I just went 18/0/13 as Skarner in a ranked match. Screenshot attached.

 

Graphics update looks good for the most part, although I'm getting a weird feeling the max zoom has changed. I might be imagining things, though.

Darius' ult animation is rather addictive - I'm glad it refreshes so I can use it over and over. He feels kinda squishy all through the game, but Randuin's Omen + FoN seems to solve most of the problems I have late game.

 

Oh boy, Morgana Nerfs and Xin Zhao Buffs! Yay

 

Darius feels bad compared to most tanky DPS, unless he starts being able to axe several people in a row.

He's pretty slow and has a hard time engaging without other people leading.

 

Darius is tons of fun, imo. And yeah, if he gets an axe kill early in a teamfight he rolls the triple and quadra kills like crazy.

 

Which is why Phreak specifically stated that he's not meant to engage, but rather to come in behind and focus people down/stop them from escaping during teamfights.

Though I don't see what's so bad about an AOE (admittedly short range/small area) blitz-style pull, initiation wise.

 

Because it's an extremely short range for how slow he is, especially with his lack of closers.

He can't initiate with it at all. It's a chasing skill at max.

 

Which is the point of the skill? He is supposed to be sticky and a big bruiser, which he definitely is. I have seen him in the normal mode but in dominion he is a complete house once it enters the end game.

 

The problem is that he can not even stick to someone or even get close to sticking to someone unless they were already meleeing his ass.

His shitty move speed is too slow for him to even catch Soraka properly wthout using Summoners before getting a huge beating.

 

Comparable champion: Skarner

They both are melee bruisers with a slow, and a hook that enables them to grab a fleeing enemy. Both have an on use-skill to slow an opponent, and both can be very sticky. They both lack a gap closer, and snowball pretty hard. Skarner has 5 more base movespeed, but Darius gets a movespeed bonus after applying bleeds. Darius has better burst, while Skarner has better sustain.

That's what i've seen so far anyway. I've only seen him twice, and watched 2 games.

 

Skarner has a strong move speed booster on W and isn't reliant on first hitting an enemy from melee range, therefor negating the value of gap-closer when he already has to gap-clsoe before he can use it. He also has hard CC and 100% up-time on slow that isn't conditional.

He can stick to a guy indefinitely and doesn't need to build any damage beyond sheen to wreck becuase of 130 base damage.

Skarner can also adequately gank and jungle fast where as Darius gets countered so hard, it isn't even funny.

Darius doesn't have any of these. He can't build extremely tanky without greatly compromising his damage. He can't gap-close effectively because his closers all rely on him being practically kissing face with the enemy before they can be triggered. He doesn't have any hard CC to pin down the enemy from flashing or ghosting away before he can unload.

Darius, though, is a massive as fuck asshole at solo top and an amazing Dom champ because the enemy is forced to come to you anyways. Outside of that, he doesn't have much unless you have a high CC team that gives him enough time to get in range without him being nuked down.

 

If you pick a champion that can be build either AP or AD, please tell your team what you're building when you pick that champ, so don't just pick TF, demand mid, and not bother to tell us you're building AD...

Also, if you pick a champ that can go into more than one lane, please tell your team instead of just sitting in silence...

 

Just thought I'd post this here.

League of Legends Drinking Game!

1. If you take First Blood or are First Blood, drink.
2. You die, drink.
3. You make a kill, drink.
4. You die twice in a row without making a kill, drink. Drink more for each subsequent death without a kill.
5. You go on a killing spree, drink.
6. You become Godlike, shot.
7. You have a spree ended, drink.
8. You end a spree, drink.
9. You get a triple kill, drink.
10. You get a quadrakill or pentakill, shot.
11. You earn an Ace, or get Aced, team shot.
12. You take a tower, drink.
13. You take dragon, drink.
14. You take baron, buff earners take a shot.
15. You force enemy surrender, drink.
16. You surrender, double shot.
17. Your Nexus is destroyed, shot.
18. You destroy the enemy Nexus, drink.
19. You have a creep score of less than 100 after the game, drink.
20. You have a creep score of over 300 after the game, shot.
21. You are team high score on k/d/a, drink.
22. You are team low score on k/d/a, shot. Supports are not exempt from Rules 21 & 22.

 

Alternatively, you could play the "throw yourself down the nearest flight of stairs" game, saving unsuspecting people like myself from being potentially subjugated to a drunk teammate.

 

It's obviously a game meant to be played with a full 5 man premade. Drink responsibly!

 

I like the new look, but even on lowest settings the game runs at an average of 15 FPS on my (8-9 year) old desktop :|

Still, Varus is fun as hell when you turn around and pop an arrow in someone's face after chasing you halfway down a lane XD

 

The game grew from a reminiscence about an asskicking a few mates and I handed out after we'd had a few drinks before playing one time. Drinking on your on and queuing smashed is just a dick move.

 

Our Vayne is out in front and eats an Ashe ult in the face "Hurrr Durr why you no protect carry???". Proceeds to blame entire team. Sometimes I hate this game. >_>

 

You guys are pretty fun to play with. As expected Evan Tide is super serious and Shezza rapes Jon.

Though playing only AD seems to limit me a fair bit in random matches.

 

So I love the shit out of Darius who is laughably easily my new favorite melee by orders of magnitude. The sheer stupid damage I can put out on people is mind boggling. I skullfucked a Jax and Fiora 2v1, they were both idiots but that still never happens to me ever.