On March 21 2013 04:33 Seuss wrote: All this talk of 5s play makes me wish I was on a 5s team again.
I know that feel man. I've been having to resort to playing ranked 5s with my bronze friends to single handedly carry them to silver...not fun times at all. I miss playing on competitive teams lol. Really wish they'd do some biweekly tournaments or something via client for IP or special skins to promote more play for amateur ranked 5s teams. As it is most people stand no chance of making it to challenger to even further hope to compete in LCS. Pretty demotivating.
On March 21 2013 04:33 Seuss wrote: All this talk of 5s play makes me wish I was on a 5s team again.
I know that feel man. I've been having to resort to playing ranked 5s with my bronze friends to single handedly carry them to silver...not fun times at all. I miss playing on competitive teams lol. Really wish they'd do some biweekly tournaments or something via client for IP or special skins to promote more play for amateur ranked 5s teams. As it is most people stand no chance of making it to challenger to even further hope to compete in LCS. Pretty demotivating.
I'm one of those weird people who just enjoys improving as a team, and as an individual. It's why I raided and lead a guild in WoW.
I just don't really have the time to try and lead/coordinate a semi-serious 5s team at the moment, at least not without sacrificing Mondays with Monte and T.R.O.L.L.S.
On March 21 2013 04:33 red_ wrote: Anyone know what this Syndra bug is? Currently disabled.
She can disable Blue permanently by placing it a special spot. Untargetable and doesn't spawn.
If only she could pull a Rubik and do that to champs, imagine the rage.
I think you mean:
If only [LoL Champ] could do that [DotA Hero] thing. Imagine the rage. =D
That's a pretty fair point lol, but also I think there was a bug where Rubik could like put champs up on terrain they usually couldn't get to (where people usually place wards). I swear I read that somewhere. I was specifically comparing bugs this time.
On March 21 2013 04:33 red_ wrote: Anyone know what this Syndra bug is? Currently disabled.
She can disable Blue permanently by placing it a special spot. Untargetable and doesn't spawn.
If only she could pull a Rubik and do that to champs, imagine the rage.
I think you mean:
If only [LoL Champ] could do that [DotA Hero] thing. Imagine the rage. =D
That's a pretty fair point lol, but also I think there was a bug where Rubik could like put champs up on terrain they usually couldn't get to (where people usually place wards). I swear I read that somewhere. I was specifically comparing bugs this time.
No, you're totally right. =D
Laughing at the absurd abilities of DotA Heroes (and items, as someone pointed out) is one of my favorite pastimes. That's neither here nor there though.
On March 21 2013 03:51 gtrsrs wrote: <<<< also, most of the good TL theorycrafters? i get a decent handful of ideas that i then bring to my team, from teamliquid, as you saw at the LCS (warmogs/sunfire on every top that cris ran, elise [though the team overrode me and wouldn't spam her], etc). there are tons of players on this forum alone that understand the game better than a lot of the more mechanically gifted players.
That wasn't theorycraft, that was TL actually paying attention to OGN games. Anyone could have gleaned the same knowledge watching Korean top lane play in OGN.
The only thing that could be considered "theorycraft" from TL at the time that eventually came into use was Locket being OP as balls. And later, Monte's discovery of jungle Nasus, though with the crit Q bug, I think that would have been a thing regardless.
Incidentally, Diamondprox was the one to show both of these to the world. Obviously this must mean that Diamondprox is secretly a TLer.
I think it was scip who said locket was OP even before the patch came into effect. But really, it wasn't that hard to tell if people just looked at the numbers. I'm pretty sure everything "innovative" NAers do comes from Asia. But people either ignore or are stubborn. I remember asking Crumbz what he thought about the OGN club masters games and he had an entirely dismissive attitude saying something like, oh I saw this one jungler go spirit stone and madreds so I stopped watching. Obv hilarious now in hindsight. At the level NA teams play at, especially at the amateur level, being "innovative" should be the last concern because the real problem is making too many dumb mistakes that no one exploits because everyone else is equally bad. All of that came into light at MLG. BUT ITS OKAY WE ALL UNDERSTAND THE GAME.
You're putting so many words into peoples' mouths it's embarrassing. Good talk.
we can't discount the idea that a lot of people silver-gold think they understand this game though.
Nobody ever did. Thus the putting words in mouths bit.
Does anyone actually enjoy this? I feel like it's just perpetuating a stereotype of 'NA drives on attention' at this point.
On March 21 2013 03:52 xes wrote:
On March 21 2013 03:43 Serelitz wrote: All I meant was champions almost never randomly become popular without any changes whatsoever, especially not straight up bad champs.
Sivir was considered worse than the "Trinity" of AD Carries at the end of S2, especially after a bunch of nerfs as well.
And then CLG came up with a team that made it work and won enough games that Sivir became a ban because no one had the time to figure out how to beat it.
That's true - speaking of 'Trinity", I have to say Riot's balancing in S3 is a lot better than I expected. Toplane/Junglers are a bit boring with Renek/Elise/Rumble/Singed and Vi/J4/Xin but other than that champion diversity is in a really good spot atm.
I find it actually really painful to watch and probably won't be watching anymore. Watching these 20-somethings act like 12 year old preteens is extremely cringe-worthy. I can't honestly listen to TOO half the time because he is just incapable of expressing himself like a normal person.
TSM doesn't act any differently from the majority of early 20s guys I know to be honest.
On March 21 2013 04:31 Dusty wrote: Headhunter Nidalee is in the store if anybody here is interested in it
Thx for the notice, insta buy^^
funnily I just finally bought HOTS today and started playing the campaign, blizzard still #1 cinematics and Kerrigan dat ass.
Do yourself a favor and play it on Brutal or at least Hard the first time around.
I always play games on the hardest available mode nowadays because I don't have time to play it twice, that's why it sucks that God of War only starts with hard and unlocks titan after you finnished the game once ~~
On March 21 2013 04:33 red_ wrote: Anyone know what this Syndra bug is? Currently disabled.
She can disable Blue permanently by placing it a special spot. Untargetable and doesn't spawn.
If only she could pull a Rubik and do that to champs, imagine the rage.
I think you mean:
If only [LoL Champ] could do that [DotA Hero] thing. Imagine the rage. =D
That's a pretty fair point lol, but also I think there was a bug where Rubik could like put champs up on terrain they usually couldn't get to (where people usually place wards). I swear I read that somewhere. I was specifically comparing bugs this time.
it's not technically a bug in DotA since it's still allowed
@Kupon3ss: forcing someone to recall is still a huge disadvantage, plus you can also AA them to cancel recall
On March 21 2013 04:31 Dusty wrote: Headhunter Nidalee is in the store if anybody here is interested in it
Thx for the notice, insta buy^^
funnily I just finally bought HOTS today and started playing the campaign, blizzard still #1 cinematics and Kerrigan dat ass.
Do yourself a favor and play it on Brutal or at least Hard the first time around.
I always play games on the hardest available mode nowadays because I don't have time to play it twice, that's why it sucks that God of War only starts with hard and unlocks titan after you finnished the game once ~~
I wish those came out for PC - all of my friends and I own either xboxes or nintendo stuff so I always miss out on awesome PS games. god of War looks so cool too.
On March 21 2013 04:33 red_ wrote: Anyone know what this Syndra bug is? Currently disabled.
She can disable Blue permanently by placing it a special spot. Untargetable and doesn't spawn.
If only she could pull a Rubik and do that to champs, imagine the rage.
I think you mean:
If only [LoL Champ] could do that [DotA Hero] thing. Imagine the rage. =D
That's a pretty fair point lol, but also I think there was a bug where Rubik could like put champs up on terrain they usually couldn't get to (where people usually place wards). I swear I read that somewhere. I was specifically comparing bugs this time.
it's not technically a bug in DotA since it's still allowed
@Kupon3ss: forcing someone to recall is still a huge disadvantage, plus you can also AA them to cancel recall
It is a bug in DotA because it's an inconsistency with DotA 1.
DotA 1 has most of the inaccessible spots coded to be untargetable for Telekinesis Land. Valve just recently started adding this to DotA 2--the inconsistency is a bug.
On March 21 2013 04:51 Kupon3ss wrote: buts its ok.. cuz in lol u'd just recall
HAHAHAHAHA that's a really good point. Teleport technology in Runeterra much more advanced. No waiting for my flying horse to deliver me my teleportation scroll lol.
On March 21 2013 04:33 Seuss wrote: All this talk of 5s play makes me wish I was on a 5s team again.
I know that feel man. I've been having to resort to playing ranked 5s with my bronze friends to single handedly carry them to silver...not fun times at all. I miss playing on competitive teams lol. Really wish they'd do some biweekly tournaments or something via client for IP or special skins to promote more play for amateur ranked 5s teams. As it is most people stand no chance of making it to challenger to even further hope to compete in LCS. Pretty demotivating.
I'm one of those weird people who just enjoys improving as a team, and as an individual. It's why I raided and lead a guild in WoW.
I just don't really have the time to try and lead/coordinate a semi-serious 5s team at the moment, at least not without sacrificing Mondays with Monte and T.R.O.L.L.S.
I wish, I WISH I had time for this. I wish I had time to play anything but maybe one bot game a day.
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