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League of Legends: Let's Talk About uhhh??
- Thread starter Thorns
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kennen
renekton is mighty fun to play
legit
i love renekton.
legit
i love renekton.
Well. I think not dying and doing about 500 dps is a pretty good late game.
no boot xin zhao stronk
I don't want to discredit you, you clearly had a very strong game. That said, you were playing a 5v4 against a team of obvious full retards (except maybe Veigar). It's still nice, but imo nothing to write home about.
EDIT: exhaust/tp veigar nvm
EDIT: exhaust/tp veigar nvm
not sure if pookar talking to rodan or 6-dimension
Love it when your Caitlyn asks why Off-Tank AD Sion with no frickin farm isn't carrying. Solo queue...
+1 for the guy who said shyvana. I love her so much. She jungles so fast, and can play top, she's really tanky, and does a lot of damage. She's just good. And her ult is one of the most fun ults in the game imo.
if you want fun to play then katarina is a good choice
she's not that amazing but you can stomp games if you're good with her. she can cleanup like crazy and you just bounce everywhere
she's not that amazing but you can stomp games if you're good with her. she can cleanup like crazy and you just bounce everywhere
I recently bought Rumble and Gragas and have really fallen in love with these champs. I used to only play ranged ADs but I didn't know position myself in teamfights and felt like I couldn't do anything late game even I won lane hard. Their initiation ults really do wonders in my elo where people don't know how to start a fight.
I want y'alls opinion on rumbles item choice though since all the guides I've read seem to disagree in some ways. the first is whether or not to build rylai's after WotA. Some say to rush it and others say to only get gaints belt and finish rylai's later. the case the build it later advocates make is that you can use harpoon and shield to chase your opponent down so you dont need rylai's so early, and you can just get giants belt and spend the ~2k on something else. I don't know if I really buy this do to rumbles heat mechanic, since if you're keeping your heat 40-60 like "a good player should" then you'll overheat really fast using harpoon and shield to catch up. and if you're ganking someone from 0 heat you should just be using equalizer.
Another thing is apparently top rumble players like to go WotA then get sorcs/merc and a gaints belt then another hextech revolver before finishing rylai's. the guide that advised this was written before the spell vamp nerfs (was +40% now +32%) so I dont know if its still viable but the idea is really interesting.
Also, lich bane? every guide I've read says "no Rumble doesn't use mana" but what AP builds lich bane for the mana anyway? with all the slows rumble uses and the speed at which he can use spells, it seems like lich bane would be great on him and let him keep dps while staying at a reasonable heat. Or is the cost really too much not to make use of every part of the item?
I want y'alls opinion on rumbles item choice though since all the guides I've read seem to disagree in some ways. the first is whether or not to build rylai's after WotA. Some say to rush it and others say to only get gaints belt and finish rylai's later. the case the build it later advocates make is that you can use harpoon and shield to chase your opponent down so you dont need rylai's so early, and you can just get giants belt and spend the ~2k on something else. I don't know if I really buy this do to rumbles heat mechanic, since if you're keeping your heat 40-60 like "a good player should" then you'll overheat really fast using harpoon and shield to catch up. and if you're ganking someone from 0 heat you should just be using equalizer.
Another thing is apparently top rumble players like to go WotA then get sorcs/merc and a gaints belt then another hextech revolver before finishing rylai's. the guide that advised this was written before the spell vamp nerfs (was +40% now +32%) so I dont know if its still viable but the idea is really interesting.
Also, lich bane? every guide I've read says "no Rumble doesn't use mana" but what AP builds lich bane for the mana anyway? with all the slows rumble uses and the speed at which he can use spells, it seems like lich bane would be great on him and let him keep dps while staying at a reasonable heat. Or is the cost really too much not to make use of every part of the item?
Rylai's vs Giant's Belt vs Deathcap vs Revolver vs etc.: Situational.
Don't get Lich Bane, he shouldn't have room in his items for it (Boots, Deathcap, WotA, Rylais, Void Staff, Zhonyas/MR item).
Don't get Lich Bane, he shouldn't have room in his items for it (Boots, Deathcap, WotA, Rylais, Void Staff, Zhonyas/MR item).
can we ban rodan from this thread
Been wanting to try her solo top as a typical bruiser in some normals but whenever I try I can't get an easy matchup to start testing it first. :[ I dun wanna feed some Irelia and get yelled at yo.
He's really not a half-bad support though. He has what might be the best CC package in the game, which requires no farm to be effective, and Drain makes losing an early lane fight impossible. He's also very adept at helping with objectives, unlike a traditional support.
I'm not going to vouch for Evelynn being a great pick or anything but as bad as she is, I don't think even she is all that much worse than anyone else. Stealth is still a stupidly broken mechanic, so there's a lot of inherent utility there. Her autoattack damage scales well because she has the best base AS + growth in the game. Ravage shreds Armor/MR for team damage buff and Hate Spike, if nothing else, makes Triforce/LB excellent on her. She at least ends up with average base HP by Level 18 and has one of the highest combined base Armor + MR in the game, thanks to her +4 Armor per level and "assassin" MR growth.
Been wanting to try her solo top as a typical bruiser in some normals but whenever I try I can't get an easy matchup to start testing it first. :[ I dun wanna feed some Irelia and get yelled at yo.
Clearing jungle ultra-slow = can't do jungle. Strictly speaking, any champion "can" jungle. Fiddlesticks is now in the large contingincy of champions that shouldn't. He's just too slow. And that is a problem because Fiddlesticks has always been a terrible laner. He pushes so poorly he makes old Shen look like Mordekaiser and he can't last-hit under his turret at all, so the only champions he can really lane against have to be both terrible pushers AND incapable of interrupting Drain so he can zone and sustain.
He's really not a half-bad support though. He has what might be the best CC package in the game, which requires no farm to be effective, and Drain makes losing an early lane fight impossible. He's also very adept at helping with objectives, unlike a traditional support.
I've recently discovered that Swain should be destroying Vlad in mid and that I've never played against a good Swain until recently.
Been playing as aniva (articuno) a lot lately but I can't seem to get many kills when I lane (I prefer to mid if I can). I can only get around 1-3 kills until late game team fights. I get a shit load of assists and minion kills though. Any tips?
Pick her when you know your jungler will part with 2nd blue buff, or else your ult will cost too much. Practice wall+stun aim, and use that to assist with ganks.
Like Stonewall's Blitz jungle, if a champ has hard enough CC, you can always just gank from sidebrush immediately after first buff + level up.
IEM Hannover, y'all. Anyone caught today's matches? Passed out during CLG vs Dignitas, woke up to watch the slaughter that was CLG vs aAa. The final match of today is taking forever to start, lol.
Also, I don't remember his name, I think it's Zenon? He's all up on CLG's dick, and it's really annoying. Everyone has their favorites, but imo, casters should NOT be voicing their favorites...
Also, I don't remember his name, I think it's Zenon? He's all up on CLG's dick, and it's really annoying. Everyone has their favorites, but imo, casters should NOT be voicing their favorites...
Is there a link or a live stream? Never watched competitive LoL, to be honest.