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strawhatbro trying to explain game-mechanics, builds etc

Singed ft trollvictor duomid commentary

November 5, 2012

Finally a new play by play by strawhatbro! So yesterday I played some soloqueue on my way to high elo (first steppingstone 2k elo!) and got queued with trolls without anyone dodging. As the singedplayer I am, I decide to carry the game and MAKE DA PLAYZ. Running up toplane I realize im up against [...]

The pushing Meta

October 31, 2012

Hiho It has been a long time since my last post and i apologize for that . It’s been quite the busy time.   Why do professional teams push so aggressively nowerdays?   Basically, they play the game very straightforward and try to destroy turrets. That’s very obvious since thats the fastest way to end [...]

Denying CS 3/3: Pushing

June 28, 2012

Pushing: Pushing is one of the basic concepts of lanecontrol. What do you accomplish by pushing your lane to the turret? When the lane is at turret, your opponent will have to focus on lasthitting, so you can harass him while he cant return any damage without losing cs. Having the creeps pushed to the turret [...]

Denying CS 2/3: Harassing

June 25, 2012

Harassing: What is it? Simply put: harassing is damaging/poking your opponent without fully commiting to killing him. When you should try to harass: Whenever you can get free damage onto your opponent without being out of position or spending your rest of mana making you gankable (cannot use your defensive/escape mechanisms as well) without taking [...]

Denying CS part 1/3

June 20, 2012

This is the first part of my guide about Denying in lane Zoning: What is Zoning? Zoning is what players call the process of pressuring (threatening to damage/kill) somebody enaugh to make him back away from an area. In this instance I will treat zoning as zoning somebody out of the area where he can [...]

Why people at higher lvls of play start boots + pots.

June 18, 2012

Many people asked me the question : “Which items do I start with?” On pretty much any role(exept support, thats a littlebit different) you can start boots+ pots without any regrets. I don’t even recall the last time I’ve seen a midlane starting with anything else. Starting boots + pots has two major advantages: Mobility and [...]

High elo commentary: dejavue227

June 13, 2012

So i spectated dejavue227 (watch him crush in a mobafire inhouse match) in a ~2k elo game. His team fell behind early and was able to turn around the game because they had a “protect the kogmaw” comp (check out my post on Kog’Maw) which was able to just crush in teamfights as soon as [...]

Mobafire Inhouse

June 12, 2012

Today I spectated a game of the mobafire inhouse and shoutcasted it. Lee Sin (dejavue227; dejavue227 high elo commentary) just crushing his toplane vs Kennen (inpanix) by a great early bait -> countergank and snowballing his advantage over the map. Kassadin (Khazem) getting ahead against xerath (grandmistressD) through Alistars(sokappgod) ganks. Bottom lane on the other [...]

Interview with LoL streamer oN30No

June 8, 2012

Hello there, as we watched a few streams, we got to the stream of oN30No, we really liked his stream, so we thought it would be cool to interview him, let’s go… Who are you and what are you doing? I am 20 years old and I’m studying in Berlin. I do a lot of [...]

Daily Commentary the 3rd

May 16, 2012

Here is another video featuring geccwald playing annie this game Annie winning her matchup vs ap ezreal, Kennen getting crushed top by Wukong the monkey king and a very unfortunate dc by Pantheon. Even though vayne gets really fed she is not able to outcarry a wukong/nocturne dive/bruiser combo. Fun times watching lux janna botlane [...]