2021

Man, lousy night, won two out of five games. Losing is ok, but it sucks when teammates start complaining about how everyone sucks, especially when they’re clearly part of the problem.

Oh well, tomorrow is another day. |^)

Edit:
Morgana

* Dark Binding hitbox size reduced

I don’t know if that’s meant to be a nerf, but making it easier to shoot past minions sounds pretty good.

2022

OMG, huge blitzcrank buffs! Yay!

2023

They decided to remove the AoE effect from your Ulti… Not too big a deal I guess but for those odd sets of circumstances it could be really annoying.

2024

Lux’s skills sound a fair bit like morgana’s. Have to see her in action.

2025

Her snare looks like it doesn’t last as long but can hit multiple targets, so a creep randomly jumping in the way isn’t going to be as much of a problem for her.

2026

That’s pretty much how they describe her in the champion spotlight. She’s like the white mage Morgana with a super death ray ult.

2027

The Urgot changes are even more hilarious than what we first saw. Yeah, he definitely needed nerfs.

2028

Malady went from stupid to interesting.

Also, Jax’s ultimate’s new active and Empower becoming a single target bomb are pretty interesting too. Ninja Tabi and Gunblade seem like the new must-have-always-forever items to go with Rageblade on him.

2029

I kind of want to get better with Tristiana/DPs before I try tanking, so I’m sticking with her today. But I might alter how I go about things - trying new items and such. I’ve been grabbing the 12% life steal item to start every time. I find it helpful; I can just bang away on creeps and get a goodly amount of health back in a fairly short time. Then I go to the blood razor then the green razor (which isn’t as good against non high health champions. But is still good). I was also getting the 25% attack speed boots a lot, but I might try something else there, I dunno.

2030

Peace: I suggest starting the Dorans Blade next time, you will find it much much easier to last hit with (which is all you should be doing for ages anyway) and the health boost helps against harassment.

I would then consider Infinity’s Edge (one of the recommended items). The damage and crit stuff is really good. From there, up to you. Stacking bloodthirsters can be fun, the razors, frozen mallet or last whisper for a tank heavy opposing team, or phantom dancer for a softer team… Yeah, try that. And def try the blade as first item. I love it.

2031

I started playing last night and i just unlocked Master Yi and damm that guy can hit really fast and hard that its scary, sometimes i killed 2 people at the same time using alpha strike.

edit: anyone gets some slow downs using the game launcher and other menus? everything is fine when im ingame.

2032

I really like Lux so far. I might actually spend the ip to get a caster rune page now, because I’m tempted to main her. We’ll see.

So on that note, any suggestions for the composition of a general-purpose caster nuke page?

2033

I believe it’s magic penetration, mana regen, cooldown reduction.

2034

How significant are the nerfs to Galio? Just about earned enough IP to pick him up and was going to do so tonight. I enjoyed playing with him over the free weekend but haven’t really used him enough to know if this is a significant crippling.

2035

Couple of choices. You can go,

  • entire page of flat AP runes
  • Aforementioned Magic Pen, Mana regen, Flat/Scaling Cooldown
  • Magic Pen, Mana Regen, Scaling AP, Flat AP Quints

Last choice is debatable… It’s my rune choice for Sona. I’m still playing around with it so it probably isn’t optimal yet but hell, it works for me :)

If your really looking for a general page (rather then tailored for a specific character) you’ll get a hell of alot more mileage out of the second choice. Quints can be whatever you want.

Also where the fuck did you go?

2036

Well, my roomates decided it was time for the next installment of the hit series Let’s Watch Porn While Max Is Trying To Play Games Online, so I went to get dinner.

2037

Ok. I was a weak link in both of our games tonight, though we won both. Whoever was playing Shen in game two was awesome.

Certainly, we just sort of threw caution to the wind and had me man middle solo. The Kog player in game 2 was excellent, and that was problematic.

I’m not a great last hit killer, but I’m getting better I think. I suffered against Kog because I was trying very hard not to start shit with him, and he was daring me to pretty much from level 2.

I clearly need to stop and think about my items. My “old” order was:

  1. the 12% lifesteal item
  2. Blood claws
  3. Green claws (I tired to get the + AS bow before the pickaxe).
  4. The + 25% attack speed/+2 moove boots.
  5. If it went this long, B.F. Sword, looking to build something else if the chance arose.

That’s based on someone’s suggestions from like my third game (the first I played with everyone) (but the boots I just did on my own). I am starting to feel like I don’t do enough damage. Lately I’ve considered going after some bow that does + attack speed and I forget (it’s in my recommende ditems). Sometimes I’ve built a sword based on that 12% life steal item.

As for the games, Lazy or Bunny was saying after game #2 it was important for me not to extend beyond the protection of towers. I get that, but it felt like I had periods where I basically wasn’t doing anything. Long periods, which made me feel like I was really hurting the team since I wasn’t even farming. Should I be considering a lane switch at that point? It’s particularly pronounced when the lane I am in is backed up to the third tower.

2038

As soon as a tower in your lane goes down it’s a signal for you to start roaming the map. Although if it’s your tower it’s slightly more complicated… It’s still a good rule for any new guys to follow. Also sorry I didn’t get to play with you much peacedog, hopefully some other time.

2039

Peace, check out this superby, watery guide to Tristana. It is the best I’ve read and provided to me by one of the regulars.

2040

Just thought I’d note that stacking a few doran’s blades early isn’t horrible on Trist. Health + Damage + Lifesteal x2 or x3 is great on her for farming and survival.