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JazzVortical
Profile Joined July 2013
Australia1825 Posts
August 14 2013 09:42 GMT
#4921
On August 14 2013 18:30 IMoperator wrote:
Also, I wanted to ask what's the point of playing a champ like Leblanc since ahri is a far more versatile and useful assassin?

Knowing you are playing a harder to play champion

This is a question with a lot of champs though. Why play 90% of the junglers when you can play Zac?
IMoperator
Profile Joined October 2011
4476 Posts
August 14 2013 09:49 GMT
#4922
On August 14 2013 18:42 JazzVortical wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2013 18:30 IMoperator wrote:
Also, I wanted to ask what's the point of playing a champ like Leblanc since ahri is a far more versatile and useful assassin?

Knowing you are playing a harder to play champion

This is a question with a lot of champs though. Why play 90% of the junglers when you can play Zac?

yeah same with talon + zed too. it does really seem like power creep is starting to become a problem in LoL.
IMoperator
Profile Joined October 2011
4476 Posts
August 14 2013 09:50 GMT
#4923
On August 14 2013 18:42 ETisME wrote:
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On August 14 2013 18:30 IMoperator wrote:
Also, I wanted to ask what's the point of playing a champ like Leblanc since ahri is a far more versatile and useful assassin?

I think riot is looking into lebanc according to a red post.
personally I think Lebanc is better in terms of offering both a slow and a stun but I am only a low league player :p

the problem is that the E has to last the full duration to snare the opponent, compared to ahri whose charm is basically instant cc if it hits.
ZERG_RUSSIAN
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
10417 Posts
August 14 2013 09:58 GMT
#4924
On August 14 2013 18:30 IMoperator wrote:
Also, I wanted to ask what's the point of playing a champ like Leblanc since ahri is a far more versatile and useful assassin?

Leblanc USED TO counter some matchups really hard but I'm not sure after her rework if that's still the case
I'm on GOLD CHAIN
PrinceXizor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States17713 Posts
August 14 2013 10:02 GMT
#4925
Do any of you have preference for older champions that may or may not even be good or relevant anymore because they feel better than new ones? I feel like thats my main experience with league. i play a few characters only because they feel better to play and are more fun, regardless of fotm status. i also feel this mentality lead to my absolute disappointment with how riot manages their game
ZERG_RUSSIAN
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
10417 Posts
August 14 2013 10:06 GMT
#4926
I'm like maining Morgana right now just because she feels so right
I'm on GOLD CHAIN
IMoperator
Profile Joined October 2011
4476 Posts
August 14 2013 10:09 GMT
#4927
On August 14 2013 19:02 PrinceXizor wrote:
Do any of you have preference for older champions that may or may not even be good or relevant anymore because they feel better than new ones? I feel like thats my main experience with league. i play a few characters only because they feel better to play and are more fun, regardless of fotm status. i also feel this mentality lead to my absolute disappointment with how riot manages their game

well I asked my question about ahri/lb earlier because I really like leblanc's playstyle, and her skills and she has a high skill ceiling. Ahri's just flat out better though, there's like nothing about her that isn't as good or better than LB, other than her ult cd. I like ahri I guess, but her character is a lot more generic I guess than leblanc's and I'd much rather play LB than ahri, but there's literally no point in doing that anymore. Same thing with like Jayce and Elise, they're ridiculously strong champs but I just dont fight them as interesting as some of the older champs like wukong.
mr_tolkien
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
France8631 Posts
August 14 2013 10:12 GMT
#4928
On August 14 2013 18:30 IMoperator wrote:
Also, I wanted to ask what's the point of playing a champ like Leblanc since ahri is a far more versatile and useful assassin?

Being not ult-dependant.
Being a better ganker.
Having bigger balls.
The legend of Darien lives on
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
August 14 2013 10:25 GMT
#4929
Well Ahri's max burst is 1235+2.85ap, Leblanc's is 1435+3.7ap.

So you play LB to pick someone and fucking explode them instantly.
In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
Numy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
South Africa35471 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-14 10:32:16
August 14 2013 10:29 GMT
#4930
On August 14 2013 19:09 IMoperator wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2013 19:02 PrinceXizor wrote:
Do any of you have preference for older champions that may or may not even be good or relevant anymore because they feel better than new ones? I feel like thats my main experience with league. i play a few characters only because they feel better to play and are more fun, regardless of fotm status. i also feel this mentality lead to my absolute disappointment with how riot manages their game

well I asked my question about ahri/lb earlier because I really like leblanc's playstyle, and her skills and she has a high skill ceiling. Ahri's just flat out better though, there's like nothing about her that isn't as good or better than LB, other than her ult cd. I like ahri I guess, but her character is a lot more generic I guess than leblanc's and I'd much rather play LB than ahri, but there's literally no point in doing that anymore. Same thing with like Jayce and Elise, they're ridiculously strong champs but I just dont fight them as interesting as some of the older champs like wukong.


It really doesn't matter if one hero is slightly better than another if you enjoy the first more you play that one. The minute differences are only really noticed at the highest level of play and even then it's only if you desperately want to win more than enjoy yourself.

The problem a lot of people have is that they enjoy winning and feel some fotm hero will give them the best chance so they hop around when really it doesn't matter. You can carry with pretty much anything at lower level of play if you just play it well enough. If you aren't playing to enjoy yourself then you will just get frustrated with the game.

It's actually similar to the league division system. People that only care about the win get impatient and don't enjoy themselves since there is no instant success in anything. Fluctuations are natural so it takes time to graphically show improvement but if you playing heroes you enjoy you can intuitively feel when you are doing things better(Setting goals within reasonable time frames help)
Osmoses
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Sweden5302 Posts
August 14 2013 11:24 GMT
#4931
On August 14 2013 19:02 PrinceXizor wrote:
Do any of you have preference for older champions that may or may not even be good or relevant anymore because they feel better than new ones? I feel like thats my main experience with league. i play a few characters only because they feel better to play and are more fun, regardless of fotm status. i also feel this mentality lead to my absolute disappointment with how riot manages their game

Hipster mentality is half the choice when picking a champ. Mordekaiser, Tristana, Riven, all my favorite champs were first picked mostly because it's fun to be different. Also they are never banned.

Actually starting to worry whether I'm gonna start seeing Riven bans if the pbe broken wings changes stick.
Excuse me hun, but what is your name? Vivian? I woke up next to you naked and, uh, did we, um?
LaNague
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany9118 Posts
August 14 2013 12:23 GMT
#4932
i still play morgana from time to time.
Funny thing is a lot of people cant deal with her anymore.
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
August 14 2013 12:44 GMT
#4933
I can't deal with her either, I used to hit Dark Binding fairly reliably (because pre-30 people can't dodge) but after not playing her for almost a year the wind-up and projectile speed really screw me up. T_T
As far as older champs go... Pantheon, Talon, Orianna, I'd say Cassiopeia but she doesn't really have a "newer" version, Irelia.
Amongst the champs I hate most, most of them are old champs too I think (Anivia/Lux/TF/Yorick vs Elise/Jayce, I don't hate Zed/Kha/Zac/Tryndamere enough for them to make the list).

I love Maokai and Nautilus too but there's no point in picking them anymore (Maokai still has super strong early ganks but he's a poor duelist and clears like shit in the current jungle so it's obnoxiously dependent on snowballing successful ganks, and Nautilus... they gutted his damage from midgame onward by 25%, his Q is still bugged as hell because of the way the champion/terrain distinction is handled by the hitbox, his early is still pretty weak, and reworked Sejuani and Zac are in the game).
;_;7

On August 14 2013 13:30 Slusher wrote:
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On August 14 2013 13:25 kainzero wrote:
On August 14 2013 13:15 UniversalSnip wrote:
slusher is totally right, her teamfighting is actually godlike if you have other sources of hard cc, it's her laning that's garbage. If her lategame were bad she'd probably legitimately be the worst hero in the game because that's pretty much her only strength.

That's the problem, the current meta favors hard cc supports.

It also favors Zac top, and a host of cc junglers like Naut and J4 I'll take a reset on J4's healthbar that comes with a 110 armor buff when your carry is trapped in the crater with him.

shit is situational.

Sadly you can drop Naut off that list, on another note the 3s armour buff on top of a heal is also rather good when Zed decides to ult somebody, it reduces the damage from his whole combo (except his passive and stuff like ignite/red buff).
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
mr_tolkien
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
France8631 Posts
August 14 2013 12:50 GMT
#4934
I'm searching for an account with 0 ranked games in S3 to play only Karma and get up to Diamond with her. Dunno where to look for though Anybody here having a forgotten smurf of doom ?
The legend of Darien lives on
TomatoShark
Profile Joined August 2011
United States288 Posts
August 14 2013 13:37 GMT
#4935
On August 14 2013 18:42 JazzVortical wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2013 18:30 IMoperator wrote:
Also, I wanted to ask what's the point of playing a champ like Leblanc since ahri is a far more versatile and useful assassin?

Knowing you are playing a harder to play champion

This is a question with a lot of champs though. Why play 90% of the junglers when you can play Zac?


Nautilus
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
August 14 2013 13:38 GMT
#4936
Then you play Sejuani.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
August 14 2013 13:39 GMT
#4937
Ahri is wayyyyy different from leblonk. They dont eeven play the same in lane.

leblonk does have an edge over ahri in some matchups, I feel.
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35171 Posts
August 14 2013 13:42 GMT
#4938
AmEx site is live, but signup is bugged. lol
sylverfyre
Profile Joined May 2010
United States8298 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-14 13:43:27
August 14 2013 13:42 GMT
#4939
On August 14 2013 21:44 Alaric wrote:

Show nested quote +
On August 14 2013 13:30 Slusher wrote:
On August 14 2013 13:25 kainzero wrote:
On August 14 2013 13:15 UniversalSnip wrote:
slusher is totally right, her teamfighting is actually godlike if you have other sources of hard cc, it's her laning that's garbage. If her lategame were bad she'd probably legitimately be the worst hero in the game because that's pretty much her only strength.

That's the problem, the current meta favors hard cc supports.

It also favors Zac top, and a host of cc junglers like Naut and J4 I'll take a reset on J4's healthbar that comes with a 110 armor buff when your carry is trapped in the crater with him.

shit is situational.

Sadly you can drop Naut off that list, on another note the 3s armour buff on top of a heal is also rather good when Zed decides to ult somebody, it reduces the damage from his whole combo (except his passive and stuff like ignite/red buff).

Problem is, most of the time you want to 'burst heal' someone (like the guy getting zed ulted) they have ignite on them. I'd much rather just be lulu, not be cutting myself all day due to how boring my champion is to play while also providing even better anti-assassination via poly+shield+wildgrowth (CC the assassin AND give a huge hp buffer that ignores ignite?)

I actually LIKE playing Soraka in ARAM, where you can build a bit tanky and spam starcall on 3+ people constantly while also providing heals.
Sponkz
Profile Joined May 2011
Denmark4564 Posts
August 14 2013 13:42 GMT
#4940
Ahri brings alot more to a team than LeBlanc does, however LB counters Ahri.
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