I would have wanted to see M5 vs Frost, just to see how they match up, but can't say I'm disappointed with the final we're having. And there will be plenty of opportunities to see M5 vs Frost in season 3 I guess.
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I also wanted to see M5 vs. Frost since I assumed there was no way they were not going to be the finalists, but man did taipei throw them for a freaking loop.Posts: 15421 | Registered: Aug 2005
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Well, crap. If I knew that the games wouldn't start by 5AM I would have slept longer. I understand the need to make this "epic" and all, but with such a schedule Europe got trolled again.
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neither did i. I mean if it had been Moscow 5 vs. Azubu Frost it would have legitimately been a close match (and that's legit what I expected) but
.. man taipei came out of the blue and said "hi sam, haven't been paying attention to us have ya?"
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The feed stopped working for me in the final game. I was royally pissed, but TPA looked to be taking the game at that point anyway.
LoL has been a huge hit in Taiwan, but man TPA came out of nowhere as far as my radar was concerned. The NA teams need to get it together again.
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The feed shortly stopped working for me too. It came back on own3d though, and later on twitch too.
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Congrats man. Rule #1, even pro-players playing incognito get called noobs. Now go steal a Baron!
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Jungling honestly is hard for me. It's so free form, and I never feel like I'm leveling as fast as those laning.
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Hey guys remember how we were talking about female stripper archetypes in LoL?
I remember when I thought it was ridiculous that Square had a character (Fran) in Final Fantasy with organic heels and ears. Welp...
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Yeah, but at least those heels make sense, as the spider itself looks like it is standing on pointe...
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We here at Riot Games, in a bid to prove we aren't overtly sexualizing women heroes, have incorporated our new heroes' pubic arch and majora lines into a just-fits-borderline-decency-standard costume. And, so as not to stir the pot any, we made sure she has large mostly exposed breasts.
Riot: The Male Gaze, Working Hard For You™
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So I picked up Elise just to have somebody new to try out, played a handful of CoOp V AI games, until I felt more in the grove of things. Finally gathered up the courage to do a ranked game with Leona.
I did OK, but I kept getting killed, at about the 20 minute mark somebody threw up a surrender vote and it was 3 : 2, with me and one other guy against. I was warding prolifically, which at least gave us map awareness which came into place later. They took our middle inhibitor then baroned. We just hung back and started killing the streams of minions. They got overconfident and we caught one of them out alone. So Garon lost baron, we then chased down a team mate and killed them too so they only had 3 with baron buff. We then just hung back and farmed minions until they engaged at our base, and fortunately for us they picked a poor initiation and split the team. It also helped that I noticed they were building very heavy physical damage, so I armored up. We managed to pick off the DPS in that engagement, and run down the tanks, then take baron as well.
People had started noticing that warding was helping turn the tide, so we finally got them all in the center right bush, Amumu went over the wall, I ultimated their whole team, Amumu ulted which proc'd the dmg from my passive on all 5, and then we flew in there and scattered them. We chased everybody down except Ezreal. We pushed the first base turret, then inhibitor, then with my truckloads of armor I tanked both nexus turrets, and they didn't start respawning until we had started on the Nexus, so GG.
Figures it'd be a comeback game. Those always take so much out of me.
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Hehe, I'm surprised that no one banned Amumu. I love jungling versus him since I usually end up stealing camps and out-leveling him by quite a lot, but people still ban him quite often especially at low elo.
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That bans were by an large what I was not expecting. Akali? Skarner? Cassiopeia? Either the people banning were just banning stuff, or I am really not current with the meta game.
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Skarner is considered one of the best junglers right now, so I understand why he's been banned. Cass is also good, but not considered game-breaking as far as I know. Akali though... no idea.
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I must say there aren't many League related feelings better than doing a Leona ultimate right where Ezreal ends up teleporting to.
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Hehe... Are you back to playing regularly? I haven't played in a while, and now that the preseason is here I'm going to start learning some new champs in normal games for a while. Especially with all the incoming mastery and item changes.
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Is anyone planning on attending IPL 5 here in Las Vegas? I should be getting a press pass so if anyone is going I'd love to meet you. Maybe get some Korean BBQ afterwards Posts: 1937 | Registered: Nov 2006
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I'd like to play with people who know what they are doing, but I'd hate to bring anyone else down....lol...it's a fairly complex game,, even though it seems simple.
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The incoming interface changes look really sweet. We'll have a search bar for items, easier ways to get to them, we'll see all possible upgrades for an item, etc. There are still some categories they could add (aura items or items with active), hopefully we'll see those soon too. I also like the skill level indicators, although I'm not sure how visible they'll be at my screen resolution.
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There's a Karma mid, AD Urgot (both for Singapore Sentinels) and Trundle jungle (for TPA) in the Garena Finals. Interesting. TPA have 2-0 in games so far and I think it's a best of five.
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Diving a Jarvan under his turret? Not smart. (I was the Jarvan. ) My first game in a while, top lane Jarvan, ended up with 7/3/21 (even started something like 4/0/1 I think). I've played Jarvan before, but only a few times, and I want to get better with him since he's one of the most fun champions. Even when you trap your teammates in your ultimate. Posts: 4519 | Registered: Sep 2003
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By the way, in case anyone's wondering why I don't add them, it's because I play on the EUNE server.
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I ranked into Silver Leagues and 1300ish elo after my placement games. I want to hit 1800 this season. Soft goal.
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I don't really have a season goal right now, I just want to diversify my champion pool, with an emphasis on junglers. Interestingly enough, Lee and Rengar seem to have problems in the new jungle, while Darius seems to be a beast. There are still some bugs (monsters attacking Syndra's balls, Jarvan's flag) so I'm not sure how soon we'll see the patch.
By the way, I know you play Leona a lot. Do you think the mastery and item changes will affect her a lot? It looks like there are a lot of interesting support masteries in the utility tree, and if I'm not mistaken Leona usually likes to go pretty deep in the defense tree.
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The changes have been revealed on PBE, and here's a site where you can see the new mastery trees and play around with them: http://www.finalesfunkeln.com/s3/#
The noticeable additions for supports in the utility tree are: a free sort of health + mana potion at the beginning of the game, a free ward with only 60s duration and a mastery point that will give gold when you use a basic attack on an enemy champion (3 gold if you're ranged, 5 if you're melee).
The defense tree has some changes about the type of damaged reduced: the masteries that gave reduced damage from minions & monsters now only work on (jungle) monsters, and the masteries who gave flat reduced damage (from all sources) now works only against enemy champions.
There's also been a lot of shuffling around, with armor and magic resist no longer first tier in the defense tree, CDR and AS now first tier in the offensive tree and no longer required for %ArPen and %MPen, lifesteal moved to the utility tree (same masteries as spell vamp), etc.
Anyway, lots of changes, and some are probably not final.
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Yeah, there are some really good masteries in the defense tree too (reduced slows, reduced time spent dead - 10% in one mastery, wow..., reduced CC, etc.), but I'm worried that not going into the utility tree will net you a lot less gold over time and you'll have to be even more aggressive than before to get that gold from kills/assists. Which of course doesn't mean it's a bad thing, it's just not my style as support.
I really wonder how Ryze is affected by the offensive CDR masteries being at level 1 and health regen from max mana being lower in the utility tree. I used to play him with 8/0/22 masteries, getting the 2 out of 3 health regen from max mana masteries. Now frankly the last utility mastery doesn't look that great so 5/0/19 seems enough, with 6 points still undecided. I could use 2 points for the item CDR masteries since he'll probably want to upgrade Tear faster now, but I'm not sure it's worth it for only one item.
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Problem is the additional gold talents aren't available until tier 3, so I'm taking useless mana regen just to get to there instead of defensive talents.
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I played Nami on the PBE with all of the Gold Talents, and by the end I got more gold than their mid carry, and I had only 10 CS. I did have quite a few assists though.
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