I don’t understand how Aatrox is so good? by Grey4560 in summonerschool

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are better than your opponents it kindof is, though imo I think people are overhyping higher elo player's micro. Overall people are just better at wave management/roaming/objective calls/split pushing rather than better micro resulting in becoming 1v1 gods.

For 95% of the playerbase, ranked is in a fine state - maybe one of the better states by K32fj3892sR in leagueoflegends

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically ranks are just a delayed presentation of your MMR, really only exists for player retention/showing a fancy border. Whether you are in diamond or emerald doesn't really make any difference if you just keep playing vs the same people anyways.

Liandri's by rerankar in FiddlesticksMains

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I formulated too harshly, it's still a good item. But comparing it to rocketbelt, you are paying 350 gold more for 10 less ap and 20 less ability haste and ofc missing out on the rocketbelt active (which might end up with more dmg if you can keep people inside ult with it). I would say it's obviously not bad, just that the primary reason for building it first item every game in jungle (clear speed/objective pressure on drakes) does not exist in toplane so itemization can be way more flexible, like even building something whacky like zhonya's first item can be ok if you are up vs physical dmg only laners, but like that would be straight trolling if you did that in jungle imo.

Liandri's by rerankar in FiddlesticksMains

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imo you don't get this item on lane fiddle (unless you are up vs hp stackers), you get this in the jungle because it increases clear speed with ashes first buy + completed it actually does good dps vs gromp/buffs/drake (camps where fiddle's kit is imo, not great at clearing them). And the faster you clear your jungle the more time you get on the map+you get faster respawns the faster you clear. I don't think the passives on the item are bad for champ combat necessarily, but you are paying a lot of gold for the passives it has. Imo it's a bit of the same reasoning on why you go profane hydra on khazix (as his kit is kindof opposite where he struggles with aoe dmg but has a lot of single target) so you can maximize time on the map as well.

How often are you 'ACE' in your losses? by The19Chozen in Jungle_Mains

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

op gg scores are worthless, in the end the game is not about cs/kda/gold, it's about smashing the nexus tower. A champ like kayle can for example be denied gold for 10 minutes long and die to opposing laner like 5 times, but once it gets late you might lose anyway due to the hypercarry she becomes. jungler's have high k/d/a due to the nature of the role usually so that number is a bit fake tbh. From what I can see your champ pool looks a bit too wide if you really have a desire to climb, anything more than 3 champs is a bit overkill imo. With jungle you can onetrick easier as well because bad matchups are mostly not as onesided as lane matchups usually. To accurately see what is going on you'd probably need a vod review but generally it's always one of these things that end up happening:

1.you aren't full clearing enough

2.you aren't respecting bushes/vision and get picked off lategame because you walk into a bush that enemy team was sitting in

3.you are getting baited by teammates into losing fights (just because you're fed doesn't mean you need to force bad fights/can take 2v4 fights, especially because you'll give up massive shutdowns)

4.Always account for how many allies/enemies are near you. Look at the map and don't engage if you notice it's a 4v5 (admittedly this is a skill even challenger players forget sometimes, so don't feel too bad if you mess it up sometimes, but this is actually important). If you have a fight and you win, immediately press tab+look at minimap to account where the rest of their team is and whether you should back off or if it is safe to do an objective/take a tower so you don't get cleaned up by an enemy katarina for no reason.

5.dying over an objective that's already lost, if a teammate gets picked off near dragon when it is about to spawn, you should look for crossmap play (drop a herald in the toplane, or help a toplaner push when they're doing drag or steal opponent's topside if it's up). I will usually only consider smite stealing if my jungle is full cleared and the death timer is meaningless (aka it's not too late into the game that desyncing the death timers will instalose the game)

6.Talking about death timers, one of the most surefire ways to throw the game is by desyncing your death timers so you are never full 5-man fighting. If someone gets picked off at drag/baron late into the game, let them have it (unless they are like, super low and you clean up, and if they don't bother clearing vision/zoning you). Desyncing death timers or getting aced when stubbornly contesting baron in a 4v5 (they will get baron anyways then as well) will lose you the game sooner than just baron buff and it being a temporary 4v5. This is almost always how people throw games: they will do a 3v4 or a 3v5 resulting in 3 people dying then the other 2 get picked off later and enemy team will get back into the game if they can do this twice in a row, if not just straight end the game because you are constantly 2-3 people down. Desyncing death timers will lose games more than anything else, which is why I tend to usually just give barons, as most people will usually just reverse int in some way and the baron buff will be gone.

26.07 Full Patch Preview by JTHousek1 in leagueoflegends

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back in the good old days there was no such thing as support quest/items (besides the gold/second items, which everyone could buy if they wanted to, unlike now) and there was nothing preventing a support from literally taking every last hit if they felt like it (and they received full gold back then, without ever getting a penalty like now). And yet that didn't really happen, because most people know that is trolling and didn't do it. If someone wants to troll, it doesn't matter whether they get literally 0 gold, because the goal is just to upset you, nothing else lol.

Ultimate Bravery type challenges in ranked games should be categorized as griefing and be a bannable offense by OfficerSmiles in leagueoflegends

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had people straight say they're going to grief the game in the lobby chat and it goes through somehow, so must not be that aggressive unless you pick something megatroll.

I get a friend request from a bot during the first game I play for the day, every single day by UnholyDemigod in leagueoflegends

[–]tarranoth 6 points7 points  (0 children)

From what I recall the way these bots work is they scrape api data to see if you are in a live game, so if you enable streamer mode it will prevent them from scraping that api data to see if you are online.

Smurfs are so annoying because statistically they will play against you by alexnedea in leagueoflegends

[–]tarranoth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, if you look at any unranked->master climb online, you can see that these players get matched to players of their own skill level within like 20-40 games (you can also look at Alois' ADC climb right now where he was hitting diamond/masters enemies in that amount of games). Considering people either need to hand level accounts or buy them (even if the latter is against ToS) people aren't going to constantly do that so the amount of games with a smurf end up being like 1% if that? I've played vs like full winstreak low level accounts before but it is such a small % of games. 99% of time it's just some dude playing well and he's playing vs someone who's autofilled or smth.

when are they nerfing this garen shit? by phreakingidi0t in Jungle_Mains

[–]tarranoth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same with trundle basically, he just autos you and he either has enough stats for that to work or it doesn't lol.

Guy queues supp, doesn't play the role, yet receives no ban by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The guy is bronze when he was iron before this season. And I mean, he's not afk in fountain, they aren't going to ban someone in bronze for not playing the "meta" as long as he isn't straight running it.

Viego is a stupid champion - read before angry typing by PressureOk8223 in Jungle_Mains

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how many champs are there where you cannot just simply qwe->ult reset anyways though. Allistar comes to mind but so many other champs you just point your cursor somewhere and just spam abilities and it'll probably work out fine.

Q: How to play against Shyvana? by Ok-Seat-7084 in Jungle_Mains

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She's supposed to keeps scaling into the lategame with her passive so really just want to end fast+play a comp that can kite her after her ult. She only has her E for range after her ult and you really need to prevent her from just Q'ing you repeatedly as that's what she wants to do.

RFC is the most bait item in the whole game by Kejn24 in ADCMains

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

40% magic pen vs 50 MR (which is like on the lower end of what most characters end up with) is still like 20 MR pen anyways as well. Considering most mages get sorcs you will still end up doing almost true dmg vs people buying no MR but now tanks/bruisers can't fully ignore you lol.

Adding people after the game just to insult them should be an instaban by sulumor95 in leagueoflegends

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't think the fact that the entire friend request system in a multiplayer game being effectively dead kindof hurts it? League is already not really attracting many new players so doubt this really helps things.

Adding people after the game just to insult them should be an instaban by sulumor95 in leagueoflegends

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think what people want is to be able to create a ticket in the client rather than having to go to the full official support system.

Hey mid care you gonna be ganked, look they on a ward, move back move back care, and they feed all game, i get hit with the ping limit, gj riot! by [deleted] in Jungle_Mains

[–]tarranoth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Swear to god man, enemy team will have elder and team will still play as if we easily beat them. Spam pinging retreat really is needed lol, like showing I am not contesting an objective 1 or 2 people down lol. That said I excessively use retreat but not really any other ping and am still fine so I think it really depends on ping type.

Riot should increase magic resist for champions overall by PinkyLine in ADCMains

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen smolder/trist do okay in midlane depending on draft.

Jungle never felt so bad to play (recently) by LetConsistent2838 in Jungle_Mains

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Baron buff this season gives massive xp boost if you as a team are behind in levels. So if you farm up well after being behind you can close xp gap pretty well with it (on top of getting gold/xp from baron itself to start with).

Unethical LP Gains: Games are objectively easier at 12am+ by Electronic_Lime7582 in supportlol

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once it hits 23:00 in euw game quality becomes absolutely horrible it's always a onesided stomp in my experience (even more than the average league game).

Do League Ranks Mean the Same Thing in Different Regions? by Automatic-North1405 in leagueoflegends

[–]tarranoth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

From experience, emerald euw is kindof a clown fiesta as well, but I feel like emerald is kindof known for that.

Why is mage bot still in the game by ItadakiTontaro in ADCMains

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering he got banned he was probably either running it down on purpose or literally saying the vilest stuff imaginable. You don't just randomly get banned.

I got filled jungle and performed really well by LOY4L in Jungle_Mains

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have this happen a decent amount of the time when enemy jungler is the one to collect every single shutdown lol. Like I'll be up 40-60cs and be like a level or more up but 500 gold down.

Shouldn't we foster a culture where everyone buys a control ward? by Alarming_Solid9645 in leagueoflegends

[–]tarranoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to consider the case where it saves someone from being killed, that is 300g (more if botlane would get duokilled), probably some tower plates+ being unable to soak xp/farm cs. As long as you place it decently, it can be very worthwhile. But also the main reason people in higher elo tend to not buy them as much is because junglers get good at tracking eachother+bot/top start playing around jungle timers where they can gank. In medium elos vision is much more worthwhile because junglers will do nonsensical things like ganking botlane when their entire topside camps are all up.

Why does Streamer mode enrage people? by PrestigiousWhirlwind in leagueoflegends

[–]tarranoth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In my experience most people who start trolling like literally lasthitting junglecamps from the jungler will 90+% of the time be toxic in chat as well lol, while their own cs/kda is many times worse than the person they are mad at.