[Lucid:]

I recently bought a mouse with two side buttons, so I mapped some items to that. I set my sightstone/wards on 3, trinket on 4, and then put my items in order of importance:
Big Mouse Button (6) > 2 > 1 > Small Mouse Button (5) (it's harder to reach with my thumb) > 7

With multiple actives, usually my mouse is for items I use ALL THE TIME like Talisman. I always gotta go fast, and sometimes in really long drawn out fights I can even use it twice. 2 is usually for items that save me/others, like locket, mikaels, or zhonya. 1 is for the less-important or less-precise of that list if I have multiple (example: Mikaels goes on 2, locket goes on 1) or for items like randuins. Small mouse button is great for items that I don't have to use in teamfights, like banner of command, or spooky ghosts! I have to reach my thumb forward to click that button. 7 pretty much only gets used for pink wards when I have no other spots for them.

I think I just got so used to pressing extra buttons that the HUD change didn't affect me that badly. I don't usually check to see if the item is actually off cooldown or not, I just press it! xD Usually the item is available, unless it's Mikaels. That one always seems to be down when I need it most. xD

[Glitch]

I used to look for the little icons above my skills and they are gone now XD

[Lucid:]

Huh, I guess I didn't quite realize that the cooldown is only on the item itself in the inventory now, huh? I kinda like it better that way though, now that I'm used to it. Since the icons are bigger than they used to be, they're a lot easier to see when they'll be up. But mostly I just click the button when I need it without checking. xD

[Glitch]

I have got to look into remembering to do that! or get a fancy mouse XD

[Lucid:]

Mine was only like 15 bucks on Amazon. but before I got it, I usually remembered to press 2, sometimes remembered to press 1, and occasionally remembered to press 5, and I was fine. It wasn't until I started buying more items with actives than without that I decided I wanted a new mouse.

[Glitch]

I went to a local league group and everyone is ranked gold or higher, I'm not ranked. We decided to do a 5v5 and I got stuck jungling, which is my worst lane, and I was just getting destroyed so I had the group leader who is plat 2 fill in for me, he changed all of my settings! What a nightmare XD

[Lucid:]

I've been in that situation before, I went to a LAN party on campus once, and there were a ton of people there. Random people were matched up together in 5v5s. I was bronze at the time. ADC has always been one of my worst roles, and I had to ADC. I got stomped so bad, I probably had 10 deaths before 10 minutes. xD It wasn't very fun and I mostly stick to playing with friends I know now.

And the settings thing? Oh man! I have really specific settings and if they get changed around I would hardly be able to play. I hope you got them all changed back now.

[Glitch]

I just reset to default -- things were so different and all the buttons had been changed around i couldn't begin to fix it -- as i think of things that aren't right now i go and change them.

We've got our one pro-player who has never played around any of us so nobody knows if he's really a pro or not. And then I am probably the only person who has never tried playing ranked. D:

[Lucid:]

I keep the text of my input.ini file as a dropbox note just in case. I also organized and sorted it by what each button does, because it was all jumbled up by default. I wanted it to look nice and be readable even though it doesn't matter! xD

My group of friends is mostly gold, some of us are high silver. One person is low Plat, but it doesn't make too much of a difference because he is there by virtue of having really great decision making, so when we play with him he just makes sure we all know to take towers/dragons/not chase/etc at the right times.

Ranked isn't really all that special. It's the same as draft pick except it makes you more stressed out about being a certain rank and winning promo games. xD Promo games are the worst.

[Glitch]

oh i bet D: I need to get better, I felt a massive wall of difference in my 220 won games versus their like 1000 xD

[Lucid:]

Yeah, really not much to do there except get more experience. You learn more over time. I'm still garbage at last hitting though. |D

[Glitch]

omg i am the worst last hitter XD i keep telling people to just take the minions

[hyjin]

Im so out of the loop with this game that i dont know any of the new champs. Last one i remember was jinx and yasuoo

[Glitch]

I like Jinx! :3 there's been a few new releases but not an overwhelming number

[hyjin]

to me its all overwhelming

[Lucid:]

Champion releases have slowed down a ton since Jinx and Yasuo...but those guys were pretty long ago. A lot of the newer champions have some really unique mechanics. Luckily, the champion spotlight videos are always helpful.

Last hitting is why I always call support>jungle>fill in draft pick and ranked. xD Last hitting jungle creeps is easy! But with all the new preseason ADC changes, I want to learn how to play every ADC because they all seem like they'll be different and fun now! Also Quinn. I love Quinn.