Grand Old Thread: League of Legends!

[Ussi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foy_kjl-WCY

 

[#HBC | J]

o_O Karma mid being used in ipl5 against TSM

laning against Diana

Karma being mid is odd but I have been seeing it more often then Karma being a support like I use her as. It's great to see her actually get some play-time though.

 

[adumbrodeus]

Caitlyn doesn't really have powerful skills compared to other AD carries. I remember Oddone talking about the fact that her Ultimate is very easy to get around and her traps aren't really powerful compared to other AD carry skills.
I feel like Vayne pretty much has a Zhonya's on her with her ult and Tumble, too.
But, that's just the way I look at it. I'd like to hear thoughts on this.

While I agree that good skills are useful, the vast majority of your dps lategame comes from AAs, so skills are primarily relevant based on how much utility they have lategame. And she does have a dash (that sends out a slow in the opposite direction) and traps are amazing at sieging and being sieged.

That said, it's definitely the reason why cait sucks midgame, but at least she has a meh AD scaling ability besides her 2 second channeling ult, and a meh damage steriod (headshot). Oh yea, and doesn't have to go into the center of the enemy team to use her damage.


So yea, what the oddone said about her skills is mostly relevant to her midgame, and it was talking about her damage output. Lategame, that's not an issue.

 

[Mogwai]

streaming: http://www.twitch.tv/SmashGizmo

 

[adumbrodeus]

Some games of dominion can just be glorious.

 

[KuroganeHammer]

I take Karma solo top.

Zed come :>

 

[Phantom Gamer]

I take Karma solo top.

Zed come :>

I find it more odd that out of your entire team of top lane champs (mostly) you're top.

 

[Leacero]

Karma is really good in 3s, try her there.

 

[BSL]

I tried karma once. She's really fun.

 

[Pikaville]

No one expects her to do decent damage.

 

[Espy Rose]

Playing a game in normals.
I pick Rammus.

We're losing hard (20-40 in kills) around 30 minutes.

I sell everything for Wriggles, Mob Boots, and 4 Zeals.
We win.

What. The. Hell.

 

[Shaya]

prolific mordekeiser main (maybe gone by now but I saw him throughout late season 1 and most of my season 2 shenanigans) from around 1500-1700 elo used to rush mob boots, two zeals into trinity force then 3 more zeals into eventual phantom dancers. He won every game I ever saw him in while using mordekeiser.

Something about a 550 movement speed mordekeiser pushing 3 lanes at once and being impossible to kill really made things happen in solo queue. He even always started off by feeding.

 

[Pikaville]

Morde is so damn good against Diana.

It hurts.

 

[Deleted member]

Tiamat will cause Parrrley to deal 50% splash damage around its target.
If Parrrley critically strikes, the spash damage from Tiamat will also critically strike.
Every unit killed by Tiamat's splash damage or the proc from Ionic Spark will grant Parrrley's bonus gold and refund mana.
This makes it possible to refund more mana than the ability costs (returning the full mana used with 2 kills and returning more than the used mana with 3+ kills).

gotta love the some of the things you can find on the wiki.
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so I'm kind of wondering what the point of playing GP is, since just playing a ranged ADC seems to do more dmg in almost every situation.

 

[Omni]

gotta love the some of the things you can find on the wiki.
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so I'm kind of wondering what the point of playing GP is, since just playing a ranged ADC seems to do more dmg in almost every situation.

Global Ult and 10 sec CD Cleanse not good enough for you?

 

[What's The Point]

I don't know why you compare him to ranged ADC when he's a bruiser. But then other bruisers all do their job better. His main problems are that he's way more item dependent than other top laners and he has no gap closer so the enemy AD/AP can kite him.

 

[teluoborg]

Speaking of gp I got destroyed by a Pantheon top lane even after taking fb from him. Lost every trade post level 4 because of his shield.

Is this matchup possible or am I forced to wait for the jungler ?

 

[Coney]

it's not possible

his hardest counter

 

[adumbrodeus]

gotta love the some of the things you can find on the wiki.
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so I'm kind of wondering what the point of playing GP is, since just playing a ranged ADC seems to do more dmg in almost every situation.

He's not a replacement for a ranged AD lol, he's a bruiser.

 

[Mogwai]

it's not possible

his hardest counter

funny joke

gp vs. pantheon is easy as balls if you just spec 9/21/0, armor seals, armor quints, arpen marks, mres/level glyphs and max oranges first (and basically spam them off CD, you're not getting them for cc removal, you're getting them for crazy hp heal). matchup's so easy that you can just double gold/10 in it and just starve pantheon of mana because of how absurdly imbalanced the mana efficiency of remove scurvy vs. spear shot is.

just don't shoot pantheon expecting to harass and then get mad when it hits his shield. I swear to god, every gp just thinks the match is bad because they spec offensive and keep trying to harass for levels 1-5 and shoot pantheon's shield over and over again

 

[Oro?!]

If you actually want to be aggressive make sure you auto his shield away before you parley...

 

[DallasPhat]

Or let pantheon just Push up to your tower and wait for a jungler gank.

 

[X1-12]

Hey guys I want to get started playing top lane (just so I can do it if I'm needed to), have you got any advice? Its so different from other lanes I find. I have malph/kayle/mundo

Btw I'm lvl 30 but still only playing normals

 

[JTB]

Farm a lot, ward constantly to avoid ganks, only play one or two champs until you start learning match ups

Also avoid picking top as first pick as you are bound to get countered

 

[X1-12]

what about knowing how to trade well/when to trade?

 

[JTB]

Pretty much trade if you have a huge wave with you (minion damage is huge at early levels). Baiting cds then engaging while they have nothing is also important.

If you want a very early lead, there's two things you can do. Get your jungle to gank while they are level 1, or push your lane a tiny bit to get level 2 or 3 before they do and engage on them

 

[Coney]

who would be gp's hardest mu then? not challenging you, just curious

 

[#HBC | Ryker]

I swear to god, every gp just thinks the match is bad because they spec offensive and keep trying to harass for levels 1-5 and shoot pantheon's shield over and over again

If it's not bank, it's just jank.

 

[JTB]

who would be gp's hardest mu then? not challenging you, just curious

Iirc akali is pretty rough

 

[Mogwai]

idk, rumble, yorick, jax, irelia, standard strong top laners. GP can mitigate how badly it is possible for him to lose a lane because he can snipe assists/kills like a mofo with his ult and sustain like crazy with a maxed W, so even his bad matchups aren't really that bad IMHO.

 

[Ussi]

katarina with teleport, the bess for countering 4 man tower dives at 5 minutes

 

[Okuser]

that dive timing from TPA was wayyyy too predictable.

 

[Ussi]

TPA vs Fnatic is a prime example on why you ban blitzcrank

 

[Vyke]

These casters totally don't have any bias towards one particular team.

 

[Okuser]

that's the weirdest vladimir pick i've ever seen.




WOW

 

[Espy Rose]

Regigigas carrying so hard.

 

[Ussi]

Blitz grabs regi, gg

I'm so surprised Flame beat Dyrus's Darius with Vlad.. tower dived him too.. alone

 

[JTB]

how did he pull that off?

 

[Vyke]

By being a better player.

 

[Ussi]

how did he pull that off?

he just out harassed Dyrus so hard.. Dyrus was low under turrent and Vlad is good at diving with his pool so I think that's the case.