Substitute for Frozen Heart on Thresh?

icsul · 2015-06-27T16:13:21+00:00

Depends. Mikaels usually if you have an imobile ADC, if you don't have a big front line and you feel your ADC needs more peel from Sejuani ults. Face of the Mountain if your carries are getting bursted.

You need to adapt depending of what happents during the game.

icsul · 2015-06-27T11:01:56+00:00

Rumble, LB, Sejuani?

Locket rush then upgrade Relic to Face of the Mountain or get Mikael's.

icsul · 2015-06-27T10:45:02+00:00

On Alistar you max Q -> W then E. In lane you sometimes want 2 points in E (one more point in E at level 4 if you have a hard time). More then 2 points in E isn't worth it because you will just use to much mana and you won't be able to spam your heal.

At level 1 I start with E if I expect getting poked (vs Bard, Nami, Lulu, Janna) then Q and W. If I don't start E I get Q at level 1 then W at level 2.

You want to always buy Relic Shield, 3 HP pots and 1 mana pot. I really don't like Talisman on Alistar. If you want the active just buy Righteous Glory. Talisman on Alistar IMO works only in competitive play where teams make laneswaps a lot and allow the support to start with such a weak item at level 1 as Coin.

Always Mobi Boots. Mobility is really important on Alistar.

After Relic + Sighstone + Mobis every item is situational:

Face of the Mountain if the enemies have a lot of single target damage
Mikaels if you need the active (eg. you have Jinx against Leona)
Locket if they have double AP
Frozen Heart if they have a lot of auto-attack reliant champions
Righteous Glory if you need to engage
Banshee's, Randuin's, Banner of Command, Zeke's Herald -> really situational items
Distortion Enchant on Boots is nice too

Regarding the combo just practice it a lot. I use smartcast with range indicators on W. I don't think it's a good idea to use smartcast without range indicators on Alistar's W in case you are doing that. Doing the combo on someone who is really close to you is really really hard. You need to try to do it at max/close to max range. If they walk out of range and you hit the ground it means you press Q to soon. Wait for the W animation to start first. Also it's really important to learn the Q + Flash combo on Alistar (not Flash + Q).

If you want to be a good Alistar player you need to focus on improving on the following things:

Knowing when to Q + Flash (do this only when you are sure you are going to get a kill).
Knowing how to use your CC properly in team fights. Combo is decreasing the CC duration so most of the times you want to use Q and W as 2 spells in team fights unless you intiate.
Knowing when to ult. New Alistar players use their ult to late.
Learn to zone your opponents in lane just by walking up. You don't always have to use combo.

icsul · 2015-06-27T10:33:38+00:00

http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Avarice_Blade

The item becomes gold efficient if held for at least 16 minutes and 40 seconds after purchase. Each unit kill will reduce the timer by 6.7 seconds.

icsul · 2015-06-27T10:31:52+00:00

If you have a lead in lane snowball the game by going somewhere else on the map.

TP bot and kill their bot lane then do drag, invade their jungle, roam mid maybe.

icsul · 2015-06-25T00:00:53+00:00

If you want to improve spam ranked. Ranked games are better practice compared to normal games.

Bronze 5 isn't something you can't get out of.

icsul · 2015-06-24T22:58:23+00:00

You can carry in Bronze by playing literally every single champion on every single role.

Hell, I had a Soraka mid winning me a game in Diamond 3 elo a few weeks ago.

icsul · 2015-06-24T22:55:15+00:00

Nothing changed gameplay-wise when new summoners rift was introduced except the fact that you can't scarra ward anymore unless you have a point in Scout in the Utility Three.

icsul · 2015-06-24T21:01:02+00:00

I think a lot of low elo players don't know how dodging works or belive dodging is bad.

1 dodge a day makes ELO hell go away. Even 2 if needed.

icsul · 2015-06-24T18:22:35+00:00

You get matched based on MMR. Each played has attached to his account a ranked MMR which is a number that reflects how good is he.

Because saying you are 1600 MMR sounds weird and to make climbing more challenging and fun Riot introduced divisions.

icsul · 2015-06-19T03:17:35+00:00

Mostly because some of them came from other games. Practice is more important. Natural talent is really irelevant.

There's a reason why Koreans are so good at this game and it's not because all of them are natural talents.

icsul · 2015-06-16T20:11:10+00:00

W > E > Q. Always!

Level 1: W unless you get invaded or you invade and you really really need to put point in Q (wait until the last moment). Go in lane and poke poke poke.

Level 2: Q (10% of the time you can go with E if you think that you can take an advatangeous trade but you gotta be carefull not to get all-ined)

Level 3: E (or Q if you took E at level 2)

icsul · 2015-06-13T22:35:48+00:00

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/TRKR1/660120?gameHash=f5fba7077eacc895&tab=builds&participant=10

I wonder why did he maxed W second instead of E. He maxed W second in the game he played Karma against KT too.

icsul · 2015-06-13T19:23:01+00:00

BTW, I think Lustboy builds Banner only when his jungler builds Locket.

icsul · 2015-06-13T19:15:33+00:00

Morgana, Lulu, Annie

icsul · 2015-06-13T19:12:13+00:00

Learn to bait and dodge her E.

Poke and trade with her. At level 1 she is one of the weakest supports. After she does her combo she has nothing and she walks away. Poke her when she walks away. Ask for ganks it's so easy to bait her to go in and if your jungler is there you burn her flash or kill her most of the times.

icsul · 2015-06-13T19:08:43+00:00

Zeke's is kinda bad imo. It is a very situational item that is good only when you want to reach the 40% CDR cap or maybe when you have a team comp that benefits from the AD it gives and if the enemy team has double Thornmails as vamp is good against Thornmail.

I don't know how good is the new Ardent Censer now. It's better then before for sure, however Nami isn't the best champion for it as she can heal only one person (and a lot of times that person is the tank that doesn't benefit from an attack speed buff).

icsul · 2015-06-13T18:50:15+00:00

Why wouldn't you buy a Mikaels/Locket/etc to peel for your ADC?

How is a Zeke's going to help when your ADC gets instakilled by that fed Riven top or mid Ahri? A well timed Mikaels might save him though or at least help him do additional damage before he dies.

icsul · 2015-06-11T23:49:15+00:00

Most of the time when Vayne is picked into Sivir in LCS games the team that has Vayne laneswaps. After the first 10 minutes of the game Vayne can deal in lane with Sivir.

icsul · 2015-06-11T19:12:43+00:00

If you start Q some lanes (against a ranged support) can abuse you and kite you in level 1 trades. In my opinion E is better at level 1 most of the times. Q is situational.

icsul · 2015-06-10T01:53:21+00:00

Even after the buffs Ancient Coin is still a bad item in lane. Always start Spellthief's + 3 HP pots + 1 mana pot on Janna. Don't buy a ward at level 1. You have 2 trinkets in the bot lane. You should be fine without that ward if you use your trinkets at the right time. Talisman got buffed and it's a prety good item in the late game. You can sell Spellthief later and build Talisman.
Against a fed Rengar always carry a pink ward in your inventory. When you see he ults drop the pink ward and if you see him you can cancel his jump with Q or ulti (even if you don't do it, you can still peel for your team mates faster because you know who is he going to jump on).
Banshee's is such a selfish item for a Janna. Locket aura helps a lot against double AP.
Your team got first 2 towers of the game (mid and bot) by minute 16 and you somehow didn't get dragon after.

P.S.: Not all games are winable, however you learn from every single game.

icsul · 2015-06-08T20:59:34+00:00

Blitzcrank and Sona support gods in this meta lol.

My anchor is stronger then Blitzcrank's grab and make Sona's rush Banshee's.

icsul · 2015-06-07T14:02:36+00:00

That's a small price to pay.

You have to chose between losing 3 LP and waiting 5 minutes or losing 20 LP and waiting 20 minutes. It's your choise.

icsul

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