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Tanky kat is what voyboy was building for the longest time.
I had the same thing building 'Tanky Yorick' last night from a mid lane teemo. 'LOL yorick build no damage gg, builds frozen heart' - Yes my little yordle friend I build a frozen heart because their team has a Jax and a Vayne on it. This lovely little item when picked up with my maramune gives me plenty of damage to curb stomp Vayne as she trys tumble away from me.' I spent the entire team fight phase pushing their vayne and lux out. Every fight would go the same. THe fight would start, I would ult our AD carry and make it shoot whatever she was. I would then drop ghouls on Vayne and run directly at vayne and lux and hit them they would do their very best to kill me but fail because I am Yorick and I care not for your silly games. All the while Their Jax and Nasus and support would just get murdered by our super fed Ad Carry and Jungler.
Also when did frozen heart not become core against AD heavy teams on Yorick. Granted I love the 'Never Die, Kill All Yorick Build: Maramune, Iceborne, Spirit Visage, Warmogs, GA.' but I can't always build that especially against a team with Jax Vayne.
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I had a ranked game where my bot seemed to be winning on their own. So i would hang out Top or Mid, I think i had something like 4 successful top ganks and ~7 successful mid ganks (those numbers include counterganks). Then bot gets ganked once and starts to lose, and naturally "/all Noob jungle won't gank bot"
But one of my favorite things happened, the other team defended me before i could even bother to type /ignore. Got a 21 min surrender out of them.
Morale of the story, Sej is OP.
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At the end of the game he thanked us and said, he was on an 8 game ranked losing streak and stopped caring but realized he was caring too much and just needed to get out of his head to win.
edit: This was a ranked game as well.
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I basically only ever play ARAM any more.
That's what this whole game is about, right?
I guess some people just really have to win.
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I did this for around 2 weeks.
However after mulling it over I realized I had a lot to improve on mechanically. So I fired up a game of ranked I figure this is the best place to work on my skill because everyone is trying their best to win (in most cases). I make a plan for each game; This game I am going to get 75 CS by 10 min and harass the opposite lane. This game I am going to ward deep and apply lots of pressure top and time and call for dragons. I ended up meeting a person who is a really really good support and we've been duo queing for the past 3 days and we have about a 75% win rate. The only games we tend to lose are when one lane just feeds uncontrollably. Or in the case of my promotion series where some one doesn't connect. I have actually completely lost my ranked anxiety I am no longer stressed when the game loads in. I am not caring about the winning or ragey team mates I am just caring about improving and moving up and its working. I'll be back in my promotion series in 1 game.
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I've basically been doing this since ARAM started on PBE. I'm just now starting to get a little fed up with it and have been going back to SR to jungle. It's a great game mode for when you just aren't feeling super serious play. That's not to say that I haven't encountered douches and ragers in ARAM, because I have. But I just don't get the mindset of getting upset over a game where you have the potential to start with an inherent disadvantage due to dumb luck.
Her E isn't great for getting you out of trouble when the jungler is on you or you're against an assassin. It takes you far away and it goes over walls, but the claw is a little slow when you're under pressure and she's so squishy that if you wait for it to go to its max range you might be too low for the distance to matter
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Agreed that builds should reflect how the game is progressing, with an extreme emphasis for junglers. But it's nice to create a "jungler gank" list and a "jungler tank" list which just has all my priority items right there. Sunfire, Aegis, Bork, etc. I can see it giving more people 'tunnel vision' though when it comes to the characters they play.
I'm real big into WW right now so I created different rows within the item set. Behind, Ahead, vs AD, vs AP, Basic....etc
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Although isn't that really true about SR as well? You might have some real terribad player or an AFK on your team - just due to dumb luck. It's just that you're less likely to know that until you're well-invested into the current game that makes it so rage-inducing, I guess.
Standard AD carry stuff really. I pretty much always start Doran's blade on ADC now just because it almost guarantees you win an early all in if the other guy doesn't start with one. Then my hope is to get a BF sword on first back, but if not, either a vamp scepter(if i'm going BT first), or a pickaxe(if I'm going IE first). Generally I like BT on her, because I'll finish it faster and have more lifesteal. Since you get lifesteal off the harrier damage, lifesteal is pretty awesome so often I go BT. Then I'm usually getting a Statikk Shiv to improve her wave clear and get some crit. PD is fine too, but I like Shiv on anybody who doesn't wave clear with abilities, which she really doesn't. Can't get a whole wave with Q.
Typical build would be BT->Shiv->IE->LW(Swap order of these two if they're building armor early), with boots in there whenever.
Nidalee is just completely broken on ARAM.
I have been doing this pretty much as well. The balance of the games overall is way tighter and I have had very few games where we just got blown out and a number of games where pretty much every tower on the map is down and it comes down to a few good plays on if you win or lose. Once in a while you get some crazy comp to go against that is tough to beat but overall it is pretty reasonable.
People are dumb. Like you said, you built Frozen Heart because you're the top laner and it's your job to be meaty if the rest of your team isn't and even though the FH aura isn't obvious, it might've won you a close team fight against Jax/Vayne. Just like they were dumb to question me building tanky Kat. Had I built a glass cannon Kat build, just going in to karthus defile range and then his post death ult would've been a huge part of my health. Instead I was able to get in there and scrap, and then clean up the fights when the enemies started to get low.
I had an ARAM the other night with me (Amumu[first time Mummy]), Shaco, Ashe, Teemo, and Tristana. The Shaco never stayed around long enough to play for a continuous minute; either disconnecting or just afking. Our first team fight, we got aced and the Teemo started talking about how we should just roll over and get it over with quicker. Ashe just said let our tank get tanky. And I did. We stormed down the bridge after being down to 1 nexus tower and won in 2 spawn cycles.
I also had my best SR game ever last night. Champion select looked like it was going to be a bad one. Someone called jungle, which at level 13, I have never had a good experience with a teammate jungling. I said top after locking in Garen, but Teemo had already called it. So as I was being told only ONE TOP, I said I'd just go bot and its no big deal. Well the game starts; Sona and Teemo go top, Rumble goes mid, Rengar(I think that's the cat man with the eye-patch) heads off into the jungle, and I ask him if he needs a leash before I head to the bottom. Rumble and I hard leash the wraiths and the red buff, and I B to get topped off before I head to the lane.
Well, my lane match up was Teemo and Ashe. And I figure I'm in for a long laning phase. But I was going to make it my business to harass them as best as I could, while keeping the turret alive. I pinged for our jungler, and after bating them back to the tower by Q-ing early, he showed up from the tri-bush and we cleared them both. By 6 minutes into the game, the Ashe afked or quit. By 15 minutes they surrendered down 2 towers. It was the first game I played with pubs that felt amazing. Communication, teamwork, and I felt like I improved my understanding of harass and how to survive the laning phase.
I don't think I've mastered Garen, but I'm pretty happy with how I play him now. I think I'm ready to add another champion to that level of understanding; any suggestions for a natural progression from Garen to _____?
To Weird Al a lyric from Alanis Morissette....."it's like Sionnnnnnnn in an ARAM match, when you're outta rerolls..."
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* I'm a geezer for a gamer (pushing 30), and my reflexes aren't great anymore.
* I tend to get nervous when playing and make mistakes based on that.
* My mind for the game is sharper than my ability to actually play it, which leads to frustration.
* I really like the variety of the champs, so I bounce from champion to champion a lot and have very few truly mastered.
* When I jungle, which I try to do most games, I feel like I can never get my team to play the objectives.
Sometimes I don't know if I want to improve, because when I play with friends I have a blast even if I lose. But friends aren't always around, and I want to just feel like I'm improving as a player. I play about 2.5 hours a night, sometimes additional time on weekends. Recently my mindset has been, "I'll play an ARAM to warm up." If I lose, I'll play another to try and get my quick first win bonus. Then maybe I'll play a SR game, not play super great, and might just quit for the night or go back to ARAM.
Not asking for tips or anything, I think I just I needed to say that.
He's spent the last 10 minutes calling me out on the stream and saying how I don't understand because I'm not on his level, lol. I really wish somebody I actually like would start streaming, because the only reason I watch his is because I'm somehow amused by his insane narcissism.
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If you just play to have fun, that's all that matters. If your fun is focusing on a few champs or a certain role, and improving with it to rise up the ranks, that's awesome. If your fun is owning every champ and playing each one once every couple months, that's awesome too.
Also, if we're ever actually playing the same time I'm definitely down to duo in some ranked for fun. I know we PMed about it before and you're on my friends list, but I think we're usually playing at different times, and like I said, I'm not playing much lately because my wife is very pregnant and I'm spending a lot of evening time making sure she's comfortable.
None of those people are streaming right now or I'd definitely be watching them, heh. Voyboy is my favorite streamer by far for mechanics and knowledge, though QTpie is probably my favorite for sheer entertainment value.
If you're a geezer, i'm 1 foot into the grave. 32 and still going strong. You want someone that isn't about mechanical skill and more about decision making? You have a good mind for the game you say? You say you like jungling? My friend let me introduce you to a little used champ named WARWICK. Here are some reasons why:
-Easy sustain jungler, don't need a lot of runes to do a clear (but a bit slower)
-No skillshots, all single target selections
-'W' may be greatest group fight buff in the game....if you have some ad's
It's all about decision making and playing the map. Reacting to what surely will be counter jungling and knowing when to and definitely when NOT to gank.
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Also global, map wide strategy such as when to group, when to try to gank, when to play passive vs. aggressive, etc.
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Josh, I'd love to play with you, but my schedule is pretty rigid and I'm limited to playing mostly weeknights between 9 and midnight.
It's more about continually playing until you see situations develop so fast that you know how to react to them. It's just like fighting games or Starcraft. Sure you need that physical ability to play but a lot of it is in the mental development from 'what the fuck is this' to 'I've seen this before'.
I think it's why people can main lanes so well yet playing a character they already know in an off lane can be a struggle, because you're not used to the situations of that lane.
I can't think of a single support that fulfills this list
Nautilus and Shen support, I guess, but even with that Shen has his taunt and Naut has his grab
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I like to think his stats page collects dust for all eternity.
However, it does not help me with map awareness and I noticed during my rank games that I don't look at mini map as often as I used to.
I do love ARAM! It offers just straight up pvp aspect.
Its not a game of reactions it is a game of frame rate. 40 normally, not even that old a laptop with a dedicated videocard in it, an 8600 I think and the settings all the way down. Still frame rate can drop to 5 in a team fight. At that low you hit abilities and they just don't go.
GG game. Meanwhile WoW maintains ahigh fframe rate.
That's weird. I have friends who don't have great PC's and they can run it effortlessly. I'm no PC expert but you might want to look into possible issues there because League isn't hardware demanding at all.
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In League, I've been doing something similar. If I'm jungling, when I gank I decide ahead of time whether or not we'll be able to tower dive or fight off a counter-gank. If we're doing the dragon dance, I decide who needs to be zoned out of the fight, who can be ignored, etc. If I'm initiating, I know who my target is, and what the other team could do to get in my way. This frees up my brain to do more important things, like mash all the keys at once.
I typed up a long parody of this post about Rugby and how playing Rugby for 12 years actually built a mentality that is toxic and has taken me many years to break that cycle and enjoy competitive games for fun. In fact Tuesday was the first day where I was actually able to play a ranked game with out freaking out at the start. I can talk at length about how you should enjoy the game and bla bla bla, but I have struggled with anger issues and putting things into practice was much harder for me then I ever thought it would be. To the extent that I have had to take breaks from League because I have become an Grade-A Goose and a toxic player. It feels weird to want to go home and play ranked because I am enjoying the improvement. I am hoping this is a lasting mental state and I don't slip back into old habits.
I will say that the improvement skills I picked up while training for Rugby have helped A LOT. But outside of that everything about rugby is aggression under a set of rules.
Side note: But in the end I didn't post the parody post I originally had created because it came across as goosey and obnoxious
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the worst lol games are ARAMs.
THE STAKES ARE MY E-PEEN WHICH MEANS THEY ARE AS HIGH AS STAKES CAN POSSIBLY GET.