Vermain fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Feb 20, 2018

• Zoe sent to Camille Prison until they figure out what the hell they want to do with her.
  
• Gnar and Gangplank both getting a non-insignificant amount of laning power chopped off of their kits.
  
• Kalista getting a whole bunch of her power shifted around. Arguably a more effective lane bully early, but holy hell is she short range now.
  
• Rengar getting partially reverted. His Q is back to its old incarnation. Ult's been changed so that he depends more on the other parts of his kits to score a one-hit instead of simply leaping out of stealth for a trillion damage on his own.
  
• Fairly significant Volibear buffs. His E now has a knockback, meaning that he has a pretty drat good method of interrupting dashes, and the buff to his W means you might actually start seeing him getting play in solo queue as a jungler.
  
• Stopwatch has a 10 minute arming time. Now sufficiently niche that you should only really take it if you think you have critical outplay potential in the midgame and are building Zhonya's relatively early. The fact that Inspiration no longer gets the passive +20% bonus to potion duration without taking a tier 3 rune is actually pretty significant, since you're losing a lot of lane sustain if you you opt for Cosmic Insight instead.
  
• Second Wind is now on the same tier as all of the Armor/MR runes, which is huge. Now you either take Second Wind to survive poke, or you take one of the Armor/MR options to survive burst, rather than having both at the same time. Should make every lane that abused this (especially top) a lot less safe.
  
• Shitload of AP item changes that were already discussed. Should be interesting to see how ends up benefiting most.
  
• Baron and Elder are now significantly more impactful in the lategame. Baron actually got a pretty solid buff in general with the increase to cannon creep damage and the fact that the casters can no longer get instantly nuked. Look for games to close a lot faster.
  

• Find the .rofl file and CTRL + C it.
  
• Look for the latest deploy folder (e.g.: C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\RADS\solutions\lol_game_client_sln\releases\[Version #]\deploy). Create a shortcut of the LoL application in that folder.
  
• Open up the shortcut's properties and paste the .rofl file at the end of the target name. Apply and OK.
  
• Launch via the shortcut.
  

• 4:02: You got a good wraparound gank on Brand beforehand that blew his Flash, which is good. This return gank, however, isn't a good gank. Corki has no real gank followup, especially pre-6, the wave's in a bad spot (still pretty large and pushing into Corki), you're a level behind Brand, and Brand is very close to his turret at nearly full HP. You and Corki simply cannot kill him at this point. All you'll end up doing is making him lose, like, 2 or 3 CS while he gets to chunk you for free and put you further behind Xin. You also should've considered Xin's likely path, since you had vision on him the previous gank. Given standard pathing, you can intuit that he went Blue -> Wolves -> Red, which meant that he almost assuredly would go Raptors -> Scuttle after. There's a small chance of him going Raptors -> Krugs, but it's highly unlikely. Therefore, you can guess that Xin is going to be waiting in topside river to come in and countergank if you try and swing around onto Brand. The better option here would've been to simply go Raptors -> Scuttle to match him and then either recall or look to burn a Flash botlane if they're playing too far up.
  
  
• 8:38: You double kill their botlane with your bot alive and healthy, the drake is Cloud, and you have Red. You should be spam pinging their bot turret and pushing the wave as fast as humanly possible, because you three can shove it in completely and take first turret 100%. You even had a cannon wave! If you get kills, your next immediate thought needs to be, "What's the highest value objective I can take?" You have to be decisive here, because the alternative is what happens: you waffle around river aimlessly, plant a ward, kill a Control Ward, and then Recall. You eventually take first tower, but it's off the back of a garbage dive that costs your support, midlaner, and toplaner their lives. Imagine what would've happened if you simply smashed that turret and told top and bot to swap. None of that mess would've happened.
  
  
• 16:33: Your Leona goes a little apeshit. This is one of those cases where you need to responsibly make your own decisions about what to do instead of following your dumb teammates in on everything. Neither you or Ez have ult, all three of them have their ults, and Leona whiffs her R bad. This is a failed engage. After Trist jumps away at half health, you should spam ping Leona back and focus on the turret. You should not commit here unless the enemy team decides to handshake it and tries to engage on your backline. Remember, your focus is the tower: you want to bust open midlane outer so that you can control upper jungle in preparation for an eventual Baron. You committing on them ends up baiting in the rest of your team to go all-in with Leona, which causes you to trade 1-for-1. In a situation where you're behind, trading 1-for-1 is almost always worth it, especially since it buys enough time for Brand to reinforce mid and prevent you from taking outer.
  
  
• 18:00: Not a good engage, but for a pretty subtle reason. Take a look at Corki's items: he's sitting on two Trinity components, a Hexdrinker, and nothing else. Not only is killing either Braum or Brand unlikely in this scenario, but you have no clue where Xin is. If Xin was coming back from base and hanging around Raptors, he could have easily looped down and probably picked one of you off. As it is, this play causes your team to instantly lose all pressure on mid. All of this meaningless fighting might not seem like a huge loss, but take a look at Xin: he's almost caught up to you in EXP, and it's only your massive killing spree that's keeping you ahead of him in gold. Every time the stronger team loses pressure, it's an opportunity for the weaker team to get back into the game.
  
  
• 20:30: Objectives are important, but it's equally important to understand when you should and should not cede them. Should you cede this Cloud Drake? Absolutely. You have the other two already, you're all super low compared to them, and Cloud's benefit to your team is miniscule at best. This costs you your Flash, which means that, at 21:51, you can't Flash -> Q away to disengage, which leads to you feeding a 450g killing spree to Tristana, the one champ that absolutely cannot get fed on their team.
  
• 22:47: Ping either Yasuo or Corki and tell them to catch this wave. Sejuani is not a carry champ that strongly benefits from items and, even after all that's happened in the past 5 minutes, you're still super far ahead of the rest of your team. Your carries need that gold to be able to do appreciable damage to their two tank frontline. Your entire jungle is up; get a ward on Baron and then clear your side front to back.
  
  
• 23:39: You should not be encouraging this dive. The reason you see people ARAMing a lot of the time in Bronze/Silver/Gold is because they have zero idea what to do come midgame, which leads to them just grouping up mid and trying to roll the dice to win. You have to be the voice of reason for your team and nudge them towards the correct plays. You should deward their jungle as best as you can, plant a ward at the bush up by the blast cone to the right, and then look at your options. You've got two waves building in top, which means that you can either ping your team off mid once mid is pushed up and have them rotate up to top (thus forcing the enemy to potentially walk right into you and Leona and get CC chained to death), or you ping your team off mid and ping for Baron. Your team is super strong right now in an even fight, as Ez has his his major spike (Tri + Muramana), Corki's hit one of his big spikes (Tri), Xin is building total garbage, and their Trist hasn't hit her three-item spike yet. You either hide in pixel brush and wait for them to facecheck, or you brute force Baron and peel off when they come to investigate. You have an active Warmog's, which gives you the ability to constantly force Baron over and over until someone goofs and you can make a pick. Instead, you encourage a dice roll fight where they go 5 for 3 and nearly even out the gold.
  
  
• 26:30: Mountain is mostly useless at this stage in the game, and your team has Baron buff ticking. You have a wave and a half mid with a cannon. You need to ping your team, escort the wave up with 5, and wait to see what they do. If they don't respond, you crush their inner and blow up their inhib turret before they can even get back to base. If they try to run up through mid to cut you off, you calmly direct your team to go through their topside jungle, leaving a trail of wards behind. You do the same thing up top, pushing it up to their turret, and then you rotate to mid and push it up, forcing them to either take a dangerous rotation through their jungle or arrive in time to see their inhib turret die. Ideally, you want to send one of your carries (preferably Corki, since he has an escape) to mid to escort the wave and start pushing it up so you can rotate more smoothly, but moving as a clump when you're this strong is fine in low MMR solo queue. This is probably the last chance your team has to take an even fight, since Trist is rapidly approaching 3 item territory and your Yasuo is useless. If you don't get inhib pressure to force uneven fights, the game's probably over.
  
  
• 28:00: You needed to play this slower. Look at top: you've got a nearly triple stacked wave pushing onto their inner, and while they do have minion pressure in bot, it isn't matching yours and Corki still has TP to save the inhib if he needs to. You need to sit mid, let the mid wave push up into their turret, and wait until the top wave reaches inner. You move your team up, you crack that turret, and then you try to crack their inhib turret with minion pressure. You stand in front to catch any engage and threaten with your ult, and you back off and ping your team away if the enemy team tries to engage on you. Let them waste their ults so that you can confidently move up to the turret with ult advantage and then crack it open. Instead, you choose to fight under turret with 75 Armor, get clobbered by tower shots, and bait your team into getting wiped and giving up all pressure. The game's effectively over after this, with some cleanup fights from 3+ item Trist but nothing much else to say.

Vermain fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Feb 21, 2018

Orv fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Feb 21, 2018