Syther's Ranked Journey: Your one stop shop for...

[quote=MrCuddowls]You can do *laughs* I believe in you[/quote]

[quote=Ugleh]Im a lvl 30 noob here but, you only gain elo from ranked matches? and if thats the case its usually always prefered to play ranked with a party?[/quote]

[quote=Jpikachu1999]Ranked team matches are different from ranked Solo/Duo Q matches. They are kept in separate counters.[/quote]

[quote=Syther Blade][img=http://i49.tinypic.com/zvuet4.jpg] This one was close... LANES TOP: [[Nasus]] vs. [[Jayce]] MID: [[veigar]] vs. [[Akali]] BOT: [[Caitlyn]] + [[Soraka]] (ME) vs. [[Ezreal]] + [[Kassadin]] JUNGLE: [[Xin Zhao]] vs. [[Darius]] SO it started out crazy even. Every lane was trading kills and the Junglers where making all the difference. Both teams where making a crazy amounts of mistakes and had positioning problems. But In the end we where worse. We started to fall apart when Nasus began to split push, I would get caught while I was out warding and Cait wouldn't be there for fights. They capatalized on these mistakes and won the game. [h1]CURRENT RECORD: 19-29[/h1] [h1]ELO: 875[/h1] [h1]RECORD SINCE STARTING JOURNEY: 7-7[/h1] [h1]ELO GAIN SINCE START: 21[/h1][/quote]

[quote=Syther Blade][img=http://i49.tinypic.com/fbvvab.jpg] My current Janna stats, surprisingly the support role had been what has been carrying me up[/quote]

[quote=Syther Blade][img=http://i46.tinypic.com/15fiq2w.jpg] Janna OP LANES TOP: [[Irelia]] vs. [[Kassadin]] MID: [[Pantheon]] vs. [[Yorick]] BOT: [[Ezreal]] + [[Janna]] vs. [[Graves]] + [[Soraka]] JUNGLE: [[Diana]] vs. [[Mundo]] So we decide to counter pick there Kass mid with a Pantheon mid, then a Diana in the jungle to balance. They switched Kass to top and Yorick mid so It became Irelia vs. Kass instead. Yorick got some early kills on Panth but Diana helped Panth recover. Irelia destroyed Kass and Bot was fairly even. We won a few early team fights and Panth and Diana continuously invaded Mundo juts taking him out of the game. We had all there tier one towers down by 25 minutes, and after winning a Drag fight we pushed there bot inhib around 27 mins. We initated a stupid teamfight at there top Inhib and everyone died but Ez. They went for a baron but with it they only took one tower. When there Baron ended we destroyed them in a team fight then pushed to win. [h1]CURRENT RECORD: 20-29[/h1] [h1]ELO: 895[/h1] [h1]RECORD SINCE STARTING JOURNEY:8-7[/h1] [h1]ELO GAIN: 41[/h1][/quote]

[quote=Syther Blade][img=http://i48.tinypic.com/b67r7s.jpg] NEVER...EVER...FOCUS THE TANK LANES: TOP: [[Gangplank]] vs. [[Kayle]] MID: [[Swain]] vs. [[Fizz]] BOT: [[Ashe]] + [[Alistar]] vs. [[Graves]] + [[Taric]] JUNGLE: [[Diana]] vs. [[Jax]] I honestly thought we would lose this one. We started off well in bot lane. Ashe was 2/1 and Graves was 0/3 about 15 minutes in. But Graves and Taric began to roam around and Graves evened up his score at 3/3. Taric would continually buy oracles and kill all my wards. But we turned it around when they went for a three man Baron about 30 mins in. We came in as five git baron and three kills. We then took the other two and aced them. We pushed all there inhibs then backed off. The kinda got back in it and pushed a few towers. We went for A second Baron and got it, but three of us died when they contested it. All we had where Ashe and Diana and they went for a five man push on mid. They got an inhib, But ashe got a quad and Diana finished the ace. We all Spawned and pushed mid to win. They lost because in pretty much every teamfight they focused me and GP. And now I'm back to 900 elo! [h1]CURRENT RECORD: 21-29[/h1] [h1]ELO: 915[/h1] [h1]RECORD SINCE STARTING JOURNEY: 9-7[/h1] [h1]ELO GAIN SINCE START OF JOURNEY: 61[/h1][/quote]

[quote=Jpikachu1999]Considering that it's a 50 minute game, you have very few items even for a support. If you are going to get an early [[Shurelya's Reverie]], keep your [[heart of gold]] for a while. Generally you want to finish [[Aegis of the legion]] after you upgrade your [[philosopher's stone]], so that you can put it's beneficial aura to good use. Upgrading both of your Gp10 will leave you with very little income, and will lead to you being gold starved the rest of the game. That's fine once you have the rest of your core ([[Shurelya's Reverie]] + [[Aegis of the Legion]] + Tier 2 boots), but doing it earlier will leave you only enough money to buy wards and no more larger items. [[Randuin's Omen]] is generally considered a better upgrade than [[Locket of the iron solari]], as it gives more defenses and it's active is much stronger in teamfights if you are looking to protect your teammates. Just my 2 cents. EDIT: That was from looking at the Janna game, now I'm looking at your Alistar one. If you are going to go a tanky build, don't go [[Ionian boots of lucidity]]. Masteries + [[Shurelya's REverie]] will leave you at 21% CDR, quite sufficient as a support. [[Mercury's treads]] or [[ninja tabi]] are better (Even get [[Boots of mobility]] if you are going to have to engage and roam a bunch). Once again, especially as Alistar, you would be better off having a [[Randuin's Omen]]. It's an AoE AS and MS slow, plus it makes you extremely tanky. If you and Ashe were ahead early, you should have pushed your lane and broken tower. That would allow you to roam and help other lanes. When Graves and Taric roamed, you should have punished them by breaking towers and forcing them to lose CS when they left lane. If Taric kept buying Oracles, it should have been easy to coordinate with your jungler to kill him when he was killing one of your wards.[/quote]

[quote=Syther Blade]We did continue killing him and he continued buying them. He went 4 gp 10 at one point, yes 4, IMO I love locket of the Iron Solari. I usualy after Aegis get a Randuins anyways. The reason I dint have many items in th Janna game is first, I bought like 3 oracles and lost them and ended game with another. And yes I used my GP 10 items. Tahnks for the tips though.[/quote]

[quote=Syther Blade]Just played another game with soraka we lost and I went 1/10/8. Our cass and Trynd just fought the whole time so GG. ELO now at 897[/quote]