League of Legends - F2P MOBA (like DOTA) part 2

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Snock514

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Jul 20, 2009
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Omg... I'm at school for 2 more hours.. Just bought Gears of War 3.. So many options.. Must finish homework now!
 

randay

Lifer
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just played a game and our nexus was at 4 when we won. came back from like a 200 point deficit. so epic!
 

Chiropteran

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Dominion was fun, but not what I expected. Not sure how long the fun will last, I figure before long the truly broken comps will be discovered and perfected and every game will involve playing against a TF, Shen, Pantheon, Ashe, & Gangplank (or similar).
 

Firsttime

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Mar 31, 2005
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I played a game of Dominion today. It was ok. Good fun, relatively mindless. I can see it being pretty popular, but I doubt I'll play it very often.
 

Snock514

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OMGWTFBBQ I get home and it's down :(

Summoners!

Last week we announced that Dominion would be available for limited periods of time leading up to its official release as part of a limited beta test. Well, we’re pleased to announce that the limited beta is under way!

Over the coming days, we’ll be opening testing windows on our platforms during off-peak hours, each of which will be prefaced by a forum announcement to let you know you can and participate. And if you miss one of the testing windows, remember that there will be plenty more opportunities to help test Dominion as we speed toward launch!

We’re entering the home stretch, summoners! The dawn of League of Legends: Dominion is almost upon us!

Click here to comment!

Sadface...
 

Malak

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Dec 4, 2004
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Ok I will attempt to do a short strategy writeup. Seems like most didn't get the strategy of this type of game and I was able to dominate.

I started off my first game with Ashe thinking her ult was very relevant, and it was, but overall didn't like her for dominion. Chasing champs is simply not the point and there is only 2 lanes. So with that in mind I played the rest of my games as heimerdinger and won all of them, he simply dominates.

Usually the right strat was to send 4 top and 1 bot because the middle point was on top. Heimer made a great solo because the towers are weaker. I know that sounds strange but it makes people more willing to dive and because of that I survived a 4v1.

The goal is to hold 3 spots. Killing is not important at all, just defend a point. Any damage disrupts a capture, and captures disrupt the tower. Any bruiser champ will do well, and Rammus is fantastic here. All taunters will do good, saw a few galios. Glass cannons are less useful.

The longest any game will go is 30 minutes. Early game champs rule the field and you can win a game in 15 minutes. You start at lvl 3 with 1350 gold. I have been getting a prospector item and lvl1 boots and 2 health pots. You gain constant exp and gold so it goes fast, but there are fewer minions. You pretty much ignore minions entirely.
 

crownjules

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Jul 7, 2005
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I played a solo ranked game late last night. My team in pick order - Akali, Yorick, Cho (me), Teemo, Cass. In chat:

Me: Well, we're going to be pretty AP heavy if you go Cass.
Cass: Who's AP other than Akali.
Me: Teemo and I...
Cass: Teemo is AD noob and you're our tank.

:facepalm:
 

AyashiKaibutsu

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Jan 24, 2004
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So for some reason I have Kayle unlocked with the Judgement skin and I don't know why : (

edit: nm I looked it up apparently everyone got her pretty much.
 
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Chiropteran

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Nov 14, 2003
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Won an amazing game as fiddle on my smurf. I was playing with a friend who was brand new to the game, playing annie (he has like 3-4 wins I think), so I knew it was going to be a tough game.

34 to 53 kills, we were down bigtime, but they were basically all attack damage so I just build like a tank and stacked armor. Final build was rod of the ages, ninja tabi, sunfire cloak, deathcap, WotA, thornmail. They simply could neither kill me nor escape and live when I ulted into them, and after a couple aces we just pushed down the nexus. Didn't hurt that we also had a lux, lasering down the runners.

http://lolstatistics.com/player/na/24572239 <-Last game played.
 

nsafreak

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Oct 16, 2001
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Janna support.. Y U SO FUN?!

Ya know at 1350 IP I really should pick her up. I keep forgetting how annoying she can be until I lane against her. She's not going to get a ton of kills but a well played Janna will annoy the fuck out of a team.
 

Malak

Lifer
Dec 4, 2004
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Ya know at 1350 IP I really should pick her up. I keep forgetting how annoying she can be until I lane against her. She's not going to get a ton of kills but a well played Janna will annoy the fuck out of a team.

I think that is why support isn't played much, people like getting kills. I used to play Janna a lot, and I wonder if she would actually be good in Dominion...
 

Fenixgoon

Lifer
Jun 30, 2003
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I think that is why support isn't played much, people like getting kills. I used to play Janna a lot, and I wonder if she would actually be good in Dominion...

play karma then.

shield nuke + rylai's = :awe::awe::awe::awe:
 

crownjules

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Jul 7, 2005
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^ So you won that game, right?

Oh yeah, totally. :rolleyes:

In other news, I'm really pissed off with PC Gamer. I bought the digital sub because there was the big thread on the LoL forums about how the PCG editor had said you could and then email them with the receipt and get the Caitlyn code. Well they did an about face and started denying those people. So because I didn't want to waste $10 on a mag that might have had its code stolen (and because digital format eliminates clutter I don't want) I get screwed over.

I wrote them back a nice email after they turned me down. I don't know if it'll do any good.
 

HumblePie

Lifer
Oct 30, 2000
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Ok I will attempt to do a short strategy writeup. Seems like most didn't get the strategy of this type of game and I was able to dominate.

I started off my first game with Ashe thinking her ult was very relevant, and it was, but overall didn't like her for dominion. Chasing champs is simply not the point and there is only 2 lanes. So with that in mind I played the rest of my games as heimerdinger and won all of them, he simply dominates.

Usually the right strat was to send 4 top and 1 bot because the middle point was on top. Heimer made a great solo because the towers are weaker. I know that sounds strange but it makes people more willing to dive and because of that I survived a 4v1.

The goal is to hold 3 spots. Killing is not important at all, just defend a point. Any damage disrupts a capture, and captures disrupt the tower. Any bruiser champ will do well, and Rammus is fantastic here. All taunters will do good, saw a few galios. Glass cannons are less useful.

The longest any game will go is 30 minutes. Early game champs rule the field and you can win a game in 15 minutes. You start at lvl 3 with 1350 gold. I have been getting a prospector item and lvl1 boots and 2 health pots. You gain constant exp and gold so it goes fast, but there are fewer minions. You pretty much ignore minions entirely.


Pretty much what I thought it was going to be and which types of champs would dominate.

Self sustain, constant damage, and can take a beating champs are going to be the best. All gravy after that.
 

thujone

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Jun 15, 2003
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so... does anyone think xin is OP? i'm not saying this from a viewpoint of frustration... it's just i've noticed there's usually 1 on each team EVERY MATCH.


noticing that just makes me wonder.
 

Malak

Lifer
Dec 4, 2004
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so... does anyone think xin is OP? i'm not saying this from a viewpoint of frustration... it's just i've noticed there's usually 1 on each team EVERY MATCH.


noticing that just makes me wonder.

Well that is what happens when a champ is free. Xin is very solid and underused.
 

HumblePie

Lifer
Oct 30, 2000
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Well that is what happens when a champ is free. Xin is very solid and underused.

Xin is not OP. He is a damn good champ though. He has had nothing but nerfs when any of the patches touch him though. He's a solid and easy to use champ. Good at jungling, good a ganking, solid in a solo lane, and good at initiating team fights. He can be built for pure DPS (stupid in my opinion) or tanky dps (better). He works well with a straight up AD + Armor pen bruiser build. He works wonderfully well with an Attack Speed build though which is what I usually do.
 

sash1

Diamond Member
Jul 20, 2001
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so i played about 5 hours of dominion today with my friends (we usually had 4/5 so full team really). sooo much fun lol. think i've figured out quite a bit. we had two wins where we were down to 8 hp left and the enemy team had 100+ and we were able to win both. atmogs is OP in dominion. since there's passive ArPen and MPen, warmogs is the best way to tank. also, i'm convinced mantheon is OP in dominion. just mandrop all over the map.

mantheondominion.jpg


look all dem first carrying my team :p