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Yezzus
Profile Blog Joined January 2014
United States2318 Posts
February 03 2014 23:25 GMT
#3441
On February 04 2014 05:32 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 04 2014 05:30 silencefc wrote:
On February 04 2014 05:26 Fildun wrote:
Why did jungle suddenly become the most wanted role in soloq?


Might be because of Nightblue3's stream and everyone falling in love with XJ9 style jungling.


As I've said before, Nightblue is just shitty XJ9. He taxes more indiscriminately (read: stupidly) than XJ9, isn't efficient, and doesn't carry nearly as hard ;;

#freexj9

Did XJ9 quit the game? Dont see him stream anymore....maybe he commited suicide ( not joking)
Shiznick
Profile Joined December 2008
United States2200 Posts
February 03 2014 23:28 GMT
#3442
On February 04 2014 08:25 Yezzus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 04 2014 05:32 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
On February 04 2014 05:30 silencefc wrote:
On February 04 2014 05:26 Fildun wrote:
Why did jungle suddenly become the most wanted role in soloq?


Might be because of Nightblue3's stream and everyone falling in love with XJ9 style jungling.


As I've said before, Nightblue is just shitty XJ9. He taxes more indiscriminately (read: stupidly) than XJ9, isn't efficient, and doesn't carry nearly as hard ;;

#freexj9

Did XJ9 quit the game? Dont see him stream anymore....maybe he commited suicide ( not joking)

he got banned. big boy banned, not the small kind of ban.
aurawashere
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada454 Posts
February 03 2014 23:28 GMT
#3443
banned for life, he may or may not play but streaming would result in his account getting instantly banned
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
February 03 2014 23:31 GMT
#3444
On February 04 2014 08:21 Slayer91 wrote:
that some mighty theorycrafting for a melee who won't be able to auto that much

I wouldn't really know to much in regards to itemization for Olaf, but it seems how his E works is that it makes his extended trades in 1v1's pretty deadly. Also Frozen Heart blows so much donkey nuts; wish Riot fixed the item.
liftlift > tsm
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-03 23:32:23
February 03 2014 23:31 GMT
#3445
Unless you build offensive items, your damage at level 9+ is going to come from reckless swing for a good portion, and CDR amplifies that. Having something like 10-15% also lets you put undertow off cooldown as soon as you pick it up (something like 2s cd without CDR).
I tend to like FH because resistances work well with his lifesteal and passive, but since resistances got fucked in terms of cost-effectiveness (and a bit the penetration changes) and you can't just afk farm anymore...

Hm... maybe Sunfire into another belt to say fuck to burst, build BotRK or Ghostblade, then finish warmogs?
I feel naked compared to champions like Jax who build triforce, since you only get 395 MS with boots 2 and no mobility spells.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
Yezzus
Profile Blog Joined January 2014
United States2318 Posts
February 03 2014 23:33 GMT
#3446
On February 04 2014 08:28 Shiznick wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 04 2014 08:25 Yezzus wrote:
On February 04 2014 05:32 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
On February 04 2014 05:30 silencefc wrote:
On February 04 2014 05:26 Fildun wrote:
Why did jungle suddenly become the most wanted role in soloq?


Might be because of Nightblue3's stream and everyone falling in love with XJ9 style jungling.


As I've said before, Nightblue is just shitty XJ9. He taxes more indiscriminately (read: stupidly) than XJ9, isn't efficient, and doesn't carry nearly as hard ;;

#freexj9

Did XJ9 quit the game? Dont see him stream anymore....maybe he commited suicide ( not joking)

he got banned. big boy banned, not the small kind of ban.

Why exactly? I remember watchching him sometimes towards the end.....he wasnt really bm or anything
nafta
Profile Joined August 2010
Bulgaria18893 Posts
February 03 2014 23:33 GMT
#3447
There is a reason most of the time he is picked with sivir .
Sponkz
Profile Joined May 2011
Denmark4564 Posts
February 03 2014 23:34 GMT
#3448
On February 04 2014 08:33 Yezzus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 04 2014 08:28 Shiznick wrote:
On February 04 2014 08:25 Yezzus wrote:
On February 04 2014 05:32 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
On February 04 2014 05:30 silencefc wrote:
On February 04 2014 05:26 Fildun wrote:
Why did jungle suddenly become the most wanted role in soloq?


Might be because of Nightblue3's stream and everyone falling in love with XJ9 style jungling.


As I've said before, Nightblue is just shitty XJ9. He taxes more indiscriminately (read: stupidly) than XJ9, isn't efficient, and doesn't carry nearly as hard ;;

#freexj9

Did XJ9 quit the game? Dont see him stream anymore....maybe he commited suicide ( not joking)

he got banned. big boy banned, not the small kind of ban.

Why exactly? I remember watchching him sometimes towards the end.....he wasnt really bm or anything



You clearly didn't see that 7 hour footage on youtube.
hi
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23340 Posts
February 03 2014 23:38 GMT
#3449
yeah having sivir with olaf removes the need for ghostblade. The thing is buying 100 AD on olaf gives you only 40 more true damage, not really worth. Base AD is enough to make your E pretty good. R is a 40-80 AD steriod and W is a 40-80% AS steriod. Axe is a fairly good slow. Mostly you need tank stats and some mobility. Maybe trinity is the best after all damage wise. CDR if its good (dont play enough olaf to know) is doable from jungle with masteries+10% golem item+15% boots+10% brutalizer. (though you probably prefer hexdrinker or phage)
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
February 03 2014 23:42 GMT
#3450
On February 04 2014 07:13 cLutZ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 04 2014 07:05 Sufficiency wrote:
On February 04 2014 07:01 cLutZ wrote:
On February 04 2014 06:52 ticklishmusic wrote:
And now he's broken in the sense that you can't actually play him. His passive is basically useless and he can't farm and can't get tanky.


He is broken in the sense that he is a very difficult champion to balance properly. So I shed no tears for ZAC lovers, who should have expected this from the start.

Its not like they released an OP Jarvan or Ahri, ZAC's kit is always going to be really hard to get the numbers right on.


I disagree. He was pretty balanced at the end of S3. He is just bad now because mana junglers are better. The jungle changes didn't even impact too much... itemization changes to jungle did.


When was ZAC jungle the only problem? Do you OGN?


Top lane ZAC was played because he could 1v2 and was particularly resilient to 3v1 tower dives.
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23340 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-03 23:43:28
February 03 2014 23:42 GMT
#3451
On February 04 2014 08:31 Alaric wrote:
Unless you build offensive items, your damage at level 9+ is going to come from reckless swing for a good portion, and CDR amplifies that. Having something like 10-15% also lets you put undertow off cooldown as soon as you pick it up (something like 2s cd without CDR).
I tend to like FH because resistances work well with his lifesteal and passive, but since resistances got fucked in terms of cost-effectiveness (and a bit the penetration changes) and you can't just afk farm anymore...

Hm... maybe Sunfire into another belt to say fuck to burst, build BotRK or Ghostblade, then finish warmogs?
I feel naked compared to champions like Jax who build triforce, since you only get 395 MS with boots 2 and no mobility spells.


You're thinking way too therycrafty I think. You damage is most likely enough to wreck any squishy champ if you time your ghost ult right, and your true damage and slows are good vs bruisers.
Lifesteal is pretty much irrelevant in a teamfight, unless you're an ADC who deals tons of damage and even then its mostly used for sustain in poke wars and lane. You shouldnt rely on healing at all and just go pure hp for maximum EHP (theres a huge cutoffpoint for when its not worth getting hp because of his R passive and your true-self damage inflicted especailly if you're going to get ignited at some point, you want like 3.5k hp~ before its better to start getting any resists probably, and you'll get resists anyway if you get randuins and sunfire and hexdrinker or banshees)
Looking at his stats again I doubt you need any damage items really.

Olafs W should be seen purely as a laning tool and jungle sustain. Even nasus who does like 1k damage with his Q cant rely on his lifesteal too much.
Sajaki
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada1135 Posts
February 03 2014 23:50 GMT
#3452
Hey guys, what are your current thoughts on Darius? Given that the meta right now is full of tanky top laners, he seems like a good pick against most of them due to the free armor pen and his ability to get tanky himself. I'm thinking something along the lines of Hydra, Cleaver and 3 defensive items. Does anyone play him or is it just not worth practicing him right now?
Inno pls...
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
February 03 2014 23:51 GMT
#3453
Ya that's what I mentioned, unless you come from the jungle (where items like spirits and locket are more easily seen) bruisers have trouble itemising CDR since the SV nerf. Randuin's doesn't give that 5%, you only get 5% if you invest in offense over getting 8% in defense in s2, the fusioned Locket is uninteresting (pre-fusion was actually pretty neat on several off laners if you would buy it early enough), FH has been brutally shafted, noone would buy Zeke's because its slot-effectiveness is really bad when it comes to AD, and brutaliser and its upgrades aren't for everyone.

With a high level W and a low health Olaf and BotRK, you're looking at something like ~30% lifesteal x1.2, 36% lifesteal isn't that bad when you attack almost twice per second when you stick to people. I mean, obvously it won't turn you into Mundo, but you can easily buy 2-3 more seconds (which is an E for sure if you have CDR, and half its cd otherwise) of diverting attention.
Def. not worth valuing resistances over HP though, sadly.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
February 03 2014 23:53 GMT
#3454
On February 04 2014 08:21 Slayer91 wrote:
that some mighty theorycrafting for a melee who won't be able to auto that much


Indeed, IDK why Riot made him so AA-Reliant in the rework. It just doesn't work in LOL right now. I think its a shame, because I like the sustained-damage model of autoattacks when compared to something like Renekton or Zed but it just isn't that feasible to hit a lot of autos unless you are splitpushing. Irelia really suffers from this, but even Jax isn't really that great of a teamfighter right now. He is just a sick splitpusher once he gets his items rolling, but really needs a different build order, and more items to teamfight.
Freeeeeeedom
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23340 Posts
February 03 2014 23:55 GMT
#3455
On February 04 2014 08:51 Alaric wrote:
Ya that's what I mentioned, unless you come from the jungle (where items like spirits and locket are more easily seen) bruisers have trouble itemising CDR since the SV nerf. Randuin's doesn't give that 5%, you only get 5% if you invest in offense over getting 8% in defense in s2, the fusioned Locket is uninteresting (pre-fusion was actually pretty neat on several off laners if you would buy it early enough), FH has been brutally shafted, noone would buy Zeke's because its slot-effectiveness is really bad when it comes to AD, and brutaliser and its upgrades aren't for everyone.

With a high level W and a low health Olaf and BotRK, you're looking at something like ~30% lifesteal x1.2, 36% lifesteal isn't that bad when you attack almost twice per second when you stick to people. I mean, obvously it won't turn you into Mundo, but you can easily buy 2-3 more seconds (which is an E for sure if you have CDR, and half its cd otherwise) of diverting attention.
Def. not worth valuing resistances over HP though, sadly.


just forget about lifesteal. If you're at low hp you're likely to get ignited and CC'd and insta killed.
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
February 03 2014 23:59 GMT
#3456
On February 04 2014 08:53 cLutZ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 04 2014 08:21 Slayer91 wrote:
that some mighty theorycrafting for a melee who won't be able to auto that much


Indeed, IDK why Riot made him so AA-Reliant in the rework. It just doesn't work in LOL right now. I think its a shame, because I like the sustained-damage model of autoattacks when compared to something like Renekton or Zed but it just isn't that feasible to hit a lot of autos unless you are splitpushing. Irelia really suffers from this, but even Jax isn't really that great of a teamfighter right now. He is just a sick splitpusher once he gets his items rolling, but really needs a different build order, and more items to teamfight.

I feel like Jax is dependent on getting Bork/Triforce ASAP, then you can pretty much solo anyone in the game without very much effort.
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
February 04 2014 00:01 GMT
#3457
On February 04 2014 08:55 Slayer91 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 04 2014 08:51 Alaric wrote:
Ya that's what I mentioned, unless you come from the jungle (where items like spirits and locket are more easily seen) bruisers have trouble itemising CDR since the SV nerf. Randuin's doesn't give that 5%, you only get 5% if you invest in offense over getting 8% in defense in s2, the fusioned Locket is uninteresting (pre-fusion was actually pretty neat on several off laners if you would buy it early enough), FH has been brutally shafted, noone would buy Zeke's because its slot-effectiveness is really bad when it comes to AD, and brutaliser and its upgrades aren't for everyone.

With a high level W and a low health Olaf and BotRK, you're looking at something like ~30% lifesteal x1.2, 36% lifesteal isn't that bad when you attack almost twice per second when you stick to people. I mean, obvously it won't turn you into Mundo, but you can easily buy 2-3 more seconds (which is an E for sure if you have CDR, and half its cd otherwise) of diverting attention.
Def. not worth valuing resistances over HP though, sadly.


just forget about lifesteal. If you're at low hp you're likely to get ignited and CC'd and insta killed.

or Jinx ulti'd, or Riven Ulti'd, or Lee Sin Q'd, or all the fucking executes Riot thought it would cool to put in the game.
liftlift > tsm
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23340 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-04 00:02:17
February 04 2014 00:01 GMT
#3458
dont forget garen ult
also you're going to be maxing W last
nafta
Profile Joined August 2010
Bulgaria18893 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-04 00:04:31
February 04 2014 00:04 GMT
#3459
On February 04 2014 09:01 Slayer91 wrote:
dont forget garen ult
also you're going to be maxing W last

Are there people who play garen other than you?
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23340 Posts
February 04 2014 00:05 GMT
#3460
I DON'T REMEMBER ASKING YOU A GOD DAMN THING
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