Here's my experience:

I am currently somewhere around 1600 elo. When I solo queue, half the times I get a nice team who cooperates and we win. The other team near the end of the game start talking shit to us and to each other in all-chat. The same happens to me the other half the time, with me trying to calm people down mid-game so we can somehow turn the game around. Hasn't happened yet.

The same happened in HoN where I was somewhat above average (1600-1800 psr range, before mm got introduced). However, it was better and worse because with voice, with me (or someone else leading the team to a victory) with voice coordination (much easier than pinging and typing) or people making fun of my Asian accent (lol). As for 'pubs' I don't play solo normal queues often, but it wasn't exactly pleasant the few times I played.

TL;DR: HoN players communicate more in my experience whether it be shittalking or actual coordination.

EnrageD

Canada230 Posts

March 24 2011 18:36 GMT

#10403

On March 25 2011 02:57 Wala.Revolution wrote:
TL;DR: HoN players communicate more in my experience whether it be shittalking or actual coordination.

Couldn't you attribute that to the fact that HoN has voice chat and LoL doesn't? When I play LoL with buddies on vent, we are communicating all the time..

When I jungle, I wish I had voice chat, I don't know how many times I've failed a gank simply because the people in the lane I'm ganking are oblivious to my presence, regardless of pings and in-game chat.]

IMO, the HoN rage guy in the angry goran videos pretty much sums up low-level matchmaking on HoN.

Slayer91

Ireland23335 Posts

March 24 2011 18:50 GMT

#10404

On March 24 2011 23:27 BluzMan wrote:
Holy hell, I just realized that most of the time when people do stupid stuff they don't mean it. It's so hard to believe that the feeding Ryze who overextends is actually a good player who's having a bad day. Ugh, I find that the hardest thing in this game is staying calm at your teammates.

People need to be friendly.

Not sure about you but sometimes I play really bad and don't adjust properly to a bad start and end up with bad scores. Or sometimes just being the guy who gets killed asap in teamfights. This happens to me enough that I never get mad at people are having bad scores. Most people aren't carried to their elo despite what people think.

red_b

United States1267 Posts

March 24 2011 19:00 GMT

#10405

I like when you have a bad matchup and then three kids who are ATing on your team decide to spend the last 15 minutes of a game you will inevitably lose being vocally pissed that you're 0-0 or 0-1 at level 10.

Kaniol

Poland5551 Posts

March 24 2011 19:33 GMT

#10406

On March 25 2011 04:00 red_b wrote:
I like when you have a bad matchup and then three kids who are ATing on your team decide to spend the last 15 minutes of a game you will inevitably lose being vocally pissed that you're 0-0 or 0-1 at level 10.

The ignore command works wonders. Seriously, they will NOT give you any constructive criticism, just ignore them, forget that they said anything and focus on the game

EffectS

Belgium795 Posts

March 24 2011 19:51 GMT

#10407

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

March 24 2011 19:53 GMT

#10408

We had that over 9000 thing before.

Reminds me, I never got to see the login queue, actually. Any ideas why?

emucxg

Finland4559 Posts

March 24 2011 19:54 GMT

#10409

its for EU only huehuehue

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

March 24 2011 20:00 GMT

#10410

I've had it on NA, but only once and I was like #4 in the queue or something so it was like a 15 second wait, lol.

Misder

United States1557 Posts

March 24 2011 20:00 GMT

#10411

Is anyone's game client crashing on the US server?

freelander

Hungary4707 Posts

March 24 2011 20:15 GMT

#10412

On March 25 2011 04:53 spinesheath wrote:
We had that over 9000 thing before.

Reminds me, I never got to see the login queue, actually. Any ideas why?

probably you never log off

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

March 24 2011 20:24 GMT

#10413

On March 25 2011 05:15 freelander wrote:

Show nested quote +

probably you never log off

I log off at least once a day. I don't leave my stuff running overnight.

Woony

Germany6657 Posts

March 24 2011 20:26 GMT

#10414

LOL @ Hotshot getting beaten down by a naked guy in morrowind, hilarious.

AtTheFuneral

United States137 Posts

March 24 2011 20:26 GMT

#10415

ultimate bravery site isnt working anymore

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

March 24 2011 20:29 GMT

#10416

probably got a lot more traffic than it could deal with, lol.

Woony

Germany6657 Posts

March 24 2011 20:31 GMT

#10417

Working for me. You can also now include/exclude champs so you only get champs you actually own.

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

March 24 2011 21:26 GMT

#10418

hey, is Lichbane used on new Ryze yet? j/w, seems like a decent fit since he can trigger it a bunch, it gives mana and movespeed and magic resist. I think it would be a good 5th or 6th item.

Misder

United States1557 Posts

March 24 2011 21:28 GMT

#10419

Lichbane I think procs based on AP, and new ryze only stacks mana.

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

March 24 2011 21:33 GMT

#10420

oddly enough I'm thinking more of it outside of the context of the procs, lol. I think they'd be decent procs though since Void Staff and Archangels typically find their way into his build at some point. Like, looking at a standard Ryze build, you have Frozen Heart, Banshee's Veil, Merc Treads, Void Staff, Archangels, is there anything that would be better in the 6 slot? You'd still be at around 300ish AP, right? especially if you buy blue pots.