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[Jopax]

So I'm Silver 2 now, up from Silver 4, to which I dropped from 3 because I quit playing when I failed my qualifiers twice because of trolls. Funny how that works.

This game I was utterly carried tho, can't beat a fed Vayne+Kassa combo, no siree.

[Wiles]

That's part of why I don't have a lot of motivation to play ranked anymore. I got super busy for a long while and watched my rank tank back down to bronze again. Though I don't think it's a bad feature because I am definitely not as good as when I played more frequently, it's just fairly discouraging!

How do people find Lucian? I picked him up a while ago but have only played a couple games. I didn't like most of his abilities but his passive seems fairly strong. I always manage to fudge his ult though, it's very easy to use wrong when you haven't had much practice with him. With Jinx coming out I kinda regret picking him up, she looks more like a character I'd like to play in comparison.

[Cthulhu]

The general opinion seems to be he's on the weak side, especially when you compare him to Jinx.  I think I'm gonna go for Draven as my ADC of choice.  The aesthetic is great and I feel like the whirling blades will be to my orb-walking what Nasus and Veigar were to my last-hitting, a sink or swim "learn that shit or die" opportunity.

[webadict]

!!!

I got to Gold! Hurray!

[Skyrunner]

Woo!

Now you get a gold border and a nifty skin o_O

[webadict]

Woo!

Now you get a gold border and a nifty skin o_O

Yay!

[Cthulhu]

I joined the League of Draven.  I don't really see the hate for his new passive.  Let's be real, 34 bonus bleed on every hit at level 1 (Because even with three games under my belt I can control the axes just fine, I'd hate to see an experienced Draven) is ridiculous.

I like him a lot though.  Awesome early game which is what really matters in solo queue, awesome attitude and aesthetic, pretty decent disrespect, not as OP as Nunu or Volibear, but a carefully spammed taunt (try to get him to flail his arms up and down) is pretty infuriating.

Also he's like Lee Sin in that playing him well makes you feel super fucking pro.

EDIT:  Breaking news re: disrespect.  VU Garen's dance is gonna make people flip their fucking shit.

[Skyrunner]

Of course LoL has to have a biiiig patch on the day I have time...

I played a pair of games on the Korean servers, and oh boy they are toxic. I'd never wish a Korean LoL game on my worst enemies :p

Case 1: Zac the level 20 jungler makes a mistake, where he camps the losing top lane instead of helping the slightly behind, but no kills lost bot lane or the enemy-camped mid lane. Mid (who I have the sadness of personally knowing) and ADC goes batshit on Zac, telling him he should just go play WoW if he's going to farm all day and never gank, etc. A few lost teamfights later we surrender. I'm the only one who gave him constructive advice (camp winning or slightly behind lanes instead of dying in the losing lane), and I'd like to think he appreciated it :c

Case 2: Master Yi the toxic jungler takes issue in everything. He chews out Nasus the top for starting with a sapphire crystal and pots. He chews out me for rushing Chalice on Syndra instead of... well, what the hell do I know he never suggested what I should build instead. He asks why my cs is half that of the enemy. He disses nasus for only having x amount of stacks on siphon. He chews out bot lane for dying once. He boasts how he'd be carrying except for the fact that I stole his kills so much. Then come one - Just one!- bad teamfight where we get aced and he goes "well shit" then DCs.

Funny part is we still won 4v5. First time syndra so all I could do is take out one enemy each teamfight before dying, but Sona stuns and Nasus is unkillable while Ezreal had godly positioning. With no Nexus turrets we aced the enemy team multiple times before pushing and winning. They even got Baron twice. X3


Tldr: Koreans are more toxic than Grimer.


Ps. Leading the Q with Syndra and hitting multiple times is so rewarding <3 Too bad I have no idea how to use the stun nor the slow <_<

[Chaoswizkid]

Ps. Leading the Q with Syndra and hitting multiple times is so rewarding <3 Too bad I have no idea how to use the stun nor the slow <_<

As in you don't understand how they work mechanically/how to set up ability combos, or you're just bad at them?

[webadict]

On Syndra, there's a few tips:
1) You can throw out your sphere and then instantly hit your stun, allowing for a fast stun combo. It limits the cast time of of the stun by doing this.
2) The same is true of the slow as well. However, there's another trick to this. If there's a ball within the grab radius, Syndra will automatically grab it, unless you click a ball or minion.
3) You can combine the two skills together. Syndra's stun is an odd positional one, so if you need to reposition, then simply move the ball instead of moving yourself. You can effectively create a zone in front of you as well.
4) The stun is easier to hit than the slow. If you need to hit both, hit the stun first. The slow is... well, slow.

Just a few things that helped me while playing her.

[Chaoswizkid]

The best combo takes a little bit to set up. Q to set a ball (bonus points if you hit someone with it). W to grab the ball. Get the target in range and let your Q off cooldown. W to throw, Q to spawn another ball on the slowed target, R to throw tons of balls at then, E to send all of the balls into the enemy for massive deeps. Also, there should be another Q at some point after that, if needed. You oftentimes can't pull this off (nature of a best-case scenario), so just using R+E after harassing with Q and W is fine.

[Flying Dice]

Does anyone have advice for how to deal with Singed in lane as a melee champion? Beyond just asking a ranged teammate to switch with you, I mean. I've tried a number of different things, but there really doesn't seem to be a useful alternative (run away and let him farm/build nothing but MR and HP aren't particularly useful, especially as a non-tank type)

[Sharp]

Depends on what melee champion you are and how the Singed is building. Nasus for the most part can just ignore Singed as long as he is hitting minions to get last hits, Xin and Riven can actually do quite a lot of burst damage and even nuke down Singed, your best bet is just to get lifesteal and magic resist, Hexdrinker is a brilliant choice then just get a Ravenous Hydra, you should hopefully be able to lifesteal away the poison damage.

If your Trynd or J4 then you can't do too much early game, just have to try and farm up safely, as Nasus grab a few potions and just focus on last hitting minions and build magic resist, you won't be able to kill Singed early or mid-game but farm up that Q and beat him in late, most other melee champs have some way of either safely farming or being able to go toe-to-toe with Singed.

[Flying Dice]

Ah, I don't have as many problems early. It's mostly once the player has decent AP & mana, and is the sort who just spams poison constantly. There's pretty much nothing that a lot of my preferred melee champions (being mostly assassins) can do against that, because he's too beefy to burst down alone, and even trying will grab a third of your health if he does nothing but run away, so I get in the habit of just farming what I can and waiting until rotations start, then ganking other lanes and letting my team deal with him.

If I was playing draft I could just pull Teemo to counter him, but with random I end up in situations like 1v1 top with, say, Akali against a Singed. Especially Akali, because her ult and her main combo both rely on getting in melee range, and a persistent AoE is about as hard a counter as you can get against her W. It's a shame, because otherwise I love playing her.

[Sharp]

Hmm if I was going Akali vs Singed then early game is easy farming and poking Singed out so he can't even farm, once it goes mid-game then just roam around and assasinate squishy targets like Akali is supposed to. Early game should be pretty easy, maybe once your around lvl 13 Singed might be more of a threat but just keep building as an assasin, get DFG and/or Void Staff, Abyssal good as well, if Singed is ever too tanky to take down and is doing more damage to you then just switch to squishy targets.

You really shouldn't have a problem early game, Q+E combo will easily out-harass Singed's flip and poison and with spellvamp/lifesteal it should be easy for Akali to stay in lane and force Singed back all the time.