Boards›[ARCHIVED] Miscellaneous

[Your Story] Me and Activatables

Nova Skye·4/15/2015, 11:44:07 PM·1 votes·383 views

A year and a half.

I've been playing this game a year and a half.

This month the light bulb went off.

It's been about two weeks and I realized - not a single one of my friends are yelling "YOU'VE GOT A RANDUINS YOU DUMB-BUTT!!!! USE IT ALREADY!" anymore.

My main partner will still occasionally call out "Potion" but over this past month he's started laughing when he realizes it's already in use.

I don't know what happened, honestly. I think it started when I finally started trying out top lane. Getting that Hydras on Renekton created a "mini game" of "hit 2 as soon as it's off cooldown". I've gotten myself up to about four activatables at a time now when playing tank, and last night I realized that I'm actually aware of them all now. I don't think I use them in the right order, but I use them. Big improvement! I finally figured out my system - Lifesteal items on 2 (except sight stone goes there as support - I can't seem to make any other spot work for me for that), slows/Zhonyas/Ohmwrecker on 5. 1 is for speed ups and shields. And I always have Trinket on my mouse.

Now the running joke is "Lady, you're support - that's your sight stone, not the Hydra". Cause yea. Dive as Leo, immediately think "LIFESTEAL-oh-wait-theres-a-ward-in-lane-now".

So - when did YOU learn to use activatables correctly?

1 Comments

Jubbinaut4/16/2015, 12:09:10 AM2 votes

I'm good at remembering some. Zhonya's was one of the first I got a handle on, though I still struggle with timing sometimes. BoRK is, I think, the one I most recently got comfortable with. I still struggle with Randuin's, outside of peeling, and I don't really use Righteous Glory much.

The one I have the most trouble with, though, is Merc's. I have a really bad habit of hitting it too early, and cleansing effects that haven't actually hit me yet.