decent offmeta is better than bad/mediocre meta. besides meta doesnt apply to indyviduals because everyone have different predisposition therefore anyone will have something they just will and wont execute well and statistical data may literally not align at all with what is actually the easiest to learn for someone
There's two cases. Or is a very good player that can play offmeta quite well and will either put a tough fight or straight just steamroll the enemy lane Or he is trying to be offmeta and gets absolutely destroyed
A Vladimir Story: 0:58: The game starts with an extended fight that Vlad opts into multiple times but doesn't win. 1:39: Vlad TPs back to lane and IMMEDIATELY tilt-runs after Zwag into another death. Soraka is now level 4 while Vlad is level 2. You can hear Zwag's smile in his voice. Vlad eventually spawns and walks back to lane, ints into Zwag, and loses half his health. Zwag backs. 4:44: Zwag is back in lane with a Lost Chapter and boots, and Vlad has... *checks notes* ...the ruby crystal that he started with and still half health. Still tilted, Vlad pushes the wave up and dies to a gank. 6:00: Vlad gets back to lane, and once he turns level 6, he believes that NOW is the time to go in. After an extended ~30 second exchange, Zwag kills him again. "...and I'm just chuckin' bananas at him." 8:05: Vlad is just beyond at this point. He opts into another fight that he loses to Zwag's Soraka top. Vlad is now 0/5/0, half of Zwag's CS, and almost an entire item behind. 8:55: A little chat bonus and happy Zwag laughter. 9:08: Vlad gets back to lane, sits back under turret, and dies at 9:32. Zwag then gets his 4th turret plate. 11:11: Make a WISH! Zwag gets first turret at 12 minutes 25 seconds on the game timer as Soraka top. Shortly after at 11:42, Zwag uses his ult for the first time to win his team the fight. Vlad, even though his TP should have been back up, was busy pushing waves. 12:26: Vlad tries to run away from Zwag, but he actually just gets run down at this point. He panics, tries to fight a bit, and then tries to TP away but dies. 13:40: Meanwhile, in river... I had to pause and stare at my screen for a bit to process what just happened. 15:18: Vlad tries to gank Zwag, but he ends up having to flash away instead. I mean, at least he's still trying and not afking in fountain. Hang in there, Vlad! He spends the next several minutes holding turrets and farming supers! 20:01: Oh, he's almost dying to supers. Vlad's doing his best, and I have to respect that. 21:35: Heyyyy, he got a kill! It's comeback time! 23:11: Nope, never mind, gg. Zwag did the most damage in the game. Game 2 (ARAM): 24:11 Day 85 of asking Zwag to play full move speed Yorick, because no one ever seen a 'Rick run so fast.
Alright, someone nerf Soraka's damage, so that she can no longer be played as a solo laner. Also, nerf her healing, so she can no longer be played as a support. Finally, nerf her bananas. *_So. Many. Bananas..._*
13:50 when I think the game couldn't possibly get any funnier, I notice Vlad's little icon taking the hextech gate across the river in a sad attempt to flank the entire enemy team... only to get flanked himself.
This Vladimir was like, hey nice tutorial. That game looks fun let’s try a pvp. Only to face a support toplane throwing bananas at you and silence you to death… so mean 😂😂😂
I haven't played in several years but I used to go full tank raka top/mid with barrier and it worked exceptionally. She can peel so well for herself and assasins tend to get greedy, to the point where the whole strat kinda revolved around baiting tower dives. They'd get cocky, under estimate my tank stats + barrier, and then end up silenced and rooted under tower. There's like a fundimental desire to overcommit to chasing Raka ingrained into the average League player, but when you build her as a pure tank she becomes very much like a less-lethal Singed. There's just no point in it. All you accomplish is healing her while she wastes your time and chips you down. I remember having the top laner, mid laner, and jungler all chasing me in circles through jungle for a solid minute or so. The only problem is that you don't help much in team fights, but it's very fun to lane with.
Ur right you get someone that has viewers jump on his private matches… its sad to see honestly, if he’d just let people on yt know what he’s really doing
Oh i find it so funny with the comment about static shiv. Seems every time a ADC on my team builds one we lose and they can't kill anything, especially if the other team has a frontline tank.
LOL I don't normally click like just cause I'm focused on watching, but using the word spanked caught me off guard that deserves a like, better than the stereotypical words
soraka has literally one of the strongest early game. she can harass ppl in early phase with little to 0 punishment. The only thing that’s keeping her from dominating other lanes is how she has weak wave clear
Statikk Shiv is just 270 flat damage on a takedown at all levels. No change for ARAM; seems balanced. Building it on someone like J4 where it's impossible to not get assists... Does that work?
why not go revitalize and second wind in the second tree? do you value the ap from eyeball that much? i top lane shaco quite a bit and second wind especially is OP for laning phase against tough matchups, i would imagine it is oppressive with revitalize too on a raka
This is just the biggest game knowledge gaps I've seen in a while. Vlad is ridiculously weak early. Sustain is weak, wave clear weak, damage low and short range. While Soraka is one of the strongest champions in the entire game in the early levels. Almost no champ in the game can fight against a Soraka early because her Q's are so powerful. Unless you can dodge them like a god, you're not gonna win trying to stat check her. Vlad being aggro in this lane in the early levels is just straight up lack of game knowledge. He should have played super safe and conceded early. He'd outscale super hard. Just had to minimize his losses, wait for his power spikes and then start farming the Soraka off cooldown. Those Soraka Q's ain't gonna heal for shit after a while. Soraka has no passive and no W in a 1v1. So she can't fight anyone in a sidelane come mid game, unless fed.
If I've learned anything from this channel it's that a champ being played outside their recommended lane is a reason to be MORE worried, not less.
decent offmeta is better than bad/mediocre meta. besides meta doesnt apply to indyviduals because everyone have different predisposition therefore anyone will have something they just will and wont execute well and statistical data may literally not align at all with what is actually the easiest to learn for someone
There's two cases.
Or is a very good player that can play offmeta quite well and will either put a tough fight or straight just steamroll the enemy lane
Or he is trying to be offmeta and gets absolutely destroyed
Vast majority are people who want to play like the UA-camrs they watch
No, stop the delulu. He's playing against lobotomized players which would make it seem that it's an op pick
He’s a decent player in normals playing off meta stuff against casuals. Thats about it.
Raka just watching Vlad burn alive while he teleported was diabolical 💀
Teleporting to the afterlife
A Vladimir Story:
0:58: The game starts with an extended fight that Vlad opts into multiple times but doesn't win.
1:39: Vlad TPs back to lane and IMMEDIATELY tilt-runs after Zwag into another death. Soraka is now level 4 while Vlad is level 2. You can hear Zwag's smile in his voice. Vlad eventually spawns and walks back to lane, ints into Zwag, and loses half his health. Zwag backs.
4:44: Zwag is back in lane with a Lost Chapter and boots, and Vlad has... *checks notes* ...the ruby crystal that he started with and still half health. Still tilted, Vlad pushes the wave up and dies to a gank.
6:00: Vlad gets back to lane, and once he turns level 6, he believes that NOW is the time to go in. After an extended ~30 second exchange, Zwag kills him again. "...and I'm just chuckin' bananas at him."
8:05: Vlad is just beyond at this point. He opts into another fight that he loses to Zwag's Soraka top. Vlad is now 0/5/0, half of Zwag's CS, and almost an entire item behind.
8:55: A little chat bonus and happy Zwag laughter.
9:08: Vlad gets back to lane, sits back under turret, and dies at 9:32. Zwag then gets his 4th turret plate.
11:11: Make a WISH! Zwag gets first turret at 12 minutes 25 seconds on the game timer as Soraka top. Shortly after at 11:42, Zwag uses his ult for the first time to win his team the fight. Vlad, even though his TP should have been back up, was busy pushing waves.
12:26: Vlad tries to run away from Zwag, but he actually just gets run down at this point. He panics, tries to fight a bit, and then tries to TP away but dies.
13:40: Meanwhile, in river... I had to pause and stare at my screen for a bit to process what just happened.
15:18: Vlad tries to gank Zwag, but he ends up having to flash away instead. I mean, at least he's still trying and not afking in fountain. Hang in there, Vlad! He spends the next several minutes holding turrets and farming supers!
20:01: Oh, he's almost dying to supers. Vlad's doing his best, and I have to respect that.
21:35: Heyyyy, he got a kill! It's comeback time!
23:11: Nope, never mind, gg. Zwag did the most damage in the game.
Game 2 (ARAM): 24:11
Day 85 of asking Zwag to play full move speed Yorick, because no one ever seen a 'Rick run so fast.
10/10 comment
Someday bro. Try a Rick and Morty reference yet?
I wanna see a 'Rick Roll.
@@RandomMocker Now I have to wait until you least expect it.
Alright, someone nerf Soraka's damage, so that she can no longer be played as a solo laner.
Also, nerf her healing, so she can no longer be played as a support.
Finally, nerf her bananas. *_So. Many. Bananas..._*
“Did Zwag get the first 6 CS?”
Yes, he got all 6!!!
Win Streak: 3
Getting a bit boring now bert
@@thomaswoodey2172berting a Bert berting Bert
@@thomaswoodey2172 ye say whatever but every time Zwag miss one of the first 6 he apologize to Kyle
Yo kyle what is zwag's longest win streak, i'm really courious
@@irbiiis 8
15:34 Seeing the enemy team running for their life's from Soraka is funny lol
life's = life is
Which is incorrect here. :) If you want to make it plural, it's "lives".
In this matchup, we see a drain-oriented AP caster with hp-costing abilities, and Vlad
"where was he TPing to?"
heaven
Reddit to cry for a Soraka nerf
I could not stop laughing watching the soraka game play. Real or not that was funny as hell. What in the world.
Bruh. That cut to the damage chart was hilarious 😂
13:50 when I think the game couldn't possibly get any funnier, I notice Vlad's little icon taking the hextech gate across the river in a sad attempt to flank the entire enemy team... only to get flanked himself.
24:01 "we did in fact have the most damn it.."
Love ya zwag
20:19 you hear that Little Timmy??? Checkmate. Check-fing-mate. 😂😂😂
im with that poor Xyash "wtf am i witnessing" 🤣😂
I always love a sorake off meta vid
"...but he didn't know my secret"
The secret that you're a smurf?
5:30, you could save mid Sylas
Ngl, that ARAM game at the end was crazy good. :O
This Vladimir was like, hey nice tutorial. That game looks fun let’s try a pvp.
Only to face a support toplane throwing bananas at you and silence you to death… so mean 😂😂😂
Off-meta, disrespectful builds will always be the most fun to watch!
The immediate jump cut to a silent dmg chart after that Soraka game SENT me because he had just wondered if he had done rhe highest dmg as a Soraka.
In 05:15 actually you could save sylas with your ulty ^,^
That Vlad literally was playing as if new. Too much engange, not enough disengage, and absolutely no CS priority
he mostly plays in low elo to do these vids and builds.
day 2 of wishing everyone sweet dreams and a good day tomorrow 🫂🩵🐌
Thx buddy
Thx
Thanks, you too 🌠
Thanks bro 😇
Day 2 of continuing comment chains that I won't finish
22:33 those Soraka plants must be new lol
5:14 Watching Sylas get killed mid with Soraka ult up. Gigachad
5:05 watching him hold R
Had to scroll too far for this comment LOL. Was watching him just STARE at Sylas like "Damn, too bad no one can help, eh?"
zwag be saving ult for next the year 😂
Little Timmy needs to go outside and touch grass. Leave Zwag Daddy alone, Lil TimTim.
I’ll tell you the secret right now. The enemy is bad. now you don’t have to watch the video.
I haven't played in several years but I used to go full tank raka top/mid with barrier and it worked exceptionally. She can peel so well for herself and assasins tend to get greedy, to the point where the whole strat kinda revolved around baiting tower dives. They'd get cocky, under estimate my tank stats + barrier, and then end up silenced and rooted under tower.
There's like a fundimental desire to overcommit to chasing Raka ingrained into the average League player, but when you build her as a pure tank she becomes very much like a less-lethal Singed. There's just no point in it. All you accomplish is healing her while she wastes your time and chips you down. I remember having the top laner, mid laner, and jungler all chasing me in circles through jungle for a solid minute or so.
The only problem is that you don't help much in team fights, but it's very fun to lane with.
AP burn soraka isn't real, she can't hurt you.
Soraka in this video:
Vlad is one hit from dying then he places a ward and walks towards soraka just to be sure she doesn't miss the kill... Who plays like that seriously?
"Hey Zwag, whats your new main?"
"BAANAANAAAA!" *minion noises*
it's so good to watch your videos, I feel like playing league but without most afk and remakes that today are 80% of my games
Ur right you get someone that has viewers jump on his private matches… its sad to see honestly, if he’d just let people on yt know what he’s really doing
He straight up banned a few peeps on twitch for ratting him out
this video made me happy, thank you. raka is always fun
Zwag sadly lost four cannons
( counted two from Jhin taking the cannons in bot)
I’m a teemo main but damnnnm its always a good day when I find a new swag soraka top vid 😅
Super fun vid, Zwag!
one thing in my mind "That Vlad is the paid actor for damn sure lol"
homie you didn't have to bully the old man
I love Rylai's Crystal Scepter on Soraka since it practically guarantees the E will bind them.
Oh i find it so funny with the comment about static shiv. Seems every time a ADC on my team builds one we lose and they can't kill anything, especially if the other team has a frontline tank.
LOL
I don't normally click like just cause I'm focused on watching, but using the word spanked caught me off guard that deserves a like, better than the stereotypical words
i used to play soraka top all the time before the rework 😂 Vlad was my NUMBER 1 favorite enemy because it was just a free win 100%
Thanks for the vid Zwag!
Not using the R for sylas twice tilted me.
30:27 min 6. Has 20 kills over 23 of the team. Then made a penta
Its just insane
great gameplay
I kinda wonder what the post game lobby looked for the enemy team when they see a Soraka top with top damage 😆
I wish my old karma back...loved her as tanky support with her fan dmg/heal double ability xD
Comes gets a triple kill dies
Comes back gets another triple kill dies again lol
Oh noo guy in mid dying... doesn't ult 😂
Imagine choosing soraka to punish the enemy team when your champ gets banned and then ACTUALLY HARD PUNISHING THEM!!! xD
ok that xayah game was insane?????
lore accurate soraka
This game turned top lane into a second mid lane. Also, zwag did the most damage in the game as a soraka, that's too funny.
soraka has literally one of the strongest early game. she can harass ppl in early phase with little to 0 punishment. The only thing that’s keeping her from dominating other lanes is how she has weak wave clear
LOL Banana top Again Nice!
"Where was he tping to?"
Literally anywhere else dude.
You know you don't need to pan to sylas and just look at his health bar right?... Rigghhtt???????
Does zwag have a merch store? I’d love to have a shirt that says “my cannon”
Soraka top series?
As a former Soraka main this makes me evil laugh.
Liked because highest damage Soraka! :)
Vlad.....emotionally damage!!
Statikk Shiv is just 270 flat damage on a takedown at all levels. No change for ARAM; seems balanced. Building it on someone like J4 where it's impossible to not get assists... Does that work?
Alternate Title: Soraka spanks Vladimir in the top lane.
/s
at 5:14 , did he just watch that Sylas go down and didn't ult or wasn't going to survive anyways?
11:45 i had no idea you can ult from distance i though its only for close allies
why not go revitalize and second wind in the second tree? do you value the ap from eyeball that much? i top lane shaco quite a bit and second wind especially is OP for laning phase against tough matchups, i would imagine it is oppressive with revitalize too on a raka
Healer vs lifestealer haha, vampire vs medic
Obviously medic as vampires suck.
I'll see myself out...😀
that poor Vlad, he might have uninstalled
Another day of Zwag bullies in the top lane.
Secret ARAM game after Soraka ❤
Gg to this Hecarim!
Soraka games are always a delight, even more when you stomp those kind of champions.
Day idk of asking for Lulu Top
Yess i love the raka vids
I play extra careful against all the God damn gimmics, otherwise team flames for not beating the lux top
25 kills in 5 mins is WILD
They didnt know sorakas big secret
This Soraka was just disrespectful, almost felt bad for Vlad… almost 😂
Id be getting 5 people turret drive top humbling me rq before I get to this point
I wanna do this so bad....
But I'm so bad I can't do this.
🍌 🍌 🍌
Banana
bAnana
baNana
banAna
banaNa
bananA
🍌 🍌 🍌
"Yes, that was a banana. No one expects the banana!"
Day 1 of asking Zwag to play a game while reading the item's name in funny ways.
Le Andre's Torment (liandry's torment)
Maligma (malignance)
YESSSSS
LOVE THE BANANAS
Is this low elo? I can't believe that high elo players lane that bad.
Recon you could pull off AP Hec?
That's why you respect the supports, because of you disrespect them this is gonna happen to you
Spanked him… save some for us 🤣
Almost 100% KP in Aram, missed by 2 kills that didn't count unfortunately
I see Vladimir player getting gapped, I smile, like and comment.
bro was fighting 6pek on vladimir
Grasp soraka.... Just try it out. Absolutely makes zero sense
Does shadowflame work on Vayne?
This might be just me, but if you look at 16:40, the big guy might be scripting, the wobble seems very unnatural
Wtf is this? 😢 this is heart hurting😂😂😂😂 "MY EYEEEES"
i miss tank raka top before the rework.
This is just the biggest game knowledge gaps I've seen in a while. Vlad is ridiculously weak early. Sustain is weak, wave clear weak, damage low and short range. While Soraka is one of the strongest champions in the entire game in the early levels. Almost no champ in the game can fight against a Soraka early because her Q's are so powerful. Unless you can dodge them like a god, you're not gonna win trying to stat check her.
Vlad being aggro in this lane in the early levels is just straight up lack of game knowledge. He should have played super safe and conceded early. He'd outscale super hard. Just had to minimize his losses, wait for his power spikes and then start farming the Soraka off cooldown. Those Soraka Q's ain't gonna heal for shit after a while. Soraka has no passive and no W in a 1v1. So she can't fight anyone in a sidelane come mid game, unless fed.
Omg yes. Please more supports top or mid
Title so damn disrespectful 😭
You mean untrue. Why the fck does he have to lie all the time?