The site I write for – Front Towards Gamer – asked me to do an unveiling post for Braum, the new moustachioed support for League of Legends.
It’s a bit late, considering he was unveiled a few days ago, but still, here it is! 😛
League of Legends
League of Legends is a fun game, right? It’s fun! It’s hard, it’s gruelling and difficult, but fun!
Except for the people. Yeahhhhhh… The people.
This person wasn’t on my team, but I got the joy of them in all-chat, and I also got to enjoy the after-game chat, which I’ll copy and paste here.
Try and figure out who was the toxic player!
SavienTraliard: suffer cancer son of a crackwhore
Aldrahill: whooooa dude
Aldrahill: dayum
SavienTraliard: from deep in my heart
Faustficker: huihuihui
Aldrahill: huehuehuehue
blackomet: xD
Aldrahill: mad is the appropriate term
SavienTraliard: if somone already died in your family , it makes me even happier
Aldrahill: calm down man!
SavienTraliard: suffer cancer
Aldrahill: and tihnk about what you say to a human being man xD
Aldrahill: take a deep breath
Aldrahill: go masturbate
SavienTraliard: u die
Aldrahill: think of loved ones
Aldrahill: caaaalm
SavienTraliard: world is a better place
There followed a lot of French and German from the other team, all equally terrible I’m sure!
Hey all!
I contributed this article to FrontTowardsGamer! Nice guys over there, and I’m looking forward to posting a lot more articles and guides over there soon, so stay tuned!
SivHD (a LoL streamer and YouTuber), and 39 other LoL streamers, are currently streaming continuously all day to raise money for Save the Children!
All donations are matched by a multiple of 8.333, so the $7 Million goal by the charity across all the streamers  is almost there!
I’m not affiliated at all, but I only just found about it, donated some money and just thought I’d tell everyone else!
Here’s SivHD’s steram:Â http://www.twitch.tv/sivhd
Big news for League of Legends and hell, even bigger news for E-Sports as a whole – LCS is now considered on par with other frequent sports competitions held in the USA!
Not just is this a great thing for the movement of E-Sports forward as a whole, but practicly it means that LoL players can now get Visas if needed to play with teams in the USA.
This recognition is another movement forward in the endeavour that has existed since E-Sports as a concept first began – to be considered alike to professional sports like Football, Basketball and the like.
So, great news for LCS and great news as a symbol to E-Sports!
Watching the CLG v Cloud 9 match last night, a big thing talked about was the significance of Cloud 9’s aggression.
They were pushing turrets incredibly quickly, taking a turret by 3 minutes, 20 seconds. Although losing First Blood, their early aggression earned them a lot of praise. You see, CLG have become somewhat known for their late-game strategy; picking champions that scale well into the late game (like Nasus and Vayne in this game) and just attempting to protect their turrets and farm as hard as possible, so as to win mid-late game fights.
Something interesting happened at a certain point in the game; around 12 minutes or so: Cloud 9’s aggression just… stopped. Two champions (Ryze and Ezreal) had just purchased Tear of the Goddess, an item that increases mana based on spellcasts. This meant that the champions they were opposed against in lane had an incredible damage potential over them. This meant that their incredibly aggression early game gave them a lot of early gold to survive this period of weakness wherein they were forced to play somewhat passively.
This perfectly highlights the importance and significance of early-game pressure. That huge push at the start of the game gave them not just a gold advantage, but a morale superiority; they were ahead, the crowd is cheering for their play-making, and CLG are very aware that they’re behind. Although obviously CLG somewhat pulled it back (not going to spoil the ending) – these guys are pros after all – but the lesson is an incredible one in solo queue.
As my friends say, go HAM (hard as a motherfucker). In solo queue, instead take it as knowing when to apply pressure in your lane and then roam, so as to exert pressure elsewhere. In 5v5s, try to emulate Cloud 9 in their effective pushing and pressure strategy.
Obviously, please don’t try  it when you have terrible early game potential – I have seen many a Nautilus trying to make plays at the enemy’s Inner Turret without having even levelled his Dredge Line… but if you can practise it, do it! The pressure certainly demoralizes your enemies at the very least.
Just something I’m going to endeavour to emulate in future games as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKoPxHsMlBI
Just thought I’d link it, just played the game and it went very well. Very enjoyable! We actually lost thanks to some silly decisions late game, but damn it was fun.
