this game looks interesting, 2v2 or 3v3 top down matches that last 10-15 minutes with no laning or minions at all, comes out this month i think

This Shen nerf makes me sad.

There's no reason to play anything not named Kennen in soloQ toplane

Lane easy, team fight god, new ult makes you instant kill any champion that didn't build a SV/Banshee, and protobelt makes it easy to push your lane

New champ looks awesome.

outplay is winning fight/trade/kill/whatever in anyway possible. BUT the term is generally used to mean a play that is exceptional/tricky/highly skilled/etc.

the term "outplayed" in use today means skillfully outplayed, or strong winning play vs an opponent who was himself conducting some form of strong play.

in use - SKT stomping the BKT last year is not outplay, its outmatched.

when i first started reading the champ skill set i was worried the jungle camps were going to roam to lane and LoL was going to look like HotS.

New to LoL here.

What are your advice for support mains to move up the ladder.

learn to play janna. she's freelo at low elo and still really strong at mid and higher elos.

Get a premade adc, learn how to all in with Leona by getting lvl 2 before your opponents and just keep crushing them.

Leona is also really strong at lower elo's but falls off as you get higher.

I'd probably just spam Zyra if I was trying to climb from a lower elo. She's a lot harder to play than Leo or Janna though.

Play Janna, Nautilus, Leona, Braum, Morgana

Don't play Thresh it's too hard
Don't play blitz, it's good to win games, but it really sucks at teaching you the right support behaviour

I have started a Project where I use the Riot API, I sometimes randomly get a "exceeded ratelimit" 423 or something code back. The thing is that I don't exceed the ratelimit so not sure what's up.

Anyone experience with it ?

yeah I get it sometimes, I think it's a bug on their end. It's been weird lately. I wouldn't worry too much, I let my site run without throttling at all for a few days because of a bug on my side and they never took action against me

Yeah it seems like a bug, exceeded it yesterday 20 times by accident, as I changed my code and accidentally removed the sleep(), nothing happened though.

Pretty much got the whole logic down and already half of the variables of the matchdata processed and the rest is only a bit of copypaste for the searchstrings and probably is done in like an hour. Honestly expected it to take much longer as I'm not very good at programming yet. Getting that god damn progressbar running in Java took me longer than the whole code for getting the data from the api and inserting into the database.

Gonna start reading about Machinelearning now, I'd like to run a machinelearning algorithm over a bigger samplesize of challenger games.

Doublelift going on hiatus.

Who will be the next ADC of TSM?

Stixxay, Sneaky, and WildTurtle probably won't be too tempted. Are imports an option if they keep Bjerg and Sven? I don't remember if Bjerg ended up counting or not.

Altec, Keith, Apollo, LOD, Fabbbyyy, and Mash aren't the most inspiring group. I'm guessing it ends up being Altec, would be pretty surprised if it was an NA ADC not in that list.

Bjerg doesn't count as an import

EU ADC would imo be their best bet if they can get some of the good guys. NA ADC talent beyond Sneaky is very lacking.

Freeze posted about being a free agent

but he might still have wrist problems

4 Danish guys played AD in EU last split so TSM has a few options

If they get a top european ADC or even somebody like Deft I don't see Double coming back though. Pretty weird situation.

Seems like all great advice. I'm now level 30 and have a week to give rank a try.

Unfortunately, the only supp I played is Sona. I'm a Sona main.

Is she strong at low elo?

What's my game plan? Poke, poke, poke and beware of ganks?

Yes, Sona is really strong in solo q and has a top 3 support winrate all the way until Plat (she falls to #4 in diamond). This is based on the counterplay.xyz data.

You wanna poke but like all supports, you need to be aware of when to go aggressive and when to play passively. Stuff you should be thinking about always is do you know where the opposing jungler is? If not, then you probably don't wanna all-in unless you're certain you can get a kill or your jungler is doing golems and is close by and can help if the other jungler comes. Does their mid/top laner have tp up? One of the worst feelings as a support is blowing all your cooldowns and being on the wrong side of the river when the tps or tf ult starts channeling.

Sona is a great pick since she's not that mechanically challenging so you can focus on stuff like this as well as your positioning in fights.

God I get rate limited exceeded vs succesful attempts at a ratio of like 2:1 at the moment. But well already imported 18000 challenger games so that's something.

Actually it has to be worse than 2:1, as I made 90000 api calls today.

Ran some queries in my DB yesterday, Korean challenger supports drop 33.08 wards per game with average game time of 29.11 mins(I left out all games that are < 20 mins) while NA challenger supports drop 29.63 wards with an average game time of 30.23 mins.

I started playing again a month ago. I feel Nasus isn't as strong as he used to be. Matchups I used to win, not winning so much anymore.