• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 17:10
CEST 23:10
KST 06:10
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Serral wins Maestros of the Game 235ByuL, and the Limitations of Standard Play3Team Liquid Map Contest #22: Results and Winners7Code S Season 2 (2026): RO4 and Finals Preview12TL.net Map Contest #22 - Voting & Ladder Map Selection7
Community News
Weekly Cups (June 29-July 5): Solar Doubles0MC vs IdrA, Boxer vs Nal_rA to be Legacy Matches @ BlizzCon445.0.16 Hotfix (June 30) - Balance + Bug Fixes40Weekly Cups (June 22-28): Zergs thrive in new patch5[TLMC] Summer 2026 Ladder Map Rotation0
StarCraft 2
General
Most successful SC2 players of Q2 2026 MC vs IdrA, Boxer vs Nal_rA to be Legacy Matches @ BlizzCon Serral wins Maestros of the Game 2 Is the larve respawn broken? 5.0.16 patch for SC2 goes live (8 worker start)
Tourneys
HomeStory Cup 29 Vespene Cup #1 — $300+ USD, July 10 Sea Duckling Open (Global, Bronze-Diamond) Crank Gathers Season 4: BW vs SC2 Team League GSL CK #5 Race War
Strategy
[G] Having the right mentality to improve
Custom Maps
New Map Maker - Looking for Advice - Love or Hate Work In Progress Melee Maps [D]RTS in all its shapes and glory <3
External Content
Mutation # 533 Die Together The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 532 Nuclear Family Mutation # 531 Experimental Artillery
Brood War
General
ASL 22 Proposed Map Pool Starcraft vs Retro Category on Twitch 60% Keyboards Viable for Starcraft? Snow On New ASL S22 Map, Zerg Nerf BW General Discussion
Tourneys
Escore Tournament StarCraft Season 2 Small VOD Thread 2.0 IPSL Spring 2026 Top 4! CSLAN 4 is Coming!
Strategy
Fighting Spirit mining rates Simple Questions, Simple Answers Creating a full chart of Zerg builds Relatively freeroll strategies
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Dawn of War IV Summer Games Done Quick 2026! ZeroSpace at Steam NextFest - Last free demo
Dota 2
Looking for a Dota Mentor Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
NeO.D_StephenKing vs This Guy From 1 Million Dance TL Mafia Community Thread TL Mafia Power Rank Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread UK Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread YouTube Thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club The HerO Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread Movie Discussion! Series you have seen recently... [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books [TV/BOOK] *SPOILERS* Game of Thrones Discussion
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread McBoner: A hockey love story Tennis[sport] Formula 1 Discussion TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
FPS when play League Of Legend on laptop How to clean a TTe Thermaltake keyboard? Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Major Shifts in the Gaming I…
TrAiDoS
An Exploration of th…
waywardstrategy
Gauntlet SC2: A Retrospectiv…
Ctone23
ramps on octagon
StaticNine
Funny Nicknames
LUCKY_NOOB
Evil Gacha Games and the…
ffswowsucks
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 6410 users

[Patch 4.3] Vel'Koz General Discussion - Page 68

Forum Index > LoL General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 66 67 68 69 70 133 Next
EU LCS Week 8 Review
iCanada
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada10660 Posts
March 07 2014 07:12 GMT
#1341
I just got kickled out of an ARAM because "someone failed to select a champion."

Wut...
JazzVortical
Profile Joined July 2013
Australia1825 Posts
March 07 2014 07:16 GMT
#1342
On March 07 2014 14:29 wei2coolman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 07 2014 13:52 sylverfyre wrote:
On March 07 2014 13:25 Ketara wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if Velkoz support isn't too bad, actually.

Could max Q, has a ranged knockup, could save W charges for a fight instead of using them to waveclear, good base damage.

Seems like the next Syndra to me. High power, but suffering from lack of mobility. The weird skill patterns make him hard to master, too.

Man. I said the exact same thing and I got scoffed at.

I said it before yoooooooooooooou
justiceknight
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Singapore5741 Posts
March 07 2014 07:22 GMT
#1343
wait wtf is velkoz skin consider epic tier? Garena selling his skin at a higher price so i wanna confirm with other regions.
gtrsrs
Profile Joined June 2010
United States9109 Posts
March 07 2014 08:09 GMT
#1344
On March 07 2014 15:47 IMoperator wrote:
with all the supports like annie and morg etc., how come lissandra support never became a thing?


she was played as a support by Evaniskus in the NA LCS, not very effectively though
i think her high mana costs are rather prohibitive
i play ... hearthstone =\^.^/= Winterfox
JazzVortical
Profile Joined July 2013
Australia1825 Posts
March 07 2014 08:12 GMT
#1345
On March 07 2014 17:09 gtrsrs wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 07 2014 15:47 IMoperator wrote:
with all the supports like annie and morg etc., how come lissandra support never became a thing?


she was played as a support by Evaniskus in the NA LCS, not very effectively though
i think her high mana costs are rather prohibitive

It's hard to keep her passive up to mitigate it too, since you have to avoid hitting minions, lest you invoke the wrath of your ADC.

Also has to be in near melee range for hard cc before 6, without tank stats to back it up.
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35173 Posts
March 07 2014 08:41 GMT
#1346
On March 07 2014 16:12 iCanada wrote:
I just got kickled out of an ARAM because "someone failed to select a champion."

Wut...

I think it's broken so all the kicked from champ select notifications say that.
Goumindong
Profile Joined February 2013
United States3529 Posts
March 07 2014 08:48 GMT
#1347
On March 07 2014 13:12 xes wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 07 2014 13:04 scrubtastic wrote:
On March 07 2014 12:49 xes wrote:
On March 07 2014 12:41 scrubtastic wrote:
On March 07 2014 11:43 xes wrote:
On March 07 2014 11:27 phathom321 wrote:
On March 07 2014 11:20 oneofthem wrote:
seems like he doesn't know much about the kills and picks area of the game and choose to just focus on the macro rotations, which he can analyze better. but if you want to be the top top team having understanding of skirmishing is vital. it's basically how skt is so good.

Right, but if a team played "perfectly", skirmishing wouldn't even be necessary if the team is just straight up out rotating and pushing the right objectives at the right time. That CLG vs Curse game with what, 8 total kills (?) is a good example. CLG didn't need to be fighting all the time to stay ahead and make it look so one sided because their map presence was so much better.

No.

If you want to take this to absurd levels, with zero decision making errors and zero execution errors, then the team that was outdrafted ever so slightly and didn't rune perfectly would immediately ff the game.

bullshit

there's always an element of double blind decision making:
-fog of war. where the fuck is that jungler/roaming dude? you might say "well mathematically this is where the jungler/roamer *should* be" but the jungler/roamer is also thinking about that and may or may not decide differently. sure you can play scared and minimize losses but then you also lose the ability to take calculated risks in order to gain more advantages. if you play like some douchebag is hiding in the bush all the time waiting to gank, you will give up lots of shit.
-skill interactions. T1K vs KTB, Ryu on Gragas runs down to the bot lane and chucks his R at Piglet on Vayne. If R connects, Vayne dies. Piglet can avoid it as Vayne but only if he guesses correctly on where Gragas will throws his R and then run/tumble/flash away from it. Turns out that in that game, Piglet outguessed Ryu and the barrel whiffs, allowing Vayne to live

at least early on in the game before one team gets a huge advantage, there are lots and lots of double blind decisions to make that far surpass the effects of being slightly outdrafted or having a slightly different rune setup.

Congratulations on being able to read context 10/10 would agree with you 100% again.

sry i'm bad at talking to people over the internet so i dunno how much i'm being made fun of

but "perfect" decisionmaking does not mean "the game is set 100% for the team with the better draft".

why would a team with "perfect" decisionmaking but the slightly inferior draft against another team with "perfect" decisionmaking immediately ff when all the double blind decisions being made in early game might net them a 30% chance to win? am I missing something here?


Yes my point was that MonteCristo is delusional because his idea of "perfect" play isn't even "perfect" and the notion of "perfect play" is garbage in a game of asymmetric information. More importnatly, LoL is inherently more unstable of a game than say Chess or even SC2, especially because the micro-ability of SC2 is lower (compared to BW, so 10 Marauders always beats 8 Marauders), while in LoL tons of micromanagement outplays and all sorts of random stochastic garbage happens (crits and bizzare minion aggro AI). Coupled with how gold snowballs, these minute variations are amplined so that even running the same teams and same drafts into each other over and over (presuming they're evenly matched) you may get drastically different outcomes that are done injustice with simple arithmetic mean % winrates.

The idea that League can be deterministically solved in this strategical top down manner is one that Monte will obviously promote as "optimal" play because that is his natural bias coming from his perceived position in the community and his analytical preference.


I am not sure what asymmetric information has to do with the existence of "perfect play". Furthermore I am not sure why there must be a certain outcome in order for play to be perfect. On top of this i don't know what "stability" means with regards to a game*. And to top it all I am not sure why gold would have to be a stationary process in order for perfect play to exist.

Given that I'm an economist and so these are pretty close to my wheel house I am either very behind on my game theory or you don't know what you're talking about. I am guessing the second.

Look just you can play the same teams with the same comps and get different outcomes doesn't mean that perfect play doesn't exist. It just means that perfect play doesn't always win. Basically, think about League like poker. While poker has sequential turns and league has continuous simultaneous "turns" both league and poker are games of asymmetric information (you know your cards you don't know theirs ) which have stochasticity (cards dealt) and have non-stationary properties which leads to the overall win condition(winning a hand means you have more money with which to bet on the next hand, if winning a hand doesn't change how you bet, winnings are still strictly non-stationary). None of this means that perfect play in poker doesn't exist, it just means that perfect play in poker doesn't always win**.

This should be pretty intuitive, because if perfect play (or good play if you wanted to call it that) didn't exist then you couldn't be good at poker just as you couldn't be good at league

*what it means with regards to an equilibrium is easy enough to determine and while many game theoretical equilibrium are unstable this wouldn't mean anything for a single game

**Additionally "perfect play" isn't necessarily the best response to "imperfect play" if you have or can generate a good estimate of the opponents imperfection. (To say this simply, "elements in strategy spaces do not necessarily have the transitive relation"

On March 07 2014 11:52 xes wrote:
I meant "No" as in that isn't how a perfect game is played out. The perfect game is where the team with the smallest disadvantage FFs immediately, because they know that with perfect play from both sides they will lose.

Monte's example is a false dichotomy between "perfect" and "imperfect" play because his ostensible "perfect" game only happens insofar as the team getting outplayed is at a far great disadvantage that could only have been generated from imperfect decision making or execution.

League of Legends is an information asymmetric game, so talking about "perfect" play is misleading.


No. Monte's example is wrong because perfect play by a losing team is generally recognized to defend objectives to the death because a low probability of success will at some point be better than simply giving the game up without trying.

Think of a football game where you're down by 2 points after scoring a touchdown. You have a 99.9% chance to hit a PAT or a 46% chance to get a two point conversion. Just because the expected point value of the 2PC is less than the PAT doesn't mean you take the PAT. The PAT loses with a probability of 100%, the 2PC ties with a probability of 46%.

Or, with regards to league; just because there is a high likelihood you die on that inhib turret defense/offense doesn't mean you let the enemy team have the inhib for free. In order for a game to have no kills the team which wins while taking 11 turrets would have to purposefully not kill the other team, because the other team will defend.
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
March 07 2014 10:12 GMT
#1348
On March 07 2014 11:13 oneofthem wrote:
lol montecristo in this show with thorin declared "the perfect game of league of legends is 11 towers and no kills."

pls who the fuck would watch that

What a scrub, 6 towers please.

On March 07 2014 14:58 MidnightGladius wrote:
As a somewhat random aside, Nocturne' Paranoia hard counters Shen ultimate and Xerath ultimate, hilarity ensues. Despite initial misgivings, I'm finding that the fear change is quite helpful if you position your ganks properly. In teamfights, getting their adc to run back and away from their front line is almost a bonus.

Don't think I'd want that, I'd rather have the AD carry still close to his frontline so he can be AoE'd by the rest of your team without them walking into said frontline. It's a bonus if you're able to 1v1 the carry (because it'll pull someone else) but Nocturne stops being capable of that super early, unless you go glass cannon and even then he'll stop being able to do it eventually and the whole time he can he'll get blown up as soon as he gets in range anyway.

Makes me sad, Nocturne has a fun kit, and on paper his steroids are supposed to be pretty strong, but he doesn't scale well at all,his teamfighting is really meh and he lacks burst to threaten people when he gets to them so in most situations he's a rather weak jungler.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
739
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bearded Elder29905 Posts
March 07 2014 10:16 GMT
#1349
I've actually tried Nautilus jungle for the very first time. I was afraid that he has like literally has no damage, because of his kit and damn how was I'm mistaken, lol. Went 3-2-21, ganking lanes post6 was awesome actually, also got first blood on top, raped that silly Darius who tried to dodge dem hook.

Any tips on Nautilus?
WriterSalty oldboy that loves memes | One and only back-to-back Liquibet Winner
niukasu1990
Profile Joined July 2012
1007 Posts
March 07 2014 11:03 GMT
#1350
Are the LoL caster really familiar to other e sports scene?
I have heard so many casters didn't know about how legendary iG and LGD are
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35173 Posts
March 07 2014 11:12 GMT
#1351
On March 07 2014 19:16 739 wrote:
I've actually tried Nautilus jungle for the very first time. I was afraid that he has like literally has no damage, because of his kit and damn how was I'm mistaken, lol. Went 3-2-21, ganking lanes post6 was awesome actually, also got first blood on top, raped that silly Darius who tried to dodge dem hook.

Any tips on Nautilus?

Shield gives you damage. As a tank you'll probably take an initial hit in fights while you're the only real target before they switch to a higher priority. Don't flip your shield on right away and you can end up getting more damage out while being as tanky.
Sponkz
Profile Joined May 2011
Denmark4564 Posts
March 07 2014 14:01 GMT
#1352
On March 07 2014 19:16 739 wrote:
I've actually tried Nautilus jungle for the very first time. I was afraid that he has like literally has no damage, because of his kit and damn how was I'm mistaken, lol. Went 3-2-21, ganking lanes post6 was awesome actually, also got first blood on top, raped that silly Darius who tried to dodge dem hook.

Any tips on Nautilus?



Many walls, many hooks, many ults, many kills.
hi
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
March 07 2014 14:04 GMT
#1353
Don't try to Q when someone's immediatly behind you. The hitbox is weird or bugged and it also hooks people behind you (not sure about the sides) so if you're trying to escape it'll just put your ability on the whole cooldown and keep you still for almost one second (the animation) while people keep trashing you.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21245 Posts
March 07 2014 14:28 GMT
#1354
On March 07 2014 20:03 niukasu1990 wrote:
Are the LoL caster really familiar to other e sports scene?
I have heard so many casters didn't know about how legendary iG and LGD are


A lot of casters who don't have a solid background in other games can't really be expected to know about legendary teams from those scenes, especially when Asia (more glaringly China) is involved.

Hell, most casters don't even know about iG or LGD in LoL, little surprise they know nothing when it comes to another game as well.

On March 07 2014 17:48 Goumindong wrote:

Given that I'm an economist and so these are pretty close to my wheel house I am either very behind on my game theory or you don't know what you're talking about. I am guessing the second.



Huh. No wonder the economy is going to shit.
TranslatorBaa!
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-07 14:35:16
March 07 2014 14:29 GMT
#1355
On March 07 2014 17:48 Goumindong wrote:
I am not sure what asymmetric information has to do with the existence of "perfect play". Furthermore I am not sure why there must be a certain outcome in order for play to be perfect. On top of this i don't know what "stability" means with regards to a game*. And to top it all I am not sure why gold would have to be a stationary process in order for perfect play to exist.

I think the point is that Monte's basically trying to say that if both sides played perfectly, a single set of starting conditions for a game would produce a deterministic outcome. Which I think is absolutely ludicrous, and I think that's the point xes is trying to make as well.

It's not that perfect play can't exist, it's that Monte's ideas about what perfect play is are incredibly off the mark.

Look just you can play the same teams with the same comps and get different outcomes doesn't mean that perfect play doesn't exist. It just means that perfect play doesn't always win. Basically, think about League like poker. While poker has sequential turns and league has continuous simultaneous "turns" both league and poker are games of asymmetric information (you know your cards you don't know theirs ) which have stochasticity (cards dealt) and have non-stationary properties which leads to the overall win condition(winning a hand means you have more money with which to bet on the next hand, if winning a hand doesn't change how you bet, winnings are still strictly non-stationary). None of this means that perfect play in poker doesn't exist, it just means that perfect play in poker doesn't always win**.

The Poker example is pretty apt, because Monte's assertion that perfect play results in an 11 tower 0 kill game is like saying perfect play in Poker means always folding statistically weak hands and that no hand in hold 'em should progress past the flop. Which is obviously ridiculous.
Moderator
phyvo
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States5635 Posts
March 07 2014 14:35 GMT
#1356
Anyone on EUW played with the team builder yet? How is it?
"BE A MANGO TO SLEEP LIKE A SNORING TIGER" - Monte
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
March 07 2014 14:39 GMT
#1357
--- Nuked ---
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
March 07 2014 14:52 GMT
#1358
On March 07 2014 23:35 phyvo wrote:
Anyone on EUW played with the team builder yet? How is it?

Bugged as hell apparently, a few pages back somebody said he queued for mid and was put with 4 people who all asked for AD bot (and went for a quad lane) although it's possible the captain just put that setup and trolled the rest.

Others say that there's a bunch of sub-30 being matched with levels 30 despite Riot officiall saying that's not supposed to happen.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
739
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bearded Elder29905 Posts
March 07 2014 15:22 GMT
#1359
Team builder is for normal games or ranked as well ?
WriterSalty oldboy that loves memes | One and only back-to-back Liquibet Winner
Ketara
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States15065 Posts
March 07 2014 15:30 GMT
#1360
On March 08 2014 00:22 739 wrote:
Team builder is for normal games or ranked as well ?


Normals.

It's a way to do a normal queue where you're guaranteed to play the champ/lane you want to play, basically.

I hear it's still a little bugado though.
http://www.liquidlegends.net/forum/lol-general/502075-patch-61-league-of-legends-general-discussion?page=25#498
Prev 1 66 67 68 69 70 133 Next
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 50m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
ZombieGrub119
JuggernautJason65
StarCraft: Brood War
Dewaltoss 97
910 87
NaDa 36
Super Smash Bros
Mew2King137
Heroes of the Storm
Liquid`Hasu436
Other Games
summit1g3705
Grubby3187
tarik_tv3150
ToD174
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick39936
BasetradeTV180
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
[ Show 16 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• kabyraGe 224
• musti20045 161
• StrangeGG 73
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• Michael_bg 12
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Other Games
• imaqtpie932
• Shiphtur374
Upcoming Events
OSC
50m
Replay Cast
2h 50m
RSL Revival
11h 50m
Serral vs Bunny
ByuN vs GgMaChine
CranKy Ducklings
12h 50m
Afreeca Starleague
12h 50m
Snow vs Jaedong
YSC vs hero
SC Evo League
14h 50m
ByuN vs Classic
Cure vs Solar
IPSL
18h 50m
Dragon vs Ret
Patches Events
18h 50m
RSL Revival
1d 11h
Solar vs Rogue
Maru vs NightMare
Sparkling Tuna Cup
1d 12h
[ Show More ]
IPSL
1d 18h
Bonyth vs Hawk
GSL
2 days
Replay Cast
3 days
WardiTV Weekly
3 days
The PondCast
4 days
Replay Cast
5 days
CrankTV Team League
5 days
Replay Cast
6 days
CrankTV Team League
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

CSL Season 21: Qualifier 2
HSC XXIX
Eternal Conflict S2 E1

Ongoing

IPSL Spring 2026
Acropolis #4
YSL S3
CSL 2026 Summer (S21)
CranK Gathers Season 4: BW vs SC2 Team League
SCTL 2026 Spring
XSE Pro League 2026
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 2
CS Asia Championships 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
PGL Astana 2026
BLAST Rivals Spring 2026

Upcoming

ASL Season 22: Wild Card Qualifier
CSLAN 4
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
RSL Revival: Season 6
Light Tournament 2026
Eternal Conflict S2 Finale
Eternal Conflict S2 E3
Eternal Conflict S2 E2
Logitech G Connect 2026
StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #5
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer Qual
Stake Ranked Episode 3
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.