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[Graven]

Honestly since I bough Olaf I don't feel like taking another tanky bruiser for Dominion... ever. It might just be the small sample size (only played three games) but I absolutely stomped each one.

Of course, no WINS or any such shenanigans, but I consistently had most kills/medium deaths/most assists, with a Prospectors/Frozen Mallet/Wit's End/Tanky build depending on the damage of the enemies. Just locate enemies, fling self at enemies. Apart from wacky things like going 1v1 with a really fed Jax or neglecting the enemy AD carry I was an angry unstoppable force of nature from start to finish, and I really don't remember him like this.

I'll play a bit more tomorrow, since if I play now I'll get my stupid first win in 1:30 a.m., but god damn were the last games fun. Anyone wanna relate with anecdotes about Dominion Olaf?

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Well I now have a feel for the game and even though I don't know any characters beyond this weeks free champs I seem to be able to pick up champs I don't know quickly. What I am having problems with is items. I just don't know them very well so I end up just picking the suggested ones more often then not so I don't end up spending 5 minutes in spawn looking for an item. Is there a good guide or something somewhere that would help me learn the items?

[Kansa]

   Well I now have a feel for the game and even though I don't know any characters beyond this weeks free champs I seem to be able to pick up champs I don't know quickly. What I am having problems with is items. I just don't know them very well so I end up just picking the suggested ones more often then not so I don't end up spending 5 minutes in spawn looking for an item. Is there a good guide or something somewhere that would help me learn the items?

This website has a list of builds for every champion in the game

[Errol]

Be aware, though, that these kinds of sites may have some seriously questionable guides as well.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I am not looking for a guide for a specific champ as I don't really know any champ well but Nunu(who I have already looked up guides for). What I would like is something that goes over items and situations in which to use said items. I am still pressing random to decide who I play. I can't have guides up for all 10 possible champs at once and expect to remember anything.

[Sonlirain]

   I am not looking for a guide for a specific champ as I don't really know any champ well but Nunu(who I have already looked up guides for). What I would like is something that goes over items and situations in which to use said items. I am still pressing random to decide who I play. I can't have guides up for all 10 possible champs at once and expect to remember anything.

Well you could use the wiki.
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Item

Pretty much everything anyone would like to know about items.
As for general rules... try finding items that have coherence with the champ and/or his steroids.
For example a Ionic spark would be near useless on Pantheon or Karth but can be awesome on AS TF or Twitch.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Okay thanks, not quite what I was hoping for but I guess if the hardest part ends up being memorizing items I will be quite happy.

[frostshotgg]

We need some information about what you like to play in other games (Especially Dota or Smite or HoN) to tell you more whwat you need to know and who you'll like.

[Alkhemia]

   Okay thanks, not quite what I was hoping for but I guess if the hardest part ends up being memorizing items I will be quite happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrDT7r_dFbQ

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Okay thanks, not quite what I was hoping for but I guess if the hardest part ends up being memorizing items I will be quite happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrDT7r_dFbQ

   Cool, did not know Quill had LoL videos. Guess I have something else to watch on YouTube. Thanks for the link!

[webadict]

   Okay thanks, not quite what I was hoping for but I guess if the hardest part ends up being memorizing items I will be quite happy.

Once you learn the items, you can build situationally, which is pretty much how you play well.

[penguinofhonor]

Be aware, though, that these kinds of sites may have some seriously questionable guides as well.

I remember back when I built Tiamat Gragas because of a terrible guide. The guide's rationale was that he has trouble farming, so obviously he needs the Tiamat to help him!

Note: this was many months before AP Gragas was ever considered good. Most people built him tank, but he was really considered one of the worst champions. Riot nerfed him two or three times (cue tons of "OMG RIOT NERFING U.P. CHAMPS") and then it turned out he was a super powerful AP caster even after the nerfs.

[Dariush]

   Okay thanks, not quite what I was hoping for but I guess if the hardest part ends up being memorizing items I will be quite happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrDT7r_dFbQ

   Cool, did not know Quill had LoL videos. Guess I have something else to watch on YouTube. Thanks for the link!

I didn't know neither that nor that Quill was known on Bay12.

[RedKing]

1st crack at Diana last night. Me likey. Seemed to work especially well paired with Katarina. Typically a pair of melees laning against Sona/Ashe would be in trouble. But Q allowed me to poke them pretty effectively, especially from the bushes. And then ult allowed me to jump them while Katarina closed, and if they started to get away, E brought them back into range for stabbity stabbity.

[Jopax]

Diana is kinda broken now, mostly her Q, low cooldown AoE nuke that costs 50 mana on all levels, and with a bit of AP takes off chunks of HP whenever it hits. Then there's the problem of her W giving her pretty good survivability. Ult being a double dash in most cases and doing pretty decent damazge is a big problem too. But the icing on the OP cake is her passive, at level 18 every third strike will do over 400 magic damage, as splash to everything around your target.

I know that she's supposed to be this assasin chick that assasinates people. but right now it takes far too little skill and effort to assassinate several people and survive despite being focused. So either tone down her damage or tone down her tankiness, or perhaps up the difficulty with a bit more interplay of her skills required to maximize damage.

Because I haven't lost a lane to anyone as her, and even if I do badly at first, by level 6 my Q does enough damage to bring them into the instant death zone with just a few hits, which thanks to it's wierd trajectory and explosion at the end make it somewhat hard to dodge.