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Alright, I finally finished it! Here is my photoshopped version of Leona in a corrupted moon-style skin. I have no idea what to make for her background, aside from liking the idea of having an eclipse as a part of it (the moon is eclipsing the sun). As a result, I'm using the picture you currently see in the background until I can come up with something on my own that will also match the colouring that I did. I've also posted the picture in the League of Legends forums here in the general discussion thread and again in my own thread in the fan art forums and the player concepts forums. I haven't seen the OP on the forums lately, but hopefully he'll see my drawing soon and like it! I'm still learning photoshop, so I'm sure it could be better, but this is my best work so far, so I'm pretty excited about it. If anyone thinks they can do a better job colouring it and wants the original file, I have it available, and may make it available to download. Sources:
Background image: http://www.paintingsgallery.pro/upload/artists/stefanov_alexander_222444/artworks/www.PaintingsGallery.pro_Stefanov_Alexander_Eclipse_medium_222693.jpg
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TPA Orianna Skin on the PBESo far, I like it. I think it's a cute Orianna skin, and I really do love the ponytail. TPA Mundo Skin on the PBE"MUNDO GO WHERE HE PLEASES!" Seriously. What Happened?I am getting exceedingly frustrated now when I go to play ARAM. I don't know what has happened with my MMR or if it even applies, but I am consistently getting paired up with people who did very well in Season 2 of LoL; gold and platinum players. This sounds like a fantastic thing! After all, these players are clearly more skilled than the rest of the player base, and should be able to continue my winning streak.
How I wish that was the case. These players are so bad at ARAM, it almost makes me want to quit playing. They're treating it like it's a regular Summoner's Rift map, sitting back, and farming under the turret. They rarely engage with the enemy, who is able to completely dominate and control the lane the entire game. When they do eventually decide to engage, it happens one at a time or they engage on the wrong target. Here's an example: our tank, Maoki, goes into engage on the Miss Fortune who strayed too close to our turret. An enemy Olaf runs in, and the other four members of the team engage on Olaf instead of Miss Fortune despite them being quite close together (MF was perhaps a step or two behind Olaf, Olaf being closer to the turret now). Our team dies, as they are being freely attacked by Miss Fortune, and Olaf also winds up living. I was under the impression that players who had attained a certain level of skill knew who to focus in a team fight and who not to. Why they can't transfer this knowledge over to ARAM, which is pure team fights, I will never understand. All I can do, I suppose, is to keep playing and hope I get a team that is capable of engaging as a team and that can focus the appropriate target at the appropriate time. -KS Lissandra is available after all!The good news is that Lissandra released with today's patch, despite the initial fear that she would not due to a post by Riot. However, people have been attempting to learn how to play her in an ARAM queue to little avail; here's a quick hint, she needs a ton of cooldown reduction items to be viable and helpful in general, and especially in an environment like ARAM. Some items that have helped me land my combo magic in an ARAM:
These are great, as they have the CDR, plus some extra bonuses without loading you with mana regen, which really isn't needed in the ARAM map due to the passive mana regen and Lissandra's passive. If I were to play her in a regular map, I would definitely pick up at least one mana regen item though. I've also found that while her Q (Iceshard) has the lowest cooldown for all of her spells, it also has a very short range that makes harassing people with it nigh impossible. As a result, I found that maxing out her W(Ring of Frost) and then balancing the remaining points between her Q (Iceshard) and her E(Glacial Path) garnered the best results.
In an ARAM, I did find myself maxing Glacial Path first, mostly as a harass tool, depending on the enemy team composition. When both teams had equal poke without the ability to engage, I found it to be a viable way to contribute, instead of sitting on my hands in a bush. The Howling Abyss on the PBEOne of my shorter games on the PBE in the new ARAM map. They finally fixed the towers (they don't spawn as being broken anymore) and everything seems to be working out great. Watch out for the Poro!
I feel guilty for neglecting my other titles...I'm not quite sure what to do about this. I've purchased a few games lately that I was very excited to play at the moment that I purchased them, titles such as: Pandora's Tower, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, Defiance, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. The only trouble is, I've barely played any of them! All I have been playing lately is the new ARAM mode on the League of Legends Public Beta Environment and I've been trying to be more active on the League of Legends forums as well. ... however, the new ARAM on the LoL PBE is fantastically epic.I'm most likely going to FRAPS a game or two soon, just for fun and to show my friends the updates on the PBE. I would be playing more PSO 2, except that it currently is not compatible with FRAPS; that, and I have to do my quest for my second class (Hunter going into the option to be a Fighter) and it seems like a lot more effort than I am currently willing to put into it. So, the League of Legends PBE has attracted all of my attention lately. Not only does it have the new champion, Lissandra, and the updated models for Trundle and Sejuani, but the ARAM matchmaking is a very satisfying experience, and can have games of varying time frames, though usually they are relatively short which means more games in a shorter period of time. The average game that I have played lately has been 20-30 minutes, as the PBE has unlocked all champions for all players, with a 20% IP boost enabled as well. It's still in Beta for a reason.This has caused some interesting glitches for me, however. The most noticeable one was my getting Morgana four games in a row; this was an unusually odd occurrence, for though my PBE account has quite a few champions unlocked (at least 30) I have yet to received a champion so many times in such a short period when I have my regular champions available. Now that all champions have been made available to me, I receive only a small selection of this availability with regularity. The strangest part is that every player on the PBE has all of the champions marked as playable/available, so it isn't as though Morgana is the only champion that I do not share in common with the other 9 players in the game. The one positive thing that has come of this, however, is that I have once and for all (until a new skin comes out) decided which Morgana skin is my favorite; Sinful Succulence Morgana. Note: The extra champions are currently disabled on the PBE. Links:
Games I'm not playing splash:
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Someone thought of a cool concept for Leona and Diana, so I thought I would pitch in!This is the thread for the concepts, so you can see what the OP had in mind. I did my best with what I had available at the time, though I'm planning on redoing the colouring with Photoshop (my trial ran out of time). If you're reading this, and you like/have an interest in the idea, bump the thread for us, so hopefully people who are a better artist than I can also see it, and potentially create a more spiffy piece of art. The photoshop version will also have a proper background, so that way she isn't just on a white sheet of paper. Hopefully, I'll have it redone by early next week. I hope the OP likes it! Why? Just why?My question is simple. Why? Why would you play Karma if you have absolutely no idea on how to use her? Karma recently got a rework in the League of Legends game which updated her skills and abilities to such an extent that she no longer feels like the same character, and plays very differently. She isn't quite an AP mage, and she isn't quite a support, but instead has characteristics of both of these classes. As a result, you cannot build her as you would an AP mage, though you can still build her as you would a support to a certain degree. Yet people still insist on building her as a glass-cannon mage, despite her abilities being some of the shortest within the mage class. It simply does not work, especially with her heal having been removed. Yet despite all of this, people still insist on playing her thusly! Often, to a miserable effect. I just completed a game where we had a Karma player who wanted to support the attack damage carry in the bottom lane; however, Karma bought pure ability power weaponry, without the purchase of a single ward. This handicapped their lane, as they were unable to prepare adequately for the jungler ganks. The jungler, Rengar, then snowballed the rest of the game due to a lack of vision, ganking the bottom lane numerous times. Karma persisted on building AP, despite urging from our team to start acting like a support, for I was prepared to be Sona prior to the game starting. However, no wards were bought, so as a top, I was gold starved, attempting to light up the map to be able to split-push. Nothing worked, and eventually we lost, Karma having bought two full items requiring a Needlessly Large Rod and I having purchased on at the end of the game. Hopefully, she'll take our suggestions to try out Janna or Sona as a support instead of Karma, as they require less of a learning curve. RIP Traditional Karma, you will be missed.Getting kicked off the servers makes me a sad panda.I've had a lot of people complaining about the lag and connection issues in Defiance, especially on the Xbox 360; to them, I counsel patience. Even the best developers create new content that has some glitches in it, and this game in particular is a relatively new concept in the world of consoles.
I'm personally giving the game about a month or so to work out the connection issues, and we'll see how I feel about it from there. Although to be honest, since there aren't any subscription fees, I'll probably keep playing and just change games every time it disconnects me. Tonight's a perfect example of that; I got disconnected from the servers while working on a Hellbug event, so I went to go play League of Legends and won both of my games. All in all, a solid night, as I gained two levels in Defiance prior to getting disconnected. I feel the title sums it up pretty succinctly; with the new champion, Lissandra, launching sometime in the future, a few other champions whose lore exists close to Lissandra's are getting some new skins, and so far, they all look absolutely phenomenal. The Ice Drake Shyvana one is my favorite so far, it almost makes me want to start playing her again (I probably won't, since I am awful at melee..)! Blackfrost AniviaObviously, it's quite difficult getting to play as Lissandra on the PBE, so I chose to try out the new skins for the moment to see what the differences were, and whether they'd be worth investing in once they go live. The Anivia skin, allegedly, is the Legendary Skin for Anivia, as it apparently has a different voice as well as different skins for each of her attacks. It'll be interesting to see what other people think of it; I definitely prefer this skin over her regular one. Ice Drake ShyvanaThis skin was AMAZING! I love absolutely everything about it, or I will once they get the bugs fixed up. Currently, she still does her whole "Fire Dragon" animation about 80% of the time, which then goes into the Ice Drake once the dragon has landed; I've only seen the Ice Drake appear once when I first cast the spell to transform. However, every attack that she makes in this skin is a work of beauty, and it's just so stunning. Lissandra, the Ice WitchI made a custom game to try Lissandra out, and I do love the way she plays. I find her to be very similar (identical, almost) to the Crystal Maiden in DotA 2 in how she plays, though without the support abilities that the Crystal Maiden has. However, I really don't like her second skin (as seen below) as much as her "classic" skin. While it looks lovely, I feel that the classic skin simply suits her better, so I most likely won't be purchasing the bundle when she releases.
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