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League of Legends |OT13| Diamond is Unreachable
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VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
They will if you're playing Braum based on my own experience.
You just need to make yourself known by walking into other lanes and killing people after you/if you crush your lane early.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
It happens to the best of us. Good like Sanjuro, I believe in you!
https://plays.tv/video/59d31fa6a8ad81a757/shen-e
it's nothing too impressive but i made myself shout when guessed correctly
it's nothing too impressive but i made myself shout when guessed correctly
Wolf Akela
Member
Absolutely. I've solo'd from Gold to Diamond in a previous season with 75% win rate playing only supports, and not even the typical carry supports. My losses were mostly when I got relegated to top, since I'm absolutely terrible at it. My best scenario was that I just conclude laning with a draw.
I haven't played ranked since then though.
Only thing that coulda make it better would be some korean casters going crazy in the background.
So I assume you like new Shen now?
he's only one of the best supports in the game right now
Sorry man. Good luck finding something else.
He could do well with any compo and enemy compo or there are games where its better to not pick him?
Hydrophobic
Member
I think he probably does well with most comps? To play him well you just need to be smart about when you choose to engage. Also, did you know that if you use your ultimate and then W, you can charm people to keep them from getting away from your knock up? That's a really good engage tool.
Quit it lol
Thanks a lot, this evening I will try it
Hydrophobic
Member
The hit box for his ult used to be a bit bigger, so sometimes you won't charm all the people you want to hit, but this is still one of the best ways to use his ultimate.
You can carry as support brand up to mid gold. Then support zilean up to plat.
Soulblighterr
Neo Member
Neko, do you play Irelia at all now? I wanted some tips on items.
I have less than 150 games on her this season but a 64% winrate on my diamond account with irelia with 108 games played as her. She's trash but if you're a decent one trick you can still carry with her. It's just really hard to do that right now for me because I'm not good with her anymore
Triforce first
Spectres cowl if they have more than 2ap, or their ap is super fed. Bramble vest vs any ad with built in sustain (buying and sitting on just bramble might not be good anymore after nerfs however). ninja tabi if ad top and Jung, mercs if their cc is high (more than 2 sources of reliable cc. Reliable = point and click)
Sit on whatever you choose between cowl/bramble and go Titanic next, building tiamat first. I've gone through periods of thing with deaths dance, ghost blade, blood thirster, wits end, and Titanic as second damage item and they all suck except Titanic. It's legit the strongest second damage item on her for eliminating squishy champions. It also allows you to shove lane super fast and leave. It's really hard to win just split pushing with her so splitting and ganking mid and their jungler and grouping early to accelerate the game is mandatory right now. Always be doing something.
After Titanic I complete my tank items and maybe buy more damage as last item, I rarely have games go that long these days.
Just play kled instead. He's the superior bruiser.
Edit: never under estimate ninja tabi.b if you rush it vs ad top and Jung, they can rarely ever kill you and your base damages are still high enough to murder most enemy laners even without triforce components in lane phase
Triforce first
Spectres cowl if they have more than 2ap, or their ap is super fed. Bramble vest vs any ad with built in sustain (buying and sitting on just bramble might not be good anymore after nerfs however). ninja tabi if ad top and Jung, mercs if their cc is high (more than 2 sources of reliable cc. Reliable = point and click)
Sit on whatever you choose between cowl/bramble and go Titanic next, building tiamat first. I've gone through periods of thing with deaths dance, ghost blade, blood thirster, wits end, and Titanic as second damage item and they all suck except Titanic. It's legit the strongest second damage item on her for eliminating squishy champions. It also allows you to shove lane super fast and leave. It's really hard to win just split pushing with her so splitting and ganking mid and their jungler and grouping early to accelerate the game is mandatory right now. Always be doing something.
After Titanic I complete my tank items and maybe buy more damage as last item, I rarely have games go that long these days.
Just play kled instead. He's the superior bruiser.
Edit: never under estimate ninja tabi.b if you rush it vs ad top and Jung, they can rarely ever kill you and your base damages are still high enough to murder most enemy laners even without triforce components in lane phase
lots of concept art and zeronis goodies and words i guess about the star guardian designs
also i really love that annie splash and icon
these skin icons have been really good lately, i really hope riot lets you have a proper icon gallery at some point
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I dislike new shen.
Give me vorpal blade throwing shen back.
Give me vorpal blade throwing shen back.
I used to think that, but then I realized I simply wasn't doing enough. I'm still a lowly bronzie at best, but I've done some cool plays that have saved teamfights. Heck, playing Lulu a couple days ago after not having touched her almost since the season started showed me just how much better I had gotten at playing the game since then. I was finally able to feel like I was really saving people rather than randomly mashing skills and hoping they'd survive, and that felt great.
The biggest change IMO has been that I'm finally beginning to grasp just what's going on during a teamfight, mostly keeping track of who's doing what, and using that to decide which teammates to protect or enemies to disrupt (ie: no more wasting Whimsy on Malphite after it's already put all its skills on cooldown). It feels pretty good even when I haven't even gotten to the point that I'm able to guesstimate cooldowns to make my skill use even more optimal.
Magic floating sword Shen is a little dumb but not as dumb as literally hucking katanas at people Shen.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I think she's slated for a rework in a while. Until then I guess she will stay kinda weak until Bramblevest is gone.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Hows Yorick feeling right now? I really want to play him but well
He ain't no Nasus. I should actually get through my provisional matches..
He ain't no Nasus. I should actually get through my provisional matches..
Soulblighterr
Neo Member
Thanks! Is BotRk good as a second dmg item anymore on her?
Hydrophobic
Member
If you get Yorick and manage to be on the team opposite Dob you'll get fed given his luck :^) (even if he isn't top). I don't see a ton of Yorick in my games, but you could make him work in soloq just fine I think. I can't tell you from personal experience, I would just say that I don't think he's bad. Maybe he isn't good? But not bad.
This'll probably be the biggest improvement to your teamfighting in general. Once you start to imagine fights like who is going to use their CC/Ults and on what targets you can try to anticipate it. If I'm playing Lulu against a Zed I try to keep polymorph for when he inevitably ults someone because if you can prevent him from doing damage after his ult is applied then you kind of fuck what he wants to do.
Yorick is entirely dependent on the same strengths as Illaoi and Kayle. They need to win their lane. And they need to splitpush like a mofo cuz that's one of their strengths. They can easily win 2v1.
they're buffing a ton of bonus ad scaling abilities to compensate for removing runes, it's not an irelia thing
SenorArdilla
Member
There's no more free penetration though.
Stone Ocean
Member
Neither is there free AR and MR so it evens out
I'll never understand people blaming alcohol for acting like an asshole.
Alcohol doesn't change your personality like that. It removes inhibitions. If you're an asshole, you got that before you drank the whiskey.
Kayle doesn't need to win her lane lol. She has a terrible early game with the only strength being ranged auto attacks. Even her best matchups are difficult to lane against.
Are you saying she can't win her lane or she doesn't need to win her lane to win the game? I mean... even if you lose the lane, you can win but it'll take a while and the numbers are not in your favor. I'm just saying that most of the time she needs to win lane in order to come out on top and control the game from the presence she brings. Speeding up to get the rageblade helps immensely and the best way to do that is to win lane.
yeah, that last part rubbed me the wrong way too, but at this point the worst possible conclusion happened so it's pointless to hammer it further
all of this is a damn shame
SenorArdilla
Member
Is it better to just transform immediately for Kayn or just wait 3 minutes for the form you want?
Better to wait for Darkin.
SenorArdilla
Member
Live maintenance?
Without inhibitions society would be a pretty fucked up place.
She's been on the list for years now :/
Rarely if ever. Attack speed is not that great on her right now. That's why I rarely even run 28% attack speed anymore
They shaved like 5 seconds off of her Ult a couple patches ago as well. Really meaningless buffs when she still has no passive
riot likes to do a couple of harmless buffs before worlds to see if they can nudge some champions into seeing some fringe pro play. i don't think it was meant to meaningfully change her, irelia should be on the shortlist of champions getting a full vgu after all
maybe don't freak out over a middle of the cycle pbe patched not being perfectly balanced
i don't think ryze really needs another rework, i like this one