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DragonDefonce
United States790 Posts
I am actually very intrigued and excited. I think this is such a great way to get people more involved and interested in the lore of LoL, which is obviously good for the game. It would make this fictional conflict look real, and LoL would transcend the individual matches to a long piece of fictional storyline that the players help shape. My only concern is that I find LoL not very fun to watch....lol maybe I have been spoiled by SC. Source: http://www.leagueoflegends.com/ionianoxus2010 | ||
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Abenson
Canada4122 Posts
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On November 28 2010 08:04 Abenson wrote: From the roster, it looks like noxus will win O_O It's drafted with a single ban, so its not like the entire lineups are relevant. There are enough good champs on the Ionian team for them to take this. | ||
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spinesheath
Germany8679 Posts
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red_
United States8474 Posts
Makes it sound like there were applications or something, kind of sad I missed out, sounds like it would be fun. | ||
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Chrispy
Canada5878 Posts
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Niton
United States2395 Posts
On November 28 2010 08:08 spinesheath wrote: Assassins vs Tanks? Can't be a close match. Ionia will get 4 of Udyr, Amumu, Ashe, Kennen and Shen. Sona really should be in place of one of the other champs, but I guess they knew it'd make teams too imbalanced. 3x Global ult Ionia seems like the stronger team. | ||
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Zelc
129 Posts
Alternatively, a Morgana ban gives Noxus a lot more flexibility in their team comp, but Ionia has some good anti-carries so they can kill Kog'Maw or MF easier. The problem with Ionia is they have too many solo laners. They also only have one great AP champion and one great ranged AD champion. A ban on Amumu is always strong but it would make for easy champion picks: Udyr Kennen Ashe Shen Akali is a good team comp. Otherwise things get tricky, because they'd want Amumu which means they can't take Udyr. If Noxus bans Kennen, Akali will be the only source of magic damage. They'd probably have to do something like Amumu Shen Ashe Akali Irelia/Soraka/Yi. This is probably Noxus's strongest ban. If Noxus bans Ashe, then Ionia will need to turn to Ezreal for physical damage. This is probably a bad idea for Noxus though, because the Amumu Kennen combo will probably melt face and Ezreal can do decent damage to squishies. Something else Ionia could try is Soraka babysitting Master Yi and try to farm him up. Of course, chances are the winning side will be whoever CLG plays, so this team comp theorycrafting is probably useless. | ||
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Niton
United States2395 Posts
edit: Team Noxus also missing Swain. WTF? Urgot I understand (terrible), Warwick I kind of understand (JoJ story), but where the hell is Jericho Swain? | ||
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Dgiese
United States2687 Posts
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Ryuu314
United States12679 Posts
On November 28 2010 08:57 Niton wrote: Couldn't Ionia try something like AP Ez if Akali won't be good against Noxus? It's not like he's the worst champ in the game, and Akali would have a really rough time getting a snipe against a Singed+Morg+Flash babysit. edit: Team Noxus also missing Swain. WTF? Urgot I understand (terrible), Warwick I kind of understand (JoJ story), but where the hell is Jericho Swain? Swain's kind of lackluster too tho. I doubt Swain would even be considered even if he was on the roster. Personally, I think Ionia has a better chance simply because a Rammus ban will screw over Noxus pretty hard as the only tank they have left are more of offtanks. I mean, sure they have two of the best carries but against a balanced team...eh iunno. | ||
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gtrsrs
United States9109 Posts
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Phrost
United States4008 Posts
I'd be afraid of Noxus decided to run MF, Leblanc, Shaco, Sion, and Morgana. thats 2 roots, a long silence, an aoe fear, a very easy to land stun, and a lot of damage. Personally I think the best thing Noxus could do is ban udyr and force an amumu or yi to jungle and have shaco just counter jungle hard. On the flip side if Noxus doesn't ban Irelia and Rammus is banned there is really no good way for Noxus to deal with a late game Irelia because she can shake off all the cc in team fights pretty easily. | ||
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DragonDefonce
United States790 Posts
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UniversalSnip
9871 Posts
What...? How is this a good way to make game balance decisions? I'm especially confused because riot seems to consider this a tournament game. If both these are well designed items that fulfill a role in the game, why is one of them not making it into the game? If one of them is not so good, why are they running the risk of the winners picking the worse item for the game? | ||
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Niton
United States2395 Posts
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Southlight
United States11767 Posts
Meanwhile if you ban Udyr then you open up an Ashe/Kennen nightmare, or if they're confident they could even run something retarded like Shen/Kenn/Sora+Ashe/Amumu, etc. Extremely flexible and consistently nasty. For Nox' part they're caught in a tight spot between wanting to babysit their two strong carries (MF/Kog) yet only having one true tank (Singed), one support spell (Morg's BS), and one reliable stun (Sion). Their best chance is probably to run something homosexual like double carry, but then you'd need a tank jungler, which Shaco is unfortunately not. A big alternative for them is to run jungle Sion, but only a handful of people know how to do it reliably, and he's not really a tank anyways. So then you're looking at something like Morg/Kog/Singed+MF(for DU+MIR->Toss)/Shaco... but then I feel like unless the Shaco is godly he'll be QQing about no disables on his lanes (with the exception of bottom). And assuming Ionia's not stupid and they bring Soraka that's gonna be a terribly annoying lane anyways. Edit: The tragedy for Nox is they only have one top-tier jungler while Ionia has at least two (+Yi if played well, Akali if they want to snipe carries, or maybe Irelia, but I haven't played since she was patched in so just speculating there). And that top-tier jungler is their only top-tier tank (Rammus) and is an obvious ban. Couple this with Ionia having the only support hero in the matchup and you end up with a pretty lopsided lineup. Nox may even have to think hard about banning Soraka; one team having a support hero while the other does not often leads to some very, very bad times. | ||
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WaveofShadow
Canada31494 Posts
Or maybe it's because I'm a little drunk. Who is actually playing in this match? Woudln' that matter more than actual champ selection unless the skill is equal? | ||
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HazMat
United States17077 Posts
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Two_DoWn
United States13684 Posts
Guess we have to wait to see. | ||
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