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↑ animorpherv1 wrote:Argh, silver is impossible to climb out of now unless you're plat or higher. I hate it.

the system works fine. you should probably stop blaming the game and start blaming the player.

I find that I do a lot better if I queue for ranked by accident.

Try to find a way to make it fun instead of being really invested in the outcome. Type "/all glhf" when the game starts. Mute or reassure players who seem really tilted, especially if they start the game that way.

Yes, having a good attitude makes you play better.

↑ Nikanor wrote:

↑ animorpherv1 wrote:Argh, silver is impossible to climb out of now unless you're plat or higher. I hate it.

the system works fine. you should probably stop blaming the game and start blaming the player.

Every time you make a mistake, analyze it and don't make it again.

↑ Iecerint wrote:

↑ dramonic wrote:Aren't you gold 5 ani?

That's ranked 3s.

Trudat.

Apparently (from reddit) there's a small amount of ELO-helling going on in the ranked 5s ladder right now, where a lot of teams full of diamond/plat players are being formed and playing their initial placement matches, where they're getting matched up against other teams in their promo series (I think it was Silver III to II, might be off by one or two divisions). It's a feature of where the starting "neutral" MMR is and the fact that there are more games played by new ranked teams right now with high skill players than there are existing teams at the neutral MMR. Thus teams climb to that point, hit the "new team brick wall", and fall back a little. Like all ELO hell situations, this is temporary and will go away once the flood of new teams dies down.

↑ theelkspeaks wrote:

↑ dramonic wrote:...You played top taric in ranked?

During Season 4 preseason right when relic shield came out and 2-1-2 was the meta.

EDIT: And possibly after the rework of his passive to the sheen-like thing, I remember him being strong then but can't remember if that was only supp or also top.

BorK-Muramana jungle Taric was so fucking OP

...Are we getting another support, then? I mean, what else can a Bard-ish character be?

↑ Voidedmafia wrote:...Are we getting another support, then? I mean, what else can a Bard-ish character be?

Probably not so much based on an RPG Bard, more like, ya know, storytelling themed. Somehow.

My guess is mage.

bruiserbard obv

↑ quadz08 wrote:bruiserbard obv

His gonna kick your ass with that harp.

He and Sona need to team up and create some awesome shit.

OH MY GOD BARD IS FINALLY COMING OUT. Bard was broken as shit last time I visited Riot - hopefully they made him less broken.

Explain him to me, RiotBRO

The constellations above clearly form a picture of a dragon.

Ao Shin where?

damn

it's not Ao Shin

↑ Oman wrote:Explain him to me, RiotBRO

NDA DENIES YOU!

Riot's been working on Ao Shin a really fucking long time at this point.

Why is Ao Shin taking so long?

Bard main ama.

Hi Arthur!

↑ Voidedmafia wrote:

↑ Brian Skies wrote:I maintain Voli is super terrifying to play against. Even more so when you don't get to choose who you're playing to combat it.

Where, exactly? I really wanna play him top (but I admittedly suck at Top, so)

Top or jungle is where I think Voli fits best. I've seen people try to play him support, but I've always thought he was more important than that. I mean, you have this big angry bear that shoots lighting with his auto attacks and can chomp you for massive damage. Even if he does poorly in lane, as long as he gets the gold for his health items, he tends to be pretty scary for squishies in teamfights.

I like Jungle bear more for a few reasons-

• Bear is actually pretty bad at CSing and easy for a ranged top to deny
  
• If you gank people often aren't able to click on you and know if passive is up. In top lane the top laner will have a pretty good idea if passive is up.
  
• Stalker's Blade is quite good on bear
  
• Juggernaut enhancement kicks ass for bear and lets you get Tabi or Swiftness instead of Treads (which in turn lets you get Visage earlier without going too ham on MR)
  
• Bear E and W are both quite strong in the jungle. In particular the later is good to stop smite-steals.
  
• Early jungle fights tend to take the form of "chase someone blindly through the jungle a long time" and if they trigger bear passive you can run forward a bit then turn to strong results. style points if you smite Red buff for this.

Overall Jungle bear kicks ass. With a core of something like [Sweeper, Stalker's Blade, Boots] -> [Tabi/Swiftness, Sightstone] -> [Juggernaut, Visage, Randuins, Ruby Sightstone] you can do really well.

I should try bear in new jungle, I haven't yet