[REDCOBRA]

Played another game with darius , 26 - 9 -13 ,

[`kook]

I hate darius players.

I'm playing graves, I go 6/4/26 because darius ults every single low hp enemy. Whatever, a kill is a kill I guess. Fed darius isnt a bad thing. We had a super commanding lead so we decided to mess around, got aced once because of bad positioning, not a big deal, they only took one turret.

Nope. Darius gets mad we got aced, starts yelling at the support, support goes AFK, darius gets mad and runs into the other team and we got aced again.

We had a 15 kill and a 6 tower lead...

This post has been edited by `kook: 16 December 2012 - 05:48 AM

[ShadowZero]

I have no problem with Darius anymore. People are always like, "Ban Darius" and if I'm playing top, I'm just like, "No, don't. I have Jayce if they pick Darius."

since Jayce counters Darius directly, I will snowball the lane pretty easy. Also, the only counter I know for Jayce is Yorick. on lolcounter.com it says Jayce is countered by Cho'Gath, but Cho'Gath played against me, and I was able to harass him really easily without losing much health. Whether he was a bad Cho player, or I was just playing really well beats me.

I'm saving for Vayne. She went down in price. Some of the other guys and I talked about starting a TechPB ranked team. We'll put everyone on the roster we can. We're just waiting for 2 more people. Dev., Lunatic_on_high, Herbert, and me so far. Dev. will be AP Carry, Lunatic Jungler, Herbert will be either support, or top lane, and I will be AD Carry, or Top Lane. We're looking for people that can play top lane, or support, as I'm sure I will most likely be AD Carry.

This post has been edited by ShadowZero: 21 December 2012 - 07:15 PM

[MaxFishr]

I play support with my friends and my ranked team. I mostly play Taric, Shen, and Nami. I own all the supports except Leona and Lulu (I'm fucking terrible with Lulu). I can also play a good Nidalee AP top.

[`kook]

I would be down for ranked. I can play all roles just fine. Jungler my weakest and mid my strongest, however since we're seeing AP casters fall to the wayside that will most likely change. (however I usually play a pretty mean talon)

My biggest weakness is my lack of champs. I've finally gotten all the runes I need for the roles(except I need a few more for certain junglers). I'm very good with the champs I own, but I need more to be able to counter properly

This post has been edited by `kook: 23 December 2012 - 02:24 AM

[Dev.]

ShadowZero, on 21 December 2012 - 07:14 PM, said:

I have no problem with Darius anymore. People are always like, "Ban Darius" and if I'm playing top, I'm just like, "No, don't. I have Jayce if they pick Darius."

since Jayce counters Darius directly, I will snowball the lane pretty easy. Also, the only counter I know for Jayce is Yorick. on lolcounter.com it says Jayce is countered by Cho'Gath, but Cho'Gath played against me, and I was able to harass him really easily without losing much health. Whether he was a bad Cho player, or I was just playing really well beats me.

I'm saving for Vayne. She went down in price. Some of the other guys and I talked about starting a TechPB ranked team. We'll put everyone on the roster we can. We're just waiting for 2 more people. Dev., Lunatic_on_high, Herbert, and me so far. Dev. will be AP Carry, Lunatic Jungler, Herbert will be either support, or top lane, and I will be AD Carry, or Top Lane. We're looking for people that can play top lane, or support, as I'm sure I will most likely be AD Carry.

You suck with adc though. I can honestly play any lane except for jungle. I'm sick of people being idiots and asking for ganks when they don't need one and when I do gank they don't pay attention.

Anyways, here's an aram I did yesterday.

This post has been edited by Dev.: 23 December 2012 - 03:02 AM

[ShadowZero]

Alright. If you want to be on the team, be ready to play a lot of premade draft games until Herbert gets to level 30.

Try your best to practice in solo queue (or just normal games) your positioning, your farming, and your warding. Don't worry about kills just yet.

I'll get better as ADC Dev. the games you and I play are normally games I'm pissed off and I make stupid mistakes because of my greediness and need to get kills to actually carry the game. I've been working on it as much as possible.

This post has been edited by ShadowZero: 23 December 2012 - 03:58 AM

[`kook]

Zero I've only played one game with you. I was pantheon top, believe you were shen jungle. Was that with TechPBers or other guys?


on a side note, All I've been playing is draft for the past couple months. If you play Shen, Malphite, Alistar, Amumu, or Blitzcrank, be prepared to never be able to play them.

Kat, ezreal, Darius, Lee Sin, Morgana, and karthus are also popular bans

This post has been edited by `kook: 23 December 2012 - 05:39 AM

[Dev.]

There's one thing you guys all need to be able to do which is work the bush effectively. As adc you need to move after every shot, dodging spells, which you can see how it works well in my Aram video. You can see that multiple times I dodge xeraths laser beam, ult or whatever that spell is called and not get stunned for 1 or 2 seconds. On the other hand you can see lunatic going balls deep not trying to dodge anything, just attacking them..sorry lunatic, had to use an example. LOL! With using the bush, you can potentially beat people who are much more fed then you, even 1v2 people. Hell, this doesnt just go for adc, with everyone... Without practicing this, higher level team fights are damn near impossible to win. Micromanaging is key in this game and if you guys learn it, games will be won a lot easier. If you guys can refrain from blindly attacking them, throwing everything you have at them and not paying attention to what they throw at you, I'll guarantee it that this game will be a lot easier. Also, knowing when you can kill or when you should back up is a big part of it. Also, knowing how to farm under a tower is very important. Remember, melee minions take 2 tower hits then you hit them for last hit. Ranged minions take 1 auto attack, then 1 tower hit, then another auto attack for last hit, but this is only early game where you dont hit for 100+ per auto attack. Once it gets to that point, try to let your own minions do the first part of the damage to the ranged minions, tower hit, then auto attack.

This post has been edited by Dev.: 23 December 2012 - 11:24 AM

[CPS]

Yeah im almost 23 but i hope to get to 30 by the end of the break, I bought WW so i am starting to get more junglers and tops.

[ShadowZero]

`kook, on 23 December 2012 - 05:36 AM, said:

Zero I've only played one game with you. I was pantheon top, believe you were shen jungle. Was that with TechPBers or other guys?


on a side note, All I've been playing is draft for the past couple months. If you play Shen, Malphite, Alistar, Amumu, or Blitzcrank, be prepared to never be able to play them.

Kat, ezreal, Darius, Lee Sin, Morgana, and karthus are also popular bans

No, that was some of my friends that got me into the game. I normally play ADC or jungle with them, but since 2 of them already had the duo lane set-up I was like, "Okay, I'll just jungle." And Draft is what I've been playing as well. I know Shen is not really an issue, the only problem is his high health in late game. He's not really a bruiser, he's just good at keeping people from dying and ulting to save a teammate. He can be a bruiser though.

No idea why Ezreal is a popular ban. He's not OP at all. The poke lane combo, Ezreal - Sona is pretty good, but it can be beaten by other combos, and Graves counters Ezreal with his burst. I know Katarina is banned due to her ability to easily get a penta when she is played right. Darius needs a nerf imo. His ult is insta-refresh if he gets a kill, and it's always to kill steal. I mean, it's not bad that Darius gets fed. Morgana is only banned due to her skill shot snare. I believe that is the longest snare in the game when it's maxed out. I see no issue with it though. Quick Silver Sash will counter her pretty hard. People just don't know how to incorporate defensive items into their build.

And Herbert (whose new account is CPS) get Jayce and Yorick when you can. I know they're expensive, but if you want, you can buy them with RP. Jayce counts Darius, and Yorick counters Jayce and Darius. But Jayce I believe can contribute more to a team fight. I'm not sure. I've never played Yorick.

[`kook]

I ban ezreal just because he is so damn annoying. He's not op, just a strong pick. He's got a good poke, and his e is basically a free flash every 12ish seconds. Low skill floor, very forgiving to play, just plain annoying. I usually go cait and try to zone him as hard as I can.


I wouldn't say darius is op, he is just the most unforgiving champ in the game. He relies on his opponent making mistakes and punishing those mistakes. If you don't make any, you shut him down hard. His ult can also starve his team. If darius has 25 kills that's great, but that hurts the team when your adc has 2 because he keeps stealing


I'm really starting to miss true tanks. With the armor pen changes, they just get shredded. I used to play an awesome rammus but now he slow clear time combined with how fast armor gets taken down has made him totally unviable. Same with alistar and amumu. It's more viable to build ap/hp on them than armor

[REDCOBRA]

[ShadowZero]

^ Lol, It's true. I've got Graves and I absolutely hate it when Darius steals my kills.

So, I try to time my E perfectly, so the Attack Speed steroid gets the auto attacks before Darius can land his ult. A good Darius player keeps his ADC/APC fed, and saves the ult for when he's in a Team fight, or 1v1ing someone and gets them low. So if you're our TechPB top laner, and you play Darius, please do that so I can get kills and actually lead my team to victory.

[`kook]

I'm thinking of starting solo ranked once I get a couple more champs under my belt. I don't know if it's a good idea or not xD

[Dev.]

If you want your blood pressure to raise, it's quite the good idea. I've played atleast 100-150 ranked solo/duo queues, it's hard to win.

This post has been edited by Dev.: 24 December 2012 - 05:02 PM

[gibbeepbroxzor]

Hey, my ign is Gibbeepbroxzorz. Level 20, normally play with 30's though so I know how to play. I don't take the game too seriously though, not a try hard. Normally play Voli, and I kick a ton of ass with him. I like playing tanks. Also, ima kill them for nerfing Warmogs...

[ShadowZero]

Try to specialize in one role for ranked solo/duo. It should help you get your Elo up because you can face someone who doesn't play top lane as much as you do for example. You can punish them for the mistakes they make, and probably get more kills and snowball your lane. Top lane really can decide the game for you.

[`kook]

So I started ranked. Lost 4 in a row.

Is this the kind of shit that I should expect a lot?





edit: just followed with this. Problem was I played 2 support and 1 AP games. Can't carry as a support and AP have fallen in the wake of bruisers. Talon is now officially my go-to champ for ranked. I also noticed the further the night went on, the better the players got. Probably because kids have to go to bed. That last game we had no jungle and I was playing support top talon. I don't even know. Ended up in me carrying

This post has been edited by `kook: 25 December 2012 - 10:01 AM

[Dev.]

`kook, on 25 December 2012 - 07:12 AM, said:

So I started ranked. Lost 4 in a row.

Is this the kind of shit that I should expect a lot?





edit: just followed with this. Problem was I played 2 support and 1 AP games. Can't carry as a support and AP have fallen in the wake of bruisers. Talon is now officially my go-to champ for ranked. I also noticed the further the night went on, the better the players got. Probably because kids have to go to bed. That last game we had no jungle and I was playing support top talon. I don't even know. Ended up in me carrying

Yes, that will happen alot if you don't play top or do extremely well in mid. If you do good enough in those lanes, it will most likely demoralize the other team and a) Make them surrender, or Make them play terrible. Most of the time, people absolutely suck in ranked and I don't even know why they play ranked.