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May 18 2014
Well on the road to the pro-games! Wewie!
I have not yet tried to do an jungle build on Twitch yet. Of course, one always runs the great problem of very weak/half-***ed leashes on solo-queue on Garena, and there's always the chance of screwing up with him. I may or may not be considering building a smurf account for the sole purpose of testing out the viability of Twitch.
I'm rooting mostly from an S3 guide-video by CouileBleu, or xChinNin as he is known on Youtube. Twitch suffers from very weak clears and survivability in the jungle, and looks as if he utterly *depends* on stealing buffs and counter-jungling. Very bad stats for a champion that you want to jungle with.
That being said, I said it before that Twitch ganks can be nearly unspottable thanks to his use of Q - Ambush. Twitch if played well as a jungler transitions into a gank-filled midgame that brings objective and vision control, ending with his nearly unparalleled team-fighting DPS prowess among ADR's with R - Ratatat.
If only I knew how to use the stupid rat in the jungle. Or had a way to test his clears.
*sighs*
In other news, I recently bought Renekton yesterday after a very strong game with Twitch. Me and KittyMaria, who is not yet on Mobafire, run a very very strong Sona-Twitch botlane, being the terror of teamfights near the end thanks to the synchronism of her linear stun ultimate and my linear pass-through shots ultimate. It usually ends in Quadras. it's *that* scary.
Anyway, Renekton is looking to be a great and versatile bruiser-tank to pick. I follow SoloTopRenektonOnly on Youtube, and while my skill level doesn't even reach near his ankles, he shows the potential of a big angry crocodile making the plays with his heal, stun, dash, and all the beautiful bursty AoE damage all of those bring. All the while being a giant target for the enemy team to focus on - without dying - allowing your own team to clean-up.
Get REKTon.
Today looks like the set of games to test him. I'll be running Full AD reds and quints, flat armor yellows, and scaling mr blues. Wish me luck! number31, signing out.
Game writeups:
Actually playing the game while thinking of how to write-it-up is a bad idea, as the PoV is always on your own champion. This is something that cannot be cured because of the demands of playing, and playing well :) Regardless, it's nearly impossible to capture the dynamism and changes in a game's going throughs in other lanes other than "Mid Lane started feeding," or "early tower taken," etc.
I don't know when I can practice shoutcasting or otherwise taking the bird's eye view of games. Heh.
June 3, 2014
Wow! It's been so long since I tried writing for the blog. Scheiss.
Anyway, two normal games at level 25 yesterday.
The first one was with Twisted Fate. Dear God, this game was one of the most horrible I've played in recent memory. What happened was the fabled Garena ritual of instalocking. I had offered to take mid as Twisted Fate, but apparently my teammates (who felt like they were friends in a cafe) did not allow it. "Mag ADR ka na lang :)" (Use TF as an ADR), they said. . .I kind of didn't have much of a choice, huh.
I found it slightly amusing that the other bottom laner was also a Twisted Fate. . .playing as an ADR. I laned with a Nautilus who was obviously using him for the first time against a veteran Darius. In hindsight, I found the Diana (who took mid and forced me to ADR) was extremely good and would regularly get Triple Kills.
Unfortunately, LoL is a team game and shut downs were just as frequent. A double dash can only do so much against like 5 guys.
The second game was with Renekton. Thanks to really, REALLY bad communication, our Jinx was aiming for solo top. I thought she came with Darius to go and lane bully like mofos in bot lane, as Darius is an immovable bulwark of zoning people out. They *did* pick/instalock their champions at the same time.
nope.jpeg. Jinx wanted to solo top, I followed instructions and went with Doran's Shield to sustain for longer, instead of Blade for great trades. Got Renekton to give our guys a hefty tanky frontline. Some guy took Master Yi for jungling. To be fair, I've been itching to try Renekton for weeks now, either as jungler or solo top, but hey, let's offer it to our team mates :)
Turns out our Yi was new at jungling. Took Doran's Blade for jungling and one potion. Could only take on one creep camp before having to back to base. Our Jinx, despite being the loudest and most obnoxious in chat (both team-only and all-chat). . .kept dying to the simplest things.
There was one thing I got from it, though. Renekton was a GOD at solo lanes. There was this super confident Jax that kept leaping on top of me and trying to farm, but then, y'know. This here giant alien crocodile WAR GOD is a **** ton more agile than you give him credit for, so MASSIVELY out-traded. A Yi gank with just his Alpha Strike to his credit, and that was first blood for me.
Ping and terribad feed team happened, though. Our team comp was also pretty bad, with them full of tanky bruisers and us mostly squishy guys (except for Renekton). Someone gets jumped on, and everybody dies. I built tanky, so I didn't do a shred of damage. I *had* to build tanky, otherwise everyone will die too quickly :)
Found a few interesting things:
1. 5% CDR from masteries on Renekton is downright interesting. Ionian Boots and a 10% CDR item (Black Cleaver and Spirit Visage come to mind) puts him at max CDR, and puts his Q on a 4.8 second cooldown. That's at least two Q's in a team fight, and lots of hp dealt, and healed. At least two double dashes as well (along with the stun!), so chasing is a breeze.
2. His W, despite building mostly tanky, deals a TON of Damage, especially if it's his Enraged version. Yes, Renekton just dived in on your AP guy before he could cast a single spell, and then bashed his face in within two seconds of his entire combo. Most of your team also got hit because he has Ravenous Hydra. You have an angry tanky croc in the middle of your team still whacking everyone with his fan of death, you have one guy down, and the rest of his team's coming in.
You're ****ed.
3. **** Nidalee. **** her current cougar form. No, not **** her as in I AM A ***** MALE YES I WANNA **** HER. haha no
SHE JUST ****ING ESCAPES EVERYTHING.
BY ALL MEANS, WHEN YOU HAVE NO HP, AND THE ENTIRE ENEMY TEAM IS CHASING YOU, YOU NEED TO DIE. It is the damn law. You need to take that fateful WHATEVER SKILLSHOT IT IS in the face, or get chased down by Master Yi, and die. That is what happens to the rest of the ONE HUNDRED SIXTEEN CHAMPIONS in League when they get caught out of position, or they don't HAVE a position because their whole team is dead.
BUT NO. SHE'S NIDALEE. SHE JUST *LEAPS* AND RUNS AT HER 400 SPEED, EFFECTIVELY 5 BILLION SPEED BECAUSE OF A MILLION LEAPS. She gets to her base, and there's like 5 summoners gritting their teeth because ONTI NA LANG.
****.
June 4, 2014
Just one Custom Game with Intermediate bots today with KittyMaria.
We tried our "Irony combo" with our OTP Bromance Yaoi SemeUke love/hate someone's*****getslargerinsideyouwhenheults combo with Renekton as Jungler and Nasus as solo bot lane. Long story short, we won with split pushing and backdooring. Bots can't fight split pushes for ****.
Conclusions:
1. Nasus, especially one untested in battle, suffers from harass. This is because Nasus needs to strut near a minion, Q his ***, and then *try* to get back to the safety of the minion line.
Not really an option against Ziggs and Ryze, who will AP COMBO **** YOU UP.
2. Renekton, as a Jungler, needs a leash. And a good amount of CDR early game. BADLY.
It's kind of embarassing to see Renekton having to smite the golem to live.
3. Renekton's jungle item is actually not Spirit of the Ancient Golem.
Huh! But it's HP and CDR! How could you go wrong with that?
It's weird, and I for one thought it sync'd up better for him thanks to it increasing the damage/heal of Q and E. But then there came a point where the tankiness effect dropped off, and monsters just didn't die quickly or hurt me a lot more.
As a jungler, Renekton scales heavily on brute force, not the %damage added by the Stone-line of jungle items. Mardreds into Wiggle's is actually stronger in keeping him alive and kicking at those monsters.
It also leads into one of the downright scariest items for Renekton, Feral Flare.
Yes, it only buffs one of his skills, Ruthless Predator. Cull the Weak, Slice, and Dice are unchanged except for the raw 40 AD.
That's enough.
You really, really have to see it to believe it when you just straight up dash to a guy and flatten his face with about 1.2k mixed damage from one skill alone.
Adding lifesteal procs to the triple hit will also give him a lot more survivability, a lot more than 350hp and CDR ever will.
So yes, FF Jungle Renek is right under FF Master Yi in terms of "The enemy is SO. ****ED." levels.
Well on the road to the pro-games! Wewie!
I have not yet tried to do an jungle build on Twitch yet. Of course, one always runs the great problem of very weak/half-***ed leashes on solo-queue on Garena, and there's always the chance of screwing up with him. I may or may not be considering building a smurf account for the sole purpose of testing out the viability of Twitch.
I'm rooting mostly from an S3 guide-video by CouileBleu, or xChinNin as he is known on Youtube. Twitch suffers from very weak clears and survivability in the jungle, and looks as if he utterly *depends* on stealing buffs and counter-jungling. Very bad stats for a champion that you want to jungle with.
That being said, I said it before that Twitch ganks can be nearly unspottable thanks to his use of Q - Ambush. Twitch if played well as a jungler transitions into a gank-filled midgame that brings objective and vision control, ending with his nearly unparalleled team-fighting DPS prowess among ADR's with R - Ratatat.
If only I knew how to use the stupid rat in the jungle. Or had a way to test his clears.
*sighs*
In other news, I recently bought Renekton yesterday after a very strong game with Twitch. Me and KittyMaria, who is not yet on Mobafire, run a very very strong Sona-Twitch botlane, being the terror of teamfights near the end thanks to the synchronism of her linear stun ultimate and my linear pass-through shots ultimate. It usually ends in Quadras. it's *that* scary.
Anyway, Renekton is looking to be a great and versatile bruiser-tank to pick. I follow SoloTopRenektonOnly on Youtube, and while my skill level doesn't even reach near his ankles, he shows the potential of a big angry crocodile making the plays with his heal, stun, dash, and all the beautiful bursty AoE damage all of those bring. All the while being a giant target for the enemy team to focus on - without dying - allowing your own team to clean-up.
Get REKTon.
Today looks like the set of games to test him. I'll be running Full AD reds and quints, flat armor yellows, and scaling mr blues. Wish me luck! number31, signing out.
Game writeups:
Actually playing the game while thinking of how to write-it-up is a bad idea, as the PoV is always on your own champion. This is something that cannot be cured because of the demands of playing, and playing well :) Regardless, it's nearly impossible to capture the dynamism and changes in a game's going throughs in other lanes other than "Mid Lane started feeding," or "early tower taken," etc.
I don't know when I can practice shoutcasting or otherwise taking the bird's eye view of games. Heh.
June 3, 2014
Wow! It's been so long since I tried writing for the blog. Scheiss.
Anyway, two normal games at level 25 yesterday.
The first one was with Twisted Fate. Dear God, this game was one of the most horrible I've played in recent memory. What happened was the fabled Garena ritual of instalocking. I had offered to take mid as Twisted Fate, but apparently my teammates (who felt like they were friends in a cafe) did not allow it. "Mag ADR ka na lang :)" (Use TF as an ADR), they said. . .I kind of didn't have much of a choice, huh.
I found it slightly amusing that the other bottom laner was also a Twisted Fate. . .playing as an ADR. I laned with a Nautilus who was obviously using him for the first time against a veteran Darius. In hindsight, I found the Diana (who took mid and forced me to ADR) was extremely good and would regularly get Triple Kills.
Unfortunately, LoL is a team game and shut downs were just as frequent. A double dash can only do so much against like 5 guys.
The second game was with Renekton. Thanks to really, REALLY bad communication, our Jinx was aiming for solo top. I thought she came with Darius to go and lane bully like mofos in bot lane, as Darius is an immovable bulwark of zoning people out. They *did* pick/instalock their champions at the same time.
nope.jpeg. Jinx wanted to solo top, I followed instructions and went with Doran's Shield to sustain for longer, instead of Blade for great trades. Got Renekton to give our guys a hefty tanky frontline. Some guy took Master Yi for jungling. To be fair, I've been itching to try Renekton for weeks now, either as jungler or solo top, but hey, let's offer it to our team mates :)
Turns out our Yi was new at jungling. Took Doran's Blade for jungling and one potion. Could only take on one creep camp before having to back to base. Our Jinx, despite being the loudest and most obnoxious in chat (both team-only and all-chat). . .kept dying to the simplest things.
There was one thing I got from it, though. Renekton was a GOD at solo lanes. There was this super confident Jax that kept leaping on top of me and trying to farm, but then, y'know. This here giant alien crocodile WAR GOD is a **** ton more agile than you give him credit for, so MASSIVELY out-traded. A Yi gank with just his Alpha Strike to his credit, and that was first blood for me.
Ping and terribad feed team happened, though. Our team comp was also pretty bad, with them full of tanky bruisers and us mostly squishy guys (except for Renekton). Someone gets jumped on, and everybody dies. I built tanky, so I didn't do a shred of damage. I *had* to build tanky, otherwise everyone will die too quickly :)
Found a few interesting things:
1. 5% CDR from masteries on Renekton is downright interesting. Ionian Boots and a 10% CDR item (Black Cleaver and Spirit Visage come to mind) puts him at max CDR, and puts his Q on a 4.8 second cooldown. That's at least two Q's in a team fight, and lots of hp dealt, and healed. At least two double dashes as well (along with the stun!), so chasing is a breeze.
2. His W, despite building mostly tanky, deals a TON of Damage, especially if it's his Enraged version. Yes, Renekton just dived in on your AP guy before he could cast a single spell, and then bashed his face in within two seconds of his entire combo. Most of your team also got hit because he has Ravenous Hydra. You have an angry tanky croc in the middle of your team still whacking everyone with his fan of death, you have one guy down, and the rest of his team's coming in.
You're ****ed.
3. **** Nidalee. **** her current cougar form. No, not **** her as in I AM A ***** MALE YES I WANNA **** HER. haha no
SHE JUST ****ING ESCAPES EVERYTHING.
BY ALL MEANS, WHEN YOU HAVE NO HP, AND THE ENTIRE ENEMY TEAM IS CHASING YOU, YOU NEED TO DIE. It is the damn law. You need to take that fateful WHATEVER SKILLSHOT IT IS in the face, or get chased down by Master Yi, and die. That is what happens to the rest of the ONE HUNDRED SIXTEEN CHAMPIONS in League when they get caught out of position, or they don't HAVE a position because their whole team is dead.
BUT NO. SHE'S NIDALEE. SHE JUST *LEAPS* AND RUNS AT HER 400 SPEED, EFFECTIVELY 5 BILLION SPEED BECAUSE OF A MILLION LEAPS. She gets to her base, and there's like 5 summoners gritting their teeth because ONTI NA LANG.
****.
June 4, 2014
Just one Custom Game with Intermediate bots today with KittyMaria.
We tried our "Irony combo" with our OTP Bromance Yaoi SemeUke love/hate someone's*****getslargerinsideyouwhenheults combo with Renekton as Jungler and Nasus as solo bot lane. Long story short, we won with split pushing and backdooring. Bots can't fight split pushes for ****.
Conclusions:
1. Nasus, especially one untested in battle, suffers from harass. This is because Nasus needs to strut near a minion, Q his ***, and then *try* to get back to the safety of the minion line.
Not really an option against Ziggs and Ryze, who will AP COMBO **** YOU UP.
2. Renekton, as a Jungler, needs a leash. And a good amount of CDR early game. BADLY.
It's kind of embarassing to see Renekton having to smite the golem to live.
3. Renekton's jungle item is actually not Spirit of the Ancient Golem.
Huh! But it's HP and CDR! How could you go wrong with that?
It's weird, and I for one thought it sync'd up better for him thanks to it increasing the damage/heal of Q and E. But then there came a point where the tankiness effect dropped off, and monsters just didn't die quickly or hurt me a lot more.
As a jungler, Renekton scales heavily on brute force, not the %damage added by the Stone-line of jungle items. Mardreds into Wiggle's is actually stronger in keeping him alive and kicking at those monsters.
It also leads into one of the downright scariest items for Renekton, Feral Flare.
Yes, it only buffs one of his skills, Ruthless Predator. Cull the Weak, Slice, and Dice are unchanged except for the raw 40 AD.
That's enough.
You really, really have to see it to believe it when you just straight up dash to a guy and flatten his face with about 1.2k mixed damage from one skill alone.
Adding lifesteal procs to the triple hit will also give him a lot more survivability, a lot more than 350hp and CDR ever will.
So yes, FF Jungle Renek is right under FF Master Yi in terms of "The enemy is SO. ****ED." levels.
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