You will have to start with fillers, it will auto pick the best people if you pick no one.

Ill be drafting all the garbage on the throw away team. I can use my phone and use the browser to drafter for both teams. 

I will probably be late.  Or maybe not.  We will see.

Brad if you see this try to get online so we can draft

I have to patch. I am here though if you are still ready to draft.

how'd the draft go kiddos?

So... I've been spamming top a bit now.  I started thinking about playing top a bunch again when I saw wukongs win rate in top floating around 54%... which reminded me I had a decent skill level with him, BUT little experience playing him top.  I tried that, but didn't really feel like dedicating a bunch of time to him... now anyway.

But - I did want to give Illaoi a shot again after the changes.  Now, someone posted a vid about advanced illaoi strategies and tactics.  I learned 2 things from this - 1 of which is actually pretty game changing for me.  The person making the vid said ALWAYS have a red pot post level 9.  

That one thing makes a HUGE difference and I really recommend trying that out - probably on many diff champs but DEFINITELY on Illaoi.  30 bonus dmg + healing for 15% of the physical damage dealt for 3 min for 500 gold.  This amps up her survivablity a ton and gives you an added power spike at level 9 that is not anticipated.  The downside, obviously, is the cost, but it works extremely well.  

There are 2 main builds with her - 1 tanky, 1 dmg danky.  I'm focused with the dmg setup going arm pen runes.  cleaver,steraks, that AD item that gives 10% cdr and lets you take dmg as bleed (forgetting name).  After that you can rush GA or w/e.  

Continuing to spam top illaoi.  Getting a little tired of it, but sticking with to get the experience.  Knowing zero top lane matchups vs illaoi and stuff requires a bit more spam.  Getting a little better, but I still suck quite a bit at top lane in general.  Getting better with things like farming/poking appropriately.  Working most of on figuring out how best to use her late game and proper tp usage.  It's a lot to figure out and get used to looking at the map at the right times.  

So I think Illaoi is in an interesting spot.  I think her tenatacle mechanic where you pull their spirit and echo damage, etc, is kind of awful in design and not fun to play against.  It was insanely awful at release when it lasted a super long time.  Now it lasts like 12 seconds and often forces the a really dumb, but necessary counter play.  Folks often RUN away whenever you land the spirit grab and take the echo'd effect where tentacles spawn for 12 seconds.  This effectly zones them from farming a bit, but fug if it isn't a horribly designed and very unfun mechanic to deal with.  It's nice there's some small counter play in there with being able to kill the tentacles to end the effect early, but seriously, how fun is it to get hit by an ability then have to run around like away like a jack ass and putz around with tentacles for 12 seconds.  It's just kind of awful.  And I find is pretty freaking easy to hit.

Currently I think top lane is super snowbally.  You get ahead and its snowball city.  Illaoi is actually one champ that can actually pretty easily shut down someone that has a lead against her early/mid.  She has gets a huge power spike any time you properly use her combos - and folks still have kind of a low skill level against her and don't really understand just how strong she is, even if behind.  That's all just learning curve junk, though.  I really think her spirit grab is one of the worst mechanics in the game, though.  So many more matchups for me to learn though along with top lane gameplay.

Says RiotChomey:  "So autofill is ALWAYS enabled for all tiers and ranks. The criteria for actually getting autofilled is based on population. We just had to restart the service (woot, new short record, 3 minute downtime) due to a small bug that was impacting ~100 players in a really negative way. Sorry for the inconvenience"

Looks like Illinois was used in LCS?

https://www.reddit.com/r/summonerschool/comments/4nog6b/how_quas_builds_illaoi/

Yeah - I thought I saw a game or 2, which was cool to see.  I still have the same problem as always with champs... I get bored way too quickly to improve a ton.  She's a goto pick for me out of top lane atm anyway.  I really think armor pen runes is a better way to go on her than just ad or even scaling ad.  My only armor pen for her outside of runes/masteries is from BC... which I'm not 100% sure, but i believe it stacks per tentacle hit.  With BC + a good rotation/good spot for ult +pen, I think you come close to true damage for a good chunk of the dps.  She feels so much like that god tier darius with full stacks when you get a good team setup.  It's rare, but its a pretty good feeling to instantly melt everyone on their team in 1 combo.  Neat to see how a pro is building her all the same.

I think I'm actually starting to care less about rank in general.  Not ranked, but rank.  I don't really have thoughts about playing against gold scrubs or anything like that.  I don't sweat much if I'm playing against a diamond 3 top.  I find I'm usually just evaluating things based on how I'm stacking up (eg I played like crap or I did this ok).  So, I think I'm mostly interested in getting better at the game outside of my actual rank.  Anyway, having fun learning other roles.  

I picked up dead by daylight yesterday.  Let me know if you'd like to play it if you got it ($17 on steam).  It's a survival horror sort of MP game.  4 victims and 1 serial killer.  The victims try to work together to escape.  Seems like it has an ok perk system, etc.  Not sure how much I'll get into it, but I'll play it a few more times anyway.  Some folks are streaming it, so give that a look to figure out if it might be something fun for you or not.  

I'll probably put some reps into league tonight.  

pacov, ive got a quick question for you about demigod.

Do you remember demigod tier list? Im remember there was a system for tournaments - some demigods were worth 3 points, some 2, and regulus was worth one as i remember. And you were limited on total points amount per team. Do you have a link, or something to thread with the rules?

Im asking because today one russian guy wrote a review about demigod. Brought back my memories :3

Took me a second, but then I remember what you were talking about.  I dug around and found this from a tourney we had:

Demigod Selection

Each 3 man team must use the following formula to make their Demigod character selections based on a 7 point maximum.  Be aware that no duplicate demigods are permitted on the same team.  This means you cannot choose random.

• Demon Assassin/Regulus - 1 point
• Oculus/Queen of Thorns/Senda/Torch Bearer - 2 points
• Lord Erebus/Oak/Rook/Unclean Beast - 3 points

Not sure if its worth it, but here's the thread I found the info in:  https://forums.politicalmachine.com/396231/page/7/