League of Legends - F2P MOBA (like DOTA) part 2

[crownjules]

I checked and the jungle remake came out a couple of weeks after S2 started. Far better though then introducing a remake a couple of weeks before the season ends and people are trying to grind for their rewards and now have to learn a revamped map with new items.

Caught this little tidbit about assassins in S3:

What I can say, though, is that Season 3 has a lot of changes in store for assassins. Armor penetration is going to play nice with itself: % pen is going back before flat pen, meaning Brutalizer + Last Whisper just got a lot sexier, and overall, Pantheon and Talon are getting a lot happier.

Flat resists got a bit more expensive, so they're going to do a better job against armor-splashing adc/mage/supports as well. Overall, it's going to be a nice change for the assassin role.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Well, after the patch, I decided to try TT and I crash everytime at the char loading screen Did the normal troubleshooting and not having any luck.

I never cared for the old one, but from what I've seen of the new one, looks pretty cool.

EDIT UPDATE: It seems several champs are causing crashing.

 

[krnmastersgt]

I think it's pretty annoying that they'd release a full remake of a map during a season's close. But at least everyone's in the same boat I suppose, gonna try to hit plat with my 3s team pretty soon.

But man solo queue has been trolling me of late, fell from 1782 to 1680 for a while >_>

 

[Firsttime]

There was an awkward gap between season 1 and season 2. The jungle change was in there somewhere. The changes there are the most exciting thing for me.

Also Phreak has mentioned that % Apen is going to start being applied before flat. That's a pretty major Brutalizer and Apen rune buff. Should help out a lot of AD casters, on high armor targets it can easily mean a 20+ armor difference. Also could make brutalizer a more interesting early game choice on AD carries.

 

[krnmastersgt]

There was an awkward gap between season 1 and season 2. The jungle change was in there somewhere. The changes there are the most exciting thing for me.

Also Phreak has mentioned that % Apen is going to start being applied before flat. That's a pretty major Brutalizer and Apen rune buff. Should help out a lot of AD casters, on high armor targets it can easily mean a 20+ armor difference. Also could make brutalizer a more interesting early game choice on AD carries.

Don't think we're likely to see Brutalizer on ranged ADC's for a while unless it can be used to build something useful, as Youmu's pretty heavily penalizes you for being ranged as opposed to melee and the rest of the stats aren't especially great considering the price for a ranged ADC.

I do hope that they don't allow for % before flat, or Darius is about to become stupid powerful as if you run flat apen on him and give up some early game damage, your lategame presence will be absolutely IMMENSE. As it stands he's the only champ capable of hitting around 60% armor pen, which is pretty substantial if on top of that he can get ~40 flat pen from runes + masteries + Youmu's. For an example, 200 armor becomes 80 after his % pen, then his flat pen reduces that to 40, if you have anyone capable of flat armor shred on top of that (taric, xin, j4) then they can be pretty close to taking true damage from your physical damage output.

 

[crownjules]

There's going to be an equally awkward gap between S2 and S3 I'm sure.

 

[ImpulsE69]

I think it's pretty annoying that they'd release a full remake of a map during a season's close. But at least everyone's in the same boat I suppose, gonna try to hit plat with my 3s team pretty soon.

But man solo queue has been trolling me of late, fell from 1782 to 1680 for a while >_>

You guys act like they care about anything other than the tourney players..tourneys are over.

They said that map is just beta as well, so it would appear, they really don't care what anyones standings are.

 

[krnmastersgt]

There's still over a week left to get ranked ratings, even in TT. The new map is going to throw anyone for a loop that doesn't having the rating they already want (like I need 2 more wins to get plat with one of my teams).

 

[ImpulsE69]

LOLDrop?

So...in the last few weeks during "good" games, I've been having odd "reconnect issues". They would happen right before I would enter a team fight, and I thought...must be my connection.

These are not typical lag, they are sudden "attempting to reconnect" while playing and my internet is working fine.

While reading about the new char and the new tribunal forums I saw mention of Riot needing to fix LOLDROP. Curious, I googled it and wow. Just wow. Riot acknowledges it, but I don't think they have a way to fix it. There are a few vids out there showing how to do it and how it works. If it's actually real ranked games are officially pointless now

PS Elise looks OP as hell, but I like her, even if she ends up sucking.

 

[nanobreath]

LOLDrop?

So...in the last few weeks during "good" games, I've been having odd "reconnect issues". They would happen right before I would enter a team fight, and I thought...must be my connection.

These are not typical lag, they are sudden "attempting to reconnect" while playing and my internet is working fine.

While reading about the new char and the new tribunal forums I saw mention of Riot needing to fix LOLDROP. Curious, I googled it and wow. Just wow. Riot acknowledges it, but I don't think they have a way to fix it. There are a few vids out there showing how to do it and how it works. If it's actually real ranked games are officially pointless now

PS Elise looks OP as hell, but I like her, even if she ends up sucking.

Wow, just wow indeed. Not a hack, just terrible server setup to allow this. Never would have thought something like that was possible. Completely baffling.

From what I've read though, you cannot directly target a specific person unless you have their IP address. It actually crashes the server, and will completely erase the game from existence. So you can't just takeout that AD carry that is kicking your ass, but if the game is a lost cause you can DDOS the server and end the game without getting a loss.


On another note, I played a game with my younger brother last night. He managed to get his account banned for 2 weeks, so he was playing on a smurf account, that surprisingly was lvl 30. The game we played...the other team picked all tanky champs. Alistar, Singed, Cho'gath, Mundo, and Volibear. I was playing Ez down bottom with Soraka support against mundo and voli. Of course we were absolutely destroying them. The poke of ez with heals just destroys melee champs. This was all expected, but the end of the game was completely hilarious. The entire other team sold all their items and bought wards, and placed them all over their base. Literally all over their entire base. It was a sea of wards. I couldn't move through the base by right clicking, because I would just attack a ward. Cracked me up for some reason, just couldn't stop laughing at the absurdity of it. But I guess thats what you get when you play with a bunch of noobs.

 

[zebano]

There's still over a week left to get ranked ratings, even in TT. The new map is going to throw anyone for a loop that doesn't having the rating they already want (like I need 2 more wins to get plat with one of my teams).

I'm in the same boat. 3 wins from plat and now I need to learn the new map. What I'm primarily trying to decide is if I can get away with taking smite in order to jungle? Ganks are actually a little faster in this map due to both the smaller distance from top to bottom, the fact that there are more paths through the jungle, the speed boost in the middle and the lack of wards so I really wonder if taking smite while good for farming isn't gimping me in the fighting department. the proximity of the camps is rather nice from a junglers perspective but it's also quite annoying when you get invaded since you don't really have anywhere else to go. In short the lack of wards is the thing that is most annoying to me since it feels like they said oh bad players don't use these anyway just give them sight at the speed buff and call it good.

 

[crownjules]

The change on Trist's Explosive Shot is as good as I thought it would be. No more awkward moments because you're just out of spell range so she has to walk forward a few steps to fire it. Once you hit them with the first AA, hit E and then continue plugging away.

edit for VVVVVV: Yes, I guess it now works to hop over some terrain that previously would block her jumping. Also the ult mana cost reduction is nice in teamfights since W's mana cost is so high as well. Which usually meant you might only get to do 1 extra jump if you were using all your skills.

 

[EDUSAN]

they kinda fixed the rocket jump too right?

i got that feeling, but not sure

 

[zebano]

they kinda fixed the rocket jump too right?

i got that feeling, but not sure

It seemed better to me. I really love the new E range scaling. It's so nice. 2 of my mains got buffed this patch (Tristana and Trundle) and I'm loving it.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

It seemed better to me. I really love the new E range scaling. It's so nice. 2 of my mains got buffed this patch (Tristana and Trundle) and I'm loving it.

If you could only hit those R's properly last night....

I kid.

 

[zebano]

If you could only hit those R's properly last night....

I kid.

yeah that was sad. I smartcast everything and turned R off to hit Rumble's ults (I'm still a terrible terrible top laner btw) and forgot to turn it back on.

 

[krnmastersgt]

I actually had a LoLDROP in one of my games, didn't realize what it was till a few days ago, but I have been told that they were able to address what it was hitting and that it no longer really works. I got a free win out of it though

Anyways I hate how the player mentality is about nerfs/buffs/pros doing weird stuff. Since Eve got nerfed everyone thinks she's useless but in reality she just lost a bit of her top-end damage output from her ult, which is compensated by the increase in damage from DFG, she just loses a bit from the CDR and the lower base damage but she's still damn good, and uncoordinated people will still get wrecked.

 

[zebano]

So who is everyone liking best on the new TT? It's certainly still bruiser heavy but Lee/Singed/Jax/Mord/Rumble/Cho/Yorick/Darius/Eve seem to be the best IMO. After a couple of attempts I really like Twitch early game but once that Darius/Singed/Riven gets farmed I just can't keep enough distance to really play well.


My favorite part is the sheer amount of gold available in the jungle. Push > farm jungle > push > farm jungle + triple G/10 and I had a 6 item Cho (boots of lucidity, Rylais, Torch, Shurelyias, Abyssal, Frozen Heart) which was utterly ridiculous. I don't like Nunu as much as I did on the old TT because consume just doesn't keep up with AoE junglers. I've heard that Cassiopia can jungle easily and quickly by rushing Chalice and maxing Q/W instead of E which I intend to test tonight.

 

[crownjules]

Free 10 win IP boost to celebrate winning GDC Online's Audience Awards. Best Live Game and Best Community Relations.

 

[EDUSAN]

i've been rocking with new trist this couple days after the patch... pretty fun. and with draven, that i bought him a couple days ago... i sucked for like 10 matches but now im starting to do pretty well

 

[crownjules]

Total up how much IP you've earned in your lifetime.

I'm at 269k.

edit: Most of the pros from CRS/TSM/CLG are in the 600-700k range.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

almost 200k. I feel poor. But I do have 25k ip on hand, so meh.

 

[zebano]

307,059 IP
Enough to buy 75% of all champions and no runes.


uhh I have all but 9 champs and 18 rune pages... I really don't want to know how much I've spent on RP.

Edusan I too love the Trist buffs. I'm thinking of giving up jungle and just playing AD/Support in S3. Either way I'm getting a bit sick of the game and will probably be taking a break here until S3 starts. I've got no love for Draven however, he just feels gimmicky to me.

 

[Firsttime]

Haha. 294,954. I've got all the champs and a metric shit ton of runes and 20 pages. Too much RP.

I'll add though, now that I've hit the point where I have all the champs I've been able to buy the past several with IP, don't need RP anymore for anything but skins.

 

[crownjules]

Shadow Ninja champ incoming!

So we’re going to be doing a big reveal on this stuff soon, but I wanted to give you a quick gameplay peek of the next champion – the Shadow Ninja.

We’ve worked hard to make a cool gameplay loop that is really ninja-y and lets you be pretty clever. Let me run you through it real fast;

• He can make a stationary shadow of himself that then copies his skills when used. For example, you can throw a skillshot shuriken and he’ll also throw one. If they both hit, then you hit with two!
• He can swap places with his shadow to be elusive, set up ganks, or dodge skillshots
• All his skills can double hit!
• Yes, he uses energy

Shadow Ninja’s gameplay isn’t about deceptive clones, but instead copying himself to extend and increase his power or mobility. And since his moves deal with areas or skillshots, setting up the right positioning to double-hit and maximize your damage is really important.