5141

I kinda like how that Dominions-only movespeed item makes you choose between capping speed and combat efficiency. Still not sure when I should be picking it up.

5142

Only 2 people max on your team should be buying it.

5143

Plus Sivir is really, really strong lategame and in Dominion you get to shortcut to late game pretty quick.

5144

Ditto for me with Poppy. Plus, her main problem in SR is that she has a hard time farming, and that’s almost completely solved in Dominions.

5145

New found fun: watching Guardsman Bob’s stream and seeing his teammates occasionally obliviously call him “noob” and “terrible.”

Puts a whole new perspective on that idiot disparaging your skills in a random matchup team game. :)

5146

I don’t think guardsman bob is that high elo, he plays a lot. but some times he does terrible.

he is only popular because he comment on his tactic during livestream and he have decent playlist.

5147

Decent?

It’s far better then just decent :)

5148

decent is a good praise from me.

I like oldies.

5149

He may do terribly, but the concept that he is a terrible, noobish player is simply a joke.

That’s the point. Multiplayer gamers seem to have such a difficulty differentiating between “bad game result” and “terrible player with no skill or ability whatsoever, who clearly just logged on for the first time.”

5150

He may do terribly, but the concept that he is a terrible, noobish player is simply a joke.

if you don’t watch stream, and you are in a game where he is TERRIBLE, you gonna say “You are a terrible noob”, because it’s the first time you play with him.

You can’t assume everyone who play with him knows him or watch his stream.

5151

I think you’re missing my point.

5152

He is missing your point.

5153

I like that so far no one character seems to be really OP in Dominion. I’ve won games against Rammus, Akali, and Jax and lost games with them on my team. It does definately shift things more in favor of melee carry types, since it won’t be often that ranged carries can hide behind their team while killing everyone.

I’ve seen glass cannons and AP types do well and have done well with them without building very tanky. I had great fun winning a game as glass cannon Annie. Cooldown reduction and spell vamp become way more important with all the small fights, rather than waiting to flash-unload-all-skills that people are used to.

It seems like pretty much every character can work in a way that plays to their strengths much more than normal mode, because Summoner’s Rift is just about teamfights. Except Eve. Eve still sucks.

Going back to playing a bunch of SR games yesterday makes me really appreciate Dominion even more, and I think it’s just the superior game mode. Something like four out of five games were pretty much decided fifteen minutes in, but then dragged on for another ten or twenty minutes until one team surrendered. Once one or two characters start snowballing and getting ridiculous kills the game is effectively over and gets kind of boring for everyone else on both teams. The whole start of the game also seems incredibly boring and pointlessly slow compared to Dominion now.

This applies to HoN too, which I’ve also been playing a bit, except that HoN snowballs out of control like five minutes into the game and then goes on for another half hour or forty minutes to an inevitable conclusion because no one wants to surrender so they can get more silver or something.

5154

Seems like the core issue is that “noob” is being used as a generic “I think you’re a bad player” insult, rather than literally “I think you’re a new player who doesn’t know what they’re doing.”

5155

I might buy Shaco just to play him in Dominion.

5156

Well of course.

5157

And they think he is “terrible” and a “bad player” based on one five minute sample?

You can explain it away however you like; the fact remains that multiplayer gamers routinely make stupid judgments about the general capabilities of individuals based on very little experience (and often surprising ignorance they don’t realize they themselves have).

This isn’t a case of “literal;” I’m pretty sure that person in his little rage filled moment of “noob” typing thought Guardsman Bob was just a terrible overall player. There’s not a lot of thought that goes into it, and that’s kind of the point. The game is full of kneejerk idiots who have a need to assert supremacy.

5158

I thought the difference was in calling someone “noob” and “newbie” but nowadays, and specially in games like LoL, people just throw “noob” around like the all-general-encompassing-pseudo insult thingie.

5159

Let me introduce you to the best and most important console commands in the game

/ignore ally
/ignore enemy

I think there’s an /ignore all too

5160

You can now hold TAB and click on the rightmost icon for the player and mute them.