Wayne3100's Quest for Platinum (Season 3)

[quote=Janitsu]Platinum #soontm #believe[/quote]

[quote=GrandmasterD][quote=Wayne3100] Skipped gold IV as expected. [/quote] [img=http://img.pandawhale.com/42924-haters-gonna-hate-fat-kid-gif-VHex.gif][/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 150-153[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Duo Queue with Luther3000 / Solo Queue[/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/qX8AZhf.png][/center] First game was played last night as I duo'd with Luther, more info on that can be found [url=http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/forum/competitive-scene/ranked-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-22765?page=8#comment-865067]here[/url]. The rest of the games were played today. In the [[Zac]] game, I killed my lane opponent ([[Nasus]]) early on and I got some help from my jungle [[Amumu]] after to get some more kills on him, but bot lane lost hard and mid was being camped by the enemy jungler, so overall we ended up behind. Don't think it was the smartest idea to camp my lane in that game. I also missed quite a lot of cs, so despite being ahead of [[Nasus]] overall the gap wasn't as big as it should've been. The [[Kennen]] game was pretty horrible overall, with the enemy [[Evelynn]] jungle being 7-1 within 10-15 minutes whereas our [[Nautilus]] only came top and then died to give double buff to [[Shen]]. Personally I played pretty horribly too and I think I might just stop playing [[Kennen]] since it's not working out for me atm. In the last game, I played a lot better and - despite their bot being premade while [[Blitzcrank]] and I weren't - we won the lane pretty easily. The rest of the lanes were also doing relatively well, so overall it was a pretty easy game. Their jungle [[Elise]] did do a lot of work early, but fortunately that didn't give them a big enough advantage to be able to beat us. She then ragequit as she realised her efforts weren't going to be enough, gg. Two wins, two losses and a dodge in between (we had a trollpick + horrible overall team comp, decided not to risk it), still 26 LP. Guess that's not too bad. Just a shame that I was already on 27 after the first game and the three games today didn't help me climb any further :P [color=red][b]LP:[/b][/color] 26[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 154+155[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Solo Queue[/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/Uvo0BFn.png][/center] Remind me to never play "Good Guy Wayne" for my team ever again. In the champ select of our first game, our last pick (I was 4th in the picking order) declared he'd like to play top. Eventually that was taken already, however, and we were left with support and AD. Since our last pick had also already mentioned not wanting to support, I figured I would despite also feeling more comfortable on AD. Knowing the enemy team had a [[Zed]] and a [[Vayne]] - [[Janna]] combo bot lane, I decided to pick [[Lulu]] as I figured we should be able to do well with that in lane as well as in teamfights. As my teammate picked [[Corki]], I figured we'd have a good chance of winning our lane. We then went into the game and he suddenly said: "Hey [[Lulu]], let's play passive, ok?" .......I could not have facepalmed harder. What turned out to be a [[Vayne]] main on their team ended up playing against our completely clueless [[Corki]], with me trying to salvage things by poking aggressively. We ended up going even in lane and [[Corki]] actually got pretty fed together with our [[Akali]], but so did their [[Vayne]] and [[Zed]]. A couple of bad teamfights later, we lost. In the [[Renekton]] game, I laned against [[Tryndamere]] and generally did well, though I feel I could've gotten more of an advantage over him had I played/itemised differently. Overall we fell behind as a team though as they got more kills and dragons and we never really recovered from that. Eventually, we actually won several fights against them, but we were pressed back in our own base by then and we couldn't get objectives after winning fights as a result of that. Not unhappy about my play in either game, but I should've just picked [[Caitlyn]] in the first one and destroyed that [[Vayne]] >.> [color=red][b]LP:[/b][/color] 0[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 156+157[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Solo Queue[/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/fhGMugi.png][/center] Both incredibly frustrating games. In the first one, I was miles ahead of the enemy [[Tristana]], but she got kills in every teamfight and the game lasted way longer than it should have. I'm not even sure why/how we won it in the end. In the second game, I got a free First Blood when the enemy [[Lee Sin]] invaded on his own, but despite the item advantage I had after that, the enemy [[Vayne]] got fed. Out of the 10 kills she ended up getting, 8 were free and completely unnecessary. The first, for example, was our [[Sona]] standing in the lane brush when we knew it was warded; she got knocked into the wall and killed (meanwhile [[Nami]] [[Exhaust]]ed me so I couldn't kill [[Vayne]]). Now, these sort of mistakes happen and it's not like I blame the [[Sona]] for it, but it just goes to show how it sometimes literally does not matter in the slightest how well you play. Like, I literally could not have done better up to the point when that happened (I did make mistakes after that though, I'll admit :P). Most of the other kills were on our feeding [[Katarina]], who said "np I'll carry" in champ select and then went 1/9... I know that I should climb if I play well consistently, I just wish I could get a few wins in a row while my mmr is still good... [color=red][b]LP:[/b][/color] 13[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 158-160[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Solo Queue[/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/mMSs2TM.png][/center] Only won the game in which I sucked, lol. In the [[Elise]] (jungle) game, I focused on helping [[Riven]] vs [[Renekton]], but the other lanes ended up losing hard. I'm not an experienced jungler but I feel I did ok. In the last game, we had a really nice team (no flaming etc.) and we looked to be winning it, but a couple of bad fights meant [[Jax]] and [[Vayne]] got back in it and they won because of their superior comp. And yeah, as I said, during the second game (the victory) I missed tons of cs and played horrible, but we won. I am really good at winning 1 game and then losing 2 to compensate x) [color=red][b]LP:[/b][/color] 11[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 161-163[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Duo Queue with Khazem[/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/fA9sinb.png][/center] Sooo eh Khazem kinda randomly asked to duo so we played some games together a couple of hours ago. In the first game, both of us won our lanes pretty hard (Khazem played [[Renekton]] top vs [[Rumble]] while I laned vs a [[Vayne]] - [[Leona]] combo together with a random [[Blitzcrank]]), but our jungle [[Shaco]] was so incredibly far behind that the game basically turned into a 4v5. The guy playing it actually had very impressive stats on the champ, this just wasn't his game. In the second game, Khazem (playing [[Twisted Fate]] mid) got camped incredibly hard and died several times because [[Aatrox]] is a balanced champion who can straight up dive you, but our bot lane ([[Zyra]] - [[Corki]] vs [[Janna]] - [[Vayne]]) was way ahead and our jungle [[Fiddlesticks]] was heavily fed, too. In teamfights, combining his ult with mine was usually enough to win. I did kinda end up with a lot more kills than I was supposed to get though, oops. In the third and final game, Khazem played [[Zed]] mid and I jungled [[Elise]]. I ganked early for him as the enemy [[Lee Sin]] was very aggressive, resulting in a fail [[Flash]] from Lee and First Blood going to Khazem. Our bot lane was complaining about being ganked by [[Udyr]] often while I never showed my face, so eventually Khazem and I ganked it together and got some kills to make them happy as well. The enemy team had a fed [[Rengar]] who deleted our [[Tristana]] a couple of times, but overall we were still ahead and Khazem finally carried a game as [[Zed]] ^____^ Our LP gains were completely normal btw, so we'll probably duo more often. [color=red][b]LP:[/b][/color] 50[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 164-168[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Duo Queue with Khazem[/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/vWo5IOu.png][/center] Reached promos after winning the first two games (first a 15:13 minute game because it was became a 5v4 after an enemy ragequit, then a 50 minute top [[Elise]] game in which everyone died all the time because we were constantly fighting and several people on both teams were fed). Normally, I'd post individual screenshots of the games after, but since we were just immediately requeueing and we played another three games I'll just talk about them without a wall of pictures of all individual games. Out of the 3 games we lost, I feel we should've won at least 2. In the first one ([[Elise]] jungle), I felt I did extremely well and our team had a good lead, but we lost in late game teamfights because [[Caitlyn]] died instantly to [[Vi]]/[[Jax]] while the enemy [[Ezreal]] wasn't being instakilled by our team and he got fed. I was really sad about losing that because I feel I completely outplayed [[Vi]] with early (counter)ganks and objective control. The other one I feel we should've definitely won is the last one, in which one late game teamfight going their way decided the game after a lot of back and forth action. Although it was definitely a close game, I feel we should've just played that fight better and won. In the game that was in between those two, Khazem was an incredibly rich [[Nidalee]] mid (using GP10 items and runes), but the enemy [[Udyr]] jungle was heavily fed and [[Nasus]] was allowed to push down our inner tower, inhib tower and inhibitor with only our [[Zac]] trying to stop him (he died to Susan instead of actually stopping him though >.>) because our [[Jax]] thought it better to push bot lane for a bit. I'm not even sure how it happened so fast, it was incredibly random and we definitely should've at least lasted longer than we did. Extremely disappointed atm. [color=red][b]LP:[/b][/color] 58[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][center][h2][color=red]Game 169+170[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Duo Queue with Khazem (who played Riven in both games)[/center] [center][img=http://i.imgur.com/90FUKry.png][/center] Not even sure whether trying to climb is worth it anymore at this point. In the first game we were winning bottom and top, but their mid ([[Kayle]]) was fed too and their comp ([[Zac]] - [[Vayne]] - [[Taric]] - [[Kayle]]) was strong enough to win 4v5 teamfights constantly. Not sure why a [[Vayne]] who gets 166 cs in 38 minutes is allowed to even play a part in teamfights, let alone be a threat in them (though ultimately [[Zac]] was the biggest problem on their team). I feel really bad for the [[Thresh]] I was laning with as he played amazing and didn't deserve to lose. The second game was more onesided. Their mid [[Lux]] got fed and roamed top often to set Khazem behind vs [[Irelia]]. In bot lane, we had a rough start as [[Corki]] - [[Zyra]] vs [[Jinx]] - [[Nami]], but eventually we started winning 2v2 fights and turned the lane around. However, the enemy [[Jarvan IV]] then had a great lane gank that resulted in a double kill for [[Jinx]], at which point it was obvious we were at a huge disadvantage going into teamfights. Eventually we surrendered. I don't want it to sound like I think I played perfect in these games, because I didn't, but a lot of my ranked games are just so frustrating to play atm that it makes me wonder whether it's even worth it to try. [color=red][b]LP:[/b][/color] 30[/quote]

[quote=kingkck1]Hey man you can do it. It may be hard but it will be worth it in the end. Just remember one thing. It's just a game.[/quote]