Intel Extreme Masters Hanover, Germany.

Another huge tournament this weekend in Hanover, Germany. Get in there and watch pro's play against eachother! Very good games so far.

couple different links for you guys. streams.

http://iemhanover.leagueoflegends.com/
http://tv.esl.eu/de/


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Games as Fiora

So I bought Fiora first week out, something I usually don't do because they often get nerfed. But I played against   her and saw how broken she is (verse most other solo tops) and I had to buy her to help me get my second account to level 30. She has very good single target damage and is very good duelist with her having the best attack speed steroid in the game. I find her very good at snowballing as well, if you get a early kill from a gank or just from outplaying someone that you can easily boss your lane around and zone them. Some things that counter her are other champs that can out harass her. I played against a Wukong one game and it was brutal, she doesn't deal with that very good at all.

I like building her with a Wrigles, Phage/Frozen Mallet, Merc treds, Bloodthrister. and usually by then game is over of close to over. If you need to be more tanky you could add Atmogs to this and I could see it working. I like the build that I first said because it gives you good armor and health. Anyways I am in no means a master of her but I can see me playing a lot of her, she is VERY fun and her ulti animation is awesome to say the least.

Fiora - The Grand Duelist

This champion look like she could be a lot of fun. She looks like she would be a really solid solo top, with her passive that give her stacking life regen, her lunge ability will be a great gap closer for ganks and maybe to get away if the ability is a skill shot, and what looks to be the best steroid ability in the game with here Burst of Speed ability. Her ulti reminds me of Master Yi's Alpha strike, this annoys me, I think that riot is making to many champions because there is only so many different ways to make balanced skills and they should work more on balancing rather then a new champ every-other weekend but that's just my thought. Overall I think she has a good kit to dominate top lane and maybe jungle.

Musketeer Skin

Abilities: 

Duelist (Passive): Fiora regenerates ?? health over 6 seconds each time she deals physical damage. Striking champions will cause this effect to stack up to 4 times.

(Q) Lunge : Fiora dashes forward to strike her target, dealing physical damage. Fiora can perform the dash a second time within a couple seconds at no mana cost.

(W) Riposte :  (Passive): Fiora's Attack Damage is increased.

                      (Active): Fiora parries the next basic attack from a champion or monster and reflects magic damage back to the attacker.

 (E) Burst of Speed : Fiora gains Attack Speed for a 3 seconds. Each basic attack or Lunge she lands during this time increases her Movement Speed for 3 seconds, stacking up to 3 times.

(R) Blade Waltz : Fiora dashes around the battlefield striking random champions 5 times for physical damage. Successive strikes against the same target deal 35% less damage. The first and last attack will be against the same target.

IPL4 Qualifiers and Curse's Invitational Tournament. (update)

Curse Invitational Tournament:

Yesterday the online part of the Curse invitational was completed with Team Dignitas Beating CLG NA 2-1, sending them to California to play against Team Curse to play for the grand prize of $20,000! All the games that were played yesterday were great, and although my favorite team CLG didnt win. I was happy about Dignitas winning because it seems like every NA tournament has been won by either CLG or TSM for quite awhile.

Prize money: $20,000

Teams: Team Dignitas Vs. Team Curse

Prediction: Team Dignitas Winning

Date: February 25th (match time not available atm)

IPL4 Qualifiers:

IPL4 is still going on today with tons of good teams playing. If you miss them when they are live, they are often replayed and the videos get saved so that you can watch them whenever you want. There are 2 more live games that are to be played today so tune in to watch and learn from the games best.

Teams: Team EZ vs SK Gaming - 9:00 am PST 

Moscow 5 vs Western Wolves - 12:00 pm PST

against All authority vs Goose - 12:00 pm PST

RFLX vs Team Curse - 3:00 pm PST

Prediction: SK, M5, aAa, Curse all winning there games.

STREAM: http://www.twitch.tv/ipllol

IPL4 Qualifiers and Curse's Invitational Tournament.

These tournaments will be going on the 18th and 19th. Come watch some of the best LoL players from around the world compete against each and fight for that prize money!

Curse tournament today:
Prize: $5,000
Counter Logic Gaming vs. Team Solo Mid at 3:00 PST  (CLG up 1-0 ATM)
Epik vs. Dignitas at 5:30 PST
Then the Online Finals are at 8:00 PST

Other then the players themselves streaming the shout-cast stream will be here:
http://www.twitch.tv/team/curse

IPL4 Qualifiers:

I dont know exactly what time the teams are playing but you can find the stream here:
http://www.twitch.tv/ipllol

Nautilus Release Patch Notes

Im not going to go though every little detail of the patch notes, rather im going to touch on the things I like most about the changes and what I dislike.

The Big Buffs:

 Ill start it off with one of my favorite champs that got a buff, Warwick. Warwick got some much needed buffs this patch that will help him keep up with how fast other champions can jungle and his overall damage. The buffs they gave him I think are pretty balanced and creative(adding stacking damage effect of passive.) but I don't feel they touched him main problem which is his ridiculously low mana pool. Riot also gave a HUGE buff to Shen this patch, they changed/tweaked everyone of his abilities. I think that a buff on Shen was much needed but I fell like they just gave him way too much and that he will be nerf him a little on the next patch.

The Big Nerfs:

Sona is probably the champion that got hit hardest this patch by nerfs, to be fair her level 1 damage was way too strong. Riot tweaked her damage so that Sona cant burst someone 1/2 health in the first levels, late game Sona will still be the same. The only other real nerf that I saw was on Vladimir. Which I felt like after last patch he was fine, but I guess the 1800+elo player where saying he was too strong(more team-play, smarter players,people that main vlad.).

Link to the full patch notes - http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/nautilus-patch-notes

Nautilus, the Titan of the Depths

Nautilus looks like a really strong champion to me, but the way it sounds to me is that he keys on his skill-shot  heavily and people are generally bad at skill-shots. I do like his abilities, his anchor move which is like the opposite of blitz pull and his passive which is free CC. Looking at his abilities I think he will be a very strong if not OP in top lane with his gap closer, sheild and aoe spell. There is also that chance though that Riot makes his abilities go good that the damage numbers on them lack making him useless, only time will tell that and not much time at that.
  Just based on his abilities, I feel that be should be build as an AD bruiser, or maybe even a non-heal support with the CC that he has. I could easily see him being built like Irelia, with a Wit's end, Trinity-Force, Merc-Treds, then what ever defensive items you need from there. Anyways I look forward to the upcoming week for this champions release and for the free Ziggs week since I am on a new account now and have not been able to buy him.

Abilities:

• Staggering Blow (Passive) – Nautilus’ first basic attack against a target deals bonus physical damage and immobilizes the opponent briefly. Staggering Blow cannot trigger on the same target more than once every 12 seconds.
• Dredge Line - Nautilus throws his anchor forward. If he hits an enemy, he'll drag himself to his target and his target to him. If he hits terrain, he'll drag himself to the terrain and the cooldown is reduced.
• Titan’s Wrath - Nautilus places a shield on himself that absorbs additional damage based on his maximum health. While the shield is active, Nautilus' attacks deal damage over time to units around him.
• Riptide - Nautilus slams the ground, causing the earth to ripple out in waves. Each wave deals damage and slows the targets hit. This slow decays over time. Multiple waves that hit the same target deal reduced damage.
• Depth Charge (ultimate) – Nautilus launches a depth charge towards a target that picks up speed as it travels. This charge knocks up all enemies it encounters while traveling and explodes on impact, stunning the target and launching them into the air.

¢ LoL Pro ¢

So the pro League of Legends team Curse has made a new website that includes guides, videos, news about the team, forums, and info on tournaments. The website is a lot like the CLG and TSM websites in what it features, but in my opinion it is more based on the guides and helping people understand that right way to play LoL rather then just putting all the news about there team and how/what they have been doing.

http://www.lolpro.com/

I decided to post a blog about this because I like anything that helps the community in there play. I think that anyone that plays LoL should look up guides for the champions they play and watch pro players stream to improve themselves. Nothing frustrates me more then wasting 20+ minutes with teammates that have played over 200 games and still don't get the simple concepts of how to play that game.

  My next posts will be about the new champion Nautilus and the patch notes that come out with him, and the Go4lol tournament that is going on this weekend.

Links to pro teams websites: (with great guides and team news/info)

http://www.lolpro.com/  - Curse
http://clgaming.net/   - Counter Logic Gaming

http://www.solomid.net/  - Team Solo Mid

Main = Banned.

    So my main LoL account was banned recently, but not to worry I have a level 26 smurf account that I will play and level it up to 30. I'm not to mad that my account got banned, the only thing that sucks is all the IP I lost. I only spent probably $30 on the account over more then a years time, so the money wasn't a big issue.

    The things that pissed me off about this is that I found out through a forum site that some people that get banned get an opportunity to make a new account and level it up to 20 without getting reported/suspended and they can get there account unbanned. After sending tickets on tickets to Riots support one of them finally told me that I cannot qualify for that opportunity because of the reason I was banned. Which pissed me off even more because anyone that get banned has done something wrong/disruptive obviously, but to tell some people that they can have a chance at getting there account back and tell others they cant is just dumb. Honestly the only thing that I can think of is that I spend such low amounts of money on my account that they don't see me as a profit and that there is no reason for them to give me that chance. If that were the case I could understand, but then the support tells me that greed isn't why I cannot get my account back, so im left with using my smurf as a main now. Will have more posts on the patches/new champions soon.

~ Skarner ~

So I bought Skarner the other day and only had enough time to play a couple games with him, and I have to say I think he is really fun to play. He has really strong clearing ability in the jungle, strong ganks before and after lvl6,     awesome ulti. Just an all round good Champion in my opinion.
The first time I played Skarner on a free week I hated him, mostly because I had no idea how to play him, but after watching LoL pro Saintvicious on his stream play him I realized that he is not only good, but fun champion to play. I would recommend watching pro LoL player to anyone that wants to learn the game better. To many games I see kids that have no idea what they are doing, kids with 1000+ games played and they still act like its the first game they have ever played. CLG being my favorite team I tend to watch a lot of HotshotGG and Saintvicious which I have learn lots of different things about this game just from watching what they do in certain situations and just how to lane and overall play well.


You can find streams here. also guides on every champions on there websites.
http://clgaming.net/livestreams
http://www.solomid.net/streams.php

"Many more posts to come!"

~ Jax Remake ~

So with Riot taking dodge out of League of Legends the champion Jax had to get remade due to the fact that he heavily depended on dodging attacks so that he could use his stun ability. Riots view on dodge was that it was anti fun, and it didn't really take any skill to be able to dodge repeatably on auto attack based champions. Here is the new Jax.

I think that with this remake that jax will become a really strong jungler for his high damage at early levels and now has a stun that he can use when even he wants to and doesn't have to wait to get a dodge now. I honestly think that his jungle has the potential to be up there with Skarners and Maowkai's, which are 2 of the strongest right now.

Riddle time

comment with you answers. 

been busy as helll..lol

new song i have been into.. along with this youtube channel of some dude that makes hour long dubstep mashups, which are perfect for gaming.. check'em out

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Diggin

im diggin Flogging Molly right meow. check'em

Intel Extreme Masters Global

Never played LoL before but are interested in it? Watch pro players play right now!

also if you bad go watch this, and take a note pad out.

http://iemnewyork.leagueoflegends.com/

Graves, the Outlaw

Graves to me looks like an awesome Champion, I personally can't wait for him to come out. To me he looks like he would have shorter ranged then most ranged champions because of the fact he is using a shotgun, and if this is the case I think that building him kind of like Gangplank would work really good (kinda tanky but with good damage). By building him like this I think that you will get the most out of his passive by being able to just stay in the team fight and be so tanky that the other team doesn't want to focus you. It would also be cool if he could jungle, it seems to me like he would have some epic ganks with his dash and slow. His ult might take a bit to master though because u need perfect positioning in a team fight to ult someone and have it spray and hit everyone on the other team. One things that a lot of the LoL community was mad about with the last champion was that its in-game looked very bad, and by what I have seen of pictures of this guy is that he looks bad ass in-game.

Abilities:

• Buckshot: Graves fires three bullets in a cone damaging all enemies in the projectiles path. Enemies at close range can be hit by multiple projectiles, but each one beyond the first will deal reduced damage.
• Smokescreen: Graves fires a smoke canister at the target area that deals damage and creates a cloud of smoke. Enemies inside the smoke cloud have reduced sight range and movement speed.
• Quickdraw: Graves dashes forward gaining an attack speed boost for several seconds. Attacking enemies lowers the cooldown of this skill.
• Collateral Damage (Ultimate): Graves fires an explosive shell dealing heavy damage to the first target it hits. After hitting a champion or reaching the end of its range the shell explodes dealing damage in a cone behind the target.
• True Grit (Passive): Graves gains increasing armor and magic resistance the longer he remains in combat.

I strike again.

So I took a bit of a break from blogging just because I was just busy doing tons of others things. Dad needed an extra hand for his company where we demo'd sidewalks and then having to pour new concrete for the sidewalks (was tiring and a pain in the ass because we had to get rid of tree roots that where why the sidewalks where messed up in the first place, along with having to jack hammer and remove the concrete.). Also went out to my brothers for like a week to hang out and party with our friend that came into town. Anyways I should be back posting and games and game shit soon.

LoL ...lol

So I haven't been playing much League lately so I haven't posted anything about it in a bit, I haven't been playing because my account got suspended :(. Im pretty sure it got suspended because im sick of all the bad kids that don't know how to play they game and ruin it for people that actually dont want to lose because obviously im not trying to lose if im playing. So if your one of those people that picks a different champion every game and doesn't know how to play any one of them well, just go play in the AI matches and stop being bad, maybe look up some video's of pro's playing or guides how to play so your not useless and just piss people that are trying to play off. 

Riots "leave no noobie behind" thing is stupid ass hell, and if they really wanted to help new people they would stop matching people with 100 wins with people that have 400-1000 wins in normals. They also should do something about the fresh level 30's that go into ranked games, this is why people cry about elo hell its because you cant do anything to get out of ranked elo hell unless you dou que and just happen to be able to carry the bad kids that you will get.

Well my account gets un-suspended today so im kinda happy about that, but yeah there's my little rant about stuff that makes me mad bro.

Some games as ~ Talon ~

So I got talon and have been playing him a bunch, and I can say he is really fun! Right from the start I could tell that this champion would take some time to learn. Talon has a lot of escape ability whether he is getting ganked or just losing a fight and needs to get away. One thing I find hard is team fighting with him, often I wait for our tank to go in then hop on one of there carries just to get blasted away, as far as cleaning up kills and sticking on people when they try to run I would say he is one of the best. Here are some games I played as him.

 I find the bloodthirster so be a good item on him because of how easy he can get it farmed up, also the merc tread boots help a lot because he is a champ that needs to be cc'd so he doesn't get away. Anyways just wanted to let you guys know that he is as fun to play as he looks and he has a very cool set of abilities.

Φ Talon, The Blades Shadow Φ

So I didn't make a post about Skarner because he didn't look like a champion I would like, But the up-coming champion Talon looks to be nothing but fun. With like what I said about Wukong I like that Riot has come up with a champion that has new mechanics and has moves that don't resemble any other moves in the game, I find when too many champions have resembling moves that it gets boring. In my opinion none of his moves remind me of any other champion. The only thing that gives me worries about Talon is how deceiving the champion spotlights can be, because of how bad Phreak is at his own game the spotlights seem staged and the kills and "plays" that Phreak makes in the videos can make the champion look a lot stronger then he actually is just because he has items and the other player doesn't and things in that nature. 

With his passive I would have to say that Frozen Mallet on him would be a must, this will not only give you beefyness but it will allow your passive to come into effect on everyone of your attacks. Im thinking either Bloodthirster or Black cleaver (or both) would be really good on him. The 6 items that I think will complete my build will be, Merc Treads, Frozen Mallet, Black cleaver, Bloodthirster, wits end, and for the last item I would go with a defense item depending on your needs. I also predict that Flash and Ignite/exhaust 

But overall I plan on saving enough for Talon so that I can buy him when he comes out.

Abilities: 

Mercy (Passive): Talon deals more damage with his basic attacks to any target that is slowed, stunned, immobilized, or suppressed.

(Q) Noxian Diplomacy: Talon's next basic attack deals an additional physical damage. If the target is a champion, they will bleed, taking additional physical damage over a period of time and revealing their location for the duration.

(W) Rake: Talon sends out a volley of daggers that then return back to him, dealing physical damage every time it passes through an enemy. Additionally the enemy is slowed for a short duration.

(E) Cutthroat: Talon instantly appears behind his target, silencing them and amplifying his damage against that target.

(R) Shadow Assault (Ultimate): Talon disperses a ring of blades and gains stealth while gaining additional Movement Speed. When Talon emerges from stealth, the blades converge on his location. Every time a blade passes through an enemy, they receive physical damage.