i'm on right now looking to crank a few games out. normals obv

made it to gold again, but it seemed harder than I thought it would be... probably won't make it to plat until eloflation kicks in

so me(lux) and corki and ww are doing baron, 2 of enemy team is bot and enemy janna goes to ward baron

what does ww do, he ults over the wall. corki starts tanking baron and dies. ww doesn't get the full hp janna obv, its ****ing janna. we dont' get baron, he dies, enemy team now gets baron.

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i really wish i had a replay of that moment

literally the most ******ed thing i have ever seen

never wished for somebody to die over a petty thing

but right now, i wish that ww chokes on his breakfast and dies

riot should really add a way to automatically download and watch replay files...

wtf is up with udyr's winrate?

okay just accidentally dodged a promo by not locking in a ban

that's kind of annoying

so thats why every single udyr in every game is crushing

Devourer + guinsoo is so ******ed its not a surprise

Not even sure if it's Devourer + Rageblade. Haven't played myself but runic echoes gives 10% movementspeed and the spelleffect, with Iceborn and Deadmansplate you deal a **** ton of burst and you are impossible to run from.

Replay.gg

So I'm in game 2 of promos up 1-0. Game is pretty even around 15 minutes in though I expected my team to win late game. Suddenly I d/c and am unable to reconnect. According to Reddit, the servers are ****ting the bed. I eventually reconnect and end up in the post game lobby. Apparently my entire team d/cd and the enemy team didn't and won. I didn't get a loss prevented. WTF is this bull****? Going to be on megatilt if I lose game 3 of promos. Pretty pissed about the MMR hit too as this is the first game I've "lost" since placements.

I did it! not sure if I should be proud or not

Grats

I don't have nearly that many arams, maybe 1000 or 1200 but it was all I played for like 2 years of LoL. I wonder how much better I'd be if I just played ranked from the get go

this site is useful, but not perfect. i couldn't find bumhunt's game with warwick ulting over the baron wall (perhaps he didn't sign up for the service), nor could i find a 5s game where karak did an awesome ult (i did sign up for it!)

i looked into the api to see if there's a way to programmatically download the replay from a match id: apparently the only way to get a real replay is to connect to riot's servers, pretending to be a 3rd party spectator within the first 8 minutes of a game. if you don't, there's no way to get the full replay... pretty janky.

and when you view a replay from replay.gg, you're actually connecting to a server belonging to them (not riot) that's streaming the replay to you in the same way that riot streams to spectating clients.

Im gonna ened my aram career at that. been playing them for way too long. time to focus on this new season.

Unsurprisingly, it turns out I am a terrible Alistar player.

0/7/18, getting carried in a win. Not only did I forget to press R in 4 or 5 out of those 7 deaths, but I also made my Kalista's (who was wrecking hard btw) life hell by headbutting Irelia right on top of her. No, not once, but two times in a single exchange.
In that instance turning a nearly guaranteed 2-0 into a 0-2.

Gonna take some getting used to playing tank/engage support for me. My strongest sup is Janna by far. Followed by Soraka.
Not quite comfortable standing in the middle of the action so far.

I love Janna. I plan on using her for all of my promos. Maybe alistar pending the comp.

12 straight supports with Jungle main, Secondary support

might need to put mid if I want to jungle some. I want something in the range of 40/60 to 60/40 not this 5/95 bs I've gotten

been playing support primary, jungle secondary

42 support games, 7 jungle. and 1 or 2 of those seven might have been me queuing as jungle/top, don't remember.

back on the rift. our Ryze, I dont even....

63 games, 11 jungle, 52 support as jungle primary, support secondary.
So, ya. Pretty much same ratios.

I don't think Rito makes a distinction between primary and secondary. Certainly not when support is one of them.

Yeah, that was the idea behind why I bought Ali.
Pretty much default Janna unless there is a great reason to go tank and/or engage instead.
Got Blitz, too, but somehow feel too ashamed to give him a try. That in itself is ironic given I even gave support Teemo a good go (nope, doesn't work for me.)

I tend to play rather well with Janna (15/7 w/l, lol samplesize) and just feel really comfortable with her kit. Basically telling those kids when to stop fighting and handing out shields to prevent/encourage booboos on our/their side.
Unless you have that little brat Yasuo on your team who just wants to rush in whenever there's even the slightest chance of a knockup.

Blitz is a lot of fun to play.

I've usually just played Leona/Thresh as Support but I've been playing more Janna and Alistar now. I have 13 ping living in Chicago, so it's easier to hit the combo even though (I believe) they took away the hold Q down shortcut that helped hitting the combo in the past.

I also like Janna but it's tough to find adc's who use the shield to trade properly.

Wait for them to start trading, then use shield. That's how I do it.

I wait for engage to happen, shield adc, pummel enemy adc, throw slow, exhaust if needed, then use nado to disengage and/or ult if needed.
Very rarely will I initiate. Janna init is pretty shady and if you need nado for initiate, you just lost your only viable retreat option.

Ordered a new computer last night, I'll be back soon boys. Hopefully they didn't screw up Shen.