Howdy, Stranger!
Categories
- 6.2K All Categories
- 3.1K Everything Achaea
- 1.5K North of Thera
- 26 Archives of the Terraformer
- 257 The Matsuhama Arena
- 885 The Golden Dais of Creation
- 299 The Scarlattan Theatre
- 149 The Blank Canvas
- 2K Getting Help
- 412 General Questions
- 258 Quick Class Questions
- 1.3K Tech Support
- 313 Client Help
- 486 Curing Systems and Scripts
- 841 Off-Topic
- 255 The Wander Inn
- 586 The Universal Membrane
- 298 Class Discussions
- 298 Individual Class Sections
- 20 Alchemist
- 9 Apostate
- 30 Blademaster
- 9 Depthswalker
- 14 Druid
- 4 Infernal
- 20 Jester
- 19 Magi
- 34 Monk
- 11 Occultist
- 8 Paladin
- 7 Priest
- 29 Runewarden
- 18 Sentinel
- 26 Serpent
- 20 Shaman
- 9 Sylvan
Comments
Would you like to try again?
@Jespar : Cool story, nice to see your arguments are still well thought out.
Thx for the compliment.
PS WotA on AP trist is bad. Lich Bane > Dcap > Leapfrog for penta.
@Cynlael sorry, but we're not all high ranked super-skilled players. Most of us are casual players. Stop being so mean and let us post our LoL matches in the LoL thread. -Most- of us post a little story, some people actually kind of like those kind of AARs(After-Action Reports in case someone doesn't know).
@Jespar please, stop it. Just please, stop.
@Blujixapug not sure if serious...
Everyone else, there's no reason to antagonize Cynlael because they don't want us to post ARAM games. Don't do it intentionally just to piss them off. I usually only show one game a day if at all.
When Canada rules the world,
things will be... nii~ice.
Lol.
It's cool, you already said I was the best.
Now watch, my next game as Zyra? Will be a complete and utter fail. Dominion, ARAM, or SR regardless. (I just wanted to play Zyra, I never get to roll her in ARAM >.>)
When Canada rules the world,
things will be... nii~ice.
This wasn't a Zyra game...
Of course, the next problem was... "we have no range." Oh well, that's not so bad. Maybe they'll be all melee too... and then loading screen... and all that range and poke. Early and mid-game was horrible. In order to get kills, we had to give up just as many kills, sometimes one more than that. The turning point? When we were shoved to our nexus turrets--we still hadn't gotten any turrets--and we made a beaaaauuuutiful engage. Or... rather, I actually got my zhonya's off for the first time >.> and the enemy team flustered with me on top of them.
Then I died, and they were still on my defile... and then the requiem came down. Karthus Quadra kill! Ace.
We got inhib turret off of that. Then Rengar used his ult to slip past them as they were moving in to crush us to take their inhib. We took it in stride and defended our nexus turrets 4v5, followed it up with a barely won fight. Rengar proceeded to stealth past once more as they advanced, and beat on their nexus turret. Which drew them away and of course, more importantly, put damage on.
Again, 4v5 defend to keep our nexus turrets alive. Against all... that... poke. But we did it, and pulled off one last 5-0 Ace and moved down to take nexus turrets and nexus. I was planning to build a lich bane, but I never had the gold. There was no reason other than I wanted more move speed to keep them in my defile. And moar AP.
When Canada rules the world,
things will be... nii~ice.
i currently have Alistair, Annie, Ashe, Blitzcrank, Garen, Kayle, Master Yi, Nunu, Sivir, Twisted Fate, Udyr and Warwick
and i have 2229 IP
any and all opinions will be loved and cuddled like fresh puppies
When Canada rules the world,
things will be... nii~ice.
The best way to play him is to poke people down, as he doesn't have the same level of upfront damage output as a nuker mage like Annie; he really only has 2 damage spells.
The difficulty in playing a poke champion in solo queue is that your playstyle relies on poking down the enemy team before you engage, but your teammates may not realise that, and may just want to charge in and engage right now. If you are playing a poke mage, you may then be less effective than the enemy team's mage in a direct engagement.
Other strong poke champions are Nidalee (poster champ for poke), Ezreal, Heimerdinger, Ziggs, Jayce, Corki. Plenty of other champions can kinda sorta poke, including Gragas, Lux, Mundo, Kennen, Maokai (omg play AP Maokai it's fun), Viktor, Zilean etc.
also, @Jespar, Nidalee is, imo, one of the most fun champions to play ever at all at any time. There's not a single thing in this game that is more rewarding than seeing half an enemy's HP disappear at level 1 (and the sound it makes is really really satisfying too), and spears are cheap manawise so you have ample opportunity to throw them over the course of the game. Nidalee also brings some good utility to the team (and waveclear, post-six) and if you use her passive well she's almost impossible to chase down (which allows for awesome juking potential).
On topic: Varus is godly (Can steal blue teams red buff from dragon pit at level 1, if you time it properly)
I'm not sure why none of you mentioned him, Graves, Ahri, Anivia; all of which are safer than the champs mentioned (bar maybe jayce) and have higher / easier to land skills.
You've got to be the only person I've seen say that TF cannot outright burst someone... Look at tournament games, and see -just- how much damage a TF pumps out when he all-ins.
Do not underestimate E damage.
@Mathonwy : Unless you're running 100% AP runes / masteries, and start with dorans / amp tome, there is no way a spear is going to chunk that much HP at level 1.
And if you do start that, prepare your anus for their jungler pitching a tent in your lane.
Apparently off topic, again, so...
ADC: Graves/Varus
Mid: Ahri/Anivia/Karthus (Honestly cannot believe none of you mentioned these 3)
Top: Kennen (can also be mid, not optimally though, imo) / Jayce (same here, he can counter a lot of mids)
Support: Zyra (takes practice to play well) ... Most supports are good, really. Just pick Sona if you aren't sure.
Jungler: Maokai (niche pick in current meta) / Elise / J4, to an extent...
Lots of champs... But yolo queue is gonna make it hard to have a poke comp work, when they all think "omg we hit a skillshot guys TIME TO ALL IN"...
Yes. All of those 4. Not just having 1 or 2 of them in a team with Darius. Vi can also replace one of them.
Also, @Jespar, Darius is a champ built around an attrition-based playstyle, and as any given 1v1 goes on long enough, all else being equal, Darius will win the fight. His power spikes around midgame, and his easiest lane matchups are going to be against champs that don't have a lot of disengage or ranged poke. Shen, for instance, is a matchup I can usually win np. Renekton, you normally want to focus on harassing, assuming you can trade better than he can (it can be hard to do vs a good Renekton). If you can get bleeding stacks on him just before you hit six, you can normally all-in him with ease. Jayce (do people still seriously play Jayce top?) or skillshot-based champs, you want to try to get good brush control and/or stay behind minions and harass when the skillshot's down or when your minions will help you to win trades. His worst matchups tend to be, in my experience, people who can all-in you better early-game (I never want to play him into an Aatrox again) or who can ignore your ultimate (don't try to ult Vlad or Tryndamere unless Trynd's used his ult/Vlad his pool or you've baited them out previously).
In teamfights, your job is going to be to peel for your carries (e.g., Aatrox dives in with his Q onto your Caitlyn; you use your E to pull him off of her and out of position), to serve as secondary initiation (Flash + Apprehend), and/or to abuse poor positioning on the part of the enemy team's carries (pulling them over walls etc). He can be played into almost any team comp or as a part of a skirmish/teamfight-centered comp and is a good choice if you need another offtank who can still serve as a pretty potent damage threat.