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i've been reading a lot of 'pro' builds for the characters i play the most, and i'm finding that almost exclusively they recommend ghost over flash. the only time you want flash is on a character like fiddlesticks, where you can virtually dash through two walls between crowstorm and flash and surprise people where they had no idea where you'd be. the main reason for ghost is that the duration is just so long, and ignores collision so it can blow through creep waves without getting boxed in. you can just run away from anything, and even with a speed boost ability characters will just keep up with you and not catch you. for fiddles, ghost is nice because it allows you to catch up to players with crowstorm and be able to hit them with drain at close range. with a character like cho, it means that no one can get away from his ult, since collision with him is terrible the bigger he gets. and with urgot, it means that you can always be in position to continue attacking with his Q and never be out of range (since his shield slows enemies by 20% as well). but yeah, i'd put ghost over flash any day. i also feel that exhaust is better than ignite since it scales so well late into the match. it's always a percentage thing rather than a set amount of true damage, and a lucky potion or heal spell (meditate comes to mind) can't counteract it like you can to ignite. teleport is also important for characters that don't get much gold early in game and aren't going to get early kills, like rammus. he can miss as much as a full level of experience when he goes back to buy his heart of gold, and that level means so much in mid game since he spends a lot of time roaming and defending towers and not as much time actually in the lane unless there's a big teamfight. almost all videos i've seen of people playing rammus have him one or two levels down in mid-game because of that, and so teleport means that they can jump right back into the action rather than waltzing down the lane. it's one of the few spells i use all game rather than just in fights or just in early game. i've teleported him into teamfights before when the other team thought they caught my squishies with their pants down and gotten triple kills off of tremors, high AD from his passive, and the taunt and powerball abilities. oh, and revive/teleport rammus? ridiculous. towerdive him early game with his powerball to get down there and die quick, and he can just sit there and eat damage for breakfast all early game. love it =D

we tried all AD and AD/AP, but got hosed by shooty girl and katarina's ult. the first time we tried it, we didn't have the masteries and didn't all have ranged, and we got annihilated. kat went 42-3-15 in about 25m. the second time, we didn't have masteries but had all ranged, and still got merc'd - but they beat us in towers so, don't know what i'd do differently. i'd prefer to have cait and kog in there over some other champs that we played, like malz. some combo of sivir, kat, kog, ashe, cait, tristana, and shooty girl could probably do a lot more than the teams we ran with today. alternatively, include a character with lane-sustaining heals and CC like alistar, or a buff character like janna, sona, or soraka. soraka and alistar both do decent damage early, and their healing abilities will counter what hit us the hardest - not being in lane half the time because we took two hits and were almost dead - and will prevent being dead ten times before level six. i still like the 1-4-0 strategy i suggested. have one character with a ridiculous AOE ult like kat or fiddles solo a lane, grab ridiculous exp early between fortify and general farming, and then go blow people up after hitting l6 early. since there'd be someone in the lane, likely the other team wouldn't collapse five mid right away, so you'd get a lot of 4v3s at low levels, where you can carve up a hero right away easily and be done with it. it'd also prevent blowing fortify five times in the first ten minutes, since they'd only have one free tower to push. i don't know if that'd make pushing towers harder or not, but i think that it'd help balance the EXP loss that you get with five in a lane. plus a l6 fiddles with magic pen boots and a rod or two - totally doable in a solo lane with a bit of tower gold - would easily deal 60-75% of most enemies HP in one crowstorm, not to mention the crazy stuff having an ability like fear with four ranged AD heroes right there represents.

i've been out of town for a few days. i'm itching to get back into it, though, so i'll likely be on within the next half-hour.

i was out of town and just got back, so i hadn't heard how things were going. congrats to willrock for a great track =)

i'm looking at the trooper and bounty hunter classes, depending on if i go jedi or sith. i'm always a fan of being the big damage-dealer heavy tank type, and that appears to be that for each.

there are a lot of characters that stack up assists, though. a character like rammus is a good example - someone who can do tons of AOE in a tight teamfight, has arguably one of the best chasing moves in the game (besides yi's ult), and has that 3s taunt to keep enemies in range and prevent them from using getaway moves...but beyond his ult basically can't take anyone 1v1 because his AS and AD is so low.

ps3 was sent out a few days ago. ds/flashcart and psp are still available.

clearly i wasn't around for that one, then

he was being facetious...

wait what?

is the lady of the lake a nymph that you shag in The Witcher? just sayinnnn

played two games with a guy with fort/tele and he rocked. fortify saved our asses at least three separate times, when we had three or four people dead and they were pushing with five.

i am looking forward to this game just because it's star wars. it can say KEEL FIVE SNOW BEEEST for every quest and i wouldn't care in the slightest.

a 32" HDTV with analog and digital inputs is under 300$. if you want to save space, go that route. you're not going to find a monitor with analog inputs for under that price, or if you do it'll either be small or cheaply made. and the converters cost a lot just know that a 32" tv uses 1280x768 resolution, so it's lower resolution than you'd be used to on a monitor. you'll have to sit a bit farther away as well to make it look good. make sure you get one that can display that resolution at 60hz, and not 24 or 23.973hz, as the first is for computers and the second is for video content.

had a solid 14/3/12 game with fiddles as mid the whole game. never done that with him before, but i out-farmed their mid (yes, me!) significantly and got three kills by level 7, and didn't look back. two hats, magic pen boots, void staff, abyssal scepter, and a rod of ages helped a lot, too, since by late-game i was over 550ap even before level 18. got my first quad-kill, too, in a 4v2 fight where they focused jarvan instead of me. couldn't get to soraka since she was too far away, but a quad ain't bad, eh?

what's your username? haven't seen you online. can i just say that zilean + yi last night was hysterically funny? i almost couldn't see the screen at one point i was laughing so hard. the 3v3 game was awesome =) the 5v5 game was not, but that's to be expected occasionally. i know i didn't play that great in that game.

someone with t3 runes will stomp someone with t1 runes if they're decent at the game, though, because the masteries make so much difference. and most of the people i play when i'm not playing with OCR folk are level 30s

played a few decent games today, when i wasn't busy being stomped with a five-man. at this point i'm just looking forward to getting some t3 runes so i can stop messing around with crap.

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your monitor's power supply blew. not worth fixing in most cases. 149 is a good price. 200 isn't. what input are you needing for the ps2? i'm assuming analog, which means an expensive converter. if you need a cheap one, hanns-g and acer both sell 22" monitors for around 140$ or so. hanns-g also sells an excellent 28" monitor that i use as a portable tv when it's not my primary monitor.

probably not.

your 'clarification' is still pretty bad either way. you're basically saying that i've done terrible and still gotten by on my 'name recognition', which in my opinion is as meaningless and anemic as what rozovian said. will's the one with the name here, folks. i just play sax poorly.

opinions, yes. attacks on my creative process? no. just totally uncalled for. he needs to grow up, as things like that are just so immature. i expect to hear that stuff from pre-pubescent boys on xbox live, not in something like this. edit: heh. pube scent.

drew gourley is really, really angry, apparently. was that really called for? calling my entry an "earfucking" is clearly not being impartial, if you ask me, as well as saying that i've gotten this far based on name alone. seriously, chill the fuck out, man. it's just plain rude. just because it's the internet doesn't mean that there aren't real people on the other end of the line.