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Oblio

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Just lost 5 straight every game I get a duo that feeds ... Riot really really needs to fix their match making. I am Silver 3 why do I get a Bronze 2 Silver 5 duo on my team? According to LOLSKILL my unofficial elo was 1310 prior to the game and I get matched with a Cait that is 1060. How the fuck does that happen?
 

Enob

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Because that "unoffical elo" is just a number assigned to your division, tier, and points. Has absolutely nothing to do with your actual MMR.
 

sebur

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Since they duo'd I also believe it inflates their MMR slightly so depending on what they have been doing previously (winning/losing) along with what is available at the time to create a game could be why. Also just because you are silver 3 doesn't mean that you don't have a lower MMR than your division should have.
 

Oblio

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I wish it would match you on performance instead of recent wins and losses within your Division. I have now lost 7 straight, my last game I was 8/3/11 but my team was so bad I could not carry.
 

Oblio

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That J4 type move will help clear speeds so much. I am not sure what his ratios are or how exactly to build him, but I wonder in Feral Flare would work on him.
 

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He won't need to even go around the Jungle much because after a certain level of farm, you can just Q your soldiers from like Red Buff to Golems and clear shit. His soldier don't proc on hit effects so FF is useless on him. You'll want to do AP based builds. I foresee Wraith -> ROA -> Nashors as his core. Then build into something with Health/AP since his shield scales off both on his E.

Wraith, Nashors, ROA, Rylais, Boots

Sixth item can be something like Zhonyas or Banshees for defense. Liandrys or Voidstaff for Pene. Void for offensive builds or Liandrys for defensive.
 

Sidian

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I really hope NA is somewhat stable a few days over labor day wknd. I was having a few drinks last night, company left, so I'm like, let's get on league! "Position in queue: over 20k, estimated wait time: ~7 minutes" Yup, NA is lagging again, fk it.

Also, about Azir jungle, if you're jungle and don't get a jungle item I think you'll fall waaaay too far behind. If you're building him AP just grab spectral wraith, gives ap/cdr(so atksp)/spellvamp + that juicy gold on big monster kill. Plus, then you can donate your blue instead of taking it for yourself.
 

Draegan_sl

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They had some issues last night, but once you got on (I had to wait 6 minutes or so), it was perfectly fine.

Azir: Who said they wouldn't get a jungle item on him? In any case, his first few clears are awful. They are slow and painful. The trick is lining up your soldier so he hits everything in a row. Even then, you take a lot of damage.

I can't wait to play him because I think he can play every position except ADC in some fashion. I've seen that he can play jungle very well. He's being played in top/mid perfectly fine (to what degree, we'll see). He probably even a passable support with slows, knockups and poke/zoning. Certainly not a tier 1 support but whatevs.
 

Sidian

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I dunno I'd call Kiwi getting a max range hook + crumbz pulling an insec poor decision making from dlift...

If anything their picks blow ass and don't make much sense and Link was playing very poorly on Zilean who should be sitting on dlift speeding him up constantly and using his ult so you can play super agro as jinx.
 
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No, that was a positioning error on his part, and DiG punished it very well. This series just shows that teams don't think Dlift can carry a game anymore, and that Link is a complete non factor with the current viable mid champions. DiG just let the CLG botlane do whatever and destroyed their top lane and jungle. I do feel sorry for Seraph though, that game three camp that Dexter did nothing to respond to or punish was probably the most thorough early destruction of a solo laner I have seen in a while.

So predictions for CLG:

Link and Seraph gets booted, and Dlift retires. They honestly need to blow the whole thing up aside from Aphro though. Dexter has just been abysmal for the last couple of months.
 

sebur

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Dlift can still be good he just needs to be put in his place, which I don't believe is happening currently. Link and Dexter have always been meh and should have been gone. Aphro deserves a better team.
 

Oblio

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Not that I am a huge Dig fan, but I was happy to see them win. I like Scarra and the team seems to have a happy go lucky lucky vibe to it.

My favorite teams are TSM and Curse, though I am conflicted about Curse because I do not care for Xspecial.
 

Sidian

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Say what you want but Dlift is still one of the best ADC's in NA, if not the world. If only CLG's team didn't play every game with the protect the Dlift comp they could actually win. If Link could carry or if Seraph could carry it'd be different, but currently dlift is the only player on CLG that actually attempts to make plays. Just think if instead of link it was Bjerg or something that actually played carry mid laners very well. Or hell, look at CLG win rate when Link plays Yasuo, they do extremely well because it's not just a 1 man carry team.

Every game is basically a 3 man support + tanky toplane + dlift, and if teams can focus dlift down it's gg.
 
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Say what you want but Dlift is still one of the best ADC's in NA, if not the world. If only CLG's team didn't play every game with the protect the Dlift comp they could actually win. If Link could carry or if Seraph could carry it'd be different, but currently dlift is the only player on CLG that actually attempts to make plays. Just think if instead of link it was Bjerg or something that actually played carry mid laners very well. Or hell, look at CLG win rate when Link plays Yasuo, they do extremely well because it's not just a 1 man carry team.

Every game is basically a 3 man support + tanky toplane + dlift, and if teams can focus dlift down it's gg.
Its funny that you talk about people making plays other then dlift. Link not so much, but the game where Dlift got caught out of position by lee at the turret which basically was the winning play had Seraph carrying the game as split push Nid. But... Dlift gets caught and tosses all the effort down the toilet. Sure Dlift mechanically is probably still world class but his decision making and just all around game sense is way below. So no, he is no longer a top tier adc. Mechanics aren't enough at this point, because everyone has good mechanics and a lot of ADCs (especially the chinese and korean ones) are mechanical gods.
 

skrala

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I'm not even sure you could call him top tier NA anymore. He's an LCS caliber ADC without a doubt, but he didn't carry games any harder than Sneaky, Vasili, Turtle, or even Altec after he joined EG. I don't think you could say he's mechanically better than any of them, and his decision making has never been good. He gets hit with more skillshots than any top tier carry should, and those third game thresh/LS catches probably cost CLG the series.