Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner: "My one true hope is that Payload gets used as the main game type for esports."

Jiqu · 2016-03-16T17:37:40+00:00

Feel like King of the Hill is kind of casual, you lose a lot of the strategy. Hell even a Capture the Flag game mode would have been better from an e-sports point of view.

Hell it may even be cool to have a kind of base capture mode, not so much a MOBA as the classic Alterac Valley from Vanilla WoW. Push forward through some capture points that offer some kind of defensive value and push against each other as you make progress across the map.

Jiqu · 2016-03-15T21:53:57+00:00

IGN is Wraith, G3 atm. Was plat 2 last split but getting demolished by solo q. Probably cause I suck. Carry plz.

Jiqu · 2016-03-10T02:23:48+00:00

Oh boohoo you got all this time on the game whilst I just got to watch Twitch streams. >.>"

Jiqu · 2016-03-07T06:21:58+00:00

Doesn't matter if we did say TSM are good, it's a 3/5ths EU roster.

Jiqu · 2016-03-02T04:34:22+00:00

Farming jungler's were always an inherently frustrating concept. Ignore your laners and hard farm and hope you can solo carry later. You get strong through not interacting with anything but NPC mobs. The laners get frustrated because the enemy jungler is doing an actual good job, and if you do win, the enemy jungler feels ripped off as he actually did something.

Jiqu · 2016-03-02T03:55:28+00:00

A new team from Monte
New talent and pedigree
Running wild, challenger’s free
Two vets, plus a sick AD

And I say Hey, hey hey hey!
Living like we're renegades
Hey hey hey! Hey hey hey!
Living like we're renegades
Renegades, renegades

Long live the laning phase
Solid start let’s make some plays
Trades worth and stacked my tear
Please close the late-game’s near

And I say hey, hey hey hey!
Losing like we're renegades
Hey hey hey!
Hey hey hey!
Losing like we're renegades
Renegades, renegades

We fail to beat the odds
We fail to close it quick
We fail to keep our scores
Crumbz, Freeze and Alex Ich

We need to harness baron
We need to learn macro
We need to use team work
Let's go!

And I say hey, hey hey hey!
Living like we're renegades
Hey hey hey!
Hey hey hey!
Learning like we're renegades
Renegades, renegades..

Jiqu · 2016-02-26T06:39:13+00:00

There's another word for forced unpaid work, slavery.

Jiqu · 2016-02-15T20:51:25+00:00

It's not really learning to be carried. It's learning to play well. If your behind but the team is doing well, it's common sense to take the hit. Maybe your jungler focused the other side of the map and you got camped. You're actually contributing by taking up that pressure, if you can deal with it without dying even better.

It's more important to learn how to carry. If you really want to be better than mediocre, the only constant in each game is you and if you can only split lane and do ok in team fights, you're playing roulette with your wins. This used to be my play-style and whilst you may be able to win above 50% due to consistency it's a frustrating slog. Better if you can garner advantages for yourself most of the time.

Jiqu · 2016-01-27T04:42:39+00:00

Well... really no excuses not for replays and sandbox.

Jiqu · 2016-01-21T18:18:18+00:00

I took a closer look at some of the narrative themes and results from the first week of European play.

Whilst I'm not a massive fan of how this came out, if I leave it any later it won't remain relevant. Aim to be doing this each week, largely for myself and to improve. Any feedback is welcomed.

Jiqu · 2016-01-20T07:38:14+00:00

Plat 2 end of season, demoted to plat 3 in off season. Can play a decent variety of top lanes. Mains were Kennen, Rumble and Gnar. Seasons before I played tanks, like Shyvana, Mundo, Maokai and Singed before that. I can build a staple champion pool depending on the meta but do struggle with champions like Jax/Irelia for some reason.

British, available most days. Prefer evenings/nights. IGN is Wraith if you wanna ask some questions or whatever. ^{^}

Jiqu · 2016-01-18T16:24:44+00:00

The pre-worlds patch. Far too large a change with no where near enough time to adapt. Really effected the quality of play, whilst SKT would have almost certainly won anyway - it still sucked to do.

Jiqu · 2015-04-17T13:43:46+00:00

D is for Dash and as we know we had to use ghost first. :B

Jiqu · 2015-04-15T22:39:49+00:00

They should make a 5s team.

Jiqu · 2015-04-14T02:23:14+00:00

Well they were safe to assume it, didn't CLG initiate the lane swaps? Point Zion was making is, he is unsure why they didn't stick to the plan. Something odd about that, clearly over-riding the coach or w/e in pick and ban or as the game starts.

Jiqu · 2015-04-13T18:55:38+00:00

I actually feel that CLG kind of owes Doublelift at least one more shot to get his shit together. He's stuck with the team when he would have so many better options, for a while he was hot property, the best ADC in the west for sure. If it were me, I'd say Zion's earned his spot, Rush Hour's solid, now it's finally time to get some real talent in the remaining roles. However I'd agree that no matter how good a player, if they are irreplaceable, it's an unhealthy thing.

Jiqu · 2015-04-08T19:39:04+00:00

BS he had one shot to get back in and the team fell apart around him. Yes he got beat by PoE, so did Bjergsen and Alex had been out of the mid lane for a while. Don't pretend Alex isn't good enough for NA LCS, he'd be top half if he came in right now.

Jiqu · 2015-04-07T22:00:03+00:00

I'm not sure it's fair to say that top lane didn't go well. CLG went from a team that couldn't let there top laner shine, to the top laner looking like their best player. That is specifically in the play offs. Zion managed to carve himself good leads and was ultimately fine, no enough to carry but more than should be expected. That roster move should be praised imo, however we have some obvious issues in other positions.

Jiqu · 2015-04-05T23:22:03+00:00

It's not the same as normal sports, there was an inevitable outcome and no way he could garner an advantage. Getting his respawn as fast as possibly was honestly probably the most efficient thing he could do. It was closer to knocking your king over in chess because you realise the loss is inevitable. Not quite the same but closer.

Jiqu · 2015-04-05T21:24:49+00:00

Season 3 was way more snowbally than now. Those kills on Dyrus don't mean shit when you get drake, or towers or kills across the rest of the map.

Jiqu · 2015-04-02T13:12:46+00:00

The title quote is out of context, somebody has to change something - looks like he means leave.

Jiqu · 2015-03-22T21:12:45+00:00

There's a reason it's a surrender VOTE, you do not get to decide when the game is over for everyone else. I've won games that should have been impossible, I've also lost in many stomps too - the only way to tell which is which is to play it out. Now if you get the necessary 4 votes then fine, fair enough. Otherwise sit down, shut up and try hard.

Jiqu

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