The_Nameless_Bard wrote:
Is there any particular reason you're not using flat health seals on 
Braum?
EDIT: Also, it's good that you're getting around one ward/minute down and buying vision wards, but how do you end up destroying so few? I mean, in a 40+ minute game where you bought 13 vision wards you should probably end up removing more than three wards, generally.
Braum?EDIT: Also, it's good that you're getting around one ward/minute down and buying vision wards, but how do you end up destroying so few? I mean, in a 40+ minute game where you bought 13 vision wards you should probably end up removing more than three wards, generally.
Oh, messed up the runes when laying em out. Fixed it. Thanks for catching that.
And I don't know. Maybe I'm sweeping or pink warding the wrong places? I never find wards. Maybe they just werent warding. Or I'm unlucky. I usually only destroy the ones I visibly see get dropped cause otherwise I find nothing.
@Pancakes, thanks for the critique. I generally like the Targon's for sustain, but you're probably right and I'll start doing that.
Also, added the game I just played a minute ago.
OTGBionicArm wrote:
Heya Vyn. I've taken your recent advice to heart and been trying to overall improve my warding game. I thought I'd ask if you look over these recent games and tell me what you think? I'm almost at 1 ward/minute, but I still feel like I could improve. Any more tips?
Amounts of wards placed looks good, so I'm happy to see that.
Will start by expanding on the point by Out of Pancakes. He's completely right in saying you should absolutely never prioritize targon's brace over either
Boots/ Mobility Boots or Sightstone. Your first 800g should always be spent on either Mobis or Sightstone (preferably with some pots and pinkwards) and the next 800g spent should be on the one you didn't get first. The trade-off is between roaming power or vision. If you get mobis, you should spend some change on regular Stealth Wards though, with sightstone that isn't as important.While we're discussing builds, I'd like to touch on your usage of
Locket of the Iron Solari. Right now, it's a decent item but mostly used against very-heavy magic damage comps. In your Tahm Kench game there was only one magic damage threat, being Akali. Locket really doesn't do much in that game so I wouldn't get it. In another game where you played versus Corki/ LeBlanc it already made more sense because their two main carries dealt primarily magic damage (Corki deals more magic dmg than physical) but I still might have prioritized Zeke's Harbinger over Locket because you were paired with Tristana. In your other Braum game you got Zeke's Harbinger for Kalista while I personally don't really think she benefits from the item all that much - while their top/mid were AP carries and dealt by far the most damage.Also to touch on the part by The Nameless Bard, I'm not sure you could've done a much better job sweeping wards because like 90% of the wards placed by the enemy team were trinket wards. The only game where that may have been the case was the first Braum game linked; the 43 minute one. However, from the looks of it all of the wards destroyed by your team were because of your pinks/sweepers considering they didn't buy any.
It's really hard making good use of sweepers when people ward very little so I wouldn't focus on that too much.
Pertaining to the item builds;
In the first Braum game, I was in the process of building Zeke's, it just got delayed because LB was so strong I felt I absolutely needed Locket.
In the Tahm game I got locket because I honestly felt like Akli and Sejuani were bigger threats than anyone else, but it was a pubstomp game, so I feel like I could have just built Ravenous Hydra and had the same end result.
Lastly, the second Braum game I actually linked Tryndamere and not Kalista with the Zekes.
Was I not supposed to do that?
In the first Braum game, I was in the process of building Zeke's, it just got delayed because LB was so strong I felt I absolutely needed Locket.
In the Tahm game I got locket because I honestly felt like Akli and Sejuani were bigger threats than anyone else, but it was a pubstomp game, so I feel like I could have just built
Ravenous Hydra and had the same end result.Lastly, the second Braum game I actually linked
Tryndamere and not Kalista with the Zekes.Was I not supposed to do that?
Vynertje wrote:
Nop, Tryndamere gets about 80% crit from his build + passive so it's quite redundant. Besides that, you usually want to let tryndamere splitpush on his own instead of grouping with him so it definitely is a waste of the item.
Ironically,
Kalista was the one splitpushing. Tryndamere was the primary tank, adc carry and anti-carry.
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I'm not Vyn but here is the main thing I disagree with: you only get
So you spend your first 825 gold in those items instead of buying
Why getting
I really think that spending those 800 gold in this item over spending them in targon's brace and boots is a much better investment when it comes to the impact it has on the game: when you get back after getting
The only time I'd get a targon's brace is when I want FoTM but I don't have enough gold yet to complete it and I already have a
TLDR; rush