So, anyone playing League of Legends?

[Azael]

That's pretty impressive. Finding an underplayed champ and using him in role he isn't usual found in sounds like a good way to confuse your enemies. I guess people just underestimate Zil.

On a side note, new champ looks like he could be fun.

 

[Markman]

I really dont know how, but if it works for you then keep on wrecking.
Riven, Renekton, Rengar, Irelia should burst you and most importantly outsustain you with no issue.


Wtf, new champ. Insect mechanics. I think Riven and Lee Singaa players should find him fun. But its gay they made him a manaless champ, hes gonna be like Riven but more annoying.

 

[Azael]

Don't know about that, at least his mobility and shield has conditions while Riven can use hers as she pleases, more or less. Rivens design is kind of flawed that way, IMO, no clear disadvantages or weaknesses to.exploit.

 

[Renegen]

The new champ looks like hella OP. It's an interesting design, his whole kit screams overdesigned with everything figured out and I think it's pretty clear he will be super strong, it wasn't left to chance. He has some weaknessess here and there like low damage and "melee" but in practice I can see him facerolling. He has really low cooldowns and high mobility which means that he's pretty much guaranteed to outplay you sooner or later and do something spectacular, but you won't feel bad about it! Counterplay! His passive doubling critical hit will mean that every new item on him will be a gigantic power spike, he really looks like a late game monster with a pretty good laning phase too. I see him going mid to try to snowball and for the men out there, he can go top too. Not a jungler unfortunately.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Lol @ the new summoner spell icons. Flash looks like the guy is getting incinerated by an explosion.

So gonna main the new guy (wtf skin has gunblade, not gonna buy), I like crits, mb I should run a full crit chance page on him for a cheesy 28% crit at start.

 

[PlanHex]

cheesy 28% crit at start.

Is that before or after doubling?
Also, inb4 nerfed to scaling per lvl crit boost instead of doubling

 

[Mystary!]

Won 8 ranked in a row, end up at 99LP. Won another, got +0 LP. Twice in a row now wtf!
lol this is getting ridicilous. Won 3 times now at 99 LP. +0 every time.
omfg 4th time now this is just stupid

 

[Grunker]

Don't know about that, at least his mobility and shield has conditions while Riven can use hers as she pleases, more or less. Rivens design is kind of flawed that way, IMO, no clear disadvantages or weaknesses to.exploit.

Except that Olaf pick vs. Riven is probably one of the hardest counters in the game

 

[Azael]

Not saying that Riven is necessarily OP or a free win champ, just that giving a champ so much mobility for free, with a spammable shield to boot, isn't that great an idea IMO.

 

[Grunker]

Not saying that Riven is necessarily OP or a free win champ, just that giving a champ so much mobility for free, with a spammable shield to boot, isn't that great an idea IMO.

I don't disagree necessarily. On one hand, it's the only melee carry that works pretty much as intended, on the other hand, she really is an issue right now.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Riven is OK, one of the only champions GP can scruff his beard into her soft cunt for huge scratchy damae

 

[Hellraiser]

Bought new samurai dude, biggest issue is remembering to charge up that hurricane of his and charging flow for shield before trading. Ult is a bit difficult to use unless you have somebody with a push or knock-up on your team. His scaling is nice but early game is a bit meh. Although it could be because I have yet to find an optimal build or because I only faced infinite sustain mundo and rengar top so far. Although I did really well against a jayce, jayce is simply useless against Yosuo due to free shield you charge up by dodging his shit and due to wind wall. Also jungled with him, his jungle farming is good but ganks are kind of awful and he really needs gold to start doing something.

Also changing opinion on Jinx, definitely better in SoloQQ than Kog'maw despite being as fragile, arguably a better blind pick than vayne. AoE ranges AAs are very strong, her ult allows her to catch up even if losing lane by ksing with it from across the map. Chompers are quite good if you have somebody else to CC them first for you, making her quite strong when paired with taric, leona, thresh etc.

 

[Renegen]

I had the pleasure of watching some potato team KMT win 3-0 against NiP to get promoted to the EU LCS. No one predicted that, what do they have in the water over there? They were pretty fun games, very slow and drawn out so you got to learn a bit about the strategies and teamcomps. NiP's Amumu was more than useless in the first two games, he did absolutely nothing and even lost in farm to Elise. And the potatoes are showing the dominance of Kayle once more, wins lane and scales super hard.

 

[PlanHex]

It's kinda funny when you consider that 3 of those guys had a spot in LCS already if they had just stayed in Lemondogs.
Just goes to show that things are always prone to backfire when you get greedy.

(Feel free to correct me on this, but the way I heard it NiP and Lemondogs are now owned by the same organisation, so it seems like the reason they put the heavy hitters on NiP is probably that they wanted two teams in LCS at the same time, yes?)

 

[Markman]

KMT vs NiP were boring IMO, 1-2 in kills 30 minutes in or something like that for 3 games in a row. zzz
Most fun games were Alliance vs Dignitas where kwans got raped pretty bad. Wickd played Malphite and rushed Triforce, totally countered Shyvanna that went for MR. Now everybody will build Triforce on my Malph.
TSM stomped Lemondogs, turns out you cant take a few soloq players and expect em not to suck against decent teams. Embarassing.

 

[Hellraiser]

I already built TF on malph in season 3. Although as a luxury item after FH and/or hp if I needed deeps. Tanky bruiser malph>tanky AP malph, armor already grants him enough burst on him to murder ADCs with a full combo (with ignite of course). Free hydra is just too strong to let it go to waste with AP.

 

[Mystary!]

<3 Dr. Mundo... 3 games with most damage dealt AND most damage taken. Last game I survived three team fights without backing, just kept going and ulting inbetween, got two tripples and one quadra in a row, 5k gold unspent.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Tried Viktor top because somebody wanted to go Morgana against Katarina, luckily I was against Yi so I didn't get raped. Instead Yi got slaughtered (he had no MR runes) while I dealt most damage and never died with yellow power Viktor. What the hell. You wouldn't believe how rare not dying is for me anyway, and when it happens it's with Viktor top. A Lee Sin gank, np, no big deal, I mean obviously Viktor is completely safe to ganks and if I was a better player I'd have killed them both with their no damage no tankiness foolishness.

Is it actually legit though? He's ranged which is always overpowered in top lane, magic damage which is also overpowered and he has shields (op). Maybe I'll try him against Renekton or something and see what happens.

 

[markec]

So I go jungle with Malphite and my tactic for new jungle is, smiteless blue, smite wight, wolfs, smite red get lvl 3 start ganking. I ask my team mates for smiteless blue and I get mocked by them, all manner of verbal abuse especially from top and mid players how you dont need to go smiteless anymore, that im a wood 5, noob etc. But they do help me so despite first 7 min of non stop mocking I decide not to troll or quit.

The game goes badly, our top yasuo feeds their yasuo, mid feeds well everyone, bot is useless and only with me ganking do anyone manage to get any kills. Whats even worse their jungle Allistar looks as a op jungler champ since everytime he ganks someone dies in my team, then again noone in my team bought a single ward in the game and still think its a great idea to push lines despite that got you killed several times in the same way.

I actually play a decent game, died only three times in 50 min, saved bunch of asses, gifted kills, warded, overall a decent game, yet as we start loosing my team started blaming me for the lose and started heavy verbal abuse.

I go on lol nexus and see they are premade team, I start insulting them and start call them all sort of things. We lose, I quickly leave stat screen and a bit later get a message that I was reported for verbal abuse and that I shouldn't do it again.

I dont recall when the last time I was so fucking angry, you play a good game, your team sucks, they throw shit at you and you get reported.




Also I was wandering is going smiteless at start really so useless despite low cd on smite or are those guys just morons.

 

[Mystary!]

You need to go on lolnexus when the game loads so you can mock them from the start.
But yeah, I thinks its more effective to smite first buff, do only one camp, cause then smite will be up for the next buff, which is important if the enemy jungler comes to steal it. If you do two camps then the enemy couldve stolen it without you noticing. Also smiting first buff ensures its not stolen by a randumb enemy midlaner, like Nidalee spear.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

You get smiteless, now your mid and top autolose because their opponents get level 2 first. That's about how it goes. You can just use smite, and ignore the wight camp anyway it's not the best for Malphite.

Their fault though, I refused to smiteless pull anyone even before preseason changes as top because losing the lane just because your jungler wants to do the route wrong is pretty bad.

Didn't see the game thouhg. Sounds like they were just morons.

 

[PlanHex]

I go on lol nexus and see they are premade team, I start insulting them and start call them all sort of things. We lose, I quickly leave stat screen and a bit later get a message that I was reported for verbal abuse and that I shouldn't do it again.

Well, that was pretty dumb. What did you expect? That they wouldn't gang up on you even more if you started name calling?
This is the worst response, since you just gave them justification for reporting you and the tribunal is more likely to punish you since you clearly did verbally abuse them, even if they started it and are the ones in the wrong.

 

[Renegen]

You get smiteless, now your mid and top autolose because their opponents get level 2 first. That's about how it goes. You can just use smite, and ignore the wight camp anyway it's not the best for Malphite.

Their fault though, I refused to smiteless pull anyone even before preseason changes as top because losing the lane just because your jungler wants to do the route wrong is pretty bad.

Didn't see the game thouhg. Sounds like they were just morons.

See this is something that I hate. Is getting lvl 2 that important on a mid or top laner? Most people have really bad wave control and if you know they'll hit lvl 2 first just get zoned for a bit until the creep pushes into you and then you're good. Getting pushed in isn't that bad when you're melee, unlike bot you can't get harassed all day while just trying to cs and unable to trade back. What will decide the lane is the actual matchup and who is stronger when. And being pushed in is much better since it's easier to gank top/mid. Unless you plan on pushing early, there's no point to rushing to lane.

 

[Mystary!]

I take it you have never faced a Riven with red pot that hits level 2 before you? You get instaggibed no matter what champ you play. And she can freeze and zone you from exp since she can leap across half the lane in no time.

 

[Renegen]

That's very specific to Riven. Most top laners can't lvl 2 all-in you if you just stand back and wait to get lvl 2 yourself. They literally cannot use a lvl 2 advantage and sacrifice too much for it.