On mid/top Hecarim, Keane seems to generally go Triforce/brutalizer/maw/frozen heart/SV. He goes lucidity boots or merc treads and often seems to rush homeguards.

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

August 18 2014 06:54 GMT

#623

Haha, my friend is just returning from SK teaching english tonight, he just messaged me on facebook saying he was standing in line at the airport with "an NA LoL team, Dexter, Link, and Double fit", and asking if I knew of them.

Alaric

France45622 Posts

August 18 2014 09:39 GMT

#624

Hecarim is such a huge experience and farm hog though, his base stats aren't that bad but his kit scales so much off of his ability to tank the initial burst and get enough EHP out of W to then remain in the fight (with no CDR it takes something like 8s for his Q to ramp up, it goes down to 4-5s with max CDR).
On paper the nerfs made him better pre-10 than before since he got more healing from W, but the longer cooldown really constrain him to teamfights over skirmishes, and lengthy ones he won't have the tankiness to survive to unless his team has tools to protect him (it also works if the team just bursts the enemy but then Hecarim doesn't provide much apart from his E, since he's got no burst and his ult is on such a long cd).

I wonder how it works mid, he can't farm at range, his healing is capped on minions with a huge cd, and his E is somewhat telegraphed. Doesn't he just eat harass over and over and over again till he gets shoved out of lane, since his gank assist is meh pre-6? At least he gets more exp/farm than from the jungle.

krndandaman

Mozambique16569 Posts

August 18 2014 09:39 GMT

#625

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Sponkz

Denmark4564 Posts

August 18 2014 09:46 GMT

#626

On August 18 2014 15:54 sob3k wrote:
Haha, my friend is just returning from SK teaching english tonight, he just messaged me on facebook saying he was standing in line at the airport with "an NA LoL team, Dexter, Link, and Double fit", and asking if I knew of them.

I'm eagerly waiting for the day where everyone on CJ Entus flies somewhere south on vacation on the same plane as me :'(

turdburgler

England6749 Posts

August 18 2014 10:11 GMT

#627

On August 18 2014 18:39 krndandaman wrote:

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lol chilling with the clg guys on a plane ride seems fun. of course if they were up for chatting.

for some reason amumu seems to be my 'carry' champion in low elo. I don't even own him on my main account in NA but I have ridiculously good KDA on him and win pretty much every game I play him. I have a much harder time winning on other champions for god knows why. I just build full AP, catch someone and 1 shot him lol.

everyone knows amumu is free wins in bronzodia

krndandaman

Mozambique16569 Posts

August 18 2014 10:17 GMT

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Osmoses

Sweden5302 Posts

August 18 2014 10:43 GMT

#629

I've carried out of gold with riven, trynd, gangplank, mordekaiser, you name it. It's more about decisionmaking to get out of gold than mechanics or kit imo.

739

Bearded Elder29903 Posts

August 18 2014 11:24 GMT

#630

Yeah AP Amumu jungle = free elo ride, once you get a couple of kills and managed to land some good ults you end up raping enemy team 1v5.

Zdrastochye

Ivory Coast6262 Posts

August 18 2014 12:27 GMT

#631

Yeah in gold the best way to win is to just be in the right place and if you're actually better than those you're playing with the plays will come to you. You have to work a lot harder in bronze and silver to get what you want to happen (or just be really lucky because you can't count on where they go/what they do to make any sense) but once you hit gold and make it into plat people are finally understanding stuff that generally makes sense and then it's your job to outplay them. It's like the CoL line of thinking in bronze/silver, how can you beat that which you can't plan for?

Alaric

France45622 Posts

August 18 2014 12:31 GMT

#632

So people in Bronze are all prospective blue shells, allowing them to each be their own special snowflake?

Zdrastochye

Ivory Coast6262 Posts

August 18 2014 12:36 GMT

#633

That's why reddit loves CoL so much.

Jek

Denmark2771 Posts

August 18 2014 12:48 GMT

#634

On August 18 2014 21:27 Zdrastochye wrote:
Yeah in gold the best way to win is to just be in the right place and if you're actually better than those you're playing with the plays will come to you. You have to work a lot harder in bronze and silver to get what you want to happen (or just be really lucky because you can't count on where they go/what they do to make any sense) but once you hit gold and make it into plat people are finally understanding stuff that generally makes sense and then it's your job to outplay them. It's like the CoL line of thinking in bronze/silver, how can you beat that which you can't plan for?

In bronze/silver people cannot CS for the life of them and will drop anything for something more interesting than watching their champ autoattacking lane minions, so just spam ping dragons and barons (they are never warded anyway) and win off the global gold.

RouaF

France4120 Posts

August 18 2014 13:02 GMT

#635

the funny thing is that amumu works in diamond 1 too, there are just a lot less people playing him (because everyone wants to play lee or vi or elise or j4 etc.) but when a good mumu shows up he murders absolutely everyone

Bam Lee

2336 Posts

August 18 2014 13:37 GMT

#636

On August 18 2014 22:02 RouaF wrote:
the funny thing is that amumu works in diamond 1 too, there are just a lot less people playing him (because everyone wants to play lee or vi or elise or j4 etc.) but when a good mumu shows up he murders absolutely everyone

Amumus damage is kinda ridiculous with very few offensive items lol

ticklishmusic

United States15977 Posts

August 18 2014 13:42 GMT

#637

Or the enemy team says "oh hey look its Amumu, let's steal his blue."

And then you really are a sad mummy.