EPT[IEM] Kiev Discussion - Page 213
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At any point of IEM Kiev, if you think of an interesting byline, please drop a sentence in the Pro Scene thread. (e.g. "Day 2: M5 hype was everything people expected") At the end of the month, I'll catalogue the results of Kiev but also any interesting facts or events that happen over the course of the tournament. Thanks. Neo, 20.1.2012 | ||
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raf3776
United States1904 Posts
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Shanba
Scotland144 Posts
On January 23 2012 01:24 Cr4zyH0r5e wrote: He isn't necessarily going to get benched because of getting stomped in the finals. We need to know what went through TSM's minds when that Irelia came up. TRM does have some things to adjust in his play, maybe learn a couple more champions and figure out strats with TSM, but he shouldn't be getting all the blame for their loss. More champions? He plays a bunch of champions already - tryndamere, irelia, trundle, udyr, teemo, yorick just off the top of my head. The crazy thing about the irelia pick is just about any of his other champions would have been better and offered more control in top lane. EDIT: Irelia got picked like every game this tournament. Is she considered op in tournament setting or something? | ||
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Sermokala
United States14045 Posts
On January 23 2012 01:34 raf3776 wrote: Worst part is its free shyvanna week T.T thats the best part. Do you know how many people are going to try and use shyv and fail off their ass's. | ||
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fantasticoranges
1327 Posts
On January 23 2012 01:36 Shanba wrote: More champions? He plays a bunch of champions already - tryndamere, irelia, trundle, udyr, teemo, yorick just off the top of my head. The crazy thing about the irelia pick is just about any of his other champions would have been better and offered more control in top lane. EDIT: Irelia got picked like every game this tournament. Is she considered op in tournament setting or something? She's a safe pick that should be able to tie with just about anyone, esp if it goes to a passive lane farm off. But that doesn't work anymore, as shown by m5. | ||
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cuppatea
United Kingdom1401 Posts
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Shiv.
3534 Posts
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Emnel
Greece384 Posts
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Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
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WhiteDog
France8650 Posts
On January 23 2012 01:13 kidd wrote: Shyvana ban isn't what was needed, a better top was needed. Darien bullied every single top in this tournament and that turned into jungle losing which turned into mid then bottom losing (if those lanes weren't already losing). Darien was 2x oddone's level in game three because he'd push top then go steal jungle. I really have no clue why irelia was chosen. I like TSM as a team and was rooting for them even though I dislike a few of their personalities, but this tournament just shows that they need a better top player and a less passive (personality) jungler. Dyrus + saint And just wow at diamond getting mvp over darien lol. I don't agree with you at all. TRM and TOO are both great players, with great mechanics, and they already knows how to play a bunch of heroes. You don't need to change such composition, it's dumb, you will ruin everything they already built together... not to mention they got 2nd and destroyed M5 in the second game ? They just need to brain more their pick, M5 was a class above everyone for picking. They don't have huge judgement on heroes, they just take what is needed to win their lane. I remember watching TOO's stream some weeks ago and saintvicious telling him that shyvana was a huge jungler, and TOO saying "No, she's bad, I don't like it"... and now look at M5 just crushing face with a shyvana that was actually doing everything (counter jungling, gaining little of advantage everywhere, she was the best hero hands down here). Also I think against M5, everything is about controlling your own jungle, and TSM just failed to do it in the third game. | ||
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GeorgeForeman
United States1746 Posts
On January 23 2012 01:50 Itsmedudeman wrote: As more people try it out, more strengths/weaknesses will be found. Personally I think more weaknesses than anything as the gameplan is pretty much laid out thanks to m5. The first part is undoubtably true. The level of counter-jungling they were doing with Shyv is almost a shift in the meta. Or at least it's not something anyone's used to dealing with. You basically have to play against her like you're playing against Singed, she gets that tanky and has that much speed. I imagine some weaknesses will be discovered going forward and people will figure out how to deal with her. That said, I don't think M5 will be hurt too much. They seem too well-coordinated to let losing this strategy be their downfall. :-) | ||
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nojitosunrise
United States6188 Posts
On January 23 2012 01:33 teamsolid wrote: What about the peak # of users on a day-to-day basis actually in the game. Just wondering about how successful Riot is in actually promoting LoL as an e-sport. E.g. If there's normally 500K active users, 230K watching the tournament would be quite impressive 1.3 million concurrent (only EU + NA) | ||
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GARO
United States2255 Posts
On January 23 2012 01:05 Emnel wrote: And now im thinking about all those HoN and DotA games where people keep afk farmign their jungle al 60minutes+ game long. Higher skill my ass Thank goodness you have no idea about either of those games then. | ||
Papvin
Denmark610 Posts
Gankplank (35-5, 87,5%) Riven (26-3, 89,7%) Irelia (22-5, 81,5%) Shyvana (17-3, 85%) ... Lol... | ||
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emucxg
Finland4559 Posts
On January 23 2012 02:30 Papvin wrote: Just a little fanboying. Just checked out Darien's account on EU west. His most played: Gankplank (35-5, 87,5%) Riven (26-3, 89,7%) Irelia (22-5, 81,5%) Shyvana (17-3, 85%) ... Lol... LOL | ||
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emucxg
Finland4559 Posts
On January 23 2012 01:54 nojitosunrise wrote: 1.3 million concurrent (only EU + NA) dont know about now, but Chinese server had 800k (peak) concurrent during the beta and in fact, China ladder have split to about 10 servers , and they are adding more, LOL... so EUW EUNe shit is not even a big deal, EU ppl should not cry... these servers been called Demacia, Tiamat, Ionia etcs... Chinese internet OP | ||
NeoIllusions
United States37500 Posts
On January 23 2012 02:35 emucxg wrote: dont know about now, but Chinese server had 800k (peak) concurrent during the beta and in fact, China ladder have split to about 10 servers , and they are adding more, LOL... so EUW EUNe shit is not even a big deal, EU ppl should not cry... these servers been called Demacia, Tiamat, Ionia etcs... Chinese internet OP Pretty damn cool to be naming the server you log into by LoL lore. Almost has a WoW feel to it, lawlz. | ||
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Chiharu Harukaze
12112 Posts
On January 23 2012 02:43 NeoIllusions wrote: Pretty damn cool to be naming the server you log into by LoL lore. Almost has a WoW feel to it, lawlz. I hear people in SC2 get placed into Omega Baneling Ultralisk Theta or something. | ||
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Makavw
Croatia165 Posts
Imagine if all lol playerbase was dived in division in which there are only 100 players per divison... I really dont understand the sc2 ladder system, its so bad people need to use third party websites to compere themselves with eachother. ELO lol system is probable the best possible ladder system in any multiplayer game that tracks your stats. | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands21945 Posts
On January 23 2012 01:24 teamsolid wrote: Holy crap, there were 230K people watching the LoL stream? Just how many people exactly play this game? Every day, over 1.4 million players log on to play League of Legends There are over 15 million registered accounts Between NA and EU servers, peak concurrency has reached 500,000 players Players spend an aggregate total of 3.7 million hours in-game every day The official League of Legends site gets 6 million hits a day League of Legends YouTube videos have nearly 100 million views Over 1,690,000 viewers tuned into the online broadcast of the League of Legends Season One Championship, with concurrent viewership peaking at over 210,000 Numbers from July last year. | ||
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nojitosunrise
United States6188 Posts
On January 23 2012 02:55 Gorsameth wrote: Every day, over 1.4 million players log on to play League of Legends There are over 15 million registered accounts Between NA and EU servers, peak concurrency has reached 500,000 players Players spend an aggregate total of 3.7 million hours in-game every day The official League of Legends site gets 6 million hits a day League of Legends YouTube videos have nearly 100 million views Over 1,690,000 viewers tuned into the online broadcast of the League of Legends Season One Championship, with concurrent viewership peaking at over 210,000 Numbers from July last year. Those are the old numbers Here are the new ones | ||
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