Saturday, July 19, 2014

The power of Mantheon Jungle

So I've been Jungling Pantheon lately and I've gotta say... he's on par with your Vi and Elise ganks but with the ability to gank two lanes almost simultaneously. Yesterday I was able to gank mid lane and then move to a bot lane gank within 6 seconds, his jungle is smooth with shield blocks and CDR is the key. I like lizard king and brutalizer start to ensure enough cdr and damage to get the job done. Mobility boots as always are the key to being EVERYWHERE and as long as your laners follow your jumps a stun and a spear are plenty to get a kill on that overpushed Ziggs in mid.

Late game however you go from killing machine to tanky in order to stay relevant. I like the traditional Randuin's and Spirit Visage which gives you plenty HP and defense to live through a Skyfall into the enemy cluster and even a little more CDR to top you off!

On a side note, what does everyone think about them adding jungle timers into the game interface? Please chime in below with your opinions and judgements of Panth Jungle / Jungle Timers!

Friday, July 18, 2014

My jungler just won't gank!

What do you do when you're being camped and the enemy laner is snowballing out of control?

Do you?

1. Hump your tower and hope to get a kill under the tower / just farm?
2. Abandon your tower and go help another lane?
3. Beg and plead for help from anyone? ANYONE?!

I've decided on a solution that both allows you to farm and pay back that crappy jungle for not ganking.

The answer is simple, "Let it go" let your first tower die and farm at the second tower. Some will complain that you lost your tower but there isn't much you can do. However, you're in a unique situation now. You can now ward the jungle for protection and farm two waves in a row in relative safety and once you're pushed back to the river you can sweep the jungle for more xp and cash!

The jungler will hate you taking his jungle but... he wouldn't help you keep your first tower up so screw him!

This method can help you double your xp gain but you need to buy wards, not just use your trinket ward. You need to ward at least two jungle entrances and the river because your enemy laner is now going to roam and you don't need to be blamed for that mess.

Besides, at this point you're trying to make the best of a bad situation.

Good luck and Good Games!

Thursday, July 17, 2014

DOOMBOTS... two words. No Melee!

If you want to unlock the doombot summoner icon you would do well to have no jungle, and stick with all range. From my experience thus far melee dies nearly instantly to the massive onslaught of abilities these bots have and most of the abilities are close range.

Best team comp I've seen so far had vayne, ez, lux, zyra and ryze... now that's not to say something else won't work but fighting fire with fire is working so far for most teams!

The first level of doombots only have a little bit of extra power and you should be able to get through with melee but the team comp changes drastically as you climb in levels. Comment below with your finding on what works and what doesn't.

Love me some DOOM!

Making it to gold as an average player.

I made it.... I MADE IT!
Never thought it would actually happen, but when it did I immediately started thinking "Hmmmmm Platinum?" It turns out making Gold is as simple as one word. "Fill"

Call fill and let people play what they want to play, take one for the team. Most people are bad, really really absurdly BAD. Worse than you (or me) and they hide it behind playing one role or switching to trolling when they don't get what they want or start off bad.

Filling takes some of the pressure off of your team and the conflict levels diminish allowing everyone to work together without a hitch. I KNOW, I KNOW! You want mid/top/jg... pref.

But what you really want is that sweet glorious list of goodies for getting into and staying Gold in the 2014 season.

Learn to play a couple champs at each role and lane and don't make them common bans and you too can revel in the glory of Golden Showers.... I mean, what?

I'm not good, bad enoug I don't want to stream but I dragged my ass from Bronze III to Gold IV in a month by typing "Fill" "Filliam Shakespeare" "Filliam Shatner" or whatever makes you feel better about playing the trash nobody else wants.

You'd be surprised how often I got to be mid or jg!

Contact me in game to duo with the name Korkee on NA server.