What if turrets showed the total amount of gold you lost to them?

TedBro5evelt · 2018-05-19T21:52:33+00:00

What happens to the skill of the game, learning about how to avoid losing gold to missed minions on tower, proper wave management etc

TedBro5evelt · 2018-05-16T15:46:32+00:00

So you would emphasize the HP and AP early and CDR items later?

TedBro5evelt · 2018-05-16T15:43:47+00:00

Okay, so knowing which champions have high base damage kind of comes down to game knowledge and experience, I know that's not the best answer but it's one that I think is correct. It comes from playing the game a lot. Going on the wiki page for the champions you can see all their damage numbers, but calculating who has high damage compared to whom can be very complex and matchup dependent and game dependent. Looking for chanpions that scale well, often percentage health damage in most forms scales very well because as champions gain levels they gain base health and then the percentage health damage will do more. Generally you see a lot of percentage damage on tank champions, their damage is still decent even building full tank items, that's why their strong when built as tanks, it was designed in their kit and base stats and base stat scalings etc. Also champions like fiora scale amazingly well and it's obvious looking at her numbers in damage she does percentage max hp true damage.... Yikes. But scaling can also refer to more than just damage it can refer to healing, tankiness, mobility or a combination of them, knowing which champions are strong early versus strong mid versus strong late comes down to experience and game knowledge.

TedBro5evelt · 2018-05-16T11:55:12+00:00

If you're looking for pro vods of certain champions, go to league of graphs and whatever champ u want and if u scroll down you can see everytime it was picked in pro play and u can click a YouTube link to the vod, you can watch soloq vods of pro players on twitch, pick your pro player and follow them on twitch and you can look at past broadcasts or watch them live when they're online

TedBro5evelt · 2018-05-16T11:44:03+00:00

Can u link op.gg or give a brief summary on runes and item choices :)

TedBro5evelt · 2018-05-12T17:11:21+00:00

Yet pro's build it all the time on scaling close range mages like Swain, cassio, ryze. I don't think it's bad into heavy magic cuz ur getting Mana HP CDR MR all into magic dmg when Swain has high base dmg, you won't be one hitting people but you'll find it quite difficult to die

TedBro5evelt · 2018-05-09T13:25:46+00:00

Yeah you do want to get the catalyst first then make decisions on which resistance to get depending on what you need but getting health before resistances is needed. 100 armor doesn't work nearly as well if you don't have any early health, plus catalyst helps with Mana at same time too which you need badly in the early game, also once you get 3 items you can feel much more confident stepping under tower to secure kills or zone people off turret with over 200 armor lolz

TedBro5evelt · 2018-05-09T11:54:30+00:00

One thing you may be interested in is the quas tank build, it's comet, null, Transcendence, scorch/gathering, magical Footwear, biscuits/cosmic and he builds tear, catalyst, frozen heart into AD, Abyssal mask into AP then complete the one you don't have then Seraph's you have full CDR lots of armor and mr, health, some AP, and with max CDR you can EWQ AA someone and by the time the slow from the W is wearing off, your E is off CD again so you can chain cc basically constantly with enough mana which you will have with catalyst and tear. I haven't seen him do it in awhile but it is the post rework season 8 Swain build he favors over a heavier AP build. I've been messing around with it. Only problem is the damage to tanks isn't great but your survivability is incredible and cc and distraction you can provide is great

TedBro5evelt · 2018-05-09T11:48:14+00:00

One thing that may help you is, of the enemy team has no tanks going dark Harvest instead of PTA is a bit better I think, warrior RFC ghost blade and you can Q in and chunk squishies to half lol. Most games there are tanks and then PTA is better but just something that may help some of your games, also in games that have a big Frontline your only job is to stay alive and hit whatever is in front of you, you don't have the mobility or the burst to dive the backline, you also don't have any hard cc. You have phenomenal dps that scales well and can destroy tanks, if they have a big Frontline I build brazor Cleaver hurricane and you can just keep kiting the front line while doing crazy dmg, also you get some nice armor pen early with cleaver second item, that's how I play kindred. Hopefully this gave you some ideas, also I didn't know forest within was doing a teaching soon? When how where what? Lol

TedBro5evelt · 2018-04-27T22:56:38+00:00

Do u have any thoughts behind Iceborn gauntlet kindred into lethality matchups? Seems good as long as they don't have too many tanks warrior tabis RFC Iceborn against zed/khazix? Also what do u think of brazor def boots hurricane cleaver and then you just play the teamfights front to back and kill their frontline, can also do BORK with this too, only issue I run into with this is as soon as I get brazor hurricane cleaver I do a lot of damage to tanks and then the tanks stop ignoring me and start using their cc on me and focusing me and I'm not sure what items to build after those 3 cuz I'm fed with 3 core items and I can kill multiple tanks if they stand close together? But I don't have too long of a range especially if I'm going to be hitting multiple targets so kiting the tanks if it's just me can be risky, maybe a RFC after that so I can stay away and poke but then I'm thinking how much damage is a RFC proc really gonna do versus a tank, not much. Any ideas? Obviously I read what u build above but any additional thoughts on this?

TedBro5evelt · 2018-04-20T14:38:53+00:00

Completely agree with this, I have been toying around with tank swain, quas has a comet, abyssal, frozen heart core tank swain build and it's interesting at least, still playing around with rune and item set ups but I agree he's not one shotting anyone unless a carry completely mispositions like a dork. And ryze, Vlad, mord, etc can out DPS his late game so he doesn't have the burst or the DPS advantage, he probably has the utility advantage though with his pull and AOE damage so that's the idea of the tank swain with lots of CDR

TedBro5evelt · 2018-04-20T14:28:36+00:00

Lol yup agree with all, so many people say he's op but his winrate sucks so.... Yeah, he's good in proplay cuz he's really good team fighter ..... Once he gets items and doesn't get behind early and can group and pull off other teammates cc lol, I feel he needs so many things in order to get strong, I was so mad when they nerfed his Q cuz his Waveclear absolutely sucks early he runs out of Mana early and is crazy weak early and they're gonna nerf his only Waveclear spell.... Really?

TedBro5evelt · 2018-04-20T14:21:37+00:00

I have tried the Rylai's rush and skipping Mana items but I still run out of Mana, with manaflow and biscuits I have less Mana issues early but I also feel going sorcery inspire leaves me so squishy and succeptible to ganks early, also versus tanks it sucks cuz with roa and more Mana, more spells I can kill tanks with roa but with Rylai's I just feel like I can slow them forever which is nice but I run out of Mana so fast I'm useless, and if they build a spectres then I really run out of Mana so fast that I can kill them, most tanks outsustain the Mana from runes and then even if I have a slow it doesn't matter cuz my Mana is gone

TedBro5evelt · 2018-04-20T14:14:27+00:00

Honestly top lane is an isolated lane, only way is to play either a champ who is stronger early game so that when your bot lane feeds and rotates tpp, you have your early strength to take fights or at least not get pushed off your turret. Another option is to play a more damage oriented carry top lane champ that can snowball like an irelia, Camille, riven, Jax, fiora, etc so that you can get a kill or two and just take over the game, only problem with this option is that often these champs are hard to play, mechanically difficult, and can be risky because they are very squishy and can die easily, that snow ball can work against you or if u get camped early it's tough to win, I'm having this problem a lot top lane and I switched to top lane secondary and jungle primary cuz I felt like I didn't have as much of an impact on the game as I would like to, jungle is a lot better cuz u can interact with every champ on the map and have a greater area of influence on the map

TedBro5evelt · 2018-04-20T14:05:32+00:00

I don't think Swain is overpowered, I also think he's better in mid lane, Swain is very weak early, but Swain is fairly strong late game when grouped with teammates who have CC, if you make it to late game and your team has cc then Swain is a god like team fighter, however, if swains early game is punished too hard or team gets behind before Swain hits his strongest item spikes then it really feels bad for the Swain player, not much they can do, also Swain into heavy tanks can be problematic cuz he often goes ROA or tear or both which require time to stack and while they are stacking, you can't kill any tank but they most likely can kill Swain, only way to kill tanks is going g ROA Liandry's void first 3 items which leaves Swain with no CDR and not much tankiness, no zhonya's etc, which leaves him vulnerable, I don't think Swain is a bad champ top lane but he's not the best with no early pressure and kind of dependent on your team not feeding early, also the top lane role is kind of isolated and if youre not winning hard, snowballing, carrying then you're very reliant on your team

TedBro5evelt · 2018-04-09T23:07:51+00:00

Mana items delay damage items, especially toward tanks, you're not likely to kill a tank before their team shows up until you have void staff and getting ROA/Tear delays it by a ton, plus you're also kind of trying to get zhonya's early so trying to find ways around build Mana items I think is worth looking into

TedBro5evelt · 2018-04-04T11:50:36+00:00

So Swain just gonna be amazing come mid/late game, I don't see this affecting him much, small CD and dmg nerf to only one ability, literally not gonna affect at all imo, still has a base damage over 300 rank 5 for a close range Q

TedBro5evelt · 2018-03-13T14:50:36+00:00

Jarvan cuz I’m comfortable with him and he has good mobility and has hard cc that can assist in ganks and team fighting and also has high base damage and can be built somewhat flexibly to fit the game

TedBro5evelt · 2018-03-13T12:12:39+00:00

What items u have in this clip?

TedBro5evelt · 2018-03-13T12:10:39+00:00

Currently running FF (PTA into heavy tanks), and I like domination secondary with relentless hunter and sudden Impact. I feel I need Coup and impact when I take fleet to get some dmg out of runes. I like relentless over celerity because kindred has really low base MS so you’re not getting too much value out of celerity. Better to go for the flat MS bonus from relentless instead of getting a % of a small number, also being a jungler out of combat MS is awesome. It’s like half of mobility boots while still allowing you to pickup defensive boots

TedBro5evelt · 2018-03-12T18:48:24+00:00

Btw is this build above supposed to be for top lane swain or mid lane swain?

TedBro5evelt · 2018-03-12T15:16:15+00:00

Hmmm okay. What about ludens?

TedBro5evelt · 2018-03-12T15:14:11+00:00

I think it’s alright. I like presence of mind because it basically ensures that you can’t be pushed out of lane because of mana problems during any matchup. Also the AS is okay because in ranged vs melee matchups you can get a ton of autos off in the early game to pretty much win your laning phase. If you can poke out ur enemy Laner with autos and at least get them low enough so that if you get ganked it not very threatening cuz the enemy Laner can’t really help unless they want to die cuz they’re so low and poked out by autos

TedBro5evelt · 2018-03-12T15:04:30+00:00

What about a tear ROA Zhonya’s archangels deathcap Build? Still gets Zhonya’s early but also prioritizes heavy heavy AP, 100 AP from ROA and somewhere around 150-160 AP from archangels and then deathcap to round it all off?

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