I think the system is working - I have noticed less leavers.
maxle
3702
Most hilarious game ever. We totally roflstomped them. They did things like, after morgana almost died to me mid, switching singed in. And morgana. And then Kennen and Singed. And then…yeah.
What was extra funny was that for 20 minutes lazy had all of our deaths.
She’s surged in popularity but I’ve still never seen one who was decent.
That was pretty hilarious. For some reason every time I showed up and ulted someone to gank, everyone on their team used their ult on me and ignored the rest of you. Gangplank saved his ult exclusively to drop on me. At least two or three people on their team died every time I did that.
I loved at the end when Gangplank saw Thorn and decided to maybe try shooting him, changed his mind and turned to run, and then Thorn threw up a wall and two-shotted him at full health.
bluemax
3706
I can never decide if when Eve does well it is because she’s good or my team is bad.
bluemax
3707
Epic final minute of a game we should’ve won a bit easier
The setup:
Pogo (Xin)
Bunny (AP Jungle Shen)
Ripplez (Kat)
Ultrazen (Ryze)
Me (Vlad)
Other team
Nunu
Kat
TF
Udyr (who sucked and didn’t jungle and was AFK for like 5 minutes at the start)
Akali
We get overzealous trying to finish them off and everyone but me dies, I’m just outside the bottom left inhibitor area and their whole team is on me. I pool out, when my pool comes out I Zhonya, which gives my flash time to finish coming off cool down, I flash away from them, then as they get close again I pool into the jungle, ghost and juke back to our jungle. They decide to ignore me and go for our Nexus. I blue pill, buy all 3 potions let as much of my health restore as possible and rush too meet them at the Nexus. I then ult all 5 of them, and start spamming Q and E.
4 of them die and their Kat barely runs away, the rest of our team rezzes and gets her and then we rush their base and finish the job. I had over 4000 gold, all 6 items filled and 20 stacks.
Vlad is so OP.
Derp: and then next game I get obliterated by Veigar despite having a huge start on him. 1000 AP Veigar hurts.
The last minute of that game was truly epic, I really wish I had a fraps or something of it.
And yah, that 1000 ap Veg was ouchie. You can thank my awesome feeding skills for at least 500 of that AP on him lol.
With the recent changes does anyone have a good Udyr build and skill order?
copet
3710
Boots of swiftness + 3 phantom dancers. That build works for anyone. Good luck and godspeed!
JoshV
3711
Note to self: Archangel’s staff stacks. (at least the 3% bit)
Odd that they let that one stack, but Manamune doesn’t.
Pogo
3712
To be fair to Bluemax’s Vlad game, it should have been easier but I was late in building good items for Xin and was tactically stupid most of the game. I thought I could hit 3 buttons and slaughter people because I saw Chiffy do that some time, but then remembered I was level 1 with no runes or masteries against a team that was almost all ranged damage.
I built a Manamune and an Archangel’s for the game with Kayle last night. I was going support build so I had a mix of like 350ap/280ad at the end. I think the carries on their team didn’t realize that with Guinsoo’s, that little damage Kayle does quickly snowballs into ridiculous territory at about 5 stacks, which is when they start running.
I think Warwick is my third most-played character (after Morde, Trist, and maybe Amumu) and I’m still terrible with him. I think squishy melee DPS maybe just isn’t for me. I always jump in too early, get focused, and die. I like him but maybe I should give up and make Udyr my main jungler.
I wish I had way more time for this game. I’d like to also get good enough with Akali, Janna, Morgana, and maybe Rammus to use them in ranked.
I’ve been playing him pretty much the same with just sticking a point in Tiger earlier. It rips up towers pretty good now. Haven’t played around with him enough to see how viable Tiger is as a main damage source now over Phoenix. Phoenix clears the jungle about as well as before the change.
bluemax
3714
Depends on your team comp for build but I always start with:
Cloth Armor
5 HP potions
Phoenix Stance
Ghost/Smite
If you have 3 health quints and MP/5 runes start at Big Golem, otherwise start at small golem.
If you team needs more damage, build into Blood Razor (or if you’re doing well get a quick Wriggles, then Blood Razor) then Trinity Force. I’ve never had a game last longer than that.
If your team needs a tank, build cloth armor into heart of gold and then you’ll probably want to rush either a Sunfire or a Banshees depending upon opposing team.
As for skills in general I go: Phoenix > Turtle > Bear > Tiger
I like Udyr as a secondary tank, but having him as a primary tank can be bad. Rushing into a team fight with bear stance and stunning the other teams carry over and over is really good. In general I tend to have a lot of 0/3/14 type games as Udyr when things are going well for my team.
Have you tried starting with Tiger instead of Phoenix since the patch? I’ve heard it can jungle pretty quick now too.
bluemax
3716
I have not, I guess I should try it in a practice game and see.
All the guides on Leagecraft still seem to favor Phoenix, but Tiger may be worth a shot at least.
Busy scripting up my Morde guide and then I think I will have to learn another tank. I own Malphite, but Ramus looks great too. With Morde and his nurfs he just isn’t the strong early laning presence he once was and without any CC or other abilities useful to a team fight he doesn’t bring much late game. I keep looking at other tanks and going “that stun would be nice”, or “that push would be handy”, hehehe.
I should learn Malphite more, he can be so damn handy in a team fight - only concern is that his ulti is no good is useless pubbies don’t follow up! Hehe.
Tried Tiger for jungling and it actually felt faster than phoenix.
Yeah, they pretty much nerfed Morde into pointlessness a couple patches ago. His early game is so weak now and I’m getting ganked all the time in situations I used to just shrug off. The lack of any kind of escape or CC wasn’t an issue when you could generate and hold a shield with ease. He can still be a beast mid game but I’m thinking it’s only because I play him so much and I could probably do better with a lot of other tanky DPS characters if I were equally skilled with them.
