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Caller
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Poland8075 Posts
January 16 2011 17:41 GMT
#4081
[image loading]
our mid tower goes down in 7 minutes

wat
Watch me fail at Paradox: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=397564
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
January 16 2011 17:43 GMT
#4082
On January 16 2011 23:09 Nikon wrote:
Let's say that I'm secretly a super-god es #1 2700 ELO in BR and I just have to grind it out. That's understandable, but it's also not the point. The point is that I don't want to play these shit games. I mean, there are ranking games so that this wouldn't happen, right? Wrong, apparently. It's a wild crapshoot whether or not you'd get decent teammates, more often you don't... I don't know if most of you guys find carrying 4 retards fun - if you do, good for you. But I absolutely do not want to play games where I'm in that position. Regardless of whether I win or lose them. It puts me on a sick tilt, and generally ruins the enjoyability of the game.

Don't know if I managed to convey my feelings on the matter clearly, but for what it's worth, here it is.

It's a ladder. It's competitive, it's a grind, and it's not always going to be fun. You don't like it, you don't have to play.

Ladder being "unfun" isn't exclusive to LoL--people complaining about smurfs or cheese on ICCup for example.
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Brambled
Profile Joined July 2010
United States750 Posts
January 16 2011 17:59 GMT
#4083
On January 17 2011 01:24 oberon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 16 2011 06:09 Caller wrote:
the fact that the only ones that can do well against kennen are
kass
corki
malph
anivia
vlad

says something about the state of this game


There are others. Nidalee is a draw if she's careful. Cho is a draw if he's even half competent (though he can pretty much never, ever win vs. Kennen). Panth is like a hard counter to Kennen.

He's a strong laner, yes. Some champs he'll just wreck. But he's not unstoppable.


IDK how to do it as Vlad. I have never been so destroyed in a lane with me as Vlad and a good kennen. It was so pathetic I couldn't farm because his Q just would blast me soon as i was in last hit range and he would just keep lane completely pushed where i cant even get cs as a low level vlad.
Pigsquirrel
Profile Joined August 2009
United States615 Posts
January 16 2011 17:59 GMT
#4084
Sometime I want to do want to do a troll game with 5 revive/teleports
JonsaBoy
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Denmark457 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-16 18:12:43
January 16 2011 18:02 GMT
#4085
On January 17 2011 02:41 Caller wrote:
[image loading]
our mid tower goes down in 7 minutes

wat


Also, I got wrong runes and die to liz and golem LOL

(also disc in last 5 minutes of the game, i still can't reconnect to US server for some reason)

Talk about having a bad game.

edit: 700+ ap janna #1 btw
TLMS
Nikon
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bulgaria5710 Posts
January 16 2011 18:27 GMT
#4086
On January 17 2011 02:43 TheYango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 16 2011 23:09 Nikon wrote:
Let's say that I'm secretly a super-god es #1 2700 ELO in BR and I just have to grind it out. That's understandable, but it's also not the point. The point is that I don't want to play these shit games. I mean, there are ranking games so that this wouldn't happen, right? Wrong, apparently. It's a wild crapshoot whether or not you'd get decent teammates, more often you don't... I don't know if most of you guys find carrying 4 retards fun - if you do, good for you. But I absolutely do not want to play games where I'm in that position. Regardless of whether I win or lose them. It puts me on a sick tilt, and generally ruins the enjoyability of the game.

Don't know if I managed to convey my feelings on the matter clearly, but for what it's worth, here it is.

It's a ladder. It's competitive, it's a grind, and it's not always going to be fun. You don't like it, you don't have to play.

Ladder being "unfun" isn't exclusive to LoL--people complaining about smurfs or cheese on ICCup for example.


You can't really compare a 5v5 and 1v1 games like that tho, in 1v1 setting you can't get put in a bad situation because what one or more of your teammates did by definition. I guess it's my old age setting in...
ghen
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1356 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-16 18:41:13
January 16 2011 18:38 GMT
#4087
Sure, your teammates are bad at your current Elo. But the odds are that the other team is even worse. Ignore your teammates mistakes, do the best you can, and capitalize on the other teams mistakes. Calling it Elo hell shows that you haven't thought through your current situation intelligently and want to blame anything but yourself on your current progress. THAT'S the only thing I have a problem with.
gtrsrs
Profile Joined June 2010
United States9109 Posts
January 16 2011 18:55 GMT
#4088
i don't know why people deny that there's an elo hell
until you've played at all levels of the game you can't really be the judge of it imo

i mean our cevo team last week *crushed* a team of 1550-1600 elo players. most of us are 1300-1400. we went 17-1 and won in like 26 minutes. so you're telling me that players like barbsq and i who are stuck at 1300 elo are legitimately worse than these players who are at 1600 elo, and that there's no luck involved? i don't think you can let it work like that: it can't be luck when we beat a team much better than us, but skill-level when we can't win in solo queue. brees is right, solo queue elo is just determined by who gets more retards on their team. i've had the bigger retards for like 9 of my last 10 solo queue games and i'm about to drop back down to < 1300. this week we play a team full of 1700 and 1800 players in cevo. if we win this tourney game i think that's pretty solid evidence that elo hell exists
i play ... hearthstone =\^.^/= Winterfox
Two_DoWn
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States13684 Posts
January 16 2011 19:11 GMT
#4089
On January 17 2011 03:38 ghen wrote:
Sure, your teammates are bad at your current Elo. But the odds are that the other team is even worse. Ignore your teammates mistakes, do the best you can, and capitalize on the other teams mistakes. Calling it Elo hell shows that you haven't thought through your current situation intelligently and want to blame anything but yourself on your current progress. THAT'S the only thing I have a problem with.

Pretty much. I've basically come full circle to the point that I am aware that often times my team losing a game isnt because they suck and are pulling me down even though I'm super fed, its because I make a stupid mistake and get myself killed, giving someone on the enemy team lots of gold, and losing 40+ seconds of farming and killing enemies.
"What is the air speed velocity of an unladen courier?" "Dire or Radiant?"
Brees
Profile Joined January 2010
Marshall Islands3404 Posts
January 16 2011 19:12 GMT
#4090
the only way to guarantee my solo queue wins is to play shaco every single game basically.

I think that says a lot about solo queue.
Brees on in
Senx
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Sweden5901 Posts
January 16 2011 19:32 GMT
#4091
Can never play LoL on sundays, this is so stupid that they still havent fixed their shit servers
"trash micro but win - its marine" MC commentary during HSC 4
oberon
Profile Joined May 2009
United States1320 Posts
January 16 2011 19:37 GMT
#4092
On January 17 2011 02:59 Brambled wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2011 01:24 oberon wrote:
On January 16 2011 06:09 Caller wrote:
the fact that the only ones that can do well against kennen are
kass
corki
malph
anivia
vlad

says something about the state of this game


There are others. Nidalee is a draw if she's careful. Cho is a draw if he's even half competent (though he can pretty much never, ever win vs. Kennen). Panth is like a hard counter to Kennen.

He's a strong laner, yes. Some champs he'll just wreck. But he's not unstoppable.


IDK how to do it as Vlad. I have never been so destroyed in a lane with me as Vlad and a good kennen. It was so pathetic I couldn't farm because his Q just would blast me soon as i was in last hit range and he would just keep lane completely pushed where i cant even get cs as a low level vlad.


Your skill/item order is entirely as normal. Just remember to stay close behind your ranged creeps. If Kennen charges you you may take a couple hits, but you can give some back, and you'll have creep aggro on your side. In the mean time, creep cover makes you immune to Q.

The thing NOT to do is run. Then you don't have creeps to block shurikens or respond with aggro, and he'll just Q you all day (while zoning you!). Never offensively pool, especially at 6+ when he can respond with his ult which will wreck you. Once your Q hits 4 (level 7) you're basically out of the woods.
gtrsrs
Profile Joined June 2010
United States9109 Posts
January 16 2011 19:41 GMT
#4093
On January 17 2011 04:11 Two_DoWn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2011 03:38 ghen wrote:
Sure, your teammates are bad at your current Elo. But the odds are that the other team is even worse. Ignore your teammates mistakes, do the best you can, and capitalize on the other teams mistakes. Calling it Elo hell shows that you haven't thought through your current situation intelligently and want to blame anything but yourself on your current progress. THAT'S the only thing I have a problem with.

Pretty much. I've basically come full circle to the point that I am aware that often times my team losing a game isnt because they suck and are pulling me down even though I'm super fed, its because I make a stupid mistake and get myself killed, giving someone on the enemy team lots of gold, and losing 40+ seconds of farming and killing enemies.


don't you think that's a problem? that if the game comes down to one player either playing perfectly or making one mistake and losing the game for his team, that's kind of an example of elo hell? that doesn't happen at higher level games - all players contribute there.
i play ... hearthstone =\^.^/= Winterfox
ZERG_RUSSIAN
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
10417 Posts
January 16 2011 20:02 GMT
#4094
On January 17 2011 01:24 oberon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 16 2011 06:09 Caller wrote:
the fact that the only ones that can do well against kennen are
kass
corki
malph
anivia
vlad

says something about the state of this game


There are others. Nidalee is a draw if she's careful. Cho is a draw if he's even half competent (though he can pretty much never, ever win vs. Kennen). Panth is like a hard counter to Kennen.

He's a strong laner, yes. Some champs he'll just wreck. But he's not unstoppable.

Wtf are you talking about Cho crushes Kennen if he's "half competent".
I'm on GOLD CHAIN
Two_DoWn
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States13684 Posts
January 16 2011 20:07 GMT
#4095
On January 17 2011 04:41 gtrsrs wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2011 04:11 Two_DoWn wrote:
On January 17 2011 03:38 ghen wrote:
Sure, your teammates are bad at your current Elo. But the odds are that the other team is even worse. Ignore your teammates mistakes, do the best you can, and capitalize on the other teams mistakes. Calling it Elo hell shows that you haven't thought through your current situation intelligently and want to blame anything but yourself on your current progress. THAT'S the only thing I have a problem with.

Pretty much. I've basically come full circle to the point that I am aware that often times my team losing a game isnt because they suck and are pulling me down even though I'm super fed, its because I make a stupid mistake and get myself killed, giving someone on the enemy team lots of gold, and losing 40+ seconds of farming and killing enemies.


don't you think that's a problem? that if the game comes down to one player either playing perfectly or making one mistake and losing the game for his team, that's kind of an example of elo hell? that doesn't happen at higher level games - all players contribute there.

Yes, its a problem, but not one easily fixed. The problem with low elo players isnt that they dont know how to play the game, as 5hit might suggest, but that they are wildly inconsistent. Does part of that inconsistency stem from not being fully aware of things like how many turret hits can i safely take to be able to dive someone and get a kill? Yes. But they are gonna try it anyway. Sometimes it works out, most of the time it doesnt. But when it does, it can make even the lowest elo player look like a pro, and perhaps get fed off of it for the rest of the game. But most of the time its just plain inconsistency, not getting quite enough cs, a jungle's gank not working out properly.

Everyone has bad games, its the degree how often they happen that determine what elo you are. Low elo means chances are greater that someone on your team, or even more likely, someone on the other team is going to have a bad game. In games where your team might have players playing slightly below their average, that one death can kill your chances of winning. In other games, it might be you who isnt playing your best, and your fed teammates death results in a loss. But if you get more consistent, you can better take advantage of the games where everyone is playing to their elo, and you are slightly better, and take a win.
"What is the air speed velocity of an unladen courier?" "Dire or Radiant?"
Tooplark
Profile Joined October 2008
United States3977 Posts
January 16 2011 20:29 GMT
#4096
Thanks for carrying Rugfeeder, everyone!
WHAT POW'R ART THOU WHO FROM BELOW HAST MADE ME RISE UNWILLINGLY AND SLOW
0123456789
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States3216 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-16 20:42:56
January 16 2011 20:38 GMT
#4097
I play corki. No problem last hitting, no worries about getting ganked, I can push the lane like crazy and get aggression in my favor, good damage in fights, 3 escapes with summoners in fights to reposition/escape, no problem laning versus most champions, np abusing w mobility, np outcsing enemy carry by maintaining cs past early game, np ez win.
oberon
Profile Joined May 2009
United States1320 Posts
January 16 2011 20:41 GMT
#4098
On January 17 2011 05:02 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2011 01:24 oberon wrote:
On January 16 2011 06:09 Caller wrote:
the fact that the only ones that can do well against kennen are
kass
corki
malph
anivia
vlad

says something about the state of this game


There are others. Nidalee is a draw if she's careful. Cho is a draw if he's even half competent (though he can pretty much never, ever win vs. Kennen). Panth is like a hard counter to Kennen.

He's a strong laner, yes. Some champs he'll just wreck. But he's not unstoppable.

Wtf are you talking about Cho crushes Kennen if he's "half competent".


Kennen can farm at range with Q, dodge knockups with E, and if Cho goes aggro Kennen can chop him down faster than eating creeps refills him. It's a total draw.
ZERG_RUSSIAN
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
10417 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-16 20:58:12
January 16 2011 20:45 GMT
#4099
The problem is definitely that they don't understand the game. A good game to me is a terrible game to a lot of better players. I went 9-2 or something on Ezreal last night and everyone pretty much agreed it was a horrendous game for me and that my Ezreal sucks. After that I had a real bad game and went like 1-9 and everyone questioned my ability to play the game.

Somewhat similar to your situation. A bad player might end positive but if we watched the game I bet you we'd find over 100 things they did completely wrong. Their evaluation of "good" and "bad" is off because they don't have a correct standard of "good".
I'm on GOLD CHAIN
ZERG_RUSSIAN
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
10417 Posts
January 16 2011 20:45 GMT
#4100
On January 17 2011 05:41 oberon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2011 05:02 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:
On January 17 2011 01:24 oberon wrote:
On January 16 2011 06:09 Caller wrote:
the fact that the only ones that can do well against kennen are
kass
corki
malph
anivia
vlad

says something about the state of this game


There are others. Nidalee is a draw if she's careful. Cho is a draw if he's even half competent (though he can pretty much never, ever win vs. Kennen). Panth is like a hard counter to Kennen.

He's a strong laner, yes. Some champs he'll just wreck. But he's not unstoppable.

Wtf are you talking about Cho crushes Kennen if he's "half competent".


Kennen can farm at range with Q, dodge knockups with E, and if Cho goes aggro Kennen can chop him down faster than eating creeps refills him. It's a total draw.

You play against horrible chogaths

W wrecks kennen so hard it's not even funny
I'm on GOLD CHAIN
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