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I wonder if SKT could clean sweep the tournament if they played Faker every game. Chinese final seemed a bit too close, and I doubt TSM/Fnatic will come close to beating SKT in a BO5, 1 game is possible though.

I do enjoy the autoattack Falstad build. I've found an appreciation for Nova as well, she feels super rewarding if you make catches appropriately, and her AoE ult is fantastic in teamfights. Her DPS and low mobility (within a fight) does leave a bit to be desired, but obviously you can't have it all.

I've been playing this game quite a bit recently. I do like the team play aspect, though its very frustrating playing traditional carries (they call them assassins, which honestly doesn't make sense) like Valla, Tychus, or Falstad and just get completely shit on by a tank since you can't possibly kill them.

I think tank support could be fun to try. Starting with machete would be lane suicide though, being down a summoner spell already. I actually like the tank meta as a mainly AD player. Champions like Shyvanna pretty much my wet dream to play against as an AD since they can rarely ever reach you.

I haven't played past my placements this season so I'm currently plat. Been playing way too much HoTS so my view on the game is kinda fucked right now.

He's a super solid champion because his wave clear (past early game) is really good and he's extremely difficult to 1v1 due to his sustained damage and invulnerability. His teamfight is absolutely ridiculous if you land the ult properly. That being said, my main problem with him is the relatively low kill pressure. Hard to kill anyone if you run TP and have next to no CC, although they probably won't kill you either.

Sion is fucking annoying. Between him and Maokai I pretty much just despise playing AD nowadays. Its not fun to waste 30 seconds trying to kill someone who just runs at you all day and isn't useless enough to completely ignore because of the constant slows/stuns. The purpose of playing these super tanks (and getting fed/farmed on them) is to outlast your enemy's tanks/front-line so your team eventually overwhelms the enemy's in a team fight. Also because you're practically unkillable by 1-2 people if you splitpush with TP since you have like 4500 HP.

I suppose you're right to an extent, there are many people who are "stuck" at certain elos because of their mindset (and I personally believe that's the only thing holding them back). That's why this is interesting to me. For every bronze stuck after thousands of games, you're also going to find people who played thousands of games at an elo that's "good", maybe in low diamond or something, but they still can't reach the top, and I refuse to believe that its about physical limitations or some bullshit. I think its still just mindset. I think grinding games makes you better, but the improvement

I'm going to disagree and say that grinding games should make you better in the majority of cases. I think its pretty rare that people who play a shitton of games are stuck in bronze. Most people I play with (myself included) only really play because playing 5 person pre-made is fucking fun. We don't necessarily actively try to learn the game, but playing a lot gives you a good feel for things such as when to buy items, when to go back, what the enemy team could be doing, the capabilities/damage of each champion, etc. A lot of those things really come only from practice, and although I probabl