Wayne3100's Quest for Platinum (Season 3)

[quote=Wayne3100]Evening, Mobafire ^^ So, after [url=http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/forum/competitive-scene/wayne3100-ranked-journey-euw-server-16410]hitting gold last season[/url], it's time for me to start a new season and a new journey. This time, I'll be aiming a little higher :) [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/tB5As.png][/center] As I explained somewhere at the end of my previous thread, the reason I'm going for platinum is not because I think I am a platinum player right now. However, a season is a long time and I think I have the [i]potential[/i] to get there. I will mainly be playing Solo Top, with some AD Carry and Support (that is once I get to a decent elo or when duoqueueing) games as well. The other two roles I probably won't play as much, with Jungle being the main role I want to avoid. In terms of champions, I have a pretty big roster of champions I play or want to play this season (champions are in order of skill from left to right): Solo Top: [[Lee Sin]], [[Irelia]], [[Rumble]], [[Jax]], [[Olaf]], [[Darius]], [[Xin Zhao]]*, [[Kayle]]*, [[Elise]]*, [[Kha'zix]]* AD Carry: [[Sivir]], [[Ezreal]], [[Caitlyn]], [[Graves]], [[Varus]], [[Ashe]], [[Miss Fortune]], [[Vayne]], [[Corki]]*, [[Twitch]]* Support: [[Lulu]], [[Janna]], [[Sona]], [[Blitzcrank]], [[Nunu]], [[Zyra]], [[Leona]]* AP Mid: [[Zyra]], [[Morgana]], [[Ziggs]], [[Cassiopeia]], [[Orianna]], [[Swain]]*, [[Ahri]]* Jungle: [[Amumu]], [[Lee Sin]], [[Maokai]], [[Skarner]], [[Olaf]]*, [[Warwick]]* Every champ with one * is one I wouldn't feel comfortable picking in ranked just yet because of not having enough (recent) experience on the champ (working on it :3). Champions with two stars are champs I don't even have yet but want to add because of how strong they are (no champs right now). Although this roster is pretty big, I expect to pick certain champions a lot more than others of course, especially since I want to raise my elo quite significantly (from gold to platinum). However, as was the case last season, the [i]most important[/i] part of this journey for me is to improve and I feel like playing different champions to better understand their strengths and weaknesses helps with this. Basically, playing [[Lee Sin]] at a platinum level and instalocking him every game makes me a platinum Lee. Playing/mastering different champs and being able to adapt to specific situations will make me a platinum player. Also, an important aspect of this for me is not being shy to pick something which is not in my roster, going out of my comfort zone if I feel the pick justifies it in a specific situation. I've waited a while now in order to let people settle down at their correct elo and there's a very decent chance I'll wait a little longer before actually playing ranked (mainly to play some more mid and improve my play on specific champions), but since I'm getting closer to the start I figured I might as well make my thread now. Throughout this season I will keep you updated on my progress (using some incredibly awesome banners Mowen made for me, but I don't want to spoil what exactly I mean with that just yet :3). Also, in addition to my screenshots + explanations, I'll try adding more video material and hopefully get my stream to work, too. Well, that's all for now.... Wish me luck :D CURRENT PROGRESS: [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/dDrUq.jpg][/center][/quote]

[quote=Minho]GUD LACK WAYNE ^_^[/quote]

[quote=Wintermond]Gluck~[/quote]

[quote=Jovy]good luck wayne :3[/quote]

[quote=AyushGarg]Good luck! :D[/quote]

[quote=IceCreamy]gl Wayne, if you ever want to duo just lemme know ;)[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100]Thanks everyone :) I know myself well enough to know that if I say "I'll start playing ranked soon[sup]TM[/sup]", without setting a date, it won't happen for a long while as I'll always think of something I need to work on. As a result, I've decided to start this weekend, December 1st. Not sure how many games I'll play, depends on how well I do I guess :P[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100]Small update: was gonna play ranked today, but started off with some normals with friends and I lost all willingness to play ranked in those games. Losing spree of 5 games in a row in which I played mediocre at best :/ Then a final solo normal which I won, but only because I was against a [[Lux]] who had 119 cs in 34 minutes (not sure how someone with 1081 normal wins can be that bad) and again I played badly. Highlight in that final game being when I went for a low hp [[Riven]] top (who had killed our [[Irelia]]) only to miss everything and then die when she got help from [[Lee Sin]] and [[Lux]]. For some reason all [[Irelia]] did was compliment me on how well I juked skillshots instead of flaming me, I could've sworn I was playing a different game just for a sec :P But yeah, tl;dr is I suck and I don't feel like playing ranked today after that. Edit 5/12: felt like playing ranked after generally playing well in the last couple of days and them BOOM, Season 3 patch! ... Yeah, not happening, lol[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Current Match History[/color][/h2][/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/99K8i.png][/center] k so these are not ranked games, but I've been tryharding pretty hard these last couple of days and it's been working out (aka I no longer suck, yay!). The one defeat was caused by them swapping [[Caitlyn]] (who went top) with [[Lee Sin]] (who went bot with [[Leona]]) and they killed [[nami]] at level one and zoned us for the rest of the game, getting a kill everytime we went too far. Really, really unexpected (if anything we expected Cait+Leona to stand in the lane brush, which wouldnt have been as much of a problem as she doesnt deal as much level 1 damage as Lee and is squishier for an [[Ashe]] crit + [[Volley]]) and there was literally nothing we could do after only 2 minutes. Other two [[Ashe]] games might look mediocre but I played them pretty well especially in terms of cs, just didn't seem to get the kills :c So ya, all I need now is that damn [[The Black Cleaver]] getting fixed and a little bit of extra testing with new items (loving [[Runaan's Hurricane]], [[Statikk Shiv]], [[Blade of the Ruined King]], [[Shard of True Ice]], [[Twin Shadows]], [[Mikael's Crucible]] etc, so many new items! 8D) and I can probably start playing ranked.[/quote]

[quote=BarbJ]You scumbag, playing Darius... I'm disappointed in you Wayne. (Good luck and stuff)[/quote]