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[penguinofhonor]

I hate lategame in League so much. There are just gigantic periods where one small mistake makes one team completely unable to do anything besides watch the other team take their shit.

Draven gets caught, explodes instantly, that's 50 seconds where we're useless. The enemy team gets a free dragon and tower. Right before he respawns, Vi gets caught, explodes instantly, that's 50 more seconds where we're useless. The enemy team gets baron and pushes another tower. Right before she respawns, Nunu gets caught, explodes instantly, that's 50 more seconds where we're useless. The enemy team gets two inhibitors. It's like my team was actively avoiding 5v5s.

I do that too sometimes, but it's just so ordinary. When I do it with Taric, it's an actual troll build.

I hate to burst your hipster bubble, but solo top Taric isn't a troll build this patch.

[IronyOwl]

Been having fun with solo top Taric. Build mana, lol hard.

How the hell do you people consistently go top? I've been trying to go top all day today and It. Just. Don't. Work. I always end up bot or jungle...

Yeah, I like going top, but apparently so does everyone else in Normal. In Ranked and Normal Draft it seems to be much less of an issue for some reason; maybe because top is a fairly self-contained lane and Normal is less team-oriented than the other two?

Also doesn't help that I usually feel weird trying to call top as fast as possible, which obviously means I lose out to those without any such qualms.

I hate lategame in League so much. There are just gigantic periods where one small mistake makes one team completely unable to do anything besides watch the other team take their shit.

Draven gets caught, explodes instantly, that's 50 seconds where we're useless. The enemy team gets a free dragon and tower. Right before he respawns, Vi gets caught, explodes instantly, that's 50 more seconds where we're useless. The enemy team gets baron and pushes another tower. Right before she respawns, Nunu gets caught, explodes instantly, that's 50 more seconds where we're useless. The enemy team gets two inhibitors. It's like my team was actively avoiding 5v5s.

I tend to take this sort of thing as a sign that the game was supposed to have ended a while ago, but one team or the other has been dragging their feet on actually finishing it. There's always elements of this, of course, but by the time it gets really severe like that it usually seems like someone should have won a proper teamfight and pushed already anyway.

[Virex]

Been having fun with solo top Taric. Build mana, lol hard.

How the hell do you people consistently go top? I've been trying to go top all day today and It. Just. Don't. Work. I always end up bot or jungle...

Yeah, I like going top, but apparently so does everyone else in Normal. In Ranked and Normal Draft it seems to be much less of an issue for some reason; maybe because top is a fairly self-contained lane and Normal is less team-oriented than the other two?

I play normal draft exclusively, so I don't think that's the problem. Maybe I should start playing ranked.

[penguinofhonor]

Ah, and my trust in people worked out for the better once. I'm second pick and ask for jungle, then our last guy is like "yo penguin can i have jungle please? i'm a pretty good voli" and I give it to him since he asked nicely instead of threatening to feed or bragging about his plat alt.

So I support, and grab Janna since the enemy team took Taric before he could. He carried hard, and gave me honor at the end for trading him the jungle. That game was pretty great in every way.

And I finally figured out why I got sorted into Lux's Spellbreakers instead of any of my friends' silver leagues: these two guys I never play with are in there. It seems the league system doesn't prioritize your friends at all.

My friends' leagues, mostly out of my curiosity (numbers are the amount of friends in each):
Diamond: Malzahar's Captains (1)
Gold: Kassadin's Wizards (1), Poppy's Swashbucklers (1), Taric's Enforcers (1)
Silver: Amumu's Weaponmasters (1), Ashe's Swarm (2), Garen's Battlemasters (1), Karma's Spellslingers (1), Lux's Spellbreakers (2+me), Miss Fortune's Warmongers (1), Nunu's Snipers (1) Twitch's Dervish (1), Zilean's Dragons (1)
Bronze: Cassiopeia's Warmongers (2), Leblanc's Horde (1)

Huh, I know not all these guys are friends with each other, but I know some of them are. It doesn't seem to group friends very aggressively. That said, Poppy's Swashbucklers is definitely the coolest name and I'm going to have to defriend those other two guys before I hit gold to make sure I end up in it.

[Graven]

Man, screw you and your fancy leagues  Meanwhile I get to 420 ride the retard train all day erry day and can't even ban a Kassadin since Draft pick queues for Dominion are about 5 times the length of the actual game. Riot really should've just implemented ranked from the start.

Other than that I think the system does group friends together, but I'm not sure how aggressively. A few of my friends who have friended each other are in the same leagues, but I can't be sure. Also Garen's Battlemasters is baller.

[penguinofhonor]

Maybe season 4 will have ranked Dominion.

[Errol]

Having a certain itch to buy Fiora. Yay/nay? How much fun can be had with her?

[werty892]

Having a certain itch to buy Fiora. Yay/nay? How much fun can be had with her?

From what I've seen, shes hit or miss. If you get fed, you can 1v5 pretty much, but if you dont, your pretty much useless. It is easy to stay in lane and get fed though, so she is pretty good.

[Kansa]

Having a certain itch to buy Fiora. Yay/nay? How much fun can be had with her?

She is fun but she kinda sucks, she is ok in lane but as she is a melee adc as soon as you get into teamfights she gets cc'd and then dies.

[penguinofhonor]

Speaking as a jungler, when there's a Fiora on my team I know that she's not going to have CC so she's going to be difficult to give successful ganks, she loses to every lane bully in the game (read: 90% of top) so she's going to need successful ganks, and she's going to have low damage early on so I should only expect success when her ignite is up. But she's going to need successful ganks more often than her ignite is up.

If she manages past that, yeah, she's pretty decent in team fights.

[Graven]

Hey guys Blobman got revealed : http://eune.leagueoflegends.com/news/zac-secret-weapon-revealed?rid=sidebar

He looks...uhm... yeah. Interesting, let's say

[frostshotgg]

Karma's specifics also went live. It seems like they managed to keep some of what made her fun, but I'm not going to hold my breath. She doesn't seem as much of the clutch-play monster that characterizes her right now.

[Graven]

Here is the relevant information, thanks for reminding me of that

She looks significantly less interesting than Blobman. I also really hate her Mantra mechanic. Need to see her in action, but even if she's really strong [and she already is, at least on Dominion], I feel she's just not very interesting to play. Hopefully her new kit is better in this regard.

[frostshotgg]

You've never played SR Karma then. She's honestly a good bit below par. And she's one of the more interesting champs to play, specifically because of her passive. Trying to kill a good Karma is right up there with land wars in Asia.

[Graven]

Oh heavens no, have not and don't intend to. I meant I know she is objectively weak right now, but even if she were strong, she would not be interesting to me.

Also I'm not sure I understand your comparison