Original League of Legends (LoL) Thread

Eh, like 2 deaths down, buy another Doran's, or maybe even one death and getting out harassed like hell.

But how bad do you have to be doing in order to prioritize Doran items over other items? Do you have to be doing uber horrible?

Well here's the general rule of thumb:

- Being dominated by the opposing laner (and giving that person a couple of kills or so)
- Getting outfarmed/zoned/pushed

tl;dr - if you feel like you're not doing so well, go and stack Doran items.

If you ever have to back and have not enough gold to buy anything useful, you buy Dorans.

Ashe with only 900 gold? BOOTS AND DORANS MOTHERFUCKER.

Personally I would prioritize wards over Doran items if you can prevent getting killed in a cycle of spells or two without the extra HP, but that's just me.

Anyways, three questions for musing:
-- Clarity Anivia, lol? The expectation is that you feed Anivia blue buff, she becomes a fking terror. In practice, this doesn't always happen.
-- Anivia vs. Garen top lane, who would win?
-- In a 34 minute game, I got 79 + 18 IP for winning a game, yet the IP boost gave me 143 IP. What manner of trickery is this? If it matters, I also got my first win bonus (+150 IP).

On an unrelated note: last game I played consisted almost entirely of smartcasts. Oh my! But I also had a few sloppy moments.

Sunday, 5man premades, the MVP of each round gets to pick what gamemode (cept ranked) to play and first pick/ban in draft modes. what do you say?

So did another 2 games the past couple days, including today. I die so much as Alistar, but at the same time I seem to level up faster with him than with Ashe. On the other hand, Ashe is very safe to play, but the moment I get too eager and try to chase down a weakened Champ she falls apart like a wet paper bag from reinforcements and turrets. She also feels a bit slower to level since I'm not all up in Champs' faces all the time like Alistar.

Anywho, did they implement the Recommended Item change yet? It'd be nice to have a different custom item loadout for each of my champs. If they did, I sure as heck can't find it. >_>

Anywho, did they implement the Recommended Item change yet? It'd be nice to have a different custom item loadout for each of my champs. If they did, I sure as heck can't find it. >_>

There are a couple tools for that, you just gotta know where to look. I can't help you though since I've never bothered to get one.

There are a couple tools for that, you just gotta know where to look. I can't help you though since I've never bothered to get one.

Oh. I thought it was an in-game feature. My bad. Gonna look it up now.

and turrets.

Don't chase people through turrets unless you're 100% sure you can get the kill.

Don't chase people through turrets unless you're 100% sure you can get the kill.

Yeah, my judgment is pretty bad for now. Had full HP and ~1-2 bars of HP left on a Shen bot. Was very sure I'd get the kill, but he outran me due to only level 1 Frost Arrows and, and was nearly dead. Not fun, if only I had her ultimate up.




Anywho, what is the recommended LoL tem Changer program to use?

-- Clarity Anivia, lol? The expectation is that you feed Anivia blue buff, she becomes a fking terror. In practice, this doesn't always happen.

In related news, while pushing enemy base (I'm on Amumu btw), Kaj happens to press Clarity to restock on his own mana at the moment when I was about to go back. I was like "oh hay full mana. Yay!" -goes back in and tanks some more, feed Kaj and Koggles more kills-

Sunday, 5man premades, the MVP of each round gets to pick what gamemode (cept ranked) to play and first pick/ban in draft modes. what do you say?

When Sunday?

Mmm dont have a exact time, we can talk about a when this saturday.

Yeah, my judgment is pretty bad for now. Had full HP and ~1-2 bars of HP left on a Shen bot. Was very sure I'd get the kill, but he outran me due to only level 1 Frost Arrows and, and was nearly dead. Not fun, if only I had her ultimate up.

Turrets do more damage the more times they consecutively hit you.

In related news, while pushing enemy base (I'm on Amumu btw), Kaj happens to press Clarity to restock on his own mana at the moment when I was about to go back. I was like "oh hay full mana. Yay!" -goes back in and tanks some more, feed Kaj and Koggles more kills-

Actually I had blue and my mana was fine. It's called being a team player.

@ IllegallySane, turrets actually do increasing amounts of damage versus champions. Sure, the first hit might not sting much (unless you're lvl 1 lol), but after a while they'll hit really fking hard. Somewhere on the LoL forum stickies there should be good information on this topic, where turrets deal damage versus champions anywhere between 85% to 155%.

How dominion Respawn Actually works

TL;DR: Respawn timers are set to the first person who died giving a 26 second window, anyone who dies after that will have the same respawn time as the first person until those 26 secs passes. (Ergo if the players die at 0:00 , 0:10, 0:15, 0:20 and 0:30, the first four players will spawn together and the fifth one will spawn alone if no body died after him).

Also you get a Handicap according to how is your Nexus health compared to your enemy nexus (A 1 point difference its +2 secs to the wining team and -2 to the losing, a 50 point gives +3/-3 and a 100point gives +4/-4), And the respawn window (the 26 second one) gets increased by half of the extra respawn time (So if you are leading with 100 extra nexus health your respawn timer gets increased by 4 secs and your respawn window increases by 2 secs.)

Abilities and runes works the same but since the timers are so low the effect its barely noticeble.

-- In a 34 minute game, I got 79 + 18 IP for winning a game, yet the IP boost gave me 143 IP. What manner of trickery is this? If it matters, I also got my first win bonus (+150 IP).

IIRC, the amount given by an IP boost is the amount you'd get if you played a game for the maximum possible length.

It's to make up for people feeling jipped by wasting one of their wins on a 20 minute surrender and only getting like 50*2 IP.

No IP boosts for me yet
Kinda waiting to get the boost so I can have DOUBLE BOOSTS!
I still have the XP Boost from weeks ago.

Pretty much confirmed now
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/leagu...ting-older

Also here's a question for all you folk.
What determines you to buy extra Doran items as compared to working on an item?
I never really bought Doran items at all, and last night was the first time I ended up buying multiple blades.

It always depends on the situation. Lets say you're dominating a caitlyn vs ashe match up and you just killed her and you've 1350 gold and one dorans blade. She comes back and starts to dominate you despite you're little level advantage because she now has 2 dorans blade and boots. You've to either play very defensive now and wait it out till bf sword or you push and go b yourself picking up 2 dorans blade and boots to once again give you the advantage. There are also moments where you're forced b, like after a skirmish where you've janna as support who can't heal you back, while ashe on the other hand is half hp again due to sona. You only have 1000 gold so you can't buy your bf sword so you take something that gives you the advantage. It's also a great counter to certain burst champions in mid. After a long while of playing mid agains people like malzahar, annie and brand you know how much they can pull off in one combo. Get enough dorans ring health to counter that and you'll live through it. Although this can be achieved by getting a catalyst too. It all depends on situation. Just try to up your champion knowledgde and item knowledge and press tab from time to time to see what everyone has.

I always build 2 Doran rings or blades when im playing AP or AD. Extra health and a small bit of damage for 475 is pretty good to me regardless of weither im winning the lane or not.