League of Legends

Like this latest match. I'm jungling with Pantheon, and my top lane happen to be Amumu... facing Braum. The Amumu is kinda a newbie, but because he tends to get close to deal damage, Braum is tanky and can stun him a lot, so Amumu get his ass whupped so badly he fed Braum too much to about 8/0/5 I can't even help him and ended up dying a lot, and their jungler, Warwick, always happily assisting the team accurately. I felt completely useless.

But thankfully, the mid and bottom lane performed well enough (Twisted Fate, Caitlyn-Braum). So I managed to call for help, they help me gank enemy!Braum 1vs5, ending his streak and from there, I and Amumu managed to catch up and eventually win the game. I still felt like a horrible jungler, and may be a dead weight that only won because my friends were the ones saving the day. I know we need to have 'trust in friends', but I just really don't like being a burden. Oh yeah, my score in the end is that aforementioned 6/6/17 (ally!Braum still assists more than me)

edited 8th Jul '14 4:25:52 PM by ChrisX

I'm at level 11 and yet I'm doing incredibly horribly at this game. 0/10/2 is still a common result whenever I try 5v5 (or anything, really). I would try to learn what I'm doing wrong, but I have no idea what that is. And ever since I've started playing more defensively, less of a Leeroy Jenkins, my kill count went way down while my death count stayed about the same.

Which champions do you play?

I have twelve champions right now. The really cheap ones who have a Difficulty of five or lower. Of the currently free Champs, I've tried Renekton, Fiora, Caitlyn, and Veigar. Of the ones I own, I've used Tristana, Garen, Annie, and Warwick quite a bit. They all seem to be equally bad at getting more than three kills per game.

How does your kill count went way down below 0?

I don't know what you mean.

Odd. Caitlyn's a really good champ for me. It might be a glitch or intentional, but Headshot charges three times as fast if you have Runaan's Hurricane, so you can actually turn a group of creeps into an advantage to you if you've got enough lifesteal.

Annie is a beast, the trick is using the stun apropietly. One trick that Works really good in lane is to have it at three stacks and use Q on the enemy you want to stun, while Q is flying actívate the shield bringing the passive to four stacks and stunning the enemy when Q lands, the best part is that once you press Q to the enemy it will hit because it is targeted.

Headshot also charges faster if you shoot from the bushes.

RH has a funny interaction with Cait, but you're better off going PD. It's not often you'll find a group of creeps to cheese with.

And yeah, dying is something to be expected. When you're new, you don't know the damage you can take or deal, or how to take advantage of mistakes (or how to stop making them), which means if you get behind, you can easily snowball yourself even further.

On most champions, early levels you'll want to focus on farming, pushing, and getting your xp up. You push your creeps harder by doing more damage to them than your opponent does

If you have an advantage, you should press it. Like for example if you're playing Renekton, and you push harder than the enemy Warwick because your Q is Ao E while wolf has none, then you will likely hit level 2 first. If warwick goes ahead and tries for a creep, then you should force a fight because you have 2 abilities and he has 1. Same with lvl 3 vs lvl 2.

Moreover, on champs like Annie or Cait, they're squishy but they make up for it with range. You should abuse that range if you can. Although Annie herself, as a mage, gets outranged by others, at which point you'll want to get up closer.

Also you may still be dying even if you reign back your leeroy jenkins if your team is getting rolled over while you hold back.

Annie is amazing and very powerful with her aoe stuns. A stun Tibbers can wreck a teamfight something awful if you catch the enemy grouped up

edited 9th Jul '14 3:09:56 AM by Lanceleoghauni

Okay so my first time using Huehuekaiser isn't as smooth as it is.

Basically I got my team that can't seem to stick together and gets picked off one by one. Only Jax is the melee. The enemy team got their tank DC'd and we still lost, because the ADC is kind of silly in itemization, while the enemy ADC itemizes well. This, ontop of lack of experience using Morde, proves to be kind of our downfall. Not to mention my Morde just can't seem to CHASE people. I know he has no crowd control, but it's kinda a pain in the ass using Flash only once for 200 seconds or so...

Should Morde consider something like Boots of Travel or Boots of Swiftness?

(Enemy team also coordinates well. While, me? I got a team that keeps insulting each other as idiots)

edited 9th Jul '14 3:31:03 AM by ChrisX

Awwww look at him he's full of vengeful fury

Awwww look at her she wants to deny you your rights by beating you excessively

In the last match, I lost the game as MF, but my score remains the highest and with least deaths: 16/5/6. Tried to carry, but... failed.

Do I look like I'm still a fail guy that 'don't deserve to play LOL'? Because I know insulters often use that.

Nobody 'doesn't deserve to play LOL'. It's a free game, how's anyone with a computer that can run it supposed to not deserve to play it?

edited 12th Jul '14 12:17:48 AM by TheSpaceJawa

Interestingly, and I know this isn't your intention, but you definitely just implied that people who can't run Lo L don't deserve to play it.

...Although to a certain degree that's true.

Well what I was asking was that did I play well enough despite defeat with scores like that?

16/5 is good, although it's difficult to say if you played necessarily well without analyzing the game replay. All things considered you probably did pretty good, but since you lost you could benefit from looking back and trying to see what you might have done wrong to tighten up your gameplay.

Admittedly, yeah, it does come off that way.

But to be fair, under those circumstances the fix for going from 'undeserving' to 'deserving' is as simple as 'get a computer that can play the game'.

Had a game where our ADC suddenly displays VERY negative attitude, because he's angry he had a very long losing streak. Kept complaining for every single mistakes. I had to mute him. Thing is... our team is winning heavily because apparently there's also a big noob ADC in the enemy team, to the point other members start throwing.

We won, and then this ADC suddenly starts boasting on how weak the enemy team is. At that point, I decided "Fuck it, I'm reporting YOU."

So, I usually don't care which side are you on, but if you're the type of guy who complain complain complain when you're losing, then boast like hell when you're winning (AKA you can't be bothered to be humble or having a good attitude), you can go **** my ***, I repot u.

edited 12th Jul '14 4:03:01 AM by ChrisX

Having a good score doesn't mean you're a good teammate. Not dying repeatedly for no reason is certainly a good thing, but maybe you got that score by refusing to help out teammates in situations which could have turned the game? Not saying you did that, but focusing overly much on your personal score is generally a bad sign because it prevents you from thinking about the big picture..

edited 14th Jul '14 3:00:59 AM by Clarste

Screw the kill count: Did you get those danged turrets? Your life is worth sacrificing if turrets were destroyed in the process.

It's rare that I get to fully build Nautilus, but the occasions I do, it's a lot of fun to be able to march straight into turret range, with a horde of minions following, and tear it down.

Yeah, Lo L has done a lot getting me to not put such weight over K/D ratios anymore. I mean, yeah, it's notable on either extreme but most of the time it doesn't matter if you're positive or negative so long as you're doing what you can. How the team is doing overall usually matters more.

No longer content with ruling a frozen wasteland, poros began to take to the sea

After a year long break, I am no longer suffering from Lo L burnout. Am a bit disappointed there's been like only 5 new champions but hey, at least they're working on improving the client now.

Now the decision is to whether to download the NA version and get 200+ ping or an Asian one with less ping and undecipherable languages.

edited 16th Jul '14 1:19:32 AM by Jeorg