I will buy Maokai, is better 9/21/0 for magpen or 0/21/9 for mov speed?

with mao i usually do 9-21 for magic pen and defense, or 0-9-21 for utility.

what you want to do with maokai is 30/0/0 masteries, flat AD runes across the board and build five tiamats

ad sona with 6 tiamats

i've done it

Nasus with six Tiamat. His Q hurts.

wynks builds him movespeed, which is hysterical to see. nothing can escape his 2k crits of doom.

Malphite with 6 tiamats... It's just nasty.


Also, I love Cassiopeia.

However, I just ate it big time in two pvp games, but then again my friends weren't paying attention to team comp.

Xypherous did a massive Q&A about the next champion on the forums a few hours ago. He's a pirate/sailor of some sort that uses a massive anchor as a weapon.

Q - Hookshot, pulls Anchorman towards terrain, or if hits champion (any enemy?) pulls Anchorman and that enemy together, but presumably moves Anchorman than enemy less because he's big and heavy
W - Shield that scales with hp
E - Slow version of Tidehunter's ult, keeping enemies close to you unless they choose to run and get cc'd by the spikes.
R - Homing tidal burst that travels up to a maximum amount of time towards a target/until it hits the target. blows up things it hits along the way, blows up and slows on impact of actual target.

He's a tanky character with fairly good AP ratios, that apparently can jungle quite well. He's supposed to be simple to play, while the next one is more complex.

Seems neat. I was hoping we'd get another Bilgewater champion.

Edit: Also, the new support champion is 'definately coming before June', so there's that. :P

played an awesome teamcomp for several games tonight. taric (heal clarity) teemo bot, gragas/morde mid, singed jungle, jax/gp/kong top.

taric and teemo boss around all carry/support lanes hard by shutting down autoattacks and stunning constantly, and always nabbing bottom blue when it's up to deny enemy jungler. mid just is so tanky and can boss anyone around hard. jungle isn't that great, but ganks are easy from the goop, and his toss basically ensures a kill all the time. top lane is whoever you feel like, because jungler or mid can go up top and help out all the time. you've got gragas ult and taric stun as hard cc, plus singed slow and toss, jax stun, and teemo's blind. there's enormous poke with barrels, parrrley, and blind shot, as well as everyone having a lot of escapes. it all comes down to managing your fights, and the other team will screw up before you do if you do it well.

as taric uber-support build, going with philo stone, boots, then aegis, then mana manip, here's my games for the night with this team: 4-2-19, 3-0-6 25m surrender, 0-2-15, 1-2-14. yes, that's me not dying more than twice in four straight games as a tanky support.

we had a touch of trouble in one game that was sona/yorick bot, because yorick could heal so hard so much, and their kong jungle was really good. we only died once each in bot to them, but it was a lot harder to farm. it works out ok though because with heal/clarity and taric's heal, i can appear to be next to death and then be completely full, stunning one of them and getting teemo kills constantly. it doesn't matter later, though - as long as your top lane doesn't take unnecessary risks (having a gp top for the extra gold from ult assists helps out a lot), you inevitably wind up higher levels because every lane has so much sustain.

as far as teemo/taric lane, it's easily one of the best i've ever been in. we faced a shen/graves, yorick/sona, alistar/graves, and janna/rumble (which was way cooler than it sounds, double shield was really annoying), and just absolutely blew them away. i want to face a vayne/soraka or cait/soraka, still, but if it ranks up there with the best bottom lanes, i'm cool with it =)

i played drunk with rumble and went 13-5-20, 6-1-3, and 4-2-3, the last two being early surrenders

i guess being drunk is a good thing