All Stars: One for All Blitzcrank

Well, I haven’t really played ranked in a long time. I have but, once in a very short while. In my life there is a LOT of stressful things. (Cracks in my apartment walls making water leak down. Ceilings cracking. Mag flies have infested my studio space because my instructor has a monster tomato plant next to it which they’re harboring on. Group projects where no one does their work. College application malfunctions.) But I doubt you really want to hear about it. None the less, with all of those things, ranked would be the cherry topper. As it is my significant other thinks that if we duo queue together we are bound to lose. {Okay yes we have lost. A lot.} The good thing is, I don’t have to play ranked, because everybody else is.

I honestly wish that ranked was as fun as these all star matches going on right now. Just being able to play and have fun. Unfortunately though everybody thinks that they need to be the best like this is pokemon or something. However, the Blitzcrank match. Any ranked player who doesn’t know these guys are professionals, would be FURIOUS. First of all, because almost all ranked players don’t know how to play support, and therefore wouldn’t even know what to do with Blitzcrank. Second, because “It’s not the meta report for playing non op champ.” Well news for you, but this is a game! Anyway for those who don’t know heres some info on what a Blitzcrank is.

    -One of the first champs at the games launch.

    -First, and was he only for a few years, “Hook” champion. This means they have a mechanic where one of their abilities involving a skill shot {Something you have to aim manually and can be blocked by minions or other monsters and champs.} Which grabs an enemy, and stuns them as they’re being pulled back to you.

    -Has a knock up mechanic. {Where the enemy is immobilized, but is a melee knockup.}

    Now i’m not going to lie, this match was INSANE, and I don’t think I would ever do it anytime soon. {Well even if I wanted to one for all isn't an option right now.} A big factor matters on who can hook who under their tower, so it matters so much on minon positioning. But is very hard to do because blitzcrank doesn't really kill minions easy. It was pretty much impossible to siege turrets, and because the one lone Blitz on team fire had devouror {a high build jungle item} That they were able to take the baron nashor, and have minions take the game.

The Adventures of Ranked

I remember back to my beginning of playing League. In fact I remember when my boyfriend had me play the tutorial on his account. I got so upset that I pushed the computer away and rage quit. And that was just the tutorial. I'm not exactly sure what got me to even be interested in playing better. But it almost felt like no time, and forever, but I reached level 30. Before then those last 10 levels were great. I would play with my boyfriend and sometimes people I never met. I would carry the game with 10-20 kills, 1-3 deaths, and 5-15 assists. The enemy team after the game would be stunned, and everyone wanted me on their friend list with them. Either team would ask me to play ranked with the way I played with them, they would be carried to diamond in no time. Well let me tell you.

Do not play ranked.
Ever.

Everyone was shocked when I would tell them, "I can't play ranked, i'm not even level 30." Well now. Ranked is a completely different ball park. You would think that ranked would be harder, because, you know, all of the real players play ranked. Well. It's not. Ranked is harder because first off, everyone who plays ranked, is bad. I completely agree with Sky 100% that people who play ranked, think that League is an anime. Or Pokemon. Or some Japanese made game. They think that they are the protagonist in this anime on the road to Diamond. And that if they just jump in and do whatever. Then everything is going to go their way, because it has to, because they're the main character.

On the last game of my promotion series, it was myself, a Jinx in bot lane. And here we have Blitzcrank, who is my support. We were against Draven. And Thresh. And in the beginning of the game Blitzcrank is like, "Jump right in there and be offensive in the beginning!!!" Well Unfortunately for Blitzcrank, he was unaware that you cannot simply just, "Jump in there." When any time you leave the safety of your minions, Thresh will hook you. And you'll be set for death. So what does he do? He jumps in there. And what happens? Thresh hooks him. And he complains, "He's playing behind his minions, no fair!"
What again did the tutorial tell us?

So anyway Blitzcrank just began to feed. We lost that game. And I died five times. But the tragic thing. Is that in 8 of my 10 promotion games. Atleast one if not two or three people on my team were just like that. I was sure I would end up in Bronze V [In the ranking system, there are certain tiers of each rank. V {roman five} is the lowest, and I {roman one} the highest. After you then proceed to the lowest tier of the next rank. Bronze is the lowest.] But some how something had blessed me and I have been spared of the tortures of bronze- And made it into silver.

Sadly though I am 97% sure that I cannot make it to gold by tomorrow to be given Victorious Sivir.

So what's everyone else's experiences with Ranked? What's your preferred play style? Leave a comment below!

The Harrowing 2015

Yayyy happy bleated Harrowing! Well its not really that much of yay, as Riot has given us no lore this year. However instead they put their effort into releasing a zombie apocalypse themed skin line, and well as make a song for it, and tons of art. So who is on the list to be zombified?

Nunu
Zombie Nunu to be quite honest doesn't really look cool...He looks terrifying. For whatever floats your boat, if you like grotesque kind of horror, this is the skin for you. No more little boy riding an abominable snow man. This is some creepy child which reminds me of one of the boogie children in The Nightmare Before Christmas. Riding on what appears to be a rotting ogre in some way. Weilding balls of slime and hopefully scaring the rude 10 year olds off league- Unfortunately the sale just ended and he is back to his normal price of 1350 RP.
7/10 cups of tea.

                                          Skin Spotlight Video Here

Pantheon
Slayer Pantheon makes me wish I played Pantheon. A lot of Pantheons skins are just practically re-colorings of his normal self, without any character or extravagant theme being put in. Just some dude with a roman hat, a big shield and a sword. When I heard there was a new Pantheon skin coming out. I honestly thought that they were adressing the wishes of many- Baker Pantheon. A fan skin concept of Pantheon with a chef hat on, his shield a pizza pan, sword a baguette. And an animation of him making pizza when he returns to base.
This however is just as pleasing. For once we depict the sword and shield as being something other than a blatant sword and shield. It appears that his shield is a road sign. And his sword is a chain saw. Okay maybe it's not just as pleasing as a guy fighting people with a baguette. But you take what you can get. He's the cheapest new skin at 975 RP.
7/10 cups of tea.

                                         Skin Spotlight video here.

Jinx
Okay, as an active player of Jinx, sure i'm a little critical. This is because I would actually be able to buy this. However... This skin is too over rated. YES, there are new designs, new animations, new textures, coloring, backing, ammunition changes. New new new everything. But is it really that new?
To be quite honest this skin looks like the love child of normal Jinx and normal Vi. However, this skin kindof gives you a slight buff. The flame chompers are things that you need to desperately avoid when playing against a Jinx. And with this skin her flame chompers are so dark, small, and animate so little that you can't see them in group fights. Only those with lots of experience with her kit can have open eyes to them. The idea was cool, but this just doesn't really feel like it's actually different. With still, firecracker Jinx being her best skin. Although I'm happy that they are making skins for her. When I first started playing, there was only one and it wasn't all intriguing. You can get this for an outrageous price of 1350 RP (Or you could, you know, get the way better Jinx skin that is also that price.) 5/10 cups of tea.

                                         Skin Spotlight Video

But hey, with this login entry music and great art style, who wouldn't want to waste their money on Zombie Slayer Jinx? Music is a great marketing tool. But still. Maybe it it had a little more color to it, it wouldn't be half bad. Login Music/Art

Worlds sucks, but Kindred doesn't.

Wow has a lot happened in the last while. I'm not going to wrap up worlds and talk about Kindred in this post. And the up and coming season six, and spirit fire brand, as well In my next post i'll be discussing the bleated harrowing in later ones.

Worlds went exactly as predicted, with SKT taking the wold cup, and KOO only winning one of the five games. They were long, with not many kills. Blah blah blah, boring boring. What I mean by talking about worlds, I mean talking about how great it is that worlds is over! Worlds can be such a bland and boring time for casual players, (aka, 95% of league of legends community). Nothing ever changes, nothing is ever new, and the only upside is that it means there aren't ever any updates to download. Not only that, but since worlds was on halloween this year, It means the harrowing was completely forgotten about. For those who don't play that often, the Harrowing is like halloween in the world of runeterra. Only its a far more dangerous and erie time. Filled with lore, stories, animations. And as you guessed, themed skins being brought back, and new ones each year.

Kindred as also released in the big jumble of worlds. I even tried her out a bit. Fun, kind of. Kind of because she is still something so confusing. Its still been such a short amount of time since her release, that we still don't know if she can be mastered. Can a Kindred really carry on out a stunning score with 20 kills and make the other team surrender at twenty minutes? Or is this something that still Lee Sin can only do? Which ironically makes no since because in lore he's blind... So hypothetically he cant really SEE the team through to victory. But I digress. I have tried Kindred in the jungle, and it was met quite badly. Then again, im not a jungler. But that's just the point. Never before has a Marksmen been brought to the jungle. That means that no matter who you are, you have to learn to master an entirely new way to play the game. After all, this is not League of Middle Lane. League of Jungle... There are thousands upon million different ways to experience each game. So a message to all of you professional junglers that never go out into the lanes. Try to play a bot lane marksmen before you play Kindred in the jungle. Just the same for you marksmens, play a regular jungle champion before hopping in there.

However for those who don't play so much, playing as Kindred might seem as too much of a hassle. But who wouldn't want to? Her lore actually makes sense to why she would be in the feilds of justice in the first place, yet it remains intriguing. Usually those who would make sense in battle are dry and flat war machines. Yet Kindred is a double spirit of a wold and lamb. The bringers of death. It would make sense that they would see through that fate has come. Walking through the lanes or jungle, Lamb, who is bi-pedal, leaps in a graceful and mystical motion. While Wolf, a floating spirit of darkness dances between her leaps. There is just one thing though. Its absolutely hallarious when you have excessive speed on Kindred.

Artistically, I think they did an amazing job on her. When you see her animated in game, the makes all the other older champions look like clowns. Everything is shaded and colored to the last detail, and glows without flaws. It makes me wish I had money, because her release skin is so expensive at 1350 RP {About 10$} But also so beautiful. One where the concept art doesn't stray from the in game look by a pixel.

Splash art

In Game

Lore Links.
The champion information page which has their basic information, and an additional story.
The Short Story: "A Good Death."

Many people have expressed such great enthusiasm for the Kindred Lore that they would like to see it being animated. Tell us how you feel in the comments below. Is Kindred more fun to play? Or even better to read about?

Skin Reveiw: Ironside Maliphite

Leagues newest skin launch "Ironside Maliphite," was just released. Maliphite is a tank/fighter champion nicknamed "Shard of the monolith." Normally he hones a very earthy appearance, similar to Mao Kai. In fact, they both look so much alike, (like Groots) that I can never tell them apart.

When it comes to skins, what makes me rate them is the same thought process as before I buy (or wish I could buy) one. What it really depends on, is whether the skin looks better than the champion themselves. And what I mean by looks, I mean in-game. Often the cover art for some skins and champions are very deceiving.

I mean.... The similarities are just. Striking. *nudge nudge* Among his other skins, I have to say this Bildgewater rendering is his best skin. The glacial Maliphite just makes him look like Taric joined the furry community. Mecha Maliphite I feel they should have waited on. While they did good on it. I feel like they should have released it as a "PROJECT" skin.


The cover art of the Ironside Maliphite skin looks quite silly to be honest. The other Bildgewater character renderings beside him look far more interesting than Maliphite. (Especially the Bildgewater Garen. He reminds me of the antagonist in the Avatar movie. Actually as personal preference of mine, Garen's standard look is horrible. And Rugged Garen, should be his actual standard look.)
Luckily though, the in game look of Ironside Maliphite gives him some justice.

Sadly though, his in game effects haven't seemed to change much. As well, this skin just doesn't look remarkably better than his original. And rather makes him look like a hodge-podge Blitzcrank.
If you however happen to like this skin, you can pick it up for 975RP.

My rating: 4/10 cups of tea.

Break the Meta: Can Kalista Jungle?

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/champion-reveal/kalista-spear-vengeance-revealed

What went wrong: Horrible beginning game. Partially my fault because I had never played even a regular jungle game before. [That's because I'm the adc's advocate.] However I did know a thing or two, and kicked up some armor seals before I started. So knowing that a leash [having someone help you kill the first monster, but backing away before the last shot] is a necessary thing thing to have- I asked for one.

(In the meantime of video editing, I had asked for a leash, but alas! No one had came. Or even bothered with it. As well our teams mid later, an Ekko, had many "positive" things to say about my decision to play a marksman in the jungle. Including that we are going to lose control of the mid lane, then the top lane, due to my incompetence.)

(Plus later that game the Ekko left me to die for no reason at all, and then complained 30 seconds later when he walked to his own death and no one helped him.)

Well that was a whole lot of positivity! And, that also didn't work. Hmm.... Wonder why.
Continuing on with the game I discovered that you need a lot of health potions, and support from your team, which my team wasn't so keen on giving. As I was beginning editing the video, I had noticed just how rude my team had been. It was sad, but you really can't break the meta without people dissaproving you. It was a very bad beginning, but I had high hopes of making a good recovery. Luckily I was only two levels behind.

Here's what I leveled:

I began the game leveling my E, Rend. Usually when I play Kalista in lane I choose to max that ability out first. Her Q is just a more powerful version of her basic attack. I didn't get my ult until the end because I wasn't bonded with anyone. Rend does more damage the more times the enemy has been hit with basic attacks or Q. Making securing a kill much easier. Which brings me to why I wanted to try to play Kalista Jungle in the first place. My experience playing Kalista, she is a Dragon slayer. At level 9-11 (as long as she has 10% life steal and runans hurricane) she can kill a dragon by herself if it's under 25-30 minutes in game. This is because the ammount of times that she can basic attack a dragon is enormous, due to its very high health bar. Having all of these basic attacks in on it can add up to a lot. Once the dragon is under 1500 health, she can kill it just by using rend. This seemed great for other jungle creatures, since they don't run away, I figured it should be easy to get lots of basic attacks in.

Well, it's not.

Kalista passive is being able to nimbly dart in a chosen direction each time she lands a basic attack. 

This is a really useful thing when you're in lane, letting you be able to attack enemies, and making it hard for  them to attack you afterwards. In the Jungle, this doesn't work very well. With the new update, monsters lose interest when they're away from their home. If you accidently dart in a bush area to avoid the monsters attack, the monster will follow you in the bush... 

Which leads to to downfalls of Kalistas basic attacks. Apart from the only doing 90%, you CANNOT attack an enemy unless you have full sight of them. Even if you shoot your Q spear, it still won't hit them, it will go through them as if it's not there. Sure you could combat this by putting a stealth warding trinket in the nearby bushes, but that's too long of a cool down on your wards. 

Plus, Kalista keeps complaining that you never made a pact with anyone. Once I did make a pact with someone, they went AFK. Nice. 

Needless to say, that was a game we surrendered. So-

Can you Jungle Kalista? NO.

Well, not yet. (Videos to come.)

Fan Art: Skin ideas and Lunar Revel Jinx

Last weeks all chat had some really funny spotlights, and had included the artists begins making the new Facebook stickers for LoL. It also showcased some work fans have been making of the characters in the form of cats, which, I have to say, is adorable. As well the Thresh Prince of Bot lane had me laughing a bit. For those who didn't know, the animator had taken a jab at the hit 90's TV show which gave rapper Will Smith his big break in acting; The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In the Thresh Prince however, the music is tuned to the theme some of FP, with lyrics that gives Easter eggs to his lore with Lucian. And the frustrations of, well, being in the bot lane.

That part of the chat aside, the cat renderings of champions had reminded me of back when I used to make fan art myself. Now a days I mostly just think of what would be great ideas for skins or champions, but never really go into it. After being told a possible bit of lore, a great idea had came to my mind for a skin set. "The Childern of Zaun." This would apply to any character that as a child (or even adult) who had spent their time in Zaun, and how the city has effected them.  I absolutely LOVE the idea of Jinx, Ekko, and Vi all being from the same gang in Zaun. (For those who don't know, Zaun is a very very large city. A powerhouse for technology, however it isn't exactly that prosperous, due do an extremely high crime rate. More than triple of Detroit.) As well as some others but. Next I would like to work on the Zaun Childeren concept. The difficulties that I would have is making them like like they're dirty off the streets, without making them look bad. In the meantime though, I figured I would finish what I've already started in my sketchbook before I work on something new. So, I did finish what I was working on. Well. Kind of. I'm going to pull it into Adobe Photoshop to give it a little more clean and glowing look.

 So there you go, there's my little lunar revel Jinx before photoshop.

Hello October! And that means hello pro season! But if you came here to know everything about the season, you may or may not find what you're looking for.

Partially speaking that there really hasn't been any matches yet. However, with the recent news of youtuber Dunkey being banned for life, who else are you supposed to go to for humorous league gaming? (Okay Skye and... theres a lot of other people.) Well have no fear, im going to be giving you all your humor and game material. However, some things to note.

I am not level 30. Yet. Its hard when you're on low time.

When I do play, I play ADC's or distance mages. Most likely if I play any thing besides that, is not a good source of information. It's probably just me testing out, or joking around.

I don't have much money, you won't see me really own very many skins.

And I will stress this more- I AM NOT A PRO. I make mistakes and I'm still working on being a better player.

With all things considered, I think this will be a very fun experience. Soon to come are-

New to me champion reveiws.
Can Kalista jungle?
How to be the best minion slayer.
Getting adcs out of sticky situations.