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Today was a strange day playing.

I spent much of the early day watching videos about not doing stupid things, like chasing into fog and, over extending myself, and not feeding the enemy, but today I ended up doing all of those things all day.

Perhaps i have hit the first of many walls. I hit level 9 today which was nice though. Lets skip all this and go right into the recaps.

Game 1: 8/2/2 - Co-op vs. AI - Victory
Warm up game, did better than I expected. I had a very strong team that communicated well. It went fairly quickly. Perhaps the fastest of the games vs. AI I have ever played.

Game 2: 8/10/8 - Classic Normal - Victory
Straight forward game, went bottom with a Soraka which was nice to have support. Did well but not super well as we both were pretty new and fed some early kills. The game was pretty nice though we ended up winning with some clutch tower pushes towards the end.

Game 3: 23/12/11 - Classic Normal - Defeat
Now you are asking yourself. 23/12/11 and you still los…

Hello everyone who may view my account for no apparent reason; I am SolarTiger. I hope to change my summoner name to this, but currently it is SolarClawTiger. If the name is taken, i hope to be able to change this name and that one to an even better name in the future.

I do play league, and just as a reference my favorite champions are Vladimir, Evelynn, Anivia, and Rammus. As you can see, I am more pron to the AP and Tank characters; but I do have some good Hybrid and AD characters. I can play any lane, except the jungle...No matter how many times I practice, I don't think I will be an effective jungler in Solo que; due to team mates not communicating. Then again, I am not the best ganker anyway; so I think I should just keep practicing as much as possible for Jungle to see if I ever do get better.

Currently, I am playing Dominion more often than normal or ranked games. I occasionally do play ranked 3s, but unless i have a partner for ranked 5s I refuse to do a solo que. I always wa…

Just had enough of the idiocy on ranked, i'm getting better teams on normal games -_- So taking a break, probably 1-2 weeks from ranked.

Meanwhile i'm back at guitar playing... checked some random community free guitar stuff in my neighborhood. Got some band proposal and a gig proposal at some fest nearby... lol that was fast, eventhough i suck at guitar lately, not practicing since about started university =/

Also a little merit, walking around with a guitar attracts the female species of humankind. :D

It's funny that I've been playing this game for about a year and a half and I haven't explored the community's tools yet.

I hope to post frequently from now on, since I enjoy sharing my perspective about this game. Also, the quality of overall guides have improved (when I started to play the game I used Mobafire as a reference, and some of the advice was... non-optimal to say the least).

Now, a year after and with about 2k games played, I think that I have enough experience to share with the rest of peeps. It's also a matter of personal improvement, as feedback always helps.

You guys can check out my new Annie guide (still a WIP). It's meant for casuals and gives some tips that I hope to make clearer in further updates.

Current projects: reach Gold ELO before the end of season.

Champions I'm currently dedicating myself: Annie, Nidalee, MF, Thresh, Sejuani

These are the five champions I wish to play and "master". I think that a small pool helps building focus and sets up the bar m…

So it's finally happened: I'm now officially recognized as some kind of bad ***. My peers have kindly bestowed upon me enough honor to get the Great Leader crest. I'm always happy to have proof that I'm not terrible at something. Its not like I totally suck at LoL, there's just a lot of people who get all hardcore, enter head-up-*** mode and grief over nothing. On the other hand, I've had at least two people call me "The best Sona in NA," so not all feedback is grief.

That said, I'd like to thank astrolia for his awesome Sona guide. The recommended play style coupled with a bit of my own finesse and experience was what earned me the bulk of my teamwork honor. It also helped bring my win rate out of this weird limbo. My wins and losses were something like 10 away from each other. Not so much because I failed at jungling and solotop, but sometimes because the rest of the team was just...bad. It turns out that a competent support wins wars. Who knew?

Hello again everyone!

Thank again for checking out my blog, actually can I call it a blog with two posts? **** yeah I can. Anyway down to business, today was a busy day at work, so busy in fact that I just watched LoL videos all day.

To say that I am really enjoying Fiora would be an understatement. I've been trying to find videos all day and I came across a few. Specifically a few by a youtuber named TheLoLSoul who has a Fiora gameplay commentary and a kill completion video that really gave me some insight into how to really burn down some people.

If you have Fiora videos, either with commentary and suggestion or just compilation/high light reel stuff please share them in the comments, Id really love to check out some more.

Today has been full of awesome learning videos and cruising the fantastic boards here at MobaFire.

I will get into the gameplays after the break!

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Game 1: 1/8/10 - Vs. Bots - Victory
Bloodthirster Berserker's Greav…

So I've been trying out Zyra, i played a normal game as her first time (NIGHTMARE!!!). I then discoverd that she has a combo -_-..Since all her abilities are delayed you take advantage of this by the combo E,W,Q,W, an unexpected burst that people don't expect cause it happens so FAST. And if you want ult in E,W,R,Q,W. Im still nooby Zyra so any tips would be really nice. I got a skin for her cause im absolutely in love with her. (leave comments below obviously, and try to be nice lol, i discoverd mobafire isnt always the place with the nicest people lol.)

Seems to happen every time I jump to the next division... I play a stretch of mediocre games. It's sort of confusing. I don't know if anything changes between divisions that affects my play, or if I'm just tired, but it seems to take me a while to get adjusted to the new division. Anyway, here's to improving....

GrandmasterD hasn't done the math yet and I'm an impatient ****abish, so I'll do the math for him. For the sake of simplifying things, only marks will be considered. 9x Greater Mark of Armor Penetration gives 1.28 * 9 = 11.52 armor penetration

Recall that:

• Damage multiplier = 100 / (100 + Armor - Armor Penetration)
• Therefore, raw damage needed to deal 100 physical damage to the target = 100 / (Damage multiplier) = 100 + Armor - Armor Penetration

The lowest possible base armor in the game belongs to Sona at 9.3 armor at level 1. For the sake of making Armor Penetration runes be utilized at maximum effectiveness, we'll assume a hypothetical target which has exactly 11.52 armor. The math is as follows:

With armor penetration:

• Damage multiplier = 100 / (100 + 11.52 - 11.52) = 1.0000
• Raw damage needed to deal 100 physical damage to the target = 100 + 11.52 - 11.52 = 100.00
• Therefore, 100 raw damage = 100 damage dealt, meaning you are dealing the equivalent of true damage.

Without …

Not gunna lie to everyone here, but I love me some ranked 3s! I know that most people are going to be like "Sp4c3, you are a crazy man!" To this I say, "No no no. I just like the dynamic." To me, ranked 3s is so much more intense, especially how me and my team metas. High pace, high action; high risk, high reward. I find the game to just be so much more action packed than 5s. No more of this first blood at 15+ minutes in, we get ours by the spawn of the second minion wave. (Well actually we are about 66% accurate with that lol).

Anywho, it is my belief that more people should play the 3s game. Ranked or not, it is still a riot and a ton of fun. It allows for a different group of people to succeed because, let's be honest, not everyone is good at 5s (myself included).

What I really want to say is, GO PLAY SOME 3S PEOPLE! Enjoy!

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