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Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35166 Posts
November 29 2013 04:49 GMT
#1801
On November 29 2013 13:24 onlywonderboy wrote:
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but he meant CJ not JC lol.

When I typed it, it felt wrong, but for the life of me I couldn't find out what was wrong.

Like that one time I was writing a java program and forgot to start the main method.
Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
November 29 2013 04:51 GMT
#1802
On November 29 2013 13:46 wei2coolman wrote:
"getting carried is like losing, except worse"-tsm bjersen,
I knew this guy for a reason.

You accidentally a word.
It's your boy Guzma!
TheRabidDeer
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
United States3806 Posts
November 29 2013 04:55 GMT
#1803
So, I hit level 30 last night. I am not going to be doing ranked yet, but I was curious how the drafting system works for solo queue. Do you just ban who you want to ban and pick your own champion and screw everybody else? Or is there at least some communication beforehand?
obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-29 04:58:40
November 29 2013 04:58 GMT
#1804
On November 29 2013 13:55 TheRabidDeer wrote:
So, I hit level 30 last night. I am not going to be doing ranked yet, but I was curious how the drafting system works for solo queue. Do you just ban who you want to ban and pick your own champion and screw everybody else? Or is there at least some communication beforehand?

There's usually some communication. Every game is different though. Communication is important so if you really want to win, try to communicate so at least you'll know who to mute and make your game more enjoyable.

You can ban who you want. No one can stop you, but half the time if you lose, someone will say something along the lines of "learn to ban".

On November 29 2013 13:51 Requizen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2013 13:46 wei2coolman wrote:
"getting carried is like losing, except worse"-tsm bjersen,
I knew this guy for a reason.

You accidentally a word.

No didn't. He Bjergson for a reason.
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.
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35166 Posts
November 29 2013 05:01 GMT
#1805
On November 29 2013 13:55 TheRabidDeer wrote:
So, I hit level 30 last night. I am not going to be doing ranked yet, but I was curious how the drafting system works for solo queue. Do you just ban who you want to ban and pick your own champion and screw everybody else? Or is there at least some communication beforehand?

Feel free to do draft normals. They're like ranked but with less raging and butthurt.
TheLink
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia2725 Posts
November 29 2013 05:05 GMT
#1806
Bans are 100% irrelevent. Generally just ban champs that piss you off (like Kassadin or Blitz) and whatever your team mates recommend so as to avoid needless rage. Don't ever ask your team who you should ban as suddenly everyone will care and start fights.

For picks you kinda just call which role you want, something like "prefer top" or "main mid/jungle". Remember if everyone is in their main roles your win rate goes up so it does pay to communicate a bit.

Lastly don't put ranked on a pedestal either. It's not a step up from blind pick or pre-30 or anything, it's just the same LoL as everywhere else so don't feel an obligation to practice every role or own a variety of runes/champs before going in.
Only the weak link is strong enough to break the chain.
ShaLLoW[baY]
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada12499 Posts
November 29 2013 05:19 GMT
#1807
On November 29 2013 13:24 onlywonderboy wrote:
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but he meant CJ not JC lol.


no I was serious, searched reddit and googled "JC league of legends" and everything haha
ALEXISONFIRE ARE FUCKING BACK (sAviOr for life)
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35166 Posts
November 29 2013 05:20 GMT
#1808
On November 29 2013 14:05 TheLink wrote:
Bans are 100% irrelevent. Generally just ban champs that piss you off (like Kassadin or Blitz) and whatever your team mates recommend so as to avoid needless rage. Don't ever ask your team who you should ban as suddenly everyone will care and start fights.

For picks you kinda just call which role you want, something like "prefer top" or "main mid/jungle". Remember if everyone is in their main roles your win rate goes up so it does pay to communicate a bit.

Lastly don't put ranked on a pedestal either. It's not a step up from blind pick or pre-30 or anything, it's just the same LoL as everywhere else so don't feel an obligation to practice every role or own a variety of runes/champs before going in.

At the same time, there's a bit of learning that people should do after 30 before they go into ranked. Simply getting to 30 isn't enough time.
Zdrastochye
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Ivory Coast6262 Posts
November 29 2013 05:27 GMT
#1809
On November 29 2013 14:20 Gahlo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2013 14:05 TheLink wrote:
Bans are 100% irrelevent. Generally just ban champs that piss you off (like Kassadin or Blitz) and whatever your team mates recommend so as to avoid needless rage. Don't ever ask your team who you should ban as suddenly everyone will care and start fights.

For picks you kinda just call which role you want, something like "prefer top" or "main mid/jungle". Remember if everyone is in their main roles your win rate goes up so it does pay to communicate a bit.

Lastly don't put ranked on a pedestal either. It's not a step up from blind pick or pre-30 or anything, it's just the same LoL as everywhere else so don't feel an obligation to practice every role or own a variety of runes/champs before going in.

At the same time, there's a bit of learning that people should do after 30 before they go into ranked. Simply getting to 30 isn't enough time.


It's generally better to improve outside of ranked, to reduce clamping. But with enough games played you'd obviously overcome clamping. The more ranked you play the more games it takes to rank up.
Hey! How you doin'?
SagaZ
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
France3460 Posts
November 29 2013 05:36 GMT
#1810
Ok so as you all know by now, vision wards have 5 hp and INFINITE DURATION
I will say that again
INFINITE DURATION

Every single member of the team should buy a vision ward as early as possible and place it either:
-Easy spot to defend, like in the middle of your own jungle
-Not natural to check, like the little brush between towers in top and bot lane, the single little brush on both sides of midlane kinda counts too.

Even if it is to ward your own jungle, each member investing 100g to have full vision over their own jungle for an extended duration is completely worth it.

In low division, you can even get away by vision warding the little brushes near mid lane and have sight coverage for 20 minutes if no1 walks into it.


tl;dr, it is an extremely low opportunity cost for potential huge rewards, do it, do it now! Every single member of the team should have a pink placed somewhere on the map at all times.

(my favorite is between enemy towers, sure it is awkward as hell to get one there but no1 checks that brush like ever, and it gives a lot of info, very recommended vs stuff like nocturne
Be nice, buy wards and don't feed double buff.
cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
November 29 2013 06:01 GMT
#1811
Ahhaha my patience not buying a singed skin has rewarded me. Snowy choo-choo singed is the greatest thing ever.
Freeeeeeedom
TheRabidDeer
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
United States3806 Posts
November 29 2013 06:06 GMT
#1812
On November 29 2013 13:58 obesechicken13 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2013 13:55 TheRabidDeer wrote:
So, I hit level 30 last night. I am not going to be doing ranked yet, but I was curious how the drafting system works for solo queue. Do you just ban who you want to ban and pick your own champion and screw everybody else? Or is there at least some communication beforehand?

There's usually some communication. Every game is different though. Communication is important so if you really want to win, try to communicate so at least you'll know who to mute and make your game more enjoyable.

You can ban who you want. No one can stop you, but half the time if you lose, someone will say something along the lines of "learn to ban".

Show nested quote +
On November 29 2013 13:51 Requizen wrote:
On November 29 2013 13:46 wei2coolman wrote:
"getting carried is like losing, except worse"-tsm bjersen,
I knew this guy for a reason.

You accidentally a word.

No didn't. He Bjergson for a reason.

Good advice there on the mute thing. Do you still see pings from them if they are muted?
On November 29 2013 14:01 Gahlo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2013 13:55 TheRabidDeer wrote:
So, I hit level 30 last night. I am not going to be doing ranked yet, but I was curious how the drafting system works for solo queue. Do you just ban who you want to ban and pick your own champion and screw everybody else? Or is there at least some communication beforehand?

Feel free to do draft normals. They're like ranked but with less raging and butthurt.

Probably have to start doing those.
On November 29 2013 14:05 TheLink wrote:
Bans are 100% irrelevent. Generally just ban champs that piss you off (like Kassadin or Blitz) and whatever your team mates recommend so as to avoid needless rage. Don't ever ask your team who you should ban as suddenly everyone will care and start fights.

For picks you kinda just call which role you want, something like "prefer top" or "main mid/jungle". Remember if everyone is in their main roles your win rate goes up so it does pay to communicate a bit.

Lastly don't put ranked on a pedestal either. It's not a step up from blind pick or pre-30 or anything, it's just the same LoL as everywhere else so don't feel an obligation to practice every role or own a variety of runes/champs before going in.

Sounds good to me.

And I kinda put ranked on a pedestal just because I have reasonably high expectations of myself. I also have a hard time judging my personal ability from the games I have played so far. For example, my first level 30 game just finished and I thought I did well... then at the end I am told I made the enemy teams Lee a god even though I went 3-2 vs him and the next time I looked at the leaderboard he was 13-3. We won, but it is frustrating hearing that and competing with other peoples ego.
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
November 29 2013 06:09 GMT
#1813
On November 29 2013 14:20 Gahlo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2013 14:05 TheLink wrote:
Bans are 100% irrelevent. Generally just ban champs that piss you off (like Kassadin or Blitz) and whatever your team mates recommend so as to avoid needless rage. Don't ever ask your team who you should ban as suddenly everyone will care and start fights.

For picks you kinda just call which role you want, something like "prefer top" or "main mid/jungle". Remember if everyone is in their main roles your win rate goes up so it does pay to communicate a bit.

Lastly don't put ranked on a pedestal either. It's not a step up from blind pick or pre-30 or anything, it's just the same LoL as everywhere else so don't feel an obligation to practice every role or own a variety of runes/champs before going in.

At the same time, there's a bit of learning that people should do after 30 before they go into ranked. Simply getting to 30 isn't enough time.

Getting to 30 is more than enough time if you don't use boosts... It's not like ranked is gold and higher, there's Bronze leagues as well. You have hundreds of games, easily enough.
League of Legends EU West, Platinum III | Yousei Teikoku is the best thing that has ever happened to music.
FinestHour
Profile Joined August 2010
United States18466 Posts
November 29 2013 06:21 GMT
#1814
On November 29 2013 15:01 cLutZ wrote:
Ahhaha my patience not buying a singed skin has rewarded me. Snowy choo-choo singed is the greatest thing ever.


how did that taste
thug life.                                                       MVP/ex-
Lord Tolkien
Profile Joined November 2012
United States12083 Posts
November 29 2013 06:30 GMT
#1815
The Snowdown Lulu skin has a flying fucking poro.

If it turned the enemy into a poro instead of a squirrel, I would be so done.
"His father is pretty juicy tbh." ~WaveofShadow
cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
November 29 2013 06:37 GMT
#1816
On November 29 2013 15:21 FinestHour wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2013 15:01 cLutZ wrote:
Ahhaha my patience not buying a singed skin has rewarded me. Snowy choo-choo singed is the greatest thing ever.


how did that taste


Like Eggnog and turkey and cinnamon
Freeeeeeedom
GolemMadness
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada11044 Posts
November 29 2013 06:55 GMT
#1817
On November 29 2013 14:20 Gahlo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2013 14:05 TheLink wrote:
Bans are 100% irrelevent. Generally just ban champs that piss you off (like Kassadin or Blitz) and whatever your team mates recommend so as to avoid needless rage. Don't ever ask your team who you should ban as suddenly everyone will care and start fights.

For picks you kinda just call which role you want, something like "prefer top" or "main mid/jungle". Remember if everyone is in their main roles your win rate goes up so it does pay to communicate a bit.

Lastly don't put ranked on a pedestal either. It's not a step up from blind pick or pre-30 or anything, it's just the same LoL as everywhere else so don't feel an obligation to practice every role or own a variety of runes/champs before going in.

At the same time, there's a bit of learning that people should do after 30 before they go into ranked. Simply getting to 30 isn't enough time.


It's plenty of time. There are people that have played over 2k ranked games and are still in bronze. The best way to improve at ranked is by playing ranked.
http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=FLABREZU
JonnyLaw
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States3482 Posts
November 29 2013 07:21 GMT
#1818
On November 29 2013 15:55 GolemMadness wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2013 14:20 Gahlo wrote:
On November 29 2013 14:05 TheLink wrote:
Bans are 100% irrelevent. Generally just ban champs that piss you off (like Kassadin or Blitz) and whatever your team mates recommend so as to avoid needless rage. Don't ever ask your team who you should ban as suddenly everyone will care and start fights.

For picks you kinda just call which role you want, something like "prefer top" or "main mid/jungle". Remember if everyone is in their main roles your win rate goes up so it does pay to communicate a bit.

Lastly don't put ranked on a pedestal either. It's not a step up from blind pick or pre-30 or anything, it's just the same LoL as everywhere else so don't feel an obligation to practice every role or own a variety of runes/champs before going in.

At the same time, there's a bit of learning that people should do after 30 before they go into ranked. Simply getting to 30 isn't enough time.


It's plenty of time. There are people that have played over 2k ranked games and are still in bronze. The best way to improve at ranked is by playing ranked.



Those people don't care either.

I'd say play ranked though. Normals are people fucking around a lot of the time. The matchmaking is not accurate because it's based on normal elo so games are often lopsided.
TheRabidDeer
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
United States3806 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-29 07:34:09
November 29 2013 07:33 GMT
#1819
On November 29 2013 16:21 JonnyLaw wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2013 15:55 GolemMadness wrote:
On November 29 2013 14:20 Gahlo wrote:
On November 29 2013 14:05 TheLink wrote:
Bans are 100% irrelevent. Generally just ban champs that piss you off (like Kassadin or Blitz) and whatever your team mates recommend so as to avoid needless rage. Don't ever ask your team who you should ban as suddenly everyone will care and start fights.

For picks you kinda just call which role you want, something like "prefer top" or "main mid/jungle". Remember if everyone is in their main roles your win rate goes up so it does pay to communicate a bit.

Lastly don't put ranked on a pedestal either. It's not a step up from blind pick or pre-30 or anything, it's just the same LoL as everywhere else so don't feel an obligation to practice every role or own a variety of runes/champs before going in.

At the same time, there's a bit of learning that people should do after 30 before they go into ranked. Simply getting to 30 isn't enough time.


It's plenty of time. There are people that have played over 2k ranked games and are still in bronze. The best way to improve at ranked is by playing ranked.



Those people don't care either.

I'd say play ranked though. Normals are people fucking around a lot of the time. The matchmaking is not accurate because it's based on normal elo so games are often lopsided.

I didn't even know normal had ELO. Does ELO build while you level too, or just at level 30?

EDIT: I am probably going to wait until I finish 1 full set of runes before I go into ranked though.
ketchup
Profile Joined August 2010
14521 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-29 07:35:06
November 29 2013 07:34 GMT
#1820
On November 29 2013 16:33 TheRabidDeer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2013 16:21 JonnyLaw wrote:
On November 29 2013 15:55 GolemMadness wrote:
On November 29 2013 14:20 Gahlo wrote:
On November 29 2013 14:05 TheLink wrote:
Bans are 100% irrelevent. Generally just ban champs that piss you off (like Kassadin or Blitz) and whatever your team mates recommend so as to avoid needless rage. Don't ever ask your team who you should ban as suddenly everyone will care and start fights.

For picks you kinda just call which role you want, something like "prefer top" or "main mid/jungle". Remember if everyone is in their main roles your win rate goes up so it does pay to communicate a bit.

Lastly don't put ranked on a pedestal either. It's not a step up from blind pick or pre-30 or anything, it's just the same LoL as everywhere else so don't feel an obligation to practice every role or own a variety of runes/champs before going in.

At the same time, there's a bit of learning that people should do after 30 before they go into ranked. Simply getting to 30 isn't enough time.


It's plenty of time. There are people that have played over 2k ranked games and are still in bronze. The best way to improve at ranked is by playing ranked.



Those people don't care either.

I'd say play ranked though. Normals are people fucking around a lot of the time. The matchmaking is not accurate because it's based on normal elo so games are often lopsided.

I didn't even know normal had ELO. Does ELO build while you level too, or just at level 30?


Elo is what is used for placing you in matches. It's in all types of game modes. You get Elo the moment you play one game, then from there it adjusts according to whatever algorithm they have going.
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