Played as support Morgana. Got my summoner spells ready, and my awesome support master--wait. TF, why are you going bottom with Yorick?
So... I'm stuck fighting Ahri mid?!? With support masteries and items?!?
lol, Fizz ganks mid, gg. Hey, why not just farm mid while I'm at it... Kill Ahri once more. Volibear switches to hold it. He's dead. Warwick comes. He's ready. He waits until I'm low and starts hitting me hard. TF walks in and stuns. My ult starts. He tries to port out before the stun. Hits the wall and misses. Stunned. Double snare and stun by TF and I. Janna walks in and shields Warwick. I just hit him until he dies. TF somehow dies. I throw some snares and walk away.
I got to 4/0/10 at around 20 minutes, because I guess I'm still just going to be the support and assist like a champ (Like I care, I didn't even buy defensive items because they couldn't hurt me). TF, on the other hand, is only surviving because I shield him and then walk in front of him. Every time he gates, I just wait for the announcer to call out his death.
We take mid lane, they backdoor and take top lane. Not cool, Warwick and Volibear. Not cool. Teemo attempts to hide by going invisible. I throw out binds and pool. Yorick throws out ghouls. He starts to run. Mordekaisered.
Team fight breaks out at Baron. Well, what happens when a Morgana walks in last with her shield on, her ult up, and half dead enemies?
They attempt the same backdoor with bottom lane. I got there first. Warwick attempts to take the tower, but my ult has already started. He's at a quarter health before Yorick walks in and murders Volibear. TF stuns Warwick for the kill.
We take bottom all the way to the turret, but Mordekaiser gets greedy and 1v4s the enemy team. I try to save him but die. Nooooo! I revive and see TF get slaughtered by Ahri the Assassin. So, I go mid and try to hold the turret. I basically assault mid and laugh at them, but that Warwick... he's a mighty fast devil. Chases me through the turrets and I'm at quarter health. At the second turret, I bind him, and run past my Mordekaiser, who smiles widely. Woo Assist!
I hold top lane and save our inhibitor, push the lane, walk in some more and win the last teamfight.
I'd say it went pretty well, considering I wasn't expecting to take mid. Clairvoyance is kinda nice to have, though. 8/1/20 isn't bad to have, seeing as how my team averaged 11/7/12 without me.
Newb here, providing progress report. Played Dominion mode by accident* and got hooked. The short 15 minute battles appeal to me, as does the Arathi Basin style of play (my favorite battleground in WoW). There's no guides for it so its been fun experimenting with new item loadouts tailored to that sort of play. Been running Ryze or Gangplank. GP's barrage is a little more fun since it forces me to watch the minimap for good nuke opportunities. In fact Dominion as a whole really forces map awareness. OTOH I can see how it can encourage some sloppy play, it doesn't really have the same poke-poke conservativeness of Summoner's Rift. Because of the faster combat/games though, I'm seeing and learning a lot more of the enemy champion skills than I was in Rift, where it was taking forever to learn what champion does what.
Question: What exactly is Riot doing during the long-ass "summoning" load screen? They are certainly not loading the level, it should take seconds to load such a simple thing. I'm guessing they are using our clients as part of a distribution network, uploading the patches and game downloads and what-not to people that haven't d/l'd them yet? Just curious.
* seems like a lot of folks end up in it by accident, every few games someone's raging about accidentally selecting it
Nah, patches are downloaded separately. I guess they're just trying to sync with the server? I dunno. I'm not expert. What does Warcraft 3 do?
Also, it's because Dominion appears before Classic for some reason. It's actually kind of annoying.