Darkmaniak Wrote:I'm a horrible Ashe. Period.

Edit:
Had a fun troll game with Foopah and his friends, full tank. Alistar, Signed, Galio, Garen and Nunu.
We lost but we would've won eventually when we all had full MR since their team had very little armor. I think we lost cause their team was sort of trolly too, they all had Teleport so the backdoored a lot, teleporting into their teemo's shrooms.

Foopah Wrote:I know this may be late to post, but I think my poorly playing Alistar might have contributed significantly to our loss, but it was a fun game nonetheless! Sometimes it's nice to blow off a non-serious game like that and see if you can win. I think I am about 75~100 games (total of wins/losses) away from being an effective "average" player. I'm thinking of buying Sona next and working on her, since she is a stronger support champion than Taric, and working more on my Ryze and Alistar.

Any great suggestions on how to play Alistar more effectively in lane?

Foopah Wrote:I know this may be late to post, but I think my poorly playing Alistar might have contributed significantly to our loss, but it was a fun game nonetheless! Sometimes it's nice to blow off a non-serious game like that and see if you can win. I think I am about 75~100 games (total of wins/losses) away from being an effective "average" player. I'm thinking of buying Sona next and working on her, since she is a stronger support champion than Taric, and working more on my Ryze and Alistar.

Any great suggestions on how to play Alistar more effectively in lane?

Birdie Wrote:pretty much you have to be aggressive on alistar. I think you might be best served to learn to play him in the jungle. That allows him to get good farm and lots of opportunity to put his insane ganking power to use. Solo lane alistar is also pretty strong, but i dont think doing this is a great idea until you really learn to play him.

as far as duo laning with him, if you are with an ad carry, try to get a philo stone as quickly as you can and then just let the other person farm the lane. If they suck at last hitting, go ahead and farm, but pretty much you just want harass the enemy and prevent them from farming well. I feel like i had more to say, but im drawing blanks now. maybe if you gave so more info about what you are doing currently that would help

jikman Wrote:I usually start off with boots/mp pots and then grab a philo stone + HoG for the regen and gold bonus and since I don't really need extra armour or MR for a while thanks to masteries and runes. To get last hits sometimes I'll cast heal and let my trample weaken the minion a bit more for an easy last hit. I also harass quite often with headbutt + pulverize combo which does quite a bit of damage. If the opposing team is careless as well you can easily flash behind them and knock them into your turret for a free kill if you have another lane mate. I normally dont use pulverize for farming/clearing minion waves unless I really need to since it burns mana, and has a pretty high cool down. After the laning phase I'll usually have enough gold to build up some defense items depending on the other team's comp.

Foopah Wrote:Thanks guys, great advice! I will try to jungle. Now that leads me to the next question: which runes do I get? Do I get the typical "Jungle" runeset and offense-heavy masteries?

Here's what I got so far: Quints: 3 Desolations (Armor Pens), Marks: 9 Desolation (Armor Pens), Glyphs: 9 Alacrity (Atk Speed), and no Seals yet (still saving IP for them).

Mastery is set to 21/0/9 per a Warwick Jungle build I found. That should transfer across to Alistar, yes? If you have me on your friends list, please take a look at Page 3 of my runeset (called Tarzan) and my 3rd Mastery page. Thanks

Dark Link Wrote:Slow down there, speedy. You just got advice for lanestar, let's not instantly jump into junglestar without doing more practice with Alistar first off.
Having a multitude of champions doesn't help you when you're only halfway decent with 1 or 2 and just flat out suck with the rest.

>Pineapple' Wrote:Brand is really fun. First game with him was awesome, but I had to 2v1 the other two games both times vs a leona and some other stunner, needless to say I was towerdived multiple times. Only killed one of them in the process like 3 times.

madanthony Wrote:SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.

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(I had a terrible CS that game though with Teemo constantly blinding me and Leona trying to kill me in lane but the gold per 5 items made up for it I guess)

WillDaSnail Wrote:Edit: If anyone wants to take a look at it, I've been communicating with a Riot personnel regarding this massive problem, providing logs and whatnot - http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=958174&

KajitiSouls Wrote:A few things I would try:
1.) Screw around with your video settings. Everything.
2.) The fact that you're not even getting r3dlogs suggests something. Figure out when these things get written, and why yours apparently don't exist.
3.) Based on the experience of other users, it seems like there might be something in the files that's screwing with your computer. I don't quite know what it might be.

WillDaSnail Wrote:1) Where to find the video settings?
2) That was what I was thinking too. My Riot Games folder - for some reason - was missing critical files (such as r3dlogs), which is a bit weird, yet very suspicious...
3) complete un-install/re-install?

Darkmaniak Wrote:W-A pretty lame shield

KajitiSouls Wrote:You... don't know where to find video settings? o.O Control Panel would be numero uno. As for game settings, that's more complicated. I don't know where to look for it, but I know for a fact that there's a file you can modify that dictates the settings in-game.

r3dlogs aren't actually critical. They're just log files for debugging purposes, and one should appear for each game you play.