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[Graven]

I feel really bad for the wolves, honestly. They still don't have a win, do they? Hopefully they manage to beat AAA later today.

That was a horrible play from them at that first 2v3 dive, though. Sorry, mates.

[Virex]

So, it turns out that using Barrier on Olaf is pretty awesome. I wonder if there are other champs that scale of missing HP that could use it, Karma perhaps?

Yep, Poppy and Karma.

Oh god. Poppy with a barrier would be extremely hard to kill, since she can have a 400 HP shield while her HP is only 200 or something if your reflexes are good.


On that note, wouldn't Karma or Lux be ideal supports for Poppy bot?

[Errol]

Karma's a quite great support for everything melee-y. Timing the E might prove tricky, though.

[frostshotgg]

Karma's a quite great support for everything.

ftfy

[Graven]

Wait a second. Two months ago there was no doubt at all Karma, on SR, is the undisputed worst champion ever. I'm not aware of any Karma buffs, in fact from what I know Riot are remaking her. What is this heretical talk?

Also Gambit picks Thresh and Big Dog, plays like shit for the first half hour, world ends for Giants past that half hour.

[Errol]

Karma's still pretty bad. But she's still at her best when supporting melee. She's got great tools for making favorable trades.

Also, Karma rework will probably take away half the things I love about her

[frostshotgg]

Karma's problem right now: She only effectively has 15 levels of skills. Her bases at level 6 are below many champion's skills at level 5. All she needs to be fixed is to get higher bases, and to have her current passive moved onto another skill and get a new passive like Xin did.
However, with that said, at level two, the damage she can pump out is absolutely godlike. Before level 6, Karma is one of the deadliest champions in the game, sorta like Isaac Newton in space.

[Virex]

In the end game, mid Karma can become pretty powerful as well, due to her ability to heal and shield for huge amounts (and blast the enemy team while doing so). Last game, my Q healed for 13% of the total missing health of all allies in the cone, which can easily add up to 400 HP per person, or more. Of course one has to actually get to the late game relatively fed, which can be hard at times.

[Graven]

I know Karma is a really nice pick for Dominion, but that has the benefit of manaregen aura and ambient gold gain. If her numbers get tweaked and her ult gets reworked, she'll be very strong, but right now? Naaah.

Also EG got STOMPED! WOOOO!

[Knirisk]

I know Karma is a really nice pick for Dominion, but that has the benefit of manaregen aura and ambient gold gain. If her numbers get tweaked and her ult gets reworked, she'll be very strong, but right now? Naaah.

Also EG got STOMPED! WOOOO!

I think the reason behind the Blitz top pick was actually as a sort of counter pick to Froggen's Anivia, and it seemed to work out great.

[frostshotgg]

Wait, what? They let froggen get anivia? And they expected to have a prayer of winning?

EDIT: And they did... That's kinda scary.

[Graven]

Froggen also got stomped. Apart from a really stupid first blood he didn't do anything worth notice. xPeke laned a lot better in general.

Completely unrelated but I not only hate the entire EG, I specifically hate Froggen, since it's his champion choices which allow the usual sixty days of boredom games EG always seems to get into.

[frostshotgg]

I have no issues with Froggen, strictly because he's such an amazing player, especially at skillshots. God forbid he ever pick up Nid. Tanky AP Nid could be an utter terror.

[Graven]

That's the thing, though - he's not. He's good, no doubt, and with Alex playing like a ten-thumbed cripple right now Froggen is better, but compared to someone like Toyz or Rapidstar he is not unlike a great silverback smashing his hairy ape-fists on the keyboard.

edit : Also I might as well use this post to say something that has made a great impression on me in the first three weeks of the LCS - wards. An overabundance of wards, which make ganks safe and games in general really passive. I believe xPeke said something similar when he was in the analyst desk? I really think it's a problem, especially with the amount of people who consider the LCS to be boring. Anyone else feel similarly?

[Jopax]

I've noticed the same thing, apart from a few games (like today's ones) it was very boring to watch this stuff, since after a certain period of passive play you have a few well executed clashes which then determine the winner, who will then play it safe and stretch the match for another 30 minutes of the most boring one sided play that offers no chances of comebacks and is interesting as bot matches are.

The most interesting match so far has been AAA vs CW and was mostly because both teams were ballsy and took risks because like the casters said they really didn't have much to lose, and it was damn fun to watch and rather uncertain at times.