Shanco

She's still got it. EDIT: We might have made Yi cry...

Each of them has a problem that can be exploited somewhat easily, sometimes even through picks and bans. Darius is not innately tanky compared to the others; in addition, he won't do very much if he misses his pull. Garen needs to be in melee range to be able to do anything; his damage against non-Villain targets also falls off. Skarner struggles mightily in lane teamfights due to his extreme reliance on his E. Mordekaiser has no CC or mobility, and lacks an impactful lane phase against DPS-heavy champs such as Jinx and Swain.

I have my doubts about Origen. The rest of EU is not a free win, as we've seen. My money's on the Unicorns.

17th out of 32, so lower half, but did well given my tournament inexperience and the level of play there (which was pretty high). I used Ganondorf with Lucina for a backup. Lost to Poke 2-0 in Rd. 1 Won vs. PasteCat 2-1 in Losers Rd. 1 Lost to Raijin 2-0 in Losers Rd. 2

So I actually participated in (and casted) my first ever real Smash 4 tournament! As you can guess, I didn't get too far, but as before with locals, despite this being a weekly and thus comparatively small (even though some of the best in the country were present), here are the characters used by the top 12 finishers: 1. Sheik 2. Donkey Kong / Luigi 3. Fox / Mario 4. Zero Suit Samus / Captain Falcon 5. Peach 5. Diddy Kong 7. Captain Falcon 7. Pikachu 9. Sonic 9. King Dedede 9. Donkey Kong 9. Bowser VODs of my bad casting will pop up eventually, and I may post them, or I may not.

I dunno, maybe if you're talking about the login screen as a whole then yeah, definitely Lucian's. Music-wise, there's been a few true gems, such as All-Stars 2014, Welcome to Planet Urf, Ekko, etc.

This is something that literally every league player goes through. Worry not.

Roy is a rushdown/bait-and-punish character that plays a lot like a ground-favoring Captain Falcon. His great overall speed gives him great combo potential, allows him to get the inner sweetspots on his opponents, and gifts him a severely underrated offstage game. However, the nature of his attacks make him a high-risk character whose defensive game is subpar, and his recovery is...alright, but not fantastic, as horizontal recoveries are gimped easily when it comes to this character. I guess the main thing I have to say about Roy is that you can't be afraid. Don't try to space, don't play defensive - just go at them. Those sweet spotted attacks can kill surprisingly early. It's also important to mix up your movements so that you can bait the opponent into missing a Dash Attack or something and then promptly destroying them with an F-Tilt combo or F-Smash. Also, I don't like D-throw into Up-B as cool as it seems. You get good damage, but lighter opponents can DI out of it easily and Roy gets a pseudo-chaingrab against some of the others. 23 damage might be nice, but you're usually selling yourself short on Roy's great combo potential - your best bet is going for an aerial depending on the direction your throw sends them, then try to string a few more hits off that.

Not the Smash 4 one. There's one for Melee that gets streamed however.

Well, that is why I mentioned the stress test...such is when the kinks get ironed out

New average ping, down from about 95 from before. I have been getting uncanny amounts of packet loss however - ping has been spiking to about 300 very often (once every 30 seconds or so). It might have something to do with my ISP, but I have one of the biggest and most stable in the country. I guess things will get better after the stress test.

I doubt it. They're all off either in the States or Quebec area

I will be going to a local weekly on Thursday. There are a lot of good Canadian players that go to it - Yoh, Poke, Ray Kalm and a handful of others frequent the weeklies, while other Canadian players such as Ally and Dabuz also show up every now and again. Taking a set off anyone will require a miracle, but I think I can do it.

I really don't want that bot lane back...no one wants to play against it. NO ONE. Graves/Leona would be preferable. There has been some discussion of Braum nerfs for 5.18 though...

In case any of you haven't been paying attention, the NA server move from Portland, OR to Chicago, IL will happen tomorrow. Everybody on the west coast and east of Denver will feel a noticeable impact in ping. Ranked queues will most likely be disabled for most of the day while the transfer happens, but the service is expected to be available through the day with no downtime.

That, along with Tahm being pretty slow on his own.

Something forthcoming that those might have missed, there will be a hotfix deployed on Monday. There are no bugs (to the best of my knowledge) that are included in this update, as the main purpose of said hotfix is to buff Darius, who after his rework is very weak, according to the masses. Garen may also be nerfed in this hotfix as well.

Tahm Kench. That dude dealt insane damage once he got the Titanic Hydra. He got first blood on Heimer when he, Jarvan and I dogpiled him, so that also helped.

Everything was just hum de hurr durr...until I started roaming. EDIT: Elise got nerfed...but her spider bombs sure didn't.

http://smashboards.com/threads/the-tip-n-slide-ganondorf-combo-extender-tech.414572/ Ahaha. I have another weapon to use against all y'all... Real talk though, I've been trying to find other low-trajectory aerials like the Tipman, but if there is one that functions as such, then do post it here. (I keep thinking there's one, but not sure.)

To confirm, Lyte has a PhD in psychology. Will have to confirm but I believe he has mentioned that it's from USC. He's pretty intelligent, but dealing with millions of salty kids (and adults) within a video game community is generally not something that someone with a degree like that would do everyday. Poor dude is trying to do the impossible.

I'd go FQC, Sightstone, Ionian Boots as a main set on Nami; however, as a support, most of your build is situational. You will have to cater to the enemy team and look into getting Aegis of Locket if your top/jungler doesn't get it. Banner of Command and Zeke's Harbinger are pretty good items on Nami as well, but their uses are situational - I personally like Banner if the game's at a standstill or against multi-AP comps. Mikael's is also pretty important, now that I think about it, as you get massive mana regen for Nami's high-cost spells. You also get CDR and a nice passive to save a teammate who's been goofing off. ...usually. I don't play support very often though, so that's bSed on my knowledge and (admittedly little) experience. Erick / Neo is your man to go to about anything support-related. EDIT: Oh yeah, Talisman or Righteous Glory if your team lacks a hard engage (Nami has a good engage but her tools are best used as followups).

So an interesting announcement was just made by Lyte earlier today on his ask.fm page... Also: Rek'Sai used to be considered an excellent peeler. Sivir used to be considered a "godsend" for Kog to the point that some would play her mid in juggermaw comps... ...until they got nerfed. Good riddance.