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I think I heard someone say matchmaking rating instead of actual rank. Which would make sense, since you've done fairly well in ranked of late.

Well everyone does. That feel when I've finally sorted out my twenty mastery pages after about a couple hours, and I'm ready to rock.

Gangplank's passive, his sustain, etc. makes him a swish choice for the jungle. Twitch is awesome because he has stealth and his whatever the hell his W is called. And Fiora...I leave that to the pros. That's why she's crossed out.

Master Yi, Jax, Nocturne, Gangplank, Fiora, Twitch, those guys.

Playing two characters in one game at the same time? I did it the earlier today on Army of Two just for fun, but then nostalgia; I used to do it all the time with some N64 games. For me, depending on the game, it'd be easy, it'd be hard, but inevitably it would turn into a clusterfuck but that was the fun part of it! One of the "interesting" challenges of games, doing two things and trying not to be mind-screwed. Here's an example of what I'm talking about: Anyone ever tried the "double-playing"? (Not necessarily this game though. )

incoming patch! Patch 3.11's here! Mostly QoL changes, but that may matter to you! For those of you too lazy to look at the site, here they are in a semi-condensed form! Champions Draven got changes revolving around his passive. It now grants a flat gold bonus upon killing a champion, but Adoration stacks are less valuable. In addition, he'll consume all of his stacks upon champion kill instead of half. Fiora got a QoL change regarding Blade Waltz and untargetable/invisible units. Galio got buffs concerning his ultimate; its cooldown and mana cost have both been lowered. Mordekaise's Iron Man shield now displays in segments, similar to Aatrox's Blood Well. Thresh's Death Sentence got a neat change. Upon being blocked or cleansed, the chain will shatter, which prevents Thresh from bringing himself to his target with a second cast of Death Sentence. Zac got nerfed again, for crying out loud. His blobs are now more easily contestable by his opponents; explaining exactly how would require more detail than I'm willing to write. Champions - Twisted Treeline and Crystal Scar Kassadin's (CS) Null Sphere now silences his target for a shorter duration at later ranks. Kha'Zix took a couple of power nerfs to Taste Their Fear's isolation bonus and Evolved Enlarged Claws's %-health damage. Lulu's (CS) going to have to deal with a cooldown increase on her ultimate. Nidalee (TT/CS) now sees her Bushwhacks last a shorter time. Ditto with the Bushwhack debuff. Teemo's (TT/CS) Noxious Traps now last 3 minutes instead of 10. Wukong (CS) took a hit. His passive grants less bonus Armor and MR, and his ultimate's cooldown has been increased at higher ranks. Down with Yorick (CS)! His Omen of Famine took a pretty blunt hit, fortunately for the others who have a misfortune of laning against this guy in Dominion. Champions - Insignificant Stuff Fixes were made for the following champs:Singed Udyr Items The only item to get a notable change this patch was Sanguine Blade. A Pickaxe replaces the B.F. Sword in its recipe. Shop Undo Button Nobody's perfect, and sometimes you mess up and buy another Amplifying Tome when you meant to buy Liandry's Torment. For those mistakes, there's now the Shop Undo Button, which does exactly as it sounds. However, you can't undo Boot Enchantment purchases. You can only undo the last purchase for so long before you're stuck with it, so fix your mistake quickly! Spectator Mode Spectator Mode has a new Teamfight UIoption that alters the AI to better tell you what's going down in a teamfight (such as Pentakill counter, CC bars, and tons of other things). Pressing A during the game will switch to that mode. Dragon and Baron spawn timers have been added. Other Stufftons of visual tidbit updates and bug fixes, all of which are rather insignificant The Show/Hide Summoner Names option is no longer bound to a hot key. You can put a hot key on it again if you want. AFK Detection: You spend less time idle before you're kicked for inactivity. The Champions tab in the summoner profile has been updated. In order to receive IP/XP rewards, there must be at least 5 active players (3 on the Twisted Treeline), and the match must last at least 7 minutes. That should cover it all! Sounds like one of those patches that, although it's just a number of small changes, it's gonna feel a lot different because there were so many of those changes. There were Olaf changes waiting in the wings, but they were axed because the devs didn't want to take the chance of it having a huge impact on the World Championships. But now that Teemo and Nidalee have been nerfed, time for me to head back to playing 3v3! \o/

That feel when you get a mage in ARAM that you haven't played as at all in months, and memories are relived as you melt the other guy's face off with your combo. Feels so good, man.

Forgot to switch to Sorcerer's Shoes once I bought Morellonomicon, but whatever. It just felt so good playing Lux again.

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Night time? Ah, shit...

Draven wins

It's on

I'll be on around mid to late afternoon this week, as well as early morning, because that's what college allows me to do. May be on in class during the day but I dunno. Failing that I can be on during the weekend.

I'm signing up. With this I'll finally be able to get the name change I've wanted for a while now.

I feel like i'm the only one that thinks that's Akali and not a new champion. Notice the rather vague things that look like bullets - they could easily be the containers she calls up her smoke cloud from. Also her toenails are painted different colors on different feet - probably a reference to her passive and thing for balance and symmetry.

I looked up the Diamond Fiddle stats on Elophant. Over the last week, he's been the 24th most played champion at 30 games, right behind Ashe. He's also had the 26th highest win rate at a flat 60%, which is right behind Kayle. I didn't check the monthly stats, but I think with the weekly ones that it's a safe assumption that Fiddle pops up quite a bit up there. For those curious, the most popular champ in Diamond over the past week is Lee Sin, picked over three times the number of times Fiddle's been picked (94 for Lee). The winningest champ in Diamond is Galio, with a 90.91% win rate.

Funny how we're talking about Kass supposedly being OP while one of his quotes is "the balance of power must be preserved" Anyway, hardest champ to balance? Before the passive change I would have said TF but now I'd guess that it's Tryndamere, mainly because of that ultimate and Bloodlust. Though preferably I'd like to hear more about this from an actual Trendyman player like Tony.

That feel when Reginald ragequits

This looks incredible. Keep it up, dude.

Sneaky's a god. this has nothing to do with his dominance playing as her majesty, nope none at all Anyway, the reason I've been playing so much jungle of late is because I've been trying to learn from Meteos. He's always in the right place at the right time, never misses a chance to farm, and you just don't kill him late.

A band i'm surprised I haven't posted here already. They're great. Dark, but great.

Meteos is fuckin' omega, I swear. EDIT: I don't get it...though I feel like I should.

Sivir's VU up in this.

Cleveland is a swish city. I am envious. Rock and Roll hall of fame was one of the coolest places I've ever been, but that might not be your thing. In that case, there's still a ton to do.