Team Pomegranate Thread: We quit because we can't be online edition

@Corn; @Loose; @Nalek; @Dredragon; will be our team tonight. Be ready. PS: NEED YOU FOR PRACTICE ASAP.

@Corn; @Loose; @Nalek; @Dredragon; will be our team tonight. Be ready. PS: NEED YOU FOR PRACTICE ASAP.

I just got home, gonna go eat and get online in around 30 - 45 minutes.

Didn't I just say I wouldn't be available?

Yeah. For now it'll be comfort roles. Then it'll be actual roles.

>comfort roles
>assigns me one of my worst roles

Didn't I just say I wouldn't be available?

Don't worry, I told them multiple times.

Our biggest problem was lack of teamwork and positioning, we gotta work on that. Also, no negative attitude. A game is never lost until you see the 'Defeat' screen.

Also, I had no experience with Nunu & Leona, but don't worry guys, I'll be getting Lulu over the weekend.

If you have this boss ad carry here you wouldn't have to worry about positioning .

Don't worry, I told them multiple times.

Our biggest problem was lack of teamwork and positioning, we gotta work on that. Also, no negative attitude. A game is never lost until you see the 'Defeat' screen.

Also, I had no experience with Nunu & Leona, but don't worry guys, I'll be getting Lulu over the weekend.

Lulu support is hard to do and it's not very popular in NA scene. Nunu, blitz, soraka, sona are probably the easiest to pick up.

Lulu support is hard to do and it's not very popular in NA scene.

You may want to start watching tournaments again.

You may want to start watching tournaments again.

The only player I can think of that plays lulu support quite often is chauster and clg.na went to korea where lulu is more popular (at least to my knowledge). Hell even when MLG summer arena happened and azubu blaze picked lulu kog, the casters even mentioned how lulu support isn't used much in NA and is used more in korea/asia.

And NA scene does not mean only tournaments. In all my normal/ranked games, lulu is probably the support I see the least. Generally it's taric, sona, alistar, or blitzcrank.

Going by http://www.lolstatistics.com/champions/

Sona: 2.45%
Blitzcrank: 2.26%
Nunu: 1.57% (can be played other roles too so probably not all support)
Soraka: 1.48%
Alistar: 1.39%
Taric: 1.36%
Leona: 1.29%
Janna: 0.63%
Lulu: 0.44%

So yea I think it's safe to say lulu is not a popular pick in NA scene. That does not mean it is a popular pick in korea/asia scene as I don't know that information for sure, only from what I've heard.

"scene" generally implies "tournaments and high elo solo queue"

Lulu picked between 4 and 7% of the time in plat ranked, which is pretty high since any given champion has a 10% chance of being picked overall bans notwithstanding

Also considering worlds just happened, pick crossover is incredibly likely to happen, there were a lot of Lulus in the past two days of the TSM off-season circuit.

Lulu support is hard to do and it's not very popular in NA scene. Nunu, blitz, soraka, sona are probably the easiest to pick up.

Woah, that's awesome! I like playing unpopular characters!

"scene" generally implies "tournaments and high elo solo queue"

Lulu picked between 4 and 7% of the time in plat ranked, which is pretty high since any given champion has a 10% chance of being picked overall bans notwithstanding

Also considering worlds just happened, pick crossover is incredibly likely to happen, there were a lot of Lulus in the past two days of the TSM off-season circuit.

Sona: 34-45%
Blitzcrank: 35-40%
Taric: 28-40%
Janna: 13-20%

She's just not a popular pick. I'm not saying she's bad just that I believe she has a higher learning curve than other supports so people generally don't know how to play her so they decide not to play her. During say june-sept, all I saw pros play were

- sona
- blitzcrank
- nunu
- janna (fell off after nerfs)
- soraka (fell off after lane swapping became more standard)
- occasional leona + taric
- alistar if it wasn't banned

Very rarely did I see a lulu so all of this is based on what i've seen. Maybe people are just starting to play lulu but 2 days is not enough to say she is now a popular support. She is certainly viable just harder to play than some other supports. Honestly she's not even THAT hard just you need quick reaction times for her shield just like janna. The one main drawback I hate on her is she's slow as dirt.

In that time Soraka and Janna were nerfed, jungle Alistar was far more popular and feared compared to support Alistar, Nunu became a popular jungler, and Blitzcrank became a popular ban. That's a huge window especially considering that window has regionals in it.

I will not be on Sunday night.

There's a good chance I'll be on Saturday.

Might be available this Saturday, religious holiday though.

Not here Sunday~

Not sure if I can this weekend.

Going out with someone friday so I trust [MENTION=44]Loose[/MENTION];, [MENTION=3456]Nalek[/MENTION]; and [MENTION=6958]Dredragon[/MENTION]; to take care of the team on friday night practice. Practice roles, get a sub in for jungler. I'll be here saturday night for our game. [MENTION=44]Loose[/MENTION]; Could you post the team were facing saturday? I gotta do stuff all day today and tomorrow. Homecoming BS >:

So what are the roles we have atm? I'm mid still, right? ^^