Final Exam

I'd have to say my favorite part of Mr. Gilmer's guest lecture was seeing firsthand the impact of social networking. I'm not a person that sees the inherent value or point even in have a Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, Tout, etc. all at once, so it's nice to see tangible evidence of the practicality of their usage in business outside of just marketing.

That said, I still don't believe there is a need to have that many social networking accounts if you are just the average joe. In my mind, all you need is to pick one you like and stick with it.

Singed: Ace Cropduster

 Mix, mix, swirl, mix...

Ah, Singed. In my opinion, on of the most fun Champions in the game. A friend of mine once summed up his gameplay as "check the inventory and make sure you don't have any crap to give because if you do, you lose." Indeed Singed is most useful in the midst of the enemy team soaking damage and slowly eating away at everyone's health with his poison. His ability to fling a target is also quite useful for getting the squishies away from their tanks and into your party. Just make sure it's a squishy and not one of the enemy team's tanks. Just make sure you're tossing baby seals to sharks and not sharks to baby seals. 

While teamfight phase is fun when playing Singed, who doesn't like being too tanky to kill but too annoying to ignore after all, my favorite part of the game with him definitely has to be mid to late laning phase. Because he gets so tanky and his ultimate gives him so much health regeneration and run speed, you can live for quite a long time. Add in the spell ghost and his glue and you can kite entire teams. I've kited 2 and 3 people to death before on Singed laughing the entire time as they futilely followed me through my poison trail in what can best be summed up by one of mcr00sterDOTA's "This is Why We Hate" videos:

 [insert cliche flatulence pun here]

It's quite fun to turn what would have been a murder party with you as the pinata into a double or triple kill. People always tend to over commit while in your poison trail too. Then, when they try to turn and run, you can glue them and throw them back into your poison trail once again,leaving them to chose to die by poison damage or die by poison damage and knuckle sandwiches.

That's it for today. I'll close this post with one last video of a Singed in action courtesy of MontegomeryLoL.

Jax: The Top Lane Terror

"Surprise! I'm back."

 

 

No line is more fitting when using Jax's Leap Strike + Counter Strike combo from the tall grass. You're just running back to lane and suddenly you have a guy flying at you from the grass who is looking for a new pair of shoes who thinks your glutes would make a fine pair of boots. From ticks to wild Pokemon, nothing good ever comes out of tall grass and Jax is no exception.

Oh don't mind me, just waiting here to wreck someone's day.

One of the keys to Jax in lane is harass, but subtle harass. After you land a few combos whether from the grass or out in lane, most people will start to hang back a bit. This is when you'll begin to pull ahead in money and experience and the true terror begins. At level 6, Jax's kid gloves come off and he gets a large jump in damage from his ultimate skill's passive effect and defense from it's active effect. If your opponent wasn't able to deal with you before then they're about to be in a world of trouble. The first time you land the combo with the extra burst from his ultimate will be one of the most satisfying moment in the match. Why, you ask? Because people panic. It's hilarious to watch someone hesitate as they decide to run or engage you when you leap on them, which is just enough time for your stun to go off (or if you're feeling really cheeky, time your leap strike so that you land on them right as the stun from counterattack happens and l-o-l at their misfortune).

If you do it right you'll be walking away with kill after kill, setting your opponents farther and farther back, while you continue to streak ahead. Then, like a fat man at the buffet, you will get fed (that is to say you will have far more kills that anyone else in the match and be much stronger). If you properly snowball yourself you'll get fed so hard that stopping you 1v1 is about as feasible as stopping a speeding semi truck with stern letters and kind words. Since everyone you come across should explode into a red mist before they realize it at this point, roam to the middle and bottom lanes to wreck their days as well. Why not? Spread the love around. Everybody gets a beat-stick lantern to the face. You'll help your team widen the lead and win games.

 

9 kills, 3 deaths, and 9 assists before 20 minutes? You can't surrender hard enough.

This is exactly what happened in one of my recent games with some friends. I stomped my lane opponent so hard that he now runs a soup kitchen since he's so good at feeding people. He tried to stave off my relentless assault by hiding under their team's turret and hoping the massive damage it could do to me would deter me. It didn't. The turret was no threat. Once I could dive and kill him under it and walk away with another person chasing me, I knew the game was over. I then proceeded to wander the map and ruin everybody's day snowballing my entire team out of control and snagging us the victory.

That's it for now. Join back next time when I go over Singed: The Master Troll and Cropduster.

Greetings and salutations, Summoner!

Welcome to Here for the LoL, a blog centered around comedic experiences in the online MOBA game League of Legends. For the first post I'll give a little background into the game itself.

MOBA stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. In League of Legends, each player controls a single champion on a team of 3 or 5 and you fight against an opposing team on various maps that represent each of the game modes. Each champion has a unique array of abilities that give them all vastly different playstyles. The team that utilizes their champion mix the best, usually arises the victor. For more info into the background of the game visit: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/learn

That's it for today. See you on the Fields of Justice!