bump

5 minute draft pick process, another queue dodge @ the last pick by the enemy team

i should just play ranked

happens in ranked too, not as frequently

first renektion loss, was against darius top, he bought cloth armor and 3 pots, i bought boots, 1 health pot and a ward

he just overpowered me out of lane, my jungler couldnt come gank him regardless of the fact it was definitely not warded

it ended up being a very competitive game though, we took 2 barons and 4 dragons to their 1 dragon, in the end, our dps was never in position to kill ashe or akali and they had vi up on their ass nonstop

will have to change my opening items when playing against another melee bruiser top, no point warding the river if youre going to be forced off creep waves and to your tower the whole laning phase

he'd probably mock me instead.

I don't know where he could get that from.

the game mechanics arent hard to learn. the intricacies and each of the 130 champions skill mechanics are

leona
morgana
caitlyn
renekton
skarner

vs

kayle
taric
amumu
garen
graves

this game is going to be stupid

was top lane renektion vs garen, went with boots and pots and no ward since amumu jungle isnt really a gank threat
i was out farming him and keeping him off minions, but neither one of us could really kill each other

bottom lane leona was saying that caitlyn really had no idea what she was doing, which became apparent to the rest of the team once caitlyn started dieing repeatedly and had shit cs, which meant the enemy graves had 6 kills at 15 minutes

they took 2 dragons, 3 towers to our 0, we surrendered at 22 min (bottom lane 2/12 combined)

synda
jarvan
caitlyn (me)
nunu
teemo (euh)

vs

gangplank
leblanc
ashe
shyvana
vi

i hate to think about what vi is going to do to teemo, but i like the bot matchup

it was vi and ashe bottom, gangplank top

both teams were pretty teamwork focused and both used map awareness well, they took baron while we were out of place, but we got dragon at same time. strat that led to victory was teemo pushing top with the rest of us staying just outside of engagement distance of the 4v5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YreQiDWySQ

old but must be set to repeat when playing lol

played a shitty bot game with gull, picked free week volibear for kicks since i had all my jungle xinzhao setup masteries

was a super easy champion to learn in 1 game, very much like an offensive AD singed, he even has the "throw behind your back" move

will try against players soon

champions i feel comfortable playing list update

top lane
garen
renekton
singed
nasus
tryndamere
poppy

mid
malzahar
karthus
vlad

ad
ashe
caitlyn
vayne
(i need to buy miss fortune)

support
sona

jungle
trundle
xinzhao
udyr (havent played lately)
nocturne (havent played lately)

champions ive purchased at some point but never played more than a game or two
skarner
darius
riven
lee sin

new champion is 975 rp or 7800 ip, why???

ip price point goes up = RP is a better puchase

smart move on their part, incredibly frustrating for a casual player

ranked:

darius (me)
lux
hecarim
sona
ezreal

vs

akali
jarvan (going against at top)
vi
zilean
tristana

starting 9 pots 2 wards

oh, didnt even realize the RP cost wasnt an increase as well, i thought the 6300 ip champions were always 875 RP

i saw someone use that opening purchase as renekton top, i need to try that the next time im playing vs another melee bruiser, it seems like you could really snowball against your lane opponent safely with that build

ezreal raging all game

tristana carries them late

doesnt tristana turn to shit in the late game

no, shes a late game monster like, vayne

update on ranked games process, im winning all my placement matches but i think im playing with people who are all going to be seeded in the bottom division along with myself

the first 3 games were all logical mediocre skilled games, last 2 are totally insane unorganized, no roles, garbage team comps with people who make blatantly oblivious decisions left and right. i dont know what happened

me as sona and caitlyn got double killed at level 1 by draven somehow (i died in 3 hits from full hpafter caitlyn dies, i dont even know what happened), then we somehow win the lane easily and draven never buys boots. enemy ziggs is 6/0 off our annie mid with rengar suiciding into him from the jungle. top plays by themselves for the whole game, both teams lose towers to the stupidest shit

just bad play by everyone in the game, totally unstructured teamfights are dominated by me and caitlyn, i think cait had 16 kills at the end of the game

draven is super strong early, one of the best ad's in the game early, ive never played him though so i cant explain why, but mailny with his axe juggling gives him super damage

ive told myself countless times that i will only play ranked if with a friend (bot lane, mid/jungle, top/jungle) but i always say fuck it and get stuck with terribads

This post has been edited by MoS. on Fri - Mar 1 2013 - 22:28:22

next game just as bad, enemy mid akali is 7/1 against our mid morgana 1/5, top is yorick vs corki (what). our team is deathly afraid of everyone on the enemy team and we dont go as a 5 man team against the enemy split up into groups of 2 enemies each, i initiated almost every fight as sona, died immediately but started the fights. somehow the fed ass akali has zero team coordination, enemy lux and graves are on their own planets, our yorick is getting kills donated to him by the enemy, everyone is scared of everything, we kill akali and push 2 inhibitors and win the game, my brain is blown

i dont understand how i went from regular mediocre players last weekend, to bottom of the barrel badness boring as hell games this weekend, with no games played between

maybe the fact that im playing a support that takes no brainpower is just allowing me to realize how terrible all my games are

should play with me so i can level up

what are some good mid champions for this meta? i feel like malzahar and karthus are too squishy, and you might come up against a champ like akali

xerath
diana
katarina
lux
swain
galio
ryze
fizz (he doesnt farm too well though)

first game of the day is a normal blind pick, 19 minute nexus kill, feels good

need 4 more provisional ranked matches to join a league, but already have the bronze league emblem on my profile, donno

gz on being terrible

john, add the account R4G3 so i can spectate you

just played a pretty good vayne. soraka as my teammate against quinn and taric. both sides fairly passive, we were being pushed closer to our turret but i was on a roll with the last hits and had no problem farming. we were down something like 3/5 on kills in our lane but cs was even on the ADC's

overall team awareness seemed a little better than the games yesterday, but our jungle did some misguided shit and ended up dead a few times. once we started some teamfights, i did well at putting myself in a position to score kills and really build my items/damage

35 minute win, finished 10/4/6

im gonna be happy to place in the bottomest of bottom dog divisions. i think it will be fun to build my fundamentals and skills while progressing through divisions, never done something like that before in any game

except warcraft 3, kind of

aram

lee sin (me)
shaco
ryze
alistar
volibear

vs

mundo
nocturne
leona
eve
jax


the only ranged attacker is ryze

shaco was afk and rest of team focused mundo and got raped by eve. go figure

malz (me)
janna
miss fortune
jungle malphite
sivir (called top, then afk randomed sivir)

janna is going to mid, im going to top, so sivir and mf can bot

vs

fiddle
leona
zed
xinzhao
ezrael

ranked

edits: sivir might never actually connect to the game, so super gl

This post has been edited by randomtask on Mon - Mar 4 2013 - 18:17:54

why doesnt this shit game have people queue dodge if they dont pick a champion in time

i thought it was supposed to

won 9 out of last 10

yay

sivir joined back in at level 3. janna was horrible, whole team was hounding her to place a single ward, she bought a sightstone 40 minutes in as 6th item
fiddle racked up tons of kills which i think actually hurt their team in the long run. final team fight we got a good initiate on xinzhao and i got a good malz ult on fiddle for the gg

also obligatory 6th item warmogs on malz

gz on 7/1 placement matches so far. i think i might be able to hit silver without increasing my lol skill at all