Sunday, October 13, 2013

Creator Viktor - First time in Ranked

Our Team:

Malphite Top, Corki ADC, Nasus Jungle, Sona Support, Viktor Mid

Their Team:

Xin Zhao Top, Nidalee Mid, Nami Support, Fiddlesticks Jungle, Graves ADC

What a god awful game.

God awful.  I am just awful at this game.

- 15 Points, Bronze IV, 37 LP

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Last guy who picks wants to play Fizz Mid?

Subject says it all.  Claims mid and wants them to not ban Fizz and for whoever goes first or second pick to pick Fizz and swap with him.  I have a feeling he's not going to get Fizz and if he doesn't, he'll just feed...  But maybe I'm just being overly critical.

Our Team:

Sona Support, Miss Fortune ADC, Nautilus Jungle, Fizz Mid, Jarvan IV Top

Their Team:

Lux Mid, Malphite Jungle, Garen Top, Quinn ADC, Leona Support

So he got Fizz..and he went Flash Heal?  I guess I'll wait to see how it is before I judge it.

Not sure I've ever laned with JIV against Garen top, so we'll see hwo that goes too.

Well....I don't want to say that I under-estimated Garen.  But perhaps I over-estimated my ability to soak damage.  I need to be smarter....went 0/1 at the 8 minute mark.

On my way back, Nautilus ran into him in the Jungle and was leading him out.  I met him and engaged.  My pop-up didn't affect Garen, not sure why....I don't know his powers well enough maybe?  Anyway, Maplhite and Lux came up so it was quickly 1v3.  I dodged Lux but was low enough for Malphite to dive under my tower.

From there the game fell apart.  Fizz was feeding Lux pretty hard.  Bot lane was trading kills, mostly MF killing and Sona getting killed.  I managed to take my tower first, around the same time bot lost theirs, but that was maybe the last "bright" spot.  And I only took mine because I recgonized

Sona wasn't that great.  I watched her dive a bush face first after watching Fizz die in it...she thought she could kill Malphite 1v1 with her Ult.  And at most she had a single ward on the map at any time.  Usually less.

Game ended at 37 minutes with our Nexus being destroyed.

Stats:

Jarvan IV - 3/6/7 - 114 CS
Miss Fortune - 11/7/6 - 243 CS
Sona - 0/10/17 - 29 CS
Nautilus - 4/7/6 - 107 CS
Fizz - 5/12/5 - 62 CS

Garen - 14/2/11 - 108 CS
Malphite - 4/5/17 - 150 CS
Lux - 10/4/12 - 131 CS
Quinn - 13/8/12 - 152 CS
Leona - 1/5/18 - 17 CS

- 15 Points, Bronze IV, 52 LP

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Promotion Series - Game 2

Our Team:

Fiddlesticks Jungle, Viktor Mid, Darius Top, Ashe ADC, Lux Support

Their Team:

Annie Mid, Janna Support, Miss Fortune ADC, Jax Jungle, Fiora Top

So, interesting lobby.  I was going to go Janna support, I was second pick on my team, but the other team took her on their first round of picking.  They also took Annie mid so I thought "hey, I bet I can Viktor vs that."  Let's find out!

No one other tahn Ashe and I had even moved or bought items when the minons spawned.  Not a good start.

By the time Fiddles was 4 and Darius was 5 I was 7.

Fiddles fed the enemy team hard.  By 25 minutes he was 0/7/1.  He and Ashe were both feeding Jax, though Ashe was getting reasonbly fed off others.

By 26 minutes they surpassed us in kills, 25 to our 23.  Fiddles was 0/8/1.  I died twice in 2 minutes to go to 5/2/3.

By this point Miss Fortune was crazy fed and just destroying everyone with her ult.

Ashe, 7/8/11 and Fiddles 0/10/2 at the 30 minute mark.  Starting to lose badly.  No vision on the map.

I'm 7/3/8 at 34 minutes.  0/13/3 for Fiddles.  He's level 13.

At 42 minutes we had almost no towers or inhibitors left, including the nexus towers.  It was 47 to 49 kills in their favor and they had Baron.  Fiddles was 0/15/6 at level 16.

We finally lost at the 47 minute mark.

Final scores all around feel justified in this game:

Viktor - 7/5/15 - 185 CS
Darius - 17/10/7 - 192 CS
Fiddlesticks - 0/17/6 - 163 CS
Ashe - 16/11/20 - 235 CS
Lux - 10/11/18 - 99 CS

Miss Fortune - 17/9/6 - 186 CS
Janna - 0/9/15 - 27 CS
Annie - 5/10/5 - 216 CS
Jax - 16/11/10 - 145 CS
Fiora - 16/11/5 - 216 CS

Our Fiddlesticks situation was incredibly frustrating.  Ashe was a bit frustrating too, she would fire her arrow off as a great initiate right *before* everyone was close enough to actually initiate, so we'd get into the fight just after they were done being stunned.

Fiora was constantly split pushing and we couldn't keep track of her.  Darius lost his lane huge but made it up in kills during the team fight mode.

Lux was pretty decent but wasn't really playing support, she was playing AP Lux and so we had almost no ward coverage but what she and I occasionally placed.

My CS fell off big time after I won my lane.  I just couldn't find any safe CS.  Ashe would constantly bitch anytime others killed creeps in a lane.  Fiddles went to an abandon bot lane to farm CS around 25 minutes and Ashe yelled and spam pinged at him for "taking her CS".

Awful game.  But hey, I lead the game for Magic Damage dealt to Champions and I got an Honorable Opponent, so that's something...

Promotion Series Lost

Double Promotion Series - Game 1

Frisco and I both qualified for our Promotion Series at the same time.  I don't see how this could possibly end with failure...

Our Team:

Nautilus Jungle, Mordekaiser Mid, Fiddlesticks Support, Riven Top, Caitlyn ADC

Their Team:

Udyr Jungle, Ezreal ADC, Lulu Support, Aatrox Top, Ahri Mid

At the 18 minute mark it was 4 to 17 in kills.  They rolled us hard.  We were awful.

At 27 minutes it was 7 to 23.  We had failed our surrender vote twice.

It was finally over at 30 minutes with a score of 9 kills to 31 kills.

Terrible game.  Our Riven went 2/7/1.  Mordekaiser went 4/7/2.  My CS was awful, 153 compared to Ezreal's 249, but I was zoned out of the lane hard for a lot of it and just couldn't find a way to get in for creep kills.

Series 0/1.

Volibear Support

Our Team:

Nautilus Jungle, Vi Top, Varus ADC, Fizz Mid, Janna Support

Their Team:

 Brand Mid, Volibear Support, Nasus Top, Caitlyn ADC, Warwick Jungle

 We tried so hard to throw that game.  I don't know how we didn't.

Frisco went 9/8/25 from the Jungle and I went 3/3/29.

Varus managed to have less CS all game than Cait despite Cait being zoned out most of the game.

Fizz died 12 times, Varus 10 but their Brand 16 times and Warwick 14.

Qualified for a Promotion Series!