l0l -why not just play a real tank?
Anyways - two really crappy games tonight. My crit build Trist was working quite nicely, can really put the pain on people with simple auto-attacks (similar to what pirate does with Parrley - hmm). But, the lane I was in had Urgot and I don’t know what the hell that thing is, but omg, wtf, bbq me he did. He had a long-range splooge shot which far, far out-ranged me and usually scrubed about 20% of my health at equal level. He very, very rapidly outlevelled our team (And everyone on his) so he was always about 5 levels ahead - yeah, when most of us were about 7, he was about 12! He didn’t seem to be feeding off any weak player, but by mid-game it was pretty much all over with this guy on the field.
Next I did a quick 3v3 and we had an Eve on our team - who sucked. I even asked “Doesn’t Eve suck? So I hear?” and the reply was “those people don’t know how to play her right!” - the player was level 10 while I was 13/close to 14 and had achieved 0 kills. I had achieved two - which sucks - but they were the only two kills at that point.
I faced Morgana and … Ryze I think… on my lane. I just got snared and deaded over and over again. Very annoying.
Playing strange builds can sometimes throw the team. One of our players used to do teemo tank, people are programed to take out the light weights first so having a light weight tank can be a positive in a team fight :) On the negative it doesn’t then make the most of the particular character - but it can be quite amusing.
Had a great game a couple of nights aggo
http://www.lolbase.net/matches/view/EU37539032
We mucked up in the initial stages and lost far too many towers. Lost our Nexus towers around the 66 minute point but still hung on for a further 10 minutes and tbh the game was still anyones. Very fun game
Urgot is nasty to lane against, but he kind of falls off mid-game. I think his splooge shot doesn’t have that long of a range, but once he gets his splooge on you, he can spam homing missiles at you. Not sure the best way to avoid that, but I usually just run away after I get splooged.
Kirian
1786
Urgot’s the definition of an early-game character. After the ten minute mark he’s not up to much and his ult leaves a lot to be desired. He’s being reworked to fit into a more specifically defined role, as is Mordekaiser.
The only way to avoid Urgot’s homing missiles is to run away and break the line-of-sight.
On that note, next patch is going to be a monster. A bunch of remakes incoming, some balancing, a bunch of nerfs (Dema- snip! Ed) to must-pick/ban characters (so Sona, Morg, Taric, Kog’Maw and 'mumu FINALLY get some work done) and some of the characters they wouldn’t normally get around to 'cause they’re not high priority will have some buffs as will weak characters. There’s also some new art incoming. There were hints of that in the current patch- apparently some new Ashe art was dropped in but not implemented. ‘Other content’ was also mentioned but Magma Chamber isn’t due until after Hallowe’en.
Riot being Riot, they accidentally updated Eve’s tooltips to the ones of her remake. Although that may have been fixed by now. I read the remake ages ago and I can see exactly why it’s contentious. Her ult is a zero-damage AoE blind/slow for 3 seconds. Her passive steals life based on ALL damage done near Eve. Hellfire. Ravage is a dash-move and her stealth adds movespeed.
Tankplank’s an old build and was popularised by a couple of high-ranked players ages ago. It works 'cause 'plank is really too squishy for a melee DPS/support (which he is, ignoring Parrrrley!) and he needs survivability. Or it worked. I’m not a 'plank player. Sort of like Support/DPS Janna- it worked because Janna had a knock-up and that +damage shield.
maxle
1787
Where do you get this info from?
Kirian
1788
A combination of places. Leaguecraft used to be the place for English-language PTR leaks but they’ve clamped down on that. That’s where I found the Eve remake yonks ago and learned about Tankplank.
CLGaming have a dev-post tracker (Redtracker) and that’s where most of the stuff comes from. Solomid occasionally have stuff when I drive by once a week max, and I’ve started visiting Runeterra. Again, most of these I go once or twice a week, normally around patch time.
Oh, yeah, that guy Milkfat who’s claiming he can be the best LoL player in 90 days. I probably should watch him to actually figure out how good he is.
there are supposed to be three female champs in a row, then a monster or two according to Ez (dev). Originally he said 2 and then a monster or two, but he forgot about one of the champs and changed his statement later.
two of the champs are a female light using mage who is support with no heals (and I think it’s gragas’ sister or something) and then the chick who was in the magazine preview whose name starts with an I and is melee dps and gets bonuses when surrounded by enemies.
In other news the Twitch gangster skin art looks pretty cool and so does the concept art for Nasus’ bro.
Joe_M
1790
They should really just remake Kog’maw. Any nerf that knocks him down to borderline as good as another carry will make him the undesirable pick because of his poor mobility and survivability. Add to that a passive that’s useful in less than 10% of the games I’ve played with him and just… blah. Compare it to something like Strut? I don’t know what they were thinking.
The only way to avoid Urgot’s homing missiles is to run away
snip.
I’m pretty certain you can still fire it into bushes and it’ll remain locked on. I know I’ve hit people off in the fog of war. The safest bet is to just run the fuck away, followed by not getting hit by the green stuff ever again.
And I, for one, cannot wait to see what Gragas’ sister looks like.
idrisz
1791
strut is awesome, that’s why MF owns mid and any solo lane.
make it rain then follow up with double shot basically wins the lane fight…
Thanks for the tips! The homing missiles will be the root of my problem. I have no idea how he managed to totally outlevel us though. That was devastating.
I will try tankplank next - saw a build on the forum I will give a go. Am enjoying crit Trist as the components to the items build quickly with no long wait for a BF Sword, for example. You also end up with 30% dodge fairly early in the build and that is to be appreciated.
There is very little survivability in the build, but that is to be expected, I suppose. This results in an easy early and mid game but a tough late game - or perhaps if the teams I was with were a bit better everything would have been great all the way through!
So I finally downloaded the EU client and played my first smurf game. Picked Eve for the first time and went stacking Tiamats and a Sunfire. Sadly the game ended (victory) before I could get more than 2 Tiamats and 1 Sunfire cape. There were obviously two other smurfs in the game, one was the Nasus on my team who patiently stood next to me doing nothing when I attacked someone and waited to get the last hit on them with his Siphoning Strike, and the other was an Ashe on the other team who was actually ok but couldn’t carry the other four awful people on his team.
Other than a little lag the EU servers are good enough for playing from the middle of the US, and from my first time playing her I can tell Eve is obviously currently a retardedly designed character with regards to her skills. Also it looks like they removed the graphical effect of her Hate Spike already in preparation for her rework?
maxle
1794
You’re smurfing with eve. Get a soul stealer.
The graphical glitch you are seeing is probably the blood texture not being present in the Euro version of the game.
Willy Wonka Vladimir is a little depressing.
Alright I felt like I had to say something.
I think I’m the only person who does this, understandably, but here goes.
I do not use the mouse cursor to scroll the screen.
My controll style is WASD to move the screen
1234 are abilities
ALT+1234 level up abilities
Shift+1234 to use items
Does anyone else do this? It just felt natural to me. I craved this controll scheme during DOTA and after 1200+ games of LoL I will never go back.
EDIT: To clarify, I feel that freeing up your mouse cursor for skill shots and such by use of a VERY free left hand allows you to line up abilities for most champions more effectively, that is my reasoning (also I’m legally blind so I can lose the mouse cursor easily)
I would like a key to lock and unlock my view - that’s all… it probably exists.
Oh, interesting comments by an American participant of recent compo here.
maxle
1799
Huh. Is that hero worship typical of elementz’ threads?
Because, yeah.
bluemax
1800
Didnt Kog already get remade once? He was a semi useless anti tank support hero before and was mostly played as AP. Then he got his remake and became an above average and later god tier ranged carry.
His tier list thread is a mix of people worshipping him, people arguing with him for rating their fave champ low, and people asking for explanations or builds.
