So, anyone playing League of Legends?

[Renegen]

Devourer is so unfun to play against, while Nocturne makes use of it there's always some worse offenders that just abuse that item really hard.

 

[zerotol]

Fucking runeglaive ezreal miss everything still hits due to the AOE and ludens echo.

 

[Gay-Lussac]

Holy mother of PBE updates:

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/07/77-pbe-update.html#more

Erzherzog you were right about there being a pro using AP Nasus, it's Keane doing it on stream. Still can't take it seriously though.

 

[PlanHex]

GP update looks pretty bad ass.
Looking forward to see how they're changing him and MF mechanically. (edit: Whoops, guess I missed these: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/page/champion-update/gangplank-sails-pbe http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/page/champion-update/miss-fortune-struts-pbe )

The way he says "prepare to be boarded!" just doesn't have that same kick to it though.
Also, I like the "I HAVE A DEFICIENCY OF CARES" line, but wish it was "fucks" instead. Although I guess it's not a vitamin-C joke at that point.

New game mode looks very interesting too.

 

[Renegen]

lol they're nerfing Warrior enchant. From 10 armor pen to 10% of damage turned into 3 second true damage, yawn. The Aatrox skin looks badass however.

 

[Gay-Lussac]

I don't see how that can be a nerf. 10 flat armor pen is the real yawner, warrior was being left out as the last jungle item that's just a ball of cost efficient stats with no unique passive.

Aatrox does indeed look awesome, actually most of the skins on this cycle do. Gangplank looks pretty insane too, specially the base skin. Hopefully he'll be more useful and less binary (feast/famine) now.

 

[Renegen]

Statistically the damage is about the same, it's just been staggered instead of burst (what ad pen is for) so this just sucks. You buy Warriors when you want to burst someone, say as Lee or Vi not when being lame and trying to get several rotations in. And knowring Riot, the true damage won't stack, it will just be refreshed or some shit so it could be a damage nerf.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

GP update looks pretty bad ass.
Looking forward to see how they're changing him and MF mechanically. (edit: Whoops, guess I missed these: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/page/champion-update/gangplank-sails-pbe http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/page/champion-update/miss-fortune-struts-pbe )

The way he says "prepare to be boarded!" just doesn't have that same kick to it though.
Also, I like the "I HAVE A DEFICIENCY OF CARES" line, but wish it was "fucks" instead. Although I guess it's not a vitamin-C joke at that point.

New game mode looks very interesting too.

Riot will never be that ballsy.
League is pretty PG13, imo.

 

[PlanHex]

Riot will never be that ballsy.
League is pretty PG13, imo.

'Course.

If anything they're moving in the opposite direction, what with removing Graves' cigar and everything.

edit: The current login music is pretty sweet:

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Riot will never be that ballsy.
League is pretty PG13, imo.

'Course.

If anything they're moving in the opposite direction, what with removing Graves' cigar and everything.

edit: The current login music is pretty sweet:

I know, I'm really liking the new champion.
Just digging that Robert Johnson vibe.
I liked how his trailer went spooky at the end too.
Much better design than that cockatoo Ekko.

 

[Erzherzog]

Not sure that I liuke nu-Fiora. Her parry is a skillshot which is rather WTF and her ult is this weird attack from 4 sides to unlock a big field of healing. I don't see how in anything larger than two enemies nearby she's going to survive to pull that off. In fact all her damage seems to be single target now so why pick her over a different skirmishing top like Fizz? Especially considering Fizz is more mixed damage now and can be useful in teamfights and I can otherwise pick a legitimate carry top like Riven (or Yasuo which seems to be mostly a flex pick nowadays?)

Anyways I think I've definitely transitioned mostly to a top main now since I can play Wu and Mundo decently and have a couple champs in that range of "good enough that it works for counterpicking" but it's just more fun. Mid in silver tier is just kinda "spit out damage randomly and hope you do it better than them." Whereas top feels like it has much more setting up windows for favorable trades, and I'm placing a big preference on champs that can take objectives quick. Everyone always loves to sit on a lead and I hate it.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Her ult isn't as bullshit as before, so I'm happy with it.
I hated Blade Waltz. It was pretty much "press R to win team fight, or delete an enemy champion under a turret."

 

[PlanHex]

The fact that the parry can now block spells and CC makes up for the skillshot part I think. And the ult deals %hp true damage too, I believe? That's pretty damn good.
Think she's gonna be good as long as the numbers are alright. Might even be OP.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

The fact that the parry can now block spells and CC makes up for the skillshot part I think. And the ult deals %hp true damage too, I believe? That's pretty damn good.
Think she's gonna be good as long as the numbers are alright. Might even be OP.

Yeah, her ult no longer makes her unkillable, but she now shits on tanks instead.
Its an even trade.
I'm just happy I can hit her this time.

Not sure I like her new visual design though. I thought her old one looked better.

 

[Erzherzog]

The fact that the parry can now block spells and CC makes up for the skillshot part I think. And the ult deals %hp true damage too, I believe? That's pretty damn good.
Think she's gonna be good as long as the numbers are alright. Might even be OP.

I get what you're saying but any champ can be OP just by numbers. Remember release Diana? High damage burst mage that scaled like a top laner.

 

[PlanHex]

The fact that the parry can now block spells and CC makes up for the skillshot part I think. And the ult deals %hp true damage too, I believe? That's pretty damn good.
Think she's gonna be good as long as the numbers are alright. Might even be OP.

I get what you're saying but any champ can be OP just by numbers. Remember release Diana? High damage burst mage that scaled like a top laner.

Well, yeah. That's kinda my point. Riot always releases reworked and new champs in a slightly above average state and then buff them up because no one knows how to play them, leading to stuff like the new Ryze and release *insert champ here*.
Enjoy it while it lasts.

edit: I just remembered release Xin:

 

[Gay-Lussac]

They just reworked reworked Gangplank lolwut. Pretty cool that they're giving the captain skin for free though.

By the way, I'm back in elo hell diamond 5 already

 

[Renegen]

I got back to Plat 5 after a 2 month decay and first thing I did was troll, 3 straight wins with Eve dang. Well at least I'll definitively pick Gangplank in ranked for the free skin, get fucked everyone who intends to take Plat 5 seriously.

Both the Fiora and Gangplank reworks kinda suck imo, Gangplank support is a thing of the past now.

 

[bloodlover]

Jesus Christ those UOL vs ROC games... These teams are fighting to go to worlds from EU? I think even teams like Sbenu or IM can do better than these two. And I thought US will have shit teams at worlds...

 

[PlanHex]

Meh, I doubt anyone other than Fnatic, OG and H2K are going.
Unless some freak accident happens in the gauntlet, but I think those are BO5 so accidents are unlikely.
Or maybe UOL get to go through on points because of their spring split performance. You never know with UOL, they be crazy.

Also, I'm pretty sure everyone was saying the same thing before MSI.

 

[Rafal]

Today i had my first lagged game, and man, was it rage inducing...
Good thing we still won, thanks to a well played/fed Katarina. Currently I have 4 wins/ 0 losses on Taric, but he gets pretty dull most of the times, unfortunately..
Now I have like 1700 ip, and I was thinking on screwing the waiting for those 3k+ ip heroes, and buying the Riot Girl, Tristana, or some other 1300 heroe. Any suggestions/advices?
EDIT: 2nd game lagging, might be because of the rain, God knows.

But people seems to be flaming much less lately, few or my friends got banned too. I guess Riot finally do something about salty haters.

 

[No Great Name]

Made it to Platinum V.

Usually, I play bot lane, but playing AP Kogmaw is what got me from Gold II to Platinum V in the end.

 

[Renegen]

paging Erzherzog , patch 5.16 has buffed Skarner and now he has one of the HIGHEST WIN RATES EVER. Almost 63%, and almost 75% if the game ends under 25 minutes, wow. Haven't played with any of the new items but this is all new to me, wow.

edit: a Garen just carried the enemy team...

 

[Bester]

patch 5.16 has buffed Skarner and now he has one of the HIGHEST WIN RATES EVER. Almost 63%, and almost 75% if the game ends under 25 minutes, wow.

I haven't played lol in almost half a year, but this got me wet in the pants. Reinstalling.

 

[Erzherzog]

With a winrate like that best I can hope for is to troll normals.

I bet team builder is unplayable right now thanks to that shit.

EDIT: Ban rate of only 35% jesus christ you idiots.