VexRoth - All That Is Ranked

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/badc2a0661daf9e24b82fa8dfd08bfd8.png width=700] [br] Thought this would be a shit show with all the squishes on or team, some picked into the [[Akali]]. Twitch comes out of lane 6-1 or something like that and our team cannot be bothered to just sit on [[Twitch]] and smack the shit out of Akali if she looks sideways at him, despite several requests to group on my part. So despite the fact that aside from Syndra, we pretty much stomped the laning phase come Mid game and into the later part of the game, the team just gets picked off by Akali and Vi 1 by 1. GG.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/09998899a9831cc26e1da24e8f4cae33.png width=700] [br] Accidental ranked game. Whoops! Kind of a cluster. [[Fiora]] couldn't find a fight she didn't like even while signficantly behind. When we did fight their team fight was more effective than ours. Zac kept living because Riven would Teleport on his bloblets. Couldn't seem to get anything meaningful going even when we picked up a couple of kills. One of those instances being a chance to take Dragon. Jinx ran Bot lane to pick up some farm and the rest of the team went into their jungle to harass [[Zac]]. At least one of our team dies though I believe we kill traded on that one. We finally focused Dragon and took it, but it would have been so much smoother if people had just come when I pinged after we picked up the kills that allowed us a chance to take the Dragon in the first place. So pretty much a comedy of errors where we were making all the errors.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/deb76ce353aa83c1b89c4e6265aaa442.png width=700] [br] Team was a little more coordinated than my last couple. Helped [[Graves]] pick up a kill on [[Maokai]]. Blew [[Vel'koz]]'s [[Flash]] and [[Heal]] in short order which gave [[Akali]] some breathing room and fended off some gank attempts by [[Hecarim]] in Bot lane. Eventually, [[Akali]] was able to roam so she picked up some kills in Bot lane and Top lane. Once she got [[Rylai's Crystal Scepter]] she was able to stick to their champions well, which netted us some more kills. Managed decent Dragon control, including two Infernal Dragons, though we gave up one Water Dragon. We took their Bot tower but lost Graves in the process when [[Hecarim]] knocked him back into their team. With their Mid inhibitor already down we were able to rotate to Dragon and pick up the Elder and then run over and fend off and attempt at Baron. We started up Baron and they tried to fight us while we still had Elder Dragon on us and with sufficient peel for our carries we came out of that fight nicely ahead and were able to roll the game up from there. I like Naut, but his CC is a little too fair unless you can layer it. E.g. Ult, into hook, into a slow. Aside from that he doesn't do enough damage with a standard tank build so you kind of become a peel Bot that can be largely ignored. And his movement speed of 325 is godawful. But then against sometimes I feel entirely ineffective as an assassin so...[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/1eb80a423929684a87e496fc64d2f60f.png width=700] [br] Garen blows his [[Flash]] in a level 1 skirmish with [[Riven]]. Then dives her under tower. And goes apeshit when I dodn't gank the Riven who is standing by her tower. Umm, what exactly would you like me to do as a level 3 [[Diana]]? After that he went Mid, which wasn't much help because then [[Syndra]] started double killing Garen and [[Gangplank]]. I also made the mistake of underestimating just how fed she already was by you know defending tower after she killed GP again. And she freaking still had her ultimate up. So i guess the moral of that story is don't assume they used their ult unless you saw it. I should have bought an [[Abyssal Scepter]] second given how fed she was. Item 2, if you are an autoattack based champion. Don't dive onto [[Teemo]] unless you are sure you can kill him with your burst damage without relying on autoattacks. Item 3 definitely don't dive onto him if he is acting squirrely. Their entire team really might be in the bush behind him. So mistakes were made. Too many for my team to pull out a V. :-([/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/ecb6ea87b405b6be4efb02ad9608d647.png width=700] [br] Goal. Get [[Akali]] fed. Objective - Achieved.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/65da531d05837b14533942e15347ff84.png width=700] [br] Goal. Get [[Akali]] to shut up. Objective - Achieved - sort of. Unfortunately, you can't mute pings. :-/[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/4eed8624176bcf630a22fea84b112cd4.png width=700] [br] We one the early game and had a good dragon control, but we struggled Mid game after [[Zed]] got some items and started deleting our carries because we wouldn't group. Once we grouped I could sit on our carries and keep [[Jinx]] out of the fight for a while with [[Depth Charge]] then we started winning. Had one extremely dumb death trying to save [[Alistar]]. I figured he was tanky enough that I could help get him out, but no dice as they had a a surprising amount of chase potential. [[Zed]] is still freaking annoying. Oh I killed your carry and got out clean. Or I am going to split push and then hop all over the place with my shadows leading you on a merry chase while my team gets something else on the map and while I am at it I'll kill one of your carries and laugh as I pop back to one of my various shadows and get away cleanly. Except we started locking him down while managing to fend of their pushes in other areas on the map so they stopped gaining on us. Our [[Brand]] was quite good at using [[Rylai's Crystal Scepter]] and his stun to kite, but he didn't buy [[Zhonya's Hourglass]] until his last item so Zed started getting the drop on him.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/1c60368d8082cff5585f734970741c9a.png width=700] [br] Not sure how that was not an S. But that aside. I did more damage than [[Akali]]... I missed my [[Smite]] on the first Infernal Dragon somehow (I suspect [[Kha'zix]]'s model got in the way when he leaped into the pit.) The Dragon went from around 1000 health to 170 health silly fast, so I didn't have a chance to Smite it right at my Smite value at the time Should not try for Baron if you know the enemy is coming after taking the Elder Dragon, especially if they got two Infernal Drakes, because your team was dicking around doing other things while you were pingind the second Infernal Drake. Just need to remember to peel in team fights, if your team gets engaged on. No heroics like trying to ult their [[Caitlyn]] and keep her out of the fight after that. Find your carries and disuade divers as much as possible. Remind, [[Nami]] to do the same. Her ult can be used for engage but how about using it to keep [[Kha'zix]], [[Riven]], and [[Fizz]] of them mkay?[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/a2e246e0116d946a37ed42c2fa110152.png width=700] [br] Sat on my carries in fights and skirmishes, which allowed [[Viktor]] to pick up a triple kill in an instance where he would have otherwise been caught out after and overstay by the rest of the team.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/57633346f9611432f4b45e0b353710ab.png width=700] [br] One of those games where no one on our team was making good decisions and we couldn't manage to coordinate well enough to clean up easy kills. Or when we did manage to pick up some kills we didn't have minions in position to take advantage of those situations. Later in game I ended up trying to do too much and getting dog piled without really acoomplishing my objectives. Had a couple of mechanical mistakes here and there. Skarner's R is not forgiving as far as the hit box, which means you pretty much have to be on top of your target to insure that it hits and it is super frustrating when your team, can't clean up a victim that you drag back to them. I did everything except put it on an actual platter. Come on!!! Feelsbadman.[/quote]