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On July 18 2010 10:42 Kultcher wrote:
Man I really wish there was some kind of Day[9] Daily type program for LoL. I keep ending up as "that noob guy" even when I'm playing characters I thought I was decent at, at least in ranked games. The level of competition is just so much higher than in normal games.

Gragas may be the hardiest brewmaster of the foothills, but he's also the rowdiest rouser of the rabble! This past Thursday night was no exception. Following a successful battle arena match, Gragas took to his usual night of celebration - this time at the Lamplighter Inn in Noxus' famous Vexallian Square.

Those present say that Gragas arrived with his friend and fellow champion, Jax. They began drinking at approximately 8:30 pm. At 10:30 pm, they were buying rounds for the bar. By the stroke of midnight, twelve chairs had been broken, as had one window, five bottles, three arms, and a handful of teeth. Furthermore, two waitresses claimed to have had their buttocks inappropriately fondled! Jax supposedly disappeared earlier in the night, whereas Gragas fled towards his beloved hills before the Noxian constabulary arrived at the Lamplighter.

After a cursory investigation, Noxian officials decided to drop all charges. Sergeant Willem Nightshade of the Noxian Constabulary had this to say:

"As a League Champion who has committed no crime against the state proper, it is unlawful for us to ban him from our borders. Honestly now, the trouble only starts when the barkeeps stupidly serve him too much to drink. It's their risk if they let him in and give him endless refills on alcohol. What did they expect would happen?"

Nightshade offered this as advice for wary barkeeps in Noxus: "Next time, they should try watering down his drink. On the other hand, that might just rile him up more. Anyway, just consider the risks when serving alcohol to someone whose nickname is 'The Rabble Rouser'!"

One thing is for certain: if this reporter sees Gragas coming into his favorite watering hole, he'll be heading for the door!

On July 18 2010 08:55 iG.ClouD wrote:
I don't get how these guys in the first solo ranked page have so good stats, do they never get terrible feeders who completely lose the game without the possibility of doing anything?

On July 18 2010 12:05 NeoIllusions wrote:


Solo q is never really "solo" q. If you want to get highly ranked, you have to have a partner in crime. It will more often than not help off balance the baddies in pug games.

On July 18 2010 12:12 Liquid`Tyler wrote:

Yeah it's kind of disappointing that Riot lets something like this sneak in. They should definitely, at least, have a public statistic tracking how many solo queues have been played with a partner and how many have been truly solo.

On July 18 2010 12:27 Southlight wrote:


When the ladder evens itself out solo queue will be fine.

The variance is too great at the moment.

On July 18 2010 12:11 mikku wrote:
I'm greatly enjoying Taric. A tank/support is completely my style.

So far I've been going for items (in order):
Ruby crystal to start
Chalice
Aegis
Merc Treads
Guardian Angel
Soul Shroud
Frozen Heart/Banshee's

And skills R>W>Q>E

Though the game is usually done before frozen heart finishes. Is this generally solid, or acceptable? It seems to fit well as far as I can see, but I'm new in general. Levelling shatter and items lets me tank quite well along with heals secondary. I can get away from anything unless I mess up and 3+ people jump me, can heal/buff and shatter again helps me with pushing lanes.

On July 18 2010 13:05 ghen wrote:


I don't build mana items on Taric, I go straight for soul shroud / randuins depending on magic/physical. Then usually speed boots because taric doesn't get cc'ed much. third item depends on the game but guardian and frozen heart are good choices as well as the other item you didn't pick first. Tear is a good item if you need mana, but after each team fight you'll be going back to base anyway. A lot of times I find they just can't kill me by my 3rd item so I get lich bane as my 4th item. (I think that's the right one)

On July 18 2010 13:03 red_ wrote:


IMO it's kind of like the normal game solo queue, where guys would say 'well like 80% of my games are solo' which discounts the giant Elo boost you get from those 20% premade games, which help pull you out of 'the vortex' as they call it. I'm not saying it's impossible to get high rating truly solo, but there is just a possibility that you get screwed over, and it can happen fairly often =[.

Clearly the best way to handle it, is get a high rating in one of the other brackets so that you get a monster 150+ boost for your first solo queue game. Play that game with a strong partner so you don't waste the possible boost, then you should be in a decent spot to play at 1400+ with much better quality of random teammates.

On July 18 2010 13:03 red_ wrote:
IMO it's kind of like the normal game solo queue, where guys would say 'well like 80% of my games are solo' which discounts the giant Elo boost you get from those 20% premade games, which help pull you out of 'the vortex' as they call it. I'm not saying it's impossible to get high rating truly solo, but there is just a possibility that you get screwed over, and it can happen fairly often =[.

Clearly the best way to handle it, is get a high rating in one of the other brackets so that you get a monster 150+ boost for your first solo queue game. Play that game with a strong partner so you don't waste the possible boost, then you should be in a decent spot to play at 1400+ with much better quality of random teammates.

On July 18 2010 14:28 redtooth wrote:
err normal premades give you such shit Elo that unless you've won >95% of premades you're not really gaining much. people got to high Elo in normal games from solo queing...

you guys make it seem like the world is against you right now. the law of averages suggests that retards will appear on both teams. but from looking at this thread, 90% of you guys are consistently complaining about how much worse your team is than the other team. maybe you're really not as good as you think? maybe your duo-que isn't as strong? there's no way that all the retard players somehow end up exclusively on TL members' teams. it's just like how everybody (>70%) thought they were "mid-high" Elo before ranked, a statistical impossibility spawned out of individuals severely overrating their skill and impact on the game.

edit: notice how inept's undefeated streak ended when i stopped playing with him. get carried more son.

On July 18 2010 15:09 iCCup.Raelcun wrote:
I somehow wound up with EzPz on my friend list and I don't remember how xD I played with Kawaii once and Brent always invites me to games when I can't play... lol my other games with people in liquiparty have been kind of disasters though.