New inhouse logistics TBD. In the meantime, feel free to hang out in the league general discord https://discord.gg/0lCEKA3jUEFxERzd ("add lol" in #welcome) and get some ad-hoc games going!

phathom321

United States1730 Posts

July 30 2013 00:48 GMT

#301

Didn't notice till today, was doing nothing all day yesterday and totally would have wanted to do this ;_;
Registration
- Ingame name
Mips the Rabbit
- Rank and division
Silver III
- If you are a lowbie (Gold or below), include what position you would be interested in working on. (List two)
ADC or Jungle
- For each role, identify two champions you wish to improve on
ADC - Vayne, MF
Jungle - Zac, udyr, sejuani

ggurface

12 Posts

July 30 2013 01:14 GMT

#302

Registration
- Ingame name
laughin1
- Rank and division
Diamond 3

I play support.

Imperium11

United States279 Posts

July 30 2013 01:24 GMT

#303

Registration
- Ingame name
Last Imperium
- Rank and division
Gold 3
- If you are a lowbie (Gold or below), include what position you would be interested in working on. (List two)
Mid, Jungle
- For each role, identify two champions you wish to improve on
Mid - Ryze, Kassadin
Jungle - Nautilus, J4

Slusher

United States19143 Posts

July 30 2013 01:41 GMT

#304

Here are some quick thoughts on the games I played in,

Game1 is a tough game to comment on because while I feel like it's really obvious it may not have even been a focus of the other team. I should mention the bans for all 3 games of ours were complete joke bans like poppy etc because I was told thats what we were supposed to do, that said in my opinion we won because purple had a terrible draft.

we opened with Zac > they countered with wukong/kennen, this was actually ok because we thought this was more likely to be kennen top, so we chose Jax because Ghandi felt comfortable with that match up, and thresh (IIRC it might have been Ahri but I'm pretty sure Thresh)

here comes the problem, you guys then drafted Graves and Leona. Your first four picks all scream we want to AoE wombo combo you, so we discussed it and countered with Cailyn Ahri so we could turtle with Caitlyn and or Ahri while Jax or Ahri split pushed (your basic 3-1-1)

Finally your last pick was Lee (I might have Lee and Leona flipped) in any case the lee pick did you no favors discussing it after the game we feel like something like Jarvan would have given you what you needed without losing the early pressure or perhaps Hecarim if you felt confident in your lanes would have served you a lot better, as it was it was fairly easy to turtle vs your lineup.

We were really afraid of a lane swap to start the game, we felt like if you had kennen vs out duo lane, and wu kong 1v1 the lane match ups would be really bad for us, we had plans to get a deep ward to try to see where Graves was but ended up not doing it because of poor pre game coordination. we were actually very re leaved to have standard lanes although that ended up working out mostly well for you because I got out jungled so hard at the start, I still feel like 2v1 top would have better suited your team.

We got super lucky with Dragons, we knew our 5v5 was pretty bad vs yours but we got the first one simply off of your mid backing in vision while your bottom was chunked from a failed gank (I guess you could say it was a success since we got drag :D) and we ended up getting the 2nd one with peacemaker, at a time when our team without a doubt could not have contested.

My team all agreed after the game that if you guys were likely ahead by the most at around the ~20 min mark, and your best bet was to dive our 3 man core at some point when you knew we had 2 in sidelanes, unfortunately your comp didn't have anyone great for doing the tower tanking and as long as we had Ahri or Cait mid (which we always made sure to have) we had good wave clear so we understand why you didn't but ultimately what ended up happening was a slow bleed of your lead because a fight never occurred.

again it's a tough for me to analyze in this way simply because with fake bans and whatnot it's hard to tell someone you drafted poorly, because it's not unlikely that strategic drafting was not even a consideration, but pretending for a moment you care, Wu Kong, Kennen and Graves being your first 3 choices was a pretty big tell you wanted to fight as much as possible and we drafted to avoid it.

Again, not sure of what is considered BM/Cheese in inhouse leagues we pretty much (incorrectly lol) thought the only way we could lose the early game was if you guys had gotten graves out of the caitlyn match up. Not only that but Kennen is significantly better at 1v2 than Jax, we were so scared we had planned warding strategies in the pre game lobby to make sure we got the 2v2.

I don't have much to say about games 2&3 actually

game 2 I felt like I played really poorly most notably giving up the first kill in bot lane to a gank that had to have gone thru a ward. and basically getting farmed by the enemy team trying to regain vision control in the last 10 min of the game.

game 3 I played a strong lane ADC vs someone who's support d/c'd so yea not much to learn here.

XilDarkz

United States563 Posts

July 30 2013 02:34 GMT

#305

Have any games been played since my registration post?

Ares[Effort]

DEMACIA6550 Posts

July 30 2013 03:10 GMT

#306

On July 30 2013 11:34 XilDarkz wrote:
Have any games been played since my registration post?

We played about 3-4 today, come to channel LiquidPractice that's where it all begins

captharlock

United States223 Posts

July 30 2013 16:50 GMT

#307

Registration
- Ingame name
Swift Tongue

- Rank and division
Gold 5

- If you are a lowbie (Gold or below), include what position you would be interested in working on. (List two)
Support and Jungle

- For each role, identify two champions you wish to improve on
Support: Zyra, Thresh and Blitz
Jungle: Nocturne, Nasus, J4

Been Practicing Zyra a lot on normal's when I get the chance to. Aside of that one of the things I would like to work on is aggression in laning phase. This is something I feel that I am really weak on and have been constantly working on improving.

Dark_Chill

Canada3353 Posts

July 31 2013 02:44 GMT

#308

Are these still going on?

sylverfyre

United States8298 Posts

July 31 2013 02:53 GMT

#309

I expect that we'll get more of these going this weekend. I'm not sure how many people can be available on weeknights?

Buddhism101

United States59 Posts

July 31 2013 07:28 GMT

#310

- Ingame name
cvobuddha

- Rank and division
Bronze 3

- If you are a lowbie (Gold or below), include what position you would be interested in working on. (List two)
Top and ADC

- For each role, identify two champions you wish to improve on
Top: Rumble Jayce
ADC: Vayne Caitlyn

ComaDose

Canada10357 Posts

August 01 2013 00:55 GMT

#311

I just hang out in liquidpractice waiting... dont wana miss another one >.<

Nos-

Canada12016 Posts

August 01 2013 02:17 GMT

#312

On August 01 2013 09:55 ComaDose wrote:
I just hang out in liquidpractice waiting... dont wana miss another one >.<

there are ongoing inhouses right now

ComaDose

Canada10357 Posts

August 01 2013 03:51 GMT

#313

I am there!

NeoIllusions

United States37500 Posts

August 01 2013 03:59 GMT

#314

How are the weekday inhouses going? :o

I should be back home Friday night. I'll see if I'm not too tired to do some inhouses then. It would be 10 PM PDT however. :o :o

ComaDose

Canada10357 Posts

August 01 2013 04:49 GMT

#315

i have never been carried so hard

1godless

United States247 Posts

August 01 2013 06:07 GMT

#316

Didn't notice till today, was doing nothing all day yesterday and totally would have wanted to do this ;_;
Registration
- Ingame name
1godless
- Rank and division
Silver I
- If you are a lowbie (Gold or below), include what position you would be interested in working on. (List two)
ADC or Jungle
- For each role, identify two champions you wish to improve on
ADC - Ashe, Trist
Jungle - Zac, Xin

Daikas

United States118 Posts

August 01 2013 13:29 GMT

#317

I played one last night, it was interesting. My lack of experience in top lane showed very quickly. But, rest of team did well, especially bot.

Aezo-

Canada378 Posts

August 01 2013 14:38 GMT

#318

Registration
- Ingame name
Aezeo

- Rank and division
Silver III

- If you are a lowbie (Gold or below), include what position you would be interested in working on. (List two)
Jungle + ADC (although i'm happy playing anything)

- For each role, identify two champions you wish to improve on
Jungle: Elise, Nunu
ADC : Vayne, Varus

FSKi

United States901 Posts

August 01 2013 14:51 GMT

#319

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Navi

5286 Posts

August 01 2013 15:12 GMT

#320

for people looking to improve poor drafting (i.e. fake / troll bans) should not be an excuse.
the draft is by far the most impactful 2/3 minutes to decide the direction and flow of the vast majority of matches, and being able to draft well is a great sign of good game understanding.

if you're too lazy to draft well, don't shame others out of it. if one person out of 10 wants to draft thoughtfully, assuming that this really is about improvement, i'd do it for that one guy.