Quote Originally Posted by coqauvin View Post
yeah i'm personally not a big fan of carries. my shitty computer and internet connection sees me playing at about 12 fps (6 when shit starts going down). there's too much lag to accurately target skillshots or read battlefields.
I've been experiencing gigantic lag spikes, for like 5 to 10 seconds... is it just me?

Although, they've been trying to make Ryze into a mage carry (there's a big issue about mages and how they cannot carry as well as an AD carry) and he still has the best early game burst (except, maybe, for tristana and annie). The mana stacking and passive means you want to build for mana and cooldowns (his AP ratios suck... overload got nerfed to .2) and basically continually cast as much as possible. His increased range on spells means he can actually do so from relative safety and is a solid choice for any beginner to this game.
Lol... why are they doing this?

How the hell can you make an ability-dependent caster into a carrier?

In almost every multiplayer RPG game, no matter if it's an MMO or a DotA clone or whatever, there's one thing that usually remains constant: physical DPS that relies far more on auto-attack always has the potential to scale much better than casters that rely on spells and abilities.

But anyway, yeah I played Ryze in the tutorial and sort of loved him, at least against stupid bots.

Nunu is also a fun champ, but difficult to lane with against experienced opponents (you need to be aggressive as hell). His effectiveness drops off if anyone on the other team has any kind of hard cc (stun, fear, taunt) or a silence, because it renders your ult completely useless, unless you get lucky in the brush. He's a fun tank and great for leashing enemies for your team to kill, especially when you boost them with blood lust.
Oooh CC stops his ulti from channeling? Boo

But even without his utli, he's pretty damn effective, no?

But I'm not surprised that he gets less effective against experienced players.

I'm interested to hear what you guys are going to say once you start playing people who are of relatively equal skill level
To be honest, I am now.

I might understand a little bit about the game, but I'm still not that good at playing it.


So runes... I still don't know what to pick, but any runes are better than no runes I guess.

Also, what the hell is the purpose of Smite? A crutch for people who can't last hit? So that people never learn how to last hit and always waste a Summoner Spell slot on this PoS?