Competitive League of Legends

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 05-31-2018, 12:33 PM

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ive seen this clip so many times, but the darius pentas from world’s are totally better.

The Batlord · 05-31-2018, 12:39 PM

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Jinx vs. Koggy was classic Season 5

basically late game hypercarries were really good

I don't understand people who don't play ADC. That feeling of scaling to godhood late-game is the elixir of life.

The Batlord · 05-31-2018, 12:49 PM

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Do pentakills even happen in modern pro play?

The Batlord · 05-31-2018, 12:51 PM

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on the contrary I feel like you have to be a masochist to play botlane at all that feeling of your support being autofilled while you get 100-0'd over and over

That's like my fav thing though. Feeling super vulnerable at the beginning and then you get that crossbow item I can't remember the name of that makes you essentially a firing platform that can destroy just about anything in five seconds flat. I know I'm a pleb and it probably doesn't work that way in higher ELO's, but **** me is it in my top 5 most satisfying moments in gaming.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 05-31-2018, 12:52 PM

naturally the reaction to that will be carry or split pushing top laners though. all of a sudden maokai isn’t so valuable when he can’t challenge the split push of Trynd or late game Nasus.

similarly assasins become way less viable when things like stopwatch and GA exist and you’re playing against a team running naut top, sej jungle, ali support, and swain mid.

reality is no meta will ever reflect positively on all roles and champs. i think they’ve done a semi good job of fixing top lane issues and are making a concious effort to fix bot lane.

some changes make me laugh tho, nerfing rakan’s heal by 4 and graves ult cooldown by 10 seconds.

better slow down boys don’t wanna change too much

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 05-31-2018, 12:55 PM

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Do pentakills even happen in modern pro play?

yeah. rekkles got one at MSI and i think maybe Uzi did too. it’s less surprising now though because like i said, the game is a revolving 5vs5. no duh there are pentas because the adc does so much dmg and all the targets are right there. kills the spectacle a bit.

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That's like my fav thing though. Feeling super vulnerable at the beginning and then you get that crossbow item I can't remember the name of that makes you essentially a firing platform.

runaan’s. and yeah, i agree that hitting your item spike as an adc is amazing but that’s what riot is trying to change. it feels just as good top lane though. nothing beats bush cheesing lvl 1 with darius’ w then abusinng lane control and having tri force done by the time your opponent is just finishing their tabis.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 05-31-2018, 12:56 PM

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yeah particularly ADC pentakills are not that rare and can happen at 30 minutes

ADCs in Season 8 are stronggg

just not jinx

when champs like cait, ez, and trist exist why play anything else?

it’s like oh hey let me abuse early game

mid game yeah hold up let me spike

late game oh baby keep on scaling dudes

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 05-31-2018, 01:00 PM

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I can't even find a Season 5 game of anyone picking Trynd or Nasus

Fiora is the go to tank counter split pusher, and I always found her fun to watch

professionally no, they aren’t viable pro champs. i was generalizing the game.

pro play split pushers would be fiora, camille, jax. and fiora and camille are just getting boring at this point.

gp vs camille
fiora vs sion
camille vs gnar

every single game in last NA split outside of Huni playing random **** like Lucian and Yas.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 05-31-2018, 01:04 PM

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yeah it's sad when the marksmen gets to be the assassin, AP carry, and ADC at the same time and impossible to catch ala Ez

I would uninstall if I picked Zed and got 1v1'd by the ADC and I see it all the time

riot has backed themselves into a corner here because it’s not necessarily items/runes/roles that are broken. it’s champion designs. giving half of ad’s the ability to self peel is terrible because it makes it so introducing one who can’t essentially useless. same thing with tanks who can poke and deal dmg while tanking insane dmg like current sion or cho.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 05-31-2018, 01:04 PM

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fiora, camille, and gnar are cool though

gp and sion are boring, Jax is whatever

which champs do you want to be viable top lane?

i want garen vs teemo in at least 50% of games

in all seriousness i just want a shake up. i think those champs have run their course. top lane should be a slobberknocker in my opinion. two champs with a lot of health just beating the hell out of each other with constant trades since they’re so far removed from the rest of the team.

make top lane macho again