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AlienMachine posted:Okay, so I may still have time to reach Gold V (For the "awesome" season rewards). I'm actually not sure if your rank in the pre-season (started around December last year) can earn you the end of season rewards. But either way you still have a few months.
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AlienMachine posted:Okay, so I may still have time to reach Gold V (For the "awesome" season rewards). You have about a month. Whenever they announce the end date sometime in October, a shitload of people are going to start paying diamond players to carry them into gold. When you run into those people the odds are 5 to 4 they will be on the enemy team, meaning you have to play slightly better than whatever MMR you want to make it to.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:37
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Previous Jesus posted:I'm actually not sure if your rank in the pre-season (started around December last year) can earn you the end of season rewards. But either way you still have a few months. It cannot. You are given season rewards at the end of S4, not the beginning of S5.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:38
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AlienMachine posted:Okay, so I may still have time to reach Gold V (For the "awesome" season rewards). Technically you don't, the season ends a bit after worlds, then there is the pre-season, then the next season. You have until the season ends.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:53
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Ranked tends to go to hell once the rewards are announced
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Aug 30, 2014 16:57
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theflyingorc posted:He said EACH. What happened is he forgot about Hecarim. The Dregs posted:Can anyone give me some Yi tips? I keep trying him and I end up with more deaths than kills. His kits seems to say "go balls out", but then he just dies. Of course, the fact that I suck has a lot to do with it. Think of him as a reset champion and a 1v1 champion as long as you can win an auto slapfight and not get hard cc'ed. Examples: Nasus, Nidalee, Olaf type champions where their slow does jack poo poo to your ulti and you can auto them down as long as you're farmed. Champions like Aatrox or Jax will ruin you 1v1. In teamfights you need to be the last one in after enemies have blown their hard cc spells/ultis, and if you get one reset, it's usually a ticket to a pentakill.
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Aug 30, 2014 17:10
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TheRevTastic posted:Technically you don't, the season ends a bit after worlds, then there is the pre-season, then the next season. You have until the season ends. The season will end in November.
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Aug 30, 2014 17:10
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Emery posted:I hate Shaco so much. What a gigantic piece of unfun bullshit. Buy a pink and put it in a bush close to your tower and keep the lane pushed enough that you don't lose it. Buy sweeper once teamfights start happening. As a jungler, invade him and steal his red. He's very dependent on it. His early jungle dueling is one of the worst in the game.
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Aug 30, 2014 17:13
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AHH FUGH posted:Buy a pink and put it in a bush close to your tower and keep the lane pushed enough that you don't lose it. Buy sweeper once teamfights start happening. As a jungler, invade him and steal his red. He's very dependent on it. His early jungle dueling is one of the worst in the game. Under the condition that he hasn't prepared for you to be there. Getting feared by just one or two boxes can give him time to stab your prone back and kill you with his burst damage.
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Aug 30, 2014 17:27
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Wtf? Have you not played against a Smite/Ignite Shaco? His early dueling power is easily one of the best of all junglers due to the added DPS that ignite gives him plus the early damage he can deal with a well placed box, the Deceive crit and his passive. A Shaco who isn't early invading you isn't playing the champion right. A Shaco should be looking for a kill, a buff steal, or at the very least a spent Flash from you.
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fnox posted:Wtf? Have you not played against a Smite/Ignite Shaco? His early dueling power is easily one of the best of all junglers due to the added DPS that ignite gives him plus the early damage he can deal with a well placed box, the Deceive crit and his passive. A Shaco who isn't early invading you isn't playing the champion right. In my experience Shaco's always try to do a lvl 2 cheese with red in midlane these days, for whatever reason.
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Aug 30, 2014 17:33
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fnox posted:Wtf? Have you not played against a Smite/Ignite Shaco? His early dueling power is easily one of the best of all junglers due to the added DPS that ignite gives him plus the early damage he can deal with a well placed box, the Deceive crit and his passive. A Shaco who isn't early invading you isn't playing the champion right. Alternately, the Shaco that isn't invading you is repeatedly murdering your entire team and will have 15 kills in about 20 minutes.
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Disinterested posted:In my experience Shaco's always try to do a lvl 2 cheese with red in midlane these days, for whatever reason. That also works since you're mostly immune to wards unless the enemy team knows what they're doing. It's also a good fallback option if you can't find the enemy jungler at Wraiths/Wolves.
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Char posted:Where are Space Marine J4 and Chaos Space Marine Darius? Seriously, Riot, give me Steel Legion J4. The Steel Legion skins rock. Also goddamn Lucian is still king shithead of midgame mountain, I love it. I've been going BORK/Triforce and he just does so much damage so quickly with that. Lucian + Nami is probably one of the better lanes to throw together right now simply because of how much ridiculous poke you can do with those two. (Alternative option: Lucian+Braum is still a terror botlane if Braum is ever unbanned)
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AHH FUGH posted:Buy a pink and put it in a bush close to your tower and keep the lane pushed enough that you don't lose it. Buy sweeper once teamfights start happening. As a jungler, invade him and steal his red. He's very dependent on it. His early jungle dueling is one of the worst in the game. Not only is Shaco one of the most frightening junglers due to having more gank paths than anyone else in the game except maybe Eve(Shaco not only manages to be able to hop walls and come in from weird angles, but he has the most diverse lane ganks due to being able to position exactly how he wants) but he can also out-trade most people. Fear is an incredibly powerful mechanic: if Shaco uses boxes properly, not only is he adding additional DPS to himself, but he's removing your DPS entirely. He also has ignite for extra damage and crits built into his kit. There are very few people in this game that can duel Shaco early game. The way you deal with Shaco is cut your losses and wait until midgame, if Shaco doesn't get enormously fed he's not doing much of anything past 25 minutes and will probably result in his team losing. The entire reason I don't play him much is that even though I generally go 9/1 or something ridiculous(+- about 5 kills, 3 deaths) by 20 minutes I start losing almost all of my power and then by 30 minutes I'm just rolling around in the dirt looking for scraps of farm where I can and praying nobody stops me. Monathin posted:Also goddamn Lucian is still king shithead of midgame mountain, I love it. I've been going BORK/Triforce and he just does so much damage so quickly with that. I've been experimenting with BotRK/IE Lucian, it's a little bit less predictable than Triforce but it has the potential to completely shut people down. You trade more reliable all ins with Phage procs for overwhelming power. If you get a double crit you're basically guaranteed to kill whatever unlucky recipient dared to face off against you. You can also try Hanzo Steel BotRK/Ghostblade Lucian if you are getting ahead in lane because that build is absolutely nightmarish to lane against what with the CDR, APen and ult/Ghostblade synergy. pog boyfriend fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Aug 30, 2014 |
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Would Runnan's hurricane not be worth it if you had something like a manamune or BotrK and two enemy champs that can dive you?
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The Biggest Jerk posted:Would Runnan's hurricane not be worth it if you had something like a manamune or BotrK and two enemy champs that can dive you? No. You shouldn't even have a manamune unless your name is Jayce or Urgot.
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Aug 30, 2014 18:19
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lol Runaan's is never worth it because the AD itemization is built around high damage autos with random crits. If you buy runaan's you're wasting an item slot that you could be using to get crits. ADCs are there to kill towers and tanks, not to shred an entire team with a low range Runaan's AoE.
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The Biggest Jerk posted:Would Runnan's hurricane not be worth it if you had something like a manamune or BotrK and two enemy champs that can dive you? Runaan's Hurricane is an item I recommend on AP Teemo against a team with no gap closers, and maybe Kayle in general. The unpredictable nature of its targeting makes it almost useless for most situations. The dream, of course, is to use BotRK on 3 people at once. More likely you're hitting your target and 2 minions. It's still not a very slot efficient carry item and for waveclear it's completely outclassed by Shiv. I don't even know why you would want it against divers, the DPS is not high enough that you would be able to kill 2 people at once.
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Runaan's is never worth it, period. Stop buying Runaan's.my pog boyfriend posted:I've been experimenting with BotRK/IE Lucian, it's a little bit less predictable than Triforce but it has the potential to completely shut people down. You trade more reliable all ins with Phage procs for overwhelming power. If you get a double crit you're basically guaranteed to kill whatever unlucky recipient dared to face off against you. You can also try Hanzo Steel BotRK/Ghostblade Lucian if you are getting ahead in lane because that build is absolutely nightmarish to lane against what with the CDR, APen and ult/Ghostblade synergy. Lucian has a metric shitton of divergent build paths and it's amazing to see what kind of stuff you can put together. I definitely am planning on running Hanzo Steel Lucian at some point when I get ahead in lane next time I play Lucian, and have been halfway thinking that Ghostblade can situationally sub in for LW depending on the teamcomp. Thoughts?
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my pog boyfriend posted:Runaan's Hurricane is an item I recommend on AP Teemo against a team with no gap closers, and maybe Kayle in general. The unpredictable nature of its targeting makes it almost useless for most situations. The dream, of course, is to use BotRK on 3 people at once. More likely you're hitting your target and 2 minions. It's still not a very slot efficient carry item and for waveclear it's completely outclassed by Shiv. I don't even know why you would want it against divers, the DPS is not high enough that you would be able to kill 2 people at once. Runaan's is stupid on AP teemo because you shouldn't even really be teamfighting with the guy. If you're standing still long enough to get off 2 or 3 auto attacks you're probably dead already. If you want waveclear build Morellos and put down a shroom in every wave.
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The Biggest Jerk posted:Would Runnan's hurricane not be worth it if you had something like a manamune or BotrK and two enemy champs that can dive you? The problem is after laning phase. There's no way in teamfights to utilize the passive without getting murdered.
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Monathin posted:Runaan's is never worth it, period. Stop buying Runaan's. exethan posted:Runaan's is stupid on AP teemo because you shouldn't even really be teamfighting with the guy. If you're standing still long enough to get off 2 or 3 auto attacks you're probably dead already. If you want waveclear build Morellos and put down a shroom in every wave. Yeah, it's not great!! But as far as champions you can kind of justify it on there's Teemo, Kayle, and maybe AP Kog?
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Aug 30, 2014 18:24
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Hurricane is a bad item that is also really fun
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Hurricane was used on Kayle not because she could just stack on hits but because of the splash damage each shot applies, it basically made waves disappear, although her damage has been tuned down a lot. Some Korean will eventually find a niche use for the item again, something like, Essence Reaver + Hurricane to make champions fundamentally manaless, poo poo like that.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it gets some minor buff and becomes a great item. As we've seen from Ziggs and Mao, small changes in how a specific thing works can be the difference between never seen and pick-or-ban and items should work the same way
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If they wanted to fix runaans they should: 1) add crit on it but the smallest amount 2) make it build out of a Zeal and something (just remove recurve bow from the game please) 3) maybe reduce the target split to two instead of three to compensate for adding a small but reasonable amount of crit You'd have an interesting item for on hit champions and ADC with on-hit effects built into their kit like Varus and Twitch.
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I have been working on a smurf account for the past few months in order to help me get over ranked anxiety, and to be able to practice ADC, top, and assassin champs, who I feel really weak with. The plan was to just hit Bronze V or whatever, and then I'd be able to play without worrying so much about getting stomped, because it didn't matter. I am now 5-0 in my placements, and I'm wondering if I should either put on my tryhard pants, or just go back to my main and see if I can steamroll my way to Gold after placements - this is doing wonders for my confidence levels. I just roflstomped a Ryze top with Tryndamere, a champ who I've literally played once or twice before, back in season 2. I crushed my way out of Bronze last season to get the Silver rewards, but I literally haven't played a single ranked game on my main this season, and I'm wondering whether it's pretty indicative of the players I'll face on my main's placement matches. I wasn't even going to bother with ranked this season.
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Libertine posted:If they wanted to fix runaans they should: 4) make it prioritize champions so that it doesn't end up wasting all of its supposed teamfight power on minions or malzahar voidlings or whatever stupid poo poo is closer to your target than something that actually needs to get hit
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Monathin posted:Lucian has a metric shitton of divergent build paths and it's amazing to see what kind of stuff you can put together. I definitely am planning on running Hanzo Steel Lucian at some point when I get ahead in lane next time I play Lucian, and have been halfway thinking that Ghostblade can situationally sub in for LW depending on the teamcomp. Thoughts? There are no real subs for LW, you need to build it on all ADCs eventually.
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Libertine posted:If they wanted to fix runaans they should: Instead of making it just another zeal item, I'd rather they stick a boatload of AD on it at a higher price, nix most or all of the AS, and maybe add a bit of cdr. Turn it into an item for the more caster-y of the carries, who in most cases really want the side shots as well (Varus for his marks, MF for her steroid, Graves for cdr on his E, etc.) Yeah it might get worse on Teemo and Kog, but who really cares about that? Might make Lucian busted, but everything does that because he's a dumb champion.
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Bland posted:No. Yorick.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Yorick. You shouldn't be playing Yorick unless you're a jerk.
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Why am I so bad with Braum when I'm pretty decent with Mundo? They have similar playstyles so I don't know. But yeah, what is Mundo's status in the meta currently?
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Make it so a Hurricane-equipped Ezreal fires of Qs like Twisted Fate's wild cards.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Yorick. What's a Yorick
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Bland posted:What's a Yorick A miserable pile of poo poo.
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Bland posted:What's a Yorick Someone who doesn't counter Veigar on TT, especially when paired with Shaco and Morde for a 6v2 gimmick comp
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Get Innocuous! posted:Make it so a Hurricane-equipped Ezreal fires of Qs like Twisted Fate's wild cards. One thing I really miss from Dota is aghanim's scepter. I wish league had an item that affected a champ's skills or passive uniquely.
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ZenVulgarity posted:Hurricane is a bad item that is also really fun I like the idea of Hurricane. I want it to be a good item but the only two champion it's actually any good on is Teemo and Kayle but that's only if you're planning on doing nothing but split pushing the entire game Teemo with a Hurricane and some AP can push lanes instantly but that's basically a strategy along the lines of "dear the rest of my team; I hope you did not expect me to be fighting with you, ever, at all, for any reason." The rule to follow is "never buy Hurricane, ever." It's a neat idea but in practice it's a terrible, terrible item. The only stat it gives you beyond the passive is attack speed which is utterly useless without any other stats but it's expensive and...yeah.
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