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It’s odd. I remember starting this series when it was the King John arc. His traumas and everything around it was well done. It was kids in a high school, but with a great twist. It felt like the story had a lot of potential.

I haven’t even read most of the new season. I see most of the posts here and get the gist of it. It’s disappointing to say the least. I’ve made theories on her before about John and abilities in general. It was a great time.

Right now I’ve just come to accept that for some reason Uru has not gotten better at writing her story over the years, but she got worse. I don’t know how, but she feels less connected to the series than us. I think we KNOW she can do better and that’s why a lot of us are kinda sad.

I thought Uru pacing would improve. It did not. I thought her panel management would improve. It did not. I thought she would get even better when it comes to character development. She just didn’t.

My biggest disappointment is the detail. I thought things would get more and more fleshed out over the years. When you have a decade to think about your own power system I expect it to further develop. I mean it did, kinda, but in a bad way. Things still don’t make sense. The choices when it comes to abilities and actions she has made in season 3 have been increasingly disappointing.

We used to have Q&A with Uru, but nobody can ask her anything. I just want to know what happened a bit. Is she just generally feeling tired of the series? I can understand if she is, but the lack of communication and the worsening of the series just makes me feel like she just doesn’t care as much anymore.

I’m still a fan, or I was? Maybe I’m just a reader now. I still enjoy the series for what it is, but just incredibly sad for what it could have been. That’s all.

It is in a different sense than just the role itself. I know people consider toplane as low impact right now. The quest is not that great, but I am talking about chat in-game.

I play toplane and it doesn’t matter how much meat I swing around. Nobody ever thanks toplane, but the MOMENT my meat doesn’t reach the table people start asking questions. It’s always getting top gapped even when I clearly say it’s gonna be a tough lane. When I’m stomping lane, nobody is questioning it. That’s EXPECTED!

I play both toplane and support. Support is like I get blessings from everyone. I will say that I am a good support for my rank, but I get so much fucking praise as good support. When I’m doing well as support. Everybody starts praising me or thanking me. I even had the enemy team call me the sole reason we won “support gap”. Another enemy called me the ‘hidden mini-raidboss’.

I swear the moment I play toplane and do well, dead silence. When I pick support, sunshine and rainbows. Give your toplaner some love next time he does well. I would do the same for all of you.

I am really wondering how effective Cut Down and Coup de Grace are. Does the % damage increase work well with Shen’s way of doing damage? Since Shen does solid percentage based damage I don’t know if Cut Down works at all or not.

I’ve been testing around with runes for Shen and the secondary tree seems pretty flexible. I like the alacrity stacks a lot, but not sure if it’s worth it if cut down or the other don’t work with percentage based damage.

For me the best secondary tree is domination for now. Sudden impact just gives good extra damage, but I usually run it with ultimate hunter. I’ve been enjoying Zeke a lot, so I have less need for the ultimate hunter ult haste.

Does everything outside of level up stats count as bonus? When I choose double health scaling is that all bonus health? Same for overgrowth?

I used to read Tower of God religiously, but I took a break to safe up a bunch of chapter. I checked and I have 100 chapters saved up. But season 3 ended a year ago? When is season 4 starting? I thought it already started a while back.

I understand that it all depends, but how often do you use your first two teleports to go anywhere besides your own lane. Ornn plays quite slow for me, I just started playing him. I tend to be in my own lane for at least 15 minutes before even THINKING to go somewhere else. More often than not it’s 20 minutes.

When you have difficulty in lane and haven’t finished first tower in let’s say 15+ minutes, do you stay? Or do you tp to drake anyway instead of farming?

I really have a tough time getting out of lane since it’s hard to push waves with Ornn.

I’m silver, still learning the game of course. My main right now is Trundle, and I go Yorick to counter ranged. I climbed to silver playing Shen.

Those are my three main toplane champs. I took a break from Shen because he is hard to play when teammates don’t do well. Trundle is fun, but I enjoy some skill expression. I love Shen because his ult needs a lot of skill. One bad ult and it’s a double mistake.

I have playing split pushers mainly, because it’s fun. I just want to learn teamfighting too. I know Ornn is great for the team, but does he take skill? Does he have fun combos or things like that?

I like Fiora as well, or Riven, but I know both of these champs are really hard and they aren’t really for teamfights. More focused on skirmishes and carrying if you do well.

What other champs could I try that is nice for teamfights and can round out my toplane comps quite a bit?

Honestly I’m still kinda new and I just saw the maximum hate and disrespect for ranged top. For me anything is fine, but then I started to see them a little too much.

At first, it was Teemo, I get it now.

Then came Vayne, I get it now.

What followed was Jayce, I get it now.

Then the abomination called Varus came, I get it now.

Now, I get it.

I’m being very honest here. I started playing this game almost two months ago and all I heard was everything under emerald is just ass. They can all be swept under the same rug with some minor differences. I just am slowly finding out that it’s just a lie.

I am a very average gamer, but someone who always tries his best to learn. When I started playing ranked I dropped all the way to Iron 4 from iron 1. I stayed Iron 4 for about 200 games. I almost feel embarrassed, because all I read was that you actively had to try to lose to get to iron 4. I swear my mental faculties are absolutely fine.

After 200 games I noticed that things clicked way more and I simply felt like a better player. In 20 games I went from iron 4 to bronze 4. There was a difference. All of a sudden I was losing again in 1v1s. I noticed that people just also knew more.

I have studied dozens upon dozens of hours just to know match ups better. I play top as Shen, or Shen/Poppy support. It’s hard. I started playing support because I just couldn’t win lane in bronze.

I had to play adc to better understand when my positioning was bad. I had to watch so many videos, but finally last week I started absolutely beating bronze players in top lane. It felt amazing to finally smoke Mordekaiser.

Now I’m like 1 or 2 wins away from silver and I have to make no mistakes (mistakes that I notice) to go even with silver players at best. They are honestly good in my eyes. I mean like silver 1/2, solid silvers. Golds are really strong and I need ganks to win.

How in gods name are people saying the difference is non existent? I will probably need some coaching once I reach silver, because I genuinely think it’s gonna be really hard to figure out what mistakes I’m making now.

TLDR how many level differences are there? It feels like every time I reach the next rank I get whooped like I’m iron again. The challenge is fun, but I feel like I don’t even see 90% of the mistakes I’m making.