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League of Legends |OT13| Diamond is Unreachable

Kite, Kite, Kite, Kite, Kite. It also depends on the level of people you are playing with. If you are playing with bronzies you will have to play a lot of games to win even once.

Even with good/decent players it depends on which maps you get. The bridge map for example is really hard, regardless of which champions you choose.

If you are good on adc's play jinx and follow that guide on reddit. Makes life a lot easier.

Ok so im forked with this mode.

Ive never kited really at all in LoL. I usually dont play with champs that has slows or such so.

Give me back AR Urf, its the only mode i had over .500 win rate. I have lower than .500 win rate in normal sunmoners rift. Ranked? Dont even ask.

Playing alot of AR urf pretty much gave me honor level 5.
 

JulianImp

Member
Oh, so it was a permanent champ shard, that's certainly much better. Guess I just saw the icon and thought it was a regular one.

Ok so im forked with this mode.

Ive never kited really at all in LoL. I usually dont play with champs that has slows or such so.

Give me back AR Urf, its the only mode i had over .500 win rate. I have lower than .500 win rate in normal sunmoners rift. Ranked? Dont even ask.

Playing alot of AR urf pretty much gave me honor level 5.

I tanked my ranking to hell and back by playing ranked back when I was way worse than I'm now, but even though I'm a high bronze or low silver player at best, I've managed to win even on the hard difficulty setting and complete the mission that requires an A rank or better, so it's certainly not impossible to do. Even without min-maxing, I've had several fun playthroughs, and after an initial rough patch managed to win games more often than I lose them.

Still, talking about kiting, it doesn't mean abusing slows or whatever to kite per se, but rather walking away from enemies to keep your range advantage in between attacks, regardless of the MS difference between you and your opponents. It certainly gets harder with the more AS you have though, since you've got to time your walk orders to get the optimal walk time without eating into your attack speed, and also avoid cancelling your autos with movement orders by mistake. Even though it might sound cheesy, I think playing against bots is still a viable tactic (at least as a first step).

I also like ARURF for winding down a bit, but I'd say it still gets boring after a while. There are games where you get dealt stuff that just doesn't work in URF, but even then I still like it more than regular URF, where you'd see the same champs being spammed over and over.
 

duppolo

Member
I imagine the permanent is more useful to new players than the ward skin. You can get both with some effort, but getting one is easy at least.

i cant understand how to get easily 4 shards to get the champ..im a new player and i need it so much! as for now i have one fragment cause i tried the game mode, but loose
 

zkylon

zkylewd
I mean how do you even win one game in this mode? I have never finished it once not even on normal. Same every time.. gets swarmed and everyone just dies.

Fuck invasion. Just unbalanced imo. Sure only played it 4 times now but lost all 4. Onslaught lost on next to last all times and normal on last boss.

Yeah i wont complete the quests at all this go around. Especially not with a full premade lol.. i dont have 4 others to play with :p

everyone's winning in this mode, i won the second time i played it with all randoms... everyone here has completed it

stop complaining about everything lol
 

JulianImp

Member
Still got all the misisons involving playing with a 5-man premade team left, as well as the one that wants you to get an S score or better.

But yeah, I'm as scrubby as it gets and even I have been able to complete the mode in the harder difficulty. I've enjoyed Jinx and Raka the most so far, Janna the least and still got to try Syndra and Lulu.
 

Leezard

Member
I mean how do you even win one game in this mode? I have never finished it once not even on normal. Same every time.. gets swarmed and everyone just dies.

Fuck invasion. Just unbalanced imo. Sure only played it 4 times now but lost all 4. Onslaught lost on next to last all times and normal on last boss.

Yeah i wont complete the quests at all this go around. Especially not with a full premade lol.. i dont have 4 others to play with :p

First of all you have to get the best builds. ADCs are overpowered, and Bork is super good. 3 adcs (on hit Lulu counts), Poppy and Soraka/Janna is the comp that consistently gave us the best results. Make sure you prioritize killing the mobs during the final boss phase, if you burst down the boss too quickly you will get swarmed.

Having a full 5 man premade does make things a lot easier.
i cant understand how to get easily 4 shards to get the champ..im a new player and i need it so much! as for now i have one fragment cause i tried the game mode, but loose
It's probably easiest if you find 4 other people that want to complete the quest, and then learn the game mode together. The hardest quests for people who haven't played the mode a lot are probably the ones that require A rank and S ranks.

edit: some guy posted a rank to get S+ ranks, I haven't looked it through but it's probably helpful.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.c...all-extents-s-on-all-5-core-missions-obtained

edit2: I glanced it through and it seems good.
 

zkylon

zkylewd
getting an A with randos seems tough

winning is not very hard (except when your ezreal goes triforce into archangel staff.....), but ppl will run off and get killed and ruin ur score

need to get a crew going
 

Oscar

Member
Recently hit 30, did draft normals for a bit then 3-7'd my flex placements into Bronze IV.

Was about to take a break from the game when I discovered Nasus. He's so therapeutic to play, I love Q farming.
 

drawkcaB

Member
Yorick skin looks kinda crappy. And given the possibilities you could play with his theme (seriously, "day of the dead" theme is easy money, pikmin knock off inspired skin for arcade/boss battle) to go with the bland arclight line?
 

zkylon

zkylewd
those skins look really cool, cassi got robbed lol

Yorick skin looks kinda crappy. And given the possibilities you could play with his theme (seriously, "day of the dead" theme is easy money, pikmin knock off inspired skin for arcade/boss battle) to go with the bland arclight line?
those sound like time-sensitive skins so it wouldn't really make sense to drop that skin context-less

also archlight is cool, literally the only good vayne skin
 

Quonny

Member
I like arclight.

I don't think the theme itself is super awesome, but they always look really nice and they're thrown on champions that really make them look unique (Vayne, VelSnooze)
 

zkylon

zkylewd
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i swear idk what to do with these last whisper starting ezreals....

It's not a Camille ult, its a Windwall-ish ring that only protects himself and only from damage

Xin is basically getting a non bullshit version of old Poppy's ult

well it also knocks everyone away and creates an area around his target

it's a mix of both, OK
 
Are the future currency changes gonna affect skin unlocks? Just got Elementalist Lux shard, which I want to be the second Ultimate skin I'll unlock.
 

zkylon

zkylewd
it applies to skin shards too afaik

basically just dissassemble everything you're not planning on turning into a skin before they make the switch, that's all
 

Quonny

Member
Pretty sure they aren't touching orange essences/skins except maybe the drop rate of them for low level players so they can unlock champions faster instead of skins.
 
Hey! The rates of orange essence from shards will be going down in the pre-season so I would advise you disenchant any shards you do not wish to keep in order to get the most essence out of them.
Yeah, thats a thing. Skin shard drop rates are going to be increased though, not really sure how I feel about this.
 

zkylon

zkylewd
Yeah, thats a thing. Skin shard drop rates are going to be increased though, not really sure how I feel about this.
we can't say until it's on pbe cos we don't know how long it'll take to level

in theory getting more shards that are proportionally worth less to their new drop rate is better cos you get more chances to get cool stuff instead of being stuck with trash forever like now

tho lately it feels ilke every day i connect i get two keys so who knows
 

Leezard

Member
Yeah, thats a thing. Skin shard drop rates are going to be increased though, not really sure how I feel about this.

Huh. We'll get a few skin shards from levelling in addition to the skin shards we already get from chests, right?

Guess I'll disenchant the couple skin shards I have that are for Aatrox and Yi.
 

Quonny

Member
for a second i forgot we were talking about riot

of course it's a confusing mess...

what do you mean

its super simple

you just need to read every blog release, every update, every reddit post, and scour the forum for riot tagged posts

then go to a forum and discuss it with 10+ people

and then at the end of that you kinda sorta have a grasp on the systems, but not really
 
Reading it now makes it seem confusing sure, but once you use it that'll change, like everything.

Essentially:

IP and blue essence are now one and the same, you can't reroll champ shards
Orange essence/skin shards are the same as now but you get less for disenchanting
You get rewards from levelling
Runes + masteries are combined and now free and editable in champ select

If you guys have questions btw let me know, I'll poke the right folks to get answers for you or I might already have them
 

Envelope

sealed with a kiss
Reading it now makes it seem confusing sure, but once you use it that'll change, like everything.

Essentially:

IP and blue essence are now one and the same, you can't reroll champ shards
Orange essence/skin shards are the same as now but you get less for disenchanting

You get rewards from levelling
Runes + masteries are combined and now free and editable in champ select

If you guys have questions btw let me know, I'll poke the right folks to get answers for you or I might already have them

it's already hard enough to get enough orange essence for any skin that's worth more than like 475rp and now it's gonna be even harder? Great.
 

knee

Member
Anyone want to trade for a Neo PAX Sivir code?

Unlocks skin and character. NA Server only, gotta use it before midnight.
 
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