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sure

new game



finally got to play support
coordinated all of the objectives like a true professional
toppest of dogs

@ gary

http://imgur.com/a/IfMaf

That's awesome

he has one for thresh, nami, and lulu posted too. and the counter-pick guide which is a little outdated

lol @ hecarim with homeguard, mobility boots, ghostblade and ghost summoner

graves was at river running into enemy base when i spawned, and i beat him to enemy inhibitor

4/0/11 ranked vi steamroll. their team comp was horrible (olaf, akali, irelia, ashe, taric)

Probably have a good shot at silver ii this weekend. especially if someone wants to duo

pliz

got home 0230 and logged on to play a lol game or two, ranked queue maintenance starting at 0230, oh well

time for comp stomp then norm game jung practice

the first rule about bot games, is you will always be amumu ulted in every fight

(and probably ulted by a few other champions too)

nautilus buffed this patch

SUP

never seen anyone play him except for you

my runes are horrible, going to have to devote some IP gains to that

since i got the buy 1 get 1 free rune pages too

This post has been edited by randomtask on Wed - Apr 10 2013 - 14:02:22

both teams have some power

team coordination was bad. enemy rumble didnt connect until about 5 minutes, yorick free farmed top the whole time but had 22 cs (donno)

bottom didnt ward at all, i was calling dragons always but they just ignored it over and over

we did win, but only because our champions outmatched theirs in levels/gold

and i somehow went from 72 LP -> promotion

qualified for a series

75- series

Gzs

just lost a bunch of normals in a row, maybe i should try for ranked series win

first series game is a loss

top rumble was against lee sin, died first blood, was overall bad (lee sin was damn impressive with his plays, all game)
bot farmed for a long time

we took 3 of 4 dragons, took a baron, enemy team just outmuscled us with nasus and lee sin both fed, and they were most team coordinated of any solo queue ive ever played, they also made almost zero personal mistakes the entire game

i was jung xin zhao, only was able to get 1 gank kill the whole game, my items were way behind their bruisers so i was mostly useless other than cc (which was largely wasted because enemy zyra would zone our whole team while i went in)

i dont think i can play xinzhao in solo queue. you need laners who understand that they need to make their lanes gankable instead of trying to push towers the whole time

This post has been edited by randomtask on Thu - Apr 11 2013 - 12:26:07

2nd game was a loss as well

top was an obligatory "shens not banned ill play shen" then "just make sure to help me top, enemy (first pick) kayle will destroy me"
mid was twisted fate who lost his tower in 10 minutes to diana without using his ultimate once (shen hadnt either) donno

enemy team snowballed early advantage so damn bad, every single player was roaming on a mission. they had 4 towers in 15 minutes. i was able to get the first dragon because i was playing Vi, but they killed our nexus in 23 minutes because we had zero champions who could stand up to them

donno if theres a big skill gap between silver 4 and silver 2, but both teams i just played against were leaps and bounds more coordinated than any game ive ever queued in

ranked stats by role

support 10 wins 9 losses
mid 6 wins 2 losses
top 11 wins 9 losses
adc 5 wins 3 losses
jung 8 wins 7 losses

i need to mid more, mid tower is so important for map positioning and dragons, im just sick of being first pick/second pick in draft mode. when i blindly pick a mid/top, the enemy counters it, then the rest of the picks on my team round out a horrible team composition and/or picks champions that are countered by the picks the enemy team has already made

2 losses -> 72 lp, the same i was at before the win that took me straight into promotion

next game is a big rage loss

i dont think i have ever, and i mean ever, played on a team that was more oblivious of all objectives in the game and any sort of focus or objective to team fighting

weve got a lead? i guess we should all individually overextend into our lanes and die to give the enemy +500 gold bounties

40 minutes in and 8 of 10 players in the game are positioning around blue teams jungle? i see 6 minions bottom i need to go kill, or i could just ezreal ult them from here

was playing support lux, landed so many stuns/snares/shields, killed 2 enemies at baron and pulled their team off it when my team was jerking each other off at purple bot lane 2nd tower or some shit, warded the piss out of the map so everyone knew where the enemies were

pretty raged

exact replica of my 2nd ranked game

exact replica of my 1st ranked game

Sounds like my last batch of games before moving

are there people out there that actually spend 3250 RP on a skin for a champion??

pulsefire ezreal

son offered to tutor me this weekend

apparently though he refuses to ever play support or adk? said he dc's if he gets
stuck in those roles.

oh.

we have disabled ranked queues while we work to get the lag issue resolved

this is a bad time of night for trying to play lol

adc is what invented this genre of game, you have to be able to play it

<3 adc

im so bad at adc it is ridiculous

You have to be a huge asshole to play ADC



I guess that I just really enjoy the bottom lane dynamics of 2v2

I feel I play other roles (with quite a few champs) "proficiently" but ADC as my strongest role

Random thoughts aside, I might get some internet this week. It has been nice though without it. But meh, do miss.

its the role that you can disregard team and play like you need to play, without being bitched at by your teammates

although the metagame is really placing less responsibility on that role i think (its like a bonus when your adc does well, at least in silver league)

i need to learn how to shut down/crush a team in mid game after getting a big advantage in mid, and how to coach teammates into doing that. simply winning your lane and hoping the rest of your team does well isnt an effective way to get promotions

This

i wish arams were the actual game, they are so much fun

its simple, play the opposite of how you play normals with me and gull

I can't help but to feel this is a very passive-aggressive troll line, exactly as you would see in games.

Not knocking either Gary or John.

However, this is a discussion forum that allows for more than 2 small lines of text.

Break down what it is that you feel John can improve on.

Obviously this probably has been discussed on Ventrilo previously, so disregard my comments if so.

But I read Gary's response as if it were directed towards me and it does not imply helpfulness.

<3 you both

theres always something with the normal games we play that makes a normal strategy not work, i dont know what it is, but its there