So, anyone playing League of Legends?

When to blame others for playing like shit. How to ward so you gain minimum vision of objectives/chokepoints you want to control. You must be able to completely crush your teammates in arguments when they whine about your unstopable Attack Speed Lux build. You must know how to CS as support and berate your laning partner for missing all the CS. When is the time to blame your jungler for various things that went bad (hint: always for everything). You must learn how to convince your teammates to give you specific role you want during champion select so you can get crushed utterly in lane later (blame jungler for that!).

Such abilities are crucial for any respectable League of Legends player.

 

To put a different spin on the same coin - do you care about how your beer tastes, or only about how drunk it gets you?

 

That depends: Do I want to get smashed as fast as possible or do I want to enjoy a good drink?

In other words: I can relate to lore or character having an important meaning in an RPG or game which mainly relies on narrative and character development, but in a game that is about pushing towers using heroes with different strengths, I could not care less.

 

Carlsberg drinker detected.

Seriously though, I'm not mondblutian enough to only care about mechanics in a game, fluff and aesthetics are important too. Can't say that it's a deal breaker, but the way Riot tends to change unique champs and make them more generic looking (Trundle) kind of pisses me off.

 

Eh? I don't find anything particularly mondblutian about not caring about fluff in LoL. The fluff is ridicoulously retarded anyhow.

 

Well, NOW it sure is

 

Trundle was a tragic hero who sacrificed himself for his tribe and is reviled by all as a result. It's what made his cheerful demeanor and repulsive exterior oddly lovable - not the numbers on QWER. Changing him to a generic big troll king that smashes stuff is a sharp decline. Regardless of how poorly riots lore is written in the first place.

 

I can see how aesthetics and diversity in model-type, colour and voice add flavour. I just think I draw the line at lore as it's not even present in the actual game, and it's sort of a moot point, when Jax the mighty grandmaster, even too powerful to wield a real weapon get's destroyed by a fed AD Sona or something like that.

 

Always been.

 

THEY GENOCIDED TRISTANAS PEOPLE AND MADE HER A VIRTUAL THRALL OF THAT FURRY FREAK TEEMO! AND YOU DON'T EVEN CARE, YOU HEARTLESS MONSTER!

 

I don't remember any tragic hero. I remember a decent jungler who fell out of favor.

 

The what?

 

Character is always good in a game.

Without Character in League, would the tactics behind a Lux/Lulu duo lane still work?

 

Lore in itself might not be important, true, since it has no actual impact on the game. I still find it fun to read up on though, even if most of it is horrible shit. I guess that's why I get pissed when champs who have non-shit background get streamlined and changed to something less. Even more so if it changes the way they come across in the game, like the case is with Trundle and Karma.

 

He didn't fall out of favour, he heroically sacrificed himself to save his game from WoWification. Tragically, it was all for naught as Ironstylus got ahold of him in the end

Sounds pretty tragic to me.

 

Sivir remodel coming up. Probably lore change too. As you guys are the lore-nazis: Would you be sad if Sivir lore got changed too?

I think the real question we're all holding with Sivir remodel is: "Will her boobs get bigger?"

 

Sivirs lore is fucking shit so no. Though it's prolly gonna be Frelfjorded anyways so nya~~

 

Sivir has no lore to speak of really. She's a mercenary making huge bucks by fighting in the League. Not much to rape there and a change can only be for the better really.

I sure hope they fix her horrible attack range, her feet and make her boobs even bigger. Keep IronStylus far, far away from her remake.

 

Also, Muramana proc will be changed to physical damage. No more Muramana Ryze or Syndra then.

 

Is it just me or wasn't she one of the first champs to get a remodel?

 

No, she got a kit rework when dodge got removed but without a new model. Gankplank Kayle was the first remodelled champion IIRC. They nerfed him soon afterwards

 

I could swear they made her boobs bouncier at one point.

 

Ashe got one, only other one I can remember is GP who use to look like something someone drew in MSPaint as a joke.

 

She was one of the first champs to have her splash art changed.

Custom item sets for the store are on the PBE at the moment. Those will be nice since navigating the full item list is still needlessly fiddly in the new store. Now if only they'd allow me to right-click ability icons to toggle smartcast instead of having to rebind my keys every time I change champion.

 

The lore is mostly lame and written in a pretty childish style, but since it's not tied in any way to the gameplay I don't care too much. Some champions have a coolness factor going on though that makes me play them, such as Nautilus, Viktor, Xerath, Zed etc. Especially say Nautilus, while being obviously Bioshock-inspired feels pretty cool to play, his reverbing deep voice, the things he says and his nice hefty animation makes him somehow more fun to play even while if you read his lore you're just thinking "Who writes this stuff?".

So I want to play Swain but I feel like my standard APmid pages aren't working for me, now maybe I just need to get better at last shots (probably) but then again I figure since he's using a lot of AA's both to lasthit and harass and he's got his damage amplification thing, how about run AD quints? Also I have 12/11/7 masteries, that's damage, defense and the mana. I have to see if I will run armor seals or mana regen seals, sure he has his passive but his spells cost a bunch.

I think I'm getting the hang of this support thing. Buy obsessive amounts of wards, maybe items too if you get a lot of assists, don't die because the risks you can take are never worth anything anyway, you're not Garen or something. Even though it's no fun having almost nothing I note having most of the map visible tends to afford slightly more winning than having 5 wards on the map.

Still have no idea what to do when you have Nunu and they have Cuntlyn, like I have tried every support against her but none of them work, if you take leona she just uses cunt abilities and shoots you, if you take taric I guess you at least have a heal, if you have Nunu you can just watch how Tristanas health is going away and yours too whenever you get too close, that is behind your tower. Say you take healgoat, of course they will pick some Leona or something and your carry gets 100-0'ed. Good thing calling for jungle never works, YOU'RE SUPPORT FAGGOT.

So I get to team up with some guys, friend's friends, smurfs from EUW who are there "because the level of play is higher". So why does it seem to me they all kinda suck? Why do you want to switch kurwa to merde if you're not going to get high up there anyways?