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Alright. Did a 3v3 with two of my friends. 14/2/9! AP Poppy's burst is really fun.

Alongside Singed and Tryndamere, should I make Poppy my next champ to buy too?

So far I'm really liking her. Turret diving pro with her ultimate and enemies will really fear you. Basically rush them into a wall and rape them, and use W+Ghost for a great chasing/escape mechanism.
Definitely a good buy especially at only 1350 IP.

But why Frozen heart against 4 AP heroes?

Level 1x. Still learning the game.

Wriggle's is bad on ashe. Only ranged ad I can see it being good on are ez, maybe twitch, xin, and a few others outside of the jungle.

But why Frozen heart against 4 AP heroes?

Huh, thought it worked like an aura from the description. Guess I know now! I'll try to aim for Banshee's Veil in this situation then, if I think I need the defense. I really just wanted something defensive so I wouldn't lose my 20 stacks as easily. Match ended before then though.

Banshee's is easily the best item in the game. Almost never a bad choice for your defensive item(s).

Huh, thought it worked like an aura from the description. Guess I know now! I'll try to aim for Banshee's Veil in this situation then, if I think I need the defense. I really just wanted something defensive so I wouldn't lose my 20 stacks as easily. Match ended before then though.

Frozen Hearts lowers attack speed of nearby enemies by 20%. If the enemies are AP champs, they wont be attacking your with their auto attack probably, meaning a decreased aspd does nothing to them. The 99 armor and 20% cooldown reduction (on top of the 500 mana) is still nice... but there are better things for annie.



-If you like the CDR (cooldown reduction) then consider morello's evil tome:

+75 Ability Power +12 Mana Regeneration per 5 UNIQUE Passive: Reduces ability cooldowns by 20%.


-If you're looking for armor then consider Zhonya's hourglass if you want a bit of armor"
+100 Ability Power +50 Armor UNIQUE Active: Places your champion into Stasis for 2 seconds, rendering you invulnerable and untargetable but unable to take any actions. 90 second cooldown

-If you need lots of armor due to autoattackers then get a thornmail or the Frozen Heart

-If you need lots of armor due to autoattackers then get a thornmail or the Frozen Heart

Or Randuin's Omen. The passive/active are both amazing and it gives good defensive stats.

Huh, thought it worked like an aura from the description. Guess I know now! I'll try to aim for Banshee's Veil in this situation then, if I think I need the defense. I really just wanted something defensive so I wouldn't lose my 20 stacks as easily. Match ended before then though.

Frozen Heart is only good against Physical DPS champs. You have 4 AP champs. I don't think they'll be auto-attacking you like crazy at any time. Plus you're supposed to try to keep your distance from those who are trying to eliminate you from carrying harder. =P

Rabadons Deathcap, perhaps?

Thanks for all the suggestions, guys. I'll keep all this in mind while building in my next matches.

I just tried out Trydamere in a Co-Op vs AI game.

He is freaking INSANE, I must say. Though a bit squishy, so I have to be a bit careful when going rambo. >_>

I just tried out Trydamere in a Co-Op vs AI game.

He is freaking INSANE, I must say. Though a bit squishy, so I have to be a bit careful when going rambo. >_>

Even more nuts when you have a runepage of crit chance. Start off with a brawler's glove and that means awesome crit chance at lvl 1.

Even more nuts when you have a runepage of crit chance. Start off with a brawler's glove and that means awesome crit chance at lvl 1.

Yeah; I realized how much bricks I would shat if I had all of that in hand. Definately going to build a full crit runepage for him now.

Sorry for double post...

[spoiler=I'm not going to lie: This match was one of the longest and hardest I've been in for some time][/spoiler]

Replay of the match - requires LoL Recorder to open and play the file

Queued up with Kaj, his bro, Birdie, and I brought in my friend Phil along for the ride. Early game, things weren't going well for us. I laned with Kaj's bro, and we both didn't do so well in bottom lane (I have to admit, after not laning so long, I was rusty at laning with Amumu since I jungle with the little guy 24/7). TF seemingly raped us whenever he wanted, Sivir kept farming and pushing like a motherf'ucker. Not until the middle of the mid-game phase we started turning things around. The key to victory? Focusing on the squishies. Every time we teamfight by that point, we went after TF, Sivir, and Annie. That worked so well that we started getting ahead in kills, as well as being able to push afterwards. In other words, we pretty much ate the enemy team inside out.

Took us 2 Barons, extremely heavy defense, and a last push into the enemy base to finish them off. At the end, TF BDs our inhibitor, but by that time his actions were pointless since we had our super creep army flooding the enemy base, and he couldn't take out the Nexus turrets by himself anyways.

A hard-fought, 1 hour and 4 minute long victory.

P.S. Wow @ the CS for Kaj and that Sivir.

Sorry for double post...

PorchCat is Birdie of sp.net >_>

I played some part of lane maintenance late game. I was extremely worried that TF would BD our crap while we were pushing their base, but post-game, I remembered that it's pretty much impossible to take on a tower by yourself (they had no creeps), let alone ones that do extra damage and regenerate.

Near the end, we were all up in their grill, making lots of pressure at their Nexus turrets in a 5v5 standoff. I made sure to destroy the creeps going top lane, since that was the only lane we didn't push to oblivion, and without reinforcements, the enemy tower would soon fall. Eventually our creeps came to their base and we took it from there. But then shyt happened, I two-shotted someone who had half health, and we wrecked their base.

All in all, I missed playing with my old friends. Me and my bro were chatting it up on Mumble, and he expressed quite a bit of frustration about various predicaments. But at the same time, I finally managed to get my groove on and not do seriously stupid things. Unless you count my many misses with arrows, rofl!

A moment of lulz: I was bluepilling at top lane after farming and pushing. TF ulted and teleported in with a gold card and pwned me mano a mano =( All other moments, I destroyed him since he didn't have the DPS advantage I had. <3 Nunu

Frozen Hearts lowers attack speed of nearby enemies by 20%. If the enemies are AP champs, they wont be attacking your with their auto attack probably, meaning a decreased aspd does nothing to them. The 99 armor and 20% cooldown reduction (on top of the 500 mana) is still nice... but there are better things for annie.



-If you like the CDR (cooldown reduction) then consider morello's evil tome:

+75 Ability Power +12 Mana Regeneration per 5 UNIQUE Passive: Reduces ability cooldowns by 20%.


-If you're looking for armor then consider Zhonya's hourglass if you want a bit of armor"
+100 Ability Power +50 Armor UNIQUE Active: Places your champion into Stasis for 2 seconds, rendering you invulnerable and untargetable but unable to take any actions. 90 second cooldown

-If you need lots of armor due to autoattackers then get a thornmail or the Frozen Heart

Alternatively, for CDR on casters, Deathfire Grasp (DFG, Morrello's older cousin) is pretty badass.

Edit: Winning a lot more games now that I've stopped experimenting on different characters. Carry often as Swain/Panth

TF ulted and teleported in with a gold card and pwned me mono a mono =(

It's mano a mano unless you mean "monkey to monkey".

Played Ashe on a few intermid bot games. Ridiculously powerful after i get the cleaver and IE... not enough dmg output before that.... mfw D:

Also, I need to remember that I'm not starting out with 600mana (ryze) so i need to be less trigger happy with volley.

It's mano a mano unless you mean "monkey to monkey".

Was too lazy to check via Google that night. Yes it's supposed to be "man to man", lol xD

Just played a game where I got fed as Cho. I proceeded to go run right into the enemy team throwing skills left and right. At first, they were scared of me, but then they all focused me. I died, but my team had a hay day as we got tons of kill spree bounties.

How soon should I grab defensive items on squishy characters? That has been bugging me for a while.

How soon should I grab defensive items on squishy characters? That has been bugging me for a while.

If things get to the point where you're getting killed by abilities/auto-attacks constantly, then I would build something up ASAP. For instance, if a Karthus is downing your HP simply by casting his Requiem ultimate, you would want to get a Banshee Veil so you can protect yourself from losing a lot of HP or getting OHKOed.

How soon should I grab defensive items on squishy characters? That has been bugging me for a while.

It's a tough call. At least, for me it is. Generally I would like to stay out of the fire as my primary defense, and rely on lifesteal mid-late game.

If you're up against a harass nut during laning, you can opt to get defense then, or kill the guy and make him pay for his insolence.

If you're dying from a single combo that isn't even hard to pull off, you either tower hug or opt for a lane switch.

So um, anyone have tips/pointers for playing Trydamere?

(besides being aggressive in teamfights )