Wayne3100's Quest for Platinum (Season 3)

[quote=Wayne3100][quote=PsiGuard] 1. If your MMR is higher than your current rank, your LP gains will increase and losses will decrease in magnitude. This might explain a bit why you're facing higher ranked opponents. [/quote] I'd love to believe it is, but then I wouldn't have needed so many games to 'fix' my MMR when I was trying to reach gold, right? :| I dunno, for a system that is trying to be "predictable" when it comes to LP gains (aka a system that makes it possible or even easy to determine one's MMR) it's pretty damn confusing at times. I didn't realise duoing influenced the rating [i]that much[/i] though, that's a bit absurd. But like I said, I suppose it's good practice at least.[/quote]

[quote=Pheyniex]Nothing is predictable when information is being hidden from you. Either way, just play with the flow. If you play consistently well, MMR or LP gains shouldn't matter. Enjoy yourself.[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 115+116[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Duo Queue with DiscipleD (GMD's smurf)[/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/xODfpnV.png][/center] First game we got trolled by a guy who wanted to pick [[Teemo]] or [[Aatrox]] only. Our captain banned [[Teemo]] (as shown on [url=http://i.imgur.com/GSitmmL.png]this image[/url]), then the enemy team banned [[Aatrox]] and the guy trolled by picking [[Heimerdinger]] when we already had a mid. Not much to say, started out really well and outfarmed [[Tristana]] by a lot early, but ganks from their jungle [[Evelynn]] decided the lane. Second game top and support were open so I went top as [[Zac]] while GMD supported a random as support [[Morgana]]. All lanes did pretty well, especially bot and top, as we both snowballed pretty hard. The [[Kha'Zix]] I was laning against started pretty aggressive and got me into my passive not long after I escaped from a [[Malphite]] gank, but I also had him low and he couldn't kill me because our jungle [[Xin Zhao]] was around. After that I killed [[Kha'Zix]] a couple of times 1v1, then [[Malphite]] tried ganking but I killed Kha again and got away from Malph, and finally [[Xin Zhao]] came for a gank cuz.... well, why not :P I built completely different items than I usually do ([[Locket of the Iron Solari]] + [[Rylai's Crystal Scepter]] rather than my usual [[Sunfire Cape]] start) and I still don't know why, but I was pretty far ahead so it worked out just fine. Lose three games, win one, 27 LP. Flawless logic once again. [color=red][b]LP:[/b][/color] 27[/quote]

[quote=Vapora Dark]You should try playing a solo queue game if you want to try and determine what your mmr is.[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100]^ I get what you're saying, and yes, I agree that playing alone would make it easier for me to determine my MMR based on my teammates and how high I get placed in the picking order, but at the same time, I should still be somewhat able to determine my MMR while duoqueueing and LP gains should still be predictable. Sure, GMD and I always end up as 4[sup]th[/sup] and 5[sup]th[/sup] pick (as gold III and gold V, with high gold teammates and enemies), but LP gains aren't influenced by duoing at all and based solely on my rating and the ratings of the people I play with / beat or lose to. I'm just saying though, if I would've won a game and then lost three I wouldn't have 27 LP. Now, because I lost first and then won, I do. Meanwhile, the difference in terms of MMR is minimal, if there's a difference at all. It's just dumb :P[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 117[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Duo Queue with TheRedPenguin[/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/kKxIZ1H.png][/center] Third time I laned against a [[Vayne]] top as [[Zac]] and the hardest time I've had against her so far. The fact that both her auto attack and [[Zac]]'s [[Stretching Strike]] have a 550 range sounds cool, but there's still a slight difference between them as ability range is calculated from the center of a champion while auto attack range is calculated from the edge of a champ. As a result, [[Vayne]] often hits her auto while [[Zac]] misses his Q :( Anyway, my cs was atrocious - as is too often the case on [[Zac]] - but the game itself went rather well. [[Vayne]] forced me into my passive early on but suicided to the tower as our jungle [[Evelynn]] came to finish her off (so I got the kill :3) and after that I was able to deal with her. I also got a lot of kills in early teamfights, which allowed me to snowball and become incredibly tanky while still dealing good damage because of [[Zac]]'s base damages and [[Sunfire Cape]]. The enemy [[Kassadin]] mid did get kinda fed early (which of course is worrying), but in the end it didn't matter much as both other lanes were ahead (Pengu played [[Draven]] bot with a random [[Jarvan IV]] vs [[Ezreal]] - [[Janna]]) and our teamfighting comp was a lot better, gg. [color=red][b]LP:[/b][/color] 54 ----- As for my MMR, all I know is I was first pick and we had a gold IV teammate + two silver I's who were at 100 points. Enemies were gold III, gold III, silver I, silver I and silver I. Sooo.. higher than gold IV means it's good, I suppose? Iunno, so far I haven't had any negative signs apart from how long it took me to qualify for gold promos :P[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 118-122[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Duo Queue with DiscipleD (GMD's smurf)[/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/naSR8tg.png][/center] First, I played a really good game as [[Orianna]] against a plat V [[Ahri]] (though his MMR may've been lower), but we lost due to some bad positioning in several teamfights in a row. I then picked it back up by playing a game of [[Zac]] top in which I beat an [[Elise]] rather easily. Knowing that one win [i]might[/i] let me reach my promotional series (as I was at 74 LP after those two games), I randomly decided to pick [[Draven]] in the champion select of the next game. Although I did reasonable in lane, I played absolutely atrocious after that, as I lost any sort of map awareness because I was so focused on catching his axes. Not doing that again. Anyway, I was forced to jungle the game after and [[Jarvan IV]] was banned, so I decided to try [[Zac]]'s jungle and I have to say I like it a lot. The enemy team had a jungle main on [[Hecarim]], so I figured I'd have a tough time, but our [[Renekton]] top was doing really well against [[Jayce]] and that allowed me to completely focus on other lanes and go for the occasional counterjungle attempt (in the end, I got the enemy blue buff twice and stole wraiths a couple of times). The end result of all this was a pretty damn good game. [[Zac]]'s ganks when maxing E are so scary, lol. Finally, after having to top and seeing the enemy team pick [[Renekton]], I decided to see if my [[Kennen]] is still any good and this happened: [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/XGJILcs.png height=500][/center] [color=red][b]LP:[/b][/color] 100 ----- Gaining a lot more LP than I'm losing (-13, +33, -14, +35, qualified for promotionals), hoping I can skip a division.[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100]Forgot to update this yesterday, but basically I played the first game of the promos (duo with GMD's smurf again) because I'm leaving for 2 weeks today (couple of hours from now) and I wanted to make sure I won't decay by the time I get back. Ended 5-1-6 as [[Elise]], made a pretty dumb mistake vs [[Singed]] in lane after killing him with the help of [[Udyr]], after which he got a lead on me in cs since I hadn't played [[Elise]] in a while and I needed some time to get used to her auto attack again. Our [[Lux]] struggled to hit any of her skillshots, but luckily GMD had a very good game on [[Thresh]] and he landed a lot of good hooks, which made teamfights significantly easier for us as we picked up lots of objectives and eventually won the game. I played a lot better in teamfights than in lane too, assassinating some key targets after jumping on them in spider form. GMD had a 8-2 score at the end and pretty much carried it :P [center][h2][color=red]SCORE: 1-0[/color][/h2][/center] I'll still be around on Mobafire since I'll have internet during my holiday, but I'm not expecting anything to happen in terms of ranked play until I get back ;)[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 124[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Duo Queue with DiscipleD (GMD's smurf)[/center] [center][url=http://i.imgur.com/UMKb4oW.jpg][img=http://i.imgur.com/UMKb4oW.jpg height=500][/url][/center] There's some weird visual bug which is why it's not showing that I'm 1-1 my series now, but yeah, this one's going down to the wire. Never played against such a passive [[Jarvan IV]] before :| Things were looking good for our team when both [[Ryze]] and myself were pretty fed mid game (I didn't kill J4 in lane but did outfarm him and got his tower --> yes, I know, based on the screenshot you wouldn't say so :P), but we gave them a free Baron because it wasn't warded and they forced us back after that. Then our [[Caitlyn]] got hit by [[Nidalee]] spears every time before we were able to engage and the game slowly shifted. They eventually got another Baron or two and won the game, well played by them but frustrating for our team, because it looked like we were strong enough to deal with them, but we just couldn't with [[Nidalee]] hitting all her spears / Cait not dodging them. [center][h2][color=red]SCORE: 1-1[/color][/h2][/center][/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 125[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Duo Queue with DiscipleD (GMD's smurf)[/center] [center][url=http://i.imgur.com/FZT2Oj3.jpg][img=http://i.imgur.com/FZT2Oj3.jpg height=500][/url][/center] QQ :( I feel sorry for GMD, both solo lanes asked for help after only 2 minutes, lol. With his help, [[Nautilus]] eventually ended 2-0 in lane (though he was still behind in cs), but as you can see that didn't set him up for anything great in teamfights. [[Varus]] played really well and we controlled the bot lane, but it just wasn't enough to win in teamfights. [[Ezreal]] also got a triple kill in one of the first teamfights to get back in the game. Despite laning against a "Diamond V" [[Karma]] (never know what the actual MMR is) and Plat V [[Jayce]] main, I have to say I wouldn't be surprised if our solo laners bought these accounts :P [center][h2][color=red]SCORE: 1-2[/color][/h2][/center] [color=red][b]LP:[/b][/color] 90[/quote]