well yeah

darius just got picked in the NA LCS by Ssumday

riot hire me as analyst tomorrow

voice chat for parties has been added

i dont disagree i just wanted to brush the cobwebs off the thread a bit

That's what my parents said about me nine-and-a-half-months in.

****.

last night elph and i played a game with his brother who decided to run it down mid as rammus at lvl 2 and then afk ward base for the next 35 mins

i woke up with the urge to play wukong today, not sure why

maybe it was bc your jg play is so bad it makes me feel a lot more confident in mine

last time i ever roll blitzcrank jg tho

got my first penta today boys

s/o lux for not stealing the last kill

s/o?

shoutout

your age is showing :D

Your canadian is showing.. shoutouts in 2018, lul.

Seriously though, who says that?

idk i didnt realize it wasnt a thing anymore

we're like 3 years behind in canada

I don't think it's one of those things that becomes not a thing, just not as big of a thing. I guess nobody is worth giving a shoutout to in New Jersey.

no one gives shoutouts to random pug teammates.. Also, ive never seen s/o used in any game ive played.

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Congrats.. youre smarter than me. Not sure how that contributes the discussion of it's usage.

lost my b3 promos and i cant even flame my teammates i fed my ass off to an extreme extent that is totally unacceptable at that low of an elo

You fed every game? :(

i had like a 3/10 game and then a 6/9 or something like that

this is coming after i hit promos from 3 straight wins where i was pulling 10+ kills and 3 or less deaths

i shouldve stopped playing after the first cause i just wasnt playing very smart but im desperate to get out of bronze

there's gonna be like 5 tie breakers tonight

c9 blows a potential first place finish to last place fly quest

100thieves come from nowhere to beat first place echo fox and give themselves a chance to finish first in their tie breaker rematch vs echo fox

and tsm, c9, cg, and potentially TL if they win their next game will all be tied for 3rd.

hype.

Wait until you have to win Bo5 to break into Silver :D That's when it's really infuriating to lose.. I went 2-3 multiple times when i first went from silver to gold and gd did it piss me off.

holy ****in **** tits the irelia rework looks awesome

i was scared they were changing her too much because prior to the latest trailer it looked like her kit was going to revolve around range a lot more but in fact it’s just one new ranged ability that allows her to throw her blades into the enemy

she still has her dash although it looks way ****in cooler and then she has an ability that looks like it will deflect a % of dmg for a short period of time

im down

how ****in dare you

that's pretty much what she is now except instead of the shield she has stupid sustain with her w

update just makes her look supa cool

Powercreep is out of control.

won like 6 games in a row last night scaling my ass off with vayne

averaged over 7cs/min which kept me a full item up over opposing adc and even managed to sneak a win in a game where i was playing with a garen support

riot paid me back by gifting me a game vs a cass and heim bot lane where the cass built full ad crit (lol) and i had 22 kills. wouldve had a penta again but my top laner stole the last kill :(

back to promos we go

clinched it in the last game, ayy.

7-2 on vayne in ranked since picking her back up. just tryna grind my way outta bronze.

changes to minion gold on pbe now

melee minions down to being worth like 12 gold while cannons and supers are worth 60

just gonna make missing those precious cannons that much rougher

That's a cool change.. Should create some mini points of contest (similar to baron and dragon) within the laning phase. I wonder if it will be worth aggresively pressuring opponents instead of CSing now.. Idk enough about the meta, so maybe I'm just overthinking, but from a naive perspective this seems like some really interesting theory crafting potential.

Please tell me if I'm completely wrong and CS is still king.

well i kinda like the change because CS is so crucial in the high elo game that it’s pretty normal for LCS games to have midlaners and ADC with 500-600cs and just 1 or 2 kills.

this will make a bit of a change i feel, as 1 cannon is worth more than two melees, giving the laners a reason to play aggressive for cs rather than standing under tower. i know pros are pros for a reason and i do appreciate the methodical and strategical play, but it would be kinda cool to see elements like this implemented to give higher elos an incentive to play aggressively rather than waiting for their opponent to **** up first. let me see some goddamn solo kills.

dont know if i worded it right but what im trying to say is all of sudden 30 gold means you’re gonna go for that canon and whether you get poked for it or not. that also means we should see more punishment dished out for cs’ing rather than laners (mid lane mages and top lane tanks in particular) content to having a farm/scaling competition. scaling has way too big of a role in the current meta imo, especially with runes like gathering storm. not much of a reason to play champs like jayce or zed for example because if you don’t get super fed you’re gonna fall off at at 25 minute mark when the person you’re laning against has already hit 250cs and is nearing full build

c9 getting swept in the quarters lul

doublelift is looking deadly again

Is he the longest lasting pro in the scene now? Soo many have come and gone. Not a huge fan cause he's a dick, but he's a solid and consistent player.

he has to be. Froggen is still around the scene but i think he's taking the year off maybe? not sure. anyway, Doublelift would definitely take the title. next closest would probably be guys like Sneaky, Bjergsen, Meteos, Impact, etc.

how long has it been since you've watched? i found this season to be really interesting as they've finally added franchising to the league. it's kind of a two sided coin as it has it's pros and it's cons but in the end it's led to a really competitive season. first place in the spring split went to 100 Thieves, who are in their first season.

there has also been a massive spike in player wages because of this which (hopefully) leads to players sticking around for longer. when you see guys like Dyrus and QTpie making ten times the money they ever made as a pro by streaming, it would probably just inspire you to say "**** it" and do the same. i think for a lot of the older players that are still around, Doublelift for example, it's just their competitiveness that keeps them in it. i know sneaky streams almost daily though so he's probably preparing for the post C9 career.

Uhh.. last time i was really into it was season 2, but I think i watched regularly until like season 5-6ish? maybe, idk tbh.

Moscow 5 > all

eu suxx

ive heard a lot of ppl say silver is the hardest elo to escape. i think part of it is because silvers think they know how to play the game cause they aren't bronze anymore but in reality silver is still like basement territory.

that and the fact that you wont give up on lulu mid you stupid texan

GIVE INTO THE META

I've actually thought this for the longest since seeing you talk about soccer for so long, but it applies here as well and is even more noticeable since you've only been playing five or six months and are talking like some expert: you're kind of a try-way-too-hard, smarmy douche when it comes to talking about sports.