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So, anyone playing League of Legends?

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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. :M

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.
 
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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.
 

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

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

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

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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?"
 

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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.
 

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

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

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.
 
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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?
 

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Bros, either nami is ridiculously good or I severely overestimated the intellectual capacity of the bruisers/assassins on my team. Granted they had wukong as well so that gave them ridiculous synergy, but holy fuck we didn't take a tower until the 37th minute! You can't win a fight where she initiates with that ult and you face the rape train of wukong and lux ults you for good measure as well. She carried the bad lux, the cait that dc'd (I got first blood off nami and later a kill before she reconnected) and the renekton who went 1 for 1 with irelia. We had morgana and we couldn't win a fight!

Granted our irelia and pantheon we're borderline imbeciles. I can understand they can't dive lux or cait when they get chain CC'd but even when they dodged everything they went after wukong or fucking rene, dumbfucks. Then again our first pick picked pantheon, I could swear it was a random lock as the clock ran out. That and his ganking attempts made me want to facepalm. I'm a bad jungler myself but FFS I don't waste opportunities like he did.

Still despite feeding two kills that nami nearly let cait, fucking cait that dc'd and was behind, fucking cait that had a dorans and a sword when I had bfs+scepter and boots 2 as mf, nearly kill me. From 100% hp, my lulu was simply inferior. But she tried and I never died even if it was close so it was k. But fuck, there is no way in hell cait should be able to do that good, not when I had such an advantage in both scaling and items. I need to buy nami, fish lady op. Great CC, godlike ult and a fucking heal, whats not to like?
 
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Initiates with the ult? That needs additional CC from someone else (like Lux or Wu of course). Still that sounds weird, it's maybe the slowest projectile in the game.

Pantheon jungle right? Like Shaco but even more all-in. How exactly do you fail his ganks, they're amongst the best ganks in all the land?

Nami is pretty okay but I feel her numbers aren't in the fabulous land and she's not rape mode like Leona.
 

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It has long range and covers nearly the entirety of the lane as far as width is concerned. If you're not near the entrance to your jungle you can't do much. Although the thing here was we were fairly close to them and her so there was little time to react. Mind you I had good positioning but MF is not kog or tristana.
 

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Nami is a beast.
I found out a new winning Nami formula... the new Rumble ult + Nami ult is ... amazing. Like... wow. So good.

Silver V -> I playing only Nami (and Anivia when I get to mid, and Quinn when I get to adc). I just refuse to top/jungle.

The thing about Nami is- you miss Q/R, you might as well surrender. It's a tradeoff- with great CC power comes great responsibility not to use it.
 

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