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In post 1974, PJ. wrote:IMHO if you weren't gold 6 weeks ago, you already put yourself in an impossible situation

This is very true, boosters take over the ranked games this late in the season.

My smurfs games were riddled with them.

Plus the new people trying to make it gold quick, + returning players who haven't done their promos. Makes the games very very volatile.

whoa.

i fucking clean 4-6'd last years placements in the last few weeks for gold.

10/10 would have plat/diamond players in placements

anyone got any positioning tips? I've gotten to the point where this is my biggest issue, especially when playing ADC.

In post 1977, pickemgenius wrote:whoa.

i fucking clean 4-6'd last years placements in the last few weeks for gold.

10/10 would have plat/diamond players in placements

was that on a clean account (i.e. one that hadn't been placed in a season before)? Because your previous rank plays a pretty big part in placements.

In post 1978, Nosferatu wrote:anyone got any positioning tips? I've gotten to the point where this is my biggest issue, especially when playing ADC.

In the back.

ADC positioning is "where can I stand that lets me shoot things without being at high risk of dying because I'm in that location?"

In post 1981, RayFrost wrote:ADC positioning is "where can I stand that lets me shoot things without being at high risk of dying because I'm in that location?"

This is the general thing, the specific questions become then:

Who can kill me?
What skills would they use?
What range are those skills?

And during the fight: are those skills on CD?

In post 1976, PJ. wrote:Plus the new people trying to make it gold quick, + returning players who haven't done their promos. Makes the games very very volatile.

but this is a situation the opposing team is as likely to be in as mine, and vice versa, no?

more likely, technically.

The issue is the enemy team is more likely to have a booster etc. (unless you are a booster yourself)

In post 1984, zoraster wrote:more likely, technically.

As anyonewho has ever made a dime playing poker can tell you, variance is not a good thing.

hey guys
is sion support legit??

It is, but only into good matchups

also, i've made a script that scrapes the winrate/experience curves for each champ from lolking, as that stuff is hard to see on the same screen
is anyone interested in that data?

In post 1988, animorpherv1 wrote:It is, but only into good matchups

i suppose that's immobile adcs and their support cousins?

Correct, but I think it's also not bad into Thresh.

In post 1978, Nosferatu wrote:anyone got any positioning tips? I've gotten to the point where this is my biggest issue, especially when playing ADC.

It's important to pay attention to where your team as well - where can I stand that my team will peel, I'm not standing next to all of our carries while they have AoE ults etc. In a 1v5 positioning isn't going to be a priority, so its important to pay attention to everything swinging the fight.

In post 1983, Psyche wrote:

In post 1976, PJ. wrote:Plus the new people trying to make it gold quick, + returning players who haven't done their promos. Makes the games very very volatile.

but this is a situation the opposing team is as likely to be in as mine, and vice versa, no?

Opposing team likely to be better than yoh is the issue because your own scrub ass is preventing a plat/diamond to be on the team youre on

In post 1992, Randomnamechange wrote:

In post 1978, Nosferatu wrote:anyone got any positioning tips? I've gotten to the point where this is my biggest issue, especially when playing ADC.

It's important to pay attention to where your team as well - where can I stand that my team will peel, I'm not standing next to all of our carries while they have AoE ults etc. In a 1v5 positioning isn't going to be a priority, so its important to pay attention to everything swinging the fight.

i was getting flamed by a mf last night because i wasn't peeling

i'm like motherfucker im a yorick and u running away from me

I wonder how long it takes for the mf support to die down. Was against an Ashe/mf lane yesterday and as soon as Ashe ulted I just dropped my leona ult on mf and she only had the chance to fire two shots of the mf ult. That shit is so telegraphed and bad haha

There's enough good bans right now that the fact that I have to consider wasting one on the off chance that my support wants to play that garbage is really annoying.

In post 1979, zoraster wrote:

In post 1977, pickemgenius wrote:whoa.

i fucking clean 4-6'd last years placements in the last few weeks for gold.

10/10 would have plat/diamond players in placements

was that on a clean account (i.e. one that hadn't been placed in a season before)? Because your previous rank plays a pretty big part in placements.

nah it was on an account that was gold the prior season.

looking forward to doing the same thing in the next week or so

You got 4 days scrub

In post 1998, PJ. wrote:You got 4 days scrub

gdi