League of Legends

Kirian · 2011-01-10T12:25:19.000Z

Pogo:

Err, I disagree. I usually try to build support (AP focused) at the beginning of a game. The beauty of Kayle is that if you go AP, you get decent AD out of it, and if you go AD, you get decent AP out of it. So really it comes down to what skill you want to max first. If you’re laning with a strong burster, Q/W can be used first for some burst and escape prevention as your W will help your laning partner keep up with someone fleeing.

Basically just get the Blasting Wand ASAP since you want to build a Guinsoo’s regardless, which I usually get to after the Fiendish Codex and Stinger (but before building into Nashor’s). That also depends on if you get Berserker’s .

I’ve shied away from Manamune. It doesn’t take all that long to get to since the Tear starts increasing your mana right away and is pretty cheap, but 've lately considered going into Archangel’s Staff instead of Manamune. Even though AD transfers to AP more than the other way around with Kayle’s passive, AP is also much easier to build up.

Kayle is defined by her passive and ult first, then her E. You shouldn’t be building her support outside of ARAM- it works there because of the tight proximity, slow levelling (an under-levelled Kayle is fucked) and utility of ‘extra life’ type ults.

The best Kayle build always has and always will centre around the AP part of Zhonya’s and Rageblade, with the other hybrid item getting a look in in long games. That’s carry Kayle.

Support Kayle isn’t AP focused at all. She’s CDR/aura focused, a bit like a rubbish Janna.

Please don’t talk down to me, either. I’ve been playing Kayle since she was completely broken after her remake. So, longer than you’ve been playing the game.

Hanacker · 2011-01-10T14:05:17.000Z

Haven’t been able to jungle well with Akali lately. I’ve tried Doran’s blade but you only get 1 health pot. I’ve tried the magic elixir but elixirs got nerfed and dragon got buffed so there’s no longer the ability to clear dragon while it’s still active. The wood shield might work but it doesn’t build into anything at all useful for Akali. Maybe I need to just give up on jungling her. Not sure if jungle Akali is better than no jungler in the current meta.

bluemax · 2011-01-10T14:33:42.000Z

I haven’t seen a single Jungle Akali since Riot started trying to make jungling harder.

Anti-Bunny · 2011-01-10T14:38:19.000Z

idrisz:

you need to stop surrendering bunny.

a losing game is just another opportunity to pull off an awesome win!!!

I don’t surrender unless I think I’m just wasting time and the game has become boring.

idrisz · 2011-01-10T14:39:29.000Z

Anti-Bunny:

I don’t surrender unless I think I’m just wasting time and the game has become boring.

getting your ass kick just make you a better ass kicker in the future.

people who quit/surrender at first sign of losing will never end up winning.

JoshV · 2011-01-10T15:00:54.000Z

I hate surrendering really early, and I hate people who pout after losing their surrender vote and then either ragequit, idle, or feed. Usually while spouting profanities the entire time. I can see if your team is clearly outmatched in a straight up team fight, but most often than not a team fight is lost either because the team was out of position, or had shitty target priority. Fixing target priority just requires a little communication, I had a game where after we lost our second team fight rather badly, I was rather annoyed, but decided to just list to everyone on my team the order in which we should kill our opponents. We won every team fight after that, and just steam rolled them into surrendering.

Anti-Bunny · 2011-01-10T15:02:39.000Z

idrisz:

getting your ass kick just make you a better ass kicker in the future.

people who quit/surrender at first sign of losing will never end up winning.

Cool. I don’t surrender at the first sign of losing.

Hanacker · 2011-01-10T16:31:17.000Z

All I wanted to do today was play ranked with Akali and she keeps getting picked or banned. I guess I’m not the only one who’s been noticing that she can own solo queue pretty hard.

McKnight · 2011-01-10T17:51:50.000Z

Hanacker:

Haven’t been able to jungle well with Akali lately. I’ve tried Doran’s blade but you only get 1 health pot. I’ve tried the magic elixir but elixirs got nerfed and dragon got buffed so there’s no longer the ability to clear dragon while it’s still active. The wood shield might work but it doesn’t build into anything at all useful for Akali. Maybe I need to just give up on jungling her. Not sure if jungle Akali is better than no jungler in the current meta.

It’s hilarious because you say meta-game and soloing dragon in the same paragraph.

bluemax · 2011-01-10T19:47:17.000Z

As hinted at in the terrible Christmas video, Renekton is the next champ:

http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=5291530#post5291530

Also I learned that Cassiopeia is Katarina’s sister (WTF?).

Pogo · 2011-01-10T20:07:30.000Z

And he looks… completely retarded.

bluemax · 2011-01-10T20:09:24.000Z

Kayle and Morgana are also siblings, huh.

Anti-Bunny · 2011-01-10T20:30:29.000Z

Pogo:

And he looks… completely retarded.

He looks fine. At least it’s not another stripper.

Calistas · 2011-01-10T20:32:10.000Z

I thought it might be handy to share LOL resources including websites, favorite streams, etc. So far all I’ve got is leaguecraft.com, whose builder and guides I use.

Pogo · 2011-01-10T20:52:58.000Z

Anti-Bunny:

He looks fine. At least it’s not another stripper.

Close behind strippers are reptilian beings.

talsworthy · 2011-01-10T23:29:26.000Z

Calistas:

I thought it might be handy to share LOL resources including websites, favorite streams, etc. So far all I’ve got is leaguecraft.com, whose builder and guides I use.

I started the post in OCUK (where a number of the EU guys come from) so I have created a list of resources on that first post

Overclockers UK Forums

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maxle · 2011-01-10T23:40:48.000Z

Pogo:

Close behind strippers are reptilian beings.

Look at what he’s wearing. He’s a reptilian stripper.

MrCoffee · 2011-01-10T23:59:29.000Z

He looks like a crocodile nasus.

edit: oh they are brothers, should start reading more :(

MrCoffee · 2011-01-11T01:35:40.000Z

Made a Warwick rage quit just now, me and a friend that was playing Evelynn went after him when he was getting the blue buff at the start of the game and managed to kill him, then eve camped the place and poked at him everytime he showed up near the place.

So then he goes and tries to jungle some of the other monsters without the blue buff and ends up getting killed by them and quit, even the ones in his own team laughed at him heh.

edit: Anti-Bunny can you fix me on mumble, i formatted my computer and think im having those certificate problems and i cant talk in any channel.

Calistas · 2011-01-11T01:56:03.000Z

Just had an awesome game with Coffee (Nasus or something I think) and Ultrazen (ashe) along with Vlad and Urgot. We faced Twitch, Temo, Nunu and a couple of others not worth mentioning. I managed to go 10/3/17 and just ganked from level 4 to about 6 before getting more jungling on.

One thing I noticed with Rammus is that he OOMs very, very quickly. One gank and it’s BP time. How to get around that reasonably early? I ended up building the soul shroud, I think (health + cooldown + mana regen). Seemed like a good item and was cheap to start and based on handy things.

Note, I have near-full (ie, only 2 to go) blue cooldown, yellow armor/dodge (moving to armor) and red armor pen. Do I need to switch blues? I’d rather not.