So, anyone playing League of Legends?

An apt analogy. Sadly, the hooker that is DotA2 had some huge warts, didn't know any interesting new tricks and thought farting was foreplay. If I hadn't experienced lol first, I might've been more forgiving of DotA2. I guess we'll see 2-3 years down the road which game stood the test of time better.

You can add me (Ulminati), Berekän, Ud0Phoenix, Qaulthir and Murderbunny. We're the usual suspects on EUW. And don't worry, your ass won't be laggier than Phoenix'es (DCs every 2nd match) or mine when my neighbours feel a pressing need to torrent donkey porn.

Been playing some jungle twitch lately. He's pretty fun. My main problem is securing KBs, since I end up expunging ½ sec too early and someone in lane steals my kills. This really hurts twitch, since he desperately needs the cheddar to get his items. Doubly so since it's very much un vogue among some mids to take his wraiths and wolves on top.

Yeah. The mindset seems to be that since the respawn timer is shorter now, it's ok to take wraiths whenever you want without asking the jungler. Even if he's clearly in his jungle clearing camps. It's pretty fustrating when you need those last 125 gold to plop down apink ward before stealthing in for a gank. Purpleside top lanes also occasionally decide to farm the small golems. But since they're kind of out of the way for your normal gank paths I find this to be less annoying. Blueside bot occasionally go for small golems for an edge in lane as well, which on some junglers leaves me standing around twiddling my thumbs and wating for them to respawn, since I can't start redbuff until my smite is up again.

Looking around for inspiration I found this guy who jungles twitch. He did some pretty nice gameplay videos. Check out his early first+second blood. Dat malz so dumb.

If you get your first win 0 the day in co-op vs AI, the bonus is smaller than if you get it in a normal game. Unless they changed it since I stopped bothering with trying out shit in co-op games and went directly into normal/ranked with untried champs and builds.

Normal support items are usually good on lulu. Especially if you can get some CDR squeezed in, since that'll let you keep pix on your carry more and turn more poeple into cupcakes. Consider (if you haven't already) Aegis (really nice aura), Shurelias Reverie (ok aura, awesome active), Soul shroud (so-so, but good if you have mana issues), Locket of the iron solari (the active saves lives) or zekes herald (if you have lot of autoattack teammates).

Adventures in turning my jungle into a Twitch-based shooter (groan) continue. He seems to mesh really well with me since I tend to do a lot of ganking and counterjungling. Apparently it's always Twitches fault if a team loses though, even when he's 9/3/8, gave all lanes an early kill and denied enemy jungle every redbuff. I was informed of this by a 3/14/2 urgot.

Indeed. Granted, I still need some practice before I can claim any kind of proficiency with twith. He certainly requres a lot of thought when positioning, since popping out of stealth too soon or in the wrong place will see you deader than elvis. Also, since I usually start red, a lot of mids seem to take it as a given that the blue I do at 4:00 belongs to them which - in turn - means I have to remain unstealthed most of the time as my stealth+debil+expunge combo takes about half my mana bar.

Still, I have about a 50% win rate with the rat and a 4:1 KDA. So far I've only had one game where I didn't have an IE, boots and 2x dorans by the 25min mark. (I had boots, 2x dorans, brutalizer and pickaxe though). I just need to get good at using his ult+expunge to steal pentas every teamfight.

My current setup is 26/4/0, Aspie reds, lifesteal quints, flat arm0r yellows and alternating between aspie and flat arm0r bluez. I start stealth, get a pull on enemy red if it scouts out fine. Stealth at 1:44 for maximum aspie bonus when I destealth and a faster kill. I smite immediately so my executioner bonus (21pt offensive talent) kicks in faster. With a single love tap on red from my mid/sidelane I can usually finish it with a loss of ~100hp.

I get expunge at level 2, either expunge or stealth at lv3 (20 sec stealth is sooooo much nicer than 10 sec), debil at lv4, then R>E>Q>W. Double dorans, boots 1. is my usual start. Or single dorans+wriggle if enemies are really defensive. for boots I go mobil most of the time but sometimes 'zerkers instead if laning ends early. My first big item is usually IE at ~18-19 mins. Sometimes I'll get a br00talizer/youmuu first. Depends on how I feel. for attack speed I'll usually go either wits (esp. if they're running double AP) or phantom dancer. definately PD if I went 'zerkers 'cause I need dat movespeed. Once I got my IE + attack speed down, I'll look into getting beefy. Big Hammr is typically my go-to item here. Occasionally GA or Banshee depending on the enemy assassins.

You guys have seen the LoL cypher right? Some decent shit in there:

http://bit.ly/FRbM8E

Gave it a quick glance. Looks like a bunch of LoL parody songs. Darth Roxor loves those!

It's a cypher. I.e. someone makes a beat, raps over it, challenges someone. The challenged dude then makes a rap on the same beat answering the challenge and challenges someone else.