Ya know, we should take a note from the Hardforum guys and make our own chat room on LoL. They have a room called "[H]ard" and you can set it to auto join that room when you log on, easy to find guys to play with.
I finally played some games with guys from AT past two nights, normally I work nights and am not up in time to catch games with anyone but SEA and EU players who play on US.
Good times.
Tried Katarina for the first time last night, surprisingly simple yet entertaining.
I just did this last night, shes ok, seems like she could really pubstomp, but really lacks on crowd control.
I also tried ezreal and was not impressed although our enemy team was extremely tanky and basically towerdived at will.... I guess that's the current meta game so I shouldn't be surprised but against Nasus/Alistar/Garen/whoever I really felt useless.
3v3 is primarily won at champion select. The number of useful champs is reduced, but the useful champs are much more useful.
I've never been a big fan of Ezreal either. His damage is too spread out. He's great in the early game. Great at harassing, great at last hit farming, and good at pushing. Mid game he's good at chasing and running. That's about it. His damage is still very sub par. He's mostly a single target kill stealer character. He's still very squishie. One good CC and someone with decent DPS will kill him before the CC wears off. If you put some tankish items on him to survive his DPS really goes into the toilet though. His lack of CC and utility also doesn't help team fights at all. He doesn't even have a slow. He is just weak sauce.
Yep. And champs that aren't as useful in 5v5 are much better in 3v3. Mundo is a prime example of this. In 5v5 mundo is worthless for the most part. In 3v3 Mundo reigns king. He ends up being ridiculously hard to kill in 3v3 and from mid game to most of late game the other team can't kill him. With Mundo's ult running it is hard for 3 champs, even primarily dps champs, to be able to kill him without being fed with really good items first.
I want to know how you push with Ez? He has only two spells that can hit multiple targets and they both only hit champions (w, r). Other than that he has to hit single targets repeatedly and he uses a ton of mana basically making tear/Manamune a necessity. I did like the teleport on his e, but at 100+ mana per use and a 10+ second cooldown it's not that helpful except as an escape. His main damage (q) is also easy to avoid early game just by staying inside your creep wave.
Yeah I love Nunu in 3x3, the snowball + bloodboil means that no one can catch you and consume both keeps you healed and lets you get the jungle creeps + buffs easily. Last time I played him there I think I bought boots + 4x D. Ring +4 wards and basically won lol.
Singed is another champ whose insanely easy to play on TT. Due to the narrow long lanes, he can easily farm/push and he's Singed so he can't be caught / killed without a heroic effort.
The narrow lanes also help nunu get his ult off easier as well. As enemy champs are limited in the direction the can go to get away from it most of the time.
I'm going to try out MF tonight, any tips or just the usual AD build (i.e. Rush a BF).
If you guys think Ezreal is weak please watch Reginald play him. Just goes to show that some champions will make magic in the right hands.
Good players can play any character, even bad champs, and still do well if not astounding against weak players. That is a testament to the player skill and not the champ. Speaking objnectively as possible about each champ though is different. Ezreal is just a really bad champ and has been for a long time. I think they gave up on fixing him though since they haven't touched him since they nerfed him hard to the point where people only play him during a free week.
There are several chars that do good as hybrids but EZ is not one of them. Nidalee and Jax are examples of decently made hybrid chars. They could be better but they work better than EZ.
There are just some champs when I see then being played I groan badly if they are on my team. Some champs aren't worth playing unless you are pub stomping. EZ is one of them.
They have fixed some champs from crap hell in my opinion. Eve is one. She isn't what I call the best champ but she is decent enough I don't get pissed if she is picked at least now.