League of Legends: Official Thread

MrCoffee · 2011-09-12T08:39:38.000Z

So i decided to play a normal game, and i see our Ashe going mid with doran’s blade and i think to myself “she is going to feed that katarina”.

And it happened!

guppy · 2011-09-12T08:49:54.000Z

jellyfish:

I had the craziest game today.

We were down 60 kills to 30. We had lost all our towers but no inhibitors. Earlier we aced them one time so we had their middle inhibitor down. Later on we just ran straight down the middle, all five of us, they were all up, no one was dead, we took out the two towers, the nexus, and we won. We didn’t ace them, they were all up, we were down 60 kills to 30 and we still won. It was mad!

This is what happens when a winning team doesn’t know how to push. If you don’t press an advantage, the other team has a chance to catch up on levels and farm and your advantage evaporates.

forgeforsaken · 2011-09-12T08:53:10.000Z

guppy:

This is what happens when a winning team doesn’t know how to push. If you don’t press an advantage, the other team has a chance to catch up on levels and farm and your advantage evaporates.

I’ve been on both sides of this so many times. It’s aggravating when I’m on the non pushing team as I can see it happening. It’s also sort of why one of my repeated phrases seems to be “push to win.”

SlyFrog · 2011-09-12T09:14:07.000Z

Quitch:

I think Mike has pretty accurately captured the mindset of 95% of the LoL community.

I agree in part. I do think that most deaths pass without comment. I also do think that there are plenty of situations that are commented on that really are players being stupid. One of my recent games, we had an Udyr who kept trying to counter-jungle/steal buffs from the opponents’ jungle. They clearly had wards up, and again and again they would converge on his soloing ass and slaughter him.

How many times does that have to happen until it goes from being good play by the party getting the kill to, “Stop running around unsupported and getting picked off,” on the part of the player getting killed?

What I see more often is blame for losing the game. I see plenty of games go by where people don’t comment on each death being lucky, stupid, etc. But I see few games go by where, when a team is losing, at least one or two players don’t start up with the, “<All>gg we lost cuz Udyr is noob<All>,” followed by the inevitable back and forth recriminations.

skyride · 2011-09-12T10:13:19.000Z

Calistas:

I got wtfpwnd as Orianna mid vs Caitlyn. I’m still really new to her (and would have picked someone else if I had thought I had to go mid), and can be pretty bad (as Therlun and Chequers witnessed) but even so, I found Caitlyn extremely hard to deal with and our Jungler never really paid a visit (except after my multiple deaths haha).

Any tips? She was pretty aggressive and would move forward quickly to keep me in range and Q me as I ran. Very frustrating, she was knocking big chunks off my champ - 3 Qs and a couple of auto-attacks and I was pretty much toast - I suspect heavily AD runed or something… In addition to me sucking with Orianna.

I just started playing Oriana too. I started in duo lane just to get the hang of her skills. Not sure if jumping to mid right away would go well.

Caitlyns Q is not that hard to dodge if you juke a lot. You mainly have to be careful that you don’t get hit by her charged up autoattack cause that hurts. I guess with Orianna it’s not a bad idea to just sit back and farm for a bit. Even though her autoattack is decent, you don’t want to be trading blows with Cait.

skyride · 2011-09-12T10:17:40.000Z

jellyfish:

I had the craziest game today.

We were down 60 kills to 30. We had lost all our towers but no inhibitors. Earlier we aced them one time so we had their middle inhibitor down. Later on we just ran straight down the middle, all five of us, they were all up, no one was dead, we took out the two towers, the nexus, and we won. We didn’t ace them, they were all up, we were down 60 kills to 30 and we still won. It was mad!

I had a victory with 30 kills down couple of nights ago. It was particularly satisfying because the “noob” comments were non stop from the other team during the game. We even had a failed surrender vote. But my Mordekeiser eventually caught up in farm and became unstoppable. Finished with 26 kills on him.

MrCoffee · 2011-09-12T10:26:39.000Z

skyride:

I just started playing Oriana too. I started in duo lane just to get the hang of her skills. Not sure if jumping to mid right away would go well.

Caitlyns Q is not that hard to dodge if you juke a lot. You mainly have to be careful that you don’t get hit by her charged up autoattack cause that hurts. I guess with Orianna it’s not a bad idea to just sit back and farm for a bit. Even though her autoattack is decent, you don’t want to be trading blows with Cait.

The Q hurts more i think, but easily dodgeable if you are paying attention.

That’s why you should always get boots.

bluemax · 2011-09-12T10:43:34.000Z

Westy:

On the ESL stream: watch Rock Solid run support Gangplank and win.

They won that final because Rez’s Kog Maw was completely stupid. Support GP was kind of crippling them.

Pogo · 2011-09-12T10:50:24.000Z

Riven looks boring.

Quitch · 2011-09-12T13:33:23.000Z

God, why is it always the join & lock who complains about team composition?

MrCoffee · 2011-09-12T13:53:00.000Z

Quitch:

God, why is it always the join & lock who complains about team composition?

Because obviously you didn’t think about the team and build around him.

guppy · 2011-09-12T14:04:59.000Z

Quitch:

God, why is it always the join & lock who complains about team composition?

I usually dodge these games in normal mode. (It’s a loss and Elo hit in ranked.) No interest in playing with those people, and how much of a team player are they likely to be if they act this selfish in champion select?

Hanacker · 2011-09-12T14:13:22.000Z

guppy:

I usually dodge these games in normal mode. (It’s a loss and Elo hit in ranked.) No interest in playing with those people, and how much of a team player are they likely to be if they act this selfish in champion select?

If someone is complaining I usually try to make them dodge or suffer with the team comp they hate so much, but yours is probably the saner option.

rossm · 2011-09-12T14:15:25.000Z

The only games I’ve played with other people have been Normal, solo-queue games. Not only do I not have the knowledge to make team composition a consideration, but I only have the free champions to choose from. I’m not sure what I should be doing other than choosing who I’m most comfortable with before somebody else does (which would force me to play somebody I don’t know the first thing about, inevitably feeding).

McKnight · 2011-09-12T14:16:45.000Z

We are all talking from a lvl 30 perspective rossm, it’s completely different at low levels.

AaronSofaer · 2011-09-12T15:18:12.000Z

rossm, picking the champion you’re most comfortable with is exactly what you should be doing, and let the nay-sayers bite their tongue.

Unless you’re most comfortable with Evelynn. In which case, pick a different champ.

:D

maxle · 2011-09-12T16:49:26.000Z

forgeforsaken:

I’ve been on both sides of this so many times. It’s aggravating when I’m on the non pushing team as I can see it happening. It’s also sort of why one of my repeated phrases seems to be “push to win.”

If it helps, that sort of thing is significantly less common as you move up the ranks, as are come-backs in general.

bluemax · 2011-09-12T17:05:06.000Z

So Season 1 Ends tomorrow. Graduated Elo reset with most people getting placed between 1100 and 1300. Some will be place as low as 906 and others as high as 1490.

So I’m guessing my Elo will probably drop :/

forgeforsaken · 2011-09-12T17:22:42.000Z

maxle:

If it helps, that sort of thing is significantly less common as you move up the ranks, as are come-backs in general.

I’ve been level 30 for eons, it happens all the time.

Horrible_Oscar · 2011-09-12T17:23:08.000Z

This week: Amumu, Annie, Caitlyn, Gangplank, Karma, Nocturne, Nunu, Singed, Sivir, Talon.

Quite a few 6300 champions I wanted to try, but I’m afraid I’ll actually end up liking them and they’re so expensive . . .