Playing since beta, AMA

[quote=Inferiae]I find it pretty dam interesting when people talk about the good ole days seeing as how I've only within the last 8 months gotten into LoL so I love threads like this! My question is do you enjoy LoL as much now as you did then? has the meta affected you in a positive manner or do you wish you could just go back and naively pick whats fun?[/quote]

[quote=throatslasher]I wish with all my heart I could go back to the good old days. Me and my buddy would hang out and play LoL and go bottom with whatever hair-brained 2champ combo we could think of. We would go eat at the wataburger down the street, and sit there and talk about combos. One of our favorite combos was zilean mundo. We would get in vent and be like, ok I get this creep, this next one is low, you get this caster...and we would secure like 95% of cs and we would split it, which was unheard of. Last hitting was optional back then, pretty much. Only dota players understood last hitting (no more denying :/) during the super early phase. I dont' know, league has gotten too competitive. What actually straight up killed league of legends in my opinion are these 'matchups' websites, where you type in the champ, and it gives you what you should pick to counter that champion. How fucking lazy can you be? really, you can't sit there and think for 30 seconds about what beats irelia? Playtesting is gone, this game has gone downhill since european meta made kill lanes bottom obsolete. Now, in the finals, you see games where they're so boring that people cheer when wards are cleared.[/quote]

[quote=Inferiae]I know exactly what you mean mate, god knows how you feel playing it for years but even I after less than a year get so bored with the meta, I was playing the other day on my smurf account with my girlfriend (not to be like haha this is easy but more due to the fact my girlfriend isn't really a gamer.. working on it though!) and fancied playing [[Morgana]] support and she played [[Ashe]] Yes she's not exactly amazingly viable but with someone new to the game who constantly overextends her shield is awesome to stop her getting CC'd and she sets up kills nicely so my other half can get some satisfaction from it, ANYWAY the entire team was slating me saying why wasn't I going mid, Morgana can't support blah blah, I was thinking fuck me this is on a level 5 account and already new players are getting told what they can and cannot play, how does anyone expect the meta to change when all innovation is sucked from new players... anyway rant over Anyway next question! Who do you think is the coolest champion in League? forget moves and viability, who's personality and appearance do you find coolest :) (this is open to anyone to answer by the way)[/quote]

[quote=Temzilla]The support + ADC meta isn't unbeatable. If you want to run double bruiser, just do it, and then run ADC top. Or run bruiser mid, ADC top, and send your up not with your support.[/quote]

[quote=Vaan99]I miss old tripple HoG rammus. I cry everytime when I think about Sunfire Garen, Evelynn and Twitch (last 2 were too good). Old pirate was the richest person in the game, everytime. Too bad I haven't been playing yet when Ezreal and Xin got released (started on Vlad). I miss old Aegis of Legion- hp for wielder, ad, armor, magic resist for everyone around you, NP. And my Smite+Revive Eve, she was so reliable in getting fed and winning game, getting quadras was never so fun as then.[/quote]

[quote=Pølsemanden][quote=throatslasher] I wish with all my heart I could go back to the good old days. Me and my buddy would hang out and play LoL and go bottom with whatever hair-brained 2champ combo we could think of. We would go eat at the wataburger down the street, and sit there and talk about combos. One of our favorite combos was zilean mundo. We would get in vent and be like, ok I get this creep, this next one is low, you get this caster...and we would secure like 95% of cs and we would split it, which was unheard of. Last hitting was optional back then, pretty much. Only dota players understood last hitting (no more denying :/) during the super early phase. I dont' know, league has gotten too competitive. What actually straight up killed league of legends in my opinion are these 'matchups' websites, where you type in the champ, and it gives you what you should pick to counter that champion. How fucking lazy can you be? really, you can't sit there and think for 30 seconds about what beats irelia? Playtesting is gone, this game has gone downhill since european meta made kill lanes bottom obsolete. Now, in the finals, you see games where they're so boring that people cheer when wards are cleared. [/quote] First, nothing beats irelia. Jax being the only mild exception where an equally skilled lane leads to a jax win. He can also really easily escape ganks so that's the one champ that with equal amount of skill and jungler help wins the lane against irelia. Renekton can shut her down early, but post 5 irelia can win sustained trades if renekton dares to go for them. Riven needs to kill her pre-6. Udyr is very prone to ganks, irelia's really good at assisting at ganks. Olaf is the same as udyr. Jayce is fucking retarded but sustained trades post 5 goes in irelias favor and she can force thoose since jump stun OP.[/quote]

[quote=throatslasher]Lee sin + ganks, and jax crush irelia. "The support + ADC meta isn't unbeatable. (yes it is) If you want to run double bruiser, just do it, and then run ADC top. (he will get ganked and die) Or run bruiser mid, ADC top, and send your up not with your support. (what. bruisers mid CAN work, but we're talking adc support bottom, mostly. Top meta is horseshit, though. 1 death = you lose the lane)" @vaan I recall when ezreal was released, literally every single game was ezreal mid vs pantheon. They would both start a bunch of hp potions and red pot. Don't ask me why. I don't know. Whoever killed the other 1 first was guaranteed snowball forever. "Who do you think is the coolest champion in League? forget moves and viability, who's personality and appearance do you find coolest" Coolest? anivia. hue hue hue. Probably nasus. He has the best line in the game, his joke. Too bad standard vlad skin makes him look like an ice-cream hair'ed pussy. I like nidalee. So, Nidalee, Nasus, blood lord vladimir, gragas, and fiddlesticks. CAW CAW CAWC CAWCAACAWCAW. Urgot looks pretty badass as well.[/quote]

[quote=Lugignaf]I've always thought that rushing Warden's mail was the best counter to Irelia.[/quote]

[quote=tehAsian]^tried that and it didn't work :/ Even in pbe against really bad players. Question! What was release Xin like? People keep saying OP, but never said why :V[/quote]

[quote=Pølsemanden][quote=Lugignaf] I've always thought that rushing Warden's mail was the best counter to Irelia. [/quote] shh, ppl aren't supposed to know that![/quote]