Original League of Legends (LoL) Thread

That's more of a consistency change. All champs now have a minimum range of 125.

Get with the joke!

I'll prefer Swiftness + C&D :o

What about Mobility + C&D? :O

Also I didn't know 125 was the min range for all champs, but still...a change for the greater good on singed is always "Trololo" worthy.

EDIT:

Community: Singed is OP, unstoppable solo top.

Riot: Hm.. there seems to be a disturbance in the force... buff Singed, nerf Morde! Singed es new #1 huehuehue.

What about Mobility + C&D? :O

Doesn't let you attack and chase as well.

Mobility is near useless after the shields thing.

Mobility is near useless after the shields thing.

Shields thing? What?

EDIT: Dat "Mad Scientist Singed" Skin!

 Spoiler

Cho: * Adjusted the animation speed of his run while he has stacks of Feast
Did this bother the hell out of anyone else?

I wish Vlad got more buffs, though. I mean, as good as this patch will be in a few areas, and as it is a step in the right direction, it's not a big enough leap toward a lot of the game imbalances. :/

Congrats to the Goldies Aynia and Zendaine!

I guess I'm the only Silver of the bunch?

And congrats to the rest of the SP.net flock on Bronze attainment. Or if not that, for at least putting forth effort!

 Personal comments on my performance this season

-- I was a bum and didn't play ranked games early and often. Procrastination, whooo!

-- In the current meta, I frequently found myself wanting a certain champion, but not picking it because I would either suck royally, or I didn't have him/her/it unlocked.

-- I guess I got infatuated with Kog'Maw in my run of normal games. This proved to be a bane.

-- Sorry guys, but I think I might be more of a lone wolf for a while for next season. Playing with some of you is usually not a learning experience for me, other than the occasional niche piece of knowledge. I want to play with certain others when I'm learning new champs however.

-- Overall, I think I want to diversify on the champs I play. Just the way I am currently, this is going to be quite a hurdle. I'm hard to impress, and it's hard for me to get deeply involved into something.

In other news... PurpleFire44 won the second contest I issued about the mystery situation. The answer was that a stealth champion entered the grass, which caused Anivia to auto-attack the creeps. I believe part 2 of my first commentary series on youtube shows this exact situation.

I'm still working out who won the first one, which was about which champs Riot thinks was OP or UP.

Shields thing? What?

IIRC shields count as combat now. GG supports!

Here's hoping I'll do somewhat decent in ranked for Season 2!

IIRC shields count as combat now. GG supports!

Wow, I honestly never knew that. Mobility took a huge dive.

I HAVE ARCTIC CAIT. I AM THE WORST CAIT IN THE WORLD. ._.

Here's something creepy.

If you zoom in far enough to where you can see inside the model, you can see the Tibbers mark inside her eyes.

"Fixed a bug where you can Smite Baron behind his den"

Apparently its what I suspected if Riot defines this as a "bug" and is intending to fix it:

[video=youtube;w84qWg1fMzY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w84qWg1fMzY[/video]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I can't do those epic cunning Smite steals anymore if this is the case.

Edit: On the topic of Season 1-ending ELO soft resets, I just checked up my rankings. Went from 1249 ELO ---> 1229 ELO.

1490 ELO was the "cap".

I figured it out just before they changed it (I think)
The teleport cancelled when you smartcast-queued an action while teleporting

Here's hoping I'll do somewhat decent in ranked for Season 2!

First, level 30 please.

So after over 200 ranked games I was never able to get back up to 1200 ELO. Kind of sad and disappointing, but I learned a lot. After dropping to 900 ELO from my first games going horribly wrong, I carried myself up and stayed between 1050-1150 for the most part. I'm not sure if this is the ELO I belong at. I feel like I deserve to be higher, because I usually do well in most of my games. Yes some games go horribly wrong and I just get outplayed from the start but that happens to everyone. But the majority of my games I see that I do well and I'm not sure if my less-than-Bronze ELO is due to me not playing as good or just not getting on the right teams. Maybe a little bit of both.
Also the fact that for many of these games I duo-queued with a friend of mine, and he's pretty stubborn when it comes to champ select and only plays about 5 champions. So basically my team and I are forced to work around this, and my friend doesn't usually carry so it's iffy...

I'm not sure where I can improve. I think positioning in team fights when I'm a carry is something I need to work on, also when to get in the fight. (I have a horrible habit of jumping in the fight before they use up their cc, especially when I play Akali). Also I suffer from tunnel vision sometimes and need to learn when to push, when to fall back and stay with the team, etc. My jungling is okay except for when I get counterjungled. Then I kind of just go "oh..well what do I do now?"

Anyway just my random thoughts on my gameplay. Figured I may as well sum them up as Season One is now over. Hopefully I can do much better Season Two and get a better ELO. Best of luck to everyone in Season Two and congrats to all the Gold/Silver/Bronze people!

-- Sorry guys, but I think I might be more of a lone wolf for a while for next season. Playing with some of you is usually not a learning experience for me, other than the occasional niche piece of knowledge. I want to play with certain others when I'm learning new champs however.

EXCUSES!

And ha ha ha I didn't make Bronze. I actually didn't expect that, but meh. I'm going to need to buy the runes to jungle Cho.'Gath (ugh...6300 for a rune page, plus the armor runes...plus I need to finish my dodge runes).

Can't wait to carry myself up with you guys. Let's do our crazy winning streak again, Manu.

 My experience in ranked in Season 1 - summary of the good and bad and how I could improve in Season 2

Looking back now that Season 1 has ended, there's a few things that were good and a lot of things that were regrettable while I was playing ranked. Here are a few things:

1) I jumped into playing ranked too early. I still had a lot of room to improve at that time. This is a decision I will come to regret for some time.
2) I had a very limited list of champs to play. In fact, I did not have many carry champs available for me to use. As a result, I was pretty much at the whims of my team composition and shyt. I didn't have an influence in the match outcome. This will change in S2 as I started learning how to play certain carries over the past few months.
3) Quite a few of the fundamentals I thought I had gotten down exposed its ugly head when I started playing ranked. Aka, I had flaws in some of my fundamental basics I shouldve gotten down when I started playing LoL. Now that's just quite sad.

Though by playing ranked, I did improve quite a bit. After playing ranked for some 30-40 games, I realized how normal games have now become somewhat of a joke. In other words, I don't take normal games as serious as I used to do. And of course, I learned a few tactics/strategies from ranked that I sometimes use in normal games just for the kicks.

I'm looking forward to Season 2. But this time, I have a lot more up my sleeve. I now have a feel for playing ranked matches. And I'm definitely not f'ucking around this time.

Can't wait to carry myself up with you guys. Let's do our crazy winning streak again, Manu.

Would certainly enjoy that.
Also I agree with Will, after my first like 10 ranked games, I started considering Normal a Joke (They felt way more serious before that and when people went like "Dude chill, it's normal" I would get annoyed because it didn't feel like that to me).

Looks like placement games aren't happening, as win/loss never reset. I guess I'm fine with that seeing as it's a 200~ish elo difference between me and the top of the bunch so I'll be fine.

I think I'm gonna play a few ranked today starting out at 123x elo. I'll try to keep a log of how that goes later today.

What are people opinions on the recent changes to shaco, taric, rammus, shen. How much did it really affect them?

Shen is going to be very strong same with taric. I don't see much changing with shaco and rammus though.