Tuesday, December 13, 2016

League of Legends - Jungle Ivern guide by LS

Cheat sheet image to builds : http://imgur.com/a/BpD0e
   
Timestamps :
00:01 Start
00:09 Introduction to Ivern / Matchups
00:42 Ivern team compositions/Basics
02:07 Runes explaination
04:25 Masteries explaination
07:12 Skill order reasoning
08:14 Itemization
10:20 Itemization part 2
12:26 Vocab: "Tapping"
14:06 Jungle Routes/Clears
14:22 BLUE Jungle start version #1
15:12 BLUE Jungle start version #2
16:00 RED Jungle start version #1
16:26 RED Jungle start version #2
17:40 Jungling/playing early and mid game. Tapping properly
18:52 How to gank as Ivern
20:20 Using Rootcaller to get around vision
20:44 Ganking top or bot
21:22 DAISY
23:42 Teamfighting
26:30 Being creative with Daisy
27:04 TIPS START
27:05 Ultra Baron/Dragon cheese
27:54 Brush play
28:48 Concluding thoughts/Mindset to have when playing Ivern

Op.gg w/ lots of Ivern replays: http://www.op.gg/summoner/userName=ls...


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Thursday, December 1, 2016

League of Legends - "How To Get Diamond" Guide Series. Simplified, Understandable videos by Professor Akali

Hi everyone, Creator of the Mid Lane 101 Series here! I had been working on a "How to get diamond" series for the past few months now on and off. The goal of this series was to create quality videos that get straight to the point and are easily understandable, rather than going off on multiple tangents in order to collect as much Ad revenue as possible by forcing the video length over 10 minutes like some other video makers.

I have around 50 video topics and have just released the first 8 videos, and will be doing a daily video every day until new years eve. As always, any and all criticism and feedback is highly appreciated, and I hope you guys are able to benefit from this!

Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze01scHlPm4&index=1&list=PL_jzbIn1IcfKlt0ih8LJMd9GZ8ygrj1kh

Individual Links:

How To Get Diamond: How & When To Freeze Wave - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3AQrO5JDOY&list=PL_jzbIn1IcfKlt0ih8LJMd9GZ8ygrj1kh&index=2

How To Get Diamond: How To Abuse Champion Cooldowns - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5hTELWCYmY&list=PL_jzbIn1IcfKlt0ih8LJMd9GZ8ygrj1kh&index=3

How To Get Diamond: How To Build A Champion Pool - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiycI7wnAAI&index=4&list=PL_jzbIn1IcfKlt0ih8LJMd9GZ8ygrj1kh

How To Get Diamond: Why LCS Players Never Blame Team - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUM2JaGb5dM&index=5&list=PL_jzbIn1IcfKlt0ih8LJMd9GZ8ygrj1kh

How To Get Diamond: Splitpushing vs. Grouping - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y72Lcbh4WVs&index=6&list=PL_jzbIn1IcfKlt0ih8LJMd9GZ8ygrj1kh

How To Get Diamond: How To Avoid Getting Ganked! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnaVufZsgek&index=7&list=PL_jzbIn1IcfKlt0ih8LJMd9GZ8ygrj1kh

How To Get Diamond: CS vs. Kills - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvNOJ4sW_oA&index=8&list=PL_jzbIn1IcfKlt0ih8LJMd9GZ8ygrj1kh

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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Monday, November 7, 2016

League of Legends - Best 5 BASIC jungle paths by LS

Timestamps :

[Blue]
00:14 Route 1
00:54 Route 2
02:15 Route 3
03:32 Route 4
04:22 Route 5

[Red]
05:22 Route 1
06:09 Route 2
06:51 Route 3
07:30 Route 4
08:06 Route 5

[Cheese]
08:46 Bonus cheese route

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Tuesday, October 4, 2016

StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void Patch 3.7 Overview

Patch 3.7 is bringing a wealth of new features to StarCraft II. Learn more in our overview video and in our blogs at http://www.StarCraft2.com.

Monday, October 3, 2016

Heroes of the Storm - Free-to-Play Hero Rotation: October 04 - 11, 2016



  • Raynor
  • Muradin
  • Brightwing
  • Zagara
  • Sonya
  • Tyrael
  • Azmodan (Slot unlocked at Player Level 5)
  • Tyrande (Slot unlocked at Player Level 7)
  • Gul'dan (Slot unlocked at Player Level 12)
  • Illidan (Slot unlocked at Player Level 15)
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Friday, September 30, 2016

League of Legends - 3 Step guide to get to Diamond (or climb in general) by Bladerunner7777

Note: This is what worked for me, I can't guarantee this will work for everyone.
There are 3 steps but that doesn't mean it is ez as 123
Sorry for looking similar to every other cancer "tips on how I got to X" post

Step 1: Find Your Main

I'm sure everyone has heard this a million times before on this sub and I'll probably get flamed for saying it. In order to climb you must be consistent (see step 2), to achieve this, you will play the same champion(s) every game. 1 main and 1 backup if your main is banned/taken. If your champ has a low banrate then you don't have to be that good at your secondary; if you know your main champion really well you should know how to beat them.
You cannot "decide" your OTP
I think this is really important to know: You see lots of people on this sub that are aware that One-Tricking is effective, so they ask "who should I One-Trick". It doesn't work like that.
As a wise man (tyler1) once said:
"When you find your main, you'll just know."
If the thought of playing hundreds of games with only one particular champion hurts your brain, that champion obviously isn't your OTP. I used to aspire to be a Kha'Zix main but I could not force myself to play him too much otherwise I would get exhausted. I think everyone has a potential "One-trickable" champ depending on your personality; you might even learn something about yourself.
Be warned, the process of finding your main could potentially take a really long time. It could be years before you realize "the one"; you might have already played "the one" several times before but you didn't even realize it. Sometimes you'll have like a hundred games on a champ and one day you wake up and realize: "...this isn't fun".
Just... follow ur heart kappa

Step 2: Remove All Inconsistencies

This step is easy, but requires discipline. Now that you have your main, your "control" champion, you need to remove all the other hindering variables so you can actually climb faster. If you are consistent every game then it's easier to see what you did wrong and learn from it.
Things to do to achieve consistency in no particular order:
  • Being well rested when you play (very important)
  • Solo Q only
  • If anything in the chat fills you with negative emotions, /mute all
  • Play on settings that allow you to get consistent FPS (not choppy)
  • Have reliable internet
  • Being emotionally stable before you start a game
  • Have no distractions around you
  • Take care of everything you need to take care of before you start a match (like eating), you want to be giving your full attention to the game.
  • Don't be toxic or passive-aggressive, this requires a lot of discipline.
  • DO NOT look at op.gg/etc while the game loads. Knowing that your enemy is super good will only negatively affect your playing.
  • Let every game play out, never open mid/surrender unless your team is like 20vs0. If there is even a reasonable doubt, play it out.
  • Never worry about your team, worry about yourself
These things don't require any talent, as long as you force yourself to follow these rules (I probably missed some too) you should be able to see improvement. You can't let your emotions take over you, this is a pretty good life skill as well.

Step 3: Play lots of Ranked, stop playing Ranked when you aren't winning, play Normals and take it seriously.

Pretty straight forward. Now that you are basically a control variable, you need to play a lot of games so you can reallyiron out every mistake you make over time.
If you lose 3-4 ranked games in a row, stop playing ranked, you're wasting time. The reason you lost 4 games in a row is because you are the problem, often times when One-Tricking a champ or just playing the game you could pick up a really bad habit. Playing with a bad habit is like a sickness and you need to get it out of your system, the most efficient way to do this is to play normals until you isolate what you're doing wrong. Once you realize your mistake you should never be making it again and you will probably go back to winning (if you aren't then you have more major mistakes that need correcting, or you are forgetting the "control variable rules").
If you are constantly hovering between divisions, you also need to stop playing ranked. Fact of the matter is, if you can't easily climb to the next rank, you won't be able to ever get passed it. I'll share my own personal experience if it helps to better explain:
Once I had climbed out of Plat 2 and into Plat 1, I was ready to start climbing to Diamond. Straight off the bat I noticed that none of my games seemed consistent. I was getting super frustrated because I would get demoted to Plat 2 when I felt like I deserved Plat 1. To be honest, I wasn't even close to being ready for Diamond. Once I had climbed back to Plat 1 eventually, I stopped playing Ranked and played Normals for an entire week. After a week I learned two important things:
  • I started being more passive-aggressive in the chat once I got to Plat 1 because I felt like I was good enough that I didn't need to censor myself. I also did the same thing when I was practicing in Normals so I didn't even do well in Normals until I finally corrected myself. Being toxic is a bad habit that could always resurface no matter how many times you correct yourself; be disciplined.
  • Apparently I had piss poor knowledge about rotations. Previously I would just the follow the ADC around (support main), but riding on the tailwind of the ADC only worked for so long before I needed to step up and take initiative. Playing normals helped me learn this because I would always win lane but I didn't know how to carry the advantage to the other lanes.
These mistakes are personal; not everyone has the same weaknesses and some people might struggle with mistakes that you never have a problem with.
Play Normals until you feel very confident with going back to Ranked. You can't just think of it like, "I played 5 normal games so now I'm going to do well in Ranked". You have to play Normals and you have to feel like playing Normals has helped you improve. Also practice how you play; treat Normals like Ranked always (unless you're not trying to climb Ranked, then treat Normals how you want).

I do not believe in creating a long-ass list with a checklist of "tips" will make anyone significantly better at League.The best way to improve at this game is to learn everything naturally. I think this method of climbing minimizes those moments of Elo Surfing like when you manage to get to division 1 but then you go on a huge loss streak and end up in division 3 or something, which usually saves a lot of time as well if you can avoid this.

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Chronicle: RuneScape Legends - Beginner Raptor Deck v2.0 - AP Sustain by The Killer Bits


Chronicle: Runescape Legends is a free to play collectible card game (CCG) available on steam .

Recently in Chronicle, Jagex moved some cards into the start set, expanding it and increasing the options for new players. So, it seemed pertinent to update my beginner deck series to reflect the newer options, and provide better decks.

So today, we have The Raptor fitting his tanky archetype with a base attack building, healing deck. This deck is incredibly cheap with only 2 sapphire cards. All other cards are starter, or obtained by levelling the character. Perfect for new players!

Expanding on their popular RuneScape franchise, with Chronicle Jagex Game Studios are following the trend of creating their own collectible card battler. But instead battling their opponent directly players must, in part, fight their own decks across 5 chapters collecting coins to purchase weapons and utility cards.

For more information about the game visit - https://www.rschronicle.com/

Deck List:Support
Ali Morissane x2
Cabbage x2
Mimic
Adamant Armour x2
Romily Weaklax x2
Nastroth x2
Solomon Madini
Stamina Potion x2

CreatureKGP Agent x2
Black Arm Bandit x2
Zombie Crew x2
Jubbly Bird x2
Skeleton Warrior x2
Kalphite Worker x2
Ice Nihil
Goblin Flashmob x2

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Monday, September 26, 2016

World of Warcraft - How To Raid: An Introductory Primer for People Who Want To Raid by supertoned

Everyone wants to raid. Everyone knows it's hard. When you're new to the game, it can be a little overwhelming knowing just what to do and how to prepare for it. Many new raiders have a real desire to do a good job and be an asset to the team, but without any prior knowledge of just what goes into raiding, things can quickly degenerate into a frustrating and painful experience for everyone involved.
You don't have to start raiding as a clueless newbie! You can be a great raider! Anyone can be a great raider! If you're willing to put in the effort, you can really excel and be an asset to any raid team.
I don't consider myself to be an even remotely elite WoW player. Over the course of my game career, I have still managed to take down a satisfying number of bosses over many expansions. If I can raid effectively, so can you. To help people who are new to the raiding scene, I have put this short guide together. I hope it helps you, and good luck!

How To Raid

BEFORE YOU JOIN A RAID GROUP:
  • Want to raid enough to put effort into it.
BEFORE THE DAY OF THE RAID:
  • Get the Gear (you want to be at least 840)
  • Get the addons
  • Get a headset and get into VOIP
  • Set up your keybinds
  • Learn your class
  • Enchant and gem your gear
  • Get your flasks and foods
  • Know the fights
THE DAY OF THE RAID:
  • Show up on time
  • Pay attention
  • Try to do a good job
That's it. If you have the fortitude to check off each of these items, you will be a successful raider, and that's just all there is to it. If you feel that some of these items are not important, or can be skipped or glossed over, you are never going to be as effective as someone who has this entire toolkit.
Raiding in a nutshell is all about pushing yourself as close to your personal best as possible, and doing it in a group environment where you rely on everyone else to do the same. It's a great feeling when you know your teammates are trying as hard as you are, and you are all in it together. Raiding really is a lot of work, but it's a great community experience and many of us feel it is worth the effort.
I don't assume every player to know just what goes in to each of these steps, so let's go over them one by one:

THE SPECIFIC MEANS AND METHODS OF BEING A RAIDER
  • Want to raid enough to put effort into it.
This is the biggest single element you need to raid. As Koonts says 'You just have to want it'. Almost any serious raid group will take on anyone who shows the initiative of wanting to get better. It's the most important element in a raider, and no one can successfully raid without it.
  • Get the Gear
Here is a crash course in how to get gear in Legion.
  • Hit 110.
  • Start leveing your nightfallen rep right away. Take every opportunity to get nightfallen rep.
  • Do every PvP world quest. The higher your PvP rank, the higher ilevel gear you can get from these quests.
  • Keep your eye on the world quests daily. As your ilevel increases, so do the world quest rewards.
  • Do as much of your class hall questline as you can.
  • Nightfallen rep and class hall progression open up your class gear. Class gear can be upgraded to 840 using order resources.
  • Stalk the Auction House. Quite frequently people list very good good at bargain basement prices, either through error or sloth. Take advantage!
  • If you have proven committed to a raid group, get your team to pull you through heroics or mythics. This is probably the fastest way to gear.
  • As a last resort, you can run normals and hope for an upgrade
  • Check out gearing guides online
  • Optimally, you want to be at least 840 to start raiding. You can make it work with less if you are really good and on a hot FotM class, but honestly, 840 is easy, there is no excuse not to hit it. If you can't climb this high, you probably don't have the time or energy to raid anyways.
That's it, you can gear up to raid level in one week if you put a lot of time in, two weeks if not quite so much.
  • Get a headset and get into VOIP
(VOIP stands for 'voice over internet protocol', and means vent, mumble, discord, or whatever you use to talk voice to voice with other players)
If you want to raid, you absolutely must be able to communicate. While the raid leader and lieutenants will be doing most of the talking, eventually your role will require you to communicate something to the raid, and you have to be ready for this. If you can't talk, you make it that much harder for your team to raid. Get a headset with a mic, download whatever VOIP program your group uses, and get into the chat.
  • Set up your keybinds
"But that's such a hassle, I do just fine without keybinds." - No. No you don't. "No really, I've been clicking since Wrath, and I have cleared all these bosses!" - Even if this is true, and you are an amazing clicker, you are still no where near as good as you would be if you soldiered up and made some keybinds.
If you are manually clicking your buttons with your mouse, no matter how good you are, you are wasting every moment your mouse spends moving from one button to the next. Your mobility and raid attention will also suffer, as your physical and mental resources are being focused on correctly manually clicking the buttons.
If you really want to be a good raid team member, you have to realize: You are never going to be nearly as good as you can be if you are still clicking buttons manually. Keybinding is a big initial investment in time and concentration, but I promise you: Once you get an effective keybind system up and running, you will be absolutely amazed at your results.
There are many methods of keybinding. I recommend this excellent guide to get started, but if you want a really down and dirty crash course, here is what I do:
Really down and dirty keybind crash course
  • Get a mouse that has at least two thumb buttons that are programmable.
  • Bind one to shift, and one to CTRL
  • Get in game, press escape, and select 'keybindings'
  • Follow this handy image
  • Okay, so don't use my exact keys. I recommend q, e, z, x, and c as initial keybind start points.
  • I should also mention I have rebound A and D to left and right strafe rather than turn. Who keyboard turns?
If you can keybind just your main rotation, you will instantly become a god compared to whatever mythic creature you once were before keybinding. Eventually, you will find yourself keybinding EVERYTHING, and never click another virtual button with your mouse pointer again.
  • Learn your class
Learning your class is a process that never seems totally finished. There is almost always another level of polishing you can do. Getting started is pretty straightforward though, do what almost everyone who raids does:
  • Type in to google 'your class' 'your spec' + guide
  • Most of us use icyveins.com
  • Read the guide.
  • Practice what you have read on a target dummy.
If you at least know your basic rotation, and have all these keys keybound, and know your stat priority, you are already closing in on an acceptable level of performance. The next level is looking at captured raid data and going over it with someone better than you at the class. There are a lot of small things you can tweak, and these pay off in big dividends in terms of overall effectiveness.
Read your guide, know your role. Drop the bosses.
  • Enchant and gem your gear
Enchantments and gems upgrade your gear, and are actually very VERY important to your overall raid performance. Fully gemmed and enchanted, you are profoundly more powerful than someone with 'naked' armor.
For your very first raid, still in 840 gear, you don't need to have cutting edge super expensive legion enchnantments or gems, but you should at least have WoD stuff applied. You can move to the more expensive stuff once more serious current end-level gear comes in, but never raid 'naked'. You're cheating yourself and your team out of a sizeable and easy to obtain performance boost.
All you have to do is go to your class guide, and look at the gems and enchants section. Make sure any gem slots you have open are filled, and make sure you have enchantments wherever it says to have enchantments. Again, these do not at first have to be the most expensive current tier upgrades. For your entry level gear, it is fine to use last expansions best stuff.
  • Get your flasks and foods
Similarly, know which flasks you need and which food is best for your class and role. This information will all be in your class guide, which presumably you are already familiar with. These items make a really big difference, and are almost like a full set of enchants all over again. Often there will be feasts going around the raid, but never rely on this. Always show up with your own supply of food and flasks.
Until you get to heroics or mythics, WoD food and flasks are fine, but don't come empty handed. Be prepared to buff yourself at least some.
Remember, raiding is all about being prepared and putting in the effort. If you come with your own stacks, you'll never be unprepared to perform at peak effectiveness, and you'll never be a burden on your team.
  • Know the fights
Obviously, the only real way to learn a fight is through doing it. However, the more prepared you are before the fight begins, the fewer pulls your team will need to get the job done. At a minimum, have read the dungeon journal for each boss you plan on fighting.
Optimally, you also want to watch a video by a successful raid team, and brush up on a guide from the internet.
Fatboss are popular for the videos, and Icyveins is a good place to start for guides.
  • Show up on time
Raiding is a team sport, and when you waste time, you are wasting at least nine other people's time. You've gone through all this effort to get ready, and so has everyone else. The leaders even more so. Everyone knows when they are expected to show up, and yet, almost every raid there is some yahoo that just needs five more minutes, which always stretch into 15 or 30. Please don't be this yahoo. If you commit to raiding, commit to showing up on time and being ready to go.
  • Pay attention
Once you have done all the prep work needed to get ready for the raid, this is one of the most important things you can possibly do to help your team (and therefore yourself) be a success.
  • Pay attention when the raid leader is explaining the fight. Don't space out and try to catch up later, please offer them the same level of effort they are extending to you.
  • Pay attention each fight to the mechanics. Observe the environment. Note small important details. Each time you do a pull, you are better prepared for the next one, but only if you pay attention!
  • Try to do a good job
If you have a good attitude and put yourself in the mindset of 'get this done', you're already 90% of the way there. If you have an earnest desire to be an asset to your team, you already have the most important element of being a good raider. This is probably the most important element of all raiding, as without it, well... It's not pretty.

If you can tick off every item on my list, I promise you, no matter who you are you can be a success at raiding. If a drunken ne'er-do-well like me can make it happen, so can you.
Good luck, and happy raiding!
POST SCRIPT:
I wrote this guide for the members of the <reddit> guild on Sargeras, but I feel it turned out well enough to share with the whole community. Shameless plug: <reddit> is the best guild in the universe, and if you love WoW and love reddit, you will fit right in. Check us out at /r/redditguild

League of Legends - How to get kills with Orianna. Short commentary by lemonlemon74

Hope this is helpful! This is my first time doing a commentary like this, where I talk over a League clip of mine, so if you have any feedback/thoughts, whether it's criticism or praise, please feel free to comment! :D

If you are curious, this is mid diamond elo. Around d3. I just started actually grinding ranked for the first time this season, gonna try to get back into Master tier as soon as I can :D

https://www.twitch.tv/plasma_lemon - my stream.