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All right, since everyone was expecting someone with a beard I believe I must obligue, one of these is me, the other one is a 16 century military commander of Chile, I'll let you figure out wich one is wich...

BTW, since I took that picture, I cut that beard, grew it again, and then cut it again.

@Pheon

I like your team, I think if I wanted a different shot caller I would have ended up here.

Also, I think elementz is very mediocre compared to patoy/bloodwater. Cop is very underrated and I think elementz gets carried lol.

Did you bother to read the OP? It seems not or you would know Karn is not in this battle.

Your argument about plot devices would be stronger if the writers had not already HAD the Phyrexians win 2 blocks ago.

But, it does make me feel better that you--yourself--admit the neo-walkers can't legitimately win. And you only voted for them because of you utter lack of faith in the writers.

ZZZ I'm in gold V because I didn't know being inactive long enough would drop you down to the lowest tier of your division. I'm trying to get back up to gold IV but lost my first placement matches to trolls and a afk.

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I tend to pick up a Doran's Shield on Singed if I start to fall behind, and I used to get it on Vlad quite often back when I played him top. I sometimes pick it up on Irelia, since she doesn't really need items to deal damage early game. I don't really think it's overall that great of an item for top though, unless you're not comfortable with your matchup. Even if i'm against champs that rely on autos, I'll most likely buy Tabi over shield. Buying both just seems off.

Sorry Doran's Shield, I wish I could love you, but there's no place for you in my heart right now.

Yeah this echoes how I feel about the item myself.

I dunno if any of you guys have tried Shy top, but it's ****ing amazing(Botrk, Zephyr, Tabi/Zerkers, GA = God mode). Giving her a solo lane worth of farm is just stupid, even in games where I get incredibly behind, i'm still able to 1v1 anyone. I recommend you guys to try it out if you haven't already, she's easily the funnest toplaner i've played in some time.

She does get **** on in 2v1's though, so care for lane swaps.

Her lack of escapes, gap closer, and harass kill her for me as a top laner. That said you cannot hope to duel her 1v1 as w's damage is absolutely absurd if you eat the full duration. Shes also pure terror if farmed as she is a tanky bruiser that just dishes out a ton of aoe mixed damage.

The main problem I have with making plays is that most people in my league(BRONZE PLAYERS UNITE) don't. ever. dive. Or they just don't know how, even if I type in chat "coming top for dive, push the wave" they'll just sit there and lasthit while I waste time in the brush. Or, even worse, they'll start the dive without me, without even pushing the wave to tower. I have some awesome 900 elo horror stories.

Hate to break it to you but everyone sucks, I've encountered scores of gold players that are just as bad as 900 elo hell players. That said I do get decent players sometimes and on occasion I get people who are actually good.

While i'm thinking about my own elo, that reminds me, my entire premade is silver, and i'm Bronze, yet i'm far and above all of them in skill level. Is it fair to say i'm unlucky? Or that I just improve by an incredible margin when I have somewhat reliable teammates? I think I just need to stop trying new and stupid **** in ranked and just tryhard.

Do you play ranked alot? The problem was probably you didn't do too hot on your placement matches for the season. I went tryhard for those so I'd end up in at least silver (I can't remember but I might've made gold by the end of the placement matches) by the end of them then I loosened up a little and started trying new things.

Another point for Shyvana top lane, her w plus fort pot shenanigans make it almost impossible for her to lose a lvl1 trade. One game I played as her I fought a Darius lvl1 in the river and won, and he started with a Doran's Blade. I'm pretty sure that says a lot for Shy's dueling potential and for how awesome Fort pot can be.

Unfortunately, if you can't get ahead with fort pot, it does feel like you're going minus in value. Oh well, you always get that feeling when you start all-consumables.

I don't think I ever felt behind starting all consumables because it effectively counters anything. Fort pots +15 damage makes it better than dorans blade in an actual fight when combined with your consumables. I wouldnt' always start fort pot pots but its really good on my favorite tops which typically are lane bullies, if they they aren't lane bullies getting fort pot makes them lane bullies.

Hence why I dislike jungling. It doesn't really help that there aren't as many viable junglers anymore, you can only play so many games of J4 and Vi before you get sick of them. And I main J4.

I really like j4, my only issue with him is as an initiator if I get baited by my team they just qq and blame me for starting a 5v5 where I was able to cc their carry. That said I don't think I could get tired of jungling j4 or vi, especially vi but they get banned about half the games I play. Vi is basically free elo for me because she's a good jungler that can carry lategame pretty hard.

I'm currently in Bronze VI, and I ban Amumu and Malphite nearly every game. Not because I can't play around them, not because I think they're unbeatable. But because I can't trust my teammates to play around them. For a really uncoordinated team, a decent malph ult or an amumu ult is all it takes for us to lose a teamfight. And i'm not cool with that.

Amumu is annoying and I ban him often, he's tanky at every point in the game, has the stupidest ratios for a tank in damage (seriously percent health damage? mr shred? high ap ratios on q,e,r? AAAAND a stun for ganks?). Malphite is also just annoying because if you are ad you can't 1v1 him ever. He will get next to you and he will e and you will not do damage anymore for a bit.

That said I'm a little biased, the ability I hate being used against me more than any other in the game is wither and its because I like ad bruisers and assassins.

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Yo guys, been a while. Sorry for my inactivity, I just haven't had much time for anything lately. Now that I have a bit of a breather i've decided to get back to watching anime. I started off by re-watching my favorite anime Baccano! and then by finally finishing Cowboy Bebop. Now i'm stuck on what to watch, I was thinking of watching Trigun, Gankutsuou, or finishing Eureka Seven. But if anyone has some awesome suggestions, then i'm all ears. I'll see if I can fit Kakurenbo in somewhere, it looks and sounds pretty interesting.



This game may or may not have been one of the reasons I haven't had time for anything. You forgot to mention the game's awesome soundtrack and heartwarming story, easily one of the best games i've played in quite a while.

You know I gotta say : Long time no see bro . Even went here just to pay my respect to my friend.