Playing against Cait is interesting. If you shut her down in lane, she is a terrible carry since she just doesn't do the damage. But she is probably the best laner. I kind of like jungling against her since she likes to push, and if you can put her behind, you win. Anyway, I won't be playing much until Saturday since I'm away on business. I might see how the hotel wireless does at some point, but I'm not exactly optimistic.
I'd like to mention that if we do in house matches with Peter, I think that Peter needs to be on the team of somebody that he at least kind of listens to (ie Pacov). In the second game last night he was on my team, which is bad because he has me ignored on everything. He didn't really listen to anybody else, so it caused some real issues late in the game. I get pretty non happy when we have somebody who doesn't listen at all to anybody else. I'm not
This type of drive explicitly requires exotic matter (you need negative mass/negative energy density). There is no evidence that such exotic matter exists, and many of our best physical theories explicitly predict that it doesn't exist. So what you have here is basically something that works within some of our rules of physics (General Relativity), but violates other areas of physics (the Standard Model). That is likely an insurmountable problem (at least until if and wh
Yeah, thats a weird one that I didn't know about until recently. It seems a bit odd that there is a difference between periodic damage and damage over time.
[quote who="Thundercles" reply="3071" id="3345238"]Eh... we just disagree on what the main issues of those games were, though I'll point out again that I didn't feel good about my contributions when playing Jayce at all. I'd like to point out that almost every top tier player builds Spirit of the Ancient Golem on Nasus, instead of the Ancient Lizard on him which is an offensive item with zero synergy with the big dog as far as I can tell. If your team isn't tanky e
[quote who="Thundercles" reply="3047" id="3343542"]Re: Karl's Teamcomp Seminar Karl, I respect your knowledge of the game and you make some great points. I'm going to work on my champ selection top to try and get some more tanky people in my stable. But. It's strange you put the onus of losing those games on the champ selection of the top player. In the first game you chose WW, a tanky "second in" champ when your team needed an initiator. Why don&#
I'd like to make some notes about team comps from a junglers perspective. I don't really like telling people what champions they should or shouldnt play, and I'm definitely not blaming anybody for anything. But I would like to give some of my thoughts. Most teams require 3 things: 1) Damage 2) A reasonable amount of hard CC 3) A front line that can start fights and soak up some damage If you are counting on your jungler to be a
[quote who="pacov" reply="2913" id="3333175"]I don't dispute that I played poorly in the slightest. I was quite, quite, quite, awful. [/quote] Listen, if you play badly and the other person plays fine, please don't bitch at the support all night long and then write a long post about how they suck. It's not appreciated. I won't claim that I had the greatest game ever by any means, but I exited the laning phase 2/1, I couldn't have prevented an
Pacov, I'm going to be blunt about this. TRUST YOUR TEAMMATES JUST A LITTLE BIT. LET THEM DO THEIR JOB AND YOU CONCENTRATE ON DOING YOURS. I know how to play tanky supports. I have a better ranked winning percentage with tanky supports than I do with junglers actually (through all 3 seasons). Just let me play and please just concentrate on your game. I don't need to be directed around the map like I'm a level 10 player or something. Al
[quote who="CPPFZKrdaxDrkrun" reply="2901" id="3332665"]You really can't use math with infinity, especially after I used it to represent a prejudiced theory.[/quote] There are entire fields of mathematics dedicated to dealing with infinity. You can deal with it at fairly simple levels with calculus, or you can start using set theory. For example, look up "Aleph number" on wikipedia, which discusses the cardinality of infinite sets (put in layman's terms, not all in
For some reason I tune out the new "Missing" question mark ping. I never seem to notice it. In that game, top pinged that Rengar, but apparently I missed it and then complained that he didn't call it. I hear the normal and back pings, but my brain just tunes out the missing ping.
I just did the math. After losing another promo series (I have now won 1 promo series out of 7), I have won 67% of my non promo games, and 28% of my promotion series games. This means that I can't ever work my way up because Riot has decided that Promo series matches are are all that really matters. But hey, I enjoy getting screwed by a system that never made sense in the first place.
[quote who="pacov" reply="2761" id="3328156"]ah karl... it shouldn't require so much effort to acquiesce that stats tell us a few things and noting trends is useful. Is sej's pick rate that high? That would be a factor of course.[/quote] In cases like this, statistics are only really useful if they tell you something you didn't already know. Basically, they have to tell you something before its blindingly obvious to be useful. But looking at deviati
[quote who="pacov" reply="2754" id="3327932"]Don't underinterpret either. Your Shen example is reasonable, but you'll also hear professional gamers complain about shen in solo queue as he can be a trap and requires good coordination to use well.[/quote] Vi is now under 50% winrate, Malphite is (well) under 50%, as is Shen. So are Caitlin and Blitzcrank. But hey, Sejuani is up over 50%. Better start playing her over Vi in jungle. And definitely pla
[quote who="pacov" reply="2750" id="3327799"] I still think the win rate % are worth noting and should influence picks and bans. [/quote] Don't overinterpret statistics like that. I mean, Shen is always near the bottom of win rate lists. I still think that Shen might just be playable. Shyvana and Rammus are right at the top of the win % Platinum lists, but I don't think that you should be rushing out to learn those guys.
Pacov, I don't think that you really get Cho. First off, Elise is the single worst matchup for Cho in the entire game. I don't know what forums told you that Cho was good against Elise, but they are dead wrong. Cho wants to stack health. It is the entire basis of his game. Elise has multiple abilities that do damage based on health. Also, Cho can have problems with top lane champs who do ranged damage. Elise has good ranged damage that hurts
[quote who="pacov" reply="2727" id="3326321"] Quoting Krazikarl, reply 2726Bottom needed covering, you were closer than Hunny to it. horse crap. heh - I get so freaking mad about the dumbest things. Actually, in hindsight, him and me being top right then was the best possible situation... we just needed someone like KARL to go bot, as he was closer than both hunny and me (see how complete bullshit logic works, karl?). Anyway, both hunny and I being top
Yes, Hunny should not have gone top there. But if somebody makes a bad decision, please don't compound it by making a second bad decision because you are upset about it. Bottom needed covering, you were closer than Hunny to it. We didn't need 2 ad carries top. Instead, you doubled top. As you said, you did it "because I called it". So other lanes were left exposed. You then went on tilt and yelled at insulted your team. Then you went
We weren't fighting over dragon. A ping went down (at about 21 mins game time) to try and pick off an overextended Anivia (not my ping btw). While it wasn't my call, I didnt think it was terrible since we knew Graves wasn't going to be there. 4 people on the team (including 1 person who started out right next to you) chose to group. You chose to run away from the team. This is the decision that I disagree with (not the earlier decisions to take 2 firs
Also, I want to discuss your analysis around 23:00 and split pushing in general. In order to split push, you need 2 things: 1) A team that can prevent them from screwing you 4v5 while the 5th is pushing 2) Good split pushing champs. We had neither of those. Draven is, at best, a mediocre split pusher. He has weak escapes and doesn't push minions that well, being primarily a single target damage source (unless you ult, and the ult should be used
I didn't have a problem with your pushing up to 21:05 (game time) or so. That was fine because they weren't doing anything coordinated back. In that situation, by all means, take free towers. The problem starts at 21:10. This is where you trade 1 tower for 1 tower+drag+2 kills, which is not good. Notice that Nunu starts out right next to you, but he makes it to the fight at the beginning because he plays as a team. Notice also that if you had come
I am now 0-5 in promotion series. I win maybe 2/3 of my regular games, but it doesn't matter one bit if I can't get lucky during promotion series. Good system Riot. Really great. I love systems that randomly screw people over to make things "more exciting". Yeah, its really exciting to never be promoted because you win the "wrong" games that don't matter so much. EDIT - And now I'm at 99 LP. Which means that when I win
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