The Fool's Adventures In Scrubdom

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-07at40332PM_zpsec6b152d.png] Bans were [[Aatrox]], [[Malphite]], [[Vladimir]], [[Thresh]], [[Vayne]], and [[Kassadin]]. I scored First Blood against [[Jax]] up top, murdered him again shortly afterwards, then got one more kill for myself and one for [[Caitlyn]] in bot lane. I counterganked [[Volibear]] in mid and killed both him and [[Annie]], so... yeah. Any game where I get enough of a lead to snatch an early [[Boots of Mobility]]/[[The Brutalizer]] combo is not one where the enemy team is going to have a good time. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - I only died during one teamfight. I realized afterward that [[Flash]] was not on cooldown, and I could have lived if I had realized that.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-07at80243PM_zpsd2863135.png] Bans were [[Thresh]], [[Blitzcrank]], [[Vayne]], [[Hecarim]], [[Amumu]], and, sadly, [[Jarvan IV]]. Not that it would have made much difference even if I had been playing [[Jarvan IV]]. Every lane fed, particularly mid and bot. As you can see, we had a [[Karma]] who was 0/6/0 by 15 minutes and a [[Viktor]] who did, somehow, even worse. [[Garen]] and [[Corki]] weren't doing as badly, but still died multiple times in lane without jungler intervention. It was good for the enemy jungler that his lanes were doing so well without him, though, because he was utterly clueless. He tried to gank [[Garen]] at level one and [[Viktor]] at level two. He spent the entire game two levels down on me and never had so much as a single successful gank. He was utterly useless. It just didn't matter. Until the last two minutes of the game, literally every kill our team had was because of me. Even with a team that's feeding horrifically, [[Sejuani]] still carries teamfights hard. The only reason the game lasted as long as it did was because I kept landing four-man [[Glacial Prison]]s that locked down all their team's carries. [[Locket of the Iron Solari]] kept everyone alive so much longer than they should have been. There were multiple teamfights that they lost because I kept [[Fizz]] and [[Caitlyn]] entirely out of things. We held them at our middle inhibitor turret for almost ten minutes. But it wasn't enough. They just eventually got fed up and took Baron. We couldn't really contest because we had no vision of the area and [[Karma]] was off somewhere doing nothing in particular. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - Not much, honestly. Again, both my deaths this game were pretty much unavoidable. One was in a teamfight and the other was as we tried to hold the nexus towers against a Baroned-up team.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-08at90248PM_zps70ec69f6.png] Bans were [[Kassadin]], [[Shen]], [[Blitzcrank]], [[Amumu]], [[Jax]], and [[Hecarim]]. Things started out a bit shaky for us; [[Leona]] made a bad engage and fed First Blood to [[Thresh]]. Fortunately, though, [[Vayne]] didn't pick up the kill, and I made it out alive. I got zoned for a while without [[Leona]] in the lane, so I spent most of the laning phase 20 creeps down, but my farm picked up later. The lane turned around when [[Thresh]] made a bad engage, I [[Cleanse]]d out of it, and we murdered both of their bot laners. I got two more kills during the laning phase when [[Jarvan IV]] and [[Vayne]] tower-dived me (thank goodness for [[Buster Shot]]). That gave me a solid lead over [[Vayne]], but, because I'm a scrub, I almost threw it when I tried to all-in thinking that I had [[Bilgewater Cutlass]] instead of [[B. F. Sword]] and died to minions. Anyway. That was my first death until the final two pushes, during both of which [[Talon]] assassinated me, but too late to actually keep me from taking his team low. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - That stupid engage without [[Bilgewater Cutlass]]. Holy crap that was dumb.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-09at32213PM_zps21bd3e35.png] Dat feel when you win a 4v6 Bans were [[Kassadin]], [[Thresh]], [[Zed]], [[Amumu]], [[Blitzcrank]], [[Vayne]]. [[Nidalee]], as you can probably guess, was trolling. She went up top against [[Malphite]], and oh my god did she ever suck at it. It seemed, for the first ten minutes of the game, that whenever I glanced at the minimap she was in the enemy red jungle (we were blue team) and being chased. She gave up First Blood to the enemy [[Elise]] after leading the spider on a merry chase all the way down to midlane, then raged at [[Katarina]] in chat for not coming to help sooner, even though both she and I had turned up in time to kill both [[Elise]] and [[Orianna]]. So I had a feeling that [[Nidalee]] was going to be a problem player. She kept making comments about how she was going to act "as if Kat isn't in this game", and was constantly dying to ganks. After yet another death on her part, I went up top to cover the lane, whereupon she began spamming back pings and ordering me to leave in chat. I ignored her, since the minions I was taking would be lost to the tower otherwise, at which point she said "fine I go jungle", and headed off to farm the camps. Fortunately, by this point I had ganked mid and bot hard enough multiple times that we had a pretty much insurmountable lead. We had both the mid and bot towers within two minutes of her going into troll mode, plus another dragon, and we were about ten kills up (all of them a result of my ganks and counterganks). And the rest of the team was intelligent enough to actually listen when I informed them that we had at least a 5k gold lead and could just win the game if we grouped up in mid with the players who weren't trolling. [[Nidalee]] continued to do her best to try and throw, constantly shouting about where all of us were in /all, feeding the enemy team, stealing kills from [[Corki]], and so on, but it couldn't stop us. We just stomped the enemy team too hard, and it was due in large part to the fact that I completely crushed both mid and bot. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - At one point, I was splitpushing top lane as that was the only outer turret we hadn't taken. I was pretty low, but I was also pretty fed and knew that the only enemy who could possibly be in the area was [[Elise]], and I thought I could escape from her. As it turns out, I was wrong, though just [i]barely[/i] so; her last autoattack was [i]just[/i] strong enough to kill me as I walked back into our base.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-09at50807PM_zpsa9c051f1.png] Bans were [[Amumu]], [[Kassadin]], [[Vayne]], [[Blitzcrank]], [[Fizz]], and [[Hecarim]]. Hoo boy, this was a rough one, and I can't take all the credit for winning (though I quite definitely was a large part of it). The enemy [[Udyr]] got an early double kill on our bot lane, then got on a killing spree before five minutes when he counterganked me in mid and killed both myself and [[Nidalee]]. What saved us was that, while [[Udyr]] was a giant threat, he was the [i]only[/i] threat their team had, because, while I had an early disadvantage due to that countergank, I was keeping all of his lanes from securing any kills, and still getting good ganks in on every one. I donated almost all the kills so that the laners could get back in the game, but I still ended up getting enough of them that I was still able to pick up [[The Brutalizer]] and [[Boots of Mobility]], so I could be a serious threat. [[Udyr]] also didn't press his advantage particularly hard; I get the feeling that he wasn't the most experienced jungler, because if I had a 3/0 lead over the enemy jungler as [[Udyr]] before five minutes, they would never touch another camp for the rest of the game. I never lost a single buff. Fortunately, between my ganks and the fact that the enemy bot lane was a rather terrible duo, we were able to stay in the game. What turned the game around in our favor was a countergank I made on both [[Udyr]] and [[Brand]], who had traveled down to bot to try and kill our [[Lucian]]. They got [[Fiddlesticks]], but my countergank caught both [[Udyr]] and [[Brand]] under the tower, so that was a free double plus some shut down gold for our AD carry, followed by a free dragon and the bottom tower. After that, it was still a bit rocky - I had to make a few engages where I knew I would die, but which would buy two or more kills with my death by locking people into [[Cataclysm]] - but the game was definitely ours. They never took any dragons, and my global presence kept them from taking towers, so eventually our gold lead just built up to the point where they couldn't hope to fight us and they surrendered. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - I could have predicted [[Udyr]]'s initial countergank and prevented this entire thing from snowballing in his favor in the first place. - I underestimated how much damage the enemy [[Brand]] could do during one gank, and just ended up dying before I could actually do anything.[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100]Good luck in your series :) Edit: also good job in doing so well in your jungle games, I personally kinda suck at the role :P[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-10at91234PM_zps6fa50be3.png] Bans were [[Thresh]], [[Kassadin]], [[Nocturne]], [[Amumu]], [[Vayne]], and [[Jinx]]. [[Riven]] had no [[Flash]], no [[Ghost]], not even a ward. She came to me with insults to my intelligence. SO I MADE HER LOVED ONES SUFFER. She was dead three times within the first six minutes. I even got a murder-gank on [[Akali]] in between trips up top to ravage her. She ragequit after the third death, and that was GG. Or it would have been, if my team hadn't been determined to throw. Things dragged out a hell of a lot longer than they should have, because [[Shen]] was very, very bad about timing his [[Stand United]] uses, which let [[Akali]] get pretty fed. Still, they couldn't actually turn it around. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - Should probably have just picked up an [[Oracle's Elixir]] and rendered [[Akali]] helpless. Hindsight is 20/20, I guess.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-10at104420PM_zpsc0867a2c.png] Bans were [[Master Yi]], [[Amumu]], [[Hecarim]], [[Blitzcrank]], [[Thresh]], and [[Kassadin]]. Our [[Jinx]] said, in pregame, "I go YOLO now" and locked in [[Jinx]] top. So. As you can see, it didn't really work out. Top lane got triaged after her third death without jungler intervention. Bot lane was strictly "meh", trading kills all game. When I came in to gank for them the first time, [[Vayne]] went in on [[Tristana]] when she had less than one-third of her health, [i]before[/i] [[Leona]] could land her stun. So [[Tristana]] got a free kill and a reset for [[Rocket Jump]], rendering the gank pointless. She then proceeded to rage at me in chat. Anyway. I counterganked [[Sejuani]] several times, getting kills each time. We took the bottom tower and the first two dragons, but it didn't matter. [[Jinx]] had fed [[Wukong]] too hard. We lost the top tower even before we got the bottom one, and [[Wukong]] just proceeded to wreck [[Vayne]] in every single teamfight. [[Fizz]] had a bad habit of going in far too deep and expending [[Playful/Trickster]] before [[Gragas]] had dropped [[Explosive Cask]] or [[Sejuani]] had used [[Glacial Prison]], and [[Leona]] liked to tank full-health towers for no reason and die to [[Tristana]]. Despite my early 3/0/1 status, this game just couldn't be carried. Every lane died multiple times, while they had a super-fed [[Wukong]] and the teamfighting ability to take advantage of it. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - [[Vayne]] and I died after taking the second dragon because we had been standing on a ward, knew it, and didn't back off in time. Should've known better.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-10at112602PM_zps394ab3e7.png] Welp. Shouldn't have duo'd. Bans were [[Shen]], [[Kassadin]], [[Blitzcrank]], [[Zed]], [[Zac]], and [[Ahri]]. This is why I prefer not to play support, even though I'm pretty good at it. Even if I do well as support, I can't carry the game. At most, I can carry one lane. And one lane wasn't the problem this game. It was one lane [i]and[/i] the jungle, which I found frustrating because he had claimed to be unstoppable at it. He kept taking gank paths through spots that I had let him know in chat were warded, kept going into unwinnable fights, and kept feeding [[Viktor]]. [[Annie]] helped on that last bit, though. So yeah. [[Viktor]] was legendary, [[Corki]] had a huge lead, and [[Tryndamere]] had taken First Blood against [[Renekton]] somehow, without jungler intervention. The team surrendered at twenty minutes. THINGS I SCREWED UP ON: - Walked into a [[Death Sentence]], like a moron, and gave [[Corki]] a double kill. That was my only death prior to [[Viktor]]'s roaming, however. He could just ult us while we stood under the tower and get a double with no other effort involved.[/quote]

[quote=Foolamancer][img=http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u65/Maestro134/ScreenShot2013-10-11at120133AM_zpsa652fc34.png] And another surrender at twenty. Hooray! Not my night, it seems. Bans were [[Kassadin]], [[Shen]], [[Malphite]], [[Thresh]], [[Blitzcrank]], and [[Amumu]]. Our last pick [[Veigar]] started with a [[Sapphire Crystal]]. And no ward. And died twice to [[Sejuani]] ganks and four times just to [[Fizz]] without any help. And [[Jayce]] pushed to tower after I informed him that I wanted to gank top early. Bot was fine, but [[Veigar]] just couldn't stop feeding [[Fizz]]. We stole a dragon and took mid when [[Fizz]] was off roaming, but it didn't matter. [[Fizz]] and [[Sejuani]] were too fed, while bot and top were strictly even. I got two solid ganks in on bot, but that was all I could do with [[Jayce]] pushing and me constantly having to cover mid. THINGS I SCREWED UP: - Pretty sure I'm playing on tilt right now. Should have just gone to bed. EDIT: Oh yeah. And it turns out [[Fizz]] was using support runes and masteries. And [[Veigar]] still lost that hard.[/quote]