New apartment, new computer. I’ll be streaming my ranked progress as I attempt to stop being terrible. I play mainly Top, but I'll fill what needs to be played.
I'm trying to tighten up my champion select and not hop around from one to another every game. So to that end, I'm going to be focusing on one in each role, with ~3 backups in case they're picked, banned, or it's against a matchup that I don't want to go against.
Come watch if you want to see me make a fool of myself on live internet. There'll be kpop, terrible gameplay, and random guests. I'll try to talk as much as I can to explain my decision making, but I'm fully prepared for the chat to correct me at every turn.
On December 10 2012 10:09 Sufficiency wrote: I watched it for about a minute and it's really, really choppy (sometimes the screen would just freeze for a few seconds).
Not sure if the problem is from my end, but I can watch 1080p streams fine and I think yours is 720p.
hm, do you know why that'd be happening? I'm using OBS, not sure what could be the issue. Not noticing any lag in game.
On December 10 2012 10:33 obesechicken13 wrote: I don't know how to say this... but that team that just surrendered because it was 13-26 against your team... they were ahead in gold.
Yeah, my farm was kind of shit. I don't know about the other lanes, looked like Vayne was getting shit on tho.
Going back tonight or tomorrow. I'm going to spam Support games, because I think it's more relaxing to play Support than any other role recently. Lots of Soraka, Nunu, and Taric.
Things that my fantastic stream chat pointed out that I need to work on:
Locked Camera Killed me in that Kennen game, definitely could have helped me in others.
Stockpiling gold Spent way too much time attacking a tower after forcing them back or killing them while I had 1.5k + gold.
Having a plan I had a lot of times where I was just kind of farming or running from place to place without having a plan, should have been with the team trying to force fights or splitpushing a lane instead.
Never using teleport or using it poorly Self explanitory.
Let me know if there's anything I missed in my analysis. I think my plan for the future is:
Don't run Teleport unless I'm Shen or a heavy splitpusher. I don't use it enough and I would be better served having Ignite so I don't have to focus on correct Teleport utilization on top of the other things I'm learning.
Backing after every kill and shove. Also backing when I have a gold pool and can shove the lane to their tower.
Every couple minutes stop and ask myself what my plan is. I tried to do this last night, but still ended up doing nothing a lot.
One bit of advice: accept the fact you're going to make mistakes, and try not to let it bother you. Say to yourself "okay, this is what I did wrong, and this is what I could improve upon next time" and don't beat yourself up over it. I may post in the qq thread a lot, but if I got as worked up as you did in your last promo game, I think I'd keel over dead.
And once you asked what you should be doing and did it, that game was wrapped up like a present on Christmas.
On July 23 2013 22:40 Requizen wrote: Things that my fantastic stream chat pointed out that I need to work on:
Locked Camera Killed me in that Kennen game, definitely could have helped me in others.
Stockpiling gold Spent way too much time attacking a tower after forcing them back or killing them while I had 1.5k + gold.
Having a plan I had a lot of times where I was just kind of farming or running from place to place without having a plan, should have been with the team trying to force fights or splitpushing a lane instead.
Never using teleport or using it poorly Self explanitory.
Let me know if there's anything I missed in my analysis. I think my plan for the future is:
Don't run Teleport unless I'm Shen or a heavy splitpusher. I don't use it enough and I would be better served having Ignite so I don't have to focus on correct Teleport utilization on top of the other things I'm learning.
Backing after every kill and shove. Also backing when I have a gold pool and can shove the lane to their tower.
Every couple minutes stop and ask myself what my plan is. I tried to do this last night, but still ended up doing nothing a lot.
Thanks to all the viewers and friends!
Running Teleport as top when the opponent is shen is another easymode "when do I teleport?" Teleport in response to him teleporting (if your team isn't just getting totally dunked)
Ok I probly should have taken notes(lol) but here are the things that come to mind thinking about the games last night. Not going into general things like minimap and cs, which are more general but very real, here are some character specifics.
Master Yi:
-So this isn't always possible but because a lot of your opponents in Silver 4 let you cs with melee, you should prune the wave before using alpha strike. You would often just alpha a wave as soon as it sets, but if you prune 2-3 you increase your percentage that you will jump to your opponent by up to 100% it's a really important facet of Yi, especially once you have blue buff because now if you take damage back meditate is a non issue.
-Both days now you've leaned towards Lichbane second, something I'm not a huge fan of(I prefer pen 2nd on yi) but if you are going to do it you need to remember that this makes your E and your ult a .8 nuke, a melee nuke, but a nuke vs. a squishy I pop ult they can't slow me, I auto them once now mabye they are in reset range, I mean it's delicate because it's melee nuke so there times to use it and times where it's not safe, but if you never use it you should just skip the item. (DFG might just overall be a more comfortable option for you.)
-Don't buy tooth for the same reason, the damage would be pretty sick if the team had like the least amount of cc ever and you were ok with getting down and dirty, but thats just not how you play (and thats ok because getting killed early in fights as Yi isn't useful either) so this item is pretty much useless unless you are split pushing and I mean like hard, not join the team split pushing, that said I'd go void 3rd if I didn't 2nd 100% of the time on Yi
Twisted Fate: -You ulted 4 times the entire game, this isn't exclusive to TF really you are like an old man who lived through the great depression when it comes to blowing long CDs, This was apparent on Yi also but not as bad.
-I liked the call on not going lich first because you recognized that you could not duel anyway
-It was like set in your mind that if you couldn't pick-a-card someone in a fight you weren't going to use wild cards, honestly if you can't get in a good position to gold card someone just start sending the Qs flying, sometimes the incidental damage will open up some opportunities, mabye you'll chunk a diver so now you can move freely about the fight, restricting your Q to auto range really nerfs the champion.
Udyr:
-ok so I'm not sure how deep to go here, first I'm not an Udyr player so I could make myself look like an idiot, and second I'm pretty sure some of the choices were a running joke with the chat so I'm not going to go into Turtle stance although I hope it's obvious what I would say.(it's a pretty good skill to have)
-Only other thing I wanted to say, is because you did so well in the early game I don't have a lot of problems with going for a major damage item like trinity first, but then realise with a quick trinity nobody can 1v1 if you are at 50% and a vayne is at 100% and you both have 1 item, and yours is trinity, she has NO chance you could probly get condemned and still kill her, if you want to build damage on a melee you can't be a pussy
-At the point where I am scared to stay in melee range, which I still hold was not the case if you just returned damage instead of running. But lets pretend for a moment that Vayne was able to kill you before you could get in her grill, then going a 2nd damage item here is basically useless if you are having trouble sneaking in autos more damage is essentially gold spent on nothing, armor and/or health as a 2nd item when your massive early game feed hadn't 100% fizzled out yet would have kept you in the drivers seat.
thats it I hope you understand not trying to be mean, just giving tips.
No, that's excellent Slusher, I need tips like that to get better. Quick question about the Yi items, Void second sounds fine as an AP option, especially since I suck at using LB to full capacity, but is it really worth getting if they're not building any MR? Would Hat - DFG - Void be a better option, or even Zhonya above it if I can remember to use the active?
As for my standard write up, Slusher hit a lot of it already, but a couple things I really want to force myself to think about.
I need to work on my awareness and ward usage (standard Silver level crap), and positioning in fights.
TF and Udyr I failed quite a bit at because I haven't played them in forever, so I did things like misuse/fuck up PAC or build dumb items on Udyr. I should have gone BotRK over TF given the chase I needed on Vayne and Fizz, along with the fact that I think it's a lot better for Tiger than Trinity.
Ult usage. Like Slusher said, I suck at using them. On Ryze even, I was frugal about using it to clear a wave until late game, and by that point we had already lost (well, I wasn't really the reason we lost that game, but whatever).
Aside from mechanical improvements, I think I need to focus on champs. I need to settle on a couple that I can play well and that can perform well in a variety of situations. Yi I think is fine, a bit weak in/against certain teamcomps, but can function well overall. Udyr will likely go on the shelf for the most part, as I can't stand his late game unless ahead. Might change if I actually remember to go BoRK first for that sticking power, will probably do a couple SGU games this evening for the feel. Zac fits in there for sure. Teemo, I honestly feel he fits fine in most team comps as onhit, as he can split push or be a tanky target that still does decent (mixed!) damage if allowed to auto.
I might pick up Lissandra at 6300 IP after talking to chat. Seems like her kit fits my playstyle pretty well.
I think you need to change your mindset a little bit. It's not enough to just not be the reason that you lose games if you're trying to really improve. You should be striving to be the reason you win games, either by hard carrying, or organizing your team, or making sure you have enough ward coverage so your team doesn't just derp nonstop. You might not have been the most direct cause of losing that Ryze game, but that game was winnable if you could have kept Fiddle focused on doing the right things and made sure that he and either Jax or Hec protected Johnny so that he didn't have to go GA 3rd item, you guys could have outscaled that Kat and Garen, even with a Twitch on the other team.
When you form a plan, put it in the form of, "What do I need to be doing to actively win this game?" Do that even when the correct answer to that question is get as much farm as you can and make sure you have enough wards to do it safely so you can outscale.
E: Also don't get discouraged if you actually did form a plan to be proactive throughout, and other factors intervene. You seem like you're close to getting there, but if the game gets to 40 minutes and you haven't basically decided the game yet, even small mistakes can make a huge difference on outcomes. If anyone -- you or someone else -- makes a mistake that you could have prevented, just calmly analyze it instead of lingering on the fact that it decided the game. For example, if you make a mistake in positioning that would have just given someone a kill at 15 minutes, but loses you the game at 50 minutes, don't dwell on the mistake more than usual. Try to be objective about the actual mistake that you made rather than the outcome it effected. Only look at the outcome to the extent that the possibility of that outcome influences what you would have done ex ante.
It's much less stressful to play that way and you will probably play better in the next game as a result. It's something that I need to remind myself all the time.
On July 24 2013 22:57 Requizen wrote: No, that's excellent Slusher, I need tips like that to get better. Quick question about the Yi items, Void second sounds fine as an AP option, especially since I suck at using LB to full capacity, but is it really worth getting if they're not building any MR? Would Hat - DFG - Void be a better option, or even Zhonya above it if I can remember to use the active?
As for my standard write up, Slusher hit a lot of it already, but a couple things I really want to force myself to think about.
I need to work on my awareness and ward usage (standard Silver level crap), and positioning in fights.
TF and Udyr I failed quite a bit at because I haven't played them in forever, so I did things like misuse/fuck up PAC or build dumb items on Udyr. I should have gone BotRK over TF given the chase I needed on Vayne and Fizz, along with the fact that I think it's a lot better for Tiger than Trinity.
Ult usage. Like Slusher said, I suck at using them. On Ryze even, I was frugal about using it to clear a wave until late game, and by that point we had already lost (well, I wasn't really the reason we lost that game, but whatever).
Aside from mechanical improvements, I think I need to focus on champs. I need to settle on a couple that I can play well and that can perform well in a variety of situations. Yi I think is fine, a bit weak in/against certain teamcomps, but can function well overall. Udyr will likely go on the shelf for the most part, as I can't stand his late game unless ahead. Might change if I actually remember to go BoRK first for that sticking power, will probably do a couple SGU games this evening for the feel. Zac fits in there for sure. Teemo, I honestly feel he fits fine in most team comps as onhit, as he can split push or be a tanky target that still does decent (mixed!) damage if allowed to auto.
I might pick up Lissandra at 6300 IP after talking to chat. Seems like her kit fits my playstyle pretty well.
Like I said, I'm not an udyr expert but I think Trinity was fine, I know Trick2g goes Trinity first on top tiger, dunno if that actually means it's good or not, but I can see the benefit as the burst is super high and tiger attack speed obviously benefits from slow procs, it's just that you didn't use it, if you want to go damage item first, you gotta go slap some people in the face afterwards. It's the choice of got BotrK after you already had trinity that I really didn't like, there are better people to ask than me tho.
As far as Void Staff, Void/Dcap is the IE/PD open of AP carries 0 utility maximum damage, because Yi can farm safe really easily it's a fairly safe buy on him, not unlike Cait. The other reason I prefer Void staff is because Yi's main use is to get resets in team fights a situation where there is a strong chance outside of Eve jungle an aegis will be present so I really think it's a super important item if not 2nd then 3rd.
But theres more, I didn't want to come in spouting off the Yi knowledge when I don't really even like playing the champion anyway, so I went back and checked out the VODs from when Scarra ran Yi in the LCS, and I promise you if he was ok with that pick in a professional match he's played it 50+ more times than me.
in both games he went double dorans into dcap/sorcs. in the game where he got fed early vs TSM he followed that up with lich>void>DFG, in the game vs. Vulcan where he was behind he swapped void and lichbane, so there is that.
on the Trinity thing, playing a lot of melees in league but especially ones with weak gap closers like Udyr you need to think of it a lot like Zangeif in Street Fighter, your hitpoints are currency that you trade for preferable spacing. With a melee you have 2 options, you can buy a lot of currency (health/armor) so that when you get in close you still have a lot to spend, or you can buy damage (trinity) knowing that even if you spend all of your health to get in close you will murder them, this was the case when you were Trinity Udyr vs Botrk Vayne, you'll probly lose a shitload of you health getting to her, but if you hit her with bear even once, she was a dead woman.
you just gotta play the character more to figure out what the break points are.
I think Lichbane second on AP Yi is fine- I tend to get it first, just because if you get an isolated target and space your abilities out well, it's more damage overall. Makes your resets a little less scary against a team though and farming is more of a hassle. I think void staff 2nd is a bit of a waste, unless they have a bulwark and lots of negatron cloaks. If all an enemy ADC has is a bulwark aura and scaling mr gylphs, you're looking at around 69 magic resistance at level 10. After the flat pen from sorc shoes, magic pen marks, and the 8% magic pen mastery they get about 29% damage mitigation? If you get void staff that makes it 15%.
I suppose it depends on how much of a threat their nonsquishy targets are. I will agree Req got his void staff too late yesterday.
I would stop building Nashor's tooth. It doesn't fit AP Yi at all, you get so many free cooldowns from a reset, it makes very little sense to dump so much money into an item that is mostly cdr and attack speed. There are very few situations where you get to sit around and auto for prolonged periods of time as AP Yi, so the passive may as well not exist.
I mentioned it in the Yi thread, but Zhonya's is typically my third item. Other items to think about: Abyssal's Scepter/DFG/GA. Surviving a fight to get your resets as AP Yi is exceedingly hard, and any resists you can get (not to mention Zhonya's active) can be the difference between murdering everyone and just dying without accomplishing anything. For example, I had a fight near baron where a Zed ulted me (stupidly) because I was my team's biggest threat. I used Zhonya's after he ulted, then when he tried to kill me afterwards in spite of that, I meditated, then proceeded to rack up enough kills that the enemy team couldn't baron. No Zhonya's, they wipe us out immediately and take baron.
DFG helps a lot if you're having problems securing the first reset. Abyssal's gives you some MR so you're less prone to getting bursted down, and the aura helps a lot. GA is mostly for when the game drags out super long.
I think a much more practical tip is don't play AP Yi against Cho'gath, you will hate your life if he plays well. You have to be very careful (or very brave) about when you pick AP Yi. Or Yi in general.
don't ever build abyssal on Yi it sucks balls. Because Yi is untargetable during Alpha strike he technically "isn't there" when the damage is calculated, thus abyssal does exactly nothing but charge you 1000g to put a negatron and a blasting wand in the same slot.
On July 25 2013 07:02 zer0das wrote: I think Lichbane second on AP Yi is fine- I tend to get it first, just because if you get an isolated target and space your abilities out well, it's more damage overall. Makes your resets a little less scary against a team though and farming is more of a hassle. I think void staff 2nd is a bit of a waste, unless they have a bulwark and lots of negatron cloaks. If all an enemy ADC has is a bulwark aura and scaling mr gylphs, you're looking at around 69 magic resistance at level 10. After the flat pen from sorc shoes, magic pen marks, and the 8% magic pen mastery they get about 29% damage mitigation? If you get void staff that makes it 15%.
thats like a 110 damage increase per alpha strike assuming your doing ~500 damage with Alpha strike which isn't even really high for Alpha strike. Void later than 3rd item isn't exploiting his strengths it's putting a bandaid on his weaknesses.
Three sites apparently just up and deleted themselves from our server with no backups, and it's my responsibility to fix it even though I didn't touch them at all since they were created and have no idea where they went or why the restore isn't working. I'm likely going to be here until 9 because no one knows what the fuck is going on and they're all looking to me, even though I explicitly told them I have barely used this technology and know next to nothing about it.
On July 25 2013 07:57 Slusher wrote: don't ever build abyssal on Yi it sucks balls. Because Yi is untargetable during Alpha strike he technically "isn't there" when the damage is calculated, thus abyssal does exactly nothing but charge you 1000g to put a negatron and a blasting wand in the same slot.
This isn't true. Yi is technically where he was before he alpha striked for the purpose of AOE abilities. Not exactly sure how it works with Abyssal's scepter, but when you start an alpha strike they're in range for the aura debuff, and it never leaves them. A quick check against bots verifies this fact and the damage is consistent with the aura being there. From what little I can find on the topic, it's possible that the auras Yi possess are placed where his initial alpha strike target is, and I believe this but would need to do further testing to confirm. You can argue the merits of getting it with the reduced range (ie, it probably won't affect people it bounces to), but Abyssal's Scepter is fine on Yi. Also, the MR does matter quite a bit, it's not just a blasting wand.
oh thats weird, how many different interactions his Q has with Auras depending on whos holding it, you are right. I guess thats what I get for talking so much about a champion I don't like to play.
Long story short: I played like shit. I can blame most of it on my pure lack of sleep and mental burnout from the 30 hour work day, but still.
Sona is made of paper. This occasionally sucks when I facecheck bushes.
If my team wants me to join them instead of remaining to split push, even if I keep 2-3 people in my lane all game so they can take the rest of the map... maybe I shouldn't just ignore them, it just seemed to piss them off.
Can't be stingy with ults. I don't remember if that came up yesterday, but it's a thing nonetheless.
Probs gonna stream Sunday, gone tonight and tomorrow.
On July 26 2013 11:44 upperbound wrote: Was fun playing with you today, Req. Looking forward to some more games soon.
Hell yeah, thanks for carrying me those last few games. I promise I play (marginally) better when my brain isn't fried like an egg. We duo again sometimes for sure :3
Garen was a bad pick. Not only did we need some extra teamfighting power and damage, I also hadn't played him in months.
As was pointed out to me, I don't know how to assess the amount of damage I do with most of my champions. This led to several situations where I could have secured a kill or gone into a fight, but didn't.
I'm not communicating to my team enough. Not that they'll listen, but I should try anyway.
Combat shrooms when I'm playing Teemo, would have saved me in a couple situations.
Enemy ability timings. I often am afraid of going in, even though the enemy's ult/burst/escape/CC is down. I need to keep track of these.
Enemy and my own relative strengths. This is often what leads me to needless deaths or playing like a pansy when I should be asserting myself.
I'll be focusing on these tonight:
Using actives/ultimates/summoners on cooldown as much as possible.
Unless a situation is obviously bad (like my last Yi "play"), I'm just going to go hard in every situation and learn my limits the hard way.
Talk to my teammates at least once every few minutes in every game, even if they're raging. Mute only goes one way, after all.
Last hitting. Sorry Wave
I'll start streaming tonight around 7PM CST, hopefully. I really appreciate you guys sticking with me through my rage and shit play, sorry if I'm not entertaining or act like an asshole. You've all helped me a lot, and honestly I went overall positive yesterday despite my rage.
On July 29 2013 23:57 Requizen wrote: I tilted pretty hard, and I apologize.
Garen was a bad pick. Not only did we need some extra teamfighting power and damage, I also hadn't played him in months.
As was pointed out to me, I don't know how to assess the amount of damage I do with most of my champions. This led to several situations where I could have secured a kill or gone into a fight, but didn't.
I'm not communicating to my team enough. Not that they'll listen, but I should try anyway.
Combat shrooms when I'm playing Teemo, would have saved me in a couple situations.
Enemy ability timings. I often am afraid of going in, even though the enemy's ult/burst/escape/CC is down. I need to keep track of these.
Enemy and my own relative strengths. This is often what leads me to needless deaths or playing like a pansy when I should be asserting myself.
I'll be focusing on these tonight:
Using actives/ultimates/summoners on cooldown as much as possible.
Unless a situation is obviously bad (like my last Yi "play"), I'm just going to go hard in every situation and learn my limits the hard way.
Talk to my teammates at least once every few minutes in every game, even if they're raging. Mute only goes one way, after all.
Last hitting. Sorry Wave
I'll start streaming tonight around 7PM CST, hopefully. I really appreciate you guys sticking with me through my rage and shit play, sorry if I'm not entertaining or act like an asshole. You've all helped me a lot, and honestly I went overall positive yesterday despite my rage.
Comments on your comments: Essentially your list is fairly accurate---I'm a little biased when you refer to communication with enemy team though because when I used to play ranked I often found it was better for me and I raged less when I muted and ignored everyone and just 'spoke' through pings and such. I found communication would only go so far; when people think you're wrong or won't listen to you or flame, communicating doesn't help too much. Obviously that won't always be the case but I just found not communicating was better for me personally for a while. I'm good at leading a team through voice chat, not a bunch of strangers through typing.
Your list of things to improve upon is a good one. -I suggested last night maybe putting up a couple stickies on your monitor to remind you to use actives/battleshrooms or something. -Going hard or going home is a drastic change in playstyle that will take some getting used to. Hopefully it will help you gain a better idea of ability damage/enemy abilities and when all-ins will work or won't. -Your last hitting defs needs work, don't have to apologize to me (I don't even know why you did)---is it maybe that you sort of lose focus while laning pretty easily?
Should be around later to watch. Maybe we can even duo if I can secure the better computer for a bit.
Hey man, games like last night happen. There were a few things that you could have done to make a difference, but try not to take any particular game too hard. You did a lot of things right in that Garen game, but ultimately not enough for the win. I had a similar experience today where I started 4-0 in a Shen vs. Yorick lane (I don't even know how Yorick loses lane to Shen...), bot swapped up top after winning their lane,, and I killed Vayne in that swapped lane. However, some games are really hard to win. I had a Sunfire and a Wits End at 15:00, but my team could never stay alive long enough to actually fight 5v5 -- sometimes people just don't listen. However, I have had the opposite experience a number of times, where if you highlight good plays during rough times and keep morale high, you can often snowball a single good fight or pick into a bunch of objectives. I feel like the game last night could possibly have been a candidate for that kind of tactic.
That said, I think I've gotten a bit better about being where the team needs me and where I can make the most impact, and I think my positioning in fights has improved. I also remembered to use Battleshrooms and my actives a couple times! Yay for little steps of progress!
I think I'll start around the same time tonight, might play a few bots/normals to try out the new Yi. I really want to take him top/jungle, but I want to get a good feel for him first.
On July 31 2013 23:35 zer0das wrote: Yi is probably too squishy to be a reliable top laner, unless you do something extremely cheesy.
That's not entirely true. There are many people who run squishy top laners like Zed, Kha, or Akali. His sustain is now pretty good with W scaling with missing health, and he can clear better than AD Yi previously. I did a writeup of my thoughts here, feel free to comment on it so I don't have to rewrite the whole thing
I don't really think any of those are comparable though. Zed and Kha'zix can farm from a distance pretty well and have really high all in potential, Akali is Akali. Yi has to sit back and farm for quite a while before he starts getting relevant, you're not going to really surprise anyone with your damage before you get some AD/crit
- Losing CS while poking- vs Tryn prioritize farm, he's not leaving anytime soon
- After kill, should have got E, but got second Q first. If you went E third you could have pushed the lane to the turret and denied a ton of XP from the Tryn. I prefer having Q-W-Q-E, but in that situation taking E would have been much stronger
- Dorans shield is fine, but would cloth have worked better since it builds into armguard?
- Tryn was ridiculously scared of you when you had nothing but an amp, boots and a dorans. A good tryn would have steamrolled you there, and hard.
- If Tryn is honestly that scared of you, keep your E stacks up. You were able to consistently Q, and it's just a good habit to develop.
- Try to more often read how safe you are in lane. If Sej ganks bot, stack your E and bully him.
- Wow that Tryn is scaaaared
- Ghost is a LOT better on vlad (unless they have someone like a Jarvan who kicks Ghost users in the balls)
- On your second back you rushed Wraith Spirit, a better choice (imo) would have been revolver and then Armguard, which with a cloth start would have been an easy purchase. You would then be able to buy the wards that you werent able to before.
- After Tryn left lane, you didn't stack your E consistently (even with Revolver)
- When alone and pushing vs a turret as vlad, go deeper in and farm the minions behind their turret. You heal while keeping your E stacks (BUT BUY SOME WARDS DAMMIT)
- On your third back (level 11) should have sold pots for more wards. It's unlikely you'll need them.
- Vs Kat and Tryn, it might have been worth it to ult right before you pooled her ult, because the damage would surely have stopped any dives, and it looked like you intended to stay in lane so you wouldn't need it otherwise
- STACK YOUR E BRAH YOU KEEP RUNNING OUT INTO OPEN SPACE AND IGNORING IT
- Oftentimes splitpushing their second tower is EXACTLY what you want to do as Vlad. Midgame, unless the enemy team is just sitting on your doorstep, there's not a lot you can do, and vs a tryn you so disgustingly outpush him that you would pressure their entire team by staying top.
- As a continuation of earlier post, Vlad at lvl 13-15 easily exerts most pressure by going top and pushing endlessly. It oftentimes completely guarantees obectives such as dragon, since they can't ignore you. Tryn is one of the only characters that Vlad can't just 1v1 in lane, so unless you face Tryn every game just push top pushpushpushpush
- E STACKS DOOD CMON xD
- As a side note, when pushing that second turret buy a lot of wards. Not just for your protection, you give your team control over everything in that part of the jungle. The mantra "wards win games" is often said, but it literally WINS GAMES in this case.
- Sorc shoes are ok, but I prefer Ionian boots of Lucidity. Also Furor is better than homeguard for Vlad imo, that plus rylais gives Vlad that sticking power he needs to consistently stay on a target for another round of his combo. Either way don't purchase it so early in the game
FINAL THOUGHTS
My preferred Vlad build: Cloth/5 into revolver into armguard into either Zhonyas or Wraith spirit into Ionians into Rylais/Abyssals into who gives a fuck youre vlad
Ideal combo is EVEYRTHING pool EVERYTHING zhonyas EVERYTHING. This gives a fuckton of both survivability and damage, and basically ensures that unless your team is one collective scrub, you'll win the fight. Also it oftentimes tends to make people want to babysit your Zhonya'd state, which is very powerful.
Using it when you get caught makes it take so long to kill you that almost any team thats nearby could counterinitiate, and then they're like "ohshit we just clumped for vlad ult fukkkkkkk"
When you got FB on that Tryn, I want to stress that the flexibility to take E there would have certainly won you the lane. Him losing that much XP in addition to you being able to force him under his turret would be immensly powerful.
Also about this build, WotA sucks dont buy WotA
Your E does tons of damage stacked, the reason you don't think it does damage is because when it's not stacked (as it wasn't for most of the game) it really doesn't do a lot
Also as an extension on why Ghost is better than Flash for 90% of situations:
Vlad does not have instant burst. He has a very strong, low-cooldown spell rotation, but no tools to stay in the midst of enemies for that rotation. The constant speed from ghost, rather than that one-time deal from flash, lets you have those rotations you need to deal damage consistently in a teamfight. It's the same principle as getting Furor instead of Homeguard. Homeguard insures you get one rotation off, but no follow-up. Furor, in combination with Rylais, ensures that you get all of your damage rotations off and bring Vlad to a much higher maximum potential.
Played a normal right after you went to bed with DURRHURRDERP on his smurf; there was a Vlad in that game who carried real hard. I don't have a LoLreplay or anything of it but I just thought I'd let you know in case you actually felt like playing him more often.
I'm kidding of course. He's a good champion, I just don't think he fits my playstyle. I also suck with him, so rather than forcing myself to learn and get good with a champ I dislike, I'm going to get good with champs I enjoy playing.
Well Req I'm trying to watch you, I really am, but Twitch won't work for me. gg
Edit: Yeah this is fucking weird. Can't get any streams on TL or Twitch itself to load, but all the streams on Solomid work fine. Req, get 50 viewers so they add you to the scanner, kthx.
On August 05 2013 11:01 WaveofShadow wrote: Well Req I'm trying to watch you, I really am, but Twitch won't work for me. gg
Edit: Yeah this is fucking weird. Can't get any streams on TL or Twitch itself to load, but all the streams on Solomid work fine. Req, get 50 viewers so they add you to the scanner, kthx.
Was fun duoing with you Req. You took my ribbing well and kept a positive attitude when things were really bleak. Being able to enjoy yourself like that even when the game is a lost cause is more important than people realize. I do, however, have a few thoughts as to how you can improve in your various roles.
First, you need to work on animation cancelling your auto-attacks. You might already be familiar with the concept, but you're not executing it (I went back and checked the archive from yesterday). In short, the actual attack occurs roughly halfway through the animation, meaning that everything that follows that point is superfluous. By moving before the animation ends you still hit/fire, but dramatically reduce the time spent stationary. This is critical to last-hitting safely, and is the fundamental building block for fighting on the move (which you could also stand to improve).
Second, try to think on your feet more. It's hard to calmly and quickly assess difficult situations (e.g. skirmishes and team fights), but if you can avoid acting on instinct you can make opportunities and plays that will win you games. Going back through your games and trying to see these possibilities after the fact can help you start seeing them as they happen.
Finally, don't psych yourself out. In the Zac game (before we queued together) you quietly freaked out because you didn't get a leash or your red, and passed up an easy double kill opportunity top as a result. Then when you and Kat got into a fight over it you threatened to afk or feed. Don't do that. Keep calm and gain Elo.
Do you plan on streaming yourself btw Monte? I saw on your blog the note where you say you plan to try getting a higher tier before you try your hand again at educational stuff.
On August 06 2013 21:54 Alaric wrote: So who won in the end, the Teemo or you?
Teemo Our Yi baited me into a dive early on and I gave up a kill, then I tried to all-in him at 6 with no items and realized that I couldn't quite do that when he was full health and up a kill. It just kinda snowballed from there. Oh well, was 3-2 with Diana at the end of the day, she's so fun~
Things I learned yesterday:
Diana is hella fun if I don't play like a dummy
Teemo can apparently play bot lane with Support Shen and carry a game
Support Ryze is dumb
Diana Q is pretty hard to land and I should make sure it's going to before I ult in
And of course the normal stuff like last hitting and what not, which I've been improving on lately at least.
On August 07 2013 09:34 Requizen wrote: Sorry I blew up at you :\
I tilt kinda easily. Working on it.
Idgaf. Why you acting all apologetic? Just do it next time and stop being a little bitch about it.
Because when you act meanly towards someone the correct response is to be polite and apologize? That's the type of manners I was always taught.
Wouldn't have to apologize if you didn't throw a temper tantrum with wild excuses flying everywhere. Yes, the phrasing of it was crude, but no harm meant, was only used to say you play like a coward. Whatever, get over it and learn from it.
I'd be cool getting Gold 4, but really I've just been playing like shit lately and want to get better so I can feel like I deserve my skin rather than getting lucky.
All depends on if Wasabi gets Riven it seems I had to explain my rationale to a RL friend who is Silver I and won't hit gold this season as to why I am ok with being carried. I felt really bad that he won't get it but I still don't feel like a scumbag if I do.
Also nothing wrong with getting carried, imo, as long as you're not playing like shit and feeding. Most solo queue games are just trying not to feed and getting carried by mid/AD anyway, so who cares if it's someone you know or not?
I dunno 'cause it's sort of scummy when you get carried by someone who's clearly a few tiers higher and don't belong in lower level games, but then again it seems lately that every game has at least a couple of these people so I see nothing wrong with stacking the odds in my favour. And no generally I don't feed and do play decently well.
Well it's not like duoing with a Diamond will be 4 silvers and a diamond against 5 silvers, you have to take into account that the game is generally harder for you as well since it places you at a higher MMR.
Though the matchmaking nowadays is totally fucked so that barely matters lol. Honestly even when solo queuing I'll have Plats and Silvers on my team at the same time with no duos. It's a shit shoot anyway, might as well bring someone who you can trust.
On November 09 2013 03:34 Requizen wrote: Well it's not like duoing with a Diamond will be 4 silvers and a diamond against 5 silvers, you have to take into account that the game is generally harder for you as well since it places you at a higher MMR.
Though the matchmaking nowadays is totally fucked so that barely matters lol. Honestly even when solo queuing I'll have Plats and Silvers on my team at the same time with no duos. It's a shit shoot anyway, might as well bring someone who you can trust.
Actually that's exactly what it is. Wasabi is smurfing along with every other plat/diamond player in the world it seems.
EPT
lame
