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

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thejunglegod

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Feb 12, 2012
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I did a quick lolking of your match history. You seem pretty good in the mid APC role but your ADC needs a lot of work. Most notably, you're dying a lot. You need to analyze why that is happening. I'm going to take a stab at the fact that your positioning is probably not that great and maybe during laning phase you don't trade well. Maybe at times your teammates don't help peel for you in which case you need to let your support and/or tank know they need to peel the enemy assassins and anti-carry off of you so you can live and do damage.

Also when you are doing well as APC, are you pressing your advantage on other lanes? It's not good enough that you go 3/0/x and push down mid tower. You need to parlay that into roaming bot/top and helping those lanes win with your advantage.

I'll start looking for people to do some games with and maybe some Ranked 5s. Not that I'm any good but working together instead of in the frustrations of solo queue only makes it an easier process. Just make sure you have Vent/Skype/TS/Mumble.

The sad part about me playing as the adc is that the deaths you see usually come late game/end game when the enemy team is so far fed/dominating that a squishy Kogmaw just melts away. But thanks for the tip. I'll definitely try for better positioning.

Also, regarding mid APC, you're spot on. I usually just try sticking to mid lane till late game and only ping/alert if my enemy mid is missing. I'll try roaming more.

Thanks crownjules.
 

ImpulsE69

Lifer
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I just played against an Udyr that just absolutely raped. At level 2 he was diving the tower and taking barely any damage and doing massive damage. His sheild was up almost the entire game if it was down, it was 1-2 seconds most even in the first few levels.

It was crazy how tanky he was yet could 1v3 our team and kill everyone. I knew he was tanky, but it was rediculous and he had no items to start with but jungling items.
 

krnmastersgt

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Jan 10, 2008
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Sad day, fell under 70% win ratio with Pantheon.

In other news the new T-Force is pretty epic on quite a few champs, the revised phage passive makes it a better chase item by quite a bit and the increased damage is most certainly welcome on quite a few champs. Jax is in a pretty damn strong state currently, between a T-Force and BotRK very few things can deal with him 1v1 or even 2v1.

Also LolNexus doesn't do much in my matches aside from put people who are in a foul mood because of a lost game in a rage state over duos and leagues that the match has occasionally. I just use it the way crownjules does for my 3's matches, just ID whoever is most likely the best player and just focus on keeping him down. In solo queue it doesn't make much difference aside from identifying who the duo on their team is and what kind of impact that will have on the game, for instance a duo top + jungle will likely either have a lot of jungle pressure or pretty much none as they'll either try to snowball the top or realize that he can hold the lane and have him just focus on other lanes (since most people believe themselves to be better than where they are currently).

If you're looking for an easy way to climb but not really accustomed to straightforward roams then look seriously into champs with global pressure as they allow you to influence other lanes directly with mapwide ganks or just from the fear that you could interfere with their lane. Karthus, Panth, Shen, TF, Nocturne are great solo queue champs for the most part, Shen isn't as big an influencer as the others can be though he's still very strong (but more powerful in coordinated plays).
 

Jeshu4ever

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Sep 21, 2013
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good place to find guides:
http://www.mobafire.com/

lol tools and useful software:
http://hackerbot.net/mmo/league-of-legends-lol

custom skins (only you would be able to see it, but some are better than riot ones!):
http://leaguecraft.com/skins

There's really very few core items each champ should get imo, others are completely dependent on your play style, so don't go following the guides exactly even if they are rated high

Yes I love the moba builds for champions... you can learn soo much.

Sadly I am only lvl 12 and dont have all the runes -.-
 

crownjules

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Jul 7, 2005
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Yes I love the moba builds for champions... you can learn soo much.

Sadly I am only lvl 12 and dont have all the runes -.-

I'll actually go ahead and say Mobafire is a bad place for guides. A lot of them are outdated or created by people who don't really have an idea. Probuilds.net is a better place as it lists what pro players have built along with what skills they took at what level, runes, masteries, and item build sequence. Ultimately, you want to get to the point where your build is fluid according to your needs of that particular game.
 

zebano

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Jun 15, 2005
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I'll actually go ahead and say Mobafire is a bad place for guides. A lot of them are outdated or created by people who don't really have an idea. Probuilds.net is a better place as it lists what pro players have built along with what skills they took at what level, runes, masteries, and item build sequence. Ultimately, you want to get to the point where your build is fluid according to your needs of that particular game.

"The place" to go for guides has long been solomid.net. That said, I don't honestly look up many guides anymore but I would second the idea of staying away from mobafire because there is no quality control and some guides from season 1 are still around.
 

defy

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"The place" to go for guides has long been solomid.net. That said, I don't honestly look up many guides anymore but I would second the idea of staying away from mobafire because there is no quality control and some guides from season 1 are still around.

Definitely avoid mobafire, it's the newbie trap of League guides. Solomid and Lolpro are both much better in quality.
 

zebano

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Jun 15, 2005
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If people are watching the world championship... holy shit Faker is amazing. I'd like to see Fnatic win it all again but I don't think anyone is beating SKT T1.
 

crownjules

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Jul 7, 2005
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It's too bad that C9 lost to Fnatic. I thought they might be one of the few non-Asian teams with a shot at winning it all. Perhaps it was their inexperience against non-US teams and playing on the big stage that got to them.
 

zebano

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Jun 15, 2005
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It's too bad that C9 lost to Fnatic. I thought they might be one of the few non-Asian teams with a shot at winning it all. Perhaps it was their inexperience against non-US teams and playing on the big stage that got to them.

I thought they just got outpicked. Fnatic just had the better late game comps and while C9 got ahead early game with dragons it wasn't far enough ahead and at about the 25 minute mark they just didn't have the damage to win a fight anymore.
 

slpnshot

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Dec 1, 2011
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I thought they just got outpicked. Fnatic just had the better late game comps and while C9 got ahead early game with dragons it wasn't far enough ahead and at about the 25 minute mark they just didn't have the damage to win a fight anymore.

I thought the team comp was fine tbh. Both teams had different power spikes that they had to take advantage of. C9 went for the obvious early game and they should have transitioned their early dragon control into a strong mid game by controlling the enemy jungle and starving them of objectives.

But from what I remember, C9 had a distinct lack of deep wards and multiple members of their team walked into a 3-4 man kill squad for essentially free gold. This let Fnatic push for easy objectives and get back into the game long enough to hit their power spike.

On top of that, Xpeke just seemed to be a better player than Hai.
 

yhlee

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Jun 15, 2000
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Hey guys, I'm looking for some people to duo ranked. I placed into silver 3, immediately dropped to silver 5, hung around there for a while, and just worked my way back to silver 3. I moved from the east coast to west, so I don't really have anyone to play with. I can't skype unfortunately since my housemates sleep (and that's when I start playing), though I can listen. I just failed my promo to silver 2 with 2 of the 3 games having an afk on my side (miraculously we won one)...

Anyways, non-rager, just looking to get better with dreams of gold

Strategically average. Mechanically average. Theorycrafting below avg.

Thought I was faker and played Riven (after 1 practice game vs bots) and proceeded to get owned.

msg me ingame kimchee burger
 

crownjules

Diamond Member
Jul 7, 2005
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Not sure how many have seen this, but there's a very easy way to make 13,000 RP right now.

1,000 RP for signing up for an American Express Serve (pre-paid) card.

11,000 RP for direct depositing $20 into the card.

1,000 RP for making 10 transactions with the card.

You can link a PayPal account for DD purposes and then use the $20 to purchase ten $2 Amazon cards or something. Then you never have to use the card again and get 13K RP for it.
 
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thats a nice deal but i dont want to bother HR with a one time 20 dollar DD set up. if i could fund otherwise id consider.
 

festa_freak

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Dec 2, 2011
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You can electronically transfer funds online from most financial institutions to most others. For me, it costs 1.50 so I have only used it once (thats how I found out about the fee) but really, if you do need to pay $5 even to transfer, you still get a crap ton of RP points.

I should find out if this works in Canada, or does anyone know?
 

redrider4life4

Senior member
Jan 23, 2009
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I just got my 10,000 RP and another 1,000 RP for using the card. it's pretty amazing. Over $100 in free RP and its pretty easy to set up. The biggest issue I had was it took like 5 business days for cash to get transferred to the account initially.
 

Unoid

Senior member
Dec 20, 2012
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Has anyone signed up then immediately canceled the card after getting riot points?

I signed up, but didn't realize they want a direct deposit from your employer for the 10k points.

I figured I could transfer funds via Bank Act # and routing number (direct deposit transfer)

But I'll load maybe 50$ and spend it on little things to get the 2k points for sure.

If there's a 1$ maintenance fee I'll just cancel the card and use my regular AMEX that gives me points.
 
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