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My MSPaint skills suck. Deal with it.
I am Montegomery, gentleman jungler and League of Legends scholar. Join me every Monday for a show I call "Mondays with Monte". I'll be dissecting the game, helping you improve, and hopefully entertaining you while I'm at it. The stream will go live every Monday at 02:00 GMT (+00:00).
If you miss a show don't worry, just check the video archive below!
Feel free to post any comments, feedback, or questions here.
Obligatory Social Media Links: List of Shows: Upcoming: June 3rd, 2013 - MwM #24: TBD
Past Episodes: (Full Archive) May 20th, 2013 - MwM #23: The Power of Poke (Okay, this backlog is ridiculous. I am bad and should feel bad). April 28th, 2013 - MwM #22: The Wonderful World of ARAMs April 21st, 2013 - MwM #21: Odd Compositions Starring Fnatic April 15th, 2013 - MwM #20: Missed Opportunities April 8th, 2013 - MwM #19: Imitation (I really need to catch up on the archive) April 1st, 2013 - MwM #18: April Fool's March 25th, 2013 - MwM #17: MLG Dallas & Arranged Play (Forthcoming) March 18th, 2013 - MwM #16: Solo Queue Basics (Forthcoming) March 11th, 2013 - MwM #15: Unorthodox Junglers March 4th, 2013 - MwM #14: Advanced Jungling Feb 25th, 2013 - MwM #13: Jungling Fundamentals Feb 18th, 2013 - MwM #12: Replays and Self-Analysis Feb 11th, 2013 - MwM #11: Team Composition Theory and Draft Picking Feb 4th, 2013 - MwM #10: Supports Jan 28th, 2013 - MwM #9: Transitioning to the Midgame Jan 21st, 2013 - MwM #8: Zones of Control Jan 14th, 2013 - MwM #7: Initiating without AoE Jan 7th, 2013 - MwM #6: ARAM Special! (Incomplete) Dec 24th, 2012 - MwM #5: Christmas Eve Special! Dec 17th, 2012 - MwM #4: Playing from Behind Dec 10th, 2012 - MwM #3: Game Sense Dec 3rd, 2012 - MwM #2: Season 3 Items Nov 26th, 2012 - MwM #1: Season 3 Jungling
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Cool idea to help our the community! I'll be tuning in tomorrow
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monte will u teach me wat zed does pls. idk any of his abilities he just rapes me.
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Nice idea. The timing's gonna be hard if I want to get a good sleep schedule, but I'll make sure to have a look at the VODs.
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Oh shits, TL getting its own primetime TV series at this rate. Weekly timing is def a good thing; makes it easier for people to follow that my/our various things.
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The show starts in 5 minutes, tune in and you'll get to see the amazing Montegomery in his natural habitat: In front of a computer talking about League of Legends!
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Any idea how long the stream will go for? I might be able to catch the last bit :D
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Every show should last approximately one hour. If you miss them I'll be archiving them on Twitch and posting them to Youtube.
Thanks to everyone who watched. See you all again next week!
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you look so much younger than i imagined LOL. old man monte disappoint me.
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On November 27 2012 14:12 jcarlsoniv wrote: dat stache Just 'cause you're actually 12 and can't grow any facial hair doesn't mean you gotta put others down.
Edit: Also is it weird if the name of this show makes me think "Tuesdays with Morrie?"
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On November 27 2012 14:15 WaveofShadow wrote:Just 'cause you're actually 12 and can't grow any facial hair doesn't mean you gotta put others down. Edit: Also is it weird if the name of this show makes me think "Tuesdays with Morrie?"
woah woah woah, i wasn't putting down on it
point of criticism: stop using internet explorer.
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On November 27 2012 14:27 jcarlsoniv wrote:Show nested quote +On November 27 2012 14:15 WaveofShadow wrote:On November 27 2012 14:12 jcarlsoniv wrote: dat stache Just 'cause you're actually 12 and can't grow any facial hair doesn't mean you gotta put others down. Edit: Also is it weird if the name of this show makes me think "Tuesdays with Morrie?" woah woah woah, i wasn't putting down on it point of criticism: stop using internet explorer.
I couldn't get Twitch chat to work properly in Firefox. It probably had something to do with Noscript, but allowing scripts globally didn't fix the issue. Internet Explorer was a workaround that I hopefully won't have to employ next time.
Sorry to disappoint anyone who was expecting me to look like Deckard Cain.
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So I just finished watching the VoD for the first time, and I'm impressed. I will rewatch it once I have a little more time on my hands to point out some stuff I didn't like, but right off the bat, I didn't notice anything, really. You're articulate, you're not awkward (something Studio's still struggling with after 100+ videos and offline experience at MLG), and you're insightful. I'm really looking forward to this show and how it's going to develop, I think you have HUGE potential to become big.
Edit: I really liked the subtle hints at your LiquidParty provenance. ''This makes me an old dude... at least in some communities''
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I go away for thanksgiving weekend and you up and start a show that I then had to watch before I went to bed. WHAT
Also when you talk about how everything in s3 jungle will be fairly normal you sound like Day9.
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On November 27 2012 14:15 WaveofShadow wrote: Also is it weird if the name of this show makes me think "Tuesdays with Morrie?"
No, I thought the exact same thing.
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Chrome please.
But then again, all old people use IE so it makes sense.
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Your curly locks. *girly squeal* Really well done, monte. Looking forward to future shows.
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Totally missed this. Looking forward to watching now!
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Mondays with Monte starts in 3 minutes. Today's subject: Season 3 items and related topics.
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Actually gonna watch it live this time!
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Just want to point out that your show is awesome. Really enjoying it and very insightful.
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So what do I have to do to follow Caznode's advice and mark myself live on TL?
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Czech Republic11293 Posts
Nice show! Just to nitpick, in the last 5 minutes or so of the last show, you said that in the pre-season patch Trundle's ultimate gets stronger due to the changes to penetration. However, that is not true, since reduction is always applied before penetration even in the current patch.
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You're correct about the mechanics, but you're missing the big picture. With Flat Penetration actually useful, Armor/MR more costly, and Flat Penetration items less awkward, there are big incentives for you and your allies to actually stack Flat Penetration. In addition, % Reduction will actually work with % Penetration to enhance the effectiveness of Flat Penetration. So when you ult Galio your MPen stacking Xerath will be able to bypass all 279 of his MR.
It won't be overpowered in most cases, but generally speaking it will be more useful (and stronger in that sense).
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Czech Republic11293 Posts
You are right about that. If I am not mistaken flat penetration will get a bit more expensive but yeah, missed the big picture a bit there =)
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When can we normally expect the vods to be uploaded to youtube?
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Monte love your show, keep it up bro
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On December 05 2012 16:41 BlackPaladin wrote: When can we normally expect the vods to be uploaded to youtube?
On the weekends. I'll try to get a more fixed schedule for that soon, but it takes time to clean them up and rerender them and I work during the week.
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I got a good laugh out of the "MF incident" in the bottom lane during your Amumu game. Great stuff.
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lolwtf i just saw ur vayne thing. i didnt know old people could micro like that
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Mondays with Monte going live at 8. Today's topic: Game Sense (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Late Game).
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Or weep as your teammates don't have any and play Dora instead of working with you. But such a title wouldn't sell as much I guess.
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If you want to get more viewers I'd suggest advertising this a bit on other forums too (even GD), IDK if you're already doing this. On GD ideally you want some moles digging up your thread every few minutes while your show is running.
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It would help if someone explained what Caznode wanted me to do. That "mark your stream live" thing.
But yeah, outside of that I appear to have temporarily capped out on TL/EJ viewers. If I'm confident I can pull off the Christmas Eve/New Year's shows I might advertise on GD next Monday. Keeping a consistent schedule is pretty important.
Now hiring: Moles for GD.
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On December 12 2012 02:23 Seuss wrote: It would help if someone explained what Caznode wanted me to do. That "mark your stream live" thing.
But yeah, outside of that I appear to have temporarily capped out on TL/EJ viewers. If I'm confident I can pull off the Christmas Eve/New Year's shows I might advertise on GD next Monday. Keeping a consistent schedule is pretty important.
Now hiring: Moles for GD. You have people on Elitist Jerks watching you? Also, you never asked about the marking your stream live thing, I could explain it to you; let me know next time you're on.
As far as viewers go, I think we've talked about this before, but yeah 'moles' in a GD thread will definitely help a little, Reddit is probably the best and most concentrated viewer centre though.
Fuck those fickle bastards though; I have no idea how to get a post on there NOT get shut down or ignored.
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On December 12 2012 02:37 WaveofShadow wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2012 02:23 Seuss wrote: It would help if someone explained what Caznode wanted me to do. That "mark your stream live" thing.
But yeah, outside of that I appear to have temporarily capped out on TL/EJ viewers. If I'm confident I can pull off the Christmas Eve/New Year's shows I might advertise on GD next Monday. Keeping a consistent schedule is pretty important.
Now hiring: Moles for GD. You have people on Elitist Jerks watching you? Also, you never asked about the marking your stream live thing, I could explain it to you; let me know next time you're on. As far as viewers go, I think we've talked about this before, but yeah 'moles' in a GD thread will definitely help a little, Reddit is probably the best and most concentrated viewer centre though. Fuck those fickle bastards though; I have no idea how to get a post on there NOT get shut down or ignored.
EJ has a small LoL community hidden away in its Benefactor's Bar. Back when I played WoW I maintained the Warrior FAQ there (which resulted in this item being named after me). I used to play almost exclusively with them, up until phyvo dragged me to this forum.
And I did ask about the stream thing, it's like the fourth post on this page.
I'm still going to wait on Reddit. I'll see how many viewers I can pick up from the GD/getting the live thing setup first. If they're as fickle as you say, having more than a dozen people watching me would possibly help.
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On December 12 2012 03:03 Seuss wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2012 02:37 WaveofShadow wrote:On December 12 2012 02:23 Seuss wrote: It would help if someone explained what Caznode wanted me to do. That "mark your stream live" thing.
But yeah, outside of that I appear to have temporarily capped out on TL/EJ viewers. If I'm confident I can pull off the Christmas Eve/New Year's shows I might advertise on GD next Monday. Keeping a consistent schedule is pretty important.
Now hiring: Moles for GD. You have people on Elitist Jerks watching you? Also, you never asked about the marking your stream live thing, I could explain it to you; let me know next time you're on. As far as viewers go, I think we've talked about this before, but yeah 'moles' in a GD thread will definitely help a little, Reddit is probably the best and most concentrated viewer centre though. Fuck those fickle bastards though; I have no idea how to get a post on there NOT get shut down or ignored. EJ has a small LoL community hidden away in its Benefactor's Bar. Back when I played WoW I maintained the Warrior FAQ there (which resulted in this item being named after me). I used to play almost exclusively with them, up until phyvo dragged me to this forum. And I did ask about the stream thing, it's like the fourth post on this page. I'm still going to wait on Reddit. I'll see how many viewers I can pick up from the GD/getting the live thing setup first. If they're as fickle as you say, having more than a dozen people watching me would possibly help. The point being, it's easier to walk you through something if I can talk to you, rather than typing out a step-by-step process. (Not that it's particularly difficult, I'm just lazy.)
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Uses the word Shenanigans. Best show -ever- EVER.
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Need a minature monte pls. Hobbits ftw.
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On December 12 2012 02:23 Seuss wrote: It would help if someone explained what Caznode wanted me to do. That "mark your stream live" thing.
But yeah, outside of that I appear to have temporarily capped out on TL/EJ viewers. If I'm confident I can pull off the Christmas Eve/New Year's shows I might advertise on GD next Monday. Keeping a consistent schedule is pretty important.
Now hiring: Moles for GD.
Oops, sorry, haven't been checking this thread. You can get your stream to show up on TL by following the instructions here. Once that's done just click the arrow-button-thing in the middle-left of the site banner to mark it as live. Voila, it'll show up in the stream list. Alternatively, just set it up to auto-detect when your stream is live. (there's a button for it in your stream settings)
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Nice hair.
A comment from me - It would be nice if you created a list of all your episodes and a link to a VoD the same way the Day9 Daily thread used to do. At the very least, it would be good to have a link to a list of archived episodes. Makes it much easier to find or catch up on missed episodes!
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On December 18 2012 19:50 Chiharu Harukaze wrote: Nice hair.
A comment from me - It would be nice if you created a list of all your episodes and a link to a VoD the same way the Day9 Daily thread used to do. At the very least, it would be good to have a link to a list of archived episodes. Makes it much easier to find or catch up on missed episodes!
Done! Thanks for the suggestion!
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Just had a "surrender at 20" game with a 7-0 Renekton before the 20 minutes mark. Happened that our top never warded nor racked up on pots so he died over and over to dives, and he let our Amumu get invaded at second and third blue because he tried to fight alone despite the pings. That was word for word what you talked about yesterday, reminded me of your show.
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Monte, you do realize you said "Maybe we won't pull it OUT" instead of "Maybe we won't pull it OFF" right? Or are you going to try to push that one off as something you did on purpose, huehue? ;p
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Do you know when you'll upload the last two MwM? It's hard to watch it live when you live in Europe
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monte i watched an episode of your show even though i don't play league anymore
what a qt :3
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On December 27 2012 05:54 NpG)Explosive wrote:Do you know when you'll upload the last two MwM? It's hard to watch it live when you live in Europe 
Holiday insanity ends tomorrow. I promise I'll render and upload them then.
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Caught up on the ones I missed due to baby. Just a random point of criticism: in your effort to talk slowly and be entertaining like Day[9] (doing a great job, btw), you tend to pause a lot and perform a Heath Ledger-playing-the-Joker smack of the lips. You may want to work on trying to pause without doing that quite as often because as soon as you notice it, it gets really distracting.
Wery entertaining; looking forward to tonight's episode!
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Ugh, haven't been able to watch these in a while, I just caught up with the help of VODs. Thank you so much for doing this show Monte, this is exactly what I needed to get my head in the game again. I'm really grateful for your little series and if you don't mind, I'll try spreading it as much as possible.
Unrelated, did you ever try groing a full beard and have your mustache connect with it? You'd be ridiculously handsome.
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Guh, missed the comments/criticism. There may be lip-smacking tonight. D:
Shiv. You're free to recommend my show to anyone/everyone.
The new year's eve special is going live in 5 minutes. Be sure to tune in!
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You're real handsome and i'd totally watch you just like that but I think your sound is not working.
€: prerecorded, gg
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Yeah, there was an issue when I recorded it that I didn't catch. Apologies to everyone who tuned in to Mondays without Monte.
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I went back and forth for a while trying to figure out what was going on because there was definetely game sound
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If you guys are up to it I can give it another shot tomorrow, only live this time.
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I am sad to report that I've lost the last 10 minutes of video for MwM6, and the Twitch archive has already cleaned that episode out. I'm going to upload the incomplete video, but no one who wasn't there will ever know what happened at the end of that ARAM.
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Unless you tell us. How 'bout a story, grandpa Seuss? :3
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My team eventually won, and I carried with my crazy Muramana-based Ezreal build.
#7 and #6 (incomplete) are currently being uploaded to the archives. I know I'm going to constantly hear about #6 cutting off suddenly, but I wanted to get what I had out there for posterity. The fact that it will forever be incomplete makes me depressed.
Twitch's archive was supposed to be my backup for when issues happened with xsplit's local recording, so I'm really upset that less than two weeks after recording the show it vanished (while older stuff is mysteriously present).
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It's 'k, if you hear about it it means people watched, isn't that good?  And yeah I don't understand how Twitch handles which recordings it keeps, sometimes the first stuff it shows me when I browse through a channel's VoD are vids from the 8th of December or something.
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On January 20 2013 17:09 Seuss wrote: My team eventually won, and I carried with my crazy Muramana-based Ezreal build.
#7 and #6 (incomplete) are currently being uploaded to the archives. I know I'm going to constantly hear about #6 cutting off suddenly, but I wanted to get what I had out there for posterity. The fact that it will forever be incomplete makes me depressed.
Twitch's archive was supposed to be my backup for when issues happened with xsplit's local recording, so I'm really upset that less than two weeks after recording the show it vanished (while older stuff is mysteriously present).
Don't be too depressed. Day9 had a similar loss of footage/archive. If anything, this is just a sign that the series will be a long running sucess. 
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This wasn't supposed to happen until episode 10, but because the special RP sale going on also applies to RP cards I'm going to move up my plans to give away RP cards during a show to episode 9. This way the lucky recipients can take advantage of the bonus RP.
I'll be posting about Mondays with Monte in LoL's GD for the first time as a part of this (in fact, this is a not-at-all subtle grab for more viewers), so unless people mysteriously start hating free money you'll all have some competition.
However, I haven't yet worked out the logistics (I thought I had 2 weeks, rather than 6 days). If any of you have experience with this sort of thing, are aware of any rules/hurdles, or have general advice now would be an awesome time to share.
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On January 23 2013 05:04 Seuss wrote: This wasn't supposed to happen until episode 10, but because the special RP sale going on also applies to RP cards I'm going to move up my plans to give away RP cards during a show to episode 9. This way the lucky recipients can take advantage of the bonus RP.
I'll be posting about Mondays with Monte in LoL's GD for the first time as a part of this (in fact, this is a not-at-all subtle grab for more viewers), so unless people mysteriously start hating free money you'll all have some competition.
However, I haven't yet worked out the logistics (I thought I had 2 weeks, rather than 6 days). If any of you have experience with this sort of thing, are aware of any rules/hurdles, or have general advice now would be an awesome time to share.
No rules that I can think of, but advice-wise I think we've discussed it a little: Your biggest problem is probably the fact that GD is a huge cesspool and stuff will fall off the front page in literally 30 seconds.
Sometimes the RP giveaways catch on, but sometimes you see the ones that are literally bumped by the OP 30 times in 3 hours and there are very few pageviews and no responses in the thread.
As always, as much as I don't like it, I suggest Reddit (50-->550 viewers doesn't lie) with a healthy dose of TL help for exposure.
Best of luck to you Monte; I'll help out where I can if you need it. All you need do is ask. (And I won't bother competing for the RP since you're already a pretty generous guy )
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Are there any reddit rules about this? I was sure I heard some rumblings about something at some point (VAGUENESS).
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To be fair, wave, the influx of 500 viewers was largely because of the game we were casting. EA vs Curse was a pretty highly skilled game, and Curse posted about us on their FB page.
But yes, I agree, a reddit post certainly helps.
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I think I heard that there is a time period for gentle bumps, mostly for spam reasons. Something like a few hours to a day or so? The GD boards has the same sort of thing in effect as well I believe.
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What I need is a squad of inconspicuous TLers prodding my posts. :3
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On January 23 2013 05:24 Seuss wrote: What I need is a squad of inconspicuous TLers prodding my posts. :3 And you shall get them. As far as Reddit goes, a lot of the time they don't like self-promotion but I never seem to get when it's okay and when it's not. Often if someone else makes the post for you it would be perceived as ok because it's a very informative show that 'promotes discussion' and in that case it wouldn't be self-promotion?
I don't know, I still don't understand reddit very well. In any case, it's worth just making the post about your show and see what happens. If it stays up there I'm sure we can all help.
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I have played a bunch of racing games recently and I am quite confident in my abilites to gently bump things.
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Streaming Duo Queue with Miscue. Jungling Thresh. :3
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Enjoying this :D Could you please... PLEASE change to colorblind mode though? <3<3
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Sorry I missed it while you were watching, I have converted for your sake.
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Mondays with Monte is going live in 10 minutes, and I've got 4 Riot Point codes to give away!
- At designated times during the show I'm going to ask a League of Legends trivia question.
- The first person to correctly answer the question in twitch.tv's chat will win a Riot Point code!
- Riot Points codes will be sent via twitch.tv's messaging system.
- This giveaway is good for tonight only.
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Did you make a GD thread, and should it be bumped and such?
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Miscue worst mod. Please get rid of him l0l
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^ sorry that was me. might wanna delete
The content was (attention please):
"dis miscue"
important, I know.
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Good show sir. Wasn't able to catch all of it but I left the stream running and I'll watch VOD when I get the chance.
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GL HF with avoiding mousing over thresh lantern!
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FYI he's looking at LCS, specifically team compositions.
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I got some good criticism tonight. Thanks everyone.
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Just wanted to say thanks for the awesome show. Its really helped me out a lot. Keep up the great work.
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Any ETA for MwM 10 on your youtube channel? MwM 11 and 12 are on your twitch archives, so I can watch them from there, but I want to know what you said about supports.
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I rendered 10, 11, and 12 yesterday, but didn't have the chance to upload them. They should all go up tomorrow.
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10, 11, 12 have been uploaded. At the moment 11 and 12 are still processing and so may not have all resolutions available.
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Today's topic is weird junglers. Starting with jungle EZ!
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Apologies to sylverfyre, but his game was just a really, really good example of not needing to have perfect execution/runes to make these things work.
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I actually have played jungle ez once before, but since then the passive (rising spell force) has been lowered in duration and turned out to be REALLY HARD to maintain!
Also, I DID see rammus rolling at me, but he came up so fast that I couldn't react in time! (I'm not sure E'ing away would have saved me, given my reflexes.)
Finally, I feel like a lot of my choices were influenced by the fact that well... Viktor was kinda getting crushed by Quinn mid lane.
Addendum: I now own lifesteal quints. Willing to try round 2
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Monty loves his jungle Karthus. I liked the part where it went from everything going well into a lost dragon fight, then fast forward and the game is over. Because that's pretty much how that game felt... I'm actually kind of surprised at how easy the clearing looked.
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jungle karthus is good. i really think with TF it could be used seriously but the mechanical level of junglers is not up there yet
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Everything went downhill because our teamcomp was designed to dive Ez/Lux while making it hard/suboptimal for their team to dive us in turn (Karthus/Tristana/Lulu). The game looked fairly even, but pretty much all our advantage was concentrated on me, so when it came time for Diana and Nocturne to dive they didn't have the power to pose a real threat, and I couldn't supply enough damage by myself to eat through their tightly clustered team (in part because of my failure to build a Tear).
Jungle Karthus is still really, really good, arguably the best AP jungler in the game (forgive me Akali). You just have to be accurate with your Lay Wastes which isn't something most junglers are accustomed to, in addition to having an even greater map awareness requirement.
In other news, I'm going to be at parts of MLG Dallas, and next week's show will be an analysis of the same. Anyone planning on being there should let me know and we can meet up.
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MLG Analysis postponed due to a few technical issues on my end, and lack of time for analysis. Instead, I'm going over Solo Queue basics. Live in 5, tune in!
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Velocity VS Curse Academy for part 1!
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Mondays with Monte, coming soon to a stream near you!
Or is this an elaborate April Fool's day joke? Find out on today's Mondays with Monte!
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My favorite moment from the stream tonight so far is this moment I randomly caught when I accidentally stopped the stream:
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lol... Everytime someone says something silly, just post that pic from now on.
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Monte's looks of disapproval
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My name is Montegomery, and I approve this picture.
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DAMNIT MONTE I WAS ABOUT TO STREAM
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Good show Monte
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Tonight's Mondays with Monte is special because I'm actually just going to stream ARAMs since I'm taking it easy post-surgery.
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You should totally duo with me at some point during the hour and teach me your ways; the guy might be asleep by then.
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On May 07 2013 04:54 Seuss wrote: Tonight's Mondays with Monte is special because I'm actually just going to stream ARAMs since I'm taking it easy post-surgery.
Surgery? I thought it was just a figure of speech that you get your balls removed once you're engaged...
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On May 07 2013 05:28 jcarlsoniv wrote:Show nested quote +On May 07 2013 04:54 Seuss wrote: Tonight's Mondays with Monte is special because I'm actually just going to stream ARAMs since I'm taking it easy post-surgery. Surgery? I thought it was just a figure of speech that you get your balls removed once you're engaged... You're just mad jelly of the people who aren't 17 years old.
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After a couple weeks taking it easy Mondays with Monte will be back tonight!
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I'l be watching. Too hot outside to actually play, so good alternative for me.
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FYI Mondays with Monte is going to go on indefinite hiatus. I'll be doing a show today (6/3), but until everything else in my life dies down I can't really dedicate the time and attention to this that I'd like.
If you have any questions you'd like to ask before the hiatus this is your chance to do so.
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