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bosiddon
Profile Joined September 2010
308 Posts
June 28 2012 18:21 GMT
#3941
why does everyone have such a boner for blitz/naut/malph now
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Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
June 28 2012 18:22 GMT
#3942
Sonas laning phase is tricky but tends to snowball either way because she's basically the strongest poking support in the game. Just make sure you have defensive runes and masteries at least to some extent. She's a beast after lane though with max cdr you just do a great amount of damage and healing and provide auras as well as an AoE ult.

There aren't really any sustain lanes left. Sona and soraka ARE the sustain lanes. And sona beats soraka lanes because of the poke being magic damage and sorakas heal cd being so high.

For example rushing ruby crystal is more viable than philo on sona in most lanes now. That said I haven't played sona in a while so you can't take everything for granted here.
JackDino
Profile Joined July 2010
Gabon6219 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-28 18:23:54
June 28 2012 18:22 GMT
#3943
On June 29 2012 03:21 bosiddon wrote:
why does everyone have such a boner for blitz/naut/malph now

General FOTM, it'll pass once their base armour gets nerfed by 1 or something like that, or some other champs getting minor buffs.
This isnt Broodwar so I dont owe anyone respect for beating me. -arb
overt
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States9006 Posts
June 28 2012 18:24 GMT
#3944
To chime in on the Janna discussion, at IEM Guangzhou ocelote ran AP Janna mid and CLG countered by running old Sivir mid. Chauster just pushed to her tower from level 1 onwards and it made it very difficult for ocelote to farm until he got enough levels to clear waves with her tornado. But by that point Chauster had already taken mid turret and could freely roam where ever he wanted while Janna had to stay mid to farm.

However there's a few issues with this. First, imo, Chauster >>>> ocelote. Second, old Sivir was fucking broken when it came to wave pushing, I don't think anyone can push a wave as hard and as early as old Sivir could. Third, theoretically heavy jungle pressure on mid should result in Sivir dying and Janna getting XP/gold.

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Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-28 18:26:45
June 28 2012 18:25 GMT
#3945
Malph honestly seems OP right now. Maybe it's the nerf to all sustaining bruisers top lane and AD/AP carries doing most of the work in teamfights now but he seems to win or at least draw every lane and in teamfights he just initiates from a million range with ult and then sits on the AD carry who not only doesn't do much damage to 400 armour malphite but also gets attack speed slowed on top of that and possibly randuins+frozen heart AGAIN.

In theory I suppose the counter to malph is a tanky team either AP based or lots of bruisers so he can't slow them all, but right now bruisers are falling out of popularity because of how hard it is to engage a lot of these teams which are based around 3 people protecting the AP and AD who generally have strong poke and high damage and malph excels against that with his engage and AS slow.

Blitz and naut just because hooks are gay and when people stop getting lazy and get better at dodging maybe they'll fall out again? I dunno.
Slusher
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States19143 Posts
June 28 2012 18:30 GMT
#3946
Serious question, if I wanted to do a statistical analysis of some league players, would there be any possible way for me to draw 100 random summoners over 1200 (need to be able to track elo)?
Carrilord has arrived.
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
June 28 2012 18:30 GMT
#3947
On June 29 2012 03:21 bosiddon wrote:
why does everyone have such a boner for blitz/naut/malph now

Because they are fucking awesome.
A robot with one of the funniest spells in the game, and a kit/base stats that lend themselves well to be a tanky mofo who runs into teamfights and doesn't give a fuck?
Spiderman, also a kit/base stats that lend themselves well to be a tanky mofo who runs into teamfights and doesn't give a fuck.
Rock, entering teamfights by launching himself with such determination that only death can stop him? Shonen material here. Also, a kit/base stats that lend themselves well to be a tanky mofo who runs into teamfights and doesn't give a fuck.

On June 29 2012 03:22 Slayer91 wrote:
Sonas laning phase is tricky but tends to snowball either way because she's basically the strongest poking support in the game. Just make sure you have defensive runes and masteries at least to some extent. She's a beast after lane though with max cdr you just do a great amount of damage and healing and provide auras as well as an AoE ult.

There aren't really any sustain lanes left. Sona and soraka ARE the sustain lanes. And sona beats soraka lanes because of the poke being magic damage and sorakas heal cd being so high.


Dunno, if I want sustain I'd rather pick Alistar because he heals so much more for the same mana expenses and the cd isn't even that long if you stay near your carry when he last hits. Also, I tried to poke an Ali lane. WQ everytime I was in Q range, half my HP gone. It would probably be the same against Leona, for example.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
-Zoda-
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
France3578 Posts
June 28 2012 18:32 GMT
#3948
On June 28 2012 23:26 Slayer91 wrote:
You guys all suck and play too much real life. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

It's actually more due to the fact that for each game I play, I watch 5 on streams.
♪ 最初はi つなぐdo それ つまりlife 常に移動 ♪ - IGN: Uhryks
overt
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States9006 Posts
June 28 2012 18:34 GMT
#3949
Solo Alistar is something that's still really good, people stopped playing it after they nerfed his AP ratios though. I think you could still run him but you'd have to build tankier and would probably build more AD than AP. The only issue is if his laning can have as big of an impact as Ali jungle. I'm going to assume it can't so you'd probably put him in the jungle more often than you'd want to lane him since his jungle is so fuckin' strong.

But, imo, Ali can lane against most tops and mids pretty well.
Cloud
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Sexico5880 Posts
June 28 2012 18:40 GMT
#3950
If the enemy team gets 2 of naut, alistar and blitz, you just can't win teamfights against them. As for malph i don't think he's that great, he's just a sort of yorick in lane and there are better picks in teamfights.
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Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
June 28 2012 18:40 GMT
#3951
On June 29 2012 03:30 Alaric wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 29 2012 03:21 bosiddon wrote:
why does everyone have such a boner for blitz/naut/malph now

Because they are fucking awesome.
A robot with one of the funniest spells in the game, and a kit/base stats that lend themselves well to be a tanky mofo who runs into teamfights and doesn't give a fuck?
Spiderman, also a kit/base stats that lend themselves well to be a tanky mofo who runs into teamfights and doesn't give a fuck.
Rock, entering teamfights by launching himself with such determination that only death can stop him? Shonen material here. Also, a kit/base stats that lend themselves well to be a tanky mofo who runs into teamfights and doesn't give a fuck.

Show nested quote +
On June 29 2012 03:22 Slayer91 wrote:
Sonas laning phase is tricky but tends to snowball either way because she's basically the strongest poking support in the game. Just make sure you have defensive runes and masteries at least to some extent. She's a beast after lane though with max cdr you just do a great amount of damage and healing and provide auras as well as an AoE ult.

There aren't really any sustain lanes left. Sona and soraka ARE the sustain lanes. And sona beats soraka lanes because of the poke being magic damage and sorakas heal cd being so high.


Dunno, if I want sustain I'd rather pick Alistar because he heals so much more for the same mana expenses and the cd isn't even that long if you stay near your carry when he last hits. Also, I tried to poke an Ali lane. WQ everytime I was in Q range, half my HP gone. It would probably be the same against Leona, for example.


Poking an alistar and him engaging forces a full on fight, if you can win that fight alistar can't engage therefore you can just keep poking. Also it depends on the AD carries positoning if he's not in position alistar can't do anything because he will be in range your your AD carry and you'll probably get away.
It depends on an awful lot of factors, but as I said, a sona lane snowballs in either direction. One side will win, how passive you play influences how safe you are and you'll lose less creeps but it'll be a bad lane.
Mogwai
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States13274 Posts
June 28 2012 18:46 GMT
#3952
On June 29 2012 03:30 Slusher wrote:
Serious question, if I wanted to do a statistical analysis of some league players, would there be any possible way for me to draw 100 random summoners over 1200 (need to be able to track elo)?

sure? random number generator between 1-294511, pick 100 numbers, look up the players at those positions on the ladder here: http://competitive.na.leagueoflegends.com/ladders/na/current/rankedsolo5x5?summoner_name=&page=0 then watch them on LoLking?
mogwaismusings.wordpress.com
gtrsrs
Profile Joined June 2010
United States9109 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-28 18:48:11
June 28 2012 18:47 GMT
#3953
i think soraka is still the best support
a carefully played soraka lane has a rough level 1-4, but then level 5 hits and there's just straight up nothing you can do to kill either of them except 5man gank
plus, soraka/graves lane, lol real balanced

janna is extremely close behind because she compliments just about everyone and can go offensive as well as defensive

the rest are pretty far behind, probably
alistar -> taric -> blitz -> sona -> leona though leona could actually be much higher depending on the lane, and blitz could be #1 depending on the skill discrepancy between blitz and his opponents
i play ... hearthstone =\^.^/= Winterfox
Slusher
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States19143 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-28 18:51:41
June 28 2012 18:50 GMT
#3954
On June 29 2012 03:46 Mogwai wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 29 2012 03:30 Slusher wrote:
Serious question, if I wanted to do a statistical analysis of some league players, would there be any possible way for me to draw 100 random summoners over 1200 (need to be able to track elo)?

sure? random number generator between 1-294511, pick 100 numbers, look up the players at those positions on the ladder here: http://competitive.na.leagueoflegends.com/ladders/na/current/rankedsolo5x5?summoner_name=&page=0 then watch them on LoLking?


going to use LoL king, might subscribe to elo buff to enhance it (if it is better any advice is appreciated.) I can't tell you what I am tracking until after I know none of you made it lol.

but yea main problem is I didn't know how to get an SRS. (yes this is for class) I know I'm going to look like a huge nerd but I really want to do it on something I actually give a shit about so it turns out good instead of rehashing freakenomics to the class (which is basically what I expect from everyone else)
Carrilord has arrived.
MethodSC
Profile Joined December 2010
United States928 Posts
June 28 2012 19:01 GMT
#3955
On June 29 2012 03:21 bosiddon wrote:
why does everyone have such a boner for blitz/naut/malph now


malph has always been really strong, just underused. blitz can be hit and miss but meh don't really think he's that great overall. naut is naut.
Perplex
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1693 Posts
June 28 2012 19:02 GMT
#3956
track me slusher track me!
http://www.lolking.net/summoner/na/24238059
Mogwai
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States13274 Posts
June 28 2012 19:04 GMT
#3957
On June 29 2012 03:47 gtrsrs wrote:
i think soraka is still the best support
a carefully played soraka lane has a rough level 1-4, but then level 5 hits and there's just straight up nothing you can do to kill either of them except 5man gank
plus, soraka/graves lane, lol real balanced

janna is extremely close behind because she compliments just about everyone and can go offensive as well as defensive

the rest are pretty far behind, probably
alistar -> taric -> blitz -> sona -> leona though leona could actually be much higher depending on the lane, and blitz could be #1 depending on the skill discrepancy between blitz and his opponents

except that that's not how it works. Soraka's heal doesn't magically become untouchable @ rank 3, I have no idea what you're talking about. Soraka lanes still die to just jungle ganks more than Janna lanes because Janna lanes just lol knock u all up (and blow you all away if she's level 6). She's stronger in an untouched lane, sure, but Janna's better on both sides of ganks and past laning Janna makes Soraka look like a joke.
mogwaismusings.wordpress.com
PrinceXizor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States17713 Posts
June 28 2012 19:05 GMT
#3958
After today, I am done with LoL. I just can't be bothered to put effort into a game to improve, when the game itself is so miserable, and the ladder system so broken, that improvement is impossible.

Uninstalling now.

Been fun guys (kinda). Wish all of you luck. and my parting wisdom:


Karma is good bottom lane as support against vayne, graves, corki.

Support fiddle is amazing against any non taric/ali support.

LoL pro players go too often for the 5th kill over an objective.

LoL Pro players don't use the bush well enough to harrass in bot lane they use it too much for attempted kills to force wards to be placed in them.

you guys have been overwhelmingly cool, unlike the rest of the community. Off to play dota instead :3 Thanks for being a cool community here.
Navi
Profile Joined November 2009
5286 Posts
June 28 2012 19:06 GMT
#3959
On June 29 2012 03:01 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 29 2012 02:55 TheYango wrote:
On June 29 2012 02:47 Slusher wrote:
Janna more relevant in a teamfight than TF imo. also I don't see how her ganking could be that bad, compared to tf sure, but compared to any other mid, one of the fastest characters in the game with W leveled, and has a slow and a knockup.

You need rank 3 or 4 Q to instaclear ranged minions (depending on how aggressively you get early game AP), which means you can't really get your 2nd rank W until 7 or 8 against guys that can trade instaclears with you. Lots of APs with strong ganks kick in much sooner than that.

On June 29 2012 02:53 jcarlsoniv wrote:
TF doesn't work nearly as well against champions that can instaclear just as easily as he can. They both clear the wave at the same time...ok, then what? TF wants to gank with his ult? If the mid is any good, he has his sides warded so he can see if TF tries anything funky. Janna can stop TF ults with any decent level of map awareness. If they are both just running to the lane for the gank, I'd personally prefer to have the AP Janna on my side.

How do you propose Janna stops TF ultimate when she has to wait 10-12 seconds after her instaclear to be able to Q again? Run into enemy jungle and ult him?


If that's her only option at the time? Absolutely. Keeping TF from getting kills early with his ult is paramount in beating him. If a team is engaging with the expectation that TF is about to pop in and help, preventing him from doing so can turn the tides significantly.

no
Too many routes for tf to take( from base behind jungle etc) also if janna can "predict" his movements with wards tf can see with wards of his own and bait. To have near full protection she needs to ward deep (risky in and of itself) in multiple locations and even then that does not cover in lane gonks.
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mordek
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States12705 Posts
June 28 2012 19:07 GMT
#3960
Best of luck!
It is vanity to love what passes quickly and not to look ahead where eternal joy abides. Tiberius77 | Mordek #1881 "I took a mint!"
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