Pretty much everyone here is plat... The nature of the game causes people with very poor mechanics (primarily CS'ing, smiting, animation canceling, dodging skill shots), allows them to very quickly climb (with very good stats) up until where the Macro game becomes a lot more important (primary diamond, but starting in plat). This is what i meant with: [quote] In fact, i would say that part of the reason we "don't" see a lot of scripters is simple because
[quote] The bottom line is that it isn't hard to detect somebody who is consistently doing something faster than is humanly possible if you put effort into it. [/quote] That's sort of an undecidable problem for Turing machines. Which means that you have to design a bunch of heuristics that check for known-behavior. Which ends up becoming an Arms Race. On one side, you have the scripters who are coming up with newer, subtler ways of doing (such as includ
Oh i actually took a look at the data. It's looks like it is an extremely sparse dataset that isn't anywhere close to exhaustive. It also stop collecting data on January 2014, so it's not going to catch any of the current scripters.
[quote] ... I'd just chalk it up as either smurf god skills or on a roll. [/quote] This is my overall sentiment as well. There are some stuff that only bots can do though (eg, perfect animation canceling with Cass Q, infinite Cass/Graves passive). Even then i don't think i'd "report". [quote] And no... i am a hacker is also incorre
i'm pretty sure that the "wait time" is amortized. Challenger players will always have their "calculated wait time" as 1:30 or whatever but that is almost never the case. Also, this is mostly @Thunder but if any one else has the LogitechLED crashes... Rather than deleting the stupid .dll every single patch, apparently if you change C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\Config and add/change the line: [General] Logit
It's far worse than that actually. About a year ago, i was playing with my partner (who is Teemo-top-only in SR. We generally only play dominion bots). When we first played SR, i played on a level 5 smurf, and that was fine... However, once they were higher leveled (low 20s or so), we tried playing some SR again. i played on my main, at the time. It was madness. Diamonds everywhere. One of the most silly games, we had a triple-queue Diamond I amumu Korean smurf along
#Skarner: i mean we might have a difference of opinion but... Way back in Season 1, early Season 2 i played Skarner a ton (at least 100 games, nearly as much as Anivia). The only reason i stopped was because of a personal fight with a friend; not because of the nerfs. When the rework happened, i was pretty excited, and honestly it is a lot better when you're playing him. Before he was a one-button champion, with a long ramp-up. His newer kit has a lot more interaction with abiliti
Skarner was pretty OP for about 2 weeks after the rework, then they demolished his numbers again. But the rework was a success in that he's a lot more fun than he used to be, that is for sure, and his kit is enjoyable. [quote] If you take away the one thing that junglers get, you have to give them something HUGE in return. [/quote] My understanding is that the new jungle items are significantly more slot efficient than the current versions. And laners
[quote] He who creates isn't necessarily that great at playing. I know exactly who he is, but the only time I see junglers run games is when fools don't ward or a plat+ is smurfing the bronzies. [/quote] Yeah, he's actually only a Silver level player. But when it's, you know, his job, and has access to hundreds of competitive-level games a year, i doubt he is balancing off of his own player experiences. He is almost certainly using a mixture of sk
[quote] I wouldn't say they run games though, he probably doesn't understand map awareness and warding... [/quote] That quote was from Morello. The Lead Game Designer who has been around from day 1. You don't have to agree with him on everything, but he probably has a firm understanding of the concepts of map awareness and warding. [quote] To put it bluntly, Morello has never had a clue when it comes to jungling, which is why its always bee
Since Riot removed clamping it is much easier to climb (up until Diamond V) due to the nature of win streaks and how they affect promotions versus the natures of lose streaks and how being demoted works. Win streaks generally "overpower" lose streaks, since it requires multiple consecutive losses when you are already at 0 LP in order to demote. Sure, it does take going 3-1 in the short term to actually promote, but you can also occasionally skip ranked tiers, and when you fail a promo
you can still have a dumb support, and the enemy can have a good ADC if you're top lane... it's not as if the other lanes magically cease to exist. And junglers matter a lot more for toplane than botlane, and you absolutely can lose lane due to a bad jungler who feeds double buffs level 3. For a bad support/good ADC, the "burden" on you is just shifted from laning phase and into teamfights. If you have a bad support versus a great ADC, and you're playing botlane, your res
i know you had a shitty day, pacov, and there's no doubt going to be a post so i'm gonna preface it here: i wasn't really trying to "run my mouth" and trash talk you there at that last game while you were stepping away. i know that you had had a few shitty games, and you had said the game before that you even wanted to "relax" in a Solo Lane. And that game wasn't particularily relaxing for you. With the picks, you were really worried about leaving both Lucian/Tristana
No, everyone gets the buff. Thanks for getting the numbers, i was trying to find them but couldnt... Anyway, the first one is kind of nice in laning phase (it's a health pot and a 1.5 mana pots every base assuming you base ~3 minutes), but with how popular manaless champs are... But since the new regen items are % multipliers now, if you're buying a Chalice or a Spirit Stone that can actually be decent. But like i said, mostly only good on mages mid and mana hungry jun
you have to kill dragon 5 times before you get a significant buff out of it (and even on live, +5000 gold is huge). Which means you don't get it until 40 minutes. Then it's nearly a permanent baron buff... The first two buffs aren't even really useful for anyone other than mages midlane or mana-hungry junglers. Supports, i guess. Remember that HP5/MP5 items are now a % mulitplier with your current base MP5 + Dragon buffs. So in order to get much out of the first two buffs
[quote] Now that I think of it... its actually pretty difficult to classify supports like this because it really depends on overall team composition and what you need at the time. Does my team need a support that can disengage or force an engagement? Do we need a support that can get to the back row? [/quote] Keeping in mind, again, my conclusion did not have much support statistical evidence... One of the premises for my conclusion was that you have only a
i think that there is a bit of miscommunication in exactly what is happening here and why those videos don't really mean much (for us - maybe they mean a lot to you because it allows you to gain some insight on your play): i don't think anyone here is trying to convince you that you shouldn't play Shaco ever . We are all saying: You won't see the results that you could more easily obtain on another, more conventional support for a wide variety of reaso
[quote]MASTER TIER[/quote] "One trick ponies" often have thousands of games just this season. Thousands! On one champ! Annie Bot (Master - Annie): 2200 games on Annie just in the past 11 months. Mister Oink (currently Diamond II, formerly Master - AP Sejani mid): 1050 games on Sejani this season. Lily Lancer (Master, Shaco support): 950 of shaco this season on just ONE of his FIVE accounts Now, part of playing the game is having fun. i th
TBH, that's actually not really the situation - or maybe it was one of the situations and there were actual multiple times pacov split top against a massive wave. The actual situation (in which Rammus called you out - after already asking you to group a few times) was this: 1. The enemy had just gotten dragon, not your team 2. Your team was fresh from base, the enemy was not, having just tanked baron and presumably wanting to shop. 3. You walk top, to get
yeah, this was the only way to ever de-power early game gankers. 3 minute double buff ganks are impossible. On the other hand, level 2 duelists are going to be 100% critical. "Anyone" can't jungle because if you do a "late" invade @ 1:50 or somethin, you can ward the buff then wait at the other buff. Whatever buff they do end up going to, you kill them.
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