VexRoth - All That Is Ranked

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/5ee46e8a6f93756497d1f07ae59f0e55.jpg width=900] [br] Had trouble coordinating and [[Volibear]] DCd at a crucial time in the game. And yep, I still hate [[Azir]]. Glad that champion isn't META.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/c037d84809b0558c821d7c2f68018a53.jpg width=900] [br] And we didn't ban [[Quinn]]. And [[Tryndamere]] picked Tryndamere into her without [[Ignite]], so no kill pressure on her at all. And between her and [[Malzahar]] I needed too many different items to be be able to deal with their team. Needed damage to actually kill anyone. Needed a [[Quicksilver Sash]] to break Malzahar's ult. Needed armor vs the [[Quinn]]. A lot of it. I am pretty sure she could two shot me by late game. 1 if I didn't manage to spell shield one of her abilities. Felt bad. [[Ekko]] is also fun to deal with. Here let me play like an idiot and not only do I get a reset if I screw up (sans CC of course) I also get healed for a huge chunk of my health bar. In case you want to know why he is broken if he manages to get ahead. Anyway, poor team analysis on my part. I think Quinn goes in as my default ban if my team is not playing her. She is flipping busted. And don't necessarily choose an all in assassin if they have a [[Malzahar]] on their team because on top of the damage you need to do your job you also need to buy a [[Quicksilver Sash]] via the suppression tax, and you don't get ahead enough to afford both, you are not going to have a good time.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/898b493c2e32ffce26ad59a53e7fdb5a.jpg width=900] [br] Welp, I actually did not intend to play a ranked game, I was trying for a Draft Normal, yet somehow I got in one with an inting [[Riven]], that picked Riven into [[Malphite]], which kind of works okay if the Riven manages to crap on the Malphite early game, but not if she feeds her arse off, which she did. Oh an [[Karthus]] apparently had a 1000 ping so he kind of didn't do a lot on Top of shoving Malzahar into his turret when I said I would gank Mid after Red. But hey, who the hell cares if the jungler wants to try and give you and early advantage on a champion that scales really nicely into the late game.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/8955b89bac051beee1b3284c4d5a13ba.jpg width=900] [br] I destroyed [[Kindred]]. I don't believe they managed to get a single mark. Felt good after having a couple of normal games that went poorly. Team backed me up on my invades. We turned the pressure up to 100 and steam rolled them. Oh, if you have kill threat on [[Akali]] she'll use [[Twilight Shroud]] to evade you. Just use your [[Crescent Guard]] to boot her out of her shroud then E, AA, AA, AA, W. You don't want to use E or AA/Q first as she will be challenged and will not get displaced when you use your R on her. You want her out of the safety of her shroud so you can pin her down and kill her.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/fbc0c7da7aa33e6dcab30b00a33b3c2b.jpg width=900] [br] Bot lane got demolished. Had to respect the [[Malphite]] ult. I flashed one of them to kill [[Orianna]]. Was happy with that play. Couldn't really get onto the [[Jinx]]. We mostly killed her when [[Fiddlesticks]] was able to come over a wall. I felt I did a decent job with weaving in and out of fights to not die too often.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/672e34ed33f2e595bfb34f1c8a67f776.jpg width=900] [br] I am still not good at [[Taliyah]]. But I fared better than last time. Mostly by dying to get [[Zed]] fed out of his mind. I think I died the three or so times I tried to set something up with him. I definitely need to work on getting off my ult at the right time. I shot passed [[Miss Fortune]] 2 or 3 times. Though really, it isn't like I didn't have a laner with an R that speeds her team up. But that never got coordiniated correctly for whatever reason. I probably need to ping on my way earlier when I plan to use my ult from a long way off so my laners can be ready. I'll take the V though that one was definitely earned off the back of my team, Zed in particular.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/83525b96817883bce6fa3c7623834037.jpg width=900] [br] My team was very map awarness challenged. Forunately [[Xayah]] was so far ahead it didn't matter. Hi team, I am going to back and buy. Team okay. Engages fight. Ignores the [[Jax]] flanking them from the side. Gets slaughtered. jungler. sigh. They did something similar about 4 minutes later. Had to run my wanna be baker legs off and still couldn't get in range to ult behind the retreating enemy team. And oddly a bunch of my teammates got themselves killeed. I realize that when you are strong you want to go hard. Go hard. Just go hard when your team is ready to follow up while you go hard! [[Jax]] is a flipping pain in the ass to fight as [[Pantheon]]. I'd have to guess that Panth is more of counter do to his semi-global map pressure.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/de735809a5dd3d397009c1a1cf0eb93f.jpg width=900] [br] Secured at least two Infernal Drakes and at least one Ocean Drake. But could not seem to win a team fight. Skirmishes, yes. But not a team fight. I think the really bad call turned out to be going for Baron. I don't recall who was dead on their team, but I think we killed at least two of them. We went for Baron. [[Twitch]] stealthed in and opened up on us. I didn't get to [[Smite]] before I died. That was party my fault as I ulted too early for some reason I don't recall. I screwed up in the early game by greeding for their Gromp after I took their Blue. We knew where [[Twitch]] was so it seemed like it was a safe bet, but [[Akali]] rotated on me, which made sense in retrospect since Twitch was threatening [[Zilean]]. Akali apparently does retarded damage, so I had to [[Flash]] over the wall. I though I was out then Twitch stealthed in and finished me off. I think it really comes down to we had most of our eggs in the [[Brand]] basket and he wasn't even building full damage and our farm totals were lower than theirs so they were up in items despite our team having more objectives. So we got outscaled and honestly it felt like our team was not at all organized in the later part of the game.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/7ef2aeea5587fab507f7008cdce8f2ee.jpg width=900] [br] My laners did pretty well on their own so that let me farm up and influence the map where I thought it most appropriate. One of the better [[Graves]] games I've had in a while, though I accidentally went [[Press the Attack]] instead of [[Fleet Footwork]]. I'm not even sure what the PtA buid is supposed to be. I guess you have to go more damage to get value out of PtA, becuase 885 total dmg, 571 bonus dmg, and 313 expose dmg doesn't seem like much. [[Rumble]] had his way with [[Garen]] with some assistance from me and [[Talon]]. [[Akali]] is flipping impossible to gank. I did a couple of drive bys, but if she hasn't used her [[Twilight Shroud]] already, good luck with that. Bot had a few problems, but recovered nicely. [[Warwick]] went [[Grasp of the Undying]] which is an odd chose. Maybe they were autofilled? Seems likely as they didn't try to pressure me early and WW can be a pain in the ass to a [[Graves]] if they know what they are doing.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/b04ed95966fcb2d9988c0ed52cc378c4.jpg width=900] [br] Pretty close to the same team as the last game. Bot got shit on on started griefing about the jungler. Of course. It has nothing to do with their own shit play. Never. Anyway, [[Talon]] inted a bunch of kills. If he had been clean, we might have had a chance in this game with him zeroing out [[Miss Fortune]] every fight. But whatevers. I didn't carry the game hard enough.[/quote]