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[Wiles]

Time to start playing Leona support again. All in at level two to explode all of the extra squishy DJ Sonas that will be running around the rift. 

[Flying Dice]

Psh, who plays Sona support? AP mid all the way. :V

[DemonOfWrath]

Support's more laid back, gives you more time to focus on getting the right groove going for how the game's going. In this case literally.

[Lord_lemonpie]

Psh, who plays Sona support? AP mid all the way. :V

Does AP Leona work? I've played her AD/bruiser top and jungle (and supp obviously), but I've never played her AP

[UXLZ]

I went 5/5 in my provs yet dropped a whole league. Odd...

[Jiokuy]

Yeah riot did that on purpose, neutrals ground is silver. I've been seeing a shitton of plats and diamonds in my silver matches, and alot of them are silver atm. It's a very rough time for ranked. soon the leagues will become striated again though.

On the plus side there are basically no bronzes around, on the down side, getting one is almost always a loss.

[UXLZ]

And the bronzes always seem to end up on my team. Two games ago I had a jungle Vi who somehow managed to be two levels behind the enemy jungler (who was a Nidalee may I add) while doing nothing but farming. This same Vi bought a Stalker's Blade and Mob boots yet... Still just farmed. It was actually quite cringe worthy.

Of course, even without the terrible, horribly bad jungler I think we would have lost anyway since I personally played fairly badly and the Nidalee seemed to be a significantly higher ranked player, so eh~

[Sharp]

Nidalee jungle so stronk, she is super fast in jungle now that she can pounce everywhere plus bush speed buff, she is a very dangerous counter jungler at lvl 2/3 because she has great sustain in her jungle and a good execute, and her heal is so annoying which makes her a very dangerous ganker.

She is pretty much a perma-ban for me, just need damn other people to follow along with that.

[RedKing]

Been playing around with trying an AP support kit on multiple champs, based on Talisman of the Ascension and passive farming. So far tried Janna (works well), Sona (works well but need to adjust for her being a mana hog early), Zilean (meh), Kayle (meh). Still need to try Soraka and Anivia.

The idea is just to soak up extra gold from being paired with an ADC and/or assassin, and support the hell out of them. I've found that if I get a player who knows what they're doing, those little buffs can be crucial at getting early kills which just start to steamroll. If I'm paired with a derp, I can at least help counter the derpiness and hold our own, though it's frustrating as hell.

Also, is it a normal thing now for a top lane to push to the first tower, then start jungling? Because I've had several matches lately where that happened and it's irritating, because it screws up my strategy.

Any other champs that I'm forgetting, or maybe wouldn't think of as a normal AP support?

[Jopax]

If you're playing an AP support get that other gold item. The one that gives you both AP and mana regen as well as gold for harassing the other guys with spells/attacks.

[Arcvasti]

If you're playing an AP support get that other gold item. The one that gives you both AP and mana regen as well as gold for harassing the other guys with spells/attacks.

It doesn't give as much mana regen and its active synergizes excellently with Sona and Janna.

Any other champs that I'm forgetting, or maybe wouldn't think of as a normal AP support?

Lulu? SHE works well with Spellthief's Edge and is my favourite support. There's also Nami, who I personally don't like much, but she's AP and a support. If you're willing to try Anivia and other semi supports, Zyra and/or Vel'Koz are both possibilities. Thing is, all of the above are 6300 IP.

[Flying Dice]

AP Lee Sin support.

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[GreatJustice]

At least in NA, from what I can tell, nearly everyone dropped exactly one tier. My two Plat friends landed G5, all of my silver 4/5 friends landed bronze 4/5, and my gold 1 friend landed silver 1.  I was silver 2 and landed bronze 2, but I climbed to bronze 1 in a day before taking a break by duoing with one of my former silver 5 friends.

I don't really feel like playing a lot of ranked, though, since it's bizzaro-land as high bronze/low silver is littered with everything from season 4 bronzes to season 4 golds, so most of the games I didn't duo in (since they bring the MMR lower than most former golds) are complete shitshows, either hilariously easy wins or frustratingly massive losses. Second game I play, my team is composed entirely of actual bronze players, the other team has a mixture of silvers and golds, by 9 minutes I'm 1/1/0 (after going for a suicide attack when I get caught in an inescapable gank) but the overall score is 3-18 for the other team. Fourth game, my team has a former gold 3 ADC, gold 2 jungler, and gold 4 top, I go 2/0/0 in lane when suddenly everyone roams over because I'm technically the "losing-est" lane and the game ends as an absolute stomp of something like 39-7.

Anyhow, playing Kassadin is hilariously straightforward in Bronze (assuming you get an actual bronze lane opponent and jungler). His weaker laning phase isn't punished really heavily and you can actually get a head up with a kill or two just through using his poke in conjunction with his shield to get good trades. Half the time the enemy team doesn't expect a gank from mid, and Kassadin is incredibly good at securing kills so you can snowball incredibly fast even if you don't totally dominate lane. I find that I can die between 1 and 3 times in lane or on ganks, but so long as I pick up a few kills during that time I will hit the "Kassadin Singularity", at which point Kassadin can jump on a semi-squishy target (say, an ADC during a botlane gank), delete them immediately, eat whatever damage is given in retaliation, and then jump back again, possibly while spamming /laugh. Once this singularity is reached, unless the enemy teamcomp is particularly anti-Kassadin (as in, it has a whole bunch of bruisers with gapclosers/hard CC and no super squishy targets), Kassadin will not die again and will rake up a massive KDA regardless of the performance of his teammates. He just scales so damn well, and since the changes to his ult he doesn't really benefit from going Archangel's, so he hits his powerspike much earlier.

[Lord_lemonpie]

I'm going 7-2 in my seeding games now, just one more game to go. It surprises me that I still have a 100% win rate with kha, after playing him for 4 games. I hope that going 7-3/8-2 will raise my division by at least one tier. I really want to become silver D:

[Sinistar]

So I finally logged in again, to see what mystery skin I got.

Received Frost queen Janna skin. Eh, could be worse. At least it's for a champ I don't already have skin for, even though it is for the one I wasn't even sure I want to get ANY skin in the first place. /privilegedsassing

So what's this I hear? Poppy rework is a go? Hopefully it will be as good as Sion's. #Kappa