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silver heath
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LoL was such a different game early on

woeful shuttle
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again, porn parody of herself

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same with miss fortune

silver heath
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Like this… Evony coded banner from 2009

woeful shuttle
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early league was uh

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yeah

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yeah that exactly

stray mason
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Please give Fortune her new design!

stray mason
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Ohh

woeful shuttle
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oh god I forgot how bad some of these looked

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very.....2007 world of warcraft

stray mason
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Some Champs need an update fast.

silver heath
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The original gankplank splash will never not be funny

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What the FUCK is that “chest” hair

woeful shuttle
rain girder
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Can't cover the whole body

woeful shuttle
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ah eve

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god how far we've come since this

rain girder
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Back when eve really was just "haha succubus funny"

stray mason
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These are just Warcraft characters

woeful shuttle
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wow these are old. I remember lux wearing more clothes than four strategically placed pieces of cloth

stray mason
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Again warcraft

rain girder
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god the clashing colors on Lux

stray mason
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The midrift

woeful shuttle
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my eyes

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the proportions

rain girder
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"Ma'am, where are your organs"

woeful shuttle
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old morde actually aged decently

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still very early 2000s but like, in a good way

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YOU'RE DEAD

WE KILLED YOU

rain girder
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never forget Poppy

stray mason
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I do feel like you could tell me these were mid 2000s wow designs and I would believe you.

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Especially Poppy and Urgot.

rain girder
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100%. Given the fact that the game was based off of WC3's aesthetic due to its influence, especially

spice glen
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or...well maybe I'm mkaing that conection but still

stray mason
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Urgot is just a scourge mini boss

rain girder
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Let's also not forget the laziest splash recolor, speaking of Poppy

silver heath
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She was SUPER cheerleader-y originally

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And kind of a support

stray mason
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Is that why she throws her baton/wand

woeful shuttle
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actually yes

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it's based off of like pep band baton stuff

silver heath
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It also turned people invisible originally

abstract rune
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Janna's LOR design is mixed for me because the level 1 art fucks hard, it's perfect
The level 2, while really sick, I love the idea of Janna getting a 'True Divine Form', fails to make it feel as much like Janna as it should; she kinda looks like one of Kayle's units from a few expansions ago

woeful shuttle
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she looks like kayle in her level 2

stray mason
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I feel a lot of the early demacia Champs need the most gelp.

abstract rune
silver heath
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Though I would like her level 1 more if it was a colder in color

woeful shuttle
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imo shyv is the most overdue for a rework

stray mason
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I think Janna should kinda look like Barbericia from Final Fantasy.

woeful shuttle
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mostly because AP shyv really needs to die

silver heath
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It’s Shyv or Skarner

woeful shuttle
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skarners rework's in progress

abstract rune
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I think if they made her 'divine form' more obviously birdy and animalistic, less golds, and make the feathers blue, it'd be perfect

woeful shuttle
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imo if they got rid of the wings and helmet it'd work

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since janna is supposed to be more personable

raw leaf
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same

stray mason
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Could just be a lady made of wind.

ripe loom
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For the better imo

woeful shuttle
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league wiki do we need to talk

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this is not janna related at all

ripe loom
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VOLIBEAR?

abstract rune
rain girder
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Well, most of those are Zaunite, Nilah's people are seafaring and she IS a goddess of wind revered by sailors

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Volibear is probably a "I'm the god of storms, you're the goddess of wind" type deal

stray mason
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I think Janna is the only other character that could work as a "this is just kind of a naked lady" design.

silver heath
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no Corki
We have forgotten the old ways

abstract rune
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There actually is a reason for volibear and nilah yeah, LOR's plot setpiece for the current expansion is that Nilah is going around Runeterra to fight Volibear and picked up Janna's aid on the way

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And, yeah, the zaunites make sense for her too

woeful shuttle
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I mean ok maybe but urgot?

rain girder
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He probably doesn't like her very much, I would imagine

stray mason
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Ff14 did a wind themed elemental and made her hair very reed/wind themed.

abstract rune
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related by living in the same place is a stretch but, eh

rain girder
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Curse the fresh air, chem-corruption for all, raaaah

woeful shuttle
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yeah I was going to say

stray mason
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Though she's like a barbarian lady with a big sword.

woeful shuttle
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urgot's more likely to start dumping shit into the air

rain girder
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She makes a big sword out of hair, which is kinda dope

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bayonetta-style

abstract rune
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I will say the detail I do love about janna's divine form is that her hair turns into a big tornado

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that goes hard

rain girder
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She also doesn't have a fucking twig for a midsection, either

rain girder
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Hourglass, yes, but like... that's a proper scale, y'feel?

rustic osprey
woeful shuttle
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fucking gamespy too

raw leaf
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morde is still probably my fave champ update theyve ever done

silver heath
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“Come play, My Lord” ass ad

raw leaf
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like his look is so good

rustic osprey
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Has to be fiddle

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Fiddle is by far the best

raw leaf
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fiddle is good too def

stray mason
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I'm waiting for Cho'gath.

woeful shuttle
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sion and urgot just for how much they unfucked the original concept

rain girder
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Fiddle is great, but Udyr is my favorite of the big redesigns

rustic osprey
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Also swain. Old crooked leg swain was so funny

woeful shuttle
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like, sion and urgot were fucking messes before rework

rain girder
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Mechanically he's just... chef's kiss

raw leaf
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udyrs confuses me ngl

silver heath
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I wish Udyr’s new model was a little smaller

raw leaf
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and makes ultimate udyr just weird

stray mason
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Swain is fun

rustic osprey
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Old swain and old galio lmao

abstract rune
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poor zilean 😔

silver heath
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He’s like Volibear sized it feels weird

stray mason
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Voli had me hyped

raw leaf
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i like new voli if only for the thousand pierced skin

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that skin fucks

abstract rune
rustic osprey
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God

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Old yorick

raw leaf
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they gave morde an actual cool mace and im forever greatful

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hell my main complain with the old god skin is he doesnt have a cool mace

rustic osprey
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My fav LoR level up is probably renekton

raw leaf
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like the mouth hammer is ok but it doesnt activate my neurons as much

silver heath
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I think my favorite is either dark star for the sounds or train morde

rustic osprey
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Man I kinda miss the funny old fiddle bouncing bird E

stray mason
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GOD

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LOOK AT HIM

spice glen
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hot take.
Morde's weakest skin right now is Mace of Club

rustic osprey
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Hot take?

spice glen
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wait no it's first line penta kill actually

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I actually forgot that was a skin

raw leaf
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and the weird eye realm for the ult

raw leaf
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also his worse skins imo are ashen knight and the newer pentakill one

woeful shuttle
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not his baseline

stray mason
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Ye

spice glen
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Before the rework, it was his best skin

stray mason
woeful shuttle
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I honestly prefer his baseline

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because it's him fighting

woeful shuttle
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it's screaming

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it's just beautifully distorted screaming

spice glen
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I'm screaming

woeful shuttle
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it sounds so goddamn good

stray mason
# stray mason

||Waiting to see if people noticed this wasn't Renekton||

woeful shuttle
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honestly I couldn't tell

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except for not having the glaive

stray mason
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It's Sobek

woeful shuttle
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crocodile dude in vaguely egyptian jewelry-armor isn't exactly easily differentiable

stray mason
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From Smite

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TBF they used to look even more alike.

rustic osprey
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I am a project or ice rene enjoyer

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Project always with closed helmet tho

stray mason
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I love Smite, but league beats it in designs most times.

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...Except with the Baron.

rustic kite
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I remember when Nasus's and Renekton's lore was "they're aliens that the Summoners pulled in"

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And the galactic skins were basically straight Stargate references

stray mason
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Smite does that too

silver heath
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“This guys a weirdo from another world!”

rustic kite
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Yeah Malphite had that too and I forgot who else

rain girder
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Taric was also one of those

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He came from a world of gems

silver heath
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Kayle and Morgana

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Fiddlesticks and Nocturne

rain girder
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yeah old LoL was very multiversal

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In a way that current LoL isn't, despite having multiple planes at this point

rustic kite
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Nocturne I thought came from a Summoner's dream and escaped but is still technically Runeterran

silver heath
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Oh maybe

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I thought he was a nightmare from another world

rustic kite
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Fiddle... trying to remember Fiddle's original lore

silver heath
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He was a fucked up scarecrow a summoner summoned

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Who killed everyone who entered the room where he was summoned

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But was ok with being used as a Champion for ???

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Basically just a random extradimensional keter class

rain girder
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Cho'gath I remember hijacked summonings

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You never summoned Cho'gath. Cho'gath summoned HIMSELF

rustic kite
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Nope, I looked and OG Fiddle was made by a witch who would trap souls in scarecrows, and the witch sent one scarecrow out as a harbinger and now that one is a champion

rain girder
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It's so funny to imagine some of the champions now because like

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Imagine you're Bel'veth, Empress of the void

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Chilling in your Void-Palace

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doing void-empress things

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and suddenly some chump mage pulls you into Runeterra to fight against an armadillo

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How pissed would you be

rustic kite
silver heath
rustic kite
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And then later was the extra-dimensional lore where he killed his summoner and then they lock him in the spooky room

silver heath
open siren
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Shaco's current lore is like... possessed puppet yes?

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Where are they even connected to?

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It would be hilarious if they're related to the Freljord they're just exceptionally weird.

silver heath
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not much

abstract rune
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shaco's got nothin yeah

open siren
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Revamp Gragas and Shaco's lore and make them lovers to enemies somehow

spice glen
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People like jesters and clowns. Right? that makes them laugh.```
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not official lore, just spit balling

rain girder
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Yeah, Shaco's current lore is pretty much "There is a story of a possessed doll"

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"This doll may or my not be Shaco"

open siren
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Honestly one of the easiest things they could do is make them a Member of the Shadow Isles that was the jester to that pretty boy king or something. Or have them be the equivalent to Tahm Kench, but instead of giving poor folk riches they act the jester in court and love to watch places crumble.

rain girder
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I like the idea that he's just one of the big ol demons

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Laughter as a demon

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Although the old interview with shaco from the institute of war era is hilarious

toxic cargo
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I'll have a hot take of my own
I prefer old Kayle than the new one
Give me back my armor

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I guess she could be mistaken for Leona at a glance, kinda I guess

open siren
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They did mess around with some folks designs

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I got real sad what they did with Trundle

rustic osprey
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Holy fuck

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(Potential Worlds spoiler) ||BDS with the reverse sweep||

fallen notch
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once again lamenting that I’ll probably see humanity colonize the Moon before my jungler visits my lane more than once per game, if that

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Annie into Mord mid and I can’t do anything because he’s manaless and tanks all my early damage, Amumu visits once and we don’t get the kill so he decides never to drop by again

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granted this swings both ways because I’m sure a lot of the dumb picks I make wouldn’t be great if the enemy had an attentive jungler, but still

rain girder
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Trying out Viego because I hate the guy and want to learn what viego players despise

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His clear is interesting, I thought he healed more

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But maybe that's like, y'know, just my impression of him later on

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Doesn't help that we had a "WHY DOES JUNGLE NEVER GANK" Sivir down below, though. Kept calling me useless and bitching about just everything

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I'm topside invading the enemy krugs while they lose a 2v2

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"Jungle come down here they're free"

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Like, asking for ganks is fine, makes sense

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But the "Why weren't you here, right now, in my lane, regardless of what's going on elsewhere" types are infuriating

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Most junglers don't have an insta-gank button lol

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(Zac does tho, blobby fuck)

rain girder
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man Viego is weird tho

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His abilities READ straightforward

stray mason
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Wait

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So is the new egg champion Jarvin and Shavana's kid?

raw leaf
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egg champion?

stray mason
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Well it's someone inside an egg.

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A little flaming egg

raw leaf
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where is this?

stray mason
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In the new dev log

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We're getting a new vastayan too

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And another creature champ

raw leaf
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the new skarner seems neat

abstract rune
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A little king fire salamander sounds great if that's the direction that new guy is going for

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And I'm down with paint and art vibes

rustic osprey
silver heath
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at least they removed some of his really weird tech

rustic osprey
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You can still use e while changing w which is noce

violet hollow
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I'll always love the meme of
Akshan ability description
Vs
Old Pantheon a.d.

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Descriptions? Nah son
Spear shot, does exactly what it says

rustic osprey
rustic osprey
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Nothing to see here folks

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just a casual

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59 kill game in 21 minutes

rain girder
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On occasion, I'm good at ADC as well

solar nymph
rustic osprey
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ya hate to see it

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xd

toxic cargo
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The worst

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I mean, it's e4 to e3 so doesn't matter that much imo

raw leaf
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the hell is emerald lol

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did they add more ranks?

sinful orbit
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Yep

raw leaf
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cursed

woeful shuttle
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rank between plat and dia

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to even out the distribution so silver isn't average anymore

raw leaf
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plat being below emerald annoys my brain

woeful shuttle
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viego sion is gross

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this is extremely fun but goddamn

abstract rune
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oh dear

abstract rune
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Oh Dear

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also, you can talk runeterra in #card-gaming

woeful shuttle
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I forgot that that's a channel and not a thread

jovial stratus
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rain girder
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When you get bodied all game but still win, and you type gg ez

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feelsgoodman.jpg

round surge
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i don’t know anything about league but i am here to say Mundo is probably the best because he’s cute. Thank you for your time.

ripe loom
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😌

rain girder
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damn I forgot how much badmin went hard

open siren
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I always want them to do more with Nautilus. He's such a bad ass champ. Having him show up in the animation before really made him seem so god damn bad ass.

lilac bridge
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lsot and forgotten is a great osng

lilac bridge
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this fucking bitch.

edgy patio
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ff7 lookin monster guy lmao

lilac bridge
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YEAH

raw leaf
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What you mean he's an adorable scrunglo

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Ngl I do sorta miss the old design

round surge
fallen notch
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I've had my opinion changed on Renata now that I understand more of how she works, girl's got good poke

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also why the default rune set uses relentless hunter instead of ult hunter is beyond me, I understand the general principle of zipping back to support fights faster, but her ult is such a big tool to have

rain girder
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I think I just had my first good Viego game

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Immediate level 3 gank botside which wound up in a double kill for me

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invaded after that to steal Briar's camps and then kill briar

raw leaf
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thats what i usually do with briar lol

rain girder
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It did help that the enemy mid was, y'know

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AP Nautilus

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so Ahri ran circles around him and had priority always

raw leaf
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man that briar decided to hardcore go in on a goredrinker

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smh

rain girder
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Briar wasn't doing very well either

raw leaf
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fully upgrade your boots you silly your a jg ffs lol

rain girder
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fr lmao

raw leaf
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like idk much about viego clear but briars clear route to level 3 is fast

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so im sorta just puzzled tbh lol

rain girder
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Viego has a solid clear time, esp with braum leash

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but I told them from the get go that I was going to rush to bot

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and Briar went for a bot-to-top full clear

raw leaf
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mm mm

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i do leashless raptor start on briar

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cuz she can do that and just be full hp lol

rain girder
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I went blue > gromp > wolves > bot level 3

raw leaf
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classic blue start routing yeah lol

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was bot blue side or did you long walk?

rain girder
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so Briar came down after I got a double kill thinking "oh man I can finish him off

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and we just goon squadded

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bot side yeah

raw leaf
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mm mm

rain girder
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It was so quick

raw leaf
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man imagine thinking that smh

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"im sure i can kill them all"

rain girder
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I was VERY low but I had a braum and cait

raw leaf
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no yeah

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thats dumb greed behavior

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like unless you catch and can clean fast you dont poke that shit

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like ive done that sorta pick and run

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but i has to be the jg decided to river walk

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not fucking just be going back to mind their own or some shit lol

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and if i even see another body that early i peace out

rain girder
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yeah

raw leaf
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or try to get a rotate for a collapse maybe

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but that requires laners that pay attention which lmao

rain girder
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yeah we just snowballed from there, I did the rest of my clear and then came back to rush drag with them

raw leaf
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thatll do it lol

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also man it is so obvious with how i talk im an old head jg main lol

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mordes at least letting me top nowadays

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there was a period where i just could not top savve maybe illaoi lol

rain girder
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I was support main for a VERY long time

raw leaf
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that was arguably my second

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if only due to leona lol

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who is arguably my best character lol

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hell i showed off my bored head ass leona top game stats a while back

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i fucking was chunking the enemy squishies like an assasin champ lol

abstract rune
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ohh, Reksai is rad

rustic osprey
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Poor reksai 😔

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Which she was better yet I don't really at the same time

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She very cooltho ye

fallen notch
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I have played Sion mid

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what a champion

abstract rune
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Sion mid is an interesting move

fallen notch
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We won but it certainly wasn't a game where I was doing much. Viktor couldn't kill me but nor did I ever have a chance of hitting him, so

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My initial thoughts are that it'll probably work more often than not because (to my understanding) Sion is good into burst and most scaling mages aren't going to do anything during lane phase, so the farm is kinda free. Granted, you won't really be doing much to your enemy either, but you can rotate quickly and you scale infinitely, so.

rustic osprey
fallen notch
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You'd think so, but the game I had vs. Viktor suggests it kinda doesn't matter

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Granted, he didn't go Liandry's like he should have, but I dunno if it would've made that much of a difference

rustic osprey
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What was the rest of your/their comp?

edgy trout
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Going any tank mid is pretty nasty

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Since a lot of mid champs don't match well into tanks

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Malz does fine into them tho

hard pendant
rustic osprey
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Shit sry for ping

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Depends on the tank.

fallen notch
spice glen
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how well did the match go overall

fallen notch
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Fine, I guess? I’m fully willing to admit Fiddle and Akali did a lot of the heavy lifting

spice glen
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oh I was mostly asking if like your team was pretty even or if someone pulled ahead hard

fallen notch
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Fiddle and Akali stomped pretty hard by the end of it, can’t tell how bot went by looking at postgame, I was just kinda There

spice glen
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hey you helped atleast.

fallen notch
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Which I think might just be how Sion goes, I imagine he’s a little hard to actually kill people with if they’re not wearing a bag over their head

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I like him but he’s definitely not super interactive lmao

spice glen
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he's also a little hard to kill too

fallen notch
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I had another game with him today vs Leblanc, and she was on a bit of a tear but I think most of her lead came from botched jungle plays since I know a lot of my issue was Twitch

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So 🤷‍♀️

spice glen
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was that a win or loss?

fallen notch
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This one was a loss, I think only Akali won lane, I went even, bot and jg got rolled

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So it goes

spice glen
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Well if you did your best in the match, then that's all that matters

woeful shuttle
rustic osprey
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my R no longe woks so I have to shift ult no on 1

raw leaf
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this concept art for briars skin is fun

rain girder
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I think I'm getting the hang of Viego

jovial stratus
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Getting the hang of viego means getting a hang of Most Champs is the fucked part

rain girder
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I've been playing long enough that I kinda get it, honestly

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any time I got to hijack skarner was a treat because I onetricked Skarner for a while

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And being able to play around it felt good

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"I know the path a Skarner wants to take for the easiest clear. Ward that. Take the spire beforehand so he can't get it for a little bit. Plan to contest near dragon. Ping bot to engage the fight near the spire. They moved? Great. Kill Skarner, reap benefits of spire after I kill them, get a stun off, Viego ult out, triple kill."

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bot lane pulled up for that, too, they were DOWN

rustic osprey
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ohh that game would have been juicy for iceborne viego aswell

rain girder
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It was overall a very juicy game for Viego

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most everyone except Zed had some sort of CC to help me catch up after I killed them.

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and Zed I could just... use to kill them

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Or get them in ult kill range

rustic osprey
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violet hollow
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almost 1 mln views in 1 hour
seems ppl enjoyed it

rain girder
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Not pictured: The fully built Youmuus and Boots in my gold value because I was greeding for a big back

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We love an FF15

lilac bridge
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okay heartsteel is a very good name for a boy band

open siren
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I will admit it took me a while to realize who they all were

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Sett being the one I recognized immediately because of their shoulder fluffies

rain girder
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I literally didn't recognize Aphelios at all

open siren
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Saaaaame

rain girder
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and could VAGUELY make out Ezreal before he used trueshot

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Same with Yone

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Only vague recognition

open siren
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Nah I did not get Ez until trueshot. To be fair I tend not to play too many of the flashy anime boy characters.

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Cause they're assassins or DPS

rain girder
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The only character on that list that I play in any capacity is Ezreal

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my void babies get no love

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put Kha'zix in the boy band pls

open siren
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Bug band

rain girder
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make him a human prettyboy I don't care

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but if it gets me a skin I'll take it

open siren
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Boyband Zac

rain girder
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a band made up of all the non-human characters

open siren
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The Monster Mashup

rain girder
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Kha'zix, Zac, Rek'Sai, Fiddlesticks(Who got some Star Guardian stuff at least)...

open siren
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Cho'Gath as a giant bass-boosted monster creature that carries speakers around on their shoulders.

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The scream being just a giant feedback screech

spice glen
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Nah, just call them Cosmic Drive, and it's just a bunch of lofi chill music stuff.

open siren
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I do love Space Groove Ornn

rain girder
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Nocturne as a DJ with record discs as his knives

spice glen
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Cho'gath but as a rapper who ..ahem spits fire.

open siren
#

I hope with Jax's rework they'll go for Zilean next

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either zilean or gragas

rain girder
#

hour and a half video essay on Neace, don't mind if I dimma-do

#

I don't really like content showing Tarzaned too positively but seeing him rail on Neace is a treat

rustic osprey
#

Yone was very obvious to me

rustic osprey
#

I got a Top Draven

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oh boy

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thank god false alarm

open siren
#

please, there's no way Draven's a top

sinful orbit
rustic osprey
#

against an immobile tank it could work tbh...maaaaaaaaaaaayyybeee

abstract rune
#

ADCs taken toplane usually do okay by virtue of just, Having Range over the opponent, though are an easy target for ganks and lacking a bruiser or tank lategame stings a good bit

#

It's mostly just annoying for everybody involved

spice glen
#

a balanced team do tend to do solidly okay. Weird gimmick builds or set ups or teams that aren't "normal" but rely on being ahead to win, don't do so well.

abstract rune
#

Man Orrn is just so damn fun

#

He and Nautilus are my favorite unkillable boulders of CC

#

They keep nerfing him in Wild Rift and it refuses to stick

#

Oh, huh, Janna got a mini-rework without me noticing

#

passive is now just a 5% MS buff to allies nearby
her Q now has a fixed windup time, but can be cast with stacking charges up to 2
her W has no passive, but gives a huge MS boost on use and will haste or damage three nearest allies/enemies
E now shields herself and the lowest-health ally
Ult is not a channel anymore, she can move freely after putting it down

rustic osprey
#

I am a Vayne/trist top player

#

hehe

#

sometimes

abstract rune
#

You are the villain of my story

rustic osprey
#

I was a Tank Viktor top player after all

abstract rune
#

I only play good honest toplaners, like
checks notes
Singed and Graves

rustic osprey
#

;-;

abstract rune
#

Those two and Orrn are my toplane staples, but sometimes I pull out Sett or Shen

#

Wonder if I should try n' learn Kennen again

rustic osprey
#

kennen is gud

#

Man I semi miss iceborne viktor top

#

even tho is was evil

abstract rune
#

Viktor ain't in WR so I've got no experience with em

rustic osprey
#

nod nod

abstract rune
#

Been picking up PC league a little but not a ton
Illaoi is fun, though

rustic osprey
#

I need to start vary my champ pool again cause I am playing very samey atm

rustic osprey
spice glen
#

she's a late game scaler (as long as you don't have any True % HP monsters like vayne)

abstract rune
#

I play enough tanks to know that Vayne is my eternal foe

spice glen
#

Vayne really is "You have some armour and HP over 3k? Perish."

abstract rune
#

My midlane is mostly Ziggs with a bit of Vex and Galio, tryin to pick up folks like Zed and Ahri

abstract rune
sinful orbit
#

As someone who plays Olaf and Urgot, I think more people should play immobile ADCs top

#

They're not easy to run down at all

abstract rune
#

Hahah

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Only ADC I'm any good at is Jhin for some reason

#

well, and twitch, but I prefer taking him jungle

fallen notch
#

I constantly want to try new and kinda wonky picks mid which mostly means playing top laners atm, but my most played overall is almost certainly still Neeko

#

Non-committal lane bully who gets half your HP bar if you can’t count minions

abstract rune
#

lesbian jumpscare

fallen notch
#

I should probably try more mage junglers, I think I’d like Fiddle and I already generally like Morg and Neeko

abstract rune
#

Fiddlesticks is rad

#

With him getting into WR that only leaves Bard on my wishlist

silver heath
#

Fiddlesticks is pretty weird but is a jungler

abstract rune
#

The WR new champ lineup for this patch is Fiddles, Sivir, and Zyra

rustic kite
abstract rune
#

lmao

rustic osprey
#

The next patch for PC league is seeing zyra and brand jungle buffs

abstract rune
#

brand jungle? 🤔

rustic osprey
#

its a/was thing

abstract rune
#

i mean i guess his clear would be solid

rustic osprey
#

morg is already viable

abstract rune
#

brand ganks just sound a bit tricky

rustic osprey
#

they are. prob is a crystal scepter first buy

abstract rune
#

Gragas and Ekko are fun, wish I was better at em

rustic osprey
#

gragas is one of my fav champs 😌

#

jungle wise I am more of a diana over ekko.

abstract rune
#

I am more of an Ekko over Diana

rustic osprey
#

but I am currently in a mid phase

#

I usually rotate jungle mid and top

abstract rune
#

I play kinda anywhere, though I haven't done support in a long while

toxic cargo
#

I play Akshan, Camille, Aattrox, and Gwen top

rustic osprey
#

one of em is not like the others lmao

toxic cargo
#

And I used to play Shyv top extensively

#

Problem is that when Shyv top has 50% winrate, shyv jungle has 55

rustic osprey
#

The Rhaast isp retty amazing

rain girder
rain girder
#

my buggy boi

rustic osprey
#

yomus over dusk or eclipse?

open siren
#

I pretty much just aram lately since I don't have anyone to play with and I am always the tank

#

And people yell at me for dying when I have to engage hard

rustic osprey
#

SoloQ bonaza intensifies

fallen notch
#

Sion bot you say 👀

fallen notch
#

how does one build + runes for Morg, Neeko, and Teemo jungle? I assume Morg is the same as always except you level W first

rustic osprey
#

TBH just like you build em normally. Mythic for jungle neeko is harvester or rocketbelt

#

If you don't start wolves/raptors I think neeko also wants to start w

rain girder
#

Man

#

Fuck additional champion bans

#

let me ban a summoner spell

silver heath
#

Hell yeah looking forward to lol as it was meant to be: sans flash

rain girder
#

Preciselyt

#

Really I'm just tired of Exhaust

#

Just a "What if we said fuck you in general" button

#

(Also I would enjoy a League without flash personally, but that's just me)

spice glen
#

I want to keep exhaust because of that "who the fuck said you could get away, or kill me, or exist."

rain girder
#

See, as an assassin main, I do not care for Exhaust

#

But I'm fickle enough to like it when I'm an ADC

#

Except when it is used against me

spice glen
#

You have to accept that if you use it, or have it used against you it's funny

#

someone considered you such a threat to just slow you down and lower your damage.
(or in my case I do it to be annoying)

rain girder
#

I find it just really boring in general, used or not used by me, tbh

#

I use it because it has worth when I'm in certain roles but I'd be fine with it being gone

#

As well as flash

#

(My opinion at large is that the game is far too safe atm, people don't get punished nearly enough for their mistakes)

#

But I am also biased

spice glen
#

I find it the opposite, the game snow balls pretty damn fast.

#

there's no neck and neck game, there's always just a snow ball lead unless a team baffles an endgame play

rain girder
#

We're playing very different matches lol

spice glen
#

also if flash were gone, then people woudl run ghost more often.

#

which is honestly worst when you see someone just wiggle their butt away

rain girder
#

My matches are always like "Man, I'm gonna gank this adc and they're going to- ope. They're gone." "Okay, Lux went way too far ahead in this teamfight, I'm gonna pick her off-oh."

#

Everyone has their oh-shit button on tap

spice glen
#

all that sounds like people recognise you as the threat.

rain girder
#

I mean yeah, I play stealth assassins, they should, they should also not see me coming lmao, and I'm pretty good at that, I like to think

#

But like, I ganked a Kai'sa who was solo pushing while blitz shoved topside

#

and she just... kinda got to flash-E and leave? Despite my stealth + jump?

#

And yeah I burned her flash but she was in a garbage position and only had to use a summoenr

spice glen
#

you both used flash and your abilities.

#

it's a pretty even trade.

rain girder
#

and I'm just sitting here on 3 items while she's at 2 and confused as to why that didn't work out more in my favor despite everything lining up for me

spice glen
#

can only assume bad execution.

#

if she got away and it was all in your favour

#

...then I dunno what to say!

rain girder
#

See but that's the thing, that's just kinda how it feels 90% of the time, it feels like every champion in the game has their safety tools and thus can make awful positioning mistakes with little consequence

#

Like I ain't perfect but I'm pretty good at the bug

#

I've learned to just try and keep track of it or predict it where I can

spice glen
#

Having the tools and using them to get away, means that they used them probably right

rain girder
#

I mean yeah, they used them, but after making enough mistakes I feel like perhaps that shouldn't be enough to save you

#

And sometimes they do get punished, don't get me wrong

spice glen
#

if they were several levels behind, or something

#

sure

#

being behind 2-3 levels then hell yeah you should have borderline chunked her existance.

#

but sometimes in league you can..just get away from your mistakes because the other person just chokes enough

rain girder
#

Yeah, even I benefit from that sometimes, too

#

A clutch stealth and some juking goes a long way

#

and sometimes I'll steal a play that I had no right doing

spice glen
#

yeah, it's just how they managed to wiggle waggle away from you, and what you did in response to the wiggle waggling.

rain girder
#

But it really just feels to me like the game has too many safety nets. Stuff like flash, the various mobility moves that more champs seem to have with every release, some runes can absolutely make a major difference and help you survive situations you might otherwise not, and there's a level of skill to using them for sure

spice glen
#

because if I'm right, kha'zix has more tools to prevent people getting away, right?

rain girder
#

But largely speaking it doesn't seem like people get very punished for being made to use them

#

Kha has a slow on his passive, a leap to follow, and his evolved W can slow as well

#

Conventional wisdom dictates that you hold gap closer for theirs and shoot for ult passive resets for maximum slow

#

And usually, y'know, that works out for me

spice glen
#

I dunno what to tell you, they got away with less tools to run away.
You both had flash, and she only had the movement speed increase.

rain girder
#

But it's the most audacious mistakes that people seem to survive

spice glen
#

then you should try to make sure that you deliver on the maximum punish.

#

if they are making a big mistake, that doesn't mean they can't get out of it

#

now if we had dota's turning speed thing, sure but then I imagine it would play out somewhat the same

#

I'm surprised you didn't save the replay and just tried to see how or why they managed to get away.

rain girder
#

Well, this game was ages ago and I wasn't too concerned about it at the time, the situation just came to my brain

spice glen
#

oh, fair I guess, but still if there's ever a point of "How did that not go in my favour?" You should just check and break it down.

rustic osprey
#

Exhaust should be banned for aram

#

Flash ghost and snowball only!

spice glen
#

no exhaust should be buffed for aram

#

too many dive champs

edgy trout
#

I like exhaust

#

But I like anything that makes adcs and assassin's stuck in place

#

Because I play artillery mages

#

And as such really don't like assassin's

#

And also it's really easy to bait assassin junglers into dives and then punish them

rustic kite
#

I know what LoL needs

#

A summoner spell that applies grounded status

fallen notch
#

Another thing about having no flash is that I think some champs would become much harder to make plays with. E.g. I think Annie would go from being an okay pick to a bit of a nightmare because good luck getting close enough to hit your stuns in a teamfight without getting deleted

#

This is already sort of the case but flash alleviates it

#

I think Alistar would be similar but not as bad because he can still frontline if his engage suddenly becomes much worse

edgy trout
#

I think removing flash makes some champs slightly less good but not while making others completely trash

#

I think a much bigger problem is just the increasing amount of mobility in champions over time

spice glen
#

It's also a reflection that the average player is just getting better and more responsive

silver heath
#

Removing flash would be bad

rustic osprey
#

yep

woeful shuttle
#

juggernauts in shambles

rustic kite
#

Juggs would do alright on ghost/exhaust if flash didn’t exist

#

But here’s the hard question: What do you do if you want flash to still exist but be less dominant a choice?

woeful shuttle
#

don't let it wallhop

spice glen
#

everytime you cast it, your character suddenly gets slapped with cheese on the face

lilac bridge
silver heath
#

still can juke skillshots and such but loses many wallhops and creates less safety

rustic osprey
#

The problem is some champs would be so fucking rough without flash. Having no flash as a control mage mid is a semi death sentence for early game through perma ganking etc

rain girder
#

this poor talon

#

they did not ward this game

#

once Yone was dead they folded

toxic cargo
#

Flash is so ingrained into the game you'd have to rework, like, the entire cast

open siren
#

There is a jungler/support, Invern. I love them. They do almost no damage, shield people, and do not even attack jungle monsters but ask them nicely to leave. The reason they are a jungler and can gank people is because they have a long range root that gets anyone who clicks the hit target to zoom into attack range. This single root is enough to fuck up most people because they can't flash and the enemy is on them.

silver heath
#

Ivern is so weird

#

Top 3 weirdest champion

open siren
#

I luv him. I have the candy King skin

fallen notch
#

Briar mid is a character with no design flaws smile

#

spent the entire game even farm and poking her out but it doesn't matter because she out-sustains my burst even with GW

#

She lands her ult, I flash away, she dashes, I use Ez blink, she dashes again, and walks out from under my tower with a kill and most of her health back

spice glen
#

GW is super weak in this meta right now, I hate it.

silver heath
#

who are you playing?

fallen notch
#

It doesn't help that, as always, I'll live to see the heat death of the universe before my jungler visits my lane

#

Ez

silver heath
#

That's probably just how that mu goes

#

ez struggles a lot vs fighters and assassins and fightery assassins

fallen notch
#

looking at the stats and she healed more damage than I did in the entire game; 14.5k healed vs. my 12k done pretty much exclusively to her

#

and I'm top damage between both teams

#

It took me a bit to get GW but still dude

#

I'm hitting First Strike W + E basically on cooldown and it just doesn't matter

#

at least Cho and Swain have to land non-targeted abilities to ruin my day

silver heath
#

Ezreal doesn't have very good options vs anyone vaguely bursty who can stick to him

#

It's part of why he's usually played bot

#

(Diana and Naafiri are similarly very bad MUs)

rustic kite
#

His burst also isn’t as strong as most mages so can’t deal with sustain champs as well

woeful shuttle
#

yeah ez just....isn't a strong pick mid

#

he doesn't have the sustained damage and he is very squishy

rustic osprey
#

Also briars whole thing is kinda sustain. You ain't winning a poke war vs things like her or vlad/ww etc

sinful orbit
#

Yeah I mean sustain beats poke beats all in right

lilac bridge
#

what the fuck?

#

you're not gonna be able to change your name with blue essence anymore??

#

what the fuck is the point of it then

raw leaf
#

i save it up for champions lol

lilac bridge
#

i guess.

silver heath
#

essence emporium is nice

sinful orbit
#

I never thought name changes were the primary point of BE

lilac bridge
#

yeah but like. once you get everyone. that's al lthey're really used for

#

essence emporium only comes once a year

silver heath
#

Once you buy every champion you've completed the primary purpose of BE

spice glen
#

yeah you won't be able to change your name as your current league name is gonna be tied to your riot account thing.

#

so now it's your unique (I think) identifier

sinful orbit
#

You can change your name for free once a year

rain girder
#

Timestamped: Neeko takes half damage from turrets when she is a cannon minion

#

A Level 1 Neeko disguised as a cannon minion can take 8 turret shots

lilac bridge
#

my point is there's no real regular outlet for BE later on now

sinful orbit
#

Yeah, basically by design

#

The point of BE is to buy champions, like Cyan said. Once you own all the champions, you have completed the use of the progression currency

#

Name changes weren't really supposed to be a BE outlet, BE was the limiting mechanic for name changes

woeful shuttle
#

also realistically you stockpile it for the emporium

rustic kite
#

Unless you liked funny comedy names more than emotes or a skin for a champ you prolly don't play

rain girder
#

Man, I wish Death's Dance didn't cause you to shimmer on Kha'zix

#

The stats and effect are decent enough and situationally useful for Kha but

rain girder
#

Hopping back into Ranked again, having some good games so far

#

She says, the enemy DCing in her immediate next game

spice glen
#

Apparently Xbox says that league of legends takes 1700 hours to beat.
Which if you assume 30 minutes, it takes 3400 games.

rain girder
#

Hmm... wonder how I can tell how many I've played

rustic osprey
#

i mean after normal/aram you see the number for those

rain girder
#

Only for the current season, and your stats only show the past few

#

I wanna know of ALL TIME

jovial stratus
#

The Nunu game looks really cute btw

#

Like really really cute

rain girder
#

Got matched up with a racist draven and an inting Irelia

#

boy what a day

silver heath
#

isn't it redundant to say that about dravens

rain girder
#

Valid lmao

#

His name was somehow both

#

antisemitic AND anti-palestine

rustic kite
#

Fit all that in one username?

#

Wow

rain girder
#

Yep

#

It was disturbingly clever and I hate it

rain girder
#

||Gen G going for a reverse sweep, let's fuckin go???|| Spoilered for Worlds content

#

Chovy, locking in Akali:

#

||SILVER SCRAAAAAAAAAAAAAPES||

sinful orbit
rain girder
#

Okay so

#

This Sion is a god

#

He took a jungle item and did nothing but invade Nocturne

#

solo-killing him several times

#

and I was clearing my jungle all game

#

Nocturne just couldn't play

spice glen
#

Ah double jungle tactic, rare but always funny when it happens

rustic kite
#

The Tilterella trademark

rustic osprey
#

man that was a menace

#

yi/karthus + taric xd

spice glen
#

so wait I spent some time thinking about the upcoming name changes to accounts and riot id's
Is this even a good thing?

silver heath
#

The current id system sucks so probably

fallen notch
#

AYYYYYY

#

crit AP Malphite lives again

fallen notch
#

relatedly, it’s kinda unfortunate how effective AP Malph is because I know I won’t get away with it forever surely

woeful shuttle
#

I like these changes

rustic osprey
#

I am a bit mad. we 3 man invaded shaco at red, got FB and they then insta RQ and the enemy could early FF and we dont get any LP

#

would have been the most free LP

raw leaf
#

i continue to really like briar

#

shes like a relaxing jg to play to me lol

sinful orbit
rain girder
#

New patch dropped

#

I can finally change my in-client language easily and without a redownload

#

Nevermind, it's just for the Riot Client

rain girder
#

Another 4-evo game

#

Feels so fucking good

lilac bridge
#

rengar top is so funny man

#

you just stay away from bushes and he ceases to exist

rain girder
#

yeeah

#

he was talking the MOST shit

rustic osprey
#

A H H H H H H

abstract rune
#

Oh shnap

raw leaf
#

very normal briar gaming lol

rustic osprey
#

Nodders

#

What you runes you doing in precision?

raw leaf
rustic osprey
#

My sneaky recommendation is overheal instead of triumph

raw leaf
#

thats def good for her

#

just the triumph ends up letting me sustain through a fight

#

cuz ultimately i tend to get bursted so overshield doesnt benefit me as much as id like

rustic osprey
#

That's fair. I like to do e start and then start jung with a shield buffer

raw leaf
#

oh i start solo raptros and with w

#

im basically full health still and its pretty fast

rustic osprey
#

I mean it's briar so you always gud

raw leaf
#

lol yeah

rustic osprey
#

I need to play her more again but I am semi frustrated with her w since you can get pull kited nastily esp early ganks

raw leaf
#

i like her

#

shes like relaxing vi to me lol

rustic osprey
#

Also it's a nightmare when you accidentally hit Champs with ults or they dash into them to pull you into towers

raw leaf
#

mm mm

rustic osprey
#

But she is fun

raw leaf
#

ive rarely had that happen

#

but its def a risk some times

rustic osprey
#

I have had people flash into the ult to pull me into towers

#

Like 2 screens away

raw leaf
#

i feel i rarely use it at like angles where that happes

#

cuz im always floating in river so its a pure horizontal more or less

rustic osprey
#

I never do those. My main angles are pseudo lane ganks

#

Where you ult from the t2 direction into the lane

raw leaf
#

mm mm

#

i ironically rarely do that

#

in part due to fear of hitting someone still walking into lane lol

rustic osprey
#

It gives you usually more playroom to hit as you shoot into lane direction and people expect it less

raw leaf
#

fair i spose

rustic osprey
#

But I do be hitting those stray people XD

raw leaf
#

lol

toxic cargo
#

Jax gaming +167LP

#

Now up to plat 3 and climbing

raw leaf
#

ngl irelia is fun

rain girder
#

I find myself very amused at this guy

#

A Warcraft 3 pro dipping his toes into MOBAs with HOTS and now poking into League

woeful shuttle
#

I miss HOTS

rain girder
#

Agreed

rain girder
#

What a fucking game man

#

Irelia wound up almost unkillable

#

Twitch was melting people

#

and my team just kinda said "fuck grouping"

raw leaf
#

love it when im losing lane and dont get a single gank

#

like not even one lol

spice glen
#

was the match a loss

raw leaf
#

yeah

rain girder
#

tfw you get informed that your report was successful and someone got penalized

#

feelsgoodman.jpg

edgy trout
rustic kite
#

Should I ask about the additional u in "HUDu"?

fallen notch
#

can't play him all the time or it gets boring but a good Ziggs game just kinda hits

#

free laning phase because your Qs come from the next county over and mana items mean that eventually you just get to put people in a bullet hell with them. Statistically if I throw enough of these I will poke you out of lane eventually

abstract rune
#

I main Ziggs in WR, he's a great time

fallen notch
#

Two games into Azir and I’m thinking maybe the path of least resistance is good actually

#

high execution and his payoff seems questionable

toxic cargo
#

Yeah, but that's like, the issue of league

#

Do you just want to win or do you want to win in a stylish way

#

Because both Garen and Riven are supposed to have same 50% winrate as a champion

#

Well, more or less

#

You can flip your brain off and play Garen or you can spend 120 hours in practice mode

#

The choice is yours

woeful shuttle
#

azir is one of the champs that can't be let out of soloQ jail because every time he escapes it wrecks pro play for a season

#

like how riven is stuck in numbers jail

woeful shuttle
toxic cargo
#

Yeah, yeah, Gankplank with 50% winrate means GP is bullshit op

woeful shuttle
#

riven is supposed to be >50% as skill rises the issue is that riven's kit is kinda unhealthy from a "how exactly is the enemy laner supposed to play the game" perspective

#

since she has so much agency in lane

toxic cargo
#

I don't care honestly

#

I'll be forever mad about malphite

#

Can we put him in jail

#

Thanks

rain girder
#

Ignore the clickbait-y title

#

I fucking love Nathan Mott

#

He has such a positive view on the game which is very refreshing

#

Miles apart from the "Oh, I play league of legends." "Oh, I'm sorry." mentality, he really tries to make sure that people are enjoying the game

#

and make sure that he's hyping things up and showing people the BEST of the game rather than fixating on the worst of it

#

Excellent jungle coaching, too

woeful shuttle
#

HERE WE GO AGAIIIIIIIIIIIN

abstract rune
rain girder
#

So quickplay

#

doesn't let you choose runes or spells

lilac bridge
#

wait is quickplay out yet - what

#

that's....huh.

edgy trout
#

Lmao what

spice glen
#

so would you have to pre-choose in another mode then have them carry over?

rain girder
#

I just played a game

#

It gave me Smite and Heal as Kha

spice glen
#

well then

rain girder
#

This is the quickplay screen

#

It went immediately int othis

#

No choice of runes or summs

#

just

#

bam

#

Okay apparently there IS an option I missed somewhere

spice glen
#

where even is the option

rain girder
#

it's so tiny

spice glen
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oh yeah that needs to take up more room

rain girder
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I do have to wonder about its matchmaking

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I got matched up against someone who straight up didn't understand why last-hitting was a thing, and didn't know what half of the champions did

spice glen
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It's probably got new match making.

rain girder
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So I'm like "Did they really match me, who has played for nearly a decade, against a newbie?"

spice glen
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or was reset or something.

rain girder
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Yeah

spice glen
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hold on, some deep inner memory just unlocked and I got to rant/seriously ask for clarification about league's matchmaking for normal and ranked.

two friends said that losers queue and winners queue exist, and that league makes matches you're meant to lose, so as to keep you playing and "gambling" your matches, since when you are on a lose streak, but win a few times, you got hooked.

But I counter with "that's how they match make players since it's performance based match making."

am I the insane one or are they?

rain girder
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So, the real reason, iirc, is anti-smurfing

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People who win too much because they're smurfing get put in smurf queue

abstract rune
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it's still performance based matchmaking
but if you're on a hotstreak then yeah they put you against everybody else on a hotstreak

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iirc players who are struggling might get paired with better players and worse-performing teams, or vice versa

rain girder
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Yeah, the goal is that people should be winning and losing within a certain range

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And if things are going TOO well then they assume you're like, a smurf

spice glen
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They genuinely have- I mean yeah the smurf thing is ...a fair point. But they genuinely have that in the system and it's not just a weird community cope fact?

rain girder
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It is true yes

abstract rune
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Tis indeed

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not that people Don't use it as a cope fact

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but it's how the system works

spice glen
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Why does this make a blood vessel in my head want to pop.

abstract rune
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I... don't really know?

rain girder
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Yeah, it seems reasonable to me

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People DEFINITELY use it as cope tho

spice glen
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I know why, it's because when I am playing a game and expecting a competitive system, I expect it to be very true to blue.
But then I Remember that smurfing and multiple accounts are a thing and that makes me cry

rain girder
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Yeeah

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kinda ruins the idea a bit

spice glen
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like a gold pingpong player somehow going down to pingpong against iron pingpong players would be so unacceptable unless it's like a fun match thing.

abstract rune
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Hence why the game tries to block smurfing a bit, yeah

spice glen
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okay wait hold on, so they have the smurf queue, or the hotstreak queue I'll call it, which is a thing.
But it's not to keep you on like playing to make them money because realistically the people who paly the game are not really ideal customers because they use the servers, while those who hop on, buy a skin then maybe play a game or two then leave is an iddeal customer

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sorry this next point is me remembering the friends said that Riot made money off players playing the game and winning and losing and the gambling aspect of playing the game, and that part makes no sense.

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actually gonna stop thinking about this, else I'm gonna bust into their discord call and say some real serious shit

woeful shuttle
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since-oh sorry my bad didn't see your message

spice glen
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it makes sense. After a sleep and brooding. Just gotta come up with a way to explain to them that they are not smurfs and therefore can't use that as a coping mechanism for being shit like me.

toxic cargo
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The matchmaking is designed around
1)skill
2)winrate
3)winstreaks
Even if you have, let's say, a 57% winrate in plat, but you're for example 5 wins in, you have a probability to get players who are...well...not good

raw axle
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Basically since the incarnation of MMR

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I remember when for a long while the Overwatch forums were just constantly people complaining about the "forced 50/50"

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A bunch of call of duty streamers a few years ago also used a similar term and pleaded with the devs to turn off MMR

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It's a dumb argument but these people have been screaming into the void since Halo 3

spice glen
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in my case I just don't want the smurfs to smurf.
I'm low silver iron (probably more central silver now since they added emerald) and I want my match to be 10 people who genuinely are about the same-ish skill level give or take.
I dun want some minion screaming about "Losing Queue" or whatever

woeful shuttle
fallen notch
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I’m not above admitting the 2 losses 1 win formula I’ve heard of helps me cope

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Not that I can’t improve, obv, but it’s also nice to have some legitimacy backing the fact that often it’s just out of your hands

silver heath
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I think the majority of LoL games are out of one's hands

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A certain number of games just become "oh our/their solo laner got 9 kills in 15 minutes, cool"

fallen notch
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I agree, but also it sounds like copium when I get cranky with my teammates for losing hard even if that’s legitimately the problem

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It’s a fine line I guess

silver heath
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yeah but its just legit

raw leaf
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I feel like half my games I have to get ahead enough to carry or we lose lol

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Also as a long time jg main whenever I don't jg the jungler almost always ends up making me wanna die on the inside lol

spice glen
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what was the weird % split down for league matches? was it 60/20/20?

silver heath
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I've seen 80/10/10

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but also that yeah

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I don't think a specific number is right

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But the gist of it is true imo

spice glen
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Frankly I Wanna say it's 40/30/30 now with how the game is.
40% your own performance, 30% you get carried, 30% you get stomped

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matches seem way more snowbally in general now

silver heath
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Oh no the general meaning for that is that 80% of the time the game was not in your control win or lose

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And the last 20% of the time it was up to you

spice glen
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Oh, I had it the other way.

raw axle
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Just the nature of a team game

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You might get normal people or you might get creatures that have escaped from some sort of institution

spice glen
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in a good or bad way

raw axle
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There are some times when I'm in a game and I assess it for a bit and feel relieved at just, hey, I did what I could

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Nothing more I could fix this train wreck

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I don't control whether the jungler and top lane get into an argument and both decide to throw the match

rustic kite
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The 80 "not you" 20 "it's you" kinda operates on the principle that there's 5 people on your team and you're only the tipping point 20% of the time

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But really you can carry or feed so hard you distort other lanes before lane phase is even over

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But in a typical game in the appropriate MMR for your skill, that shouldn't usually happen

raw leaf
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new baron model?

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oh weird new shit with all the void creatures

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i do find it funny that all these changes are mostly around jg lol

sinful orbit
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So you can get yourself as high as 60%

jovial stratus
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New League Femboy

rustic kite
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Damn, even the hair flop and a choker

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That twink is gonna get obliterated on twitter

raw axle
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Oh my god

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He's league invoker

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This is what I've always wanted

abstract rune
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This guy is cool, I'm into it

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Fully embracing the champion being way complex is a good route

toxic cargo
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2 patches and this guy will be midlane's Riven

lilac bridge
lilac bridge
ripe loom
fallen notch
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oh no

he’s hot

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also I love complex characters too fug

silver heath
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He seems cool

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I hope he lands better than some of the recent "complex on purpose" champs

spice glen
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I can't wait for viego to kill him, and then break the game again.

woeful shuttle
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yeah there's no way in hell this character is left playable

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though I said the same about aphelios

spice glen
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oh I imagine that character will work.

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after 7 patches

rain girder
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Hwei seems really fun

silver heath
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I think him being totally immobile* will make him relatively balanceable

*Not counting the one spell which works as an AoE ally speed up

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Curious if you can play him support

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Jhin/Hwei is like... a ship bait tier lane

rain girder
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I could see support Hwei being alright

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Spells like a burst mage but utility like an enchanter with W spells

fallen notch
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I have to read what he does because I’ve been on a support/jungle mage kick recently, Zyra jungle surprisingly fun

silver heath
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He has 10 spells

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QQ, QW, QE (damage centric spells)
WQ, WW, WE, (support centric spells)
EQ, EW, EE (control centric spells)
R (big AoE execute)

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Passive makes AoE explosions on enemy champs struck by multiple spells

rain girder
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enemy: "report malphite"
me: "what did he do?"
enemy: "n word"

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some things never change

rustic kite
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Someone said Riot is designing him for mid/support but if one role has to be nerfed out of viability they want him to stay mid

raw leaf
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vex is fun

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i like that she has like a pretty clear combo route that works well with red runes and etc

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its more like combo damage then just lots of sorta poke poke poke

abstract rune
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Vex does big damage yeah

rain girder
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Vex does well against the mobile champs that Mid can attract, which makes me very happy.

abstract rune
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A mobility-punishing mage is a really cool thing for her to be yeah

raw leaf
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shes like an assasin mage

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sorta

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like she goes from not wanting to be close to wanting to be close on a coin

abstract rune
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Her ult lets her do assassin shit but otherwise she's comboing from the back

raw leaf
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well also w to an extent

abstract rune
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Personal Space is a funny ability because it's a combo filler, but it also lets you do what the name implies if your passive is ready

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get jumped? just say no

raw leaf
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lol yeah

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i level second after q

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which idk if thats the way to go but its what i currently do lol

rain girder
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Q > E > W was always my go-to when I played her

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Also goddamn

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Fuckin' ||Weibo getting annihilated.|| Worlds spoilers

raw leaf
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it seems its common to do q then w from what i can tell so i gravitated to the average choice lol

rain girder
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There were a few times it looked like ||they'd turn it around after the first game but jfc||

spice glen
rain girder
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they turned Herald into the Battle Sled

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I love it

fallen notch
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just had a 40.0 KDA game on Lux supp in a game with 48 kills our side

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feels like I’m kinda nutty with it

rain girder
spice glen
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Perma banned? double...negative?
Either way, if you're gonna be perma banned, maybe reconsider how you play.

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pulls up another account.
good lord, this is a big ol' issue I have.

toxic cargo
spice glen
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they should just keep him banned, if he keeps being banned

toxic cargo
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Too popular

rain girder
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Yeah he's unfortunately very popular, brings folks in with his silly builds and inting playstyle

spice glen
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Tsk. This is the same guy that gave me a very stressful time during league when his inting sion thing was considered "mathematically correct"

rain girder
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Yep. Baus loves to come up with strategies where he throws his face at the opponent repeatedly.

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Which, mind you, in the hands of the right person, IS effective

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But most solo q andies are not, in fact, the right people.

spice glen
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Yeah, which is why it's stressful.
People think they are the nextbaus when..no you're just chcknft44

rain girder
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Same with anyone doing dumbshit builds. A streamer gets known for doing something memey and then people try it, but they try it in ranked

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It's how you get stuff like Roaming Teemo or any of RATIRL's builds, Inting Sion, Inting volibear, etc

spice glen
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RATIRL? oh wait...twitch player aren't they?
Yeah meme builds can work if someone does't know how to deal with it, but...if it's a strat that gets popularised then uh it starts being able to be dealt with.

rain girder
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Yep, Ratirl popularized AP Twitch

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iirc

spice glen
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Oh that bugger did that? that player must be a real coward to go ap twitch.