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Grand Old Thread: League of Legends!

DMG

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Z'zgashi said:
Does Rumble even have a bad match up in top lane? Like, from what Ive seen, his hardest match up is Diana and that match up still feels even.
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Rumble is very weak early levels. Aggressive champs like Riven can go in 1-4 ish and clearly be ahead. Rumble also tends to push the lane with Q more than he wants, and you can exploit that by having the jungler come or threatened to come. His damage comes from Q not only being overheated, but hitting for as long as possible. If he misses a few ticks and you have the right champion, you hug HARD to his nutsack and make him pay for it.

He's still got strong laning obviously, but he's doable for some characters and for some that the MU isn't "great", you can abuse the likely fact that Rumble will push the lane.
 
Pikaville

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She is like Akali in the way if she gets a kill or 2 she can snowball a game.

I think she is more fun to play than Akali though.
 
Zero_Gamer

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I think Diana's a bad character design and needs a reason to use moonlight. It makes no sense to have a no-cooldown application on her ult when the move already has no cooldown.

She's bullcrap and needs nerfs in my book. She feels like Old Talon 2.0.
 
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a highlight of phreak commentary is when he spends 5 minutes explaining how TF's passive is the reason SK/ocelot are going to be comfortable stalling until lategame
 
DMG

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Lovage said:
a highlight of phreak commentary is when he spends 5 minutes explaining how TF's passive is the reason SK/ocelot are going to be comfortable stalling until lategame
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While he has the camera panned to a solo lane farming/not dragon fight or jungle skirmish where someone dies.
 
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I hate listening to Phreak.
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I did appreciate how he knew that clg was baiting baron. They killed a ward but let Fanatic see them aggro baron first, and then they walked out to that bush and hid. The other caster insisted the entire game that they (repeatedly) accidentally clicked on baron as they were trying to clear the ward.



Also, I now understand why alistar is banned in low elo (shameless re-post from reddit) http://www.youtube.com/watch?annota...&feature=iv&src_vid=5KfYUrHpaxc&v=Cm7GHWOWiDk
 
JTB

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****ing dead from that video

>Ashe runs by bush
>alistar qs bush

she never knew how close she was to dying

:phone:
 
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I'm conflicted about Diana. I really think an assassin with her damage output shouldn't have the ability to farm so quickly and safely through the early game. Both her clear speeds and farm in lane need a hit if she's going to have such strong mid and late game damage output.

Assassins should instagib your badly positioned squishies, it's fine, but they need to have some exploitable weakness. Diana's early game is way, way better than say Kassadin's or Akali's. Isn't it dangerous to have a character with such a safe early game snowball so hard? At least Riven has obscure lane counters like Trundle and ****.
 
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I personally agree that Diana needs some type of nerf atm. Usually I really have to think about who to ban but Diana is usually an easy choice unless me or someone else on the team going her. I usually wait for last ban to get rid of her though cuz almost half the time they ban her for me haha.
 
JTB

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mogwai, i gotta tell you that im loving nunu top, i feel like im playing a better version of gp that can solo baron at 20

ty for opening my eyes
 
Asdioh

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I still can't understand what's so good about Diana. I feel like even post-nerf Zyra is a better pick than her for mid.
 
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Met her on takashi's stream, had a conversation about feminism in the video game community, she told me she streamed, so I became a regular and now pretty tight.


How do you know kirei? Haven't seen you around her stream before, you irl friends or something?
 
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Asdioh said:
I still can't understand what's so good about Diana. I feel like even post-nerf Zyra is a better pick than her for mid.
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You do know Diana can Top and Jungle as well right? Shes not forced to go mid (even though shes still a solid mid).

And shes good because, for a champ that snowballs so easily, shes actually got a VERY good early game, meaning getting the ball rolling is MUCH easier with her than it is with other snowball champs.
 
Asdioh

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Z'zgashi said:
You do know Diana can Top and Jungle as well right? Shes not forced to go mid (even though shes still a solid mid).

And shes good because, for a champ that snowballs so easily, shes actually got a VERY good early game, meaning getting the ball rolling is MUCH easier with her than it is with other snowball champs.
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She just seems to be generally accepted as far better at mid than jungle, and I have not actually seen one go top myself. I don't really see how she has a better early game than Akali though. Akali's harass is targeted, has spellvamp, and doesn't cost mana. I would also think Akali's less susceptible to early ganks.

I haven't seen many Dianas lately because she's always banned, so I may be missing something. It just seems like she's overhyped compared to when I've played her, and when I've seen others play her in my games.
 
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