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If Reddit didn't supply me with a ton of information I wouldn't know otherwise, I'd probably stay away from it as much as I can. Everyone there whines and complains about pretty much everything.

Oy. What a head ache. With how fucking fragile ADC is in this meta, taking an offensive summoner spell is just moronic.

Oh, I'm well aware. I'm just referring to how Lyte chose to word it.

In regards to Lyte and his statement on end of season rewards, he has come forward saying there was a mistake in what he said. Players who do not have these chat or ranked restrictions or have reformed from them by the end of the season will get their rewards. However, those who were banned for 7+ days will not be receiving ranked rewards.

Yeah I guess. Would have been happier if it was TL vs. CLG though.

While you do bring up many valid points, I'd like to ask you be a bit more polite in your approach. Remember that not everyone here has insane mechanical prowess. While yes, the ability to solo carry a game is definitely a staple part of climbing, it's unhealthy to keep the mindset that you must solo carry every game. Everyone is bound to have a game where they're not doing too hot and rely on the rest of the team to get them to the end. Just a reminder that league of legends is a team game. Sure not everyone will be great, but you gotta remember that your team contributes something.

Happy birthday to both Sheep and Alexus! Hope you all can spend it well!

I'm sorry, but I'm still failing to see how any of this keeps her from being a hyper carry in the late game. Kalista is also considered a hyper carry (kind of sad to see these nerfs coming to her again), when her kit also revolves heavily around her Rend. Unless the rend kills a champion (which often won't happen in a team fight if the enemy is smart), you're gonna have to wait until it's off cooldown to do some legitimate damage again. At least with Tristana, her synergy with her Q and E allow the cooldowns of both to be lowered with each autoattack (which I might add, you'll be firing off a lot with your Q active as well as with full build and additional attack speed coming from Frenzy). With that, you E's cooldown becomes relatively short. Additionally, are we forgetting that regardless, Tristana still scales until 18, regardless of how far ahead or behind she is in terms of an item build? Every level spikes her power and safety as her main sources of damage all increase in range. Yeah, she's got a pretty strong mid game because of her E damage and how quickly it can shred a tower, but I wouldn't say that makes her any less of a hyper carry in the late game.

The first one can be applied to almost any gap closer, the second is a staple of any adc, and the third is just common sense. Not sure how any of that invalidates her as a hyper carry.

I'll admit my entry on Lucian and Urgot was a bit satirical, but it's honestly because I don't have much to say for them. I've had little to no success on either so I generally don't have much helpful advice. 1. Sivir and Ashe are both lane bullies from my experience. One or two good Q's from Sivir are enough to intimidate someone if they don't have much life steal or many health potions. Additionally, if the enemy carry is standing too close to the wave while Sivir shoves it, you can't underestimate how much damage her W can actually do to people. Ashe's volley is a very reliable, low mana cost poke that sets her up for crit damage if she chooses to follow with auto attacks soon after. Once they hit 6, both can pressure the lane a lot. Neither are supreme lane bullies, but they're definitely up there in my books. 2. Only reason I put Ezreal into this group is because he's got a somewhat oppressive lane, but also isn't your average carry. He's very reliant on his spells and can easily run out of mana, even with the manamune build. If he's out of mana, he's unable to escape easily and must get in a rather close range to attack enemies. I will say it was a bit of a poor choice in my placement of him. Also am kinda tired right now so yeah. 3. I don't understand how Tristana isn't a hyper carry? She does insane damage in any aspect of the game. She builds basically identical to Jinx, who happens to be one of the most infamous hyper carries right now. She has an attack speed steroid to pump out more auto attacks and get a greater chance of crits post IE and PD, as well as the fact that the more auto attacks she pumps out, the more damage explosive charge does. She shreds tanks and towers so damn easily, it's not even funny. She was considered an insane hyper carry pre-rework, so I don't see why she can't be considered one now. She actually has an AD scaling spell now that synergizes incredibly well with her attack speed steroidl The most assassin like? Sure, she can easily be an assassin, but I'm not sure you've seen Valor hop out of a bush and 100-0 you in 2 seconds flat.

So, I'm gonna bring the discussion of carry potential that began in the Screenshots thread to here to prevent any further derailing. As an ADC main (you know, the one claimed to have the most carry potential by many), find that carrying your game depends on many factors. While you can carry in any scenario, some situations are easier than others. -Lane Was I up to par with my opponents CS? Above? Below? Did I leave the lane with kills? Deaths? Did I give anyone kills in the process (JG, AD, Sup, Mid)? Did I end the laning phase with my core items (IE, SS or PD. Bork and Greaves. TriForce and optimal boots. Bloodthirster and Greaves)? -Team Does my team contain an optimal amount of peel? Does my team have a solid front line to protect me? Is my team mechanically up to par? Can I rely on my team to do their job if I do mine? Can my team apply any buffs to me so I can carry easier (Help, Pix!, Blood Boil, Eye of the Storm, Whimsy, etc)? -My Champion Am I a low mobility hyper carry (Jinx, Kog'maw, etc.)? As a hyper carry, your laning phase isn't going to be too great. Unless you're against another hyper carry, you're probably going to leave lane with lower farm unless you have an aggressive or zoning support. Because of this, your laning phase is going to be extended a bit. You won't have much of an impact in team fights just yet, so you're better off pushing a wave either top or bot to get farm, and then going to group with your team. Do this until you've gotten your core items and can provide more to a team fight. As a low mobility hyper carry, your job is to stay in the backlines and use your range and damage to your advantage. Focus their frontline if it is the only thing you can reach. If a champion from their backline is caught out, aid your team in collapsing. Especially if you are Jinx, you should be able to reposition yourself after killing this enemy, so you should be safe if their front line jumps you. If you do get caught, you better hope your QSS is off cooldown or your team is ready to help you, because if not, you're probably not getting out alive unless you've got a lot of life steal. Am I a high mobility hyper carry (Vayne, Kalista, Tristana, etc.)? The same laning phase advice applies for these champions as the low mobility hyper carries. As a high mobility hyper carry, your job is to safely deal as much damage as you possibly can from the backline. Just because you have mobility does not mean your are invincible. Use your mobility to your advantage if you get caught or to outplay the enemy. Your single target damage is nothing to be laughed at, so if your team catches a target, immediately collapse. As these three champions, you bring a lot to a teamfight. Vayne's attack damage and movement speed steroid allows her to pick of a champion with ease when tied in with her pick potential with condemn. Kalista and Tristana have self peel of their own with Martial Poise and Rocket Jump respectively. In addition, if you are in a rough situation, you can use Fate's Call or Buster Shot to peel them off of you. While they are CC'd focus them down or change your position to be safer. Your kit synergizes well with attack speed and because of that, getting a lot of auto attack on your target is key to taking them down. Silver Bolts, Rend, and Explosive Charge all require you to get as many auto attacks off as you can for optimal damage. Use your range to your advantage and try to kite anyone who jumps on to you. Am I a lane bully with a weaker late game (Miss Fortune, Draven, Ezreal, Corki, etc.?) Honestly, any champion can carry the late game if they're mechanically skilled enough, but these champions require a little more effort. Your main goal is to use your oppressive early game to try to force an early surrender. Your champions will often have a spammable ability or damage steroid in Draven's case, that will do decent damage in lane and will zone your enemies from farm. Get them behind enough and it will take them a while to get their necessary items to carry. While you have them backing frequently or cowering in the tower with low health, you can pressure the tower or go get dragon. The global gold or the buff can be very essential to snowballing your early game and keeping you as a nuisance. If you can snowball well enough, the enemy team will surrender or tilt, and you can easily take the game from that. Am I a lane bully with a weak mid game, but a decent late game (Caitlyn, Varus, etc.)? Hello my least favorite AD carries to play. These AD carries definitely have impacts in teamfights in the late game, but generally need a little extra effort to get there. These guys have a really nice laning phase, being able to bully the enemy AD carry out while getting a farm to accelerate their build. However, once that laning phase ends, your impact isn't too high. You don't have enough items yet to do damage to tanks and your peel tools are either high cooldown or generally only take immediate effect on a single target. Like the other late game carries, you're going to extend your laning phase to get a bit more farm. Once you're reached 3 or 4 items, you're of far greater use. Your damage is high enough to impact fights and you can use your poke pressure the enemies if they're hiding under tower. If the enemy team gets poked down enough they'll be too afraid to engage. If your team has a decent dive comp, you can sweep up the low health enemies with ease afterwards. Why the fuck am I playing this champion (Urgot, Lucian)? Sorry, but I just don't play these champions and I honestly think there are much more optimal champs to carry a game with. Am I an assassin oriented carry (Quinn, Twitch)? These champions don't have a strong laning phase. They're more meant for their ability to pick off lone enemies. Just try to play lane safe and farm up as much as you can. When the mid game comes, try to help your team in gaining vision control. If you can pick off the enemy carries while they roam in the jungle, you'll become enough of a nuisance to make them refuse to enter the jungle, or you can then pressure a lane as it'll easily become a 4v5. Quinn and Twitch are excellent at this as Quinn can ult and easily hop onto a single target, bursting them down with ease. If she doesn't recast ult to finish off the enemy, she can use her boosted movement speed and her W for increased vision to find safer get aways. Twitch excels in being able to go into stealth, find the perfect opportunity, break the stealth, and use his Youmuu's and increased attack speed from Q to just go insane on his enemy. Am I a utility ADC (Sivir, Ashe)? These champions kind of have it easy. It's kind of hard to screw these guys up. Both are rather big lane bullies. They can farm up and become strong. Now, these guys might not end the game with the most kills, but they'll more than often end the game having made an impact. Their ultimates are excellent tools to assist their team. Sivir's ult can allow her team to go wild. With their increased movement speed, they can chase down enemies, position better in fights, or escape a hard engage. Ashe's ult is an insane pick tool. The stun increases with range, so if you're a sharpshooter, you can lock down a target for quite a while if you land a good ult. Even if you completely wiff the ult, your passive slow will make it hard for an enemy to escape once you focus them. You're going to carry the game with your sheer utility rather than your damage.

Well, a red post has confirmed that the Project skin that people seem to not be able to identify is actually not a new champion. Still not sure exactly who it could be though.

Happy birthday my Delaware friend! Really sad that I missed the chance to meet up with you. Maybe we'll get the chance to again at some point. I'll treat you to some ramen if you want. Hope you get your fill of steak today, and I hope you make the best of the day. Hope to see you soon!

I mean, we don't exactly knwo what type of champion Yone would be. The most likely would be a fighter, and who's to say he wouldn't be more on the tanky side of things. Sure he's Yasuo's brother, but that doesn't mean his kit's gonna be identical.

I definitely thought Fiora was a possibility, and she's probably the most likely candidate, but I was honestly just hoping for Diana to get another skin.

Well, I guess I'll go into detail as to why that seemed a bit strange. The first one is the only one to by default say "Trace Lost." If it were master yi or max, or any other currently available champion, why not just include another description. Now, the theory sort of begins with the fact that the first mode and yasuo's node have the same numbers to them, which could point to a relation between yasuo and the champ the first node is for. Secondly, if you were on mobile, you were unable to access the site and instead got a picture of the character you were describing. Some people believe this plume not to be a plume, but actually a ponytail. Additionally, on the mobile version, there was a bunch of jumbled text, that when flipped upside down, spelled out "Do Not Trust, Corruped Memories." Now considering the unexplained link between the first node's numbers and yasuo's numbers, I and many other believe that this first node is of yasuo's brother yone. Now I know what you're going to say, "Yone's dead, that's impossible." Well, if we listen to what the mobile site said about corrupted memories, it could easily be determined that yasuo's memories of killing his brother were false, and yone is actually alive. Also, after comparing the picture of the project champion and Yone's silhouettes, some believe that plume to actually be Yone's ponytail.

The teaser made it out as if there were multiple project skins in the works or ready to be released next patch. I'll put down below what my previously stated thoughts were.

You think it's only one? I honestly thought it would be more than that. Or did I miss a red post?

You're right Doj, your opinion is not off topic and is placed in the right topic. You're free to discuss it, just remember that your words have a rather negative connotation and have already put a slight damper on the current mood. You're free to continue, just perhaps in a more respectful manner. Let's respect each other's gaming choices guys. Ok? Anyway, throwing myself back into the Project skin discussion, there are many rumors going around about how the pony tail man linked to the site is supposed to be Yasuo's brother Yone. Now, the problem with this theory is that Yone is currently deceased. Some can argue that Sion is technically deceased, but he's more undead than anything. Some people are theorizing that Yone might be the next champ, but he might have been sort of reborn in this "Project." If the next champ is linked to the first node: "Trace Lost," it could possibly be Yone. The trace could be referring to his life and how Yone was technically lost in battle. Comparing pictures of Yone and the pony tail man linked to the site has me thinking this theory could easily be possible. However, the jumbled text on the mobile version can be translated to "Corrupted Memories, Do Not Trust." This poses the question, could Yone possibly be alive? Could Yasuo's memories have been corrupted and he might not have actually killed Yone? I'm not sure, but I'm interested to hear some theories on the topic.

My guesses are 1: New Champion with a Project Skin going along with it 2: Leona 3: Lucian 4: Yasuo 5: Zed 6: a bit of a tossup but my guess on this one is Diana. A lot of it points to top lane bruiser champs like Irelia and Akali, but sicne they've already gotten skins somewhat recently, I'm putting my money elsewhere. Blades gleaming honestly makes me think of her blade when she has her passive ready and orbiting makes me think of the spheres around her with her W. Dashing cause you know her ult and stuff I guess.

Reminds me I've been wanting to go back and get some games on my first real main.

I think my first experience with anime was around when I was 5. I remember my sister and me having an obsession with Naruto and I remember always waiting for Toonami to come so I could watch the next episode. I even tried running up the walls like I remembered them running up the trees. Around the same time, I remember watching Spirited Away with my sister, and I remember thinking everything in it was so cool. To this day, it's still my favorite movie, and I doubt that will change. It wasn't until I was maybe 10 that anime was relevant in my life again. My sister was a friggin weeaboo at the time and didn't go a day without watching anime, reading manga, or learning a few new Japanese phrases. I remember I would sometimes sit down and watch with her. The only two I strictly remember watching with her were Ouran High School Host Club and Hetalia: Axis Allies. I think when I was 13, I finally started to give in and actually start looking for animes to watch on my own instead of just watching them with my sister. I'd heard there was a lot of hype surrounding Shingeki no Kyojin at the time and began with that. I really did go with a lot of the mainstream ones, like Sword Art Online and Fairy Tail soon after. I only really started by dipping my toe in, but I eventually began to spend more time watching anime when I realized a few of my friends liked anime too. It would allow for fun conversations and a more meaningful bond with some of these friends, and they broadened my anime horizons. I still have a lot to watch, but hopefully I'll be able to watch more and more.

I mean yeah, she's still bad ass and one helluva character, but I just loved Akise too much to forgive her.

Happy birthday guys! It's pretty cool how you guys share the same birthday.

I've already told Ame this, but, I thought Yuno was pretty cool and all until she killed Akise Aru and I was like... no. I've got a soft spot for cute gay anime boys.