I play Susan (Nasus)
LoL is a pretty fun game if anyone wants to check it out

Landed 5 man Malphite ultimate yesterday. Won us the game. I'm proud of myself C:

Predictions for Play-offs?

EneT wrote:

Predictions for Play-offs?

NA ?

quarterfinals :
Gravity beats TSM

semifinals :
CLG beats TIP
Liquid beats Gravity

finals :
CLG beats Liquid

inb4 even my quarterfinals prediction goes wrong

Nofool wrote:

EneT wrote:

Predictions for Play-offs?

NA ?

quarterfinals :
Gravity beats TSM

semifinals :
CLG beats TIP
Liquid beats Gravity

finals :
CLG beats Liquid

inb4 even my quarterfinals prediction goes wrong

So you actually think that CLG isn't going to choke this time like they always do?

huuu yeah i wonder if they can fix their shit atm, i believe they can well whatever, not like they can beat anyone outside of NA zzz

You see, that's what CLG fans say every year.
"Dude, CLG went to bootcamp in KOREA, that's like the fucking hyperbolic time chamber from Dragonball. When they come back for play-offs they'll absolutely wreck everyone."
Oh wait a minute, they just got 3-0'd by Curse...
It's best not to have high expectations of CLG, they've been 3-0'd in every single play-offs ever since.

And despite TSM not doing so well recently you forget that out of all the teams in NA they have the most experience internationally and in BO5s compared to Gravity who are still fairly new. They'll most likely win vs Gravity but the TSM vs TL matchup can go either way.

In the other side of the Bracket, I have the lowest expectations for CLG since they always seem to disappoint me and their other fans. Impulse is very hit or miss though so CLG may have an opportunity but it's doubtful; Zionspartan who in my opinion is one of the main staple members for CLG gets outclassed by Impact and the same goes for Xmithie with Rush. Impulse's bot lane is consistent enough to handle Dlift and Aphro but overall, the set can got either way.

For EU there's no doubt in my mind that Fnatic is going to get first; no need to predict that.

how dare fans actually support their team even though it has gone through a lot of shit over and over again
I will continue having high expecations of them despite their shitty previous playoff performance

Just a butt-hurt Garen main passing by...

EneT wrote:

You see, that's what CLG fans say every year.
"Dude, CLG went to bootcamp in KOREA, that's like the fucking hyperbolic time chamber from Dragonball. When they come back for play-offs they'll absolutely wreck everyone."
Oh wait a minute, they just got 3-0'd by Curse...
It's best not to have high expectations of CLG, they've been 3-0'd in every single play-offs ever since.

And despite TSM not doing so well recently you forget that out of all the teams in NA they have the most experience internationally and in BO5s compared to Gravity who are still fairly new. They'll most likely win vs Gravity but the TSM vs TL matchup can go either way.

In the other side of the Bracket, I have the lowest expectations for CLG since they always seem to disappoint me and their other fans. Impulse is very hit or miss though so CLG may have an opportunity but it's doubtful; Zionspartan who in my opinion is one of the main staple members for CLG gets outclassed by Impact and the same goes for Xmithie with Rush. Impulse's bot lane is consistent enough to handle Dlift and Aphro but overall, the set can got either way.

For EU there's no doubt in my mind that Fnatic is going to get first; no need to predict that.

I've actually never trusted CLG, always switching players etc but their actual roster seems to be working well so imo they "have a chance", they can beat Impulse by doing some better decisions/fights etc (i agree about the Zionspartan thing etc). Again, Gravity has done better than TSM recently. I can hardly see TSM winning (that would only show their lack of consistency), and "fairly new team" doing well isn't really something new in league, random world champion every years zzz.

I don't have any expectations for NA teams this year, as you said any matchup could go "either way".
NA results are too random compared to other regions so im just guessing what could happens.

edit : yo wtf CLG had fans ? lmao

So in the past four weeks I spent in China and playing LoL from time to time I can safely assume that their level 5 ~ 10-ish unranked players are actually playing the game fairly decently in comparison to our Bronze/Silver monkeys. Perhaps I've been put with some smurfs but I have yet to see EUW Bronze/Silver last-hitting, trading, heck, even shocalling, younameit correctly. Yes they do that in China and this goes beyond stereotypes. My bro has a level 21 account and he faces ADCs who kite well, junglers who know their shit and plays at their champions' strenghts (prediction of enemy's jungler moves, counterjungling), roaming supports, surprisingly enough a LOT OF AWESOME RIVENS, a shittons of level 1 teamfights, more successful ward/flash insecs than fails, etc... The only difference in all that is runes and masteries being limited by summoner's level compared to our level 30s. Now maybe some of those players were indeed smurfs, however considering how annoying it is to register on account over there I doubt there are as many smurfs as there are in EUW/NA even counting the overall number of chinese players because you can only create 1 account per identity - actual identity, with your passport number, home adress number and papers, real name and stuff, linked to a QQ account.

In general Chinese players play extremely agressively and favors champions with strong presence throughout the game. You also find summoners' spells combos not often seen in EUW/NA (apparently Ghost/Ignite is a thing for marksmen, Smite/Exhaust for junglers, many Ez mid/adc running blue trinket + Clairvoyance, mid with Cleanse, etc...).

LoL in China is a whole different world and I wish I could play enough to see how actual ranked players, well, play. But there is no doubt the general skill level is far higher than what we are used to.

PyaKura wrote:

So in the past four weeks I spent in China and playing LoL from time to time I can safely assume that their level 5 ~ 10-ish unranked players are actually playing the game fairly decently in comparison to our Bronze/Silver monkeys. Perhaps I've been put with some smurfs but I have yet to see EUW Bronze/Silver last-hitting, trading, heck, even shocalling, younameit correctly. Yes they do that in China and this goes beyond stereotypes. My bro has a level 21 account and he faces ADCs who kite well, junglers who know their shit and plays at their champions' strenghts (prediction of enemy's jungler moves, counterjungling), roaming supports, surprisingly enough a LOT OF AWESOME RIVENS, a shittons of level 1 teamfights, more successful ward/flash insecs than fails, etc... The only difference in all that is runes and masteries being limited by summoner's level compared to our level 30s. Now maybe some of those players were indeed smurfs, however considering how annoying it is to register on account over there I doubt there are as many smurfs as there are in EUW/NA even counting the overall number of chinese players because you can only create 1 account per identity - actual identity, with your passport number, home adress number and papers, real name and stuff, linked to a QQ account.

Is anything below lvl 30 actually worth comparing to? Level 5-10 ish is like 20 games. Assuming you go into the game blind (which is what a lot of people do), everything is new and everyone is learning. I'm sure that that new player is just trying to figure out what his champion does, rather than worrying about stuff like kiting and trading properly which you learn later on. People need to learn fundamentals first. Do the players over there already have vast knowledge of the game before entering? If this is actually the case, it would make since, but if not, i have my doubts. It sounds like your lvl 21 friend (or you) got picked up by the anti-smurf thing riot put in. If he did, then he is definitely going against all smurfs, because the way that works is you're going against all smurfs or you're going against none once you get past lvl 10. Don't get me wrong, i'm not defending NA or anything. Its just that what you posted doesnt make sense. Its like when someone just started playing osu!, has like 300 playcount and is already worrying about his snapping and accuracy when he barely knows what a slider is.

That's not it, it's more like they just simply do "more advanced" mechanics such as kiting and trading effectively as something natural which does not need explanation, plus doing the basic stuff such as last hitting. As you'd think they probably don't start the game with a vast knowledge, however I'm pretty sure they learn a lot more quickly than we do, generally speaking.

I'm not sure how this anti-smurf thing works nor even if it exists on the chinese servers (yeah they tend to have the same gameplay changes as in NA/EUW except they are always 1 or 2 weeks late, and some system-related changes we receive on EUW/NA are possibly ommited seeing how different the pre-game window looks, with additional features), but one thing's for sure is that we - both my brother and me - never single-handedly stomped a game by ourselves past the first few games, or more accurately speaking the first 5 ~ 10 games post-bot training. That and I said it's much more difficult for chinese players to get a second account because they're linked to a QQ account with a whole lot of personal informations (QQ is like the main social network here in China and is used for a lot of things online, such as shopping, gaming, etc...) and creating a second account needs a new set of personal informations (mainly a second chinese passport). Also I don't think everyone we ever got against - or teamed up with - were all smurfs because there are still the occasional newbie you'd find as first-timer and still struggling to get basic stuff done in lane, let alone team actions/fighting. Another possibility is they are much more willing to find more information about the game techniques online than us (aka they're probably more curious) which might be why they know what they're doing, a possibility further emphasized by the amount of informations displayed at once on pre-game window (like, we have 3 or 4 news on it, they have at least a dozen of articles and videos updated daily).

Also this is not directly related but as you guys might know Tencent is managing LoL in China, Riot has to go through them to make changes and whatnot go live. Not sure about Korea, but they might have another similar society who runs LoL over there.

My prediction of TSM beating Gravity was right; you can't underestimate the experience TSM has, no matter how bad they've been doing in the split.

Now with TSM vs TL I actually believe it will go 3-2 to TSM. This change in TSM is pretty admirable and looks like they can compete with the best internationally.

:^)

lmao, gotta love the internet.

Also that trashtalk from Phreak.
"He won lane against Shiphtur but that's not a big deal cus' everyone's supposed to win lane against Shiphtur."

CLG, the dream. Let it not be a dream.

Here's to hoping that TSM would defeat TL.

Fuck CLG

TSM TSM TSM!

In before 'dirty TSM fans'.

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Must be a glorious day to be a CLG fan, if only I was still a CLG fan...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
FUCK CLG AND TL

TSM TSM TSM!

woo
Goodbye 120 ping

Renevant wrote:

woo
Goodbye 120 ping

Can't wait for under 80 ping. All the people on the west coast are pissed tho that they won't have extremely low ping anymore.

can confirm

Geez, this patch
I like the small buffs to Nami and Vel'koz.
Its gonna take me a little bit to get used to all the item changes, as well as this Juggernaut stuff.

Renevant wrote:

Geez, this patch
I like the small buffs to Nami and Vel'koz.
Its gonna take me a little bit to get used to all the item changes, as well as this Juggernaut stuff.

I like the Nami buff too!
I feel like people are gonna complain about the Juggernauts, they got some pretty strong buffs. However, they're still as easily kitable as before.

Yah, I think I like mordekaiser's the best of all. The whole dragon thing with his ult seems cool.
I just noticed that they also fixed that annoying Darius bug too. Flashing out of his E, then getting pulled right back in was really annoying.

Edit: This is pretty cool

Reinstalled League. god I'm so rusty

I love the Lissandra buff. On another note, here's to hoping Worlds champion pool will be diverse with all the buffs this patch

There will be 2 more patches between now and Worlds, I hope they won't gut the new stuff too much until then

So.. anyone gonna go to the finals in Stockholm this sunday?

http://champion.gg/champion/Skarner/Jungle
holy shit

Renevant wrote:

Edit: This is pretty cool

I have found myself relogging more frequently just to see this :U

Jenny wrote:

So.. anyone gonna go to the finals in Stockholm this sunday?

Ehhh, no but I am going to Worlds.

one more game

why

edit:not Viktor again holy shit

fuck tsm

I hate tsm

so bullshit

I still dont get how TSM made it to the final ,_,

That recall