yah that's what got me going on rumble in the 1st place.  Thx tho!

saw this today re: kalista - 30 sec and worth a watch.

Last second platinum.

Congrats Bryff!

Grats bro!  Nicely done!

I tried to trick karl earlier tonight by pming him out of the blue and asking him how the fug did he decayed to gold. 

My friend Snipersbane tried to make a last minute dash to Gold V and failed. Poor guy has to have that silver border for another season.

My former Bronze V 400 MMR buddies both got close to their goals.  One is Bronze I but had like 5 AFKs in a row and the other got Silver III.  They were both getting 25+ a win so the MMR was where it needed to be but real life got in the way.

Re: Diamonds Matching With Sub 30 Players

I'm thinking that there might be something more to what Pacov said than the mythical Smurf Detector.  I've been playing a lot with a new buddy who's not quite 30 and we played a ton of games last night/this morning and were getting multiple Diamond players in each game thrown at us.  My buddy is a MOBA veteran and in fact works for the company making Strife, but he's not good enough where he should be on the radar as a Smurf.

It's far worse than that actually.

About a year ago, i was playing with my partner (who is Teemo-top-only in SR. We generally only play dominion bots). When we first played SR, i played on a level 5 smurf, and that was fine... However, once they were higher leveled (low 20s or so), we tried playing some SR again. i played on my main, at the time. 

It was madness. Diamonds everywhere. One of the most silly games, we had a triple-queue Diamond I amumu Korean smurf along with two of his lower-skilled buddies (who were still good). The enemy team had similarly ranked players.

i am almost certain that the "smurf detection" is heavily based off of an account playing a lot of games with higher-ranked accounts, especially if it happens early on in the account's lifetime. If you want a "real" smurf, you have to level it in isolation, in my opinion. If you want to bring a friend to the game, then they better be ready to slug it on their own as well.

reading hedgie comments in the am.

So, here's a ww in the jungle preseason post.  Worth a look.

PLEASE - skip up until about 45 seconds or you will want to explode... some guy you don't know blathering on about a name change for 45 sec..

Yeah- I'm not really sure what the formula is, but I personally think there's something going on that ties the games back to my primary account as opposed to other people I occasionally play with.  If I were to wager a guess, I'd say I've played about > 75% of my games solo with the occasional playing together with pals.  The wonky matchmaking happens when I'm solo (ex I play team builder solo and get 12 min queue time when my wait time shows up as "short" - playing standard top laners like gnar). 

i'm pretty sure that the "wait time" is amortized. Challenger players will always have their "calculated wait time" as 1:30  or whatever but that is almost never the case.

Also, this is mostly @Thunder but if any one else has the LogitechLED crashes...

Rather than deleting the stupid .dll every single patch, apparently if you change C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\Config

and add/change the line:

[General] 
LogitechSupport=0

It will just stop loading the damn things.

Eh, I think that I called that WW would be a problem in jungle and that he would get nerfed about 5 seconds after I heard about the changes.  He is already strongish in solo queue, and pretty much all of the changes benefit him unless counter jungling gets super strong (and it never does).

With that being said, the build in the video is terrible.  I don't have a problem with FF (or its new version)+BotRK.  But throwing WE on top of that is just stupid.  A lot of the gold on WE goes to AS.  Jungle WW already has a lot of AS from runes, plus usually has AS from FF+BotRK+W.  Why get more from WE?  Especially since you get a lot of damage from the ult +Q, which don't even scale off of AS.

I mean, look at that game in the clip.  He was playing against complete idiots (dying to pre 6 WW ganks easily), and he still took like 15 deaths because of the build.  Yeah, its funny to blow people up in 1 hit in a skirmish, but if that move doesn't work because the other team is organized and disrupts your ult, you are useless.  And you generally can only go 1 for 1 in a teamfight because you die right after killing somebody in the best case.

You need to not go so squishy so that you don't blow up right away.

Go back and listen the 1st min of the vid and then let me know if you expected brilliance.   It's just 1 of the 1st vids I've seen covering ww in the j5 jung is all. 

live maintenance going on now - either they are patching up the current item exploit or we are getting our SR map presently.  New map is live in russia already for bots/team builder

SR MAP LIVE NOW

team builder and bots

Live map feels a little less "laggy" than the patched version... that might be in my head, though.  Anyway, anyone actually not liking the update map? I think it looks great and really love the depth and attention they've given to the map and creeps/camps.  Night all!

oh and I finally hit level 30 on my alt account.  Let me ask this 1 silly question - do you folks think I should start playing ranked immediately on my alt or just wait for the season?  I'm not sure if there's a benefit, but my plan is to quickly hit diamond on my alt and then bitch and moan about how my main is silver II after the reset.  #pacovdreams

ALSO OH - you get icons for playing on the new map:  http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/features/sr-open-beta-begins