So after finding the smart ping URL I wanted to get it to my oldest who is home with me today as there is no school this Friday. Booted up Skype to send him the link, which I did, and then he taught me an extremely valuable Skype lesson…how to moon in chat!! Yup, seriously important life information here. Open parentheses, type mooning, close parentheses. And if you add a little copy and paste, you can spam your moon like this…ROFL!!
Aha! Finally found the info on the new ‘smart ping’ system here: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/smart-ping-here. Now gotta start another custom game and try that. Did get proficient pretty fast with Ctrl key to level up skills (yea!) but still have to to stop and think about which key for which type of ping, so hoping this will go more smoothly. New skills, new skills, happy dance, happy dance….
How is it that I’ve played as long as I have and I have absolutely no idea how to ping? Seriously. There is likely a very cold place in League hell with my name on it. It’s even possible that my ignorance is an offense punishable by the Tribunal.
In my defense, I tend to be a follower in video games. I rarely tell someone else what to do. I watch the ebb and flow and fill in where I am needed, or watch for other people’s pings and respond if I can. But I ended up in the most miserable intermediate bots game last night, largely because I was just terrible (like really, really terrible), and also because I was playing with a great number of newbies. Here was a case where I needed to communicate and other than type, type typing, I had no way to do that. I am ping-less.
Here’s what I’ve found after a few searches. Gonna jump into a custom game and try this out. Also discovered how to level up my skills with Ctrl+Q/W/E/R. Whoa! I use keyboard keys for all skills and summoner spells, as I’ve played enough games to understand the speed benefit, but somehow that one has escaped me as well. Please, don’t anybody tell Riot!
I was getting frustrated a bit with Lux yesterday. Timing that darn Lucent Singularity so that it explodes for damage at the right time is a total bear. Then today I reread the abilities text – DOH! Hit your E again, dummy, and it explodes when you want it. Crazy how much difference that tiny little detail can make. I am still making the mistake of popping Light Binding on Q before I have a singularity or other attack set up, but getting good at using it to escape or to snare folks in team fights and am generally decent with skill shots. I am also spamming my shield easily on W so that’s good.
I still need to work out the best timing for Lux’s ult. Occasionally it is pretty darn obvious when to pop it but I haven’t played her enough to know how far down champs should be before I get the kill with it. If I wait too long, they either escape or other folks get the kill. The escaping is frustrating and having other folks get the kill is fine…I personally love assists as much as kills (well, almost as much ;))…but it’s a waste of her ult. To counter, I am trying to just use it when it makes sense and it’s up so I get more practice and can see how much damage it does depending on my level, build and other champ.
Now that I am officially in love with Lux I did purchase the Steel Legion skin. As many have already noted, her skins are pretty “weh” overall, despite having a number of them. Of all of them I think I made the right choice, though many people really love the Spell Thief skin. Would love to see them update the artwork for the Sorceress skin – the in game visuals are actually pretty good – and if they could fix the in game visuals for Imperial Lux I think the artwork is totally boss. I’ve read several folks describe the Imperial Lux in game as looking like a McDonald’s employee (red hat and all). Not that appealing…
Anyhoo, enough rambling about Lux and on to one more game before I need to get serious about the day and get “real work” done. Ha!
There are so many things about League that I love but one is certainly how fresh the game can still be after playing almost daily for about 9 months. Lux is now my girl (after only 2 fabulous intermediate bots games) with Quinn a solid second, so that only a week or so after posting my fave champions, the list already looks pretty different. Add to that honing my skills in solo top and jungling as well as continuing to learn the overall meta game in Classic and I am a gleefully giggling happy player who has many more months of total fun in the works with League. Thank you, Riot, for the simple joy you bring to my life.
Time to queue up for more intermediate bots…still working on Lux’s shield and remembering to use it appropriately in my rotation. I keep forgetting I have it!
Work is done. Dishes done. Load of laundry going. Kids put to bed. And now I get to play!! Thinking I’ll go total escape and relaxation with an intermediate bots game on Lux (since I’m 12 minutes into the Dominion PvP queue and no luck). Had so much fun with her earlier today I’ll just enjoy and work on getting her gameplay down pat.
On a side note, got a great comment on one of my earlier posts about the trials of learning to jungle and the difficulties of snarky, in-game sniping. So satisfying to have a friendly back-and-forth with a fellow blogger and LoL player. Many thanks to TwoHP – your blog totally rocks!!
So I have had Lux in my arsenal for a long time now. For the life of me I can’t recall why I haven’t really played her. Maybe because her brother, Garen, annoys me so?
But after watching stream after stream come through with Lux as part of a ranked team, plus how much I and everyone else hates her ult when playing against her (it’s amazing how hard it is to get out of the way of that red laser warning), I decided to give her a spin. In fact, I think today is the first time I have ever played her, go figure!
Net net is that she is a complete and total blast to play! How have I been missing out for so long? Her ult is as amazing as one would expect and I am happy to say that the “aaaaayah!” that she yells just prior is quite satisfying (as opposed to annoying). Then you have a stun, a slow and a shield, the latter of which I never used and spec’d last but likely very useful once I learn to maximize its boomerang goodness. Gonna keep playing her against intermediate bots until I have it down and then voila, another gal I can pull out in Normal draft matches.
Thanks to @MisterHotcha and @Stonewall008 for tweeting the link. Absolutely LOVED it. Some content not suitable for young audiences (translation – for all you parents, go under headphones if you have young kiddos in the room). Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdD8hC2fAL0
I’m gonna pop your flash…only got 20 seconds till my ult’s up…
It was with some trepidation that I launched into a Classic draft pick normal game. I don’t like to do poorly and get yelled at, and well, that does sometimes happen. But a game of League was my treat to myself for mowing the front yard and now I am basking in the glow of an easy team win…and I was never yelled at, even when I banned Maokai instead of Malphite (hey, I was distracted by the dog barking like mad in the back yard and wondering if I would have to leave my ‘puter to settle things down, heaven forbid). Played Sona support and went 4/0/21. Aaaaahhhh….I love it when a game goes well.
After loading some RP to buy the Phoenix Quinn Bundle, I used my 8000+ accumulated IP points to buy Vi. Now I am down to needing only Elise and Sejuani and I will have every female League champion.
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