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[baruk]

Fnatic vs CLG - 3rd Place Game - IEM Gamescom
http://www.twitch.tv/esltv_lol
  The winning team qualifies for the season 2 championship, so quite an important fixture as 3rd place matches go..
Game one:

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 Clg brought out Kog Maw/Nunu, sending them top lane against Rumble, leaving Wickd's Malphite to lane against Fanatic's Ezrael/Leona. It was close at first, with Clg creating a modest lead, Shyvana ganks on bot lane allowing them to get ahead on kills whilst also picking up a couple of dragons. They consolidated their advantage with some solid team fights and superior control of objectives - the extra gold allowed them the luxury of building guardian angels on both Kog Maw and Gragas - this would win them the next team fight, costing Fanatic their first inhibitor, as the Nocturne/Leona dive Fanatic relied upon would only survive long enough to kill Gragas once.
 Finally, Clg were able to close out the game by camping at the Baron pit whilst their minions pushed into the enemy base - Fanatic were forced to split up, and would try and fail to steal Baron 4v5, costing them the Nexus. MVP for Fanatic was Xpeke's Ryze, finishing with 7-2.

Game two/three:

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 Top lane saw Fanatic's Yorick against Ezrael/Leona at first - Clg warded the top half of the river, and would take control of the lane, ganking with Cho Gath and taking the tower early, before moving the carry/support to bot lane to continue the pressure. Clg just snowballed from this point, Fanatic having no answer to the ganks from Cho Gath and Gragas - Ezrael reaching 9 kills 17 minutes in as Fanatic's towers just melted in quick succession. Graves was the only damage threat on Fanatic and it wasn't enough - after Renekton and Gragas built guardian angel Clg could win the next team fight easily, soon claiming the Baron and finally the Nexus.

M5 vs. SK - Grand Final - IEM Gamescom
Game one

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 Moscow 5 wins in 29 minutes with a 15-1 kill score. Diamondprox's Udyr was MVP, creating early ganks to get both himself and Ezrael fed, and getting an early oracle to cripple SK's map awareness.

Game two/three

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Moscow 5 wins in 27 minutes, this time with a 27-3 score. Things went wrong for SK early, when Kevin's Yorick tried and failed to take blue buff at level one - to make matters worse, he then gave first blood when trying to ward tribrush in the bot lane. Diamond's Udyr turned in a repeat MVP performance, getting in two successful ganks before picking up an oracle's elixir at 4 minutes to deny SK of vision, and allow M5 to implement their roaming gankfest style of play with full effectiveness.

[Dariush]

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OMNOMNOM.

[webadict]

I'ma chill in TS in case anyone's holding ARAM/Dominion/I guess regular game sessions.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Okay, list of bay12 and friends for ARAM that have joined us thus far:

Benzenoid
Bluerobin
BowlSoldier
Breadbocks
ceelo619
Chief Tiger
deviantTwilight
dossom
dragonthing
Emanuel56
Engysback
FortunaCookie
HowHardAreFish
Inteuniso
Jack TheJil
JustAPerson
KaelGotRice
Luckspade
Naxza
Pan Luoyi
PsyberianHusky
Rebal
Rift06
SalmonGod
Slapfish
Snafubar
The Pengo
Viscoth
webadict
Woose1
Zakarul

If I forgot anyone, sorry, my bad.

[Bordellimies]

So I picked up Malzahar and realized there's really no reason to play him. Newer champions do even more damage on lower cooldowns with less mana and hit more people, and his lack of regular hard crowd control in a dash-happy tanky-deeps meta means that I'm as good as dead as soon as an "optimal" enemy shows up. At least, that's how I feel with Dominion.

I'm really sick of seeing certain champions that are just better than others because they're newer. Power creep is horrible.

I always play Mals as AD in Dominion. Get Armor Penetration and CDR for runes, masteries specced for +mana/level, flat AD, CDR & MPen. Ignite + Exhaust for summoner spells.

 Level normally (Nether Grasp > Malefic Visions > Call of da Void > Null Zone). Start by buying boots + Tear of goddess, put 1 level to each skill, and spam your abilities before the game starts (to charge tear)

Rush for Mercury Treads ASAP, then Brutalizer and then turn that tear into Manamune. Get either the Frozen Heart component (seal) or Hexdrinker, and get the other one next. Now get either Hextech Revolver -> Gunblade, or finish Hexdrinker into Maw of Malmortius, or finish seal into Frozen Heart.


His strength comes from incredible pushing power, ability to regain mana very easily with his visions and his strong area damage. He is a great anti-mage since most mages get flat health for defence, and Null Zone deals with that, his voidlings deal immensely high physical damage for not having any AD, and his ability to harass and push continuously often fucks people up. Anyone who blinks in can be dealt with Null Zone + Call of the Void at your own feet and then using ult to lock the enemy down. Ignite + Visions to finish off. Also, 2 of his abilities + his voidlings deal damage over time without being channeled, meaning that you can still deal damage while stunned.
His weaknesses probably would be crowd control since he has no escape mechanisms.

[webadict]

Not gonna lie, AD Malzahar is fun in Dominion.

[webadict]

ARAM session going live!

[KaelGotDwarves]

Still doing ARAM

[Dariush]

I'm Darayavaush in-game and am always ready for some anything on EUNE.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I decided I didn't already have to much on my plate and so decided to learn this game and play it some. Any advice for someone just getting into this game?

[Jopax]

The ignore function is your friend, if someone is annoying you, ignore their ass.

Other than that, if you have any expirience in MOBA games you're pretty much set as far as the basics go, the only thing you can do is to learn the champs, items, abilities and their combinations. But that really comes just with playing (atleast it did for me, just reading walls of text about something isn't as helpful as expiriencing it first hand).

Find some champs you like (design, abilities, gameplay style, whetever you enjoy) and try and play them for a while if you can, in time you'll find your niche (suppor, carry, etc.) and be able to recognize which champs belong where, thus making your choices easier.

And to conclude, there are B12 members on all the servers I think (not sure about China) so it's not hard to find someone to play a few games with and get the ropes of it.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I have not played MOBA type games that much or really at all any time recently. I only played DoTA way back in the beta and not very much. I do understand the concepts though. Is there any good video tutorials which bring you through the basics? Oh and I am signed up for North America as Akhier.

[Jopax]

Well you have in-game starter tutorials, not sure where they are exactly located since I haven't really played them, but they give you a nice idea of the basics in the form of quests (telling the right time to push and stuff like that). There are tutorials on YT, but these are mostly champion specific (can be quite useful at first if you don't have an idea how a certain champion should be played).

One important thing to learn is last hitting.

Here's a fun one, but there are plenty more which are more serious and comprehensive on the matter.

[Bordellimies]

MOBA is actually a quite bad way to describe games like LoL or DotA, since games like Counter Strike are also MOBA games.

[Sonlirain]

MOBA is actually a quite bad way to describe games like LoL or DotA, since games like Counter Strike are also MOBA games.

It might be bad but it works.

Most people refer to CS TF2 CoD ETC. as FPS instead of MOBA despite MOBA is techinally correct as well.
At least i never saw anyone refering to CS as "MOBA".
All that while games like LoL DotA HoN are called MOBA.