2011-04-18, 05:38 PM
Unleashing Wrote:Well, idk about you guys, but if i play shen or not i still pay attention to if my allies are in trouble, even if they're on the other side of the map, just check if they're losing hp and if they have enemies near them.
That's something i've grown as a reflex since DotA
Okay see, it's one thing to see that your allies and enemies are across the map. I can do my business reasonably well while I stare at the minimap simultaneously. Or actually run over and help them if you think you can get there in time before the action stops.
It's another thing to actually watch your allies to see if they need intervention via a global skill. Of course, you could mitigate the disruption by mastering the center-on-ally hotkeys, but that would cause serious issues for how I play. And I don't know about you EU folks, but here in NA, the HP for champions doesn't really update until you look at them. The only reason why I look at the portraits on the left side HUD is for death timers and ults.
Darkmaniak Wrote:Oh yeah forgot to mention, I played a game with Kaj the other day, I played horrible, besides doing lots of stupid things, and last hitting worse than a dead cow, I got harrased out of my ass by gragas, I guess it's because most players on the opposite team had over 3 times my games played... and because I laned with Kaj as cho so I couldn't last hit... it was hard for me at least and we lost, somehow we had our towers stomped with very few deaths.
The game was presumably designed to have reasonably low latency, or green ping. This is below 100 ms iirc.
Since you don't quite meet that, champions like Gragas who have skillshots will pretty much ruin your day if his ping is better than yours.
EDIT: Apparently, when Brand successfully eggs Anivia, the server stops telling you anything and everything kinda looks frozen, like a disconnect. Everything goes back to normal less than a second before Anivia is reborn, and chances are, if you were in a team fight, your carry raped everybody. I did have this happen to me, but at the time I didn't recognize it and just passed it off as a coincidence. *sigh* At this rate, I'll never get back into ranked play.