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UniversalSnip
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
9871 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-19 00:34:02
December 19 2011 00:33 GMT
#1961
I dislike ryze because I feel like there's almost no skill involved in playing against him, the ryze player is keenly feeling it when he messes up but from the other guy's point of view he's just spamming at you and you either die or you don't, it's like he has a damage aura. So lame to play against, you either step in his radius because you can deal more damage or you don't.

Basically the mistakes you can make with ryze have a low level of interactivity. There are plenty of them, he requires skill, but they don't have a lot to do with your opponent.
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Aukai
Profile Joined April 2003
United States1183 Posts
December 19 2011 00:34 GMT
#1962
Whats your point. Sounds like an arguement against Gp10s, not an arguement for Snowball items.
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Ryuu314
Profile Joined October 2009
United States12679 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-19 00:37:38
December 19 2011 00:35 GMT
#1963
On December 19 2011 09:30 STS17 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 19 2011 09:24 Aukai wrote:
On December 19 2011 09:20 STS17 wrote:
Of course it's significant. If it was insignificant people would do it already. You're spending money now on something that has the potential of being much better later on, but it's not guaranteed because the game could end beforehand. They have some stats on them but not too much compared to the price you paid and as such you're behind where you could be in the immediate moment.

Wait, that sounds a lot like the argument for getting gold/10 items.


Except Gp10's don't force you fight at a disadvantage to make them cost-effective.


You're right, they force you to play passively and farm and avoid fighting while at a disadvantage. While someone who opts not to get them and instead get more immediately cost-efficient items can take advantage of that by forcing you into a fight while you're at a disadvantage. In essence they promote the opposite of what soto/mejai's promotes you to do. Believe it or not some teams want to be aggressive

Except the other difference is that the cost-inefficiency of gold items are much less than the cost-inefficiency of stack items. Philo is cost efficient as soon as you buy it. HoG is cost inefficient, but not by much and it's very cheap. No one ever buys Avarice or Kage's unless you're a support, in which case the inefficiency isn't an issue or if you're planning on build it into Ghostblade or DFG, which case you're not sitting on Avarice or Kage's for very long at all.

SotO and Mejais are inefficient by a pretty large margin and they're both pretty fucking expensive. The upgrade cost of SotO and Mejais are 800~1k while upgrade cost of HoG is 350.
Aukai
Profile Joined April 2003
United States1183 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-19 00:38:32
December 19 2011 00:37 GMT
#1964
And They build into Useful stuff later.

Anyway arguing against GP10s doesn't prove Soto/Mejai is good. This is like arguing for the sake of arguing.
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Ryuu314
Profile Joined October 2009
United States12679 Posts
December 19 2011 00:38 GMT
#1965
Also, I really really don't like Colby+Dyrus commentary because they're both boring as fuck to listen to and make me fall asleep zzzz
Abenson
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada4122 Posts
December 19 2011 00:40 GMT
#1966
On December 19 2011 09:38 Ryuu314 wrote:
Also, I really really don't like Colby+Dyrus commentary because they're both boring as fuck to listen to and make me fall asleep zzzz


Oddone's commentary is great tho, you can listen to that!
Aukai
Profile Joined April 2003
United States1183 Posts
December 19 2011 00:41 GMT
#1967
I like Dyrus still, I don't like listening to Colby.
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tobi9999
Profile Joined April 2009
United States1966 Posts
December 19 2011 00:41 GMT
#1968
no point in arguing.

who the hell am I to tell you what to do

go for mejais everygame, obviously it's good because you say it is. when you hit rank 1, i'll pay you lessons on how to build snowball items.
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BlackMagister
Profile Joined October 2008
United States5834 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-19 00:46:05
December 19 2011 00:43 GMT
#1969
Does support GP beat support Yorick beacuse GP can feed off the ghouls with parlay. In this game at least support Yorick is helping bully other team out of lane.
Ryuu314
Profile Joined October 2009
United States12679 Posts
December 19 2011 00:45 GMT
#1970
On December 19 2011 09:40 Abenson wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 19 2011 09:38 Ryuu314 wrote:
Also, I really really don't like Colby+Dyrus commentary because they're both boring as fuck to listen to and make me fall asleep zzzz


Oddone's commentary is great tho, you can listen to that!

Yah his commentary is nice, but the background noise is terrible. So loud D:
STS17
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1817 Posts
December 19 2011 00:45 GMT
#1971
On December 19 2011 09:24 TheYango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 19 2011 09:20 STS17 wrote:
Wait, that sounds a lot like the argument for getting gold/10 items.

I'm getting trolled hard, but as with the BT and Warmog's examples, you're ignoring the crucial difference between having to get stacks from champ kills and from being able to get them off minions/free gold.

Having snowball/stack items makes you worse immediately in fights. However, with stacks that can be recovered through farming/stalling, you can pull ahead by avoiding fights. Do you not see how silly it is to have items that immediately make you worse at fighting, but REQUIRE you to fight to catch up?

You can play around the immediate disadvantage of BT/Mog's/RoA/Gp10 items by stalling/farming. You can't similarly play around the disadvantage of snowball items.


I'm not trying to troll you (or anyone here). It is not impossible to play around the disadvantages of snowball items (i.e. buying one then immediately forcing a fight such as at dragon where your opponents mid/bottom still have their gold sitting in the bank and haven't spent it so you are basically in the same situation gold-disadvantage wise but kills/assists you earn in the fight recoup the cost of the item in addition to giving you the gold) but it is much harder to do than playing around the disadvantage of something like a g/10 item.

I know you (you as a forum) think I'm just trolling you all with this but if you wanted to you could have completely ignored the topic and let it die but instead you choose to entertain the debate, despite thinking you were falling for "troll-bait". It is something I have played around with and have had success with which is why I wanted to open it up for discussion, and I thank all of you for participating in it ^^
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BloodNinja
Profile Joined June 2010
United States2791 Posts
December 19 2011 00:46 GMT
#1972
On December 19 2011 09:43 BlackMagister wrote:
Does support GP beat support Yorick beacuse GP can feed off the ghouls with parlay. In this game at least support Yorick is helping bully other team out of lane.


I didnt think ghouls gave gold. Did that change recently?
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17293 Posts
December 19 2011 00:47 GMT
#1973
They don't, but I believe you still get the bonus gold from it.
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arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
December 19 2011 00:47 GMT
#1974
On December 19 2011 09:46 BloodNinja wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 19 2011 09:43 BlackMagister wrote:
Does support GP beat support Yorick beacuse GP can feed off the ghouls with parlay. In this game at least support Yorick is helping bully other team out of lane.


I didnt think ghouls gave gold. Did that change recently?

gp gets the bonus gold from parrrley but they dont give gold
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Psyonic_Reaver
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4342 Posts
December 19 2011 00:48 GMT
#1975
On December 19 2011 09:41 tobi9999 wrote:
no point in arguing.

who the hell am I to tell you what to do

go for mejais everygame, obviously it's good because you say it is. when you hit rank 1, i'll pay you lessons on how to build snowball items.


You're kind of a dick to some of the better players in this forum and you're arguing because you think everybody is telling you you're wrong instead of looking at is as another opinion. Either take the advice or ask better questions. Don't act like a child. Get out of this forum if you're going to act like this.
So wait? I'm bad? =(
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
December 19 2011 00:49 GMT
#1976
On December 19 2011 09:45 STS17 wrote:
I'm not trying to troll you (or anyone here). It is not impossible to play around the disadvantages of snowball items (i.e. buying one then immediately forcing a fight such as at dragon where your opponents mid/bottom still have their gold sitting in the bank and haven't spent it so you are basically in the same situation gold-disadvantage wise but kills/assists you earn in the fight recoup the cost of the item in addition to giving you the gold) but it is much harder to do than playing around the disadvantage of something like a g/10 item.

If that situation ever arose, I would just give up the Dragon, and continue farming. Even if you take a free Dragon, it still doesn't recoup the gold value deficit of buying SotO/Mejai's. That's how far behind the curve SotO and Mejai's are as items.
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Ryuu314
Profile Joined October 2009
United States12679 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-19 00:54:07
December 19 2011 00:53 GMT
#1977
On December 19 2011 09:45 STS17 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 19 2011 09:24 TheYango wrote:
On December 19 2011 09:20 STS17 wrote:
Wait, that sounds a lot like the argument for getting gold/10 items.

I'm getting trolled hard, but as with the BT and Warmog's examples, you're ignoring the crucial difference between having to get stacks from champ kills and from being able to get them off minions/free gold.

Having snowball/stack items makes you worse immediately in fights. However, with stacks that can be recovered through farming/stalling, you can pull ahead by avoiding fights. Do you not see how silly it is to have items that immediately make you worse at fighting, but REQUIRE you to fight to catch up?

You can play around the immediate disadvantage of BT/Mog's/RoA/Gp10 items by stalling/farming. You can't similarly play around the disadvantage of snowball items.


I'm not trying to troll you (or anyone here). It is not impossible to play around the disadvantages of snowball items (i.e. buying one then immediately forcing a fight such as at dragon where your opponents mid/bottom still have their gold sitting in the bank and haven't spent it so you are basically in the same situation gold-disadvantage wise but kills/assists you earn in the fight recoup the cost of the item in addition to giving you the gold) but it is much harder to do than playing around the disadvantage of something like a g/10 item.

I know you (you as a forum) think I'm just trolling you all with this but if you wanted to you could have completely ignored the topic and let it die but instead you choose to entertain the debate, despite thinking you were falling for "troll-bait". It is something I have played around with and have had success with which is why I wanted to open it up for discussion, and I thank all of you for participating in it ^^

I mean, the premise is okay. Buy potentially high power items to give yourself Teemo's global taunt on a tank. But the problem is that stack items are just so darn inefficient for so long and are so unreliable that it's just not a good idea for most situations.

The comparison to gold items is flawed because gold items aren't nearly as inefficient (philo isn't inefficient at all) and the disadvantage of getting them are much much smaller. They also have a back-up option and build into something, whereas if you have no stacks on your stack items it's 1k+ of worthless crap that you can't do anything with but sell it.

EDIT: TOO is so funny. He hates amumu and dat skin so hard lololol
NotSorry
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States6722 Posts
December 19 2011 00:54 GMT
#1978
Do more pros use smart cast or not?
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arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
December 19 2011 00:55 GMT
#1979
On December 19 2011 09:54 NotSorry wrote:
Do more pros use smart cast or not?

probably down to preference

ive seen a few click and a few use smart cast though
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Ryuu314
Profile Joined October 2009
United States12679 Posts
December 19 2011 00:57 GMT
#1980
On December 19 2011 09:55 arb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 19 2011 09:54 NotSorry wrote:
Do more pros use smart cast or not?

probably down to preference

ive seen a few click and a few use smart cast though

from what I've seen on streams, they generally use smartcast except for more "valuable" spells like ultis and stuff.
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