League Of Legends

Bain

Bronze Knight of the Realm
399
2
Kayle was actually picked several times by EG and one other pro team back in the spring split. You probably should have included her(and Pantheon) since you also included a lot of really off the wall jungles who are much weaker in the jungle than in a lane.
 

Arbitrary

Tranny Chaser
30,812
87,040
He's alright. He hurts and he's tough. He's got some of the problems associated with being a melee champion with only a movement speed buff to close distances but if you get ahead you get to trolololo all over the map.

If you really, really like the skin than sure.
 

Ravishing

Uninspiring Title
<Bronze Donator>
8,456
3,577
Udyr comes and goes. In the past he's seen a lot of competitive play, he was nerfed recently (can have mana issues now since turtle doesnt regen mana and his skills cost more).

Sometimes people discover some OP shit with him or just play him really really good. It's preference. I wouldn't say he's a "must have" but if you expect to be playing LOL a long long time, you might regret not picking up the new skin now while its on sale.
 

Sidian

Lord Nagafen Raider
1,279
7
Udyr is awesome if the enemy team doesn't have that much CC or kiting potential. He gets really rough when the enemy team has a Blue Ezreal, or a jayce, or a janna or a lulu or a Lissandra or a etc etc etc. Otherwise he can just build standard tanky like every other tanky jungler and do really well. Turtle makes you even tankier and running around in bear stance stunning everybody during team fights can be quite helpful.

As Arbitrary just said though, if you ever get ahead as Udyr, you can cause extreme havoc, much worse then many other junglers, mainly because his turtle and bear stance allow him to do whatever the hell he wants.
 

lindz

#DDs
1,202
69
Won't be able to get down to Worlds, but definitely going to try to go to NA Regionals at PAX in August.
 

Sidian

Lord Nagafen Raider
1,279
7
I'd love to go to some of these events but unfortunately everything takes place on the damn west coast. Occasionally there is an MLG Columbus or Raleigh but that's about it. Where is my Chicago LAN, that would be great.
 

Xalara

Golden Squire
826
81
Won't be able to get down to Worlds, but definitely going to try to go to NA Regionals at PAX in August.
Have they even confirmed it's at PAX? There were some issues with having it at PAX this past year. I think Riot should go with Valve's solution which is to hold the event off-site so people who attend PAX can come by and people who want to just watch LoL all weekend can attend without having to deal with the hassle of a PAX pass. It would also solve the noise and traffic problems that Riot was having.
 

Draegan_sl

2 Minutes Hate
10,034
3
I bought Nasus and Udyr last night because I can't pass up the sales if the champs seem interesting, but I don't really plan on playing Udyr any time soon.

-

So I think I'm getting worse. Maybe it's because my play time has been erratic and I can't get in some good practice, maybe I just suck at this game. I'm still having fun though. Last night I played a Tryn top game against a Garen and just fedfedfed. Good times. I probably was playing way too aggressive, but fuck his spinning attack.

Played a game as Nasus top because Eidal didn't tell me he was jungling. So I had a shit time with that. First time with Nasus too. But that was to be expected.

Played a game as Nasus Jungle and I wasn't terrible, but I wasn't really useful to my team either. Still getting a hang of Jungle timing, farming and ganking. Found myself far away from the action and under leveled. I have to chalk that up to not knowing how to jungle (3-4th game jungling ever) and Nasus is really a difficult champ to play because he has a long wind up time with his Q.

Played a game last night with Thresh support and actually had a good game in my opinion. Did a few bone head things, but we were ahead against an inferior team.
--

I think I'm plateuing and I'm totally going to be a scrub Bronze player forever. I think my CS skills are better than they were, but my trading in lane has been very poor when going up against anyone Silver or higher typically. I'm going to tell myself that I'm only level 18 and I'm still a noob and I'm totally a better player and it's just because I don't have rune pages and masteries.

Good thing I love the game enough to just enjoy myself. I need more practice though, heh.
 

Sabbat

Trakanon Raider
1,970
856
Nasus Q has zero wind up, best way to use it, is to auto creep, hit Q, then you'll auto again because using Q resets your auto attack. Bangs out three quick attacks. Nasus' E on the other hand has a long wind up.
 

Ravishing

Uninspiring Title
<Bronze Donator>
8,456
3,577
Runes/Masteries make a world of difference.

Picking up the mechanics of the game takes some time, definitely hurts if you can't play regularly. You still have 12 levels to go before 30, you will learn a heck of a lot more and maybe won't be Bronze tier by then
biggrin.png


Jungler will usually be slightly behind in levels, should at least be the same level as your support & adc. The Solo lanes gain xp faster.

You can increase your leveling speed as jungler by grabbing the blue/red buff xp nearly everytime. I don't know if you're donating away the blue buff or not at your level, if not, then thats fine, just keep grabbing blue & red buffs, if you are donating the buffs away to your laners then what I normally do is get the creep low health then hold the 'S' key to stop all movement & attacks, letting the creep hit me while my laner finishes it off, I'll still get a good chunk of xp for the kill. If you move too far away from it then your laner gets the buff + all xp.

Also as a jungler you can't be timid, to really accelerate your leveling you should try counterjungling. Time enemy buffs and steal them before they get to them. Red+Blue respawn in 5 mins, dragon in 6 mins, baron in 7 mins. If Blue buff dies @ ~2:10 (it spawns at 1:55, figure ~15seconds to kill it max) it will be back up at 7:10. I normally ward enemy blue around 6:30ish if I plan to steal it. Red buff is normally taken 2nd and might be up around 8:30ish. 2nd respawns of buffs are in the 12-13min range. Keeping notes on respawn times is helpful. As a jungler you need to have a "killer" mentality. Avoid just passively farming in your jungle.


RE: Nasus, that's the thing with Nasus, he is a late-game threat after Q is farmed up. He works as top laner by just passively farming but can get harassed & denied Q hits, as a jungler Nasus can safely power up his Q and he isn't required to do tons of damage for his team during early game (junglers are typically tanks with mediocre damage). Nasus has great ganks though due to wither.
 

Draegan_sl

2 Minutes Hate
10,034
3
Looks like Yorick is going on sale next and I think I might have to pick him up because some of the new kit reworks that are being posted are very interesting.
 

Ravishing

Uninspiring Title
<Bronze Donator>
8,456
3,577
Looks like Yorick is going on sale next and I think I might have to pick him up because some of the new kit reworks that are being posted are very interesting.
I agree. I can't remember ever playing as Yorick... maybe once in ARAM or something, but the new ideas for him make him sound really cool.
 

Rod-138

Trakanon Raider
1,226
982
Running around as a flaming Nunu (sunfire) with insane movement speed is probably the most fun I've had in a while. He's an agent of chaos!
 

lindz

#DDs
1,202
69
Have they even confirmed it's at PAX? There were some issues with having it at PAX this past year. I think Riot should go with Valve's solution which is to hold the event off-site so people who attend PAX can come by and people who want to just watch LoL all weekend can attend without having to deal with the hassle of a PAX pass. It would also solve the noise and traffic problems that Riot was having.
Not entirely sure, but they did announce it at the beginning of LCS last week when they were announcing Worlds. I would really like to go but PAX passes were sold out immediately and I don't really care to go to anything else. It would be nice to have it offsite.
 

Golt_sl

shitlord
239
0
Another thing to note about Nasus jungle - it's worthwhile to pick up a pink ward once in awhile if your support isn't and pink dragon pit once you're 6+. Come back in a few (don't just start it immediately unless you know their bottom lane just died/recalled) and you can actually solo it, or duo with ease w/the use of your ult (hp aoe drain really destroys dragon/baron). Big advantage of his jungle is the dragon threat you offer. And then of course Nasus late game just becomes an absolute terror.
 

Eidal

Molten Core Raider
2,001
213
So I think I'm getting worse.

I think I'm plateuing and I'm totally going to be a scrub Bronze player forever. I think my CS skills are better than they were, but my trading in lane has been very poor when going up against anyone Silver or higher typically. I'm going to tell myself that I'm only level 18 and I'm still a noob and I'm totally a better player and it's just because I don't have rune pages and masteries.

Good thing I love the game enough to just enjoy myself. I need more practice though, heh.
Practically EVERYONE you play against has more experience than you and that really is key to winning lane (and thus setting yourself up for lategame relevance). You've jumped across four roles in two weeks and have exposed yourself to a new matchup almost every single game. Sure, you fed Nasus v Garen but how many times have you played Nasus v Garen? You don't even know what Garen does yet; you aren't expected to win those lanes.

The first few hundred games of LoL are absolutely justified feedtrains because you're busy internalizing [# of skills] x [# of champs]. You shouldn't beat yourself up about getting crushed until you're in my position with 1000+ games. I lose lanes I've played 50+ times =P

You might want to consider playing champs that have late-game relevance that isn't contingent upon farm during this learning phase. Malphite (ult), Amumu (ult), Shen (global ult), Naut (tons of CC)... I'm sure there are others that aren't coming to mind.