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League of Legends: Let's Talk About uhhh??
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I went from -15 W/L to +25 W/L on my normal account just by jungling hardcore with Udyr and Yi. Honestly, though, jungling has its own skillset associated with it, and while it doesn't revolve around reflexes like last-hitting, it DOES revolve around prudence and judgment.
Let's consider a situation for a second: I'm playing Udyr, and you're playing Amumu. Udyr is a far stronger jungler than Amumu. So to exert my dominance over you, I'm going to invade you at Red to try to kill you (I probably wouldn't do something this risky in a real game, but just for example).
But what happens is that my mid is at half health, and your mid is at full health. So as Amumu, you call your Ashe to help, and she comes. I call my Karthus, and he comes. Except the full health Ashe beats my poor Karthus.
And the sad thing is that Karthus' death is entirely my fault for invading when HE was weak.
Let's consider a situation for a second: I'm playing Udyr, and you're playing Amumu. Udyr is a far stronger jungler than Amumu. So to exert my dominance over you, I'm going to invade you at Red to try to kill you (I probably wouldn't do something this risky in a real game, but just for example).
But what happens is that my mid is at half health, and your mid is at full health. So as Amumu, you call your Ashe to help, and she comes. I call my Karthus, and he comes. Except the full health Ashe beats my poor Karthus.
And the sad thing is that Karthus' death is entirely my fault for invading when HE was weak.
Nunu is very fun to play. I enjoy jungling with Nunu (his Q skill is awesome for this) since it allows my allies to farm faster, and with Ice Ball, Lizard Buff and Blood Boil it is fairly easy to gank the opponent. I played a game a little while ago, and was ridiculed by my team for jungling as Nunu. I then went ~15/3/19 in a losing effort, but at least gave my team a decent chance to win.
As a beginner Vlad, I'm of the opinion that that's what you should be doing with Q and E. I get one rank in Tides at level 4 for last hitting en masse.
It also occurred to me in the last game I played as Vlad that Empowered stacks also enhance healing effects like health pots and Transfusion. Good god, I'm slow.
Played a 57 minute or something game as Ashe, the other team had a GP and was critting us for 1.6K with Parrrley. The other team's Akali kept saying "get at me 1v1" all the time. Other team's Alistar pretty much owned. I got two double kills in less than a minute (grr, if I was faster that could've been a penta), then died four times, then turned around and got PD and Black Cleaver and pretty much shut them down. Ulted to kill tower divers, aced Alistar (I don't know why the situation even came up, but) and killed Akali and someone else in 1v2s on a regular basis. We had the game wrapped up at the beginning, then we nearly lost, then came back and one. One hella long game, and my mom staring at me because she wanted me off the computer didn't make it any easier.
Hmm
Is vlad worth it?
One of the better pubstompers around?
Is vlad worth it?
One of the better pubstompers around?
quite possibly the most intense game i have ever played. my score suggests that of a feeder but late game, my role was basically to ult into their towers and take them down, which led to me getting killed shortly after. this didn't matter though, since everybody already had their items and 'feeding' was a non-factor
so yeah, 14 buildings destroyed. if you understand what late game with tfs on both teams is like, it's basically waiting for one team to push so tf can ult into the nexus and destroy it. the other tf always beat me one on one, not because he was better, but because he got the jump on me with his ult. he was obsessed with this, but in the end it didn't matter because i always got the job done. i singlehandedly destroyed their base once their team was fighting mine. good times.
props to our kassadin for raping their pantheon so hard he didnt have the balls to ult our base
props to our rammus for being the better rammus
props to our tris for right clicking and destroying
props to our xin for farming all game and not doing anything
Whaaat how long was that game!!!!
Thats ridiculous
And what is with 4xdeathcaps??
And 2xBrutalizer + phantom dancers??
Thats ridiculous
And what is with 4xdeathcaps??
And 2xBrutalizer + phantom dancers??
Your kassadin is dumb, you're suppposed to stack Archangel's Staffs after you get 1 hat...
So your not supposed to do that??
How come rammus builds are so similar!! Do tanky items ever stack??
How come rammus builds are so similar!! Do tanky items ever stack??
i don't know what you mean by that, but unique effects do not stack. for example, you can stack the hp and armor from a sunfire cape, but the damage effect doesn't stack. you can stack the armor from a thornmail, but the autoattack reflect doesn't stack.
and the reason why most rammus builds are similar is because there are a few items that are always 'core' on a certain champion. for example, every warwick will get a madred's bloodrazor, but some will buy an infinity edge, whereas others will grab a guardian angel. it all depends on your team, the enemy team, and the gamestate. our rammus bought frozen heart because he found himself taunting jax and teemo a fair bit, and lessening the damage on himself would greatly increase his tanking capabilities. their rammus bought a warmog's because i was bursting his health down in the laning phase, where health matters the most
and the reason why most rammus builds are similar is because there are a few items that are always 'core' on a certain champion. for example, every warwick will get a madred's bloodrazor, but some will buy an infinity edge, whereas others will grab a guardian angel. it all depends on your team, the enemy team, and the gamestate. our rammus bought frozen heart because he found himself taunting jax and teemo a fair bit, and lessening the damage on himself would greatly increase his tanking capabilities. their rammus bought a warmog's because i was bursting his health down in the laning phase, where health matters the most
975 without AP Runes.
962 damage Null Sphere
1080 damage Force Pulse
510 damage Riftwalk
962 damage Null Sphere
1080 damage Force Pulse
510 damage Riftwalk
TheValkyries
proudly reppin' 2 superbowl wins since DEFLATEGATE
Too bad Kassadin can only kill one person at a time then be useless for a while, even with all that AP. Force Pulse is really his only useful spell in my opinion. Cool champion, but not that good for the team-fight focused meta-game in League.
Meanwhile, Youmuu's Ghostblade's active doesn't proc for ranged standard attacks, so there it's really dead-weight on a champ like TF.
Meanwhile, Youmuu's Ghostblade's active doesn't proc for ranged standard attacks, so there it's really dead-weight on a champ like TF.
Kassadin just seems like a failed concept to me. Nether Blade is the only ability I know of that is entirely skipped by most players as much as possible, though it combined with his passive really suggest that he should be getting some dps action. A dps character would definitely like his slow and his kiting. But he's just too weak in that aspect and too strong when it comes to putting ap into his abilities. I think he needs a reshuffling like Ryze got (which made Ryze totally awesome, by the way).
I bought Soraka after the first time I played her. The goal isn't more kills, but less deaths. I can be a really squirrely fucker between starfall and the silence, and of course getting assists from anywhere is always nice. But yeah, support is fun, Soraka is pretty cool but Sona is the bomb.
In the EU, Soraka is popular even at top levels of play. I remember SKG using her in the World Finals against CLG. As for the US, it always preferred Taric for a healer.
Kassadin tends to be a risky pick that requires both an excellent player and a squishy enemy team to succeed. If you're playing him against one of those 4 tank teams or whatever, you'll suffer. Also, another problem is that Kassadin needs a solo lane while being a poor solo laner until level 6.
Kassadin tends to be a risky pick that requires both an excellent player and a squishy enemy team to succeed. If you're playing him against one of those 4 tank teams or whatever, you'll suffer. Also, another problem is that Kassadin needs a solo lane while being a poor solo laner until level 6.
TheValkyries
proudly reppin' 2 superbowl wins since DEFLATEGATE
So I'm writing up a Maokai guide for MOBAfire in hopes that through education I can use him to get out of ELO hell with my friend, because too many times someone has said, "I'm just going to afk, we can't win with tree." So if I force people to play him well perhaps he'll be realized for the great champion that he is.
I'll put it up when my friend and I are finished (Doing a dual guide, as we both came up with the build through many tests). We're currently maybe half-way through, after only starting actual work today. It's really rough and I'm not looking forward and reading through it to try and find the sections that are stream of thought paragraphs and make sense to me, but don't make sense to others.
Also, for god's sake, people need to stop calling him "tree." D:
I'll put it up when my friend and I are finished (Doing a dual guide, as we both came up with the build through many tests). We're currently maybe half-way through, after only starting actual work today. It's really rough and I'm not looking forward and reading through it to try and find the sections that are stream of thought paragraphs and make sense to me, but don't make sense to others.
Also, for god's sake, people need to stop calling him "tree." D:
I call him "treedude", tbh. People usually know what I mean.
I wrote an Udyr guide. I've played over 100 Udyr games, and studied multiple Top Elo Udyr setups while doing research for it. You can check it out here. Even if you don't play Udyr, I'd appreciate it if you can let me know what you think of it.
http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=540827
I wrote an Udyr guide. I've played over 100 Udyr games, and studied multiple Top Elo Udyr setups while doing research for it. You can check it out here. Even if you don't play Udyr, I'd appreciate it if you can let me know what you think of it.
http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=540827