yea, guyco's Anivia is pretty legit. he was actually beating himself up a bit after that game for a couple of the walls, but I thought he played a really solid game.

Terranasaur

United States2085 Posts

January 25 2012 20:42 GMT

#24

I loved his walls on the ramp from jungle to dragon, keep microsoft away from you guys. very slick. also he had a pretty slick juke when trundle came to gank and didn't even get an auto off. thats hard to do with ani because she is so slow. he also hit a few very clutch snowballs. overall i was very impressed with his play.

freelander

Hungary4707 Posts

January 25 2012 22:12 GMT

#25

i think caitlyn was the bottleneck player

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

January 25 2012 22:18 GMT

#26

Ranged AD has been our toughest slot all preseason/season. We're thinking of trying something new out next week, we'll see.

arnath

United States1317 Posts

January 25 2012 22:25 GMT

#27

I got the impression that the Vayne was Microsoft's best player. He made some reasonably solid plays at points throughout the game.

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

January 25 2012 22:29 GMT

#28

every team we've played thus far has run their captain (always highest elo player thus far) as ranged AD.

overt

United States9006 Posts

January 25 2012 22:38 GMT

#29

On January 26 2012 07:29 Mogwai wrote:
every team we've played thus far has run their captain (always highest elo player thus far) as ranged AD.

As someone who's not in that league and who isn't high elo, do you think this is because they're probably the best player on the team at CSing and thus run ranged AD almost out of necessity? Or is it just a weird coincidence?

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

January 25 2012 22:46 GMT

#30

hmm, I'm not sure. I know at least one of the guys looked like a lee sin main when we were scouting and then he played sivir or something, but I'm not sure if that's just because other players on his team were more comfortable jungling or if it was because he just wanted to put himself there to ensure good CS on the ranged carry. tough to say from the outside.

Blitzkrieg0

United States13132 Posts

January 26 2012 00:03 GMT

#31

AD carry is the best lane to dominate if you're going to do it. If you get fed as the ad carry you become pretty much unstoppable if your teammates have half a brain and can keep you alive. The best scaling champion getting extra gold is the way to go in my opinion.

There are some top lanes that snowball well though and become just as absurd though. Akali is probably the best example of this off the top of my head.

emperorchampion

Canada9496 Posts

January 26 2012 00:07 GMT

#32

At 13:00 GMT (+00:00) sotl with Day[9] will be going live. Also, Jatt Xpecial and Doublelift will be on. http://tmdwn.com/3qn

Slayer91

Ireland23335 Posts

January 26 2012 00:12 GMT

#33

0100 GMT zz

Also you need to tell that hobbes chap to get a randuins. The item is so crazy good against ranged carries it totally locks them down if they're attacking you and reduces their damage as well so you can just run up to them and slap their shit. Your jarman can insta burst their other champions but vayne was too far back for your combo and you needed the deer to lock up their vayne when kennen went in.

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

January 26 2012 16:21 GMT

#34

He usually gets 2nd or 3rd item randuins... I actually hadn't noticed that he went Mallet that game, thanks for pointing that out.

arnath

United States1317 Posts

January 27 2012 00:00 GMT

#35

Does anybody know if there are VODs of any of these games besides the two on the SotL YouTube channel?

Blitzkrieg0

United States13132 Posts

January 27 2012 02:01 GMT

#36

On January 27 2012 09:00 arnath wrote:
Does anybody know if there are VODs of any of these games besides the two on the SotL YouTube channel?

I doubt all of em were casted. You can download the replays from their website, but I can't promise those will actually be useful.

l3ird

United States368 Posts

January 27 2012 03:20 GMT

#37

Vods are broken??// i dislike that spec mode is awkward on LoL replay sometimes >.<

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

January 30 2012 16:06 GMT

#38

uhg, we did Leona Jarman bot lane last weekend and got ruined in teamfights. really gotta look at the Vods to figure out wtf happened.

arnath

United States1317 Posts

January 30 2012 16:32 GMT

#39

Stupid question, but where on the website are you finding links to replays?

Slayer91

Ireland23335 Posts

January 30 2012 16:35 GMT

#40

Dispite my vast disrespect for AD carrys all my experience with no ad carry comps either get destroyed in tower sieges or wrecked by really farmed tanks/bruisers who we can't kill. You'd want to include a melee carry like jax or trynd or a solo lane AD like corki, that said I am too lazy to find vods unless they are posted on TL so I don't know the details of the game until I get around to the looking at the website.