Ekki's ranked thingy

[quote=Ekki]GAME #5 ([url=http://matchhistory.las.leagueoflegends.com/es/#match-details/LA2/298437216/35155096?tab=overview]link[/url]; [url=http://las.op.gg/match/observer/id=298437216]replay[/url]) I couldn't sleep (5 AM here in Argentina) so I decided I would play a good ol' morning match. I got firstpick top, I went safe with [[nautilus]] and got matched against a [[renekton]]. Everyone in the match was mid-high Gold. I'm starting to feel safe about my placement. [br] [img=http://i.imgur.com/6GkFhjg.png] [br] Their lux accidentally picked [[smite]] and their team was salty about it, so I adviced our jungle [[diana]] to camp mid. The game started awful with [[vayne]] and I dying 2:30 and 5 minutes into the game, respectively. [[vayne]] was apparently lagging hard because she died again by autoing into their duo bot by minute 5:30, and then procceeded to dc and reconnect. This could have gone awry but we didn't flame her. Instead I saved my [[teleport]] and used it around minute 8 to get a double kill bot, which then became a roam mid to kill [[lux]] and get the dragon. At this point [[renekton]] wasn't sure how to follow and kept walking between top and mid lanes, not doing much. By minute 12, [[lux]] had a 0/4/0 score and went afk, the whole enemy team raging. They surrendered at 20. Two important lessons were learnt today: 1-Good roaming as a top lane can tilt the balance of a losing game. 2-Tilting in /all chat will only give clues to the other team on how to tilt you even further.[/quote]

[quote=Ekki]GAME #6 ([url=http://matchhistory.las.leagueoflegends.com/es/#match-details/LA2/298626019/106610?tab=overview]link[/url]) Third soloqueue match, yet again firstpick top. I'm [[nautilus]] against a [[renekton]]. [[jhin]] and [[nidalee]] started to argue because [[jhin]] banned [[leblanc]], who was [[akali]]'s pick intent. I recommended them that they muted eachother and didn't dodge because there wasn't any troll pick ([[jhin]] threatened to go adc [[teemo]], but he backed down at the last second). [br] [img=http://i.imgur.com/ZH5kPWX.png] [br] First contested game of my solo ranked games. I kept my standard [[teleport]] bot around 8 minutes and roamed a lot. [[renekton]] played it well and also added his own pressure all over the map. [[poppy]] was getting annoying and denied [[akali]] of a bunch of kills. We won by making picks and good calls on objectives.[/quote]

[quote=Ekki]GAME #7 ([url=http://matchhistory.las.leagueoflegends.com/es/#match-details/LA2/299820648/35155096]link[/url]) First time I'm top and near last pick. My team went full AD with a [[kha'zix]] jungle and a [[zed]] mid, but fortunately I was against a [[malphite]] top so counterpicking him with either [[nautilus]] or [[maokai]] would work. I went with [[maokai]] because I could dodge most of the other team's skills with [[twisted advance]]. [br] [img=http://i.imgur.com/A9EBQp6.png] [br] Their [[janna]] was afk over half of the game, which made the overall mood of the team switch to happily confident. I started stealing their raptors, which gave me an early level advantage that I abused to net an early 1v1 kill on [[malphite]]. [[lucian]] died a lot early and my team got cocky, doing some ugly trades that ended up even (or in our favour), but could have been awful if I wasn't tryharding like there was no tomorrow. After one of these missplays I asked my team to tryhard, not get cocky and close the game. Fortunately they got the message and we started to tryhard right as [[janna]] got back to the game (which further reminded my team that there was still danger of losing). Teamfights were a bit chaotic but we won or tied every single one of them, and we always exploited the advantage to take objectives. If you check the game's match history you can see that above every big blue circle in the match summary there is one or more objectives. This eventually lead to an easy -and a bit sour due to the early afk- victory. [spoiler=game stats!][center]Most damage dealt to champions:[/center] [img=http://i.imgur.com/kj45vLW.png] [br] [center]Most damage taken:[/center] [img=http://i.imgur.com/gcNTSoq.png] [br] Also got most healing done by a small margin, but meh.[/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=Ekki]GAME #8 ([url=http://matchhistory.las.leagueoflegends.com/es/#match-details/LA2/300026332/35155096?tab=overview]link[/url]) Longest game yet. Again got to firstpick top, so I settled with [[nautilus]] into a 9th pick [[garen]]. The game had a big variance in rankings (probably due to a Silver I / Gold I group) and I got paired against the lowest ranked enemy. This gave me some pressure as I felt had to carry, since probably some of the lanes would have a hard game. [br] [img=http://i.imgur.com/mKooaCH.png] [br] The game started with [[zac]] afk until a bit after the minions spawned. I got an easy 1v1 kill on [[garen]] which could have lead to backing and a [[teleport]] bot, but [[zac]] made an awful dive and gave a double to their [[alistar]]. Their [[garen]], their [[warwick]], our [[ezreal]] and our [[nami]] were playing badly, while our [[annie]], their [[lucian]], their [[ahri]] and me were getting fed. Most of the game we were on the lead, with someone getting caught from time to time and us getting every single dragon (we got 6 dragons by endgame), but their [[garen]] was getting tanky and [[alistar]] was a bulldozer. To top that off, [[zac]] was always following me to my backdoors instead of caring for the carries (they had a full pick comp). I gave up backdooring just in time for [[garen]] to backdoor and expose our top inhibitor. Around 38 minutes [[ezreal]] got caught in a [[warwick]] ult, which lead to them taking down mid and top inhibitors. We got defensive, took the fifth dragon for the first time around minute 40 and got a baron with the advantage. We eventually recovered both inhibitors and started playing more seriously, which lead to killing most of them while they tried to siege (they were just rotating outside of our base). After that we took their mid inhibitor, then 5th dragon again and made a final push bot which ended in diving their team and killing 4 of them ([[warwick]] went backdoor and took 2 inhibs), so we won right after that.[/quote]

[quote=Ekki]GAME #9 ([url=http://matchhistory.las.leagueoflegends.com/es/#match-details/LA2/300168376/35155096?tab=stats]link[/url]) Got firstpick jungle. Haven't played jungle in a while and I didn't check if the newest patch was in so I was a bit nervous. I picked [[volibear]] because jungling with him is like riding a bike*, you don't forget how to do it. [br] [img=http://i.imgur.com/d8Vv4U3.png] [br] I applied lots of stuff I learned from previous games. - Their team had heavy lategame comp with heavy single target CC, so I made my mind to protect the carries instead of going for kills (I still went for kills a couple of times tho) and pressuring every single lane as much as possible, starting from [[kassadin]]. - Our team didn't have great engage, so I bought a first item [[righteous glory]], to ensure mid-game teamfights went well. - Their [[vi]] started building [[enchantment: devourer]] so I ocassionally invaded the enemy jungle, took as many scuttle crabs as possible and insisted in annoying that [[vi]] in every possible way. The game was an early stomp, with my ocassional missplays almost always ending up as kills for my team (at this point I don't even know if it's blind luck or skill). Their [[vayne]] was scary, roaming to the right places and making a great duo with [[thresh]]. Their [[kassadin]] was getting scary too, getting a double kill somewhere around minute 17 and roaming as he pleased. Our [[fiora]] was getting disconnected for short periods and I was getting anxious because she might dc for good if we stalled for too long. Our [[caitlyn]] was afk farming bot and taking jungle as if playing solo, but at least she was doing an appropriate build and had decent positioning. Our [[janna]] roamed a lot. She was kinda bad, but always played her ult in the right moment. I got an early lead (3/0/3 at one point) so I was free to roam a lot, while [[vi]] eventually realised (or her team coerced her) that the devourer wasn't worth it, swapping it for a cinderhulk. We somehow won most fights, eventually killing [[vayne]], [[gangplank]] and [[thresh]], taking their mid inhibitor, and went for a baron with both [[vi]] and [[kassadin]] close to the pit. I got extremely nervous, but I managed to [[smite]]-[[frenzy]] right in time, even though both of them jumped at the same time as I did it. After that it was a cleanup. We traded 1x5 (I died after an awful [[flash]] over the pit in front of [[vayne]], [[thresh]], [[kassadin]] and [[vi]]) and made a final push to which they surrendered. *random fact: I can't properly ride a bike[/quote]

[quote=Ekki]Got ranked in [color=#808000]Gold III[/color] after a 9/1 placement. Kinda dissapointing if you ask me. I didn't even save the screenshots. I played one more game with the 2 guys I did my last promo match because they were playing really well and I was needing an initial LP boost to feel confident. I played both games awfully because I wasn't used to the teamplay that comes with 3-man-queue, but got hard carried both games. [rule] GAME #10 ([url=http://matchhistory.las.leagueoflegends.com/es/#match-details/LA2/300321708/35155096?tab=overview]link[/url]) I was [[nautilus]] against a [[garen]]. I counterpicked him. [br] [img=http://i.imgur.com/AYWE9cu.png] [br] Aaaaaand down goes my KDA with [[nautilus]]. Not that I care too much, but it was the first game I lost so hard in lane and I didn't compensate with proper map presence. Their [[garen]] killed me twice due to noob mistakes I made and then snowballed all over me. I still held myself and roamed a lot, while going face to face whenever we were 1v1 (he seemed to get scared). Their [[warwick]] was really bad and we took an early baron around minute 22. [rule] GAME #11 ([url=http://matchhistory.las.leagueoflegends.com/es/#match-details/LA2/300322564/35155096?tab=overview]link[/url]) Got second pick top, against a [[gnar]]. I made the mistake of picking a [[malphite]] for the AoE comp instead of a safer laner. [br] [img=http://i.imgur.com/ueykZnE.png] [br] My laning phase was awful. I always ran out of mana because I'm getting too used to spam abilities and I didn't know the most convenient build path for the situation. Fortunately our [[yasuo]] (who apparently was premade with our [[alistar]]) got extremely fed and they surrendered at 21 minutes. LP gain: +26[/quote]

[quote=TheSilverDust][quote][color=#808000]Gold III[/color][/quote] [quote]dissapointing[/quote] ...[/quote]

[quote=Ekki]#PlatEloProblems (?)[/quote]

[quote=theyouiporit]Wait. You live un argentina? Me hubieras dicho boludo. Soy de Neuquén yo.[/quote]

[quote=Ekki]Sisi, estoy estudiando en Capital. Ahí te agregué al LoL, para no meter mucha conversación en español acá (si no me equivoco a los admins no les cae bien que se hable mucho en otros idiomas). [/spanish] Back on the topic of my placements, I'm still annoyed to be placed Gold III even after a 9/1 placement. I would have accepted it after a 6/4 placement or something like that, but that 9/1 skyrocketed my expectations.[/quote]