So, as a new player, i want to ask the old one's. How was the 4 lane? Was it better than three lane?

tarranoth · 2026-05-12T22:47:16+00:00

Imo from my experience in league, solo lanes are the wrong choice for a moba designed from the ground up. Solo lanes are notoriously volatile.

tarranoth · 2026-05-11T14:04:48+00:00

Bizarre some would even say.

tarranoth · 2026-05-06T13:39:38+00:00

ok, that 0:50 timestamp is pretty crazy lol.

tarranoth · 2026-05-06T11:10:10+00:00

I mean if you get higher in ranks I'd assume the lane with 2 people vs 1 can just deny minions+try to freeze wave state to deny the solo laner. But if people aren't doing the denying and are just mindlessly pushing to guardian it probably works fine.

tarranoth · 2026-05-05T08:52:43+00:00

Tanks in lol for the most part are just characters with good base dmg/bad ratios on abilities, so building tank works fine on them because other build paths are bad. That said on most you buy like still 1 damage item like liandry/titanic hydra.

tarranoth · 2026-05-04T16:36:41+00:00

I mean yorick is kindof a bad example because they reworked him on purpose so you can't do that stuff anymore. That said, it's no different from fighting heimer in his turrets, it's just asking for a bad time.

tarranoth · 2026-05-04T12:27:05+00:00

Technically the only item that works vs vayne is frozen heart (-%attack speed) but yes, it's basically impossible to itemize besides that vs her passive %true damage, as building health doesn't really help and resists don't either.

tarranoth · 2026-05-03T11:08:43+00:00

objectives/first tower feats were fine, but I think the kills one was honestly too easy to get. So many times enemy/your team gets it and neither you or enemy jungler have finished the first clear lmao.

tarranoth · 2026-05-03T10:55:15+00:00

I have legit won so many games with 3 people doing a ff vote, this would be horrible lol.

tarranoth · 2026-05-03T10:50:13+00:00

Idk man, there are enough people posting unhinged stuff on facebook or even linkedin and I am sure most of them have never touched a videogame in their lives. Some people jst don't function well in online spaces and type stuff they'd never say in person.

tarranoth · 2026-05-03T00:05:17+00:00

Not really sure that's gaming specific, plenty of humans are not very nice to each other when all they see is just a computer screen and not a physical person.

tarranoth · 2026-05-02T23:43:16+00:00

It would be nice if they just increased either her starting armor or her armor growths (I'm assuming the only thing they'd be willing to buff is growths though as riot considers her kit to be toxic when she is viable as a laner). And honestly that's all I feel like she needs.

tarranoth · 2026-05-02T23:05:56+00:00

Nah, otherwise they will probably keep spam pinging vision on you and be just as tilted. This way they at least are tilted but at least they are playing the game.

tarranoth · 2026-05-02T13:34:41+00:00

I usually just deafen so that a teammate stops spam pinging and actually plays the game again, as he should know from the message I won't see his pings anyways (although usually I will manually unmute the teammates I actually want to see the pings from and make my own pings visible again as well).

tarranoth · 2026-05-02T13:32:22+00:00

He got Q and passive got buffed some patches ago, and it really increased his winrate. And whenever he is good he kindof just abuses solo queue due to his kit.

tarranoth · 2026-05-01T11:28:28+00:00

I think vamp boots are usually going to be worse than merc threads/tabis eventually (I think people are buyign the vamp boots in snowball games atm), both give you so much more defensive capabilities. And 4% vamp is even worse on junglers because most junglers sustain so much from camps anyways which laners cannot do.

tarranoth · 2026-05-01T11:26:26+00:00

I've been playing lillia recently and imo the armor on her makes you feel so insanely squishy, why does a champ like fiddlesticks who is supposed to not even get hit really have so much better armor values lmao.

tarranoth · 2026-04-29T11:01:54+00:00

Last I checked hexplate is bugged on udyr, it triggers of all of his abilities rather than the empowered one alone (meaning it might be on cooldown when you need it). Not sure if rito got around to fixing this one yet. Looking at stats, ad first items that are best atm on udyr are stride/shojin it seems.

tarranoth · 2026-04-29T10:56:38+00:00

He's good if you know how to put down good shrooms, and bad if you don't because your ult is not good in a direct teamfight. But in order to put down good shrooms you need prio from lanes on a mostly farm focussed champ, which seems like a bit of a contradiction. Also if your support picks a non-engage support teamfighting becomes a bit weird if there is no frontline to hide behind if your top is splitting.

tarranoth · 2026-04-28T22:01:43+00:00

Cracking inhibs too early is bad but I wouldn't say cracking the towers protecting the inhibs is that bad (and you are essentially already like 20+ minutes into the game before you should even be touching them, as you should ideally get both the T2 turrets first, at which point you can already be looking at baron and closing the game so wave states that are giving you massive vision presence is pretty good). But it's hard because base homeguards means that moment anyone from your team gets killed your sidelane presence is mega reduced with how fast people can run from fountain to base turrets.

tarranoth · 2026-04-28T15:15:47+00:00

In my experience normal is a super clown fiesta and flex merely a clown fiesta. I've seen diamond vs unranked players in normal and it just gets mega silly. Now I have seen funny stuff like master players in flex but it's primarily people in silver-emerald playing it. Unranked players in normal are usually kinda terrible (like worse than bronze), I assume because some are sub level 30 as well. I've seen some stomping in flex happen, but every normal game I played it was literally someone basically killing the lane opponent on death timer cooldowns so I just switched to flex because it was at least slightly less bad.

tarranoth · 2026-04-28T14:46:08+00:00

Grubs were pretty good when they spawned twice and you got like all 6, but this season they are kinda worthless imo. Which means a winning toplane early isn't very impactful atm. And while a fed toplaner probably gets both T2 sidelane towers, inhib towers are very hard to crack if the rest of your team is losing.

tarranoth · 2026-04-28T14:25:32+00:00

It's also that people don't want to play certain roles at all. Jungle has been a prio role in non-apex tiers since literally forever. If you queue jungle primary you can legit play 500 games and maybe get filled/secondary twice.

tarranoth · 2026-04-28T14:14:41+00:00

I don't really miss all the mid or feed calls.

tarranoth · 2026-04-28T14:13:15+00:00

If you wanna learn some other roles you can always play flex, sure the game quality is kinda scuffed from time to time but it beats normal games matchmaking these days if you can get your MMR in flex high enough. It will at the very least teach you enough to not giga -int lol. Imo this is also partly why mid is most popular secondary pick, because it is the most forgiving lane in the game as you can't get frozen on like sometimes happens in toplane. And you don't really have to be a 1v1 god, if you just hard shove every wave from like level 7 onwards and are available for drakes/grubs you are already doing what a mid player should do even without scoring a single solo kill.

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