Haha, you have fallen into the same trap all the enemy teams did! Rotating out people trying to solo mid only made us laugh! I think you adapt by either happening to be way better or not keeping up trying to solo mid when you are getting your ass kicked. But because as Therlun said, this is THE Meta brought to us by the pros, so no one was willing to do that. MID MUST SOLO!
Top and bottom both being solo lanes is exactly what it was. You know how when you’re 1v2 and at the start of the game if they both start chasing you you go hide behind your tower and wait for them to push up, secure in the knowledge that if they stay pushed to your tower for too long they’ll eventually get worn down and a gank will have plenty of time to kill them before they get back to their tower? Well that’s not true in mid because your tower is only a screen away. You can zone and push all day and not be overextended like you would in a side lane.
I would love to play around with different strategies for the fun of it, but considering Bunny gets the vapors if we don’t have a pure no-farm support on our team these days it is unlikely to happen.
Don’t worry, I still love you Bunny.
You play passively and farm at tower and don’t die. Like any other 2v1. Like mx said, it’s like some arcane art that has been lost by some people. It’s really not that big a deal to play against 2 people in a lane, especially in mid where it’s extremely difficult to zone someone due to the size of the lane.
In addition most AP mids can quite easily afk farm without putting themselves in any danger (Morgana, Brand, Sion, Galio, Cass, Anivia).
Pogo
6163
Farming at tower is definitely a skill that people don’t pick up well enough.
Played a ranked game yesterday with Cho solo bottom, Udyr Jungling, and Shaco counter-jungling and ganking. We won every lane (top and bottom were just better, and our mid got a ton of help from the two roamers) and completely dominated them and Shaco went 8-1-1 or something, but I don’t think anyone on the other team was very good so I doubt it means much.
Cougar
6165
Figures the night I login to Mumble the next game that fires up is ARAM /vomit. :P
~C~
SlyFrog
6167
That’s cause it’s freakin hard. I theoretically understand the hit them once let the tower hit them once hit them again tricks, but in actuality I find it doesn’t work that well because you’re still being harassed and on top of it, their minions often don’t have that perfect full health level to make it work (making the tricks not work).
I mean, I can usually farm one or two, but nowhere near what I can farm without the tower blasting them.
The tricks are for “bad players” and people attempting to learn how it is possible. After that point it becomes pretty instinctive, especially if you have played the champion more then once. You learn very quickly what to hit and when, with plenty of players able to pick up perfect CS even at tower.
It is difficult, but then last hitting is so easy that you should relish the challenge every now and again ;)
Summoner Spells are changing.
CV and Flash are getting longer cooldowns, and a shorter range on teleport. Heal and Cleanse are being improved.
Rally and Fortify are going away.
‘Surge’(name in progress) give a boost aura around the champion, and Promote is coming to Summoner’s Rift.
Taking a slight break from LOL for some World of Tanks for a variety of reasons. If you are active in WOT, or want to join in, hook a brother up - TinyPirate in game.
maxle
6172
I wish idris would lose some weight :(
Yes, but I live in another time zone so I don’t often see you around. Crazzzy, I know. :p
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Hugin
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Yay a buff to “Why are you taking that” Heal! And a nerf to “Why aren’t you taking that” Flash! Yay!
I hope flash is nerfed to unusability.
Mazuo
6177
More excited about a rally that appears it might function for something useful. Then again, I hope it doesn’t break things with either stacking buffs or just being too strong to begin with.
OK, I’m officially obsessed. I haven’t launched Steam or Impulse in the entire past month since I started playing LoL.
Server NA, Summoner name FieryBalroglrog (laggy chat window ftw) and please add me if you play! The last few days have been horrible experiences with pubs. Leavers, terribly incompetent players, rude players, Brazilians, the works. I have several friends that play, although we usually need one or two pubs to fill up and somehow 80% of the time that results in something bad.
I wonder how similar it will be to Sivir’s ult and what this means for her continued lack of presence.
fire
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I think a few people hang out in the qt3 chat room.
