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onlywonderboy
Profile Joined August 2012
United States23745 Posts
April 18 2013 06:20 GMT
#2021
On April 18 2013 14:57 ticklishmusic wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2013 14:18 WaveofShadow wrote:
On April 18 2013 13:39 Dusty wrote:
they should call themselves 'Chicks Dig LP" imoimo

editing post to prevent doublepost-

http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1cl4hs/special_azubu_tpa_skins_coming_on_tw_server/

TPA S2Worlds themed skins; this looks cool as fuck,

Wow....those are amazing.


why is there no nidalee


This was the comp they won game 4 with.
RIP Ryan Davis / TL or Die / @onlywonderboy
Zess
Profile Joined July 2012
Adun Toridas!9144 Posts
April 18 2013 06:27 GMT
#2022
On April 18 2013 15:15 iCanada wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2013 11:08 Alaric wrote:
On April 18 2013 10:46 Witten wrote:
So, I end up jungling about 80% of the time. No matter what jungler I choose, my teammates tend to get mad at me for not ganking enough (especially bot lane, but its always warded) when they lose their lane 1v1 or 2v2. I use Jarvan a lot because he's fun and the pros use him (and his ult in the later portions of the game is great in team fights, last game I was Jarvan I went like 3-5-20 and helped win the game by catching their adc), but he's hard to gank with before lvl 6. Back in the day when I played a decent bit I jungled Nunu or Mundo, but they seem to have fallen off.

I don't care that I'm Bronze III or IV (forgot which), I just want to be a better jungler to help my team when I actually do play this game. Thoughts?

Jarvan actually has very, very strong level 2 ganks because his EQ combo has good range (also allows to bypass river wards if you're blue side top or purple side bottom, by going from the "high ground" near the tribrush to the river bush that's touching the "cliff"—see these pics), good damage, knock-up is a strong cc and Jarvan is an excellent fighter at early levels (good base damage, his passive thrives on the low armour found early on, etc.), so you definitely don't have to wait for level 6.
If you don't, the combo still works just as well later on, you'll just need more damage to get a kill, but burning flashes is very easy once you get a feel for those early ganks.

People will always complain about ganks anyway, even if you hand them fb and a 5-10 cs headstart, they'll blame you if they get overconfident and give 2 kills to ganks in return, because "I only had one gank, he had 2!". An important skill is to learn when it's worth it to gank, and when it's not (in which case you just go elsewhere or stay farming/counterjungling)—as somebody who doesn't gank enough/as much as the average Silver guy, it's obvious that I'm reliant on my lanes not being camped/feeding too hard early on because my higher gold/level won't mean squat if all lanes are behind.

(About pick order, really pick order is pick order, if you're first pick take whatever you want, doesn't matter if last pick said "MID ME NO SUPPORT MID". Maybe people rage harder about it in Bronze though, never been there.)


Not even just level 2 ganks, I think J4's pre-6 ganks always pretty good.

One big tip is to not always open with the EQ combo. If you dont need the gap closer/CC dont use it till you do. Especially low elo lots of players straight up dont ward, so you can just go from behind and run at them and get your W + Red Buff slow on them. Then if they flash or use an escape skill you can just follow them.

Another example of this is Lee Sin, so many players try to open up Lee ganks with his Q, when often you can just run at them or W to a creep, then you can still follow their "escape" with Q-Q.


Lee is also probably the best champion for learning to jungle, esp at Bronze.

+ Show Spoiler +
learning to jungle = you may lose the first 10 games you play because hitting skillshots is too hard
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Dark_Chill
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada3353 Posts
April 18 2013 06:28 GMT
#2023
On April 18 2013 15:15 iCanada wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2013 11:08 Alaric wrote:
On April 18 2013 10:46 Witten wrote:
So, I end up jungling about 80% of the time. No matter what jungler I choose, my teammates tend to get mad at me for not ganking enough (especially bot lane, but its always warded) when they lose their lane 1v1 or 2v2. I use Jarvan a lot because he's fun and the pros use him (and his ult in the later portions of the game is great in team fights, last game I was Jarvan I went like 3-5-20 and helped win the game by catching their adc), but he's hard to gank with before lvl 6. Back in the day when I played a decent bit I jungled Nunu or Mundo, but they seem to have fallen off.

I don't care that I'm Bronze III or IV (forgot which), I just want to be a better jungler to help my team when I actually do play this game. Thoughts?

Jarvan actually has very, very strong level 2 ganks because his EQ combo has good range (also allows to bypass river wards if you're blue side top or purple side bottom, by going from the "high ground" near the tribrush to the river bush that's touching the "cliff"—see these pics), good damage, knock-up is a strong cc and Jarvan is an excellent fighter at early levels (good base damage, his passive thrives on the low armour found early on, etc.), so you definitely don't have to wait for level 6.
If you don't, the combo still works just as well later on, you'll just need more damage to get a kill, but burning flashes is very easy once you get a feel for those early ganks.

People will always complain about ganks anyway, even if you hand them fb and a 5-10 cs headstart, they'll blame you if they get overconfident and give 2 kills to ganks in return, because "I only had one gank, he had 2!". An important skill is to learn when it's worth it to gank, and when it's not (in which case you just go elsewhere or stay farming/counterjungling)—as somebody who doesn't gank enough/as much as the average Silver guy, it's obvious that I'm reliant on my lanes not being camped/feeding too hard early on because my higher gold/level won't mean squat if all lanes are behind.

(About pick order, really pick order is pick order, if you're first pick take whatever you want, doesn't matter if last pick said "MID ME NO SUPPORT MID". Maybe people rage harder about it in Bronze though, never been there.)


Not even just level 2 ganks, I think J4's pre-6 ganks always pretty good.

One big tip is to not always open with the EQ combo. If you dont need the gap closer/CC dont use it till you do. Especially low elo lots of players straight up dont ward, so you can just go from behind and run at them and get your W + Red Buff slow on them. Then if they flash or use an escape skill you can just follow them.

Another example of this is Lee Sin, so many players try to open up Lee ganks with his Q, when often you can just run at them or W to a creep, then you can still follow their "escape" with Q-Q.


... It really sucks to read obvious things and think about all the times I didn't do this with any jungler
CUTE MAKES RIGHT
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35174 Posts
April 18 2013 06:42 GMT
#2024
On April 18 2013 15:28 Dark_Chill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2013 15:15 iCanada wrote:
On April 18 2013 11:08 Alaric wrote:
On April 18 2013 10:46 Witten wrote:
So, I end up jungling about 80% of the time. No matter what jungler I choose, my teammates tend to get mad at me for not ganking enough (especially bot lane, but its always warded) when they lose their lane 1v1 or 2v2. I use Jarvan a lot because he's fun and the pros use him (and his ult in the later portions of the game is great in team fights, last game I was Jarvan I went like 3-5-20 and helped win the game by catching their adc), but he's hard to gank with before lvl 6. Back in the day when I played a decent bit I jungled Nunu or Mundo, but they seem to have fallen off.

I don't care that I'm Bronze III or IV (forgot which), I just want to be a better jungler to help my team when I actually do play this game. Thoughts?

Jarvan actually has very, very strong level 2 ganks because his EQ combo has good range (also allows to bypass river wards if you're blue side top or purple side bottom, by going from the "high ground" near the tribrush to the river bush that's touching the "cliff"—see these pics), good damage, knock-up is a strong cc and Jarvan is an excellent fighter at early levels (good base damage, his passive thrives on the low armour found early on, etc.), so you definitely don't have to wait for level 6.
If you don't, the combo still works just as well later on, you'll just need more damage to get a kill, but burning flashes is very easy once you get a feel for those early ganks.

People will always complain about ganks anyway, even if you hand them fb and a 5-10 cs headstart, they'll blame you if they get overconfident and give 2 kills to ganks in return, because "I only had one gank, he had 2!". An important skill is to learn when it's worth it to gank, and when it's not (in which case you just go elsewhere or stay farming/counterjungling)—as somebody who doesn't gank enough/as much as the average Silver guy, it's obvious that I'm reliant on my lanes not being camped/feeding too hard early on because my higher gold/level won't mean squat if all lanes are behind.

(About pick order, really pick order is pick order, if you're first pick take whatever you want, doesn't matter if last pick said "MID ME NO SUPPORT MID". Maybe people rage harder about it in Bronze though, never been there.)


Not even just level 2 ganks, I think J4's pre-6 ganks always pretty good.

One big tip is to not always open with the EQ combo. If you dont need the gap closer/CC dont use it till you do. Especially low elo lots of players straight up dont ward, so you can just go from behind and run at them and get your W + Red Buff slow on them. Then if they flash or use an escape skill you can just follow them.

Another example of this is Lee Sin, so many players try to open up Lee ganks with his Q, when often you can just run at them or W to a creep, then you can still follow their "escape" with Q-Q.


... It really sucks to read obvious things and think about all the times I didn't do this with any jungler

There is always things to learn and room to grow. If there was not, there would be no point in doing anything.
Diamond
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States10796 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-18 07:28:38
April 18 2013 07:28 GMT
#2025
On April 18 2013 15:27 xes wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2013 15:15 iCanada wrote:
On April 18 2013 11:08 Alaric wrote:
On April 18 2013 10:46 Witten wrote:
So, I end up jungling about 80% of the time. No matter what jungler I choose, my teammates tend to get mad at me for not ganking enough (especially bot lane, but its always warded) when they lose their lane 1v1 or 2v2. I use Jarvan a lot because he's fun and the pros use him (and his ult in the later portions of the game is great in team fights, last game I was Jarvan I went like 3-5-20 and helped win the game by catching their adc), but he's hard to gank with before lvl 6. Back in the day when I played a decent bit I jungled Nunu or Mundo, but they seem to have fallen off.

I don't care that I'm Bronze III or IV (forgot which), I just want to be a better jungler to help my team when I actually do play this game. Thoughts?

Jarvan actually has very, very strong level 2 ganks because his EQ combo has good range (also allows to bypass river wards if you're blue side top or purple side bottom, by going from the "high ground" near the tribrush to the river bush that's touching the "cliff"—see these pics), good damage, knock-up is a strong cc and Jarvan is an excellent fighter at early levels (good base damage, his passive thrives on the low armour found early on, etc.), so you definitely don't have to wait for level 6.
If you don't, the combo still works just as well later on, you'll just need more damage to get a kill, but burning flashes is very easy once you get a feel for those early ganks.

People will always complain about ganks anyway, even if you hand them fb and a 5-10 cs headstart, they'll blame you if they get overconfident and give 2 kills to ganks in return, because "I only had one gank, he had 2!". An important skill is to learn when it's worth it to gank, and when it's not (in which case you just go elsewhere or stay farming/counterjungling)—as somebody who doesn't gank enough/as much as the average Silver guy, it's obvious that I'm reliant on my lanes not being camped/feeding too hard early on because my higher gold/level won't mean squat if all lanes are behind.

(About pick order, really pick order is pick order, if you're first pick take whatever you want, doesn't matter if last pick said "MID ME NO SUPPORT MID". Maybe people rage harder about it in Bronze though, never been there.)


Not even just level 2 ganks, I think J4's pre-6 ganks always pretty good.

One big tip is to not always open with the EQ combo. If you dont need the gap closer/CC dont use it till you do. Especially low elo lots of players straight up dont ward, so you can just go from behind and run at them and get your W + Red Buff slow on them. Then if they flash or use an escape skill you can just follow them.

Another example of this is Lee Sin, so many players try to open up Lee ganks with his Q, when often you can just run at them or W to a creep, then you can still follow their "escape" with Q-Q.


Lee is also probably the best champion for learning to jungle, esp at Bronze.

+ Show Spoiler +
learning to jungle = you may lose the first 10 games you play because hitting skillshots is too hard


Idk I found lee to be really hard being he's so deep as a champ. Knowing how to positions yourself in teamfights, what order to hit your skills based on, when to ward jump (and where), etc.

Those TPA skins are good stuff, I wantz!
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Cloud9157
Profile Joined December 2010
United States2968 Posts
April 18 2013 07:48 GMT
#2026
On April 18 2013 15:27 xes wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2013 15:15 iCanada wrote:
On April 18 2013 11:08 Alaric wrote:
On April 18 2013 10:46 Witten wrote:
So, I end up jungling about 80% of the time. No matter what jungler I choose, my teammates tend to get mad at me for not ganking enough (especially bot lane, but its always warded) when they lose their lane 1v1 or 2v2. I use Jarvan a lot because he's fun and the pros use him (and his ult in the later portions of the game is great in team fights, last game I was Jarvan I went like 3-5-20 and helped win the game by catching their adc), but he's hard to gank with before lvl 6. Back in the day when I played a decent bit I jungled Nunu or Mundo, but they seem to have fallen off.

I don't care that I'm Bronze III or IV (forgot which), I just want to be a better jungler to help my team when I actually do play this game. Thoughts?

Jarvan actually has very, very strong level 2 ganks because his EQ combo has good range (also allows to bypass river wards if you're blue side top or purple side bottom, by going from the "high ground" near the tribrush to the river bush that's touching the "cliff"—see these pics), good damage, knock-up is a strong cc and Jarvan is an excellent fighter at early levels (good base damage, his passive thrives on the low armour found early on, etc.), so you definitely don't have to wait for level 6.
If you don't, the combo still works just as well later on, you'll just need more damage to get a kill, but burning flashes is very easy once you get a feel for those early ganks.

People will always complain about ganks anyway, even if you hand them fb and a 5-10 cs headstart, they'll blame you if they get overconfident and give 2 kills to ganks in return, because "I only had one gank, he had 2!". An important skill is to learn when it's worth it to gank, and when it's not (in which case you just go elsewhere or stay farming/counterjungling)—as somebody who doesn't gank enough/as much as the average Silver guy, it's obvious that I'm reliant on my lanes not being camped/feeding too hard early on because my higher gold/level won't mean squat if all lanes are behind.

(About pick order, really pick order is pick order, if you're first pick take whatever you want, doesn't matter if last pick said "MID ME NO SUPPORT MID". Maybe people rage harder about it in Bronze though, never been there.)


Not even just level 2 ganks, I think J4's pre-6 ganks always pretty good.

One big tip is to not always open with the EQ combo. If you dont need the gap closer/CC dont use it till you do. Especially low elo lots of players straight up dont ward, so you can just go from behind and run at them and get your W + Red Buff slow on them. Then if they flash or use an escape skill you can just follow them.

Another example of this is Lee Sin, so many players try to open up Lee ganks with his Q, when often you can just run at them or W to a creep, then you can still follow their "escape" with Q-Q.


Lee is also probably the best champion for learning to jungle, esp at Bronze.

+ Show Spoiler +
learning to jungle = you may lose the first 10 games you play because hitting skillshots is too hard


I still feel Udyr is great at teaching you how to jungle. Very safe, great clear, and simplistic ganks.
"Are you absolutely sure that armor only affects the health portion of a protoss army??? That doesn't sound right to me. source?" -Some idiot
Usagi
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Spain1647 Posts
April 18 2013 07:49 GMT
#2027
Im sold, I want those Mundo and Nunu
Letmelose
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Korea (South)3227 Posts
April 18 2013 08:12 GMT
#2028
Time to rant now that the All Stars details have been "officially" released.

1. Why did the LCS commentators (Riot employees) release information on the importance of this event when other regions refused to confirm anything?
2. Chinese players are selected by their MVP points, South East Asian players have a restriction on the number of players that can be represent a single nation, why are some regions being handicapped whereas some get to truly select their best players?
3. If Riot does not care about a legitimate competition (which must be the only logical explanation from how they handled this tournament), why did they limit cross regional competition in the first place? They took the monopoly on truly large scale international competition and they're turning it into a show, not a legitimate competition. Sure they will get the viewers and the hype, but they showed their colours with this move for me. They took control of everything and are willing to sacrifice everything for commercial gains.

I'm disillusioned beyond words. Why did Riot promote themselves as a company that cares about players and E-Sports? And to think they were any different to the whores Blizzard turned into. At least be honest with your bullshit. Just say you want a bigger bank account, don't trick people into believing you.
TL+ Member
AsnSensation
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany24009 Posts
April 18 2013 08:23 GMT
#2029
I almost came

damn, only Ori looks abit underwhelming but the other skins look so badass *_*
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
overt
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States9006 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-18 08:29:05
April 18 2013 08:23 GMT
#2030
I was unaware about the first point, that's pretty fucked up.

I don't really think the Chinese were handicapped. From what I've seen of their line up they are probably the favorites to win. Look at NA/EU where they got to vote. NA definitely isn't getting the best support they could be and you could make legitimate arguments that xPeke is better than Alex Ich or that CandyPanda/Hosan and maybe Yellowstar are better than Genja.

An All-Stars match is always going to be a show though. Like you're never going to have an All-Stars game that really proves anything. You could argue that the stakes are too high maybe but I think they handled it fine otherwise (although SEA having nation restrictions is dumb when EU had no such restriction).

It's like beating a dead horse on this subject here on TL. But I think people are getting way too angry over this All-Stars game. The extra slot for worlds is definitely huge and maybe an All-Stars game isn't the best way to do it but it's a sound business move on Riot's part and it's by far the most exciting thing that's happened in League since S2 finals.

Saying that Riot doesn't care about eSports because of this is taking it a bit too far imo.

edit:
Also when I think about it I'm not 100% certain Riot is going to make much money off this event anyway. They get a lot of exposure which you could argue translates into money by generating interest in their game. But they have to pay to fly all these teams to China. They have to pay to host the event. None of that is going to come cheap and their only real revenue is ad revenue during the streams (which will have high viewership but I'm skeptical that it'll be able to cover the costs of the event).
Letmelose
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Korea (South)3227 Posts
April 18 2013 08:41 GMT
#2031
On April 18 2013 17:23 overt wrote:
I was unaware about the first point, that's pretty fucked up.

I don't really think the Chinese were handicapped. From what I've seen of their line up they are probably the favorites to win. Look at NA/EU where they got to vote. NA definitely isn't getting the best support they could be and you could make legitimate arguments that xPeke is better than Alex Ich or that CandyPanda/Hosan and maybe Yellowstar are better than Genja.

An All-Stars match is always going to be a show though. Like you're never going to have an All-Stars game that really proves anything. You could argue that the stakes are too high maybe but I think they handled it fine otherwise (although SEA having nation restrictions is dumb when EU had no such restriction).

It's like beating a dead horse on this subject here on TL. But I think people are getting way too angry over this All-Stars game. The extra slot for worlds is definitely huge and maybe an All-Stars game isn't the best way to do it but it's a sound business move on Riot's part and it's by far the most exciting thing that's happened in League since S2 finals.

Saying that Riot doesn't care about eSports because of this is taking it a bit too far imo.


It would be less of a problem if Riot didn't basically boycott all large scale international tournaments that didn't have a direct control over. The results of this tournament will affect the outcome of the only proper international competition since Riot took over, and they are zeroing in on what will reward them financially at cost of ensuring that the only international tournament is run legitimately.

I'm not going to discuss which region got screwed over the most, but surely you can agree that Riot did not do everything in their power to keep this a legitimate competition, yet ultimately raised the stakes with little consideration for the consequences, just to get the numbers. Is this why they took monopoly of large scale international competition? Just to get all the money? It seems so for me.
TL+ Member
overt
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States9006 Posts
April 18 2013 08:57 GMT
#2032
I'm not going to discuss which region got screwed over the most, but surely you can agree that Riot did not do everything in their power to keep this a legitimate competition, yet ultimately raised the stakes with little consideration for the consequences, just to get the numbers. Is this why they took monopoly of large scale international competition? Just to get all the money? It seems so for me.


Knowing Riot philosophy I think it's way more likely that they let people who focused on individual regions decide what would be best for that region. I've talked to Riot devs before at both PAX East and PAX Prime. They're really smart about letting people who know the Korean market or Chinese market or whatever do what they think is best for that region.

It's possible that this was just a money grub attempt but more than likely if things work different in SEA or China from KR/NA/EU it's because their SEA/CN team suggested it.
Anakko
Profile Joined August 2012
France1934 Posts
April 18 2013 08:59 GMT
#2033
On April 18 2013 17:23 AsnSensation wrote:
I almost came

damn, only Ori looks abit underwhelming but the other skins look so badass *_*
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]


Please please make it so that Mundo throws the cup instead of a cleaver
TrAce/Cpt Jack for president (or both)
Kenpark
Profile Joined March 2012
Germany2350 Posts
April 18 2013 09:14 GMT
#2034
Hi guys, I often get mocked for going double BT on Kha as my standard build with the 2nd BT after Bruta, Maramune, BT, Boots, GA/Randuins/Warmogs. Is it really that bad and is LW rly better ? Im talking about slot efficiency here.

Basicly my question is what 6th item maximises my q and w damage against ap mids and ad carrys, who dont build armor.
Letmelose
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Korea (South)3227 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-18 09:21:11
April 18 2013 09:15 GMT
#2035
On April 18 2013 17:57 overt wrote:
Show nested quote +
I'm not going to discuss which region got screwed over the most, but surely you can agree that Riot did not do everything in their power to keep this a legitimate competition, yet ultimately raised the stakes with little consideration for the consequences, just to get the numbers. Is this why they took monopoly of large scale international competition? Just to get all the money? It seems so for me.


Knowing Riot philosophy I think it's way more likely that they let people who focused on individual regions decide what would be best for that region. I've talked to Riot devs before at both PAX East and PAX Prime. They're really smart about letting people who know the Korean market or Chinese market or whatever do what they think is best for that region.

It's possible that this was just a money grub attempt but more than likely if things work different in SEA or China from KR/NA/EU it's because their SEA/CN team suggested it.


For example I've heard that Chinese players are selected based on their LPL MVP points because the fan base for Team WE would nullify the point of having a vote. I'm actually happy that less popular but great players such as Uzi and PDD get to have the chance to compete in such a highly hyped up competition. As for South East Asia it's obvious that the other nations were not cool with Taiwanese players dominating the polls even if they happened to be legitimately the best. It's more of a political decision than any effort to ensure the most deserving players go. I'm not saying Riot did not have their reasons, but this does not mean that the player selection was done fairly. If what you say is true, and each regions were left to organize how the player selections were done, it becomes even more of a joke. It means there were no universal standards at all.

I get that each regions have their reasons, but how does this justify the fact that the fate of professional players are being handled unfairly? If Riot does not have the capability to run the only international competition in a legitimate manner, they shouldn't have took monopoly over it. That's what I believe.
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Zhiroo
Profile Joined February 2011
Kosovo2724 Posts
April 18 2013 09:29 GMT
#2036
In the end it's not like it matters, the Chinese or Korean will win anyways. :p
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Letmelose
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Korea (South)3227 Posts
April 18 2013 09:39 GMT
#2037
China will win barring any upsets. The strongest region from recent results, a panel of judges hand picking the most deserving players based on their recent LPL performances, not to mention the obvious home advantage. However, it does not mean Riot has the right to take charge over everything then ensue to make a mockery of a legitimate international competition.
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RagequitBM
Profile Joined November 2011
Canada2270 Posts
April 18 2013 09:46 GMT
#2038
It's too bad that the All-Star match is in a month. I'm so excited for it.
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Nobu
Profile Joined June 2010
Spain550 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-18 09:49:59
April 18 2013 09:48 GMT
#2039
Don't really know why you guys talk about the All-Star as "the only international competition". This is just a showmatch that shouldn't have any impact, so you can argue that it wasn't a good move to give an extra spot in the finals for the winner, but the differences in the selection process are a must, since SEA dont have that many teams at the level of TPA imo (Don't follow the scene that much and I could be wrong) and probably mvp points are a good way to get a mixed team for China that catters the audience preferences at the same time.

You have to remember this is just a showmatch, and the real competition will be in the S3 finals. I agree that giving an extra spot for the winner is not that fair, but I dont think there is a need to complain about who will get a better team based on the selection process.
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Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23404 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-18 10:05:31
April 18 2013 09:59 GMT
#2040
On April 18 2013 18:14 Kenpark wrote:
Hi guys, I often get mocked for going double BT on Kha as my standard build with the 2nd BT after Bruta, Maramune, BT, Boots, GA/Randuins/Warmogs. Is it really that bad and is LW rly better ? Im talking about slot efficiency here.

Basicly my question is what 6th item maximises my q and w damage against ap mids and ad carrys, who dont build armor.


typically you'll have aegis, maybe a taric or sona or something as well as well as base armour and runes bringing armour to close to 100 at level 18, not to mention ap carries getting zhonyas or an ad with randuins bringing it closer to 150, and LW also increases your poke a lot, i'd say LW is a lot better because you get it faster as well.

Even if you manage to keep BT stacked fully its 3100 gold and 222 more damage on your full combo over LW without the armourpen. You get LW faster don't need to stack it, its far better against tanks, as its going to give you 35-50 armour pen on squishies, scaling with all your base stats ad ratios and muramana.

with full items we're talking about 370 ad with redpot bringing your combo to about 2100 physical damage with EQW +12% of missing hp.

even without muramana and the 12% and the lowest possible armour value for a level 18 (about 70, -25 for flat armourpen and armourpen runes/masteries and put in the 35% reduction before the flat), 2100 damage with LW does about 1750 damage and 2300 without lw does about 1600 and this is with a more expensive item.

Even your auto attacks do about 5 less damage than autos with a full charged BT. And it costs more. And its far inferior against anyone with any armour. Also in reasonable circumstances even an AD or AP with very low base armour (e.g mf 69.) will have at least +13 from seals +10 from aegis and often +6 from hardiness, so finding any level 18 with less than 100 armour that late is a miracle.

Yeah get LW
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