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Teemo Aatrox is unplayable. Anyone who plays Teemo should instantly know any spell-based champion f*cks him. Anyone with innate dashes tends to f*ck him. How ADD though that it would be a good matchup is beyond me. That sh*t is unplayable.

This is a perfectly normal thing to say.

You heard nothing.

I REALLY like Nilah, personally. You want her with an enchanter, though, especially one who actually wants levels (Yuumi, Soraka, and Sona all fit here).

And she has extremely high agency since she can follow-up engage and block a lot of very strong champions, like MF. The dodge works against 3/5 of MF, who also has no natural escapes for Apotheosis.

You also need to be willing to build her more bruisery when facing a lot of disruption in general. Merc Treads, BT second, and yeah it’s expensive, but GALA had like 380cs at 32 minutes. I don’t remember his exact build, but those should be commonplace.

I don’t recall them receiving many bans.

Ah, thanks for the correction.

I DONT KNOW WHY THERE IS ANYTHING BUT FNATIC FLAIRS HERE. I THOUGHT ONLY TRASH WAS ALLOWED TO TALK IN THIS THREAD

And that was with their support player not playing his core champion pool. That year, his most-played picks were Zyra and Brand but didn’t play them at Worlds.

Then the quarterfinals onward was basically defined by Zyra support and her counter in Ashe-MF.

She’s fun af and I play her a bunch.

Also pair her with Soraka and she’s a washing machine. It’s great!

Madlife Blitz is overselling it a bit.

I remember when they got 3-0'd in finals and in the post-game interview, the winner said something like, "Yeah, I knew in game 3 they'd try to do something wilder, like Madlife picking Blitzcrank."

They had left it up all series. It clearly wasn't something they were afraid of. Madlife picked it in game 3 and still lost.

Still his pocket pick, though. The crowd cheered when he locked it in.

Um actually grammatically this should be "whom" do you keep.

Downvoted for Travis's poor grammar skills. Upvoted for MarkZ.

Brolaf skit was great. I edited and scored it!

I mean did you see them play this season? Of course not. Their season was 2v5 most games.

He's better.

I agree. I think Shadowflame should look a lot more like Youmuu's. Lich Bane's pretty good, though, at least.

FWIW Nashor's Sunfire is clearly not an assassin build. She's a bruiser and is building as such.

Diana has an AoE CC ultimate and a self-shield. She is clearly not an assassin by kit. She's practically Wukong and no one bats an eye at Divine Sunderer + Death's Dance there.

However, it's worth noting that her more assassin-skewed builds (Nashor-Rocketbelt and Rocketbelt-Shadowflame) perform better for most players than the most common bruiser one.

While I agree with the oversimplification that getting caught is not a playstyle, neither is doing nothing.

Indeed a good ADC knows when to play forward and when to not get caught. But it's also a LOT easier for the peanut gallery (myself included) to notice someone playing too far up versus someone doing nothing to win the game.

We've all seen those zero kills and 20 minute games, mostly in pro. Is that really everyone playing perfectly or have 12 kills been passed up because players were too scared of "getting caught out"?

Yes

For a while that was always true: 2012 no Fnatic iirc. 2013 no TPA. 2014 no SKT. 2015 no SSW. 2016 was the first time a defending champion even showed up.

FWIW Double/Core hard sh*t on bot lane. As soon as IG locked Varus/Kench I knew it was doomed because neither player really played those champions and they just decided that they'd take away champions and magically win (they didn't)