Reign of Gaming

Personally I feel that it's like accusing Germany of bm / unsportsman-like in the World Cup for scoring more goals after 3:0 up. (They ended up winning 7:1 for those who have been not been following)

It makes even less sense since Brazil couldn't surrender (well technically they can by not returning to the pitch, but literally no teams ever do that in the top level for many years) while CW could have /ff and teams have done that before.

Alliance were taking a risk that they would be killed and failed to stack items so CW could get back into the game, but no one on ALL got killed (through some good play no less).

Imo Darien's Zhonyas on Renekton was more BM / unsportsman-like since it doesn't even make sense

Also to Brokenshard, if you gonna give it, you better learn to take it!

https://twitter.com/BrokenshardEUW/status/492624647952011264/photo/1

P.S. Not a CW or ALL fan

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For 600 gold over a Vamp sceptre you get the Bilgewater Cutlass

That's 25 AD and 12% lifesteal over the 10AD/10% Vamp (+15AD, +2%).

To get the BT, you need another 2400 gold. That's a big jump for a lot of AD with no extra lifesteal over the Cutlass.

Unless you can farm and/or get kills, Cutlass is safer.
The active is useful. Any more AD contributes from a LW or IE benefits that Life Steal

After the cutlass you can evaluate your options too based on your enemy build: Zeal? IE? LW?

Cutlass may make ADC feel safer due to the active, but BotRK doesn't synergise as well as BT with some champions e.g. Caitlyn.

The other thing is that BotRK is better for all-in due to the active (e.g. Vayne popping ult + active and charging at you) but BT is better for sustained poke / trades in lane and pushing turrets. If your champion have free AD / dmg from abilities (e.g. Kog, Vayne, Twitch) then the AS from BotRK will be very helpful too.

I'd say only get IE if you are quite far ahead of your opponents, otherwise you will seriously delay your power spike and most likely lose any dragon fight / bot lane engages as a result. While Ashe doesn't have amazing AD scaling, the sustain and extra AD from BT is great for staying power in lane and better W + auto which is something you shouldn't forget.

Whatever you do just please don't build do attack speed Ashe. I've seen an Ashe build BotRK + PD as first two items. It was painful to watch... and yes we lost that game!

Jax is not broken, the problem is people trying so hard to shut him down early and ends up feeding him

People also need to stop trying to tower dive Jax just because they see Jax has less than a third HP...

It's not like there is much else to do in a hospital with a collapsed lung!!! (Not to mention money from streaming is nice too :P)

Tbh if you play (almost?) any champion good enough, you are likely to climb elo with it, so there is nothing wrong with playing Tryn alone.

What happens if you don't get top though? Do you dodge or stick with an unfamiliar role? Also why do you "need" plat by mid season?

4) Sure. Last game I bought the Red trinket because enemy team had Evelyn, ended up never really using it other than to get rid of one green ward the enemy top placed. Not sure why I bought it. Figured it would be good against the Evelyn, but overall I had less vision and it was dumb. Also hung around at their inner turret too long trying to get a few more autos in with all enemies mia when I should have just backed a bit and waited to see where people are

I believe basic red trinket (not the upgraded temporary oracle one) does not reveal Evelyn

Some people use "trolling" as an excuse for playing badly and to justify why they are losing (in lane or teamfights or whatever)

It happens to everyone sometimes. Maybe your opponent is a challenger smurf, maybe you are fighting tryn and he got 3 crits in a row with little fury, maybe your computer suddenly started lagging, maybe you didn't get much sleep last night or maybe you had a bad day at work.

Best way to win is to use the mute button, play the best you can and make as few mistakes as possible.

Steroids is only useful if and when you actually get to your target. On top of that, you are more susceptible to CC (and exhuast) when you get into melee range. Yi, Tryn and Fiora all have ways to get off their damage reliably. Yi with his immunity to disable, Tryn with his undying rage and Fiora with her untargetability during ult.

For Yasuo, he doesn't really have that but is compensated by his long range ult and passive shield. So I guess I'm not surprised that he has highest gold worth of free stat from your calculation since he does not have the reliable ways to get off damage like the other three.

Just my 2 cents!

Because the current meta favours top lane with CC, engage / disengage, peel, and mobility. They also have to get in carry's face and basically be a meat shield. Vlad doesn't provide any of that, or at least not very well,

Let's do a comparison with popular top lanes:

Shyv: Ult to engage and get in carry's face. Ult gives tankiness. Mobility with burnout

Mundo: Cleaver used to peel for teammates and stick to carries, ult for mobility and tankiness

Renekton: Stun, Slice + Dice to get to carry and mobility, Ult gives tankiness

On the other hand, while vlad's passive gives him tankiness and with Zhonya and Pool he can survive quite well in team fights, he can't engage or peel that well without using his pool. He is relatively tanky for an AP but nothing like the popular three in terms of sheer tankiness. Yes, he can vamp back more than those 3, but there is no guarantee that there will be minions around for him to do that (e.g. at baron).

Also, what is also common with the 3 champion is that they have % hp damage in their kit, so they still do some noticeable damage even with no offensive items.