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I think I've bought my last Riot points - making it a grand total of $15. I'm getting a bit annoyed with the way "fairness" (on their business side) keeps on getting in the way of my enjoyment of the game. Incidentally, it's the same sort of bs that made me quit Magic: the Gathering.

 AlexHolker wrote:
I think I've bought my last Riot points - making it a grand total of $15. I'm getting a bit annoyed with the way "fairness" (on their business side) keeps on getting in the way of my enjoyment of the game. Incidentally, it's the same sort of bs that made me quit Magic: the Gathering.

Don't buy any riot points then you can get new champs, runes and rune pages for free if you're patient enough.

 AlexHolker wrote:
I think I've bought my last Riot points - making it a grand total of $15. I'm getting a bit annoyed with the way "fairness" (on their business side) keeps on getting in the way of my enjoyment of the game. Incidentally, it's the same sort of bs that made me quit Magic: the Gathering.

What are you talking about here? I'm curious about both LoL and MTG as i play both.

MTG requires you to keep buying new cards unless you play really casually.

As for LoL the more impatient the more you'll spend. As a suggestion I'd say try to keep to buying only skins you like the look of that are for champions you like to play fairly regularly. Doing that you can get away with paying next to nothing at all.

 The Bringer wrote:

 AlexHolker wrote:
I think I've bought my last Riot points - making it a grand total of $15. I'm getting a bit annoyed with the way "fairness" (on their business side) keeps on getting in the way of my enjoyment of the game. Incidentally, it's the same sort of bs that made me quit Magic: the Gathering.

What are you talking about here? I'm curious about both LoL and MTG as i play both.

I'm thinking of 1350 RP tier skins in LoL and Mythic Rares in MtG. The spin for both was that they were changes made for the benefit of the fanbase, when really one is a 50% price hike on a bunch of non-Legendary skins, and the other was making it two to three times harder to find the card you're looking for.

 AlexHolker wrote:

 The Bringer wrote:

 AlexHolker wrote:
I think I've bought my last Riot points - making it a grand total of $15. I'm getting a bit annoyed with the way "fairness" (on their business side) keeps on getting in the way of my enjoyment of the game. Incidentally, it's the same sort of bs that made me quit Magic: the Gathering.

What are you talking about here? I'm curious about both LoL and MTG as i play both.

I'm thinking of 1350 RP tier skins in LoL and Mythic Rares in MtG. The spin for both was that they were changes made for the benefit of the fanbase, when really one is a 50% price hike on a bunch of non-Legendary skins, and the other was making it two to three times harder to find the card you're looking for.

But... skins don't have any effect in game. Your champ is the same in terms of game play no matter what you have them looking like.

Not true actually. At least in normal game modes some skins do have effects. Examples:

Leona does 1 less damage to champions wearing sunglasses; Vayne, Commando Galio/Jarvan, and one of Graves' skins.

Taric of the 5th Age (aka Pink Taric) is immune to Ahri's Charm ability.

 LordofHats wrote:
Not true actually. At least in normal game modes some skins do have effects. Examples:

Leona does 1 less damage to champions wearing sunglasses; Vayne, Commando Galio/Jarvan, and one of Graves' skins.

Taric of the 5th Age (aka Pink Taric) is immune to Ahri's Charm ability.

That last one is simply untrue. I own the skin and I've been charmed plenty of times.

As for the 1 less damage thing, there are plenty of "hidden passives" in the game similar to that. Their numbers are so small they literally have no impact.

 GangstaMuffin24 wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
Not true actually. At least in normal game modes some skins do have effects. Examples:

Leona does 1 less damage to champions wearing sunglasses; Vayne, Commando Galio/Jarvan, and one of Graves' skins.

Taric of the 5th Age (aka Pink Taric) is immune to Ahri's Charm ability.

That last one is simply untrue. I own the skin and I've been charmed plenty of times.

As for the 1 less damage thing, there are plenty of "hidden passives" in the game similar to that. Their numbers are so small they literally have no impact.

Gangster twitch instills fear in his enemies... completely unfair advantage :(

Gitzbitah wrote:

 AlexHolker wrote:

 The Bringer wrote:

 AlexHolker wrote:
I think I've bought my last Riot points - making it a grand total of $15. I'm getting a bit annoyed with the way "fairness" (on their business side) keeps on getting in the way of my enjoyment of the game. Incidentally, it's the same sort of bs that made me quit Magic: the Gathering.

What are you talking about here? I'm curious about both LoL and MTG as i play both.

I'm thinking of 1350 RP tier skins in LoL and Mythic Rares in MtG. The spin for both was that they were changes made for the benefit of the fanbase, when really one is a 50% price hike on a bunch of non-Legendary skins, and the other was making it two to three times harder to find the card you're looking for.

But... skins don't have any effect in game. Your champ is the same in terms of game play no matter what you have them looking like.

This, this, a million times this. They only change how you look in game, not how well you play it.

Also, if you play magic and you chase the meta, you're doing it wrong. You save MUCH more money to invest in a deck and play it well, changing minor cards based on the meta shifts, not changing your deck every time some pro creates a new deck type for the format. I have so much singles credit saved up at my store because I didn't chase the meta and just built one deck, tweaking the list to cope with the new big dogs on the block.

Currently spending some time on Thresh but having trouble getting a verdict on him. He seems weird. A good hook although not as good as Blitz's hook, the lantern is nice, but his E seems really weak to me. His ult is good but requires good positioning. If you miss your hook in a teamfight, you lost it in most cases as you will hardly get a good ult off.

Any good pointers? Read a few guides, but not convinced on him yet. I'll just stick to Sona, Soraka and Taric for now :/

 The Bringer wrote:

 GangstaMuffin24 wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
Not true actually. At least in normal game modes some skins do have effects. Examples:

Leona does 1 less damage to champions wearing sunglasses; Vayne, Commando Galio/Jarvan, and one of Graves' skins.

Taric of the 5th Age (aka Pink Taric) is immune to Ahri's Charm ability.

That last one is simply untrue. I own the skin and I've been charmed plenty of times.

As for the 1 less damage thing, there are plenty of "hidden passives" in the game similar to that. Their numbers are so small they literally have no impact.

Gangster twitch instills fear in his enemies... completely unfair advantage :(

Bunny Teemo exponentially increases his global taunt range.

OP better Nerf.

 Sigvatr wrote:
Currently spending some time on Thresh but having trouble getting a verdict on him. He seems weird. A good hook although not as good as Blitz's hook, the lantern is nice, but his E seems really weak to me. His ult is good but requires good positioning. If you miss your hook in a teamfight, you lost it in most cases as you will hardly get a good ult off.

Any good pointers? Read a few guides, but not convinced on him yet. I'll just stick to Sona, Soraka and Taric for now :/

You can't really compare blitz's hook to thresh's hook. It's becaus it's a hybrid between Blitz's and Leona's. What it lacks in displacment it gains in a good, long stun on the hooked target. You immobilize them for the time that you have them hooked.

Flay is actually a really strong combo spell for CC. Early game you hook them then flay them and they've been stunned for quite a long time (long enough for them to get scared and force flash)

The problem with thresh is that he requires good teamwork to make him stand out. You need your teammates on the same page. They need to know why you're throwing the lantern and who it is intended for. A quick CC jungler can get into the fray much faster this way and turn the fight really well but you need the communication to get it done right.

Haha, true about that teamwork thingy...saw a teammate with a Lee Sin in a fight, was out of range, threw my lantern just where I thought he'd lane after being kicked away and he got kicked right on it. Didn't stop him from just going back to Lee Sinn and dying, then shouting "WP TRESH NICE LANTERN NOOB, REPORT PLZ x9" on me. I also do not like the really long windup for his hook tbh, makes it very easy to dodge unless you're cc'd or do not have vision.

Might pick up a few replays when I got more time again. Until then, I feel that Soraka is a much safer bet for ranked solo queue. Then again, I'm only Silver 2 as of now.

 GangstaMuffin24 wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
Not true actually. At least in normal game modes some skins do have effects. Examples:

Leona does 1 less damage to champions wearing sunglasses; Vayne, Commando Galio/Jarvan, and one of Graves' skins.

Taric of the 5th Age (aka Pink Taric) is immune to Ahri's Charm ability.

That last one is simply untrue. I own the skin and I've been charmed plenty of times.

As for the 1 less damage thing, there are plenty of "hidden passives" in the game similar to that. Their numbers are so small they literally have no impact.

They might have changed it then (or maybe that was just one of those crazy rumors I forget).

That 1 damage might actually matter in some bizarre scenario but that stuffs all disabled in ranked games so it doesn't really matter at all It's just funny like how Trundle's pillar does 1 true damage XD

 Sigvatr wrote:
Might pick up a few replays when I got more time again. Until then, I feel that Soraka is a much safer bet for ranked solo queue. Then again, I'm only Silver 2 as of now.

If you want some good Thresh replays, I'd look around in the EU LCS. There's a couple of support players that can play really sick thresh support, I know Krepo from Evil Geniuses is one of them, I cannot think of the other off the top of head but they're always competing on who should be called "The Thresh Prince"....of course that is whenever it isn't banned out against them.

Isn't that Edward from Gambit? Stupidly good support no matter what he plays - switched back to Sona here late season, looks like.

Busted out Thresh again recently, as I'm aching to play Trundle like old times but impatiently waiting the revamp to do it. It wasn't the most awesome time, to a large extent because two people dropped and so it was up to the three of us to carry on. Which I still think we could have done, if I were on my main croc Renekton ... but not on a support-turned-ADC Thresh I haven't played in months

Anyway, am currently happy with Renekton 90% of the time, Nidalee the other 10% when I want to mess with mana again (though I keep getting stuck in mid with her ), but mostly bidding my time for the troll

- Salvage

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Isn't that Edward from Gambit? Stupidly good support no matter what he plays - switched back to Sona here late season, looks like.

Yeah, the reason why I couldn't remember is because every time I think of Edward I think of his insane lulu plays, but his thresh plays are also quite ridiculous as well.

I just recently got back into league (my friend lured me into it over the summer, but he was a level 30 and playing games with level 30's while I was new turned me away from the game)

If you're not an extremely high level and would like to play pvp sometime hit me up (name on there is "Choperdacat"). If you are a high level, bot matches are fine I guess.

Also, anybody got tips for playing vladimir? When I play him I never seem to die, but I also can't seem to secure kills.

"You have qualified!"

I am so scared now.

Fun fact: the best solo q'er is a support player.

Fun fact: I get more trolls in ranked than in solo q.

Also, rammus free week . The my first game ever with rammus, I would roll into all 5 of the enemy team, taunt their adc (who preceded to kill himself attacking me), and the rest of their team would run away. 1 v 5...

The second game my team fed hard, and I led them to victory in an hour and 10 minute game where it was about 80 kills to 80 kills. Rammus is so fun

 The Bringer wrote:

Also, rammus free week . The my first game ever with rammus, I would roll into all 5 of the enemy team, taunt their adc (who preceded to kill himself attacking me), and the rest of their team would run away. 1 v 5...

The second game my team fed hard, and I led them to victory in an hour and 10 minute game where it was about 80 kills to 80 kills. Rammus is so fun

I love jungling rammus. The ganks hit like a freight train and you absoultely shut down anyone with a channeled ultimate like Katarina and Nunu

Just had a really frustrating game, the by far worst matchmaking I have seen for weeks. Completely unwinnable game.

I also just had a really frustrating game. I was playing Janna, and the rest of the team was whining all the time. If they weren't whining about me not getting enough kills, they were whining about me getting too many kills. If they weren't whining about me not warding Baron, they were whining because I tried to ward Baron.

As someone who mains support, if someone starts yelling at me to place more wards I immediately mute them. As much as I love vision, I try to place wards where ever I safely can that would also give us some sort of benefit. Sometimes they dont' realize how much other teams actually can do to kill wards. (it isn't hard at all)

thats the problem about playing with randoms, since its a team game sometimes its hard to signal your allies. Though the smart ping system helped greatly sometimes it really isn't enough.

I'm glad that i have a few friends on skype whenever i log on to help me through most games. If you come across any good players friend them so that you have competent and level headed people on your team to q with.

With supports i always prefer the tankier ones over the soft supports. So i tend to main thresh or leona with the occasional alistar when i feel he is needed. The chain does take a second to wind up but much like leona sometimes you have to aim your skill shot where you think they are headed to catch them out.

The passive off his Q does a good amount of poke damage especially in the early levels of the game. So you will usually be able to harass the opposing support. What i love running on my supports is boots of mobility, it doesn't seem like a big upgrade. But when you are running down enemy champs to chain stun/root them for your team to catch up its a big deal.

cerealkiller195 wrote:

The passive off his Q does a good amount of poke damage especially in the early levels of the game. So you will usually be able to harass the opposing support. What i love running on my supports is boots of mobility, it doesn't seem like a big upgrade. But when you are running down enemy champs to chain stun/root them for your team to catch up its a big deal.

Yeah it does, sad the next patch is gonna shift that passive to his flay :<

I love to run movement quints myself. It allows me to delay buying boots until much later than normal. I main Nami and I'm moving as fast as most champs with T2 boots without them :3c

I personally feel I'm about to cusp the "next level" in playing support. I've gotten the general flow of things down to an art form from warding to battle control. It's a shame I'm stuck in Silver V for now haha.

Lifesteal quints all the way. Starting with 6% lifesteal gives you an insane edge on your opponents since you have so much lane sustain. You can stay in longer and get way better farm.

 YotsubaSnake wrote:

I personally feel I'm about to cusp the "next level" in playing support. I've gotten the general flow of things down to an art form from warding to battle control. It's a shame I'm stuck in Silver V for now haha.

Silver II represeeeeeeeeent