HumbleBrag Thread

[Gustaran]

I've joined the club!

GZ! Now onwards to Diamond!

[pocketbeetle]

Congrats Jowy!

I watched the start of that game, the invade pretty much won it, even without getting a kill.
Didn't help that the Fizz and Jarvan were weak however (shouldn't really lose Fizz vs Kha mid).
Your bot was stronger, but was balanced out by their Rumble being much better.
I'm beginning to dislike supporting Ezreal as ADC, always feels weak.

[Jowy]

I'm beginning to dislike supporting Ezreal as ADC, always feels weak.

It's a good excuse to play Soraka

[pocketbeetle]

Lucian patch seems to have brought out an inordinate amount of trolls on EUW, just lost 3 games in a row of afk Diamond Vs, a troll duo (don't tend to see many of those) and a Rammus top lane after a Lee Sin changed his mind and decided he'd rather jungle than lane, and that's not including the Shaco mid game I won earlier.

But moaning aside, the occasional good or fun game makes up for it.
How often, when the endgame post match dissection and calls for reports on the feeders occur, do you hear the enemy jungler blame the opposition support for his failures?

I present to you, the Incredible Counter-ganking Janna!

Full story: the Twitch did a nice level 3 submarine all-in on Vayne, didn't kill her, but sent her back to base.
I wandered to drag to ward, saw the Malphite chasing our low health Jarvan and Amumu who had just tower dived Swain, couple of flashes later, double buffs for meeee! xD

Fun stuff, anyway, rest of the game was a stomp. Twitch nerf maybe justified, he's still strong in lane.

Lucian seems to be about "right", so credit to Riot for releasing him around on par.
Only possible criticism is his ult cd, at level 3 it's 50s without cdr, throw a bit in and you're looking at a 30s(ish) ult, which for the dmg and maneuverability provided is maybe a little too strong.

[Sullla]

Lucian seems to be about "right", so credit to Riot for releasing him around on par.

If a champion feels "right" on the day of release when no one knows how to play him, then he's almost certainly overpowered. I still remember the consensus in General Discussions that Elise, Zed, etc. were weak on release. Lucian will likely start to get nerfed in about six weeks after the pros demonstrate what can be done.

[BaII]

I'm beginning to dislike supporting Ezreal as ADC, always feels weak.

Probably has smh to do with how people are generally building ezreal, and turning him into more supportish ADC with decent poke.

[pocketbeetle]

How to humiliate Teemo mid in three easy steps.

[Voldymort]

it has been too long since i got this dmg rating :D


also....Riot please make the 7th item slot for those dire situations!!!:D

[Voldymort]

Corki top ftw! (thanks Sullla!)

[pocketbeetle]

Now do it on EU West :P

Challenge accepted!

Decided to learn a new lane/champ, so went with top and Nasus (plus it doesnt help that Fizz is virtually permaban nowadays).
I've always enjoyed playing Nasus, but never properly understood how to deal with the various matchups and top lane in general.
Turns out the two key points are creep mechanics and not dying (shocking I know). Whereas in mid or bot dying twice is not good but still salvageable, dying twice in top lane virtually decides the lane.

Anyway, only took me two promo attempts this time around, couple of interesting games during that time:

This one looked pretty grim from the loading screen.
Yes their Udyr is Silver, but with his low number of games could easily mean he's a smurf/ a lot better than that.

Laning started off terribly, with bot giving away kills to Twitch and any kills they got were going on Blitz.
Our mid Xin fed horribly and lost his turret very quickly despite my Nasus jungle spending a lot of time around that lane.
Shyvana held top nicely, didn't die but still roamed a little too much trying to help Xin and so fell behind in farm/lost turret first.

Fortunately a few dragon fights went well, Blitz got some good hooks off, and then we traded dragon for baron and steamrolled from there.
Our pushing power/ dps output on turrets was crazy with Xin/Shy/Nasus/Ashe, and with Wither and some dives on Twitch they just couldn't stop us.


The deciding promo game also featured a rather divergent viewpoint on team composition.

If you look at our team comp, Shy jungle, Nidalee mid Nasus top, total cc between three champs is effectively 1 (Wither).
Whereas they have Jarvan ult into Morgana ult into Lissandra ult into Zyra ult into Varus ult... I could go on.
Fortunately they never properly leveraged it, Shyvana played smart and focussed on counterjungling Jarvan rather than trying to gank, and mid/lategame we stuck to picks and pushing turrets over rather than team fights, keeping them off balance and under pressure.
I think our top and mid outer turrets were still standing when the game ended, and bot would have been standing if the Janna hadn't been so derpy (afk died a couple of times while alt-tabbed out mid-lane, yes rly).

Random fact of the day: Zac cannot use Smite while in his passive form, as one enemy found out today when I smote him with my Siphoning Strike rather than hitting Baron with it.