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On June 15 2013 02:34 Caphe wrote:Not sure if this has been posted here yet. ZionSpartan got cheered on in his highschool graduation, there is an article about it on Kotaku. I know Kotatu doesn't have the nicest reputation but they got quite a large reader base. http://kotaku.com/this-league-of-legends-pro-has-his-whole-high-school-ch-513363496Good to see e-sports getting accepted by fellows high school students and teachers.
He's had interviews where he said people at school he didn't even know would call him Zion and congratulate him on wins and what not. Pretty cool stuff. Haha man that team was so fucking young when they were TD, props to them.
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On June 15 2013 02:28 Slusher wrote:
The Draven changes are completely non-sensical and I quote,
"Draven's laning phase is stupid OP, but his late game is pretty rough. Spinning Axe is really fun and awesome and we always want that to feel good. However, the extra damage he's getting from the bleed is fairly underappreciated and doesn't really scale all that great into the lategame."
so they nerf his lane phase (expected) and don't buff his late game? I would be pretty shocked if his new passive adds up to more gold than just fucking killing everyone for the first 15 min a la current Draven.
It's to give him a more stable late game so he doesn't have to kill everybody before 15 mins to be relevant.
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On June 15 2013 02:48 Requizen wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2013 02:46 Noro wrote:On June 15 2013 02:38 mordek wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On June 15 2013 02:28 XaCez wrote:
Ok guys I only play ARAM, which Champs are imba/broken/rage-inducing? Everything you need right here!Honor for Monte  Good to see e-sports getting accepted by fellows high school students and teachers. It's the weirdest thing when you see gym rats at the uni gym saying things like "Yeah, hopefully I can get to gold where it's good" (this caught my attention...) "I've been playing a lot of singed, he's so fun." "oh yeah Brian's been playing the new champ and..." I'm like O.o Granted I don't look like you're usual LoL nerd but I don't talk about it at the gym haha. It's taking over man. It's kind of awesome isn't it? I went to grab my lunch from the fridge at work the other day and saw a couple guys watching LoL streams on their work computers. It made me happy. And then they got fired?
I work for the government. No one gets fired for not doing their jobs.
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On June 15 2013 02:57 Noro wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2013 02:48 Requizen wrote:On June 15 2013 02:46 Noro wrote:On June 15 2013 02:38 mordek wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On June 15 2013 02:28 XaCez wrote:
Ok guys I only play ARAM, which Champs are imba/broken/rage-inducing? Everything you need right here!Honor for Monte Good to see e-sports getting accepted by fellows high school students and teachers. It's the weirdest thing when you see gym rats at the uni gym saying things like "Yeah, hopefully I can get to gold where it's good" (this caught my attention...) "I've been playing a lot of singed, he's so fun." "oh yeah Brian's been playing the new champ and..." I'm like O.o Granted I don't look like you're usual LoL nerd but I don't talk about it at the gym haha. It's taking over man. It's kind of awesome isn't it? I went to grab my lunch from the fridge at work the other day and saw a couple guys watching LoL streams on their work computers. It made me happy. And then they got fired? I work for the government. No one gets fired for not doing their jobs.
Pretty sure you get fired if you ARE doing your job. Keep it up...er...keep it down?
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On June 15 2013 02:59 jcarlsoniv wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2013 02:57 Noro wrote:On June 15 2013 02:48 Requizen wrote:On June 15 2013 02:46 Noro wrote:On June 15 2013 02:38 mordek wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On June 15 2013 02:28 XaCez wrote:
Ok guys I only play ARAM, which Champs are imba/broken/rage-inducing? Everything you need right here!Honor for Monte Good to see e-sports getting accepted by fellows high school students and teachers. It's the weirdest thing when you see gym rats at the uni gym saying things like "Yeah, hopefully I can get to gold where it's good" (this caught my attention...) "I've been playing a lot of singed, he's so fun." "oh yeah Brian's been playing the new champ and..." I'm like O.o Granted I don't look like you're usual LoL nerd but I don't talk about it at the gym haha. It's taking over man. It's kind of awesome isn't it? I went to grab my lunch from the fridge at work the other day and saw a couple guys watching LoL streams on their work computers. It made me happy. And then they got fired? I work for the government. No one gets fired for not doing their jobs. Pretty sure you get fired if you ARE doing your job. Keep it up...er...keep it down?
I will continue bravely shirking my duties as a public servant in the name of video games and internet forums!
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On June 15 2013 02:57 Gahlo wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2013 02:28 Slusher wrote:
The Draven changes are completely non-sensical and I quote,
"Draven's laning phase is stupid OP, but his late game is pretty rough. Spinning Axe is really fun and awesome and we always want that to feel good. However, the extra damage he's getting from the bleed is fairly underappreciated and doesn't really scale all that great into the lategame."
so they nerf his lane phase (expected) and don't buff his late game? I would be pretty shocked if his new passive adds up to more gold than just fucking killing everyone for the first 15 min a la current Draven. It's to give him a more stable late game so he doesn't have to kill everybody before 15 mins to be relevant.
How does making your early not broken and your lategame worse not force you to kill everybody before 15 minutes to be relevant?
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On June 15 2013 02:38 mordek wrote:It's the weirdest thing when you see gym rats at the uni gym saying things like "Yeah, hopefully I can get to gold where it's good" (this caught my attention...) "I've been playing a lot of singed, he's so fun." "oh yeah Brian's been playing the new champ and..." I'm like O.o Granted I don't look like you're usual LoL nerd but I don't talk about it at the gym haha. It's taking over man.
I see/hear anyone from middle schoolers to guys in my university finance classes talking about the game. It's awesome hearing "dude did you see the TSM vs Dig game last night? Crumbzz is so good" or "Haha I ran Blitzcrank last night with full mana items, my shield was insane!!", and even the occasional "Yeah I made it to Silver last night, let me know if you want me to carry you out of Bronze. My Fiddle is insane".
It's absolutely amazing how much it has grown in the couple of years I've played. I'm glad I made the switch from HoN, I had a feeling this game was gonna be *the* game.
Edit: @ watching League at work - it's pretty difficult for me since I work in a small office with the CFO, but during lunch I try to catch a game or stream
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On June 15 2013 03:01 Mondeezy wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2013 02:38 mordek wrote:On June 15 2013 02:34 Caphe wrote:Not sure if this has been posted here yet. ZionSpartan got cheered on in his highschool graduation, there is an article about it on Kotaku. I know Kotatu doesn't have the nicest reputation but they got quite a large reader base. http://kotaku.com/this-league-of-legends-pro-has-his-whole-high-school-ch-513363496Good to see e-sports getting accepted by fellows high school students and teachers. It's the weirdest thing when you see gym rats at the uni gym saying things like "Yeah, hopefully I can get to gold where it's good" (this caught my attention...) "I've been playing a lot of singed, he's so fun." "oh yeah Brian's been playing the new champ and..." I'm like O.o Granted I don't look like you're usual LoL nerd but I don't talk about it at the gym haha. It's taking over man. I see/hear anyone from middle schoolers to guys in my university finance classes talking about the game. It's awesome hearing "dude did you see the TSM vs Dig game last night? Crumbzz is so good" or "Haha I ran Blitzcrank last night with full mana items, my shield was insane!!", and even the occasional "Yeah I made it to Silver last night, let me know if you want me to carry you out of Bronze. My Fiddle is insane".It's absolutely amazing how much it has grown in the couple of years I've played. I'm glad I made the switch from HoN, I had a feeling this game was gonna be *the* game.
Whenever I find people IRL who play, they're never higher than gold. It's always super depressing. I feel like a dick when I say I won't/can't play with them, and I'm miserable when I do play with them.
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On June 15 2013 02:28 XaCez wrote:
Ok guys I only play ARAM, which Champs are imba/broken/rage-inducing?
Well Sona at least is almost impossible to lose with. Even if your teammates are idiots who home in on Nidalee spears you can keep them healed all day and if you build AP you can also poke really well.
Another one's Alistar, only had him once but it was totally a free win. You get so many AoE heals because of the minions constantly dying and you can manmode and not give a shit and even initiate. He probably is the strongest ARAM champion I've encountered thus far.
Master Yi is really good with his Alpha Strike and selfheal, but if the enemy team is stronger and clumps themselves around their minions because they just don't care, you cannot alpha strike safely and will be pretty much useless. His teamfighting is super strong in ARAM, though.
Nidalee and such are overrated in my opinion, I at least only get hit by like 1-2 random spears whole game and if others dodge like that she doesn't really offer much.
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On June 15 2013 03:04 jcarlsoniv wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2013 03:01 Mondeezy wrote:On June 15 2013 02:38 mordek wrote:On June 15 2013 02:34 Caphe wrote:Not sure if this has been posted here yet. ZionSpartan got cheered on in his highschool graduation, there is an article about it on Kotaku. I know Kotatu doesn't have the nicest reputation but they got quite a large reader base. http://kotaku.com/this-league-of-legends-pro-has-his-whole-high-school-ch-513363496Good to see e-sports getting accepted by fellows high school students and teachers. It's the weirdest thing when you see gym rats at the uni gym saying things like "Yeah, hopefully I can get to gold where it's good" (this caught my attention...) "I've been playing a lot of singed, he's so fun." "oh yeah Brian's been playing the new champ and..." I'm like O.o Granted I don't look like you're usual LoL nerd but I don't talk about it at the gym haha. It's taking over man. I see/hear anyone from middle schoolers to guys in my university finance classes talking about the game. It's awesome hearing "dude did you see the TSM vs Dig game last night? Crumbzz is so good" or "Haha I ran Blitzcrank last night with full mana items, my shield was insane!!", and even the occasional "Yeah I made it to Silver last night, let me know if you want me to carry you out of Bronze. My Fiddle is insane".It's absolutely amazing how much it has grown in the couple of years I've played. I'm glad I made the switch from HoN, I had a feeling this game was gonna be *the* game. Whenever I find people IRL who play, they're never higher than gold. It's always super depressing. I feel like a dick when I say I won't/can't play with them, and I'm miserable when I do play with them.
Almost everyone that I know that plays IRL is Bronze or low Silver. It's always fun playing with them and teaching them new things though, it's cool to be "looked up to" in a way. Granted, I don't play ranked with them unless it's Ranked 5v5, but I play normals and mess around or try new champs or builds with them whenever I'm not tryharding I feel like if I can influence a couple of them to be cool non-trolls/ragers in-game, maybe they can pass it on, haha.
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On June 15 2013 03:04 jcarlsoniv wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2013 03:01 Mondeezy wrote:On June 15 2013 02:38 mordek wrote:On June 15 2013 02:34 Caphe wrote:Not sure if this has been posted here yet. ZionSpartan got cheered on in his highschool graduation, there is an article about it on Kotaku. I know Kotatu doesn't have the nicest reputation but they got quite a large reader base. http://kotaku.com/this-league-of-legends-pro-has-his-whole-high-school-ch-513363496Good to see e-sports getting accepted by fellows high school students and teachers. It's the weirdest thing when you see gym rats at the uni gym saying things like "Yeah, hopefully I can get to gold where it's good" (this caught my attention...) "I've been playing a lot of singed, he's so fun." "oh yeah Brian's been playing the new champ and..." I'm like O.o Granted I don't look like you're usual LoL nerd but I don't talk about it at the gym haha. It's taking over man. I see/hear anyone from middle schoolers to guys in my university finance classes talking about the game. It's awesome hearing "dude did you see the TSM vs Dig game last night? Crumbzz is so good" or "Haha I ran Blitzcrank last night with full mana items, my shield was insane!!", and even the occasional "Yeah I made it to Silver last night, let me know if you want me to carry you out of Bronze. My Fiddle is insane".It's absolutely amazing how much it has grown in the couple of years I've played. I'm glad I made the switch from HoN, I had a feeling this game was gonna be *the* game. Whenever I find people IRL who play, they're never higher than gold. It's always super depressing. I feel like a dick when I say I won't/can't play with them, and I'm miserable when I do play with them.
At least you know people IRL who play. It's pretty much suffering here. The only people that I know are either unranked or not even level 30 and they're on eune
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The fact that this psychiatrist call Zion Spartan "ZionSpartan" in real life make me wonder. Feel really weird.
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All my IRL friends are better than me  Its like a flood of Plat1 - Diamond 2.
At least I can play with their slightly worse little brothers.
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On June 15 2013 02:35 Ketara wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2013 02:28 Slusher wrote:
The Draven changes are completely non-sensical and I quote,
"Draven's laning phase is stupid OP, but his late game is pretty rough. Spinning Axe is really fun and awesome and we always want that to feel good. However, the extra damage he's getting from the bleed is fairly underappreciated and doesn't really scale all that great into the lategame."
so they nerf his lane phase (expected) and don't buff his late game? I would be pretty shocked if his new passive adds up to more gold than just fucking killing everyone for the first 15 min a la current Draven. They don't want Draven to have a good late game. They want Draven to be a "cheese" pick, somebody who MUST dominate in lane to continue to stay relevant throughout the game. The passive change will do exactly that. It will hit Dravens early power a bit, but if he gets kills early and starts snowballing, he will get items faster than he would before, because of the passive gold. He will be worse at 6 items and worse at level 1, but better if he gets kills early in the game, which makes his playstyle simultaneously more defined, and also easier to play against. You just don't let Draven get kills. I think it's a great change.
This is how Draven currently operates, now you are weakening that early kill potential. I'm not saying he wasn't too strong(for solo q he is) but to completely remove the bleed is a huge nerf and to replace it with this passive which incidentally takes a kill to even cash in on just feels like a weird change to me.
This change just feels like it will put him in Mordekaiser territory, a champion who does very well in lane vs most picks but not good enough to warrant picking in almost every situation because he has bad range and can't afford to build D and be relevant. I mean mabye you are tired of Draven so this is ok with you but this is where this change has him headed in my mind (I could be proven wrong)
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On June 15 2013 02:24 Seuss wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2013 02:09 AsmodeusXI wrote:On June 15 2013 01:31 WaveofShadow wrote:On June 15 2013 00:44 Sermokala wrote:On June 15 2013 00:19 Slayer91 wrote:On June 14 2013 23:51 Alaric wrote:Spirit visage works on his passive, too, so super healing (makes me wonder if it works on GA/Zilean's ult... ). And I'm playing 4-5 games a day, Teut, just because I don't summarise all of them in the QQ thread anymore doesn't mean I doesn't play.  But TL's wall of texts use up all of my word count so I don't have any left for liquidparty and I just read. you post in the QQ thread? that explains the rest of the games i dont read that thread We should get some people to dramatically read qq thread posts. It would be epic. God damn it someone remind me about this idea in a couple months when I'm back at home. I will totally do this. Get your Golem buddy to do it with you for "conversation pieces." Or do you guys even do anything anymore? Lazy bums. I'm totally in, even though I'm just an honorary golem.
You're the Elder Golem!
I can now gain a full level just by absorbing your wisdom alone!
Anyway yeah, what Soniv said. I'm not sure what the coming year is going to be like for me with small child + starting clinic but I will make time for some casting and stuff here and there.
Soniv how is the TCG? I heard Reddit tore it up
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On June 15 2013 02:22 AsmodeusXI wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2013 02:21 Sandster wrote:On June 15 2013 02:14 jcarlsoniv wrote:On June 15 2013 02:09 AsmodeusXI wrote:On June 15 2013 01:31 WaveofShadow wrote:On June 15 2013 00:44 Sermokala wrote:On June 15 2013 00:19 Slayer91 wrote:On June 14 2013 23:51 Alaric wrote:Spirit visage works on his passive, too, so super healing (makes me wonder if it works on GA/Zilean's ult... ). And I'm playing 4-5 games a day, Teut, just because I don't summarise all of them in the QQ thread anymore doesn't mean I doesn't play. But TL's wall of texts use up all of my word count so I don't have any left for liquidparty and I just read. you post in the QQ thread? that explains the rest of the games i dont read that thread We should get some people to dramatically read qq thread posts. It would be epic. God damn it someone remind me about this idea in a couple months when I'm back at home. I will totally do this. Get your Golem buddy to do it with you for "conversation pieces." Or do you guys even do anything anymore? Lazy bums. Quit while you're ahead, ya know? ;P As league has taught me, quit when behind, too Quit in the middle because... aw fuck it why not? League of Legends: Just Quit
This made me laugh. Also the stuff about not doing your job. The computers I work on can never handle streaming and once I get into the real world I won't have a desk job to shirk in favour of e-sports.
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Also for ARAM Sorka is completely Bonkers get a Bulwark than get 40% cdr, shes good before you get this stuff, if you finish it your entire team is immortal.
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On June 15 2013 03:36 Perplex wrote:Anyone see this reddit post on r/lol? http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1gc3i4/i_wish_we_had_an_arenajunkies_or_elitist_jerks/It immediately made me think of this sub-forum. I learned everything I knew about competitive WoW on arenajunkies, and this forum is the closest thing to AJ that i've found for LoL. To be honest, I like this community even better and the level of insight is the same or better. Cheers to everyone who makes this forum the great place that it is.
lol, you must have missed the post bitching that this forum has to many low level players and we need at Diamond+ subforum xD
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On June 15 2013 03:27 Slusher wrote:
Also Soraka is completely Bonkers get a Bulwark than get 40% cdr, shes good before you get this stuff, if you finish it your entire team is immortal.
fixed
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On June 15 2013 03:36 Perplex wrote:Anyone see this reddit post on r/lol? http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1gc3i4/i_wish_we_had_an_arenajunkies_or_elitist_jerks/It immediately made me think of this sub-forum. I learned everything I knew about competitive WoW on arenajunkies, and this forum is the closest thing to AJ that i've found for LoL. To be honest, I like this community even better and the level of insight is the same or better. Cheers to everyone who makes this forum the great place that it is.
There was just a discussion 2 days ago suggesting a Diamond+ thread here. Basically - not happening.
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