League of Legends (Old)

[KaleiÐoscøpe]

Ah, ok! I'm still going for Azir, Bard, Cassiopeia, Ekko, Kalista, Rek'Sai, Skarner, and Wukong. At about 9K IP right now, so I can pick one of those up if/when I feel like it.

If you play a lot of ADC, Kalista is super fun and is easily one of the best adcs if you're good at her.

all but skarner and wukong are strong right now. It all depends on what lane you prefer

[Gendaberry]

Yeah, every champ in that list is top tier for their roles but those two, and Wukong is still pretty strong for soloqueue so you can't really go wrong with any of them.

[animorpherv1]

Just FYI - Azir, Bard, Cass, and Kalista all have a pretty high skill floor, IMO. But it does pay off if you're willing to put in the time. Ekko is also free this week, so give him a chance.

[Glork]

TIL ani doesn't know what skill floor means.

[animorpherv1]

TIL ani doesn't know what skill floor means.

Let me rephrase, then.

You're not going to do well on your first few games. You may not do well your first 10 games. It's also hard as fuck to be consistent on them.

[PJ.]

Yeah was about to say, Wukong is really good in solo queue....

[Iecerint]

Isn't Ani using it correctly? Skill floor means the minimum skill needed to do passably. High skill floor means it takes time to learn the champion well enough to do passably.

I think some people use it to mean "output level given minimal skill," but I don't think that's standard.

[hitogoroshi]

it's funny how even with all of the vlad I play sometimes I get into lanes I've never done v. vlad before

it is not funny to do this in a ranked game and have THAT be how you learn that cho'gath scream ignores vlad pool

[hiplop]

^^ EXACT SAME!

I faced swain the other day, and fuck all his moves ignore your pool!

[hitogoroshi]

yeah swain is an infamous vlad counter because all of his stuff is DoTs. I think he's one of the worst vlad matchups along J4.

Scream isn't DoT though, I have no idea why that goes through

[animorpherv1]

Vlad only goes untargettable during pool, is why - the silence isn't targetted at vlad, so it will hit, is my best guess. I mean, Equalizer shits on vlad pool.

[Voidedmafia]

Vlad only goes untargettable during pool, is why - the silence isn't targetted at vlad, so it will hit, is my best guess. I mean, Equalizer shits on vlad pool.

Well, Equalizer is a line of fire on the ground, and Vlad is technically pooling

onto/into

the ground, so I'm not surprised that works.

Not sure about Feral Scream, though...

[Klazam]

The scream actually hits BEFORE the anmiation starts, so you can appear to totally have avoided the animation, but if you were in cho's range amd noonpooled when he actually presses the button, it hits.

[notscience]

Anyone up for some games?

[theelkspeaks]

I might be up for some games this week to get some points towards those team up rewards. Would be interested in making (temporary) ranked 5's teams so we can get wardskin points at the same time, but team builder is fine by me too.

Will be out of town most of tomorrow and Monday.

[animorpherv1]

/in for all of the above

[hiplop]

The scream actually hits BEFORE the anmiation starts, so you can appear to totally have avoided the animation, but if you were in cho's range amd noonpooled when he actually presses the button, it hits.

but then he wouldn't have gone into his pool?

[Klazam]

That alibity is slightly fiddly- it acquires target on button press, but silence doesnt hit until the animation finishes. This is true for all cone shaped "skillshots". Blame league's shitty coding lol. So anyway, assuming mhe pools between button press and animation, yes, he'll be silenced in pool form.

[Glork]

You don't need to make ranked teams. You just need to play 5man premades. Even ARAM/Dominion count.

As a note, only the winning team earns 5 points so technically you have to actually win a game over the course of the week to be eligible for rewards.

[Glork]

I'd suggest reviving the "ScumChat" chat room in the game client to make it easier to form premades. Avoids having to track down IGNs to add everyone.

[Iecerint]

I think the logic is just that you might as well grind ward points if you're gonna do a fair amount of 5s anyway.

I'd be around.

[Patrick]

The scream actually hits BEFORE the anmiation starts, so you can appear to totally have avoided the animation, but if you were in cho's range amd noonpooled when he actually presses the button, it hits.

This explains alot. I've played Cho for a long time, and have always loved how wide/long ranged the scream seems to be.

[zoraster]

I'm up to play ranked 5s Monday-Wednesday. Much less availability weekends.

[Gendaberry]

If you need another person for 5s, I'd be up for it as well.

[hiplop]

im bad but i could do it if yall need someone ever