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UniversalSnip
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On February 26 2011 06:46 BraveGhost wrote: Of course the way people play the game is going to change.. this is one of the most rapidly changing games ever as far as I know.. new heroes all the time, new patches all the time, new ways to play old heroes all the time. There are very few large tournaments for this game, and I must say the competitive community does not seem that strong to me. To say that the way people understand the game now won't change eventually is a huge statement. I come from a Magic the gathering background where "metagame" is common knowledge term, idk why the starcraft community doesn't it like it so much. Same, my way of thinking about games simply wouldn't be functional without the word metagame holding it together this is heading straight to a derail though | ||
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zalz
Netherlands3704 Posts
On February 26 2011 06:45 Two_DoWn wrote: I've also seen soraka serve this role particularly well. The idea is that at any one time, certain champions might have advantages and disadvantages in lane. Having a roaming champion can help equalize those disadvantages or press advantages, especially for someone like taric who can heal and stun. I'm not sure its a strategy that will work well in solo q unless both teams are doing it just from a sheer lack of communication, but i could see it working well in arranged 5s. If it doesn't work against the classical 1/1/2/jungle then it's not really viable now is it? If the counter to the tactic is playing exactly like everyone is playing then it's just a bad strat. I am not sure how good it could be in solo Q either but i don't see how it could be more or less effective then a jungler. The jungler also requires alot of teamwork to be effective but solo-Q rarely has a game without it. The strength in a roamer might be in the powerfull counter jungeling you can put down with 2 champions wich are almost constantly unseen. | ||
TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On February 26 2011 06:46 BraveGhost wrote: Of course the way people play the game is going to change.. this is one of the most rapidly changing games ever as far as I know.. new heroes all the time, new patches all the time, new ways to play old heroes all the time. There are very few large tournaments for this game, and I must say the competitive community does not seem that strong to me. To say that the way people understand the game now won't change eventually is a huge statement. Some changes are temporary, some are indeed optimal and get rolled into how the game plays, regardless of how its shifting. Jungling is an example of this. It's not like jungling became popular by some metagame shift, and then faded out. People realized that having buff/dragon control, XP/gold advantage, and early map control just outweighs the risks of having your solo top totally zoned. | ||
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Two_DoWn
United States13684 Posts
On February 26 2011 07:22 zalz wrote: If it doesn't work against the classical 1/1/2/jungle then it's not really viable now is it? If the counter to the tactic is playing exactly like everyone is playing then it's just a bad strat. I am not sure how good it could be in solo Q either but i don't see how it could be more or less effective then a jungler. The jungler also requires alot of teamwork to be effective but solo-Q rarely has a game without it. The strength in a roamer might be in the powerfull counter jungeling you can put down with 2 champions wich are almost constantly unseen. Thats not what I meant. I meant that it in an uncoordinated team sense, a la solo q, where communication is limited and some teams are hard enough to coordinate with a 1-1-2 jungle, a 1-1-1 jungle roam might be beyond the solo q capability at this point in lol. In a coordinated team sense, I definitly a 1-1-1 jungle roam would work against the current 1-1-2 jungle as long as the roam was in constant communication and knew where he or she needed to be. It is very possible that in time this could work in solo q, but at the moment i dont think it can. As for the 1-1-1 jungle counterjungle vs 1-1-1 jungle roam, that actually makes gameplay much more interesting. The trade off between messing with a jungle or adding extra ganking power vs more defense oriented play. Kinda makes me giddy just thinking about it. | ||
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Niton
United States2395 Posts
On February 26 2011 07:05 0123456789 wrote: The metagame of LoL trickles down from how CLG plays. That's not STRICTLY true, though CLG plays a large part in it. Players like Doublelift, BruiseLeet and Reep, along with a lot of other players here and elsewhere have their own abilities which shape the way everybody else views the game. Remember when Malphite was considered subpar until someone (Bryden7?) posted a big thing on him in EU and he became popular? Or when Soraka Bot hit #1 on EU ladder by playing Evelynn at a time when everyone was decrying her for being terrible? New strategies are constantly evolving, and often times it takes a particularly gifted player for them to take root. CLG has many good players, but by no means all of them. As an aside, I was part of the 'Zilean fucking sucks' argument, and I still agree with what I was saying relative to the meta. Zil's abilities are pretty awful in a mass AoE meta because half of his damage gets left behind in a burst AoE situation and his E/R aren't being used to anywhere near their full effectiveness. He's a great champ, but he really had no place around the AoE fuckfest that was Morg / Amumu / Kennen / Vlad / etc., because his skillset doesn't deal with AoE well. | ||
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spinesheath
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r33k
Italy3402 Posts
On February 26 2011 07:04 Frolossus wrote: wasn't roaming a popular strategy in DotA? Dota is different. In dota, unless your ult makes you invulnerable for 5 seconds you will explode in 2 melee hits lategame and in 2 skills and 3-4 melee hits for the rest of the game, so basically killing stuff is way easier and people actually lose gold from their current gold pool when they die. Basically in dota for some characters it's easier to kill people than to kill creeps, and that is often the reason why you see crazy shit like roamers or 2 people mid. To the above, Doublelift, Reep and co are imo all stellar roamers that need a solid top team that will allow them to roam and not force them into playing taric or swain. Bryden7 didn't invent solo top malphite, europe did. But yeah, something gets posted on the forums and people go crazy, this isn't news. I foresee teleport being used on magma chamber since the designs that were posted suggested that the TP pads would be nearly useless (basically you TP from the top entrance of your base to the bot entrance and vice-versa). With the map being bigger and all TP looks like an interesting pickup. | ||
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Two_DoWn
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Yiruru
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gtrsrs
United States9109 Posts
On February 26 2011 07:04 Frolossus wrote: wasn't roaming a popular strategy in DotA? yes Earthshaker + vengeful spirit + mirana numba wan thru three most fun champs in dota all roamers | ||
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Niton
United States2395 Posts
On February 26 2011 08:39 r33k wrote: To the above, Doublelift, Reep and co are imo all stellar roamers that need a solid top team that will allow them to roam and not force them into playing taric or swain. Bryden7 didn't invent solo top malphite, europe did. But yeah, something gets posted on the forums and people go crazy, this isn't news. Of course he didn't. I should have made it more clear, but what I meant is that his post popularized on NA what EU knew to be good. It's just a good example of non-CLG popularity shifts. Many players have their own twists and ideas on champs, and there's a LOT of obscure knowledge out there - I link people to TL for some champs because I have no idea if good guides or discussion even exist for them elsewhere. | ||
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Kaniol
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ghen
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No new members can join LiquidParty and many people have already switched. This weekend EVERYONE will switch! Please do! Alternatively, just go to C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\air\preferences and delete your properties file as it is corrupted. copy/paste the above until no one is left in the broken room  | ||
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HazMat
United States17077 Posts
On February 26 2011 08:54 Yiruru wrote: remember when i was trying to convince TL sivir and eve didn't suck last year ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? No, but I remember someone telling you to wait till youre lvl 30 and then you'll stop getting bad teamates. huehuehuehue | ||
IntoTheWow
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IntoTheWow
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Ecael
United States6703 Posts
Well rather a banling~ | ||
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IntoTheWow
is awesome32277 Posts
On February 26 2011 09:53 Ecael wrote: Is it acceptable behavior for a mod to be doubleposting for page opener? Well rather a banling~ No, it's not  | ||
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