League of Legends Ranked - Episode 2 - Sona

[pinie111]

Start with heal rly...

Notgood should use tht passive too for first hit huuge damage

[zukul555]

plz make a rune tutorial vid

[SuperFlamingBacon9]

10:16 And you know what i'm gonna do. I am gonna clairvoyance- or im gonna ward the enemy bu- Where the Fuck are they!? LOL!!!

[I0wn3ey0u]

Bro, fiddlestick isn't a shit character, tryndamere isn't a shit character. There's only shit players, no such thing as shit character. Fiddlestick rapes early and mid game, though late game comes and people have their near end game Item he may not be as effective, but he's still very scary with his drain fear and ulti. Tryndamere if fed is fking also scary, 100+% crit + dps + infinity edge + bloodthirster = gg.

[8BitHappens]

Soooooooooo much bitching

[MrChryssostomos]

Quill18 can you please try Xin Zhao?

Can you please keep up with these ranked matches?

Say "Hi" to a new subscriber!

[StrangeVidsIMake]

Oh, and earths was meant to say karthus.

[StrangeVidsIMake]

... Karthus and sona) stupid iPod commenting befor I want to...

[StrangeVidsIMake]

One of my favorite characters ( my top three are kog maw, earths

[wolfwolf1234567]

@quill18 my brother says that you get 1/3 the xp if you aren't attacking the minions and are just staying in xp range. Is that true?

[lemonpunch]

Quill, i think pointing at the picture of the skill will show the range. Just a little tip. :D

[TheDarkeon]

i still don't see why people go smiteless jungle. Dragon and baron control is too important not to take smite. Baron is a game changer and can be smite stolen.

[Poki3]

Why did you turn on smart cast for all spells? You can just hold down Shift and have temporary smart casts for when you need them, but having them all the time sounds like a horrible idea to me.

Also, you should have reported that fiddlesticks.

[dwagothegod]

First time you CVed enemy base? :p

[xXShadowRacerXx]

what is smart casting?

[s4v3d0n3]

@xXShadowRacerXx Smart casting is casting a spell without targeting. The best example is (video SPOILERS) when quill pressed his ult to see the casting range but instead he casted it because he smart casted. It's basically a quicker way to cast spells (hold SHIFT + key) and you can also smart cast on your self (which is called self casting by holding ALT + key)

[ChiaroscuroxX]

Is Kayle a good champion you think? I use her mainly for support, but I actually ended up soloing a lane with her successfully. Which I think is impressive because I have only played 4 games

[s4v3d0n3]

@ChiaroscuroxX I'd say no because she cannot support as well as Janna or Sona and cannot DPS as much as, say, a Yi or Ashe. She's too in between and Riot is trying to fix her.

[Rhcp4403]

quill you know you really should have taken clarity - early game you had trouble cuz u were out of mana, which is part of the reason you were low enough to get first-blooded

flash hardly helped you all game, and clarity would have come in much more andy

i take clar with all my supports (except usually soraka) so i can spam my abilities

without abilities, a support is worthless

[s4v3d0n3]

@Rhcp4403 Flash is too invaluable to not take. Yes, he may not have used it as much but with Flash, you can be extra aggressive because you have a free escape spell. Clarity is too much an early game spell and you can EASILY counter not having it by being smart with your abilities (and I don't mean smart-casting like in quill's case hehe). In the end, Flash is WAY more useful than clarity.

[Rhcp4403]

@s4v3d0n3 yeah i have since come to see it your way, especially since i have leveled up and started playing with higher elos: everyone takes flash and it's essential to be able to get away or follow a carry who's about to die

plus with the right builds i dont need clar anymore

the only time i would take it is if i know i'm going to lane with a super mana-hungry char, like shaco, etc, so i can keep him healthy

[fytu10]

Ok, i really hate the people who are comparing HoN and LoL. That fact is, they both cam from dota, and toke separate paths. HoN tries to just Improve the original idea, while LoL tries to introduce its own thing. Everyone just shut up about it.

[Rune961]

hey quill, why not make a ranked game with heimer if he is that OP =)?

[Nocat88]

Dwarf Fortress, make it happen!

[JesterMereel]

People who say smite is useless late game seem to forget about Baron buff securing and stealing. 

[derzan05]

Hey Quill, if you do Dwarf Fortress then can I be a dwarf?

[Fettlompe]

Why is the loading time in LoL so much longer than in HoN?

[quill18]

@Fettlompe Because HoN pre-loads some things when you queue and/or before you get to the hero selection screen. LoL loads everything only after champion selection. Furthermore, the LoL game client is separate from the lobby client, which means that it cannot keep things cached between games and it must go through the full load process every time. Which is idiotic.

[Angamoth]

Smartcast is kinda useless for Sona, Q,W,E are smartcast by default (sort of), and Ult is a skill shot, and smartcasting skill shots is bad idea imo

[s4v3d0n3]

@Angamoth The first part I agree with but I learned smart casting by playing Mr. Smart Cast himself, Ezreal.

[Oxygaunt]

tear of the goddess

[JJE92a]

Lol, funny game.

But to be honest, you were outpicked hard, but outplayed the opponent. Nidalee one of best solo tops, Nunu the best offensive jungler (jungling at enemy's jungle, but he never did this, although your jungler didn't even have smite...), janna one of best supports, ashe one of the best carries, annie would've been great solo mid if she hadn't disconnected.

So frankly, if Annie wouldn't have disconnected and your enemies knew how to play, you would've lost due to picks.

[swushi999]

I just wonder, why where you trying to last hit the minions so many times in early game when you laned with Shen? Are items equally important for tanks and supports or is it just an old habbit to :P?

[OnlineFromLithuania]

why first blood is so important ?

[JesterMereel]

@OnlineFromLithuania Because you get more gold for it.

[s4v3d0n3]

@OnlineFromLithuania First blood gives extra gold. Extra gold early on is important for wards and such.

[KillingFrost1988]

quill I would love to play with you in a game but I think I would be struck with fan boy syndrome, I learned so much about this game from you videos and I watch every LoL game u post. I'm glad to see you playing again

[WorldConkerer2012]

Love u quil :D

[DaMagician323]

Lol quill u overthink all your moves...as a support at that elo you must build tanky and clair at this lvl is not that great prob ghost flash or teleport

[kajusz931]

Why more support T_T

[VolumeControl7]

Keep doing this quill18, your my favorite commentator on youtube, and I watch you almost exclusively for league of legends. Great job man. Keep these videos coming :)

[patq911]

Why the hate on fiddlesticks?

[desenderofmyself]

btw quil when you play sona make sure to cast your spell so you have your auras out and working, do this in the pool so you regen the mana fast

[desenderofmyself]

smart casting is great

[Igotacoolname]

Bro, you need to stop taking so much damage if you're gonna harass/zone out them!

[PandaBearWithMic]

Smite is really important in mid game for taking safe dragon and in late game for taking baron.

Or Otherwise for stealing dragon and baron.

Even ww take smite in dreamhack matches….

[TheTrollfaceShoe]

Quill when you said Dwarf fortress I came..

[quill18]

@TheTrollfaceShoe *hands you a tissue*

[ChiaroscuroxX]

@quill18 do you have two?

[raggerXX]

Smite not important late game? XD sorry but I do not agree at all. Not only is it amazing early game but it allows you to confirm baron kills easy ect

[TheBlackRoz]

smite is good by default over fort, smite allows u to jungle faster and gank, if u cant gank early gameu lose, LoL is an early game game so if u lose early it will snow ball very easily

[CoIdAshes]

no more janna pls..... to much

maokai? malphite? maybe play a jungle?

or a carry to change

[randomdud668]

Something a little interesting with sona is that her power chord changes based on what spell you used last and each has a different effect. So if you trigger power chord on her Q ability then her passive does some bonus damage. If you trigger it on her W ability it makes the person you hit do less damage. Her E will actually slow the person you hit, it adds quite a lot of utility to the team.

[DLAlucard]

Just need to say, you really should have put a little more into ap since a good deal of your power comes from it, plus it means you can heal for more and do damage that the enemies will learn to fear. Also a Lichbane works wonders with her mid/late game. Although i will say its nice to see you put your hard-on for Janna away this game.

[532956148]

point at the spell with your mouse and it will show range, it gets better the longer you use it to a point where you know all ranges of all spells without seeing it.(i've been using smart cast for a year now.)

[532956148]

why ranked, all of a sudden?

[kuhlde1337]

@quill18 when do you normally get online? Im on your friends list but its rare that we are on at the same time :/

[camiBami1]

Sona can actually charge up her power chord in the pool for the early scuffle

[duopwns]

why don't you do post commentary cuz its really effecting your gameplay

[777luc777]

udyr without smite

THIS HURTS MY EYES

[lonegear]

If I could recommend something, next time you play support, try to get a carry bot with you, support/carry bot is pretty damn strong and it's getting more and more into the US meta.

[nestra24]

come on quill18 did u not know how to use her passive right? its diffrent for the q w e e slow q more dmg and w i think lowers there arrmor

[talf301]

That udyr is really dumb.

[nestra24]

LOL smite is so important as a jungler especially if ur not running a nunu bc early game speeds up ur jungle faster ganks!! you can counter jungle ezy and barron and drag for wat they are worth u shouldnt let the other team steal it thts y u get smite to make sure u get barron or drag for a steal or to make sure they dont get it

[Mihomiti]

I love everything you said during the game setup. "People who don't say anything shouldn't complain." This could be edited a bit to apply to the whole game. "People who don't contribute shouldn't complain." Also, super strange that your team had 3 semi-common jungle candidates on it even though there was complaining about banning WW. Still at the start of the game as of writing this, so I'm going to settle in for a good game!

[quill18]

@Mihomiti This could be a corollary to Quill's Law: "The person who complains the most is always the worst person on the team."

Hm. I feel a blog post coming on. (Check TOWERDIVE (dot) COM shortly.)

[quill18]

@Mihomiti This could be a corollary to Quill's Law: "The person who complains the most is always the worst person on the team."

Hm. I feel a blog post coming on. (Check TOWERDIVE [dot] COM shortly.)

[shamwowofdeath]

you play a little too aggressive as a support

[quill18]

@shamwowofdeath Actually, I think I don't play aggressively (i.e. harass) ENOUGH, but that when I do, I make horrible mistakes.

[shamwowofdeath]

@quill18 Yes, someone else pointed this out to me and I fully agree. I am no pro ;P

[CodexAce]

@quill18 I kind of agree that you are too aggressive. Just a few constructive criticisms that I noticed. In lane, I understand the desire to want to zone them out, but you only had ~800 total HP vs 2 quality CCs and a slow. In the middle when you guys are pushing as 4-5 there was a few times when you where leading the push with ulti and flash on CD. I could see if your team was strong but scared to engage, you could bait them to engage to save you. However, fiddle/shen didn't seem scared.StillGG

[GameKingMartin]

@shamwowofdeath Sona is THE support that agressive is good on.

[shamwowofdeath]

@GameKingMartin if he was planning on playing aggressive his spell leveling wasnt the best

[Bullettear666]

@shamwowofdeath the thing is, since ur not gonna last hit u have to do something so ur not just leaching exp he isnt too agressive he is just too agressive at the wrong times :P

[shamwowofdeath]

@Bullettear666 yes, that is a better way to put it thx

[asson432]

Huh. Guy named "FiddleSticks" played enemy Kaiser in your first mach. What are the odds.

[Whaibop]

Why do people insist on jungling without smite? It doesn't make any sense at all.

[Azarthes]

Quill, you stop making your logical bans right now. That's not how the game is played.

[WatchOutBR]

if youre going to play DF go with your oldsave, cus im your fisherman!

:D

[Aaron7946]

i wtf'd at all the bans

[mspuding]

i am gay and i want sex IM GAY!!!

[alxuria]

Quill you seem to be swearing more then usual =P

[imputes]

at 25.20 you said you where failling.

i sire respectfully disagree you saved your teams solo top i believe and you where the only one to die in a gank of the other team. a one for one where only your support dies is almost always a good deal. al in al good play there

good ward play but you might want to think about trying to pick up couterwarding.

it takes good map awarness but if you can do it is great thing to learn.

if you dont know what i am talking about

[quill18]

@imputes Thanks for the comments!

I do counter-ward the dragon in this video, and in the last game I was using an oracles to hunt for wards and Shaco boxes. Part of the reason I don't counter-ward more heavily is simply because at my rank the other teams just don't ward very aggressively!

[DoomEye66]

I have smart casts on the bottons of my mouse and qwer on the keyboard are normal cast... perhaps you can do that too ;)

[quill18]

@DoomEye66 *Glances at the 5 extra, programmable buttons on his MX518 mouse...*

Hm, that sounds like a solid plan.

[Knightbruder]

oh quill <3 your so funny with smart cast on!

[PinkShroomz]

@Knightbruder wtf is smart cast?

[Knightbruder]

@PinkShroomz If you play LoL you know that usually your abilities are keybinded to qwer and for most you have to press the button and left click with the mouse to cast these spells. yet under the menu option keybinding you can assign qwer to smart cast buttons. what this does is it takes out the factor of clicking with the mouse: no range will be displayed and you have to have your mouse on the target you wanna hit yet its instant cast and makes for great reflexes! also: accidents happen :P

[Blanc37]

I love my AD Sona, pretty OP

[FirebirdX]

Shen was Agent 0/0/7.

[TehBrawlGuy]

This live commentary is infinitely better than the post. For a game like this, the live reactions and reasoning are much more entertaining.

[iCornyJoke]

Shen top, Nocturne bot and FIDDLE IN THE MIDDLE would've been better imo.

[BrbgnLoL]

lol @ the retards in chat saying smite is bad

[TheEphifany]

servers are busy for me right now . i love LOL but hate their servers

[iCornyJoke]

Quill, thank you for playing League of Legends. It's people like you that won't make me want to uninstall LoL, thank you for filling the gaps in a team comp.

-CornyJoke stamp of approval-

[iCornyJoke]

Sona, the prophet slut of assists!

[quill18]

@iCornyJoke That joke is pretty corny.

[iCornyJoke]

@quill18 It's what I do.

What's brown and sticky?

[quill18]

@iCornyJoke Malphite covered in honey.

[iCornyJoke]

@quill18 A stick.

[ChiaroscuroxX]

@quill18 .................... HELL YEAH!

[TeoSims]

@iCornyJoke a stick

and to answer your enct question i will say ... another stick

[morganite123]

@iCornyJoke A STICK :D

[Happyjudas100]

lol its fun trying to read the text at 240p :P

[MwBoesgaard]

Only 240p? :/

[Wyvern97]

It's just buffering, 720p should be up soon :P