Old League of Legends Thread

[Meian]

Can somebody explain to me how Dominion differs from classic because I'm afraid to try it and info I've looked up is somewhat confusing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGFx6...el_video_title

He also has hilarious guides on some champions

But yes, Dant explained most of it. Be aware that the common ideaology is to have 1 good bot champ and the rest go top. Forcing the opponent to send more to bot tends to have you keep top more often, and anyone respawning or recalling can help bot if needed.

Take note also that some champions work better in Dominion than in SR, either because of the terrain shape and/or the progressive XP/Gold system.

Common bans you see will include Rammus, Akali, Jax, and 4th being various others including Shaco, Poppy, Kassadin, Talon, and newly released champions. Honestly, I find Poppy (and possibly Rammus) the most dangerous of them all as she fits very well, not to mention she can generally defeat the other banned champs.

Ryze I believe is the most versatile champ in Dominion and you can't go wrong with him being on your team. He can go bot or top and do very well in either, capable of countering the commonly banned champs and bot champs (Heimer/Yorick/Morgana/Kayle/etc). His Rune Prison and natural tankiness build with having a Frozen Heart to hinder opponents certainly helps out his team.



Edit: Spectator mode is enabled for a few hours until 8 PM EST (custom games only it seems)

[Kuishen]

I pretty much exclusively play Annie because she's the only one I've ever been good at. o.o

[Arvin]

New skins coming:

http://imgur.com/a/sbi9Y

That Ezreal skin is awesome.

wheres my motherfucking skin this patch, that link is full of LIES

[Meian]

I pretty much exclusively play Annie because she's the only one I've ever been good at. o.o

I can't say I know exactly how good she is in it. I've seen good and bad. Really depends on the opponent, stuff like Talon just mess her up if there is one.

Edit: happy bday health nut lol

[Anakron]

I thought about trying her out, but I think I'd keep losing track of her stuns and wouldn't be able to use her to her full potential.

EDIT: Nevermind, so I just read that there's an indicator and counter that keeps track for you!

[Denchi]

I'm still stuck in ELO hell......

Initially I didn't realize Queue Dodging lowered your elo. After I found out...it was too late. I crawled my way back up to 1100 but just a terrible string of terrible games with terrible players has me back around 950.....fml. Elo hell is the fucking worst.

Trying to get a balanced team seems impossible. Setting up I'll offer to tank, or AD ,or AP, or whatever. And in the end, it doesn't fucking matter, because everyone picks assassin AD anyways and we get romped. I'm also trying to branch out my characters, and I really need some help with this. My main is Morgana, and I play her super awesome well. When I first started playing Ranked it was fantastic, but now she's getting banned on the time, so I've been looking for backups (In addition to being able to fill a team's role) That being said, I'm pretty awesome with Morgana, Kayle, Alistar........ I've been buying a lot of champs and I'm ok with Singed, Veigar, Brand, Ashe, Xin, TF. Champs I own that I SHOULD be good with are people like Amumu, Trynd, Annie, Yi, Vayne, Olaf, GP.

Anyways, my point is, how the fuck do I get out of elo hell? Do I just pick a carry and hope I can do awesome? What champs should I really focus on getting good at, and are there any good tips? Maybe I'm just doing it wrong by solo-queuing.

/Rage

[Bweigelt]

wheres my motherfucking skin this patch, that link is full of LIES

It's there, unfortunately it looks terrible in game, they didn't change any of his animations for it so you still see the bow.

[Bweigelt]

I'm still stuck in ELO hell......

Initially I didn't realize Queue Dodging lowered your elo. After I found out...it was too late. I crawled my way back up to 1100 but just a terrible string of terrible games with terrible players has me back around 950.....fml. Elo hell is the fucking worst.

Trying to get a balanced team seems impossible. Setting up I'll offer to tank, or AD ,or AP, or whatever. And in the end, it doesn't fucking matter, because everyone picks assassin AD anyways and we get romped. I'm also trying to branch out my characters, and I really need some help with this. My main is Morgana, and I play her super awesome well. When I first started playing Ranked it was fantastic, but now she's getting banned on the time, so I've been looking for backups (In addition to being able to fill a team's role) That being said, I'm pretty awesome with Morgana, Kayle, Alistar........ I've been buying a lot of champs and I'm ok with Singed, Veigar, Brand, Ashe, Xin, TF. Champs I own that I SHOULD be good with are people like Amumu, Trynd, Annie, Yi, Vayne, Olaf, GP.

Anyways, my point is, how the fuck do I get out of elo hell? Do I just pick a carry and hope I can do awesome? What champs should I really focus on getting good at, and are there any good tips? Maybe I'm just doing it wrong by solo-queuing.

/Rage

Short answer: ELO hell is a myth. Thinking you are in ELO hell and here is some magic trick to get out isn't going to get you anywhere. Just focus on improving.

Long answer: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=280641

[Meian]

wheres my motherfucking skin this patch, that link is full of LIES

Preview



/shrug

[Arvin]

yeah lame, at least make the gun different

[Qeomash]

At minimum the firing sound should be different.

[Aero]

I'm still stuck in ELO hell......

Initially I didn't realize Queue Dodging lowered your elo. After I found out...it was too late. I crawled my way back up to 1100 but just a terrible string of terrible games with terrible players has me back around 950.....fml. Elo hell is the fucking worst.

Trying to get a balanced team seems impossible. Setting up I'll offer to tank, or AD ,or AP, or whatever. And in the end, it doesn't fucking matter, because everyone picks assassin AD anyways and we get romped. I'm also trying to branch out my characters, and I really need some help with this. My main is Morgana, and I play her super awesome well. When I first started playing Ranked it was fantastic, but now she's getting banned on the time, so I've been looking for backups (In addition to being able to fill a team's role) That being said, I'm pretty awesome with Morgana, Kayle, Alistar........ I've been buying a lot of champs and I'm ok with Singed, Veigar, Brand, Ashe, Xin, TF. Champs I own that I SHOULD be good with are people like Amumu, Trynd, Annie, Yi, Vayne, Olaf, GP.

Anyways, my point is, how the fuck do I get out of elo hell? Do I just pick a carry and hope I can do awesome? What champs should I really focus on getting good at, and are there any good tips? Maybe I'm just doing it wrong by solo-queuing.

/Rage

Assuming you're capable your best chance is using hyper carries. A hyper carry is a carry, that once fed, is nigh impossible to stop. My favorite being Kennen. Kassadin is probably the strongest Hyper carry due to his mobility. Others worth mentioning are Jax, Tryndamere, Katarina, Akali, Veigar, and Udyr.

[Denchi]

Admittedly, I don't always play well. I think part of it is that i'm trying to get good at so many diff characters, so I can fit any team's needs. I think I just need to stick to a few....

If I could play morg or kayle every game I'd probably be at least back up to around 1500.

[Aero]

Get a solo lane and just outplay and get fed. Assuming you are indeed better than they are you can probably carry a team hard no matter the team Comp.

[chazzyphizzle]

I've never heard of kennen being considered a hyper carry, i don't really think he fits that bill.

[Arvin]

i don't really consider kassadin one either along with kennen. that's almost laughable to call them a true carry lol

Jax, Katarina, Akali, Veigar, Udyr are just champions who if you feed them you will undoubtedly lose. katarina you really shouldnt even worry about honestly.. a single cc and her ults done.

Tryndamere imo is the games only true "hyper" carry, because if the game lasts long enough he can and will annihilate your team

[Qeomash]

Kennen can be a monster. People really do tend to underestimate him, and for that I'm glad. He does tend to drop off endgame, though. He excels in small skirmishes against one or two enemies, usually not entire teams. His ultimate is awesome, yes, but tends to only hit the person you really want once or twice, and the tank with piles of magic resistance three times.

[Aero]

i don't really consider kassadin one either along with kennen. that's almost laughable to call them a true carry lol

Jax, Katarina, Akali, Veigar, Udyr are just champions who if you feed them you will undoubtedly lose. katarina you really shouldnt even worry about honestly.. a single cc and her ults done.

Tryndamere imo is the games only true "hyper" carry, because if the game lasts long enough he can and will annihilate your team

Kassadin is probably the strongest carry(fed) when he has blue. His ability to do one sided damage with a low cd flash that does damage if youre chasing makes him nearly invincible. With 3+ Riftstacks you can one shot(combo) any carry in the back row and get away with another rift 2.5 seconds later.

As for Kennen a fed middle game will make the other team unable to engage on him without taking a larger loss than Kennens team. His ult can be nastier than fiddles if he can land a full combo on several people.

Katarina would not be scary if it wasnt for her passive. If she can fight 5v5 and not die first she will be able to combo her spells faster than anyone in the game. Once you have no cc to stop her ult, its basically a GG as she can ult 2-3 times in a full team fight.

[Penthesilea]

We dominate, end up going down in a strange team fight even though we were crushing them all game. I was out of position on brand and that's really what caused it. We get aced, their fid/warwick go in and take down our two nexus towers and start attacking it, we /all gg ready to lose. oh shiiiiiit, all of our inhibits pop back up and we rez in time to not only keep our inhibs up but to take those two out, grab baron, and finally finish it off. Our nexus had 400 health left...

[Dantrag]

ffffffffffff on such a damn losing streak in ranked. Even when I do good my team sucks donkey ass. Even when I do bad. The rest of my team does shit. l