The League of Legends Thread: Winter is...coming?

Gank 3 times for vlad against rumble. Vlad loses lane while having half of rumble’s CS and is 2 levels ahead of rumble. Complains that I didn’t gank enough. Where are all the good vlads? Kona doesn’t count.

Just went 33 / 9 / 12 last game

The enemy team was terrified of me, they’d focus me every fight and I still managed to kill three or four of them before I died. My team were that bad that with the exception of this Teemo I pretty much soloed that game.

Thanks for the advice, although I’m curious about the last part. Are you saying I SHOULD be pushing him to his tower as Kayle? Do I just play that like a Singed lane where I have means of escape so I can pressure, get my farm in chunks, and whittle down his tower bit by bit? Seems like it’d pose some problems for me, although I’ve got Q for slow and W for the speed boost to avoid ganks.

I can see where it may make it harder on him to farm, and that could be worth it. Vlad’s auto attacks aren’t that great, especially if his runes are going elsewhere.

Anytime there’s a vlad on my team I click on him to see if he’s keeping his E stacked before going into team fights. And sure as shit, a lot of them don’t

I don’t get how people have so many 20+ or 30 kill games.

E stacks? Lol.

I was playing Akali :stuck_out_tongue:

His E stacks up to 4 times, keeping it at 4 stacks makes him do way more damage

It explains why shit vlads don’t do any damage, and why sometimes people go “wtf that vlad barely has any items why did he do so much damage”

not usually one to gripe… But I love playing Irelia and going in for an early exchange with jax just to realize I have my AP page on.

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So a random question, but when you are doing solo que or what not, what do you listen to? For jungling I listen to this: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/455842

Cool, think I will do a quick Bot game later to try out.

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If you’re able to get ward(s) in place, you can be more pushy in keeping minions in his turret. Also, since it’s pretty hard to safely keep him at his turret (especially in a 1v1 lane) I strongly suggest letting vlad come out of his turret for a wave or two. If he’s really “pokey” then he’ll most likely naturally over-extend himself. At this point it’s just a game of baiting out his sanguine pool. If you’re not afraid of getting ganked (or you know they won’t be able to immediately gank you), then you can W your self and slap vlad around and then Q him after he pools. From what I understand, if you Q him, and he pools, he still only loses 20% of his current hp; however, you can still use that to your advantage. You can Q him and bash him till he pools, then chase with W. It’s situational and up to you to decide if you’re safe enough to push him that hard. Preferably, you’ll want him to push your minions as close to your turret as possible so he can’t just relax back in his turret.

In other words, since vlad can pool away from anything you throw at him, you gotta balance out letting him try to make a meaningful poke while you CS, and pushing him away from his minions and denying him CS. The trick is, you need to make sure you’re safely getting all the CS you can from every wave and denying him as much as possible. Vlad will also try to Q his health back to full whenever possible so you shouldn’t try to engage him every time he throws a Q your way. Also, getting some MR and HP will go a long way in keeping you alive. I personally always try to grab a morello’s when vlad is in the opposing team but then again, I don’t mind grabbing morello’s on pretty much any champ w/ decent AP ratios lol.

CLG with the duo mid lane wtf? Three teleports? Yo what’s a meta?

EDIT: YO WHAT UP PROMOTE?

:< I wish I could watch and see what they’re going for. Seems like a highly mobile dynamic kill lane.

Chauster has promote LOL

Not able to watch the stream? http://tournaments.leagueoflegends.com/s2-na-regionals

lolwut
that just goes to show, that dude is doing something horribly wrong.

No, I’m just at work Q.Q

Well, I’m “at” work, but currently unable to do any work because some of our systems are the most broken things on this side of the internets…

I really like listening to absurdly cheesy 80’s montage songs for some fucking reason.
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I knew I was forgetting something

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