So, anyone playing League of Legends?

C9 takes it! TSM already out!

If C9 can win this thing I'll cry tears of joy because that's the only way I can get my dream result where NA > EU but TSM looks bad. I really can not complain about UoL though, they're fan favorites for all the right reasons and I'll definitely watch more EU LCS thanks to them. Imagine the possibilities.

Soraka seems like a big pick though which makes me sad and I'm really trying to make not of the mid laner items. Athene's nerfs are a real mixed bag as a Xerath main. Mana trouble now but no longer will every mid have MR right from the start. All about making your skillshots count now...

Montecrisco brings up how good C9's on-the-fly decision making is and I really have to agree. I still remember Worlds where they still managed to take a lot of objectives from SSB(?) while heavily down.

And Sneaky and Rekkles managing to kill each other essentially solo since both were zoned out of a teamfight was so fitting considering how they were playing, which was incredible.

 

I wouldn't be so fast to state TF jungle > Nocturne. UoL did that for two very specific reasons: baiting out the Xerath pick from Bjergsen, which was bound to be demolished by a good LB like PoE's, and for the lvl 2 flash stun cheese gank to really seal the fate of mid lane. You might even be right about this, but don't take that game as evidence of it. Either way I hope Riot just removes that 10 soft resets bullshit, which is making ranged sissy ass mage champions take 0 damage from the jungle while fighters and tanks get wrecked, that's just not fucking right.

About Santorin, either the guy got the jitters hard or he's just bad. You don't need to carry the team on your back, but if you pick pantheon you better gank your ass off at the early game, and if you pick Nunu against goddamn "10 health after first clear Wukong", you better invade and take his shit no matter what. The way he was playing he would've been 10 times more effective going with even Udyr farm2g style.

Oh, there was also a Sion in the Lyon vs UoL match which was a complete disgrace. Guy blew his Q too early, never managed to pop his shield and was ulting from like 2 feet away, when teamfights had already broken out. Maknoon has been playing him a lot in SoloQ, apparently, hope he does the champions justice in the expansion tournament.

 

A BR dude got stabbed at cyber cafe, he was in his promos from bronze to silver, didnt want to go to hospital, stayed and finished the game first. wow

http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueofleg...as_stabbed_bloody_at_a_cyber_cafe_but_he_was/

 

How many stories of guys stuck in bronze 4, that get stabbed and then fail their promos to bronze 3 are not reported on?

 

This is why you always have to use ignite in order to secure the kill.

 

On a sidenote: they nerfed mah warwick, but Win Zao is still rocking people's socks.

He is so easy and now with his sustain he is real competitor.

Press E to get to opponent press z and a for knockup.

in trouble? use r to knock people away.

 

E, Z, A, R? What ungodly keybinds are these?

 

AZERTY.

 

Yeah, I was trying clear speeds yesterday and I noticed that nobody with supposedly fast clears is noticeably faster than xinny (before first back) if you want to full clear, just because he jungles at full health without using potions. Nocturne is only around the same speed but gets dangerously low.

I guess I should just troll people with Nunu, that shit is so fun, especially against these struggling Lee's who think he's still king of the jungle.

 

Meh i can do a full clear but i am very low then, i am bad at breaking the attacks by moving forward and back like the pros do.

 

With Xin? Try like attackspeed reds/ls quints 9/21 with the regeneration and armor from masteries, go rock toads -> clear everything, smite as it's up. No need for fancy mechanics.

 

Holy shit, Uzi just joined OMG.

Gogoing is the guy responsible for making me want to play more top lane and honestly when I learned to lane top I did way better in league. Now the team boasts two players that are arguably best in the world at their position and two that are contenders for best in their region. Was a big fan of their style at Worlds and so now I'm super stoked to see what they manage with this Chinese all-star roster.

This combined with CLG getting fined $10,000, C9 winning IEM SJ and TSM doing poorly...Dignitas signing two very talented players. CAN NOT WAIT for the season.

No pr0lly this year though...

 

Uzi is by far the most fun ADC to watch at the top level. Good.for OMG.

So, Get Rekt'sai released. Played two games where she was on either team, seems decent I guess. That global screech is the most paranoia inducing thing since, well, Paranoia.

 

God damnit what a throw by Fusion. This kind of asinine decision making makes me angry even, jesus christ, they had the game after taking that mid inhib, just back and stall around baron. Idiots.

 

More broken things found about S5 everyday!



I like how it took the community a month to find something this broken since no one plays Galio.

 

Bro did you watch them against F5? They're awful at strategy. Even with massive leads they still manage to end fights unconvincingly, F5 managed a win while 10k+ down against them. They have NO idea what they're doing and if they make LCS they will be absolutely shat on because right now they depend on winning lanes and just crushing the enemy through sheer weight of a lead. In the LCS they will rarely win laning that hard and the few times they manage that they will have no clue what to do with it vs. teams that have experience being down and managing to win or nearly win.

Then again these things happen when your normal shotcalling positions are manned by Nintendude and Gleeb. And then two more don't really speak English. I think I did in fact hear Fusion have Nien calling the shots*? All due credit to Nien because he has been a very consistent rock for Fusion but Gleeb and Nintendude will never make the plays needed to win. Not a fan of this team at all. They'll be terrible in the LCS unless someone steps up as a gifted shotcaller or they get a talented coach because trying to win off of laning mechanics is a very thin strategy.

Even funnier because Nintendude always likes to talk like he knows so much. You want a good example of a player that made an impact more off of smarts than mechanics look at pr0lly. Nintendude is a sub-par jungler with shit decision making.

*I know for certain on of the teams was...it's not CA since that's Saint and I think F5 is Rhux but it very well could be Mash on Coast they were talking about.

 

Man, but it's one thing to get out-rotated, not have a clear game plan regarding vision, and so on and so forth, I for example have no clue about that shit, that's for organized play. But I can tell you any player even at low diamond would know that trying to end the game at that moment, with 3 members alive (fuck, 2 would've been too much) and the two nexus towers up was complete suicide. I know it's easy to say this kind of shit after the fact, but in the moment I was just like "WTF go heal and prep baron", then they overstay, die, and the other team makes a comeback with baron. I've seen it happen way too many times.

Gleeb was playing pretty badly and Maknoon is a complete loose cannon, he just goes ham 24/7. Nien's play was top notch, though. It's quite telling that despite their almost complete lack of strategy they were still up in gold at almost every game at mid game. And it's also quite telling of how the challenger scene in NA has a lot of room for improvement when Coast makes it in the LCS and Fusion and Final 5 almost do so as well. All of these teams were gonna get wrecked in the LCS, but Fusion at least had the potential to be entertaining to watch. Coast is so freaking "bleh". Oh well.

EDIT: Considering how close it was, I'm pretty sure that if either Maknoon or Gleeb had showed up, they would've taken the series. Hell, even just having chunky sub for Gleeb would've probably done it, that dude was getting caught so many times. His Alistar was cringeworthy.

EDIT 2: A team that would actually be LCS worthy: Impaler, Prolly, Nien, Krepo and a decent top laner. They would just crush the challenger teams.

 

I feel like Fusion would be worse than Coast or CurseA in the LCS because pretty much all their strengths get negated and all their weaknesses are exploitable at that level.

I'm not really TOO worried about Coast in the LCS because their biggest issue is positional weakness and there's definitely the talent in the Challenger scene for them to sign someone that's an improvement. Plus junglers are REALLY shitty in NA and Impaler just put on a show. If they can at least boast being better at one position relative to other teams they'll at least do something. After Meteos your next best junglers are guys like Crumbzz and IWD. Big fan of both but it's not like they're the catalyst of their teams wins. Plus two top tier teams just downgraded in the jungler position specifically. These are not things Fusion can take advantage of with Nintendude, he would instantly be the worst jungler in the LCS.

But I'm biased against him...my favorite comment of the day was someone saying today was the first time Nintendude carried Team Coast...

Going back to what this tournament says about the NA challenger scene, is Final 5 being this close to the LCS any different than Giants in the EU scene? Both teams upset other teams in a best of 3 and crazy things happen in best of 3s. I'm actually looking forward to the next IEM because I feel it's finally a chance to see how NA vs. EU goes at the mid tier level.

But regardless, this preseason has been amazing to me. This was yet another tournament shaking out how I desired. At this point even if Dignitas does awful at Cologne I'll hardly be upset. (e-)Sports fans can never expect to have it their way all the time or even most of the time like I am right now.

 

If you are in to the scene you would know that giants won a big tournament recently (gamers 2 were there and millenium spirit (2nd team)), allthough it was an upset it was not completely unexpected that they beat Millenium.

The real question here is what H2K will do... They having top challenger players but the last time they chocked immensily.

 

Kassadin...been practicing him as a flex pick and I'm liking it. But do I build him with a tear or no? I normally build a Rod of Ages into a Zhoyna's and with Lich Bane/Rabbas/Defense being in whatever order is needed. But I've seen pros build him with tear instead and sometimes with a RoA and a tear!

Would I build tear against enemies that I'm unlikely to kill in lane but are likewise not a damage threat? Seems like the only time it's wurf.

 

P1noy for MVP. Holy shit that ownage. Doublelift will have nightmares for years after that game.

Game 2(out of 5) starts soon http://www.twitch.tv/esltv_lol

 

I tuned it just in time to see the base race. God I love CLG throwing, I saw Doublelift being ahead of everyone on his team on that push and thinking that he had something to do with a call, and next thing we know they lose the base race, LOL.

 

CLG already making their new carry top player a tank.

 

I am not really convinced about Gambit even though they won IEM. Sure, their top and adc are great but it's not like CLG or DIG were any good anyway. 200cs ahead in top lane in the DIG game and shitting all over Doublelift in the CLG games shows how weak some players actually are. It's not even a competition anymore.

They still lack warding and that might come and bite them hard in future games. Also, Eddie is not so impressive anymore. Then again, neither is Madlife after his games in the pre-season.

edit: Just saw the award ceremony. CLG refusing to shake hands with Gambit. Fucking disgraceful.

 

God Dignitas looks bad. CoreJJ is not the ADC we need and right now Crumbzz does not work well with either Gamsu or Shiphtur.

There's something to be said for having a competent shotcaller. I think Link does it for CLG and well...it's Link.

Crazy meta though. Not even Ori is a hot pick.