I think Doinb has excellent game knowledge and game-sense, which allows him to be world class. Hai was also a world class mid-laner in the sense that he could use shotcalling to win games at an international level, but no one would call him a conventional mid-laner. Sometimes being smart and developing a new way to play a game that is highly effective is better than being conventionally "good."
How many LPL games have you watched this split?
Yes, this also applies to Katarina, although its worth mentioning that conqueror is also pushing her beyond the limit at the moment because its a terribly designed rune. Difference is at least Riot stuck to their guns and kept the Kat rework when it made her healthier instead of reverting it like Leblanc.
Reworked LeBlanc was Akali before Akali...
The Galio buff is completely mental, I don't understand how that shit makes it into the game
seems like every single league went down in quality with going online. aside from NA which somehow looks better lol
I don't see any difference in LPL tbf
Love your username... I played Venge a lot when I used to play Dota.
Best character I've ever played in a MOBA. Wish she could be ported to League somehow lol
Congratulations, you have found your true mmr
idk they seem super coinflip aside from the top 3
Same as always
Yea I truly enjoy when their Fizz gets fed and he just presses Q + W on me and do 90% of my health
Not very fed if he only does 90%!
You shouldn't care what the average player "feels" is good (which is where pickrate and banrate comes from).
And Kassadin is picked a lot more often in pro play. Almost like he's really strong...
Yeah I don't know why anyone would take a ranged mage now
This has been the case for aeons already. Assassins just keep getting buffed directly or indirectly and nothing is done about it. If you play safe, they roam and come back with a double kill and the lane is effectively over. If you play aggressive, the odds are stacked in their favor and good fucking luck trying to survive a gank as an immobile squishy mage. If you go for plates when they roam, they can simply wait in the bushes or beside them and make passionate non-consensual butt love with you while you're trying to take plates or you get destroyed in a second by assassin junglers just the same. And it they actually go bot, you better ping a billion times and write in all caps begging your bot lane to hug their turret because sometimes not even that is gonna save them, so you proceed to get flame nonstop that you didn't follow Katarina as Orianna lmao.
I like playing mages because I'm not a meta slave and I choose my characters based on their looks, playstyle and how cool I think they are since I like witches and that kind of stuff a lot. So here I am playing Lissandra while getting skullfucked by Diana and her flock not being able to outpush them, outrade them, follow their roams or take them down without jungle help. But hey, at least she looks cool when she dies and turns into a statue that rapidly disintegrates and her B with the Coven skin makes some cool looking flowers on the ground and stuff, so there's that. Then I alt tab to reddit to read the hourly "mages are so Op omg" thread made by a Darius flair because Ryze dared approach 46% win rate and pros can make Syndra work well in competitive. So by the time you're finished reading them talking about how broken Zhonya's is because you can activate it and aggressively T-pose beside Katarina while she patiently waits for it to run out while flashing her mastery 7 with no cooldown before instakilling you and flaming you in /all, the grey screen is probably about to end and you're already back to business!
The Zhonyas is broken circlejerk is by far the worst. The item is very situational and only really worth building against AD assassins but somehow people act like it's some 100% necessary buy every game.
MF has actually been largely dropped from pro play in favor of Varus/Kalista. A lot of teams are currently even prioritizing Varus over Senna, which says a lot about his perceived strength.
Or what about items? The strongest item in the game is technically not even balanced around it's stats but its active. The rest are stat-checky and uninteresting. Ludens is to mages what old Morello was. A perfect combination of stats leading to little deviation.
Ludens sucks though, GLP is better on most champions
Sylas and Rumble
not mages
You confuse a class of champion with the Meta-position. A mage can be meele, ranged, with CC or without. But its still a mage who's gotta kill you with spells. ADCs cant really be as diverse as other classes, they are bound to be ranged, squishy and bad early. Its the class we love to play. It plays really differently to anything else league has to offer. And its been part of the game forever.
I do occasionally play other roles/classes but nothing satisfies me as much as playing a marksman.
There are no melee mages lol
If every play is coinflip and their mostly all successful are they really coinflip to begin with?
People don't understand that plays that are coinflips in a vacuum aren't coinflips when you're better. Teams like IG and FPX can routinely outplay even 40-60 situations just based on skill difference.
Meanwhile in the old days, KR teams sometimes wouldn't even go for 60-40 because it wasn't safe enough.
We already had this conversation last year with actual people who know what they are talking about (LS/Nemesis/etc)
Lol and what about the other countless anlysts/players who had high praise for DoinB? They don't make it into your appeal to authority? How convenient.
He is really not anything special as an individual player.
He definitely is. Despite what your idol LS says, there's more to LoL than how fast someone moves their mouse. DoinB has consistently elevated the teams he's joined and they never do as well before/after him. There's literally half a decade of evidence of him doing this. Even this exact FPX team with a different mid was an 8th place team, then DoinB joins and they win LPL and worlds. Not special btw.
To be fair Tian also joined, but he's the worst player on the team according to LS so that doesn't matter anyways.
But what im saying is there are so many more options in all the other roles when a huge majority of adc's are designed to scale and all of them are useless it makes the champ pool tiny
You don't have to play marksmen...
his game understanding is unmatched
Outside of those insane hard ints in game 1 at least
Easiest? ADC lol