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So I've been taking part in the Tribunal lately. I actually find that reading what other players have reported helps reduce my anxiety about playing with toxic teammates. Not sure why that is, but analyzing that is not what this particular post is about.

Something I've noticed that is kind of sad, is some of the people being reported are actually giving other players good suggestions. The problem is they so often just can't seem to stop themselves from throwing insults into the mix; which basically nullifies most anyone actually paying attention to such suggestions.

When something worthwhile is followed up with: "idiot", "moron" ,or other even more inflammatory words well it ceases to be worthwhile to most observers. In fact I think a lot of people would then become defensive and even be more inclined to act the opposite of his/her advice.

If only they could stop before the insult comes out, they might actually teach a few willing people more about the game. Now I totally get t…

Hi everyone,

There are some pretty exciting changes taking place with Trinity Force and Frozen Mallet right now on the PBE. If Riot decides to release a version of these changes it could definitely impact bruiser builds including Nasus. Here are some of the changes so far...

"Trinity Force:
Now gives 10% Movement Speed (up from 8%)
Rage: Basic attacks now grant 30 MS for 2 seconds (Up from 20 MS for 1.5 Seconds)
Rage: Kills grant 90 MS for 2 seconds (up from 60 MS for 1.5 Seconds)

Summary: Phage and Trinity Force no longer have the “Icy” slow passive. Instead of a percentage chance to slow an enemy champion on hit, these items now grant movement speed for a short duration of time, along with even more movement speed on minion, monster, and champion kills. Frozen Mallet’s function remains unchanged, but its recipe has changed.

Context: With the nerfs to Blade of the Ruined King, we wanted to create more tools for bruisers to remain “sticky” to their targets. We focused on in-sk…

Got back to playing ranked more since my wife is in training for the week. Anyway, after my placement matches, I went like 0-10. I would win my lane or get my ADC fed and then my team would throw or not know how to team fight and want to wander off on their own. My MMR has taken a huge hit because right now I am gaining like 6 LP per win. I finally broke my loss streak Monday with a Nami support game(Dem ults and Bubbles). Then lost two in a row with Nocturne who I hadn't lost a game with before winning one with him. So, that put me at like 6 LP going into yesterday. I dodged my first game yesterday because a Bronze IV refused to let me mid(I was first pick) because he said he had to carry...ummm ok. SO, that dropped me to 3 LP. I then won my next 4 games in a row with 2

Yeap, it's time - it's my 2 year anniversary here on MOBAFire :)

I must admit, both due to school and my own laziness, it hasn't been as interesting as my first year here, but the second one certainly wasn't bad :)

Some highlights:
- Archived all of my good old ****py guides (reading them back really makes me cringe) and started some new ones. Haven't gotten around to finish all of them, but one is :) But no worries (or... :D) more are coming up, and to give a little hint: Think support ;)
- I've reached the post count of 5000, and am nearly at 400 rep. I don't consider that a bad average, though it's gone down a lot from what it used to be.
- I've managed to play against some more famous people, after Guardsman Bob I've now also played against Deman, Qu1kshot and sjokz!
- There's also penta kill news: After Caitlyn and Kennen I now also have pentas with

So, I've been smurfing my gf up to gold and I've accumulated a buttload of various replays in the Bronze 2-Silver 4 region. All of them I completely faceroll, but a few take a bit more effort than others. I would like to make them available to the masses, and I'd like to know what format you'd like them in. Here are the options;

1. Blog posts
I upload like 3-4 replays with brief descriptions in blog posts every few days.

2. Forum thread
I maintain a forum thread and upload replays to it. I'm not sure what section I would put it in.

3. Guide
I could make a 'mechanics guide' and put replays there along with timers and descriptions and builds and a brief summary on "what i'm doing" in each game. This would be very time intensive and replays would become obsolete with new patches, so I don't know about this one

4. YT videos
Making youtube videos are a bit out of my league and I don't think my commentary would be interesting, and I don't have the tech and I'm quite busy, so this would b…

All the points below will be from bot lane point of view once again.

Let's start off with a story first to make my point clearly. I've been wanting to climb ELO and I wanted to see what I didn't do properly. I took the chance and played few matches with and against few Diamond I/Challenger bot lanes. I obviously lost every single time more or less, because of positioning.

I was playing quite fair lane Draven, Thresh vs

Since I started ranked 2 days ago I've been wondering if I should get another champion to increase my roster so that I don't end up with a pick that I rarely ever play ( like Zilean ), since I have a soft gooey spot for burst assassins all of them are on the list ... yay :D

Akali
I checked her out in a few ranked games and she can own (if you know what your doing ofcourse), the pros for me is her passive

First things first: this is gonna be a sad episode of my elo climb diary. But you will get to know.
It already started badly. Duo-queuing with my friend, playing as leona, losing lane to blitzcrank and graves, everything going down, all normal.
Next one, Maokai jungle, enemy team constantly flaming each other, got myself good ganks, easy win in the end.
Next one had a rough start: Jax said he wanted to jungle without smite, I refused heavily, took smite and tried to talk with him. He took red, ganked bot, got a kill and went top afterwards. I jungled pretty well then, got my Mid and Bot fed, so this game was another win for us.
Now comes the great disappointment: I have 99 LP, almost got into promo.
But then this Game happened...
Malphite Top, friend got Sona support, enemy Miss Fortune got feed and CS, we know she must die in every fight. But it happens: I miss her two times with my ult. The result? We lose the game. So malphite has become the same as Renekton for me: I win the lane, …

I've been pretty inactive on Moba these days. Got some news for anyone who was reading my Blog Posts (hopefully there are some of you that read them often).

First of all, I've decided to stop writing guides. I like doing it and it's a great way to help people but I've realized that I'm way better at reviewing guides than I am at making them. So I'll be archiving my Syndra Guide. I'll leave my Kat guide cause it's pretty big and it has a lot of views. Don't wanna say goodbye to it :P. However I probably won't update it. Or I might give it a huge update and leave it until any major changes are done on Kat. We'll see.

Second, I'll try and think of new ways to be helpful to people. My Guide Reviewing Shop is great but I feel like it's not enough. I'm sure I can think of new ways to help out around here :P

Third, I'm sorry I still haven't done some reviews for people. If any of you guys waiting on reviews are reading this then I apologize for being so late. I wasn't in the mood to review…

Soo at the moment I am silver 3 and I am trying now to become a gold member. ^-^
I will lose a bunch of games but that won't demotivate me! My main role is support but I can also go all other lanes but top. I will try to enjoy these and I will post how it goes out after my first game!

- Bludes :D