VexRoth - All That Is Ranked

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/f3289c546f0ec23386205b9a07e04188.png width=700] [br] I am not really sure how we won this one. Our Bot lane got wrecked and [[Jinx]] was moaning about [[Lux]] not being able to hit the broad side of a barn. She really did miss a lot of [[Light Binding]]s at least as far as I observed. [[Yasuo]] and I teamed up to at least shut down [[Ashe]] and [[Morgana]] but they were big and their team worked in a more coordinated fashion than ours so it was looking grim. We managed to get two of their inhibitors down and one of the Nexus towers. The Nexus tower down would be crucial in the end game. They turned around and double inhibitored us after getting the first Baron. We kept getting picks here and there, but couldn't really get back into their base. We got the 2nd Baron on a steal by [[Lux]]. I lept into the pit and tried to [[Smite]] and that made have screwed with Eve's timing, but hey we got Baron. We weren't able to do much with it though as we all ended up dying shortly after the steal. We had double waves of super minions pouring into our base but fortunately we were able to get up in time to deal with them. Then we lost a team fight, except Jinx lived with a sliver of health and ran away from them toward their base where we had at least one wave of minions headed toward. Leblanc and Morgana I believe were up for them. So it was a base race between them and Jinx. Jinx got their last Nexus turret down with 10 seconds on the respawn timers and was able to take town the Nexus for the win. I need to stop dying so much. [[Shyvana]] wasn't the greatest choice for our comp but I went with it anyway so I could try and keep Evelynn busy in her jungle and not ganking lanes. That worked early. I caught her at her Red and was able to steal it though I didn't get to take her out. I contested the 2nd red as well but their team started rotating over to me, so I had to bail. Morgana was super annoying. Same on [[Leblanc]]. I couldn't run out of either of their chains fast enough to get away from them if they were able to walk towards me, so I got snared a bunch and then piled on. Crazy game. But one in the V column. I don't know why it is that some days I'll have every lane win and other days everyone gets crapped on. Would like to figure out how to even things our so I can more consistently win. It is hard to know what to adjust with such crazy swings in the way things play out from game to game.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/d7530859879d985379176b635bcef91c.png width=700] [br] [[Fizz]] got big enough to one shot our carries and [[Miss Fortune]] had a zone via the [[Heimerdinger]] turrets and [[Amumu]] ult that she could sit back and wail on us at her leisure. GG. [[Katarina]] kept pinging for help so when I got my ult I went over to help. I got Heimer but he got a double kill against us. Him and [[Illaoi]] champions against whom making a play is often a bad idea. The Kat says eh, maybe you should go help other lanes. XD. I killed Heimer again anyway because he annoys the heck out of me.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/9de1eccc737564bf0b3431d882559261.png width=700] [br] Sigh. Can I just get one winning lane in a game? Is that too much to ask? This was basically a 4v5 on our part since [[Aatrox]] didn't really do much. We still couldn't win a single lane. I picked up some kills early but it just didn't matter.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/f0f2f44c8e0577602a0e214f3a2d3a4a.png width=700] [br] Got [[Volibear]] ahead with a rinse and repeat gank on Top. That meant Top was under control. Mid was also doing decently. [[Veigar]]'s ult is disgusting. Counter play is to run the blinking other way if you are low on health. Spent some effort on Bot lane as well as they were getting pushed in. Netted us at least one kill. Came back Bot but this time [[Katarina]] roamed up too so it didn't go to well for us. Still dying too much. I felt like we had enough damage so I just tanked up and tried to make plays. Once I calculated I wasn't dying too quickly I picked up so more damage. Volibear really wanted Baron so the entire team went on it when I didn't have [[Smite]] up. I should have pinged them off but our ward coverage suggested we had enough time to do it, however Pantheon sniffed it out at the last 2nd and ulted in on us just as I was about to Smite it and I didn't manage to time it right. We got the second baron, but again it was taking us a long time to burn it down so they were able to come over and contest. Voli got trapped in the pit and I made the mistake of going back in to try and help him out, and then I accidentally pathed away from the wall just a hair and so I didn't manage to [[Flash]] over it. I tried to run out, but didn't quite make it to safety. Really should have gotten my [[Zz'Rot Portal]] down a few more times, but there was enough things going on that it was awkward to place it properly at times.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/af7ec91e9e3c6c290115888856b668bb.png width=700] [br] Not sure how this game was even close. [[Renekton]] just took a dump on [[Fizz]]. [[Morgana]] who has already been feeding her arse off in Bot lane says I'll take Top Fizz! Leaving Vayne to her own devices while Fizz wanders around figuring out what he is supposed to do. Vayne of course dies because what the hell is she going to do vs a Zilean and MF other than sit under tower? Our bright spot was [[Sion]] trading even in Mid. The [[Vayne]] spotting was real. 23 kills looks nice but yuck. Some really questionable positioning meant that she was chunked out or dead before she could do much most of the time. I....yeah, I just tried to kill people, hopefully in conjunction with my team, but not be overly concerned about that. About the 30ish minute mark [[Morgana]] DCd. Not sure if was technical or rage, but the effect was that we slowly started losing ground as it was getting hard to get to Miss Fortune and make her stay dead through all of [[Zyra]]'s CC and [[Zilean]]'s CC and Zil's ult + [[Guardian Angel]]. Late game we had a good shot at Baron, but they had an open inhibitor. Sion ults down the lane. Gets to the inhibitor and runs away because he can't deal with all the poke. We lose the ensuing Baron bait because Fizz gets stupidly out of position and dies. They get Baron. The End. One thing that has always bothered me about [[Wukong]] is that you can't smoothly dash and clone. You have to wait a second after dashing before you can clone. Or another way to put it is that you can't buffer it like some abilities, probably because the clone bumps forward a bit or bumps you backwards a bit after spawning.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/bc5de4171f21668c68fef9ff4a29eee6.png width=700] [br] I think my new rule is dodge if their is a [[Yasuo]] showing on my team. The number of good ones I've had on my teams of late is approaching negative numbers. The champion isn't a good place, he is hard to play and this is Silver Elo, and you kind of have to build a team around him. This one had a questionable TP after getting a kill on [[Shen]] basically giving up any advantage he had. After he started losing lane, he just stayed Bot lane so Shen and Ekko were able to take Top tower for free forcing me to go over and defend our Inner Top tower. [[Lucian]] got some work done early, but I think that was largely [[Blitzcrank]]. [[Shen]] and [[Ekko]] started living in Bot lane so that advantage got turned around. Later in the game there was much Lucian spotting. Lots of dashes into their entire team. They ended up with a huge gold and level lead, so we really couldn't match them in team fights. Yasuo did split push down some towers, but it meant he wasn't with our team and if he did get caught he wasn't far enough ahead to win against whoever they sent after him. Silver 4 curse kicking in. Fells bad man.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/937de940180cecf325a2894d182b61b8.png width=700] [br] We tried super hard to throw this one once we got a lead. Came down to 1 autoattack on our Nexus, but I managed to get to [[Kog'maw]] in time and [[Impale]] him. We ran up mid where we had already knocked out the Nexus turrets and gotten their Nexus to half health and finished the job. Other fun moments were the two times I hit Kog with Impale and dragged him into [[Ziggs]]'s [[Mega Inferno Bomb]] radius. Our team fight was actually kind of disgusting if we could get them grouped, which we did several times. Our team went psycho toward the end game. Overhyped about how well we were doing team fighting them so Ziggs and ?Thresh? run straight up Mid lane with none of the rest of us around and die. There were a couple of other plays like that. One where I was splitting Bot and pinged my team that I wasn't there and they end up getting themselves wiped or close to it by engaging on a 4v5. We also took a fight at our outer Mid turret a man down with the turret on low health. I tried to ping everyone off but we went for it. Really lucky we were able to cap this one. Happy I died a lot less in this game than I have been but still work to do there. Not sure about the Riot LP math there. From -13LP to + 21LP = 18LP? New math?[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/34f412c55137d2114bb5e8fc545e280d.png width=900] [br] Duoed with a Gold 5 ADC I know from another group. They do voice comm which is nice as some of the other people I duo with don't. Our [[Twisted Fate]] was good. Our Bot lane was winning early and they managed to kill Master Yi as well, so I focused my efforts on Top lane. We killed [[Vayne]] twice that I recall which gave [[Riven]] some breathing room. However, they started focusing a lot of effort on Bot lane, which prompted our [[Teemo]] support to get bitchy. Going to farm all game Skarner? Mute. Helps Riven kill Vayne. The farming paid off as I was able to stomp Master Yi when I caught him splitpushing Top lane despite how fed he was. Our [[Teemo]] didn't build a [[Sightstone]] but neither did the [[Morgana]] so there is that.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/e1f494a4dc3d6ab70fa605bfa54af4e2.png width=700] [br] Another [[Diana]], another interesting Diana build. Also not exactly sure why [[Sivir]] bought a [[Mercurial Scimitar]]. They had no hard CC which is why I went with [[Boots of Swiftness]]. I think she would have been better off with [[The Bloodthirster]]. It has been quite some time since I've actually gotten Mid. Don't like [[Vel'koz]] that much into [[Katarina]] so I opted into [[Cho'Gath]] who does better into assassins. In retrospect, I'd have been better off going [[Ignite]] than [[Teleport]] as I didn't really see any great situations to TP into. Either there were no wards around or the action happened so fast I didn't see it or didn't have time to react. I got Katarina low a couple of times and tried to ping Diana to come over and help me finish her off but got no love there. The game felt like a case of both teams having fed ADCs but their team was better at getting to our ADC. I tried sitting on Top of our carries and that worked reasonably well, but we kept losing ground and every time we did pull off a win we didn't have any good objectives to target with the manpower we had left or the position of the minion waves. Overall I felt I played reasonably well given how long it has been since I've played Mid. Kat certainly didn't get fed off me and her roaming was only moderately successful. Would have liked to have managed a TP gank. Guessing I might have missed some since I was largely focused on making sure Kat didn't snowball off me and keeping my lane pushed if she wasn't around.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/a530735d3e39290104e691b6d8026fc5.png width=700] [br] Played as 4-man. Had a good [[Vel'koz]] game. Some nice roams and [[Teleport]]s to pick up kills. [[Gangplank]] wasn't having much fun against [[Vladimir]]. Other than that we were doing pretty well.[/quote]