I need a new jungler. It's the one role that I don't have a main/a champ that I really like in that role. I have Diana, Lee Sin, and Rammus currently. I generally play Jinx, Katarina, Zed, Karma, and sometimes Yasuo.
BUT I just want to say I'm deeply happy for the new Braum Splash, so much so that i will now share my inital reaction:
Tengen Toppa Gurren BRAUM "My chair is the chair that smashes the heavens!"
.... what? Braum gets a new skin before Vel'Koz? Oh well, no one likes the Void (just ask Kha'Zix and how he got his second alt skin long after Rengar)
Speaking of the Void, recently been having blast playing Rek'Sai. Some people say she can be tried as an AP shooter with her burrowed Q, but I think playing her as a normal AD is just as fun. The way I play her reminds me a lot to Volibear.... maybe I'm not alone in this?
Speaking of AD, just a random question: When playing ADC, what's your favorite item? I always, always get Blade of the Ruined King ASAP whenever I play ADC. Because for me, BotRK is just perfect as it provides three things my ADCs love: bonus attack speed, life drain, AND bonus damage, in addition to its activatable ability which allows gap closing as long as you're, uh, close enough. But I believe BotRK is not your must-have all the time, right? Or not?
And also, now with Atma's Impaler gone, how much worth it for non-Vladimir champs to build HP tank? Ok, Garen and Mundo would still love the bonus HP since their passive depends on them, but the rest?
Speaking of AD, just a random question: When playing ADC, what's your favorite item?
Good old Infinity Edge. I liked the old version of BT better for the sheer damage it added to my Cait ults (even stackable for when I was feeling cheesy), but the new one is just okay.
And also, now with Atma's Impaler gone, how much worth it for non-Vladimir champs to build HP tank? Ok, Garen and Mundo would still love the bonus HP since their passive depends on them, but the rest?
Volibear scales with bonus HP too.
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Speaking of the Void, recently been having blast playing Rek'Sai. Some people say she can be tried as an AP shooter with her burrowed Q, but I think playing her as a normal AD is just as fun. The way I play her reminds me a lot to Volibear.... maybe I'm not alone in this?
Even before they nerfed it she was terrible as AP. It was basically a *****ty AP nidalee because ALL you can do is poke and run away.
Speaking of AD, just a random question: When playing ADC, what's your favorite item? I always, always get Blade of the Ruined King ASAP whenever I play ADC. Because for me, BotRK is just perfect as it provides three things my ADCs love: bonus attack speed, life drain, AND bonus damage, in addition to its activatable ability which allows gap closing as long as you're, uh, close enough. But I believe BotRK is not your must-have all the time, right? Or not?
Right, there are a lot of ADs that should never rush it and a lot of teamcomps against which I'd say you probably shouldn't build it at all. But it is a good item and sometimes rushing it is good (or always rushing it if you're vayne).
I really like the new BT because it's a fantastic luxury item and finally other people are starting to realize this. You're seeing pros build it after a few other items now which is what I've always thought it's good for. It's just a bit too lacking in damage stats to be good early unless you desperately need the survivability but once you already have damage it does a lot.
I also like the new ghostblade a lot because if you compare it with active up to PD or shiv it's very powerful and is the only one that has armor penetration, that realization lead me to consider it integral to a Varus build (my favorite ADC). It actually helps his Q a lot, it shores up his mobility issues, it's very powerful in those common teamfights where you actually only auto for a few seconds and it's good for bursting people when you make a pick with ult.
And also, now with Atma's Impaler gone, how much worth it for non-Vladimir champs to build HP tank? Ok, Garen and Mundo would still love the bonus HP since their passive depends on them, but the rest?
Atma's isn't at all what made healthstacking good, even on champs that would occasionally build atmas (which was rare after like s2) it was a decision you'd make long after you got a lot of health, and for most champs at that point you don't really care to build non-tank stats anymore; generally on tanks damage stats are good for exploiting an advantage in lane or splitpushing and nothing really else. Getting harder to kill is better for teamfights and you usually are deep into itemizing for those before you had enough hp to make atma's worth it in raw stats, and that's assuming you were a tanky champion that used crit well (garen is the only one that comes to mind).
There was a time a while ago before it was nerfed and also during which a lot of champions built warmog's and/or stacked heart of gold - either of which alone were enough HP to make it a good item. So there were more sufficiently tanky people who liked crit enough back then.
Healthstacking in general is pretty good right now and almost all of the good tank items have HP on them, but more importantly almost all of the good tanks have something that synergizes immensely with it. Maokai has ult, Sion has W and Mundo has ult and that's largely why those are the meta mega tanks right now. Well, not so much Mundo but mostly because those other 2 exist and have more cc.
Been playing my promos. Currently 3-3, with 4 urgot games and 2 ezreal games. Somewhat amusingly the 3 wins are all urgot games.
I know that after my antics with Galio last season this shouldn't come to any surprise, but I think that Urgot is slightly underrated (considering he's widely considered the worst champ in the game, that shouldn't be a hard standard to beat). He's not getting picked in the LCS any time soon, but his damage throughout the game is pretty damn solid, and late game he's surprisingly durable.
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Been doing kinda meh on my promos, but this game! Just trashed everyone as a Sora support. First back at about 10 minutes got me a Deathcap.
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-H. P. Lovecraft
Currently 0-2, im already predicting this will be another silver/gold year for me.
Fun facts: First game I play leona and warwick starts friendly and everything, our jinx decides to start doing skillshot-chompers progression so im like "ok cool if he is doing this right we might get to get aggresive against that vayne karma lineup"... well it would have worked except the poor guy couldn't cs at all (he was 20 to Vayne's 44 by level 3)whats funny is first 5 levels he had not a single point in Q... starts rushing a shiv (with avarice as the rush item)and then warwick starts raging... at me...sigh... that was a fun game (specially since i dont speak the local language so communicating in english is very hard for people here and it is instead responded with derision).
Second loss was entirely my fault tho, my connection was so bad i couldnt play at all (hilariously enough even then i wasnt the main reason we lost, our mid annie rage quitted early in the game and came back after 15mins...) I told my team i was having lag spikes but apparently they still expected me to be madlife... oh and they couldnt win 4v3's even though i was keeping basically making sure their mid or adc couldnt participate in the fight (yeah they raged at me for chasing the Mid Ahri away from the fight and making sure she couldnt be part of the clash)
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Awesome. The new creeps with their Smite bonuses and the new Dragon boon makes me, a chronic amateur jungler, squee.
But new Baron is so damn hard.... I got double-KO soloing him with Nunu the other day.
He is actually extremely powerful right now after they nerfed WW. His base damage is quite high and he can gank really well at low levels.
However, I play him mid and occasionally top where if he gets some gold and some kills, he can snowball the game very hard
BUT I just want to say I'm deeply happy for the new Braum Splash, so much so that i will now share my inital reaction:
Tengen Toppa Gurren BRAUM "My chair is the chair that smashes the heavens!"
.... what? Braum gets a new skin before Vel'Koz? Oh well, no one likes the Void (just ask Kha'Zix and how he got his second alt skin long after Rengar)
Speaking of the Void, recently been having blast playing Rek'Sai. Some people say she can be tried as an AP shooter with her burrowed Q, but I think playing her as a normal AD is just as fun. The way I play her reminds me a lot to Volibear.... maybe I'm not alone in this?
Speaking of AD, just a random question: When playing ADC, what's your favorite item? I always, always get Blade of the Ruined King ASAP whenever I play ADC. Because for me, BotRK is just perfect as it provides three things my ADCs love: bonus attack speed, life drain, AND bonus damage, in addition to its activatable ability which allows gap closing as long as you're, uh, close enough. But I believe BotRK is not your must-have all the time, right? Or not?
And also, now with Atma's Impaler gone, how much worth it for non-Vladimir champs to build HP tank? Ok, Garen and Mundo would still love the bonus HP since their passive depends on them, but the rest?
Volibear scales with bonus HP too.
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I really like the new BT because it's a fantastic luxury item and finally other people are starting to realize this. You're seeing pros build it after a few other items now which is what I've always thought it's good for. It's just a bit too lacking in damage stats to be good early unless you desperately need the survivability but once you already have damage it does a lot.
I also like the new ghostblade a lot because if you compare it with active up to PD or shiv it's very powerful and is the only one that has armor penetration, that realization lead me to consider it integral to a Varus build (my favorite ADC). It actually helps his Q a lot, it shores up his mobility issues, it's very powerful in those common teamfights where you actually only auto for a few seconds and it's good for bursting people when you make a pick with ult. Atma's isn't at all what made healthstacking good, even on champs that would occasionally build atmas (which was rare after like s2) it was a decision you'd make long after you got a lot of health, and for most champs at that point you don't really care to build non-tank stats anymore; generally on tanks damage stats are good for exploiting an advantage in lane or splitpushing and nothing really else. Getting harder to kill is better for teamfights and you usually are deep into itemizing for those before you had enough hp to make atma's worth it in raw stats, and that's assuming you were a tanky champion that used crit well (garen is the only one that comes to mind).
There was a time a while ago before it was nerfed and also during which a lot of champions built warmog's and/or stacked heart of gold - either of which alone were enough HP to make it a good item. So there were more sufficiently tanky people who liked crit enough back then.
Healthstacking in general is pretty good right now and almost all of the good tank items have HP on them, but more importantly almost all of the good tanks have something that synergizes immensely with it. Maokai has ult, Sion has W and Mundo has ult and that's largely why those are the meta mega tanks right now. Well, not so much Mundo but mostly because those other 2 exist and have more cc.
I know that after my antics with Galio last season this shouldn't come to any surprise, but I think that Urgot is slightly underrated (considering he's widely considered the worst champ in the game, that shouldn't be a hard standard to beat). He's not getting picked in the LCS any time soon, but his damage throughout the game is pretty damn solid, and late game he's surprisingly durable.
"I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about."
-H. P. Lovecraft
I've ended the last three seasons in Bronze, Silver, and Gold, respectively, so I'm confident I can climb back to Gold soon.
Fun facts: First game I play leona and warwick starts friendly and everything, our jinx decides to start doing skillshot-chompers progression so im like "ok cool if he is doing this right we might get to get aggresive against that vayne karma lineup"... well it would have worked except the poor guy couldn't cs at all (he was 20 to Vayne's 44 by level 3)whats funny is first 5 levels he had not a single point in Q... starts rushing a shiv (with avarice as the rush item)and then warwick starts raging... at me...sigh... that was a fun game (specially since i dont speak the local language so communicating in english is very hard for people here and it is instead responded with derision).
Second loss was entirely my fault tho, my connection was so bad i couldnt play at all (hilariously enough even then i wasnt the main reason we lost, our mid annie rage quitted early in the game and came back after 15mins...) I told my team i was having lag spikes but apparently they still expected me to be madlife... oh and they couldnt win 4v3's even though i was keeping basically making sure their mid or adc couldnt participate in the fight (yeah they raged at me for chasing the Mid Ahri away from the fight and making sure she couldnt be part of the clash)