League of Legends

Woooo!

The climb is slow, but it's real.

In promos for Silver 2.

I'll get gold this year, dammit!

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/08/project.html

PROJECT updated with images of the weapons.

Looks like its Leona, Lucian, Irelia (blades orbiting and dancing tipped me off), and Fiora.

The complete Unknown seems to have a double-sided blade.

Aw yeah, Leona.

She goes with Lucian like peanut butter and chocolate.

God I love the PROJECT line of skins. Them, and Battlecast/Headhunters.

DON'T LET YOUR DREAMS STAY DREAMS

JUST - JUST DO IT!

PROJECT skin update:

It was confirmed the new ones are (and their weapons): Master Yi (Hyperlight "Alpha" Blade), Lucian (S-10 Lightcaster & L-20 Lightcaster), Fiora (1.0.0 Pulse Sabre "Scarlet"), Leona (Mounted 9ND08 Energy Shield) and Zed (Plasma Cut 2250R Dual "Strikers")

Confirmed by who, when, where?

Edit: No link, but people who believe they are entitled to win the game just because they won lane are hilarious.

This Thresh was so mad in post-game lobby, it was delicious.

edited 20th Aug '15 12:31:39 AM by OrangeSpider

A Rioter member, forget who, and the Skins and Trivia entries for all five of them were updated on the League Wiki.

Also, PROJECT: Fiora and PROJECT: Zed are listed on the PBE right now, but models are placeholders.

edited 20th Aug '15 10:22:55 AM by BlackSunNocturne

god bless juggernauts

god bless the hand of noxus

So I decided to have a leap of faith and try supporting the new Mordekaiser.

I was surprised by the results.

Eyup, PROJECT skins have been revealed.

PROJECT: Yi is a Legendary skin

edited 20th Aug '15 12:08:19 PM by BlackSunNocturne

I want to like Leona's skin, but its too drab for a champion of the sun. Too much grey not enough shiny.

Spread the word:

PROJECT SKINS WILL NOT HAVE A SHARED SPLASH ART

FINALLY, A SKIN SET THAT DOESN'T HAVE SHARED SPLASHES, HALLELUJAH!

To be fair, PROJECT Yas didn't share a Splash so it would be odd if all the other skins in the set shared a splash.

Ok, so, I was looking at the new PIXEL SR in promotion for the new ARCADE Skins. I see Sona and MF in Bot!Lane, seemingly on the red side. Hecarim and Riven are in Blue!Top!Jungle stealing Blue Buff. Bad Boss Blitz is in Mid!Lane.

Where the heck is Final Boss Veig? I can't find him on the map.

NVM. He's colored the same as a minion. He's being grabbed by Blitz in Mid!Lane. Seems they're not on the same team. Odd.

edited 21st Aug '15 4:09:24 PM by InkDagger

Ditto with Twisted Fate's card skin, he just got retro fitted.

I personally have no strong feelings on group-skins, I love some and don't care about the rest. But the most important is that I get my precious PROJECT Lucian.

In other news, I've faced for the first time a Mordebot, laning with a Shen. First off, double relic shield is so dumb (as in, broken kind of dumb), they shoved the lane so fast. Second, Morde's burst is insane at level 2, I went from 100% to 10% and probably would've died if I wasn't near my turret by then.

Otherwise, they fell apart once I got BF, so that was nice. You still need to get enough gold for it, which can be obnoxious if the enemy laners are particularly rowdy.

Quinn deals with noise complaints.

Yeah, but Jack of Hearts Twisted Fate's splash art was really bad. So it being refitted is okay

I really wish there was a proper topic search function... finding earlier conversations would be so much more simple

Well, I think my ping just got divided by two with the server move. Holy moly.

hey guys don't burn me at a stake for this but

i'm thinking of maining riven. any tips?

Don't. You Jerk.

Riven is heavily reliant on chaining abilities in order to reach her full potential damage, in particular her Q's three stages. Most importantly, a lot of her damage comes from weaving auto-attacks in between those skills. For example, her standard kill combo goes like this:

R>E>W>Auto>Q>Auto>Q>Auto>Q>Auto>Auto>R

At early levels her skills simply don't do damage; her auto-attacks are necessary for making her combos work. If you're playing against someone with CC - and as a top or midlaner you almost invariably will be - you'll want to try to bait out their CC before going in for the big damage combo. Also only do her dash-in part of the combo when you're sure you have a safe exit or will get a kill for sure. Keeping a dash/shield in the back pocket is a useful thing to have. Her Q lets her run, but it's not really a good escape per se.

Animation cancelling helps you get out combos faster if you can get the hang of that; I'm still learning orb-walking so it's a bit beyond me personally.

Essentially, Riven is a fighting game character. You want to chain combos, punish overextensions or mistakes, but be aware that any mistakes you make leave you open as well. Riven is reliant enough on a single skillset that if someone can interrupt that - dodging your stun, interrupting you during your Q combo - you miss out on a lot of damage and danger.

Woohoo, server move has lowered my average pings to a steady 40 pings from 90. I'm a happy camper.

I'm a bit bummed that Lucian didn't get a legendary PROJECT Skin, I really dig the lines of PROJECT Yi. Oh well. At least the splash and skins looks neat.

That said, PROJECT Leona's splash is by far the best one IMO.

Yep. Right on point. Unless something has changed since I last touched her (and I really haven't heard anything, but I could be wrong), her Upgrade Order will be...

• ONE Point in Q to start. Do not upgrade further.
• Two Points in W and E as you get to your Ult (And, obviously, grab Ult at 6)
• By now, you should have an idea on how your lane dynamics will be. If you're struggling to win lane and taking harass, upgrading the Escace+Shield would be smart. If you're winning lane, upgrade the Stun.
• Once you Upgrade that ability, upgrade the other one.
• Now that boher W and E are at Level 5, upgrade the Q. Q will ALWAYS be your final skill to upgrade.

So because of the Server move, I'm now playing at 266+ ping as opposed to 230+ ping.

This shouldn't be so bad... right?

Well, mathematically it's not that bad, but practically you went from "bad" to "worse".

So, uh, I guess this one isn't an advantageous change for you?

What can I say, man, I live in Indonesia and Riot should have prioritized the NA guys, not me. Yeah, I know Indonesia has its own server provided by Garena, but they just left us with Normal Blind Pick or Ranked Draft. No Dominion, no ARAM, no 3v3, no Team Builder...

I do plan my comeback there one day. But then, I'll never be able to keep up with you guys.