Original League of Legends (LoL) Thread

I keep getting moronic teams in Ranked, it's not even funny how bad people are. I keep getting team captain so everyone else is lower ELO, I like when I get last pick so I can fit the team comp, not when I get first pick and see the rest ignore team composition, and when they do take it into account they SUCK at what they picked and then say "we needed x"....

You and me should duo queue more, as my ELO is undoubtedly 49518320518 smaller than yours, yet I can pick to fit the team :3.

Which is usually Cho'Gath.

Lol @ your friend's IGN Spiegelmann.

Losing streak continues. I'll be glad when I won't be able to play LoL in a few days. This is getting outrageous.

You and me should duo queue more, as my ELO is undoubtedly 49518320518 smaller than yours, yet I can pick to fit the team :3.

Which is usually Cho'Gath.

Sad thing is I keep getting first pick even after I fell down from 1200.

Losing streak continues. I'll be glad when I won't be able to play LoL in a few days. This is getting outrageous.

Then don't play, oof. I don't play as much because I lose almost every game.

I had nothing to do with this, I swear.

Also:

Teemo: Guys I am going to suicide at baron to pull them here so that you can ambush them and win.
MF:
Sona: ....
*teemo suicides*
*Aced*

and we won shortly after that

Just tried two practice games (intermid bots) with GP. I've NEVER had this easy of a time killing bots. 0.o
Helped that I had okay partners. But even with decent partners... never had this easy of a time tearing through them early game. Late game was... odd.


Side note:

Just went generic rune purchasing

9x Flat armor yellow
9x mres/level blues
2x armor pen quints (will get 3rd soon... ran outta ip lol)

~~~~~
already have (for now, will go to 9 of each of these as I level up... i think i'm like 25 or something):
7x mana per level blues (ryze)
7x mpen red
2x mpen quints
2x AP quints
7x flat AP blues


Any suggestions for more generic runes? recall.... I'm going for runes that can be used on a lot of stuff.... so no... "well what champs do you usually play?!"
I play mixed... though I guess I dont play tanks.

wonderful teemo.

Currently Yorick is taken out because of a bug "that will degrade player experience". Good call Riot

[video=youtube;ONZCKfrdtLg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONZCKfrdtLg[/video]

Edit: Why am I being matched up with bad teams? I just had a Skarner teammate that literally just asked to fail: let Tryndamere farm top, he had 180+ CS by 25 minutes, and that was GG aferwards. AND HE DIDN'T ASK TO SWITCH WITH OUR SIVIR. WT'F MAN.

Oh, you had a Sivir on your team. No wonder you lost Will :[

Lol at how they drew that guy as Leona.

What determines ELO drop/gain? Every game was + - 42~48 so far, but last game gave me +24 only, I'm sure the button isn't on because last game wasn't a loss forgiven, but I'm not sure if my ELO dropped around 2x or 4x....

[IMGSPOILER=That Sivir was all about the farm...]http://i.imgur.com/cutEq.png[/IMGSPOILER]

[IMGSPOILER]http://i.imgur.com/TObkr.png[/IMGSPOILER]

Holy pomegranate 728 CS 0_0

Lol at how they drew that guy as Leona.

What determines ELO drop/gain? Every game was + - 42~48 so far, but last game gave me +24 only, I'm sure the button isn't on because last game wasn't a loss forgiven, but I'm not sure if my ELO dropped around 2x or 4x....

Once you played a certain # of ranked games, the amount of ELO you gain/lose will decrease. Right now I'm losing +/- 17 ELO every time I win or lose, and I have played 68 ranked matches atm

Edit: Fu'ck matchmaking right now. Make that losing 15 of the last 17 played.

[IMGSPOILER=That Sivir was all about the farm...]http://i.imgur.com/cutEq.png[/IMGSPOILER]

Wait what the hell?! Who let her free-farm so much?

And lol @ that Rammus stacking so many Thornmail + various armors.

Edit2: For anyone that wants to see Skarner's easter egg (and trigger it), go into a bush, stay there for one minute, and watch what happens (have sound on too). Hint: I believe its a Pokemon reference

Played a game as Ashe where I saw a fight between Ryze and Cho'Gath + Ashe. Ashe and Ryze got really low, and I was weaving my way through the jungle after backing, so I decided maybe I could play the part of the assassin. I got in close (~2500), and used Hawkshot to determine where Ashe was, and I planted it so that it would really get her attention. Naturally, she would go "oshiet I'm going to get sniped" and start running, so I planned accordingly. My aimbot skills kicked in (like any real asian would have), and I got the kill.

Mind games, yes.

DNS server stopped responding for a while, so I decided I'd start filming awesome moments for future compilation projects.

I believe >Pineapple may have been watching this one, but I'm not sure.

[video=youtube;I_JqKk4Z3Wo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_JqKk4Z3Wo[/video]

<biohazard504> wtp was janna's last buff
<biohazard504> her cup size?
<biohazard504> jeez
<KoolKalvinz> its better towards midgame
<KoolKalvinz> but i like the early game advantage

Conversations out of context rule.

EDIT :

<Llama> apparently summoner spells consume karma's ult stacks
<Llama> best bug

11-3-7 first game with jungle tryndamere. So funnnn

I thought jungling with him was a lot more complicated (thought he had some werid and restricted, vulnerable path).

Ok I'll never play support in ranked again. I was last pick so I asumed my team would be a little bit decent, and since we had everything (AD carry, AP carry, tank, jungle and a tanky dpser) I thought well why not support, with Janna's cc we'll make a great team. Well no. Our only good player was Veigar, our tank didn't know what initiation was (Jarvan) and whenever he did initiate, Ashe wouldn't be there or sucked, it was horrible, apparently to get some ELO in this game you have to play Morde and go "HUE HUE HUE" at the enemy.

Wouldn't go with Jarvan as the primary tank if Alistar, Singed, Amumu, etc were available.

Wouldn't go with Jarvan as the primary tank if Alistar, Singed, Amumu, etc were available.

Ali and Amumu were banned, Singed was enemy tank. and I don't have more tanks than those 3 xD

Also played a couple of games with an IRL friend. I though "Ok I need a carry since I won't tank for these guys" (friend's lvl 27). So I picked Brand, since he's an awesome AP carry. Carried both games, first like 9/1 and second did bad, but was best on team 11/12/15 or something. First game roflstomped, second game we had 3 baddies (a jungle GP who thought jungle meant stay there forever, he jungled the whole time, didn't gank and whenever he left the jungle was to farm a lane, he also loved farming lanes that were snowballed while everyone else was in a teamfight. A Singed that fed quite a few kills early game and got a little better later cause singed doesn't die (But vayne raped him) and a skarner, who I simply haven't been able to fit in any team comp, he's not a really good character IMO, his kit is made for a tanky dpser or something but he no gap closer and his ult is so short you barely notice it.)

Okay I found the source of WillDaSnail's losing streak misery: he plays solo queue!


That aside, here are some additional notes about Skarner...

--Ult doesn't feel any more different than a Singed Fling or, at the extreme end of things, a Blitz Grab. They all have a hard CC built in, they relocate the enemy champ. Other than possible rare circumstances, I suppose Skarner's ult is the best for "pushing" away a guy at an awkward angle.

--I have solo'd Baron at the 30-31 minute mark with blue buff, Wriggle's Lantern, Hextech Gunblade, Guinsoo's Rageblade, Doran's Shield, Mercury Treads, and Manamune. Ended with less than 200 HP. Normally one would solo Baron with excessive amounts of lifesteal and auto-attack DPS. Or in Soraka's case, healing and a bajillion Starcalls.

--You know how Xin Zhao's ult gives bonus defense stats the more champions it hits? Skarner could really use that. Worse yet, he doesn't have a good gap closer. Most of the time people just squish Skarner because he relies on his shield to do damage that doesn't suck. If his shield breaks, he's vulnerable, and must rely on healing to survive. And his heal sucks, doing 180 base at most at level 5. Understandably, the heal is kinda pathetic because of the potential of Skarner putting up shields faster than Janna and Lee Sin combined. But that's only if Skarner is ignored in a fight.

--One criteria to judge the effectiveness of a champion's killing sequence is how much mana is consumed. In my experience with AP casters, you'd typically have to expend over 60% of your mana pool to kill someone 1v1 from full to zero early-mid game (no Sorc boots). Against tanks, this number is closer to 80%. In Skarner's case, this is more or less true with AI bots, but against real people, he just OOMs. With many tanky DPSes, they have a self-heal, and Skarner is no exception. However, Skarner's self-heal costs mana. At this point, I'd chalk it up as one of his weaknesses (he pretty much never runs out of mana if he builds Tear, and my gawd he charges that thing really fking fast if he doesn't die all the time).

--Lane sustain is reasonable and in line with many other tanky DPS champs in a 1v1 situation.

--Chasing with Q early game is blech. You can't just mash Q every time it comes up, as one misstep can end the slow-lock and your potential kill will get away. Even then, it requires a wind-up time, as the first Q does not slow. It's not too big of a deal as a lane skill, but this really hurts his ganking potentials.

--Unless you absolutely must run, why wouldn't you attack Skarner to destroy his shield? His shield values are typical of other support shields, but any offensive ability or an auto-attack or two would destroy it on an offense Skarner. I don't have too much hope for a tanky Skarner either, simply because his DPS seems low enough as it is, and as mentioned earlier, he just dies in team fights.


Research questions and answers, if found:
--What happens when Skarner and Skarner ult each other? No idea so far. I would guess that both would get suppressed. But then again I'm not even sure if it counts as a channel. Probably not xD
--Does Q and W have the potential to interrupt his auto-attacks? So far, I'm finding that it's not too big of a deal, but I could swear that this is a possibility.
--Is it possible for Skarner to attack his ult victim, other than DoTs? I'm not clear on whether his Q has any effect. Everything else seems to be a negative.
--Can you Flash while ulting someone? No. Ghost is still available though. Like the game is going to stop you from pre-emptively popping it anyways.
--What items would be best on Skarner? If you're going offensive, Rageblade is t3h sex. It's really easy to get the full 8 stacks anytime, so long as you can get into melee range. Trinity Force is gravy as well, although it is expensive. Defensive... other than Merc Treads and maybe Banshee's Veil, not sure.


EDIT: Saw a Skarner train today xD Enemy Skarner ulted someone on my team, but nearly at the same time I ulted the enemy Skarner. Wheee!!

EDIT2: Apparently the proc from Sheen can be used in Q? wtp? Other on-hit items don't work.