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Beyonder
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Netherlands15103 Posts
January 13 2012 10:16 GMT
#3841
On January 13 2012 19:14 Shiragaku wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2012 19:05 Eishi_Ki wrote:
On January 13 2012 17:59 Kaneh wrote:
I feel that way as well. She just doesn't have a place in the current meta. Kinda like fizz, anivia, poppy. all strong characters in thier own right, they just don't belong anywhere in lane or in the jungle in the current meta.


Anivia, really? Should check out Froggen and jiji's streams more often. Anivia is the shit.

Yeah...but something about Anivia seems lost. I remember the gold old days when Anivia just one shotted everyone.

She still can in the right hands. Just need superb team movement to utilize her fully.
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RogerX
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
New Zealand3180 Posts
January 13 2012 10:24 GMT
#3842
Get the 5 pick ice team, Anivia E. GG.
Stick it up. take it up. step aside and see the world
JackDino
Profile Joined July 2010
Gabon6219 Posts
January 13 2012 10:25 GMT
#3843
On January 13 2012 19:24 RogerX wrote:
Get the 5 pick ice team, Anivia E. GG.

Doesn't work, only works with her own snares.
This isnt Broodwar so I dont owe anyone respect for beating me. -arb
wussleeQ
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States3130 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-13 10:26:01
January 13 2012 10:25 GMT
#3844
jungle alistar is so fun. get philo hog aegis and frozen heart 0-21-9 and you're a support tank from the jungle. super strong ganks and also, diving at 6 is super strong too lol. think it works very well since so many people running double ap and that makes a disruptor/tank like alistar work even better lol
BW -> League -> CSGO
RogerX
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
New Zealand3180 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-13 10:32:52
January 13 2012 10:27 GMT
#3845
On January 13 2012 19:25 JackDino wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2012 19:24 RogerX wrote:
Get the 5 pick ice team, Anivia E. GG.

Doesn't work, only works with her own snares.

Seriously? Eh, still a good team comp, a really hard skillshot is easier to hit with dat slow

Jungle alistar is my flavor of the month atm, its really fun and provides easy ganks even if you don't know how to utilize your W and Q combo.
Stick it up. take it up. step aside and see the world
ihasaKAROT
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Netherlands4730 Posts
January 13 2012 10:40 GMT
#3846
On January 13 2012 19:27 RogerX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2012 19:25 JackDino wrote:
On January 13 2012 19:24 RogerX wrote:
Get the 5 pick ice team, Anivia E. GG.

Doesn't work, only works with her own snares.

Seriously? Eh, still a good team comp, a really hard skillshot is easier to hit with dat slow

Jungle alistar is my flavor of the month atm, its really fun and provides easy ganks even if you don't know how to utilize your W and Q combo.


Our jungler is still trying to get the hang of that combo, but so far hes just pulling HotShotGGs left n right. Even casting it in the wrong order, wich is especially hilarious in ganks.
KCCO!
wussleeQ
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States3130 Posts
January 13 2012 10:48 GMT
#3847
yeah. once you get it down it's pretty damn strong lol.
BW -> League -> CSGO
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
January 13 2012 10:55 GMT
#3848
They make me want to pick up jungle Singed.
About Viktor, I felt strongest when on a double AP comp (notably jungling fiddle) as the more "support-ish" of the two mages: his W and R give control of the battlefield because people will want to avoid it. You can stack them to set up an AoE combo with your team but you can also use them to redirect the enemy team (possibly cut paths if they position badly or you've got Gravity, but he loses so much on pushing power if you don't buy Death it's disheartening ).
He won't provide neither the biggest burst nor the most overall damage (except if the other AP gets blown up before a second round of spells and you're on clean up duty).

Top I'd just rather get Swain I think. Viktor's got no sustain pre-WotA, and he is actually easily punished by champs with gapclosers: you have to drop W on top of you if you don't want them to just dash through it, and then the effective "zoning" period is reduced.
It's better than Nevermove/Decrepify/Rune prison against ganks, but against an aggressive laner looking to trade or just bash you, you have to stay much closer to the turret than Swain/Ryze. He's more easily trashed.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
JackDino
Profile Joined July 2010
Gabon6219 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-13 11:02:16
January 13 2012 11:01 GMT
#3849
Double WotA not that good, just counterpick double AP with talon/gallio tbh, unless they jungle their AP.
This isnt Broodwar so I dont owe anyone respect for beating me. -arb
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
January 13 2012 11:07 GMT
#3850
Had a Galio want to counterpick Ahri. Didn't realize true damage means "your MR is useless, now move". Made me sad.
He was the only one decent teamfighting player on the team tho.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
RogerX
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
New Zealand3180 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-13 11:45:33
January 13 2012 11:40 GMT
#3851
NVM

adfest, oddone damn you.
Stick it up. take it up. step aside and see the world
Redox
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany24794 Posts
January 13 2012 12:01 GMT
#3852
Lineup of Sk gaming for IEM Kiev announced:

http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/36276-SKLoL_confirm_their_lineup_for_IEM_Kiev

Ocelote, Nyph, Candy Panda, SR Kev1n, SleazyWeazy

Kev1n seems to be confirmed as new fix solo top for the team. SleazyWeazy maybe only fillin for this tournament. Probably because Aranae, the Jungler they played with the last weeks, is still contracted with MYM.
Off-season = best season
anmolsinghmzn2009
Profile Joined June 2011
India1783 Posts
January 13 2012 12:27 GMT
#3853
On January 13 2012 18:54 Shiragaku wrote:
Haters gonna hate on mah Leona.

But sadly, it seems like everything Leona does, Alistar does better, especially with dat ult.


Since most of us play this game casually, I'd say having fun is more important than anything else. Play what's fun for you. I cringe when people ask what champions they should play in ranked to raise their elo.
Dunk first. Ask questions while dunking.
epoc
Profile Joined December 2010
Finland1190 Posts
January 13 2012 12:29 GMT
#3854
I Like the new champ. Her ult atleast does something.
turdburgler
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
England6749 Posts
January 13 2012 12:31 GMT
#3855
On January 13 2012 18:03 JackDino wrote:
Leona can tank just fine, if you get farm you can build tanky cdr and initiate perfectly fine, and completely lock down someone. That's not what a support does. It's just that she's bad in a sololane.
Amumu isn't a tank, all he has is his ult, when that's on cd he can bandage once every ~10? seconds and just run around crying.
The things your tanks do can be done by a lot of bruisers aswell.



ye aoe stun plus target stun on 5 sec cd, so much worse than other tanks. how is that worse than rammus's 1 target taunt and hard to use once already engaged stun?
Haasts
Profile Joined October 2011
New Zealand4445 Posts
January 13 2012 12:33 GMT
#3856
On January 13 2012 17:59 wei2coolman wrote:
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On January 13 2012 17:57 UniversalSnip wrote:
at level 11 her full combo if she gets two sunlight procs off does a thousand damage, most of which is aoe, plus it's stapled to triple cc. That's... pretty good, actually. The reason you don't see her at a high level has nothing to do with her skills being weak, she just doesn't support well. That's not a problem. I don't care and riot doesn't seem to either, which makes me happy. She has exactly the same problems as high level blitz, that is to say, no problems at all, she just doesn't fit and that's ok. If the game goes on long enough either riot will kill support ad or the game will actually turn out not to be solved and it'll turn away from that, in either case I'm sure she'll be one of the best heroes in the game.

She's one of the funnest champions to play.


Yeah, as someone who plays a lot of support, I find Leona v.fun/rewarding - her kit has a nice flow to it w/the staggering of Sunlight procs, being able to judge where to land a good ult for initiation/counterinitation, and the visual design/lore fluff syncs up nicely. I used to play a lot of Alistar, and while they have reasonable similarities (esp shiny shiny Matador Alistar), it's nice to not have to pray that you get a proper Headbutt=>Pulv-at-point-of-Headbutt-impact on New Zealand latency, heh.
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SnK-Arcbound
Profile Joined March 2005
United States4423 Posts
January 13 2012 12:40 GMT
#3857
On January 13 2012 17:24 JackDino wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2012 17:24 Two_DoWn wrote:
On January 13 2012 17:22 UniversalSnip wrote:
I think leona's design is great. She would fit into a role fine if support/ad bot weren't so good, if you could run like garen + a stun or something anymore she'd be crazy. The only reason she feels like a bad support is because she IS a bad support, that's not her role just like it isn't blitzcrank's role. Im fine with that.

I don't care if riot makes champions that don't feed into the way the game has been solved, it's pretty weird to see that as a bad thing. She's fun to play with and against and her skills come together well and she's great thematically and she's fine for 80% of players at least, I don't think it's design's job to accomplish more than that.

Well, the issue is that even in that scenario, she isnt a tank, you just made her a support again. Which was my point- they wanted a tank, got a support, and now she is half way in between and not great at either.

Just curious, what exactly is your definition of a tank?

A tank has two things he has to do. Be able to take damage, and force the enemy to acknowledge your presence in the team fight (in most cases this is phasing or peeling). This is why champions like warmog boots gp blows in team fights, because even though he has hp, no one gives a shit because he doesn't do anything, and can just be left to the end to kill. This is why maokai is good early and mid game, but falls off to ignorable late game, but someone like cho can have very little items and not be ignored. Leona gets some bonus armor/mr, and has 3 stuns, but not much damage on them, and a passive that requires someone else to hit the target to do extra damage. For leona it would be best to be on a target that someone else is killing, or a target that needs to be peeled, which is essentially always the job of the support. Leona attacks the target the ad carry is on, and peels anyone that is on the ad carry, maximizing leona and the ad carries damage. That is essentially the entire purpose of a support. Compare this to someone like nocturne, who dives onto someone, and then with his free ad, and 3000+ hp can solo almost anyone. He also has a fear, and a shield (anti peel skill). This is why some "tanks" can build straight tank, and other needs to build a tanky ad build (rammus, nocturne). Rammus doesn't need any ad or ap items to deal hundreds of damage a second, and amumu doesn't build ap/ad for the same reason (though amumu isn't nearly as good at this job compared to rammus).

It's easy to see why some champions make good tanks, while some make iffy tanks in some games (malphite and warwick are good examples of champions that are very common tanks, yet sometimes are underwhelming while other times play their role well).
anmolsinghmzn2009
Profile Joined June 2011
India1783 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-13 12:44:37
January 13 2012 12:41 GMT
#3858
Regarding leona not being a tank - imo tank isn't as simple a concept as a carry. In general tank is anyone who is soaking damage. Bruisers are tanks who have minor disables and do significant dps. Then there are then initiation tanks like amumu and galio. There are support/stunbot tanks like alistar & leona, they can throw out a number of disables in a fight to disrupt whoever is doing the most damage on the other team. Then there are the peeling tanks like shen and rammus. Even these are rather vague classification.
Dunk first. Ask questions while dunking.
turdburgler
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
England6749 Posts
January 13 2012 12:48 GMT
#3859
but if you classify a tank as anyone who takes damage away from the squishy carry amumu is 1 of the best, with reverie and FH you have 40% cdr which means a stun every 5 seconds, i dont think any other tank can match that for annoying. plus due to his retardedly high ratios he is doing TONS OF DAMAGE without even making a triforce

if you build 3 tank items, boots, rod of ages and a deathcap on amumu you have about 300 ap. thats + 300 dmg on q, 300 aoe dmg on r, 5% of peoples TOTAL health per second around you. and if they are dumb enough to hit you e comes off cd quickly with a 0.5 ratio for decent bonus dmg.
anmolsinghmzn2009
Profile Joined June 2011
India1783 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-13 13:11:29
January 13 2012 13:10 GMT
#3860
On January 13 2012 21:48 turdburgler wrote:
but if you classify a tank as anyone who takes damage away from the squishy carry amumu is 1 of the best, with reverie and FH you have 40% cdr which means a stun every 5 seconds, i dont think any other tank can match that for annoying. plus due to his retardedly high ratios he is doing TONS OF DAMAGE without even making a triforce

if you build 3 tank items, boots, rod of ages and a deathcap on amumu you have about 300 ap. thats + 300 dmg on q, 300 aoe dmg on r, 5% of peoples TOTAL health per second around you. and if they are dumb enough to hit you e comes off cd quickly with a 0.5 ratio for decent bonus dmg.

I'm just saying tank is a vague term. Its not really a role rather there are various roles that fulfill the requirement of being a tank i.e. Soaking damage.
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