League of Legends XL: Season on Hold 'til Morello gets Gold

[LordShotGun]

Yeah, I had that the entire day.

http://www.ign.com/ipl

Only has the mainstream, but streams in 720p without stutter.

No stutter but the video and audio are very badly synced.

[Forrestfire]

Whoever was the first person to cheer at ward kills needs a medal.

Especially now that the commentators are getting into it, too, and giving play-by-plays of ward kills.

"The ward is trying its best to get away! It's down to one health, will it make it? No!"

[Psyborg]

I considered the effect based on missing resources, but it has a number of issues:
1) Your idea for CD-only champs works, but is really clunky, difficult to wrap your head around, and obviously forced
2) What about champs like Rengar? He could easily have zero fury when this goes off, and it feels bad that he's randomly either punished really hard or not at all based on where in his fury rotation he is
3) It actually hurts mana champs the least by far. Energy champs are designed to blow all their resource, then have it back soon, so they'll probably have very low resources when it goes off. CD champs also front-load all their abilities and put them on CD. But mana champs? Late game, they often have huge mana pools that they don't have to worry about; they could easily be at half or 3/4 mana at the END of a fight, let alone towards the beginning of a fight when you probably want to use this (especially to take advantage of the silence)...

I'll let you know if I come up with an ultimate I think fits with the theme.

Suggestion A: Deals (X damage + Y ratio) damage, increased by (Z%) for each enemy ability that's on cooldown, and silences for (t) seconds.
Suggestion B: Deals (X damage + Y ratio) damage, increased by (Z%) for each ability the target has used in the last (N) seconds, and silences for (t) seconds.
Suggestion C: Deals (X damage + Y ratio) damage, and silences for 1 second + 0.75 seconds per ability used in the last (N) seconds, [optional:] to a maximum of (Q) seconds.
Suggestion D: Deals (X damage + Y ratio) damage, and silences for (t) seconds. This ability's cooldown is reduced by (Z%) of the base cooldown amount for each ability the target has used in the last (N) seconds.
Suggestion E: Deals (X damage + Y ratio) damage. Any of the target's abilities that are currently on cooldown have their cooldown remaining increased by (t) seconds.

In any case, champions with multiple passives and/or toggles will be less vulnerable, and Karthus/Cass/Ryze/Lee are kinda boned, but whatever.

[toasty]

No stutter but the video and audio are very badly synced.

I don't have those problems. Strange.

[Math_Mage]

So, hands up if you expected CLG.NA to make it farther in the tournament than TSM. Anyone? Of course, that's largely down to bracketing luck; TSM fielded probably the only truly formidable team that started in loser's bracket (Blaze), while CLG fielded probably the only team in winner's bracket they had a good chance of beating (Curse.EU).

[McDouggal]

Ever have a game where you just want to reach through the internet and strangle the idiot on the other side?

Graves (who I'm supporting with Lux) goes 10/0/2 during laning. Largely due to my effort (he only got 1 kill when I didn't feed it right to him). He then proceeds to quickdraw into the middle of each teamfight and die, losing us the game. We kept telling him to use quickdraw to escape/reposition, but he WOULDN'T LISTEN.

[Thrawn183]

Holy ****.

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Fnatic is on goddamn fire right now! Sure they lost to WE in Group Stage but that was close and that was a BO1. They just 2-0d TPA from behind each game, especially with those Blitz Grabs. The season 1 champs are back!

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I was most impressed with Misaya's TF play, I think. They didn't even get to use TF's ult until the mid game and still crushed that game.

[TFT]

So I just played a game top as olaf. Solo queue ranked about 1450. I couldn't carry hard enough.

You read that right, I was carrying.

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Beat the irel top lane, proceeded to penta in the first teamfight I was in (Btw, first penta ever, how the heck did I manage to get it in toplane?). The problem was that the irel hec diana combo just wrecked through my team faster then I could kill. In retrospect I should have built a bit more damage and played a teamfight or two a little differently. But still.

I apparently can kind of play toplane. Above 1300, unlike some people may have thought. I just can't carry at 1400.

Edit: Okay, fine, it looks like it was an unofficial penta kill because it is only showing quadra in my stats . It was totally a penta though.

[Thrawn183]

Your Caitlyn really needed a last whisper.

[Math_Mage]

Your Caitlyn really needed a last whisper.

More like that Udyr needed to be a Maokai. I guarantee you he was utterly useless past 25 minutes. More peeling for Cait would have freed her up to build damage instead of the GA.

[TFT]

More like that Udyr needed to be a Maokai. I guarantee you he was utterly useless past 25 minutes. More peeling for Cait would have freed her up to build damage instead of the GA.

Ding ding ding this man has the answer. And he didn't do too much before 25 minutes either.

[dgnslyr]

You don't need to build damage when you're Olaf. I would have skipped Mallet altogether, because it offers Olaf very little. He gets some HP and AD which is nice, but he doesn't need the slow-procs when he can throw axes as fast as he can pick them up. I'd have gotten a GA, because why not, and maybe a FoN for a last item? But I cry a little whenever I see Olaf with a Mallet.

[Math_Mage]

Yeah, Olaf is one of the few champions that doesn't really want to build a Phage in lane, which really lessens the need for Mallet later on.

The other thing to note is that Olaf is going to have a hell of a time either blowing up Ezreal or locking multiple carries out of the fight, because Ez is mobile enough to run away, Diana is mobile enough to get into the thick of things, and Hec/Irelia eventually get tanky enough to work around Olaf. I might have played Jax in this situation.

[9mm]

BREAK THEIR RANKS

My love of ponies is presently unsurpassed.

His S3 jungle will probably be kinda weak, if anything, but I agree that Spirit of the Lizard Elder+Rampage will be SO GOOD.

Iceborn Gauntlet and new Spirit Visage also look sick for him, though Iceborn Gauntlet vs Trinity Force is a bit of a tricky comparison. While he'll do less sustained autoattack damage with the Gauntlet, I suspect the CDR, armor, and more consistent slow are better. Depends on how you're doing, I guess.

There is no comparison, Iceborn Gauntlet is strictly better. Now I admit I REAAALLY dislike triforce rush on Pony, but the ability to just go glacial -> gauntlet is so much better then grabbing a triforce as a 4th through 6th item. This is assuming of course I don't end up still needing to grab frozen heart.

In other news, on a whim I took a harder look at varus, and can't help but wonder if he'd been a caster until the last few weeks of development. as an ap ratio on all four skills would turn him into a ASAP carry who wouldn't feel terrible for using his Q, instead of an AD carry who feels bad for using his skills at all during a teamfight. That said, +2% per 100 and a 1:1 ult makes me want to try ASAP Varus anyway.

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I was most impressed with Misaya's TF play, I think. They didn't even get to use TF's ult until the mid game and still crushed that game.

Yeah, Misaya TF is kinda amazing for that. It was an amazing game to watch.

So, hands up if you expected CLG.NA to make it farther in the tournament than TSM. Anyone? Of course, that's largely down to bracketing luck; TSM fielded probably the only truly formidable team that started in loser's bracket (Blaze), while CLG fielded probably the only team in winner's bracket they had a good chance of beating (Curse.EU).

Yeah I wasn't surprised. TSM didn't have the greatest bracket but that's not an excuse. They are now 0-9 vs. AZB and 0-11 vs Azubu Teams in general. Gotta be depressing for them. Its funny because they're still... good... they're just not on the level of Asian Teams.

[TFT]

Yeah, Olaf is one of the few champions that doesn't really want to build a Phage in lane, which really lessens the need for Mallet later on.

The other thing to note is that Olaf is going to have a hell of a time either blowing up Ezreal or locking multiple carries out of the fight, because Ez is mobile enough to run away, Diana is mobile enough to get into the thick of things, and Hec/Irelia eventually get tanky enough to work around Olaf. I might have played Jax in this situation.

Honestly I build phage because I don't want to build an item like fh yet but feel silly building damage, so it's kind of my weird self compromise. I tend to build double gp10 --> phage --> mallet --> tanky items which I know isn't quite right but works in the games I'm playing at least. I was also 2nd pick that game and the only champs we knew about were hec and irel. Finally, I still need to pick up jax, though I'm assuming it wouldn't be hard. Just need to add it to the list.


Also, new goal? Hit 1650 without any support whatsoever. That means probably a lot of losses in the near future, but I'll feel better about myself as a player when I accomplish it.

[Eldariel]

Yeah I wasn't surprised. TSM didn't have the greatest bracket but that's not an excuse. They are now 0-9 vs. AZB and 0-11 vs Azubu Teams in general. Gotta be depressing for them. Its funny because they're still... good... they're just not on the level of Asian Teams.

The funny part is how those games went. Everything was even. TSM had some traction and they were getting things done. Then one mistake and poof.

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G1 it was Regi getting pulled with Azubu actually present and blown up followed by 5-0 Ace and Baron.

G2 it was TSM pulling back to take the blue giving Azubu position in front of the Dragon, trying to move back to challenge it and getting initiated upon over the wall and crushed especially since Morgana hadn't finished her Zhonya.

[Godskook]

More like that Udyr needed to be a Maokai. I guarantee you he was utterly useless past 25 minutes. More peeling for Cait would have freed her up to build damage instead of the GA.

It looks like that Udyr was building Black Cleaver. On Udyr. Bloodthirster is excusable if you're stomping as Udyr(tiger's AD ratio is really good), but he wasn't, and the jungle really doesn't support the gold to build a BFsword item on a jungler, especially after converting one of his Gp5s into an item. If he had gotten a Mallet instead of buying Cleaver parts or converting his HoG, he would've actually been able to peel for Caitlyn about as well as Maokai(depends on how you value better CDs over the immediacy of a gap-closer).

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It looks like that Udyr was building Black Cleaver. On Udyr. Bloodthirster is excusable if you're stomping as Udyr(tiger's AD ratio is really good), but he wasn't, and the jungle really doesn't support the gold to build a BFsword item on a jungler, especially after converting one of his Gp5s into an item. If he had gotten a Mallet instead of buying Cleaver parts or converting his HoG, he would've actually been able to peel for Caitlyn about as well as Maokai(depends on how you value better CDs over the immediacy of a gap-closer).

BT is not excuseable. Udyr will never be close enough to an ADC to explode them with BT because Udyr gets kited. Udyr is best played as a defensive peeler. Tank/CDR means you can spam your spells and stun people and be an ******* in general.

Furthermore, Wits End or even Triforce if you MUST build carry, are more useful for Udyr as they give him more valuable stats. Tiger Udyr is overrated, even in lane (if I laned Udyr today I'd start Q, max W and 2nd focus R). BT is only good as a gimick to get massive Q procs, which is really hard to pull off. Triforce on the other hand makes you a better peeler (more move speed and a slow) and Sheen is just incredible on a hero who is constantly spamming spells.

The reason AD carries built IE and such is because they don't have to cast their spells to do damage. They also are ranged so they can kite more safely. However, Udyr is neither ranged nor does he have useless damage spells. Udyr is melee, kiteable, and relies on his R/Q to deal damage.

[Thrawn183]

Games are back on at IPL 5.

[toasty]

Stanley with nonstandard builds every game. Double Doran's Blade Shen?

[McDouggal]

So, yeah, my first YouTube video is up. I find it a rather funny thing.

It's less than a minute. Please watch it :pleadingface:

[PersonMan]

At first I thought that the voice was someone else speaking in the background. Only when I heard "...thanks for watching and have a nice day" did I realize it was you.

Is it just me, or are the related videos quite odd? It might just be what I've been watching earlier today, though.

[McDouggal]

Nope, they're quite odd.

[ex cathedra]

Fnatic vs CLG.NA will be live shortly on stream 2.

The Crs vs Crs sets were, uhh, definitely interesting.

[McDouggal]

Working with Camtasia to get better voice. Will reupload when I do.

EDIT: Video is done. Old one is taken down; link in the post where the previous one was posted is redone and correct.

[Silverraptor]

So yeah, my lolreplay is weird. It saves in spectator mode random games while the rest it does the old way. I have it set as "Save all games as Specmode", but it doesn't do all my games.

[Mephit]

Whoever was the first person to cheer at ward kills needs a medal.

Especially now that the commentators are getting into it, too, and giving play-by-plays of ward kills.

"The ward is trying its best to get away! It's down to one health, will it make it? No!"

That actually carried over from the World Championships, where CLG.EU and WE's matches (yeah, the same playing right now ) took half a day because A) Internet issues destroyed 3 games and B) CLG.EU takes forever to finish games. The final game had about 25 minutes of baron dance where the most eventful thing to happen was teams clearing out eachothers wards. So the crowd started cheering for ward kills.

I think the final number was about 80+ wards killed between the two teams.

[ex cathedra]

I find it really annoying that people are still doing it, though. It's not so much funny at this point as it is embarrassing.

[sonofzeal]

I find it really annoying that people are still doing it, though. It's not so much funny at this point as it is embarrassing.

I don't know, I think it's a lighthearted, almost whimsical thing now. And I'm always in more favor of more whimsy. Every community needs its little nonsensical traditions and in-jokes.