We need to make a time. All I know is we're usually only on later at night, so maybe try for like 10 pm est? o.o What's a good time for you, chobz?
The kog change doesn't change kog much at all. Just means you need to know when and when not to activate his w lol. It's still 2 seconds more than pre-buff kog.

I was also thinking banning xerath/renek/udyr actually. That way we can run noct jungle if needed.

From the sound of it we're prob going to need to run:
tap jungle, loae support, chobz AD, me AP, and gandhi top. I don't see rhav's AP teemo winning vs this team.

Juicyfruit

Canada5484 Posts

October 21 2011 00:00 GMT

#725

I want to run some serious ranked 5's tonight. Please get on if you can, l0l.

jcarlsoniv

United States27922 Posts

October 21 2011 00:27 GMT

#726

Gonna be streaming some practice!

Juicyfruit

Canada5484 Posts

October 21 2011 04:07 GMT

#727

After watching CLG I have come to the conclusion that the "dynamic" me and BP share has nothing on hotshot and saintvicious.

BlackPaladin

United States9316 Posts

October 21 2011 04:24 GMT

#728

At this point all I ever really do is to tell you to stop when you go on a 10+ min rant about the same point lol. loae does the exact same thing when he's in the game/listening in.

I used to get a lot madder at you cause you would nitpick every little action I did. I think you understand now after last night with necrosed doing it to you just how annoying it is and how it can make you tilt. o_o

Juicyfruit

Canada5484 Posts

October 21 2011 04:30 GMT

#729

I didn't tilt! :< I probably played even bette huehue.

BlackPaladin

United States9316 Posts

October 21 2011 04:38 GMT

#730

TAP GANK NO DON'T NOT LIKE THAT NO GANK GANK NO DON'T PUT PILLAR THERE YOU GOTTA PUT IT THERE AND THERE AND W AND GANK GANK OMG YOU GOTTA GO DO THIS WTF ARE YOU DOING TAP WTF YOU'RE STUPID YOU GOTTA DO A DANCE AND SHAKE IT ALL AROUND THEN TURN AND PUT YOUR LEFT FOOT OUT AND YOUR RIGHT FOOT IN AND WTF TAP YOU'RE BAD NOOB YOU GOT TO DO THIS NO FUCK YOU (add 10 more mins of this nonstop) NO DON'T TELL ME TO SHUT UP I HAVE IMPORTANT STUFF TO SAY

Read it without taking any breaths in between and that's Tap in a nutshell!

gtrsrs

United States9109 Posts

October 21 2011 04:47 GMT

#731

On October 21 2011 06:27 WaveofShadow wrote:
From watching guitar's team lose to them, I'd say Ehomda's Xerath is definitely bannable....he pretty much carried them.

this, but also what the drinker of eyes said
first of all you can't ban out e.hom
second of all it wasn't e.hom's xerath beating us... it was just how brokenly good xerath is in arranged matches (and how brokenly good e.hom is)

like xerath should have been auto ban and you guys should auto ban him but you're not gonna be able to outban e.hom

ChoBz

Canada836 Posts

October 21 2011 05:13 GMT

#732

ehomda 2 strongk

BlackPaladin

United States9316 Posts

October 21 2011 06:53 GMT

#733

Obviously we're not going to try to ban out a single person lol.

Anyway, game is set to "after 7pm pst."
We're going to talk more at 6-6:30pm pst in order to find out exactly what time we can play tomorrow. So just be on near 7. ;o

We'll prob run chobz, loae, gandhi, tap, and myself. Soniv in place of me if he's on I'm assuming since I think Soniv is better AP carry than me lol.

jcarlsoniv

United States27922 Posts

October 21 2011 11:16 GMT

#734

Yeah gtr, I can definitely see xerath being autoban. I played him last night for the 2nd time in an arranged, and it was ridiculous the amount of control I had over them.

BlackPaladin

United States9316 Posts

October 21 2011 11:25 GMT

#735

http://www.mobility-gaming.com/images/cup-screens/0_1318919573.jpg
http://www.mobility-gaming.com/images/cup-screens/0_1318919592.jpg
http://www.mobility-gaming.com/images/cup-screens/2_1319088332.jpg
http://www.mobility-gaming.com/images/cup-screens/3_1319088332.jpg

These are the 4 games they played in this tourny. Apparently solo top plays rumble too, so if we do plan on running irelia we might need to try to save that pick for later to not show our hand.

necrosed

Brazil885 Posts

October 21 2011 11:38 GMT

#736

I don't think Irelia is a good pick with them having Rumble-Renekton available. We should pick something that can AFK farm undisturbed, like Cho or Nasus.

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

October 21 2011 13:50 GMT

#737

I wouldn't pick something that relies too much on late game items since that puts a lot of pressure on the rest of your team. They look like they run completely standard comps so I'd just mirror their lanes during picks and try to counterpick a solo. Don't Irelia vs Rumble.

Juicyfruit

Canada5484 Posts

October 21 2011 15:30 GMT

#738

To bring up a very old point, after some not so careful testing, Rammus actually beats the ever living shit out of Udyr if they meet in the jungle (after level 6), and our junglers should start practicing him more often because he's somewhat likely to become tier-1 jungler; his damage is nuts for a jungler tank on top of having a 3-second disable and he's still impossible to kill even if you build wriggles, zerker greaves, wit's end, phage l0l.

I think for this coming up game, we should honestly play the champions we are most comfortable with, and ban out the ones we are least confident to go up against (i.e. Xerath).

Since they're very likely to outclass us on individual skills, playing champions that we're not super used to will backfire even if we outpick them.

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

October 21 2011 15:34 GMT

#739

You already have Trundle players don't you? Trundle shits on Udyr if you needed an Udyr counterpick. Most Udyr's over-build resists, expecting to get effective HP out of Turtle Stance (meaning you always have a ton of stats to steal with ulti), and gap-closing with Bear Stance through Pillar slow is basically impossible.

Juicyfruit

Canada5484 Posts

October 21 2011 15:42 GMT

#740

Trundle is awesome, and I would pick him vs Udyr most of the time, but I think Rammus has the right tool to deal with Udyr (comparable first-clear speed and superior early level ganks) on top of having imo, a much stronger teamfight presence because he's basically fiddle with a built-in hourglass all to himself. I think both our previous assessment of rammus underestimated him a little; he was actually a perfectly good pick in that game we lost with him now that I`ve gotten more experience with him.

For reference:

TL - soraka, kogmaw rammus, irelia, brand
Their team - taric, ezreal, udyr, renekton, kennen

It`s fun to look back and reanalyze things

Here, trundle would be a little awkward because his pillar doesn`t do much against a well-played Ezzy, and Renekton also kinda shrugs it off; he would only be there to stop Udyr basically, which is not all that great if the other team can ignore most if it and just kill brand/kog. Rammus is harder to ignore because of his ludicrous damage output if built somewhat DPS and he'll be able to survive that shit or at least tank two person's share of burst which will let brand/kogmaw walk over them (on top of which if they focused rammus, soraka can spare him an astral blessing which = +30 AD for rammus huehue)