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Yorick,

Yorick

and Yorick.

 

I hate him so much :D

 

Trundle

Trundle

And Trundle.

Unfortunately, it's basically his only hard counter. That and Cho'gath. But overall Yorick is a beast. 

I don't think there's a staple build for bruisers and it should change game to game. Personally I find very few champs that I want to build Atma's on. Sometimes as a last item on Garen or Vi, but overall I find better champions for it.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned it but Ryze shits on Renekton in lane. He's my go to champ for handling Renekton. Lower cooldowns, range, and you can snare him before he gets in range to W you. Try it out. I was pretty skeptical about it but it honestly works. 

Mainly because there are a lot of much better options. Karma is also kind of down an ulti. Sure it enhances her other abilities and is pretty low cooldown but I don't think it's really worth trading for, say, a Zed/Lux/Orianna/Katarina ult. 

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Just right now I was playing adc on silver 5 smurf and got support Morgana who started dorans ring and had 0 armor bonuses. Needless to say I went immediately afk for the rest of the game

Yeah so as it turns out, you're a dick. If that is cause enough for you to afk you shouldn't be on a fucking smurf account.

QED.

I can say from experience that winning lane isn't enough in solo queue, at least not in silver. You have to dominate, or gamble and hope another lane dominates.

I mainly play top lane and I find that only certain champions really have what it takes to win--also, winning means tricking your team into winning. You have to make them THINK they're throwing when actually you're fooling them into winning the game. Weird huh?

I have an awesome win rate with Garen. If I can get some early kills on Garen, which isn't too hard at low elos, I can get tanky as hell, still deal damage and then run around the map and ruin everything for the enemy team.

Most the time my team won't want to engage with me. So I go in and 1v5 for a little while, and after I haven't died but have gotten the whole enemy team low, my team is ready to commit. Then I run back in and tank. Ergo, Garen is awesome.

Malphite, if he's not banned, is really good. You can farm top lane really effectively, you synergize with jungle ganks really well and teleport + ult ganks are ridiculous. By the time late game comes around you can punish poor positioning in a way very few other champions can. I recently played a game as Malphite where our botlane was losing hard. I was 1-0-4 and really well farmed. I teleported bot where there was a 4v2, making it 4v3, and caught all 4 in my ult while MF was casting her ult. After that the game was ours.

Singed is also a great pick. He can stomp his lane, win CS, push, and then teleport or just run around the map to push objectives and get fed.

Riven and Rumble are both great choices for carrying as damage dealers. No matter what they're always threats later on in the game.

Darius can be quite effective, but you have to stomp your lane, and late game I try not to take kills as I feel Darius falls off late game where he gets kited and pooped on. But he is still a really good champion, especially if their team relies on a squishy or one person gets really fed -- Darius can build tank and shut them down in team fights really quickly. Instagib status.

I honestly love tanks. Sejuani is amazing. Mid game you just don't die. You can make big plays. You're a really hard to ignore tanky front line. I love being able to soak up enemy focus, because honestly, I find it much harder to carry as, say, ADC if your team is bad. They'll just let you get focused down, and even if you're good at positioning and kiting and the enemy team goes way out of position to catch you, bad teams often can't utilize it, which is why for me, tanky damage dealers are great.

 As support, I've kind of narrowed my choices down to Janna, Blitz and Taric. Taric has been done to death so no need to explain. Blitzcrank just punishes bad decisions or split up teams. Blitzcrank can punish botlane if you know how to use him, which, honestly, is not that hard. Some Blitzcranks are bad because they only use Q, but holy hell, knock up engage is often way, way better, and gives you a much easier pull + exh afterwards.

Janna can bait and make good of a lot of bad situations. She can peel, disengage, shield, heal--everything. She's just really strong.

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It's not natural to be told "You mustn't do ____ and ____" because instinctively that gets us more pissed off. I think your reaction is natural. BUT, it'll take a little bit of you bypassing your normal habits to look at it and go "Okay, I was toxic, let me stop doing that."

Allow me to disagree on that. If someone is doing something wrong I consider it a favor to take the time to point it out. You should be polite about it and if the person decide that you are dumb and refuse to listen it is up to him. At least you didn't stay passive while he was doing smthg you knew was a bad idea. I believe that as long as you don't insist to the point of annoying him and don't rub his face into his mistake afterward there is no problem with that. I will give you that usualy people will react poorly to it but if I don't sense that the person is already raging I will usualy try to do it.

That's a very valid point. Logically there's no reason to get pissed off at someone giving you helpful advice. But I can also understand we aren't exactly used to handling criticism well.

After reading your post and the tribunal case I have to agree with Riot's decision. You BLAST your team because they don't play well. You call them trash.

Now, I understand you're under a lot of stress, but who isn't? Hot damn, I recently went through three months of working 16 hours a day including Saturday and Sunday, and on the few hours I gave myself to chill out in between that, I'd always get an auto lock or something like that. But I didn't rage.

In February I went through two weeks of hardly sleeping because I had strict deadlines to meet, but I played a game of League at the end of each night and I didn't rage. I don't think stress is an excuse.

It's not in human nature to take someone telling you that you were wrong and "punishing" you for it very well, but you have to rise above it; look at what you did, truly and honestly, and think of how you can change. It's not natural to be told "You mustn't do ____ and ____" because instinctively that gets us more pissed off. I think your reaction is natural. BUT, it'll take a little bit of you bypassing your normal habits to look at it and go "Okay, I was toxic, let me stop doing that."

EDIT: Also, I hate people who use age as an insult. "Lol you're 13." Well spotted. Sherlock. Where did wit go? What happened to the days where bullying a kid meant throwing slurs of well-aimed insults to injure his ego? Call your teammate "The type of stupid that'd make a room of kid's with down's syndrome bash their heads together in shame." Don't insult age. Insult the person in front of you.

To be fair, I lost a lot of games, including 2 promo series to Gold, because League kept crashing and player support didn't know why. I kinda feel okay blaming Riot for that. 

@OP: That's what you got from that game? You didn't watch that and think "I've never seen worse shot calling"? You didn't notice that Curse's engages were absolutely shameful? I mean--Voyboy face checks, burns ult, flash, zonyas, so what does saint do? CHARGE IN.

Saint gets caught out. Makes it out. Rest of the team shows up to 4v5. Saint goes BACK IN on what, 2% hp? That game was not made by blitz. It was made by hard, hard, hard throws. 

And Pudge is never banned in competitive play in DotA 2. He's hardly ever even picked despite being open.