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For my runes....

I'm 99.9% certain I will be going the tanking route. Are these runes the best for tanking?

- Glyphs/MP Regeneration
- Marks/Armor Penetration
- Seals/Armor
- Quintessence/HP

Personally I would go with Magic Resist per Level Glyphs, but that is because the only tank I play is Shen who doesn't have mana...

For my runes....

I'm 99.9% certain I will be going the tanking route. Are these runes the best for tanking?

- Glyphs/MP Regeneration
- Marks/Armor Penetration
- Seals/Armor
- Quintessence/HP

tanks do more magic damage than physical. So either get arp to help you last hit or magic pen to increase your spells. You are going to end up with arp and mpen at some point and as for tanking, not a huge deal.

armor/dodge/mana regen are the options for seals. Dodge are super expensive so i dont think they will be the best choice for you. I'd get armor.

magic resist/cooldown reduction/mana regen are the options for glyphs. If you dont play shen, mana regen is a good option to look at. I dont really like the magic resist, in the end its not really providing you with a whole lot(unless my memory of the amount of resist you gain is way off)

Health quints are the way to go for sure. Good on any champ.

Personally, I use mpen/mana regen/cd reduction. If im jungling on a tank that isnt rammus, I use arp/armor/cd reduction.

tanks do more magic damage than physical. So either get arp to help you last hit or magic pen to increase your spells. You are going to end up with arp and mpen at some point and as for tanking, not a huge deal.

armor/dodge/mana regen are the options for seals. Dodge are super expensive so i dont think they will be the best choice for you. I'd get armor.

magic resist/cooldown reduction/mana regen are the options for glyphs. If you dont play shen, mana regen is a good option to look at. I dont really like the magic resist, in the end its not really providing you with a whole lot(unless my memory of the amount of resist you gain is way off)

Health quints are the way to go for sure. Good on any champ.

Personally, I use mpen/mana regen/cd reduction. If im jungling on a tank that isnt rammus, I use arp/armor/cd reduction.

I was thinking Mana Regeneration for Rammus and Amumu, but Kaj recommended to me:

- Glyphs/Magic Resist
- Seal/Armor (or actually, he said I could do w/e I want here. But I will 99.9% likely use Armor Seals since Seals give the best boost for armor compared to other types of runes.)
- Mark/Magic Penetration

I was thinking Mana Regeneration for Rammus and Amumu, but Kaj recommended to me:

- Glyphs/Magic Resist
- Seal/Armor (or actually, he said I could do w/e I want here. But I will 99.9% likely use Armor Seals since Seals give the best boost for armor compared to other types of runes.)
- Mark/Magic Penetration

Yeah nothing wrong with that set up. Really just depends on play style. I would never lane with either of those two champs, so the magic resist would be pretty much wasted in a jungling set up.

Yeah nothing wrong with that set up. Really just depends on play style. I would never lane with either of those two champs, so the magic resist would be pretty much wasted in a jungling set up.

Except Will doesn't really jungle, if at all.

Seals are Armor, MP5/lvl, or Dodge. The last option is really expensive, while the middle is the cheapest.

Except Will doesn't really jungle, if at all.

Seals are Armor, MP5/lvl, or Dodge. The last option is really expensive, while the middle is the cheapest.

How important is Dodge? I find it ridiculious that a tank is avoiding damage, which is somewhat ironic.

Also my last game, I found a big interest in Xin Zhao. That hero has some insane abilities. How hard is he to play right? I saw a couple JTV stream games where the player jungled as Xin and he was a beast.

Xin is amazing and one of my favorite champs. Melee champs tend to be a bit harder to play imo, but xin is one of the strongest and there for a bit easier to learn. First thing, xin can jungle but he is slow, i mean really really slow AND he is absolutely amazing in a solo lane once you figure him out. You can jungle if you really have to and his ganking power is amazing, but being in lane will really provide more for your team. Guardsman Bob is a really good xin player, he is like 1800ish elo so not the highest but up there and he streams quite often on solomid.net. Try to catch a game of his if you can. Hotshotgg is also very skilled with him, but he doesnt seem to play him anymore.

I kinda feel like i lost what i wanted to say, but the idea of xin is to charge in at the enemy carry and just blow them up. You can look up the details of his moves on the LoL website, but the idea is the charge the target, use your ult and just chain slow and knock up til they are dead.

Arpen and attack speed are the main stats you want on xin, ghostblade is perfect for him. Also want to build him tanky. There are quite a few little details about him that i could go on and on about but i feel like im starting to ramble and my post has lost all sense of direction.

TL;DR Go play Xin, he is a blast.







Older hotshot clip, was around release when xin was super op, but still a general idea of how xin is played, which hasnt changed. Couldnt find a video of guardsman bob.
[video=youtube;CHw1_Csup84]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHw1_Csup84[/video]

Except Will doesn't really jungle, if at all.

Seals are Armor, MP5/lvl, or Dodge. The last option is really expensive, while the middle is the cheapest.

Not jungling is fine, I was just trying to explain my point of view when discussing rune choices.

This was an awesome game. I won't lie, I honestly thought we were gonna lose at the end. We got an ace and pushed to their last 2 turrets when they all respawned. Shortly after they ended up getting 3 of our guys while we got 1 of theirs, they pushed to our final turrets when we respawned lol
It went back and forth for a long time until we were able to Ace them for the victory.

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Not jungling is fine, I was just trying to explain my point of view when discussing rune choices.

Your rune choices are fine really.

Also Willis, the point of a tank is to absorb damage for his teammates and frustrate the crap out of the enemies. A dead tank doesn't do any of that. Dodge helps boost your survivability vs. auto-attacks (but not on-hit skills like Siphon Strike), and the only counter to that for an auto-attacker carry is Sword of the Divine's active.

Your rune choices are fine really.

Also Willis, the point of a tank is to absorb damage for his teammates and frustrate the crap out of the enemies. A dead tank doesn't do any of that. Dodge helps boost your survivability vs. auto-attacks (but not on-hit skills like Siphon Strike), and the only counter to that for an auto-attacker carry is Sword of the Divine's active.

Hm....

So should I have both armor and dodge runes so I can switch off with either one whenever I need it?

And...for Glyphs, should I have both MR (general tanking use) and Mana Regen (for jungling)?

 Is this a good idea?

Have 2 rune pages for tanking: general tanking and jungle tanking

Proposed/Starting Rune build:

- Glyph/MR
- Seal/Armor
- Mark/Magic Penetration
- Quintessence/HP

Later on....

General tanking:

- Glyph/MR
- Seal/Dodge
- Mark/Magic Penetration
- Quintessence/HP

Jungle Tanking:

- Glyph/Mana Regeneration
- Seal/Armor
- Mark/Magic Penetration
- Quintessence/HP

Since we're talking runes, I figured I'd give a link to the guide I've found useful. Just hit lvl 20 and spent all my IP I had saved.

http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legend...more-24255

Basically what it says in there is if you want the best bang for your buck, you should go:

Marks: Arm/Magic Pen
Glyphs: Cooldown Red/Magic Resist
Seals: Dodge/Magic per 5 Regen
Quints: Flat HP

It costs 31k IP for all of that, but it provides the best general stats for a majority of characters. Of course if you only play a few characters, and have no interest in any others, then you can customize your rune pages to what you prefer for the characters you play.

Flat HP quints aren't as effective anymore (17 HP difference with 3x quints) combined with the HP gained on lvl up system, but this is speaking from a higher level of play where clutch plays happen a lot more. They're still pretty badass in that virtually anyone can use them and still be effective though.

Ever since I got a new runepage where I could use my MS quints from the Christmas event, I saw how much of an edge it gave me in laning phase when it comes to dancing between avoidable skills and just out of casting range when my foes want to harass me. I've respected my support runepage (basically my caster page with AP quints), and I'm seriously considering an MS runepage for carries as well.

Though I don't recommend MS quints to anyone that doesn't have sufficient experience with the game.

Did customs with both Malhazar and Ezreal (both are free this week)

15/1/8 - Mal
22/0/1 - Ez

God it was so fun i wish i had enough ip to buy them both.. I wanna buy kennen though, he looks fun.

Did customs with both Malhazar and Ezreal (both are free this week)

15/1/8 - Mal
22/0/1 - Ez

God it was so fun i wish i had enough ip to buy them both.. I wanna buy kennen though, he looks fun.

Huh, when I try to set a normal game, it doesn't let me. And if I go for custom, it shows last week's champions, no Mal or Ez.

Edit: nvm, restarted LoL and it shows the new ones.

Huh, when I try to set a normal game, it doesn't let me. And if I go for custom, it shows last week's champions, no Mal or Ez.

Edit: nvm, restarted LoL and it shows the new ones.

Ya if you dont see new rotations and others are reporting its changed you can relog and they should show

EU servers are currently messed up with all queues disabled/enabled randomly. Theres problems like every other day its a bit stupid lol..

New Champions

Ezreal
Karma
Blitzcrank
Heimerdinger
Malzahar
Kayle
Sivir
Tryndamere
Nunu
Fiddlesticks

Did customs with both Malhazar and Ezreal (both are free this week)

15/1/8 - Mal
22/0/1 - Ez

God it was so fun i wish i had enough ip to buy them both.. I wanna buy kennen though, he looks fun.

Someone's been feeding you eh?

Wait, once I hit Level 20, I can start buying Tier 3 Runes? :f6:

Someone's been feeding you eh?

Wait, once I hit Level 20, I can start buying Tier 3 Runes? :f6:

yep