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[Putnam]

No, it's not. ESEX is a satire site. Everything that comes out of it is amazing.

At least, I'm pretty sure. From what I've seen of Richard Lewis, he's not... ah, good-natured enough.

[penguinofhonor]

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[Putnam]

You may have noticed that that's exactly what happened in that article, in fact:

1. People complaining about Riot:

the protest has been rapidly escalating in weight and violence, with most extreme rebels filling out an unofficial survey, making text posts (which don’t even award karma!), and refusing to buy LoL skins unless they look really cool.

2. Riot:

He wants you to boycott Riot for replays to finally come out — but I don’t see the communities for games like Dota 2, Starcraft 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Smite, and Wargame: Red Dragon demanding that their developers give them replays

3. "FREE GAME NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN" Riot apologists:

“[Boycotting] would implement a negative relationship as we would essentially be dictating their actions for their need to make a profit,” cautioned /u/BadassGhost, “(which I may remind everyone that is a necessity for a Free-to-Play game).”

“Similarly, I refuse to boycott my favorite Italian restaurant, even though they gave food poisoning to me and my family multiple times,” added the hardcore phantom. “That would be dictating their actions for their need to make a profit. Plus, they give free breadsticks.”

4. "Our >8,000,000 strong subreddit cannot make a difference" defeatists:

“Do you actually think the playerbase that uses Reddit is big enough to force Riot’s hand through a boycott?” rhetorically asked /u/TheN1temare, a member of the subreddit that outnumbers the State of Wyoming in population.

5. Simultaneously managing to make fun of said "reddit can't make a difference" defeatists and Dota's community in one sentence:

I’d say /r/Dota2 is deluded if they think they can actually drive change, since so little of Valve’s money actually comes from them” — referring, of course, to the subreddit that led major changes in response to 2013’s Diretide fiasco, Techies Arcana sign, weather effects on the Compendium, and Volvo’s controversial new hatchbacks.

[MrRoboto75]

Two pvp games in a row with at least one person on my team AFK/Unconnected the whole match.

The first game was a complete roll, we lost real bad.  By the time we were strong enough to take them, they were in our base.

The second game we won.  I managed to survive a 2v1 lane as a poor Ryze against two bruisers, Cho and Sejuani.  We had a pretty good Udyr jungler instead of a duo top.  Their Yi ragequitted (presumably) at some point, which probably made up for our non-existent 5th player.  At that point most of us were kinda fed anyway.

Also I'm really liking playing Ryze.  I seem to have at least some good success with him.  The early game and farming the minions can be really tough though.  His auto is really slow and doesn't really do damage.  I'm trying to alleviate it with my red runes and masteries, but I don't have the levels for that to make a real impact.

[Flying Dice]

Don't be afraid to farm with your Q -- it's actually better to do that as long as you have enough mana to fight once you've built your Tear.

[RedKing]

Just went 4/7/60 with Orianna in an ARAM match.
Feels good man. More support than a Wonderbra.


EDIT: Holy crap, how did this thread die?

Also, is it wrong how much I enjoy playing Karthus on ARAM? Nothing like watching the other team think they've won a teamfight because they didn't lose anybody and force a retreat, but are all badly hurt. Then I just float off somewhere and ult.

"Hey guys, good job now we just push the---"
ENEMY PENTAKILL

[baruk]

EDIT: Holy crap, how did this thread die?

I suppose we could compare report cards from the new mastery system. Here are my grades so far:

Wukong 6/0/5 = A- (trying him out in the jungle with warrior enchant and the new black cleaver - I think I missed out on a higher grade because my kill involvement was only 38% in a one sided stomp)
Ziggs 10/10/11 = S- (did well early, but ran afoul of a super fed Vi midgame - I needed zhonya's much earlier instead of rushing luden's echo. The high grade was probably due to 64% kill involvement and 49k damage to champs.)
Leona 5/7/28 = S (played a teambuilder with a couple of buddies on varus and wukong for some OP teamfights)
Pantheon 3/7/4 = C+ (went jungle with warrior enchant/black cleaver, but was always one step behind the enemy amumu, and needed banshee's veil against a fed leblanc)

 Also, the mid season invitational happened - the Fanatic vs SKT1 match in group stage was one of the best games I've watched this season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1P1cCFbaSE&t=6m18s

[Jopax]

Plus there's a new champ coming up who looks interesting. Not sure what they'll do with his time based abilities but I'm hopeful for something new and interesting.

[Lord_lemonpie]

Plus there's a new champ coming up who looks interesting. Not sure what they'll do with his time based abilities but I'm hopeful for something new and interesting.

Judging from the video and some leaks, he can set back time for X seconds. It looks like he keeps the damage done to him, while the enemies go back to their original state, but it might be completely different.

[Jopax]

It would seem like that yes, but consider how hard would that potentially be to implement. And what purpose would it serve, you get ganked, you reset time, your hp is still low but the enemies are where they were a couple of seconds ago iwth presumably full hp and abilities reset?

I'm thinking he's going to have something along the lines of weaver from Dota, being able to reset himself back or something. Much easier to track one guy and reset him than to track everything else and reset that, even if it's in an AoE around him or something it'd still be kinda iffy I think.

[frostshotgg]

I think everybody was expecting Weaver but the video suggests the inverse. That would be interesting as hell to have work though. I can see it being pretty badass as a tank ability. "Oh you want to engage? lolnope"

EDIT: Well, he's actually announced now. Looks like it is weaver's ult, except instead of CD reset and mana and shit he gets an aoe nuke where he jumps back to. He's kinda like Wukong, but with W and R swapped.

[Putnam]

(To clarify, Weaver can go back in time a few seconds with his ult, which resets his health, mana and position to that time, can use on allied heroes if he buys Aghanims' scepter)

[Cthulhu]

Apparently Ekko's timey-wimey shit is good enough to teleport back to lane if you're fast.  He doesn't seem like he has undue amounts of mobility which surprises me a bit.  I totally fucking called Kalista all the way back when Yasuo came out, I was like "next there'll be a champ with flash bound to right click" and sure enough, there she is.  I guess it really depends on the cooldown on his dash.

Been playing Darius with the new black cleaver.  Also got the skin because hell yeah dog.  Very worth.  We should play sometimes, we being me and whoever on here wants to.  I'm DoctorSpaceDog.

Just did my own chroma for Dunkmaster Darius.  Nothing huge, changed his jersey to black and gold instead of red and white.  Looks pretty neat but it'd need a full treatment to really look good.  And yes, it's very easy to do, totally not more than five minutes worth of work but people will buy them anyway and that's what actually matters.

[Cthulhu]

Gonna bimp with Ashe impressions.

New Ashe is out.  She's sooooo good.  Slowing is now her passive and it scales with levels, starting out mostly negligible.  You mini-crit slowed enemies, replacing your ability to normally crit, and your minicrit damage scales with crit chance and damage.  It might be a little hidden-powery, I never really noticed the difference since you'll almost always be hitting slowed enemies, but it's very substantial.  I've heard '1100 raw damage a hit on 2.5 attack speed at 6 items' thrown around.  You can use Q to get the old slow back on hit for like 5 seconds and also you get charges for slowing enemies.  With 5 your Q will also make your attacks volley for extra damage.  Everything else is mostly the same, though volley has been changed to make it slightly harder to hit enemies behind their creeps.  People tend to eat multiple arrows much more often, which only hurts you since only one arrow can actually do damage.  Oh, and this is just something I feel is true, might not be.  Her ult feels much slower now.  It's not a huge thing when you're doing in-combat ults but cross-map ults seems impractically slow now.  Her sustained DPS late game is pretty ridunkeylous with that new Q and bonus damage from crits.

As far as actually playing her goes, I think she's a lot more fun.  Still retains the usual Ashe playstyle, though I think now she's less the low damage utility carry of the old days and more a very scary late game carry that still has a ton of utility.

I've been building IE, Shiv, Youmuu, PD, BT.  Youmuu is a huge power spike due to the way her passive and her Q multihit works.  She kills objectives and towers so fucking fast with Q and youmuu active and will melt the enemy team in seconds if they let her stand still.  She feels pretty easy to stutter-step as well for when you're not standing still, very obvious animation that still manages to be quick.

[RedKing]

Apparently Ekko's timey-wimey shit is good enough to teleport back to lane if you're fast.  He doesn't seem like he has undue amounts of mobility which surprises me a bit.  I totally fucking called Kalista all the way back when Yasuo came out, I was like "next there'll be a champ with flash bound to right click" and sure enough, there she is.  I guess it really depends on the cooldown on his dash.

Been playing Darius with the new black cleaver.  Also got the skin because hell yeah dog.  Very worth.  We should play sometimes, we being me and whoever on here wants to.  I'm DoctorSpaceDog.

Just did my own chroma for Dunkmaster Darius.  Nothing huge, changed his jersey to black and gold instead of red and white.  Looks pretty neat but it'd need a full treatment to really look good.  And yes, it's very easy to do, totally not more than five minutes worth of work but people will buy them anyway and that's what actually matters.

Sent you a friend request (Pan Luoyi). Got scorched by an enemy Heimer in ARAM the other day. Couldn't figure out how his turrets were bursting me down so quick and so early until we talked afterwards and he mentioned his runes. Nothing but Magic Pen and Crit Chance. That's a ballsy way to go, and I don't know why I hadn't thought of it before.