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[Cthulufaic]

Got rank 5 as Galio.  Niceeeeeeeeeeeee

[Putnam]

You can't deny being this shitty at some point in time.

I actually can, since I've never tried to reveal the identity of a public figure with a known hostile audience.

Nope. A first name that was already a mostly open secret does not constitute revealing the identity. There's at least 7 digits of people with the name Abdul on the planet. Plus, League's audience really couldn't care less about Dota, or Icefrog.

Dota fans are the only ones who seek out the opportunity to trash talk or spew vitriol towards other games in the genre besides in passing when "which game do you like better" is brough up, usually by the same /r/dotamasterrace people who seek out confrontation in the first place.

We get it, you absolutely despise Riot. A lot of us in this thread don't much like them either. But coming into this thread just to flame over a over-exaggerated slight does nobody any good.

Did you actually look at what I posted? Most of that is brought up in that.

Also, the entire context there was Tryndamere trash talking/spewing vitriol at Icefrog??

[IronyOwl]

Did you actually look at what I posted? Most of that is brought up in that.

Also, the entire context there was Tryndamere trash talking/spewing vitriol at Icefrog??

I tried, but I still don't get it. Tryndamere used Icefrog's (rumored) first name, which is terrible and awful and a clear and vicious assault because...? Then he gave a heartfelt explanation for why he was shutting down the forum he runs, which was awful because people liked it. Then he linked access to the archive of said forum, which is further mecha-hitlery because those forums contained the proof that "commando hamster" was someone else's donut steel.

These do not seem like vital new sources revealing a shocking new scandal. They seem like the middle of a rather long-running tribal conflict you sort of need to have been part of to understand.

[Putnam]

Did you actually look at what I posted? Most of that is brought up in that.

Also, the entire context there was Tryndamere trash talking/spewing vitriol at Icefrog??

I tried, but I still don't get it. Tryndamere used Icefrog's (rumored) first name, which is terrible and awful and a clear and vicious assault because...?

He is known almost entirely for being elusive and choosing to conceal his name, as has been said elsewhere here in this very conversation.

Whatever, nobody reads anything I say, I'm worthless, bye.

[penguinofhonor]

edit: unnecessary rude comment removed, sorry if you saw it

[BlackHeartKabal]

Gotta love when the mid laner instalocks Zed, the top laner wants to practice his Yasuo, and the JG insists he can carry the game as Yi.

[squidgen]

Just instalock Katarina support, duh.

[The Scout]

Turns out my Jinx jungle was not a troll pick? Match History

Almost all my kills on Poppy/Vayne were rocket snipes and 75% of my kills on everyone else was a point blank rocket when we were both almost dead.

[TempAcc]

Gotta get my gankplank and hecarim going. I think I got enough support sion practice in after completing another winning spree, only a 7 win one this time because the 8th game had a team that collectively lost its shit while me and the jungler were just fucking around, so I guess it was my fault too :U

Also, I dropped enough key fragments in a single day to complete 2 keys, but no box drops? Wat? Pretty sure there were a few S's here and there.

[Xeron]

You get only one crate per S per champion in a season.

[baruk]

 How is everyone's ranked season going? I wanted to post a little update on my NA account - I'm trying an experiment where I queue for jungle/support or fill to see if I can make progress (by contrast on EUW I'm queueing for mid/top).

has anyone had success carrying themselves out of bronze soloqueue by playing support?

So I just got promoted to bronze 1 after 4 wins in a row playing support. It's been a bumpy ride, however - I'm currently at 15W 21L for a 42% win rate. Some champions have been more effective than others.
 Here's a quote from Flying Dice that I decided to test out in the field:

Bully the enemy laners early, go for kills if you can snag them. If you're playing a high-damage support like frost mentioned, keep doing that. If you're playing a tanky support, become unkillable and hope that you have a competent carry (if you do, follow them around and protect them from their own mistakes while setting up kills for them). If you're playing a utility support in low ELO you're fucking dumb. The bottom line is that, like any other role, you have to be a forklift or a dump truck. Either you lift your team up and shove them at the enemy, cleaning up in their wake, or you load them all into your backpack and drive them to victory, come hell or high water.

My results with soraka, 1W 5L, seem to back this up (it could be a case of small sample size). I went for a standard build, and just never felt effective. I like the champion and think she has potential, but the co-ordination with the team just wasn't there a lot of the time. Team-mates would typically dash out of W range to their deaths, I spent a lot of time trying to chase down wounded allies who seemed intent on trying to get themselves killed. I also missed having a way to engage and start fights, the E is more for counter-engage or follow up CC.

  Note: when people refer to "utility" supports, they often refer to janna and soraka. So utility in this context has come to mean: neither tanky nor known for having damage. Do sona and bard count as utility supports, or do they have enough damage to elevate them from that group? If you play a Q-max thunderlords soraka, do you become a damage support?

[TempAcc]

Again, this is why I likely had so much success with sion support. If you play it right, you can make even a terrible adc do well, and you can really lock up teamfights while still doing decent damage. Prob a better idea to just put yourself in position to carry as a jungler/adc or other high impact role, though. Jungling is ideal since you can help out other lanes and secure the objectives, which are now more important than ever.

[Frumple]

... part of me wonders if you're even playing support, at that point. Aren't you just kinda' duo-laning with an adc? While you're playing something else. Secondary carry or off tank or somethin'. Calling something a damage support just seems... odd. At some point you stop really being support and start just being another mage or ADC (maybe one that isn't as reliant on items as the other one) or whatnot.

I can only assume folkss have slouched into calling it a support role to keep other people for yelling at them for wanting to duo-lane without a support :V

[TempAcc]

You're not supposed to farm or take kills still, though :u, and you still buy the wards and shit. The idea is that you pick a hero with high base damage on stuff and generally hard CC. I dont think there's any full damage supports. The reason people pick brand-annie-veigar support is because, while doing good damage with just base skills, they also have hard CC. Veigar is particulary awesome at this due to not needing to farm at all and still scaling due to his new passive.

At the same time, stuff like sion work really well because he doesnt actualy scale well to begin with, and you can just focus on becoming tanking and being a CC machine and still doing ok damage because your base stats are huge in comparison to pretty much everyone, meaning you'll do well if you can capitalize on your early advantage over pretty much everyone else.

[BlackHeartKabal]

longswords are the key