[Patch 3.01: Season 3] General Discussion - Page 74

On February 04 2013 16:33 Eiii wrote:
guys

jungle nasus

jungle stack changes + crit buff = unstoppable lategame force.

seriously, I was one shotting their carries with my q. do it.

On February 04 2013 16:51 Cuddle wrote:
Maknoon AmA: http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/17utof/najin_sword_maknoon_ama/

"who's the AD carry that you're most scared of?"

- loco. when he play on my team we always lose. joke haha.

Nr.1 troll.

On February 04 2013 16:55 onlywonderboy wrote:

Favorite NA team is Curse, kid has good taste.

On February 04 2013 17:23 WhiteDog wrote:

This is an interesting theory. And where is the ennemy ? In Olaf's strongarms brothers ? Or in Twisted Fate's Outdated wardrobe ?

On February 04 2013 16:38 onlywonderboy wrote:

So is this a bug or what? Haven't seen any comment from Riot.

On February 04 2013 17:26 Eiii wrote:


I really hope not! Or if it is, they don't fix it. Being able to crit for 3k is exactly what nasus needed to become viable again

On February 04 2013 17:47 red_ wrote:


Is his Q applying the on-hit damage before crit calculation or something?

On February 04 2013 17:23 WhiteDog wrote:

This is an interesting theory. And where is the ennemy ? In Olaf's strongarms brothers ? Or in Twisted Fate's Outdated wardrobe ?

On February 04 2013 17:51 Amui wrote:


No. Before, the base AD portion of the skill would crit, the bonus damage would not. Now the whole thing crits so you can get insanity damage lategame.

Would be a ticking time bomb though, because after a certain point when nasus crits for 2k+, nobody will survive if nasus gets a crit or two. To put it in perspective that's like half a lategame zed's combo in one hit.

On every Q crit you get (110+Qstack)*critmod extra damage over the old one.

On February 04 2013 18:22 red_ wrote:


So TLDR: yes red, exactly what you said.

On February 04 2013 16:19 WaveofShadow wrote:
Hopefully this will really let teams worldwide know how much strategy there really is involved in LoL and the idea of a metagame is easily countered with the right amount of thought.

On February 04 2013 18:22 red_ wrote:


So TLDR: yes red, exactly what you said.

On February 04 2013 18:28 TheYango wrote:

I mean, this isn't an issue that's exclusive to LoL. "Metagame", FotMs, and general bandwagoning are common in every competitive game.

There are a couple elements to it:
- For anything but the best teams, it's easier to gauge progress/improvement in execution than in a new strategy. If you copy a known strategy, its easier to drill your execution and compare your faults with those of better teams. If you're creating something new, it's harder to disjoin the flaws in your execution from the flaws in your strategy.
- It's "safer" for a team to copycat strategy and just practice execution. If you spend 100 hours practicing execution, that practice often applies to whatever strategy you may use in the future. If you spend 100 hours coming up with and refining a new strategy, and that strategy becomes obsolete for one reason or another, you might be left with nothing.

I don't think the issue is that teams don't know how much strategy there is in League, or believe that the metagame is well-ingrained, but the risk/reward of spending your practice time on drilling execution vs. developing strategy favors execution unless you're one of the very best.