I took most of the night off from playing to watch the spurs game and have a few drinks. But, I got the itch in me to play one game when I got back.
Well I ended my 7 game losing streak (and 5-21 overall for the past couple of weeks) by playing AP Sion with a rammus, WW, janna and galio team and roflstomped all over my enemies. I can' remember the last time I went 13/2/19 =)
leleleleLegendary!
Final build: Lich bane, Merc Treads, Abysall Scepter, Nashors tooth (I was fed so I went hybrid), Chain Vest, Cloak of Agility.... if only I had that Atma's
http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/1518/roflw.jpg
Largest Killing Spree: 12 =)
/brag
Alright so I downloaded this because an RL friend is playing and recommended I try it.
I've played 3 advanced tutorial matches and wondering what I should do next. When is it recommended that I stop doing the training matches and progress onto real PvP nonsense?
Is there any basic advice or do I just play, die horrifically, get verbally abused multiple times and learn from there?
New Skins in the Store
* Lil’ Slugger Trundle
* Junkyard Trundle
* Brolaf
* Blade Mistress Morgana
League of Legends v1.0.0.106
Notes from the Design Team (new!)
This patch is focused upon the following main issues:
* Area of Effect damage and disable spells being too powerful
o Area of Effect is taking a pretty large hit this patch, especially to the damage on Galio’s Idol of Durand, Morgana’s Soul Shackles and Vladimir’s Hemoplague. After seeing its effect on the game over a longer period of time, we’ve found something more akin to Annie’s Summon: Tibbers is a proper mix of area size, damage, and disable. We have several area-effect skills in the game that have power creeped past this and we’re looking to bring this back to acceptable levels.
o Twitch’s Spray and Pray is a big factor in this. We are considering bigger changes for that ability.
* Strong supports are able to protect powerful ranged carries too well, cancelling their fragility too easily
o We’re starting with a duration nerf to Morgana's Black Shield and Janna's Eye of the Storm to reward better timing of the spell reactively and to raise the skill ceiling a bit on these spells. If this proves too little, we’ll provide additional nerfs in the upcoming patch.
* Ranged carries, holistically, are too safe considering their damage output
o While we predict bigger changes will be required, our first adjustments are to lower the movement speeds of ranged carry-style champions to provide more of a tradeoff, and nerf Blessing of the Lizard Elder when used on ranged champions. We’d like to keep ranged carries “safer” than melee, but start to provide more tradeoffs to both give melee a place in the game and differentiate the roles of melee and ranged characters.
Trundle, The Cursed Troll
* Rabid Bite: Trundle bites his opponent, dealing damage and sapping some of their attack damage.
* Contaminate: Trundle infects a target location with his curse, gaining attack speed, movement speed, and crowd control reduction while on it.
* Pillar of Filth: Trundle creates a plagued beacon at a target location, which becomes impassable terrain and slows all nearby enemy units.
* Agony (Ultimate): Trundle immediately steals his target’s health and a percentage of their armor and magic resistance. Over the next six seconds the amount of health, armor, and magic resistance stolen is doubled.
* Decompose (Passive): Whenever an enemy unit near Trundle dies, he heals for a percentage of their maximum health.
Akali
* Fixed a bug where Shadow Dance could sometimes deal damage even if interrupted by a knockup / knockaway
Blitzcrank
* Overdrive no longer has a movement speed reduction when it ends
* Fixed a bug where Power Fist was not breaking spell shields
* Fixed a bug where Static Field and Power Fist did not display the hit particle when they killed a unit
* Base attack speed increased. This should enhance the effectiveness of the attack speed portion of Overdrive.
* Updated recommended items
Corki
* Phosphorous Bomb no longer reveals stealthed units
* Fixed a bug where Gatling Gun could hit unseen, non-champion stealthed targets like wards
* Fixed a bug where Gatling Gun was dealing too much damage
* Fixed a tooltip typo with Missile Barrage
* Base movespeed reduced to 300
Galio
* Resolute Smite ability power ratio increased to 0.75 from 0.7
* Righteous Gust ability power ratio reduced to 0.5 from 0.65
* Righteous Gust movement speed bonus increased to 20/25/30/35/40% from 20/24/28/32/36%
* Idol of Durand
o Ability power ratio reduced to 0.6 from 0.8
o Damage percent increase on hit reduced to 5% from 10%
o Total damage cap reduced to 140% from 180%
Janna
* Tailwind will now persist for her allies while Janna is dead
* Eye of the Storm duration reduced to 5 seconds from 10
* Monsoon heal per second reduced to 70/110/150 from 90/130/170
* Monsoon slow reduced to 30% from 40%
Kayle
* Kayle now counts as a ranged attacker while using Righteous Fury
Kog'Maw
* Base movement speed reduced to 305 from 310
Malphite
* Seismic Shard damage reduced to 70/120/170/220/270 from 80/135/190/245/300
Miss Fortune
* Base movement speed reduced to 300 from 310
* Double Up base damage reduced to 25/60/95/130/165 from 35/70/105/140/175
Morgana
* Black Shield duration reduced to 5 seconds at all levels from 4/5/6/7/8
* Soul Shackles
o Stun duration reduced to 1.0/1.5/2.0 from 1.5/2.0/2.5
o Ability power ratio reduced to .8 from .9
o Cooldown increased to 120 seconds at all levels
Nidalee
* Pounce no longer deals damage if her jump is interrupted by another movement effect
Pantheon
* Spear Shot base damage reduced to 20/31/42/53/64 from 30/40/50/60/70
* Heartseeker Strike attack damage conversion increased to 28/31/34/37/40% from 18/22/26/30/34%
* Grand Skyfall mana cost reduced to 150 from 150/250/350
* Aegis Protection now shows a counter as you build up charges
* The threshold required to trigger the Aegis Protection now increases with Pantheon's level. This should result in fewer occasions where Aegis Protection is broken by minions
Sona
* Hymn of Valor base damage reduced to 60/110/160/210/260 from 70/120/170/220/270
* Hymn of Valor ability power ratio reduced to 0.5 from 0.6
* Aria of Perseverance healing reduced to 30/55/80/105/130 from 40/65/90/115/140
* Song of Celerity active movespeed reduced to 6/8/10/12/14% from 8/10/12/14/16%
Tristana
* Base movespeed reduced to 300 from 310.
* Rocket Jump no longer deals damage and slows if her jump is interrupted by another movement effect
Twitch
* Spray and Pray duration reduced to 6 seconds from 7. We are considering more a extensive ability tweak in the future.
* Base movespeed reduced to 305 from 310
Veigar
* Baleful Strike missile speed increased by 100
* Equilibrium mana regeneration percent increased to 0.75% from 0.5%.
* Basic attack missile speed increased by 100
Vladimir
* Fixed a bug where Tides of Blood was not providing Vladimir with enough increased regeneration and healing
* Fixed a bug where Tides of Blood did not deal full damage if you had 4 stacks before casting
* Hemoplague
o Cooldown increased to 150/135/120 seconds from 120
o Damage amplification effect changed to 14% at all ranks from 10/14/18%
o Base damage reduced to 150/250/350 from 200/300/400
o Ability power ratio reduced to 0.7 from 0.75
Warwick
* Eternal Thirst
o Heal per stack increased to 6/12/18 from 5/10/15
o Maximum number of stacks reduced to 3 from 4
o Duration increased to 4 seconds from 3
* Base attack speed reduced slightly
Xin Zhao
* Audacious Charge no longer deals damage and slows if Xin Zhao's dash is interrupted by another movement effect
Items
* Aegis of the Legion no longer buffs allies while the holder is dead
* Chalice of Harmony passive effect unique to match the tooltip
* Doran's Blade
o Damage increased to 8 from 6
o Health reduced to 100 from 120
o Lifesteal reduced to 3% from 4%
* Doran's Ring
o Ability power increased to 15 from 10
o Health reduced to 100 from 120
o Mana regeneration per 5 reduced to 4 from 5
* Frozen Mallet tooltip now shows slow % for melee and ranged attackers
* Innervating Locket no longer buffs allies while the holder is dead
* Rylai's Scepter
o Slow duration reduced to 1.5 from 2
o Updated the tooltip to reflect slow information for single target and damage-over-time slows
* Sword of the Divine has a new hit effect and a new activation particle
* Tiamat tooltip now shows splash % for melee and ranged attackers
* Will of the Ancients no longer buffs allies while the holder is dead
* Wriggle's Lantern wards now show a duration in the mana bar like sight and vision wards
Masteries
* Fixed a bug with Rank 2 of Utility Mastery where it was not working properly
General
* Blessing of the Lizard Elder now slows for 10/20/30% if melee and 5/10/15% if ranged
* Autumn Summoner's Rift Moved Nashor to the same location as the summer version of Summoner's Rift.
* Twisted Treeline - Grez the Lizard Lord
o Health per player level increased to 175 from 150
o Magic resistance increased to -20 from -30
o Gold granted reduced to 50 from 100
* Twisted Treeline Super Minions
o Health increased to 1200 from 1000
o Base damage increased by 30
* Fixed a bug where various 'modified attacks' were not firing while taunted or silenced (examples: Twisted Fate's Pick a Card, Udyr's Bear Stance)
* Fixed a bug where players that never connect were not being granted +1000 magic resist
* Removed "hun" from the word filter
Skins
* Reduced the size of the Monarch Kog'Maw skin by approximately 10%
You can just go ahead and jump right into the pvp. Its recommended you try out new champs in a practise game first, just to see what thier skills do, but at low levels, who cares. (usually the people bitching in the low lvl games are experienced players that created a new account to pwn newbs, just ignore them)
I took most of the night off from playing to watch the spurs game and have a few drinks. But, I got the itch in me to play one game when I got back.
Doran's Blade/Ring changes are interesting to note. I presume that's to make them less attractive to stack early game. The change to Corki's Phos Bomb not detecting stealth anymore kind of sucks. Not that I play Corki much, but I never felt like it was a bad thing that it did that.
I've never understood this whole deal. I apparently just don't have that "gene" in me that makes me feel good because I can stomp people who are just starting out. Usually they are the biggest asses during the game too, rather than being helpful.
After losing 5 games in a row to teams that I highly suspect are coordinating on vent (which the matchmaking completely fails to take into account(not that I expect it to)), I like to play a game where I have an advantage. That and the whole referring myself thing sometimes >.> <.<
Looks like they didnt actually touch Ashe though? She does do very near Master Yi damage, but with the benefit of being ranged.
Note that premades are not matched with solos (but duos can solo queue). Therefor if a team is on vent someone volunteered a server in champ select and everyone jumped on which I find highly unlikely.
That is only true in ranked. In normal games, solo queue gets matched vs premades all the time, unless something changed very recently (I haven't played much in the past week).
Huh? Ashe doesn't have any damage increasers among her skills. Give ashe and annie the exact same items and they would do more or less the same damage with auto-attack, minus any minor base damage differences. Yi has a massive passive damage increase, and a huge attack speed increase. Apples and oranges.
Tristana on the other hand has a huge damage multiplier in her self attack speed buff.
Huh? Ashe doesn't have any damage increasers among her skills. Give ashe and annie the exact same items and they would do more or less the same damage with auto-attack, minus any minor base damage differences. Yi has a massive passive damage increase, and a huge attack speed increase. Apples and oranges.
Tristana on the other hand has a huge damage multiplier in her self attack speed buff.
Still, Ashe DID get a nerf, same as Anivia and all other ranged chars. The fact that now items and buffs react differently for ranged versus melee chars is a huge nerf.
But Ashe being cheap like Yi, means everyone has them and most of them being noobs. Which means every new player to the game gets these two chars first, plays the hell out of them while learning bad habits and then proceeds to continue playing them the same way at level 30 as they did at level 5. Which means the majority of the time if you see an Ashe or Yi, they will suck. Same can be said for Tristana, Tryndamere, Nunu, and TF for example. Cheap, easy to obtain heroes that are over played by poor players.
Note that premades are not matched with solos (but duos can solo queue). Therefor if a team is on vent someone volunteered a server in champ select and everyone jumped on which I find highly unlikely.