So, anyone playing League of Legends?

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She's still good though

I had a P. good time today. Cheers, guys.

Ps. I still hate you all.

WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH THIS BEFORE

Also, phage, the idea that elo is higher to gain in NA because there are more people here is derp. Elo distribution is a normal distributed curve with 1200 as the middle point. Having more players will just make the average more... Average. More players doesn't really raise skill level except at the very highest tiers of competition.

Bro, America needs every advantage possible to continuously keep Euro in its place beneath our fists.

After purchasing Fiora, Ree Sin and Pantheon while drunk Friday night ( ), I must say that she is pretty damn fun to play. I've experienced the issue with the riposte that Ulminati mentioned though. Not my favored choice for a jungler, but she works there as well despite ganks being unreliable.

Tell me again which teams are consistently placing highly at every single major worldwide tournament after Dreamhack (hint, it's TSM, CLG, Dignitas and Epik)

You really like discarding every relevant fact that clashes with your worldview, don't you?


Edit: M5 is actually doing very well, but they only emerged during IEM Kiev, which was the last major.

So bros, irelia top lane. What to do and why?

I have been playing her a bit and it is cool because you can carry from top lane, and she is very hard for the enemy to counterpick. What I have done so far is that I go boots pots early, then I get philo stone for superior mana regen and if I still hang on turtle heart. Then around lvl 13-15 I get wits end, and then next triforce. At this point the game is won.

Am I going too much gold items?

I don't really care for EU VS NA, but I do care for supporting claims. As I see it, both NA and EU have placed highly since DH. I may forget some, but:
IEM Kiev: 1. M5, 2. TSM, 3. Dignitas
IEM Guangzhou: 1. WE, 2. CLG, 3. SK
IEM New York: 1. Fnatic, 2. SK, 3. CLG
IEM Cologne: 1. CLG, 2. TSM, 3. Fnatic

Summarized, EU have won 2 times, NA 1. EU have gotten second 1 time, NA 3 times. Both have got third 2 times.
What's the fuzz over?

There are many ways to play Irelia (which I think is a good thing), but this also leaves many less than optimal routes open. She's generally hard to counterpick because she can get away with most items. I generally do not like to go gp10, as this makes her weak early, and makes her dominate lane less. I'd only really consider it if I got a really early kill, (and still then, I'd usually consider items that'd let me bully my lane out). Against heavy AD harss (GP, Riven, other irelias etc.) you'll want to go cloth armor (or boots, for easier harass/escape) into either wriggles or tabi (or both if you're really f'ed). Many people consider Irelia's weakness to be her early game, but I disagree. From lvl 5 and forward, her W makes you able to trade with almost anyone. Trinity force is VERY situational, and should be left out more often than not. It's very pricy, and farming it weakens your lane (less defensive items). You'll usually want to buy it, only if you're laning someone you can't kill without burst (Vlad or panth for example), or if your team lacks damage.
Depending on match-up I'll usually hover around the following builds:

Heavy AD: Cloth armor into tabi or wriggles (wriggles is a huge money sink if you don't need it badly) > phage > frozenmallet / atmas (if lane is still hard). At this point I'll usually transition into Wits End for MR and easier trades. If I make it to lategame and I still haven't upgrades to frozen mallet, and I'm not being focused hard I buy Trinity force, but more than not I end up going frozen mallet (that slow is so great).

Heavy magic damage: boots into mercs > wits end > (chalice or early negatron if im raelly getting it, or laning rumble, fk that guy) > phage, into normal build.

Everything else: A mix depending on their team, and how my team is doing.
Exceptions: If you get an early kill or two, and get a phage or wits end, going zerg greaves will ensure the rape that is to commence. Can always swap them when teamifghts come along.
When laning against someone you really need to burst, an early sheen will help loads.

A typical full build will usually (again, everything is subject to change, depending on who's fed and who's not) consist of some of the following: Merc threads, Frozen mallet, Atmas, Wits end, Guardian angel / force of nature / randuins or madreds if you feel like you're already winning and want great lulz.

What I've learned from playing lots of Irelia, is that there's almost never 1 item that you must have. Everything changes, and you learn to adapt by playing a whole lot of her.

A note on early philostone: Shurelyas kicks ass on her.

EDIT: Triforce Irelia gets raped by Fratmas Irelia.

Yeah, but those weren't games which grant GRUNKERs, ergo they don't count for much. (or so they would claim)

Thanks bro, will try that out. What do you use for runes? I have so far gone with attack speed, since it synergizes with the W.

Ideally, you'd want to rune for MR against magic lanes, and armor for ad lanes, but thats pretty self-explanatory...

My standard page is:

Mres/lvl blues as you normally wont need loads of MR before teamfighting - the scaling ones pay off at lvl 10 compared to flat. I will use flat if laning magic damage, which will usually mean rumble, akali or vlad top. If you'd want a standard page, I'd stick with scaling, as most tops wont do much magic damage before lvl 10 anyway.

Flat armor seals - again, most lanes will be physical. Even champs like vlad will auto you alot, and along with minion damage it racks up. Probably the only runes I'd consider.

I currently use flat AD marks. This is to ease early last-hitting, especially under tower, and to amp up early Q. Arpen works too, but I'm not a huge fan, as it doesnt really benefit her that much, because her AD will be relatively low most games. Attack speed makes sense too, as W benefits greatly from it. I've tried it, and it's most defintely good, but it wont help much before you get phage, as trades will be relatively short (2-3 autos) before someone disengages. That being said, it's much better to have mid-late game, than the flat AD.

For quints I use move speed, but this is personal preference. I like them, because more than not, it makes me able to decide when to stop exchanging harass, as I can outrun them. Besides, late game fights are all about mobility for bruisers. Flat AD works well too (with AD marks too) too make early harass that more potent, and to be able to lasthit easier. Arpen works for early game dmg, against more low armor targets, and flat hpregen helps out lane, though I'm not really a fan of them.

Just posting that as someone who's dabbled a bit with Irelia, Juul is 100% correct in his posts about her.

First I lost 9 games in a row, then I won 3 games, and now I'm on a losing streak again, 6 losses now. I went from 1300 to 900 lol.

I have feeders, leavers and trolls in every game. I am raging so much right now. And also, I am always the last one to pick a champion, why is that? Many games in a row now, is it randomized or what? I always get to pick support and support these retarded troll carries, I mean fuck.
Three leavers in like ten games, I've never had so many leavers in normal, maybe one leaver per fifty fucking games. What's with ranked, really?

Apparently it's based on your ELO, so if you keep going down, you're likely gonna keep getting last pick against retards like you've been paired with.

People like to be much bigger faggots on purpose in Ranked because lul epik trowl

As of writing this post, the codex overlords think that League of Legends is a first person shooter

You control one person and shoot many people with it