3 of those 5 are newly released champs. Riot succeeded in getting the old champs nerfed out and the new crew in.
Crown that taric/lux combo was almost unfair... I've got to adjust to brand, he seems to have a built in bloodrazor (his passive) and it's melting my tanks way faster than I expect to die.
@Humble that's why ELO is stupid. You get a personal rating based on the abilities of 4 other people. No matter how good you do, you get tossed back to the slumps. Just like a horrible player can get high ELO because he teams with good players.
Played some fiddlesticks for the first time seriously. Seems pretty good once I can get past the fact that he is just terrible at pushing a lane and sustained dps. It's kinda nice how durable he can be in a fight though just via draining life.
Not sure I fully have the knack for using his ultimate correctly, had several countered by malphite ults, although I did turn a losing game around through an excellent ult at baron giving me a triple kill.
Been going magic pen boots, magic pen visage, magic pen abyssal scepter, and then into a rod of the ages and once a sunfire cape, just to add some needed durability and a little extra lane pushing aoe damage.
Fiddle is super easy to push a lane. His E skill tears it up. Drop it on 2 tower hugging champs and lol. Sunfire cape is stupid, it's all about the rabadon cap. When your AP is through the roof, you can drain life faster than they can hurt you anyway. Ult in, then pop silence, then pop drain. WIN.
Me and my brothers had an amazing weekend of LoL. My elder brother started to play Maokai and was absolutely dominating. Basically he plays him so well early game that he helps feed his lane mate, which is me or our youngest brother. The tower in that lane would be busted early and the ganking everywhere else would begin. Even when other lanes were feeding our opponents, we would easily pull it through. The best thing he could do on Maokai is tower dive somebody at least half HP(sometimes more) and with me on Brand, they would die so quickly he would only take about two tower hits. Also, Maokai's ability to harass people even at their own tower is awesome. You can play very aggressively and push the lane, and still keep them away from minions.
We were completely undefeated yesterday, and that was a very long day of LoL. We played over 10 games, and won them all!
Whats so good about maokai? People have told me hes just a meh tank with healing abilities, i am in ELO hell though where people have told me they are the walrus and they live in a hedge etc so i should probably give maokai a shot. I did find those saplings a pita to deal with when laning vs him.
Well I just played LoL for the very first time last night. I had installed it a while back but there were so many updates released since then that it didn't even work, had to download and reinstall from scratch.
But it was pretty fun! Played two games with some friends against easy bots. I sucked ass, got 1 kill in the first game and none in the second, and died a bunch. Also got a load of assists.
I was always intimidated by LoL because I played DotA a few times and couldn't figure it out. LoL is much more noob-friendly, if only because of the better interface. Especially for buying stuff. God, I remember spending ten minutes in DotA reading item descriptions and trying to figure out what I should buy, and having to go from vendor to vendor looking for specific items.
It's going to be bot matches for me for a while, but the fact that that's an option is pretty nice.
Oh yeah, and my friend who introduced me to the game just got a job at Riot Games! So he'll be getting paid to play the game.
I figured that is what the E was for, but it has a fairly long cooldown and doesn't seem to do much at low ranks. I was under the impression that maxing out W and putting points in Q for longer fear duration was most important, so I only put a single point in E until later levels. I could see a build that maxes E earlier as a fair lane pusher, but wouldn't that greatly limit your ganking potential? Without points in Q your fear doesn't last long at all, and with a low rank drain you don't do enough damage while waiting on E cooldown- at least that is what I was told.
Kabob & Luca, be sure to check the link in my sig for usernames of other AT folk who play.
Kabob & Luca, be sure to check the link in my sig for usernames of other AT folk who play.
If only the thread maker, Kbirger, was around and could just keep the OP updated with that kind of info. But he doesn't show as being active since 12/2/10 on the forums.
