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I find Ryze to be a particularly interesting character in the league in that you only really see him played at the extremely low ELO's where he's the first champion that a player buys, or at the very high ELO's where extremely good players have figured out how to actually make his damage output dangerous. In the mid tier ELO's, most discard the Rogue Mage in order to play mages with a larger range, like Morgana, or some other high burst champion like Annie or

Hey everybody, it's been a while since I've blogged so I'm gonna ask an interesting question, which champions are the most viable pick to ban in ranked/draft games? I can't tell you how many times I would go into a Solo Q and people will ban terrible picks... Even when I'm not Solo Queuing, my friends and I have a hard time to choose one, we'll most of the time yell at each other until the last second hits and the leader will panic and ban someone random. (Over exaggeration but this is what it feels like sometimes).

So what do you think are good bans? Some of my friends still have a hard time choosing ones and I'm itching to know what are some good bans myself. Comment below and give out reasons why.

Here are my top 5 bans (Not in a certain order):

1.) Kassadin: This guy is nearly impossible to gank Pre-6 due to his 3-5 second blink and even when it's on cooldown, he's got an AOE slow. Not to mention he's got a pretty annoying silence that will mess up your AP carry mid.

2.) Morg…

Keondre and I.

Just did the ****ing weirdest thing. I won't tell anyone what it was.

I'm partially amused, awkward, aroused (don't get the wrong idea.)

I told you Kat, you ever need them. I'm the guy to look for.

Riven, Garen and a pond.

Ahri and Orianna.

Akali with Shen (lolz)

JUST Lux.

And now JUST Ahri.

Game #2

My second road to thirty.
Current record 1-0

Draft

We ban: Master Yi, Cass, Volibear
They Ban: Shaco, Kassadin, Kasrthus
So I get third pick and call top. We end up without a jungler, theres a bit of a mix up and or Cait is a total d-bag about it. We get a decent team comp of Me (Jarvan) and Teemo top, Nunu mid, and Cait and akali bot. They put Renek top, Veiger mid, Warwick and Trist mid with a twitch jungle.

In Game

Me and Teemo have an early advantage over Renek in the 2v1. But twitch gets a quick double kill on Akali and Cait bot. I catch Twitch on a gank attempt but hes able to get away, while me and twitch fought Renek took down Teemo. ME and teemo quickly push down top tower then roam in the enmy jungle. We catch twitch off guard at wolves and take him down. A fight breaks out mid and Teemo comes up big leads us to pushing down two mid towers. Bot pushes there tower. My team catches Twitch and Renek out of position at Dragon and Cait picks up a double. After pushing the …

This is probably the first top facts for a "popular" top lane pick. I have been trying to get mostly fun unusually seen champions (I rarely see Yorick or Fiora, and Nautilus is mostly played as a jungler). However I will see Rivens top as my opponents in a good percentage of my games.

Champion Overview:
Riven is a melee carry (like Fiora), but is more along the lines of an AD caster (who autos in between her spells) she is manaless (meaning she only relies on cooldowns. Riven like Fiora and Poppy (No one carries as well as Poopy) is capable of carrying the game in her favor. She uses all physical damage has a really strong early as well as a really strong late. She can lane vs any champion in the game with her kit, having champions that are strong against her but they are not exactly "counters". Her skills have a weird feel to them the first time and will take a little getting used to.

Skills Overview:

Passive: Runic Blade-Riven's abilities charge her blade, causing her basic atta…

Well my mom decided to smash my computer onto the ground cause SHE WAS SO MAD... So my windows laptop is broken, cause something inside is clicking, and windows won't boot up : /.

Should I bring it to Fry's and see if I can get it fixed? Or just toss it and get another cheap computer.

The computer itself was 300-450 dollars from my memory... So yeah : /

So today I reached level 24. I'm almost at level 30 so I've decided to blog my journey. All draft mode games I compete in I will review on this blog.

GAME #1

Draft

We ban: Shaco, Kass and Cass
They ban: Karthus, Morgana, Master Yi

So I got 3rd pick. I wanted top but first pick took Riven and called top. and pick took Malz and said he can't play mid, so he would go bot. I decide to go bot and play Ez. Jungle Malphite. Last pick takes Kat. Last pick decides he no longer wants to play mid Kat and we switch giving me Kat.

Other team goes top lane Panth, bot lane Sivir and Soraka, mid lane Fizz and Jungle Warwick.

Game

So the other team had a much superior team comp, and we where all switching positions in the draft so it didn't look good for us. Malz turned out to be boss and got the games first 3 kills. Me and Fizz where very evenly matched. We traded kills about 10 minutes in. Malphite got Fizz on a gank and I got WW with Malph's help. We lost top tower early but Riven recovered and p…

Clan 707 is under new management, and now recruiting!

http://707.enjin.com/

Clan 707 is a casual League of Legends clan. We currently have around 50 members, and we have around 30 members who are active on a regular basis. During peak hours we can have up to 15 people on our mumble server, but we have room to grow!

We currently have a mumble server with 25 Slots, and a backup ventrillo server in case we run out of room. Mumble is Currently our communication mode of choice. However we also have a website with active forums.

We have a vast spectrum of players in this clan. We welcome new players, as long as they are mature, and are willing to listen when we teach them new things. we also have quite a few veteran players who play serious games on a regular basis.

We do not have an official ranked team, because we don't force members to be on at a specific time. Some of our members are willing to duo que, especially if they're on during off-peak hours. We do nightly premade matches in…

Just bought Lee Sin, and I must say....his ks is outrageous. Once you get double the kills as deaths, its GG. Also, I found that I tend to use his e more than his q, which would deal more damage, but I just cant find the time/situation to cast it and actually hit the enemy without turret diving at level 3 XD.

Current rank: 419
Game 9

I'm Malphite again. Go to what you know, I guess.

We have a heavy melee team. Nocturne (Jungle), me, Yi, Varus, Katerina. We'll see, seems like it should work.

Oh well, chalk another up to the loss column.
Malphite - 3/5/12 (me, 111 CS)
Varus - 4/6/13
Nocturne - 10/7/12
Katarina - 1/10/8 (problem here?) (61 cs)
Master Yi - 10/8/4

So fun getting people like Katarina and rage machiens like kingminos (Varus). It's always everyone else's fault. My CS was where it was because Kat was so bad and someone had to take over and begin to gear up.

-12

Current rank: 407

Game 10 - I'm Amumu

Awful. We had me, Pantheon, Varus, Twitch, Garen vs. Tryndamere, Kog Maw, Yi, Soraka, Heimerdinger.

They bullied us all over. Varus was mid and needed babysitting on Heimer, so I couldnt' get to the sides because you lose mid and you lose... So they got pissy. On and on.

/shrug. I need to work on my AD game so I can take control of the game itself instead of being a tank a…