VexRoth - All That Is Ranked

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/b82f0f37805aec62cbace5910269b997.png width=700] [br] Traded our Top so they could get jungle. I was ready to give the recently buffed [[Nasus]] a try, so that worked out nicely. Damn [[Kled]] does an absurd amount of damage and the freakin' remount mechanic is annoying as hell. Like I can kill him, but I can't because he can just stack his damage on me remount and then I'm screwed. Mostly had to wait until [[Cho'Gath]] came by to kill him or let him out play himself under my turret, both of which happened. [[Ziggs]] also does an absurd amount of damage and I actually had some MR by the time I encountered him. They coordinated their CC well any time I tried to do much of anything, at least until a fight around our Bot lane Nexus turret where I was able to get some work done when they overdived. We then picked them, specifically taking out [[Vayne]], in Mid lane after that and then ran it down Mid for the win. [[Nasus]] doesn't really feel that different, though [[Kled]] is not a good matchup for him, which may be the reason for not feeling particularly buffed. And our jungler got Plat off that game so happy day for them.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/9ceda64fd92c991326e8aa31fb78cf05.png width=700] [br] And I told our jungler that [[Maokai]] was available, but instead I got to lane against him. I couldn't out trade his healing in the early game so I just got shoved under my turret for most of laning phase. I didn't figure [[Nautilus]] would come Top and he didn't. Don't really blame him too much as that is sort of a wet noddle contest with [[Maokai]] being hard to kill for the two us after buying a [[Spectre's Cowl]]. [[Akali]] got stupidly fed so we had to expend a huge amount of resources keeping her off of [[Caitlyn]] and that didn't always work. Late game we took Baron after clearing out all their wards but ended up coming apart around the Elder Dragon which was also up. One of those games where none of my [[Teleport]]s managed to get us ahead. Could have last hit better. Maokai is annoying because he jumps through you and then can knock you back so it is hard to know where to place your spells as [[Swain]]. Maybe should have gone the doggie, but oh well.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/cb8391961d8b18c4ec7e3adc4a0899b5.png width=700] [br] And our [[Karthus]] got wrecked. Not really in lane so much, but just later in the game he was just sort of free gold for their team. Top lane who asked me for Maokai so I gave it to him was crying the entiretly of laning phase and bitching about Mid lane. Bot lane was sort of doing okay, but then [[Nocturne]] hit 6th level and started changing the balance of power in that lane. He did a good job snowballing his laners and stealing farm from me when i was trying to make plays on the other side of the map. Their [[Vel'koz]] was pretty good with his kiting. I did gank Top and [[Galio]]'s [[Flash]] also ganked Mid and blew Vel'koz's flash, but we weren't really able to convert on any of it. And late game the cancer that is [[Soraka]] prevented us from cleaning up a bunch of kills. Sad panda. Well that is enough ranked for me for the night. After watching the replay: [[Karthus]] should shit on Vel'koz. Unfortunately, it looks like out Mid laner had a some total of 2 games on Karthus this season (no games last season). [[Maokai]] should also beat [[Galio]]. Since Top and Mid where losing I lost control of my Top side jungle rather early which allowed [[Nocturne]] to get ahead. With a strong assassin, the [[Brand]] support pick became a liability. We needed a [[Lulu]] or [[Tahm Kench]] to keep [[Ashe]] alive. Mid to late game I literally had to walk around with Ashe to eat [[Nocturne]] to keep him from killing [[Ashe]]. Having an assassin type might also have been useful for getting to [[Jinx]] which was a problem later in the game. For my part there were two times that I had and inkling that [[Ashe]] was at risk. One of which I could have reacted to based on positioning, but I failed to act on my concern.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/65dc7672f88261f7316c0a4e2d79eef1.png width=700] [br] Good team that collapsed for each other when weird stuff was going down early game. Their [[Heimerdinger]] rage quit for a while after I ganked an helped [[Nasus]] kill him a 2nd time. [[Anivia]] declined to watch my Red side jungle so I ended up losing my raptors and red, which set me behind for a while.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/996eba83ee0bae5a7d28a2120bf60a0f.png width=700] [br] We gained control of the game relatively early and pushed our lead, but we pushed it too hard a couple of times, which lead to at least two of my deaths, which could have easily been avoided if we had backed out cleanly when I wanted to after taking an objective, but [[Thresh]] and [[Caitlyn]] just kept trying to go for one more. You know the [[Master Yi]] who keeps cleaning us up after we stick around too long? Yeah that one? He has revived and we are all sitting here on low health. Let's leave. Nope. Fail. But we had a sufficient lead that we kept this one in the bag.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/7d70888d576c8befa92611a10683c2d9.png width=700] [br] Bot lane got shit on before the rest of us were strong enough to do anything about it. I screwed up my early jungle clear by ordering my [[Smite]] incorrectly so I failed to get [[Riven]] rolling early like I originally planned and then [[Maokai]] showed up to harass her and I spent a lot of time dealing with that. Accidentally [[Smite]]d blue buff rather than finishing it with my E. Oh and for some reason my E didn't proc properly on the big wolf which cost me more time and health. I have had that happened at least once before. The additional damage just doesn't go off. Which meant that by the time I got to Red I was too low in health to finish it.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/daf57498b31978e8645936b858480fbb.png width=700] [br] It was like my team didn't know how [[Pantheon]] works. I told them to watch out for a level 2 gank. He waited until level 3 and was spotted out on a ward and pinged out. [[Riven]] ignored it and died for it. That started the snowball. He had enough CC on his side to be able to ult in and they could often keep whoever was being targeted in place. I tried to gank for Bot since [[Sivir]] and [[Janna]]'s [[Flash]] were down, but the Vladimir managed to die again. I got spotted out on a ward somewhere and with 4 people trying to catch me in a pincer I had to go over the Baron pit. Over and over my team simply ignored the potential for an incoming [[Pantheon]] and they paid for it. Our [[Vladimir]] was, I think, tilted out of his mind. Of course it is my fault that he has died four times in lane. He kept going for over aggressive turret dives to try and finish targets off and largely failing. Like dude once your pool is down you are vulnerable to the next CC that comes your way and Pantheon's CC is point and click. Lucian was so useless that Blitz just started roaming, which was about all that he could do. Not exactly sure how he got honored by three people. I meant to honor [[Blitzcrank]] as at least he was trying to do something constructive after their laning phase went to shit. First game I have lost on [[Maokai]] in a while, but couldn't carry on a tank with the majority of my actual carries having 10 or more deaths.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/10a707abc8bab006fd391df61dd30606.png width=700] [br] Moved into Silver 4 on my alternate account. [[Xin Zhao]] - warm up game for the evening. IIRC I cleaned up [[Mordekaiser]] after he killed [[Riven]] before taking Blue buff, then went straight back to Blue, not respecting the fact that [[Ziggs]] went missing and was last seen headed in that direction. Ended up dying to the Ziggs. Died a couple more times trying to make plays after that, so things were looking somewhat grim. Muted the [[Malzahar]] who was being an ass hat. Got some inkling later that suggested he was still being an asshat, so I suggested that the others mute him as I had much earlier. Reported the Malzahar after the game. Don't need that crap when I'm playing a game for enjoyment. Then I picked up a double kill and completed some items. [[Kayle]] started to come on line and [[Malzahar]] started locking down some key targets, which allowed us to roll up the carpet on them. [br] ----- Ended up play a couple of normals with friends then queued for a ranked game on my main, but we ended up with a [[Miss Fortune]] Mid verses a [[Zed]], plus just a line-up that I didn't think would be able to deal with their comp very well so I opted to dodge and see if I could finish up my promos for Silver IV. [br] ----- [[Jax]] - had an [[Akali]] that claimed to plan to feed their ass off. They fed their ass off alright, but they did try to actually play some of the time so they were only mostly a liability. Rotated to Mid after blue buff and killed [[Ekko]]. I and my team had trouble dealiing with the [[Rek'Sai]]. Strong suspicion that they were a much higher level smurf given the way they were pressuring me in my jungle and using the pressure to get behind my laner to make plays. Since [[Ekko]] got to free farm a lot due to [[Akali]] being dead half the time or roaming and hence not catching the waves in Mid lane, Ekko became impossible to deal with especially when he was teamed up with Rek'Sai. Enough CC between the slows, stuns, and knock-ups that if they got on you, you were dead. [[Cho'Gath]]] - Went straight from Red to Blue to counter a potential invade from [[Lee Sin]] and sure enough, he showed up as I was doing my Blue, but I couldn't burn it down fast enough and deal with him at the same time so I backed out and pinged for help. He went Top side to pester [[Kayn]], but Kayn managed to avoid the gank since he was aware that Lee was in the area. So I tried to finish off Blue again, but Lee came back to bother me after his failed gank attempt. I did managed to finish off Blue and then [[Flash]]ed out to avoid having to deal with the Lee at that time, though I perhaps should have stuck around because [[Kayn]] was able to rotate the second time around and he made noises about wanting to try and make a play. Kayn held his own against [[Sion]] and some pressure from Lee. Bot lane I never managed to pull off a gank on though I tried a couple of times. Since we didn't have a really good setup and they had [[Black Shield]] they were constantly able to walk away. [[Diana]] started to get fed of roams to Bot lane which was definitely a worrying trend because she can vaporize pretty much any squishy if she gets far enough ahead. Fortunately we did have some point and click CC from [[Ryze]] which helped us to deal with her. [[Jinx]] came on line and were able to win a couple of skirishes a parlay those into objectives and finally the win.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/ad5a5b3d8eb3ded40f58e296cd0aea17.png width=700] [br] And we had a [[Vayne]] and they had a [[Maokai]]. The End. She is terrible into [[Maokai]] at least at a Gold level of play. I pick Maokai every time I see one. But unfortunately they got to pick their jungler before we did. [[Fiora]] actually did pretty well in lane vs [[Yasuo]] but [[Maokai]] helped to even the odds in that lane to some extent, to the point that he was more useful in team fights. Every lane was in need of help and I did what I could while keeping up my farm, so I think I did my part. Just wasn't enough.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/f89296969e8d1300d25546bca13d8e98.png width=700] [br] Le sigh. Bot got dumped on all by themselves. [[Twitch]] died twice in about the first 10 minutes of the game. Top was stuck under their turret. They didn't really want to play against the [[Gnar]] in the first place. I offered to trade but they hadn't played [[Maokai]] since his rework. [[Yasuo]] couldn't seem to understand that [[Ekko]] and [[Wukong]] were tag teaming him, so he never changed his play style or bothered to ward. Or you know buy a [[Hexdrinker]] against the magic damage dealer that he was laning against. And it was my fault. My fault that we couldn't contest for objectives. How about not being dead when it is time to go contest Dragon? That might help. The [[Ekko]] got so far ahead he could 3v1 us. Add into that a Wukong ult and a fed Jhin ult and we couldn't really do anything against them. Irritated that I get the feeder version of Yasuo. I literally had to pep talk him out of the fountain after his third or so death.[/quote]