League of Legends! (Dominion/fave champs/whatever)

[Final-Fan]

I started playing League of Legends a couple months ago.  My brother recommended it to me, and the last time he tried to get me into a game he was into I really didn't give it much of a chance so I felt bad and tried it out.  This one stuck. 

You may have seen me there, but I have a completely different username:  FinalFan. 

Of the champions, my favorites are mostly yordles, and of the yordles, my favorite is Poppy. 


She was free in I think the first or second week I played LoL, and I took her randomly but was instantly hooked.  She's great IMO because she's so fast.  Her W skill is, among other things, a 5 second speed boost that when fully leveled gives almost the same boost as unenhanced Ghost.  The cooldowns on her skills are reasonably low (aside from her ult with OMG cooldown of 100-140 seconds) and fairly powerful.  Anyway I need to stop myself because this thread isn't about Poppy. 

What this thread IS about -- or I hope it will be -- is several things.  Firstly, the poll asks what you think about Dominion.  Feel free to discuss that topic here.  Secondly, it's about what champions you like -- like Poppy!  You don't like Poppy?  You can explain that too, here.  And I can explain how you are bad and should feel bad. 

Lastly, and this is what drove me to start this thread, is that you can talk about amazing games you've had!  And it doesn't have to be the whole game, either, it could just be something that happened in a game. 

I was playing Dominion as Poppy (she's my main there; I take her every time I can) and my team wasn't doing too great, though we weren't getting stomped either.  The enemy Kog'Maw was really tearing people apart.  I would focus him whenever I could.  The first couple of times, I got him, but he got me with his death-bomb ability.  But then I got better, or something, because the next couple of times I got away. 

And not just from Kog'Maw, either:  I have dubbed my build Runner Poppy and it is for a reason.  Speed masteries, speed quints, speed from Triforce (and boots obv) -- my goal is to outrun almost all the champs in the game, most of them with the greatest of ease.  I hadn't gotten around to building Phantom Dancer yet. 

So anyway, I had just killed Kog'Maw or Lux or whatever and I was running from Warwick and Xin Shao who stood helplessly by because Poppy's ult lets her ignore everything but her target.  I was pretty low health; I believe that after Lux died (and my shield went down) Xin had managed to charge me and knock me up and he and Warwick beat on me for a little before I could run.  Obviously I popped my W skill so I basically had Ghost.  One of them Exhausted me so I popped my real Ghost.  Walking over a speed shrine helped me keep my distance until Exhaust wore off -- WHAT! -- the other one Exhausted me!  Sigh.  But this is Runner Poppy, so they still hadn't caught up to me.  I had near-maxed cooldown, which means my 5-second speed skill refreshed in about 7 seconds.  Before they caught up to me I managed to pop it again, and at this point they really had no hope of catching me.  But they kept trying. 

But wait!  My escape route took me up the side path of the jungle, across the top, and past my buddy Veigar, who I think altered course to attempt aid.  Of course, he's not the speed demon I am, so Xin and Warwick quickly shredded him to low health, but I came back and wall-stunned Warwick with E and smacked him with Q just because.  Veigar and I ran in different directions.  I'd like to say that I danced around for a bit to tease them into following me, but really it was navigation failure -- I clicked off the side of the pathway and it confused my champion.  Anyway, they chased me instead of Veigar, but I was too far away for Xin to charge me and I just sped off into the distance giggling insanely. 

After the match Kog'Maw told me it was at this point that the tide turned against his team because my team was busy capturing points while his team was busy chasing me across the entire map.

Definitely the type of thing that makes me wish I'd recorded it.