Purchased Zyra a bit ago but never gave her an initial spin. Must say she is a total blast to play and one of the best First Go’s on a toon in a long time. She’s gorgeous in game, her dialogue is entertaining, and the interaction between plants and spells is fun not to mention challenging and quite powerful. I also seemed to have no mana issues though I picked up an Athene’s Unholy Grail early in game. She’s gonna be getting more play time for sure!
Got My Silver
At long last, I have all silver (and one gold) badge in Dominion. Went 10/6/15 on Shyvana with 1170 points (which was a lowly 4th on my team). A huge victory for the PvP noob that I am. Woot, woot, wooooooottttt!! Now on to gold across the board…
Awesome LoL Photos
Grabbed these links from @Nikasaur and @MarcMerrill from Taipei Lantern Festival. Wicked!!
Giant Teemo: http://i.imgur.com/Q6WwFJu.jpg
Ashe Crystal Bows: http://i.imgur.com/IVUaTQP.jpg
Drooling Over Quinn
After ultimate practice pickup, the oldest goes, “Hey Mom, there’s a new champion coming out!” Of course we both take a look right away. Can’t WAIT for Quinn and Valor to come out. Lulu has Pix and Annie has Tibbbers (and I guess Nunu has Willump) but here’s another wicked cool champion combo – Quinn and her rare Demacian eagle. Lots of interesting possibilities
- Enough move complexity to keep you engaged – each move has two attacks based on whether Quinn or Valor is active, similar to Nidalee and her cougar and Elise and her spider form
- Ranged crossbow as primary with Valor providing melee bursts via Tag Team (R)
- One move that can blind nearby enemies (Q) and one move to reveal the bush
- Two moves that allow Quinn to pull quickly out of combat (E and R)
She sounds so fun, looks wicked, and come on…she has an eagle.
Also gives LoL their first Q champion!!
Who Would You Pick?
So I am down to needing only 3 more female champs, specifically Elise, Sejuani and Vi. I am one match away from enough IP to purchase one of them but not sure who. Feel pretty confident it will be either Elise or Vi. Who would you pick?
No Luck
Well, the infamous “last person” didn’t accept the Dominion PvP match after a pretty quick 4 minute wait. Once I had been in queue about 20 minutes total I gave it up and am jumping into a Classic intermediate bots match. Selected Miss Fortune. Not the fix I was hoping for but it’ll do.
Waiting in Queue
So have a bit of time this AM to catch a quick game of League before heading to work. Hoping the Dominion PvP queue isn’t too long. Volume set high so I can hear the dong to accept. Fingers crossed.
Muscle Memory Mischief
Switching out my summoner spells can be a real headache, so much so that I’ve started to go Ghost on D and Ignite on F for every toon and every match. For a long time those two were almost always my go to choices. Then sometime after the big Season 3 patch or right before, I started to select Clarity on F for my mana toons because it just seemed I was burning it a lot faster. A Sona without a heal, for example, is pretty useless if playing bot support in Classic. But I would hit F thinking it was Ignite and waste my Clarity or vice versa, hit F thinking it was Clarity and wasting my Ignite.
So no more Clarity on F. For my mana-dependent toons I just build differently or recall more often. Nothing worse than wasting a summoner spell.
Current Faves
Over the last month or so, I would put the following on my Current Faves list. There are many other champions I love playing, but I just haven’t as much of late.
•Morganna, Cassiopeia and Annie as AP casters
•Riven, Miss Fortune, Irelia, and Shyvana as AD
•Sona (and perhaps Taric) as support
Second Go on Taric
Played a quick Classic bots game to get my first win of the day bonus and went with Taric. This time things went much better. I maxed Q and E for the heal and the damage and began to have a few things just happen right, at times getting into a good rhythm. Will need to figure out how to work W into the mix, but the game went relatively quick…was only level 15 when it ended, typical for most Classic beginner bot matches.
He is growing on me – in a good way. Need to continue to remind myself that E has a bit of range (though does do more damage closer you are). He’s a big dude with heavy armor and a huge sword so visually he screams melee (which he is for the most part). Getting in more play time helps me overcome the visual cues and know without thinking that I can be a bit back of my target if I so choose with that particular attack.
Verdict is still out whether he makes onto my “most played” list.
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