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Caphe
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Vietnam10817 Posts
December 20 2012 09:20 GMT
#1861
So there is a Vi bug that Dyrus is posting right now at /r/leagueoflegends. Basically somehow it prevents people from using any of her ability at all.
Terran
Irave
Profile Joined October 2010
United States9965 Posts
December 20 2012 09:22 GMT
#1862
She needs help. It feels like playing a slightly stronger but less useful Alistar. Her combo is a lot easier though.
JALbert
Profile Joined March 2011
United States484 Posts
December 20 2012 10:18 GMT
#1863
On December 20 2012 17:24 BlasiuS wrote:

She has huge bonus AD scaling, and her passive scales with health, and she has troubles sticking to a target, so I build health + AD + cc:



Her passive scales just as much with resistances as it does with her HP.
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chalice
Profile Joined September 2010
United States1945 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-20 10:25:10
December 20 2012 10:24 GMT
#1864
i've never played with ezreal, but im guessing his Q is like 10x more intuitive and easy to use than the tiny range, pain in the ass that phosphorous bomb is
Dandel Ion
Profile Joined November 2010
Austria17960 Posts
December 20 2012 10:53 GMT
#1865
On December 20 2012 19:24 chalice wrote:
i've never played with ezreal, but im guessing his Q is like 10x more intuitive and easy to use than the tiny range, pain in the ass that phosphorous bomb is

Both are pretty easy to hit.

pbomb: Use right after autoattacking him, guaranteed hit. (range is longer than AA, so even if he walks back)
mystic shot: use while the opponent autoattacks, guaranteed hit.


The reason I personally rather play Ez is that his escape with arcane shift is far more reliable than valkyrie. With valk you sometimes need baller timing, with ez you just E away, ezpz
A backwards poet writes inverse.
nafta
Profile Joined August 2010
Bulgaria18893 Posts
December 20 2012 11:56 GMT
#1866
Also if you have cdr/hit q-s your e is up almost 24/7 compared to corki who has quite a long cd on his.And corki's w is interuptable by so many cc's....Lastly if you are behind as ez you can q and farm from range while with corki you can't really do that.
Mystogun
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States392 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-20 12:02:31
December 20 2012 11:58 GMT
#1867
On December 20 2012 17:24 BlasiuS wrote:
Vi thoughts (I played her top lane):

She does lots of damage, but it's somewhat hard to initiate with Q, since to get the full range you give the opponent TONS of time to run away. Now obviously most of the people I played against didn't know her at all, so I was able to land most of my Qs, but as people learn her I doubt this will keep happening.

She does huge damage with a full combo, which is Q -> auto -> E (reset)-> auto -> E (reset)-> auto -> ult -> auto (-> ignite) even with only dorans. However I've found that during most of the game, I have extreme trouble sticking to people once I Q. It's only a short knockup, plus the animation on her E is pretty slow; if I'm behind on movement speed, they can get away pretty easily after one E.

Itemization:

She has huge bonus AD scaling, and her passive scales with health, and she has troubles sticking to a target, so I build health + AD + cc:

BC + mallet + BotRK. BC + mallet are core on her, they are probably the two best health + AD items for her, and mallet helps with her sticking power issues. After that, situational depending on teamcomp/game flow. Warmog's is good for general tank, mercurial scimitar if they have lots of cc, atma's for armor, Maw for MR, GA if I'm fed.

I don't like CDR on her, since her W is a passive, and her E has a cooldown of 1 second, so CDR would only help her Q and ult. I also don't think AS is needed due to Q, same for armor pen. I think BC is plenty armor pen for her. Haven't tried crit on her, but seems mostly useless since you don't build lots of crit/AS, and you'll be too squishy if you do. Have read that people are going Tri-Force + warmog's, but I tried that one game and couldn't stick to anyone worth a damn.

Always start doran's, due to giving health + AD. I've been doing doran x2 -> boots -> some combination of brutalizer/phage/bilgewater


W is a passive, but I was under the impression that CDR worked on her E counter, as in the more CDR she has the faster she generates charges of E. For this reason, I really appreciate CDR on Vi. Bruta/Kindle->SV/Glacial gets you to 40% pretty cleanly, and gets Vi a good mix of health, MR, and armor, making her into a pretty solid tank. I typically build the Glacial into an Iceborn Gauntlet, and with E it makes for some pretty easy sticking. Being tanky enough to ult into teamfights and not get insta-bursted down is pretty significant for her, imo. And the mixed resists and health is great for her passive, considering how it scales with both.

Core: Bruta, Kindle, Glacial

For starts, I haven't really gotten around to figuring out what's good; Doran's is probably solid for being aggressive early, but depending on the lane I could also see flask, charm, and pots.

Masteries-wise I've been running 9/21/0, and I've been skilling Q-W-E-Q-Q-R. R>Q>E>W. The reduced CD on Q is really big. Getting the dash down to a 5.2sec CD is pretty solid. Max CDR also gets E charge reload time to 5.2 seconds as well. With good spacing, you can have the Gauntlet proc up for pretty much forever in teamfights.
"What I'm sayin' is that there are known knowns and there are known unknowns, but there's also unknown unknowns, things that we don't know we don't know." | SC2: NoiSe.730 | LoL: Galladiator
Cubu
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
1171 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-20 12:15:34
December 20 2012 12:13 GMT
#1868
i got a free corki, i.e, it just became available to play today, not a gift from another player and not on the free champion rotation. Is this a glitch or is this what riot usually gives to people once they achieve a certain amounts of wins, games or whatever?
Tobberoth
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden6375 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-20 12:24:43
December 20 2012 12:24 GMT
#1869
On December 20 2012 21:13 Cubu wrote:
i got a free corki, i.e, it just became available to play today, not a gift from another player and not on the free champion rotation. Is this a glitch or is this what riot usually gives to people once they achieve a certain amounts of wins, games or whatever?

Doubtfull. Corki was on a sale recently, why would one buy him if you just get him for free for no reason?

You probably just missed that someone gifted him to you.
WhiteDog
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France8650 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-20 12:49:32
December 20 2012 12:34 GMT
#1870
I've played various build with Vi (HP/resist/ad or ad/resist) and I have the best success with riven like build - black cleaver, bt, GA, Last whisper. If you don't get enough resist, you're just irrelevant at a certain point of the game aside from using your ult.
I prefer letting someone else engage and get tanky, and just ult during the team fight to pick out carry.

On December 20 2012 11:43 Parnage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2012 11:32 HazMat wrote:
My friend just gifted me Trundle. Not even a skin for Trundle, straight up the champion.
And then he gifted our other friend Viktor. Not a skin, the champion.

That's what I call a dedicated troll.


The terrors to befall the people on your team now..
In more Vi related news..
I honestly don't know how I'd want to skill up Vi for jungle, thoughts?

E first should be better for jungle but again if you don't max Q first you will have no mobility whatsoever (yeah one dash every 18 s...) so I'm still maxing Q.
"every time WhiteDog overuses the word "seriously" in a comment I can make an observation on his fragile emotional state." MoltkeWarding
Noocta
Profile Joined June 2010
France12578 Posts
December 20 2012 12:44 GMT
#1871
On December 20 2012 18:08 overt wrote:
I think Ez E versus Corki W is really the biggest advantage you get with Ez. Come late game Corki R is much better poke than Ez Q. Corki's burst is higher, he's gonna do a ton more damage in late game fights, and his biggest problem is just that valk can be fucked up by the enemy team.

But in lane if a jungler is coming to gank and you don't get it messed up Valkyrie is way better than Essence Flux just because of the huge range it covers. I also just really like Corki and am sick of seeing Ez all the time when I think that Corki is definitely 100% better than Ezreal now that Ez W is nerfed. People just don't like managing mana on their ADC (which is understandable).


There''s thing that will never change.
Corki vs Ezreal is like the ultimate carry comparaison since 2 years already.
" I'm not gonna fight you. I'm gonna kick your ass ! "
Broetchenholer
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany1950 Posts
December 20 2012 12:57 GMT
#1872
I think i made the huge mistake of spending 6300 IP on Varus to increase my AD-Roster. Have been playing him in blind picks with friends and the guy feels pretty crappy. My usual carries are Tristana/Sivir/Vayne and i don't see where Varus could ever fit in. He has decent harass but relies too much on hitting autos for it. His range is good but having to be so offensive feels really unsafe for me. The time you spend harassing is just too long for my taste. As Trist, i harass with e+ Auto, as sivir, i harass with Q + Auto + W combo, as Vayne, if you ever harass, it's a single q. Varus needs to do 3 autos and a skillshot to really out-harass anyone. Sure, if you are really good about landing Qs, you might not need blight stacks, but that's not my thing. If you are able to hit all your stuff, your harass is really good, but that would only happen if your support can zone really hard for you. And the lack of an escape skill hurts as well, if you have to be in your creeps all the time to take advantage of the kit. So, as a lane-bully, he feels too exposed, as a lategame-carry he is bad except for his ult and his midgame is good i guess. Has anyone found a niche where to play him?
SnK-Arcbound
Profile Joined March 2005
United States4423 Posts
December 20 2012 13:09 GMT
#1873
On December 20 2012 21:57 Broetchenholer wrote:
I think i made the huge mistake of spending 6300 IP on Varus to increase my AD-Roster. Have been playing him in blind picks with friends and the guy feels pretty crappy. My usual carries are Tristana/Sivir/Vayne and i don't see where Varus could ever fit in. He has decent harass but relies too much on hitting autos for it. His range is good but having to be so offensive feels really unsafe for me. The time you spend harassing is just too long for my taste. As Trist, i harass with e+ Auto, as sivir, i harass with Q + Auto + W combo, as Vayne, if you ever harass, it's a single q. Varus needs to do 3 autos and a skillshot to really out-harass anyone. Sure, if you are really good about landing Qs, you might not need blight stacks, but that's not my thing. If you are able to hit all your stuff, your harass is really good, but that would only happen if your support can zone really hard for you. And the lack of an escape skill hurts as well, if you have to be in your creeps all the time to take advantage of the kit. So, as a lane-bully, he feels too exposed, as a lategame-carry he is bad except for his ult and his midgame is good i guess. Has anyone found a niche where to play him?

Play him like twitch. Trade autos, then Boom you win the trade. Lategame play him like ashe.
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9781 Posts
December 20 2012 13:10 GMT
#1874
On December 20 2012 21:57 Broetchenholer wrote:
I think i made the huge mistake of spending 6300 IP on Varus to increase my AD-Roster. Have been playing him in blind picks with friends and the guy feels pretty crappy. My usual carries are Tristana/Sivir/Vayne and i don't see where Varus could ever fit in. He has decent harass but relies too much on hitting autos for it. His range is good but having to be so offensive feels really unsafe for me. The time you spend harassing is just too long for my taste. As Trist, i harass with e+ Auto, as sivir, i harass with Q + Auto + W combo, as Vayne, if you ever harass, it's a single q. Varus needs to do 3 autos and a skillshot to really out-harass anyone. Sure, if you are really good about landing Qs, you might not need blight stacks, but that's not my thing. If you are able to hit all your stuff, your harass is really good, but that would only happen if your support can zone really hard for you. And the lack of an escape skill hurts as well, if you have to be in your creeps all the time to take advantage of the kit. So, as a lane-bully, he feels too exposed, as a lategame-carry he is bad except for his ult and his midgame is good i guess. Has anyone found a niche where to play him?

Tristana Sivir and Vayne have almost nothing in common rofl. I guess at level one they're all 550 or below but other than that...

Tristana's laning has pretty much always been bursting someone down, sivir can't trade autos with enemy ads at all unless their support is useless, and vayne only gains the upper hand in trades when she abuses bad positioning.

Varus is good in lane. You're playing him wrong. Try maxing E instead of Q, and don't be afraid of popping W early on one or two stacks when someone's disengaging. His lack of escape isn't a problem if you have two of the three:
Good kiting
Good peels
No enemy gapclosers
His ult and to an extent his e means that melees without actual gapclosers that aren't ms buffs absolutely cannot touch you.
boomer hands
Broetchenholer
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany1950 Posts
December 20 2012 13:34 GMT
#1875
Yeah, i never said those 3 have anything in common, that's why i play them Tristana for extreme safe lanes with no real counter, so i can first pick her. Sivir if i am only afraid of the cc support that is easy to spell shield, so blitz and Taric lanes. Vayne if the enemy has an incredibly defensive lane like ashe soraka or sth like that. THe point is, all 3 shine really bright in their role. As sivir, i am hyperagressive and all-in/trade all day, winning the lane. As Trist, i have good/safe laning and excel in late game, as Vayne, i have ridiculous late/midgame-power if i make it out of laning. With these 3, i can play succesful vs anylane bot.

Maxing E seems like a good idea. Admittedly, i had really bad supports with me in those games, but still, he didn't seem strong cause so vulerable.
Cubu
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
1171 Posts
December 20 2012 14:02 GMT
#1876
On December 20 2012 21:24 Tobberoth wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2012 21:13 Cubu wrote:
i got a free corki, i.e, it just became available to play today, not a gift from another player and not on the free champion rotation. Is this a glitch or is this what riot usually gives to people once they achieve a certain amounts of wins, games or whatever?

Doubtfull. Corki was on a sale recently, why would one buy him if you just get him for free for no reason?

You probably just missed that someone gifted him to you.

yeah it was weird. But then i read a notice on the front page about free ufo corki skin if lol wins 2012 korea's most popular game award with a disclaimer saying that people who do not have corki will get it for free. So i guess it was riot afterall.
Scip
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Czech Republic11293 Posts
December 20 2012 14:13 GMT
#1877
I'm not going to be online for like 24 hours, that's going to be the longest time I won't be online in like, several months. I love living in Europe. Lol
"It may be pleasurable for some of us to imagine being ravished" - Christopher Hitchens in a debate with feminists RIP 2011 Psalm 2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
Crownlol
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States3726 Posts
December 20 2012 14:30 GMT
#1878
On December 19 2012 14:39 Vei wrote:
How can I get better at last-hitting? It seems like such a trivial mechanic, yet people like Doubelift are doubling my CS basically.

Just paying really really close attention? Doesn't it seem like sometimes minions re-target new minions very strangely? (Not that this is anywhere near the cause of most of missed cs)



What Yango said. There's a great guide laying around here somewhere on the mechanics of it, but you should keep in mind that any time spent NOT getting gold, you're slowly falling behind. I watched Doublelift's Cait once, and the stuff he did to boost cs was unreal. For example, he'd just gone top to save top tower, then had to rotate to bot lane. On the way, he cleared every jungle camp. His mechanics were so smooth, using net to jump over walls, only doing the minimum damage required to get kills, that he essentially lost 0 time clearing jungle on the way.

For example, he'd net over from mid to wraiths, use the aoe, then only stutterstep enough to kill the wraiths as they reached max leash range. It wasn't just stuttering on cd, but running as much as possible and shooting as little as possible. Great stuff.

But the best advice for boosting CS is to always, always be thinking about it, even in mid and lategame.
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Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
December 20 2012 14:36 GMT
#1879
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=32646722#post32646722

Thank God, maybe I'll actually be able to pick Volibear without feeling like I'm screwing my team over.
It's your boy Guzma!
barbsq
Profile Joined November 2009
United States5348 Posts
December 20 2012 14:40 GMT
#1880
On December 20 2012 23:02 Cubu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2012 21:24 Tobberoth wrote:
On December 20 2012 21:13 Cubu wrote:
i got a free corki, i.e, it just became available to play today, not a gift from another player and not on the free champion rotation. Is this a glitch or is this what riot usually gives to people once they achieve a certain amounts of wins, games or whatever?

Doubtfull. Corki was on a sale recently, why would one buy him if you just get him for free for no reason?

You probably just missed that someone gifted him to you.

yeah it was weird. But then i read a notice on the front page about free ufo corki skin if lol wins 2012 korea's most popular game award with a disclaimer saying that people who do not have corki will get it for free. So i guess it was riot afterall.

fuck, they did that again? Now i can't be all hipster with my ufo corki.....
Look at this guy, constantly diluting himself! (╮°-°)╮┳━┳ ( ╯°□°)╯ ┻━┻
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