Yeeah...I mean I want to like it. Its fun in theory. But 25 games in and ive only won 4.... I know Im not that horrible but good grief.

Heya butch... Ok I'll give Dominion a go I guess - I didnt know it was live now. Seriously there are SOOOOOOOOO many griefers in LoL when you random pug it. And the shit thing is that if you respond in any way like leaving the game you are the one that gets cut = fail system for dealing with griefers.

Just my time zone means I'm not going to catch you or most dg players for many games.

When da hell is Dota2 beta gonna start so LoL can catch a venereal disease and die a slow painful death..

Played a bit yesterday.  Think I played a couple pugs in dominion, then the rest in normal 5v5. 

I'm not quite as excited about dominion as I thought I'd be.  I think its fun and I like that the games are short.  I think you get the same roughly the same IP if you win or lose.  Anyway, I'm going to stick with the formula of playing it from time to time and play normal games for the majority.  I agree that playing with friends is superior to pugs in dominion, though. Anyway, several fun games and got to play with carbon again, so good stuff.

I actually find that its easier to make up for bad teammates in Dominion.  Just yell at them to either be back dooring or defending, neither of which are hugely difficult.

The key is that the number of viable champs seems to be much lower on Dominion.  The difference between top tier champs (Rammus, Jax, Garen, Akali being up there) and lower tier champs (Nasus, Veiger etc) is much bigger than on Summoner's Rift.  So pick a good tanky DPS and you can do quite a bit just by yourself as long as you stay active. 

I knew DOTA and it's clones were popular but I thought people would be put off by the communitys horrible attitude and teamplay in general. Am I the only one who doesn't like teamgames?

Pacov - the man with the game(obsession? ). What is it you like so much about League of Legends?

Is DOTA II an obvious upgrade for you?

What about everybody else that has posted like crazy here?

heh... doggu.  The difference between you and me was that I only thought of that wisecrack. 

Had some god awful games with Karl last night.  1 game we just got worked (completely idiotic team comp because we got an olaf that wanted to jungle so we lost our amumu).  Karl was solid at least, but the rest of the team... not so much.  The last game we were up like 17 kills or something and managed to lose because folks had no interest in watching the map and defending.  In hindsight, I should have just gone back to assist and ignored everyone that should have went back (but did not).  Instead I'm just pinging asking the right folks to head back.  Smeh.  In the future, I'm just going to go back on defense even if I'm the carry or a tank - you never know what type of players you are going to get in a pug.  Sigh... just needed 1 person with half a brain to consider going back to base.  Also that last game started getting some weird lag that made things very difficult towards the end - pacov = suspicious, but oh well.

Some people are put off by the community.  That said, there are tools within game that can mitigate crappy attitudes (eg you can always easily mute someone).  To be fair, though, even in my pugs, I end up with like 1 guy that is annoying once every 10 games or so.  And even then, its just some 13 year old idiot, so I really don't care (and could just mute if I wanted to).  I play whatever role well enough at this point where I'm never really insulted by my team, so the only hazing might come from an idiot on my team directed at someone else or someone on the other team being a douche.  In either case, I just report them at the end of the game and trust that the person will eventually get their account banned if they keep it up. 

Nope.  I personally get more satisfaction anymore from playing in some sort of team game instead of SP (though I still love SP games) -  even if team game just means co-op, etc.  The best part about playing in team games, though , is when you get to play with your pals.  That's the nice thing about lol for me - a huge chunk of the Demigod community moved over to LoL after quitting Demigod, so I get to meet up with folks I used to play with, etc.  Nice to have some continuity from game to game.

Oh, I don't super like League of Legends.  I spend quite a bit of time playing it and its growing on me, but I'm not a huge fan of the meta game.  I do like the diversity of characters.  I do love that it gets constant support and there is no real end in sight for that support (this is a HUGE bonus to me).  I do like that I earn points for every game I play (win or lose) that I can use to unlock new characters or runes.  I do like that it takes a bit to get to level 30 so that you have plenty of experience by the time you are ready to play ranked games.  I do like that 99% of every game I've played has begun within 2 minutes of me queuing up for a game.  I like the connectivity scheme as well - if you crash or disconnect for whatever reason, you can reconnect to the game.  I love the meta game and characters in demigod much more, but LoL has everything else that I could want even if I like the meta less in it. 

No idea, tbh.  I might hate it utterly.  The thing with Dota 2, if I understand it correctly, is that its really just Dota 1 updated with current gen graphics/connectivity, etc.  This means that if you are a pro at Dota 1, then logically you are pretty great at dota 2.  The downside to this is that there will be folks with years and years of experience when the game comes out.  Obviously that experience is a huge leg up compared to newcomers.  Anyway, its definitely something I will at least try. 

I was just thinking about trying out Kog as well in Dom.  I think he could be quite useful as well.

Well - I finally hit level 30.  Just tweaking out my owned runes a bit (by a bit, I mean for like the next month - heh). 

Played my first draft pick game - a bit surprised that I've only done one of those.  Think I might play more in the future.  Does anyone know what determines who the team captain is?  For instance, the game I played, zen was the captain.  He hosted a game and it was just me and 1 other guy in that lobby before we hit the queue (so there were 3 of us total queued - with zen being the host).  Is there any reason (outside of host) that zen was chosen to be the captain?  Is there any way to control where you end up picking?  Eg if zen hosts a game and we have 5 people total, then queue up, am I just put somewhere at random in the character selection process?

Anyway, I mostly just tried out characters and strategies in bot games yesterday.  Nothing super exciting, but I'll likely start with some ranked games soon after a few more draft pick games to get more familiar with how things go.  Oddly, haven't had much desire to play dominion lately.

Ah - I thought that was it. 

You dont get more IP for ranked.

@Pacov  Sorry bout the last game man... that was frustrating.  It really wasn't as bad as it seemed... damn Ashe survived some crazy tower dives early but oh well.  After some research, I think the problem is I overcompensate when I'm mid and try and "round" Annie out by using defensive runes and masteries.  Its the damn Demigod habits!  Its so hard to resist stacking health... but the best defense nukers seem to have is the fear of getting... well, nuked I guess.  The reason I do so much better with Urgot is he is pretty good rounded out with some tankiness to go with the AD.

tl;dr I'll play better next time.

Been trying out vayne today.  Was impressed with someone so much in one of my earlier matches that I decided to pick her up with RP.  Anyway, been having fun with her.  Not so great just yet ofc.  Met a new player that I dig a lot.  Goes by Zainissa in game.  Love her sorka.  Getting to lane with her was a treat.  Always topped off on mana/hp, freeing me up to get very aggressive with my q e combo.  Good stuff!

It's just math - if you are strong consistently as gal (vs 1 or 2), then that's a safe bet.  I'm about 90% solid with gal at holding my lane if alone and even better if paired up.  I think finding any character that you can do that consistently is where to start.

The only question is can you play X character ranked (by that, i mean, can you choose him before someone else does or  does he get banned).  And with gal, I'd say yes you can.  So if you have like 90% solid stats landing (early mid) and 80% or so late, then that's what you need to practice (or rather, if you have those numbers, you really don't). 

Vayne is my favorite AD Carry, which is to say that she is my favorite champion in general.  There are some good videos of EGWestrice, a pro-LoL player, giving lessons, tutorials, and just general gameplay of Vayne in solo queue.  I think that's what got me into Vayne...that or the fact that when I first looked through the champions I decided that I needed to get a 6300 IP Champ ASAP, and Vayne happened to be the first damage dealer on the list.