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K guys, please stop with the requests until I catch up with the list below. It's a bit daunting thinking I have 5 more, just 5 more... wait... 6 more, just 6 more, then 7 more, just 7 more etc. When I finish with this list, I will take further requests.

Thanks for your patience :)

Pending Rework of Champion

Guide For (champion): Evelynn
Why I'd like this to be Reviewed: I believe I have found the perfect medium for Evelynn. Players either utilize her amazing skill set with bursty AP and lack sustain in combat or do the opposite as AD Eve. I truly believe my guide is how Eve is meant to be played, and I want other players to try it out. Just have to wait for her buff now! :D
What I'd like you to focus on: My Summoner Spells (in regards to Flash), the core build itself, and my explanation on GP/5 items, to see if I have proper justification.
Guide Link: http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/something-wicked-this-way-comes-hybrid-roaming-eve-90463


Guide For: Evelynn
Why I'd like this to be Reviewed: My guide has been mostly unnoticed and I'd like some criticism and an opinion or two about it
What I'd like you to focus on: Anything you think may be incorrect or poorly explained
Guide Link: Linky

Pending Release of Champion

So I would like you to review my guide because it's my first and it's a new champ, most players try her on AP which isnt sooo good, so i decided to publish mine.
Well, I would like you to focus on the items, for me they worked very well, won every game except 1 but I want to know how others feel about it.
I would be very grateful if you take the time,
the link : http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/leona-100786.

Current List of Reviewable Guides

Why I'd like this to be Reviewed: Suggestions & honest criticism. ^^
What I'd like you to focus on: Total of guide ^^
Sion guide.

Lakapooty wrote:

Guide for: Xin Zhao
Why I'd like this to be reviewed: It's my first guide on Mobafire and I want to know if I'm heading down the right road(s).
What I'd like to focus on: Anything. Could you also give me tips on how to make my guide look less boring?
Guide Link: http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/the-man-that-wouldve-slain-300-yeah-thanks-jarvan-100550

Apotheosis wrote:

Guide For: Tryndamere
Why I'd like this to be Reviewed: I have not had a good debate in a very long time. We are not all perfect and I think that my guide could be better. Is my guide viewer friendly even though it is incredibly lengthy? It could be better for the audience, because who wants to read a book for each champion they want to play?
What I'd like you to focus on: If you actually want to read the entire guide, please make me aware of anything that needs to be updated or of anything that I could clarify better. If I am to be stood corrected against something that I point out or say in my guide, please let me know.
Guide Link: Your Tryndamere Resource

KoH_pHresh wrote:

here is my second rework for Akali :D
focus on anything you want to criticize on the guide, like item selection, laning phases, etc :P


Guide For (champion): Cho'gath
Why I'd like this to be Reviewed: Never really had any real feed back. Always looking to improve, so i wuld love a real punch in the face :)
What I'd like you to focus on: Mostly Focus on how i explain, the guide it self, becouse my build i will argue to death on.
Guide Link: http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/a-gentlemans-way-of-playing-chogath-86284


My guide for: Gangplank, the Saltwater Scourge
Why I'd like you to review it: Some criticism, to know was six hours making of it worthful, etc. =D
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Rudmed: Thank you for the suggestion of putting survivability instead of one of the Bloodthirsters (mabye two) but I want to stick to the idea of Xin lifestealing, not being CC resistent. I will DEFINATELY add a survivability item but the reason that I made that guide was to make people realize that Xin isn't JUST a tanky DPS character and that he can play many roles. I'm sorry if that was a little mean. Thanks for looking at my guide and helping me!
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Xin is tanky DPS. Tanky DPS still does damage, but since he is going in the fray he NEEDS survivability to be viable, or else in any reasonable Elo play he will just get shut down instantly.

/discussion.

and@Ninja,

yep something around that.

Listening to pumping music helps a lot, trust me.

I believe at the time of writing my Kat guide I was listening to "Around the World" by Daft Punk over and over again.

Malz guide I think it was something along the lines of "Check it Out" by will.i.am + Nikki Minaj.

Yep.

I think I spent more time editing the guide than writing the original guide (look at change log on Kat guide xD)

and @jhoi,

yea I know what you mean. I look at my sig request list, and once I finish one it's like, "yay!", and then I look and get 5 more requests...LOL xD

But I like it, keeps me busy with sigs :D

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Chesswinner's Sion Build
Verdict: An interesting *build* (despite the 69% CDR), but a seriously lack-lustre guide.
Possible Improvements: Author needs to read back over the requirements of a good guide, as his guide does not follow these requirements at all.

Constructive Criticism:

1) Woooooah. Seals of Alacrity? Glyphs of Alacrity? o.O What is this, a DPS Sion build? D:

2) You Ability Sequence is all over the place.

Quoted:
Complication: Unless it's necessary (like if you're explaining a difficult mechanic or trick), you need to keep the guide as simple as possible so as many people will understand it as possible.

Standard QWQEQR (to level 6) skilling order with R>1>2>3 for the rest of the skills. In short, max one skill first, then another, then another, getting ult when possible.


3) Your item build has next to no survivability. If you're building AP Sion, at least build a Zhonya's Hourglass or Banshee's Veil somewhere in the build.

4) 20% from Morello's, 15% from Deathfire and 25% from Nashor's, 3% from Sorcery and 6% from intelligence. I think you've capped that 40% CDR ^^

5) Good Hands > Perseverance.

6) Blink of an Eye > 4/4 Expanded Mind

7) 4/4 Awareness > Expanded Mind

8) I've spent more time reading over your guide and writing this reply than you did making this guide.

Please read back over WHAT PEOPLE LOOK FOR IN A GOOD GUIDE, and make adjustments. Once you've implemented all the characteristics of a good guide, please come back and ask for another review.

This thread is about reviewing *guides*, not *builds*.
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LOL 69% CDR

LOL @ the 69 and that it is DRASTICALLY over 40% xD

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Lakapooty's Xin Zhao Guide
Verdict: A guide that, with some improvements, could become a very good guide.
Possible Improvements: Colour, coding, re-organising the structure. The author seems to have a firm grasp on how to play Xin. And to be honest his guide is better than some of the "pros" on this site (+90% on guides that have no coding, colour or even any real content). Keep up the good work, Laka.

Constructive Criticism:

1) You can't fully max an ability before level 9.

2) Starting with a Vampiric Scepter means you'll be auto-attacking and pushing the lane to regain your health. I like the early The Brutalizer though.

3) Because you have life steal through Wriggle's Lantern I'd suggest getting Black Cleaver before Bloodthirster.

4) You have more than 6 final items. Remove Quicksilver Sash from the Purchase Order.

5) I'm not sure about your runes. I feel like you should get some sort of survivability through them, like Quints of Fortitude, or Seals of Armour. Also, Glyphs of Alacrity are so bad. Also, Battle Cry is your attack speed steroid, so I feel as if those runes aren't necessary.

6) Your summoners leave no room for error... but I wouldn't know if Flash is necessary on Xin.

7) I'd drop one point off Offensive Mastery (minion damage) and swap it to Archaic Knowledge. At least one of your abilities does Ability Power damage, so why not that extra 15% magic pen?

8) It's good to see you're using some coding like suggested, but you're going to have to spice up your guide a fair bit more if you want it to keep the attention of your readers. In case you weren't aware (though you should be if you read my first post):

Code:
[icon=xin zhao size=55]


Yeilds:




Also try to use some more colour in your guide. In terms of your Items section, list the items the way you did in your Summoner Spells section for clarity.

9) Chronological order refers to time. I think you mean Alphabetical ^^

10) You need to break up your walls of text with paragraphs.

11) Your sections are all over the place. This is the order I'd suggest:

Introduction
Pros / Cons
Summoner Spells
Runes
Masteries
Skill Sequence + Unique Skills (MERGE TOGETHER)
Items
Farming + Potential for Jungling (MERGE TOGETHER)
Summary + Videos (MERGE TOGETHER)
Ranked Play < No need for this section D:

It's certainly not a bad start, but you do need to tidy it up. Add some colour, rearrange things.
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Apotheosis's Trynadmere Guide
Verdict: An amazing Tryndamere resource. Everything you could possibly want to know about Tryndamere is here. It is fantastically in-depth, and should occupy the reader for a good half an hour.
Possible Improvements: The author really needs to add in paragraph breaks if he doesn't want to cut out any of his information. He SERIOUSLY needs some coding/formatting/colour to make his guide more aesthetically attractive. The author should consider removing useless information (like the copy+paste of skill/summoner spell database info), and making a proper Skills Section. A video of the jungle route would be beneficial.

Constructive Criticism:

1) Why not get the upgraded Exhaust instead of Archmage's Savvy?

2) Why not Archaic Knowledge?

3) Okay, I respect long and detailed guides. But. You really need some colour and coding in your guide. I realise it'll take you a long time to do (if you choose to do so), but simply having Tryndamere as opposed to Tryndamere, and Mocking Shout as opposed to Mocking Shout will give the reader aesthetic relief from your walls and paragraphs of text.

4) "You need to add items to your build in order to properly counter them" - counter who? :P

5) Your "should I really rune CrC" Q&A is very detailed, and an example of where you should be implementing paragraph breaks. Your English is very good, so I'm sure you won't have trouble adding in breaks. The breaks may not be necessary if this was a book, but because this is a guide on a website, you really and truly need to break up walls of text. If you split that paragraph into two or three separate paragraphs, I guarantee people will be more inclined to read it.

6) I would suggest not using abbreviations of your abilities. "Although Tryn has UR" - this tripped me up, for example. I though, "UR... Magic Resist is MR... UR... Oh, he meant Undying Rage." It's a small thing, but a real thing - add coding, and don't use abbreviations.

7) With your Pros and Cons section you could add colour to the "-"s that signify each point. Just to make it prettier. You could also format it into a List for ease of reading.

8) :/ Your abilities section is bad. What readers look for in an abilities section is *new* information. Thoughts on the abilities by the author, not the information that is copy and pasted from the database. If I wanted to read Bloodlust's cooldown, I'd hover my mouse over it. Instead I want to hear from you what Bloodlust is.

9) Continuation from above point: Your abilities should be separated by something to show when each ability description is done.

10) Again the same idea with your "Recommended Spells" section. Cut out all the stuff people can read with a simple mouse over, and leave your description. Also, the reason why you choose these spells should be in this section, instead of in some other random section.

11) I won't mention breaking up your 12 sentence long paragraphs again, but just know I'm looking and reading all these walls of text and not enjoying them. The attention span of teenagers on the internet is slim. I'm not suggesting people will be glued to your guide if you add more colour and coding, but I do adamantly insinuate that it will make your guide far more appealing.

12) It wouldn't hurt to list some alternative runes.

13) Skill Order should be moved under your Skills Explanation section.

14) "Talent Tree"/Mastery Tree section should possibly be combined with your Runes section, as both are really small and as two seperate sections take up more room in your guide than necessary.

15) :/ I'm not going to read paragraphs of 20+ sentences. And if I, someone who is dedicated to reading guides, doesn't want to read a huge chuck of text, then what is someone, who just stumbled upon your guide, going to do?

16) I noticed that your earlier screen shots of maps aren't as good as your latest ones.

17) "Using Spin & Flash to Your Advantage" - Make the "1)" stand out. Colour.

18) You should have a map of Summoner's Rift too.

19) Simple colouring. For example:

Quoted:
Color order of priority wards: Red, Blue, Orange, Yellow

RED: The red wards are crucial! However you decide to set these up with your team, whether it be orderly among the team or supports only buy wards, make sure these are always laid out! Baron and Dragon are what we're primarily keeping an eye on here. Early in the match it's not as important obviously, however, you still need to know whether top, mid, or bot will be set up for a gank when enemy laners/junglers are wandering about. These early kills can help the enemy sculpt the rest of the match and land a victory. We don't want to be allowing the enemy to kill either Baron or Dragon. That's a good chunk of gold that will distribute among their team, not to mention Barons handy buff. Again, don't overlook these wards!

BLUE: The blue wards are for your own benefit. There's blue points at top, mid, and bot hiding locations. I would hope that your entire team would try to ward the areas entitled to them. These wards are not entirely important, however, they are lifesavers. Junglers and wandering laners will use these bushes to set up early kills obviously. If you're pushing your lane, then it would be a good idea to ward the bush that is closet to you.

ORANGE: The orange wards are for your junglers/carries who want to steal red/blue from the enemy. WATCH THE JUNGLING ENEMY'S MINION KILL COUNT! This will benefit your jungler if they decide not to buy wards for stealing your enemy's buffs. By doing this, they will be able to determine the enemy's jungling patten to set up a gank, steal their buff, or both.

YELLOW: Lastly, we have the yellow wards. If your you're not confident about your sides buffs being taken when they become available, or you believe the other team might snatch them, then ward these areas for buff theft.


I forgot what number I'm up to) I once had a boots section like you. I decided to get rid of the useless boots. So I ended with Merc's, Swiftness and Zerk's. I think you should do the same. And make the icons bigger, they look awful that small :/

21?) Great "Item Building" Section. Very neat. Just add some coding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Zeal. Health Potion. Brawler's Gloves. Smite. Elixir of Agility. Easy! So easy and it immediately will make your guide more attractive.

22) Um, I'm not sure if you need to add in the respawn times of the jungle creeps. Simply link the reader to an appropriate thread/guide that specialises around explaining creep respawn times.

If you don't like that suggestion, at least add in some columns or other forms of formatting to make the list not as long.

23) Okay weird section ordering. Put "Jungling with Tryn" somewhere near "gameplay". Put "Other items to get" underneath "Building Items".

24) "Now, if what you thought I gave to you earlier was everything, then guess again. I repeat myself over and over because it's important to understand that there are many possibilities and that it is all based on who you fight against." The problem is, no one wants to listen to you over and over and over again.

Quoted:
Redundancy: It's annoying to read something in a guide that's being repeated over and over in several different sections. There's repeating a point for emphasis, and there's saying the same thing as if it's a brand new idea.


25) "Calculating Tryndamere's Stats" - it's not necessary.
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@KoH_pHresh: ... I don't see any changes? D: Um, I +1'd anyway, because you've put in a lot of effort and work into your guide. Also, +rep for listening to everyone in this thread who made comments about your guide.
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PotatisFarfar's Cho'Gath Guide
Verdict: An in-depth AP Tank Cho'Gath Guide.
Possible Improvements: Author really needs to work on his grasp of the English language. He also needs to consider if his guide is up to scratch with the other recommended guides - needs to be structured more neatly. I don't have any more suggestions for improvements, as the author has obviously spent a lot of time making this guide as informative as he possibly can :)

Constructive Criticism:

Well, you asked for a punch in the face, hopefully this hits hard enough :)

1) Rupture > Vorpal Spikes?

2) Okay, fair enough English isn't your native language, but it takes minutes to install spell check for text boxes. Regardless of your native language, I believe "i" is always capitalised when you use it to refer to yourself. "I" as opposed to "i". You want to convey to the reader that you are professional and that you spent time on the guide.

If for some reason you can't download a spell check, or it is too hard to copy+paste it into Microsoft Word, then try and get someone to go through it for you.

3) "I will not go through what the abilities do." *sigh* You're not the first to say this, and this won't be the last time I say this, but, "You just look lazy". That's the honest truth.

Guide Writer: Yo, play [insert champion here] and learn him/her yourself, I ain't gonna waste ma time on Ability Explanation.
Me: ... but didn't you write the guide to help readers learn [insert champion here]?
Guide Writer: Pssshaw. Searz said it was k, so it is k, mmk?

4) :/ Over use of exclamation marks. Are you really shouting all those sentences?

5) Your quoted sections look bad... Add the author, add some colour or something.

6) Runes section looks great. I'd suggest adding in an extra column in the middle with the word "space" coded black to add space between your columns.

7) ^ same suggestion for all columns throughout your guide.

8) If you had an abilities section, most of your "tips" would go there under the skills.

9) Please run your guide through a spell check :( Your guide has been recommended 4 times, and new guide builders are looking at your guide and thinking that your guide is the standard, your guide is what is expected to get a recommendation.

10) Great "Team fights and late game" section.
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@Chesswinner: With regards to your Gangplank Guide. I stopped looking at it when I saw 2x Avarice Blades.

Gold/5 no longer stack.

Please make sure the rest of your guide doesn't have any more erroneous material/information in it :)


On a positive note, I'm nearly up to date on all requests :)

Pending Rework of Champion

Guide For (champion): Evelynn
Why I'd like this to be Reviewed: I believe I have found the perfect medium for Evelynn. Players either utilize her amazing skill set with bursty AP and lack sustain in combat or do the opposite as AD Eve. I truly believe my guide is how Eve is meant to be played, and I want other players to try it out. Just have to wait for her buff now! :D
What I'd like you to focus on: My Summoner Spells (in regards to Flash), the core build itself, and my explanation on GP/5 items, to see if I have proper justification.
Guide Link: http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/something-wicked-this-way-comes-hybrid-roaming-eve-90463


Guide For: Evelynn
Why I'd like this to be Reviewed: My guide has been mostly unnoticed and I'd like some criticism and an opinion or two about it
What I'd like you to focus on: Anything you think may be incorrect or poorly explained
Guide Link: Linky

Pending Release of Champion

So I would like you to review my guide because it's my first and it's a new champ, most players try her on AP which isnt sooo good, so i decided to publish mine.
Well, I would like you to focus on the items, for me they worked very well, won every game except 1 but I want to know how others feel about it.
I would be very grateful if you take the time,
the link : http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/leona-100786.

Pending Remake of Guide

My guide for: Gangplank, the Saltwater Scourge
Why I'd like you to review it: Some criticism, to know was six hours making of it worthful, etc. =D
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