bluemax
4021
Nah dude don’t worry, I was ready to quit waaaay before that game. The camel’s back had already broken.
The stupid thing was, Ripplez waited until everyone else had picked a champ before taking his champ. We had at that point: Sivir, Fiddle (jungling), Xin and Malphite. He knew we were going to have a solo lane so either we were going to have Malphite solo top, OR a Xin/his pick lane.
On the other hand I totally set our whole team back by dying at blue buff and then being super slow on jungling for several levels.
He does tend to quit on a match when he thinks things are going bad. I wish he had a mic because its really hard to get a read on his emotions when he only talks to us with a robot voice. Still like you said there was plenty of blame to go around in that one (I’ve already admitted to sucking something awful).
Edit: on the subject of Vlad (since it was discussed some at top and I’ve played a bunch of him lately). I think he kind of falls into the category of obnoxious late game hyper carries like Tryndamere or Master Yi, where the longer the game goes and the more items he gets the harder he becomes to kill and the longer he can lane. I’ve found that I struggle pretty hard against champs with silences early on as well as people with innate life regen (Vlad’s Q doesn’t heal that well for several levels). So yeah if you shut Vlad down early and don’t let him farm he’s not as bad (is range is really, really for what he is). But if you let him get a Rylai’s, CDR boots and anything else and he’s probably going to start bringing the pain and being a pain to shut down.
Pogo
4022
Yeah a couple levels later after I had asked if you were OK I saw that you were even health with Karthus and actually pushing up.
Pogo
4023
Xin? NNnnnoooooooooooooo. I just bought the son of a bitch! Though the 3 Talon Strike cooldown is lower now for the early levels, so that’s sort of a buff.
As for Trynd, he’ll run away just in the nick of time in 5 seconds as well, it’s just that your 2nd carry will have 30% health left instead of 5% after he slaughtered the first one without having to think about things such as positioning and awareness and timing.
Cho: Nice bug edit. Since he always lost 3 stacks on death, and not “up to 3 stacks,” the tooltip was never correct.
Mordekaiser: Looks like they reverted the shield decay change back to 3% instead of 5%. I think that’s good. Morde’s positioning in laning is so obvious that it seems silly to even get hit by his fairly low-damage spells.
I think we all play the game for our own reasons, I know I play primarily to chill out and relax - got a nice bunch of people on both mumbles which I like hanging out with and if I win great, if I loose I hopefully learnt something from it :).
I am not the greatest player (far from it), sometimes I have really bad times and others ok but my aim at the end of the day is the team enjoys the play. I haven’t got an issue with Ripps except to wanting to surrender after x minutes of play - as soon as the team gets into their head it’s not recoverable then you will be unlikely to turn the play around, but ripps isn’t the only one that needs to take surrrender out of their vocab.
2 on ranked I enjoy but you still have 3 randoms of differing levels and ages - yes for upping my elo but unless your elo is significantly over 1400 you’re in the midst of the normal player base
Ripplez always fucking does this. He waits to pick until everyone else has and then picks whatever he feels like anyway (or at least it seems that way because his picks are always stupid).
Besides which he just had another bitch today in the EU mumble. I’m not taking much more from her, like Jim and tals have said I can put up with that behavior from randoms but I expect, logging into mumble, a nice game with friends where I can have a laugh. What I don’t want to do is try and play babysitter to a whiny little fuck.
idrisz
4026
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Upgrade!!!
* Now increases number of Hextech Micro Rockets to 5 while active
* Now increases missile speed on Ch-1 Concussion Grenade to 1000 from 750 while active
Fixed a bug where Techmaturgical Repair Bots provided less health regeneration than stated
hahah PENTA KILL with heimer!!!
Never thought I’d see an eve nerf. Nice work sorakabot.
JoshV
4028
I didn’t feel like Eve needed the nerf, sometimes she’s a runaway train of destruction, but often she’s just feeding the other team after a few of them get oracles.
JoshV
4029
They buffed Nasus…Whooo!
I like the Cho change as well, its not huge, but nice not to lose all your stacks when at 3 stacks or less.
Heimer looks like he could be amazing with the 5 rockets.
Actually since the Eve buff a few patches ago she became ridiculously strong. To the extent that she is now insta-banned in ranked play (it took a while for people to actually realize how big of a buff she got, since she was so garbage beforehand that no-one bothered playing her).
Pogo
4031
I’m certainly guilty of bitching, but I would hope I’m not demoralizing enough to say “we lost” in a situation that was able to bounce back, and if I’m asking for a lane swap it’s for a damn good reason.
It took me a while to learn that some champion combinations are just no good at laning until they get all their skills at level 3. But I could certainly see how a Shen/Xin combo could work pretty damn well considering Shen has a dual-strike+regen debuff and Xin has a 3-hit regen passive. A melee duo laning team has to pick the right skills to work together.
AFAIK Ripz has toned down on the surrendering.
I’m just not understanding the thought process really. When he’s a ranged carry and you’re laning with him, the game goes nice and smooth. But if he’s not, then suddenly something is wrong with the game and/or the lane positioning and/or the opposing champ is OP or whatever.
Amumu Ult + Crescent Sweep + Karth Ult + Heimer Rockets + Katarina Ult = GG
idrisz
4032
Amumu Ult + Crescent Sweep + Karth Ult + Heimer Rockets + Katarina Ult = GG
I said penta kill heimer not Penta assist heimer :P
It looks like Heimer is creeping back towards OP territory. I wonder if we’ll even notice the change to a pseudorandom RNG instead of a random one.
On the topic of ripplez, I’m surprised he even called for a lane swap. Usually when he picks a melee hero he immediately starts angrily calling for help in the lane and letting himself get zoned, then eventually he just runs off into the jungle to farm there and leaves his lanemate all alone. At least he has mostly stopped doing his old MO of starting a surrender vote every five minutes and then intentionally throwing the game if he’s sucking.
idrisz
4034
if he’s sucking.
hmm, when is he not sucking?
Reminds me of the game we played last night. We weren’t doing great - in fact it was about 20 kills on there side to our 10. We were getting a lot of smack talk from the other side and they kept having a go at there lux who had no deaths and calling her a feeder. All very odd. Then the panth started ulting onto our nexus - felt like they were trying to even it up - i,e prove how lgreatt they were, except it just meant we won and scratched our heads on what was a very odd game.
Reported the panth of course :)
I think if he just learned how to last hit with whatever champ he played, he’d have much more fun. We’ve talked about that, he and I in private chats in the past, but for whatever reason the most basic aspect of the game isn’t one he likes, so he doesn’t want to learn to play.
Tals on the other hand, we just carry, because you’re so DAMN LIKABLE.
Edit: that said, I’m done talking about that one, because he’s not here to defend himself. This isn’t the league of QQ thread, but I’d be happy if someone starts one.
Where did this ripplez fellow come from and is it male or female? I haven’t had the pleasure of a game with ripplez yet.
Wha… Hold on a second? It’s not? Then why is mx allowed to post in here? ;)
Hanacker… The jury is out on that question. She refuses to use a mic. Ripplez is just an odd person.
AStott
4040
Can someone explain the thought process behind picking a lane at the beginning of the game?
