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[Classic]

League of Legends just asked me to wait over 30 minutes to login, not counting update time.
What?

[Beat Bandit]

ELO based queues (oh snap)

[François]

The latest patch has been a technical mess, and the servers are unstable. It's been like that for a few days. You're mostly fine once you're in though. Just don't dodge.

In other news I got sick of the rock-bottom retarded ranged ADs in blind pick and started playing normal draft instead. After about 20 games I've lost maybe twice and went negative only once (1/2/0, so not by much). I got in maybe 10games as support Nunu and I'm pretty sure I haven't lost any of those. I don't know if that's just a bizarre streak of luck but so far at least it's been pretty much night and day. If I get a halfway competent guy to babysit I turn him into an unstoppable force of destruction and I only die like once or twice on average. It's like a whole different game. Today I played a match where first blood happened at 25 minutes. I may have shed tears of joy.

I'm beginning to suspect it's just that blind pick tanked my normals elo so bad that I'm now roflstomping people who are actually much less skilled than I am.

(Or maybe I'm just getting pretty good.)

[Niku]

God I have literally done nothing in LoL for the past couple of days except play Sion on Dominion.  Right-clicking to win is just so fun!

[François]

god you must eat so many dumbass glass cannons alive

yay woo i'm fiora i got a fine butt i can 1v1 that undead giant press r to win right OMG SION OP

[Niku]

Proving Grounds is live in Custom Games now.  It's the official ARAM/ARAB game mode where it's one long lane and you play whichever random champ you are given and you have a 5v5 clusterfuck in mid.  They've tweaked items and added dominion style health packs / auras to make it a real mode, and it's pretty fun!  But you get shit for IP for playing it since it's in the Custom Games ghetto.

[Doom]

Colossal Orianna buffs. Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue.

Also Nunu JUNGLE Buffs ahahahahaha new Jungle meta feels familiar?

[François]

Got in a few ARAM games, and it's pretty dang rad. Pretty sure I got dealt a lot of borderline unfair champs so far though, like Urgot, Alistar, Janna, and frikking Lux (here's to buying an entire Evil Tome and CDR boots and Haunting Guise the first time you die and picking up a whole WotA the second!). I rolled a Leona last game and figured my luck had run out, but no, I'm an idiot, it turns out aura items are an incredible value when you're always within range of your entire team so who knew right. No one even complained when I rushed my Soul Shroud; I guess Morde, Karthus and Galio liked the free CDR.

...man I hope I get to play Karma on there before long, dang.

The low IP rewards are a bummer but I'm pretty much putting fun first these days, call me crazy.

[François]

I got dealt Nasus twice today. The second time, our Sivir fucked off in the first minute. The other guys were already all "4v5 gg", but I went "more glory for us!"

We won both times. Tanky AP Nasus is rude as hell. (Evil Tome, Merc Treads, Abyssal Scepter, Haunting Guise, Frozen Heart.) Spirit Flame as many people as you can, slow down the squishiest one with Wither so he takes max damage. The Damage Dealt graphs were silly, I ended up with about twice as much as anyone else. A lot of that was minions, but the first match I did more than the enemy Annie and Tristana put together despite my beefy build.

Then I got randomed into my first Warwick game ever (yay free week), thought about asking for a trade with our Urgot, went "challenge accepted" instead, did super well, and won. Daaaaang.

Yeah I'm liking this mode.

[François]

I've seen people recommend Wit's End on Jayce. On a guy with a steroid that caps out his attack speed and ends up increasing his attack damage by 20%. What is this I don't even.

In other news I'm probably blowing 6300 IP today. He looks and sounds like he's gonna leap off a biplane to take over a Nazi blimp mid-flight and I can only get behind that sort of stuff.

[François]

4-hit combo!

So, Jayce is amazing. He'd be pretty shit at being a typical bot lane ranged carry because every other ranged carry in the game is better at it than him even if only because he's got 500 AA range*, but you gotta think of him as a bruiser type who just happens to have spectacular poke. Both his ability sets are on different cooldowns, so make him a bulky AD caster with some CDR and you can just chain skills together until your mana gives out (get a Glacial Shroud!). Three of his four scaling skills scale off bonus AD anyway (the hammer W scales off AP), so you can't go wrong with that. It's good that this works so well because AS is kind of a crap stat on his items. In Dominion today I went Merc Treads, Entropy, Maw, Sanguine Blade, and Thornmail (would have gotten a FH instead but the match was about over), and it worked really well.

Another mark against him for building like a ranged AD is that if you're a glass cannon, the free armor/mr on the hammer form is not gonna keep you from blowing up instantly. And giving him a Phantom Dancer is stupid.

*: That's the same as Sivir and Kog'maw, but Sivir's Q is much better than Jayce's Cannon Q and Kog'maw is Kog'maw.

[Niku]

THESE ORIANNA BUFFS

RUN MANLY TEARS . EXE

[François]

i literally just came in the thread to post this

so amazing

[François]

Eve/Twitch rework coming, for realsies

I've never cared for Twitch, but I have Eve and played just enough to know that she can be really fun when she works right (especially in Dominion) but she's also devastatingly feeble against any opponent of worth. Either way, these new details are looking pretty good, and I look forward to more interesting combat options than "appear in melee range of some sucker, hope his HP runs out before yours" and "do no damage, get vaporized".

[François]

zyra is mai waifu

Just came off a Dominion game where I was bot against a Ryze. We had three straight-up face-to-face mage duels, literally standing in front of each other unloading everything we had as soon as it came off cooldown. I outright won two of them, and on the last one I finished him off with my passive. He wasn't even a retardo Ryze with no MR either, though he was a retardo Ryze who didn't realize that Zyra is all skillshots and delays so by all means he should have been moving around a bunch. (Of course there's the permaslow and the snare so I guess that might have been difficult.)

Her W eventually gives her 20% CDR and her plants' damage scale off her level (with a tiny AP ratio, like 0.2 or something), so itemization feels really open. You do want a bunch of AP but she can probably afford survivability, and I would guess magic penetration is extra rad on her. I do wish the plants were a bit more durable, but, you know, [insert video of Homer Simpson coming out of carnivorous flower here].