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Noxious Traps will now 'level up' if Teemo ranks up his R slot while the traps are active
Kennen and Wukong buffs

Fixed a bug in which players could get stuck in a "dead" state until they disconnected and then reconnected

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Added a new in-game option for "Borderless Window Mode" that allows people to alt-tab more efficiently

Because we really need to alt-tab during a game like this.

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Fixed a bug where several spells were triggering on-cast events more than once

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Fixed minor tooltip errors on Kayle, Soraka, Nasus, Sona, and Renekton

They FINALLY updated the tooltip to show Siphoning Strike increases manacost by 5 per level? I call bullshit, Riot would never fix something that's broken!

The rest of the patch, more or less couldn't care about. New guy sounds OP already, though, even more than Wukong is.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 9 2011, 10:29 pm by poison_us.

Can you burst a hero down in that time period? Hell, any TWO heroes usually can't do so. Hence, you add another offensive summoner spell.

Faster spawns, less exp, but the ability to continue jungling rather than ganking, red buff being a movement speed increase rather than a slow.

Why the hell is there a new champ? Didn't wukong come out like 3 weeks ago? Riot sucks at fixing problems.

Oh gawd, it's caught onto me too.

New champion SUCKS. He really doesnt do shit for damage, and if he cant land an ult to get his team to help him do some nice damage to that person, hes one of the most useless champs in the entire game. And we're talking more useless than Tristana, who I still love, but know shes long overdue for a buff.

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Why the hell is there a new champ? Didn't wukong come out like 3 weeks ago? Riot sucks at fixing problems.

I'll let you in on a little secret, because you're apparently not used to anything around here, especially League. They normally come out with one every other week, along with bug fixes and some buffs/nerfs. Generally, this occurs every Tuesday early in the day. Riot fixes about 90% of the bugs they can, but in fixing that 90% they make usually another 20 or 30% new bugs. This percentage is based off of the original number of bugs (say there are 10 bugs, Riot fixes 9, but make 12 or 13). The number of bugs fixed is reset every time they rework a champion, to about the same number of bugs as it was 4 or 5 patches ago. We wouldn't want TOO many bugs in LoL would we?

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Oh gawd, it's caught onto me too.

I hate it how runes and masteries for magic are pretty dominate against energy

Yes, because the champions that use mana totally need great runes and masteries to support them

They've been saying this since before Season 1, and like everything they promise, it has yet to happen. Cleanse was the scapegoat before this, and I doubt flash will ever be removed.

QFT, got pressured into buying him, he cant do SHIT for jungling unless they aren't dumb enough to see me coming from a mile away.

On the other hand, tried AD Alistar. Backdoor all day and if less than two come to stop me they're dead. It's just ridiculous. my combo after trinity force just destroys them.

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Fucking hate terrible teammates that can't accept criticism and MUST blame everything on you. Just take a look at the lobby to see what I mean:



Akali was terrible. Talked shit after getting first blood, got sword of the occult, and got maybe 3 stacks on it. Went 3/7/2. Late game, wouldn't stop complaining in the most fractured English ever that I /ignored her. Seriously, what is "you suck much naob so i cant fight win"? Join Echo on my list of /ignored. Even better yet, SHE NEVER GOT RYLIAS. Now I don't know much about playing Akali, but

Alistar wasn't too bad. Went 2/5/7 simply because our team couldn't deal damage before dying (aka: Akali with maybe 1200 hp at level 14). He made some stupid mistakes, but nothing that should've labelled him a feeder.

Vayne was an actually decent player. She farmed, pushed, and basically did everything you'd expect a competent human being to do. 3/4/7.

Brand was a complete fucking tool. Went 0/1/1 because he wouldn't stop farming. 5 Doran's rings. Every time someone walked up to a creep wave he was at, he'd W-E combo them to get all but maybe 1. Made every fight a 4v5 because he ran. I wanted to find him and torture him because he called us all feeders when we were fighting, rather than helping.

I was shitty, no lie. A Vayne that shoots their LeBlanc away from the tower after I fling her into it and saves her life, then both dies to Kat and lets her get away from the tower (kat ran up from the bottom bush, I exhausted and flung back towards the bush, and she still got close enough to shunpo to Vayne and run to live with 13 hp) doesn't help me much in a lane though. I ran into situations I shouldn't have because I expected SOME damage output from my team. @ expectations.

TL;DR:

All in all, 9-flash game. If that doesn't speak out to Riot that it's fucking imba as shit,

The dreamhacks finals for both games was 10/10 flash. So if that doesn't show you how powerful the spell is, nothing will.

Because it's imba. I'm not saying that it's not powerful. I'm saying it's too powerful. There's a reason why so many people use it; it takes skill out of League. Now, I know you're going to counter with an elitist comment about how League takes no skill anyways, but the little it does require is nearly negated by flash.

Shit's OP bro.

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I'm not, I'm just saying it's stupid not to run flash most of the time.

Poppy - how to beat her? Don't tell me to stop her in lane. This one jungled, then I screamed at my team to get QSS, which nobody did because I assumed it'd cancel her ult, only...it didn't. WHAT DO YOU DO.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 12 2011, 5:47 am by Fisty.

Don't attack her unless you've got her ult on you?
Also, of course it won't get rid of her ult. QSS is a buyable Cleanse or with a slightly longer CD. Neither Cleanse nor QSS do anything other than remove CC debuffs. That means stun, slow, snare, taunt, knockups, knockbacks (yes, if timed correctly they literally cancel the knockback), attack speed slows, blinds, exhaust, etc. are negated. Not a non-debilitating Poppy ult. It does none of these things. If the person she ulted was enough of a tool, he'd instantly run leaving you to effectively fight a 4v5, if that many of your teammates are alive after her ult is over.

Poppy doesn't even need a near-Kayle ult. Her stupid fucking passive (seriously, reduces incoming damage by HALF if she would take more than a % [20 iirc] of her current hp), plus an armor-granting skill, makes her one of the tankiest little shits in the game. On top of that, throw in massive burst and you've got a champion that is massively tanky and still able to deal damage. Though fun fact: she's barely played because other champions like Xin have a built-in blink, slow, knockup, and lifesteal even off of towers, as well as the flash that most people carry.

EDIT: Forgot about your original question. You essentially ignore her and hope that the person she's chasing either can stun or you can kill them in a 4v4, then attack her. Or get true damage, that's an effective counter that not many champs have. If you're seeing Poppy in enough games to worry, then play her yourself.

EDIT2: Oh my. 81% attack speed reduction in that last game. I LOVE MALPHITE + FROZEN HEART + RANDUINS.
Their Xin was crying

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Aug 12 2011, 7:46 pm by poison_us.

Fucking enjoyed that game. Ive never had so much fun on a game of Twisted Treeline (Or as long, 37 minutes ).

Their team was building like morons though. Xin built warmog atmas. Lets see whats wrong with this. NO ATTACK SPEED. NO LIFE STEAL. NO CC. Yea. Their garen built a SotO as his first item, then tank items. Problem with that is. SUNFIRE CAPE. Why? The most your sunfire will ever do is like 80 per second and thats if we're all 3 standing around. Lets see what would have been better hmmm. RANDUINS OMEN. Slows attack speed by 35% for 2 + (0.5 x (armor + MR / 100)) and movement speed by the same. Ho shit I was playing GP. Guess how devastating that would have been had my oranges been used. Or even lets go with a more passive approach. FROZEN HEART. Slows AS by 20% all the time, still would have been quite effective.

People these days just dont understand what -TANK- means anymore. Its not to have a fuck ton of armor, its to provide the rest of the team with the ability to survive, reducing AS and even Damage (Some champs can do that), stun appropriate champions. And most importantly, have a good initiation.

I tell ya

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RANDUINS OMEN. Slows attack speed by 35% for 2 + (0.5 x (armor + MR / 100)) and movement speed by the same. Ho shit I was playing GP. Guess how devastating that would have been had my oranges been used. Or even lets go with a more passive approach. FROZEN HEART. Slows AS by 20% all the time, still would have been quite effective.

Ohai

Basically, there are two Poppy play styles I see. First one will hang back and try and try to an hero one person when a fight starts. In this case, CC if she ults, don't focus her when she is, and try to fake initiate to get her to blow her ult.

Second is a smart Poppy who will ult your weakest ally and shit all over the rest of you while she's invincible. These ones you need to try to catch off guard or pull away. Aside from that, CC. Fortunately, you don't see many good Poppys.

She's absolutely painful in the right hands, we played against a poppy who literally carried her team. It was 4v5 in our favor. We could only push when she was dead, but she would normally get at least three of us before that happened due to her teams CC, her high MS, and my friends complete ineptitude at building armor. Yeah. It was an AD/AS Poppy.

How exactly do you "CC"?