League of Legends v35 - Gangplank appreciation thread - Games

Umm, I'm never touching draft pick and blind pick again, it fucking sucks to play in it holy shit. Unless of course if I'm going to play in a pre-made team with friends or something.

[QUOTE=Rudevinny;51257032]I feel slightly sad whenever I see a good Lee Sin because that means they'll climb and just become bad Lee Sins in another ELO Feels badman for some reason[/QUOTE] ...Never thought about it that way. That's pretty depressing, actually.

After finally getting to lane against a Tahm Kench for the first time in my life, I have 3 words. Fuck. This. Catfish.

[quote]Unroll the tadpole, unclog the frog, unload the toad, uninhibit the ribbit, unstick the lick, unimprison the amphibian, unmute the newt, unbench the kench, permit the kermit, defog the polliwog.[/quote]

Uninhibit the ribbit and permit the Kermit are my favorites. [editline]25th October 2016[/editline] But seriously fuck that champion.

I play Kench support when I see Zed on the enemy team, just to see Zed players tilt. Edit: One of my ranked support shenanigans in Silver 1, enemy team had support MF, so I picked Braum. [media]https://youtu.be/FrfUPiH41_w[/media] Killed Vayne, then escaped with a sliver of health left.

Use the 'follow champion' and stationary cameras more. You can also click and drag on the mini-map for smoother movements. [editline]26th October 2016[/editline] Unrelated, but I decided to try Brand support on his free week a few days ago and he's actually a lot of fun. He provides a ton of pressure in lane against non-engage supports, and his stun is not all that hard to hit, although with the delay on W it can be tricky to time it sometimes when they're closer if you aren't using E. People really don't respect the amount of damage you can do. One game I accidentally took like 3 kills from my ADC that I wasn't even near. Some of the other 5 were legit though.

Man I know being amused by the enemy team's salt is a MoBA tradition but god damn the last game I played was a blast Was screwing around with support Illaoi, got to the point the enemy team spent maybe 3/4ths of the laning phase 3-manning bot, this enemy panth doing nothing but hurl abuse at my k/d (which, after the first 20 minutes, was admittedly atrocitious, but in exchange my ADC was fed and our toplaner had basically free-farmed all game), and admittedly it came down to a very close game but winning it and watching some tryhard salt himself to death in the postgame? Priceless

I have finally seen what complete and utter tilting looks like. From the moment we gave first blood double kill, our Caitlyn snapped. Constant, never-ending flaming and angrish typing. First at Lux for (supposedly) screwing up, then me for having the audacity to suggest he calm down, then anyone else who had the gall to say something. Just a stream of caps-lock screaming, ranting and whining about how bullshit it was that he got hooked by Blitz even though he totally wasn't in range.

That's when you mute and just focus on playing.

I love the good old classic bot lane going 1/7 each and blaming me as the jungler for not helping, yeah mate, I just camped bot lane for one minute for you and watched you do nothing because your support is the shitty MF pick, I dove the turret and got a double for you and I only got two assists. I feel like getting cancer right now.

[QUOTE=Grindigo;51280303]I love the good old classic bot lane going 1/7 each and blaming me as the jungler for not helping, yeah mate, I just camped bot lane for one minute for you and watched you do nothing because your support is the shitty MF pick, I dove the turret and got a double for you and I only got two assists. I feel like getting cancer right now.[/QUOTE] I feel your pain. I posted a complaint a couple days ago I had about a bot lane pinging 'assist me' constantly starting before 4 minutes and ending up feeding hard the entire game. I'm still kicking myself for not just completely ignoring the lane. I was down there like 5 times and they still lost first tower and died over and over. What makes it worse is they were a duo.

[QUOTE=Grindigo;51280303]I love the good old classic bot lane going 1/7 each and blaming me as the jungler for not helping, yeah mate, I just camped bot lane for one minute for you and watched you do nothing because your support is the shitty MF pick, I dove the turret and got a double for you and I only got two assists. I feel like getting cancer right now.[/QUOTE] To quote the last game I played where bot fed and I didn't have a stellar game top because the jungler had to babysit bot just so they didn't feed quite so bad Midlaner > "Classic strategy, bot feeds, blames top" or whenever I play JG and every lane feeds before I hit level 3

[QUOTE=Lijitsu;51280629]I feel your pain. I posted a complaint a couple days ago I had about a bot lane pinging 'assist me' constantly starting before 4 minutes and ending up feeding hard the entire game. I'm still kicking myself for not just completely ignoring the lane. I was down there like 5 times and they still lost first tower and died over and over. What makes it worse is they were a duo.[/QUOTE] i was playing yi with a trundle top getting rolled by a riven, he complains when i farm at any point and am not top even though im going on other lanes once the riven comes in my jungle and he sits there hitting creeps and says "sorry yi i was farming" i stayed as positive as possible then he litterally did his best to never be with the team at any point and never helped at all once he was spam pinging a dive on the ADC top and i was down, i was near and it was an easy kill. as soon as i go in he backs off and stands still watching then he dives the tower and dies himself trying to kill her even though the cait was only 10% hp after i bursted her jungle is so easy but holy fuck are these people childs

[QUOTE=Rudevinny;51281523]Welp, SKT won What a boring turn of events[/QUOTE] ROX was the only thing I looked forward to, maybe is SSG won would been good too...yay more SKT skins.

[QUOTE=Rudevinny;51281523]Welp, SKT won What a boring turn of events[/QUOTE] I watched about 3/4ths of the way through the second game and went "Whelp, series is over. SKT won." and went to bed.

Jungling can be lots of fun but it's right up there with playing support in terms of thinking 'what the hell did you expect me to do'. On a somewhat happier note, there was once again only one person who got the exact picks for Worlds.

I'm Silver 1, but my MMR keeps spiking up to Gold 4, I win games against some high Gold and Plat players and it puts me higher again. It's all cool with me, but I mainly play Support, now the system thinks I'm able to carry and it puts me on a team with totally brain dead players versus a much more skilled players, this doesn't even need a discussion, I mean total dummies, it's a loss from the get go, apart from that I had to dodge two games in a row because the champion picks on my team were terrible, it just keeps happening all the time and I can't explain it. Meanwhile enemy team always has a good comp, one that's able to stomp really hard and pressure the map and able to get all objectives easily. It's ridiculous to me that I feel so much more relevant as a support when I play with actual players from high gold, I feel so much more capable, thus it let's me help to carry these games.

if you belong in a higher rank, you'll get to a higher rank

[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;51282815]if you belong in a higher rank, you'll get to a higher rank[/QUOTE] You know what's funny with that statement? Everyone keeps saying it. It's the fact that there are plenty of players higher than me who don't deserve to be there at all.

Don't take this the wrong way, it's just hard not to sound elitist when talking about this stuff But I've been playing since late season 1. I've played literally thousands of matches; I'm pretty sure I've never played any other game as much as I have played league, and I can't even begin to tell you how many people I've seen that say they don't belong in the ELO they're in Other than the randoms, I've tried queuing with at least one person in this thread who said the same thing, and I helped an irl friend with the same mindset get to gold Truth is, I can't say most of them convinced me? They were perfectly fine where they were, they just didn't have enough self-awareness to realize how badly they played. And the whole thing about not having self-awareness is, you don't know that you don't have it If you're better than the average player on your rank, then you'll eventually average out with more wins, because that's how averages work. So play the champions you know, pay attention to your pick, your role in the team, and adapt yourself to each situation as much as you can. Keep an open mind, and realize that it doesn't matter if it's you who needs improving or if it's your team - you can only work on improving yourself, so go and do that

The only problem for me it's that grind for rank honestly, takes few minutes to get into the game and you have to get through champion select and all, then loading screen which for me gets to 100% instantly but for some people, holy fucking shit you wait 5 mins. I have to put so much time to see any progress and the frustration gets to me when I'm playing for example a first game of the day and it's bunch of trolling idiots who won't /ff at 20 and move on to the next game for the sake of being able to stay sane. When I have bad games I know what I've done wrong right away, there are times when I simply can't affect the behaviour of players on my team at all or I can't do anything in the lane because the pressure is not there. The good games for me are when I see people actually team working together, grouping up, contesting objectives, punishing bad roams, ceasing opportunities, when I see a Baron call or I'm capable of doing that call, it makes the game so much better. Enemy AD carry is dead, do the Baron, enemy Jungler is dead force the Baron etc. Decided to play jungle game, played Master Yi, started stomping early on, I was something like 7/1. I dove bot turret constantly got 2 or 3 triples with their jungler, nearly had a penta, took 2 barons, meanwhile all this fucking time our ADC for some stupid reason decided to split push, this arrogant twat didn't even help with a single baron, when the entire enemy team was dead, I went from from 17/6 to 19/11 and losing the game because our ADC never ever grouped the entire game and caused us to fight everything 3v5 or 4v5. How the fuck am I supposed to carry these fucking idiots if they blatantly refuse to be carried for some odd reason? Hah you know what might be the only fucking reason why my ADC got so pissed off for the entire game? I came bot for the first gank, only had a single assist because my ADC stole the kill I put 100% effort into, then I taxed 3 minions and I got pinged, I said I'm taxing because you took the kill that I needed. That moment caused my ADC to go butthurt mode.

It's important to realize that gobbling all the kills for yourself often means someone else isn't getting nearly as much for the assist. So, even though a kill might power you up, the person who assisted only gets a fraction of that power.

[QUOTE=DJswitch;51283764]It's important to realize that gobbling all the kills for yourself often means someone else isn't getting nearly as much for the assist. So, even though a kill might power you up, the person who assisted only gets a fraction of that power.[/QUOTE] I never gobble kills for myself, but I'm playing a farming jungler who wants to get ahead early game and start to snowball lanes with ult, so yes, I needed that kill to finish my item. Plus the high kill and death count this game was pretty much because my ADC refused to join and help instead MF went 3/11.

Well first off don't ever tell someone you're going to tax them, just tax them. If you tell them that you're just telling them you're a greedy fuck and think you deserve all the kills. Besides, you still got an assist. That's still 150g plus XP for your time. A fucking [i]flash[/i] is worth your time, and you just got about ~2 camps worth of gold and put pressure on the map.

[QUOTE=Lijitsu;51283927]Well first off don't ever tell someone you're going to tax them, just tax them. If you tell them that you're just telling them you're a greedy fuck and think you deserve all the kills. Besides, you still got an assist. That's still 150g plus XP for your time. A fucking [i]flash[/i] is worth your time, and you just got about ~2 camps worth of gold and put pressure on the map.[/QUOTE] True, but it's like the players in this game don't like honesty, if a jungler said to me, ok but I tax you 3 cs, I'd be okay with it, plus the creeps I taxed were caster minions.

[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;51282815]if you belong in a higher rank, you'll get to a higher rank[/QUOTE] Yeah I'm sure the 20 games in a row tear heimerdonger who goes 1/19 deserves plat 2

I just duo'd with a friend and got demoted to S2 cause we lost some games, like he's a Plat player, I played with him and I think he's good and could easily be Diamond, the shit he witnessed, he doesn't get it either how players can be so fucking bad, it's like my account is cursed or something and I get the most atrocious players possible on my team. I wish I could just leave this crazy ride and get to Gold already.

[QUOTE=Grindigo;51284877]I just duo'd with a friend and got demoted to S2 cause we lost some games, like he's a Plat player, I played with him and I think he's good and could easily be Diamond, the shit he witnessed, he doesn't get it either how players can be so fucking bad, it's like my account is cursed or something and I get the most atrocious players possible on my team. I wish I could just leave this crazy ride and get to Gold already.[/QUOTE] My boosting service is only $10 an hour with my mallet Teemo OTP. In all seriousness though, League is just fucking cancer and it's like players are getting worse and worse because they have this idea that they're as good as those streamers they watch. Just play over and over, try to give no fucks (without trolling of course) and then it's just about time.

Gotta boost myself, holy crap, I might just spam Yi jungle over and over and see where it gets me or Amumu, I was 7/0 w/l before they started banning him. I don't think Junglers ever have any peace of mind, literally being flamed every game for no reason, best blame the jungler, he deserves it! Even though he won us the game, fuck our jungler!