I haven’t had the chance to play any LoL games since the patch and won’t be able to for a bit, but I heard the minion changes have been wrecking games. Is this true?
Well I dont know about wrecking but I have mos def noticed that minions can bring down turrets must faster than before. Yea Jarvan seems good, idk maybe it is depending on the user to. I played against him in 3 games and only one game he won vs our team, but then again it probably comes down to team play more than just one char being op or not.
Idunno about wrecking “games” but minions are definitely wrecking towers now. Out of the games I played the one wave of minions that did make it to a turret by themselves took it down pretty low but that was after 20+ minutes had already elapsed. The only reason the wave made it that far was because the other team was having a picnic in the bush by my teams blue for about 4-5 minutes.
I love the new minions pushing speeds up the game and allows me as a solo to push and gank more effectively before end game.
I huge problem with my belkins router. Everytime someone else gets online it knocks me off line.
I didn’t care too much for jarvan,
but then I saw this and now I wanna play him just so I could do a 15 minute baron with my team.
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dem minions be OP as fuck.
I am still not seeing this “minion rape” you guys are talking about the game just seems to progress a little faster.
Well it is there since the minions can destroy towers faster.(50% more damage against towers)With alot of minions, the damage adds up fast/
Less incentive to teamfight but I mean it depends on if the team you face actually use the minion advantage i.e. backdoor or pushing hard or as they call it split pushes.
I thought it was a good move actually as around mid game ppl just 5 man roam/teamfight and go save the towers from minions every 5 mins. Minions didn’t do enough lol. They were UP. Now they themselves will chew towers down. So it adds a more strategic layer to the game.
Ya exactly how i see it keeps the game moving no stalemate were 5 people stare at each other for a good 5 mins. allows more movement and strategy plays.
I definitely agree… it really deepens the end game instead of just having team fight after team fight. Backdooring was a somewhat viable option before but it was limited to a few characters who could pull it off successfully. Now it’s going to take a lot more coordination to keep creeps pushing into your base by themselves.
damn ive been away a good time from this game. i stopped playing around when kog’maw came out onto the live servers.
can somebody give me an summary of how the game is going? like what the popular heroes are now? it used to be carries like annie, ashe, jax, twitch, yi, shaco, TF, etc. would just gank the squishies get fed and then proceed to rape face.
and if there is a youtube or website that has high-end replays?
ATM every team I run into is playing an AoE/CC comp or an extremely tanky comp that can just bully towers over (even with the added armor pen to turrets). In fact towers seem like they are dying way faster now.
Popular champion picks are champs that can just blow their loads on one member of a team and take a tower down because of it.
Irelia, AP Sion, Ashe(always good), and Jarvin are pretty hot picks at the moment.
Annie and Ezreal are making a come back. I’m suddenly not the only Annie player in the world anymore and it probably has something to do with all the streams up.
IE:
http://www.own3d.tv/live/214/CLGaming.net_-_Counter_Logic_Gaming
pretty sure they have recorded sessions on there.
My personal top ten tier list atm (not in any particular order) for solo and mini premade normal games atm. (not because anyone asked, I’m just bored)
- AP Sion: (he works on any team you throw him on, hard to kill, high burst, takes out towers quick with his R)
- Annie: footsies never go out of style
- Ashe (so solid and works on any team as well)
- Irelia: Killing entire teams with nothing but a triforce and merc treads. DUMB DUMB DUMB champion
- Olaf: Probably the best Jungle atm. Not for speed purposes but because he stops a lot of really dumb team comps.
- Rammus: Godlike champion that takes zero skill.
- Shen: Global Ulti and taunt. You can’t ask for more.
- Lux: …I hate Lux I really really really hate Lux.
- Kassadin: Way too slept on.
- Nidalee : No, not the javalin happy Nidalee but the other kind…the other kind is mad scary.
Also check out fourcourtjester on YouTube, he has some matches from the recent necl(?) finals with commentary by him and phreak.
I would say tops right now are
Kass
Irelia
Malz
Ashe
Corki
Malph
Shen
Sion
Imo
Kassadin isn’t that great. He’s such a snowball character. He has no survivability and is easily shut down.
Olaf isn’t the best jungler either imo. He clears fast but Udyr is still more versatile and can change how he can jungle based upon the other teams make up. Udyr is pretty much the undisputed king of the jungle.
As for Irelia, she’s balanced. She’s strong, but she isn’t as good as this thread makes her out to be. She doesn’t pose the problems Xin Zhao does. Nasus also hits harder than she does and Renekton’s W is better than her stun. Her only real problem is the true damage, but even then disables on her work wonders. She chases extremely well but if she’s chasing you already lost the team fight.
Anivia still has a burst damage advantage over Annie. Annie is really good though.
For some reason Alistair is in EVERY game. I played with friends from all ELO ranges and we’re always seeing Alistair’s. It’s getting ridiculous. I don’t understand why he’s being played so much right now.
Kass is mad slept on. That champion is a lot better than you’d think. All I’m gonna say about that.
As for Olaf. Damn near every fricken team I play against is some form of heavy CC comp. Which influences my opinion about the champion. In a team fight having a tanky high dps champion that can’t be stopped (similar to Irelia) go in and run amok on a teams carries and supports wins games. Even if the rest of the team has to focus a tank down that is two dead characters that quickly turns the tide of a lot of team fights.
Irelia is NOT balanced. I mean. I picked up the champion played her with my AP page and a 9/0/21 mastery build and was diving towers and 1v3ing teams for shits and giggles on their fricken turret. How is that balanced? I went something like 14/4/10 oh and all I had was a triforce, merc treads and a fort pot. That champion wins games.
I like Xin Zhao he’s a great champion but he just doesn’t survive as well as Irelia and even Renekton. Renektons W has a goddamn animation that will get you killed rather than save your life. As for Nasus
typical conversation between a Nasus player and his team
Team: We’re fighting over here Nasus
Nasus: Gotta farm my Q
Team: We just died and they took two towers Nasus
Nasus: Gotta farm my Q
Team: Inhibs down Nasus
Nasus: Gotta farm my Q
Team: Inner Turrets down Nasus!
Nasus: FARMING MY Q LEAVE ME ALONE
Team: …
Nasus: OK I DO OVER 9000 DMG I’m READY TO FIGHT!
Team: We’re all down for 40 seconds and they are on the Nexus GG.
As for Anivia
Anivia is a really solid champion, I can’t take anything away from her. I prefer Annie though because the amount of bs you can really do with Annie’s toolset is amazing. She has a lot of ways to capitalize on different situations not just to score kills but to save her team or herself and she can open up holes in a teams defense very well.
Speaking of Alistar. I really wish I could play Alistar and Hotshot style Nidalee. I think he’s getting played so much because in the 1100-1400 ELO range its really popular to ban every other fricken tank in ranked games and people might be practicing him for ranked.
Just my opinions.
Agreed on kassadin, he’s a monster. Great laner, great in team fights, great assassin. He can actually run mejais, since as long as he doesn’t blink in on chain CC you basically cannot kill him. Some of my friends who are in the high ELO area are saying alistar is starting to get banned, people finally realizing he doesn’t suck.
I think you’re overrating olaf a bit, he’s still really solid but I don’t think he’s top 10. He’s also just as versatile as udyr, I’d say olaf, WW, and udyr can all do basically whatever the hell they want in the jungle.
Irelia is monstrous right now(so is xin zhao) the range buffs on Irelia really made her better.
damn I hate it when people catch onto a great champ they used to sleep on.
I play a damn mean alistar, he’s one of the best tanks imo.
Tolore: Its my top ten list, I can say whoever I want is top ten! Fuck, if I didn’t just lose a small SRK premade with Hawk and Airdash a little while ago. Magewick, Heimderdinger and Maoki would be in my top ten lol. I can’t lie to myself like that though.
Having said that, I’ll concede Udyr is a bad-ass jungle. He’s not allowed on my top ten list though. He gets thrown in the Honorable mention category with Taric, Janna and the stay puff marshmallow man.