League of Legends

So apparently Kabum got a win.

Happy for them.

The New Viktor is cool. I like him. I keep winning my lane nicely. Sadly, everyone else has been losing their lanes. :(

Anyway, he's INCREDIBLY gold hungry. My god. Also, I'm not sure what is the best way to prioritize my items now. I usually get a Doran's and pots at start and rush my Sorc Shoes and Haunting Guise. But, after that, I'm not sure if I should go for Upgrade #1 or a Rylay's or a Chalice. Though, after a few Core Upgrades, the Chalace is usually redundant.

So, from a string of horrible losses which took me down from 90 points in my league to 25 points in my league, my last game was an absolute wonder of beautiful communication. As lux mid...top was in trouble, he actually called it out, I called out I was going there, and the jungler called out he was taking over my mid while Idid that. Got our top a kill.

He later showed up on my lane to help me kill their mid in retaliation, all the while I, could simply go down a bit, ult the bot and dump a chunk of their ADC/support health for my ADC to finish them off. We finished before 20 minutes. They did not even get a chance to surrender.

All of that after a pungent string of sheer toxicity and just plain incredible shit players (quote of the day. "Go away, Veigar. I need this blue" -Rengar) and feeders.

I would jsut like actually enjoyable games that were won out of skill, not out of X or Y lane being absolute shit, or plain AFK.

Good luck finding a game where one lane doesn't drop the ball. They exist, but if 2 out of your 3 lanes are not dying horribly, that game is probably one you'll win anyway.

Losing lane CAN be the end result of someone having better skill though.

Most of the time I ADC, I just don't end up with help from the Jungle and your support can only help so much. Lucian/Thresh is going to wreck Varus/Soraka unless they have some very clear flaw and will need help from Jungle.

In the topic of annoying teammates, I had a Veigar mid when I was jungling Poppy. Veigar walked to my blue buff, /laugh'd, and walked away, leaving me with no leash. Then he demanded every single blue after it.

Helmet◊ bro◊ nooooo

Haha yes! Kog'Maw is becoming gritty!

No more cute Kog bullshit!

... Ah who am I kidding.

... I actually think Kog'Maw's new splash art is cuter than his old one. If only just because the art is a bit better.

His expression is actually a lot "cuter" in the new one. The old one had him with a fiendish grin on his face, new one is him looking curious.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=ck3y14fitdwt7i4g79qo5vwn&page=1606#40132

Helmet Bro confirmed to be Kenny

Someone is probably already *****ing about the change...

edited 1st Oct '14 4:34:56 PM by FrozenWolf2

actually,. the funnier part about that Kabum win.

The reddit for League has been keeping track of an unofficial "world title belt" since season one.

Alliance had it after beating Najin white shield and then lost it to Kabum.

which means the world title is currently in Brazil until further notice.

It'll probably be lost soon.

Aaaaah, I only have three days to catch up on the group stages and I still have two and a half full days of matches to see. It's a good thing my work don't give a shit about me watchign them while I work, otherwise it'd be hopeless.

Riot must do Helmet Bro now.

They HAVE to do him.

Teasing us like that just ain't right.

No no no

Helmet bro loses his mystique if you make him playable!

Uh... there is no such thing as leash anymore? Veigar could have done a little damage to help you take down blue but aggro mechanics means that for someone to 'leash' blue for you they would have to be closer to the golem than you are or simply tank it for you.

The meaning of the word evolved.

It doesn't mean exactly the same thing it did before, but I still see it widely used by players in my games.

Also, one (the?) of the reasons leashing from midlane is less prevalent these days than it was before is simply because of the new jungle timers. If the midlaner hangs around with you for too long, he'll miss out on precious xp and risks falling behind in lvls to his laner.

Well, there is also that earlygame Veigar is about farming his Q and nothing else so helping the jungle loses xp and 1 or 2 ap.

That's why I hate leashing. I always do it becuase I'ma good boy but given the choice I'd rather not give my lane rival the head start.

In bot lane you can take advantage of it to put a bit of early pressure on when you arrive, since they're not gonna be sure where you're coming from.. Not sure if there are any equivalent strategies for mid; still learning the role.

On a similar note, that feel when you decide to start learning a new role and your usual role feeds the enemy 5 kills in the first 5 minutes. Good idea Leona, if the Yasuo gets too fat he won't be able to dash around...

For mid lane, just shoot a spell over the wall and you're golden. By the time you get into lane, so should the minions.

Oh man, is Helmet Bro in New Cassiopeia's splash art too?

Riot, you have to stop the abuse. Leave the poor guy alone.

Does this mean we should get Helmet Bro as one of the game's Ensemble Dark Horse?

That being said, last game was painful. Up against a Lv 30 Wukong while being a Lv 16 myself. Wukong proceeds to dominate my lane, and no one came to help, even if I requested them to disrupt Wukong, they keep saying "Gotta push other lanes". This Wukong was pretty good, making impossible escapes and all. And by the end of it, we were really having a hard battle, but when the rest goes to Baron, Wukong goes solo to backdoor. I came to realize that Baron is just a diversion, but everyone goes against the Baron squad anyway. Leaving me alone to face Wukong, and obviously failing, and Wukong proceeding to win the game for my enemies.

Damn it! I would've said "I told you to help me face and stop Wukong", but I relented because I thought they'll say "Then you're a dumbass to not be able to stop him!" and I'm the type of guy who's against blaming games.

Mid lane means you lose positional advantage even if you pop just a spell over the wall unless it's something like Gragas (lol) who can just leave his spell cooking while he walks away.

This is why leashes on the bottom side of the jungle are preferable. They can leash because the longer lane allows them more time before creeps come a hitting, and two people do more damage than one.

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How do you tell if a Champion is a bad guy?

If Helmet bro is getting slaughtered in their splash art