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Flakes
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States3125 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-03 18:50:29
July 03 2013 18:49 GMT
#6201
On July 04 2013 03:19 Gahlo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2013 03:08 Seuss wrote:
I was happy to see people actually doing math in my absence, although if you knew where to look you could find the BotRK vs Hydra vs BT math I did for Zed ages ago. The basic conclusion was that Hydra is more damage but BotRK tends to be favored because it gives sticking power. You really can't put a value on the gank assist power of cutlass, or the importance of being able to catch someone via the BotRK slow.

But there's basically no reason to get BT on melee while Hydra and BotRK exist.

Edit: Also: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3621011

It's the bat gun.

"We knew our mission was greater than ourselves"

It's bigger than all of us. Siren Lucian, the Gun Templar. Riot pls!

Gun Cleric!

Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-03 18:53:31
July 03 2013 18:51 GMT
#6202
Whenever I can (could) I just skip(ed) bruta on Panth in favour of BT first. The power peak is really huge, and he doesn't care for BotRK. It also puts him closer to one-shotting the wave with HSS since bruta's ArPen doesn't affect it.

My point was more that Panth has fewer chances to stand in a place to use Hydra's active in teamfights since unless he can dive people he's going to skirt the edges, auto, toss Qs as often as he can, and try to position to get those money HSS off. And when he dives he generally barely has the time to auto (sometimes you auto->Q using the spell to cancel the auto animation) because his stun is short and people wil try to run out of HSS.

^ and the more I see videos of this film the more it just seems corny as fuck and too fake to let you enjoy it. Is it really that liked?
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-03 18:53:53
July 03 2013 18:53 GMT
#6203
Basically if you have enough to get BF sword, you just go for BT. If you don't you go Brutalizer first and then BF sword.

I don't see the sense in rushing Last Whisper, BT gives more dmg against almost anything(its a base difference of 216 dmg for HSS) and the lifesteal actually is rather useful.

yes I repeat myself because no one saw my edit on the last page.

I also think 2 Doran Blades should be enough to sustain so that you don't need to buy a scepter before BF...
League of Legends EU West, Platinum III | Yousei Teikoku is the best thing that has ever happened to music.
Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-03 18:53:51
July 03 2013 18:53 GMT
#6204
On July 04 2013 03:49 Flakes wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2013 03:19 Gahlo wrote:
On July 04 2013 03:08 Seuss wrote:
I was happy to see people actually doing math in my absence, although if you knew where to look you could find the BotRK vs Hydra vs BT math I did for Zed ages ago. The basic conclusion was that Hydra is more damage but BotRK tends to be favored because it gives sticking power. You really can't put a value on the gank assist power of cutlass, or the importance of being able to catch someone via the BotRK slow.

But there's basically no reason to get BT on melee while Hydra and BotRK exist.

Edit: Also: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3621011

It's the bat gun.

"We knew our mission was greater than ourselves"

It's bigger than all of us. Siren Lucian, the Gun Templar. Riot pls!

Gun Cleric!

+ Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcTft47wsDg#t=92s

fucking love that movie

If his dance isn't the gun kata, I'm going to write Riot and complain.
It's your boy Guzma!
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
July 03 2013 18:55 GMT
#6205
On July 04 2013 03:53 Shikyo wrote:
Basically if you have enough to get BF sword, you just go for BT. If you don't you go Brutalizer first and then BF sword.

I don't see the sense in rushing Last Whisper, BT gives more dmg against almost anything(its a base difference of 216 dmg for HSS) and the lifesteal actually is rather useful.

"Oh shit I didn't destroy Malph/Irelia/Jarvan/whatever and now he/she/it has like 100+ armour."
LW is way better in those cases, also if the jungler is going to complete Aegis soon (for example he gets a few early kills and you notice he rushes it).
HSS also has big base damage so it benefits from the ArPen. You won't be as good at clearing waves though, nor exploding squishies.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
July 03 2013 18:59 GMT
#6206
Oh Smash, he has been assimilated by the Riot.
Freeeeeeedom
sylverfyre
Profile Joined May 2010
United States8298 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-03 19:04:42
July 03 2013 19:04 GMT
#6207
Pantheon's kinda weird as far as melee fighty-assassins go because he wants to pretend he's ranged.

On July 04 2013 03:59 cLutZ wrote:
Oh Smash, he has been assimilated by the Riot.

I thought he was bang on as far as the right way to change Olaf to make him useful.
lilwisper
Profile Joined April 2010
United States2515 Posts
July 03 2013 19:07 GMT
#6208
On July 04 2013 03:53 Requizen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2013 03:49 Flakes wrote:
On July 04 2013 03:19 Gahlo wrote:
On July 04 2013 03:08 Seuss wrote:
I was happy to see people actually doing math in my absence, although if you knew where to look you could find the BotRK vs Hydra vs BT math I did for Zed ages ago. The basic conclusion was that Hydra is more damage but BotRK tends to be favored because it gives sticking power. You really can't put a value on the gank assist power of cutlass, or the importance of being able to catch someone via the BotRK slow.

But there's basically no reason to get BT on melee while Hydra and BotRK exist.

Edit: Also: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3621011

It's the bat gun.

"We knew our mission was greater than ourselves"

It's bigger than all of us. Siren Lucian, the Gun Templar. Riot pls!

Gun Cleric!

+ Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcTft47wsDg#t=92s

fucking love that movie

If his dance isn't the gun kata, I'm going to write Riot and complain.


Vayne has this already though.
Seuss
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States10536 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-03 19:11:37
July 03 2013 19:07 GMT
#6209
On July 04 2013 03:36 Sandster wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2013 03:34 Seuss wrote:
On July 04 2013 03:23 Sandster wrote:
BC is core on pantheon though. Applying BC stacks is a big part of his late game job. The vamp scep item you build is often delayed since your typical item path is something like 1-2 doran, brutalizer, [hexdrinker], LW, BC, and a defensive item. He doesn't really fit the mold for either botrk or hydra, since he only really wants ad/arpen/cdr. And at that point in the game, if your team is relying on Pantheon to chase someone beyond his ult, then Pantheon probably wasn't the best pick to begin with.


Oh I'm not saying that you should rush Hydra on Pantheon, or any champion for that matter, just there just aren't any circumstances where BT is going to be better than both Hydra and BotRk for melee champions regardless of when you're making your choice.


Wouldn't you say Pantheon is one of them though? Hydra and BOTRK have quite a bit of gold on stats/abilities that Pantheon can't use very well.


No.

First, let's examine Q->W->E->Auto->Q combo with no other items. The total AD scaling on the combo is 750-810%. Hydra adds an extra 100%, at the cost of 25 AD. At level 11 Pantheon will have somewhere around 100 AD from levels/runes/masteries. Do the math and you'll see that Pantheon gains 1620 damage from BT, and 1592.5 damage from Hydra. A difference of a mere 27.5 damage in BT's favor. Once you add BC and LW into the equation, Hydra surpasses BT by 65 damage. Basically, Hydra has the damage advantage on a single target as long as we aren't rushing our Life Steal item.

So the problem with BT on Pantheon is fairly straightforward:
  • You shouldn't be rushing your Life Steal item, and even if you do Hydra is easier to build and the damage difference is negligible on a single target.
  • Later in the game you're not going to be able to poke with your Spear in sieges, so BT has no advantage there.
  • Pantheon is a decent split pusher with his ult, and Hydra is better in 1v1s and for split pushing.

BT isn't some horrifically terrible idea on Pantheon (obviously, both items are very close in damage). But Pantheon has the highest AD scaling of any melee champion and he's at best roughly even between the two. If he isn't significantly better with BT, no one is.

Edit: I'm not claiming to be a Pantheon pro. If you just sit on the edges of teamfights chucking spears BT might be better, but that seems like a really odd playstyle to me.
"I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me." -Moses (Numbers 11:14)
Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
July 03 2013 19:09 GMT
#6210
On July 04 2013 04:07 lilwisper wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2013 03:53 Requizen wrote:
On July 04 2013 03:49 Flakes wrote:
On July 04 2013 03:19 Gahlo wrote:
On July 04 2013 03:08 Seuss wrote:
I was happy to see people actually doing math in my absence, although if you knew where to look you could find the BotRK vs Hydra vs BT math I did for Zed ages ago. The basic conclusion was that Hydra is more damage but BotRK tends to be favored because it gives sticking power. You really can't put a value on the gank assist power of cutlass, or the importance of being able to catch someone via the BotRK slow.

But there's basically no reason to get BT on melee while Hydra and BotRK exist.

Edit: Also: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3621011

It's the bat gun.

"We knew our mission was greater than ourselves"

It's bigger than all of us. Siren Lucian, the Gun Templar. Riot pls!

Gun Cleric!

+ Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcTft47wsDg#t=92s

fucking love that movie

If his dance isn't the gun kata, I'm going to write Riot and complain.


Vayne has this already though.

But Vayne is dumb and I hate her.
It's your boy Guzma!
AsmodeusXI
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States15536 Posts
July 03 2013 19:12 GMT
#6211
Lucian looks STUPID AWESOME. Day 1 buy for aesthetics because I'm a whore for cool designs.
WriterTL > RL. BNet: Asmodeus#1187 - LoL: DJForeclosure - Steam: asmodeusxi | www.n3rddimension.com
cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
July 03 2013 19:14 GMT
#6212
On July 04 2013 04:04 sylverfyre wrote:
Pantheon's kinda weird as far as melee fighty-assassins go because he wants to pretend he's ranged.

Show nested quote +
On July 04 2013 03:59 cLutZ wrote:
Oh Smash, he has been assimilated by the Riot.

I thought he was bang on as far as the right way to change Olaf to make him useful.


Ideas were fine, the rhetoric was 100% Riot though.
Freeeeeeedom
onlywonderboy
Profile Joined August 2012
United States23745 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-03 19:16:26
July 03 2013 19:16 GMT
#6213
On July 04 2013 04:12 AsmodeusXI wrote:
Lucian looks STUPID AWESOME. Day 1 buy for aesthetics because I'm a whore for cool designs.

That worked out for your Lissandra play, HUH?
RIP Ryan Davis / TL or Die / @onlywonderboy
mordek
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States12705 Posts
July 03 2013 19:16 GMT
#6214
I imagine when you're making an announcement type post it probably needs to get run by community relations or w/e it's called?
It is vanity to love what passes quickly and not to look ahead where eternal joy abides. Tiberius77 | Mordek #1881 "I took a mint!"
Zhiroo
Profile Joined February 2011
Kosovo2724 Posts
July 03 2013 19:17 GMT
#6215
Nami players, do you guys smartcast Aqua Prison or normal cast it?
LoL EuW: Zhiroo - By starting this squabble you've proven nothing but how vast your stupidity is.
AsmodeusXI
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States15536 Posts
July 03 2013 19:21 GMT
#6216
On July 04 2013 04:16 onlywonderboy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2013 04:12 AsmodeusXI wrote:
Lucian looks STUPID AWESOME. Day 1 buy for aesthetics because I'm a whore for cool designs.

That worked out for your Lissandra play, HUH?


I DON'T NEED TO PLAY THEM WELL, I JUST NEED TO OWN THEM. SHUT UP.
WriterTL > RL. BNet: Asmodeus#1187 - LoL: DJForeclosure - Steam: asmodeusxi | www.n3rddimension.com
Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
July 03 2013 19:23 GMT
#6217
On July 04 2013 04:21 AsmodeusXI wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2013 04:16 onlywonderboy wrote:
On July 04 2013 04:12 AsmodeusXI wrote:
Lucian looks STUPID AWESOME. Day 1 buy for aesthetics because I'm a whore for cool designs.

That worked out for your Lissandra play, HUH?


I DON'T NEED TO PLAY THEM WELL, I JUST NEED TO OWN THEM. SHUT UP.

Maybe you weren't.... cool enough to play Lissandra.
It's your boy Guzma!
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
July 03 2013 19:23 GMT
#6218
It's way simpler for them if everyone convey their ideas the same way so the userbase doesn't get confused by what two Rioters may say on the same subject (and then you add habits taken from jobs involving teams).

Lucian looks bleh to me, but that's because the "cool dude with guns" is always so badly done from my criteria that I've come to be wary of "cool dudes with guns". Plus, the art style (pose, angular jaw, curves, etc.) seems a bit like Jayce, Clone Wars series, and comics in general, and it doesn't click with me.

On July 04 2013 04:07 Seuss wrote:
Edit: I'm not claiming to be a Pantheon pro. If you just sit on the edges of teamfights chucking spears BT might be better, but that seems like a really odd playstyle to me.

It's not that autoattacking is bad with Panth, but you can't afford to dive like Zed/Kha/Akali/etc. do because you have no escape nor defensive means (his passive helps very early on, but it quickly becomes anecdotal in 5v5 teamfights with some champs building AS), and on top of that your biggest nuke is channeled, allowing people to mitigate/cancel it.
Meaning you tend to stay on the sides (you're an AD caster, not a bruiser, so you're squishier than say a Jax or a Xin who can act as frontline), using your range to hit semi-priority targets unless you see an opening (for example somebody out of position) and your autos are relegated to hitting their own frontline, be it straight up tanks or divers depending on the circumstances. Since your low cooldowns, HSS passive and innate passive get stronger as numbers dwindle and health decreases, you could even have an easier time protecting your main sources of damage (so AD and AP carries) until the battlefield starts to get cleared out, where you get more leeway to get in people's faces.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
July 03 2013 19:24 GMT
#6219
On July 04 2013 03:32 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Hey guys, we get a true black person in league!
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1294956-Potential-New-Champion-Lucian-the-Gun-Templar
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3621011
I guess Renekton's Malaria shield no longer does true damage

Bee shield did true damage?
I think in our modern age technology has evolved to become more addictive. The things that don't give us pleasure aren't used as much. Work was never meant to be fun, but doing it makes us happier in the long run.
onlywonderboy
Profile Joined August 2012
United States23745 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-03 19:25:42
July 03 2013 19:25 GMT
#6220
On July 04 2013 04:23 Requizen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 04 2013 04:21 AsmodeusXI wrote:
On July 04 2013 04:16 onlywonderboy wrote:
On July 04 2013 04:12 AsmodeusXI wrote:
Lucian looks STUPID AWESOME. Day 1 buy for aesthetics because I'm a whore for cool designs.

That worked out for your Lissandra play, HUH?


I DON'T NEED TO PLAY THEM WELL, I JUST NEED TO OWN THEM. SHUT UP.

Maybe you weren't.... cool enough to play Lissandra.

A pun? Come on, you're just pandering to Asmo now.
RIP Ryan Davis / TL or Die / @onlywonderboy
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