General Discussion/Off-topic - Page 1037

On July 12 2011 18:07 JackDino wrote:

Having a lvl 11 mage is better than having a lvl 11 carry tho.

On July 12 2011 18:18 spinesheath wrote:

Cool, and why does that matter?
Hint 1: There is no rule that forces you to take a ranged AD.
Hint 2: There are ranged ADs which are great around level 11 if they had a solo lane because of their spells: Ashe and Corki for example.

On July 12 2011 18:43 JackDino wrote:

Because lvl 11 mage makes big boom while lvl 11 carry doesn't make a big boom, ie having a lvl 11 annie and lvl 10 ashe would benefit you so much more in fights instead of having a lvl 11 ashe and lvl 10 annie.
There's also no rule that forces you to take a support, nor is there a rule that enforces you to have duo bot instead of top, nor is there a rule that enforces you to sound like a douche while responding.

On July 12 2011 19:28 spinesheath wrote:

Ok I'll be a bit more elaborate why "lvl 11 mage is better than lvl 11 carry" is nonsense:
Corki, Ashe, Kog Maw, Tristana, Cait, Ezreal all have quite the respectable lvl 11 burst. 425 AoE damage on Ashe Arrow is no joke. A rank 2 Big One HURTS.
The small advantage you might get from getting solo XP and farm on a ranged DPS might be just what you need against a Singed or Udyr, while a mage might still not do enough against those.
Against a team of Cho, Malz, Soraka etc, mages are doomed. Silenced into oblivion.

The point is: under "normal" circumstances, it might be desireable to have casters in solo lanes. Sometimes though, you want someone else there.

And now going back to the original question, having a caster + support bottom lane: This never excluded also having casters mid and/or top. Even if what you said was true, it had no relevance in this case.

Here's also why I don't like statements like yours: Precisely because of these vast overgeneralizations people get stuck in "metagames" and avoid any sort of logic thinking about things that could be done better. I pretty much moved from EU to US because it was impossible to play anything other than bottom lane with ranged ADs even when that was just utter nonsense with the current picks.

On July 12 2011 23:24 57 Corvette wrote:
I just realised my current ELO (1139, dropped a bunch from yesterday's shitfest with my friend) is just a reorganisation of my top ELO that I had yesterday (1391).
Thought it was pretty funny.

Also, Maokai going 8/0 against a Cass (and a fiddlesticks, but he is irrelivant atm) lane. Cassieopia free week, amiright?

On July 12 2011 22:47 rob.au wrote:
Anyone know whether the rewards are likely to be based off your current or top rating ?

On July 12 2011 23:56 0123456789 wrote:
lol, I like how riot prolongs their season because they do not have the capacity to store all the info yet for ladder. Just buying time, but ranked will probably last at least 6 months more.

On July 13 2011 00:01 Mogwai wrote:

I highly doubt that's why they're prolonging the season. If I had to guess, they want to launch season 2 with a big feature (probably obs and/or replays) and are just buying time until said feature is completed.

On July 13 2011 00:10 Southlight wrote:
Stop making me tempted to actually try to raise my rating in solo q :[