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Same rules apply, per usual. Please use the appropriate threads (QQ, Brag, Champion, etc) whenever appropriate. Keep the resident Banling content.

Thanks. Happy Gaming.
beefhamburger
Profile Joined December 2007
United States3962 Posts
March 04 2012 07:40 GMT
#1001
I've seen scarra do pretty well with Annie in solo queue one day when he was just playing annie for a bunch of games straight this past week. Yes, it's solo queue but he played her as well as anyone else I'd seen and he did quite well and carried a good number of games with her. He didn't seem to really suffer that much at all and seemed as viable as any other AP. His positioning was very important throughout the game and he managed her stuns really well. He said it wasn't that she was bad, it was just that other APs do things better than her.
Mondeezy
Profile Joined August 2011
United States1938 Posts
March 04 2012 07:41 GMT
#1002
On March 04 2012 16:20 SnK-Arcbound wrote:
I find annie's range is just way too short. 625 on her q. Compared to someone like ahri with 880 range, or cassio you have to flash to fight, and flashing IN usually isn't that good of an idea as an ap (unless you're morg with zhonya's). If her combo just wins the fight it doesn't matter, but that's true for anything with large aoe burst, and annie isn't the only champion with it.
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On March 04 2012 16:19 Mondeezy wrote:
How do you guys deal with people who spam call their lane before the game starts? I keep getting these shitters who call solo top or mid then get raped and lose us the game. I feel pretty confident in my top and would like to play it, but seems everyone wants that role and loses when they get it(so I get stuck playing jungle which I'm meh at, because nobody wants to play that).

So get good at jungling and you won't have a problem. Everyone gets games where you have retarded laners who lose their lane hard, blame anyone but themselves for losing a 1v1, and then you lose the game. It's how most of my losses go.


It's not just specifically one role. Sure, I can play all the roles DECENTLY. But I'd be much more comfortable playing the role that I'm best at, because it would bring a lot more to the team if we had one good player and one meh player, rather than one meh player and one horrible player.
LoL NA: Mondeezy - TL - Riven <3
Caphe
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Vietnam10817 Posts
March 04 2012 07:56 GMT
#1003
Annie is decent and a very good pubstormer. At nomal and low elo(like below 1400) Annie can snowball so hard that you can get a trible kill in team fight with your full combo.
But her squishy and no escape ability hurts alot when it comes to high level play. Esp, most new champs have some kind of gap closer ability. Its just unfair for an old champ like Annie. Her burst was all she stands for, but champ like Ahri can output more damage at the same time has a ridiculous escape skill.

Riot really needs to stop give new champs so much edge over old champs.
Terran
dignity
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada908 Posts
March 04 2012 08:00 GMT
#1004
On March 04 2012 16:41 Mondeezy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 04 2012 16:20 SnK-Arcbound wrote:
I find annie's range is just way too short. 625 on her q. Compared to someone like ahri with 880 range, or cassio you have to flash to fight, and flashing IN usually isn't that good of an idea as an ap (unless you're morg with zhonya's). If her combo just wins the fight it doesn't matter, but that's true for anything with large aoe burst, and annie isn't the only champion with it.
On March 04 2012 16:19 Mondeezy wrote:
How do you guys deal with people who spam call their lane before the game starts? I keep getting these shitters who call solo top or mid then get raped and lose us the game. I feel pretty confident in my top and would like to play it, but seems everyone wants that role and loses when they get it(so I get stuck playing jungle which I'm meh at, because nobody wants to play that).

So get good at jungling and you won't have a problem. Everyone gets games where you have retarded laners who lose their lane hard, blame anyone but themselves for losing a 1v1, and then you lose the game. It's how most of my losses go.


It's not just specifically one role. Sure, I can play all the roles DECENTLY. But I'd be much more comfortable playing the role that I'm best at, because it would bring a lot more to the team if we had one good player and one meh player, rather than one meh player and one horrible player.


This is basically the mentality of every person who calls top. The proper solution is to have faith in your team mates and try and assist them if they aren't doing too well. If they are behind to the point of no return then just cut losses and try to win your other lanes. Knowing how to capitalize on the other team's mistakes also help tremendously.

Example: If their jungle is trying to gank top a lot and top is losing, tell him to just hold top turret for a while and get a free dragon. Dragons also help losing lanes so that they aren't too far behind.
fishinguy
Profile Joined November 2010
Russian Federation798 Posts
March 04 2012 08:03 GMT
#1005
Quick question, how do you deal with CC heavy teams? Just had a game vs a team with fiddle, naut, taric and cho gath and sivir. I was ad tristana and it was the most unfun game I ever had, I got mercs but still go eternally disabled and destroyed. What can you do vs this there was no chance of us chasing this either and when ever one cc went off the others would be chained behind it
UniversalSnip
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
9871 Posts
March 04 2012 08:05 GMT
#1006
go cleanse and buy a qss, the rest is positioning. that team really has nothing going for it late game except sivir so if you survive the initial wave of cc you will win pretty easily.
"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."
overt
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States9006 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-04 08:19:14
March 04 2012 08:15 GMT
#1007
On March 04 2012 15:20 Glaceau wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 04 2012 14:52 overt wrote:
On March 04 2012 14:06 Glaceau wrote:
i dont get how you beat anyone as annie if the other team isnt retarded. only thing she has going for her is the crazy lvl 1-3 harass, but most junglers can just lvl 2 gank your ass and you are now fucked for the rest of the game pretty much.


wat. Her level 1-3 is where most APs who she struggles against shit on her. Her golden stage is from level 6 until enemy squishies start getting shit like BV. Annie will still sometimes get played at high elo and she was pretty popular in tournament play until not very long ago. She's just another champion who fell out of popularity but her laning phase and mid-late game strength is pretty solid.


its the opposite of what you just said


I don't think we're playing the same video game. You claim that Annie is strongest levels 1-3 when she has 2 short range nukes that get outranged by almost every AP carries early game abilities in the game. Kassadin, Brand, Ryze, Cassiopeia, Ahri, Ziggs, and numerous other common AP mids outrange Annie all game long. Annie really can't do much but trade with them if they get too close. Consider the fact that her damage at level 3 is pretty close to, or in some cases less than, numerous other AP mids at level 3 and the fact that due to her short range her opponents don't even need to get near her at level 3 one can easily realize why this is definitely not her strongest point in the game. If it is then she's literally the worst AP mid in the game. Also, her stun isn't even super good early. Most APs won't let you zone them with your stun, they'll just eat a QW and then attack you as you retreat because they have far superior range and in numerous cases more damage than you at level 3 too.

Annie is powerful once she has 6 because she gains kill threat. She's not like weak or anything early but she definitely gets out laned by a ton of APs at early levels and can only make up for it based on the fact that at level 6 she can insta-kill most of them with a properly timed combo. She's incredibly reliant on her ult, probably the most reliant AP mid except for shit like Kassadin or w/e.
R04R
Profile Joined March 2009
United States1631 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-04 08:38:00
March 04 2012 08:34 GMT
#1008
The complete absence of auto attack harrass in both of your arguments makes me question the validity

an extreme example of annie shitting on the opponent is for every Q kassadin throws at you, you get in 1 Q and 3-4 autos. That's not even considering Annie's Q is free for last hitting and she has a second damage spell that has more uptime than kass E

woops, craton already mentioned AA harass, I didn't read that far back :x
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Hidden_MotiveS
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada2562 Posts
March 04 2012 09:00 GMT
#1009
About bekku and HSGG, the NA Lol forum says that pro-gamers really don't make enough to be raising a child, and the job isn't a long time career.

I agree, but then again this isn't the worst situation a child has been born in. Hope the best for baby HS :3
JackDino
Profile Joined July 2010
Gabon6219 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-04 09:51:53
March 04 2012 09:47 GMT
#1010
On March 04 2012 18:00 Hidden_MotiveS wrote:
About bekku and HSGG, the NA Lol forum says that pro-gamers really don't make enough to be raising a child, and the job isn't a long time career.

I agree, but then again this isn't the worst situation a child has been born in. Hope the best for baby HS :3

Progamers don't make enough money to raise a child, streaming and having a website does. The way they live isn't really fit to raise a child though, doubt the rumour is real anyways.
This isnt Broodwar so I dont owe anyone respect for beating me. -arb
Dgiese
Profile Joined July 2010
United States2687 Posts
March 04 2012 10:03 GMT
#1011
I'm fairly sure most credible research implicates the emotional availability of the parents towards the child as a primary factor in the healthy development as a child. Which is to say, being involved in the child's life is far more important than the paycheck you bring home, in terms of a well adjusted emotionally and psychologically stable child.

Judging someone's ability to raise a child based on their actions while streaming a video game seems... overly uncharitable. One could make the case that the sheer act of streaming video games for a living implies a certain lack of immaturity, however such a claim is tenuous at best.
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17295 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-04 11:07:10
March 04 2012 11:01 GMT
#1012
Regardless of this whole rumor (which is 99% false anyway), Hotshot has been phasing himself out for some time. He's basically turned CLGaming into a pretty successful business. He's got a popular website, three teams across 2 games, and is making at least a decent stipend from the half a percent of ad revenue he takes out of streamers using clgame. I don't know what else he's got going, but obviously he's doing well.

He can get 20k viewers streaming LoL (and probably a LOT of ad revenue to go with that), but he's purposefully phased himself away from streaming and more toward handling clgaming (according to Chauster). If there's any player who's going to have a plan for life beyond playing 60+ hours a week (and more importantly, having an income once the LoL scene or CLG's abilty dies out), it's going to be Hotshot.

On March 04 2012 17:34 R04R wrote:
The complete absence of auto attack harrass in both of your arguments makes me question the validity

an extreme example of annie shitting on the opponent is for every Q kassadin throws at you, you get in 1 Q and 3-4 autos. That's not even considering Annie's Q is free for last hitting and she has a second damage spell that has more uptime than kass E

woops, craton already mentioned AA harass, I didn't read that far back :x

Honestly, a lot of the time you end up taking just as much (or more) damage from minions for auto-attacking than you actually do to the other guy. Annie's not usually in a position to attack outside of aggroing creeps and rarely would have the defensive masteries.

They're both arguing dumb points, anyway. Annie's early burst is very strong against certain matchups where she can actively abuse Q+W and autos, but weak against others who can simply deal their damage before the stun / out of range of it or tank it and still out-trade her. Trying to speak in absolutes tends to leave you looking dumb when all the exceptions get pointed out.

Tangentially related: Chauster plays a very good Brand vs Annie. Haven't seen him in that matchup in a really long time, though.
twitch.tv/cratonz
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
March 04 2012 11:05 GMT
#1013
Hotshot is a lot deeper than he comes off on stream guys, so are his finacial means lol.
De4ngus
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States6533 Posts
March 04 2012 11:11 GMT
#1014
4k people watching saint sleep on hotshot stream. very nice.
GANDHISAUCE
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
March 04 2012 11:15 GMT
#1015
Somebody call sirjolt and get the david attenbourugh ready!
JackDino
Profile Joined July 2010
Gabon6219 Posts
March 04 2012 11:21 GMT
#1016
On March 04 2012 20:15 Slayer91 wrote:
Somebody call sirjolt and get the david attenbourugh ready!

What does this even mean?!?!
This isnt Broodwar so I dont owe anyone respect for beating me. -arb
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
March 04 2012 11:36 GMT
#1017
You haven't seen jolts alien attenbourough video? Oh well.
R04R
Profile Joined March 2009
United States1631 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-04 11:43:34
March 04 2012 11:39 GMT
#1018
On March 04 2012 20:01 Craton wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 04 2012 17:34 R04R wrote:
The complete absence of auto attack harrass in both of your arguments makes me question the validity

an extreme example of annie shitting on the opponent is for every Q kassadin throws at you, you get in 1 Q and 3-4 autos. That's not even considering Annie's Q is free for last hitting and she has a second damage spell that has more uptime than kass E

woops, craton already mentioned AA harass, I didn't read that far back :x

Honestly, a lot of the time you end up taking just as much (or more) damage from minions for auto-attacking than you actually do to the other guy. Annie's not usually in a position to attack outside of aggroing creeps and rarely would have the defensive masteries.

They're both arguing dumb points, anyway. Annie's early burst is very strong against certain matchups where she can actively abuse Q+W and autos, but weak against others who can simply deal their damage before the stun / out of range of it or tank it and still out-trade her. Trying to speak in absolutes tends to leave you looking dumb when all the exceptions get pointed out.

Tangentially related: Chauster plays a very good Brand vs Annie. Haven't seen him in that matchup in a really long time, though.


It doesn't pertain specifically to Annie vs. Kass matchup, but proper creep control and making sure you have a creep advantage (or your opponent has only 1-3 left) really makes the minion aggro not that much of a factor while you're getting those free autos in though. Her lane control is compounded further by the free Qs, again. Or continually getting just 1 auto in and then backing off so the minions de-aggro is viable too. A while back I remember looking at Chauster's "pedo" page: aspd reds, armor yellow, flat ap blue, ms quints... and I just realized all this Annie stuff should go in the Annie thread. I'll be quiet now.

typical hotshot go to sleep with stream on? zz
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-Zoda-
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
France3578 Posts
March 04 2012 12:11 GMT
#1019
Voyboy too stronk. He just destroyed Reginald's Kennen with Lee Sin. The dude was so confused, very funny to watch.
♪ 最初はi つなぐdo それ つまりlife 常に移動 ♪ - IGN: Uhryks
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17295 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-04 12:39:09
March 04 2012 12:24 GMT
#1020
Only two choices with the morons who demand a certain role: acquiesce or ignore them.

I do a mix of both. If they troll, cue up their ban and move on to the next game. You'll get the Elo back eventually.
twitch.tv/cratonz
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