Edit: uh, I hit way too many first posts of a page with contextless live report. Vlad just survived a trade with 50 HP, wave's under HSGG's tower, Link recalls in the enemy bush instead of just running back to tower and dies for it when Chauster comes.
Well with MP having literally zero ward coverage 10 minutes in, it's their own fault. Zzz indeed.
I'm surprised CLG.na actually comfortable playing vayne in a 2v2 lane, especially against an Ez. I mean I know doublelift is one of the few AD's that can pull it off, (and he's doing well this game), but it just feels almost like an unnecessary risk.
CLG.na doing the TSM strategy. Camp mid all game. NPNPNP
And MP playing so bad... another useless Ezreal death as he turns back to Vane for I dunno which reason, but it allows DL to get the condemn (featuring a stun) that gives him a kill.
Well I'm kind of a negative Nancy in those live reports, but seeing all those mistakes back-to-back tends to depress me, when even a mediocre player like me can complain about so much it's hard to get excited by a match that's going to end in a stomp if nothing changes. :/
On October 27 2012 13:21 Scip wrote: It just seems strange because I usually prefer to have someone with an initiating skills toplane, rather than a second AP. If I had to choose the best toplane for Skarner (not factoring in the enemy teamcomp) I would usually go for Malphite rather than someone like Vlad or Rumble or Swain or Diana.
You could definitely do it with Malph, so long as you can supplement the lack of damage (assuming you're wasting your ult for someone skarner ulted on). Like with Sivir/Graves/Corki/Ez.
What I mean is, you shouldn't need your top laner to have sick burst to blow up someone. Better to have a bruiser-buddy and/or initiator in midgame imo. Kinda like Malph, Shen, Jax etc.
On October 27 2012 13:21 Scip wrote: It just seems strange because I usually prefer to have someone with an initiating skills toplane, rather than a second AP. If I had to choose the best toplane for Skarner (not factoring in the enemy teamcomp) I would usually go for Malphite rather than someone like Vlad or Rumble or Swain or Diana.
You could definitely do it with Malph, so long as you can supplement the lack of damage (assuming you're wasting your ult for someone skarner ulted on). Like with Sivir/Graves/Corki/Ez.
What I mean is, you shouldn't need your top laner to have sick burst to blow up someone. Better to have a bruiser-buddy and/or initiator in midgame imo. Kinda like Malph, Shen, Jax etc.
Are you arguing that Jax lacks burst? I included Jayce/Olaf/Jax because they're popular bruisers with enough burst to be part of such a comp, hence the differenciation from double AP.
On October 27 2012 13:21 Scip wrote: It just seems strange because I usually prefer to have someone with an initiating skills toplane, rather than a second AP. If I had to choose the best toplane for Skarner (not factoring in the enemy teamcomp) I would usually go for Malphite rather than someone like Vlad or Rumble or Swain or Diana.
You could definitely do it with Malph, so long as you can supplement the lack of damage (assuming you're wasting your ult for someone skarner ulted on). Like with Sivir/Graves/Corki/Ez.
What I mean is, you shouldn't need your top laner to have sick burst to blow up someone. Better to have a bruiser-buddy and/or initiator in midgame imo. Kinda like Malph, Shen, Jax etc.
Are you arguing that Jax lacks burst? I included Jayce/Olaf/Jax because they're popular bruisers with enough burst to be part of such a comp, hence the differenciation from double AP.
No, I am arguing that you don't need jax to blow up the person you pull in, but he can fight the rest of the guys with his 2 second invincibility or something like that.
Edit: is 500 posts a good-post worthy milestone or not?
All this talk about sc2 is dying because all their players are going to LoL and Team Liquid supported DoTA2 over LoL! Damn you TL! <3 Anyway, still haven't seen a good Elise yet today, but god damn that Rappel is annoying as shit.
On October 27 2012 14:01 nanospartan wrote: Random question here from a sub 30's noob, what does peeling mean?
Its when you get the enemy champions off your ADC. For example if I'm playing Alistar, I'll headbutt people away from my ADC to protect her from being killed or hurt.
On October 27 2012 13:33 wei2coolman wrote: I'm surprised CLG.na actually comfortable playing vayne in a 2v2 lane, especially against an Ez. I mean I know doublelift is one of the few AD's that can pull it off, (and he's doing well this game), but it just feels almost like an unnecessary risk.
CLG.na doing the TSM strategy. Camp mid all game. NPNPNP
HSGG's new name: CampMidGG
Probably because they got blue side which gives them a slight advantage for bottom lane, and Doubledoco don't feel the enemy team's bot lane is good enough either.
On October 27 2012 14:01 nanospartan wrote: Random question here from a sub 30's noob, what does peeling mean?
Say a Warwick is trying to get into melee range (or just range for his R) to attack your ADC, you can prevent this as Janna by using your Q, W, and/or R... aka peeling. Alistar and Janna are probably the best peelers (as far as supports are concerned) at doing this, although almost all champions can peel to a certain extent.