A lot of junglers simply can't gank after their initial clear (THIS IS ONE REASON WHY PEOPLE DON'T LIKE J4 SO MUCH RIGHT NOW). Some clear at nearly full health. Some are in between and have the option with a decent leash, but often don't. [/quote] Yeah, if you would just list all the junglers that can gank after their first clear and which have clears that wo
[quote who="OMG_ZEX" reply="1396" id="3527240"] I pretty much never lolking people any more during champ select or loading screen unless they want mid lane so I can see if its worth giving it to them or if I should take it incase they are one of those people that decided to main mid lane after seeing bjergsen play mid zilean on stream (yeah that happened). The only thing I get tilty about at champ select now is if people pick champions into there counter picks. Its like willin
[quote who="pacov" reply="1394" id="3527183"]The hot/cold streak, on the other hand.. VERY useful. Also nice to see veteran info. The cold streak means folks that are more likely to tilt if their lane goes poop. The bad cs'er tag means this guy is trash at farming - which means he sucks mechanically or consistently goes for trades at the cost of cs. Either way, useful intel. [/quote] Cow is one of the best players I know but one of his main downfall
Ult their front line then EQ to back line? EQ through front line then Ult to isolate back line? Ult front line then EQ back to safety of team while your guys poke the fish in a barrel? Ult to peel for your squishies? Ult to trap their squishies? Lots of decisions that have to be made very quickly. Also, using your ult with terrain, best placement and positioning so you can get a second EQ on the first flag, etc etc. Compared to a point and click singl
[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="1383" id="3526359"] i can agree with that statement... [/quote] Bryff is still on the roster and he still plays League. If you guys are super desperate to have an Irelia player I'd say it would be worthwhile to reach out and see if he wants to get some games in.
[quote who="pacov" reply="1373" id="3526225"]Apparently irelia/liss are good at shutting her down, but I think I'm the only one that plays those ladies. Thoughts? [/quote] When did you become Best Irelia On The Team? Bryff says hi. He's got a lot of experience with her and plays her with a high win % in Ranked SoloQ. Your Liss is solid though. That's going to be a great option for the team at times IMO. Ed
Usually I look at some things Karl writes and say to myself that he's looking at things through a purely jungle perspective. I always respect his opinion but am kinda weary cause he's a bit bitter and I want to believe that Riot will get it right. But yeah. This sucks. Jungle sucks. Lee Sin being the only jungler you can count on always being able to play sucks. I know it's a hard thing to figure out... but how hard can it be? Why can
My thoughts on the Ranked 5's games: My performance sucked. It's been too long not having good internet. When you get older it's really hard to get any traction in this game unless you play somewhat regularly I think. Going over a week at a time not playing then binge playing League for a day or two has not left me very sharp, and I only just got the internet set up at my GF's house. Poor DanKnee was explaining how to help last hit ranged minion
I have some opinions on what you guys should keep in mind when it comes to the strat that was used against you Game 2 as far as how to counter it next time or use it yourselves. Seemed like one of the reasons they might have tried it was that you guys had Leona Support since it limited your options to counter. Sending a hard engage no sustain Support champ to a lost lane wasn't an option but you guys did it anyway. I think Pacov's right, it should have been him and
[quote who="pacov" reply="1318" id="3524238"] I play thresh... I'm guessing you are being kind of shitty here. Pretty sure I explained my take on this earlier and agreed that practicing would sort that out... but I'd still have a negative attitude seeing it in games where I don't know the support. [/quote] I've seen you play Thresh a couple of times, but with Coin. That doesn't really do anything to help with understanding how Thresh with a
Quoting pacov, reply 1308 and thunder's gracious refusal to play support for me as adc I'd love to be a part of Cow's team and play Ranked 5's with my friends assuming my internet stabilizes, but of all of you I am the lowest ranked player. So even more than Hedgie, if I play I'd like it to
I play exclusively with Gold players in Ranked and have experienced the full range of my ADC flawlessly working around my Relic Shield procs and getting near perfect CS to having one threaten to AFK if I caused him to miss another CS. Getting my CS in without fucking up my ADC's almost feels like a skill unto itself, one that I've got much better at. However I still run into some ADCs who don't really work around my CSing at all. It's not that they&#
I should be getting a dedicated internet account at my GF's place on Wednesday assuming I can pull some strings and be available to sign for it while I'm working. If not then it will be soon and hopefully the connection will be solid even with almost every dwelling on the property having it's own modem. When I start playing on a regular basis I'd love to fill in for you guys on Support if you want me. However if Pacov is ever going to be playing ADC in these situ
Karl, you have to remember that Pacov tends to look at games from a personal perspective. Games where his team wins where he was doing very well in the laning phase have more of a tendency to be 'stomps' even if they were in actuality somewhat close games. I would guess that has a little bit to do with how he feels his games have been going recently.
[quote who="OMG_ZEX" reply="1253" id="3522012"]I think all of these picks do well vs fizz except for maybe gnar early if you go super aggressive on him as fizz [/quote] And don't forget The Queen Of Top Lane who I'm guessing does pretty well in the matchup. A champ with a such a high mechanical skill requirement isn't going to get the usual FotMonthers who like to take up playing people only when their nerfs have gone live on PBE. Predicting a lot
And maybe it's just out of whack. I've heard stories about duo queuers getting huge differences in how much LP they win and lose, but you and Hunny should be pretty close in MMR/LP so I don't know if that would do it.
Clamping is what happened to people when they were approaching their promo games and started getting 0-2 LP a win. They've done away with that mostly. I don't know where actual clamping still occurs but I think it's between Diamond and Challenger. Maybe when approaching Diamond? But not Platinum V, I'm pretty sure of that. The fluctuations on LP gain/loss that the system uses to keep your MMR near your LP occur down in Bronze. If this is y
[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="1212" id="3519785"] Yes, pacov declared that he knew some secret about top lane Tristana as we were asking him not to play Trist top. [/quote] Pacov never gets upset when someone picks an off meta champ so hopefully you went easy on him that game.
Re: Cow Coaching Top Lane I'd love some tips from you buddy! I'm mainly playing top cause it's my third choice in Ranked, and since Supp and ADC are number one and two and are taken if there is a bot lane duo, I've been playing it a little more. I used to love Rene but the double whammy of the TP meta and his personal nerfs kinda took him out for a while, but I love this rework. Hedgie wasn't sold on it last time we talked but I think Rene has a
[quote who="pacov" reply="1167" id="3519155"] re: my question about demotions in ranked: From the <a href="http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/
I haven't heard of them changing the system for demoting out of a division. If it's the same as last year, then it's almost impossible to do and really only meant as a deterrent to keep the Elo Boosted from playing on their accounts after being raised up. Think it works like this: If you lose enough games as a Plat V to get you to a Gold V MMR, you'll get a warning. If you lose a couple more games after the warning then you get demoted. I went
