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haha there are LoL matches at SXSW?
Wolf Akela
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WW mad about losing what could have been a 4v5 domination, lol.
Dunking never ever gets old. I always love it when I'm trying to split push and lay down a lot of wards in the jungle so I'll know they're coming.
Dunking never ever gets old. I always love it when I'm trying to split push and lay down a lot of wards in the jungle so I'll know they're coming.
Pantsless in the jungle!
Overall in ranked I'm only 5/5 (possibly all jungle) with Pantheon, and I didn't do well early on, but these are my most recent games. Granted in those games I actually got GOOD teammates at a low ELO, but I do feel like I am getting a feel for him a little better. Basically I try to get buffs, occasionally get jungle camps, and just try to gank lanes a lot. If a team was really good and avoided the ganks, it might not work out.
I went 1/6/0 as Riven tonight. I was 1/2/0, outfarming Caitlyn top lane, and doing fine in that regard (one death as a trade, one death as an exchange), but the problem was that I was getting ganked and then I kept dying horribly in team fights.
We just had two teams that were super good at warding and coordinating. For reference as to how bad the luck seems to be, in my last 60 Riven games, apparently I only had 5 other games with more deaths than kills, and none of those were as bad as the one I just lost.
We just had two teams that were super good at warding and coordinating. For reference as to how bad the luck seems to be, in my last 60 Riven games, apparently I only had 5 other games with more deaths than kills, and none of those were as bad as the one I just lost.
les papillons sexuels
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I just teamed up with a jarvan on a fiora with a bunch of tiamats, was a lot of fun.
Wolf Akela
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Will GAF ever be interested in a dunk team?
We all play like we're drunk, does that count?Will GAF ever be interested in a dunk team?
Will GAF ever be interested in a dunk team?
I despise smurfs so no.
Wolf Akela
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Like I'd have a choice when I've played plenty in one region and want to migrate to another. >_>
wonderdung
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I had a terrible game, I'm just wondering if anyone has advice about how I could have dealt with the situation and the other players better.
I'm laning Twitch with Lux against Twitch/Sona. We die a few times to stealthed Twitch. Lux is CSing here and there and I ask her to stop. I want the lane frozen outside our tower because of the threat of ganks by fed Twitch. Lux drops a pink ward in the middle and pushes the lane.
We're both at 4 or 5 deaths when they take our tower. I'd say I'm about 20 cs behind their Twitch and closer to 40 behind the other lanes, so I'm feeling out of the game. With our tower down I start trying to take CS off jungle creeps and backed up lanes to catch up.
But now every time a lane backs up, Lux goes over and clears it. Or I get to the lane just after the jungler and he clears it. So I'm spending most of my time scraping for CS from the jungle which is pretty bare. Because I'm doing this I get caught out by the enemy team who has pushed down most of our outer towers at this point and die to ganks a number of times.
I ask my team to let me clear lanes to help catch me back up but between others clearing lanes and dying to ganks I only get 40 or so CS for the entire rest of the game. Lux ends with 104 CS to my 109. I end 3/14/5. Obviously we lose.
So first off, I don't want to blame my teammates for this loss. I think Lux should have not pushed my lane, not taken CS, and not cleared backed up farm. But obviously if I'm 0/4 in lane and losing my tower early it's no one's fault but my own. I want to know... how do I adapt to Lux's play both during and after laning phase? I felt like (and still feel like) the only thing I could do is try to farm the jungle to catch up, but as doing this got me ganked a number of times I obviously did something wrong.
So... how do you adapt to a support who doesn't honor your lane control? And second, how do you catch up if you're behind and teammates take all of the farm? Is the answer just to ward the jungle better and farm there? Is the answer not to ever play Twitch?
I'm laning Twitch with Lux against Twitch/Sona. We die a few times to stealthed Twitch. Lux is CSing here and there and I ask her to stop. I want the lane frozen outside our tower because of the threat of ganks by fed Twitch. Lux drops a pink ward in the middle and pushes the lane.
We're both at 4 or 5 deaths when they take our tower. I'd say I'm about 20 cs behind their Twitch and closer to 40 behind the other lanes, so I'm feeling out of the game. With our tower down I start trying to take CS off jungle creeps and backed up lanes to catch up.
But now every time a lane backs up, Lux goes over and clears it. Or I get to the lane just after the jungler and he clears it. So I'm spending most of my time scraping for CS from the jungle which is pretty bare. Because I'm doing this I get caught out by the enemy team who has pushed down most of our outer towers at this point and die to ganks a number of times.
I ask my team to let me clear lanes to help catch me back up but between others clearing lanes and dying to ganks I only get 40 or so CS for the entire rest of the game. Lux ends with 104 CS to my 109. I end 3/14/5. Obviously we lose.
So first off, I don't want to blame my teammates for this loss. I think Lux should have not pushed my lane, not taken CS, and not cleared backed up farm. But obviously if I'm 0/4 in lane and losing my tower early it's no one's fault but my own. I want to know... how do I adapt to Lux's play both during and after laning phase? I felt like (and still feel like) the only thing I could do is try to farm the jungle to catch up, but as doing this got me ganked a number of times I obviously did something wrong.
So... how do you adapt to a support who doesn't honor your lane control? And second, how do you catch up if you're behind and teammates take all of the farm? Is the answer just to ward the jungle better and farm there? Is the answer not to ever play Twitch?
Jazzy Network
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Rumble says sup?
So does Poppy
Well, Twitch is kinda in a bad spot (although I here he's a top ban in Asia, so maybe we just don't know how to play him). But in this case, I would have just picked up some GP5 items and then roamed to other lanes with the jungler for 3-man ganks.
No matter who you are, coming back from going 0/4 is going to be tough.
M5 was just masterful to watch in the first game of the finals. That roam gank was some scary stuff.
My elo took a huge dive.
I want to climb the ELO ladder again but I feel like i'm too bad to play ranked anymore since I can't play everyday. Last hitting seemed really hard to me after only 3 days of not playing
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thestopsign
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Yea, this is really your best bet here. Lux is one of the few champions in the game that can farm with relative safety from a distance. Roaming would help your other lanes win and hopefully stop your lane from pushing off of the tower much. It also halves the number of deaths that bot lane is going to give up.
Edit: If this is with another champion it might be harder to do since Twitch is a great roamer, but anyone with a gap closer, ranged attack, or stun of some sort can roam to a certain extent.
I want to climb the ELO ladder again but I feel like i'm too bad to play ranked anymore since I can't play everyday. Last hitting seemed really hard to me after only 3 days of not playing
Exact same way for me. Been playing SFxTekken these past few days so my last hitting and overall skills just dropped when I tried playing last night again. D:
I dominated a rumble top funnily enough. Broke even with poppy.
XeroSauce
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Surprisingly...I don't find it troubling to find Rumbles anymore. Maybe they are just cocky, maybe iI'm facing back Rumbles, but it seems that I've never lost a lane top against Rumble in the past few months, in the rare case that I see a Rumble.
wonderdung
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Hmm, good idea. It would have been tough on anyone else but Twitch for sure, but that definitely would have been doable. I definitely should have picked up GP5 but I get into the mindset that I have to rush my standard AD carry build to be effective.
thestopsign
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If the Rumble is smart he can hit you with his flamethrower while farming then if you start trying to move in on him, he can kite you with his E then runaway with his W. A Rumble shouldn't really be losing a top lane unless there are constant ganks against him or if he is against a ranged champ like Teemo and Nidalee.
les papillons sexuels
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no one should be able to kite fiora, q in then q back out.
Will GAF ever be interested in a dunk team?
I want to experience 500 elo but I don't want to level another account up
Inskipp
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Gets boring very fast.I want to experience 500 elo but I don't want to level another account up
But then again I personally prefer playing on equal ground.
It was my curse for joining your team.
Thankfully we won that game. Olaf did indeed seem like he would dominate Riven top, but thankfully I discovered the secret to beating Olaf -- as long as he disconnects for 5-10 minutes and lets you get 3 levels ahead, it's not AS bad. Riven forever!
Also Olaf's lightning bolt is so weird, it felt like I got hit by it WHILE Olaf was stunned.
Maybe you didn't stun him? Ragnarok and stuff.
Who are you jungling as lately? I've been testing Mundo out and even when I do kind of bad things go surprisingly well.
It's fiora's first free week, which mean it's Yorick week for me.
So much QQ about her on the forums, I'm scared she'll be nerfed
Just bought Yorick yesterday on sale. Totally bossing Fiora around. I'm currently 6-0 although I'm not sure if it counts for anything during free weeks.
Six Tiamats.
Five Tiamats and boots.
Wriggle's, Bloodthirster, mercs and 3 situational items. I built her as a bruiser last time with Frozen Mallet but you can also opt for more damage and a Last Whisper.
XeroSauce
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The difference being that while you shouldn't always get Wriggles with Riven because Brutilizer + BF are so much more offensive, you should try to get it on Fiora because it helps her SO MUCH in lane and she doesn't scale as hard off AD like Riven does.
But yes, other then that, Bloodthirster, LW, Mercs, Infinity Edge maybe. Then go for situational items like Atmogs or Frozen Mallet.
I really wish there was a MR/AD equal to Atmas's. Hexdrinker just does not cut it.
Still working on my Lee Sin because I'm inconsistent with that Q and I'm still learning how to optimize his ult. Had a nice kill the other day where I had Sona down very low when her tank comes outta nowhere and is about to interrupt the kill. As she's fleeing, I line up the tank and ult him to knock him into her for the kill. I was like "UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
I've actually seen a lot of jungle Fioras do really well. The speed up is something else.
For top lane:
Summoners- Flash/Ignite.
Skill Order- W->Q->E R>Q>E>W
Runes: AD quints, ARpen reds, MR scaling blues, flat armor yellows
Masteries: Usual AD stuff. Get 9 in defensive, get the health boost.
Items: (don't get latern when top laning with her, just buy wards)
-Start with boots/pots.
-When you go back snag a doran (or two if you can afford).
-Boots into merc treads or ninja tabi mattering on your toplane matchup (and overall opponent composition). Though you wanna dominate top, so think about counterign who you're up against.
-Brutalizer
-Vamp Scepter.
-BF sword->IE
From here you need to prioritize these 3 items:
-Finishing Bloodthirster
-Last Whisper
-Guardian Angel.
If you're dominating a bloodthirster is a good pick. If they're stacking armor get your whisper. Getting guardian first of these might not be a good pick, but you never know.
After those sell your brutalizer and get a situational item.
For Jungle:
Pretty much the same thing, except get a wriggles first instead of dorans.
Your laning should go like this:
Play passive until lvl 3. You can't do anything until you got all 3 of those. At this point try to get them to push the lane. Fiora last hits under tower very very well due to her W's AD, plus any doran blades you picked up. If your opponent is even the least bit squishy or not a hard counter (panth, olaf, irelia), you wanna start to harass. Stay behind your creep wave and try to bait them to use their skills (riven using her dash, or gp his parley whatever) so when you do harass you don't get traded as hard. Activate your E, use your Q to dash in on them and start autoing them, hit W if they go to auto attack. If they run chase with your remaining Q. After your E's attack speed has worn off, run away. The movement bonus you get from it should let you get away safely. At lvl 6 you wanna try and secure a kill with your ult. Hopefully you've gotton them low from your harass at this point, go in for one final harass+ult.
As for her ult, NEVER NEVER NEVER lead the fight with it. Always use it to finish an enemy off, tower dive them, or to heal yourself up/Avoid Damage.
If you manage to get a kill early game, you're going to snowball hard. If you get first blood you've pretty much secured the lane unless they start hard countering.
Helpful hints.
-Exhaust is your enemy. Never use your ult if you've been exhausted.
-Ninja tabi is your enemy. An opponent with ninja tabi is a big big big reduction to your damage.
-Any character with blocking abilities (fiora, panth, jax). They can block the first (and biggest damaging hit) of your ult. Try to use your ult when they're unable to block it (their ability on cooldown).
-Pick your fights carefully. In team fights always hang back far away from the action. Your Q can get you into the fight very quick, but you don't wanna be near the fight during the first initiation. Let people trade a few blows then go in.
I know Wickd has dedicated rune pages for when he's facing an AP champion top. With Merc/Hexdrinker early on you can take a lot of harass in lane.
http://www.lolking.net/summoner/euw/71500#runes
Brilliant site btw. Whenever someone is streaming it also shows their current rune/mastery setup.
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