Myself and 3 other friends have the same issue. One of thems system is not the greatest, which is kinda understandable, but the other 3, myself included, have quite beasty systems, so it has absolutely no reason to fps drop at all. All started on Patch 9.19. So please Riot...

Well for those looking for a workaround, i copied my EUW and NA files to 2 different folders. I then made shortcuts to both of them. I also just keep a backup so that when my client decides to change region for no reason (it has happened a couple of times this month) i can just copy the files back instead of downloading it again. Hope this helps {{sticker:slayer-jinx-wink}}

LoL bru the worst is when the whole town's power goes out because the pricks here are stealing electricity and overloads the system, AND our authorities are too scared to do anything about it... But i understand what you are getting to. Why do you need to redownload files when you are swapping from EU (English) to NA (English). I can understand if it needs to download other language packs, but Eng-Eng?? I mean, I have accounts on EUW and NA, but every time i swap regions I have a 4GB download? For real?

> [{quoted}](name=Hydnoras,realm=EUW,application-id=39gqIYVI,discussion-id=pQlTaxyV,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2017-12-31T10:50:32.685+0000) > > Most likely not. They just abuse your lack of awareness and skills in positioning. This is good time to learn positioning because now the game shows you it's importance. If you learn positioning now, you can position in any meta. OK thanks for pointing out an area to work on. I'll get to work on learning it.{{sticker:slayer-jinx-catface}}

> [{quoted}](name=Tenchuu Khan,realm=EUW,application-id=39gqIYVI,discussion-id=pQlTaxyV,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-12-31T08:23:33.153+0000) > > How about you don't make a thread about the issues ADCs face :D - when you main Katarina? > > That'd be a great start. > > PS: Kat is laughable these days. I'm not a Kat main, i actually main support. I just play Katarina a lot because she is my favourite champ ^^ I'm not even almost good enough with her to be labeled a Kat main

Same here. I wonder if it will stop when you tick the close client while playing. I will test it out next time and report on it. It still needs to get fixed though, but if there's a workaround, it'll do for now.

But as far as I can recall it stuns the champ who used the immobilizing ability. If I misunderstood it, thanks for the update. Another lesson learned ^^" (damn I feel like an idiot now) {{sticker:zombie-brand-facepalm}}

Thanks E_Flash...! This was exactly what I was looking for!

I enjoy the game too much to just play it for fun. I really want to take it further.

Just to add, I started LOL when Vel'Koz got released and I played the game as casual as can be. I was still very into racing games back then when I had free time. I only started thinking about ranked in S5 (those were the days I weren't afraid of any midlaner and actually knew how to lane against them), took it a little more seriously in S6 but played support mostly with my gold friend playing on my brother's account. I only had 2h to play in the week and 4h on weekends this past 2 years and it isn't going to change much in the near future. So I am but a seedling trying to sprout and will take in any nutrients given by you "high trees". I don't want to be boosted to a rank, mmr, whatever, I want to earn it. Those giving me advice, even if you are hitting me a blood nose, it teaches me where to improve. It is much appreciated. PS: I live in South Africa. I play on 200ms, but I've seen other South Africans in diamond, so I know it's doable. That's what I'm aiming for, not the rank, the skill.

Noted. Will definitely give it a go. No they are there, but no one is doing anything. We did have engagers, Riven and Thresh, but I initiated fights by slipping in and out and then back in again. Most of them we won. I've never AAd so much with Kata ever since I started playing her XD What I'm asking is in broader term though, not just champ specific. Turret pushing is not the problem, it's the fact that others could, but are not doing it. By me doing it, it shows how much time they had to do something, but didn't. I'm not going to go into details and try to describe the situation, the fact is that I want to take objectives whenever it is possible, but my teammates don't always understand it. So I then go and get a slow push going at least or take the turret at most. The ones I am referring to are Syndra, Lux (if you get caught in Q and forget to Zhonya), Annie, and Viktor and Fizz with a few items. I have never really had a problem with them when I still played mid often, but I am honest in saying that I am lane opponent stupid at the moment, so everyone feels too strong for me, but I'm doing my best to learn as quick as possible. Thanks for the advice and criticism/points of faults. I don't mind being hit up the chin. If i want to improve I must be willing to take punches when they're dished out (o~,)

Does it actually work? XD Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, but still stayed in Bronze. Maybe it's because I didn't base and engage in the argument I wonder....

This triforce build actually works quite well for me, specially during laning as I can trade a lot easier. It gives me more damage on my AAs that it actually catches them off-guard. I saw this build in one of Phylol's videos about soneone doing it in Challenger (https://youtu.be/9lLtXPsv9PY). Now I know I'm not almost there, as I said, I have to relearn so many things that I once knew, but this triforce tanky-build let's me engage and stay alive long enough to do more damage as I normally just get blown up. I don't have the patience to wait for my team, if I see an opportunity, I'm going for it (that's thanks to playing so much supp and Leo kinda is my go to supp). If you say that rather going to learn the AP route is better, then I'll try and get used to it. I once was good with Katarina. I have a good AP build that worked like a charm. She's the main reason why I didn't quit the game when I was still at level 16 or so. I got my ass kicked so hard, but she seemed so fun to play. Now, with all these one shot champs, I really struggle, but again, I barely played mid this year, mainly support, so I have no idea how to lane anymore. In this last one I played I ended up 15-6-13 against a very fed Tryndamere and all the cc in the world, and this build gave me the confidence to go balls to the wall and fight, leading the rest of the team into battle, but we lost due to being picked off 1 by 1. I had the situation again where 2 turrets were open for the taking, but no-one seemed to care. I was calling it like crazy and pushed it myself until I thought that Tryndamere was about to arrive and recalled (he never caught me though). I'll search up videos about the fundamentals etc. There are a few things I'm really trying to improve, 2 of which are CS and AA cancelling with the latter really costing me a lot (I literally cancel attacks, not just the animation).

I have a friend in gold that I normally face in 1v1 whenever we get the chance, but holy crap am I getting a spanking! I don't know whether that is good enough or whether I should rather play with them in a normal game. It's just that she is too good, you know, the level difference is so big that you actually don't enjoy it or really learn anything from it. It's quite difficult now as well as she is content to improve her rank, so she doesn't really play with me much. I'll keep it in mind. Thanks

Thanks for the insight. Communication-wise, I always ping what I'm doing, even if I'm going back to base. I've gotten too used to putting myself at risk as support baiting them, so I guess my positioning needs a lot of work, but yeah, the times when I'm behind my frontline at the tips of my range, the enemy frontline, not even sleeky assassins and gap closers, just stroll past them and attack me. I mean, stuff like that really makes you feel that no matter what you do, you still end up dying meaningless. I don't quite understand what you meant by I'm out of bronze thinking? Is it the fact that I said that I am trying to find the problem within myself, i.e. not having that "my teammates are idiots and I deserve challenger" mindset? If that's what you meant, thank you for the compliment, but my in game thinking is most probably very flawed and that's what I'm trying to rectify, especially micro decisions and mechanics wise.

OK thanks. I'll keep it in mind next time I face her. Another lesson learnt ^^

Hi there I would love to be part of a team and start taking the game more serious. I was going to participate this year, but misread the rules about international players (since my friends i normally play with are all Europeans). Anyway, I'm ranked Silver 3 and I mainly play bot lane. I can play the other remaining lanes, though I'm not particularly good in it (thanks to circumstances I always ended up playing bot lane for most of the year). Champion pool: -ADC: Jinx, Ashe, Tristana, Vayne -Supp: Janna, Leona, Braum, Zilean, Nami, Lulu, Sion, Karma, Ekko, Katarina, Morgana, Sona, Vel'Koz -Mid: Katarina, Ekko, Zed, Akali, Vel'Koz, Lulu, Zilean, Annie -Jung: Sion, Master Yi, Poppy, Lulu -Top: Lulu, Zilean, Cho'Gath Although I'm accustomed to bot lane, I enjoy mid the most and would really like to expand my champion skills and pool there, but I am open to play wherever needed.

Hi there I would love to be part of a team and start taking the game more serious. I was going to participate this year, but misread the rules about international players (since my friends i normally play with are all Europeans). Anyway, I'm ranked Silver 3 and I mainly play bot lane. I can play the other remaining lanes, though I'm not particularly good in it (thanks to circumstances I always ended up playing bot lane for most of the year). Champion pool: -ADC: Jinx, Ashe, Tristana, Vayne -Supp: Janna, Leona, Braum, Zilean, Nami, Lulu, Sion, Karma, Ekko, Katarina, Morgana, Sona, Vel'Koz -Mid: Katarina, Ekko, Zed, Akali, Vel'Koz, Lulu, Zilean, Annie -Jung: Sion, Master Yi, Poppy, Lulu -Top: Lulu, Zilean, Cho'Gath Although I'm accustomed to bot lane, I enjoy mid the most and would really like to expand my champion skills and pool there, but I am open to play wherever needed. I had a few games in team ranked, but that fell through the floor. The only other team play I had is when we played as premade 5, but 2 of us were teaching the other 3 most of the time as they have very little experience due to time restrictions (work, family, etc).

I've just tested mine and it worked after about a 2sec delay{{sticker:slayer-pantheon-popcorn}}

I just tested it now and it took about 2sec max to start it. 10sec is quite a lot though. haven't had that yet

I'm sitting with the same problem. I might have a 6 year old pc, but believe me it can still play a lot of today's games on high graphics if not full. My brother is running i5 2500k and has these random lags (fps drops). I recorded a lot of my games before 5.5, but I can't even play the game smoothly now without recording it.