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RogerX
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
New Zealand3180 Posts
October 08 2011 21:34 GMT
#1021
On October 09 2011 05:37 spacer wrote:
They better buff renekton next patch

Why would you want Renekton to become buffed? what does he need buffing exactly?
Stick it up. take it up. step aside and see the world
clickrush
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Switzerland3257 Posts
October 08 2011 21:48 GMT
#1022
On October 09 2011 05:48 Requizen wrote:
Playing carry in solo q is making me die inside. Either your team sucks and you can't carry hard enough, or they're great and don't need you at all.

Screw it, I'm sticking to bruisers and Teemo.


I think the ranged AD carry has the least influence on the game except you bring in some huge utility like ashe does. The carry's farm is at least 50% dependand on the support. If you just assume that the ad carry can lasthit properly then its even less than that. For most ad carries it all comes down to positioning and farming. Not taking away anything from them but the other roles kinda bring so much more important stuff that I have at least the feel that this is somewhat true.
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Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
October 08 2011 21:52 GMT
#1023
I can last hit pretty well (usually end highest CS on both sides), but:

-Support don't know what it means when I say "don't last hit"
-They don't buy wards, and I really don't want to spend my gold on that
-People don't call mia and I'm squishy as fuck
-They need to figure out what "protect the carry" means in team fights.

So I'm just going to play characters that can fight 2v1 and not die instantly and try to save games when my teammates lose lane as habit. When I am the only one who ends on my team with a positive K/D ratio and I have twice as many tower kills and assists as the next person, I punch a baby.
It's your boy Guzma!
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-08 22:10:30
October 08 2011 22:06 GMT
#1024
On October 09 2011 06:48 clickrush wrote:
I think the ranged AD carry has the least influence on the game except you bring in some huge utility like ashe does. The carry's farm is at least 50% dependand on the support. If you just assume that the ad carry can lasthit properly then its even less than that. For most ad carries it all comes down to positioning and farming. Not taking away anything from them but the other roles kinda bring so much more important stuff that I have at least the feel that this is somewhat true.

Realize that while your support might be retarded, it's solo queue--your opponents are very likely to be equally retarded. Particularly when it comes to the stronger laning ADs like Caitlyn, if you're playing a lot better than your retarded opponents you can virtually win the lane by yourself with your support doing next to nothing.

On October 09 2011 06:52 Requizen wrote:
-They don't buy wards, and I really don't want to spend my gold on that

Carry buying wards is better than no wards at all.

On October 09 2011 06:52 Requizen wrote:
-People don't call mia and I'm squishy as fuck

No MIA calls is never an excuse for anything.

On October 09 2011 06:52 Requizen wrote:
-They need to figure out what "protect the carry" means in team fights.

Solo queue teams don't know what "focus the carry" means in teamfights either. If your positioning is good, it shouldn't matter a lot of the time in solo queue when the opposing team jumps on your team's Amumu and lets you autoattack everyone the whole fight, particularly if you're choosing the more self-sufficient carries like Vayne and Caitlyn over the team-dependent ones like MF or Ashe that have less outs.

Honestly, I'd hardly say any one role is better than another in solo queue. It's just a matter of comfort--if you're good at playing a given role, you'll win as that role. If you're having a hard time at a different role, it's probably just that you're worse at playing it rather than it actually being harder to carry with.
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zalz
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Netherlands3704 Posts
October 08 2011 22:22 GMT
#1025
Honestly, I'd hardly say any one role is better than another in solo queue. It's just a matter of comfort--if you're good at playing a given role, you'll win as that role. If you're having a hard time at a different role, it's probably just that you're worse at playing it rather than it actually being harder to carry with.


Being a good support or good AD isn't gonna reap as many rewards as being a good top or mid.

If your lane phase depends partially on another player then for soloque you might aswell be playing russian roullete.
57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
October 08 2011 22:30 GMT
#1026
So, is Fiddle the counter for singed? I got completely destroyed by him toplane.
Survival is winning, everything else is bullshit.
zalz
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Netherlands3704 Posts
October 08 2011 22:49 GMT
#1027
On October 09 2011 07:30 57 Corvette wrote:
So, is Fiddle the counter for singed? I got completely destroyed by him toplane.


How? You can just flip Fiddle if he tries to drain and with singed's high speed you can poison him all day long.

Just remember not to start anything with fling.
spinesheath
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany8679 Posts
October 08 2011 22:54 GMT
#1028
Low elo: I'd guess that top lane is pretty strong there because... well, farmed tanky DPS wrecks people who are like "DONT FOCUS THE TANK" all game long.

Mid elo: Mid and bot decide the game. Top has relatively little influence on fights that could set up a dragon.

High elo: All lanes important.

At all elos: Jungler can be anything from useless to carry.


From 1200 to 1700, I carried lots of game pretty hard as Cait or Kog. Vayne, Corki, Ezreal also have strong carry qualities at all elos. Ashe and Urgot not so much as they lack in damage and/or ability to win lanes. Cait seems to fall off a bit around the 1500-1700 elo range currently as she lacks a bit during midgame with bad teams.
If you have a good reason to disagree with the above, please tell me. Thank you.
Ryuu314
Profile Joined October 2009
United States12679 Posts
October 08 2011 22:59 GMT
#1029
On October 09 2011 07:22 zalz wrote:
Show nested quote +
Honestly, I'd hardly say any one role is better than another in solo queue. It's just a matter of comfort--if you're good at playing a given role, you'll win as that role. If you're having a hard time at a different role, it's probably just that you're worse at playing it rather than it actually being harder to carry with.


Being a good support or good AD isn't gonna reap as many rewards as being a good top or mid.

If your lane phase depends partially on another player then for soloque you might aswell be playing russian roullete.

Eh. The problem with top is that those champs usually take a while to kick in. I've lost too many games as solotop garen where I dominate my lane, go like 5-0 with twice the farm of my opponent and lose anyways because my mid/bot do bad/mediocre and they keep losing dragon fights and such.
Azerbaijan
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States660 Posts
October 08 2011 23:05 GMT
#1030
So I'm a pretty fresh 30 and as dumb as this is I'm honestly feeling really nervous about starting solo ranked games. I have 210 normal wins under my belt and I own champions for every role except for support (unless Kayle counts).

Am I just psyching myself out here or is there a good way to get into ranked aside from just jumping in?

Also I only own 17 champions and I feel truly comfortable with maybe 7; will that hold me back? This also worries me because if my main for a certain role gets banned I'll be out of luck. For instance in normal queue I usually jungle for my team and I feel pretty comfortable with the role. Problem is my two best junglers are Lee Sin and Noct, both common bans ><. SInged would be my first pick for solo top but he is banned a lot as well from what I've seen.

I guess I could learn support. I figure that at lower ELO teams will be short a support champ more often than a jungler. Can I carry the team as a support though? and what support champion is the best for learning the role?


UniversalSnip
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
9871 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-08 23:11:14
October 08 2011 23:11 GMT
#1031
On October 09 2011 08:05 Azerbaijan wrote:
So I'm a pretty fresh 30 and as dumb as this is I'm honestly feeling really nervous about starting solo ranked games. I have 210 normal wins under my belt and I own champions for every role except for support (unless Kayle counts).

Am I just psyching myself out here or is there a good way to get into ranked aside from just jumping in?

Also I only own 17 champions and I feel truly comfortable with maybe 7; will that hold me back? This also worries me because if my main for a certain role gets banned I'll be out of luck. For instance in normal queue I usually jungle for my team and I feel pretty comfortable with the role. Problem is my two best junglers are Lee Sin and Noct, both common bans ><. SInged would be my first pick for solo top but he is banned a lot as well from what I've seen.

I guess I could learn support. I figure that at lower ELO teams will be short a support champ more often than a jungler. Can I carry the team as a support though? and what support champion is the best for learning the role?




there's not really any reason to play ranked if you don't want to. There's not a lot of positive emotional feedback, you watch your number go up, you watch your number go down.
"How fucking dare you defile the sanctity of DotA with your fucking casual plebian terminology? May the curse of Gaben and Volvo be upon you. le filthy casual."
Azerbaijan
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States660 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-08 23:16:48
October 08 2011 23:16 GMT
#1032
On October 09 2011 08:11 UniversalSnip wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 09 2011 08:05 Azerbaijan wrote:
So I'm a pretty fresh 30 and as dumb as this is I'm honestly feeling really nervous about starting solo ranked games. I have 210 normal wins under my belt and I own champions for every role except for support (unless Kayle counts).

Am I just psyching myself out here or is there a good way to get into ranked aside from just jumping in?

Also I only own 17 champions and I feel truly comfortable with maybe 7; will that hold me back? This also worries me because if my main for a certain role gets banned I'll be out of luck. For instance in normal queue I usually jungle for my team and I feel pretty comfortable with the role. Problem is my two best junglers are Lee Sin and Noct, both common bans ><. SInged would be my first pick for solo top but he is banned a lot as well from what I've seen.

I guess I could learn support. I figure that at lower ELO teams will be short a support champ more often than a jungler. Can I carry the team as a support though? and what support champion is the best for learning the role?




there's not really any reason to play ranked if you don't want to. There's not a lot of positive emotional feedback, you watch your number go up, you watch your number go down.


Eh good point but I have trouble with settling for the more casual normal queues.
Alzadar
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada5009 Posts
October 08 2011 23:20 GMT
#1033
I'm not sure that I've ever seen Nocturne banned. I'm pretty low Elo though, obviously different at higher levels.

Popular bans at my level:
Amumu
Gangplank
Xerath
Morgana
Singed
I am the Town Medic.
Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
October 08 2011 23:27 GMT
#1034
On October 09 2011 08:20 Alzadar wrote:
I'm not sure that I've ever seen Nocturne banned. I'm pretty low Elo though, obviously different at higher levels.

Popular bans at my level:
Amumu
Gangplank
Xerath
Morgana
Singed

people are banning Xerath at low Elo? people know how to play him already? lame
Nada's body is South Korea's greatest weapon.
zodde
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden1908 Posts
October 08 2011 23:31 GMT
#1035
Why ban Xerath? Is he really that strong?
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17256 Posts
October 08 2011 23:32 GMT
#1036
What's not strong about a 1500 range ult and 1300 range spammable poke?
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r.Evo
Profile Joined August 2006
Germany14080 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-08 23:36:08
October 08 2011 23:35 GMT
#1037
On October 09 2011 07:54 spinesheath wrote:
Low elo: I'd guess that top lane is pretty strong there because... well, farmed tanky DPS wrecks people who are like "DONT FOCUS THE TANK" all game long.

Mid elo: Mid and bot decide the game. Top has relatively little influence on fights that could set up a dragon.

High elo: All lanes important.

At all elos: Jungler can be anything from useless to carry.


From 1200 to 1700, I carried lots of game pretty hard as Cait or Kog. Vayne, Corki, Ezreal also have strong carry qualities at all elos. Ashe and Urgot not so much as they lack in damage and/or ability to win lanes. Cait seems to fall off a bit around the 1500-1700 elo range currently as she lacks a bit during midgame with bad teams.


This is so true.

Solo top (once you're out of the feedfests where you can go 5-0) is more like "try to outfarm the other guy/kill him with a good junglegank", while mid and bot have all the fun and dragon fights. =(

Sidenote: Imo you're completely underrating Urgot. He's a beast in terms of damage and raping his lane early on, carrying it to victory with an early advantage. I'd not play him vs Cait tho. =P
"We don't make mistakes here, we call it happy little accidents." ~Bob Ross
Flicky
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
England2665 Posts
October 08 2011 23:42 GMT
#1038
On October 09 2011 08:27 Kenpachi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 09 2011 08:20 Alzadar wrote:
I'm not sure that I've ever seen Nocturne banned. I'm pretty low Elo though, obviously different at higher levels.

Popular bans at my level:
Amumu
Gangplank
Xerath
Morgana
Singed

people are banning Xerath at low Elo? people know how to play him already? lame


A lot of people ban the new champion at low elos for a few reasons.

1. They don't want people with hardly any experience as the new guy in their ranked. These people are already bad at champions they've played 50 times.
2. People at low elo get bodied by something they don't understand.
3. They lost to the new champion last game.
4. It might be OP, they don't really know.

Riven was getting bans when I was playing ranked because she was bad and people didn't want one on their team.
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Senx
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Sweden5901 Posts
October 08 2011 23:43 GMT
#1039
whats the best way to deal with a sion that just perma pushes your mid lane and goes to gank every other lane the entire game?
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Shiragaku
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Hong Kong4308 Posts
October 08 2011 23:51 GMT
#1040
So guys...this might've been discussed to death, but should I get smite mastery?
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