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Ketara
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States15065 Posts
February 20 2014 20:41 GMT
#1881
Trying the same clear route on Vi, Vi was about 10 seconds slower at everything.

She could stay in the jungle longer tho, made it to level 6 without backing.
http://www.liquidlegends.net/forum/lol-general/502075-patch-61-league-of-legends-general-discussion?page=25#498
Slusher
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States19143 Posts
February 20 2014 20:43 GMT
#1882
are you doing W max or E max? W max is kinda cheating.
Carrilord has arrived.
Ketara
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States15065 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-20 20:47:42
February 20 2014 20:43 GMT
#1883
On Sej? I went W>Q>E>E>E

And if you wanna ask:
Runes = hybridpen / armor / mr / movespeed

Masteries = http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/mastery-tree-planner#&tree1=1-2-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&tree2=0-0-2-2-0-3-1-1-1-3-0-3-0-1-0-0-4-0-1&tree3=0-0-3-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&v=2

I imagine there'd be a faster clearing setup but that's what I use in teh solo queuez.
http://www.liquidlegends.net/forum/lol-general/502075-patch-61-league-of-legends-general-discussion?page=25#498
ZERG_RUSSIAN
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
10417 Posts
February 20 2014 20:48 GMT
#1884
On February 20 2014 21:32 Sarah Bryant wrote:
The diffrence is you will find something to make it look bad as you do now after i already shown my account. So i want someone to confirm it himself and report about it here.

Maybe that's because it just looks bad period?
On February 21 2014 02:28 brokenwatch wrote:
I mean ww is pretty good but what if like someone maybe tried Malhazar support. I mean pertty similar skillset not bad damage. I think it would be great.

I'm not saying ww support is bad though.I think it could be quite great. Just need to analyze him well and abuse his strengths. If
say Madlife played WW Im sure none of you would argue about its viability.Gotta play him well. Quite an interesting and unique champion too. And surely its viable at D1. Just like everything is. Just look at all those 1 trick ponies playing all kinds of champions that seemingly make no sense. Lol is a deep game, can't just like analyze a whole game in a forum.

Malzahar support is strictly better than WW support.
On February 21 2014 02:51 Slayer91 wrote:
strong ganking agressive junglers are favoured at the moment
wait till hard engage takes over again
or just start playing sejuani and make hard engage take over
I personally perfer amumu because I hate playing fat slow champs
so hard to dodge skillshots

Play wukong, get best of both worlds .
On February 21 2014 02:53 Sarah Bryant wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 21 2014 02:38 Slayer91 wrote:
On February 21 2014 02:30 Sarah Bryant wrote:
Arr slayer i moved on!. but as i said it's not about diamond who stomp other people.


That oce plat guy from 2 pages ago have a replay link of a game from today where he[?] had ww support. Despite bad build on that ww he manages to carry through all the stuff i said: mid ignite ganks, good bot dive ganks, as to help neutral buffs and tf, good damage, etc...it's not some diamond carrying on lower level game[as far as we know]


It's not about diamond who stomp other people. How can you say that when you refuse to play warwick on your actual skill level. How come playing on your main account gives you the conclusion that
"he's not viable at that skill level" and not the logical one which is
"I can't win with him at that skill level". There is nothing that changes except skill level of the opponents through the ranks and there's absolutely no reason to believe that the champ is entirely dependent on opponent skill.

Ganking mid with ignite, diving bot, helping neutrals, good damage they are all game changing moves that you can do with lots of other supports and generally they are things that suppotrs who are carrying the game do.
Also just because someone is playing at their level doesn't mean they aren't outplaying their opponents. I can feed or go legendary with the same champ at the same skill level and its all because my skill level has huge variance.


Well, read my messages, i said about d1 "i'm not good enough to win with him at that level" and "he got huge problems at that level". I do play it and i try to make it work but so far i can't, so i can't sell people stuff i can't do myself.

Yea you can do it all that with other top supports, but not with other unorthodox picks, which seperates him from them.

And true, but you don't really need to outplay hard or put super effort with him any on skill level, just play smart.

You DON'T play it. That's why your fucking main account has 0 games in ranked with him. There is no evidence whatsoever that you actually have played him and the only thing you are willing to provide to us is "come play a game where I pick him and if we win it's good" which is fucking retarded.
I'm on GOLD CHAIN
Slusher
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States19143 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-20 20:56:02
February 20 2014 20:52 GMT
#1885
Malz support is ok , but it's really frustrating how much your pet refuses to attack them even E on (he acts funky when you have stop command on and standing far from creeps will leash him a lot) that said he's not bad at all if you can get your pet on them it's a lot of free damage, and the ult is pretty strong but in most cases you have to use it on the support since most supports can break it, leaving you open to take a lot of damage.

and yea def better than ww,

to be clear the vast majority of obscure support picks will be ranged, being melee with a low gold total means your just going to get blown up making you terrible unless you bring something really special to the table when you are in melee range.
Carrilord has arrived.
daemir
Profile Joined September 2010
Finland8662 Posts
February 20 2014 20:53 GMT
#1886
Why is this stuff still going on? Is there nothing else to discuss, take this to the WW topic instead of here
UnKooL
Profile Joined August 2010
Korea (South)1667 Posts
February 20 2014 21:19 GMT
#1887
So many players going athenes first on assassin ap champs mid but i dont see the appeal. For example ggong went athenes first on leblanc yesterday and xpeke athenes first on ahri today. I go DFG first in solo q, that's probably better for solo q right? btw there wasn't a lot of ap champs in the opposing teams so not they're not getting it for the mr i guess the mana regen and cdr gives them a more sustained dmg style of play rather than burst.
LoL: UnKooL and SoloQFiendUnKooL, SC2: UnKooL
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
February 20 2014 21:23 GMT
#1888
On February 21 2014 06:19 UnKooL wrote:
So many players going athenes first on assassin ap champs mid but i dont see the appeal. For example ggong went athenes first on leblanc yesterday and xpeke athenes first on ahri today. I go DFG first in solo q, that's probably better for solo q right? btw there wasn't a lot of ap champs in the opposing teams so not they're not getting it for the mr i guess the mana regen and cdr gives them a more sustained dmg style of play rather than burst.

Lane focused Leblanc goes Athenes first. What it's about is to constantly chunking the enemy midlaner with W, and R-empowered W. It can grab kills, but mostly it's to chunk them down to 20%, and so they can't actually stay in lane. And you just rinse and repeat without running out of mana, and then you just fucking do it constantly, until you just crush that lane super hard. Also it's better for extended teamfights, since you can keep spamming W, for easy AoE damage. It's essentially the requires minimal mechanical skill version of Leblanc.
liftlift > tsm
ticklishmusic
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States15977 Posts
February 20 2014 21:25 GMT
#1889
Athene's is a safe choice for a lot of assassins

In a lot of high level games, you can't really depend on getting blue

So Athene's lets you farm really hard to buy your next item, and your threat of chunking is still decently high

That's how I see it anyways
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35167 Posts
February 20 2014 21:28 GMT
#1890
On February 21 2014 05:43 Ketara wrote:
On Sej? I went W>Q>E>E>E

And if you wanna ask:
Runes = hybridpen / armor / mr / movespeed

Masteries = http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/mastery-tree-planner#&tree1=1-2-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&tree2=0-0-2-2-0-3-1-1-1-3-0-3-0-1-0-0-4-0-1&tree3=0-0-3-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0&v=2

I imagine there'd be a faster clearing setup but that's what I use in teh solo queuez.

AS marks make for faster clears by far, specifically.
Kyrie
Profile Joined June 2013
1594 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-20 22:00:25
February 20 2014 21:41 GMT
#1891
On February 21 2014 06:19 UnKooL wrote:
So many players going athenes first on assassin ap champs mid but i dont see the appeal. For example ggong went athenes first on leblanc yesterday and xpeke athenes first on ahri today. I go DFG first in solo q, that's probably better for solo q right? btw there wasn't a lot of ap champs in the opposing teams so not they're not getting it for the mr i guess the mana regen and cdr gives them a more sustained dmg style of play rather than burst.

in my understanding, the athenes builds are used to fit assassins into a siege and extended push oriented style of play. dfg rush can be better in lane/early roam due to the ability to threaten kills on healthier targets, but athenes can be preferable on leblanc in particular once teams start grouping. athenes is an adaptation to allow even single target burst aps to repeatedly come in and whittle down targets over the duration of a siege. ahri and leblanc are somewhat different cases due to ahri's mobility being tied to an ultimate's cooldown, but the rough principles outlined here do apply to ahri as well. see ambition in game 3 of ogn masters match 1 as another example of the athenes rush

that said, dfg is still viable as a way of picking squishies to open opportunities during sieges.
GolemMadness
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada11044 Posts
February 20 2014 21:57 GMT
#1892
Speaking of supports, does nobody play Fiddlesticks support anymore? I avoid playing bot lane, but when I do I play Fiddle support since that's who I mostly played in the latter half of season 3. I never seen anybody else play him anymore though, and I've had a couple of people complain about my support choice recently.
http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=FLABREZU
Slusher
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States19143 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-20 21:57:51
February 20 2014 21:57 GMT
#1893
Fuck I hated the Athene's first build until I saw that ambition game, I think for most players dfg route is better.

tons of variables ofc
Carrilord has arrived.
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35167 Posts
February 20 2014 21:59 GMT
#1894
On February 21 2014 06:57 GolemMadness wrote:
Speaking of supports, does nobody play Fiddlesticks support anymore? I avoid playing bot lane, but when I do I play Fiddle support since that's who I mostly played in the latter half of season 3. I never seen anybody else play him anymore though, and I've had a couple of people complain about my support choice recently.

Typical "it got nerfed so it's shit now" behavior. Plus, I don't think he does well against popular supports currently.
Slusher
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States19143 Posts
February 20 2014 22:02 GMT
#1895
On February 21 2014 06:59 Gahlo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 21 2014 06:57 GolemMadness wrote:
Speaking of supports, does nobody play Fiddlesticks support anymore? I avoid playing bot lane, but when I do I play Fiddle support since that's who I mostly played in the latter half of season 3. I never seen anybody else play him anymore though, and I've had a couple of people complain about my support choice recently.

Typical "it got nerfed so it's shit now" behavior. Plus, I don't think he does well against popular supports currently.


the former is pretty unfair, the latter is the real reason, he's really only safe as if the other botlane is already picked and has like 0 burst (which is pretty rare now days)
Carrilord has arrived.
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
February 20 2014 22:02 GMT
#1896
On February 21 2014 06:57 Slusher wrote:
Fuck I hated the Athene's first build until I saw that ambition game, I think for most players dfg route is better.

tons of variables ofc

I hate how stupidly effective it is. It makes playing leblanc stupidly easy to do. Hurr durr spam W.
liftlift > tsm
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35167 Posts
February 20 2014 22:04 GMT
#1897
On February 21 2014 07:02 Slusher wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 21 2014 06:59 Gahlo wrote:
On February 21 2014 06:57 GolemMadness wrote:
Speaking of supports, does nobody play Fiddlesticks support anymore? I avoid playing bot lane, but when I do I play Fiddle support since that's who I mostly played in the latter half of season 3. I never seen anybody else play him anymore though, and I've had a couple of people complain about my support choice recently.

Typical "it got nerfed so it's shit now" behavior. Plus, I don't think he does well against popular supports currently.


the former is pretty unfair, the latter is the real reason, he's really only safe as if the other botlane is already picked and has like 0 burst (which is pretty rare now days)

The former predates the latter though, iirc.
Ryuu314
Profile Joined October 2009
United States12679 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-20 22:08:16
February 20 2014 22:05 GMT
#1898
On February 21 2014 07:02 Slusher wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 21 2014 06:59 Gahlo wrote:
On February 21 2014 06:57 GolemMadness wrote:
Speaking of supports, does nobody play Fiddlesticks support anymore? I avoid playing bot lane, but when I do I play Fiddle support since that's who I mostly played in the latter half of season 3. I never seen anybody else play him anymore though, and I've had a couple of people complain about my support choice recently.

Typical "it got nerfed so it's shit now" behavior. Plus, I don't think he does well against popular supports currently.


the former is pretty unfair, the latter is the real reason, he's really only safe as if the other botlane is already picked and has like 0 burst (which is pretty rare now days)

well...Fiddle's fear did get wrecked pretty hard. 3 second fear to 2.25 seconds is a pretty huge nerf. 25% decrease in cc time. Then if you add in the fact that supports tend to itemize cdr, it went from 45% uptime to ~33% uptime.

Saying it's typical nerf backlash behavior is disingenuous. Aggressive supports rising certainly didn't help, but the nerf was the final nail in the coffin so to speak.
Slusher
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States19143 Posts
February 20 2014 22:06 GMT
#1899
On February 21 2014 07:04 Gahlo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 21 2014 07:02 Slusher wrote:
On February 21 2014 06:59 Gahlo wrote:
On February 21 2014 06:57 GolemMadness wrote:
Speaking of supports, does nobody play Fiddlesticks support anymore? I avoid playing bot lane, but when I do I play Fiddle support since that's who I mostly played in the latter half of season 3. I never seen anybody else play him anymore though, and I've had a couple of people complain about my support choice recently.

Typical "it got nerfed so it's shit now" behavior. Plus, I don't think he does well against popular supports currently.


the former is pretty unfair, the latter is the real reason, he's really only safe as if the other botlane is already picked and has like 0 burst (which is pretty rare now days)

The former predates the latter though, iirc.


Nerf was in the Yasuo patch, he disappeared pretty much immediately after the preseason patch (at least in my memory)
Carrilord has arrived.
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
February 20 2014 22:09 GMT
#1900
It's not the Grail build tho, it's the Mimic change that made it so the mimic'd spell damage scales off of Mimic's level rather than the spell's level. You can still nuke people with Mimic Q or E while you max W, erasing your need for good last-hitting skills.
Imagine if Swain could keep maxed Torment's %damage amp. while maxing Nevermove to farm.

On February 21 2014 07:02 Slusher wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 21 2014 06:59 Gahlo wrote:
On February 21 2014 06:57 GolemMadness wrote:
Speaking of supports, does nobody play Fiddlesticks support anymore? I avoid playing bot lane, but when I do I play Fiddle support since that's who I mostly played in the latter half of season 3. I never seen anybody else play him anymore though, and I've had a couple of people complain about my support choice recently.

Typical "it got nerfed so it's shit now" behavior. Plus, I don't think he does well against popular supports currently.


the former is pretty unfair, the latter is the real reason, he's really only safe as if the other botlane is already picked and has like 0 burst (which is pretty rare now days)

Na, going from 3s to 2.3s is big. You've got to realise it lose almost 25% of its duration and it went from around double a standard stun's duration to only 50% more. Post-tenacity the difference is less than 0.5s.
And he sucks against tanky/sustain supports because apart from his good early levels, his range and aa animation don't let him harass melee (usually tanky+good burst/initiation) or poke supports well, meaning dshield start trashes him, and hard initiation popularity too.

He would love the CDR he can get from Talisman+Lucidity though, then dump all his gold in survivability and sightstone.
Lack of Oracle makes it harder for him to initiate tho.
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