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Now You Don't See It. Now You Do.
So yeah if you are playing Graves and you hit someone with Smoke Screen and then start attacking them they can see you. This seems odd to me but that is how it works, so there you go.

Jinx
I've had some trouble wrapping my head around

Status: Bronze V - Position 16 / 42LP

Ban&Pick
I was slot 2 and got my jungle/tank role with Nautilus. The pick chat was constructive and Dwith a little struggle about the mid lane. The rest of my team was
Darius,

Status: Bronze V - Position 17 / 42LP

Ban&Pick
There where two obvious kids in our team, using more *** in the chat, then there are stars in the sky. It seemed they had more fun to provoke with disgusting words then to play with LOL. I had the 4th slot and since jungle was already given away to a Xin Zhao in slot 2 I decided to take Corky.
My support was a Malphite. Our lane opponents were Quinn and Taric.
On the midlane we had an Ahri against Le Blanc, the opponent jungler was Akali and on top we had Shyvana against Volibear.

The Game
My support tried to prepare some kills, but I didn't go in. I tried to keep my health up. I don't know if he flamed me about it, because he was one of the kids and I muted both kids to keep concentration.
We had a hard time in our lane and lost the outer tower at 14 Minutes. My farm was poor. Our opponent teamed up much better and took me a long time to get enough gold for my items.
Out two tanks worked more as fighters. In two fights I used the wrong …

Leaguecraft 101 - Trading Ep1

Nice short clip on the mechanics and ideas behind trading.

I used these strategies to good affect against a Gangplank last night while trying out the new Omega Squad Teemo skin.

One thing I'll add using Ganglank as an example, but the idea applies to quite a few champions, is that if Gangplank uses his Q,

Status: Bronze V - Position 12 / 62LP

Ban&Pick
I got the first slot an could ban all my foe champions. I chose jungle/tank as Nautilus again.
The rest of the team looked not bad: Gangplank, Karthus, Tristana and Thresh.
Our opponents where Yasuo, Volibear, Morgana, Corky and Blitzcrank.

Early Game
Even though I immediatly suggested to guard the red buff, my team camped on the bot lane first, then started roaming the south jungle and got ganked inlcuding a dead Thresh.
I had a pretty easy start and could follow my route by the book. After helping Karthus on midlane I was too greedy and got killed by the assisting Volibear when trying to kill Morgana.

Mid Game
The opponent pushed hard in a good working team. Our team just ran into their group one after another and got killed over and over again.
I tried to be the tank, and mostly got captured first. During the time the opponent was bashing on me my team did not much damage and was captured after my death.
In one chase after Volibear …

Hey there MOBA Fire, Firbane here. You know, as of recently I've started thinking a little bit about DOTA 2 and League of Legends, as I've come to a small impasse. Let me preface this by saying the following; a good portion of my friends play League of Legends, I prefer League of Legends, and I've started on League of Legends, so a lot of what I'm going to say is coming from the opinion of a long time League fan.

So, now that that's out of the way, let's get into where this impasse has come from. I've a smaller group of friends that play DOTA 2, one of them very...I wouldn't say religiously but he is very much into the game. One of the things that is asked of me is to come onto DOTA 2 and play with that smaller group of friends, either making a fool of myself or doing quite well. I have my qualms with the game and have always been fronted with the into-it friend with "but this game is so much better than League."

Yeah, right, I want to believe you man, but when you play a couple…

Status: Bronze V - Position 5 / 82LP

Bronze 55554 vs Bronze 55444

Ban&Pick
In short terms: Bad start. Slot 5 wanted to have top. Slot 4 answered "You are last".
This grumpyness continued even though slot 5 took Jax for top and slot 4 took Talon for mid.

The game
I played Thresh and it went not bad. My adc was Jinx and our lane opponents were Sivir and Malphite.
We had some fair trades and Jinx could get some kills. Toplane did'nt work well and Jax lost first tower against Fiora at 10 Minutes.
Flaming started and at 17:00 Talon disconnected and never came back. We could resist hoping he would come back until 28 minutes, then decided to surrender.

Debriefing
Personally a good game but lost through flaming and afk.

KDA Score 1/7/4
Support Score: Placed 13 wards (1/3 of whole team)

Status: Bronze V - Position 12(-7) / 62LP(-20)

Alright so it's been a little while since I wrote a blog but I figured I should write one due to me really liking a certain champion who is underplayed. You guys already know that the champ is indeed
Vladimir the Crimson Reaper. This guy is honestly one of my favorite champions ever and for a few reasons that I will list below.

1: Vlad has amazing sustain, his Q is great for sustaining yourself in lane which means you won't be super reliant on potions for health, and can often stay in lane longer than any other champion in the game.

2: Vlad also has a wide variety of starting item options. He can start with an Amplifying Tome, Boots, Doran's Ring or Shield, and even Ruby Crystal! The Ring may not be the greatest choice due to Vlad not using the passive, but HP and AP goes well with your passive, speaking of...

3: Vladimir gains Health for buying AP, and AP for buying Health, however it doesn't stack with itself (otherwise you would have infinite AP/HP). This makes Vlad naturally tan…

Greetings and salutations summoners! Patch 5.7 came out a little sooner than I thought it would, so I spent a couple of days letting it simmer before I turned around to give my thoughts on it. So here it is, my thoughts on Patch 5.7. Riot sums it up using the term "change canoe," and yes, they're taking that joke too far, but we still love them except when they nerf our favorite champions.

Skins

• Omega Squad Teemo - Teemo just got hit with his first Legendary skin, and as much as I hate the furry little monster, this skin seems very terrifying. As fan theory has passed before, it seems like this skin is based on a time after the League of Legends during a post-apocalyptic time, where war is now fought until you actually die, and Teemo has...well, gotten very good at said killing and very good at not dying. Basically it tells me Teemo snapped, and his killing half of his cute and cuddly facade has come out full blown, and he won't stop until he sees the world burn. What do I thi

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Status: Bronze V - Position 8 / 64LP

Ban&Pick
I decided to offer my service as support and took Annie. The adc took Graves and we had Rengar in the jungle, Zed in mid and Nidalee in top.
The opponents chose Shen, Jax, Zyra, Jinx and Blitzcrank.

The Game
We had a hard start. The Rocketgrab from Blitzcrank got me more then once. In the first events I had my passive ready to stun him and escape. Our team did not really team up in midgame but the others did, so we where ganked and killed a lot.
I was caught when placing wards. 4 Members of the opponent sat in a brush just to kill me.
Flaming me started right on. Nobody saw all my warding and stunning and preparing the last hits.
It took a lot of time until my team started playing together but it seemed to late.
Luckily we could resist long enough until a member of our opponents went afk.
So we played a little bit longer and until our enemy surrendered.

Debriefing
- the kids think, that the rest of the world must always be perfect. They …