Us: Soraka Support, Vi Jungle, Jayce Top, Akali Mid, Caitlyn ADC
Them: Kha'Zix Top , Janna Support, Mordekaiser Mid, Tryndamere Jungle, Sivir ADC
Duo queue with Frisco, he played Soraka.
Vi wanted to go invade their mid. That worked well, Jayce got first kill and we got their blue.
Unfortunately the game fell apart after that. We lost laneing early and the team just couldn't pull it together.
We had a couple of close calls but I wasn't getting any help in the back to deal with Kha'zix and so I couldn't help in fights or earn gold. Vi was constantly getting out of position and yelling at the team for not engaging when she engaged and often Jayce or Akali wasn't there with us.
Anyway, just another loss. Like all the others..because I can't win Ranked.
- 18 Points, Bronze Division IV Rank 23
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Not a redemption match
Us: Leona Support, Zyra Mid, Olaf Top, Mundo Jungle, Draven ADC
Them: Xin Zhao Jungle, Tristana ADC, Elise Top, Lux Mid, Nidalee Support
Duo with Frisco again.
We got first blood and went 2 / 1 against our lane early. And the game fell apart from there. 8 kills to 19 at the 25 minute mark and they were significantly up on turrets.
I mean, we hadn't taken one.
So we surrendered at 31:02
I went 5/3/2 with 127 CS at 31 minutes.
- 18 Points, Bronze Division IV Rank 20
Them: Xin Zhao Jungle, Tristana ADC, Elise Top, Lux Mid, Nidalee Support
Duo with Frisco again.
We got first blood and went 2 / 1 against our lane early. And the game fell apart from there. 8 kills to 19 at the 25 minute mark and they were significantly up on turrets.
I mean, we hadn't taken one.
So we surrendered at 31:02
I went 5/3/2 with 127 CS at 31 minutes.
- 18 Points, Bronze Division IV Rank 20
Bad Lane
Us: Leona Support, Eve Mid, Hec Jungle, Trynd Top, Draven ADC
Them: Sona Support, Ryze Mid, Nautilus Jungle, Darius Top, Vayne ADC
Hecarim didn't make it through the loading screen, so we were off to a grand start. He finally reconnected as minions spawned...
I was duo queuing with Frisco, so we did what noobs do and rushed the bush on bot lane. Sona didn't last 10 seconds and it was on from there.
And by on I mean off. We pretty much failed to do well in our lane as did most of the others. Trynd couldn't hold up to Darius. Then we proceeded to lose team fight after team fight.
GG
I went 6/8/6 with 102 CS at 32 minutes.
Demoted to Bronze IV.
- 0 Points, Bronze IV Rank 7
Them: Sona Support, Ryze Mid, Nautilus Jungle, Darius Top, Vayne ADC
Hecarim didn't make it through the loading screen, so we were off to a grand start. He finally reconnected as minions spawned...
I was duo queuing with Frisco, so we did what noobs do and rushed the bush on bot lane. Sona didn't last 10 seconds and it was on from there.
And by on I mean off. We pretty much failed to do well in our lane as did most of the others. Trynd couldn't hold up to Darius. Then we proceeded to lose team fight after team fight.
GG
I went 6/8/6 with 102 CS at 32 minutes.
Demoted to Bronze IV.
- 0 Points, Bronze IV Rank 7
Sunday, February 24, 2013
4 lobby attempts before the match started
2 someone timed out on accepting, and 2 someone quit during picks / bans. Ug.
Us: Sivir adc, Jarvan jungle, Garen top, Viktor mid, Soraka support
Them: Ezreal adc, Thresh support, Ryze mid , Kayle top, Pantheon jungle
I was in a lobby with their Ezreal in one of the attempts leading to this game. He spammed the chat "ezreal top or mid" and was (is in our game, too) ghost and flash. I'll be interested to see how that goes.
Jungle Jarvan was rocking it for us. Not much else to say, really, he dominated. By level 12 I hadn't touched my 3 starting health pots. Won at level 15 by killing their Nexus.
I went 5/2/5 with 159 CS. Their mid, Ryze, went 3/8/3.
+ 19 Points, Bronze Division III Rank 33
Us: Sivir adc, Jarvan jungle, Garen top, Viktor mid, Soraka support
Them: Ezreal adc, Thresh support, Ryze mid , Kayle top, Pantheon jungle
I was in a lobby with their Ezreal in one of the attempts leading to this game. He spammed the chat "ezreal top or mid" and was (is in our game, too) ghost and flash. I'll be interested to see how that goes.
Jungle Jarvan was rocking it for us. Not much else to say, really, he dominated. By level 12 I hadn't touched my 3 starting health pots. Won at level 15 by killing their Nexus.
I went 5/2/5 with 159 CS. Their mid, Ryze, went 3/8/3.
+ 19 Points, Bronze Division III Rank 33
First LoL Game Post
First LoL game I'm logging here. Let's see how I go. I'm starting in Bronze III with 0 points...so pro.
My team banned Vayne and Caitlyn. Unusual bans in my experience?
Mundo jungle, LeBlanc mid, Morgana support and Garen top, I'm running Draven adc. The opposing team is Taric support, Miss Fortune adc, Jayce top, Fizz mid and Vi jungle.
I'd have liked to bring Cait vs Miss Fortune but my captain was banning without participating in the room chat.
I let them draw me too far away from my tower at level 3 and get first blood. Miss F was way low on health, but I always forget about Taric's stun...
Died again at 5 under my tower when they dove me.
Morgana went afk for two levels and then Mundo came down for a gank, Morg got the kill on MF. Once they were both back in lane Mundo came in again and I got a kill on Taric. Another hit on Taric without Mundo and we were caught up.
Then Garen disconnected, Morgana stopped warding the bush and we lost. First surrender vote at 23 failed, we were still winning 10:6 in kills. Morgana went afk again for a while and the whole thing spiraled down from there.
Garen came back at 30 minutes, claiming bad network. I started buying wards because they were just ambushing us in our jungle and no one else seemed to be buying them...but it was all too late. They aced us at 34 and the game ended at 41 minutes.
I went 5/8/4 with 193 CS. Compared to their adc MF who went 15/2/6 with 348 CS.
- 0 Points, Bronze Division III Rank 48
My team banned Vayne and Caitlyn. Unusual bans in my experience?
Mundo jungle, LeBlanc mid, Morgana support and Garen top, I'm running Draven adc. The opposing team is Taric support, Miss Fortune adc, Jayce top, Fizz mid and Vi jungle.
I'd have liked to bring Cait vs Miss Fortune but my captain was banning without participating in the room chat.
I let them draw me too far away from my tower at level 3 and get first blood. Miss F was way low on health, but I always forget about Taric's stun...
Died again at 5 under my tower when they dove me.
Morgana went afk for two levels and then Mundo came down for a gank, Morg got the kill on MF. Once they were both back in lane Mundo came in again and I got a kill on Taric. Another hit on Taric without Mundo and we were caught up.
Then Garen disconnected, Morgana stopped warding the bush and we lost. First surrender vote at 23 failed, we were still winning 10:6 in kills. Morgana went afk again for a while and the whole thing spiraled down from there.
Garen came back at 30 minutes, claiming bad network. I started buying wards because they were just ambushing us in our jungle and no one else seemed to be buying them...but it was all too late. They aced us at 34 and the game ended at 41 minutes.
I went 5/8/4 with 193 CS. Compared to their adc MF who went 15/2/6 with 348 CS.
- 0 Points, Bronze Division III Rank 48
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Updates!
I've been playing some of the Heart of the Swarm beta, coming out soon. I've also been playing League of Legends again.
With the new ranking system in LoL and HotS coming out soon I've decided to update the blog a bit.
I'm going to start logging my LoL ranked games on, and I want to differentiate my Wings of Liberty games from my HotS. So I've added a new label to my previous posts.
With the new ranking system in LoL and HotS coming out soon I've decided to update the blog a bit.
I'm going to start logging my LoL ranked games on, and I want to differentiate my Wings of Liberty games from my HotS. So I've added a new label to my previous posts.
- SC2 WoL - Original Starcraft 2, Wings of Liberty
- SC2 HotS - New Starcraft 2 Expansion, Heart of the Swarm
- LoL SR - League of Legends Summoner's Rift Ranked
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Random = Protoss Again + mini meltdown
Before Replay:
Because, of course, I can't seem to improve at it, I rolled Protoss again.
I really thought I had been improving, with all the games I was playing, but clearly not. Tonight is teaching me that I was waaaaaaay wrong.
PvZ, he just did his own thing and built to Broodlords and kicked my ass. I thought I had a big enough upgraded enough army to deal with the massive Broodlords / Infestors what with all my Carriers, Zealots and Stalkers who got right up under there and tried to deal with it. But I was way wrong.
Wrong wrong wrong.
So what should I have done? Quit when I saw I was Protoss?
The problem with Protoss is I feel like I can't harass. Not that *Protoss* can't harass. That I can't. That I can't make good enough use of the units to harass effectively.
He killed all my probes too...I don't know what happened to them all but suddenly I didn't have any.
I'm getting super ragey here so clearly I'm done for the night.
After the Replay:
Something I know before I start the replay - I wasn't making very good use of my money. Of course. Should I be more aggressive with my Zealots? I can't seem to balance out when I have gas and when I have minerals. I *understand* what I was doing before, but suddenly can't recreate it tonight.
I was sooo high on minerals but couldn't get gas. Suddenly I had nothing but gas and no minerals. I can't seem to build the right units and predict. Maybe I just don't have the right mindset right now. Or maybe I'm just getting so off tilt when I see I've spawned Protoss again that I can't think straight.
It's interesting because, with Protoss, I feel like I can't win. I should qualify that I guess..
With Protoss, I feel like every decision I make is the wrong one. If I choose to be agressive with my early units, I shouldn't have because he built a lot of Lings and by the time I find out, my units are dead and he's in my base. If I play conservative then I should have been more agressive. If I scout and he's conservative, he suddenly builds a bunch of Lings, and if I scout and he's got a lot of units then I spend money building for defense of an attack that never comes.
You know, if I want to harass I should just fucking harass. I did some DT play but I couldn't get them in the main. I never bothered to watch to see why, but he had a bunch of Spine Crawlers and Overseers there. If I'd dropped a few DTs in the back his Greater Spire would have been gone in no time.
My style is tech switching, harassment and large scale production of units. I know that's mostly geared towards Zerg but I've been able to make it work in other match-ups. I just have to get my head out of my ass and be willing to make it work.
Nothing I didn't already know in the replay. I had plenty of great vision on him, I just didn't realize that his army would so cleanly destroy mine the way it did. Once again I find myself wishing my friends still played SC2..it'd be nice to have some friends to play and practice with. But like many other games, my friends all like games I'm not a huge fan of and they generally aren't interested in playing the games I enjoy. Board and card games tend to fall into this category too.
- 10 Points, Silver League Division Rank 15, Remaining Bonus Pool 101
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=273257
Because, of course, I can't seem to improve at it, I rolled Protoss again.
I really thought I had been improving, with all the games I was playing, but clearly not. Tonight is teaching me that I was waaaaaaay wrong.
PvZ, he just did his own thing and built to Broodlords and kicked my ass. I thought I had a big enough upgraded enough army to deal with the massive Broodlords / Infestors what with all my Carriers, Zealots and Stalkers who got right up under there and tried to deal with it. But I was way wrong.
Wrong wrong wrong.
So what should I have done? Quit when I saw I was Protoss?
The problem with Protoss is I feel like I can't harass. Not that *Protoss* can't harass. That I can't. That I can't make good enough use of the units to harass effectively.
He killed all my probes too...I don't know what happened to them all but suddenly I didn't have any.
I'm getting super ragey here so clearly I'm done for the night.
After the Replay:
Something I know before I start the replay - I wasn't making very good use of my money. Of course. Should I be more aggressive with my Zealots? I can't seem to balance out when I have gas and when I have minerals. I *understand* what I was doing before, but suddenly can't recreate it tonight.
I was sooo high on minerals but couldn't get gas. Suddenly I had nothing but gas and no minerals. I can't seem to build the right units and predict. Maybe I just don't have the right mindset right now. Or maybe I'm just getting so off tilt when I see I've spawned Protoss again that I can't think straight.
It's interesting because, with Protoss, I feel like I can't win. I should qualify that I guess..
With Protoss, I feel like every decision I make is the wrong one. If I choose to be agressive with my early units, I shouldn't have because he built a lot of Lings and by the time I find out, my units are dead and he's in my base. If I play conservative then I should have been more agressive. If I scout and he's conservative, he suddenly builds a bunch of Lings, and if I scout and he's got a lot of units then I spend money building for defense of an attack that never comes.
You know, if I want to harass I should just fucking harass. I did some DT play but I couldn't get them in the main. I never bothered to watch to see why, but he had a bunch of Spine Crawlers and Overseers there. If I'd dropped a few DTs in the back his Greater Spire would have been gone in no time.
My style is tech switching, harassment and large scale production of units. I know that's mostly geared towards Zerg but I've been able to make it work in other match-ups. I just have to get my head out of my ass and be willing to make it work.
Nothing I didn't already know in the replay. I had plenty of great vision on him, I just didn't realize that his army would so cleanly destroy mine the way it did. Once again I find myself wishing my friends still played SC2..it'd be nice to have some friends to play and practice with. But like many other games, my friends all like games I'm not a huge fan of and they generally aren't interested in playing the games I enjoy. Board and card games tend to fall into this category too.
- 10 Points, Silver League Division Rank 15, Remaining Bonus Pool 101
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=details&id=273257
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