I have had notoriously bad luck with placement matches for the last 2 seasons. I started out on Silver III last season after pretty much failing all game long early Season 3 (before the LP system came). I started out from 1400 something and went so low as 1188. Then after the LP system came I was Silver III.
I climbed rather fast to Silver I, but I was stuck there for several months so when I finally reached Gold again I was really happy.

When Season 3 ended I was 89 points Gold... Read More

After playing with the new support items for some time now I have to say I love the gold items. They're awesome. Every one of them.

I used all of them in different situations and I think I tried all 3 on a Sona (who I play almost every game).
So basically I like the Spellthief's Edge on a Sona and other aggressive supports. It's good that you get both passive gold and gold from harassing as well, but that also means that you HAVE TO harass to keep up with the other support early game. I also like that there's the... Read More

Only took me like four times in promo and managed to do it like 8 days too late to get the banner. Bleh.
I don't think I had this bad luck even when I was trying to get out of Silver I. I mean I was promos about 5 times back then too, but this time I lost two full promos (all 3 games in a row :D) then lost a couple more and ended up at 0 points. Then climbed back again twice until I finally made it through with a full AP Singed top lane who thought it was cool to let Irelia free farm for 20 minutes, because he was afk for the first 5 minutes.

Now I can't verify myself for some... Read More