Huh, I never got the invitation. Send me another invite, I'm usually online and afk, so it should pop up. Hopefully.

What's the team name?

 

Volibear seems absurdly strong.

1. His passive is a rank 1 mundo ult that heals in half the time, making it much better vs burst. 2 minute cd, but available from level 1.

2. His Q is a singed toss combined with speed boost. The speed boost doesn't work for escaping as you have to be chasing an enemy like vayne's passive.

3. His W is a 24%-60% attackspeed boost that is active as long as you are autoattacking. Essentially 100% uptime. It stays active vs turrets. He DESTROYS turrets. On top of that, he can activate it to deal massive damage. The base nuke itself does pretty standard nuke damage (90-290). It doesn't scale with AP or AD, but scales with bonus HP (20% of bonus HP). A full warmogs adds 274 damage to the nuke. But that isn't even the best part. This shit scales by 1% for every 1% hp missing by the target. At 50% hp, this nuke gets a bonus 50% damage. With an unstacked warmogs/dorans shield and no hp runes, I hit a near death wraith for 1004 in a practice game. This is an ultimate garen's ultimate.

4. His E is an aoe slow that fears minions. Works great with him because he is based around continuously autoattacking, so between the speedboost toss, the slow, and his seemingly absurd damage, I don't know how he doesn't wreck people.

5. His Ultimate is a super steroid. 75/115/155 extra magic damage per autoattack that ricochets like the old sivir to 3 targets. Put this in your fucking pipe and smoke it: This motherfucker gets 60% passive attackspeed, constantly. With this ult active, he essentially gets 3 free bf swords that fucking BOUNCE. Vayne's level 3 ultimate gives less AD than Iorek's level 1.

I have not had a chance to test this guy in a real game, but this shit seems absurd. He has mundos ultimate as a passive, vayne's ultimateX3 on his ultimate, sivir's ultimate with 100% uptime on his W passive, and Garen's ultimate on his W active.

And to top off his kit, he has an effective chase ability, a soft cc, and a very effective soft/hard cc with a singed toss.

Riot really dropped the ball here.

 

Yes, he seems ridiculous on paper. He probably is, from someone who can play him correctly.

But as of now, he's done nothing in any of the games I've played except feed. And feed badly. On my team and the enemy team.

 

For those who jungle Shaco the new jungle still lets you lv3 Shaco gank really early. You just need an xp quint.

Take the +4 ap offensive mastery and drop 4 boxes behind the lizard elder at red. Then go kill blue. Your boxes are enough to kill red buff without you being there. Then you kill wolves and you will be at level three.

I did it in 2:12. The only lane that is level 2 by then is mid.

 

I remember Jon asking me about the ranked teams during a game, but I figure I should post up that info for his spreadsheet.

Summoner Name: Darje1

Over one thousand normal wins and somewhere between fifty-seventy-ish less losses.

I've played a total of seven ranked games, with only two of those being wins. >.>
Can't remember what my elo was.

I can't claim to main any champions, I play whoever I feel like at the time, but I have a blast with Shaco, Fizz, Blitzcrank, Singed, Teemo, Caitlyn, Miss Fortune, Rumble, Heimerdinger, Graves... I should stop before I list all sixty-three champions I own (or most of them).

Churchey, some of those recommendations you gave for Fizz several pages back, when you were still testing the character out - they helped me out quite a bit.

 

It's actually true. I played a few games with him yesterday, and played even somewhat competently he ABSOLUTELY destroys.

He can 1v3 with ease if given even a couple early kills. Which are ridiculously easy to get. He jungles with a speed that makes even good Udyr's tremble, He hits like a fucking truck.

The only thing he doesn't have is a CC counter/escape ability. But I've never seen him have to escape.

He is beyond OP. He's Stupidly, Ridiculously, Insultingly Overpowered.

I've heard about how Vayne was when she first came out. I've even seen videos and read about what her kit was like.

Volibear/Iorek is worse. WAY worse.

 

On a more Bear-able note: Apparently Riot has decided I'm high enough level for Ranked games.

So, I'm really, really, really fucking wary about Solo Queuing in ranked before level 30.

Any tips? Should I just wait till 30?

So do a whole host of other champions that aren't even one fourth as powerful as Volibear. All he has to do is pick up Cleanse and/or an early QSS and he essentially becomes unstoppable if played right.

I saw one player pick up both, and Vs a really heavy CC team he still absolutely destroyed...

While being tankier than just about any Tanky-Dps out there.

Volibear is stupid. Riot let the 'awesome' factor of bears in armor get away from them and made a champion that is far, far, far beyond the pale of any other currently available champion.

He's going to get nerfed so hard they're going to turn him into a circus bear in an absurd little hat. At least he'd better, or get used to seeing Volibear every single goddamn game, and wrecking every single goddamn game.

 

This is true of every champ in the game besides trundle/irelia/singed who have innate cc reduction.

"CC him" works against every champ that has been deemed OP (except the above), but that becomes vastly more difficult when the champ in question can build 100% tank and not feel a hit to his damage.

 

When I play draft mode's, I will ban him in every game I get to choose. I'll get Queue dodged a lot. But he's always banned, and will remain so until Riot nerfs the hell out of him.

 

He's a motherfucking bear. I played him a couple times on my EU account, and I just sat there giggling the whole time.

I'm playing a MOTHERFUCKING BEAR.

 

The best part is how he and zilean hate each other, and have in game debuffs and special voice acting when they are on opposite teams.

 

Like, say, Nasus and Renekton?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxKDfC1ZsV0

 

Someone went to the DLP team list and deleted all potential teams.

BTW, how are the teams being made?

 

I mean who is more effective at each role and in team together.

I think synergy is the word I'm looking for, here.

Like say we're in a team and you're jungling while I'm soloing top. Your junglers, in the games I've played with you, tend to be the "rush 6 then do stuff" kind. I tend to prefer working with the "kill all people at 4" solo top person, so our play styles would clash making us sub-par if on a team with those positions.

Situations like that.

I actually think we should also post up our playstyles for each position we can fill, such as how aggressive we are at top/mid/bot, what type of jungler we look for to help us, what we are most likely to do in each role we can use, etc.

Something like:

Solo Top Tanky DPS: I'm the "kill at 4 with jungle gank" person. I'll keep myself as high as possible with whatever harass I can afford to throw out. AT 4, I expect the allied jungler to help gank the enemy ass so we can set the enemy top back enough that I have free farm and easy kills for the rest of laning. I largely prefer harass/gank heavy tops over perma-sustain farmers, unless I pick Nasus. Then I just farm and hope for full hp-to-dead ganks at 4 so I get major farm advantage. I tend to pick Annie, Karthus, Cassiopea, or Kassadin mid.

AP Mid: Again, I prefer the heavy harass game. I'm most likely to pick heavy burst or harass champions, going for kills often. Hopefully, my allied jungler will support me in this and get assists/kills so we can set the enemy back hard. I'll actively ward bot river bush, but I'll tend to scrimp on top river wards. I prefer fast gankers in this role, with at least minor CC.

Bottom Support: I tend to be heavy on aggression, getting my carries kills instead of keeping up perma-sustain. Again, gank junglers with CC are much loved. Will ward spam bushes to increase lane dominance. Usually going heavy CC supports when at bot.

 

jon, take consideration of timezone. I cant play with half the team due to the hour involved