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 n0t_u wrote:
Fraps.

Do you find that it impacts on your frame rate and ping much at all?

 Krellnus wrote:

 n0t_u wrote:
Fraps.

Do you find that it impacts on your frame rate and ping much at all?

Not really, occasionally it'll have a drop but it doesn't happen often. Mostly when I run out of space.
It also shouldn't have any effect on ping anyway.

 streamdragon wrote:
The biggest issue people seem to have with Nid is learning to dodge sideways from her spear, rather than trying to outrun it (which only increases its damage!).

There are plenty of powerful ARAM champs and absolutely none of them should be taken out.

Even Veigar, as much as I hate that guy.

The biggest problem in AR is that due to the passive bonusses, she is able to spam her Q and due to the lack of wards, you lose out on a lot of reaction time thus it's very easy to zone your enemies. And the hitbox...I mean, really -_-

Enemy team got Nidalee, Yi, Sivir, Lux and Amumu.

Immediately ALT + F4'd.

Out of curiosity, what was your team? Also seems a bit childish to rage quit before a match like that. Screws the other four players and gives you the 15 min. leaver penalty, all over an ARAM game. :-/

Irelia, Warwick, Xin, Taric and...uhm...can't remember the last one right now Tryndamere.

Yeah, it's a 15 min ban, but I then spent ~30 min working on a project, then coming back and playing another game. I won't spend a single second on a game that's only frustrating because of it being decided by sheer luck

 Sigvatr wrote:
Irelia, Warwick, Xin, Taric and...uhm...can't remember the last one right now Tryndamere.

Yeah, it's a 15 min ban, but I then spent ~30 min working on a project, then coming back and playing another game. I won't spend a single second on a game that's only frustrating because of it being decided by sheer luck

Then I'm curious as to why you play ARAM? That's the purest defintion of luck in LoL. Games take just as long on ARAM as much as they do on Summoner's Rift if you're actually playing the game. Infact, longer because nobody ever really surrenders in ARAM when SR usually has 20 min surrenders when one team gets dominated.

 YotsubaSnake wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Irelia, Warwick, Xin, Taric and...uhm...can't remember the last one right now Tryndamere.

Yeah, it's a 15 min ban, but I then spent ~30 min working on a project, then coming back and playing another game. I won't spend a single second on a game that's only frustrating because of it being decided by sheer luck

Then I'm curious as to why you play ARAM? That's the purest defintion of luck in LoL. Games take just as long on ARAM as much as they do on Summoner's Rift if you're actually playing the game. Infact, longer because nobody ever really surrenders in ARAM when SR usually has 20 min surrenders when one team gets dominated.

Most matchups in ARAM aren't a problem. It is mostly driven by luck, with every matchup, but specific matchups like I described are unwinnable assuming the teams are even borderline equally balanced...and I cba to spend time on this.

Did Riot change the matchmaking with the latest patch? I keep getting extremely terrible matchups since then.

 Sigvatr wrote:
Did Riot change the matchmaking with the latest patch? I keep getting extremely terrible matchups since then.

Terrible as in worse opponents or stronger opponents?

In ranked, since the new patch I'm actually playing against other S5 players as opposed to B2-B1 players all the time but that may just have been a shift in my score after I had a team to pull out a win in a game we had no business winning.

I only play ARAM and the matchmaking is completely off-target right now. ELO is very wide-spread among the teams and I always have at least 1 really terrible player on my team. On the other hand, I face a lot more pre-mades now, mostly 3-man premades.

Sure, ARAM is fully based on luck, but it's the matchmaking that seems to be really weird since the patch. I don't know what they did, but it's bad :/

On the other hand, I get a lot of really weird games that are way too easy.

I didnt think Aram had any sort of match making other than who is available.

It was a lot better pre-patch. Sure, not good, but post-patch, it's really weird. Idk what happened :(

I'm so bad at this game. I just started.

Any advice for a constant "feeder" who prefers melee over anything else?

Well if you prefer melee, you're probably best going after bruiser champions rather than the squishier melee carries like Yi, Fiora, etc. Hmm this rotation isn't really the best for that sort of thing either, leaving you with just Mundo for now. He's decent and can have crazy health regen though. There's still Aatrox who I think works well with attack speed and a little damage rather than full damage.

Either way if you're probably going to want to buy Frozen Mallet for most of them at some point. adding a little slow onto your auto attacks. For some of them (like Vi, Shivana and Garen) this is the main way you're going to stick to the enemy, all of those have a gap closer to help as well. But the slow is nice to have.

I'd say look for champions like Garen (he's resourceless, pretty forgiving), Darius and perhaps Wukong.

This is not to say Yi is bad either, with practice he can be decent. He's just a bit squishy at times. though for a melee starter I'd recommend him as well due to his ultimate saving him from slows and his heal helping you stay around longer.

 Sigvatr wrote:
I only play ARAM and the matchmaking is completely off-target right now. ELO is very wide-spread among the teams and I always have at least 1 really terrible player on my team. On the other hand, I face a lot more pre-mades now, mostly 3-man premades.

Sure, ARAM is fully based on luck, but it's the matchmaking that seems to be really weird since the patch. I don't know what they did, but it's bad :/

On the other hand, I get a lot of really weird games that are way too easy.

Aram is not fully based on luck.

I've played against those teams we call stacked... they have brand, yi, fiddle.... and my team will lose the poke war, yes, but we win because we are simply better players.

 n0t_u wrote:
Well if you prefer melee, you're probably best going after bruiser champions rather than the squishier melee carries like Yi, Fiora, etc. Hmm this rotation isn't really the best for that sort of thing either, leaving you with just Mundo for now. He's decent and can have crazy health regen though. There's still Aatrox who I think works well with attack speed and a little damage rather than full damage.

Either way if you're probably going to want to buy Frozen Mallet for most of them at some point. adding a little slow onto your auto attacks. For some of them (like Vi, Shivana and Garen) this is the main way you're going to stick to the enemy, all of those have a gap closer to help as well. But the slow is nice to have.

I'd say look for champions like Garen (he's resourceless, pretty forgiving), Darius and perhaps Wukong.

This is not to say Yi is bad either, with practice he can be decent. He's just a bit squishy at times. though for a melee starter I'd recommend him as well due to his ultimate saving him from slows and his heal helping you stay around longer.

Warwick is easy to use too, but jungle might be too advanced for malfred see if you can get solo top.

 malfred wrote:
I'm so bad at this game. I just started.

Any advice for a constant "feeder" who prefers melee over anything else?

If you've just started playing the matchmaking process might not have found the right spot for you yet, i.e. you might play versus more experienced players. That'll change while you percolate to a more adequate "skill"-interval.
Other than that i've got some random basic advice:
a) Try to last hit minions unless there is someone else in your lane who needs the gold more than you (e.g. a ranged non magic class). You don't need to hit the enemies minions constantly, just wait until they are nearly dead and finish them off. You only get gold for them if they die by your action regardless of damage dealt before that point.
b) Do not overextend, i.e. try not to push your minion wave too far away from your own tower and do not walk around too far from it. That way you might have the chance to escape an attack.
c) Try to always know where the enemy champions are; notify your teammates if one of "your" enemies leaves your lane and be alert if you read or see such a warning from someone else.
d) Use wards to help with c)

 The Bringer wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
I only play ARAM and the matchmaking is completely off-target right now. ELO is very wide-spread among the teams and I always have at least 1 really terrible player on my team. On the other hand, I face a lot more pre-mades now, mostly 3-man premades.

Sure, ARAM is fully based on luck, but it's the matchmaking that seems to be really weird since the patch. I don't know what they did, but it's bad :/

On the other hand, I get a lot of really weird games that are way too easy.

Aram is not fully based on luck.

I've played against those teams we call stacked... they have brand, yi, fiddle.... and my team will lose the poke war, yes, but we win because we are simply better players.

That's what I was talking of. It's not that I haven't won against stuff like Nida / Yi yet, it's that in those situations, the enemy team was terribly bad. Same vice versa. Winning a match with Nidalee and going 39 - 4 is a joke and is a sign of very poor matchmaking. Luck doesn't refer to heroes alone, it also refers to matchmaking, especially when you solo queue.

So uhm. Is anyone interested in putting together a league team?

Almost won a 4v5 ARAM today. Our Morgana chickened out on seeing their lineup having both Yi and Nidalee and left the game. We were seconds away from killing their nexus before Yi respawned and stopped us. Shame the Morgana figured she had something better to do with her time. We would have probably won with the 5th player.

I don't know enough to play random. No way.

It's actually easier. You don't have to worry about laning so much, it's just pvp. Fountain can't heal you so escaping low isn't as important either.

It's like a more laid back version of it.

It's a very casual and fast paced way of playing league. All teamfights, all the time. I think it's also an amazing way to learn new champs because it forces you onto someone and you either sink or swim and when you get a new champ you can beat face with? Life is good.

 YotsubaSnake wrote:
It's a very casual and fast paced way of playing league. All teamfights, all the time. I think it's also an amazing way to learn new champs because it forces you onto someone and you either sink or swim and when you get a new champ you can beat face with? Life is good.

All teamfights all the time? Aw, I rather like laning.

Advice for shutting down Ezio Talon anyone? I can never seem to deal with him, though I've only gone against him as Akali. Would Morgana be a better pick?

 liquidjoshi wrote:
Advice for shutting down Ezio Talon anyone? I can never seem to deal with him, though I've only gone against him as Akali. Would Morgana be a better pick?

No. though Morgana could "deal" with him.

if you get counter picked, switch to defense asap and rush some armor.

If not stick a tank on them and watch talon cry

duno about ezio

The best advice I can give is, assuming this is mid lane, rush seeker's armguard and farm from range. Armguard gives you the extra bit of durability against his physical attacks so he can't harrass you as easily and staying back (which most mid laners can do) keeps him off of you.

But Akali should do well against him. I would recommend farming from a distance with your Q until lvl 6, then just wait for him to slip up and destroy him with your gap closing ult. Even better if he uses his ult before you go in, then he can't just "disappear" from you.

Blind picks rather than counter picks, not in ranked yet. His rake hits harder than my Q, so he can out harass me, farm better, etc. At 6 he can just destroy of with his full combo - just seems like I need to throw my top lane at him and go top instead. Would rushing Thornmail be a good idea?

Thornmail won't work. Talon does his damage through skills instead of autos so it doesn't really help out. With Akali I'd say you'd have to play aggressive and give yourself an advantage early on then try to keep on the pressure so you win exchanges. If you can keep him a little low, he shouldn't try to do much.