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[cerapa]

• Cyclone (Ultimate): Wukong transforms into Garen.
  

Fix'd.

[umiman]

Sirian saved me from the horrors of solo queue and helped me finally use all my win ip boosts. Phew~

In one of the games, I bore witness to a ridiculous counterjungle strategy. I was jungle Warwick. The enemy Twitch spent 70% of the entire early game following me around in the jungle, waiting for me to start a buff creep, calling a laner to come, and double ganking me. I died FIVE freaking times in the jungle before the 20 minute mark. He would literally follow me around the entire goddamn map. Doing red buff... BOOM TWITCH AND GRAGAS LOLOLOLOL. Killing small golems.... BOOM TWITCH AND JARVAN LOLOLOLOL. When I tried to gank... BOOM. Twitch out of nowhere. Then suddenly Jarvan + Xin Zhao ulti. It was pretty ridiculous. I couldn't buy vision wards or oracles because I had no gold at all.

However, because he did that, he was so stupidly underlevelled and underfarmed that when teamfights came around... I was still more useful than him. Not to mention that one time he tried to fight me by himself in the jungle, I kicked his smelly rat ass.

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The Monkey King looks kinda cool. I'll reserve judgement until I see him in actual games though. His ulti sounds overpowered.

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Edit: Ah, Dakk, that kinda makes sense. Still, it's very alien to me...

[eerr]

Note- vision wards are cheaper than oracles.

[umiman]

I couldn't even afford potions.

I ended the game with 6 kills 5 deaths though. Just kept killing Twitch over and over and over again.

[eerr]

I couldn't even afford potions.

Crossing mid didn't help?

[V-Norrec]

Monkey King sounds like a pile of Monkey fuck.  Why would they even consider releasing a champ so stupidly OP.  It's going to be Jax all over again and I plan on playing Oblivion and\or TF2 until they nerf him if my suspicions are correct.  In other news, people are dumb, that is all.

[Pandarsenic]

Monkey King sounds like a pile of Monkey fuck.  Why would they even consider releasing a champ so stupidly OP.  It's going to be Jax all over again and I plan on playing Oblivion and\or TF2 until they nerf him if my suspicions are correct.  In other news, people are dumb, that is all.

The Monkey King mythology/story/epic originates from China.
LoL has a large Chinese player base.
Release OP Chinese-lore-based champion.

Build cars out of gold that run on burnt thousand-dollar bills while letting the servers stay unstable.

[Wravburn]

I have a soft spot for Chinese Mythology, so I'm quite looking forward to it. Then again, I do have a backlog to fill.


On a side note, I do get parts of of the inability of many players. I consider myself eager to learn, watched some streams, read some guides. I got a 100 wins under my belt now, but I still have the feeling I only scraped off the top of it. While I do have a handful of champs I can sort of play with, there's heaps I can't, and a large part of the metagame is still unclear to me. And sometimes, I just want to play a new champ, and I fail horribly. I tried Mordekaiser as first melee char in ages, oh god I failed.

[Bordellimies]

I have a soft spot for Chinese Mythology, so I'm quite looking forward to it. Then again, I do have a backlog to fill.


On a side note, I do get parts of of the inability of many players. I consider myself eager to learn, watched some streams, read some guides. I got a 100 wins under my belt now, but I still have the feeling I only scraped off the top of it. While I do have a handful of champs I can sort of play with, there's heaps I can't, and a large part of the metagame is still unclear to me. And sometimes, I just want to play a new champ, and I fail horribly. I tried Mordekaiser as first melee char in ages, oh god I failed.

Have you tried Kayle? She might be good if you wanna learn to play melee champs. Her one ability gives ranged attacks for a while, so you might like her more than other melee characters.
She can also be built either as AP support with some CDR, to heal allies and make them invulnerable, or as a hybrid who deals shittons of dmg with both abilities and spells..

[Akigagak]

I'm loving Anivia. Played three games as her, died a total of two times. And both of those were in the first game, and both times the person killing me was killed either by my teammates or my tower.

One moment was great, though. Enemy Blitzcrank grabbed me while I was under my tower on low health, and proceeded to beat the crap of of my egg. My turret killed him just before he made the final punch.

[Wravburn]

No, I haven't actually. I've never really been drawn to her visually, as that's a big factor for me choosing champions with this much choice. Will try her out now.

I've been playing Nasus & Leona lately though. The Mordekaiser anecdote was just that, an anecdote of some time ago, showing that while I don't call myself bad, sometimes I do fail bigtime, just because I want some change.

[Rebecca Black]

I do love my Leona.

Her damage isn't great, though her combo early-mid game can bring a squishy down to around 1/2 hp.
During that time, she also stuns that enemy for 3 seconds.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

I think this phrase fits Monkey King:
Monkey see, monkey do.
Wouldn't you agree?
Q=Jax's Q
W=Leblanc's Passive/Teleport
E=Xin Zhao's E
R=GAREN

[Bluerobin]

Spoiler: Rant about "this champ is unoriginal and/or derivative" (click to show/hide)

HoN's Monkey King is better, IMO. His W makes him leap on his enemies' heads and then bounce forward, knocking the enemies back. AKA he uses enemies as hopping platforms. Sounds so much more fun..

His Q is a dash, but it strikes a second time after 1 second, kinda similar to Renekton's dash. Not sure if he dashes back or forward or where you want him to dash into, but sounds better than "Point N' Click".

(E) Thousand Jin Slam: The Monkey King brings down his magic staff at full force, causing a mountain of earth to erupt in front of him, thrusting victims into the air before imploding.
So. Much. Better. Than. Sheen + Cleaver.

And for ulti he has nimbus (the cloud) that makes him move faster, but he can't use that in combat.

Well if you really want to bring down a champ for being unoriginal it's not hard at this point. If you get the same people describing the same types of things, you're going to get a lot of descriptions that sound the same (even if they're functionally a bit different); it's all about how they actually play, really. Lemme try with this "so much better" HoN monkey king.

His Q is, as you said, Renekton's slice/dice, but with potentially LESS control. Why get that over Renekton's?
His W is essentially a knockback. We kind of have a lot of those, especially with recent champs (Vayne, Lee Sin still counts as recent, right?) Oh, plus it's a dash, TOO. Can't have a new melee champ without a way to close distance!
His E is Cho'gath's Rupture. Whoop de doo.
His ulti... Is basically summoner ghost with less usefulness? It's MF's passive with slightly more/Teemo's Move Quick. Sounds... great.

Now this isn't necessarily saying HoN's monkey king ISN'T better, just trying to show that it's not really hard to make something sound boring and derivative (what the community does). It's much much more difficult to make something sound and feel unique and original, especially after 80 other champions (and this is Riot's job). I'm kind of sick of people bringing down Riot for being unoriginal. You only have so many different things any given ability can do without introducing new resource systems or champions with "exception to the rule" mechanics, and from a game design perspective regularly breaking your own rules is kind of a no-no.

Welp. Played a coop vs AI game with friends yesterday. I had over 35 kills with Yorick and they kind of complained about having no money and being useless. I guess I should have given them some kills or something

[Dakk]

Tried Maokai yesterday, goddamn he's fun. Beat fiddlesticks to a pulp in lane with him. He has good lane sustain, great harass, good CC, great tankyness. People who say his saplings become useless during the late game obviously don't use them as short duration wards, you can give your team alot of map vision before they expire. His Q is sort of lackluster, but at least you can use it to interrupt channeling.