League of Legends

Eiredhel

I've been having  a ton of fun playing league lately, and I've been introducing a lot more achaeans to my other friends, which, while semi awkward has led to some pretty amusing situations. 

So thanks to all the Achaeans who've been down to play, especially in some of those crazy in-house dominion matches. And to all the others who have been down to talk.

@Xer, @Kresslack, @Rangor, @Sohl, and I know I must be missing some more people, but it'll come to me!

Erasariel

NAUTILUS

Worth every last penny. So, so, so, so, so much fun. And I won agaiinnnnnnn. Got to say, that game was all kinds of messed up. Our Ez and their Eve kept disconnecting, and there were some incredibly messy fights and turnarounds. I'm just glad we won! It was a pretty amicable atmosphere too, was fun to play with nice people.

Daklore

Erasariel said:

He won't be out until next patch.

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3643674&page=2#39600063

SGU will be coming out after they drop a patch. As in, he's part of 3.9, you're not waiting for 3.10 which'll be a month or so down the road, likely.

I would say he'll be here for the weekend. Everything I've heard/read said he was included in the 3.9 patch, just not activated--which is what the patch will be for; activating SGU.

Synbios

Goggo said:

I just noticed...but does Riven have a new icon?

Apolinario

oh yeah. that is some cool splash art.. it looks a lot better than the previous one too

Cynlael

Still loving the Nami... Also, people giving support credit... I'm not sure I'm actually playing League of Legends :S

On a side note, lol @ late game Poppy damage... Bad start? No worries, just get sheen and you win.

Kresslack

I've never played Wukong before, but have played him the last couple of days as a free champion, and this is the most fun I've had with a champion since Rengar came out.

Synbios

Apolinario said:

oh yeah. that is some cool splash art.. it looks a lot better than the previous one too

Looking at the comments on the LoL wiki, I don't understand why other people didn't like the new splash art. Personally, this is excellent work, a visible upgrade from her static pose of the old splash art.

Apolinario

just recently bought sona this week and had been playing her for the past two days. she's a great support champ - excellent lane domination and yeah I got promoted yay!

Cynlael

Leona MF should not have lost that lane - Yes, it's Draven, but Leona shuts down that lane so hard it's not even funny.

Daklore

Just because it's a counter, doesn't mean she'll win 100% of the time. A part of it comes down to skill. If they don't know what they're doing with the countering champion, they're not going to do a very good job of it. If the person being countered is -reaaaaaaaaally- good, they might not even be shutdown anyway. Because they'll be able to skill their way out of it.

Cynlael

Daklore said:

Just because it's a counter, doesn't mean she'll win 100% of the time. A part of it comes down to skill. If they don't know what they're doing with the countering champion, they're not going to do a very good job of it. If the person being countered is -reaaaaaaaaally- good, they might not even be shutdown anyway. Because they'll be able to skill their way out of it.

>Should not. I dunno if you saw those two words or not.

Erasariel

Welp. Now that TSM's unorthodox high-risk strategy simply crumbled, people will have one more reason to be blind meta sheep. Meh.

VUL won though, so I'm happy. Not a satisfying victory, but a victory nonetheless.

Jarrod

TSM couldn't have beaten Vulcan standard, they had to try and cheese. It didn't work out, unfortunately for them.

Erasariel

WELP

http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=12422115#12422115

Cynlael

More OGN tonight. Woop woop.


PS. Yay C9

Mathonwy

TSM's double bruiser bot lane pretty much carried their ranked 5s team into Challenger (they haven't lost a game yet this season with it in ranked apparently), but it's really surprising that they'd try something like that in the LCS.

Also, I'm becoming more and more convinced that Regi really needs to retire, if only because he has massively conflicted interests serving as owner, manager, captain, and team-member of TSM. That's an absolutely terrible way to run a business.

Eiredhel

I think he's just staying on the team at this point because his team mates requested it. I'm fairly certain he's retiring this year though, based on what I've heard from others and heard him say myself. Then again, he does like love/hate the attention, so it seems to really rest on how much the TSM franchise is doing and whether he thinks him stepping off the roster will negatively impact the money. 

Goggo

I had to try Nautilus again after playing with that guy the other day.. he is so damn fun hehe.

Kresslack

Hopped in an ARAM's for some quick fun, ended up getting Varous. Have never used him before, but, it was awesome. 

Erasariel

If you guys haven't bought Nautilus yet, I suggest you do. He's all kinds of cute and fun, he's friendly to the meta, and his /joke is worth it. Worrrthhhhh

Cynlael

Erasariel said:

If you guys haven't bought Nautilus yet, I suggest you do. He's all kinds of cute and fun, he's friendly to the meta, and his /joke is worth it. Worrrthhhhh

Didn't say in /all chat. It's not worth, you liar.

:-q 2/10

Daklore

I hate it when people say worth. Especially when they just go 1 for 1, or maybe 2 for 1 on a deep dive that they shouldn't be making in the first place.

Now the initiator making a fight happen with a 4-1 or even 5-1(edit: in favour of the initiator's team, of course).

That's deserving of an /all worth

Goggo

Vaehl said:

Bronze is great, I learned this cool strategy: when you die you instantly all chat "Worth it." and it becomes worth it.

Vaehl Lol teachings, tome III

Cynlael

Actually that's what diamond players do, it's how you get to diamond.

If you don't say in /all chat 'Worth' then it's not worth it no matter what.

Goggo

Hecarim is so fun too.. I should play him more often heh, funny enough this time I wanted to play support(said noone ever?) and was forced to jung.. heh

Erasariel

Dammit CLG! You threw that CRS game so hard even Scarra will be shocked.

Goodness.

Jarrod

Dear CLG,

Where the f- were these team fights vs C9/Crs?

Sincerely,
Jarrod

Erasariel

BREAKING NEWS

REGI THROWS

IN OTHER NEWS

WATER IS WET

MORE TO COME AT ELEVEN

Daklore

First time playing Summoner's Rift in... 3 months, maybe 4. Was off to a weird start in champ select ... as you can see, Jungle Fizz. At the very least, there was no arguing in champ select. I made my preference of ADC and they let me have it. Yay. Enemy team picked Graves(2nd pick). I was 4th pick, so everyone is asking, "Do you have Cait? Can you play Cait?" when I had already before said she was my goto... so I picked Cait, cause, why not?

Their Nasus support feeds me first blood(okay, Sona baited it and I read the play and dropped a trap almost right on him... so the only way for him to get out was to set off the trap). Sona then proceeded to win me bottom lane. My second kill was a beautiful level 6-er, fired off my Q hitting Graves behind his turret and immediatly putting an ace in the hole lock on him. Anyway, I ended laning phase at like 6-0. My first death was kind of a dumb "We're greedy" engage which gave Jayce shutdown gold. My second death was me pushing bottom inner and not having vision on the map. My spider-senses were tingling though.

Oh, right. Graves "left"(the enemy team claims he didn't rage-quit... but c'mon, I was thrashing him so hard! (with Sona's help)) around 10 minutes into the game. They may have fared better if he had stayed, they might have even been able to fight us 5v5 in the mid, cause, we didn't have a dedicated tank.

Ah well, at least this tells me I'm still solid in my ADCing.