[Patch 3.10a: Worlds Balance] General Discussion - Page 66

On August 27 2013 02:40 TheYango wrote:

You say this like leaving foreign teams with 1-2 weeks to make travel arrangements after Worlds participants were decided in their respective regions wasn't a disaster waiting to happen from the very start.

On August 27 2013 02:42 LaNague wrote:




you are missing the whole point of the athlete visa.
it is especially there so that athletes can compete in a tournament without being employed permanently.

On August 27 2013 03:13 Amui wrote:
For whatever reason I can't seem to copy paste from the visa site I googled. But it says that such visas can take several months with premium processing available(no idea what that means). You can also meet the requirements without having qualified for worlds.

On August 27 2013 00:43 TheYango wrote:

TBH I'm not sure whey every regional finals has to be so damn close to Worlds.

I can't see a particular reason why Worlds couldn't have been a couple weeks later than it is.

The Chinese Regional Final is on the 7th and 8th. There's only a week between it and Worlds, which is absurd.

On August 27 2013 03:10 Lord Tolkien wrote:
For anyone who has had to get a Visa as a non-US citizen, it's probably one of the more difficult countries to get one from, unless you're from another major developed nation (aka Canada/Most of Europe). It's an absolute nightmare if you're from China, India, or any other country.

Because illegal immigration (which to be fair, is a perfectly legitimate concern in the context of it; the predominant source of illegal immigrants consist of travelers/students/etc. overstaying Visas). But I'm not letting myself go down that rabbit hole. I'll lambast the US immigration system for hours if I do <_<.

tl;dr, yeah, US Visas are a bitch, mostly due to all the added precautions they take to prevent people from overstaying (interviews, income requirements, other bullshit, etc.).

Which is why back during All-Stars when that Penny Arcade guy couldn't get his Chinese visa together, I was chuckling like mad. Getting a Chinese Visa is many times easier (and most difficulties can be attributed to reciprocity to US raising its standards).

On August 27 2013 00:47 XenOmega wrote:
I recently started looking at the runes of pros (hoping that this would help me a little bit in my own ranked games)

For AP
1- I've switched to Armor for my yellow runes on AP. I guess the logic behind this is you are expected to face more assassins/bruisers mid, and because of Auto-attack right?
2- Blue is where I am not sure... I'm seeing mainly Magic resist (Flat), CDR, Flat ability power, or magic pen runes. It probably depends on the match up. But for someone who doesn't main mid, what would be the best choice? I'm thinking Flat magic resist.
Can Mpen be good? Or too cost-inefficient?

On Orianna : Many pros prefer to use Hybrid. I guess this is to make use of her passive early on in the game. Since the hybrid as a big investment, are they are used for another champion? Is Orianna worth mastering (As in, should I play her alot, or are there other champions that can help me and that are easier?)

On August 27 2013 03:45 sylverfyre wrote:
3 - You lose about 2 MPen to gain about 8 Armor Pen, which is really good if you get physical damage from like... ANYTHING. If you can't decide for sure, the best way to consider this is to look at your physical/magical damage done to champions at the end of the game (especially games that end really early) Hybrid pen runes will result in more damage if at least 20% of your damage is physical (and conversely, if at least ... 40% i think? of your damage is magical), which could even apply to champions like Annie, Ahri or Lissandra, who don't actually have auto attack buffs or physical skills, simply right clicks with smooth animations and good ranges.

On August 27 2013 03:58 Flakes wrote:

That's a nice rule of thumb -- I wish there were more build decisions that could be simplified like this

e.g. whether to take both 8%pen masteries on hybrid champs -- it's hard to quantify the damage gained from the stats per level or other masteries

On August 27 2013 03:20 TheYango wrote:

The thing is, we didn't even know the Worlds date until a month and a half ago, so even if they applied then, scheduling would be pretty tight.

And neither of these teams have qualified for Worlds anyway--the Chinese Worlds qualifier hasn't even been played yet. It's just that OMG's standing right now is more or less where C9 is for NA, i.e. something extraordinarily tragic (this, for example) has to happen for them to not be one of the two teams going to Worlds.

On August 27 2013 04:38 Gahlo wrote:
Edward in the situation slipped my mind, as he's the only nonNA person that is in the LCS(sans Nyjacky, who moved a loooong time ago)

On August 27 2013 05:42 wei2coolman wrote:

It was so apparently obvious that Riot was going to do a S3 World Championship, dunno why they released all the info so fucking late. Every other sport has this shit planned years in advanced. Having a 6 month prep-period for all the teams would have been nice.