General Discussion/Off-topic - Page 1107

I duo queued alot around 13-1500 and it only made it more difficult as the matchmaking seemed to compensate for your duo "advantage" by putting you with 3 donkeys. I have since then left him rotting on the street, he's still 1300.

Solo is the way to go imo.

I will wish you good luck though.

That's not really true. You might decrease your chances slightly if you duo with someone that has much lower elo than you, but ultimately elo will match your skill fairly well. If you were to play with whoever as a bot lane on skype/vent I'm sure you could even tilt the odds in your favor.

I duoed with people at 1500 elo when I was 2k and it didn't drop me over a hefty amount of games. O.o

LaNague

Germany9118 Posts

July 20 2011 22:02 GMT

#22123

On July 21 2011 06:44 broz0rs wrote:

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did you change the region when you open your LoL client?

edit: there's three options now.

US, EU West, EU Nordic & East

im not retarded, i played 10 games today and the last one, right after i bought some RP, was on a US server.
or, to be more specific, on a server with 200ms latency, might be the new china server as well.

Cedstick

Canada3336 Posts

July 20 2011 22:19 GMT

#22124

I've noticed there's no Team Liquid IRC -- checked a variation of TL and LoL words/abbreviations, as well as #liquidparty -- and tons of people feel the need to talk shit as soon as we bring it up in #teamliquid, so Inschato and I have gone ahead and registered Q to #teamliquidlol. Come join-up, and please idle and try to stay semi-active until it's picked-up enough to be self-preserving

I'd like a pick-up channel outside of the in-game LiquidParty because, well, tons of people aren't very active in that channel most of the time, and I personally idle IRC at all times whereas I'm not logged-in to LoL at all times.

EDIT: actually, I'm going to create a new topic in case people want to make posts specific to the channel, and so it can actually gain some exposure.

Shikyo

Finland33997 Posts

July 20 2011 22:28 GMT

#22125

As it seems to have become common to advertize your stream here, http://www.justin.tv/shayuki

Right now playing srsbsns smurf games <_< Later on maybe ranked games

r.Evo

Germany14079 Posts

July 20 2011 22:43 GMT

#22126

On July 21 2011 07:28 Shikyo wrote:
As it seems to have become common to advertize your stream here, http://www.justin.tv/shayuki

Right now playing srsbsns smurf games <_< Later on maybe ranked games

ROFL

First thing I see when I tune in. Shayuki as Yi vs Ashe/Soraka bot. His lanepartner ryze comes back, prisons Soraka.

Ult/Q/E on Soraka, she dies, they chase Ashe. Hostile Rumble teleports close to the enemy tower, Shayuki turns around, Ryze flashes out.

In an attempt to keep Rumbles second slow off the Ryze (5% hp) he moves back behind him and between rumble/ryze.

Ashe Arrows, both die, Shayuki flames Ryze for chasing.

comedy gold.

Edit: Not to mention the entire enemy team consists of IDs coming from WW2. The german side. I think hitler just killed our shayuki.

BlackPaladin

United States9316 Posts

July 20 2011 22:43 GMT

#22127

On July 21 2011 04:59 arnath wrote:

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I don't understand this argument. First off, nuker + support bottom is pretty amazing. Secondly, why can't you just pick two AD carries (instead of the EU meta where it's normally 2 AP carries)? If you're really that worried about damage types, take Corki for top and pick something like Kog or Teemo for bottom.

Something like Corki top + another AD like kog or teemo could work, yeah. Generally the 2 AP solos are good because AP need a lot of farm + levels and bring a lot of utility to the team (all AP solos have some form of CC, one exception being vlad who is a fucktard who gets a ton of HP simply by getting more damage) You generally need to protect the AD carry which can be hard when you have 2 with little to no CC.

Basically, EU meta is one way to play, just like US old roam style is another way, or the old tank + support bot with AP carry top and AD carry mid. Each has a different advantage and disadvantage. And people need to not be closed minded and try new things in order to find different ways to play given the current state of the game.

Simple

United States801 Posts

July 20 2011 22:50 GMT

#22128

the sad thing is that anything that deviates from the current meta will be called out as trolling unless some pro streams it first

Southlight

United States11761 Posts

July 20 2011 22:53 GMT

#22129

I would say I'm streaming except they made me ranged AD so ignore plz

nonfeatured stream ⇒

but this is gonna be a trash game LOL

r.Evo

Germany14079 Posts

July 20 2011 23:04 GMT

#22130

On July 21 2011 07:53 Southlight wrote:
I would say I'm streaming except they made me ranged AD so ignore plz

nonfeatured stream ⇒

but this is gonna be a trash game LOL

I can see that yellow thing above your cursor, try to get rid of that. =P

Also, sry, Smash Teemo way cooler than your music. Sry.