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[Knirisk]

Played my first game as Xin Zhao. Admittedly, it was on Twisted Treeline, but for Christ's sake, I stomped them so badly.

Top lane versus Graves. At first, I'm doing poorly and he's getting farmed, but I hit 6 first thanks to Smite and a bit of jungling before the creep waves hit eachother. Thanks to some good last-hitting, I grab a Wriggle's early, as well as boots. Then Graves and I go head-to-head. Thanks to hitting 6 beforehand, and being rather destroyed by Graves early on, I managed to kill Graves. Cue minion farming, jungling, snowballing. I get an early Brutalizer and go to town on jungle creeps.

Graves dies again. And again. He follows me into the top jungle, where I ambush him. He runs toward his tower, but I take him out from under his tower.

Later on, a 2v3 teamfight breaks down at bottom. Both my teammates are killed. I jump on Graves, almost killing him. Then I pop ghost, kill him, kill enemy Xin Zhao. Last one to die is Ahri. She dies just within turret range.

Eventually, they decide to surrender after I take down dragon with ease, even with Graves wandering around the jungle and trying to steal dragon.

I've never felt this good.

[Bluerobin]

Anybody know when the new champ rota is coming out? This week was excessively boring for me.

The new rotation information is up: here. The actually rotation shifts tomorrow (during NA patch time even if there's no patch, from what I remember) I think. Dunno about EU, sometimes it's earlier than NA? Karma's free again, which is strange to me since her last free week was pretty recent. Makes me wonder if they're trying to figure out if she needs tweaking/what kind of tweaking she needs.

Also, Viktor gameplay video from IGN: http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/12/19/league-of-legends-viktor-gameplay-commentary . He's another sustain mage. Two back to back is kind of odd, although I guess Ahri's kind of an assassin and Viktor could be Swain-lite tanky maybe so there's some difference. Plus drastically different playstyles, which is really what matter for me anyway. He looks neat.

[penguinofhonor]

Also, Viktor gameplay video from IGN: http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/12/19/league-of-legends-viktor-gameplay-commentary . He's another sustain mage. Two back to back is kind of odd, although I guess Ahri's kind of an assassin and Viktor could be Swain-lite tanky maybe so there's some difference. Plus drastically different playstyles, which is really what matter for me anyway. He looks neat.

These people are not very good at introducing champions. Referring to one of his skills as his "base magic missile"? What does that even mean? His Q? His signature ability that you'll be using all the time?

And then they referred to his passive as his "special ability" and had to correct themselves to the proper terminology. Do they play this game? Or is there some special lingo all the IGN people use that has no relation to anyone else in the community?

[umiman]

I wonder if I can use Karma solo top.

Build her like Kennen. Rush Will of the Asians. Then Deathcap. Then Spirit's Visage, Frozen Heart. I think that's a very formidable build. Karma is all about epic trolling anyway. Also, she probably has the strongest heal in the game... I know when I was at 20% hp, with just WotA and BF Wand, I healed myself for about 600hp or so just from Q. Combine that with the super shield, pretty good damage, and almost-Sivir-tier farming skills. Yeah, I think she would do very well as a tanky dps.

[KaelGotDwarves]

So I've been testing out LeBonk:

Spoiler: Had one of those games that you're doing so good most the enemy just gives up and says they're trolling. (click to show/hide)

[zestorum]

It's been forever since I've seen dat XP bar.

[eerr]

Viktor looks like fun!

Super dps LINE of DEATH!

(I know you can do it, I just don't know how much damage you can get on someone, could be rather low just for lining it up)

[Bluerobin]

I wonder if I can use Karma solo top.

Build her like Kennen. Rush Will of the Asians. Then Deathcap. Then Spirit's Visage, Frozen Heart. I think that's a very formidable build. Karma is all about epic trolling anyway. Also, she probably has the strongest heal in the game... I know when I was at 20% hp, with just WotA and BF Wand, I healed myself for about 600hp or so just from Q. Combine that with the super shield, pretty good damage, and almost-Sivir-tier farming skills. Yeah, I think she would do very well as a tanky dps.

It works relatively well. Her health is pretty decent (a little high for mages I think, similar to Morgana/Lee Sin) and her base armor growth is ok. Her damage output/mitigation is strong levels 1-3ish relative to other top laners, but she lags behind a bit after than until she gets some AP and/or health, then she can hold her own quite well again.  I might suggest getting the revolver then going for Deathcap before you finish WotA so you can get the cap faster, but it's up to you. I don't know why I haven't looked at Spirit Visage before, but it fits quite well. Also, thinking about leveling her W a bit, especially against melee lanes, because being able to kite them around/actually have an escape is quite useful. Rylai's might be useful on her with this build too since the slow would stack with her W's.

Also, question: what makes Lee Sin's ganks so deadly/such a pain? I'm trying to figure out of Karma could do similarly. Mantra'd W + Q or E would take off a pretty big chunk of health and put a similar amount of slow on the target, plus a shield or heal on your allies. And the range on her W is pretty long (800 initially, leash range 1000). A level 2 gank in the lane by blue buff is definitely a possibility. I dunno... *shrug*

[umiman]

Gap closers are the ultimate form of CC, short of a screenwide stun ala Amumu. Any champion that has potentially two before anyone even has their 2nd or 3rd skill will be able to inflict massive pain. Not to mention his slow is really severe.

Furthermore, he has some really high movespeed for some reason, so he can easily catch up to lots of people even without Q'ing them. He could even start with boots if he wanted.

Finally, Lee Sin is one of the strongest early game champions in the game. Q will regularly remove half someone's HP just from it. Imagine if say... Warwick came out of the jungle at level 2 and his Q removed half your hp?

[ThtblovesDF]

I do adore blitzkrank, but often you just (if playing support) take the bullet for a ally, yanking enemies away, initiating, tanking cat ults, taking some hits so you can pull the enemy carry... and then get flamed all game by your team (who run past the veigar you just pulled though a wall and between 3 allys to attack a garen)... sigh

[umiman]

GAREN ES BEEG MAN WE MUST KEEL BEEG MAN FIRST. DEN WE SQUISHY TINY BLACK PIMPLE.

You want to screw over solo top? Take blitz + something to top. Guaranteed that guy will be level 4 when you're both level 6. If your lane partner also has a stun, then you're immune to ganks.

[Wravburn]

I wanted to buy the holiday movement speed quints. Before I pressed "Buy" I thought "in which rune page shall I use them", it was silent.

I either use AP/AD/ArPen/(maybe fort.). The decision for movement speed gets made ingame mostly, then I buy boots+pots. Can anyone add some arguments for or against movement speed quints, because I think I don't need them.

[umiman]

Hurm... I'm not a big proponent of movespeed quints even though I know they work. For me, whenever I want to put movespeed in... what comes to my mind is...

"suppose I use movespeed here and sacrifice 80hp / 15 AP / 7 AD... And I'm sent to fight a guy that didn't get movespeed and has those extras... Wouldn't that just mean I'm going to run faster to my death and it'd be food delivery for my opponent?"

But then you have characters like Warwick and Singed who don't give two fucks, don't scale with any of the above, and just trololol around with super movespeed. But I don't really play those guys any more, so I stopped using the MS stuff.


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By the way, I figured out why Karma felt so familiar... She's goddamn Mordekaiser pre-nerf. =|

[Sirian]

By the way, I figured out why Karma felt so familiar... She's goddamn Mordekaiser pre-nerf. =|

Oh gosh you are right. I went against Karma in my last game, she even denied us by putting shields on minions. You'd think she was wasting mana but somehow she never ran out. It's even worse than mordekaiser because she can stay behind and just put shields on her team, so she's never in danger.

[umiman]

Lololol... stomping scrubbies in mid. Feels so satisfying. Xerath and Karma so stronk. Kill everything, give no fucks.

Got ganked at 100hp as Karma. Shaco ignites me and runs away, he's all like "YEAH FREE KILL WHAT A DUMBASS FARMING WHILE HE HAS NO HP". *pop* 1000hp shield. Huehuehue!

Xerath vs Ahri mid. Ahri's all like, "ya'll boys can't touch none o' this shit. I gots dem uncounterable long range harass!". Bitch, I'm Xerath. BOOM BOOM BOOM. Thanks for the 300g!


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Anyway, some fun stuff has been going on in the competitive scene.

SK Gaming (where Wickd used to be) is almost completely ruined now as every single one of their good players has left for another team. Specifically, they left to join Absolute Legends. But Absolute Legends has been bought by HotshotGG's team CLG, so now Absolute Legends is called CLG.eu. At the same time, CLG is also taking possession of team Absolute Legends US. I have no idea what they're going to call that. CLG.us2? So yes, Hotshot does actually now own about 10% of the best players in the world.


What else... there's also an app out that takes advantage of a bug in the client. You can check your team and opponent's stats in champion select with this: http://tshock.co/xf/index.php?threads/release-lolnotes-1-1a.544/

So you can tell if the guy who went "ME MID" and instalocked Teemo is actually good or not.

Lastly, we might see these changes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Vorpal Blade
Energy cost changed to 60 from 70/65/60/55/50
Healing effect reduced to 10/16/22/28/34 from 18/26/34/42/50
Healing effect now also heals for 2% of attacker's maximum health per hit
Shen gets the heal if he last hits with Vorpal Blade
Single target damaging spells can now also trigger Vorpal Blade instead of just attacks
Feint
Feint now grants 20/25/30/35/40 Armor while it's active
Feint duration increased to 3 from 2.5
Cost increased to 50 from 45
Shadow Dash
Cooldown changed to 11-9 from 10
Energy cost reduced to 100 from 120-100
Taunt Duration increased to 1/1.3/1.6/1.9/2.2 from 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2
Restores 40 Energy per champion affected, from 50 Energy if you affect one
Ki Strike
Bonus Damage from Health increased to 12% from 8%
Cooldown is now reduced by 0.5 seconds for minion hits in addition to 2 seconds for champion hits


Vladimir

Transfusion
Cooldown reduced to 10/8.5/7/5.5/4 from 12/10/8/6/4
Tides of Blood
Health cost reduced to 25/35/45/55/65 from 30/40/50/60/75
Crimson Pact
AP -> health conversion reduced to 1.4 from 1.8


Ionic Spark

Now purchasable on Summoner's Rift and Twisted Treeline
Chain lightning proc increased to 120 from 110.


Ninja Tabi

+25 Armor
UNIQUE Passive: Reduces the damage taken from non-turret basic attacks by 10%.
UNIQUE Passive: Enhanced Movement 2