VexRoth - All That Is Ranked

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/0d9bf6c0eede5a51850dc062917ca05c.jpg width=900] [br] I don't really understand the [[Hecarim]]'s late game plan. He ganked a lot in the early and Mid game and then he spent the rest of the game in side lanes. So there was like this void of engage threat. Stalled out the game and then he died in a side lane to [[Shyvana]] and that was Elder and Baron to them. We didn't lose immediately but it certainly put them in the driver's seat.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/23a1a6d83df10ee4f802e69715ebcdfe.jpg width=900] [br] [[Vladimir]] and [[Kindred]] too heavy. I even earned an S- for that one, which is a pain in the arse on [[Lucian]]. You really have to pop off. I ended up going too hard for the [[Vayne]] in the end and forgot I had a stop watch, which I hadn't had time to turn into a [[Guardian Angel]] yet.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/a2aac0053b043047d5533d5b38e67d4d.jpg width=900] [br] [[Warwick]] got work done. We had the river warded up so neither [[Master Yi]] or [[Kassadin]] were able to make anything out of their roams and [[Rakan]] sat at their turret for the majority of laning phase so lane went abnormally smoothly. [[Jayce]] also won his lane pretty handily. Made for a very accelerated game by this ELOs standards.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/dde96400af4ebf9aa9549f4acf397ce1.jpg width=900] [br] Lee got work done in the early game including setting me up with a double kill. Zed got in on the fun and picked up a couple of kills in Bot as well and the enemy team didn't have the stomach for trying to play with the deficit.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/8f72e5ae426531979a73fede05c044a2.jpg width=900] [br] [[Renekton]] had enough mastery on the champion to know the [[Darius]] match-up so he actually won that. [[Brand]] was a one man poke machine. I kinda got to free farm and deny them minions once he got going. [[Anivia]] worked over the [[Akali]] and [[Sejuani]] got some things done in the early game.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/f19a10dfdb7555f57d0e8e21ebd27ef7.jpg width=900] [br] Assist master. mmm, not sure they slowed [[Rakan]]'s [[Grand Entrance]] that much. Or I'm just bad. Probably bad. I [[Spell Shield]]ed something, but it wasn't enough to keep me from getting killed. One death and a win. I'll take it. I thought [[Jarvan IV]] did a good job. [[Poppy]] definitely had a derp moment that got at least her killed when she went ham when we really shouldn't have been going ham, but I think she acquitted herself pretty well later with some key [[Heroic Charge]] that resulted in stuns. Apparently she can slam targets into Veigar's [[Event Horizon]]. Probably just the Event Horizon that stuns them, but still, when it just misses nice to be able to nudge them into it. That [[Shyvana]] build and [[Lethal Tempo]] though. No wonder she didn't kill me instantly when she got on top of me in a late game fight.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/2ba988e40b8806a068f23b921ad4f76f.jpg width=900] [br] [[Hecarim]] camped Top lane and they were winning it until they weren't. I should have bought and [[Executioner's Calling]] as my fourth item. That was an over site on my part. Team opted to do Baron with [[Jarvan IV]] still alive and JIV managed to steal the Baron. We tried to recover but by that point my team was sniping at each other in chat so their minds weren't on the game as much as they should have been. Also I can't [[Spell Shield]] being stuck in [[Cataclysm]] so my build order should have been. [[Infinity Edge]] > [[Berserker's Greaves]] > [[Phantom Dancer]] > [[Executioner's Calling]] > [[Guardian Angel]], then maybe [[Essence Reaver]] or [[The Bloodthirster]], and finish off with [[Mortal Reminder]]. I think that might be enough of the ranked for the evening. Been a pretty good run today. I think there is something to something a caster said during/after and LCS gamee. Sivir can struggle if she doesn't have a front line since she is so short ranged. I felt some of that in this game though the other issue I think is I couldn't fight their team front to back because I was always sitting in a JIV Cataclysm in most fights. So maybe it is that with no ability to scale terrain and no self peel aside from a movement speed boost when attacking champions, having someone in the back line can be more problematic for Sivir than characters boasting the traits she is lacking ([[Jhin]] for instance would have similar problems).[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][[Lucian]] + [[Thresh]] vs [[Ezreal]] + [[Morgana]] Really annoying lane. Thresh had trouble getting hooks off without getting them blocked or ported out of or getting bound in kind. If I got hit with a bind I would just take half my health bar in damage. Just tried not to die and farm as best i could with Thresh roaming a lot. He definitely helped out with his roams so overall worth the pain of trying to solo that lane a chunk of the time. Sometimes you have to play safe and just take and hope your team does work.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][img=https://i.gyazo.com/053070ac2054a1c146f3cb55c2fb0fea.png width=900] [br] Dodged a game on my main as I didn't want to deal with an unranked [[Nasus]] jungler and they had banned [[Lucian]] who I thought was the best fit for our team composition. So I played a jungle game on my alternate account. [[Gragas]]. Of the meat shield variety rather than the APish variety. Got a slight lead on the [[Graves]] early by picking up two of his camps. Overall my laners were more successful than their laners so we ended up taking the game easily. Gragas is just hardish to play to full effect with three skill shots. I'm not a wizard on him, but I meatshielded and knocked people up for [[Yasuo]] so it worked out. Oh and our [[Tryndamere]] pretty much had his way with Top lane, despite accidentally skilling Q at lvl 1.[/quote]

[quote=VexRoth][[Sivir]] + [[Sona]] vs [[Ashe]] + [[Soraka]] Almost a snooze fest. Now way for you to poke them out of lane or kill them without jungle help. On top of that they can dunk on you at level 6 if they are coordinated and you are out of position. Soraka drops [[Equinox]] under you feet preventing you from using [[Spell Shield]] and [[Ashe]] pegs you with an [[Enchanted Crystal Arrow]]. Alternatively if Soraka has the mana to spare she can hit you with [[Equinox]] to prevent you from [[Spell Shield]]ing [[Starcall]] if she wants to heal herself. On the plus side you shouldn't run out of mana if the Soraka keeps trying to pelt you with [[Starcall]]. ----- [[Tristana]] + [[Zoe]] vs [[Ashe]] + [[Lux]] This is a lane you can dunk on over and over. At level 2 to three whoever gets hit with a [[Sleepy Trouble Bubble]] just dies from [[Rocket Jump]] + [[Explosive Charge]] + [[Rapid Fire]] and whatever else Zoe throws at them. Afterwards you can chunk the other champion and then deny them minions until the passive on [[Explosive Charge]] forces you to push the lane. ----- [[Miss Fortune]] + [[Pyke]] vs [[Ashe]] + [[Soraka]] The hard part about this lane seems to be for the Pyke. The combination of Ashe + Soraka just seems to counter what Pyke wants to do. If he goes in Soraka can silence him messing with his mobility and [[Ashe]] can keep autoing him while he is slowed. Might go better with a better Pyke though. Tried [[Executioner's Calling]] on my first back and it didn't stop the Soraka from out healing our damage.[/quote]