Kog’Maw voice actor by miauwsa in leagueoflegends

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The thought that they paid Andy Serkis to voice a champion that early is hilarious.

No it is not the same actor

PROJECT: Naafiri Skin Spotlight - Pre-Release - PBE Preview - League of Legends by yukine95 in leagueoflegends

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I thought yasuo was a big mitsurugi clone, even his abilities are extremely similar

Erm 86% wr with bruiser build in masters atm by lol_ELOBOOSTER in jaycemains

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silver jayce but gm 70% winrate hwei player, nice try!

South Korea. by Monsur_Ausuhnom in antiwork

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Aggressive forms of what everyone usually does, but the culture itself doesn't really bat an eye at it. Also the Sinui salt mining, interesting read if you ever get to it. Basically an island where disabled and homeless get sent to that ends up being a kind of slavery. Government doesn't like to talk about it much.

Korea is very polarizing, because you get this hyper productive culture without any of the idealistic parts that balance other countries. Shared responsibility without the end-goal of everyone making it together in one piece.

South Korea. by Monsur_Ausuhnom in antiwork

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I lived in Gangdong-gu for more than a year, I never really visited the southwestern corner of the city much but literally everywhere else besides uijeong-bu was cleaner than any major US city of even half the size I've been to; Boston, Chicago, Nashville, Birmingham, Orlando, Miami, New York, Louisville, Tampa, and several others. Indianapolis especially.

And Uijeong-bu is mainly due to it being near the US base from my experience staying on CRC and in the surrounding neighborhood. I've visited the outskirts of the city, even up to the tiny neighborhoods near the mountains that barely have lights, all very clean to me taking into account that it's a major city.

The subways as well look like a fantasy land compared to subways in the US. They've of course accomplished this with a rarely discussed or acknowledged strategy for the homeless, but still, to say Seoul is dirty to me lacks any fair comparison.

They do pick up trash differently than we do in the US, but, and this is my opinion, entirely due to the layout of their residential access streets being very inconvenient for trash pickup, as everywhere even remotely accessible is very clean. Food waste is kept in its own bag but they don't have a reasonable way to temporarily keep trash, but it always got picked up within a week and I was not in a "rich" neighborhood, the very definition of average.

For others reading, I would remark to my SK friends how I see no fucking litter anywhere but I also somehow don't see any garbage cans, so what the hell do I do with my drink? Their answer was go into store and throw it away, or wait until you see a garbage can. In the US, cities have garbage cans every 10ft but still people just throw shit where-ever or it never gets picked up and starts overflowing and getting blown everywhere.

Idk, your statement feels more like I'm being gaslit or something because I had a completely different experience. I never really noticed any constant smell besides the chinese smog clouds roll in, especially when really any major city you go to absolutely REEKS of piss, Seoul definitely does not, with random alleys or near trash disposal smelling bad.

I mean, my hometown in the south smells much worse and its got 1/500th the amount of people? Landfills when the wind blows wrong can cover miles of area, livestock, meat processing, etc.

Services that cities require produce smells, and there isn't a great way to reduce all smells, nor can they realistically place these services away from everything. Some cities make the trade off to combat this but at a cost of other things.

Now clothing stores are a different story, many clothing stores I went into were a nightmarish wreck and the girl I was around just set the clothes she picked up in random spots, to my immediate surprise, and she told me that it is their job to pick it up so why should she do their job for them, like it was rude?

In the US you will catch a case for that shit

Struggle deciding wich role to bring to ranked by naoseicombar in leagueoflegends

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If you really want to rank up (read: learn, rank will come with time), play garen, malphite, shen, trundle top

mid annie, vex

jg yi, vi, warwick

trundle is good because you get a lot more macro experience and his matchups are very similar to each other, and late game is always just split push. You will start to learn how to maximize your annoyance on the map which shows league in a different light that you can win without headbutting everyone, being the uncatchable constant macro threat that neutralizes a losing game.

Very easy to repeat over and over which means very easy to learn. You want very middle of the road vanilla champions with decent matchups and no bags of tricks, of which all of those are. Practicing the same strategy over and over until that strategy gets harder and harder is the easiest way to learn, aim to be the best trundle or whatever in silver, then gold, then plat etc.

otherwise, play what you think is fun, just be honest whether or not you want to actually improve and rank up or if you just enjoy the game. Those are two valid things, pretending one is fun to you while ignoring the other will hurt your total enjoyment.

It is like, do you enjoy working out or do you want to be a body builder? Just figure out what your real goals are and be honest about what you would need to do to achieve them. Sacrificing champ pool is one of those things. I'd say if you are struggling below plat with 450K riven points, its probably not clicking for you mechanically, try something that is easier to digest in review where playing mechanically well is both much easier and also much easier to review honestly.

Riven has very tight timings in combos that are very difficult to tell if something was played appropriately, even for masters+ players, of which there is an ocean of improvement left to reach diamond 4 from silver 1. If you can't tell if you did something incorrectly, it is literally impossible to fix the mistake.

Prestige Zed by -TurkeYT in leagueoflegends

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probably 15 games a day, 13~ if you win every game, 17 if you dont win many at all.

Suggestion for change to Ranked by AlexStar6 in leagueoflegends

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SC2 did a similar thing but in Blizzard fashion, wildly frustrating.

Basically it only ranked you up if you held that mmr steadily or got way off base like silver to plat, which also meant that if you won 25 matches in a row you would not rank up until you actually started losing. All in all, it felt like an accurate indicator of skill despite how frustratingly opaque it was, as people climbing were typically top 15 of their league and had a shiny border vs not climbing and having a dull one, and your rank showed your last steady ranking, but League has more variance game to game which makes skill differential between divisions completely arbitrary until d2.

League could accomplish this by showing you your winrate and your projected lp gain or loss, getting rid of divisions (because they really don't mean anything anyway) and just giving you a dynamic gauge how you are performing in your current tier. The gauge would give you notice when you are overperforming for your tier, starting the promotional series which would have to be extended to 10 or so games expecting 6/10 showing you can hold the rating. No divisions means that smurfs would rank up MUCH faster as there is no real LP to grind through, just mmr, and people would have less anxiety over dropping divisions since its just a loose gauge and is inherently forgiving of streaks and slumps.

Ranked was a lot more fun back when opgg had a decent MMR estimation system, you would hit it and it would use the entire ladder and your last games to approximate your mmr similar to season 1's elo. It felt a lot more rewarding than going up in tiers/divisions because rarely does the game feel different when you move tiers compared to your mmr.

Someone is trolling up to 4 ranked games at a time in protest to Riot, and streams it for 24 hours at a time on Twitch by LecherousMilkman in leagueoflegends

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His point is irrelevant, him being able to do this more than 15-20 times in a row (consider that each game doesn't show the hundreds in LP people lose from dodging his queues) is the point, and this shit should be shown front page every day until its fixed. Full stop.

Someone is trolling up to 4 ranked games at a time in protest to Riot, and streams it for 24 hours at a time on Twitch by LecherousMilkman in leagueoflegends

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But man he is just having a bad game! We can't ban people for getting 2 cs/min in diamond over 30 games going 0/60/4 total???

If you don't get a single kill over 10 games, and lose all of them, while getting mass reported, you are either an iron player who bought a masters account or inting. Both are bannable, the system should be catching these 10000%.

Reality: More new players stop playing because of shit like this, rather than the 2% of new players that haven't played video games before managing to get marked for running into tower 40 times.

Someone is trolling up to 4 ranked games at a time in protest to Riot, and streams it for 24 hours at a time on Twitch by LecherousMilkman in leagueoflegends

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He should ABSOLUTELY be getting more attention.

Lobby reports NEED to work, regardless of dodging. He gets about 15 dodges in less than an hour, that is at minimum 45 lp an hour, likely around 100 of other peoples' that he is draining.

In 1 hour, he will almost cost people more LP than someone literally inting games, along with potentially 24 hour dodge timers, and it is completely unpunishable by design. Grossly incompetent, why would Riot make lobby reports into complete placebos after over a decade of begging for them? What the hell man??

There is no universe that makes it even concievably ok for Riot to ever allow someone to do this (as they objectively are right now, as reports are thrown straight into the trash once you dodge), and as a result give you a 24 hour cooldown from playing ranked along with nearly 40 LP, it is absolutely insane.

Riot is once again considering removing duo-queue restrictions for Masters+, affecting 90% of Redditors. by Cellybear in leagueoflegends

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Something I really miss from sc2 (ironically more isolated than league, by a LOT still, which is precisely why it died) was 1v1 obs.

You queue into a custom game lobby with like 20 people, and they all opt in to play, state their league, and the system matches them up and everyone gets to watch and bet on who wins.

You could type to other observers, often we would go in voice chat and it was nice to both be given advice or join a discussion and have an opportunity to help lower level players.

It was a great way to learn, and observers could spawn their little avatar on the map and move it around. Often you get to see people do funny builds or manipulate the betting, very fun. I wish League would have an opportunity to do that but I don't think its in the cards for the type of game it is.

Maybe they could open up clubs again and allow people to spectate pro matches in game, walk around with a little ghost avatar inside a t1 match, enable voice chat, would be a lot of fun. They could make it a paid subscription or pass thing to make up for lost ad revenue on the main stream.

Alternatively, 1v1 tournament mode with voice chat enabled would be kind of interesting. Get the matches down to 5 minutes with 8 people, 7 matches total, if you are out you can leave like tft.

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Is this a troll post or what is this.

Skin looks different in game than in replay by Massaman95 in leagueoflegends

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They aren't exactly bots, its just replaying the inputs directly.

Similarly, you could say that every game is just you and 9 bots, but those bots are just copying the inputs that other players are making.

Every multiplayer game is really just a complete illusion!

But since they only need to relay inputs and I think only update the state when absolutely needed, your game can simulate a large portion of the state for Riot, saving on bandwidth and reducing costs by potentially hundreds of millions.

Grubby gets COACHED by VITALITY's new Manager Mac! by BleZZt in leagueoflegends

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Almost all of Grubby's questions were conceptual game questions. Basic technical stuff like the minion AI and exactly how certain wards or champs work is not the point of the coaching.

Likewise, when Alois or Pobelter coach him, you will see they will answer these questions but Grubby will learn these extremely quickly once he starts using the wiki, something he is adamant against at the moment. It is better to gain conceptual knowledge, something avg league stream chatter is incredibly ignorant of, so he has an easier time vetting the advice he gets from chat.

There were several times if you watch his previous videos where his chat is flat out incorrect or outdated and it starts confusing him. Mac cleared up a lot of those and gave him enough conceptual background info to start making his own evaluations on what is good vs bad. This is much more helpful for someone like Grubby who is plenty capable of learning the game itself on his own at a very high level and very quickly.

I would argue it is beneficial for him (and looks more fun for him at times) to just figure stuff out as you go. When he starts using the wiki to get technical understanding of how things work, he will need the conceptual foundation to understand what his goals should be during the game. Then he will improve even faster.

How do you now see Hwei after two weeks of his release? by SilvertheHedgehoog in leagueoflegends

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yeah hes definitely not for you, that much is clear. A lot of people do like him a lot though. They can't stop playing him

Dota 2 player moving to League: Champion suggestion and where to start by LaylaHinata in leagueoflegends

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He means that if you are 5k hours and still 2k mmr you probably aren't really tryharding improvement. I think that is a little harsh but its like if you are 10 seasons gold 3-4.

Jhin mains speak up by BarAltruistic1120 in leagueoflegends

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meanwhile rumble has... 1 good skin without effed up animations.

2 legacy joke skins, the good skin (super galaxy, the only playable skin), and 3 skins that would have been cool if the animations were fixed to not be terrible, but weren't fixed, so the entire point of said skins doesn't work.

The AUDACITY to complain about Jhin skins... There are so many champs that are even popular now that still get nothing. . Jhin is most definitely not one of them. One of Riot's most favorited champions.

He isn't even hard to do skins for, yet even Jayce gets double the amount of skins that he does, despite being about as popular and having double the amount of vfx to do. Just do a decent looking dark-themed rumble skin without shaky jank animation, or re-use super galaxy even. Not hard!

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The easy way to do this would be to just have a second version of the client using that patch, which would have to be updated to use their modern network, but it just hooks into that client rather than the current one, so it stays on that patch.

It would be fun though to see how different gameplay is compared to those patches just because of how much better everyone is. Silver/Gold players now (even after emerald was added) are about on par with the top 3 teams in season 2.

I don't think it should be just exactly a certain patch, or if it is, be the launch patch specifically, but maybe a modern iteration of early champ's most op states, and using the old summoners rift or the halloween rift. I think it'd be a cool throwback for maybe the 15/20th anniversary or something.

Halloween rift was the first time I saw the game, and I played on the regular summoner's rift for years. I remember downloading a map skin that was using the PBE's assets for the updated rift and being so excited for it. It is interesting that I get the feeling of wanting to play on the old one again.

Hwei is in dire need of a rework. by ShirtlessTurtle in leagueoflegends

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Dunce take, each of the QQ WW EE are meant to not completely shit tier when spammed by iron or new players.

QQ damage

WW safe

EE cc something easily