League Of Legends Catch All

i think the majority of this happened on Skype.

Nights wrote:
oilypenguin wrote:
Squee9 wrote:
Shynex wrote:

Thought I would stop lurking and make an account on the forums.

Once we got Black Raven (aka Nights the Impotent Pirate), it was only a matter of time. Welcome to the club. Be sure to aggressively agree with everyone and hassle Complex about his life decisions.

Which are hilarious.

Yarr ima pirate?

Remember that time you made your own event in FTL where you're a pirate? Boom, roasted.

Jow wrote:

Honorable mention:

Enemy Ez taking half the team out, only to have 99%-dead Sona (by Rabbit!) swoop in and finish him off for the ace.

Haha, the best part was that Ez had just finished me (a very fed Cait) off, and then died to our no hp support, leaving Rabbit as the only person alive in the game.

Also, in case anyone was wondering, Ezreal still duels AD carries like a boss.

Elobuff stuff (for those who subscribe - won't let you get there otherwise):

https://elobuff.com/games/na-665706569

Funky-ass matchmaking - mysteriously got a 2000+ dude on the other team... and then noticed he went 0-5-0 in a 30-some minute game. This game is seely.

Separate queue, separate ELO. Also Fiddle jungle isn't going to turn losing games around.

Speaking of Elo... I think it's high time we put that GWJ tag on the ladder where it belongs.

psoplayer wrote:

Speaking of Elo... I think it's high time we put that GWJ tag on the ladder where it belongs.

the middle of it?

Firmly in the upper lower middle.

carrotpanic wrote:

Firmly in the upper lower middle.

That's ambitious. Have you considered the middle upper bottom?

And how

okay, before refunding the little mermaid lady i figured i'd dork around with runes/masteries instead of just giving her a standard GP/5 set with the same 9/0/21 build I use for Soraka. In particular, I fiddled around with her build to focus more on CdR and mana regen since those have been my biggest issues... This little exercise made me realize that outside of AP mid itemization I am still pretty ignorant about the new items. In particular, the new Eleisa's Miracle combined with Mikael's Crucible were all I needed to basically spam spells. Hitting those two early obviously delays Aegis/Bulwark for a while, but it might just be worth it to be cast significantly more often. Might be able to get away with just getting the Crucible and forgetting about EM...

Jow wrote:

okay, before refunding the little mermaid lady i figured i'd dork around with runes/masteries instead of just giving her a standard GP/5 set with the same 9/0/21 build I use for Soraka. In particular, I fiddled around with her build to focus more on CdR and mana regen since those have been my biggest issues... This little exercise made me realize that outside of AP mid itemization I am still pretty ignorant about the new items. In particular, the new Eleisa's Miracle combined with Mikael's Crucible were all I needed to basically spam spells. Hitting those two early obviously delays Aegis/Bulwark for a while, but it might just be worth it to be cast significantly more often. Might be able to get away with just getting the Crucible and forgetting about EM...

woah woah woah, when did they change EM?
Unique Passive – Aid: Your Summoner Heal, Revive and Clairvoyance cooldowns are reduced by 20%.
Unique Passive – Eleisa's Blessing: If you gain 3 levels with this item, you gain all the effects permanently and this item is consumed.
wow, that sounds like an awesome item to get early and let it get consumed! I didnt look at it since when it just gave tenacity. That is kind of cool, more so if you actualyl have Heal or CV on you.

Unfortunately heal and clairvoyance are weak these days. Calivoyance is not better than wards by enough to make it worth the summoner spell slot. Heal is something you take in order to try to keep your carry alive, but exhausting the person that's hurting your carry does the same thing. Exhaust also has offensive uses.

The part where the item gets consumed is pretty sweet though. The only support champ I play doesn't build or act like a support, so I am ignorant of all these things.

In other news, it's been a while since we've popped off a GWJ custom. Turns out it's still a lot of fun!

Squee9 wrote:

Unfortunately heal and clairvoyance are weak these days. Calivoyance is not better than wards by enough to make it worth the summoner spell slot. Heal is something you take in order to try to keep your carry alive, but exhausting the person that's hurting your carry does the same thing. Exhaust also has offensive uses.

The part where the item gets consumed is pretty sweet though. The only support champ I play doesn't build or act like a support, so I am ignorant of all these things.

In other news, it's been a while since we've popped off a GWJ custom. Turns out it's still a lot of fun!

We've been doing some GWJ arams as well that have been great fun. I was debating seeing what there was for interest on trying to have some sort of an ARAM night? I know we used to have try hard tuesdays and f around fridays but those kind of disappeared and now its' whenever there happens to be a bunch of people on, it seems like there are alot more on with some more consistancy now that the october/november rush of new games has kind of died out.

So maybe normals on tuesdays and arams on fridays? Not sure if other days work for people better? Not sure if I'm insane and been hiding in arams because I hate non-gwj 5 mans/bruiser everywhere meta and refuse to solo queue.

Hey guys, turns out I'm not terrible at this game despite being gone so long. Perhaps I can make it 2 LoL nights in a row? WE'LL SEE TONIGHT.

I'd be down to ARAM. The problem is as soon as five GWJ people are around a team will fire off. I'd be down to ARAM on Fridays, it's the only way I have a chance to play Blitz in an inhouse.

We've been araming after the usually game times. like 10pm EST and later....many nights.

Last night saw the most rediculously hilarious aram i've seen yet though.

The TankRAM i'll call it:P

I saw how the other side plays yesterday. Take me back GWJers!

Fuzzballx wrote:

We've been araming after the usually game times. like 10pm EST and later....many nights.

Last night saw the most rediculously hilarious aram i've seen yet though.

The TankRAM i'll call it:P

It did not help that our pubs were bad and your pub was good (triforce on leblanc...o_o.) I think we held off pretty long thanks to some amazing leona and rammus play.

I just feel as it works as long as you have 4, a room will fill up for aram. So those times when we get only 8 and everything explodes we could still do an aram. Where as if we have 13 they are generally faster games and easier to get everyone in and levels the playing field on skill.

IntangibleFate wrote:
Fuzzballx wrote:

We've been araming after the usually game times. like 10pm EST and later....many nights.

Last night saw the most rediculously hilarious aram i've seen yet though.

The TankRAM i'll call it:P

It did not help that our pubs were bad and your pub was good (triforce on leblanc...o_o.) I think we held off pretty long thanks to some amazing leona and rammus play.

I just feel as it works as long as you have 4, a room will fill up for aram. So those times when we get only 8 and everything explodes we could still do an aram. Where as if we have 13 they are generally faster games and easier to get everyone in and levels the playing field on skill.

Your Leona just didn't like me being AP Alistar... Also that LB had both berserkers and mercs -_-

Nights wrote:
IntangibleFate wrote:
Fuzzballx wrote:

We've been araming after the usually game times. like 10pm EST and later....many nights.

Last night saw the most rediculously hilarious aram i've seen yet though.

The TankRAM i'll call it:P

It did not help that our pubs were bad and your pub was good (triforce on leblanc...o_o.) I think we held off pretty long thanks to some amazing leona and rammus play.

I just feel as it works as long as you have 4, a room will fill up for aram. So those times when we get only 8 and everything explodes we could still do an aram. Where as if we have 13 they are generally faster games and easier to get everyone in and levels the playing field on skill.

Your Leona just didn't like me being AP Alistar... Also that LB had both berserkers and mercs -_-

I didn't like you being ap ali either, that's why I always through bombs at you. But Nightdweller on Vi always escaped me, and made me pay for it every time.

High ELO support player Spellsy created a doc on Season 3 support playing that is pretty informative.

(assuming you can open it... it's lagging like crazy right now)

played a game with nami with Corki against a Caitlyn/Lux bot lane. Needless to say, it was a little rough. Used exactly the build I mentioned earlier, rushing EM, then Chalice, then Crucible. It worked really well at allowing me to fight continually without mana problems, but it slowed my gold draw down for a loooong time; this was compounded by having to continually buy wards instead of being able to afford a Sightstone. I finished the game with only those two items, cooldown boots, a red sightstone, and a Kage's Pick (which was probably not a good grab in hindsight). We ended up winning a pretty ferocious battle, aided in no small part by their Cho, who was 10-2 when he bailed, leaving the game with about 10 minutes left. I finished the 46-minute game with only around 10k gold (and that's with gold quints).

Unless I use both Heal and CV with her in the future, I think I'm going to stick with rushing P. stone into Crucible and then go from there. EM just isn't worth the extra cost plus ditching the G/5 otherwise.

Eleisa's Miracle is not a very good item, even if you use heal or CV. The regen is mediocre and you lose the GP/5. A spare inventory slot is not worth that money.

Koz wrote:

High ELO support player Spellsy created a doc on Season 3 support playing that is pretty informative.

(assuming you can open it... it's lagging like crazy right now)

That's great stuff. Anyone planning to play support ever should give it a look.

I think Eliesa's Miracle needs to cost about 4-600 gold to be considered, or keep its gp/5. It probably still needs a cost reduction if it kept its gp/5. Cool idea, but health and mana regen aren't important enough to drop that much gold.

Patch notes: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/p...

Eve's ult got hilariously nerfed. Current health instead of max health, 30 sec CD increase and 150 range reduction. It sucks again!

And poor Draekon, Kha'zix and Talon both got significant nerfs. On the other hand they buffed Syndra again, so play her now while she's OP! And they increased Nami's ult speed, huzzah!

nami buffs across the board. nice!

Koz wrote:

Patch notes: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/p...

Eve's ult got hilariously nerfed. Current health instead of max health, 30 sec CD increase and 150 range reduction. It sucks again!

And poor Draekon, Kha'zix and Talon both got significant nerfs. On the other hand they buffed Syndra again, so play her now while she's OP! And they increased Nami's ult speed, huzzah!

Really, the best thing on those notes:
Muting a player will now mute that player's emote sounds

SPAM LAUGH IS FINALLY DEAD!

New item looks, interesting? what are the hidden traps that it speaks of? is this an item designed just for teemo shrooms?

Lightbringer - Remade!

New recipe: Grez's Spectral Lantern + Pickaxe
Total gold cost: 2425 (combine cost: 300)
+50 attack damage
+20 armor
+12% life steal
UNIQUE passive - Vanquish: Basic attacks have a 20% chance to deal 100 bonus magic damage (doubled for non-champions)
UNIQUE passive - Trap Detection: Nearby stealthed enemy traps are revealed
UNIQUE active: Cover s a target area in a stealth-detecting mist that grants vision for 10 seconds (60 second cooldown)

And lastly, die in a fire lux laugh, die in a fire. No longer will your shrill laugh haunt my games.

Also on the horizon: season 3's ranked ladder will be organized much more like the Starcraft 2 ladder.

Why are we creating a new league system?

We decided to move to the new league system for a few reasons. For starters, having a single ladder with all ranked players doesn't provide a lot of incentive for advancement. When you’re ranked 290,000 and have 289,999 opponents left to pass on the way up, that process can seem meaningless and interminable. Tiers and divisions also provide milestones and manageable goals you can strive to achieve at your skill level. Through leagues we can move away from focusing on a single number as the core indicator of a player’s skill, and instead move toward something more compelling: competition on a small ladder with a relatable number of opponents.

See more in their infographic or the FAQ article.

Riot wrote:

The camera snap that occurs when you respawn can be disabled by setting "DisableCameraSnapOnRespawn=1" in Game.cfg

Nice.

Also, I don't need to learn Eve any more.

Complex wrote:

is this an item designed just for teemo shrooms?

That is a weird passive, for sure. Nidalee and Caitlyn traps are visible, so this applies to Shaco and Teemo and... nothing else.