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[frostshotgg]

That's the thing. Runeglaive Ez really doesn't need to violate the golden rule of Ezreal (Never E into a fight) to kill people. The damage is unfair.

[UXLZ]

Isn't the damage basically the same as Lichbane? A bit better lategame, I guess, since it benefits from MPEN.

[frostshotgg]

Except it was AoE, which meant he poked down your entire team with it.

[UXLZ]

The AoE was tiny, your team would basically have to be standing inside each other's models to take damage from it.

[PrivateNomad]

i played udyr for the first time, went for tiger stance build
i rekt shit

[Flying Dice]

I love Udyr so much. Super simple mechanics so he's easy to learn, but super-high skillcap because good play requires you to be massively on point with your judgement, knowledge of how much damage you can deal and take, skillshot dodging, and map awareness. Like Yi except without Press Q to Win.

It's really beautiful, though, because there's a sharp divide between "decent" and "good" players, where the former can carry in mid-Silver and the latter can carry in Diamond.

[Cthulhu]

i played udyr for the first time, went for tiger stance build
i rekt shit

I prefer Tiger Udyr top.  Do the double-tiger at level 1 and free farm while the enemy changes his pants.

I stopped playing though, for good this time.  I've realized that league is like an abusive lover.  When I stop playing I forget how much I hate it.

[UXLZ]

I'd swear I've seen you say that three times.

[Cthulhu]

Because I forget the reason I stopped in the first place.  I remember now, I remember fuck this game. 

[UXLZ]

What's pissed you off so much about it?

[Flying Dice]

Probably the people.

No, definitely the people.

[Cthulhu]

I get worse at the game the longer I play.  I train backwards.  Like, the first time I stopped playing was in Season 1, I had almost a 70% winrate after around 400 games.  The second time I started I kicked ass for a few months, had one period where I was winning 9/10 games (I distinctly remember being frustrated that I'd always get to 9 and then lose, and could never get a full match history of wins), then it all fell apart and I was lucky to scrape 2/10 wins.  This went on for a couple weeks, then I stopped.  Came back, wasn't as good, maybe 60% win rate, steadily declining.

It just feels like the longer I play the game the less I enjoy it, the worse it gets.  Also I only have two friends who play it.  One is a huge dick about it and has only sort of realized it, I don't play with him at all anymore.  The other quit because he didn't like how it made people mad. 

It's a nasty, mean-spirited game where everybody's mad and nobody's actually having fun.  It reminds me of CS:S.  Nobody I ever saw playing CS:S seemed like they were having fun.

When I stop playing I forget all of that and I just remember the occasional good moments.  That makes me want to play again and I quickly remember why I stopped. 

Also I'm very prone to tilt.  I tried and tried to get better about it but it's just a reality.  I've learned to fear the loss.  When I'm losing I get discouraged and make bad moves, when I'm on a winning streak the loss is just a sword of damocles hanging over my head.  I remember back during that last huge win streak (It was my birthday!) after about nine wins in a row all I could think was "oh boy, my MMR is going up and up, when are the losses coming?"

I knew the jig was up when challengers started showing up in my games.

So basically I'm on permanent tilt.  I'm working for the weekend, but hten the weekend comes and I waste it worrying about Monday.

[Flying Dice]

Geez, that sucks. :/

That's the total polar opposite of my experience with CS:S, though. It probably helped that I only played on half a dozen servers where 85% of the players knew each other and there were always 4-5 admins and mods online, though.

[PrivateNomad]

RIP Gangplank

[RedKing]

I'm kind of digging the Black Market Brawlers game mode. Though I wish the black market minions just used regular gold. Would give a use for overflow gold late in the game when you're built out, and offer strategic choices -- more items or buffed extra minions?

It reminds me some of Demigod, where you could farm for gold and use it to buff your minion waves and turrets and nexus rather than buying items. Which meant even if you were a scrub in PvP, you could help your team by farming and buying minion/turret buffs.