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On May 30 2010 22:09 oberon wrote:


Oddly, I don't recall this at all -- I'm pretty sure that every time there was a teamfight, we expected a teamfight.

That said, you won most (all?) of the teamfights, so...

On May 31 2010 06:22 Mogwai wrote:
pantheon vs. fiddle hasn't actually come up for me, we should play it out sometime. In theorycrafting, I actually think pantheon would just win the war of attrition vs. Fiddle because he's doing better harass with less mana, but Fiddle should be good about not just dying to his burst at level 3 with double disable. Then again, I thought that's what sivir would be like too, but in action, she's just fucked because you just get too close for her to see your jump coming in time to shield it and she's dead.

as for hard counters, I'm still yet to feel helpless vs. anyone. I think the worst matchups are Karthus and Katarina and maybe Heimer (hasn't come up in awhile). Against all of them, I think you can still compete just fine with a red elixir, but I think those and the mirror match are the only ones that really require it. The common ones like Ashe, Ez, and Annie all feel really easy to win with boots.

EDIT: forgot to mention, Janna's pretty tough. red elixir makes it a lot easier, but I'm still 100% convinced I can win it with boots if I don't fuck up.

On May 31 2010 11:28 Gokey wrote:
Regarding Blind Pick vs Bans, I don't think our community skills in general is good enough to have it make too much of a difference right now. For example, our team did not have any top tier characters except for Ezrael.

Right now individual skills in community tourneys like this far outweigh champion advantage. I think half of the fun in our tourney was just getting everyone together and fostering a sense of competition.

I do think that eventually Bans may be a good idea, but right now our main focus is to get a core group of people in TL to play together and compete, and also to get the TL LoL players together. If enough people want Bans, we can definitely implement it though.

On May 31 2010 09:11 HazMat wrote:
No, you obviously cheated in a community run tournament with no prize money.

On May 31 2010 18:09 Roflhaxx wrote:

even if i did, hero picks were settled long before we even got into hero selection

On May 31 2010 16:58 redtooth wrote:
i was pleasantly surprised with how well our <lvl30 (lepshis) played

On May 31 2010 19:42 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:

lepshis is one of the best gragas I've had the honor of playing with, he's a really good player in general.

On May 31 2010 16:23 redtooth wrote:
that's odd. i feel that panth is the single hardest matchup for me as kat. karthus is a joke if you know how to play it right. fiddle and ezreal require a different playstyle but are auto-wins. good ashes and annies can be really really hard though (i seriously wish volley was easier to see/predict/block/dodge). IMO (which may or may not be right) panth is the single best mid in the game right now, followed by nidalee, annie, and kat in that order.

for some reason though, corkis are actually really hard to lane against. they're so rare so i don't really have a good perspective of how much damage they're capable of dishing out. then i get into an exchange and come out with half my health gone, wondering how the fuck he did so much damage. and as much as i hate to admit it, radjacob as tristana was a surprisingly difficult matchup at mid too. she has so much health wtf.

edit: i think panth is so far ahead of kat that if we were to match up i would probably just concede the lane to you and focus on cs. i usually just concede lanes to nidalees and red-potted panths unless i recognize their name and know that they are a baddie. annies i always contest though.

On May 31 2010 22:30 Mogwai wrote:

I dunno if you were talking about Panth when you mentioned karthus, but it's been awhile since I ran into a karthus, and it was basically a huge pain in the ass when I ran into one who could turn on his defile when he saw me jump. I might just not know the matchup though, it might be easy if I just prance around outside of defile range and chuck spears.

the thing about kat for me is that I typically open boots to play mid and she's one of precious few matchups that force me to go red elixir, otherwise I just lose the war of attrition vs. doran's shield and the fact that she has no mana constraints. I do agree that Panth wins with red elixir though.

On May 31 2010 23:43 oberon wrote:
Ezpz and Kyzer were not available when picking began, hence why no one picked them. They'd obviously both be first rounders if available.

On May 31 2010 22:30 Mogwai wrote:

I dunno if you were talking about Panth when you mentioned karthus, but it's been awhile since I ran into a karthus, and it was basically a huge pain in the ass when I ran into one who could turn on his defile when he saw me jump. I might just not know the matchup though, it might be easy if I just prance around outside of defile range and chuck spears.

On June 01 2010 01:36 Juicyfruit wrote:


Wouldn't karthus popping his little bubble wrap outrange your spear? You can dodge one but you can't dodge all of them, and they hurt more than they look.

Btw, how does pantheon fare againts Anivia? You jump in to stun, I eat the stun and then flash frost you for free during your heartseeker and then frostbite for good damage? You also can't turret dive Anivia the way you can other squishies, even with your two shield blocks.

On June 01 2010 02:00 oberon wrote:
6pm was a pretty bad start time. Do like 3pm and we can finish the tourney before dinner.