So, anyone playing League of Legends?

[Ulminati]

So the EU servers have split to reduce queue times. I got stuck in the EU Potato Ghetto, but RIOT promised everything would be better now.

First thing I notice upon logging in on a weekday long before prime time is a 40 minute Glorious Peoples Queue. then, when I go to the store to find the promised Server Switch Option, I am greeted with a giant concrete wall patrolled by russian guards.

I would really like to go back west, but I am informed they will shoot me if I try :/

 

[Grunker]

I'll definetely be sticking to potato-servers. French and German people have this nasty habit of speaking their native language even in ranked games. Plus, it seems like most of Scandinavia will migrate west, which should leave the eastern servers more stable.

I haven't tested the new server stability, mind. Could easily be as shit as the previous one, knowing Riot.

 

[Wulfstand]

East&Nord for me, thank you very much. I almost always play premades, so I really couldn't care less if i play agains fucking retards. On the other hand, i truly believe the west will be having bigger downtimes and queues than the E+N.

 

[Markman]

Tried Leona a bit. Lots of utility but a bit underwhelming. Doesnt really do the damage you expect, but I guess its a tradeoff of having several stuns. She's like a walking stun machine, made for ganks.

I play her with

MR marks
Armor seals
CDR blues(could change for mana regen)
Flat health quints
3/21/6 or 3/6/21 masteries
Ignite/Ghost or Flash
Start with Boots+2hp+1mp

This gives her 650hp or so, and 40/45 armor/mr at level 1. With boots you get mobility and with ignite a nice finisher. At level 3 W-E-Q+Ignite will finish off anyone and cause of that shield she can 1vs2 easily if you focus down the squishy first. Very durable early game IMO, almost unkillable if not focused down hard. After level 6 just initiate with ulti and focus squishies. With sheen and ignite its almost a sure kill.

IMO, core items should be Frozen heart, Mercs, Catalyst and Sheen. Then build what you want. With cood CDR her Q-stun can be used every 5 seconds.

 

[Ulminati]

Played a few solo and duo queues in ranked.

So far, there have been people speaking russian, polish, finnish or some slavic-sounding language I didn't recognize in 8 out of 12 games. In the case of the finnish duo-queued couple, 2 of the russians and the polis 4-man I ended up in in normal, they all informed me - in english - that they didn't want to speak english and proceeded to spam the team chat with their moonspeak. In the case of the polacks, they even went as for as saying they should report me for refusing to communicate with team because I didn't speak polish and it was - according to them - one of the two official languages for EU East. Definately looking forward to getting the fuck out of EU East. But knowing RIOT, "soon™" means we'll get our server transfers in a year or two.

At least I can always play Irelia solo top. Farm a HoG, Philostone and Triforce by the 20-minute mark and she can pretty much just ignore her teammates and finish the enemy base on her own. Which she'll also have to, because if her teammates aren't typing in cyrilic letters, every second word they utter is going to be "kurwa".

 

[Grunker]

or Flash.

There is not a single reason whatsoever to not take Flash. We're at the point where the Riot team has a standing, open debat with multiple forums (actual forum polls and discussions with the devs) on what to with Flash, since it is so good that all Summoners should choose it for all champions all of the time.

It is the ultimate get-away spell, it is the ultimate offensive spell.

 

[Markman]

Flash is a one trick pony, while I use it on champs that have built in speedups(blitz,malph) theres no need to take it on example Nasus or Maokai or even Leona. If I dont build Zeal/triforce she will stay at 380 speed with defence tree mastery.And who am I gonna hit when even Annie can outrun me. Its all about the game setup imo, and how you chose to play your champ.

And one more thing about Leona, she is the worst farmer in the game. Long ass animation and Veigars auto-attack hits harder then hers. Creeps need to be at 2% health for you to kill em. Maybe better with gold/10 items..

 

[Ulminati]

No flash on nasus? What are you smoking?

 

[Grunker]

Markman, I have to honor the fortitude you show in your refusal to learn from anything else than your own experience

That Flash is the best summoner-spell by far is pretty much common logic (instantaneous travel-spell that gives you a speed boost that in game time almost meets that of ghost, far exceeds it when jumping walls, and is, as the name implies, instant). It is furthermore backed by the fact that not a single player in 1400 ELO or above, or in tournaments, does not use Flash. For any reason.

I was called arrogant earlier in this thread because of what I said about Mordekaiser, but mate, you're the arrogant one in your stubborn determination to refuse something that people far better than you or me have found out through playing experience

Just trying to help your game bro!

If you still refuse to believe me, take a look here: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/sho ... hp?t=84234

I'm not saying Flash is bad for the game or anything (though I do believe that if you have a choice that's clearly better than all other choices you give, that choice could use revision), I'm saying that if it isn't in one of your two Summoner Spell slots, the sole reason is that you believe you have some secret knowledge that the entirety of good players are without.

 

[Ulminati]

Even if you suffer from the delusion that your character cannot be better by the addition of INSTANT TRAVEL, Flash is still mandatory to cancel out the flash of your 5 opponents, who will flash through a wall just befor eyou kill them.

 

[Markman]

I use flash on most of my champs. Maoki has at stun teleport, so i dont need flash to initiate. Nasus has ulti that makes people use flash, so i ratther use ghost on him to chase people. Leona also has a teleport stun. Its all about gamestyle, id rather be without flash then without ignite on some champs. Im not trying to be a smartass, just sharing my gameplay experience.

 

[kingcomrade]

So out of the heroes that I don't have, I am considering the following:
Kog'Maw
Akali
Jarvan
Pantheon
Lux- I have no played Lux yet and I'm gonna hold off until I can, or get to watch a stream where they do, but for some reason I think I would like Lux
Same for Leblanc.

edit- Is Olaf any good? I've never even seen someone play him. I watched the hero spotlight on youtube and kind of went "meh"

I also really liked Galio, but I don't think he's that good a hero, and he's 6k.

Since until next Tuesday my Internet is shit so I can't really play real games, just against bots, obviously my IP accumulation is very slow so I'm afraid to pick.

If Kog'Maw was 3k instead of 6 I would have gotten him.

Of the heroes I do have, the ones I really like are:
Avinia, Annie, Blitzcrank, Chogath, Fiddlesticks, Janna, Master Yi, Teemo, Warwick.

I have Sona and I really want to like her, but playing a support hero means you really have faith you will get a good team. And her power chords thing is a little awkward for me, I suppose it just takes practice.

 

[Phage]

Soooo Karthus is now by far my favorite mage to play. Just wanted to throw that out there.

 

[1451]

Olaf is a damage dealer. You have to strike fast and fall back. He has low armor and in teamfights he can die easily.

He is ideal for hunting enemies because he can throw his axe to slow the opponent's movement speed and his ulti makes him invincible against stuns and slows.

 

[Ulminati]

So out of the heroes that I don't have, I am considering the following:
Kog'Maw
Akali
Jarvan
Pantheon
Lux- I have no played Lux yet and I'm gonna hold off until I can, or get to watch a stream where they do, but for some reason I think I would like Lux
Same for Leblanc.

edit- Is Olaf any good? I've never even seen someone play him. I watched the hero spotlight on youtube and kind of went "meh"

Olaf can be a good jungler. But until you're level 30 and have the runes for it, you shouldn't bother.

Of the ones you're considering:

Kog'Maw is fun, but hampered by the fact that he's a priority target (ranged AD carry) without a reliable escape ability. He needs his entire team to build around protecting him to shine. Other AD carries (Ashe, Vayne, Corki, Tristana in paticular) are safer bets. Vayne is heaps of fun to play btw.

Akali is awesome. I play her a lot and she's perfectly capable of assraping en entire team of lowbies. Basically you want a doran's blade on her to activate her passive and then build all AP. I usually go boots+pots at the start, then dorans blade, hextech revolver, rylais scepter, lich bane, gunbalde. she's s super-fun bursty assassin.

Jarvan is quite fun to play and works well both as a solotop or a jungling hero. You can bujild him both tanky and as a tanky dps style champ. He's a very solid investment if you like winning games. Just be careful with your ult. Bad Jarvans fuck their own teams over with it, eithe rby trapping them with shit that kills them or cutting them off from shit they want to kill.

Panteon... Is kinda underpowered. I wouldn't get him if you intend to play ranked, but he's decent fun for normal games. Man-Drop is satisfying to use.

Lux is like a beginner's version of Morgana. I can't stand her squeaky voice.

LeBlanc is kinda fun. But unless you do awesome with her in the first 10 minutes, she becomes completely useless by the 20-25 minute mark.

 

[Mystary!]

Olaf's passive makes him more dangerous the less health he has, his ult makes him immune against all crowd control.
I love to imagine the look on the enemies faces when they jump in and unleash everything they got on your party, (Amumu's snare especially) and you just ignore it all and continue to beat the crap out of them. By hurting you they just make it easier for you.
I would like to play him more but there's always an abundance of melee dps so I usually get stuck playing something else.

Lux has great damage potential, her ult is the boss of kill stealing but almost all her spells are skill shots and it can be very frustrating when youre having a bad day, or the other team are pro-dodgers, and you can't land a single hit.

 

[kingcomrade]

Ok, I got Akali, Jarvan, and Udyr.
I am really afraid that now that I've got them I'll just suck balls with them, especially Akali. In Dota I was never really that good with heroes like riki (well riki is fucking easy but he's a lot better when you're actually good with him) or bounty hunter.

 

[Ulminati]

KingC -- Check out Akali By the Numbers on Leaguecraft.com

It's pretty good

 

[kingcomrade]

I will admit to nerd raging about the monkey king hero they're making. The point I made on the forums before I was bombared with 4chan memes was that if you changed his model and name nobody would even fucking know he was referencing the monkey king. It's stupid.

 

[Mystary!]

At first I was like OMG riot, forbidden kingdom much!?

But then I read the LoL Boards. And there it was establish several times that he's actually based on the old (80s hello!) chinese legend Son Goku: Tail, staff, cloud! It's him!

 

[Wulfstand]

This IP buff is a fucking blessing! I've nearly gathered 4800 IP in about 3 days (since the bonus started). Just one more game and I'll be getting Jarvan!

 

[Markman]

Wulfstand, get some runes too when youre at it. Noticed in your profile page that you only have several magpen marks and nothing else. Some Flat HP quints could be a lifesaver in the early game. Or atlest some manaregen runes. Jarvan likes manaregen.

 

[Wulfstand]

On it!

 

[Phage]

I actually like the Monkey King. Not so much his actual artistic design, but I've been looking for a tanky dps / melee carry that I like, and he seems like a lot of fun gameplay wise.

 

[sser]

I play, but I can't stand the community. I usually play for a few weeks until the excessive trolls, crybabies and all-around assholes of the game get to my nerves and then I just stop for a month or two. Fun game, otherwise.