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[Archangel]

Bottom with Ezreal

Hihihi

But seriously the deal with taric is just being annoying as fuck, land a stun if the enemy gets out of position and just start whaling on him. Remember that your auto atks means more mana and shorter heal cooldowns and dont expect your carry to be the one initiating. Basically, make shit happen.

In team fights you're supposed to be "suicidal". You get in there and stun the carry so your team can take him out, try to land your r+w combo if they're all together but if not just use r even if it doesn't hit anything. After that just really get in there, again your attacks mean more heals and mana. In general they won't be wanting to focus you, if they're dumb enough to do that just use your heals on yourself and don't use w for the armor. Plus, don't forget to use your items.

Honestly, supporting with Taric is easy as fuck. No hard to land skillshots, you don't have to worry about positioning nearly as much as other squishy healers all of your spells are useful 90% of the time in one way or another.

[Assertn]

Hihihi

But seriously the deal with taric is just being annoying as fuck, land a stun if the enemy gets out of position and just start whaling on him. Remember that your auto atks means more mana and shorter heal cooldowns and dont expect your carry to be the one initiating. Basically, make shit happen.

In team fights you're supposed to be "suicidal". You get in there and stun the carry so your team can take him out, try to land your r+w combo if they're all together but if not just use r even if it doesn't hit anything. After that just really get in there, again your attacks mean more heals and mana. In general they won't be wanting to focus you, if they're dumb enough to do that just use your heals on yourself and don't use w for the armor. Plus, don't forget to use your items.

Ah, so basically, i should be relying more on my AD and less on my AP after the stun. I'm still used to playing as Ryze, I guess.

Honestly, supporting with Taric is easy as fuck. No hard to land skillshots, you don't have to worry about positioning nearly as much as other squishy healers all of your spells are useful 90% of the time in one way or another.

My biggest trouble seems to be not making a decision soon enough as to whether to move forward or fall back, as Taric is slow as fuck.

[Archangel]

Ah, so basically, i should be relying more on my AD and less on my AP after the stun. I'm still used to playing as Ryze, I guess.

Not sure what you mean by this, could you rephrase it please?

My biggest trouble seems to be not making a decision soon enough as to whether to move forward or fall back, as Taric is slow as fuck.

Myahh i get that, you're afraid of burning spells only for your ad or team not to do anything on it. If your AD is good he'll know to follow your lead, if not just instruct him to go all in after you do and the moment you see an opening go balls deep.

[Assertn]

Not sure what you mean by this, could you rephrase it please?

As in, focusing solely on the burst damage and trying to mash all my AP instead of using it selectively based on specific circumstances.

Myahh i get that, you're afraid of burning spells only for your ad or team not to do anything on it. If your AD is good he'll know to follow your lead, if not just instruct him to go all in after you do and the moment you see an opening go balls deep.

yeah, and if I know I'm approaching a dangerous situation, I either have to commit fully to the frontline and hope we kill them, or run away immediately. If I hesitate, then I more likely end up just dying for no reason. Sometimes I feel good about a confrontation though, only to find out my teammates ran away >_>

[Edort4]

I left the game months ago (like 9 months or so) never really get hooked up by it. After reading all your "battles" here I decided to try it again.

Lots of new champions with cool mechanics but a lot more of "unknown" enemies to face. Sometimes all I can do is look at screen mesmerized after being killed in 2 shots or with some strange skills that cant comprehend. My biggest issue is that I left the game being lvl 21 and know ppl flame me cause I play even worse than a lvl 1. I dont know if its me getting old and dull or that knew players are better than before but sometimes the skill gap is so obvious that I even feel ashamed.

Do you guys use any guides or tutorials for tips & hints to improve or is it all just playing again and again till you reach your limit?

[UChessmaster]

I suggest getting a basic grasp of what each champ can do, what champ were you having problem with? do you remember their names?

[Xelbair]

Just finished playing in tournamet(ESL GO4LOL). we were fighting vs Archetype Gaming and lost. they are #2 team in Greece, and our next match would be vs one of better polish teams so we would lose anyways.
It was fun, 2,2k elo players are strong, but not THAT strong(i'm confident that i can play as kat as good as that guy with 2,2k elo).

Our setup was messed up - they took blitzcrank before we could, and our supp can only play blitz and malph well(and malph was
instabanned).

[Archangel]

[Archangel]

Jesus Christ, i have no fucking idea how to play this game anymore.

[Assertn]

Apparently everyone wants to play support now.

[Alhuin]

I can't really say, since I've mainly been playing Taric for about 6 months, but it seems like the new support items/upgrades are much better than the DPS ones. Most AP still build RoA, Rabadons, Rylais, WotA, etc. The only new thing I've seen in some builds is the upgrade of Haunting Guise. For AD, I'm not sure, since I rarely play AD outside of Riven.

The biggest problem I have with this season so far is how the change of masteries affected my jungling. I prefer to jungle Udyr or Hecarim, and in season 2, with the right masteries (and runes of course, however those haven't changed), I would break 500 movement speed after Trinity Force. Needless to say, no one could outrun me. There were two move speed masteries that had to be picked up in order to make this happen, however it looks like they were removed in favor of one, less powerful version in the Utility tree. I've yet to try jungling since the patch, but I'm fairly certain it won't be the same.

I've been wanting to play Singed lately, for some reason. I think it's just the idea of running around playing the Benny Hill theme song while enemy champions chase me. I've only played one game though, since top is apparently a highly fought after lane. And actually, in that game, I had to go bot as support. Ironically, the Riven that demanded top died within the first 6 minutes of the game, and rage quit. It wasn't a very good first game.

[Dark Dragon]

I've been testing jungle since the patch and there's a significant difference. I feel like because of the buff to central monsters, single dps junglers are way stronger now (as intended) so we might see the come back of some old classic like Warwick.

I think with the new changes, my time for WW and panth improved by about 10 seconds. This is huge for panth since he was already fast and the buff to mid monster only makes his passive better so expects to see level 3 panth gank you at like 2:50 now with both buff. The shift of monster power also makes single target damage masteries like butcher and AS much strong, so we might see more offensive oriented junglers.

edit: I'm still testing so these numbers are not concrete. Riot is also planning to use pre-season as a test for jungle so they might end up changing it again by start of S3.

[Edort4]

As if I wasnt bad enough they go and change an awful lot of things. Im at a loss with the new masteries when it comes to jungling/support/ or "hybrid" champs. And I cant see where the new items could go into my adc or ad.

And im sure that they did something weird with the movement and overall animations (attacking, turning, pathing) cause im having lots of trouble to land last hits, measure distances or the "reaction time" to unexpected movements/events. For me it feels like almost a different game. So much changes in such short time make me uncomfortable.

The new purchase menu is a good idea in my opinion. I like small icons and the menus at the right. Personally I can buy faster and using only the mouse.

[Archangel]

I'm gonna lay low and see how the pros and community deal with the new changes, then work around that.

Uchess should be happy, the tear upgrade might just make Ryze viable again.

[Xelbair]

tear upgrade + gauntlet made ryze a beast, that is if your team can survive for long enough - kinda like with nasus - let ryze farm and GG KTHXBYE.

[UChessmaster]

Muramana so op on ryze o.o

[Archangel]

Did you confuse Muramana with Seraph's Embrace or did you go full retard?

[UChessmaster]

Neither. Read Muramana for a second.

[Archangel]

Better than i realized, yet still pretty stupid.

You'd be giving up 60 ability power plus the percentage gained from the mana along with that sweet ass shield. And all for what? For a glass cannon build? ON RYZE?

Ryze isn't bursty and his range his utter shit, his mobility ain't that great either even with the ult. Muramana would be good for dueling, maybe slightly useful for early game but mid and late game it would fall off hardcore and i'm not convinced you can even reach the 750 mana before laning phase is over.

[UChessmaster]

Ap is a secondary stat on Ryze, not really that good on him. I`m more inclined towards Manamune PRECISELY because he is tanky enough as it is, WoTA, FH, RoA he`s still just as tanky as last patch, i simply choosed not to make him tankier, 6% magic damage scaling on mana is basically a DOUBLE scaling on his Q, too good to pass. I can reach 750 no problem. Trust me, it works, WAY better than a shield.