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[Sharp]

Blitz hook and Thresh hook are like different playstyles, Thresh hook is like a ranged stun for 2 seconds if it lands, the person getting dragged doesn't move much, it's like a more versatile Leona sword thing because you have the option of getting right in there or just stunning the person from range. Thresh hook initiates a fight at the target location, blitz hook initiates fight at blitz's location so it's really good for those over the wall ganks while for Thresh it's more like a Leona style initiation that you need your adc/team to follow you and follow up the cc.

Thresh is still op with his dark passage lantern though

[baruk]

 The second semi-final is in a couple of hours, Royal Club vs  Fnatic. I predict another 3-2, however I'm less certain about who will win. The teams seem well-matched, but I'll plump for Fnatic.

[webadict]

Royal Club's got this. Here's to not jinxing it like the last two...

[Sharp]

Should be a very good match but I think Fnatic should be able to pull out the victory.

EDIT:

Wow, great games so far, I hope this continues.

[Flying Dice]

Oh man, haha, glad I stopped watching for a bit to play a match of my own. Just grabbed a Baron steal in a 1v5 as Sejuani jung by charge-smiting from the back of the pit, and I even managed to live through it. Our Akali went berserk and aced the whole enemy team practically solo about ten seconds later. xD

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Royal just took the fourth game. It's going to be SKT vs. Royal in the finals, then.

[webadict]

Dude... Spoilers... WTF?

[IronyOwl]

Speaking of which...

Spoiler: Royal vs Fnatic (click to show/hide)

Those games were amazing, but it did seem like Fnatic was outclassed and just had a shot at winning if they did everything perfectly.

Was still kind of obnoxious to hear the announcers keep talking about how Fnatic's about to lose and oh man Royal's got them even when they were ahead, though.

[Flying Dice]

Dude... Spoilers... WTF?

Sorry. :c

Speaking of which...

Spoiler: Royal vs Fnatic (click to show/hide)

Those games were amazing, but it did seem like Fnatic was outclassed and just had a shot at winning if they did everything perfectly.

Was still kind of obnoxious to hear the announcers keep talking about how Fnatic's about to lose and oh man Royal's got them even when they were ahead, though.

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I know, right? They wouldn't shut up and call the game, but just kept going on and on about it. I also notice that their "analysis" of team strengths seems to consist almost entirely of "Team X is really good at putting plays together". It's like if the announcer crew for a basketball game talked about every player's strength being that they are "really good at doing their job on the court". -_-

[Sharp]

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I think xPeke and Yellowstar let down the team. Cyanide played awesome throughout the series, Soaz had a bit of trouble at the start but got better in later games. xPeke did some nice plays at times but he seemed to get baited a lot and Yellowstar set up good early ganks but in late game they seemed mistimed and misplaced. I think Doublelift called it correctly after game 1 that vs Gambit xPeke's Fizz got a really nice move vs Alex's Orianna but you can't expect that to happen all game, he seemed to forget that Alex actually dominated that lane at the start, Whitez just dominated much more.

I was really impressed with Cyanide though, he made great plays, it was disappointing he couldn't get his traditional baron and dragon steals but those are always tricky, that being said his last one was pretty poor as Lucky was already dead so should have been an easy smite, Royal did good to focus him down before finishing baron but Cyanide should have still been able to get a hit off and smite it.

Overall as teams Royal always went for objectives while Fnatic never seemed able to because the lanes were always pushed against them, Fnatic spent so much time making plays that they never really got any good sieges going, the whole protecting Uzi paid off big time for Royal, hopefully Peke will realise that first-picking mid is still not a great idea.

[Jopax]

So there's a high chance that Jinx is Vi's sister, and possibly former gang member.

This makes me want her even more

Edit:

Also:

Spoiler: KITTY! (click to show/hide)

[IronyOwl]

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I think xPeke and Yellowstar let down the team. Cyanide played awesome throughout the series, Soaz had a bit of trouble at the start but got better in later games. xPeke did some nice plays at times but he seemed to get baited a lot and Yellowstar set up good early ganks but in late game they seemed mistimed and misplaced. I think Doublelift called it correctly after game 1 that vs Gambit xPeke's Fizz got a really nice move vs Alex's Orianna but you can't expect that to happen all game, he seemed to forget that Alex actually dominated that lane at the start, Whitez just dominated much more.

I was really impressed with Cyanide though, he made great plays, it was disappointing he couldn't get his traditional baron and dragon steals but those are always tricky, that being said his last one was pretty poor as Lucky was already dead so should have been an easy smite, Royal did good to focus him down before finishing baron but Cyanide should have still been able to get a hit off and smite it.

Overall as teams Royal always went for objectives while Fnatic never seemed able to because the lanes were always pushed against them, Fnatic spent so much time making plays that they never really got any good sieges going, the whole protecting Uzi paid off big time for Royal, hopefully Peke will realise that first-picking mid is still not a great idea.

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This reminds me, I thought it was really awesome to have the same people on the same champs against each other two games in a row. Blob and gator's rivalry runs deep.

So there's a high chance that Jinx is Vi's sister, and possibly former gang member.

This makes me want her even more

Edit:

Also:

Spoiler: KITTY! (click to show/hide)

That would be awesome, and lul.


In other news, got a chance to try Zed recently in a bot game. He seemed to deal pretty obscene damage, but I still couldn't figure out exactly how to play him. Guess that's to be expected from an assassin.

His soundset is the most awesome thing ever, though.

"Tradition... is the corpse of wisdom."

Yes.

[Flying Dice]

From what I've seen his game relies really heavily on his shadow clones. That's what they are, so that's what I'm calling the W, m'kay? 

Anyhow, yeah. Shadows let you deal double damage with your Q and E, hitting enemies with your E makes it easier to spam more shadows, and they double as an escape mechanism. It can be pretty brutal to try and fight a poke war against a Zed who knows what they're doing. Popping a W forward lets him land a Q or E without ever coming in danger, and the fastswap lets him either close quickly or gives him what amounts to a second, slightly less useful flash with a <20s cooldown. Until you've got good armor and/or the damage to burst him down, it's really easy to get zoned out by a Zed, especially as a melee-only champion.

Granted, I play Akali instead (so that's all second-hand from fighting against Zed), but that's because I really like her ult and the hybrid damage model.

[ansontan2000]

Correction: Zed's shadowed Q and E do NOT do double damage if hit by both the clone's and Zed's shuriken/spinning slash.

From the LoL wiki:

LIVING SHADOW: Additional shurikens striking the same enemy deal 50% damage and restore energy based on the level of Living Shadow.

LIVING SHADOW: Overlapping Shadow Slashes striking the same enemy deal no additional damage but will apply a stronger slow and restore energy based on the level of Living Shadow.

The reason Zed can do such obscene damage is because of how his ultimate immediately spawning Zed and a living shadow behind his target makes hitting said target dead easy, allowing for a 150% damage shuriken hit and an almost guaranteed hit+slow of the shadow slash. Since Death Mark does Zed's AD+50% of all damage done by Zed in its time frame at level 16+, this enables him to do massive damage, which is amplified even more if he gets a BotRK that can be activated for %health damage, which also synergizes very well with his %health damage passive. All in all, this lets Zed do insane amounts of damage, leave the enemy champion on half health, walk away laughing, and hear the satisfying pop signifying their demise to the death mark.

[Flying Dice]

Herp, that's what I get for only reading the first part of the tooltips. Though to be fair they're poorly worded, implying that they each deal the full damage, and then denying that later. :x

[Cthulhu]

I've fought a few free weeker Zeds and one good one.  The free weekers were a joke, I completely ruined one of them mid-lane as Viktor, didn't even respect him enough to buy an armband.

The good one I went top as Tryndamere with a Lucian vs him and Teemo.  That was fucking rough.  He could be all over the place with his shadow clones and made every mushroom count.  Of course, that one I was Tryndamere, so after our tower went down I just told Lucian to go away and farmed solo until I could 1v2 them and of course his ult was useless against me.  Ended the laning phase 1:3 and minus a tower in like ten minutes, ended the game 18:6.

Right now I'm thinking my biggest problem is leadership.  I'm 6:4 wins:losses and only have one negative, a lot of ridiculously fed games (19/6, 21/7, 16/7, 18/6), but several of those are losses.  I don't seem to be capitalizing/helping my team capitalize on the all the reaming I'm doing.