Update 5/25/2017
Well, I started a thread back in Dec 2011 that’s seen a lot of activity (some 922,000 views over the course of a few years apparently...). That thread had a good deal of tips/strategies/discussions about League of Legends from new and old players alike. You can find the previous thread (now archived) here: https://forums.joeuser.com/413863. I think its time to start fresh with a new thread.
What’s this thread all about?For those that followed the previous thread, the type of content you see here will be fairly consistent to what you are used to. Please consider this a place to discuss LoL related content as you like. I'll do the same and treat the thread as a blog as well where I talk about what’s going on with me in LoL. Feel free to jump in and join the discussion if you like.
Quick background on meI played a lot of Demigod as pacov/cheesuscrust. Back in August 2011, I started getting heavily involved in League of Legends, and folks from the community were kind enough to help me figure things out. I play LoL most nights, stream, make videos and it’s my main gaming interest.
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TL vs C9 - support naut was pretty freaking good. Mao + Naut + liss... oh my
Picks have kind of gone nuts all over the world, especially with this patch. Urgot mid, Cho mid has appently been kind of a thing in China, Sion mid, Naut support.
And now a Zac...FAIL INCOMING.
oh they did a zac? Did not see
Zac played in the LCS OP confirmed! Pacov way ahead of the meta!
Well, he was played by the worst jungler in the LCS, and is now 0-2. So he has that going for him.
Cho mid is insanely strong, I'm glad whoever picked it in the LCS lost with it. Don't want that shit nerfed, LOL.
I have made it through what I am assuming a good chunk of the South Park game. It has its very hilarious moments if you are into disgusting humor (perfect fit for me). Dan's shit-in-his-mouth comment makes me think he might enjoy it too. Very much worth spending 10-15 dollars when its on sale and playing through it once although there is replay value there (difficulty settings, different classes to chose for your "kid", different companions to try). I don't think ill be playing through it twice though just because Ill have known the whole story.
Finished it! pretty great game.
Also in the fantasy league it is now impossible for Tenzing to lose so if people could start gifting him mystery gifts that would be cool!
GG WP everyone got my revenge on karl
Do I even have the guy on my pals list? ign?
tenzing is his ign, formerly known as snipersbane.
patch 5.6 going live tomorrow morning.
what if he rejects our friend requests
proper patch notes up
http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-56-notes
also - the vision granted by the scuttler buff has been majorly nerfed - not sure the actual vision change (eg can u sneak into drag pit). Prob not, but worth checking out in a custom.
"Amendments: forgot to list Nunu and Zac. Imo they're both somewhere in the great/good range"
Foxdrop on his casual list of OP/Great/Good jungler tier list.
So I learned something that I can might be useful. Any of you that play zac know he has a range indicator in a large cone shape for his long range jump. Well, I stumbled upon this yesterday - it seems as if you can aim outside of the ranges of that cone and travel either left or right at nearly 90 degree angles. This means you can have a higher level of control of where you hop. Not sure if its reproducible (I did this a few times yesterday and it just dawned on me how the mechanic was working). Anyway, I'll prob try this out today to confirm. It just gives you a bit more flexibility.
Oh and the new xerath skin on pbe looks pretty good. morgana got some visual effect updates that look pretty good. Luden's echo was tweaked to make it much more visibile when it has proc'd. and it looks like they are toying with some tank jungle specific nerfs... ><
lol nerfing tank junglers before we even know if they are good? Thanks riot.
well - they are toying w/ it on pbe. lower hp on item - also toying w/ machette nerfs. The hp nerf will prob happen.
umm... pretty sure we know that they are good (even if it was mostly only Sejuani who was truly oppressive). In any case, the jungle is similar in difficulty to Season 2 starting with the second clear if you go Trailblazer, but it's got a much higher gold income. And they got a bunch of new toys.
Well, Cinderhulk really is just better than the other jungle items right now. I mean, you build it over the other items on anybody who can plausibly use it.
So, the smart thing to do would be reasonable Cinderhulk nerf and then small buffs to non Sejuani tier tank junglers.
But the problem is that tank junglers are really hard to balance because they are typically fairly strong in low ELO but weak in higher ELO. I mean, Amumu would probably need a compensation buff in high ELO, but is super OP in low ELO because they don't know how to handle him there. So it is really tricky.
So Riot will probably make a mess of it given how they usually handle jungle. Double nerfs where you nerf a jungler and their favorite item like we see on Sejuani are how champions get essentially deleted from the game (see Warwick).
Sejauni is the only one that has seen any sort of reasonable play so saying all tank junglers are good is sort of rediculous. They should really leave it alone for a few patches after sejauni gets brought back down to earth. Id rather have 3-4 tanks become high tier then going back to the same old 4 junglers that are viable (vi, j4, lee, reksai) and currently we don't even know if there are any tank junglers (other than sejauni who IMO is just on par with them) that can compete with those 4.
Rek'Sai is the only one beating 50% out of those, most of the tank junglers are. Sejuani isn't even the highest win rate jungler right now, Sion is. I'd say the tanks are just fine with a minor nerf to an op item.
Sion isn't even a jungler.
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