08-29-2016, 10:55 PM | #751 |
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But on the other hand Taric is actually cool now, which I didn't think was actually possible in any conceivable reality.
So that's neat.
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09-10-2016, 05:35 PM | #752 |
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My World's Pickem, subject to change before the lock. This is in my opinion the most logical outcome with possibly SSG taking 2nd in Group D, maybe TSM slipping into 2nd themselves. I know a lot of people have SSG in 2nd, but I have a feeling RNG will surpass them.
But Worlds, traditionally, is not logical. There are normally upsets and crazy things happen, almost every year. I did not take that into account here yet simply because it's unpredictable, but if I had to guess a group that would be unpredictable for upsets, it would be Group B. If you came from the future and told me that SKT fumbled the ball hard and slipped to 2nd or 3rd leaving C9 and Flash Wolves vying for 1st or 2nd, I would be surprised, but not shocked. As good as SKT is, this is definitely the weakest their roster has been at a World's showing. So... while I have them in 1st for now, just like almost everyone else, that could change. Too hard to tell. |
09-10-2016, 06:41 PM | #753 |
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By the way, please click this link to join the UPN World's prediction leaderboard!
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09-29-2016, 03:39 PM | #754 |
seems theres a case aclaw
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10-03-2016, 07:18 PM | #755 |
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My group stage final predictions based on this last week and this upcoming week. Very contrary to my Pick'em in a lot of ways...
GROUP A 4-2 ROX 4-2 CLG 3-3 ANX 1-5 G2 TIEBREAKER: ROX VS. CLG - ROX WIN GROUP B 5-1 SKT 4-2 C9 2-4 FW 1-5 IM GROUP C 4-2 EDG 4-2 AHQ 2-4 H2K 2-4 INTZ TIEBREAKER: EDG VS. AHQ - AHQ WIN GROUP D 5-1 TSM 4-2 SSG 3-3 RNG 0-6 SPY ALTERNATIVELY, 4-2 TSM 4-2 SSG 4-2 RNG 0-6 SPY THREE-WAY TIEBREAKER RULES: If during Week 2 RNG beats SSG but loses to TSM, and TSM loses to SSG, there will be a single round-robin. If this round-robin does not result in a distinct 2-0, 1-1, 0-2 record dispersed among the three teams, they will each perform a single-elimination bracket, wherein the team who won its game in the shortest time during the single round-robin tiebreaker has a bye into the final of the single-elimination. PREDICTION IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE: RNG will either defeat TSM and take automatic first seed in a tie, or the even three-way tie happens and TSM will go take first seed and SSG will take second. |
10-17-2016, 11:05 AM | #756 |
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>tfw now first place in the group
H2K you're the last hope for the west, don't let us down dammit. You better at least make it to the finals. Crush these smug koreans |
01-19-2017, 01:26 AM | #757 |
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Okay, since I don't actively play LoL anymore someone is going to have to explain bot lane Ziggs to me. Is this kind of like how bot lane supports have gone more "offensive" (Brand, Zyra) because having the slowest ramp up character in the most active lane early game is kind of a liability and you want as much bite to compensate?
EDIT: On a more hypothetical tangent now that the AP peanut butter is in the AD chocolate, how much of LoL variety/balance is hindered by the lanes being fixed in their current state? Admittedly some roles like jungler are never going to go away since having a free roaming character who can get XP that isn't tied to lane will always be useful, but it feels like the flow of events has been positions settled on by the competitive community early in LoL's life -> Riot building new champs around that lane setup -> the game changing in ways that push against the previously settled lane roles while at the same time inertia and current champ/map balancing ("bot towers don't have super armor because fuck you that's why") limit teams' ability to compensate or break the mold, resulting in the meta carousel where Rek'sai and Gragas are kings of jungle shit mountain for much of last split until they get fucked and Lee Sin gets to kick everyone in the balls again. Riot seems to be trying to compensate by releasing champs that straddle roles in positions that don't typically see them (Ivern as a jungling support), but I feel like you need a critical mass of those style of champs for the changes to take hold lest they just simply get banned out and you're back to business as usual. GAME BALANCE THEORYWANKING WHEN I SHOULD BE SLEEPING EVERYBODY
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01-19-2017, 01:40 AM | #758 |
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Ehh the reason why Ziggs has been played a lot bot recently is that the Lich Bane build has the same potency as the majority of objective based ADCs, with him having similar scaling as most of them. He also does a shit ton of damage, while lacking DPS like a Twitch/Vayne/Jinx he is burstier than say Lucian/Graves (About on part with Corki atm but with better tower pushing and wave clear). It does also allow him to actually survive early game better as most of the common mids now either hard out bully him (Syndra/Cass/Azir/Kux) or nuke him (*Insert Assassin not named Fizz here*)while ADCs right now are in a really, really garbage spot. As such, Ziggs fills in quite well for a majority of a Burst ADC's job while also being able to destroy towers (Passive + Lich Bane proc and W passive on turrets makes them not exist). He still does have his own problems and isn't like completely dominating bot lane as most of the top tier (a.k.a usable) ADCs due beat him 1 v 1 or don't really care about his lane harass.
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05-23-2017, 08:47 AM | #761 |
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Alright, so I couldn't watch tons of spring split/MSI games (along with the existential ennui of knowing that 1. TSM is the best NA team and 2. TSM will always fuck it up internationally in the most embarrassing fashion to wildcard randos) without trying to throw my hat into the ring again, because I never fucking learn. Started a new account to learn jungling, and after herp derping around decided to go back to my level 30 account due to playing a role that most needs runes/masteries to not completely shit its pants if you want to play anything but the safest junglers (but I still play Warwick).
If you can all pretend that this is because I'm good and not because my level 30 account is currently at potato ELO I would appreciate it, thanks in advance.
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05-23-2017, 11:49 AM | #763 |
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Ahri nerfs incoming. IMO in the wrong direction but I hit my charms so I guess it doesn't affect me terribly. -shrug-
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So with this 13/09 patch, press F to pay respect to Janna and all those boosted Diamond players who rose in ELO by pressing E
(Now fix Ardent Censer damn it)
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10-20-2017, 07:54 AM | #767 |
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I've never been so sad to predict something correctly in my life.
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01-21-2018, 05:24 PM | #768 |
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*watching Spring games*
I don't know who at Riot thought introducing a mini-Zhonya's (that builds into a bunch of major items) was a good idea, but seeing multiple Stasis actives going off 10 minutes into the game makes me hate everything forever.
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I've tried League of Legends before, but it never really stuck with me. I've tried justifying it by being like, "they're a community so toxic that BG/'bad game' is a common phrase," but I've come to find that maybe I'm just not that into it.
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01-21-2018, 08:04 PM | #770 |
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tbh league is a lot less toxic now than people say. Theyve gotten a lot better about it
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I'm more of a Smite kinda guy...
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01-22-2018, 02:08 AM | #772 |
You sayin' I like dudes?
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Smite is weird.
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Sorry about your AIDS
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-Zoe gets nerfed and winds up begging for spare change with Aatrox after Riot obliquely admits in the patch notes that "doing 90% with one Q like a Nasus that's been farming creeps for an hour and a half" is an impossible-to-balance archetype. -After the first week of NA LCS, Evelyn's stealth is also nerfed: Riot notes that it is so effective in the hands of pro players that she is never actually seen by anyone else after hitting level 6. "It's like we made Meteos into a champion," read the patch notes. -The NA LCS champions will have a decisive season and put on a clinic in the finals, making it look like Faker midlaning against a first grader with cerebral palsy. At worlds they will face a dumpster-tier EU Frankenteam made up of random NA/Asian imports after all the native European players are banned following the release of a video showing them trying to sink refugee boats in the Mediterranean. The EU team will eliminate NA in a 3-0 sweep and make it to the quarterfinals. -In an effort to find a unique solution to a problem that makes the early game about as blue balled as Phreak trying to clumsily grope his way into a porn starlet's panties, buying a Stopwatch on either team will automatically advance the game to the 20 minute mark: let's face it, you weren't going to see any successful ganks anyway. -The Japanese team that makes it to the Mid-Season Invitational will continue to live up to the legacy of their IJN forebears: one third of the game spent ineffectively seeking a decisive teamfight, another third trading heavily just to lose ground more slowly, and the last third wandering around like a doddering ojiisan trying to remember if he put his cat in the trash compactor.
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I used to play this. Lots of fun and a huge waste of time. But over time the game offended me and I just had to leave. Meh. My wrists thank me.
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