So, I'm liking ash.  More on that in a sec.  

I got to play against someone named Vampyro tonight.  Now, before thunder's head explodes with the need to point the following out, he seemed to have gotten trolled by his awful, awful support.  Then his jungle buddy that was queued up with him tried to babysit him to help him out but things were pretty well lost for him at that point.

Anyway - 2 questions re: him - 1st - brad wong seemed to recognize him and said he was really good, so I played conservatively and didn't buy a zz portal.  Anyway, what do folks know about him?  His just diamond 5 now.  

I noticed he runs a somewhat crazy adc rune page for twitch (ala draven when his passive was god tier).  19.2 arm pen, 9 arm, scaling mr.  ZERO AS.  Reviewing his stats, he does pretty much only play twitch.  His kda is poo in ranked (1.94), but he has a 52% win rate.  Seems pretty hit and miss.  Really good or really smeh.

Anyway, any thoughts on an arm pen setup on twitch?  I think its something you could do if you were god tier in lane perhaps and then you could just destroy mid... but if you f it up early, you are kind of fugged through mid without a jungler carrying you around.  Am I missing something?  Sounds like a really bad idea to me.  

We played against mixed elos tonight, so its hard to say if she's really strong, but I'm liking ash.  Won 3 out of 4 games with 2 perfect kda games (11/0/7 and 5/0/7) with my lowest kda at 3.17.  Usually I'm a bit worse on champs I don't play a lot, so it might be that she's a little strong atm... or folks just don't know what to do with her yet... or we just had favorable matchups.  She might be a little too strong early game.  I think it might be best to put some pressure on her lane early if possible, but she zones pretty well.  

Anyway, anyone else play ash already - thoughts?

http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2375167

THE ONE AND ONLY VAMPYRO

ah - so vamp is just a twitch enthusiast - ok.   thx for the link.  Anybody else get in some playtime with ash and like her updated kit? 

I think the most difficult thing to get used to is proper use of her q.  And the reason for that is really just that it used to a toggle ability and you don't activate it the same as you would on the old ash. 

i agree with your evaluation of his runes: there is little/no reason to run ArPen on Twitch given his dependency on autoattacking to stack Expunge + the fact  a bunch of his early game damage comes from true damage. Maybe he is really focused on level 2 kills with a 5-stack expunge alongside a CC-heavy support?

However, it could be a metagame decision: with the popularity of Cinderhulk + Thornmail, earlier Armor Pen is really important, and extra AS just ends up killing you faster. He also might skip out on Last Whisper and do something like BotRK > Shiv > IE.

I've been telling you all that Nasus vs Riven is a good matchup.  But nobody listens.  As long as you don't super feed early, its so easy.

Here's a link to a page sorter tool I use.  It allows you to change the order of your runes and master pages.  There's a quick option to sort alphabetically.  Take a look if you like:  http://www.mediafire.com/download/ttnu5l4p324bvm2/LoLPageSorter.zip

I imagined Karl saying "Mmmmmm hhhhhhhmmmmmm..." when seeing this video.

Well, my life's goal has finally been met.  I have become level 5 blitzcrank.  The ranked world no longer holds any meaning. 

I promoted to level 5 at the same time as a katarina yesterday.  She congratulated us both by saying - grats blitz -we made it.  I replied by saying - at long last, we have proved that we are able to play a champion multiple times to the world!  Dumb arse system.  Would be nice if it actually meant anything other than "plays champion a bunch."  Still, it did get me focused on spamming one champ for a bit... which I guess is a thing that happened. 

bleh - I miss all the lol tourney games on the week/weekend.  Hopefully that will be back soonish. 

Congrats Pacov!  We'll miss you during your upcoming NA absence while you become a El Nivel Cinco Blitzcrank Maestro in LAN for the next couple of weeks.

I don't think I'd pull that off on lan for quite some time.  That's a blitzcrank pun and also kind of true.  Even if I won every game, it would take like 80+ hours to get that on blitz.  Queue time in team builder, even for a support at my level, is garbage. Anyway, I'm over lan for a bit.  I tend to get super into crap for a bit and then fizzle out. 

ardent censer is getting more appealing on pbe.  Starting to consider picking it up.  Take look

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/05/519-pbe-update.html

Think raka for sec... sounds good, right?  Now think nami... 

wut... that applies to creeps... jebus... I mean, it written that way -"another unit," but I doubt that would apply to minions.  Otherwise battle ali in top lane going to be sick.  Just consider any trade near creeps.  Press heal once and do a knock up, now a full wave of creeps is doing + 30 mg damage each... all targeting the enemy champ.  Obv also strong on support, but I'm thinking top lane would just be completely ridiculous.  Anyway, guessing that won't apply to Ali unless they are silly.

Between my grandmother passing away, the holiday weekend and GRE studying I wont be on much for the next week or so. Ill be missing you guys