Solo top nasus vs a passive tank is fun. +350 by 25 minutes no problem. Maybe worth putting him bot lane if you can farm hard because he's too kiteable to sometimes justifiy a solo lane. (Jungle nasus gets around +200/250 by 25 minutes if you farm hard, but still decent.)
On February 16 2011 06:49 Mogwai wrote: I think you can get away with tryharding in full Arranged Teams, but balls out tryharding in solo queue is setting yourself up to get pissed at this game.
The fact that this is just accepted bothers me. I feel like trolling in ranked should (eventually) lead to you being banned from playing ranked. I feel like there were never this many people just blatantly not trying to win in most of the popular DotA leagues because of the pretty strict warning/ban systems.
You cant moderate whos bad and whos just trollng.
i could play good one game and then suck ass next game.
If the troll is careful to simply mimic a bad player this is true, but I would think a large number of trolls aren't that cautious and thus could be caught in the tribunal system.
taric + blitz best bot lane if you ever leave the safety of your creeps you get stunned and grabbed and popped and shattered, they have total bush control, shatter + mana shield + taric heal = you can never kill them only thing is, neither of them scales incredibly well with farm so the best you can hope to do is just crush the other team's bot lane and prevent them from farming too
On February 16 2011 07:27 gtrsrs wrote: taric + blitz best bot lane if you ever leave the safety of your creeps you get stunned and grabbed and popped and shattered, they have total bush control, shatter + mana shield + taric heal = you can never kill them only thing is, neither of them scales incredibly well with farm so the best you can hope to do is just crush the other team's bot lane and prevent them from farming too
I think split in half that lane actually benefits quite well from getting an extra 2-3k gold each. Blitz and Taric both gain a lot from their first few items (Sheen / Manamune and Visage / X) to the point if they both wind up with them significantly quicker, teamfights are going to go well in their team's favor.
Taric might not need a lot of gold, but if he gets out ahead with his team, towers are just nuisances.
edit: vvv spinesheath has it right. It's not that Taric and Blitz scale poorly with farm so much as the fact that they can do their jobs well without it. AP on Taric is really good, it's just not neccesary to do his baseline job.
Imo Taric and Blitz scale pretty damn well with money. Taric has sick AP ratios, so if you get more money than usual, you just add some AP after the usual tanky stuff. Getting an early Sheen on him is pretty sick for the laning phase as well. Blitz can spend the money on Triforce, AD items (W is pretty sick), and tank/CDR.
On February 16 2011 07:02 Mogwai wrote: any hook = free kill
any spacing such that Alistar can flash -> pulverize = free kill
any gank = free kill
Honestly i feel like ANY combination of: Blitz, Alistar, Taric, Sion is just absolute rapelane. One stun = rape. I like jungling as tigerudyr when my bottom lane has 2 of these four because chainstuns will allow him to close to enemies NP and apply his stun as well (+deal huge dmg at the same time).
On February 16 2011 08:37 NeoIllusions wrote: Sounds hella stupid. This is probably their way of dealing with "konami code" backdoor and say "hey, we're fixing things!"
The thing is, their patcher/launcher right now is a shitty version of Internet Explorer. If you type Ctrl+L and go to www.teamliquid.net, you can browse it from the patcher.
It doesn't matter what they remove; as long as it remains a variant of IE you can just use Javascript to force the server to let you in.