Monday, September 30, 2013

Frisco's Promotion Series - Game 1

Our Team:

Nautilus Jungle, Zed Mid, Varus ADC, Cho'Gath Top, Janna Support

Their Team:

Orianna Mid, Caitlyn ADC, Sona Support, Tryndamere Top, Jarvan IV Jungle

What a terrible game.  We just ate it from the word go.  They were such a stronger comp than ours and they played it better.

After a while it was a joke.  But not enough people would vote to surrender.  They finally won with a score of 29 kills to 9 kills when they defeated our Nexus.

I went a fantastic 0/5/2.  Varus was 2/7/2...their Caitlyn was 13/0/7 and Jarvan IV was 1/1/18.

- 16 Points, Bronze IV, 81 LP

"Are you going to play breast-tech Janna?"

Our Team:

Nautilus Jungle, Nasus Top, Kennen Mid, Tristana ADC, Janna Support

Their Team:

Renekton Top, Swain Mid, Ezreal ADC, Trydamere Jungle, Lux Support

It did not open well.  Tristana got a first blood, but then I threw away a life.  From that point on it looked ugly for a while, especially in bot lane.  We were getting pushed to our tower hard, lots of ganks coming in.  Bad.

But we managed to turn it around.  Their momentium ran out and we started to build on ourselves.  Nasus split pushed hard and we managed to pull out a win.

I went 1/6/11, Frisco went 2/3/12 with his "Nautilus wins all games" build.  Not terrible.

+ 22 Points, 97 LP, Bronze IV

Sunday, September 29, 2013

4 Skins vs 2 Skins, we win

Our Team:

Nautilus Jungle, Aatrox Top, Caitlyn ADC, LeBlanc Mid, Janna Support

Their Team:

Darius Top, Master Yi Jungle, Veigar Mid, Lux Support, Ezreal ADC

After that disaster of a last game, Frisco has joined me with his new pro Jungle Nautilus.

22 minute surrender.  Our LeBlanc got stupid, quick.  She went 13/1/3.  We rode those coat-tails all the way to the end.

Not to discout anyone else.  Aatrox went 8/3/1, Frisco 3/1/6.  Good game.

+ 23 LP, Bronze IV, 75 LP

Mundo....support?

Our Team:

Fiora Top, Pantheon Mid, Malphite Jungle, Ashe ADC, Janna Support

Their Team:

Mundo Support, Riven Top, Akali Mid, Shyvana Jungle, Miss Fortune ADC

That was a terrible game.  I don't know what happened, but it felt like we threw it away over and over and over and over again.

I went 1/8/28.  We lost the game ahead on kills.  We were ahead on kills almost the whole 55 minutes.

Our Panethon mid did not do well.  Our Fiora insisted on chasing every enemy into the jungle.  Our Ashe didn't care to get CS.

- 16 Points, 52 LP, Bronze IV

Promotion Series - Game 2

Our Team:

Shyvana Jungle, Graves ADC, Ahri Mid, Reneketon Top, Janna Support

Their Team:

Twisted Fate ADC, Fiora Top, Nasus Jungle, Annie Mid, Lux Support

Well that sucked.  Our Ahri was doing really good but it just fell apart.  Our Graves was over pushing just too much.  He died 10 times, 5/10/8.  I did okay, 0/4/17.  Frisco had a pretty decent Shyvana game too, 8/4/12.  Ahri was our heavy "carry" with 14/7/9, but their Annie did good, their Fiora did good and we just got out of position too many times.

No surprise we lost though, it was my promotion series and that usually spells "loss".

Failed promotion series.

Promotion Series - Game 1

Our Team:

Trundle Top, Nautilus Jungle, Lissandra Mid, Lux Support, Caitlyn ADC

Their Team:

Vlad Top, Vayne ADC, Ziggs Mid, Amumu Jungle, Janna Support

Lux wanted mid but when someone higher declared mid, she said she would be playing Lux, either Mid or Bottom.  At which point Frisco suggested banning Lux.

Vayne got seriously fed.  She had crazy CS for being stuck under her tower for the whole laneing phase.  We managed to Zone her a few times but Lux was doing so much dps that we were pushing hard with me just last hitting, and I never tried to address it with her.

We started doing pretty well.  Lissandra was getting good kills, Nautilus was making a lot of plays but then suddenly Vayne just got *stupid* and we couldn't stop her.

Loss.

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Don't feed the Darius!

Our Team:

Shyvana Jungle, Kassadin Mid, Tristana ADC, Nasus Top, Janna Support

Their Team:

Lee Sin Jungle, Darius Top, Miss Fortune ADC, Leona Support, Zed Mid

Frisco out of the jungle and me on Support.

Wow...so I'm not gonna lie, we rode Kassadin's coat-tails.  Kassadin went 10/1/7.  I went 0/1/10 myself counterwarding Leona as hard as I could.

They /surrendered at 26 minutes.

Promoted to Promotion Series!

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Viktor!

Our Team:

Leona Support, Corki ADC, Yi Jungle, Pantheon Top, Viktor Mid

Their Team:

Vayne ADC, Warwick Jungle, Kassadin Mid, Riven Top, Elise Support

We rolled that game too.

Not as hard.  Kassadin was doing pretty good, once he got a kill one me I switched with Pantheon top and got some farm up there.

Pantheon really carried us hard, 16/3/4 and Frisco did well with Leona, 2/3/17.  I went 2/3/9 which wasn't terrible....

+ 22 Points, Bronze IV, 95 LP

"Yes Frisco, you should have bought Dark Flame Shyvana when she was on sale"

Our Team:

Shyvana Jungle, Zed Top, Quinn ADC, Kassadin Mid, Janna Support

Their Team:

Kha'Zix Jungle, Xerath Mid, Miss Fortune ADC, Soraka Support, Vi Top

Wow.  Just wow.  We ROFLStomped them.  It was terrible.

Zed went 14/2/5, Kassadin went 14/1/7.  It was just over.

+ 22 Points, Bronze IV, 73 LP

Monday, September 23, 2013

I haven't laned with a Lucian before..

We'll see how this goes.

Our Team:

Volibear Jungle, Teemo Top, Diana Mid, Lucian ADC, Janna Support

Their Team:

Garen Top, Fizz Mid, Sona Support, Tryndamere Jungle, Graves Support

Bad start.  Lucian sat out and let them really burst him down.  Volibear came down and over-engaged and died.  I died.  0-3.  Soon it was 1-7, Voli, Luc and I all with 2 deaths.

We tried to surrender but two people trolled the team, we knew we had all lost before 20 minutes, but they were just being jerks.

The game got better after that when I /mute'd everyone but Teemo on my team.  We eventually surrendered at 24 minutes.

I was 1/4/0 with Janna
Volibear was 0/5/2
Teemo was 0/2/2
Lucian was 04/0
Diana was 4/4/1

We were winners.  Except of course, that we weren't.

- 16 Points, Bronze IV, 51 LP

Promotion Series - Game 2

Frisco's joining me for my second game of the series.  We'll see if it goes any better.  We really could have won that last fight, team just had an attitude problem.

Our Team:

Zyra Support, Master Yi Jungle, Riven Top, Ashe ADC, Viktor Mid

Their Team:

Orianna Mid, Fiddlesticks Support, Ranger Jungle, Vayne ADC, Jayce Top

We lost that hard.  I fed the living crap out of mid.  Vayne fed bot.  Yi was terrible and would stand in the river while the rest of us fought and died 2v1 (we had the 2!).  It was awful.

Series Lost.

Promotion Series - Game 1

Most of the team members are being pretty...uh...rude in the pregame chat.  Rude and annoying.  This doesn't bode well.

Our Team:

Jax Top, Aatrox Jungle, Thresh Support, Draven ADC, Brand Mid

Their Team:

Ashe ADC, Twisted Fate Mid, Pantheon Top, Zyra Support, Xin Zhao Jungle

Second Draven game this evening, we'll see if it goes as well as the first.  Now that picks are over, people's egos have settled a bit.  We'll see if it stays that way if someone gives up first blood.  That double "global" ult could be an issue.  We'll see.

Well, the global ults weren't really an issue.  The team's attitude was.  Aatrox was an ass, critically berating everyone for everything they did and everything he did wrong.  The attitude spread.

Series - 0 Wins 1 Loss.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Welcome to the League of Draven!

Our Team:

Xin Zhao Jungle, Kennen Mid, Zac Top, Draven ADC, Nidalee Support

Their Team:

Zed Mid, Rumble Top, Caitlyn ADC, Elise Jungle, Sona Support

I don't feel good about this team...but we have strong champs so maybe?  Maybe we can bully them hard in the first 20 minutes.

We started out strong.  Xin got 2 Triple Kills putting us 9 to 1 in Kills at the 10 minute mark.  And at 29 minutes they surrendered.

Final score?  29 kills to 3.

I went 2/1/5 but had decent farm.  Kennen went 4/1/12, Xin Zhao 10/1/5, Zac 11/0/7 and Nidalee 2/0/7.

Their Rumble died 10 times, as did their Zed.

Qualified for Promotion!

Viktor mid! How can I lose?

Our Team:

Warwick Jungle, Soraka Support, Viktor Mid, Ezreal ADC, Nasus Top

Their Team:

Xin Zhao Jungle, Vladimir Top, Thresh Support, Vayne ADC, Kassadin Mid

I probably could have guessed Kassadin mid.  In fact, I was sorta expecting it.  Oh well, how bad could this be?

I don't know that Soraka is buying any wards.  At all....  She has a Morellonomicon though.  And an Aegis.

At 30 minutes I had 2 deaths, Soraka without wards had 4 deaths.  WW and Nasus had 7, Ezreal had 8.  Not going well.

At 28 when Ezreal got ganked from the jungle and asked Soraka to buy wards for the jungle.  She bought 1.

Nasus keeps diving 1v5....

At 36 minutes Soraka has started buying wards.  She only buys purples.

Ezreal refused to group up to split push, got bot lane but all 4 of the rest of us died.  He said it was worth it, but their team suddenly had full builds and we lost the next team fight.  We took mid lane to have all their inhibs down, but we were also aced.

Again all 5 of us went into the base.  They were pushed to their Nexus towers and Ezreal left to go....I don't even know what he was doing.  Farming their jungle?  ACED.

Finally we took baron and won.  Did we earn it?  Maybe.  Did we deserve it?  I don't think so.

+ 21 Points, Bronze IV, 91 LP

First time in solo queue actually solo in a while...

Our Team:

Zed Mid, Janna Support, Tristana ADC, Kassadin Top, Nocturne Jungle

Their Team:

Brand Mid, Vayne Top, Sona Support, Fiddlesticks Jungle, Karma ADCish

They went Sona / Karma bot.  We won our lane, and lost the game.

That was horible.

Kassadin just fed Vayne hard top lane.  Nocturne couldn't do anything about it.

Fid kept going up there to help and the both of them got seriously fed.

Then when we moved into the Team Fight phase, Kassadin kept jumping into fights by himself, Tristana kept insisting on split pushing, and Zed, Nocturne and I just kept getting stuck outnumbered and outgunned.

- 17 Points, Bronze IV, 70 LP

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Okay Frisco, be the Hero we need!

Our Team:

Kha'Zix Mid, Jax Top, Graves ADC, Pantheon Jungle, Janna Support

Their Team:

Kassadin Mid, Taric Support, Ezreal ADC, Rammus Jungle, Renekton Top

Can't let myself forget that Renekton has a teleport.  Let's see if I do!

We won that game.  I'm not sure we should have.  Or as Frisco said "We should have, but we shouldn't have thrown it so bad in the middle."

I went 1/6/23 as Janna.  Not my worst game.  Though cash was crazy tight.  Jax kept going off Solo and getting killed, meanwhile Pantheon would talk about grouping up and get himself killed out of position.  Graves kept getting out of position as well and instead of getting himself killed, he would get me killed.

All in all...there it goes.  Oh well, we still won.

+ 22 Points, Bronze IV, 87 LP

JIV please report to the top lane, JIV to the top lane

Our Team:

Shyvana Jungle, Miss Fortune ADC, Kog'Maw Mid, Sona Support, Jarvan IV Top

Their Team:

Brand Mid, Draven ADC, Volibear Top, Nocturne Jungle, Lux Support

Is it normal for Kog'Maw mid to go Smite?

Clearly it's not *good*.  Kog'Maw was terrible, constantly dieing in places he had no business being.  He went 2/11/1.  Sona didn't do much better at 1/10/1.

Really my score was awful to, 0/5/3....  The whole game was just bad.

- 17 Points, Bronze IV, 65 LP

Join the Glorious....ahh something, something

Our Team:

Sona Support, Master Yi Jungle, Draven ADC, Darius Top, Viktor Mid

Their Team:

Vi Jungle, Nunu Support, Vayne ADC, Garen Top, Zed Mid

Yi picked up a Penta Kill in their base and we won.  Enough said.  We were just firing on all cylinders.

I would have liked to have more kills and assists, but I spent most of the game just defending my tower from Zed and trying not to die.

+ 22 Points, Bronze IV, 82 LP

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Is it my turn yet?

Seriously impatient waiting for people to choose.

Our Team:

Shyvana Jungle, Kennin Top, Fiddlesticks Support, Zyra Mid, Caitlyn ADC

Their Team:

Rengar Jungle, Teemo Top, Tristana ADC, Nami Support, Talon Mid

We rolled them hard.  Fiddle going all aggressive was frustrating and he got himself killed a few times trying to get us to over commit when help was on it's way or we were way out of position, but over all it went well.

I didn't have much DPS, but I got into a lot of the fights to still deal quite a bit of damage.  4/1/21.

I'll take it.

+ 23 Points, Bronze IV, 60 LP

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Viktor can't lose...right?

Our Team:

Shyvana Jungle, Zyra Support, Varus ADC, Aatrox Top, Viktor Mid

Their Team:

Vladimir Top, Quinn ADC, Alistar Support, Jax Jungle, Fizz Mid

Wow.  They surrendered at 22:04.  Viktor + Shyvana went.....well.  Our bot lane was good too, and Frisco ganked a lot for me in mid to keep Fizz under control.  And our Varus was out of control at 7/0/2.

I'll take it.

+ 21 Points, Bronze IV, 37 LP

Day 2 - How can it get worse?

Our Team:

Sona Support, Nidalee Top, Rengar Jungle, Ahri Mid, Caitlyn ADC

Their Team:

Nasus Top, Ezreal ADC, Vi Jungle, Ziggs Mid, Soraka Support

I'm the worst LoL player ever and we lost.  Again.

They 5 man invaded blue while we all went Red.  Sona and I got ganked on the way to our lane.  We survived but it pretty much set the tone.

Ezreal and Soraka pinned us under our tower from the word Go and we couldn't do anything about it.  Rengar came down to gank and they evaded, but we died.  Then Rengar came back and we did it again.

And we just lost from there.

Awful awful awful.  I deserve to be in last place in Bronze V.  It won't take me long to get there.

- 12 Points, Bronze IV, 16 LP

3rd time's the charm?

Man I'd love a win today.  And what better opportunity than with Frisco and I in bot lane together.

Our Team:

Varus ADC, Ryze Top, Shaco Jungle, Kha'Zix Mid, Janna Support

Their Team:

Cho'Gath Mid, Soraka Support, Caitlyn ADC, Wukong Jungle, Fiora Top

Their team comp is...interesting.

And they rolled us with it.  Hard.

Over and over and over.  I honestly don't know why it took almost 40 minutes.  We lost 29 to 48 kills.

I went 0/8/8 with a whopping 7.2k gold in 36 minutes.  And I went 0-3 for the day, cementing myself as the worst LoL Player, can't even pick up a win.

- 14 Points, Bronze IV, 28 LP

Let's try that again....

Our Team:

Ahri Mid, Twitch ADC, Zac Jungle, Jax Top, Janna Support

Their Team:

Thresh Support, Swain Mid, Yi Top, Nocturne Jungle, Graves ADC

So this team scares me a bit....  Hopefully Frisco will get fed in Mid and Zac will just roll face.  I don't know how I'm going to stay away from Yi and avoid being blown up....

Yi didn't turn out to be the problem.  Their whole team turned out to be the problem.  Swain got super fed, Graves got fed post laneing phase, eventually Yi caught up, Twitch got no farm because Thresh + Graves = bullied out of lane.

All in all, bad.

- 19 LP, Bronze IV, 42 LP

Saturday, September 7, 2013

First SR Ranked game in a while...

And our Gangplank is screwing everything up....in the lobby.  Grand!  Frisco's going jungle with Trundle.

Our Team:

Trundle Top, Gangplank Mid, Zed Top, Caitlyn ADC, Janna Support

Their Team:

Ahri Mid, Singed Top, Varus ADC, Sona Support, Vi Jungle

That could have gone better.  We started strong, Cait and I were doing good.  Probably too good, we got over confident and started losing.

Our team kept chasing Singed, that was a problem.  I kept getting into range with Varus, that was a problem.

Eventually they were just too fed and we were making too many mistakes.  I think I may have been the only one putting out wards and it took me most of the game to get to any decent items.  We kept getting hit by Sona's ult as a whole team, and they were seriously focusing me down and my team would run away instead of using that time to engage when they were targeting the wrong person and spending their CC cool downs on me.

- 14 Points, Bronze IV, 61 LP