Having played Shyvana quite a bit I have to say something:

She's awesome, fun to play, well worth the money, but has a really irritating draw back

Her E:

It just feels like rubbish work for several reasons:

1) I get full armour de-buff at level 1 and the damage is not only AP based but scales pretty badly too.

2) it's a skill shot with no real incentive to hit it at range most of the time, as it's damage is weak and the armor de-buff is worthless unless your in mellee range

3) the attack speed benifit of it SOUNDS good, but due to rubbish damage, again just feels pointless (actually tested it, playing AP/hybird in a bot game and in order to get 50 damage on that proc I needed to give up about 100 AD at an estimate PLUS all the bonus effects of items from that, like frozen mallet)

It just feels kinda pointless, it's a tiny 'edge' skill for close one v ones and that's it, they need to change it in some way, maybe give a slow (I know no CC is a design point but still). Buff it's AP ratio to make a more hybrid build work, or buff the attack speed proc to actually be worth while damage as opposed to peanuts.

Well, it doesn't cost any resource to use, so it is just bonus damage basically. It is mainly just used to do a little bit of bonus damage and get her a ranged poke.

It is good in Summoners Rift to last hit when you're against a ranged opponent and it is good in Dominion to stop cappers.

They made it AP because they wanted her to get some benefit from AP items (her W was AP based too, but they changed it to AD). Eh... I think it is fine. Not every skill has to be a viable choice in comparison to every other skill -- look at Kassadin. Who actually puts points in his W?

Eh, I just don't think it's fun, like I said, it's just so very marginal that it's worthless.

You know what I love about this game? It often feels actually epic. It's one of the rare multi-player online rts style games I've played where I feel like there's a massive tug-of-war going on, and where the losing side can come back from behind and steal a win. In spite of its assymetry, it's somehow balanced.

It's a reasonable damage nuke that costs no mana and gives and otherwise almost completely melee champion a way to poke and past hit at range. I haven't played her yet, but it definitely looks plenty useful to me even if it is less exciting than one might want

Is there a guild or chat group or centralized anything for bgg/vgg folks that play this? I noticed that there are about 80 owners of the LoL microbadge, would it be appropriate to try to organize/invite those folks to some sort of play group? Did any tournaments, or organized play ever get organized?

I'm looking to get back into Normal or start Ranked Summoners Rift, but I was hoping to have some people to queue with.

Anybody looking for an extra?

-lvl 30, a couple of rune pages, ~ 30 champs unlocked
-Not that great at jungle or support, but I'll play any role
-favorite champs:
+Brand
+Morgana
+Olaf
+Warwick
+Volibear


I'll be a bit rusty with strategies, but I have the mechanics down.

Never used the LoL chat rooms. Is the chat rooms persistent when no one is on? I'd love to play with some more BGG/VGG folks. I'm usually on around 9-10ish EST on weeknights/ends depending what else is going on. Can usually squeeze in 1-2 games to play.

Lvl 30.

xGG user || LoLname:
chris4games || Code Cleric
stexe || stexe
culturejam || dancemoveburglar
valien || ???
SuperChutney || Superchutney
Aldie || ???

Okay, I can't make it tonight but, I think I will be around for a few hours tomorrown night (thurs).

Compiling a list of xGG members interested in queueing together. There are several options for what we can do with a group of people playing this.


*If you don't feel comfortable having your LoL name identified let me know and I'll edit this post.
**If you don't feel comfortable having your LoL name identified, there's always PMing. I can keep an offline list too if that works better.

-If we get 8 or more people, we can do a "custom" 4v4 or 5v5, which would be more enjoyable than dealing with randomed foul-mouthed opponents (which is sadly far too often.) The custom mode would also allow for more even matchups once we figure out people's skill levels.
***I don't mind if folks want to do a little trash talking or swearing. By foul-mouthed, I mean when people say things like "get cancer and die" or "u suck, uninstall nao." That kind of behavior is childish, malicious and fairly negative. It's just not something I want to be part of when I'm playing a game, for fun.

-With 5 lvl 30s, we can do a ranked team. That sounds pretty serious though, I don't know how casual/serious folks take this game.

-With 5 or less: premade normal/ranked queueing.

xGG user || LoLname:
chris4games || Code Cleric
stexe || stexe
culturejam || dancemoveburglar
Valien || ChumpmonkeyV
SuperChutney || Superchutney
Aldie || ???
LemonyFresh || ???