Just another Diamond adventure story

[quote=SpawnOfHell]Welp, lost my promos horribly and managed to crash and burn and drop back down to 0 LP. This was basically caused by a blend of bad mood, bad plays and [s]bad teams[/s] trying champions I'm not great with (still Gold/Plat level) so I decided to put my game face on and play my old school main [icon=tryndamere]. I was not disappointed. Game 1 [spoiler][img=http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/8803/6y4t.png] Details: Top [[tryndamere]], 21/9/0 masteries, 6 AS 3 crit chance reds, 2 lifesteal 1 crit chance quints, [[doran's shield]] start (used only recently) Really easy stompy game. It became very obvious 2 minutes into laning phase that [[jax]] had only picked to counter and didn't actually know how to play his champion that well. He would constantly randomly activate [[counter strike]] and [[empower]]ed leap on me, burning all of his cooldowns at once allowing me to deal free damage to him. This got him killed by an [[amumu]] gank early on and he was pretty much screwed afterwards. My sustain was just too much for him and he would just keep wasting cooldowns and leave himself open for crits to the face. With [[doran's shield]], [[ninja tabi]] and [[vampiric scepter]] there was no way he could lane against me. He didn't even buy armor until he died about 5 times which was just dumb on his part. Admittedly all 3 of my deaths were probably unnecessary and avoidable. The first was just me being stupid and staying in lane with low health allowing [[jax]] to dive me pre-6 though he died as well. The other two were me pushing top lane and trying to fight [[nasus]] and [[jax]] 2v1 when I could've escaped if I wanted to. Didn't matter anyways since the lanes were all winning and we had too large of an objective and gold lead.[/spoiler] Game 2 [spoiler][img=http://imageshack.us/a/img513/9680/sk3u.png] Details: Same as above. This game was a lot harder and it did look like we were going to lose quite a few times. [[shen]] very obviously had some kind of anti-[[tryndamere]] setup because he was completely destroying me in early trades ([[shen]] usually wins slightly anyway but this one was absolutely ridiculous). Bot lane was losing hard to a hyper-aggressive [[nami]] who double killed them, and [[orianna]] constantly got into near-death engages with [[lux]]. Fortunately, [[warwick]] had apparently decided to make me the anchor of this game and snowballed my lane insanely hard, since [[shen]] apparently didn't ward or did it really badly. Every ultimate used in my lane resulted in a kill. Sadly it seemed like bot was in an awful state with neither [[orianna]] nor [[warwick]] being able to do anything to help, causing them to go 1/7 or something by the end of laning phase. Luckily, [[nami]] for some reason had more kills than [[ezreal]] so it wasn't as bad as it seemed, though we were still in a pretty tough situation. The game went back and forth a lot. We were even on objectives, slightly down on global gold, and came out even on pretty much every engage. However, the enemy team for some reason decided to start playing recklessly thinking they were incredibly ahead and split up a lot, allowing this manmode [[warwick]] to pick up a ton of kills and become a mega unkillable carry killing tank. We still lost a few engages and got Baron STOLEN by a ridiculous [[trueshot barrage]] which killed both [[warwick]] and Baron. But unlike our team, they continued to split and get caught until both [[warwick]] and I were extremely fed to the point that we could take out most of their team before falling. Their warding was really poor which I found out when a 1/3 health [[shen]] facechecked their own blue and got killed by me, also baiting [[ezreal]] to join in the fight and die too. We got an inhibitor and backed off, and they went to Baron. [[orianna]] got caught by [[nami]] and [[master yi]] and got killed, but they made a horrible play by trying to keep [[warwick]] away which caused Baron to regenerate and hurt them really badly. They still lost Baron to us, and I managed to go all in for a pentakill which caused them to surrender afterwards. [img=http://imageshack.us/a/img845/118/ajfq.png] Finally got a ranked penta with my main after like, 140 [[tryndamere]] games, lol. After I got a triple at Baron the team literally handed me the penta by letting me have the fourth kill, then [[lux]], knowing they lost anyway decided to just stand and let me have the penta. That deserves an honor right there.[/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=SpawnOfHell]I'm reviving this for fun and in case anyone looks at this. I haven't played much for a while but I managed to reach D4 from the bottom of D5. This pretty much sums up how I did it: [spoiler][img=http://imageshack.us/a/img94/6429/pgw9.png][/spoiler] Full damage assassin [[jarvan iv]] is fun as hell. Not sure how long this build will stay effective but I like watching health bars explode while everyone gets knocked up in the process. It's always fun instagibbing people with someone who's usually played as a tank. LoLKing hasn't registered this game yet but it got me through promos. [spoiler][img=http://imageshack.us/a/img96/3046/sdqq.png] Details: 1st pick [[jarvan iv]] Top, 21/9/0 masteries, 15 AD runes, [[long sword]] start. Got outplayed by [[tryndamere]] and kind of regretted my setup. First kill he got was bs because he got a crit with basically no Fury but w/e, I did kind of poorly this game. Fortunately the other lanes were holding up fine and I was able to stay alive, then when teamfights started I was able to dive on their carries and burst them while Tryn comes in late and kind of ran around not being able to kill anyone and dying.[/spoiler][/quote]