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[Esperath]

My summoner name is pretty easy to guess :3

I still need occasional guidance as to howI should be directing my efforts (Joxam and Smiler have been helping me on Vent), and I can play a total of two champions, but I guess I'm not too bad for playing six games?

[Beat Bandit]

Zed: lowbies not playing with thirties is more for the lowbies' sake than your ELO's.

[Shinra]

Nautilus is woefully undertuned right now. This is probably the worst case I've seen of a hero being massively shitty right out of the gate since fucking Urgot. 

[Niku]

I'M A BIG DADDY

YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID

WOOOOOOOOOSH

[Shinra]

Man, Niku, he's such a cool hero but the idea of a support tank who has to get enough CS and assists to have warmogs and thornmail by 20m just chaps my ass. If you got a really good early game with him he could be incredible, but he's so easy to destroy late because of how badly his hp and armor/MR scales with level. It's like they decided at the last minute they'd try to make him a tanky dps, but forgot to give him worthwhile ratios. You can tell they didn't know how to build him just by looking at his fucking recommended items.

[Niku]

Actually if you read any of the long threads that his developer contributed to, it's pretty clear they had no idea what to do with him at all.  The lead designer of Nautilus was like "eh he's okay in the jungle I guess" "Just okay?  So you think he's better top or support-tank bottom?" "Nah he sucks at those, jungle's where he's best."  ".. but you said he's only just okay!"  "we don't design around the meta okay"

whatever OVER HERE MISTER BUBBLES

[Shinra]

He's so bad in the jungle it's criminal. His shield does not absorb enough damage, he only gets splashes while the shield is up and the cd on it is outrageously long. They could make this hero worthwhile in one patch just by dropping his shield CD to 8 seconds.

He's fun to play, and he's really cool, but he's so bad in the mid and lategame that he's just not worth playing right now. I give this guy a big thumbs down. 

[François]

On a whim I started buying a Warden's Mail for Mordekaiser at the beginning of Dominion matches instead of the obvious Hextech Revolver. It's surprisingly effective if you have to go the mill first, since there's a lot of physical damage going on, the HP regen helps offset the cost of your skills, and it's hilarious when the AS reduction procs on someone who counts on that sort of thing. Instead of being instantly vaporized half the time by people who know how squishy early-game Morde is, I can just tank damage for a while, during which time Creeping Death does its thing and I pick up some assists. It's so nice I'm gonna have to think about starting that way with other champs who tend to end up in the middle of the fight, like Jarvan or Alistar. The lack of boots hurts a bit, but once you're fighting for top, it's not like movespeed helps you take the point, and afterwards it's trivial to get some.

I've thought about getting two chain vests instead for almost double the armor, but there's lost utility there, and I'm not sure I'd build both of those into anything in any practical timeframe, while the entire Warden's Mail goes into a sexy Randuin's Omen. If I was gonna buy raw chain it'd have to be as a compromise with a bit of AP or something.

[Niku]

my favorite dominion build at the moment is running malzahar with armor pen and cooldown runes and starting him off with a brutalizer, followed up by berserk greaves, frozen mallet, and infinity edge.

TROLL AD BUILDS AM I RIGHT GUYS you say

voidlings scale with AD and armor pen i say

It's basically a hilarious circumstance of HA HA AD MAGE OW WHAT THE FUCK IS ACTUALLY HURTING ME WHAT THE CHRIST OW and then you get a triple kill

My favorite ad carry

consult this video for more good times

[François]

I remember one bot lane against an AD Malzahar not too long ago, but he must have not known was he was doing because my Galio crushed him pretty hard despite my building MR early game (though I did wise up after a bit). Or maybe he didn't have armor pen runes or something. Nobody but me build any defenses in Dominion though*, so I can see how he could be devastating most of the time.

*: our wukong complains about the enemy team getting thornmails, which disproves my point but i guess it means nobody on my teams ever builds defenses; i tell him to buy a negatron cloak or a vamp scepter or something, but he buys a whole infinity edge instead. he was so adverse to building survivability that his solution to killing himself with his own reflected damage was MORE DAMAGE.

then i carried with my tanky-ass rumble, and he had the balls to say i only did well because the other guys were too dumb to buy mr.

[François]

THIS IS THE ONLY SKIN THAT SHOULD EXIST

THIS ONE AND NO OTHER

(source)

[Dogstar]

Oh hey people here are still playing? sexy. Summoner name is Pratz Strike. I've been playing a lot with my friends in another IRC channel, so I'm getting back into the game.

Champs I own: Ahri, Alistar, Amumu, Annie, Ashe, Brand, Cho'Gath, Corki, Heimerdinger, Kayle, Lee Sin, Malzahar, Master Yi, Nocturne, Nunu, Pantheon, Poppy, Rammus, Ryze, Sivir, Sona, Soraka, Taric, Teemo, and Tristana.

Mid: I play Malzahar mid almost exclusively - he's my favorite champ, and according to most people I play with I have the best ability to bounce Malefic Visions (AIDS) from minion to minion to champ they've ever seen. It hurts to see a bad Malzahar.  I have however been known to play Ahri in mid, but I'm still learning her. Her escape/chase ult is a laugh riot, but she doesn't seem to have the killing power Malz does. I also picked up Brand recently, and he's weighed the other direction - so much damage, no sustain.

Solo Top: Generally depends on the situation. If I need AP, I can take Malz up here and run a 1v2 lane for at least 20-25 minutes with no jungling assistance whatsoever. If I really feel like I want an escape, I can take Ahri. If my team wants ranged AD, I'll usually run Corki up here - he's so underutilized lately that nobody really knows how to handle him. Teemo used to be my favorite champ overall, but he's been beat with the nerf bat one too many times.

Jungle: Lee Sin if we have a tank, Rammus if we don't. Rammus is the faster of the two, and being able to play King Rammus is always a treat. Lee Sin is still king of the jungle though - he ganks like a superhero. (And shocks the shit out of Volibear/Singed when he gets launched!)

Bot Support: I don't actually play Sona like I used to, I've got a friend who's been learning her. When I do get to play support, though, I tend to play Taric instead. His heal is much, much slower than hers, but he can stun almost at will and does a hysterical amount of burst DPS with E/R/W/E in pattern.

Bot AD Carry: Not a role I usually end up in. I have done Poppy, Lee Sin, and Sivir here a few times, but for the most part it's not something I do.

I've been recording my games lately with League Replay ( www.leaguereplays.com ) - feel free to take a look at them here. (Not all of them recorded properly from my perspective, though, but most did. Any of them that didn't recorded properly from one of my friend's views.) http://www.leaguereplays.com/replays/search/?q=Pratz+Strike

[Envy]

I've been playing alot of bot support with the ever so popular Janna. With a AD duo bot that +50 ad bonus is just icing in a dominant lane. Lulu is looking awesome too for a duo bot ap lane which confuses me so much.

[François]

Despite my hard-on for supports, I won't be getting Lulu because I know deep in my heart that she'll never get a Midna skin that turns opponents into wolves and ults allies into multi-limbed kaiju.

[Doom]

Good because when we play together I'll cut you if I can't be Lulu.

[fullmooninu]

i want to play with youuuuu guyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Doom]

How about an in-game name chump change

[Doom]

hey look the only support in the game I enjoy playing

[Malikial]

Kind of annoyed by some stuff lately that has been happening, not only has there been a higher than normal influx of DCs/people complaining about 'serious lag' but there has been a lot of stuff where I'm not even sure if the person is trolling. Last game I played is a prime example, won easily as jungle Udyr, the enemy jungler was the only person on his team who performed well, going 6/4/7 with half a dozen early ganks and good presence, only person on their team that seemed good. At the end of the match the enemy team was screaming at him about how he was a scrub, should un-install and was trash and how he 'ruined' their four person team's chances and they always got fucked by 'scrubs' when they didn't have a full five man. My ENTIRE TEAM defended him adamantly and he was gracious and polite. I was seriously not even sure if those guys were just trolling or what. Also, I have only played in 3 games of the past 7 where someone on one team didn't DC/lag hard. Hell, I NEVER DC OR LAG and I DCed from one of my losses yesterday and couldn't reconnect for 45 seconds.

[François]

My bet's on four idiots. The jungler can only be rad in one place on the map at a time, and it's easy for anyone who isn't directly in his vicinity to go "where's our fucking noob jungler when I need him", especially in the echo chamber of a four-bads premade.