my pog boyfriend posted:

Okay, but I'm missing the part where flash existing is a problem.

Verviticus posted:

i really just want force staff if they're gonna add a blink

Angry Walrus posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdGvCuikMZQ

Dunkmaster Darius skin promo is out and it's pretty fantastic.

Brannock posted:

It's a little later in the morning than when I usually get my fwotd, and football is on, so I hopped into a co-op Dominion game for a very quick win. Eh, let's make it even faster and do a beginner difficulty game, surely I can finish that in 10 minutes?

We lost. I was the single person on my team who wasn't botting. Everyone else had names like "Natividad Ann" or "Juliet Irma" and moved in blatantly bot-like ways. And it turns out a 1v5 is impossible to win on Dominion, even against braindead AI opponents!

I play a co-op game every day to knock off fwotd at a reliably consistent time and over the past few months I've seen an enormous increase in the amount of bots I see in those games. Do they show up in sub-30 PVP matches? I'm pretty surprised Riot hasn't begun actively squashing them, or at least getting rid of the level 30 grind that gives people incentive to skip that grind by buying botted-up accounts.

Luna Was Here posted:

everybody was super nice too, we all had a laugh at the few funny things and complimented each other on really excellent plays, idk where everybody gets the horror stories of ranked from

BigLeafyTree posted:

Jesus, 52% win rate is the point where you want to nerf things? I wouldn't even blink unless something is below 45% or above 55%.

Killed By Death posted:

pre:

Level 0, without any per-level scaling:

Twitch:   0.679 (+3.38%)
Draven:   0.679 (+2.7%)
Quinn:    0.668 (+3.1%)
Varus:    0.658 (+3%)
Vayne:    0.658 (+4%)
Ashe:     0.658 (+4%)
Sivir:    0.658 (+1.6%)
MF:       0.656 (+3.01%)
Trist:    0.656 (+2.5%)

Level 18:

Ashe:    1.105
Vayne:   1.105
Twitch:  1.07
Cait:    1.05
Quinn:   1.021
Lucian:  0.996
Varus:   0.993
MF:      0.992

Lightning Knight posted:

Edit: I mean, dash in/stun/spin/dash out with zero effective reprisal is fun to play against and makes the lane an interesting and dynamic experience, Renekton clearly is a fun champion to have be a strong meta top lane pick.

Alris posted:

Can someone summarize Nemesis Draft for people who can't access the League site?

Lightning Knight posted:

Yes, it is possible to beat Renekton if he's a moron and dashes really deep into your minion line/too close to your tower or does execute his dash/stun combo properly/quickly enough (Shen and Irelia are both really good for this). Regardless I already said, I do not think Renekton is overpowered. I think that it's bad for the game for Renekton to be good because I think he's a stupid, boring champion design. Note all the people not playing Shyvana and Renekton anymore. They're still perfectly viable champions who can win lane and win games (although Shyvana got nerfed a lot more than Renekton and is a bit worse off), but people didn't play them because they're actually fun to play or interesting to play against, people picked them because their numbers were huge and you could knock people over the head with them. Now that they have lower numbers people don't bother, when even other champions who took nerfs still see play (Renekton actually has a higher win rate than Irelia, even though Irelia is the one that is being called sleeper OP by Challenger players). It's worse for the game when champions like Renekton are good and I don't think Riot should be pushing us back towards them as model top laners.

Marceline Abadeer posted:

He's prettier than I am. gently caress that guy.

The Shortest Path posted:

I just found out the hard way that it is currently impossible to run League of Legends on a computer with Windows XP because it requires a fully updated Internet Explorer. The client is made using pieces of internet explorer.

What in the actual gently caress Riot.

The Shortest Path posted:

Is there a single character in the game other than Ezreal that ever wants to buy Essence Reaver?

Mierenneuker posted:

mistaya posted:

One thing I think junglers don't appreciate is how much good just their presence (not even a failed gank, just SHOWING) can do for botlane. If your botlane is shoved under it's own tower and at risk of being dove and murdered go show botlane so they can push the wave out safely and back. If you show top when your botlane's in a shaky position they are going to get murdered 90% of the time and you're the one who gave the enemy the green light to do it.

quote:

I think junglers don't appreciate how much good just their presence can do for botlane.

The Crusher posted:

I've seen a lot of Amumus building Cinderhulk and Sunfire. Is it because they don't realize the unique passive or what?

Nietzschean posted:

Why is it a big deal that [insert position] uses an item originally intended for [other position]?

Servaetes posted:

She can buy mana regen items in lane to compensate for her ridiculously high cost spells so it's kinda unnecessary

AHH FUGH posted:

Jinx really needs that extra 25 health at level 1

Mikujin posted:

That being said, from the games I've played against Ekko's, he really seems like he needs to be set up in a low-pressure lane. Against anyone who wants to be fighting him and not just trade harass back and forth he just can't keep up.

Servaetes posted:

Maybe. I still kinda feel like the only conditions he might work is one where there's no possibility of a cinderhulk jungler on the opposing side and nothing too terribly tanky toplane either. Any warrior enchant junglers generally kinda suck poo poo or they buy cinderhulk instead.

Magres posted:

He's also not fun

Catching those stupid axes all game is extremely tedious

Magres posted:

So if Tahm eats Fiddle during ult, it's a Frogstorm

If Tahm eats a Fiddle who has Rylai's during ult, it's an IceFrogstorm

Tonetta posted:

forgot why i stopped playing this game but now i remember

fnox posted:

just btw the actual reason why they disabled Gangplank is due to a bug with Draven since Draven can attack the barrels yet not set them off

Taciturn Tactician posted:

Wtf is Riot doing with Darius? They made a change to his passive that makes him more dangerous as the fight goes on, fine. To complement that, they... nerfed his Q's close range damage and removed the attack speed slow on his W and MASSIVELY DESTROYED his attack speed, making him worse at extend fights than he was previously, and added a heal to his Q blade hit, making him better at poking than he was previously. What amazing synergy. How fantastic. I'm so glad that Riot decided that my favourite champion needed to be "improved". I haven't gotten to play with it, so maybe his increased attack range and betters slows means you can kite people into the blade edge with good movement, but mark me down as unoptimistic.

Riot posted:

Darius now enters Bloodrage for 5 seconds whenever an enemy champion reaches max Hemorrhage or dies to Noxian Guillotine. During Bloodrage, Darius gains 40-200 bonus Attack Damage and applies max Hemorrhage to enemies hit.

Endorph posted:

permaslowing the minions? my god, anivia would break the game.

Rurea posted:

It's a laser sword, it doesn't obey rules

Darth Windu posted:

Too bad panth doesn't really want aspd

A Saucy Bratwurst posted:

Devourer Yi seems very strong atm. Maybe I'm just the yi whisperer but its so drat easy to play him and just poop on nerds

Mikujin posted:

If my new latency norm stays stable at 120 ms I'm literally not going to bother learning to play with it. I mean, I can, but the delay is overwhelmingly apparent and leaves me little desire to actually play (case in point I AFKed out of my first game on it after about 10 minutes of frustration).

Going from bad to great is a much different experience from great to bad.

kingcobweb posted:

UPDATE

GOT poo poo ON

Transient People posted:

ex-250 ping regular reporting in, going down to 190 ping is nice but unnoticeable. At least the connection is stable again.