I was really hoping to be back in Diamond V right away as I think it would be much easier to climb while I have a lower total amount of games (bigger LP gains). Guess ill just have to keep grinding.... I will probably get it this week at some point.

Evidently I am not the only one who is listening to Missy Elliot after the super bowl half time show. She is enjoying a large increase in spotify streams and itunes downloads haha.

Karl/bryff 3's:

Played 3 games won 1 and lost 2. We kind of took a game off on the last one though playing bad champions. Bryff wants to try out ahri on TT and it will probably work well.

Solo queue: Played some solo queue last night played 1 as ziggs and 2 as xerath. I had really good games but didn't win 1 of them. Xerath seems really strong after you get to morellos + void or death cap. Awesome late game team fighting. Xerath pairs well with Lissandra top since her ulti can hold some one in place for a full xerath ult. Liss and I were able to pull it off a few times but the game went to long in one of them where everyone had a banshees vail and several people had Gaurdian Angels. It was very hard to do any damage at that point despite having 800+ AP and full build. I would hit trist with a spell or two and two autos later she was full health from life steal :/. Oh well 1 win from promos again.

so, while the following is nidalee jung level 3 dragon cheese, it does show how to properly use her passive in the jungle.  Now, and riot has made it clear that this is intentional, if you hit a jungle creep with your q or e (fi that's the trap...), you SNARE camps.  This means you can more effectively kite and take less damage.  The vid quickly shows how to utilize this, so worth a quick watch.  It also includes the level 3 drag cheese, but w/e

Played only ranked tonight.  Ended kind of in the same place... even though I went 3/2.  Feels like lp gains just went a little bit wonkey (ala clamping... at an elo where that should not happen).

Clamping is what happened to people when they were approaching their promo games and started getting 0-2 LP a win.  They've done away with that mostly.  I don't know where actual clamping still occurs but I think it's between Diamond and Challenger.  Maybe when approaching Diamond?  But not Platinum V, I'm pretty sure of that.

The fluctuations on LP gain/loss that the system uses to keep your MMR near your LP occur down in Bronze.  If this is your first time experiencing LP fluctuation, I'll explain what's going on:

Back when you lost enough to become concerned about getting demoted, your MMR sunk to a Gold MMR level and you started playing against Gold opponents even though you were still Platinum.  When you started winning again, the system wasn't going to give you zero LP every win until you got back to a Platinum MMR because that would of been extremely frustrating for you.  Remember how freaked out you were?  Imagine if your wins didn't give you any LP until you got a Plat MMR again.  

So in those wins against Gold players as you were getting back on track, you got kind of an LP loan if you will.  You've kept winning mostly so you're playing against Plats again and getting close to enough LP for your Platinum IV promos... but you're MMR hasn't fully caught up to your LP.  In a way you're paying off the loan you took out when you were losing games and didn't have any LP to lose.

Its not clamping, but a lot of people on reddit are claiming that something crazy happened with lp gains over the last day or so.  Not sure what happened.

And maybe it's just out of whack.  I've heard stories about duo queuers getting huge differences in how much LP they win and lose, but you and Hunny should be pretty close in MMR/LP so I don't know if that would do it.

ah - i knew something was a bit out of whack but couldn't quite figure it out. I checked reddit this morning after thinking something was up.  After karl noting someone at riot chimmed on the thread, I looked it back up.

http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2uqll9/lp_gain_has_got_weird_overnight/

I see thunder is playing some ranked today.  Good luck!

i think something is up with poachers knife... think i'm getting quite a bit more gold than what it indicates... like dbl...

Trying to get on the Nidalee Freelo train. Its been rough getting back into playing nid. I now know why most nids roam as soon as possible now, farming with her when playing her as an AP champ is very hard. Her auto does almost no damage. Spears are almost better than they used to be since you can fit them through tighter windows. Cougar form is so so so strong if you mark some one.

I think playing her jungle might be the way to go instead of mid. It is easier to farm jungle creeps than last hitting. Her mobility gives her strong presence in all lanes or invading the enemy jungler. If you land a spear on the enemy jungler while hes trying to do a camp he pretty much has to leave immediately or hes dead. I might have to start jungling again haha.

Did I mention its mating season?

Still on that Diamond V struggle, I think its just a matter of grinding. I really wish I could of did well in my series would of been nice to try to climb diamond earlier in the season instead of struggling to get diamond v.

Finally won my first fantasy game in a blow out fashion. Hopefully my core team keeps putting up good numbers so I can catch back up to you guys (fuck you karl).

all i really know is that I'm better than hunnybadger at fantasy lcs by randomly drafting people.  Crazy.

So - quick discussion.  AD fizz top. I haven't had to play against it.  Some streamer did it a few days ago and now folks are doing it quite a bit more. Karl had a game vs him as nasus - karl did not enjoy that.  Who has played as ad fizz top and had success? Who has played against him and had success?  I don't know the matchup other than to say he's a super freaking annoying bruiser.  I'm not sure if his kit change led to him being stronger, if he's actually stronger or if people just aren't used to him there.  Thoughts?  Mention if you have played against or if you are just crafting.  thx!