Game: League of Legends (It's free!)

[Raven]

Hereby referred to as LoL. (http://leagueoflegends.com/)

Anyone playing this? It's made by the same team that produced DotA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota) back in the day which was a mod for WC3. This is a standalone game however, and it's free. That's right, free! It's also similar gameplay style to Demigod, but I'm not sure how many people actually played that.

For the uninitiated, you have a hero, you're on a team of 5 allied heroes and you're facing a team of 5 opposing heroes. Each team has a base on opposite sides of the map with towers in between them. The objective is to slowly make your way to the opponent's base and destroy it, having to get through enemy heroes and towers on the way. There are AI controlled minions that are constantly streaming from each base and clashing to form battles which you join as your hero. As you kill minions, enemy heroes and destroy enemy towers you gain gold which you use to buy items. Pretty simple eh.

There are around 40 heroes to choose from, and for those who used to play DotA but didn't like the various imbalances involved, LoL is a major step in the right direction and has the balance pretty well down.

As you continue to play you gain points which allows you to unlock other things in the game, like runes which give you added bonuses as well as some other stuff. It has a pretty good leveling system and I find that the game matchmaker usually gets it right for putting inexperienced players against others of the same level.

If you're interested in playing, you can help me out by clicking my referral link (https://signup.leagueoflegends.com?ref=4aaa367f0e4ef) which can give me rewards if you like the game and keep playing.

If you already play or sign up in the future, leave your username here. We can hopefully get some 5-man games going. My username is cmdrraven .

[KrayZ33]

I'm playing this too, it's really cool

even though
There are around 40 heroes to choose from
is not really true because you have to unlock them first
which will take months.

the cool thing about this game is that teamplay is *everything*.
there's no way you can win a match if you play all by yourself. you really have to play *with* your team... trapping enemy heroes, help them retreat etc.

and it's really great for beginners because it has a tutorial and recommended item-builds
so even if you haven't played DotA, you won't have problems to use ur hero and play your role in a match (tank/fighter/burst/support etc)

my username is KrayZee and my summoner name Snipah (I believe you need the summoner name to add someone)

[Sandldan]

Played this in the beta but didnt really like it that much, felt too dumbed down from the DotA i used to play.

Currently playing Heroes Of Newerth instead of both LoL and DotA. It's a direct DotA clone with a new engine alot of new features and very active developers, it's currently in closed beta but i think i have an invite or two to give out if people are interested :)

Here's an older trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6s5lIA2gUY

[KrayZ33]

so many different dotas

btw, HoN lvl cap? in LoL it's 18
I see a lvl 25 heroe n the HoN trailer

[Lucifus]

Well, never played any dotas, but this game looks fun. I'm about to boot her up.

[Sandldan]

so many different dotas

btw, HoN lvl cap? in LoL it's 18
I see a lvl 25 heroe n the HoN trailer

It's 25 in HoN just like dota, many heroes, spells and items have been directly converted.

[Lucifus]

Username: WarFlea
Summoner: Specialist Flea

[KrayZ33]

ah.. i see

ur not playing on Europe do you?
that might be the reason why I can't add you

[Raven]

I added him fine via his summoner name. Not sure why you're having trouble.



is not really true because you have to unlock them first
which will take months.
You are correct, but it still doesn't change the fact that you can choose between 40 characters. You just can't play them all up front (unless you buy the game).

[kenren]

Just got to register and installing the game right now :)
Summoner's name : kenren

I'm wondering if I would experience lags since I'm connecting from an asian country to play with all of you?

[KrayZ33]

I added him fine via his summoner name. Not sure why you're having trouble.
what I meant is I play LoL-Europe
it seems you guys are playing with the LoL-US client

meh... seems like I have to get the US client and start all over again
even though I'll lose Velgar and Master Yi 8[

[Dark Dragon]

Just started playing this too. Do you guys have a favorite Champion so far? It's a tie between Master Yi and Ashe for me.

[KrayZ33]

Master Yi is probably the strongest when playing 1v1 and targeting low health champions.

Nunu, Rammus, Dr. Mundo are great too though

and the new hero poppy has some really strong skills too

[Aclypze]

Summoner: Friedchickenyum
This is my secondary for fun account.

Mundo goes where he pleases.

[Raven]

I have 3 main characters I rotate between depending on the team I'm playing with...
Teemo, Taric and Karthus.
I like Teemo the best though, as it's fun to make people rage when I do hit and runs. ;)

[KrayZ33]

Mundo goes where he pleases.

I always wondered about the cooldown of his throwing-skill? he keeps throwing his axes like they grow on trees.

[Death BOO Z]

tried it.
apparently my internet connection (or my computer, or the OP, so something) can't handle the game. I can't move past the tutorial.

well, it's for the best, anyway, I don't study enough as it it now.

[KrayZ33]

Wow... the us version has blood lol

Acc:KrayZee
Summoner:KrayZ33

[Lucifus]

Oh my god I love Udyr!

I'm raping with this f*cker!

[Raven]

Oh my god I love Udyr!

I'm raping with this f*cker!
Yeah, he's pretty OP, well at least some people seem to think so on the forums.

[KrayZ33]

he is...

mass HP...mass DMG...mass speed

his only weakness are skills which drastically slow him or stuns/long silence effects etc.
because changing stances is very important for the extra-dodge and attack-speed
(for maximum dmg too of course.)

when I played with Lucifus yesterday I used Blitzcrank.. that golem thingy.. he's awesome in teamfights.

a
nuke/tank/stun/hunter champ :)

[Dark Dragon]

Stance dance is broken and he can chase pretty much anyone down.

[Aclypze]

Oh my god I love Udyr!

I'm raping with this f*cker!

Hahaha, you're picking him all the time now after I pwned that one game pretty hard. Glad to spread the OP.

[Lucifus]

I am Udyr Specialist. =)

O, and friedchickenyum, whats the name of your second account? Jorhan?

[Assassin]

Hmm, interesting game...still trying to get the hang of it all

Edit: So whats the deal with the shop and items ingame? which are the best items to buy and how do you collect them?

Oh and i go by Ziapsu

[Raven]

Hmm, interesting game...still trying to get the hang of it all

Edit: So whats the deal with the shop and items ingame? which are the best items to buy and how do you collect them?

Oh and i go by Ziapsu
Well, it depends on what character you're playing. The recommended items (up the top of the shop screen) can be alright, but there'll be some odd choices there too so don't always trust it.

If you want, tell us some of the characters you've liked playing as and we can suggest some items.

By the way, it may be obvious but just in case you don't know, you don't keep your items from game to game, you buy them during the game based on the gold you're earning at the time. It all resets for each game.

[Assassin]

Well i've just been trying out different characters so far, and i seem to suck equally with all of them. My win loss ratio is pretty fucked, but i blame other people for that. I unlocked my first char yesterday....Sion the undead something or other, but it didn't seem to help much. What chars do you guys suggest i unlock? I want something that'll be good in 1vs1 combat mainly, since relying on your teammates rarely seems to pay off. Im tired of dying everytime i go up against another char.

And also, how many of you are active playing this....is there a GW team yet or what?
And who's Orekxl...is that someone here?

[KrayZ33]

Sion is pretty strong, especially 1on1

however 1on1 is not important at all, he is strong in teamfights too. so you made a good buy with Sion.
Gangplank(?) (the pirate) is extremely strong to, he can crit for ~300 or more very early in the game which will take about ~50% of the enemies life-bar.

the most annoying heroes I hate to play against are (random order)

ryze, gangplank, dr. mundo (its pretty much *impossible* to kill him), the beast girl which can transform into a cat, the fire-kid-girl and twitch (the rat)

[Lucifus]

Amazing 1on1's?

Udyr, Tryndamere(Very difficult to learn), Ryze, Eve(Stealth), Twitch, Teemo, Sion, etc etc.

Any champion can be rape 1on1, you just need experience for when to go in for a kill or get the hell out of dodge. You just have to have a great team, and champions that compliment one another.

I have a level 9 account also. "Drakeron"

My mains 30, "Specialist Flea"

Hit me up, I'd love to rape face some gotwooters. Lets build a team. =)

200 wins baby!

Udyr, Eve, and Ryze rape face.

[Assassin]

i started playing Teemo this week and found him pretty useful, but you're rite, its all about having the right tea. It pisses me off at times though when you can't rely on your team to back you up....died plenty of times as a result.

What times do you guys usually play?

[Assassin]

Is there no way to actually leave a game? if i leave during a game, it just gives me a "game is still going on, please reconnect" option and nothing else. What if i dont wanna continue a game?

[Lucifus]

No way; my loophole? Have a backup account.

[Raven]

Is there no way to actually leave a game? if i leave during a game, it just gives me a "game is still going on, please reconnect" option and nothing else. What if i dont wanna continue a game?
It's done that way on purpose, the idea is you see a game out to the finish because otherwise too many people will just leave and those who want to stay keep having to restart.

If you leave you get penalties, but I'm not sure what they are (having never left a game and having never bothered to look it up).

[KrayZ33]

Someone still playing this?
Season 1 started, ranked ladder matches

really nice system, with banning 4 Heroes at the beginning and a new hero-pick system

[UChessmaster]

I`m playing it, ALMOST level 10 :D

[Raven]

I've been playing solo-ranked games so far, but I keep getting horrible teams and I haven't had a win yet. A game I played the other day ended up with me vs 5, the rest of my team had AFKed. :(

[Lucifus]

Ended my addiction to this game. I created a Gamebattles team for the tournament pre-season and finished 2nd. Even held first for a wee and defeated the #1 ranked team once, ended their 35+ winning streak.

But all me and my team got were 10 dollar riot point cards each after long long hours of gameplay, strats. etc. Over 65 games played for that season, non-stop everyday. -_-

At the end of the season, I was pretty much sick of LoL and still am.

[KrayZ33]

thats what you get from playing in unofficial-ladders! ^^

[Assassin]

im still hooked.....just bought xin zhao a few days ago. he's ridiculously op. but its not all that helpful if you're team sucks.

I keep having to explain to people that turrets should be attacked first, instead of tower diving......i dont know why no one gets it. I onces lost a game, where i had solo'd one of the enemy nexus turrets, and then had to run back cuz thier team respawned and none of my team was there to help........they then proceeded to run us over and win the game. pissed me off so much.

[TheBladeChild]

Just started this game, still kinda noob.

Name:TheBladechild

champions used so far: Singed and Shen

[Dark Dragon]

I recently tried a warwick jungle build, it's absolutely amazing.

I was able to solo baron by lvl 13-14 to give team a nice boost. This guy is absolutely amazing for ganking so you can help different lane without worrying too much about exp lost.

[Assassin]

Welcome to the super addctive game club TheBladeChild :p....im Ziapsu btw.

You should try teemo....one of my favorite champs. A sneaky little bugger and very annoying once you know how to play him.

[animus]

He's pretty awful, however. He's probably on the same tier as Evelynn for useless champions.

On that note, solo ranked queue has been pissing me off. Was 1512 earlier but dropped to 1394, due to having 2 feeder games, 1 leaver game, and 1 dumbass jungling Shen (wtf?) who kept crying the other team's jungling Warwick was outlevelling him. No shit, I wonder why? Then lastly, I hate to take a loss, a leave, and an ELO hit because the shitty PVP.net client bugged during draft mode.

[TheBladeChild]

damn i suck so bad at this game

[Dark Dragon]

So i just bought Vladimir.

He's squishy early on but i found him to be amazing later. His ultimate is like the "I win team battle" button unless your team is completely useless. Sanguine pool is easily one of the best utility move in the game and it makes chasing or running so much easier. His nature of not having mana and cast with health lets him lane forever without needing to go back if played properly.

[KrayZ33]

if you really really want to win guys, play mordekaiser.
he's probably the strongest hero early/mid-game and the best laning hero (he will dominate 2v1 lanes or at least the enemy team won't even touch ur turret), and one of the stronger champs in late-game.
so overall, he's just amazing and OP

[animus]

Are we playing the same game here? Sure Mord's a good character, but he's not OP by far. The best 1v2 champions are Nasus, AP Sion, Morgana or a Deny-focused Gangplank.

He dips off during late-game. There're much stronger late-game champions.

[Dark Dragon]

Mord is tanky while doing decent damage and his ultimate lets him push towers with ease. Animus is right though, his dmg is pretty meh late game and he lacks CC and chase abilities.

[KrayZ33]

his teamfight dps is above average late game, and extremely high early/mid

late-game:
1-2 sfc + W skill = 200dps*hero -> 3~5 heroes = 600-1000dps

no autoattack
no E or Q no ult no ignite.

and morde can just as easily kill minions as morgana if not better
its just that most mordeplayer skill Q because they suck ass and don't know that W (shield) is his main ability from lvl 4 onwards

and people don't know that they have to stack magic-pen (runes+item).

during the lane phase I can run into minions with my W and regenerate more shield-power than a single hero is able to deal dmg to me.
and get every single minion kill + 4-creep-pack in the jungle (near mid... that is, if I solo mid)

build-
1. pendant(or doran) @ "5." sell or upgrade
2. sorceress boots
3. sunfirecape
4. frozen Mallet
5. second Sunfirecape(enemy-melee-team) or force of nature (magic resist)
6 abysmall sceptre (that one with a -70 magic resist aura)
7. choose what you think is best... warmogs (acutally a pretty bad item), GA etc.

[Assassin]

I should try that build.....i've been trying to find a tank to play. I bought rammus, and hes good but he doesn't have any direct attacking abilities, and my play style is too aggressive for him. I tried malaphite as well, but he only has one real damage ability which is seismic shard and it takes alot of mana early/mid game.

[Lucifus]

Hey; everyone should list their main accounts again.

How many wins do you all have?

I weened off LoL for a couple months; but I'm starting again with a few of my friends.

And I pretty much dominate every game. Nidalee, Udyr, Annie, Cho Gath, War Wick, And Shen are so OP......
I have a maxed out Jungle Page and AP page.



- Specialist Flea

[animus]

41 Ranked Wins, 162 Normal.

I played during Closed Beta, and only recently started playing LoL again.


Typical characters I use mostly - Xin, AP Sion, Nasus, Jungle Amumu, and Warwick.

IGN - Animus

[Assassin]

I only have one. Its Ziapsu. too bad there isnt a clans feature in LoL.

[animus]

Just finished a ranked game with a loss where we had an awful ass Warwick, that went 3/16/3. His build was fine but he does the dumbest fucking things. The funniest thing is at the beginning of the game he said he didn't have masteries and had his rune page set up for Kayle.
Sigh.

I was Xin and we could've easily won that game, we had Xin, Warwick, Vlad, Malphite, Taric. They had Rammus, Janna, Singed, Ezreal, and Kogmaw. I pretty much destroy their Ezreal and Kog in 2 seconds and I did, but life's hard when you have their Rammus taunting you whenever his CD allows, the singed throwing down Adhesive then flinging you, and their Janna using their ult to reset the team fight and blow you off their squishies. I ended 13/9/8, but I was 13/5/4 before the fights started going downhill because our Warwick was just straight up awful and wasn't holding his weight.

It wasn't like his build was wrong, it was the typical build of boots (but the damn ass got Berserker Greaves with so many forms of CC), Madred's Bloodrazor, and Guardian Angel.

[Assassin]

Thats what i love and hate about the game. Its totally team based, so you can win or lose regardless of how good any one individual is.

[Dark Dragon]

I think the problem a lot of WW players has is that they are too overconfident in him staying alive. I mean, WW is awesome and just his passive can out heal Baron damage. Most of his survivability thought is base solely in his ability to drain so when he get stun or exhaust, he's pretty much a sitting duck.

[animus]

Had another game I just won luckily, which had another awful Warwick. Honestly, I seem to never get the good Warwicks on my team, but always get the awful ones.

The only good thing about this WW is that he got an oracles to kill Ward's and solo'd dragon/duo'd Baron when we were kinda idling after we took out an inhib or two.

[TheBladeChild]

Tried out singed as my first main character, stubbornly stuck with him for a week and realized that i just plain suck with him so I switched to shen. Feel that im at least decent with him, I love Shen's ultimate stand united, saved myself and a few friends with it.

Main acc: TheBladechild

[animus]

Got the new hero, Miss Fortune and played a few games with her. She's pretty fun, her Q is great at harassing, and her passive is good. However as with her archetype she's a pretty hard carry with no escape mechanisms, so Flash/Ghost are pretty much required. She's an EXCELLENT farmer. Ended one game at 234 creep kills at around the 40ish minute mark, along with 11 kills 1 death and 10 assists.

[TheBladeChild]

Ok I keep getting random friend requests from people I dont know.

O.o

[6Zabuza9]

It's usually people you have just played with and wants to form a team so they dont get noob teamates.

[TheBladeChild]

Finally hit lvl 30 about a week or so ago, moved on from shen and now started to play amumu. God I love his ultimate. Next ill try akali once I work out a starter build for her and once I have enough IP to buy her runes.

[Dark Dragon]

I've been playing Swain quite a bit. Most of the people on the LoL forum complains that's he's either underpowered or overpowredbut i feel like he's actually very balanced.

I found that he fit the support role better since he tend to be very fragile late game. Swain W is one of those ability that will net your team many kills if use properly.

My kill to death ratio with him have mostly been positive. In fact, i ended one game versus a terrible team with 30/2/12.

[animus]

Swains really really weak. They're buffing his AP ratios like crazy in the next patch. Most of his were like .6 or .7 and they're bumping them to .9

His ult will also heal more now. Swains pretty useless though, once he uses his ult to keep himself in the fight. It uses sooo much mana.

[Dark Dragon]

His ultimate does use a lot of mana but i found that having the team help you get blue buff or having an Archangel staff help toward that cost quite a bit.

In a team fight you shouldn't be in a position to where it's required to have your ultimate up for the entire duration to say alive. I usually throw a DOT, Root the carries, laserbird someone for dmg then pop ultimate and back off a bit. He's one of the those champion that requires your team to be competent because 2 of his abilities are CC effects. I won't complain about his AP being buff, but i find that it's not too difficult to get kills even in ranked games so that just might lead to more OP crying.

I don't think the healing on his ult should be increase, what they should do is increase the base damage and lower the heal percentage to keep it around the same level.

His E giving teamate half the amount of % damage increase that swain gets would be nice though.

[animus]

But the thing is he suffers from the same syndrome as Urgot. Sure he may CC one or two targets but after that, he's so insignificant that there's no point. He doesn't do enough damage and while his Q and E might sound good on paper, they're not that great in practice.

I rarely see Swain in ranked, but when I do they always amount to little less than feeding. What would've been nice was if his E actually did what it said it would in the Champion Spotlight.

[TheBladeChild]

Oh jeez, Swain has been out for about a week and theres already a preview for a new champion.

[KrayZ33]

more heroes = more money for riot

especially if they are 6300points heroes

[animus]

Oh jeez, Swain has been out for about a week and theres already a preview for a new champion.

You do know that they've been releasing a new Champion every other week for quite awhile already, right?

[Dark Dragon]

Funny you should mention Urgot because he's totally getting ignored for the next patch.

I do see what you mean about Swain damage though, because i start to stagnate around level 12 or so. My only worry about buffing is that it might make his early game damage too good and then he'll just get a harder nerf in the following patch.

[Raven]

Been getting pretty heavily into Sona lately as it suits my play style to support the team at the back and rack up the assists. I can do more damage than I imagined too, if I build it right.

Normally I go for the team buff items like Innervating Locket, Aegis of the Legion and Soul Shroud. Once I hit 40% CDR I can have all 3 auras up at once, and I've found it can really turn the tide of battle.

Lately I've been going about 5/3/25-35 with a competent team. Maybe I've been lucky but I hardly ever lose a game with her. Lovin' it.

[UChessmaster]

I love Sona, but i seem to be better with Taric, i love tanking towers with Radiance and doing that annoying stun as heroes try to run away from my teammates, plus, he`s fabulous.

[KrayZ33]

I like playing as Ashe, her utility is just awesome, and being able to carry the team is nice too.

gotta love volley spam, its *so annoying* for the enemy team, I can't even describe it.

[TheBladeChild]

Been playing Lux since she came out, I was so bad at first but now im at least not get more deaths then kills. She is fun as hell to use. Next character im thinking of buying might be Vlad or Miss Fortune.

[Lucifus]

TBC look at my profile. I'm the best lux you'll ever see. ^^

[TheBladeChild]

lol Luci,

New champ Le Blanc, anyone find her description...boring?

[Konohamaru!]

You guys still playing this? Is it a game I'd be able to play while at work? or a game that I'd be able to catch up and participate with those of you guys playing?

[UChessmaster]

Every match takes about 30 mins more or less, i wouldn`t consider it something for work.

[animus]

Some games can take upwards of an hour+. Those don't happen that often, but it's not out of the ordinary.

[Konohamaru!]

hehe, I've already played 2 games today at work... both took 30min or so... They were against NPCs though. I bet I'd piss some people off by joining an official match and then going AFK.

My Summoner name is: Poipoy

up to lvl 2 now. Have played as Ashe so far. Not sure what other characters I should try and play. Thinking of sticking to female characters for now though...

[Konohamaru!]

pfft, what the heck? I played a game where I wanted a little mor challange... so I set it up as the only champion on my side, and gave them 2, and I got no experience because of imballanced teams even though we won... thats not fair. ><

[UChessmaster]

Did some 5v5 today, i destroyed a Yi like 3 times at level 2, which made him rage quit, which in turn made Galio rage quit, which in turn made Janna quit, GG.

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[Konohamaru!]

At what lvl do you guys actually start playing in PvP matches... aka not practice games? I'm about lvl 6 now, and have been saving my IP so I have no runes.

[TheBladeChild]

You can start pvp right away, usually matchmaking sets you up with people with around the same Elo score(and lvl I believe, but im not sure). Only thing you might wanna worry about are veteran players creating low lvl accounts to play against less experienced players.

Also, about runes, Tier 3 runes(which you can get at lvl 20) are the best runes at the game. Right now however there is a event that gives you special holiday runes(that are tier 2(lvl10 requirement) that give you about 90% of the stats of tier 3 but at a ip cost at less then half of tier 3. You might wanna buy these special runes even since lvl 10 isnt that hard to get to.

[Raven]

pfft, what the heck? I played a game where I wanted a little mor challange... so I set it up as the only champion on my side, and gave them 2, and I got no experience because of imballanced teams even though we won... thats not fair. ><
Practice games won't give you anything, you'll only get points/XP when you play for real.

[Assassin]

i love it when you start a match 4v5, have your first turret destroyed in the first 5 min and then proceed to thrash the other team so badly they decide to surrender.

i fucking love teemo

[Endrance]

Have been playing this for a few months last year together with friends. It's like the amateur version of the original DotA. No denying creeps, no blocking them either. Gold for creep kills are halfed and gold per tick has been multiplied. You also lose less gold if you die compared to DotA as far as I remember. Playing the 3v3 map was fun for awhile though.

Waiting for DotA 2.

[KrayZ33]

LoL is *alot* faster and less boring than DotA (especially early game) because of what you just pointed out

in DotA nearly everyone will pick a carry (or even hard-carries) and farm gold till they get their items.
in LoL the laning phase is over as soon as 1 tower is down or a certain hero hits lvl6
which happens a lot faster too because their is no denying by killing creeps.. there are other ways of denying XP and gold, which is a lot more skillfull ( "know your zones") than killing all the minions before they reach the outer tower :/

I really hope they don't make the same mistakes in DotA2
for example: the lack of scaling for casters in DotA.

[UChessmaster]

This last two matches are the most strange ones i`ve ever had,first i get two random partners
and... i do bad at the beggining, turns out they are literally 12 years old, so they start bitching the shit out of me as the match goes by, i start outdamaging my team by a long shot and im carrying them the enemy realizes this and comment on it, they call me pro and badass while my team call me noob and down syndrome... we win that match, then i do another random
and my new team has to fight my ex-12 year olds team... and we destroy them, one of then rage quits, the other one keeps talking crap, but the damage was done, i felt so bad, and then so good, and then so awsome.

[Assassin]

heh sounds like fun

[TheBladeChild]

The latest patch seems to be a major one:

-Innervating locket removed
-Flash no longer pops projectiles(no more flash dodges)
-phantom dancer no longer provides dodge chance
-Randuins Omen cooldown reduction down to 8% from 15% and reduced armor 80 from 90
-last whisper giving attack dmg now instead of attack speed
-all sight wards hp reduced to 1hp and reduced duration time 3mins down from 3.5min
-all elixers nerfed

Not sure how I feel about this patch yet, but this is gonna seriously effect a lot of my characters.

[KrayZ33]

why would someone build a phantom dancer now?
weird.

I like the Last Whisper rework though

[TheBladeChild]

I built it on ashe mainly for the move speed(since the nerf to the move speed of most range carries), I probably still build it but much later in favor of more important damage items.

[Xelbair]

I've started playing it in free time, seems pretty fun and its way better(and less elitist) than lowly dota.
Ezreal is pretty fun to play.

[Raven]

Can't believe Innervating Locket is gone... nooooooooo...

No more stacking Sunfire Capes either! :(

[KrayZ33]

I built it on ashe mainly for the move speed(since the nerf to the move speed of most range carries), I probably still build it but much later in favor of more important damage items.

Zeal(x2) is probably the better and more cost effective way, especially if they didn't change the item cost.

[UChessmaster]

My first ranked match.


http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/7250/1stmatch.th.jpg (http://img152.imageshack.us/i/1stmatch.jpg/)

[TheBladeChild]

congrats on the win

[Assassin]

i dont like the new last whisper.....the attack speed was what i loved about it. it was my first item on xin or panth. And the precious change of malady fucked my teemo build

[KrayZ33]

isn't the new Malady perfect for teemo? especially AP/Attackspeed builds?
I'm not a fan of teemo, since he's too easy to kill, especially since slow-items got nerfed on range characters.

I'm playing Ashe and I like the new Last Whisper alot because attackspeed is not that important while kiting enemies., the really bad thing is that all 3 pots got weaker.
and on a side note, flat ArP is probably better than % unless your enemies have more than ~110 armor

you can reach ~96 flat ArP with Ghostblade/Brut/Starks + Runes + Masteries

I wouldn't recommend using last whisper unless your enemy team is full of tankish characters who stack armor OR if you arn't using any ArP runes

[Lucifus]

Epic Match (http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/387/tbcd.jpg)

Random Match, Early Christmas Morning, I found The Blade Child.

I was playing with my IRL friends, who allllllll suck. -_-

Epic Match though. I'm Specialist Flea.

[TheBladeChild]

Indeed a epic match it was, I thought we were gonna lose since our MF, Sion, and Nasus fed like no other. Cant believe I pulled off a baron steal. Luci's friend Nori Maki would always kill me =(.

[animus]

Wtf kinda builds are some of those? Heimer with 3 AA's and a PD? Blitz with an AA? Sion going AD with Sheen and Atma's even though he has no health items and only 101 CS (His E passive is amazing with a lot of CS).

[Lucifus]

Like I said, my friends...are not good. xD

That Sion was delicious though.

[Assassin]

lol nice....i hardly ever see any of you guys online

[Dark Dragon]

Nice build, TheBladechild. Do you still stick with full AP all the time even with the new changes to Kat? I've been trying a more hybrid build with her myself.

[TheBladeChild]

Ya I do, i go full AP on her since her Q now has a AP ratio.

[UChessmaster]

Jungle Evelynn, nuff said. (http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/2301/jungles.jpg)

[Chiodos]

I'd say Mordekaiser+Twitch on the same team > all D:..

[KrayZ33]

why? they don't have any significant synergies
like janna + ashe or something like that

[Dark Dragon]

Something like Kayle + Twitch or Janna Twitch would work better. Kayle could ult twitch and gives him extra time while Janna had a damage shield that give +50 AD along with ult that push the entire enemy team out.

That being said, Twitch really isn't that effective anymore. He has always been very easy to kill and proper warding pretty much shut him down completely. His only saving grace was the fact that it was possible for him to kill the entire enemy team with proper timing and positioning. The new changes to his ultimate pretty much put a stop to that, so he's kinda underwhelming now. If given a choice between range carries, i would honest prefer someone more solid like Ashe or Miss Fortune.

[TheBladeChild]

lol nice....i hardly ever see any of you guys online

Ya, iv been sick lately, so iv been doing a lot more sleeping then gaming lately. Just for a reminder what was your IGN Assassin?

[KrayZ33]

The new changes to his ultimate pretty much put a stop to that, so he's kinda underwhelming now. If given a choice between range carries, i would honest prefer someone more solid like Ashe or Miss Fortune.

exactly

on top of that twitch *needs* mid, just like karthus
twitch or karthus @ bottom is useless

and twitch can't jungle which makes other stealth champions like Shaco or Eve alot better.
I've never seen anyone pick twitch during EU-Ranked games either :/

I wonder what the new champion will be like, her passive sounds like she could be a very good jungler, but I doubt she can handle the dmg.

[Dark Dragon]

I'm really liking Caitlyn abilities description.

Q seems like a slower version of Ezreal skill shot that hits multiple targets. Depending on duration and amount of trap she can have up at once, W seems like it's great for warding and screwing the enemy team formation. E seems like a great escape with the slow + push back. Depending on the distance of the knock back, you might be able to use it as a way to catch up during chases.

I'm not sure sure how her R is going to work, but i'd imagine it's a long range hit at one target and other champs can get in between to take the damage for the target. Her passive sound amazing for last hitting and i can imagine top/bot Caitlyn just farming from the bushes.

[Lucifus]

You should all log on now. So that we can gotwoot kickazz.

[UChessmaster]

You should all log on now. So that we can gotwoot kickazz.

Add me and we`ll play ign UChess

[Raven]

Caitlyn = win

I just had a quick practice game with her, the crits I was pushing out were well over 2k (using her passive ability).

*Edit
Actually she's not that great when you play against capable opponents. She just seems so useless all the time... her skill shot's so easy to dodge and her ultimate can be seen coming a mile away - people can block it in their sleep.

[Dark Dragon]

Her overall design is fine. Her scaling is crap though and ult travel speed is too slow for something that can be interrupted. She hover right outside the range of being competitive and a minor buff with some small changes will pretty much fix that.

[Assassin]

Ya, iv been sick lately, so iv been doing a lot more sleeping then gaming lately. Just for a reminder what was your IGN Assassin?

i go by Ziapsu

[TheBladeChild]

Been throwing down with Kayle and Morganna, anyone have any build order suggestions?

[KrayZ33]

Morganna if solo-top -> rush 3 sec immunity item first + 30% AP scaling items (well the new once)

get some penetration and life (that mask for example) catalyst/RoA

you might want to start with the catalyst though (mana pendant first)


Kayle -> Rageblade, Nashor's Tooth

[UChessmaster]

Looks like Eve is going back to Eve tier.

[TheBladeChild]

magma chamber news, as well as some graphical changes:

http://clgaming.net/

patch day preview 1/14:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se2_mp3hX3g

[KrayZ33]

wow... the new hero designs look awesome

[animus]

Can't say I like the graphical overhaul. I liked the cel-shadyish and cartoony look.

[TheBladeChild]

Omg annie is so fun. Just went 16/0 with her. Her burst is like anivia's cept much easier to pull off.

[Xelbair]

I've been trying out Garren - he seems pretty fun, but if he is supposed to be a tank he lacks some stun skill, but neverthless he is nice pusher. Probably I'll still stick to my KS-addin.

[UChessmaster]

Just played with Eve after the nerf, my firts impression?

CANT... DO... SHIT...

If you get an eve in your team, dodge queue.

[TheBladeChild]

Just played with Eve after the nerf, my firts impression?

CANT... DO... SHIT...

If you get an eve in your team, dodge queue.

At least you could log on at all, it seemed down all day for me =/

[UChessmaster]

You can get in with the Konami code.

[UChessmaster]

Oh well, this Eve nerf is just Riot`s way of deleting her without actually deleting her, so i`m back to my fabulous gem knight trolling people with my pink skin.

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5615/tariced.jpg (http://img3.imageshack.us/i/tariced.jpg/)

[Xelbair]

I've had team without hands last night. we were going in river with all of us, and then the enemy drops onto us from jungle - score was 0:0 by that time, no one was fed - and guess what? my team can't decide if they want to run or fight, i got nuked asap, my friend dies, and they go ONE by ONE to get themselves killed - nerfed Eve ksed everything..GG..

[TheBladeChild]

Preview of the next two champions, wonder if this is legeit. Straight from CLG website.

http://clgaming.net/board/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=1145

Also on a side note, UChess your a beast with Veigar =P

[UChessmaster]

3rd time as Veigar har har.

Those champions look awsome.

[Xelbair]

New patch screwed the game a lot i think, Doran's cost way too much right now - cost would've been ok if you could create something from them - no way to get a potion at start, and they said that was supposed to make game more aggressive and less tower hugging...
Mana regen at start is imbalanced for healers - Soraka could heal herself three times from nearly 0 to full hp, and still she had more than 60% of mana left after that(no mana regen items were on her) - and it was in short span of time.
Rune nerf is completely stupid idea - you've heard their explanation for it? because they give too big advantage compared to lv 1 summoners. Seriously - what lv 30 will get matched with lv 1?

[UChessmaster]

Are you implying Soraka is op?

[Xelbair]

No i'm not - base mana regen at lower levels is op.

[Dark Dragon]

The Doran's items gave too much stats for their cost. You can simply just stack any 3-4 Dorans for almost any match up until about level 13-14. Not that raising the cost by 40 is going to stop that. It'll simply change the way some people start their build since they can't get 3 stats + a potion anymore.

As far as Soraka goes, she's a character that's very powerful early game but become progressively less so by late game. Some characters are just designed that way. Caitlyn can easily shut down 2 champs in a lane from level 1-6, but she's almost a free kill by late game if not played correctly.

[Xelbair]

I know, but after this patch those traits are even more visible. Doran's item give a lot of stats - that's true - but you can't create anything out of them - it would've been better if they nerfed doran's without changing their cost.

[KrayZ33]

Caitlyn can easily shut down 2 champs in a lane from level 1-6
most heroes who are able to take a solo lane are able to do that.
the level difference is that crucial early game.

I wonder if sion is able to start with a tome and AP runes effectively now.
that would be so OP

[Dark Dragon]

I mean in any situation.

Caitlyn normal attacks range is ridiculously high. Even in a duo lane i'm able to last hit and harass constantly while taking very little damage. The only one that really pose any danger for her early game is Blitzcrank and his grab can be easily dodge. It's normal that i can kill or force both the enemy champs to b at least twice by level 7-8 putting them 1-2 levels behind.

I just realize i never gave out my user name. It's Zeroraven and i'm usually on at night.

[UChessmaster]

Game is buggy as hell for me lately, i start out fine then my char then he refuses to take any command.

[Dark Dragon]

I had that happened a few times. It has something to do with Riot server, but a simple reconnect will fix it.

[UChessmaster]

If i log off then the client will claim that i`m not connected to the internet and i get a nice leave.

[Dark Dragon]

Hmmm, a reconnect usually solves any issue i have. If nothing else, maybe try reinstalling and see if that fixes it. Sometimes your files can get corrupted during patch and a clean install will fix it.

[UChessmaster]

I tried that, no luck, i searched the forum and theres some more people having this issue, this is seriously pissing me off.

*sigh* +1 leave, guess i`m done with this game.

http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=497918

[Assassin]

http://img577.imageshack.us/i/pwnagelol.jpg/

Im loving Irelia

[TheBladeChild]

Image not loading Assassin, cant even click on it.

[Dark Dragon]

You can quote him and open the actual link to imageshack. That's a very interesting build for Irelia, i usually go for Triforce first.

[Assassin]

i did that too, but i realized it takes a while to build, and the starks really helps you stay alive. if the game lasts longer i go for triforce.

[Dark Dragon]

Doesn't your burst suffer from lack of damage item early game? Irelia does fairly well vs squishies regardless, but during a matchup vs a tanky team i think building sheen first might be better.

It seems like a cool idea to try though. I consistently get 10+ kills with Irelia every game, but the downside is that i tend to die quite a bit.

On a side note:

I play regularly with a group of friends from school. We only do normal games for now, since i feel like we're not good enough yet to consistently win ranked games. If you guys ever get tired of solo queue, feel free to join us. We play after 9-10 PM central US time.

[Assassin]

what does that translate to in EST? i've been palying ranked lately, but as long as i have a good team it doesnt matter what i play. What's your screen name DD?

[Dark Dragon]

Just add 1 hours for EST. My screen name is Zeroraven.

[Raven]

http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee347/ravenbob1300/fleal33t.jpg

So l33t!

[TheBladeChild]

Lol I was wondering when someone was gonna post that.

[Assassin]

lol so epic

[TheBladeChild]

Lol sry Dark Dragon, got dced at loading screen -.-

[Dark Dragon]

The server is always crap right before and after patch :/.

[Assassin]

how do you guys find the new champ? i think his bombs are super annoying. he can harass all day with them, just like zilean.

[Dark Dragon]

I find that he harass really well with E > W > Q combo. There's too many uses for his saplings to list.

He's not very tanky though. He can't really take that much damage even if you build tank, he's definitely more of a support and requires another tank in the team to perform.

His ultimate is decent, the 20% damage reduction is definitely nice when combine with something like shen taunt or Alistar ult. The CD is very short (20 sec without CDR) so it can be use in every team fight. The downside is that the damage is pretty terrible since the bonus has a low cap and it's very easy to avoid since you can just stand right outside the circle. It combine wells with other AoE such as Galio or Amumu.

In team fights, he function a lot like Udyr and just constantly switch targets. His slam is on a 3.6 CD after 40% CDR and it's a nice interupt for dangerous stuff like Death Lotus and the blink can be use to save your squishies from carries that's going after them. He can cover escape routes with sapling and force enemies to run where you want them to.

I think he might just need a few base stats buff to make him more tanky and he'll be ok. Definitely one of the better champion that have been released recently.

[Zati]

I'm really enjoying, Jarvan IV (The King!). I literally just jumped straight into a ranked game with him, without even practising and testing him out first.

The opposition had a good team that countered my ultimate fairly well, so I had to be extra careful when using my ultimate.

I did pretty good, 20-10-9, but was a loss, unfortunately.

Also, I bought Loch Ness Cho'Gath, it looks fantastic. Hextech Anivia looks great as well.

[Assassin]

i wanna buy jarvan, but im finding melee champs are really vulnerable to magic champs. hard to fight against nukers and it hinders your build alot.

[Dark Dragon]

I find that Jarvan is a bit mana hungry early game. You can run MR/level runes and get away with only building chalice/merc for MR. His flag also give him passive armor so if you end up laning against a physical/magic lane, you can probably just focus on building some MR early on. I'm playing him as a support tank so far and generally do well, but i think i'm going to switch to a more dps heavy role since giving kills to people in solo queue feels really pointless.

[UChessmaster]

Just installed the Chinese artwork, got to admit it is so much better.

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9304/akali.jpg (http://img233.imageshack.us/i/akali.jpg/)

[Assassin]

woah...nice. Whats this chinese artwork you speak of?

[UChessmaster]

It`s the art for the chinese client of LoL, it has it`s own art.

http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Taric_The_Gem_Knight/SkinsTrivia

Scroll down to see a comparison of american vs chinese taric.

The downside is that not ALL skins are out in china so those have american artwork in my client.

[Assassin]

i bought garen recently, and im really loving him. He doesnt have much damage output early game, and his build is rather expensive (warmogs and force of nature to start), but mid-late game he's epic. So hard to kill, and despite having minimum attack damage, his abilities do shit loads inherently.

I gotta tweak my build though for optimum performance. I think Warmog + FoN + Thornmail + + Frozen heart (for armor and CD) is a good start. Maybe sunfire, but recently i've found you dont particularly need it for anything other then farming faster. Then maybe Whisper and Ghostblade thrown in there for good measure.

I've tended to skip boots on a few occasions since you get a speed boost from FoN, but i'll switch boots of swiftness with for thornmail if there isn't too much physical damage on the other team.

[TheBladeChild]

Lol surprised everyone hasnt installed this already. Ya the chinese artwork is so much better, the new eve looks so ugly....

Heres the link for the chinese artwork installations, instructions are easy to follow. Just comeback to this thread every now and then for updates.

http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=205938

[UChessmaster]

Another patch, another buggy client.

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/8665/loldm.jpg (http://img833.imageshack.us/i/loldm.jpg/)

[Assassin]

FFS (http://img219.imageshack.us/i/ffsv.jpg/)

this is what i have to deal with.......i need ppl who dont suck on my team. please.

Edit:

FFS2 (http://img833.imageshack.us/i/ffs2.jpg/)

Riot really has to fix their matchmaking system

[TheBladeChild]

Ya, I myself raged like last week and "quit" the game. Lasted like 4 days and ended up not only returning but also bought some riot points. FML. This game must have some sort of evil hold on me.

[animus]

I stopped playing ranked awhile ago. I just play normals with friends now. My rating decayed from 1500 to 1400 after quite a while of not playing any ranked games.

[Raven]

FFS (http://img219.imageshack.us/i/ffsv.jpg/)

this is what i have to deal with.......i need ppl who dont suck on my team. please.

Edit:

FFS2 (http://img833.imageshack.us/i/ffs2.jpg/)

Riot really has to fix their matchmaking system

Wow. That second one, there wasn't even that many kills on the winning team. The hell went on there?
Did that Shaco even join the team at all?

Anyway, hit me up if you see me online if you feel like it. I'll have a game with ya, I'm not too bad.

[Lucifus]

I'm sorry mate, but you shoulda just dodged those game's with those shyt team comps.
If your gonna play ranked, you gotta have a full group. xD

I've finally managed to kill my LoL addiction. Bye Bye shitty randoms!~

[Zati]

Man, I totally understand the frustration you guys are having with ranked games. I am constantly getting matched with these terrible teammates, it's becoming too much.

Honestly, I don't know how these people even got to level 30. They must've played custom games a lot, carried plenty, using a friend's account, or possibly hacked accounts, I don't know. I'm tired of having to tell them to back, and all these other stuff, you should know these little things if you're playing ranked... No map awareness whatsoever.

I dropped from 1400 ELO down to 1100, due to the sheer incompetence of my teams...

During my last game, I literally went apeshit, and just berated two of the idiots on my team. One was apparently "drunk" (messing around, didn't care), one afk (because he didn't get his mid lane with Xin Zhao(...), when we had a Karthus.

Anyway, I think I'm taking an indefinite break from LoL for now, lol. I just purchased Rift, and setted up a subscription plan, back to my MMORPG's.

[Alhuin]

Seems like LoL is one of those games that will continually piss you off, regardless of how long you play or don't play. I just started playing again recently (after a 5 month break) and it's almost like I never left. Sure, there are new champions, and a lot of nerfs, but you run into the same stupid shit, with pugs. I could tell several stories just off three days worth of playing.

But anyways, that's not why I decided to post. When I originally saw this thread a few months ago, I ignored it since I wasn't playing, and didn't think I would start playing again. But I did. So now I'm posting for anyone that still plays to add me (summoner name Alhuin). I usually have a group of people I go with, but we rarely ever have 5. And I haven't touched ranked very much just because I hate pugging it. But I can play just about every champ with relative ease. Well... at least half of them. Haha.

[Xelbair]

Back to LoL after 2 month break, Karthus is still annoying as hell, but at least on EU servers people are way less skilled than they were two months ago. I'm usually playing as Ashe and rarely i can't get stats close to something like 15/7 or even less deaths - and if i have negative KD ratio i'm having a lot of assists ( stats from one of my latest games 7/7/30).
Brand as a champion is nothing special, his stun is easy to dodge, there are some better casters available. Rumble is interesting - but most players go berserk with him and feed too much. Most nocturne's that i've met were very skilled(one nearly took yi + nasus at lv 1 solo - they both left with 20-30hp)

[UChessmaster]

Noc takes no skill, which is why he`s getting nerfed, again.

I`m looking for serious players to do 3`s ranked, i play as Ryze (know some Eve, Taric and Corki), anyone up for it?

[Assassin]

I suppose i could start doing 3's ranked....havent tried it so far. I have to change champions though...my usual ones wont fly. Anyone with a flash type technique is op in 3s though cuz the lvl has so many damn walls.

I think teemo would be the best cuz of his shrooms. Invite me if you see me online Uchess.

[Dark Dragon]

Sigh

I was on a 10 wins streak until i decided to play with random people today, worst decision ever.

2/10/3 Taric and 1/10/5 Urgot who fed a Noct. I don't think Noct his overpowered as much as his character design is really stupid. He's a bit like Karthus where if you know what you're doing it's almost guaranteed that you'll get a lot of kills. Vayne looks fun to play, even if her skills are rather plain. She sorta remind me of a MF who is better at escaping and has decent CC.

[UChessmaster]

Soooo need a 3rd member, anyone? anyone?

[UChessmaster]

R.I.P Evelynn, we made a lot of widows together, but they turned you into Twitch 2.0, so i`m gonna stick to Ryze until your remake.

[Dark Dragon]

Anyone still play? Just got around to finishing my first 10 ranked games, i'm at 1448 Elo right now. I'm hoping to get 1500-1600 by next week before the season end.

[UChessmaster]

I was gold and got greedy for plat and my partner dc`ed twice and now i`m silver :/

[Assassin]

vayne is awesome once you get the hang of her. she's my fav main, and very very annoying when played right.

[Xelbair]

Talon is really nice, especially if you consider how big failure Skarner was. Nasus+Talon combo works wonders.

[KrayZ33]

I was gold and got greedy for plat and my partner dc`ed twice and now i`m silver :/

starcraft 2?

[UChessmaster]

Uhmmmm no... League of Legends.

[Alhuin]

I've played at least 50 ranked games so far and only managed to make it to 1242 before I fell back to 1171. It really pisses me off that I can do so well in a game (I recall going 4/1/3 on Irelia before my team surrendered at 20 minutes), but it doesn't matter if my teammates feed, afk, or d/c. All I wanted to do was reach 1249 for my bronze banner =[.

Aside from that though, and even though it's a bit late, I really like Leona. She doesn't have the damage output to be good on her own, but damn, when you combine her with certain champions, faces are melted. A friend of mine mains Karma, and we will lane together, because we can usually get a kill or two, on their tower, at level 2 or 3. Rinse and repeat when they return to lane.

[KrayZ33]

Uhmmmm no... League of Legends.

plat/gold/silver?

why not just tell us your rating?
isn't it pretty much
top XXX = plat
top XXXXX = gold
top XXXXXXX = silver?

I didn't know that it is purely rating related.

[animus]

Platinum (Top 0.2%) - 1900 and above (3v3: 1700+, pre-made 5v5: 1750+): a framed summoner icon in platinum, a platinum banner in summoner profile, a platinum forum badge and a special skin for Jarvan IV
Gold (Top 3%) - Between 1520 and 1899 (3v3: 1490-1699, pre-made 5v5: 1500-1749) : a framed summoner icon in gold, a gold banner in your summoner profile, a gold forum badge and a special skin for Jarvan IV
Silver (Top 10%) - Between 1400 and 1519 (3v3: 1410-1489, pre-made 5v5: 1410-1499) : a framed summoner icon in silver and a silver banner in your summoner profile
Bronze (Top 25%) - Between 1249 and 1399 (3v3: 1249-1409, pre-made 5v5: 1249-1409) : a bronze banner in your summoner profile

[UChessmaster]

Ok then, my current rating is 1463 in 3`s. The rating i need is 1520.

[Raven]

So yeah, Dominion's out. It's pretty fun! More like a side-game, though.

[UChessmaster]

Movement speed characters are ridiculously op, incoming eve nerf.

[Archangel]

This is pretty cool anyone still playing?

[Xelbair]

I am, i'm on EU west and usually playing dominion as Talon.

[Archangel]

Wanna go a round Xel? Nick is ArchangelPT

Edit: Made a group btw, y'all should join

Edit2: Oh btw, about runes. Should i start getting some or wait till i can get tier 3 so they don't go to waste afterwards? I hear you can buy a pack at level 21?

[Lucifus]

Wait till tier three. And don't bother buying more than 2 or 3 champs at this point. You will want that IP for runes.

[Archangel]

I bought Ashe, bitch got some swag. And i got some revolver midget from liking LoL on facebook.

[UChessmaster]

You can get tier 1 runes until you`re 30, also you can get Alistar for free i believe. I`ll join you if you want, nick is UChess, UE west right?

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/subscribe-riot-games-youtube-get-unchained-alistar

[Archangel]

Yeah i got your inv

I also sent a shit ton of invites to the LoL group i created, accept and post your nick in the group thread for the sake of simplicity. Maybe we could even use it for some team play in the future.

[Dark Dragon]

The only champ you need before 30 is Master Yi, most people are too stupid to figure out how to counter him. Get good with him and you'll carry most games early on. Best runes investment are Armor Pen/Magic Pen/Ability Power and HP since you'll find yourself using at least one of those on any champ you play.

My in game name is Zeroraven. I already have a group that i play with regularly, but i'll join you when i'm not playing with them.

[Alhuin]

I stopped playing again on the last day of Season 1. I got extremely pissed off (the only time I've gotten so pissed off at a game) because, no matter how hard I tried, I could not get to 1249 rating (for the bronze banner). Granted, I was solo-queuing, but still... I think it's utterly ridiculous that one person can ruin the game for you. It's great that it's a team game, but only if you actually have a team. On that day, I decided I needed another break, since no game should ever infuriate me as much as I had been.

I had several people that I would group with, but they all slowly started disappearing, so I probably just burned myself out playing solo all the time.

To expand on Dark Dragon's comment though: flat Armour/Magic pen marks, Armour per level seals, HP per level seals, MP5 per level seals, Magic Resist per level glyphs, flat cooldown reduction glyphs and flat HP quints are probably the most important runes to get. There are a handful of others, related to the style of champion you prefer, but the ones I listed above you will use the majority of the time. My personal advice is to save all your IP for tier 3 runes, as some of them get pretty expensive. If you really want to buy runes though, just use tier 1 until you can get tier 3.

[Lucifus]

Only play NA myself.

I'm "Advisor Udyr" now btw. Name change.

[TheBladeChild]

Same name here TheBladechild on NA

[Xelbair]

The only champ you need before 30 is Master Yi, most people are too stupid to figure out how to counter him. Get good with him and you'll carry most games early on. Best runes investment are Armor Pen/Magic Pen/Ability Power and HP since you'll find yourself using at least one of those on any champ you play.

My in game name is Zeroraven. I already have a group that i play with regularly, but i'll join you when i'm not playing with them.
not really, when i was leveling the most skilled people were at levels 20-29, at 30 you find more retards that do not counter anything than skilled people.

as for runes, armor pen(red), magic pen(red), cdr/lv(Blue),mana regen/lv(yellow), armor(yellow, required to jungle for most champs).

Ashe is very strong (she has weaker early game compared to cait but she owns later on) too if you get to know how to play her, along with 'i'm having 3k hp, 200 resses and i still deal shitload of dmg' Ryze.

[Alhuin]

cdr/lv(Blue)

It's actually been stated by many professional players that, in most situations, flat CDR is better. The per level glyphs won't match the flats until at least level 13, which means you could be hurting yourself in the early game. Remember there is a 40% hard cap... most of the time two items are going to put you relatively close to the cap, so whichever runes you choose, you'll most likely have some wasted CDR. It comes down to whether you want to spend less IP and give yourself a weaker early game, but slightly stronger (maybe not even noticeable) late game... or shell out the extra IP for a stronger early game with really no difference to late game, since you'll be getting items anyways.

For manaless champions, I strongly advise flat though... they allow you to spam your abilities more in the early levels so you can farm/harass.

[Xelbair]

the characters i'm mostly playing don't use cdr items, and their early game won't improve that much from flats compared to the per lv ones.

[UChessmaster]

It's actually been stated by many professional players that, in most situations, flat CDR is better. The per level glyphs won't match the flats until at least level 13, which means you could be hurting yourself in the early game. Remember there is a 40% hard cap... most of the time two items are going to put you relatively close to the cap, so whichever runes you choose, you'll most likely have some wasted CDR. It comes down to whether you want to spend less IP and give yourself a weaker early game, but slightly stronger (maybe not even noticeable) late game... or shell out the extra IP for a stronger early game with really no difference to late game, since you'll be getting items anyways.

For manaless champions, I strongly advise flat though... they allow you to spam your abilities more in the early levels so you can farm/harass.

That doesn`t applies to everyone though, Ryze beneficts more from cdr/level runes.

[KrayZ33]

ryze is pretty much CDR capped with blue golem buff and masteries.

[Alhuin]

I actually don't use CDR runes much more anyways... a lot of the main champs I play(ed) use MR/lvl. Except Akali... for her I used AP/lvl, since I didn't want to spend the IP for flat AP (I activate both her passives by level 2 anyways).

You know, this talk of LoL is kinda making me want to play again...

[UChessmaster]

ryze is pretty much CDR capped with blue golem buff and masteries.

Tell that to my junglers, i can`t ALWAYS count on the blue buff.

[animus]

On Ryze I run mana per level yellows, blues, and quints :o

[Dark Dragon]

I usually run magic pen red/quint and mp5 yellow/blue on ryze. The most effective way of building him for me to to rush catalyst and then get sorc shoes. From there i either finish banshee or build Frozen Heart depending on the opponent. I'll build a tear after catalyst if i'm getting fed, otherwise i find that building a tear early makes you too fragile. Typical build would be something like sorc, banshee, frozen heart, void staff, archangel and Guardian Angel last.

[UChessmaster]

Prof ryze gives me super strenght.

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/1070/profryze.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/249/profryze.png/)

[Xelbair]

i'm going with fast tear as my priority - i can easily get +1000 bonus by 30-40 minute, boots +1, then RoA, rest is dependand on the enemy's set-up and who's good/fed etc.

[Dark Dragon]

Good news for new players.

They just re-released the Halloween tier 2 quints and these have 90% of the tier 3 quints stats at half the cost.

There are 6 types Armpen,Mpen,AP,HP,Dodge,Movespeed. Take advantage of them while they're still around.

[Archangel]

They're not around yet though are they?

I think i'll get The Headless Horseman Quintessence Tier 2.5, +3.08 Armor Penetration – 495 IP for my ashe

[Dark Dragon]

Go to Quint > Tier 2 > Limited Availability.

[Xelbair]

i've got the ones i'm interested in from t3 already.

[Archangel]

Well i just got absolutely butt mangled by Tryndamere... how the fuck do you deal with that guy?

[Dark Dragon]

Exhaust/Stun

Most Tryndamere will build full damage and hit like a truck. Since they don't build defense, just make him waste his ult early and then CC him for the 5 seconds duration. His early game is also garbage so any strong laner can just completely shut him down from farming and prevent him from getting enough gold to be a threat.

[Archangel]

I could, but i was getting ganked early game and couldn't build up shit. This while my teammates were defending their own turrets and not doing shit in general...

I came back with a vengeance though

http://i.imgur.com/u2cnK.jpg (http://imgur.com/u2cnK)

That wasn't even the whole game, got around 5 or 6 more kills for the lulz while they took the nexus

[Xelbair]

Wow, obviously low level game - Yi with Archangel's staff, garren with inf edge as 1st item... damn. oh and chog with revive.
Arch - you are playing on EU west right? if so add me ('Xelbair' obviously).

[Archangel]

Sent the inv

Lets go a round Xel, i'm sure you could teach me a thing or 2

[animus]

Played just enough ranked games this season to get a rating showing.

Not fun I tell you. My 10th game I went 16-4 as Graves, but lost. If this was DoTA, would've been over way earlier. Team game or not, people can just be so straight up bad at video games.

[Archangel]

Why isn't a player that left replaced with a bot or something? It's utterly impossible to recuperate if the other team is halfway decent.

[Assassin]

interesting thought, but a bot would, in most cases, be a hindrance and just end up feeding the team more. I'd rather play a 4v5 then a 5v5 with a feeder.

If your team cooperates and knows what they'er doing a 4v5 game is very salvageable. Just a few days ago i won a 4v5 game after our tank left and both the nexus turrets were down. All it takes is one ace and then you push for victory :p.

[animus]

A lot of the Co-OP AI bots are actually like a lot better than a surprising amount of the population that play LoL. It's kinda sad.

[Archangel]

interesting thought, but a bot would, in most cases, be a hindrance and just end up feeding the team more. I'd rather play a 4v5 then a 5v5 with a feeder.

If your team cooperates and knows what they'er doing a 4v5 game is very salvageable. Just a few days ago i won a 4v5 game after our tank left and both the nexus turrets were down. All it takes is one ace and then you push for victory :p.
Lets say that bot is programed to play defensively then. This is just food for thought though, i just find the current solution ( not having one ) quite shitty.

Oh and by the way, is it common for my team to assume i should solo the mid lane even when the other team has 2 bitches on it? It's not like i can't manage but i hate playing next to the turrets and usually get my ass kicked when they're both good. If one's fooder i'm golden, but if they're both decent then i'm fucked.

[Xelbair]

My record was to win a 3v5 game. i was fed as hell as heimer, so i could defend 2 lanes at once. 2 of my friends kept defending the other lane, after we aced the enemy team i went and popped a ward near their base. then went back, defend a bit, and when they started a heavy push i left my mates to defend and teleported to ward -> killed turret near their inhi then inhi and went back. i did that one more time and we won. 5 hits more for them on our nexus and we would lose.

Ark - you'll learn how to handle solo line vs 2, it rarely happens on mid later. they have less exp than you so use it to your advantage.

[Alhuin]

Arch: The typical setup is two top, one mid, two bot. Once you get to the higher levels though, the typical setup is one top, one mid, two bot, one jungle. But yes, to answer your question, mid lane is supposed to be a solo lane.

[Archangel]

Oh... they get less exp? I didn't know that

Guess i'll defend till 6 then, when i have my ultimate and they don't they should be easy pickings

[Alhuin]

You should focus on last hitting. Even if they play correctly and it's 1v1 in mid, the best thing to do is focus on last hitting. You get better exp and better gold. And, if you just last hit, you can keep your minions from pushing too far out into the lane to where you are vulnerable to ganks.

Of course, you're still probably in your early levels, so it probably won't make much of a difference. But it's always best to start practicing it earlier. When it comes to defense, by the way... let the tower hit the melee minions twice then you should be able to get the last hit. Caster minions are a bit more tricky... but something like, hit it once, let tower hit it once, then hit it again will probably work.

Oh... if someone's being stupid and you can get a kill, by all means go for it. Harassing is great as well, but not at the expense of missing last hits.

[animus]

You could do a few things. If you are a strong mid that can clear lanes fast and safely (Morgana, Anivia, etc.) then you can probably hold that 1v2 fine. Or if you're a rather weak mid lane have one of your team mates that's in a 2v1, come up to make it a 1v1 in the lane they left and 2v2 for you mid.

Or if they foolishly put 2 mid and have a weak solo against YOUR duo, use that to your advantage.

[Dark Dragon]

Another thing 1v2 mid is quite different from 1v2 top. It's pretty easy to zone someone out from getting exp top if it's a 1v2 lane and the 2's are stronger to remove the exp advantage. That's almost impossible at mid due to the short range.

While they might still be able to prevent you from getting gold via last hitting, you can still keeping the exp advantage. Most champions with ultimate at level 6 will be able to beat 2 weaker level 4 unless it's some annoying combo. Then again, most competent players won't consider sending 2 mid so that shouldn't be a problem.

[Xelbair]

plus with Ashe you can last hit and harass at once with her Volley if you time it well.

[gos27]

Man I only got this game a few days ago and I'm REALLY BAD! Anyone got any tips? :P And what characters are good? I'm lucky if I get a kill a game, and a couple of assists.

[Alhuin]

10 champions rotate weekly that are free to play. If you go to your summoner profile, to the champions tab, and check the box labeled "recommended", that will give you an idea of which champions to try out while you're still learning the ropes. After a few weeks of rotations, and several games under your belt, you'll get a good feel for what you like to play. Commonly, Ashe is the champion of choice for new players, as she is the tutorial champion, and she's a badass archer. But Ryze, Yi, and Nunu are pretty common as well.

[Archangel]

With Ashe, if the enemy team isn't aware of just how squishy you are then you'll be making the lanes, turrets and enemy champions your personal bitches. If they do, you'll have to play defensively but probably still do fine.

[gos27]

Was using Ashe yesterday and I was around the same level as everyone else, but for some reason she wasn't as strong as the others on my team or the opposition. Maybe I'm not buying the right things!? I dunno, I'll just keep playing and hope that I get better :P

If anyone wants to play, (and help me :P) my account name is: gos27. :D

[Archangel]

This helped me out

http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/champion/ashe-13

[UChessmaster]

Was using Ashe yesterday and I was around the same level as everyone else, but for some reason she wasn't as strong as the others on my team or the opposition. Maybe I'm not buying the right things!? I dunno, I'll just keep playing and hope that I get better :P

If anyone wants to play, (and help me :P) my account name is: gos27. :D

AS boots, Infinity Edge, Last Whisperer and Phantom Dancer, you`ll melt faces.

[Archangel]

I like to get phantom dancer before whisperer though, helps me take down turrets within seconds when nobody's looking

[Alhuin]

http://www.solomid.net/guides.php is the best place for (most) guides, in my opinion. If you choose a "featured" guide, 90% of them are written by a top ELO player, and they go into explanations on their mastery choices, rune options, item purchases, etc. I used to use mobafire until I realized just how bad most of them were (haven't taken a look at the one Arch linked though, so no comment on that).

[Xelbair]

Last Whisper isn't a must have item - it all depends on what enemy tanks are getting. Ark - try fitting stark's fervor in there - especially if you have more ad champs.

[Archangel]

I don't think Stark's Fervor would serve such a squishy champion like Ashe

[UChessmaster]

lol, everyone has armor even if they don`t buy armor items, last whisperer makes you but the enemies hp like butter.

[Archangel]

lol, everyone has armor even if they don`t buy armor items, last whisperer makes you but the enemies hp like butter.
But nobody has unlimited armor even if they buy all the armor items in the game, while you're doing mid lane against another carry you should really focus on damage and not armor penetration. It's a good end game item though, for those team fights.

[UChessmaster]

Well yeah, i meant in teamfights of course :p, but by the time you buy IE and lv2 boots, laning phase is usually over already.

Meanwhile in ranked:

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