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[frostshotgg]

Give Xin a shot. Xin mid is much the same as J4, but you have a lot more reliable gapclose into cc so you can kill whoever you're against.

[werty892]

Reading this thread it seems Riot is continuing their usual shenanigans, where they release OP champion so idiots pay RP for them and then nerf them. Riot plz.

[frostshotgg]

Illoai turns out to have a pretty pitiful winrate right now, and it's not like she's hard (nor bug-ridden) like Azir was. She certainly seems strong as hell when you play her, but she lacks actual killing power needed to make up for her lack of CC.

If you're talking about Jihn, he's a tossup but Riot's generally been tuning weird shit on the very conservative side.

[RedKing]

I havent yet tried it. Blind seems a little less toxic now that it's up (it was never actually that toxic, contrary to popular opinion). Maybe I'll try it once I stop playing full AD J4 mid.

Oh no, no no...it's still toxic. I just tried my first placement match, had a bad bot lane (in part because the enemy team kept swarming us because mid and top were causing no pressure), and then it was "plz uninstall", "why are you even here", "go die in a hole" and so forth.

Looks like I'll be avoiding ranked again this season and going back to ARAM, the only mode I actually enjoy.

[RedKing]

I was Silver V last season. *shrug*

In any case, I'm not good enough for competitive play, which means I'm a filthyleperjew to the kind of people who play regularly in Ranked.

[Flying Dice]

I was Silver V last season. *shrug*

In any case, I'm not good enough for competitive play, which means I'm a filthyleperjew to the kind of people who play regularly in Ranked.

You're not missing anything. I placed SIII originally and ended up with mid-Gold MMR when I quit after ~30-40 matches, and I distinctly remember why I quit: people became more and more toxic as my MMR increased. Ranked is like Blind Pick: there's an inherent element (the stakes, the open-pick system respectively) which causes friction and stress. ARAM and draft normals are more chill for a reason.

[Putnam]

It's basically a universal that people get worse and worse as you go up until you're at the very top because everyone at levels that aren't complete trash think they're hot shit (as opposed to levels that are complete trash, where only about 8% of people or so think they're hot shit, which means you manage to avoid them about 65% of the time (since half the time they're on the other team).

And once you're at the very top, you're matched with people who are actually at the "99th percentile, which is still bad" level who think they're hot shit anyway, and they're going to flame you unless you're actually Faker (there is no equivalent in any other game of this genre AFAIK, no undisputed best)

[Flying Dice]

And honestly, from what I've seen watching too many streams and videos, the only real change from high Silver to low Diamond is improvements on basic mechanics. Not even big stuff, either, just being able to CS well and maybe understanding proper behavior on a handful of champions.

[Putnam]

Edited the post, but forgot to mention so will make new post: "people who think they're hot shit anyway" was meant to refer to people in the top 0.1% of the game, which is to say (for games of this genre which actually matter) somewhere on the order of 10,000 people, which means most of them are still going to be bad since you don't see 10,000 people playing professionally.

[Jopax]

There's a reason why my friend mutes everyone at the start of his every game.

I personally went with the allowed to speak until they start spewing shit philosophy. But honestly, the worst thing you can do is let the shitlords get to you in any way. Just play your own game and give zero fucks about the others, because very few of them actually care about teamwork or anything like that.

[RedKing]

Yeah, but I tend to play support (in this instance, I wound up playing ADC because I was captain and focused on banning while everyone else called positions. Sona support was obviously unskilled, but I was trying to be positive and gentle in my critiques. Everyone else was "bot lane trash", etc. I suppose I should play mid, that way I can give no fucks about the rest of the team. (And then get hung out to dry when nobody wards or warns me of potential ganks).

Meh...I'm getting to Plat/Diamond badges for ARAM, I'll just stick with that. I don't have the total sociopathy/masochism needed to grind through ranked.

[Jopax]

So the Japanese client has some interesting voiceacting going on :V

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, but I tend to play support (in this instance, I wound up playing ADC because I was captain and focused on banning while everyone else called positions. Sona support was obviously unskilled, but I was trying to be positive and gentle in my critiques. Everyone else was "bot lane trash", etc. I suppose I should play mid, that way I can give no fucks about the rest of the team. (And then get hung out to dry when nobody wards or warns me of potential ganks).

Meh...I'm getting to Plat/Diamond badges for ARAM, I'll just stick with that. I don't have the total sociopathy/masochism needed to grind through ranked.

If you really want to play on an island, play top. If the jungler ganks you and does well, that's great. If they don't gank for you, that's also great. If they gank for you and fuck up badly, just say something like, "Hey, I should be okay, help the other lanes," so they fuck off without getting salty. 99% of the time you won't see anyone except your opponent and maybe or or both of the junglers for the first 20 minutes of the game, usually longer.

Granted, if you're used to playing AP casters it'll be a fairly big change, but if you liked playing the tanky hard-engage/hard-peel supports you'll fit right in.

[Cthulufaic]

So the Japanese client has some interesting voiceacting going on :V

You mean it has the best voice acting going on.

[Flying Dice]

So the Japanese client has some interesting voiceacting going on :V

You mean it has the best voice acting going on.

oh my god