Old League of Legends Thread

[Meian]

Tanky CC teams seem to work out better than poke comps in ARAM. You just hang a little back then just rush all in. They can't handle fighting at close range. Beat a team with Lux and Nidalee team this way with Amumu and me as Sejuani with a Thresh catching them off guard. Tower diving is also easier this way. Sadly, most people don't understand this unless they're told and even then they may be too passive and afraid to jump all in against them.

Katarina to me is the scariest champ if I had to choose one because of her passive in ARAM. I had to focus her hardcore to be able to stop her (provided I had someone to CC her)

[Marootsoobutsu]

Man, I don't know what it is... I've been climbing the ladder lately, up to Silver 3 (Started Bronze IV). There are still terrible games, feeders (much less rarely me now), and trolls galore, but then there are those games where everyone (or mostly everyone) works together and pulls things at the right time... man, those are amazing. The last couple of days, I've just had some experiences that I never had when I was first starting. Teams are more willing to accept things not quite the standard meta, and help make it work (or minimize its downside if it just can't), and those deviations (usually) aren't just absolutely retarded "I CAN PLAY HOWEVER I WANT AND SCREW YOU ALL IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT" Teemo smiteless, macheteless jungle type of stuff. If it keeps getting better like this as you climb up, I can't wait.

[ringthree]

Man, I don't know what it is... I've been climbing the ladder lately, up to Silver 3 (Started Bronze IV). There are still terrible games, feeders (much less rarely me now), and trolls galore, but then there are those games where everyone (or mostly everyone) works together and pulls things at the right time... man, those are amazing. The last couple of days, I've just had some experiences that I never had when I was first starting. Teams are more willing to accept things not quite the standard meta, and help make it work (or minimize its downside if it just can't), and those deviations (usually) aren't just absolutely retarded "I CAN PLAY HOWEVER I WANT AND SCREW YOU ALL IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT" Teemo smiteless, macheteless jungle type of stuff. If it keeps getting better like this as you climb up, I can't wait.

Honestly, I think it is the honor system working. People are more willing to report people for being complete douches.

[Mrbeansman]

I keep having games like this.

[Marootsoobutsu]

Honestly, I think it is the honor system working. People are more willing to report people for being complete douches.

Except that I started playing well after the honor system was introduced. Just the difference in attitude and skill seems so much difference higher up... I see the old mentality whenever I duo queue with most of my bronze friends. The decision making is lacking ("I'm at full health, so I should kill these wraiths/wolves while my tower is being destroyed by minions + one 3/4 dead champ with no escape and flash down and all other champs are accounted for" or looking only at minimap and charging in blindly kind of stuff), and it's there ALL THE TIME. Here, people tend to give the benefit of the doubt more at champ select, and tend to be a lot less strategically dense. When I solo queue or play with silver IV+ friends, I don't always have to remind the Tristana not to jump to initiate, or tell people to focus the Vayne + Kassadin. In Bronze, it's a constant battle to keep three people from running after the Volibear they've been targeting the whole time. It still happens in Silver, but not as often, and there are occasionally those games where no one needs told, people do their jobs and target the right champs or peel off the carries. It's not so much that there aren't bad games, so much as there are now actually, sometimes, good ones.

[Hiryo]

I keep having games like this.

Wait how are you Bronze V?

[Gryffes]

Except that I started playing well after the honor system was introduced. Just the difference in attitude and skill seems so much difference higher up... I see the old mentality whenever I duo queue with most of my bronze friends. The decision making is lacking ("I'm at full health, so I should kill these wraiths/wolves while my tower is being destroyed by minions + one 3/4 dead champ with no escape and flash down and all other champs are accounted for" or looking only at minimap and charging in blindly kind of stuff), and it's there ALL THE TIME. Here, people tend to give the benefit of the doubt more at champ select, and tend to be a lot less strategically dense. When I solo queue or play with silver IV+ friends, I don't always have to remind the Tristana not to jump to initiate, or tell people to focus the Vayne + Kassadin. In Bronze, it's a constant battle to keep three people from running after the Volibear they've been targeting the whole time. It still happens in Silver, but not as often, and there are occasionally those games where no one needs told, people do their jobs and target the right champs or peel off the carries. It's not so much that there aren't bad games, so much as there are now actually, sometimes, good ones.

In gold what happens is, top or mid tries to manmode 1v1 rightclicking their opponent, because they are in gold and clearly clearly outskill their opponent, then they lose and blame the jungler, and the game turns into toxic blamegaming.

[Viq]

Just had an ARAM where I drew Corki (never played in my life), and someone else drew Kassadin. I thought about offering to trade, but figured it was not a very fair trade so I would suck it up and just build standard AD carry stuff. 5 seconds later, Kassadin guy offers to trade. Who the fuck willfully gives up Kassadin?

[ringthree]

In gold what happens is, top or mid tries to manmode 1v1 rightclicking their opponent, because they are in gold and clearly clearly outskill their opponent, then they lose and blame the jungler, and the game turns into toxic blamegaming.

God this is so true, and is exactly why I hate jungling. No one seems to care that if you first 2-3 levels get screwed up for any reason (and for reasons other members of the team could have helped with) it can screw you over for quite some time. I really like playing jungle, but I hate dealing with people that don't understand how to jungle.

[Nitsuki]

Just had an ARAM where I drew Corki (never played in my life), and someone else drew Kassadin. I thought about offering to trade, but figured it was not a very fair trade so I would suck it up and just build standard AD carry stuff. 5 seconds later, Kassadin guy offers to trade. Who the fuck willfully gives up Kassadin?

When i get corki in ARAM, it's pretty much a bitchfest of hate on the opposing team. He's still good but imo i think he's fallen off a lot in the adc tiers. Tbh i think twitch is the best adc atm.

[Marootsoobutsu]

In gold what happens is, top or mid tries to manmode 1v1 rightclicking their opponent, because they are in gold and clearly clearly outskill their opponent, then they lose and blame the jungler, and the game turns into toxic blamegaming.

Yeah, but that happens in Silver and Bronze, too, because everyone there is really a gold/plat/diamond quality player just stuck in elo hell with noobs every game. Everyone always wins their lane, and if we just don't die they will carry. For me, the only time that I blame the jungler is if they insist on a gank when I'm in a horrible position health and mana wise to help, and then they feed my lane or push it when I've got it frozen favorably. I'll gladly pay a minion tax if they actually drive back my opponent and let me zone, or if they get an assist, but they can shove a rake up their butt if all they did was screw up my positioning and didn't even make them burn flash.

[Meian]

When i get corki in ARAM, it's pretty much a bitchfest of hate on the opposing team. He's still good but imo i think he's fallen off a lot in the adc tiers. Tbh i think twitch is the best adc atm.

ARAM is different from SR.

Corki can be played really well if there are beefy characters in front of you but there are other ranged that can potentially do it better and safer "in ARAM". His R is such a tease and the Q in the bush.

[Tyrath]

Next champ looks awesome!

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/a...blade-revealed

[Arvin]

He looks pimp as fuck

[Nitsuki]

Top laner please!!!

[The_OG_Nelta]

Spoiler: show

I keep having games like this.

If you would have built randuins and maybe a better MR item getting rid of chalice and rabadons(rabadons is a really bad choice in this game imo) you may have been able to carry.

[Serif]

Next champ looks awesome!

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/a...blade-revealed

Last champ I bought based on looks, Zed, was kind of shit when he first came out? Kind of stopped playing all the time after that so not sure if he got buffs or was he just hard mechanically to play? Have enough IP to buy this guy or I might get Zac based on Meian saying I would probably like him.

[Tyrath]

Last champ I bought based on looks, Zed, was kind of shit when he first came out? Kind of stopped playing all the time after that so not sure if he got buffs or was he just hard mechanically to play? Have enough IP to buy this guy or I might get Zac based on Meian saying I would probably like him.

Zeds pretty beast, just hard to play.

I meant his skillset by "looks awesome" anyway. And yeah, you'd probably like Zac, I suck with him.

[Dantrag]

Last champ I bought based on looks, Zed, was kind of shit when he first came out? Kind of stopped playing all the time after that so not sure if he got buffs or was he just hard mechanically to play? Have enough IP to buy this guy or I might get Zac based on Meian saying I would probably like him.

He was amazing when he came out. No one knew how to use him. He's worse now than when he was originally released. But he's still a force to be reckoned with.

[ringthree]

Last champ I bought based on looks, Zed, was kind of shit when he first came out? Kind of stopped playing all the time after that so not sure if he got buffs or was he just hard mechanically to play? Have enough IP to buy this guy or I might get Zac based on Meian saying I would probably like him.

Umm, Zed has only received nerfs, never received buffs. He is a pick/ban in most high level games.

Honestly, most new champs when they are released are a bit overtuned. It may take some time for people to learn to play them, but taking Zed as an example, they are pretty strong.

You probably want to work on your own mechanics if you are having problems with common pick/ban champs.

(That said, there is a ton of flavor of the month, and non-flavor of the month in LoL. A whole lot of champs are perfectly viable in all levels of play. If you like a champ, just play them until it's second nature. Buffs and nerfs aren't anywhere as good or bad as people make them out to be.)