Wayne3100 Ranked Journey (EUW Server)

[quote=Wayne3100]I [i]lose[/i] the same amount of elo too, you know :P And yes, that sometimes happens, but it's easier said than done ;)[/quote]

[quote=Keondre]o.O I thought it was you lose like 13~17 and gain 17~24. Apparently, I was wrong :P Yeah, I agree. Most things are easier said than done ^^[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][color=red][h2]Game 3[/h2][/color][/center] [center]Solo Queue[/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/TI6hs.jpg][/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/NWVb1.jpg][/center] Revenge! I noticed as soon as Sk1tmark had to ban that the enemy team didn't have [[Zyra]]. I told my team I would like to play her if they didn't ban her and once again, everyone was fine with it. They firstpicked [[Gragas]] who is quite annoying to lane against because of his E and the sustain he gets from his passive, but I figured I'd give it a shot anyway (meanwhile Sk1tmark was very happy about getting [[Shen]] :P). The communication in team select was very good. We wanted to start by invading their red with [[Blitzcrank]], but he ran too far ahead of us and missed his Q, then flashed onto [[Janna]] once it was back up and missed again. Not a great start and my teammates started to flame each other a bit which got me worried. [[Shen]] got ganked early by [[Shyvana]] top lane but managed to get first blood on [[Yorick]] before dying. [[Nocturne]] then went for another invade on the enemy red after he found out [[Shyvana]] had stolen his, but he ran into [[Shyvana]] and the enemy bot laners reached him earlier than ours and killed him. Shortly after that [[Nocturne]] ganked top and killed [[Yorick]], bringing the score back to 2-2. Then came the deciding moment as [[Nocturne]] wanted to give me my blue, [[Shyvana]] ran in as soon as he leashed it and I snared her, summoned a Thorn Spitter and ulted for a kill while getting the blue buff too. [[Gragas]] followed directly after her but was suddenly surrounded by [[Nocturne]] + me and our bot laners who had come up from behind. As he died the enemy bot lane emerged too and we managed to kill [[Ezreal]], after which [[Janna]] barely escaped. After that bot lane snowballed (our AD [[Kennen]] played really well) and top lane snowballed (lots of ganks from [[Nocturne]] to get himself and [[Shen]] fed while [[Yorick]] was becoming useless). Meanwhile mid was a farmfest as I still had trouble landing a snare on [[Gragas]] because of his E and eventually I got ganked by [[Shyvana]] and killed, though I managed to kill her as well by snaring and ulting her in tower range. Eventually (after winning a small teamfight in their jungle) we went for Baron and immediately pushed mid really hard, killing the first two mid towers. A few minutes later (after everyone had gone back to buy) we grouped mid again, had a final teamfight near their base tower / inhibitor (in which I got a double kill and we aced them) and pushed down the inhibitor and Nexus towers in one go for the win. [b][color=red]ELO[/color][/b]: 1456 ----- [center][color=green][b]Second goal: Success![/b][/color][/center] [b]Third goal:[/b] Reach 1500 elo! Edit: [img=http://i.imgur.com/eZDWx.png] hue[/quote]

[quote=jhoijhoi]Good job Wayne :3 Sounds like it was a balanced game until that Blue Buff fight. You're higher elo than me again, qq.[/quote]

[quote=DisturbedFox]Gj so far and good luck in your jorney :P[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][color=red][h2]Game 4[/h2][/color][/center] [center]Solo Queue[/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/M3QA7.jpg][/center] Ended up having to support this game. I wanted to try and be aggressive in the laning phase since both [[Miss Fortune]] and [[Soraka]] don't have escape abilities, but they pushed us back hard by spamming abilities ([[Soraka]] would just return the mana afterwards anyway) so it was hard to actually do so. I also told [[Amumu]] that bot was vulnerable to ganks, but he never came to gank. First blood was for [[Ziggs]] on [[Fizz]] in mid lane and shortly after [[Amumu]] got killed in his jungle by [[Jax]]. The flaming started and [[Yorick]] immediately called to surrender at 20, but I told my teammates to shut up and keep playing. The enemy team picked up the first dragon relatively easily as [[Amumu]] recalled, but soon afterwards started making mistakes and got caught out of position quite often. When [[Amumu]] ganked mid and secured a double kill on [[Ziggs]] and [[Soraka]] (who tried to help out her mid laner by healing him), it was obvious we were back in the game. Shortly after [[Amumu]] ganked top and picked up another kill, this time on [[Jax]] ([[Cho'gath]] got away barely) and we tied the score at 5-5. [[Soraka]] roamed a lot and warded our jungle entrances and buffs, which caused [[Amumu]] to be countered heavily by [[Jax]]. Meanwhile [[Miss Fortune]] would push bot and retreat so we couldn't kill her, which was well played on her part. Somewhere midgame we again got behind as [[Yorick]] got killed in a gank top and [[Fizz]] went for a really bad initiate mid, wasting his ultimate in the process. Despite the enemy team making a lot of mistakes still, we never really managed to fully recover from this and my teammates were flaming each other pretty hard. The game was finally decided by [[Fizz]]' decision making. Once, I warded a brush near mid lane and [[Fizz]] thought it was a good idea to jump in and try to kill [[Miss Fortune]], who got immediate backup from her team and killed [[Fizz]] easily, allowing them to push mid and claim the first tower. I decided to ward more defensively from that point on as [[Fizz]] was just stupid. Shortly after, he got himself caught in between the enemy team in the middle of their jungle which resulted in another lost teamfight. When they finally went for a Baron (~5-10 minutes later, after pushing mid hard and killing our inhibitor), [[Amumu]] managed to steal it with a nice [[Bandage Toss]] + [[Smite]] combo and our [[Corki]] picked up a quadra kill (only he and the enemy [[Ziggs]] survived the fight, both with 5 hp), giving us new hope of winning the game. It turned out false hope, however, as the enemy team grouped mid, pushed towards our base and [[Amumu]] [[Bandage Toss]]ed onto [[Soraka]] only for my team to run in without really focusing anyone. [[Miss Fortune]] also put herself in a good position just outside of her base, which allowed her to completely destroy us with [[Bullet Time]]. The teamfight was very onesided and ended in them pushing down the Nexus turrets and our Nexus for the win. [b][color=red]ELO[/color][/b]: 1434 ----- It literally hurt me to look at such a bad mid player and know that his decision making would influence my elo as well.[/quote]

[quote=Minho]GL on your journey! Hopefully you won't get a lot of "baddies" :D[/quote]

[quote=Xenotechie]When you support as [[Taric]] in that bot matchup, you can't really be passive or agressive. You have to strike a balance between the two. Apparently,[[Soraka]] was smart enough to back off when you tried aggression, so you have to turn that around and deny them creeps. Try to grab 2 points in [[Imbue]] early and heal off harrassment after MF's heal debuff goes away. You got zoned out by their abilities, but the thing about the harass it that it's not that powerful as you might think. Scare them. Make them think you don't care about their harassment, and you will be able to get quite a lot of farm on the account of that. Simply put, a [[Soraka]]+[[Miss Fortune]] lane just plain won't win a straight up fight, so they will run. Unfortunately, the rest of your team seems to have let you down that time. At least it's not as bad as it often happens, with people just plain being idiotic.[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][color=red][h2]Game 5[/h2][/color][/center] [center]Solo Queue[/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/ltHkD.jpg][/center] Had to play top this game and the jungler unfortunately instalocked [[Lee Sin]], so I decided to play [[Riven]] this game as she can carry quite hard. Unfortunately I got ganked at level 2 by [[Nocturne]] and he decided to dive and kill me together with [[Jax]]. [[Lee Sin]] came in just in time to pick up a kill on Noct, but it still set me back in terms of level and farm. [[Twisted Fate]] had gotten first blood in mid early ([[Lee Sin]] gank) but unfortunately couldn't really snowball as [[Mordekaiser]] kept on farming and became really strong. [[Nocturne]] was really aggressive at counterjungling and [[lee Sin]] didn't ward his jungle entrances, which lead to stolen buffs and free kills way too often, especially for [[Mordekaiser]]. Meanwhile our bottom lane was doing quite well but as the first teamfights started they got wrecked by the fed [[Mordekaiser]] and [[Nocturne]] which resulted in a lot of flaming. [[Blitzcrank]] in particular also managed to get caught out of position quite often. As the game went on they got stronger and stronger and the only reason we were really in it was because [[Jax]] disconnected at one point. My teammates were all flaming, everyone made mistakes by getting caught or going in when they shouldn't (though I was the only one on my team admitting it) and we eventually lost Baron and they pushed mid for the win. I only lost 9 elo because the enemy [[Nocturne]] turned out to be 1747 elo [b][color=red]ELO[/color][/b]: 1425 ----- Thanks Bloodraine ^^ Xenotechie: Thanks for the feedback, though I'm not really sure what you mean with "turning that around". Normally they'd lose a fight against our combo, but because of their push it was risky to stun and attack them because we would receive a massive amount of minion damage. As a result, there was no real reason for them to be afraid in the early game. We never got zoned, because they pushed us and we just got farm at the tower. I think a gank would've pretty much secured that lane for us, but it didn't happen. Whatever, shit happens ^^[/quote]

[quote=Xenotechie][quote=Wayne3100] Xenotechie: Thanks for the feedback, though I'm not really sure what you mean with "turning that around". Normally they'd lose a fight against our combo, but because of their push it was risky to stun and attack them because we would receive a massive amount of minion damage. As a result, there was no real reason for them to be afraid in the early game. We never got zoned, because they pushed us and we just got farm at the tower. I think a gank would've pretty much secured that lane for us, but it didn't happen. Whatever, shit happens ^^ [/quote] If they pushed you down to a tower, yeah, your jungler should have ganked. The thing about minions is that a lot of people underestimate their power. Laning phase is as much mind games as skill. You could probably try some aggression and see how they react to that, but 90% of the time, people forget about the little buggers.[/quote]