2661

I like a mejal’s on Janna for the same reason. Other than a risky monsoon in the middle of the other team, you kite so well there’s really no reason to be dying.

2662

Janna is all I play in solo queue now that I play with idrisz. I think I have like, 80% or so win ratio with her. I think she is only worth playing if you know some people on your team and can work together.

2663

Bought Kennen last night, gonna throw down some normal games as him, then ranked solo queu all the way. :)

Any EU guys wanna queue with me tonight?

2664

Always - some good games last night, some bad. Must brush up on quick retorts :)

On a positive was quite impressed with the report player function, even allows for afk reporting

2665

Yeah.

Also, my playstyle seems to flow more efficiently now that I have a mic. I no longer have to stop playing to type. :)

2666

And we all get to listen to your beautiful voice :)

2667

Oh god.

2668

For all the conspiracy theories about Riot releasing OP heroes to make money, Swain was kind of a failure, wasn’t he? Saw him a few times during the first week and his free week, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in a game since then. I expect him to get buffed up to God Tier before long to make up for it.

2669

He is pretty OP in 3 vs 3 from what i have seen :p

2670

I build Swain as a tank and do really well with him. He has great staying power, but his overall damage isn’t as great with that build. A couple of times i’ve played him like that, I’ve ended up a on team with 1 other support character and we just lacked damage output during team fights.

~C~

2671

Agreed - feel free to berate any of that do something wrong though. You’re one of the most relaxed high level players I know. No raging at all - it’s just not right :)

2672

Will do.

I do rage sometimes, I just prefer to keep it to myself. No use bringing down the teams morale if we’re already doing badly, that’s how people stop playing the game.

2673

On that note, must apologize to people for me the past few days. I have been ridiculously tired and hence if I seemed a bit quick to temper.

2674

that’s ok mcknight, keep yelling at mxle so he won’t surrender as much.

2675

“No, guys! We got this! All we have to do is defend while our inhibitors respawn, then ace them, and try to destroy one of thier towers! Why are you surrendering!?! NOooooo…”

2676

I’ve actually been in games where exactly that has happened a few times now, on both sides unfortunately.

2677

If I may. . .

I know that I’m still very new at this (level 16 now, and I’ve played ~100 games), and that I still do lots of galling things. I don’t mind suggestions/prodding etc. I understand that in the heat of the battle, people will get more animated when they say things just as a matter of course. I think I’m pretty thick skinned too. But I gots limits.

Lately - and this came up with you once or twice when we laned together but this is by no means limited to you - I’ve had people barking at me to use skills a good bit. Good version of that: you instructing me on when to use Tryst’s “E” on Mundo. I did not know that. I still lack a lot of that specific “this for that situation” type knowledge, and I’ll only learn that playing and learning from you guys.

But sometimes - and this happened with you that one time - I can’t use a skill because it’s on refresh (or worse, I’ve been silenced/stuned, but I’m more looking at the refresh scenario). I don’t mind repeatedly mentioning it, but I probably came off a touch expasperated when I replied that time. Heat of battle and all that. Sometimes -and this doesn’t apply to you at all - people have gotten increasingly exasperated with me in those scenarios. the requests for the skill get more, well I could say excited. Shrill? Yeah, I could say shrill. There are those sorts of troubled sighs sometimes - you know, like “sigh, you are suck a fucking idiot”. Again, this does not apply to you. Alas, my characters are subject to the same laws of physics as everyone else’s. If they don’t have abilities that have alternate cooldown mechanics (like Kog’s artillery), I have to wait just like everybody else. But hey, I bet people asking me to use it more often will make them cooldown more quickly. So maybe I should shut up about that.

What I don’t like at all is the very obviously intended to be criticism commentary like, “don’t feed X, because of stacks”. Yes, I may or may not have just had a stupid death (in one recent situation like this, that was true. But in another, it wasn’t). I do like someone pointing out “X is getting stacks” as a reminder. I know that giving that person more stacks is bad. Saying, after I die, that I’ve just done bad by giving them more stacks is sort of counter productive. I’d much rather the person in question shut the fuck up and keep their own deep insecurities in a cage. Failing that, feel free to call me a dick, and understand that I might respond in kind. This does not apply to you, McKnight; I don’t recall you ever having done this. But, you know, other people have.

I also don’t like having every last action I make criticized (especially repeatedly), whether they were right or wrong. I believe that generally comes from someone wanting to explain why I was wrong, but having to do so in the heat of battle, which is a rather more complicated scenario and it’s much easier to come off the wrong way (or take things the wrong way) in such a scenario.

2678

There was that time we had it, though. But blew it. That was during the streak of doom, actually (when I went from 33-23 to something like 34-46, before evening out since).

2679

last night playing with chiffy, they down our mid and bot inhibitor, did we surrender?.. NOOOOOOOOO…

We defended and got our inhibitor back, they came and destroyed it again, but did we cower and beg like france in WWII? Nope, we put up a Stalingrad defense.

during all those times they got 3 baron buff in a row… but we caught them with their pants down and aced them… then we won!!!

2680

I hear ya Peacedog, for whatever reason I think LoL is one of those games that can really set folks off. I did a solo queue normal game last night to try out a Trist build I had read and from the second death I had one of my teammates go off about feeding the other team and he didn’t shut up the rest of the match.

I’m new, and not particularly good and I understand that, but some folks just really need to stfu and settle down. McKnight and the other QT3 folks I played with the other night were understanding and I had a good time. So even cranky Qt3’ers are far far better than the dregs of humanity you get in randoms.

On another note, having a Sion and Nunu duo as laning opposition is painful.