League for the League?

[FrozenStorm]

Edit: Here's a link to our team homepage!
http://www.xpleague.com/index.php?p=teams&step=view&tid=3832


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Brad and I are thinking we should do a Treeline League, for t3h lulz, ya know ;)

SO, if you want to participate, please sign up for an XPL account here:
http://www.xpleague.com/index.php?p=teams&step=view&tid=3832

Once you have an account, register for the team by finding it in this list:
http://www.xpleague.com/index.php?p=league&step=teams&id=148&cid=257

Our team is "Maverick" password to join is "mavericky".

The league would be once a week (scheduled flexibly w/ the opponent of the week), set of 3 TT games. I would probably recommend a once weekly "official" practice session of 5-6 games, but other than that just playing as we're free like we already do.

First preseason game would be week of May 4th, first regular would be week of May 10th.

Post here once you've signed up there so I can add you!

-Will

P.S. here's the forums post about it:
http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=96462

and the league rules
http://www.xpleague.com/index.php?p=league&step=rules&id=148

[FrozenStorm]

Okay dudes we have a full roster! Lineup will be

Me (FrozenStorm) * El Capitan
Brad (Trosck) The Commodore
Ian (TheMelkMan)
Jeremy (Raethen)
Sam (YoungBuck)
Mulder (Sabotage)

Please post here who you're planning to play, so we can know what kinds of team comps we wanna shoot for! Remember Jax Shen and Ez are permabanned, and each team gets to globally ban 2 heroes per match (so 4 total)

Right Now, my list would go:
Warwick
Mundo
Udyr
Nidalee
Malphite

[Trosck]

I got Poppy and Morgona as my two big mains. I can play Annie and Zilean if I purchase em or they're free that week.

Going to try to get my Singed and possibly Gragas game going soon

[Raethen]

Ryze will be my main and I am going to start working on a couple others. Any suggestions here would be great for some strong champs on TT. Preferably some less squishy champs as they seem to do well in TT.

[FrozenStorm]

Jeremy:
Sion is supposed to be bitchin' built as AP/Tank, like RoA Abyssal Deathfire Rylai/Zhona something like that. Cho with a similar build wouldn't be bad either. Same with Singed. All three of those would be beast, picking one of those and prac-ing that would likely help a lot :)

[FrozenStorm]

Keep in mind that Sion and Nunu will be (mostly) buffed in the upcoming patch. Morde will be nerfed a bit.Kat and Trynd are both getting buffed a bit. Morg getting a MR Reduction buff to Soil, great for building a double burster team, and Roots are getting buffed in general. Garen will be added shortly, and may be a good addition.

As far as practices go, like I said, I'm thinking once a week for serious practice, and general play/practice/experimenting the rest of the time.

At work today we also briefly discussed how to work out who will play each week. I'm thinking it'll be roughly rotating with accommodations for people being unable to make it certain weeks. I'd like to make showing up for practices give preferentiality for matches, but if you can't make a practice I don't think that should totally exclude you either.

We should also give rough consideration to being able to build good team compositions with players. Teams will ideally have one burster / DPS, one Supporter / Hard CCer, and one Tank / Initiator.

Things like the following (w/ potential players)

Ryze [Jeremy] / Heim / Morde [Sam] [I](Burst and Push xcore)
Annie / Nidalee [Will] / Amumu [I](Big Team AoE Burst)
Warwick [Sam] / Blitz [Mulder] / Mundo [Will] (Pick off and dominate Jungle)
Nivia / [B]Morg / [B]Singed [Jeremy] [I](Bigtime AP, catch other team by surprise picks)
Ashe [Sam] / Zilean / [B]Rammus [Mulder] (Ashe Super Carry, Zil/Ram protect)
Popy [Mulder?] / Udyr [Will] / Sion [Jeremy] (Having three hybrids like thisworks for me too)

Things like that. So that has
Will - 3 teams (Nid/Mundo/Udyr)
Ian - 3 teams (Heim/Amumu/Nivia)
Sam - 3 teams (Morde/WW/Ashe)
Brad - 3 teams (Morg/Zil/Annie)
Jeremy - 3 teams (Ryze/Singed/Sion)
Mulder - 3 teams (Perhaps you could stick someone else in that Poppy spot, idk who else you play besides Jax/Blitz/Rammus though and Jax is banned).

I say we start critiquing some of those line-ups, and then practice what seems more viable from there. Sound good?

[Sabotage]

I'll probably give blitz a shot on treeline, also really like rammus but haven't played him on TT.

[shK]

Looks like fun guys! Let me know if you need anything, like a private channel in vent or something like that. Good luck!

[Trosck]

I don't know. After looking at all of your line ups none look very appealing.

Ryze [Jeremy] / Heim [Ian] / Morde [Sam] (Burst and Push xcore) this one I probably like the most. Mord can push like a beast, and between Heim and Ryze you can burst people down pretty well.

Annie [Brad] / Nidalee [Will] / Amumu [Ian] (Big Team AoE Burst) Not gonna lie, I hate Nidalee. Yes, she doesn't die that much, but I don't think she contributes that much either. It may just be me since I always single her out. Amumu and Annie is an interesting combo.

Warwick [Sam] / Blitz [Mulder] / Mundo [Will] (Pick off and dominate Jungle) This one would be interesting. Seems like a dominate or be dominated build though. Good movement and versatility.

Nivia [Ian] / Morg [Brad] / Singed [Jeremy] (Bigtime AP, catch other team by surprise picks) MR shuts this team down pretty hard (especially Morg and Nivia) At worst switch Singed out for a more physical tank. Better would be to change up morg or nivia to a dps. Possibly morg warwick (root + claws = death)

Ashe [Sam] / Zilean [Brad] / Rammus [Mulder] (Ashe Super Carry, Zil/Ram protect) I don't like ashe, I've come to hate zileans, Rammus's make me titter...

Popy [Mulder?] / Udyr [Will] / Sion [Jeremy] (Having three hybrids like thisworks for me too) I've yet to be won over by Udyr as a champion. He kinda fits with my Nid model. Annoying insect that just makes me want to squash something.

One Linup I'd like to see is Singed Blitz and possibly Ryze. Pull punch toss root. Maybe switch ryze for morg? Would be really annoying.

Just my tc

[Raethen]

Maybe its just me(and probably is) but I suck as Sion. Either put someone else in that spot or change the champ. I am just not having much luck with him on TT.

[FrozenStorm]

Some kind-of unfortunate news folks,

Shen, Jax, and Ezreal have been un-banned :(

Garen and Mordekaiser ARE banned.

All items are open season.

We will need to adapt to this accordingly. That is all :)

[Sabotage]

Dayam, I kind of want to pick up ezreal.

[FrozenStorm]

For those not on the team and curious, the link to follow our team is now in the OP of this thread, and here:
http://www.xpleague.com/index.php?p=teams&step=view&tid=3832