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No mention of fixing Annie in the patch preview  But other nerfs were good, TF's and Panth's ultis are no longer global, and Corki finally got nerfed, so might be worthwhile to use MF again.
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Jowy Wrote:No mention of fixing Annie in the patch preview.
Hi.
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Very tiny tweaks. She'll still be strong, but this might take her across the boundary from OP to strong.
Started playing solo queue ranked, and I'm astonished by how bad everyone is...
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v8mark Wrote:Very tiny tweaks. She'll still be strong, but this might take her across the boundary from OP to strong.
Started playing solo queue ranked, and I'm astonished by how bad everyone is...
Good farming, basic map awareness and common-sense puts you far ahead of the average. 
Also, the first few games of ranked are a total disaster zone because people of all true ELO are thrown together. So it's common to see one person totally carry and crush as well as tons of bad mistakes. I think my first ranked game had an Annie who went 26/2/20 or so. Luckily she was on my team.
No games for me for a while - the gaming computer has been boxed up for a move.
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v8mark Wrote:Started playing solo queue ranked, and I'm astonished by how bad everyone is...
So I should practice my Ashe more and roll over people?
I'm pretty happy with where I am in solo queue unranked, in that I don't feel godly overpowered nor helpless, but I still don't have teammates that ward and it drives me crazy. However, I've taken up jungling for our team recently, and re-learning Sona. Dang she can take some finesse to use the Power Chords right.
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Not sure particularly about playing Ashe -- I play Ashe because sheâs by far the champion Iâm most comfortable with, rather than because sheâs particularly good at that level (in fact, sheâs quite ill-suited, because she needs support which she doesnât often get in solo queue).
My comment was more about the general macro standard of play. I guess it comes down to playing mostly premades; I was a bit scared that the emphasis would be far more on mechanical skill and less on teamplay, which to some extent is true. Seeing the likes of PlasmaPuffball and Speaker, both of whom are players I consider far, far better than myself, at âonlyâ 1500-1600 ELO also scared me. But Iâve found, in my first 10 ranked games, that Iâve usually been one of the best players on my team at 1200-1400 ELO, and in two cases in particular carried the team to a win that an âordinaryâ player at that level wouldnât necessarily have carried us to. Sometimes, Iâve even had appalling teammates (in last nightâs game at 1400 ELO, I had a Jax/Nasus duo queue -- 2/10 and 4/13, respectively. I should have guessed after they both screamed at me to ban Mordekaiser in champ select... that was a game we lost, despite my 14 kills!)
Iâve come to the tentative conclusion that our groupâs (ie the RBers who normally play together, like myself, Cull, Dantski, Seyruun, Bruce, Ashain etc) normal âhiddenâ ELO, particularly our premade normal ELO, was actually quite high, and that weâre quite good players after all, in the grand scheme of the LoL playerbase. This is based on nothing scientific, and on only 10 ranked games (which is why itâs a tentative conclusion) but Iâve been surprised both at the speed of my rise to a provisional 1400 ELO, and the fact that Iâm still not yet out of my depth at that ELO.
Just some general thoughts. Now that more of us are starting to play ranked, Iâd be interested to hear those of others
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If it makes you feel any better, I got to 1490 in the first few weeks I played. Probably could have gotten even higher if I hadn't switched to EU for now (since I can't play with you guys anymore). Plasma and Speaker are just really underrated for whatever reason :P
Btw I was wrong about Annie, she was fixed:
"Fixed a bug where certain spells would deal damage twice"
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My solo queue ELO is ~750
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I've been level 26 for over 9 months now
Wait, that's a good thing, right?
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sunrise089 Wrote:My solo queue ELO is ~750
I expect to join you, once I start playing ranked. I feel like I need to get more normal games under my belt before I take the plunge.
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