Windows Bit-tech League of Legends thread

Haha they gave LoL a 2!??! I guess the beta must have been really buggy. Mind you none of the bittech team seem to like DoTA games, based on the last gaming podcast. Joe, I think, especially doesn't like them; bit odd!

By the way, has anyone actually received their 350 riot points we were promised for this month's naff server performance? A nice compensation from Riot I thought; will happily purchase another 450 to make an amount I can actually buy something useful with (couple of skins perhaps)

 

Yeah I got mine. It is pretty handy if you already have some RP, but if not I think it is to be taken with a slightly cynical view, as there is very little that 350 RP can actually get you on its own, and I think as much as anything it is an attempt by Riot to get people to buy more RP. Clever on their part I guess.

Played a few games with Poppy recently. She is great fun.

 

If anyone wants to play, give me a shout "Nimsit".

 

Hmmm not had mine yet; perhaps an email is required! Yeah, not much 350 or 450 can get you, maybe a more common skin in a sale.
It is quite a clever move on their part, with the server disturbances I imagine less people have been buying riot points; so it's more an incentive to purchase the minimum amount to make a usable total.

Poppy is a rather good tank, very often getting pwned by her.

 

I'm on the US servers, it may be that the EU ones haven't received them yet, if you're on there?

I don't play her as a tank really, there are far better characters for that (in my premades we nearly always have one or two of amumu/shen/malphite). She is an awesome anti-carry/tower diver though. I can't see her being a character I really stick at for more than a week or so, but it is great fun charging people into towers and stunning them, and then clubbing them with her q. Also, you can get her movement speed up around the 600 mark, which is something to be feared.

As I said, I imagine this will mean that Riot make more money, and I can't really begrudge that to be honest, I just think it is a bit sly.

I've probably spent in the region of £30-40 on skins and stuff, but I've no problem spending the money as it is around what I would spend on any other pc game, and I've been playing LoL for well over a year now. A subscription to something like WoW would have cost me far more.

 

Ah the RP is in my account now; just need to plan out how to spend it, will top it up (as Riot probably planned) with 450 and probably either wait for a skin sale or just splurge it on one more rare skin.

Yes she can be amazingly fast; her q ability is ridiculously strong. I tend to stick with Vlad, really good mid character and really enjoyable to play, if not a bit easy in some people's opinions. I am looking to find myself a more melee char/ possible tank. Can't decide who though.

Yea I would've been happy to spend around £20 for LoL as a retail game so until I go over that limit I won't feel guilty for spending money on it, nor feel cheated by Riot.

if you ever feel like a game my summoner ID is the same as my bittech one; Xahl.

 

Poppy should never be played as a tank .

I mean one of the main things a tank tries to do is get people to blow spells on them... Poppy's Ultimate pretty much negates all of that. She's just a really hard to kill burst assassin, kinda like Olaf in that for a few seconds he can pretty much ignore whatever's thrown at him, except in the case that she doesn't have to build Tanky in order to survive through it. My problem with her is just that she's hard to farm with (no AoE spells at all) and requires a strong early game in order to do well in, same as most/all assassins, except they have other methods of ganking/closing distance... all she has is to face charge them (because you really want her E to proc off of a wall).

As for RP, i don't really want to know how much i've spent... i only really buy skins that are on sale now, but i've still put a relative amount of money into it.

Speaking of Poppy and RP actually, i do want her Battle Regalia skin to come on sale... was a fan of the White Knight skin that it was based off of, not quite as good as the original, but still rather nifty.

 

Holy, tried jungle yi last night.... compared to ww jungling is marginally slower early on but later in the game I find he has more use in team fights. Only played 2 games with him, 1 went well, 1 did not but we were 5v5 premades which could have been the issue as our premade had no communication what-so-ever. Next time I have some time i'll try him out some more.

Also, the battle regalia skin looks awesome and with the 350 RP we were given I was able to get the white warwick skin on sale for 240.

 

The problem with jungle Yi is that he lacks a hard disable, thus his ganking potential isn't as strong as others (Udyr, Nocturne , Warwick - Level 6). He's also a DPS champion which hurts him in that he relies heavily on the opponents being overextended for the maximum amount of distance for ganking.

Lategame teamfights his role is different to Warwick's as well, he's more of an Assassin/Hard Carry, going in after the fight has started to ensure any potentially deadly CC has been blown, after which he can sneak in a kill with his Ult and run away, then come back in with his Ult again due to it being refreshed in a hit and run sort of fashion.

With Warwick, he also waits for CC to be blown, but after that he leaps on the enemy Carry to prevent them from escaping or to trap them if they overextended. The difference in that afterwards you generally have him hang around in the fight, absorbing damage and Q'ing people to stay longer. With only a bloodrazer he still has enough DPS to be an annoyance and if coupled with Tank items he can withstand quite a lot of punishment.

 

I've played ww many ways and I find him most effective as the "gank tank" His auto-attacks get the bonus from AD, his skills scale with AP which can put him into an awkward situation. I've seen people build him AD/AP but it just doesn't work. With WW I jungle, get a lantern, boots, another dps item than start going tanky. I know as WW is to wait for the fight to start, target carries, soak up some damage and with his hunger strike he can take some good abuse while healing himself for a decent amount.

I find going all AD with him is ok but again, he relies on auto-attacks and a lot of people can easily shut WW down with a stun / slow if they are over 1/2 health. Still really enjoy playing him though.

 

Yup, that's pretty much the way i believe he's supposed to be played.

However whilst i normally don't like getting a bloodrazor on most junglers, i do feel Warwick is one of those however since his Ult procs on each hit, meaning that (assuming 0 AR and MR with skills maxed) just with R and Q, he removes 40% of the target's HP, without even considering his AD or the extra damage component of his R.

Also in general the Lantern is designed for champs that need more sustainability in the jungle because it's a cheap early game item designed to give extra armor and lifesteal. However Warwick cruises through the jungle early game as long as he has Golem buff so Wriggle's isn't important on him.

In general my build goes:

Cloth Armor, 2 Ports + Ward
Cloth Armor -> Madred's Razor (First trip back)
Boots
Guardian Angel
Boots -> T2 Boots (generally Treads)
Chain Vest + Negatron Cloak
Randuin's or Banshee's (although that could be a Sunfire instead of Randuin's now)
-> Extra tank items

I find that the early Guardian gives you enough resists early game to be seriously effective and help you Tower Dive/Survive teamfights, whereas the Warwicks who generally try to finish their Bloodrazors end up being squishier and die more often, meaning they lose out on farm. Also on squishies the Razor+Lizard Buff means he should still generally rip through them and it's only tanks which can cause some issue, however that's what his Q is for.

I remember when i first started AD Warwick was the bane of my life since i hadn't learnt coordination, nor had a premade team, thus he ended up being more like a Yi, facerolling through teams and the lifesteal component on his Ult meant he'd get back to full HP quickly. However soon after getting the hang of stunning him, he could soon melt, especially with no escape mechanisms. Also playing a full Carry/Assassin means being squishy, and whilst he does have a lot of burst with his R+Q combo, he's also completely vulnerable during that time do to his own Supression. Unlike Malzahar he also can't do it from a ridiculous "outside of teamfight" range, meaning it's very easy to shut him down during it.

 

just got LoL! if anyone wants to add me, my user is fuus!

 

Been playing LoL about a 7 or so months and have just shy of 700 wins and in all this I've learned the two most important things in this game are /mute and Premades. Keep those two things in mind and this game is amazingly fun if you don't prepare for your faith in humanity to be kicked in the naughty bits. If anyone needs a Support or Carry toss me an invite on the US Servers names the same there as here.

 

I "abuse" the /ignore feature. Whenever I join a game and someone says something amusing at the start i'll say Oh hai there or something random but not one bit offensive, but when people start saying shut up, your mom, etc. I just /ignore. I also /ignore a lot of my own team mates when im in random games that try and tell me how to play my characters and don't provide help. It's one thing to make some suggestions but it's another to say "You suck, gtfo, your trash, etc."

Also, I refuse to play on my own, I only play when I have another person to play with, because most random games you get stuck with people who are negative, or don't really communicate well. I'm somewhere in the low to mid 200 win range.

 

Kasowaree, I literally said the same thing over teamspeak about my faith in humanity being generally decent constantly tested on LoL yesterday. We were against a Sion/Taric pairing on the bottom playing as amumu/yi, so laning went really poorly for us. The rest of our team wouldn't come to gank on the lane, so we were inevitably killed and pushed back. We eventually won the game because their team build was bad, and their players not that great, but they wouldn't stop talking crap all game.

It has gotten to the stage that my friend has bound '/squelch enemy' to a hotkey on his keyboard and presses it every game.

As for Yi, I'd always lane with him for the first 4-ish levels with a tough lane partner, and once I had beserkers and some lifesteal would run off into the jungle, ganking at will. I've stopped playing Yi now, because I think he is a ridiculous carry, and I pretty much never lose when I play him assuming my team is semi-competent. Exceptions apply when I've had a string of bad losses and need a quadra-kill to cheer me up.

 

I would have thought the Double Stun/Shatter/Shield Explode combo would have ripped through the Yi/Amumu lane. Yi's generally piss poor in a lane since if he uses Alpha Strike he goes OOM very quickly, and as he's a melee Carry his early game lane dominance sucks. Amumu's rather similar with regards to Mana Conservation and his skills, especially since his stun is a skill shot and his other two skills are AoE meaning he ends up pushing the lane. In fact, me and my friends agree that Amumu is possibly one of the worst laners in the game, hence why he's seen jungling so often.

But i do agree with you when a team refuses to come gank despite you stating how bad your lane matchup is... they tell you to "deal with it" just because they're too comfortable with their own opponents.

 

Aye... those people always bug me.

Its why I have taken to being the ganker on the team, no matter what char I'm playing (its actually piss funny when playing as soraka in heals/support mode).
But most of the time I'll play trynd, and at lvl 4/5 I'll head out and jsut gank anything and everyhting possible, while still protecting my lane if possible (I'll usually take mid at that point, which lets me push it every time I switch between top and bot ganking)

Initially with him, the only survivabilty I'll work on with him is the 920hp +hpreg +stacking buff armor, and then jsut damage and move/attack speed. (Black cleaver thing, zerkers treads, 50%as +crit+movespeed item, +60dam lifestea weapon) and depending on team build (I.e squishies, tanks etc) i'll go for Banshees or the magic resist +move speed armor



*I've really got to learn the names of these bloody items... I could name all abilities, their damage, mana cost, item costs, their stats, etc for Dota Renew.... i think its about time I learnt these*

 

I've had so much abuse in games recently I haven't actually played all week.

It's usually someone blaming me when they die because they are being reckless or I'm left to solo and no one comes to help. Then I get blamed for "feeding" when I have 0-2. Then there's always just the other torrents of abuse that come from nowhere.

I need to play less random games I guess.

I think out of any gaming community I've been privvy to, LoL is the worst (not in terms of participation, but in terms of attitude). For every one decent, reasonable player, there's two or three kids itching to try out their copy of "The Big Boy's Book of Swears".

To be fair, DotA was pretty bad but I remember even in my first game I had no clue how to play and got some abuse but then one heroic player jumped in and said "Hey, we were all noobs once." and proceeded to give me advice.

 

Yeah, you make one wrong move in a random 5v5 and apparently your the worst player in the world and don't know your arse from your elbow.....

Its why I tend to play Vs AI a lot.
Everyone there is practicing, testing new heroes, new builds etc, though you still get the occasional retard who joins and flames everyone for being a noob, blah-de-blah-de-blah, and goes and dives into the entire enemy team by himself, or attacks an enemy hero right in front of the tower and doesnt move away, and somehow it's your fault >.<

*that's why whenever they start up, I mute em and then constantly steal their kills =P

 

I got sick of yi, having no real success with him so I'm giving Cait a try. First game didn't go well but we were being roflstomped so I wasn't bothered... I really should do some vs. AI to learn new heroes though instead of doing it in public games. Normally I play with friends who don't care but the odd random person gets rather upset. I give them heads up saying "New (insert hero here)" and they always tell me "No, pick someone your good with." If people really cared about winning they should just go do ranked matches. It's frustrating when one person is doing well and badmouthing the rest of the team and trying ridiculously hard. I don't understand why people must rant how they are great and others suck in normal games... If you're so good, go play ranked and leave the rest of us alone!

I'd also agree about the community, I've probably come across 20 or so people worth adding that had a good attitude, gave me some helpful advice and in general weren't rude or anything. I've played something like 400-500 games (Positive win ratio, but just barely)